Silver's peaceful sleep was sudddenly stopped as he woke up suddenly. He looked around, and saw more buildings.
Are these...twoleg nests?
He hopped out of the monster, and decided to explore the different yards a little, but quickly spotted a black and white she-cat watching him from outside the window.
This kittypet can't hurt me, it's inside the nest and I'm out here.
He suddenly spotted a female twoleg kit also watching him, petting the black and white she-cat.
Silver got close to the window so he could talk the kittypet.
Maybe they know where the thundersnakes go...
"Hey, do you know where the thundersnakes end up?"
The black and white she-cat shook her head.
"Sorry, I don't. But Nepia might be able to help you. She goes outside more than I do."
"Nepia?"
"She's another cat who lives with me, but I have to deal with her. My housefolk got her a few years ago. Things were so peaceful before she came. Now she constantly attacks me. Anyway, my name is Jewel."
"That's a nice name."
"I know."
Jewel left the window. After a few heartbeats, a brown and black she-cat came outside.
"The thundersnakes? I hear them sometimes, but only when it's very quiet inside. Lots of strays have come here for my advice. I'm pretty smart for a kittypet, aren't I?"
Silver was shocked that a kittypet knew what that meant.
"How do you know...that word?" He asked.
"The twoleg kit reads all kinds of stories about wild cats in groups living together, called clans. They call cats like me, who live with housefolk, kittypets. I don't know if they're true or not, though. But if you know what it means, maybe they are real after all."
"The thundersnakes...where do they travel to?" Silver asked.
"I know some of them can be found past a greenleaf twolegplace, past a thunderpath where twolegs can see a river, past twoleg nests and other buildings, to a tunnel with another thunderpath. Above the tunnel is where you can find more thundersnakes. I hear cats might live there too."
"Where is the thunderpath that will take me there?"
"There's a monster that twolegs ride on to go places. Jump on one of those, if they let you stay. Those long blue monsters are the ones you should look for. One of them is coming right now, you should head to where it stops down by that light."
"Thank you."
"Jump in the back door of it. Twolegs always enter the front door instead. Just make sure no one is trying to leave the same door you're going in. Oh, and the yellow thing on the walls have to be pulled to make it stop."
Silver nodded, and ran towards the long blue monster. The back door was open, and he leaped inside. He kept quiet and looked outside the door, seeing everything Nepia talked about. Except for the greenleaf twolegplace, which he had to look out another window to see. No one seemed to mind that he was there, and a few tried to pet him. He did his best to tolerate it, and soon it slowed to a stop. He spotted more twolegs, some of them got on. He remembered Nepia's words.
This isn't the right place. Not yet.
He waited some more, tolerating more twolegs petting him until the monster stopped again. It was very dark. He leaped outside of the back door, spotting a bird on the ground. He suddenly realized he was hungry, and pounced on the bird.
You're mine, bird!
He bit the bird's neck, and it lied motionless.
It's not a hawk, but it's something...
He quickly starting eating the bird, ignoring the feathers.
Once he finished eating his meal, he ran across the thunderpath which had no monsters passing by. As soon as he made it to the other side, monsters returned to the thunderpath once more.
He looked ahead, and ran towards a cat he could see in the distance.
The cat he saw turned around and looked at him.
"Who are you? I haven't seen you before."
"My name is Silver. Is this where the thundersnakes are?"
The white tom nodded. "My name is Pine. This thundersnake stop is named after me. Or am I named after the name of this twolegplace? Anyway, the reason for my name isn't important. Come on, I'll take you inside."
"They let you go inside?"
"Yeah. This thundersnake stop is special, because they let cats like us live here and they give us free food! Just go in the special little door they made for us. It won't hurt you."
Silver pawed at the small door for a few moments, before pushing himself through it. He saw twolegs of all kinds walking about, and a few stopped to pet Pine. Suddenly, a tortoiseshell she-cat walked over to them.
"Who is this? He's doesn't live here!"
"This is Silver. He wanted to find the thundersnake that come here."
"Why did you want to find those? Did you lose your housefolk or something?"
"No, it's not like that at all! It's just...they're very powerful."
The tortoiseshell she-cat nodded. "I see. You're just visiting then. My name is Whiskers. I make sure everything around here is running smoothly. It's actually the job of those twolegs to do that, but I have to be sure that this place stays cat-friendly for everyone here. If they started to kick us out, we wouldn't have anywhere to go."
She ficked her tail forward, and more cats appeared, standing behind her.
