Decatssi: A Warrior Cats Re-write Arc I
-dustpaw is mentored by tigerclaw and ravenpaw is mentored by redtail, both apprentices witness redtail being killed by tigerclaw, though ravenpaw wasnât supposed to
-redtail and runningwind are sandpawâs dads and she has a breakdown over her dadâs death
-sandpaw is still mentored by whitestorm, graypaw is mentored by mousefur, and ravenpaw is given to lionheart to finish his training, firepaw is juggled between all of them for a couple days but runningwind and bluestar end up dual mentoring him
-bluestar makes lionheart deputy as usual, ravenpaw is still scared of tigerclaw, but since he doesnât have to be constantly around him and has the protection of lionheart and his friends, he doesnât leave thunderclan and fake his death
-sandpaw gets close to firepaw before sheâs a warrior because she realizes that dustpaw is a big jerk wad and firepaw isnât even that bad and her dad is his mentor and he likes him and she knows that redtail wouldâve liked him as well, so dustpaw, tigerclaw, darkstripe, and longtail are probably the wrong ones
-brokenstar was already the leader when firepaw joins and has been for like a year and now heâs ran out windclan and yellowfang
-firepaw finds yellowfang and instead of everyone being like âwe should kill herâ they actually have brain cells and are like âsomethingâs not right, also yellowfang you can chill here, but firepaw you still have to take care of her because you brought her hereâ tigerclaw, darkstripe, and dustpaw are the only ones pissed at yellowfang existing in thunderclan
-brokenstar attacks thunderclan while most of the warriors are out on patrol (hmmm tigerclaw, lionheart, firepaw, ravenpaw, and runngingwind are the only cats trained and healthy enough to properly fight while this attack is going on, interesting) because they want more babies to make into murder machines, spottedleaf, who doesnât have any weird feelings for firepaw and instead is sandpawâs cool and wise aunt who she loves, is killed, rosetail is killed, thrushpelt is killed (he was an elder, he didnât die yet before firepaw came to the forest) and lionheart are killed
-bluestar losing her girlfriend, boyfriend, medicine cat, AND deputy gets hit very hard and refuses to name a new deputy because sheâs lost two in like a month and a half âif starclan keeps taking my deputies, then they can be the one to choose them!â
-she goes to the moonstone with all the apprentices, whitestorm, mousefur, and runningwind and gets killed by a rat but sheâs better now and still has two lives so sheâs fine
-ashkit and fernkit are now born to brindleface and their dad is darkstripe, but he wants nothing to do with them and is an asshole to brindleface for no reason, also it should be mentioned that darkstripeâs dad is thistleclaw who was killed by redtail and whitestorm when he was an apprentice and his mom is willowpelt, and now willowpelt and whitestorm are mates so now he has a grudge against both of them and is angry because his family is weird now (no one besides whitestorm and willowpelt know it was him and redtail who killed thistleclaw)
-snowkit is born to speckletail and unknown tom, she wonât say and no one cares, also oh no snowkit is deaf but speckletailâs sister, one-eye, who is going deaf, helps them learn a kind of sign language, and a bunch of thunderclan, including the kits, wanna learn too
-firepaw decides that windclan being chased out for almost 3 moons is too long so him, ravenpaw, graypaw, and sandpaw go save them, not dustpaw though because dustpaw said it was stupid and windclan should stay gone
-they succeed! and bluestar is so impressed she makes them into warriors: fireheart, graystripe, ravenpelt, and sandstorm, dustpaw gets pissed off that he isnât made a warrior too, heâs older than graystripe and fireheart and his brother got made a warrior, but bluestar tells him to shut up, cats become warriors when they act like warriors, not when they become a certain age
-brokenstar attacks thunderclan again, but this time bluestar captures him and kills him once and also blinds him, everyone takes a moment to remember exactly why she was made leader
