AN: I felt kind of bad for just leaving the Allegiances up. So this is my tribute with a lot of plot progressing. Not very long, but it's just the Prologue so don't fret! Enjoy!

Sun's Shadow:
Prologue
-Splashpaw's POV-

"Splashpaw! Wake up already," A voice broke through Splashpaw's pleasant dream of a forest full of plump mice. He felt something jabbing at his side and with an annoyed hiss he lifted his heavy lids to meet the pale yellow eyes of Foxpaw looking down at him.

"Foxpaw…" Splashpaw emitted a yawn.

"Yes you mouse-brain, I know your fantasies of me are quite wonderful but Feralheart simply insisted that I come get you," Foxpaw followed this by placing her paw on top of his head and pressing it down.

"Why?" Splashpaw swatted her paw away before standing up and stretching.

"Russetcloud is too lazy to come get you himself," Foxpaw mewed with an annoyed tone of voice, "Actually he's too lazy to even ask me to come get you."

"Don't be so harsh, I find Russetcloud to be a special breed," Splashpaw shook his fur before following Foxpaw out of the den.

"How so?" She stopped around the entrance where he supposed Feralheart and Russetcloud were supposed to meet them.

"Well no matter what prank I pull on him he always says the same thing," Splashpaw whiskered twitch in annoyance just thinking about it, "How do you expect to be a good warrior when you keep playing kit pranks like that?" He mimicked Russetcloud almost perfectly. Foxpaw broke out into laughter.

"I hope you're not mocking me, Splashpaw" A familiar voice came from behind him. Splashpaw turned around to see two brown tabby toms, one slightly bigger than the other, walking toward them. The smaller one fixed Splashpaw with his amber eyes.

"Oh of course not Russetcloud, I was just mimicking a certain lazy fishface," Splashpaw stated, he saw as Foxpaw stopped snickering and was now looking at the two. For a second Splashpaw thought he might have gone too far until Russetcloud calmly stepped forward and scuffed him hard on the back of his head.

"Ow!" He exclaimed.

"Stupid furball," Russetcloud stated while Splashpaw growled.

"Poor Russetcloud, he has such an incompetent apprentice," Foxpaw teased her tail flicking back and forth in amusement.

"He does have quiet a mouth on him," Feralheart said from his position sitting next to Foxpaw.

"He only acts out because he knows I'm far superior to him," Russetcloud stated coolly. Splashpaw gave him an annoyed look.

"I like to think it's because it's fun to annoy you," He retorted, before anyone could say anything else a patrol came rushing into camp. Pebblefrost, deputy of RiverClan, was first to appear through the entrance he seemed like a big blur of gray as he walked toward Shadestar's den in quiet a hurry. Following him was Brookstorm and Ashfrost with their apprentices Darkpaw and Streampaw trailing close behind.

"I wonder what all the ruckus is about," Feralheart commented, starting forward to meet the two warriors who were quietly talking a while off from their apprentices. Russetcloud followed behind. Splashpaw tried to nonchalantly follow but was stopped by one look from his mentor. With a huff, he walked over to the group of apprentices that had formed around Darkpaw and Streampaw.

"So what's happening? Pebblefrost was headed toward Shadestar wasn't he?" Foxpaw asked earnestly. Darkpaw gave her a leveled look before looking away. Streampaw padded at the dirt awkwardly.

"Well?" Pearlpaw asked curiously. Splashpaw watched the ginger and cream she-cat emerge from the queen dens. Darkpaw shrugged and Streampaw looked up at the group.

"Well we kind of saw bones lying around near our WindClan border," Streampaw said cautiously. Darkpaw hissed at her.

"You mouse-brain! Pebblefrost told us not to say anything till Shadestar spoke," Darkpaw glared at her and she glared back.

"It's not a big deal, we were going to find out one way or another," This time it was Cranepaw who spoke up. Splashpaw turned to his left to see that the solid gray tom had been listening in the whole time, unnoticed.

"Yeah keep your fur on Darkpaw," the small ginger she-cat known as Heartpaw said, jabbing Darkpaw with her forepaw.

"Fine but I want no part of this," Darkpaw stated looking around at the group that had formed.

"Well no one wanted your input anyways," Foxpaw said haughtily earning her a glare from the black tom.

