It was the first night of all, the very first rising of the moon, a new moon, only the frame of the orb glowing, when the first Noise came. The Four Elements strained their ears, barely believing that somewhere already, on this world that they had just created, something had screamed. Sky didn't know what to make of it. He shrugged his softly rippling blue-gray shoulders and purred,

"Perhaps our world is alive already." But Fire was not so sure. She narrowed her fiery amber eyes and hissed back,

"Indeed, Sky, but perhaps our world is dying already." Her voice was sharp with fear and she turned in a circle, reddish-gold pelt swishing. Water laid her long, plumy gray tail across her opposite Element's shoulders, dark blue eyes crinkled in a smile.

"Look around, Fire." she mewed, one paw sweeping out as if to touch the bare black expanse of sky. "Look at our new wo-" Her paw stopped abruptly as it came to rest by a single star, alone in the night air. "Sky, Fire," she called.

"Yes, Water?" Sky replied, looking up.

"Did you two put a light in the sky over there?" she asked. Fire scowled, and Sky looked a bit bemused.

"Why, no! It appears even our sky is alive already!" the blueish tom purred, tail twitching in excitement. "How lovely!"

"No, Sky." Earth, eldest of the Four, growled. "What good is our world if we lose control? Let us sleep now, and when Fire's sun rises, we shall see who it was who changed the sky." The other Elements bowed their heads, practically falling asleep before they hit the ground. Earth stood a little ways apart from the others, his broad head held high as he gazed at the lone star. "There cannot be a power so great in our world. It will ruin us. Just like it always has..."