-everyoneâs nervous that bluestar still hasnât chosen a deputy yet, they all know itâs between whitestorm or tigerclaw, but bluestarâs still scared theyâll just die as soon as she makes one of them deputy, redtail had only been deputy fro a few moons (one-eye was her deputy before she retired) and lionheart had been deputy for like what, a month and a half before he was killed? also bramblekit and tawnykit are born to goldenflower and tigerclaw
-tigerclaw is weirdly close to brokenstar âtheywere friends when they were apprentices and warriors togetherâ everyone says, but is that really whatâs happening
-shadowclan is glad to be rid of brokenstar and his followers and they choose nightpelt as their new leader, who actually does get eight lives and becomes nightstar, but theyâre pissed that thunderclan is keeping brokenstar because if they had just killed him one last time by now nightstar couldâve had 9 lives
-bluestar makes brightpaw, cinderpaw, brackenpaw, and thornpaw apprentices and give them to sandstorm, fireheart, graystripe, and ravenpelt respectively, itâs been like a moon and dustpaw is still an apprentice because heâs a little turd head
-except graystripe has been going off on his own a lot lately and is like barely mentor, turns out heâs dating silverstream who saved his life while coming back from saving windclan, sandstorm gets angry because sheâs had a crush on her for moons but i guess she didnât like her back
-brokenstarâs rogues attack to free him, but theyâre actually being led by tigerclaw now and in the flurry of battle, tigerclaw kills bluestar onces, but she beats him out of her den with the help of whitestorm and fireheart before he can take another one
-yellowfang feeds brokenstar deathberries as she tells him sheâs his mom in the midst of battle so the rogues attacking only comes to his death
-what a surprise, tigerclaw had been conspiring with brokenstar and took over his rogues, bluestar banishes him and heâs chased out, but dustpaw follows him because heâs more loyal to tigerclaw than thunderclan and heâs pissed that bluestar didnât make him a warrior, darkstripe stays to everyoneâs surprised because he was tigerclawâs first apprentice and they were super close, longtail is shocked and angry at tigerclaw and revokes any and all respect and loyalty he had towards him
-bluestar finally names whitestorm as her deputy and orders to keep a watch out for tigerclaw and dustpaw
approximate amount of time that passes during all of this: 5 moons
-graystripe is whitestorm and willowpeltâs son (kiiind of) and so darkstripe also has a super grudge against him, also graystripe gloats that his dad is the thunderclan deputy a LOT now, he also sometimes calls bluestar grandma
-itâs the beginning of leaf-bare now
-while out on a patrol-date, fireheart and sandstorm find old tigerclaw scent by twolegplace so they try to track where heâs been, but when they find a brown trabby itâs actually fireheartâs long lost sister princess!
-fireheart has vague memories of her, but she recognizes him immediately and is so excited and tries to get him to follow her to visit their mom, nutmeg, fireheart declines saying that thunderclan is his home now, sandstorm leaves them to catch up and hunt, tigerclawâs sent was too old anyway
-they talk for quite a bit and princess tells fireheart that sheâs afraid her twolegs will take away her 5 kits who are a moon old now and after fireheart has told her about the clans she wants one of them to come live with him
-fireheart is hesitant, but princess doesnât really take no for an answer and brings out a white fluff ball she named cloud and really how can you say no to that
-fireheart brings fluffy back to camp and everyoneâs kind pissed, but bluestarâs just like âyou really like bringing cats outside of the clan to us donât youâ but she has a soft spot for white cats because her sister was white, her first apprentice, frostfur, was white, and her nephew-son-deputy is white, she also has a soft spot for fireheart so how can she say no, âokay, but you have to be his dad nowâ, brindleface offers to take him because her kits, ashkit and fernkit, are the closest in age to cloudkit, darkstripe gets extremely pissed off that his âmateâ is nursing a kittypet and his son and daughter are now being raised with a kittypet, but brindleface puts him in his place and basically officially breaks up with him, if they were ever considered a couple in the first place
