MusicClan Alliances Leader: Tobystar(TobyMac)~ginger tom with green eyes and spiky hair Deputy: Natestripe(NF)~dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes Medicine Cat: Hawkspirit(lead singer of Hawk Nelson)~dark ginger tom with amber eyes Warriors: Hollysong(Hollyn)~pale gray she-cat with blue eyes Gracebreeze(Jamie Grace)~dark ginger she-cat with green eyes and one white paw Ryanstep(Ryan Stevenson)~dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes Brittblossom(Britt Nicole)~unusually spotted golden tabby she-cat with blue eyes Cooperclaw(John Cooper (Skillet))~black tom with icy blue eyes, one white paw and a collar studded with dog and cat teeth Mandisadance(Mandisa)~calico she-cat with yellow eyes Truheart(Truett Mckeehan)~dark brown tabby tom with a white underbelly and piercing dark blue eyes ---------- Tobystar’s Encounter With Twolegs ---------- Tobystar was close to some twoleg dens with the rest of his Clan when a twoleg kit came running out. Tobystar made sure his Clan got away safely, but in doing so, was scooped up by the twoleg kit himself. I sure wish that orange cat would appear to me now and tell me what to do. He thought. As if his thoughts were heard, the orange cat appeared. “Just bite the twoleg!” The cat said. “I’m not gonna do that! If I did, I would lose some serious cool points!” Tobystar replied. The orange cat glared at him. “You’re a cat…” He said. “Cats don’t have ‘cool points’.” Suddenly, a giant bird of prey appeared. The twoleg kit dropped Tobystar and ran away. The orange cat had left too-now that Tobystar was free. Now I can get back to my Clan! Tobystar thought, but then he was scooped up by the bird of prey. “Oh fox-dung.” He growled. Tobystar was carried back to the giant birds nest, which was on the side of a cliff with a lake at the bottom. Tobystar had to think fast-he didn’t want to be eaten! He jumped out of the nest, and off the cliff, falling into the lake below. He was washed up onto the shore unconscious. When he woke up, he was inside a twoleg den. Though something seemed very familiar… I’m a cat though! The leader of a Clan! Why do I feel so comfortable inside this twoleg den!? Then he remembered how he had said “cool points”. Why did I say that anyway? He wondered. Sunlight was creeping through the window when Tobystar woke up. He blinked. It took him a while to realize where he was. I need to get back to my Clan! He decided to explore the den-and maybe even find a way out! He saw a shape on the wall. It looked like a long vertical stick with a shorter horizontal stick going through it. He jumped up on some boxes and started sniffing it. He eventually licked it. Somehow, the shape brought images into his mind. There were lots of noises and lights, and a huge crowd of screaming twolegs. One twoleg he saw was holding something and speaking into it, jumping all over the place. Why do I have all these images? It just doesn’t make sense! When the twolegs let him outside, he tried to figure out where he was. How far did that bird carry me? He wondered. He climbed a tree to get a better view. He got to a point in the tree where he could see every twoleg den! He looked around the other way and saw a lake, remembering falling into the lake after jumping off the cliff. He climbed down from the tree, and started walking toward the lake. Once he got to the lake, he looked up and saw the cliff he had fallen from. He walked around the side of the lake to the cliff-side. He thought that maybe if the twolegs had found him and brought him back to their den, he must have fallen into the lake the way he had come, so he decided to go straight forward. He found himself in a forest and recognised a bunch of familiar scents. Finally, he found the place he had been scooped up by the twoleg kit. His Clan wasn’t far now! He raced through the trees until he found the MusicClan camp. “Natestripe! Hollysong!” He called, and all of his Clan-mates appeared. The expressions on their faces were full of surprise and happiness. “Tobystar!” Hollysong greeted him. “Natestripe took over as leader while you were gone.” Gracebreeze told him. “He took the name Natestar.” “We didn’t think you were ever coming back.” Ryanstep admitted. “I’ll go back to being Natestripe now.” Natestripe walked over, “now that Tobystar’s back.” “Where’s Truheart?” Tobystar asked. “I’m right here.” Truheart appeared. “Do you know anything about twolegs?” Tobystar asked. Truheart looked confused. “All I know about twolegs is that they’re unpredictable and we should stay away from them.” He said. “Why were you asking anyway?” “Yeah. What happened?” Mandisadance asked. Tobystar told them the whole story. He explained how he had been taken away by the bird to how he found the shape that put images into his mind. (Rest in notes and credits)
