SunClan

Leader: Knucklestar (Knuckles) - Bright red tom with violet eyes with anger issues at times. Has claws that are longer than any of the other cats of the two clans, but he is still nice and tries to be the best leader he can be.

Deputy: Sonicwind (Sonic) - The fastest silver-blue tom of the clans. He is sometimes referred to as the blue blur. He is very valuable in combat and has a very caring and compassionate personality.

Apprentice: Doublepaw (Tails)

Medicine cat: Cosmicleaf (Cosmo) - A white she-cat who's very calm and caring. She's willing to help anyone in need.

Apprentice: Creampaw (Cream)

Warriors

Silverflight (Silver) - A silver tom who has amazing jumping abilities. Sometimes looks like he can fly. Can be naive at times.

Apprentice: Cheesepaw

Blazepelt (Blaze) - A surprisingly purple she-cat with a calm personality. Very agile and beautiful.

Apprentice: Goldenpaw

Roseheart (Amy) - A pink she-cat who's obsessed about the deputy Sonicwind. She fights with Acorntail who also has feelings for Sonicwind. She gets mad easily but is still a good friend.

Acorntail (Sally) - A brown she-cat with a calm personality. She is really smart and fights with Rosepetal to get Sonicwind's heart. She always thinks logically before jumping into anything.

Diamondwing (Rouge) - A white she-cat who's very sly. She works well with Camoflight as spies for her clan. She will do anything for gemstones.

Camoflight (Espio) - A dark black tom who is a spy for his clan with Diamondwing. He tends to keep to himself and can easily disappear in the blink of an eye. Even in the day with everyone looking...

Crocscale (Vector) - A brown tom with black stripes that make him look like he's got scales. He's the strongest in the clan other than Knucklestar. Despite the way he looks, he's kindhearted.

Apprentice: Beepaw

Jetstorm (Jet) - A lime green tom who hates Sonicwind. His main goal is to take Sonicwind's position and become the deputy.

Queens

Vanillaflower (Vanilla) - A cream-colored she-cat with brown eyes who's extremely nice and caring to almost everyone. Mother of Creampaw and Dawnkit.

Wavefeather (Wave) - A magenta colored she-cat who's just about as smart as Doublepaw and Acorntail. She's mother to Swiftkit and Lightkit.

Apprentices

Creampaw (Cream) - A cream-colored she-cat with brown eyes. She's the medicine cat apprentice. Just about as caring as her mother and mentor.

Beepaw (Charmy) - A yellow tom with black stripes. Tends to be very hyper and does drive Crocscale and Camoflight crazy a lot.

Cheesepaw (Cheese) - A silver tom who only just started training. Despite how small he is, he's very tough. Doesn't say much other than "Mew."

Goldenpaw (???) - A golden she-cat with blue eyes. She's close friends with Creampaw and is popular among the warriors.

Doublepaw (Tails) - A yellow tom with two tails. Extremely clever and quick to outwit even the smartest warriors. He is close to becoming a warrior.

Kits

Dawnkit - A tabby tom with more energy than most. Can't wait to start training and sometimes drives the queens crazy. Is really close to becoming an apprentice.

Swiftkit - A white tom with black spots. A rather serious kit who tries to isolate himself from everyone else. A personal favorite of Jet's. Is rather close to becoming an apprentice.

Lightkit - A tabby she-cat with quick abilities. She's a lot more active than her brother and is a lot more positive. Really close to becoming an apprentice.

Emeraldkit (Zaira) - A pitch black she-cat with green eyes. It's not known how she first came to the camp. She claims to be from the rival clan. Nobody knows. She is usually mysterious.

Shadowkit (Shadow) - A black tom with red eyes and red stripes. He appeared the same way Emeraldkit did only weeks later. He also seems to know more than the average kit.

Prologue

Shadow the Hedgehog weakly opened his eyes expecting to see the ceiling of his room or see Sonic hanging over him yelling about how he should have listened to him. He remembered that he got hit by one of Eggman's crazy gadgets that knocked him out cold. His head hurt like crazy as he sat up. He looked around and discovered that he wasn't locked up in his room. He was in the middle of a forest. Sunlight poured through the branches of the trees and he could hear the soft sounds of little creatures rustling through the undergrowth.

"Where am I...? What happened...?" Shadow asked looking around.

Everything seemed larger than he was. He was zapped by one of Dr. Eggman's machines. Maybe it just worked for once. He just didn't know what "worked" meant.

Once the pain in his head began to go away, he got up and started looking around. The odd thing was that when he stood up, he stood up on all fours. Shadow felt ridiculous for a moment and tried to stand up on two legs. He lost his balance and fell over onto his hands. Shadow didn't get what was going on.

"What's happened?! Why can't I walk?!" he demanded.

He felt that suddenly someone was watching him. Shadow felt unnerved by the presence. Alarm flew through his fur and he could have sworn that he felt his fur grow ten times larger.

"What do you think you're doing? Do you think you're a Twoleg or something?" asked a voice that sounded strangely like Sonic's.

