Warning: contains spoilers from the Warriors AU and future stories
Prologue
It's a calm night in Starclan, the night sky sparkled with stars and was clear of clouds. The starry forest was plentiful with prey and the rivers and streams were clean and clear as crystal. In an open area, not far from the starry forest and near a calm river, three cats were sitting down and talking. A ginger tom with green eyes, a blue she-cat with blue eyes, and a golden tom with light brown stripes, paws, eartips, white chest, and blue eyes sat down and were talking and telling stories. Suddenly, a pale grey she-cat with white eartips, paws, chest, and blue eyes rushed over to them.
"Firestar! Bluestar! Rootspring!" she meowed, urgently.
All three cats perked up in alarm and looked to see the she-cat approaching them. Rootspring was glad to see her, especially since that she-cat was his mate, Bristlefrost. However, judging by the urgent expression, he could tell that something was wrong. Bristlefrost stopped and started panting.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Rootspring asked.
"You…You need to come see this, now!" Bristlefrost panted.
She than turned around and started running. Rootspring, Firestar, and Bluestar looked at each other confused, than followed Bristlefrost. All four cats ran as fast as they could, with Bristlefrost leading them. The more they ran, the more near they were to the dark forest border, but something was off. There was thick black smoke ahead and Bluestar thought she was seeing flames.
"Are those flames?" she wondered.
Firestar, Bluestar, Rootspring, and Bristlefrost reached the dark forest border, cats had already gathered at the border, looking with shock and horror. Bluestar, Firestar, Rootspring, and Bristlefrost approached the border and were horrified by the sight. The dark forest was in flames, trees and bushes were burning, there was a horrible stench of sulfur in the air, and the entire forest was changing. Everyone was horrified, no one had ever never seen something like this. The dark forest continued changing, there were screams of agony, not just from cats, but human screams were coming into the mix. Firestar couldn't believe what he was hearing, he looked at everyone else and they too were in disbelief, along with being confused about the mixed screams.
"What is that?" one cat asked.
"Twolegs." Firestar meowed.
"What…" Bluestar meowed, surprised.
She than remembered that Firestar used to be a kittypet and that he had lived with twolegs before she, Lionheart, and Greystripe found him in the forest. Firestar could see lava in a distance and wondered how any of this was possible. Like, no warning about any of this was told nor were any signs present that they could've possibly missed. Suddenly, a few cats from the dark forest came out of the bushes and ran towards the Starclan border. One cat was on fire, while the other three were covered in smoke. Rootspring saw the three dark forest cats and could see that they needed help. So, Rootspring used his power and three platforms made of rotten, but thick roots, formed and raised the three dark forest cats towards the Starclan border. Once the three dark forest cats got to the other side, a white and black tom with blue eyes looked down and could still see the fourth cat at the bottom. Suddenly, a big, hideous, black dog with red eyes came out of the smoke and crept towards the burning cat. A hideous, deep snarl echoed from a distance. Without thinking, the white and black tom jumped down to the dark forest and protectively stood in front of the burning cat.
"BACK OFF, DOG!" he hissed.
"Darktail!" a she-cat screamed.
The light grey she-cat with blue eyes looked at a couple of other cats with a pleading expression. Suddenly, a dark brown tom with wings, a white chest, and yellow eyes and a black tom with wings and blue eyes flew into the dark forest and attacked to black dog. They swarmed at the hideous mutt and the dog tried to attack the two warriors. Darktail managed to lead the burning cat to the last platform but the two winged warriors wasn't enough and the dog managed to get past them and ran straight forward Darktail and the burning cat. Suddenly, a flash of fire blocked the dog's path, it was Firestar, covered in flames.
"Back off, mutt!" he yowled.
The dog growled and glared at the fiery tom, clearly not fazed by the flames. The dog attacked Firestar and threw him up in the air like a rag doll. Firestar landed on the ground, his flames burned out, and he struggled to get back up. The two winged warriors attacked the dog again, clawing its fur and biting its face. Firestar got back up slowly and was ready to attack again. However, he saw another burning cat coming out of the burning forest. Firestar couldn't believe what he was seeing, the burning cat he saw was Tigerstar, as in the Tigerstar that killed Redtail, Brindleface, Whiteclaw, Greypool, and so many others. Tigerstar screamed in agony and he looked terrified, something Firestar never thought he would see in such a cat. Suddenly, the black dog attacked Tigerstar and bit into him hard. The dog was ripping Tigerstar to shreds, wounds that would've killed a cat weren't killing Tigerstar; in fact, he was screaming in horrible pain and agony. Firestar was disturbed and couldn't believe what he was seeing, seeing this brought him back to when Tigerstar was killed by Bone and how he teared Tigerstar's belly; that was the only few times Firestar ever felt true fear.
"Firestar!" a tom called out.
Firestar perked and turned around, behind him was another winged cat. Only, this cat was a black tom with a white chest, tailtip, and yellow eyes. Firestar recognized him as Ravenflight, his best friend and a loyal friend; he was also a former apprentice of Tigerstar. Ravenflight flew off and Firestar headed towards the last platform and got onto it. The platform rose up and once Firestar got to Starclan, the platform untangled itself and the roots fell to the ground. Firestar panted and looked around, the four dark forest cats, Darktail, Ravenflight, the two other winged warriors, and everyone else was here. Firestar looked at the burning cat and saw that once he crossed over the Starclan border, the flames blew out, and now, the tom was in terrible pain. The light grey she-cat with blue eyes, Darktail, the two-winged toms, a light grey she-cat with white eartips, chest, muzzle, paws, and blue eyes, and a light brown tom with white eartips, chest, stripes, paws, tailtip, and yellow eyes crowded the injured tom. The light grey she-cat glared at Darktail.
