eyes.

Ravenpaw padded over to her and lay down.

"It seems like I never get a moment away from Firestar." Snorted Shadowheart. "And, well....It turns out that Soundstep has fallen sick with white cough over night. Ripplepool is attending to him now."

Wolfheart frowned. If Soundstep died, then Shadowheart or Echobreeze one would probably be made deputy, and if Shadowheart was made deputy, that means that the kits would have rare time ever seeing him- he'd be so busy all the time.

"And here's something worse..." He sighed. "I think that another Clan's scent was found on our territory. And unknown territory..."

Wolfheart twitched her ears, remembering her dream. "We'll have to wait and see what happens." Sighed Wolfheart. "Until then, why not come and rest your paws for a while?"

A screech awoke Wolfheart, and she felt Shadowheart jumping up from beside her, his black pelt bristling. "What was that?" Gasped a voice from across the room, it was Ferncloud.

"I'll go take a look." Meowed Shadowheart cautiously.

Soon the kits had gotten up from their sleeping spot and had begun to poke their small heads through the nursery entrance.

Foxkit gasped. "Mama, come look!"

Wolfheart got up slowly and went to join them.

A cat- a cat that looked much like Firestar- was in the clearing, startled as Echobreeze stood alrmed, her pelt bristling.

Shadowheart yowled loudly, and soon half of the Clan had surrounded the cat.

"What are they doing to Firestar?" Asked Creasedkit.

"I don't think that's Firestar." Murmured Wolfheart, silencing Creasedkit by putting her tail over his muzzle.

Soon, Firestar ordered the cats to clear out and go back to the dens. He told them that he'd take care of whoever this cat was.

Once Shadowheart came back to the nursery, Wolfheart knew that this must be a cat from the new Clan. She figured it was time to tell Firestar about it.

"Stay here a moment." Wolfheart whispered to Shadowheart once he slipped through the entrance, and she left the nursery, heading towards Firestar.

She stepped cautiously, afraid that Firestar would snap at her for coming towards her when he had told the other cats to go back to the dens.

Firestar was examining the twin-like figure to him, and the cat just stood stiff-legged, afraid and curious.

"F-Firestar?" She stuttered when she aproached him. "I think I may know where this cat comes from..."

"So, you're telling me that this cat must come from a Clan that you figured would be coming to the forest?" Firestar asked once Wolfheart finished. "Yes, sir." Replied Wolfheart, hoping she wasn't making a fool of herself.

"Is this true?" Firestar turned to the other cat, who had been ordered to silence until Firestar had told him to speak. "Y-Yes. I come from LeafClan- our Clan is actually from very, very far away. Probably Moons away, in fact. I am Firerain, deputy of LeafClan. And my mate, Wolfstar, is the leader."

This was oddly strange. Wolfstar and Firerain. "Is your Clan coming here?" Wolfstar asked. "Yes. Posibbly staying...I'm sorry...But, our Clan is so...So helpless right now. We need shelter, food and water. Firestar- it is Firestar, right?- could LeafClan share ThunderClan's camp until we find a place of our own?"

Wolfheart's ears perked. Share the camp? Was this cat some sort of stupid, or what? Then again, Firestar looked thoughtful. Wolfheart knew how sympethetic he was about cats in need.

"Well..." He hesitated, then sighed. "Just until your Clan is settled."

Firerain's eyes lit up with joy a thankfulness. "But, just one more question." Firestar meowed. "Do you follow StarClan?"

Firerain looked a bit confused. "No, sir. We follow MoonClan. MoonClan works like this: the moon changes every moon, correct? Well, we believe that, every time a cat dies, the moon gets bigger, and, once the moon is full, the cats in the moon move to the stars, where they watch over us."

Firestar twitched his ears. "Very interesting. We believe that once cats die, they go to Silverpelt, and they are stars."

Firerain let out a purr. "Interesting." he meowed, but he was cut off by the scent of new cats overflowing the camp, then a gray head poking through the gorse tunnel.

"Firerain?" It called, then twitched its ears once it spotted him.

Firerain padded up to the cat, and nuzzled her. "There is another Clan living here, but their leader has been kind enough to let us share the camp until we find our own home."

He whispered something to her, and soon the entire LeafClan poured into the entrance of ThunderClan.

