SpottedDream opened her eyes to see a beautiful place- bright green grass of new-leaf, tall healthy trees of green-leaf, and green bushes with fat juicy berries- now surrounded her. How did she get here? Was she dreaming? Her thoughts were interrupted as the shadow of a cat with bright amber eyes, all emotions flowing through them, appeared over a hill.
SpottedDream instinctively unsheathed her claws, ready to fight if this cat was an enemy. But her eyes grew bright and she sheathed her claws as she recognized the cat- it was LightStar!
SpottedDream's eyes watered and filled with love as she ran up to lick her leader's muzzle. "LightStar! I was so close to you, why did you go!?!" SpottedDream cried. "Oh, I missed you. The clan needs you, LightStar! Please, come back."
LightStar's eyes were full of sympathy and she touched her nose to SpottedDream. "I had no choice. My time was up, it had to happen sometime." She whispered sadly. "But its not me RiverClan needs- its you."
"No!" SpottedDream protested like a young kit that didn't want its medicine.
"You are their leader, not me!"
"Oh, SpottedDream! I trust you. I care about you, and all of RiverClan. If I didn't, I wouldn't have made you my deputy."
SpottedDream stared at LightStar, half upset and half proud. "I knew I wouldn't live forever, SpottedDream. But for when I did die-" LightStar paused, aware that she was now dead and with StarClan. SpottedDream shifted from paw to paw feeling Lightstar's discomfort, then gave LightStar a comforting lick. LightStar showed a grateful smile, and continued. "So that when I did die, RiverClan would be left with the perfect leader." SpottedDream looked down at the ground, embarrassed by her leaders praise. "But you were the perfect leader. I could never be as great as you!"
"Mouse-Brain!" LightStar meowed, laughter in his eyes.
"The whole clan knew you would be the perfect leader since the day you were born!" SpottedDream laughed. "Not even StarClan could tell if a kit would be the perfect leader!"
LightStar giggled like a young kit. "But they knew you were very special. By your second moon, elders talked about how they had never seen such a kit! Some even thought you would be the greatest cat in the forest, they thought you were-well- some-some new prophecy!" She smiled at SpottedDream.
"After you came, everyone knew the clan would never be the same-it would be much better." SpottedDream smiled, but then her ears flattened against her head. "I don't feel very special. I can't be RiverClan's new leader!" SpottedDream looked at her leader. "Can't you help me?"
"You stupid fur-ball!" LightStar laughed. "Why do you think I brought you here? I wasn't going to let RiverClan's new leader lay starving herself in the warriors den!"
SpottedDream jerked her head up. "So you can help me, then? How?" LightStar's face grew very serious now. "First, you need to understand something I found out. StarClan can't do everything. We don't have amazing powers. We can only change a small thing when everyone agrees. We are ancestors, not complete magic-makers."
SpottedDream cocked her head to the right, obviously confused. "Then…how will you help me?" LightStar smiled. "We do, however have one power. It is called the 'Past Performances Power.' I can use it to, kind of go back in time, to see the past. But that's just it, you more see it then actually being there. Your there, but your not. Like your invisible. Get it?" SpottedDream's whiskers twitched in confusion. She shivered as her leader smiled and closed her eyes. Concentrating so hard on what? …Something…her power, maybe? As SpottedDream looked around, and watched LightStar, she noticed, she didn't want to ever leave this place! She couldn't bare life without LightStar- especially if SpottedDream herself would be leader! She couldn't let LightStar go! She made up her mind- she would find a way to bring LightStar back to her rightful place as leader.
Suddenly, LightStar's eyes flew open. "Follow me." She meowed. LightStar darted through the forest with great speed, and SpottedDream ran right behind her, panting loudly. "Where are we going?" she yelled, but LightStar was to far ahead to hear.
The two cats ran and curved through the forest, then made a sudden stop at a river. "Look into the river. I shall make it show you the past- your past. You will see everything great you have done." SpottedDream stared in amazement as the river waved, then spun, went to pick, purple, and a light sky blue- and then soon was swirling round and round. Faster, faster, then suddenly- a picture of the RiverClan camp appeared!
SpottedDream watched, as time was rewinding in the water. First, she saw herself laying in the warrior's den looking at the stars. Then, she saw herself sharing tongues with her dead leader. She saw herself leading the clan back from battle, and what she saw next, made her fur bristle. Her heart ached. Her body itched. She twitched, and choked. No! NO! She stared into the river to see LightStar lose one life; two, three, four- SpottedDream couldn't stand it!
SpottedDream stared in horror- LightStar didn't just die, she was murdered! SpottedDream stared at the evil cat that had killed her leader- it was ShadowClan's leader, DarkStar. Blood pounded in SpottedDream's ears and her heart burned. LightStar should be alive! "LightStar! How did I let you be murdered?" she cried. "I won't let you! I am stopping it!" Without thinking, SpottedDream dove into the river. She went under the water and everything looked dark red. She couldn't pull herself up through the strong current. SpottedDream heard LightStar screaming, and tried to make out the words. Fi? No, no-ti-time! Time…can't...range? Change! Time can't change! SpottedDream made out the words, but it was to late- everything went pitch black, and SpottedDream drifted away.