Warriors: Wolfstar's Path

Prologue

A warm and gentle breeze descended through the tall moor underneath the bright full moon. Rays from the moon caught the various pelts of different cats passing through the tall grass. Many cats, big and small, patterned fur or full-on colored were all gathered around a huge fallen tree that stood three fox-lengths above them. The tree looked rathered old with dead branches falling off over the many generations it kept laying there, except for four rather large and still strong branches that had exactly four other cats laying or sitting on their chosen branches.

"Hazelstar, Hollowstar, Tornstar, it's good to see you once again under the full moon. I presume everything has been going good for you and your clan over this Newleaf?" A slim yellow tabby tom greeted the other leaders in front of him, his voice was a soothing and cheery tone as he kept a welcoming smile.

"It's good to see you as well Blazestar," Hazelstar said with a somewhat welcoming smile, though with a hint of being anxious kept looming through her green eyes, "Pineclan has been doing good as usual. Newleaf has once again been kind to us as plenty of prey roams throughout our clan. We have four new warriors: Rippleclaw, Tigerwillow, Oakfeather, and Birchstripe, as well as three new apprentices: Yellowpaw, Sunpaw, and Sweetpaw, and we have new litters of kits from Robinwhisper and Skyheart." Once the caramel brown tabby she-cat was finished speaking, both Hollowstar and Tornstar took their turns to recap on their clan lives to the rest of them to hear. Though when it came to Tornstar, a severally scarred white she-cat, quickly swept through her report rather quick when compared to Hollowstar's turn.

"That's all swell to hear," Blazestar said, still with a soft smile on his face, "I guess it's my turn to give out my news from Wolfclan. Just like the rest of you, Newleaf has been very generous for all of us, various and plentiful amounts of prey is spread out for my warriors to catch and share amongst their clanmates. We have three new warriors: Toadhaze, Heatherstorm, and Lightdapple, while also having three new apprentices: Wolfpaw, Harepaw, and Boltpaw. And we have four new queens Primroseheart and Owleyes-"

"Oh enough of the news Blazestar!" A sudden abruption erupted through Tornstar's voice, her hair arose from her back as she gave out a cynical hiss. "I can't believe you all are just calmly talking about your clan lives, you keep prolonging on and on and don't even speak of the true news to actually be worth talking about."

"Tornstar, how dare you to cut off Blazestar's report," Hollowstar grimly said as his glowing yellow eyes almost intimidated the she-cat, "Your still fairly new as Rockclan's leader, but you should still abide by the rules of never cutting through another leader's report."

After talking down to Tornstar, Hollowstar gave a nod to Blazestar for him to continue. Blazestar could only give out a small huff, "Thank you Hollowstar, finishing up on my report I was only going to announce that three queens from my clan have given birth to new fine additions to the clan, while one will soon be expecting a litter of kits here in about a moon or two." Shutting his eyes for a quick second, Blazestar took one glimpse at Tornstar with his dark amber eyes. "I understand your anxiousness Tornstar, the perceiving news from what I'm presuming all of our medicine cats is quite glooming. I do not hold anything against you for your brash behavior since you care for your clan enough to find any chance to protect it with any way you can. But now that we are done reporting our clan lives, we shall now speak of the looming presence that has been told by our medicine cats."

Two of the leaders nodded their heads, as Tornstar hesitantly followed hers afterward. Blazestar gave a quick glimpse over at a tall calico tom with blue eyes, giving him the gesture that he may speak.

"Longfang," Blazestar said, now with a loud and booming voice for all to hear, "You are the only medicine cat that has gotten the full message from Starclan, as the rest only have been given small snippets of it, would you mind telling us all the full message for us all to hear."

Longfang nodded his head and he gave no time to waste. "Starclan has given me a propechy with the mere visions they had given me. They showed me quick glimpses of each territory of each clan soaked in the blood of fellow clan members as everything around it seemed to slowly die away, along seeing this they told me the following. A looming shadow that only thrives for survival will greatly shed blood of each clan, creating nothing but death and sorrow to lead behind it, and unless given the right path, a great ancestral beast will be able to vanquish all evil that comes their way, but decide on restricting their path will follow the path of the looming shadow and destroy the newly forged clans that have been revived by our fellow ancestors."

A moment of silence loomed around each clan mate, including the leaders and deputies, still wide-eyed in shock of the message Starclan had given to him.

"Was there anything else Starclan had given you Longfang?" Hazelstar asked, almost in an anxious state as her ears were kept flatten.

"All that Starclan had given me after showing me all those vivid scenarios were only hazy glimpses of a single cat with some sort of beast behind them, but other than that, nothing."

Blazestar dipped his head over to Longfang as a sort of way to thank him, "Thank you Longfang, your message that you have received is much obliged as always. I guess this will be a good way to end this gathering tonight unless any of you have anything else to put up?" Blazestar watched as he saw the two leaders not say anything, Hollowstar being the only one to actually respond to his question as he shook his head. "No I suppose not, we've been given enough information for all of us to delve upon tonight, until we meet again for another Full moon gathering." with a slight dip of his head, Hollowstar leaped down from his branch as he leads his part of his clan away from the fallen tree. Rockclan went next after Tornstar gave her turn of saying her farewells, and Hazelstar who didn't say anything as she quickly leads her clan away, leaving only Blazestar and his clan to stay behind.

"What are we going to do about the prophecy Blazestar?" A husky voice reached through Blazestar's ears as he kept his mind over the prophecy Longfang had just told. He turned his head around to see his trusted deputy Heavyclaw waiting for him patiently under the tree, along with his warriors doing the same. Giving a relieving smile down at his deputy he swiftly leaped down to meet up close to him, "All that we have to do Heavyclaw is wait and see who this destined cat that will save us all from our great threat will be. Now, let's hurry now before Starclan grows annoyed of us staying here much longer than we need to be."

Heavyclaw simply nodded his head as he, and many of the warriors he signaled to start moving, followed their leader back to their home, Wolfclan.