Falconstar's Hope

-Book One in the Adventures of the Prophesies Series-

''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.