Disclaimer: If I owned Warriors, do you really think I'd be sitting in this mediocre house, on an old computer and not out in a mansion-type house with a shining new laptop on my… lap? AHH! The shininess! It buuurns! Heheh oh yeah and any characters you recognize that aren't in the book, I didn't steal them from other authors, IT'S A COMPLETE COINCIDENCE!

Prologue

The stars glittered like a canopy of morning dew on the blanket of indigo that covered the sky. Leaf fall made the trees plunge into a smoldering fire of browns, oranges, yellows, and reds. The breeze whispered through the leaves as two shadowy figures appeared at the edge of a forest clearing.

They spoke in soft voices as if the whole forest was trying to get in on the secret. "What's its name?" said the first cat gruffly. The tom motioned towards the tiny kit mewling in the jaws of the second cat's mouth.

The second cat looked up at the dazzling stars and set the kit down on the moonlit grass. His fur was bathed in milky moonlight as he murmured, "Moonkit."

"I've taken you this far, you can carry on by yourself," he meowed taking one last look at the helpless kit. Then the bulky tom dashed back into the wild depths of the forest. The remaining cat sighed, his grey flank heaving. He picked up the kit and headed the opposite way of the immense cat.

Racing through the undergrowth, the tom wondered if what he was doing was right. Shouldn't his and his mate's birth clan get his one and only kit? No, he thought, they betrayed him like no one else has before. His thoughts were dark for the rest of the way.

Padding into the middle of a clearing washed with pale light, the grey tom looked around and set down the kit, sighing. He heard its pitiful mewling and it almost pained him to leave it. Almost. Giving it one last look, he scampered off back into the undergrowth, not even caring if the Clan picked up his scent. It didn't matter now. Nothing did. The only cat he ever loved was dead, and he didn't even have his Clan anymore. He pushed the bitter thoughts away in hopes of cheering himself. He was leaving the forest. Forever.

Or so he thought.


The firey fingers of dawn started staining the indigo sky as a small, light brown she-cat was awoken by a pitiful mewling coming from the main clearing. The brown tabby groggily got up and out of her cozy den to start padding out of the medicine cat's clearing on the narrow dirt path that was trodden by many paw steps. Stepping out into the main clearing, the small she-cat's green gaze rested on a white scrap of fur in the center. Cautiously walking up to the tiny kit, she bent her head and breathed in the its scent.

The minuscule scrap of fur smelled of… was it, TorrentClan? At that moment, the little kit raised its head, and blindly pointing its muzzle towards the medicine cat, blinked its eyes open to see the first colors of life. (A/N: Can cats see in color? Anyways…) The brown she-cat was almost touching noses with the little white kit, when all of a sudden she was staring into deep, starry pools of lavender.

The medicine cat let out a gasp. She had never seen anything like that before. Breathing in another breath of the kit's scent, she now smelled stars and night and a midnight breeze. Looking back to the kit's eyes, the light brown she-cat heard a single word ring throughout her mind: "Moonkit."

Thinking quickly, the medicine cat picked up the kit by its scruff and trotted towards the nursery. Two queens lay inside: a tortoiseshell, who was expecting, and a ginger cat, with two kits already suckling. "Jadewhisker," the ginger she-cat greeted, nodding to the medicine cat. Jadewhisker set the white kit down and urgently told the queen about the kit, Moonkit. "Would you be willing to take care of her?" she finished. Looking uncertain the ginger cat finally mewed, "Of course." Jadewhisker blinked her thanks and headed out of the nursery.

She knew that kit wasn't like the others, and she knew she had to keep in touch with StarClan, as well as keep her eye on "Moonkit."

(A/N: Ok, not a very good ending to the prologue but whatever. Now if you keep your arms and legs inside the… story… we'll move onto the Allegiances! Yay! Oh yeah and by the way for people who read my other story, The Flower of the Night, this is like twenty years before that, but you don't have to read that story to understand this one. I'm just too lazy to think of other clan names. ;-) )


Allegiances

ForestClan

Leader:

Timberstar: mottled brown tom with amber eyes

Deputy:

Lightningfire: light brown tabby tom with yellow eyes

Medicine Cat:

Jadewhisker: light brown tabby she-cat with green eyes

Warriors:

Cinderheart: dark grey tom with amber eyes

Apprentice - Maplepaw

Emberwhisker: ginger she-cat with blue eyes

Blueflower: blue-grey she-cat with blue eyes

Appleblossom: tortoiseshell she-cat with blue eyes

Apprentice - Moonpaw

Firestone: mottled grey tom with amber eyes

Apprentice - Dragonpaw

Pewterfur: dark grey tom with blue eyes

Apprentice - Thistlepaw

Cottonfur: fluffy white she-cat with green eyes

Dapplepelt: pretty tortoiseshell she-cat with blue eyes

Singefur: brown tom (fur tipped with black) and amber eyes

Apprentices:

Moonpaw: long-haired white she-cat with odd lavender eyes

Maplepaw: ginger she-cat with amber eyes

Thistlepaw: mottled light grey tom with blue eyes

Dragonpaw: sandy colored tom with white under belly, faint white stripes, and green eyes

Queens:

Willowflower: light grey tabby she-cat with green eyes (Skykit, Glacierkit, Frozenkit)

Vinewhisker: light brown tabby she-cat with green eyes (Ivykit, Oakkit)

Oceanpool: grey she-cat with blue eyes (Windkit, Flamekit, Berrykit, Owlkit)

Elders:

Gingerclaw: old ginger she-cat with yellow eyes

Witherwind: light grey tom with blue eyes

Yewclaw: blind tabby tom

(Other 3 Clans are TorrentClan, StoneClan, and SkyClan)