Chapter 2
A dark gray apprentice with black patches was thrashing around in her sleep. A fully grown warrior walked in to wake her. "Snakepaw? Wake up," said the warrior, "It's time for training." Snakepaw opened her cloudy green eyes and said, "I have to tell Starspots what I saw." She got up and sprinted towards the medicine cat den. When she reached the den, Starspots turned away from the herbs that she had been sorting and said, "Snakepaw, what's wrong?" "I have foreseen something terrible," said Snakepaw, "The cats of the Dark Forest are training for something. I've noticed a loner among them, and she seems to be very powerful. Whatever it is they intend to do, they are preparing. We should be on guard. The Dark Forest could attack us, or any of the Clans. They could even invade StarClan!" "I shall tell Oakstar about this," said Starspots, "Come with me."
Oakstar was pacing outside of his den, his white tail lashing, when he noticed the two cats. "Starspots? Snakepaw? What do you need?" said Oakstar. Starspots replied, saying, "Snakepaw has seen something that you must know about." "Tell me, Snakepaw. What did you see?" said Oakstar. Snakepaw said, "I saw the Dark Forest cats training for some kind of battle, Oakstar. I'm worried that they might be preparing to invade one of the Clans, or even StarClan." "Hmm... This doesn't sound good," said Oakstar, "Our Clan is weakening, and we must find out why. Our best warriors and apprentices keep becoming ill, and we still don't know what's happening to them." Starspots spoke up, "It doesn't appear as if there's an illness spreading. It seems as if our sick cats have been eating Easter lilies. I haven't had any of my patients eating these before. It seems to make them very sick. We've already lost two warriors and a kit to this plant. It's almost as if someone is poisoning our fresh-kill, but who could do that without us knowing? I don't know of anyone in our clan that would do this, but we would know if it was a ShadowClan or WindClan cat. If there are rouges poisoning our prey, they must be very good at this and have had much practice."