Falconstar's Hope

Prologue

"Did you know," a black she-cat with a long tail asked her mate in wonder, "that there were cats in the forest?"

"Cats in the forest? Don't be ridiculous! I am just glad that our kits are not allowed outside yet" a tortoiseshell tom said.

Suddenly there came a loud yell from inside the no-pelt den. Out came a small female chimera kit yelling "I FOUND IT!" Those three words made two other kits hop out of the bellcat entrance. The first kit to come out was a tom with cream and white fur, laughing. The last kit came out was a white she-cat with long tufts of fur in between her ears. Her underbelly fur and tail was just as long, and the fur was long on her long tail.

"Dream, Oat, Cloud get back inside the no pelt den right this instant!" The tom yowled.

"Oh Frances doesn't be so harsh on them." the she-cat purred.

"But Lucy, you know as well as I do that they will want to follow me to my no-pelt's den, then your no-pelt will be so worried that it will forget about you and will look for the kits," Frances said.

"You don't have to worry so much." Dream said, "We would not be able to hop on top of the fence!"

"Speak for yourself!" her sister Cloud said as she hopped onto the fence. She gasped as she steadied herself and looked out on the world beyond the fence. It was right then and there that she knew that was where she belonged. It would mean leaving her family and life behind, but that was where she was going to go the day that the other no pelts came to look at her siblings. She would call that day as the day of Escape. Are you sure?

"What is over there!" their brother Oat called.

"Lots of trees!" Cloud called back.

Lucy said nervously, "Dream, Oat, Cloud! Let's go back inside! Your father is leaving!" Cloud jumped off the fence and went after her mom, still glancing at the forest.

8 moons later

"Falconclan is doing well!" Moonstar called to the four Clans sitting there at the gathering.

"Three litters of kits have been born! The mothers of these kits are, Littlewave, Whitecloud, and Golden-nose!"

Moonstar loved gatherings for she could learn how other Clans are doing and tell how her Clan was doing.

"Littlewave's kit is named Falconkit, Whitecloud's kit is named Honeykit, and Golden-nose's kits are named, Moonkit, Flamekit, and Badgerkit!"

Suddenly Moonstar felt a voice that was not her own rise up and says,

"There will be four. One of each, F has hardship, S is the last of the last, M has half of what she has, A suffers betrayal. They shall save, protect, and reunite. Four Clans to stop destruction."

Moonstar closed her eyes as she felt herself falling from her spot on the great ledge.

½ moon later

Littlewave sighed, "Falconkit you will be the one from the prophecy I just know it"

Looking up at her mother she struggled to say "But mother, nobody likes me. I am too different with my brown and black spotted fur and my orange-tipped tail"

Littlewave would never know how correct they both were as she shoved Falconkit outside.

"Go talk to Snowfall. I believe she is missing home again. You always somehow cheer her up." Littlewave told her.

"If I have to." Falconkit whimpered.

Snowfall was sitting on high rocks looking out at the bellcats who were sitting on the fence separating the Forest Cats from the bellcats. According to Foxnose, Moonstar and Sunleap had found Snowfall as a kit walking away from that area with a bellcat collar. But sometimes bellcats would wander into the woods.

"You see the black bellcat on the right?" Snowfall whimpered, "She is my mother, and the cream one next to her is my brother, Oat. The one next to him is my sister, Dream. My mother named her Dream because she always had dreams where she could catch a bird. She was supposed to have a twin. I often think that if he had not conjoined with Dream, his name would be Nightmare."

"I wish that your family where Clan cats. Then I would get to know them better." Falconkit mewed