The Golden Star - prologue

                                                  The Golden Star


                                                    ~Prologue~


         In a dark forest, birds were singing, and other creatures stirred after the unexpected rain. Dew, and left over rain drops glittered as they clung to the leaves. A clearing full of light grass shined from the waking morning sun. A ginger tom stepped softly into the clearing, crouched slightly as if he were stalking a rabbit. A long hair, grey tabby, tom followed behind a ginger she-cat, as they crossed the clearing. When the ginger tom stepped fully into the, his pelt sparked to life, like an open flame dancing around the dim forbidding forest.
               He stopped in his tracks when he was almost to the other side, He lifted his head, and opened his mouth tasting the air and with a silent warning he crouched putting his weight into his haunches and lunged at a nearby brush, that happened to be big enough to hide a cat or rabbit. As the other cats followed his lead, swiftly with claws out like if for battle, you could make out a darker shadow in the depths of the brush. As his out stretched paws and claws met with his unsuspecting target, a horrible screech sounded and a flurry of powerful struggles shoved from beneath him.