-a few days later a patrol of whitestorm, runningwind, fireheart, and cinderpaw are patroling the shadowclan border, suddenly thereâs some rustling and itâs not until then that runningwind catches tigerclawâs scent (heâs one of the best trackers in the clan, no one else could scent it yet over the stench of the thunderpath) tigerclaw jumps at whitestorm, but runningwind zooms between them, saving whitestorm and getting killed by tigerclaw instead, who runs across the thunderpath into shadowclan territory, his two rogues following behind him (they were fighting fireheart, whitestorm, and cinderpaw)
-cinderpaw goes after them even with her mentor and deputy yelling at her to not and she gets hit by a car, her left back leg being almost cleanly torn off from below the knee, whitestorm carries runningwind and fireheart carries his apprentice back to camp
-sandstorm has another breakdown because now both of her parents are dead and tigerclaw is the one that killed them both, runningwindâs parents halftail and one-eye, his sister, mousefur, his former mentor, bluestar, and his former apprentice, fireheart, all grieve immensely for him as well and sit vigil
-frostfur, thornpaw, brightpaw, and brackenpaw are all also terrified for cinderpaw, fireheart is caught between grief for both runningwind and his apprentice, but yellowfang removes cinderpawâs barely hanging on leg and she miraculously survives, yellowfang thinks this is the first time in clan history a cat has lost a leg and survived
-a week later cinderpaw is back on her paws, or trying to be, she asks yellowfang if sheâll have to be a medicine cat, but yellowfang tells her that sheâs too much of a fighter to be a medicine cat, she has to become a warrior, fireheart vows to train cinderpaw to be the best warrior she can be and so she can become a warrior alongside her littermates, all while also basically training brackenpaw because graystripe keeps sneaking away, and helping to raise cloudkit, this is when sandstorm falls in love with him, they had been friends kind of crushing before, but now it was evident that they were falling madly in love with each other
-a terrible sickness starts in shadowclan, itâs so bad nightstar has already lost two lives to it
-fireheart visits windclan with cinderpaw to get tips from the deputy, deadfoot, on hos to become a warrior with only three fully functioning legs
-at some point both yellowfang and tallstar call fireheart their son
-a rare thunderstorm happens during leaf-bare about a moon after cinderpawâs accident and a fire starts close to thunderclanâs camp, they flee over the river and stay the night in the riverclan camp until the fire has stopped after being put out by the falling snow
-yellowfang and fireheart save bramblekit, but speckletail sadly dies from smoke inhalation while saving her son, snowkit, smallear reveals that he was snowkitâs father, goldenflower asks if he was also herâs and lionheartâs father, but he says no, their father had been sunstar, thunderclanâs leader before bluestar âwhy didnât speckletail tell anyoneâ âbecause she was honorary and didnât like other cats knowing her business, neither sunstar or me had ever actually been her loves anywayâ
-bluestar talks to mistyfoot and stonefure a /lot/ and seems to take an interest in mistyfoots new kits, primrosekit, pikekit, perchkit, and reedkit
-graystripe does a terrible job at hiding him and silverstream being mates a secret and hangs out with her and mosspelt, whoâs pregnant, a lot, silverstream reveals to everyone that she is ALSO PREGNANT but she refuses to tell who the father is
-thunderclan returns to their territory the next morning, the camp needs rebuilding, but luckily the fire didnât damage an especially large amount of territory, darkstripe is fidgety
-also this is around the time littlecloud decides to become a medicine cat, him and cinderpaw become good friends at the first gathering sheâs back and he gets inspired to take a path of healing, a path that brokenstar had refused him, he also has his boyfriend, whitethroat with him
-a couple nights later, goldenflower screams that her kits are missing and soon darkstripe comes back with them, saying they had tried escaping the camp and he had found them on his way back from getting some fresh air, heâs also weirdly taken interest in his own kits, like he wants to become an actual father to them
-willowpelt is pregnant with whitestormâs second litter of kits!
