And so my story begins, please enjoy and don't forger to review, these are much appreciated. Constructive crit is O.K , keep in mind I may not have caught all spelling/typos. If you find PM me to let me know!

Prologue

The birth of new kits was usually a happy occasion in the clan. New kits meant, in time, new apprentices; apprentices that eventually would take their place as warriors. Maplestream knew, as did all of the cats, that kits were the future of all the clans. Usually, but what with MapleClan's ongoing feud with AshClan and the difficult season of leafbare coming on, the young MapleClan medicine cat was not sure what would become of these kits, of her clan.

""Kits always suffer most from these clan wars", she reflected to herself as she sat in the peace of her den, thinking sadly of the fact that the litter of kits she had helped to deliver that very day would grow up never knowing their father. "Oh to StarClan that such things did not have to be", she thought to herself. He had been a brave warrior, the clan would miss him, she knew. He had been seriously injured fighting Sandfur of AshClan, when a patrol of AshClan cats had been found deep in MapleClan's territory. She knew all of this for she had taken care of him in his last hours; she knew she had done all she could, as a medicine cat, to help him. This was not the issue, it was a fact of life in the clans that medicine cats had to resign themselves to. What haunted her thoughts now, though were his last words as he had slipped away…

"In the days when the four woods shall turn and fight against themselves Night shall threaten to consume the forest; Cougar and Lynx must together act to defend the forest from the darkness," he had said. Surely it was a prophecy of some sort, but what in the name of all the clans did it mean? She sat pondering this and realized that she needed to go and check in on the mother and her new kits; there would be time enough later to figure out this riddle. Besides, she knew, such mysteries rarely solved themselves until the proper time.

What does this mysterious prophecy mean, and what does it mean for the clans? Keep reading and find out!