-Plague Of The forest series-Book one-The gray plague

Steelheart comes from a religious cult up in the highrocks. The cult sacrifices other cats to thier goddess..... Then they cannibalize them. Whe steelheart states he doesnt believe what they are doing is right, he is chased out of the cult and into the forest of clans, where he is almost killed by the cult, and left for dead. but something darker lurks in the forest, that could destroy the all the clans.

Prologue
Sleekpelt was hunting when he saw a fire. He quickly went to see how big it was, when he saw something beyond strange.

One small cat, barely old enough to be an appentice, was being chased by 15-20 other larger cats. They where pounding out of WindClan territory.

He wondered if windcaln cats where chasing a loner out of there territory, then he realized that he recognized none of the cats, and even if he did, windclan would not send that many cats to hunt down one loner.

Suddenly the cats got close enough for him to hear.

"Bloodmoon! You need to run faster, your goign to let Splinter get away! A large black tabby yelled.

"Sorry Bonedust! Usaully Im the fastest runner in the cult! Im not sure whats wrong today." The cat called Bloodmoon replied.

"Well hurry! Or he`ll get away!"

Sleekpelt watched as the small cat pounded straight into the forest fire, and was hit by a falling tree branch.The other cats came in right behind him, and pounced. They bit and scratched him all over, When they where done, he looked like he was dead.

"Do you think we should take him back to the highrocks?" A Bright brown turtiose shell siad.

"No, he will be to much to carry all the way back to highrocks, and plus he probably won`t taste very good, because of all this smoke." Bonedust replied.

Sleekpelt gasped in horror, and said "Ive got to tell the rest of the clan about this!" To himself.

Suddenly Bonedust perked his ears up. "What was that, it sounded like another cat! Search the whole area around the kill site!"

Sleekpelt ran off as fast as he could.



That night, after a short rain, Sleekpelt came back to the "kill site" and found the young cat.

Sleekpelt put his ear up to the steel-gray tabby`s chest, he could hear a faint heart beat. He grabbed the small cat by the scruff of his neck, and carried him to a small hollow, secretive hollow he had found the other day. Sleekpelt left a piece of fresh kill for the cat when he awoke.

Sleekpelt knew he was breaking the warrior code, but he could not bring himself to just leave the young cat to die.