Time for chapter one! Yeah!

Chapter 1

"Kite!" Kite looked up at the sound of her name. Glacier, Kite's best friend, a furry white tom, was racing along the fence toward her. "Kite, you'll never guess what just happened!"

"What?" Kite asked. She had a feeling it was going to be something that wasn't totally important. Glacier had a tendency to make a mountain out of an ant hill, so to speak.

"Rain went into the forest!" Glacier's eyes were wide with fright. "Do you think the wild cats'll get her?"

Kite sighed. "Glacier," she meowed. "I've told you a hundred times. I was a forest cat. We didn't eat housecats."

"But what if she gets hurt?" Glacier fretted.

"I'm sure she'll be fine," Kite meowed. "ThunderClan aren't unkind to strays unless they pose a threat to the Clan's well being." Kite tried to remember what it was like living in ThunderClan, but it was so many moons ago. She was twelve moons old now. She had asked Tabitha if she knew anything about them, but she said she didn't know a thing. "Why did she go into the forest, anyway?"

"She said she was sick of life as a housecat," Glacier replied. "And she said she's never coming back! She wants to go live with the Clan cats."

Kite nodded. "We can't keep her from her dreams," she meowed. "If Rain wants to be a Clan cat, then so be it. We can only hope that they won't ham her."

"We have to bring her back, though!" Glacier cried. With that, he jumped down from the fence and darted into the forest.

"Glacier, wait!" Kite called. She wanted to go after him, but she knew she couldn't go it alone. She needed and accomplice, someone who knew more about the forest than she did. And that cat was Odin, the old tom who had been a loner his whole life before being taken in by two kindly old housefolk. He had lived in a small cave in the side of the gorge by RiverClan territory.

"Odin!" Kite cried as she charged into his garden. The elderly tom was sunning himself on the fence, his eyes closed and his ears flat against his head. "Odin, you have to help me!"

Odin opened his eyes and fixed Kite in his fierce amber gaze. "What is your reason for disturbing me?"

"Glacier and Rain ran into the forest!" Kite cried. "You have to help me! You just have to! You know the Clans more than I do."

"Oh, fine," Odin growled. "But you owe me a nap." With that, he leapt from the fence and padded away into the forest with Kite on his tail.