-thereâs dog scent by snakerocks, and also dead rabbits, what could be happening, better go to windclan and interrogate them
-tallstar denies any windclan activity in thunderclan territory, but they still havenât SEEN any dogs at snakerocks and it might be too dangerous to check it out, even though itâs leaf-bare, adders could still come out of their dens
-brackenpaw is anxious that graystripe has hardly been around for his training and thinks that maybe graystripe doesnât think heâs good enough to be a warrior, so he asks his littermates to help him fight off the dogs at snakerocks, if he does that graystripe will HAVE to recognize him as good enough, but only brightpaw agrees to come with him, and only because itâs a stupid idea and he shouldnât go alone
-the next night they go to get rid of the dogs and brackenpaw and brutally murdered and brightpaw is found staying alive by a thread, without an eye and a torn ear
-frostfur is devistated, just after her one daughter was healing, her other daughter was barely alive and one of her sons was dead
-thornpaw tells fireheart, sandstorm, and ravenpelt why they went to drive out the dogs and they get justifiably angry at graystripe, who walks back into camp only after brackenpawâs body was laying in the middle of the clearing
-sandstorm is so angry at him she swipes at his muzzle, cause droplets of blood to appear and graystripe, in fear, anger, and grief runs out of the camp again, fireheart and ravenpelt run after him, knowing exactly where heâs going, and when they reach sunningrocks they find silverstream giving birth far too early to herâs and graystripeâs kits
-yellowfang is too far away and will still be busy trying to save brightpaw, so, defying silverstreamâs and graystripeâs wants, retrieves riverclanâs medicine cat, mudfur, but itâs sadly not enough as silverstream dies shortly after both of the kits are born and she barely utters names for them, featherkit and stormkit
-crookedstar, being by his daughterâs side as she died just as her own mother had died giving birth to her and her siblings, is extremely angered and upset at graystripe, but when graystripe asks to live in riverclan with his kits, crookedstar hesitantly allows him, ravenpelt and fireheart object, but graystripe tells them heâd do better with his kits in their motherâs clan than heâs been doing in thunderclan as a warrior, leaving with crookedstar and mudstar, mosspelt, who had just given birth to two kits, dawnkit and shinekit, two days earlier, turned out to have also been silverstreams mate, and those two kits had been surrogated by a tom for her and silverstream to raise together, graystripe knew this was happening and gladly agreed to mosspelt nursing his kits
approximate time that has passed between part 1 and now: 4 months
-with the news that graystripe has moved to riverclan to be with his kits bluestar and whitestorm just kind of quietly accept that their family canât have a normal relationship ever
-frostfur is pissed because it seems like graystripe is running away from his actions causing his apprenticeâs death, but she doesnât want to be and tries to hold it in, hoping that the bigger reason why he left was because he wanted to be with his kits and if so she can respect that and makes her very slightly less angry
-with everything going on, bramblekit and tawnykit âsneak outâ again and darkstripe âfinds themâ outside of camp /again/
-it takes brightpaw over a day to regain consciousness, but the bleeding has finally calmed down and sheâs going to be okay
-bluestar wants to make thornpaw, cinderpaw, and brightpaw warriors now because thornpawâs ready, cinderpaw has gracefully caught up and is doing really well adapting, and brightpaw will need help adapting to hunt and fight with only one eye but before this she was basically ready to become a warrior, but thornpaw and cinderpaw want to wait for their sister to be healed
-bluestar agrees, though she didnât want almost as many apprentices as there are warriors, but itâs close to when ashkit, fernkit, snowkit, and cloudkit should be apprenticed
-bluestar wanted to give snowpaw to willowpelt but sheâs gonna have kits any day now, so she gives him to frostfur instead, gives ashpaw to whitestorm, decides to finally trust longtail and gives him his first apprentice in fernpaw, and even though heâs technically still mentoring cinderpaw, bluestar gives cloudpaw to fireheart because who else could mentor this fluffy idiot
-darkstripe is overly mad that his son is being mentored by whitestorm
-willowpelt gives birth to sorrelkit, rainkit, and sootkit hooray
-a few days after silverstream gives birth, crookedstar loses his last life to greencough and leopardfur takes his place as leader and is now leopardstar and she names stonefur as her deputy, graystripe is afraid sheâll kick him out, but luckily she tells him that as long as heâs loyal, he may stay
-meanwhile, dead rabbits keep appearing closer and closer to the thunderclan camp, seriously, in THIS leaf-bare
-patchpelt just keels over and dies because of âstomach painâ
