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Chapter 3

"Hey, sis," Squirrelflight greeted Leafpool as her sister walked into the den.

"Shh! No sibling stuff here, they're not supposed to find out!" Leafpool told her sister sternly.

"Well, sorry" Squirrelflight said sarcastically.

"We were just about to go hunt. If you're done gabbing with that medicine cat, would you care to join us?" Spiderleg invited Leafpool.

"Sure, maybe we can speak with the "apprentices" afterward," Leafpool suggested.

"We could catch fresh-kill for them and us, and we could share a meal," Squirrelflight said.

"Isn't it odd, Squirrelflight, to see our parents not get along the way they are, and to call Firestar Firepaw?" Leafpool asked jokingly.

"Yeah, it's funny. You'd never think of your leader as an apprentice," Stormfur commented.

"Or your father," Squirrelflight continued with a mrrow of laughter.

"Leader?" breathed a shocked voice from outside.

"Who's there? Why are you listening to us?" Leafpool asked, peering through the branches of the bush.

Squirrelflight pushed her way out of the den and came face to face with a dark tabby cat with amber eyes. At the sight of him, her face lit up and she started nuzzling him.

"Brambleclaw!" she exclaimed, licking his face.

"Get away from me, you stupid she-cat!" the tabby demanded, backing away.

"Brambleclaw?" Squirrelflight asked, with a sad look in her face

"No, I'm Tigerclaw!" Tigerclaw shouted at her.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!" Squirrelflight shrieked, springing up into the air, claws extended. She landed behind her sister, who, along with the rest of the cats, had come out of the den to stare puzzlingly as she nuzzled the evil tom.

Tigerclaw looked at the freaked she-cat to the hard stares of the other future cats.

"Do you know something?" Tigerclaw asked suspiciously.

"Yeah!" Squirrelflight answered, her fur still standing on end.. "You're not your son!"

Tigerclaw narrowed his eyes. "Anything else?" he asked in a dark voice.

"Um, no," Leafpool stammered.

"Mark my words," Tigerclaw threatened them. "I know you know something I don't want to be known, so you better watch it, or your little parents will disappear before they get their warrior names." On that note, he stalked off.

"We're not afraid of you," Spiderleg said after him.

After the cats hunted, they sat and ate by the apprentice's den with their parents. Squirrelflight had just said something mean, obnoxious, and down right rude, and Firepaw had to comment on it.

"Squirrelflight, are you sure you're my kit and not Sandpaw's?" Firepaw joked.

"You never know, I could be both," Squirrelflight pretend-joked back.

All the apprentices started busting up at that, and the time travelers fake-laughed to go along with it.

"That sure would explain why my daughter's a medicine cat," Sandpaw commented. "Firepaw always was soft." She cuffed him over the ear in play-fight and he cuffed her back.

Leafpool and Squirrelflight exchanged glances with each other and then with the other future cats.

"Graypaw, Dustpaw! Look! A mouse just ran into that bush over there! Let's chase it!" Stormfur exclaimed, thinking of a quick diversion that got Graypaw, Dustpaw, Spiderleg, and Stormfur gone in a flash.

Leafpool and Squirrelflight looked at each other and said in unison "Gotta go!" Then they ran and hid behind a nearby bush to peer out at Firepaw and Sandpaw.

"Well, that was weird," Firepaw commented.

"Sure was," Sandpaw said uncomfortably back to him.

There was an awkward silence.

"So," Firepaw said, breaking the silence, "This whole thing, with the kits, is kind of weird, don't you think?"

"You can say that again," Sandpaw agreed. "Isn't it weird that my kit is no soft and nice?"

"And mine is so… like you?" Firepaw continued.

"You bet," Sandpaw laughed, looking into Firepaw's eyes.

"You got any clue who the other parent is?" Firepaw asked, looking away uncomfortably.

"Nope. You?" Sandpaw asked.

"I'm stumped," Firepaw admitted.