Chapter One

"Are you sure she's okay?" Millie's voice sounded out as Briarlight slowly woke up to find herself in the medicine den with Jayfeather putting herbs next to her muzzle and Millie watching over with questions and criticism in her voice. "She's going to be fine if you give her space to relax once in a while!" Jayfeather snapped before stalking away to the cleft where the herbs were and started sorting. "I'm just worried about her!"

"No, you're overprotective!" Briarlight shouted after she swallowed the herbs and stood on her forelegs, glaring at her mother while Millie and Jayfeather stared at her in shock. "Ever since my accident, you've been neglecting your other kits: remember Blossomfall and Bumblestripe? Your other kits that you've practically rejected with your entire being! Well, you know what: I'm done. I'm done hearing you complain about me when in reality you smother me with insecurity and make me feel like a useless kit again!"

"Briarlight-" "Oh, don't you 'Briarlight' me!" She shouted as she interrupted Millie. "You never had a second thought about your other kits and pushed them aside for your own thoughts and nothing else. Well, you know what? I have had it. From now on, I don't want anything to do with you. From now on, you are no longer my mother but the cat that gave birth to me. I hope that you now have a place in that darkness you call a heart for your other kits because I will never have any room in my heart for you." (AN: This is as close to the original rant that I can get because FF didn't save and I had to start over with my sister talking about Kingdom Hearts in the background, so I got irritated and kept yelling at her to shut up while I tried to remember what I wrote before.)

Then she dragged her way out of the medicine den and towards the camp entrance where Berrynose was guarding and hissed at him when he started to ask of where she was heading. She noticed that the moon was nearing moonhigh and there was a slight breeze that ruffled her fur gently as she laid at the lakeside thinking about how good it felt to get what she said off her chest before remembering her dream, which caused her to faint and the events earlier to fold out. She had to know the reason of why she was given the dream and not either Jayfeather or Firestar, there had to be a reason why she was chosen.

She got on her forelegs and started making her way to the Moonpool, the only gateway to StarClan where medicine cats can visit once a half moon to learn from past medicine cats or to accompany a new leader that will earn their nine lives. The sun just started to rise over the hills as she made halfway to the Moonpool before stopping suddenly as loud pawsteps quickly made their way to her.

WindClan? No, they wouldn't be this loud or uneven. Maybe a rogue? But her thoughts were cut off as something barreled into her, causing her to flip backwards and the other cat to fly a bit backwards too. She shook her head, the pounding in it familiar, and rolled until she got back on her forelegs and looked to see a pinkish-gray she-cat shakily get back on her paws before shaking her head and noticed Briarlight.

"Oh, thank the Prairie," The she-cat gasped out as she bent her head to the ground before looking behind her. "Winky, hurry! There's a cat here that can help us!" Coming over the small hill that the she-cat ran over was a pure white she-cat, that was slightly bigger than the toms in her Clan, grumbling to herself in irritation. "-somehow got themselves in trouble and what about their kits? No one in the stables will be able to lend a paw to-" Then she stopped as she noticed the she-cat and the paralyzed warrior. "Oh Violet, please don't tell me your 'senses' told you to find this cat."

"Wha-" "Just ignore what I said," The pure white she-cat, Winky, said cutting Briarlight off. "She just lost her brother and now she says that she has these 'senses' that no other cat has and she's driving the stables crazy which means that everyone thinks that she's crazy." "I AM NOT!" The pinkish-gray she-cat, Violet, shouted with an arched back and bristling fur. "So, is there a reason for you to be here or are we in your territory?" Winky said, changing the subject much to Violet's displeasure.

"I just want to get to the Moonpool," Briarlight said before gesturing with her head to the hills. "I have to follow this river but with my current state, I'm worried about a Clan patrol finding me before I get there." Winky and Violet blinked in surprise before Winky let out a mrrow of laughter. "Well why didn't you say so?" She asked before lowering her body. "Violet help her get on." Violet gently grabbed Briarlight by the scruff before dragging her over Winky's body and helping her straighten out so that she can see over Winky's head before the white she-cat slowly got to her paws, making Briarlight grasp Winky's fur with her claws but not hard enough to harm the she-cat.