"Hello." Greeted the gray she-cat. "I am Wolfstar, leader of LeafClan."

Firestar purred. "I have already heard of you. Please, introduce me to your Clan, then I will introduce you to mine."

Wolfstar yowled for the cats to break up into groups- warriors, apprentices, elders, queens and kits.

Wolfstar walked up to the warriors first, and pointed with her tail to each one as she talked. She first pointed to a small gray, white and black she-cat, probably just turned into a warrior. She was skinny with brown eyes. "This is Stormipelt." Announced Wolfstar. Stormipelt bowed her head respectivley and meowed a greeting.

She moved over to the next cat, a large, brown tom. His amber eyes shown as if he were in command. "This is Dogfoot." Meowed Wolfstar. Dogfoot also bowed his head.

She padded to the next cat. A red, elderly she-cat. Wolfheart was surprised that she wasn't yet an elder. "This is Emberbreeze, soon to become an elder, she is our most valuble warrior, brave and loyal to all she belives in." Something else caught Wolfheart's eye, though. Emberbreeze was missing one of her piercing ember eyes, and all that remained was a scar in the shape of claw marks.

Wolfheart was knocked out of her stare when Wolfstar spoke again, anouncing the name "Scratchedface". When Wolfheart looked, she saw that he was a lean brown tom with a nasty scar on the right side of his face. Then she heard Wolfstar say that his apprentice name had been Brownpaw, until he had gotten the scar, that's how he earned his warrior name.

Wolfstar then padded over to the apprentice group, and announced the name "Chihuauapaw" to a small, light brown, jumpy she-cat. Her light green eyes shown with the hyperness of twelve cups of coffee, and she looked a bit younger than the other apprentices.

Wolfstar announced that a small white tom's name was Killerpaw, though he didn't look like he was that much of a killer.

Wolfstar moved over to the next apprentice, Greenpaw. She was a tabby she-cat, and was the medicine cat apprentice.

The elders were next in line. "This is Waterfur, who became an elder only four sun rises ago." Waterfur was a blueish-gray she-cat who looked very much like Bluesar, from what Wolfheart had been told. Wolfheart hadn't been around when Bluestar walked the forest, but she was certain that she was the noblest of all leaders.

The second elder was Owlflight, who was a very old tom. He looked like a leopard, only his main color was dark brown, and his spots were light brown. He barley had a tail, and his blue eyes were tired an dull.

There turned out to only be two elders, so that meant that all was left was the medicine cat, the queens and kits, and they had already met the deputy, Firerain.

There were only two kits, and their mother was the only queen.

"This is Whitewolf, and her kits, Sharpkit and Treekit."

Whitewolf was pure white, all except a black muzzle and chest. Her blue eyes were kind and gentle, like a perfect mother. "Who is your mate?" Asked Wolfheart, hoping she wouldn't mind. "Dogfoot." She replied kindly.

Her two kits, Sharpkit and Treekit, were about the size of Wolfheart's own kits. Sharpkit was a tom who had long, dark brown hair (A bit like his father), and Treekit was a she-cat that had medium-sized tortishell fur.

"And, the last cat, Herbcloud is our medicine cat." Meowed Wolfstar, finally padding up to the sweet herb-scented brown-and-white patched she-cat. "Greetings." Meowed Herbcloud softly.

"Well, now that I know your Clan, I guess that you need to know mine." Meowed Firestar, right before yowling so that the rest of ThunderClan came out of the dens.

Firestar had announced all of the names by moonhigh. Echobreeze, Emily, Shadowheart, Soundstep (Though he was in the medicine cats den asleep)...

Every cat from head to tail. Firestar too had divided them into groups.

"Well, now that we all know each other can we please go to sleep?" Meowed Dustpelt bitterly. Firestar nodded permission, and the cats tiredly began to pour back into the dens.

"Where do we sleep?" Meowed Sharpkit, his eyes full of curiosity. "There is a den for each group. Warriors in the warriors den, apprentices in the apprentices den, elders in the elders den, so on. That is where each will sleep."

Wolfheart walked over to Whitewolf and her kits. "Come, you will be in the nursery with me and my kits."

Treekit's eyes grew big with delight. "You mean that there's other kits to play with?"

Wolfheart chuckled "Yes, there is. You can meet them in the morning, but right now you need to go to sleep."