In a time of darkness, ThunderClan had a leader descended from Tigerstar

Author's Note: I can't believe that I forgot the disclaimer! Well, I don't own the idea of Warriors, but I do own this story and the characters, except a few from the books that will be mentioned later. This chapter is long, but please R&R! And speaking of reviews, I am stuck, and I've been asking a lot of people for ideas for life-changing injuries that could happen to cats, like blindness, both legs broken, deafness, etc.(I can't use those, but I could use a similar injury), but no one can think of anything. Yes, I am planning to injure a character, but I need a good idea first, so I'm asking anyone who reads this. If you think of a good idea that would work in the story, your name will be mentioned.

And by the way, on one of the chapters, I mentioned that my evilness will make more sense once you see part 2 of chapter 1, but it will really be in chapter five.

Dancingpaw watched eagerly as her sister, Silverpaw walked up to the Great Pine. As all apprentices did at the end of their training, she climbed up the tree and received her Warrior name. "Silverlight! Silverlight! Silverlight!" all the cats called, and then, Bluestar ended the meeting. Dancingpaw was shocked. Sundapple had said she was ready, but she had not been given a warrior name. And her sister was a warrior! She sulked off, her tail lashing back and forth with anger. "Dancingpaw?"

It was Sundapple. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," she said coldly.

"I did tell Bluestar, I really did! I guess she doesn't agree with me, or else she can't think of a warrior name for you," her mentor said, purring slightly at the joke. "Seriously," she said, her voice losing all hint of laughter. "Apprentices have actually had to wait because their leader couldn't think of a name!" Even Dancingpaw purred at that. But she still didn't turn around. She carefully avoided her sister and headed to the apprentice den. That arrogant piece of fox dung! She will be rubbing this in my face for moons...

But she realized that Silverlight wouldn't be coming in here. She would go to the warrior den. Dancingpaw was glad for that. She realized she was tired, and it was getting late, so she curled up, closed her eyes, and fell asleep. Her dream was full of dancing light. Dancing light? she thought when she awoke. Dancing-light? Dancinglight...

Maybe StarClan is telling me I'll become a warrior today. Dancinglight would be a nice name...

She stood up and stretched. She silently strode into the medicine cat's den. She found it easy to not be heard, and saw that Alderfur was already awake, sorting a pile of herbs. She looked up. Dancingpaw thought it was interesting that she and Alderfur looked so similar.

"Why are you here?" Alderfur asked, not unkindly.

"I had a dream that I think may mean something." He walked over and sat next to her.

"It looked like nothing at first, but when I woke up I realized that you could call it dancing light...which I think could mean my warrior name." She felt rather foolish.

"Maybe..." Alderfur seemed lost in his thoughts. Suddenly he appeared to remember something. "Well, you could be right, or it might mean something else, or it wasn't special at all." But to Dancingpaw, it seemed important. She wasn't sure why. She left and realized she was hungry. She hoped Sundapple would have her hunt. She waited for her mentor.

"Good morning," Sundapple said from behind her. She jumped around and her tail poofed up with fear. She realized how stupid she must have looked. "Today, I'll do an assessment again, but Swiftclaw will watch this time. Bluestar can't come. First, you'll fight Greypaw, and then you'll fight me, and if she still isn't satisfied, she'll have you fight her. Then we will watch you hunt."

"Where will we fight?"

"The pine pile."

The pine pile was a place where the floor was covered in pine needles and dirt. It was often used to train young apprentices to fight because it was soft. Dancingpaw supposed it was because she couldn't get tired if she would be fighting three cats and then hunt.

They waited a few minutes for Brightheart. She seemed hurried. Dancingpaw led the way to the pine pile, and soon Greypaw and Bramblefur were following them.

The fight with Greypaw was fairly easy. Dancingpaw was a gifted fighter, and she quickly pinned Greypaw to the ground despite the fact that Greypaw was larger. Greypaw gave up, and then she fought Sundapple.

She used speed this time. Sundapple was quick but a lot larger. Dancingpaw leapt at her, only to retreat and slash again. Eventually, Sundapple was tired, and Dancingpaw pinned her to the ground. Her mentor was tired enough to not struggle.

Dancingpaw was getting tired, but she supposed she could fight Swiftclaw too. Swiftclaw used speed, so she decided she'd use a different method that she'd invented. She could take a lot of damage for someone her age and size, so she'd fight until Swiftclaw was tired, and then pin her to the ground. She waited for the deputy to move. Swiftclaw tried to jump on her, so she dodged it. She then leapt onto the warrior's back. The deputy had expected to hit something and was still confused. She hung on, digging her claws into Swiftclaw's back. Swiftclaw began to roll over, and she leapt off, only to land on the warrior's stomach. They wrestled until Swiftclaw ran a short distance and quickly said, "Okay! I get it! It takes strength to fight three cats, all older than you, and beat them. So now for the hunting part." Suddenly, Dancingpaw realized that Greypaw was staring at her. The other apprentice looked away quickly. She began to purr, and realized that Swiftclaw was doing the same. She was amused! Dancingpaw noticed that Swiftclaw appeared to think that she was a little furball of fury that could defeat anything, partially by surprise that such a small cat was fighting so well.

"You can go anywhere you want," Sundapple said. Dancingpaw softly treaded through the forest until she heard a small sound. She sniffed, and found that it was a mouse. She crouched and snuck up to the mouse. It worked perfectly. She leapt, and before the mouse realized what was going on, it was dead. She buried it near a tree and continued. She caught a shrew, two mice, three small birds and a squirrel before her bad luck began. She saw a large bird on the ground. She snuck slowly through the forest until she was close. She leapt and caught the bird. But the bird scratched her face with its claws, and she let go of it. She fell down because of the pain. She cried out. But Swiftclaw was next to her already. The deputy said, "Don't worry, Sundapple is getting Alderfur."

And she remembered. Normally when she dreamed, she remembered the end first, but this time she had remembered the middle first. She forgot the details until now. The dream was of dancing lights that she longed to get to, but she couldn't move. Every time she tried, she was hurt, and she gave up and just stared at them. She was in so much pain now it reminded her of the dream. She began to relax. It hurt, but she was getting used to it. She didn't want to open her eyes, so she just lay there. Soon she smelled Alderfur and some herbs. "I need you to eat these," he said. He waited for her to stand, and then put them on the ground in front of her. She smelled them there and ate them. The pain was waning. She asked, "Are my eyes okay?"

"I don't know yet," he said. He led her back to camp and into the medicine den. She mostly knew the way, but with her eyes closed, she was doubtful. She trusted the medicine cat to lead her there, partly because he was her mother's brother.

Dancingpaw didn't remember her mother very well. She had never known who her father was. She knew that her mother had died fighting off badgers, but she didn't know anything about her father. Sundapple and Frostsnow were also siblings of her mother. She wondered if her father was from another Clan sometimes. She never really knew her mother, so she didn't know if her mother would fall in love with a cat from another Clan. She fell asleep.