Elm will grow in blood, four trees will come together for the final hour, and the running wolf will run into the fire to save them all.

Special thanks to Galestar, the creator of The Savage Generation.

What Has Past

Wolfshade was surprised. These were wolves, wild dogs. They were surely superior to cats. All she thought about was helping Blacktail.

She grabbed his scruff and started dragging him away. But as she looked back at the wolf pack, she thought they looked rather pitiful crouching down like that.

"They must think I'm a wolf or something," she muttered.

The pack leader's ears perked up. "Speak wolf?" she growled.

Wolfshade was utterly confused. "What?" She was bursting with questions. "How can I speak to you? Why did we never scent you? Are you speaking cat, or am I speaking wolf?"

She shook her head. Speaking wolf, how ridiculous! She would realise a differenttongue.

At that moment Blacktail woke up. "What happened?" he groaned. Then his eyes focused on the wolves. "Run, Wolfpaw! Wolves!" He tried to scramble to his paws, but groaned again as the weight shifted. Wolfshade looked around, and breathed a sigh of relief as she saw some cobwebs strung delicately across a thorn bush. There was the strong scent of feverfew nearby as well. Taking these two items, she held the poultice on the wound.

"Why are you here? Wolves keep their distance, and we would've smelt you," she announced to the wolves.

The lead wolf started growling something. Wolfshade didn't know what it was, but she assumed it was this: "Dusty Cloud, go hold leaves on cat. Red cat sit. Long story."

"Wolf ancestor know Midnight badger. Teach pups languages. Red cat like you save wolf one cat-life ago. Learn cat. Try finding red cat, but he gone. I owe cat. I have dream from MoonClan. They say, "Run to cat place very fast. Red cat in trouble." So Rusty Fur run very fast. Other cats no see pack. Pack too fast." The wolf swelled her chest in pride.

"You see, we teach cat wolf. Rusty Fur want cat to know wolf. Cats leave territory, right? We come with cats."