Enderpaw did a border patrol with Iceglow, Winterstep, Featherfall, and Silverheart. She went into the apprentice's den to sleep.

Soon after she drifted off into a thoughtless peaceful sleep, light blazed in front of her. She screwed up her eyes, the light blinding her. When she opened her eyes, she was standing in the edge of the twolegplace, where all the twolegs were cutting down the trees. Instead of the territory she knew with the sparse vegetation, and stinking monsters, there was a lush dark forest with plenty of prey scents and sounds. She tilted her head, flicking her ears. She could smell the faint scent of cat. There was a trail leading into the undergrowth. She lowered her head to the ground followed the scent. A few minutes into the trail, the solo scent branched off into several scents. From what Enderpaw could smell, they were all Stormclan scents, but not of any Stormclan cat she knew. She emerged from the undergrowth into the training hollow and saw three cats sitting there, staring at her. It was as if they were expecting her. She approached them cautiously. There was a brown shecat with a white belly on the right, and a blazing red tom on the left. In the middle was the proudest and most regal shecat she'd ever seen. The shecat in the middle was a pearly white with shining silver tabby stripes and black paws.

"Don't be afraid." said the brown shecat. "We aren't here to harm you." She stepped forward. "I am Deerclove. I was the first medicine cat of Stormclan." She backed away. The fiery looking red tom stepped up. "I am Cometblaze. I was the deputy of the legendary Stormstar who was the founder of Stormclan." He backed away. The white shecat stepped up. "And I am Stormstar. The founder of your clan, Stormclan."

Enderpaw stared in awe. She had no words for how honoured she was. "You're Starclan right?" She asked. Deerclove nodded. Stormstar stood up. "Stormclan has survived for many seasons. They braved the earthquake that destroyed their first home and the waves of Redcough and Blackcough that killed of many of Stormclan's kin. They survived the pack of wolves that invaded the clans territories and banned together with the other clans to drive the wolves away." She shifted her piercing blue gaze to her companions. Cometblaze padded over to Enderpaw. "Would you really let such a hardy, strong, and proud clan die off?" Enderpaw gazed fiercely back at Cometblaze. "Never! I would devote every living breath of saving Stormclan if we were in trouble!"

Cometblaze nodded and looked back at his companions and back at Enderpaw. Then he stepped back. Stormstar lifted her head. "Listen carefully Enderpaw. The ones who follow no rules but their own will come. A twisted Oak with bright rain. They will go. They will leave a seed of dark in the storm of viper's kit. One by one, they will fall, Ender and Dark side by side. Until the storm comes raging through. Stained by the blood of her own precious kin."

Enderpaw stared at Stormstar, confused. Then her gaze shifted to Cometblaze and Deerclove. "What do you mean? What seed of dark? We have a twisted oak in our territory! Is something going to happen to it?"

None of the Starclan cats answered. Instead, a black vortex appeared under them and began to swirl them in. The Starclan cats no longer looked like cats, instead, they were just swirls of their fur colors. Enderpaw caught a glimpse of Stormstar's saddened face and realized that it looked a lot like her mother Stormswift's when Enderpaw's father Viperstrike died. The black vortex swirled towards her. Enderpaw yowled in fear and tried to race away, but the vortex caught up and sucked her into their dark depths. Enderpaw struck out blindly, trying to escape the black hole. She opened her mouth to cry for help but thunderpath tasting black goo swarmed into her mouth, frothing in her jaws and choking her.

Why has Starclan chosen to share this with me? She thought desperately.

(Cat above in picture is Cometblaze)