"Do they all live here with you?"
Whiskers nodded, pointing with her tail to a small orange and white tabby tom. "This kit is Pine's son. His name is Little Kit. Pine named him after his small size, in the hopes that he would become a strong cat one day."
Little Kit's tail flicked in annoyance, his light green eyes showing his fury. "I don't really like my name, though. I've asked him to change it, but I can't do anything to change it now."
"Other cats might think that you are not as strong as you really are with a name like that." Silver replied, "You could use that as an advantage, showing them your true strength in a battle."
Whiskers' eyes widened, shaking her head. "Battle? Why would he need to do that? There's enough food for everyone here to eat, and the twolegs chase the fierce cats who try and harm us away."
"I'm not so sure about that, Whiskers." Pine said to Whiskers, "Remember when that black she-cat came here and attacked that white she-cat who always comes here? If the twoleg hadn't showed up, she would have died from her wounds."
"White she-cat? You are you talking about?" Silver asked.
Whiskers pointed her tail at the white she-cat was beginning to sit down, her eyes fixed on the thundersnakes that passed by.
"That's Yuki. Her housefolk went onto one of those thundersnakes during a snowy day...but he never returned. She keeps waiting for him, but after this long...I don't think her housefolk is coming back."
I kind of feel bad for her...even though she's a kittypet.
"Should I go and talk to her?" He asked.
"You can talk, but don't block her view of the thundersnakes. She gets really upset if someone does that."
Silver nodded, and walked over to the white she-cat.
"Hi there. I hear you visit this place every day. Is that true?" He asked her.
She stopped looking at the thundersnakes to look at him and nodded silently.
"It was a very cold and snowy night. I was only a little kitten back then."


The cold of winter never seemed to have ever been more cold than it was that very night. A little white kitten wandered endlessly. The fierce winds made the snowflakes hit the little kitten's face. She shivered from the cold, and tried to keep warm.
Those efforts were useless in the falling snow. A man walks outside and spots the kitten on the ground.
"Oh, you poor thing! I better bring you inside."
He gently picked up the kitten with his hands, putting them in a small hat they had been wearing.
"I'm cold..." The kitten cried.
The man did not understand feline tongue. He comforted the little kitten, and started to walk back inside to his home.
"It's okay, little one. I'll keep you nice and warm from the cold, Yuki."


"We didn't used to live here, me and my housefolk. We lived somewhere else, where in the yard stood a beautiful pink tree, and petals would always fall from it after the cold season left. The cats there spoke another tongue than they do here. A similar one, but slightly different."
Her voice seemed full of happiness, but the happiness from her voice slowly began to fade as she continued to speak.
"We went everywhere together. Every day he would go onto the thundersnake and I would wait for him to come back. But one cold snowy day, he didn't come back. I'm still waiting for him."
"How long...have you waited for him?" He asked softly.
"I've waited for two years now. Why hasn't he come back yet? Does he not love me anymore?"
"I may not know much about twolegs, but I know that they love the cats they care for very much." Silver replied.
"You know, most cats would have already left me alone. You're the first to have actually listened my story."
"Well, I'm not like those cats. I have my own stories to tell. Do you know about the mountains?" He asked.
"I've seen mountains. It was before me and my housefolk moved here, though. They were very tall and they had snow on them all the time. They also had other trains there, too..."
She looked once more at a thundersnake which had stopped, and twolegs were entering and leaving it. She then sighed as the thundersnake started to leave.
"None of them were him...maybe he missed it."
She spotted something and sighed once more.
"That was supposed to have been his! He's supposed to be here!"
She shook her head in frustration, and started to walk away.
"Wait! What do you mean?" He asked.
"He always came when all those monsters flooded the thunderpaths." Whiskers said, surprising both of them when she spoke. "Twolegs call this time of day rush hour. They're all in a rush to go home."
"And I'll do the same." Yuki said.
Silver watched as the white she-cat crossed a thunderpath, and kept watching until he couldn't see her anymore.
"Where did she go?" He asked Whiskers.
"The park that's in twolegplace. Not this one, but the one those long blue monsters always come from and travel back to every day."
"You mean the one with the greenleaf twolegplace?" Silver said.
Whiskers nodded. "Exactly. She refuses to go to her old home, and says that it reminds her of him too much."
"So, are you planning to stay the night here?" Pine asked.
Silver nodded. "I'll probably stay here, until I figure out where I'm supposed to be."
