Snowstar leaped onto a fallen tree and turned to look at Blackstripes, who was walking slowly up the hill. She couldn't believe a tom that had come so far from his home so fast, wasn't able to come up a hill faster than a tortise. The white-tabby leader just sighed and hopped back onto the trail, padding up to the black tabby tom who had his head facing down.

"What's the matter? Got a thorn in your paw or something?" Snowstar wanted to sound amusing, but she knew it would only make things worse.

The tom looked up. His eyes were dull with tiredness, and he looked ready to fall to the ground and sleep for as many moons as there will be in the rest of the world's time. "I'm just tired from my first travel. Anyways, why are we going to the twoleg place? And why should I come instead of your deputy?"

Snowstar couldn't tell him yet, not yet. "I am taking you because if you're going to be able to hunt and run in snow, you have to be able to travel all the way through a twoleg place after a full run."

"I don't believe you." The black and white tom said.

Snowstar let out a low growl. "Why did you come here, and the truth."

Blackstripes narrowed his eyes, sighing. After about what seemed like a moon, he answered her question. "I came here for my kits, our kits. If you can't remember anything of our past, we were once Snowfire and Blackstripes, both from SandClan. We had four kits, Littlekit, Yellowkit, Dawnkit, and-"

Snowstar cut him off. "Blazekit. I know. Spottedleaf told me about it just last night."

"Thats strange, Heatherstar came to me the night after I was abandoned by WindClan. She also said something else. Something about a prophecy. Did she say anything about it to you?"

Snowstar shook her head. "Nothing. So, how are we going to find the kits, and tell them about who we are?"

"I don't know." Blackstripes's tail rested on Snowstar's shoulder. "But I do know this. We are going to find them, and we are going to get everything right after that." Without a warning, the black and white tom licked Snowstar's ear and rubbed against her cheek.

Snowstar wanted to back away, but she couldn't. He felt warm, and she felt comforted, for the first time in her life. She could feel Blackstripes fur touch hers, and she wanted to stay like this forever. Nothing could seperate them now.

"Maybe this will work now, and we can have more kits." Blackstripes purred into Snowstar's ear.

Suddenly, Snowstar snapped out of loving mode and into reality. She backed away from Blackstripes, her mind going back to the old way it had been. "No, not yet. Not until we finish our duties. Maybe when we find the kits, just not now. Not until they come back to SnowClan and join fully."

She felt Blackstripes warmth disapear from around her. There was a cold whisp in Blackstripes's voice. "Oh, well, I guess we can later. I guess so."

Snowstar wrapped her tail around his tail, and they walked on to the twoleg place...

"Who goes there!" a loud hiss startled Snowstar as she and Blackstripes leaped into a clearing in the middle of the twoleg place.

Snowstar looked around, then back at Blackstripes. Then the hiss came again. "Who goes there I said! And this time, you better answer!"

Before Snowstar could answer, something knocked her onto her side and she felt claws dig into her shoulder. The white tabby looked up to see a light gray she-cat with green eyes. That must be Sweetheart, Snowstar thought.

"I am Snowstar, leader of SnowClan, and this is Blackstripes, my Clanmate." Snowstar tried to sound calm.

"Father?" the mew of a tom rang through the clearing, and Snowstar heard a thud before seeing a redish black tom land on Blackstripes and nip at his ear playfully.

Sweetheart sheathed her claws before helping Snowstar to her paws. "I didn't see you had brought our father with you. We are sorry we attacked you."

"I'm not just your father, but she is your mother. We are the reincarnations of your parents, or pretty much them." Blackstripes came and stood next to Snowstar before telling everything to the kits. He then ended with somehting Snowstar had never imagined him asking. "Will you join SnowClan?"