One night the moon was full.
Cocoheart the medicine cat of Brightclan was staying home from the gathering. Why? Because Sunlightburst, the beuatiful white she-cat with a yellow sun shape on her chest, was having her kits. So Cocoaheart stayed back to comfort her and sent his apprentice to the gathering in his place.
It was a hard and terrible birth. There were only two kittens but there was something wrong with the birth.
When it was over Sunshineburst lay licking her two new daughters, very very weak and exhausted and bleeding. But she was not ready to go to Starclan yet. First she had to do something.
"I will name these kits," she told Cocoaheart who was listening and watching. He was sad because he knew it was her time to go soon.
"The yellow one is like the color of day light," Sunlightburst meowed. "So she is named Daylightkit.
"And now for the other one," she meowed, turning to look at her smaller, last born daughter.
The dying mother noticed that her fur was beautiful silver just like the moon. And she had black stripes. Even a black crescent moon mark on her chest!
"Moonkit is her name," Sunshineburst meowed. "Because she is as pretty as the full moon that is out today."
"Please take care of them," she said to Cocoheart.
Then she stopped breathing and her eyes closed. The brown colored medicine cat closed his purple eyes sadly. Sunshineburst had been a wonderful cat but now she was dead.
The elders moved the body so it would be buried. But Cocoaheart just stayed there, watching over the kittens.
In the very middle of midnight, when no one else was awake except the cats who were far far away at the gathering. He glanced at the full moon.
And it was bright blue!
The medicine cat gasped. What was happening?
The moon suddenly had flame marks in it while still blue! It was a prophecy!
He was about to interpret it when suddenly half of the moon turned black. The other side was still flaming blue.
Then the moon turned its regular silverish yellowish white color.
Cocoaheart sat down and thought it over. Just as the gathering cats came back, he realized what it was trying to say! But not exactly what it meant.
He ran up to the leader excitedly. "I have a prophecy! The beautiful moon will burn as bright as fire! It is the only chance to save our clan! But when it mingles with the dark there is no telling what will happen!"