Whiskers put a single paw in a cat sized door.
"Come inside, they're making dinner for us!"
Silver shook his head. "I already had something earlier. Besides, I prefer to sleep under the stars.
"Okay, then. See you around."
He watched as many cats entered, smelling what was the scent of kittypet food from inside. Ignoring the scent, he leaped onto the roof of the building and looked up at the stars.
"Where am I supposed to go?" He asked the stars aloud.
There was no answer. He sighed, but then suddenly felt very tired and fell asleep.


Silver looked around, smelling the scents of all the seasons at once. It somewhat overwhelmed him. He saw stars float down, and a white she-cat came towards him.
"Are you...a StarClan cat?" He asked. He faintly remembered Stormfur telling him about his days in the clans, how StarClan watched over them on their journey to the lake, but he had decided to stay behind.
The white she-cat nodded to him. "I roam in both StarClan and the Tribe of Endless Hunting. I come to you with a message."
"A message...from StarClan?" He said, "You must have the wrong cat."
She shook her head. "Your name is Silver, isn't it?"
His blood froze into ice.
"Yes, it is." He replied nervously, "What is the message you have for me?"
She pointed with her tail at the moon. "It's a half moon tonight, and the medicine cats of the clans will share tongues with cats who roam in StarClan. And seasons ago, I saw a vision my ancestors from the Tribe of Endless Hunting sent me. They told me of a place where there were no mountains, but instead was a new home for the cats who chose to leave. And those cats who left made it there, except for a few..."
She looked up at the moon once more before looking at Silver and continuing to speak. "It is your choice of you wish to live, but never forget where you came from."
Behind the cat in front of him, Silver saw mostly faded spirits of StarClan cats from long ago. A few of them had brightly shining stars.
"There's so many of you here!" Silver said, "What are your names?"
A brown she-cat spoke first. "I am Wind, the first leader of WindClan. We are the fastest cats, swift enough to catch rabbits."
The next voice came from a light gray tom, who had ice blue eyes.
"I am Skystar, first leader of SkyClan. We are great climbers, and can leap through the trees in the forest."
"Why are you here?" Silver asked the starry cats.
"You are a distant descendant of WindClan and SkyClan. The blood of these clans runs through you." The white she-cat replied.
The brown she-cat spoke once more. "Seasons ago, your mother's ancestors came to the mountains. They were WindClan cats, but they were the swiftest prey-hunters the tribe had seen A few of them even became cave guards. It was long before SkyClan had left the forest. Some left, only to bring more WindClan cats back with them, wishing to join the tribe. I can even remember some cats in the very early days of WindClan going to join the tribe."
"The same happened to some cats in SkyClan when they left the place they had traveled to after leaving the forest, a few of them joined the tribe all those seasons ago." Skystar added, "They were also good prey-hunters. But even I remember only a few cats who traveled to the mountains."
"You are not the only cat with more than one clan in your blood. There are others not far away...and you don't have to look far." The white she-cat said.
The faintest StarClan cats had now faded away, except for the first StarClan cat he had seen. She touched noses with him and then whispered softly into his ear as they began to fade away.
"The sound of the thundersnakes echoes through all their hearts..."
Slowly, Silver became aware of a familar sound. He felt the scents of all the seasons fade away, except those of the time of freed water. The sound echoed again, but louder. It was enough to wake him up. He quickly kept himself from falling of the roof, and then leaped over a fence where the sound had come from. He looked around, and spotted a Silverpath. In the moonlight, it appeared to be shining brightly. He heard echoing sound from the thundersnake once more that was now far away.
"So this must be my destiny..." He thought aloud, "But are we a tribe, or a clan?"
He looked up at the moon, and saw a vision of the brown she-cat and the light-gray tom from his dream. A soft breeze hit his pelt, and he knew that he had been given his answer.
We will be SilverClan...my clan.


"You started a clan without a deputy?" Angelfur said, "And you didn't have a medicine cat either?"
"Relax, Angelfur." Firestar replied, "I had to rebuild SkyClan, and eventually I found the three who would be the leader, deputy, and the medicine cat."
"I was actually getting to the part where I found the clan's first deputy and medicine cat, Angelfur."
Angelfur's tail drooped. "Sorry."
Silverstar licked behind Angelfur's ears. "It's okay. Now, where were we?"
"The deputy and medicine cat." Angelfur said quickly.
Silverstar nodded. "SilverClan had begun, and it was a clan of one. But it wouldn't stay that way forever..."