I awoke, blinking up at a massive, brown,  tom with a gigantic scar across his nose. His smoldering amber eyes seemed to claw my pelt with its burning intensity. Pain seared through my entire body and I ached all over.

"Come with me," he said in a deep voice.

Gritting my teeth against the pain and speaking with difficulty I asked,"Who are you?"

A she-cat in the background muttered,"Stupid kit! Just because she's only 3 sunrises old doesn't mean she's not ready to hear stories about Tigerstar."

The cat she called Tigerstar whipped around and faced her. "Would you have told your own kits stories about me if they were still alive?"

The she-cat sunk her claws into the dirt and growled in a dangerously low voice,"Don't you dare speak of my kits again."

"Who are you?" I asked again.

"Why, I'm your new father and Mapleshade is your new mother."

"So I had old parents?"I asked.

"Oh this gets better by the moment,"he muttered under his breath, grinning,"Yes, you did. When you are old enough I'll tell you more about them. Now, come along."

With no where else to go, I followed him.