Chapter 1 Dappleheart's P.O.V
Dappleheart walked into camp with Windchaser right behind her. As she looked up she saw that everyone was awake and pacing in the clearing. She couldn't understand why they weren't sleeping in their nest.
Windchaser walked over to Lightningstar. They started talking in hushed voices.
Dappleheart guessed something had happened while they were out. Though she decided that it was probably nothing so she went to the warriors den and walked over to her nest beside the sleeping Rainflower. She seems to be alright, Dappleheart thought. Then she lay down and went to sleep.
When she was asleep, Stormstar, the first StormClan leader, came to her in a dream. Stormstar told her in worried whispers "Dappleheart, when the dark shadow leaves, a storm will come, bringing a worse aftermath then we have ever seen." Then he looked into the green depths of her eyes for a moment longer, and then he slowly started to vanish.
Dappleheart woke with a jerk. It was dawn outside. Oh no! I'm going to miss my patrol! She thought. Then she got up to go outside, only to remember about her dream. When she walked out of the warriors den, it was misty outside and every cat was out in the clearing as Windchaser was sorting out patrols. She saw Lightningstar outside his den keeping an eye on everyone.
She slowly walked up to him. She was afraid of what he might say when she told him. Only medicine cats and sometimes leaders got dreams from StarClan.
As she approached Lightningstar meowed tiredly "Good morning Dappleheart," then as he saw the worried expression on her face he asked, "What's wrong?"
"Um, can we talk in your den please?" she asked awkwardly.
"Sure. Follow me." Then he led the way inside his den.
"Ok um, last night I had a dream. From... StarClan." She meowed when they were inside, safe from the ears from any eavesdropping cats.
"What? What was it about?" Lightningstar asked, puzzled.
"I think it was a prophecy." She said.
"What?" he asked again. Sounding even more puzzled. Then he asked, "What was the prophecy? Who said it?"
Dappleheart cleared her throat, and looked at the sandy floor of the den, "It was from Stormstar. He said 'When the dark shadow leaves, a storm will come, bringing a worse aftermath then we have ever seen.'" Then looked up only to see her leader staring at her in horror.
"What?" she asked, growing uneasy and switching from paw to paw, "Why do you look like you've just seen the whole clan go down right before your eyes?"
"Because that's the same prophecy I and Dewfall have had, only with different cats. But I've never got a dream from Stormstar." Lightningstar whispered, "And I've never known a regular warrior who has walked with one of the first leaders."
Now Dappleheart was even more uneasy than before.
"What does this mean?" she asked her leader.
"Well, I need to talk to Windchaser first. But I will definitely keep you tuned in since your part of this now." He said and as she was heading out, he added, "And tell Windchaser I said you can have the day off and that when she's done to come talk to me."
"Ok I will." Dappleheart said and then walked out of the den, leaving Lightningstar to process all what she had just said.
She told Windchaser that Lightningstar gave her the day off and that he wanted to talk to her then she went over to the fresh kill pile and picked out a plump vole and went over to the hollow tree to eat it.