The Legend of Fireheart: A New Beginning

Prologue

A blue-gray she-cat walked over to two large doors. She breathed her magical fire energy and entered. "In the Year of the Cat," she said, "in a world beyond the realms, I, like all the others, awaited the day when a fiery red kit would grow to be the savior of the worlds. But the Dark Claw heard the prophecies as well. I thought we were ready. I thought we were safe. Oh how was I wrong."

Just as she entered the room and saw the many magically-enhanced sleeping kits, the ceiling of the temple began to shake. Suddenly a dark gray she-cat with a broad, flattened face dashed in and rasped, "Save them! The dark armies…have come…"

Alarmed, the blue-gray she-cat ran over to one of the sleeping kits, one with a flame-colored pelt, and picked them up in her jaws. She ran to the balcony outside. At first, she was unsure of jumping to the ground many feet below, but then the shaking increased, and she jumped.

As she landed on the ground, she hurried to the Silver River. When she arrived, she found a mushroom's broken top and placed the kit inside. She pushed the mushroom top into the Silver River and watched as the current swept the top away. As it did so, the she-cat called out, "May StarClan look after you. May they look after us all." After that, she ran back to the temple. She climbed back up to the balcony, and when she looked inside to see what had happened since she had left, she was horrified at what she saw.