Upon hearing this, Holmes invited Cherith Baldry into the team in order to keep up with the schedule. HarperCollins requested Holmes to produce a book every three months. Holmes then began to work behind the scenes, editing and supervising details. Into the Wild was thus written by Kate Cary in about three months under the pseudonym "Erin Hunter". Holmes then enlisted the help of another author, Kate Cary, for whom Holmes had previously edited and knew as a cat-lover. Although the original plan was for a stand-alone novel, enough material was created for several books, and the publisher decided upon a six-volume series. Nevertheless, she worked with the concept and expanded the storyline with elements of war, politics, revenge, doomed love, and religious conflict. Initially, Holmes was not very enthusiastic, since she "couldn't imagine coming up with enough ideas".
The series first began when HarperCollins asked Victoria Holmes to write a fantasy series about feral cats. Though the novels have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List and have been nominated for several awards, none of the novels in the Warriors sub-series have won a significant literary award. The arc's major themes deal with forbidden love, the concept of nature versus nurture, and characters being a mix of good and evil. The sub-series details the adventures of the housecat Rusty, who joins ThunderClan, one of four Clans of feral cats living in a forest which adjoins the human town in which he originally lives. The novels are published by HarperCollins under the pseudonym Erin Hunter, which refers to authors Kate Cary and Cherith Baldry and plot developer/editor Victoria Holmes. The arc comprises six novels which were published from 2003 to 2004: Into the Wild, Fire and Ice, Forest of Secrets, Rising Storm, A Dangerous Path, and The Darkest Hour.
Warriors: The Prophecies Begin is the first story arc in the Warriors juvenile fantasy novel series about feral cats.
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