Sorry for the wait, with the time with only the Allegiances viewable. Here's the prologue.


~ StarClan ~ Hollyleaf ~


The bright sun sat high in the sky, casting long shadows across the clearing, dappling the short, soft green grass. Four young kits ran around, chasing after each other when a pure black cat padded almost silently into the clearing, the light sunlight turning her dark fur silver.

The kits paused when they spotted the cat, and bounded over to meet her.
"Hi Hollyleaf!" One of them mewed, a tiny tortoiseshell and white she-kit, the kit waving her tail from side to side in apparent happiness.
Hollyleaf leaned down, touching the kits cheek gently with her muzzle. "Fallen Petals," she meowed quietly, sitting down and wrapping her tail around her paws.
The she-kit didn't twitch at the touch, and bounded quickly away to join her littermates.
Heartbeats later, another cat padded into the clearing, tail held high. His white-and-ginger fur was dappled with sunlight, and he purred as Hollyleaf turned her head to see him. He sat down beside her, letting their fur brush one another's.
Hollyleaf purred, licking the toms cheek gently. "Fallen Leaves, it's nice to see you." She greeted politely, only looking away occasionally to check on the kits.
Fallen Petals was playing amongst her littermates, a tossing, tumbling ball of fluffy, black, white, and ginger fur. She rolled aside, only to be hit once more by a sudden golden streak, shooting out of the ball.
"Foxkit, stop that!" She squealed, attempting to avoid the golden toms quick movements.
Foxkit, overly disappointed, bounced back, twitching his ears in confusion. "Why?" He asked, tilting his large head to one side.
Fallen Petals didn't have time to answer before two more kits came tumbling into her, knocking her off her small white paws.
Foxkit looked up, curious about what moved Frostkit and Raven's Call back over to them. Padding cautiously around nearby was a bright ginger tom. With a pelt as bright as fire, and blazing green eyes, it was impossible for anybody to mistake the tom.
Hollyleaf spotted him, calling her kits back over to her and Fallen Leaves. "Firestar? What's worrying you? You're not usually like that." She asked as the four kits gathered around her.
Firestar paused, whipping his head around to stare at Hollyleaf with bright, flaming green eyes filled with worry for the clans. "How are the clans going to survive without me leading them?" He asked desperately, his long tail lashing.
"Bramblestar is a fine leader. They've managed fine for these past moons, they can survive longer." Hollyleaf meowed simply, twitching her black tail-tip.
Firestar sat down, emotion fading from his green eyes. "Yes, Bramblestar is a good leader. But a time of great danger is coming to all four clans. I don't know if they will be able to survive."
Hollyleaf sighed, looking down and shaking her head. She looked back up at Firestar after several heartbeats. "They survived generations after generations before you came to ThunderClan, Firestar." She paused, looking at Fallen Leaves, one of the ancients, for agreement before she continued. "I don't see why you have so much doubt."
Firestar didn't reply, just looked at Hollyleaf with mixed emotions filling his eyes.
"Have faith, Firestar," she meowed. "The clans will survive."
"You would've been a good leader, Hollyleaf. You shouldn't have died so young." That was all Firestar said before he padded away, ducking his head as he exited the clearing.
I'm as happy here as I would be anywhere else in the world, Hollyleaf thought, her gaze shifting from Firestar as he left, to her mate Fallen Leaves, to her four kits. Anything to be with my family.
Five moons had passed since her death in the great battle against the Dark Forest, and no cat had ever thought that it would be possible for a StarClan cat to have kits. Hollyleaf had proved them all wrong, however, after having four kits with Fallen Leaves. She knew, however, that these kits would never grow up, as cats did not age in StarClan. What they still didn't know was what would happen to them after moons in StarClan with no living cat knowing them. It had surprised many when Hollyleaf had them, and she wanted to surprise more as they stayed with her in StarClan for moons to come.
Hollyleaf flicked her tail, letting the four kits go away to play with the other kits in StarClan. She stood up, stretching, before following. Thoughts whirled in her mind about what Firestar had said. She knew of no danger. Fallen Leaves followed beside her, close enough to let their fur brush.
The territory of StarClan was vast, stretching the skies from the mountains to the lake and beyond. What Hollyleaf had noticed when she first joined StarClan, was that it was like a living timeline of all the cats in the clans. Although many had faded away to be reborn with a completely new life, many cats still remained. The original four, their deputies and the next leaders, and the next and the next. All the way down, maybe with gaps, to Pinestar, Sunstar, Bluestar, and then finally Firestar, the most recent leader to join StarClan.
After some walking, the four kits noticed Ferncloud sitting alone with her three long-dead kits, Hollykit, Larchkit, and Shrewpaw. Ferncloud had died in the great battle, like Hollyleaf, along with Mousefur and Firestar. She had missed her living kits when she first died, but soon remembered about her other three, and had spent every moment since with them.
Foxkit bounded ahead of the other three, his fluffy ginger-tipped golden tail bouncing along behind him. "Can I play?" He asked them.
"Sure!" Hollykit mewed, by instinct leaping onto Foxkit's back.
Frostkit, Fallen Petals, and Raven's Call immediately joined in, leaping onto Shrewpaw's dark brown back.
The dark brown tom yowled, rolling out of the way and pouncing back at them. Raven's Call, being the largest of Hollyleaf's four kits, reared up to meet him before the two of them fell to the ground beside each other, landing in a growing mass of fluff.
Hollyleaf ignored them, sitting down quietly. Why can't it always be like this?


Hope you all liked it. I'll put up Chapter 1 as soon as I can.