Sandfur and Featherheart were sitting on a manzanita branch that twisted into a ninety degree angle, while Dawnlight and Duskcloud were curled up on the ground. They all stared curiously at the transformed kits. Sandfur let out a deep sigh.
"All right, start from the beginning. How did this happen?" Sandfur calmly folded his hands on his lap.
"He would make a good leader. He's so calm and understanding, and very mature for his age," Sparrowtail cocked her head at Sandfur, who was listening to Sunkit explain.
"I see," Sandfur simply nodded and walked over to the Leader's Den.
A few minutes later, Sandfur walked out of the den, with a solemn looking Pinestar.
"So, you are the kits?" Pinestar cocked her head at the tiny hybrids.
"Y-yes," Sunkit eyes were as wide as an owls.
The leader never spoke to them before! This was a true honor for a bunch of little kits.
"Ah, do you know how to turn back into kits?" Pinestar leaned forward questioningly.
"Um, I thought we might have to think about being kits again. Like how we thought about turning into a twoleg," Gustkit shrugged, not wanting to make eye contact.
"Try it them," Pinestar looked expectantly down at the kits.
The kits looked nervously at each other, but did as he told them. There was a faint glow and the grinding of shrinking bones. The kits opened their eyes as soon as they were back to normal.
"Very good. Why do you think this happened?" Pinestar spun around so fast towards the warriors it made them jump.
Duskcloud, who wasn't startled, calmly licked her front paw.
"I think it's because I'm a cat, and Redpaw's part twoleg," Duskcloud sleepily looked at the sky.
"Hm. Reedfang! Sparrowtail! Come with me, we're going to the Moonflat," Pinetar made a beckoning motion with her arm.
Sparrowtail sped after her leader. Reedfang, on the other hand, shoved his hands in his pockets and trudged after them. After sixty minutes of non-stop bickering between Reedfang and Sparrowtail, they made it to the Moonflat.
"Stay here," Pinestar ment that for both of them, but her gaze seemed to land on Reedfang.
Not even a moment later, the moon shone on the Moonflat, making it glitter like a thousand stars. Sparrowtail blinked several times to get used to the light, when her eyes were adjusted, she realized Pinestar was already asleep by the Moonflat. Sparrowtail couldn't help but stare at the fourteen year old in awe. Was this the same girl who got them lost in the woods last year? Even though she was a year older than every body, except for Frostclaw, who was the same age, she used to get into a lot of trouble. But look at her now, she's a leader and always seemed to know the answer! Weird.
"I'm going exploring, Birdass," Reedfang began wandering away.
"Hey! Pinestar said not to wander off! And don't call me Birdass!" Sparrowtail ran in front of him, trying block his path.
Sparrowtail and Reedfang had there ups and downs. This however, was one of there downs.
"Well Pinestar isn't awake and I'm bored," Reedfang tried to shove her away.
Sparrowtail didn't give up though, she tried to to pull him back. But she misjudged the step, sending them both tumbling down a small cliff. They landed in a rather awkward position. Reedfang was laying on top of Sparrowtail, and his mouth was in her mouth. They crawled away from each other as quickly as possible.
"I bet you would have like to have done that with someone pretty, like Featherheart,"Sparrowtail glared at him as she dusted herself off.
"I think you're pretty," Reedfang clasped his hand over his mouth as soon as he realized what he said.
"W-what?" Sparrowtail's mouth was gaping.
Reedfang sighed deeply, there was no turning back now.
"I think you're pretty. Prettier than Featherheart even! I think you're beautiful!" Reedfang began panting as if he just finished a long run.
"W-why?"
"Because I love you..." Reedfang's voice was barely a whisper.
Sparrowtail's eyes were as large as pinecones.
"Do I love him back? NO! I can't! He's my rival for StarClan's sake! Can I? What am I going to do? I don't know what to think! Come on Sparrowtail, say something! Anything!" Sparrowtail mentally smacked herself.
After what seemed like a life time, Sparrowtail spoke.
"I love you too."
Reedfang eyes glowed with passion and joy, not the usual sneering.
"Will you be my mate?" Reedfang stepped closer to her.
"...Yes. Yes I will," Sparrowtail smiled.
"Did I miss something?" Pinestar groggliy rubbed her eyes.
"Pinestar! You woke up!"
"Yes, and StarClan told me the same thing Duskcloud had said and they also told me that we would be able turn into cats in many a moon. The last thing they mentioned was a prophecy: A raid shall come, though it will bring a great good, it shall also bring a great evil, and in the end, only light can destroy the darkness," Pinestar's face was solemn.
"StarClan told me that two times!" Sparrowtail yelled out, startling all the prey in the forest.
"And you never alerted me or Frostclaw," Pinestar looked sternly at her.
"I'm sorry," Sparrowtail looked down and shuffled her feet.
"Nevermind that. What do you think it means?" Reedfang's ocean colored eyes flicked from Sparrowtail to Pinestar.
"I don't know. We should go back to camp and see if Frostclaw can interpret it," Pinestar decided, and motioned for them to follow her back to camp.
As they ran Sparrowtail spotted something strange. Duskcloud was talking to a bunch of other cats. Duckcloud said something inaudible, and the cats all ran off in different directions.
"What's Duskcloud up too?" Sparrowtail wandered.
