Warriors: Third Strike: Book 1: Morning Has Come

Prologue

It had been a moon since the recent take over of all the clans. They hadn't tried anything rash yet. They had been settling in. Some of them complained and where put in prisoner dens. Each of the Dark Forest leaders stayed put with one of the clans. This was the only way they knew to make sure that the clans stayed under their control and didn't rebel.

Tinystar stayed in charge of DepthClan as its leader. Witheredsoul became her deputy. He was the only one she could trust. She heard the whispers in the clan. Some of them weren't sure about her. Some of them didn't like her. Yet, somehow some of them liked her and said she was the leader they had been needing. She was strong unlike their last two leaders.

They had said Spokenstar was weak at heart. Others, like Cheetahpelt who was one of the few left alive that knew her personally, would disagree with that. He said she was a strong leader and they were too young to truly know her. He knew that Spokenstar had worked hard to become the leader of the clan.

Those that agreed with Tinystar also said that Midnightstar was extremely weak. Almost everyone agreed with that. She had been a kittypet turned to a leader. Power had gone to her head. She was weak and hated by all. She was a little crazy as well.

Maskedstar was ruling over SmallClan with Malvago and the rest of her Phantoms staying in the clan. There was only one Dark Forest warrior in the clan and that was Flarestar. He was only there because he insisted on staying just in case. The Phantoms couldn't always be the ones in control so he would show the cats the old fashion way how to listen.

Flamestar was slowly settling in as the leader of LilyClan. He had Hawkstar almost always there with him. His clan was small and slowly getting settled back into being a clan. The ginger and white tom had been sad when his mother had died since both of his parents were then gone, but he didn't let it show. He knew that sadness could get him killed since it would be showing weakness. He didn't want that.

Venomstar was being a powerful leader of MapleClan. Bloodtear was suppose to be the leader of the Dark Forest over MapleClan but he stayed in DepthClan more. Instead, he had put a lazy tom by the name of Leapingdeath in charge of seeing that they followed the rules. He was almost always asleep.

Duskstar was better from his illness. His whole clan was. Maplefur was also suppose to be the leader of the Dark Forest that was helping TideClan, but she was in DepthClan with her mate. She had put Spiderfang in charge of it instead.

Bugstar stayed the leader of his small clan. Darkfeather put Snakerattle in charge of it so that the tom could be with his mate. Bugstar followed by the rules since he knew his clan was too small to put up a fight against the Dark Forest and survive.