"That was reckless, Darktail, you could've been killed!" she scolded.
"I'm sorry mom, I just felt like…I had an obligation to help him." He meowed.
"Filthy mutant!" the injured cat spat.
"Hey, that's your brother you're talking too, Harry, you're lucky to even be here!" the light brown tom hissed.
"My name's not Harry, its Hareclaw to you!" he hissed.
"Enough. Regardless of who you are, you're still Harry to me." The light grey she-cat meowed.
"Wanna bet on that, traitor." Hareclaw sneered.
"After everything you put me, mom, dad, Darktail, Ravenwing, and Robinfeather through. Yeah, I think I do." The light grey with white eatips she-cat growled.
Hareclaw growled, but said nothing; the light brown tom shook his head in disappointment. Firestar sighed, but than looked at the other dark forest cats.
"Snowtuft, what happened?" Bluestar asked.
Snowtuft and two other cats were gasping for air. A dark tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes was tending to one of the dark forest cats and soon, other medicine cats showed up and helped. Snowtuft finally was able to catch his breath and looked at Bluestar.
"One minute, we were having a meeting, next thing we know, the forest was getting hotter and hotter, and then, the forest caught on fire. Cats were panicking and running all over and then, dogs came out of nowhere and started attacking us." He explained.
"Are there any dark forest cats that have fire powers?" Firestar asked.
"Yeah. There's a cat named…Flamepelt, I think." Snowtuft answered.
"Yeah, but cats with fire powers can't burn anything in the dark forest, Starclan, or anything in their own territories. I've seen several fire cats in flames brushing next to trees and they didn't burn." A Starclan cat spoke.
"That's true and it doesn't explain where the dogs come from." Firestar agreed.
"There are cats that can turn into dogs." One cat spoke.
"Maybe, but I've never seen dogs that hideous." The light brown tom spoke.
Firestar and Bluestar knew Onestar was right, Firestar had seen a lot of cats turn into dogs in his life, but he had never seen dogs like these. Bluestar still had some questions and looked at the other two dark forest cats.
"Who are these two, Snowtuft?" Bluestar asked.
"My name is Thrushstone." The second dark forest cat meowed.
"And I'm…Nightpelt." The third dark forest cat gasped.
"Do you two know anything about what happened?" Bluestar asked
"Like how Tigerstar and Hareclaw are here?" Ravenflight asked.
"That's right, because you killed Tigerstar a second time at the battle of the dark forest." A pale ginger she-cat said.
"And Darktail killed Hareclaw again during the great battle, I know this, I was there." Ravenwing meowed.
"I don't know, me and Nightpelt used to be rogues, before we died." Thrushstone explained.
"Yeah, and the dark forest cats treated us like slaves, because we didn't have powers." Nightpelt added.
"I see." Bluestar meowed.
"Uh Firestar." The pale ginger she-cat spoke.
"Yes, Sandstorm." He meowed.
"Since when do you have wings?" she asked.
Firestar was alarmed and looked on his back. Low and behold, there was fire wings on his back. Bluestar was shocked and looked at her back to see blue fire wings on her back. Everyone was shocked and soon, cats that didn't have wings before were starting to get them. Sandstorm got sandy wings, the dark tortoiseshell she-cat got wings made of plants and berries, Onestar got one wing, Rootspring got wings made of roots, Bristlefrost got wings made of frost, the light grey she-cat with white eartips got light grey wings, Darktail got wings made of dark shadows, and many cats got so much more. Cats that didn't have powers before were starting to get wings and cats that already had wings still had theirs. Everyone was confused and wanted to know what was going on. The dark tortoiseshell she-cat got into a hunting crouch and disappeared, than reappeared again.
"I still have my power." She said.
"So do I." Rootspring meowed.
Firestar looked around and was shocked by what he was seeing. Every cat he knew that didn't have wings before now had them. Firestar couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"How is all of this possible?" he wondered.
"I think we can help with that." A voice spoke.
Everyone looked and saw a golden, dark ginger, and white tom with yellow eyes, a black she-cat with green eyes, a light grey tom with white ears, paws, chest, tailtip, and blue eyes, a tan and brown she-cat with yellow eyes, and a light silver tom with white stripes, chest, dark grey ears, paws, tailtip, and green eyes. It was Thunderstar, Shadowstar, Skystar, Windstar, and Riverstar, the original clan leaders, and each cat had wings representing their powers. Everyone was amazed to see the clan founders here and Bluestar approached them.
"Thank Starclan you're here, what's going…" Bluestar asked.
Suddenly, a light came out of nowhere and the starry sky changed to daylight. It was daytime, no longer nighttime like the Starclan cats were used to; no one could explain how this was possible. Behind the clan founders, were two twolegs with wings. Everyone got into a battle stance, their ears were backed, they bared their fangs, and they hissed at the twolegs. The twolegs looked at the cats calmly, and then smiled.
"Don't worry, all will be explained to you." One of them said.