"So just retrace most of our steps." Violet said before bounding in the direction of the hills, causing Winky to sigh in exasperation. "Sorry about her," She said to Briarlight without looking at the she-cat on her back. "She is always full of energy and never seems to slow down. Violet! You do know that I have cargo right?!" That last sentence was to Violet, who suddenly remembered Briarlight and went back to the she-cats before they started walking with equal pace to the Moonpool.


"How much longer until we're there?" Violet asked as she and Winky slowly climbed the now rocky hills, careful to not jostle Briarlight from her perch on Winky. "Just either hear the rushing water or see it when we get closer." Briarlight offered, silent for most of the trip as the other two she-cats talked to each other about some stables and only answered when they asked for her name. "What do you mean by-" Then Violet fell into a shallow pond before running out of it. Winky and Briarlight let out mrrows of laughter as they saw the soaked she-cat before Briarlight recognized the pond.

"It's the Moonpool!" She shouted, making Winky realize before lowering her body so the paralyzed warrior can get off and watched as Briarlight dragged herself to the pond. "What's so special about this Moonpool?" Winky asked as she sat next to Briarlight. "I can connect with my StarClan to get an answer of something that has been bugging me since I left my camp." Briarlight answered as Violet watched from the background in curiosity. "Is it okay for me to try and connect to the Prairie from here?" Winky asked in excitement as she looked at Briarlight curiously. "It's okay if you want, I just don't know if you're gonna get a connection." Briarlight answered before drinking a few drops of water before lying her head on her paws and slowly fell asleep, Winky followed suit and curled up before slowly falling asleep.

Dream Starts

Briarlight opened her eyes to find herself on a land that wasn't part of StarClan territory. "Mother!" Winky's voice sounded out, causing Briarlight to raise her head in confusion before walking through the slightly tall grass to see Winky nuzzling the slightly darker spotted white cat that she met in her last dream. That's Winky's mother?! Briarlight thought in shock before a black she-cat with white stripes and a grayish-brown tom started to approach Winky before stopping suddenly. Briarlight stared at them curiously before realizing that the she-cat was staring at her with blank yellow-green eyes.

"Briarlight?" Winky asked as she noticed the dark brown she-cat's head sticking out of the slightly tall grass. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with your StarClan?" Briarlight sighed before padding towards the four cats. "I thought so to, but I woke up to find myself here instead," She said as she sat down in front of them. "What is this place?"

"This is the Prairie," The spotted she-cat answered, shocking Briarlight with her voice since she was silent the first time they met. "This is the place where kittypets and loners can rest in peace in their afterlives." Briarlight froze and thoughts quickly went through her head at alarming speeds. Kittypets and loners?! They believe in something similar to StarClan?! Wait, Winky and Violet kept saying something about a stables. So, only cats that live in stables believe in this 'Prairie'? Or is it just Winky and Violet's stables that believe?

"Briarlight? Briarlight are you okay?" Winky asked as she put her tail on Briarlight's shoulder, causing the dark brown she-cat to jump before remembering where she is. "I did have a question for my ancestors but since I'm here, and your mother was the cat I met in my last dream, is it okay if I ask her my question?" She asked Winky, who nodded, before turning to face Winky's mother. "Is there a reason why I was chosen for my last dream and not the medicine cat or the leader?"

"There is a reason," The white striped she-cat answered instead of Winky's mother. "You're a part of the prophecy instead of your leader or medicine cat. The broken briar. Remind you of anything?" "So I'm a part of a prophecy but I don't know about who the other signs are." Briarlight said before the tom put his tail against her muzzle gently. "That's up to you," He said before turning to Winky. "There's also something me and Flash need to ask you, it's about our kits."

"I asked the others and no one wants to raise your kits," Winky said as exhaustion creeped up on her. "The only way is to either give the kits to Twolegs or-" "Let me raise them." Briarlight said, interrupting Winky and made every cat look at her in either surprise or shock. "You?" Winky asked in confusion and shock. "You're paralyzed from the middle of your spine down!"

"And that means that I can't give birth to kits, but I can take in orphaned ones to raise as my own." Briarlight countered, and no one decided to argue as she went back to the slightly tall grass and kept walking. Anger and irritation flared inside her as she stared at the ground while walking forward until she bumped into a cat. She backed up a bit before opening her eyes to see-

"Silverstream."