He drew the shape in the dirt with his claw. The cats looked at it for a long time. Tobystar could tell by their faces they were interested. They all told him that they had definitely seen that shape before, and that images of twolegs had come into their minds too. ---------- Mysteries Of The Past ---------- “Why is our Clan even called MusicClan? Does anyone remember?” Natestripe asked. Everyone looked at Tobystar as if he knew the answer. Tobystar sighed. “No…” “What about our names? Do they mean anything?” Mandisadance asked. “Yeah, I don’t think there’s any herb or animal called a ryan.” Ryanstep added. “I know what a holly is though!” Hollysong said cheerfully. “And grace could mean graceful.” Gracebreeze added. “But what about cooper?” Cooperclaw asked. “Or Britt?” Brittblossom added. “Tru might just mean true as in a true fact… But… It could also have something to do with these other names.” Truheart put in. “Obviously, a hawk is a kind of bird,” Hawkspirit started, “but even our leader Tobystar has a weird prefix. So what about suffixes?” “Mine is dance!” Mandisadance said. “Does anyone know what that means?” She asked. “I think dance might go with song.” Tobystar said. “Song could be birds chirping.” Hollysong pointed out. “Maybe…” Tobystar said, uncertain. “Spirit could be like our ancestors.” Hawkspirit said. “But the weird prefixes have to have something to do with the sort of weird suffixes and all together have something to do with the name of our Clan-and our past.” He added. “Maybe our names have something to do with kittypets…” Mandisadance said. “And Cooperclaw does have a collar.” Brittblossom pointed out. “Alright…” Tobystar said, pacing back and forth. “We’ll go to those twoleg dens.” “What do we do now?” Gracebreeze asked when they reached the twoleg dens. “Oh oh!” Truheart began, “how about we sneak inside one of the twoleg dens!” “Like father like son…” Mandisadance muttered. “That’s actually not a bad idea!” Natestripe pointed out. “I mean, what else would we do?” The cats found a den with a little flap they could fit through. “Let’s go inside.” Tobystar suggested. Hollysong nodded. They saw pictures on the walls of the same twolegs they had seen in their minds! “That one has part of my name!” Mandisadance exclaimed, staring at one of the pictures. “Jamie Grace!” Gracebreeze read another one, surprised to see the word “grace”. The other pictures said “John Cooper of Skillet”, “NF”, “Hollyn”, “Ryan Stevenson”, “Britt Nicole”, “TobyMac” and “Hawk Nelson”. Hawkspirit was looking at how “Hawk Nelson” was a group of people. “Skillet…” Cooperclaw said in awe. “What about my name?” Truheart asked. “You’re my son.” Tobystar said. “I’m TobyMac.” That was enough for Truheart to understand. “I must be ‘NF’.” Natestripe said. “Nathan in my full first name, and ‘NF’ is my initials.” “We must find out more.” Hawkspirit said. “I think we used to be twolegs.” Tobystar guessed. “Isn’t there a thing called a ‘computer’, and a thing on it called ‘Google’?” Truheart asked. “Of course!” Brittblossom exclaimed. The cats raced to another room. “This must be the ‘computer’.” Tobystar said, jumping onto a black thing with two parts; a screen and a keyboard. He tried to type in “TobyMac”, but it didn’t turn out quite right-since he was a cat and he couldn’t really type with his paws. Luckily, the computer knew what he meant. All the cats eventually learned a lot about their twoleg selves. They also learned other things-like how twolegs are called “humans”, and twoleg dens are called “houses”. “We need to listen to our songs.” Hawkspirit told them. Cooperclaw listened to his song “Monster”, and disappeared. “What happened?” Natestripe asked. “He turned back into a human and was sent back to his house.” Hawkspirit explained. Truheart was next. He listened to the song “Mac Daddy” and, like Cooperclaw-now John Cooper again, he disappeared. Natestripe listened to “Can You Hold Me”, Gracebreeze listened to “Beautiful Day”, Ryanstep listened to “From The Ground Up”, Hollysong listened to “Steady Me”, Brittblossom listened to “Look Like Love”, Mandisadance listened to “Good Morning”, Hawkspirit listened to “Diamonds” and, when Tobystar was the only one who was still a cat standing there, a human walked into the room. So as quick as possible, he clicked on a random song-that was by him of course. The song ended up being “Gotta Go”. Well I do have to go. He thought, back home! “Hey Truett!” TobyMac greeted him. “Hey!” Truett replied. They both walked into the kitchen together. “Have you been wondering where we were all this time?” TobyMac asked the rest of his family. “‘All this time’?” His wife asked. “You’ve only been gone a few minutes!” TobyMac and Truett exchanged confused glances. Then TobyMac turned back to the rest of his family. “Well we’ve got a story for you!”