"We have rogues come through all the time? What's the difference," Pearlpaw voiced trying to get back on subject. She started to sit down on Splashpaw's right.

"It wasn't just a few, it was like our prey pile with about a quarter cut off," Streampaw continues, "There was so many, probably fed over ten cats at least!"

"Do you think it's like those stories with BloodClan in the past, the ones we use to hear about as kits?" Cranpaw asked slightly worried.

"Maybe it's just a bunch of harmless kittypet's that strayed to far," Heartpaw suggested.

"That's like saying a kittypet hunts better than you," Darkpaw said coolly, earning him a glare from the ginger cat. Everyone turned to look at a white and gray tabby she-cat heading toward them.

"Snowypaw, do you know what's happening?" Cranepaw asked as the medicine cat apprentice got within hearing distance of the group.

"About the supposed band of cats that's appeared near the border with WindClan?" Snowypaw asked, walking up so that she sat down in the small circle the other apprentices had formed.

"Yeah!" Foxpaw said.

"Well I heard Songfur talking to Shadestar about a dream she had, but I only caught a few words," Snowypaw said with a small sigh.

"Well?" Splashpaw asked, everyone turned to look at him and he shrugged impishly.

"I heard things like, rogues, banning, but most importantly Songfur kept repeating something about sun's shadow," Snowypaw watched as everyone looked confusedly at her.

"Isn't a medicine cat supposed to interpret stuff like that?" Darkpaw asked giving Snowypaw a look.

"Shouldn't overgrown furballs who don't want to get involved keep their traps shut?" Heartpaw asked, jabbing Darkpaw again. He swatted her away before grumbling to himself.

"Well it's hard to interpret when you didn't have the dream yourself," Snowypaw added.

"Well I guess we'll find out now," Cranepaw said motioning toward the ledge where Shadestar jumped up on.

"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather for a clan meeting!" Shadestar yowled; every cat seemed to look up at the gleaming black she-cat. Splashpaw watched as all the apprentices seemed to form a line as they got closer, Foxpaw and Cranepaw on either side of him.

"Pebblefrost has informed me that on the patrol of WindClan's border they found traces of rabbit bones and fish carcasses, I know others have been informed that there was enough prey to fill over ten cats bellies, this is true," Shadestar stated. Splashpaw watched as murmurs started up. They were quickly silence as Shadestar continued.

"There is no need to be alarmed, everyone has returned and we will be sending out patrols to investigate, we-" She was cut off as a voice rose up.

"Duskclaw, Eveshadow, and Icefur just went out hunting!" A dark blue-gray tom stated. Splashpaw recognized him as the newly appointed warrior Bluefoot. He knew that Icefur was Bluefoot's mother and he figured it must be nerve racking hearing this news and then knowing your own kin was out there unaware.

"Pebblefrost, Brookstorm, Thornclaw, and Adderstrike, will go as a search party," Shadestar stated motioning to Pebblefrost and the others, "The rest of you make sure you stay in camp! No leaving, no exception!"

"I hope they'll be alright, Heartpaw will be a wreck if anything happened to Eveshadow," Foxpaw whispered worriedly from next to Splashpaw. He nodded his agreement before looking back up at Shadestar.

"Clan meeting dis-" She was cut off again as a yowl split across the clearing. Everyone's head seemed to turn to the source. Standing there was two she-cats. Eveshadow and Icefur were breathing heavily with battle wounds.

"They took Duskclaw!" Eveshadow's voice seemed to echo through all the cats, there was defining silence, and then like a switch turned on, the uproar of confused and outraged cats talking amongst themselves ensued.

"Silence!" Shadestar's voice calmed all the chatter. She leaped off her ledge and walked toward Eveshadow and Icefur.

"Who? Who took Duskclaw?" She asked the two she-cats.

"A group of cats ambushed us while we were hunting, they smelled strange, not like any clan," Icefur voiced.

"They called themselves the Sun!" Eveshadow stated. Her ragged voice was the only one heard. Splashpaw ears instantly perked up. He didn't realize who had moved next to him until he heard her. The pretty golden medicine cat known as Songfur only whispered one thing.

"Sun will rise, some holding the shards of life that river needs. However with the sun brings its looming shadows and the beginning of dawn; good or bad none can tell,"

AN: Next chapter will probably be in a day or two. Don't stop reviewing because the reviews I got made me want to post this up for you guys.