Cricketsongs+Prophecy-+part+1+of+chap.1

The glittering brightness of the golden sun crashed into the lowly darkness of Cricketsong's den. When the sun reached to her, she stretched open her eyes and awakened her brother, Tigerstep, who immediately darted out of the nest and sat patiently grooming himself while awaiting Dovefeather's morning catch. Come on, sister!", Tigerstep called, "Your'e making me wait!" Cricketsong only trudged on and gave an intensely somber gaze as she also sat down to groom herself. Looking worried, Tigerstep ambled over to his sister to give her some comfort.

"You are not yourself,sis. What's going on?" "Tigerstep, did you see the moon? It wasn't there!" Tigerstep shrugged, figuring that his attempts to comfort his sister completely useless as he murmured, "Well it wasn't there when I wasn't on patrol a couple of days ago." Appalled by such a remark, Cricketsong hissed "I knew it! Starclan has shown us that we are not to be trus--" Dovefeathers yowl cut her off as she laid down the catch of the day. Sardines! Beets! Mice! Tigerstep smacked his lips with delight while Cricketsong only stood in wonder as her mother called them one more time. Both cats scrambled down the embankment and seated themselves against the rocky table. As Tigerstep eagerly stripped off the sardines, Cricketsong took the time to think about her earlier comment was necessary; then she ate.

A few minutes after they had finished eating, her escorts arrived with the latest news: The moon was not seen for over two moons now, ever since Cricketsongs midnight patrol had ended in failure. //I wonder if my good friends Monkeystripe and Owlfur have heard about the moon for these past moons,// Cricketsong thought as the escorts sprinted towards the training hall. Though she knew they would arrive in the early morning, already she felt dark and scared as the thought circled in her mind: //What if they don't even// care //like my father did.// Her father,Shrewtail, had been killed by a Twoleg monster when she was only an apprentice, but she remembered his last words: //Starclan will abandon you//. She began to wonder if he was right, that Starclan had abandoned her by taking away the moon. As the training hall loomed over the horizon, the thrilling thought circled in her mind : //What if the prophecy will never come true?//