Shadow's fur suddenly returned to normal size when he felt relieved to know who was talking to him. It was Sonic. Although, what was a Twoleg? Why didn't he call him Shadow? Why was his voice somewhere above him in the trees?

"I'm no Twoleg! I'm a hedgehog!" Shadow answered to Sonic.

"HA! And hedgehogs fly! Do you really expect me to believe that?!" asked Sonic. It was obvious that he was trying not to laugh.

"Am I not a hedgehog?! I'm Shadow! You're Sonic aren't you?" Shadow asked looking up into the trees to see two green eyes poking out of the branches. "Are you afraid to show your face?!"

Sonic laughed again. Shadow was beginning to feel insulted. His tail suddenly felt longer as it twitched back and forth... "I am Sonic... Although, that's not my full name... Am I afraid of you? NEVER! You aren't even my age! I could simply pick you up by the scruff and you wouldn't be able to do anything about it! Are you a kittypet or something? Only the ones from MoonClan ever dared to speak to me this way!" Sonic hissed.

Shadow's head spun. What was he talking about? Twolegs, kittypets, MoonClan? None of it made sense. He felt something on his hand dig into the ground almost on its own. When he looked down at his hands, he saw that they weren't hands. They were tiny paws. Little kitten paws. Shadow finally knew why Sonic wasn't afraid of him now. He had been turned into a useless kit. Even so, he still had no idea what was going on.

"Who's your mother? You shouldn't be on our territory! I'd drive you out, but you are only a kit. Are you a spy from MoonClan?!" demanded Sonic.

"No! I don't even know what in the world MoonClan is! I don't have a mother! I don't know where I am!" Shadow cried finding that he was squeaking like a kit. He then began to cry uncontrollably on the ground. He tried to fight the tears that were streaming down his face. It was no use at all. He felt as helpless as the kit he was.

"Aw... Don't cry! It makes me feel bad! UGH!! I can't refuse helpless little kits even if I am to drive out all intruders!" a silver-blue tom jumped down from the trees and looked down upon Shadow with a gleam in his eyes. He gave Shadow a half smile and sat down with his tail wrapped neatly around him. "You know the first part of my name. Sonic. However, this is not my full name. I am known as Sonicwind. I'm the deputy of SunClan. You say that your name is Shadow?"

Shadow sat up straight. He felt a force that made him feel comfortable and scared in Sonicwind's presence. He never felt something like this from the Sonic he knew. Maybe that was because it was he who had more power and authority. Shadow nodded to Sonicwind.

"Very well. You shall follow me to the camp. Our leader shall decide what your fate shall be. Keep in mind that I'm not saving you. I'm just helping you for now. I don't want to hear another squeak from you until we get there. By the way, the only way to stay is to keep up!!" Sonicwind yelled dashing away. He was gone in an instant.

Shadow calculated the direction he went and ran after him in a full sprint. Wind smacked his face and tore at his whiskers. Shadow ignored the feeling and rejected all the wants to stop running. He focussed on his breathing and where he was heading. Shadow saw Sonicwind's footprints in the dirt below him. He screeched to a halt when they vanished. He sniffed the air and found that he could detect the sharp tang of Sonicwind's scent on the branches. He used his claws to dig into the bark and climb up into the trees. He hopped along the branches easily with the help of his tail that gave him balance.

Sonicwind, who was little ways away, laughed to himself and shook his head. "That kit will never catch up to me! He doesn't even know the ways of the warrior! He'll never catch up!" Sonicwind continued to laugh. He was the fastest cat in the forest. There was no way that Shadow could possibly overtake him. Until a shadow of a cat jumped over him. Sonicwind gasped in alarm.

"You are not ditching me today!!" yelled Shadow. He could sense Sonicwind's surprise. It was almost like when he first met Sonic on that one road. He had used chaos control and amazed him with his teleportation abilities. Sonic was accusing him of getting him in trouble while he just smirked at the hedgehog. In the end, he got the best of Sonic. He teleported away making Sonic look like the bad guy again and Sonic got arrested. Best day of his life.

"Shadow! Can you hear me?!" begged a voice that sounded like Sonic's. Sonicwind hadn't said a word. Who was the voice.

"Wha- AH!!" Shadow cried. His paw got caught on a branch and he tripped on it. He felt himself lurch forward and fall little ways. As soon as Shadow was halfway to the ground, he felt someone bite into his neck firmly. He stopped and looked up to see Sonicwind hauling him back up onto a branch.

"That's it. You got me! I'll try to convince the leader to let you stay. I'd say that's enough racing for now! I've never had such fast competition. A friendly suggestion for the future, don't get distracted. Why don't we get back to the ground and walk back?" asked Sonicwind.

"Yeah... I think that'd be best...," Shadow gasped still trying to get over what happened.

As Shadow climbed down the tree, he thought he heard the voice again. The Sonic in his mind sounded a little frantic. It didn't matter. What mattered then was what was going on. He followed Sonicwind without a second thought of the voice.