A/N: Hiya people! Virtual cookies to all who reviewed the first chapter! =) Sorry this chapter was late. I has most of it done, but then Christmas arrived so I took a break. Then, I unexpectedly spent an entire week at my grandparents' house, where the rest of my story was unavailable. But now, I finally got it up. ^^

(P.S. Title chapter refers to Sparrowpelt not wanting Danica and Toby to join SkyClan or whatever. I was having trouble with naming it, so sorry if the title is lame.)

***CHAPTER TWO: Untrusting Sparrows***

Danica groaned, wincing as bright sunlight flooded her vision. She stood shakily to her paws, flicking a leaf off her shoulder with her tail. Then, she froze. Paws? Tail?

Letting out a terrified shriek, Danica stumbled backwards, tripping over a large, furry thing behind her. The thing jerked its head up, and Danica realized that it was a cat, like she now was. The two felines stared at each other for a few heartbeats, and Danica let her eyes drink in the cat in front of her. He was a lithe black-and-white tomcat with pale blue eyes that seemed to be taking her in as well.

The tomcat finally spoke up, and Danica was amazed that she understood the meows that said, "Danny?"

She blinked, petrified, before gasping, "Toby!"

Toby gave a weak smile, and Danica could see that was trembling slightly. "W-what happened to us?" he asked, fear flickering in his icy eyes.

Danica sat down so she wouldn't collapse, and meowed, "I don't know… I just remember my phone ringing, static, then this."

Toby closed his eyes, taking it all in, before twisting his head around to try to get a look at himself. Danica did the same, shocked to see a sleek ginger pelt clinging to her slim frame. Shuffling her paws, she noticed the white socks, and then she gave the white splash on her chest a few licks.

"Danny, doesn't this place remind you of somewhere?" Toby asked, pulling Danica's thoughts away from her new look.

Narrowing her eyes, she swept her gaze around, taking in her surrounding. They were on the edge of a forest. To one side of them was the thick, vast jungle of trees and bushes, and on the other side was a rocky gorge. Suddenly, the realization hit her and she leaped to her paws, shouting, "Holy crud, Toby, this looks like SkyClan territory!"

Toby nodded and sighed, "Good, I'm not the only one who thinks that."

Pricking her ears, Danica whispered, "I think I hear something… Someone's coming!"

Right after those words had left her mouth, she took a step back as three cats appeared over a large boulder that lied nearby. A dark brown tabby tom came over first, his lips drawn back in a snarl as he approached. Behind him was a gray tabby she-cat with another she-cat, this one a striking black color, padding next to her.

Toby shrank up against Danica, as if trying to make himself invisible, but Danica stepped forward bravely and flattened her ears in a warning.

The dark brown tabby came closer until he was only a fox length away from the two former humans. He lashed his tail as he hissed, "Who are you?"

Danica glanced back at Toby, and a silent message passed between them. Clearing her throat, Danica responded to the tabby, "My name is… Bristol, and this is my friend, uh, Smudge." Danica inwardly winced. She had just spoken the first names that came randomly to her mind.

The dark tabby tom scowled. "So, you're kittypets?"

"No!" Danica suddenly blurt out, and then coughed, "I mean, we used to be, I guess. But now we're, um, loners."

"I see," said the dark tabby tom, dipping his head slightly. "My name is Sparrowpelt, and this is Mintfur and Ebonyclaw."

Danica's eyes tripled in size. Sparrowpelt? Mintfur? Ebonyclaw? They were all warriors of SkyClan! This cannot be possible! Danica thought. I must be dreaming.

With a glance at Toby, she knew he was thinking the same thing. Danica turned back towards the patrol of warriors. "We know a lot about SkyClan," she said, trying to choose her words carefully. "To- uh, Smudge and I have been wandering around your territory for a little while, and we would like to, um…" Danica hesitated, then decided that if they were going to be trapped in the world of Warriors, they were going to make the best of it. Bravely, she finished her sentence, "…maybe join your Clan?"

Sparrowpelt looked surprised at this, but the expression was quickly replaced with narrowed, untrusting eyes. "Why would you want to do that, stalkers?" he growled.

For the first time since the SkyClan patrol arrived, the gray tabby she-cat, Mintfur, stepped forward, shoving Sparrowpelt aside.

"Quit being so rude!" Mintfur snorted, glancing apologetically at Danica and Toby. Stepping away from the grumbling tomcat, Mintfur meowed, "Sorry. Of course you can join! Well, maybe you can't join, but you can at least visit our camp and have a talk with Leafstar."

Danica's heart skipped a beat. They would get to talk with Leafstar, the leader of SkyClan? This was the best day ever! Then she froze. What if Sharpclaw was there? Danica's heart fluttered in her chest and she smiled, "Thank you, Mintfur! Lead the way."

Placing an encouraging tail on Toby's black-and-white shoulder, they followed the patrol down the rocky trail and into the very soul of SkyClan.

A/N: How was it? Sorry if it's boring so far. Hopefully things with get spiced up starting in the next chapter. This chapter was a little tough to write, but I managed. ;)

Also, I'm SO sorry if the characters are too OOC. I don't know a ton about SkyClan and their members, but I'm trying my best to keep it like the books. Characters like Mintfur are hard to write because they have no screen-time. And characters like Sparrowpelt are hard to write because he hasn't really been looked into since he was made a warrior, so his character may have changed greatly. I hope he wasn't too rough on Toby and I.

Anyways, please review! Thank you. =)

~Danny~