Heys! Okay, I really don't know where I'm going with this story, but whatever! I'm finnaly done with my editing and re-editing of chapter one.

Chapter 1

April felt herself descending slowly. There was roaring noise around her with howls mixed in as though someone had let loose a pack of rabid wolves during the superbowl. She tried to open her eyes but they seemed to be stuck shut. Even though her eyes couldn't open she could still see writhing shapes and shadows from behind her flickering eyelids. She smelled earth and a reek of blood as she fell. A clammy sweat broke out over her forehead and limbs. There was a metallic taste in her mouth and April felt a great rush of freezing wind around her, chilling her to the bone. Pain lashed through her and her limbs thrashed in a futile attempt to fend off the invisible torturer. A scream froze in her throat, unable to work itself out through her mouth.

A hissing voice whispered in her ear, "Take heed, you will find this in your future." Then the darkness attacked her five senses once more. Invisible knives raked themselves across her back and her howl of agony tore itself free of her throat.

Suddenly it stopped.

The noise and shapes faded to a whisper of what they had been. Her back ached but the pain was already trickling away. She managed to pry her eyes open, and found her face pressed into soft grass. The sweet scent filled her and she felt a soft breeze carry off the pain. April pulled herself to her knees, and then stood shakily.

As she looked around, April found that she standing at the edge of a forest, or was it a clearing in the middle of a forest? Whichever it was, she was facing a thick canopy of trees. She turned slowly and saw four enormous trees surrounding a massive boulder. There were still shadows, but a full moon and millions of stars floating in the clear sky made it easy to see. Her breathing eased and soon she found that she felt good, better than she had felt for a long time.

April slid forwards, her nightgown swishing around her knees. She could feel dewdrops under her feet, but they only felt cool, not bitterly cold. A breeze sprang up, delightfully fresh and clean, not harsh and bone chilling as she had expected and April felt her breath beginning to ease up.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a flicker, a pinpoint of light, in a crevice under the rock. It was a tiny bluish-white light, like a star. It pulsed and, as she watched, she began to see more around it. The more she looked the more she saw. They were crowding little cracks in the rocks, shimmering from under tree roots, and gleaming from behind almost every blade of grass. Specks of fluorescent light shone from between trees and among the dew that tickled her bare feet. More lights appeared around her until April felt as if she were standing among the stars.

Before her eyes, the lights began to drift towards her. It took her a moment to realize that they were moving at all, then another to realize where they were heading. She was frightened for a moment, but in such a beautiful clearing who could ever stay frightened for long? She soon realized that the star-lights were not going to her after all, but an open stretch of grass to her right, not far from where she stood. The stars drifted and bobbed to the place and the grass flattened, as though swept by wind.

Then the stars joined.

It was like nothing she had ever seen before. The first two or three joined with a tiny spark of light that was hardly noticeable. Then the others began to join, a cascade of sparks falling into the air and disappearing. A rainbow of color spread slowly across the splash of starlight as it took form. April gasped and, not knowing why, stepped towards the light, as it formed into a cat, whose fur was filled with stars.

She couldn't really tell what it looked like, because of the light emanating from it, but just seeing it took her breath away. The shinning cat was large - larger than life - reaching the height of her waist, but it looked young, like a kitten that hadn't quite lost all its soft fluff. The cat looked at her and April's heart seemed to melt at the sight of the eyes. Deep green, and full of life, the eyes pierced through her and seemed to know her, seemed to turn her transparent and look into her mind and heart. The cat looked as though it were sitting, but April didn't think that it was touching the ground.

Then the cat spoke. It sounded like many voices coming from everywhere, yet nowhere at all. It took her several moments to realize that the cat was the one talking. Its mouth wasn't moving, but the light around it seemed to pulse and radiate at each word the cat spoke.

"April you have come." It said smoothly, dipping its head to her in a gesture of what April thought might be welcome.

"Erk-" said April, then, in a whisper asked, "Do I know you?"

"You are young and do not understand, but you will, given time. I know you as you know me." The cat blinked its green eyes, slowly, as it gave her a solemn stare of knowing. "Come, and embrace your destiny. Accept your fate."

"Um, uh, gah?"

April felt her feet moving, stumbling forwards, without her trying to move, almost as if her body was moving without her mind. The cat waited for her and then, as she reached it, it stood. Still uncomprehending, April kneeled by the cat and stretched out a hand.

She was still confused as she held her trembling hand, palm up, in front of the beautiful creature. She considered drawing her hand back, but decided against it, as her body didn't seem to be obeying half the things she told it to do. Her mind buzzing, she waited for the cat to do something.

She didn't have long to wait.

The silvery cat bowed its head solemnly and touched her palm with its nose.

With the soft touch of the cat's cool nose, a thousand images and sensations rushed into April's mind: Grass blowing against her, wind rushing past in great gusts, blood pounding in her veins, tall trees bending and swaying, a lake with sunlight glimmering on the surface, a mouse leaping away from her and disappearing, birds lifting from the trees. The feelings throbbed within her, clouding her vision, coming faster and more thickly until suddenly her vision was filled with stars.

She could hear the sound of many voices all speaking in unison, the cat's voice, but deeper and rougher, as the stars hung in front of her, steadily brightening.

April felt herself falling again as the voices whispered, "We give you the spirit of a cat. Starclan honors you as a member of our race."

April tried to shout, but her body seemed to be growing heavier as she began to plummet downwards.

Then there was one last whisper before everything was swallowed up by black, "Remember your destiny, Dawnpaw."

For those of you who have voted on my poll, now you know what that was. XD It was all for this crappy story. Disappointed?

Anyway, I wanted the first chapter to be kind of wordy, a little more poetic than usual, a little more mysterious. I mean, if the first chapter is really good, people read the book, right? I have no idea. Whatever. I'm gonna stop trying to be intelligent now.

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