-in the midst of mourning and darkstripe going âat least weâll get more foodâ because fuck you darkstripe, brindleface is found murdered close to camp, her scent is covered in rabbit scent and wet moss, everyone correctly guesses that tigerclaw must have killed her and is probably the one killing the rabbits and slowly training and leading the dogs to the camp, but heâs been hiding his scent so no one can tell itâs him, darkstripe says that thatâs reach it couldnât possibly be tigerclaw, but no one believes him and why isnât he angry that the mother of his children has been brutally murdered and almost made into dog food
-âhey at least it wasnât willowpeltâ he says ominously
-everyone agrees that the dogs need to get out of their territory because theyâll know where their camp is now, so they make a plan to trick them into jumping off of the cliff over the riverclan waterfall
-ashpaw, fernpaw, and cloudpaw want to be in on it but since theyâve only been apprentices for like half a moon bluestar obviously says no, whitestorm also tells bluestar to not be a part of it because he doesnât want her to die for the final time
-before they go bluestar names frostfurâs children warriors, naming cinderpaw cinderpelt, thornpaw thornclaw, and brightpaw, whoâs been starting to leave the medicine cat den, brightheart, she also gives a naming ceremony for the dead brackenpaw, saying that she would have named him brackenfur after his mother
-a patrol of thornclaw, fireheart, sandstorm, whitestorm, and longtail take turns having the pack of dogs chase them through thunderclan territory until they reach the waterfall, but instead of slipping in they manage to stop
-bluestar had been hiding there the whole time and attacks the leader dog, both her and the dogs falling into the waterfall
-thornclaw and longtail run back to tell everyone else what happened while sandstorm, fireheart, and whitestorm run to help bluestar
-the dogs are dead, but they soon find stonefur and mistyfoot pulling bluestar onto sunningrocks
-mistyfoot presses onto bluestarâs chest and she coughs up water, looking up sheâs extremely happy at how brave and talented her children are and sheâs so glad theyâre such great and respected warriors
-âwait youâre our real mom???â âwait theyâre bluestarâs kits that disappeared???â whitestorm nods
-bluestar tells them that she wished she couldâve raised them, but sheâs so glad they have a happy life in riverclan and sheâs so thankful to graypool and oakheart for raising them and loving them, and she is glad that all her living kits, including whitestorm and fireheart, are all finally together with her, she whispers that she wished that they couldâve raised them all, together, before passing away for the final time,
-whitestorm elaborates through grief that bluestar had given up her kits so she could become leader instead of his father, thistleclaw, who was an evil and bloodthirsty cat who wouldâve had thunderclan dive into an era of nothing but war and death, and that mosskit died on the journey to riverclan, bluestar had never fully forgiven herself, and that she wished that her, graypool, oakheart, and thrushpelt could have all raised them happily together
-mistyfoot and stonefur nod and are understanding, mistyfoot saying she had sometimes thought they were born in thunderclan because she had vague memories of the thunderclan camp even though she had thought she had never been there, and her and stonefur both felt like they had met mousefur and runningwind before they were apprentices, as it turns out they had once been den mates in the nursery
-they decline sitting vigil for bluestar though, as mistyfoot has to get back to her kits and see how her son, perchkit, is doing as he is very sick, along with many riverclan cats, crookedstar dying of greencough was only the beginning. and stonefur must get back to his duties as deputy
-everyone mourns greatly for bluestar and whitestorm realizes this means he is now leader of thunderclan, but he takes a full day to mourn for his adopted mom and aunt before leaving for the moonstone with yellowfang
-after him and yellowfang leave, sorrelkit secretly follows darkstripe as he sneaks bramblekit and tawnykit out of camp, she wants to go too âhey where are you going?â she squeaks, darkstripe tells her to come with him and roughly grabs her by the scruff, but bramblekit and tawnykit, being almost 6 moons old now yell at him to stop and goldenflower and willowpelt run to find their kits, darkstripe drops sorrelkit, dazing her and willowpelt scoops her up to get her away, goldenflower demands to know what was happening, fireheart, longtail, and sandstorm come to see whatâs happening and everyone goes back into camp, darkstripe tells everyone that bramblekit and tawnykit were trying to go see their father because they want to see him again and they want to look up to him and be like him and they were trying to take sorrelkit with them, tawnykit calls his bullshit as well as goldenflower, saying that theyâd never be anything like their father no matter what anyone says
-tawnykit and bramblekit tell everyone that darkstripe has taken them to see tigerclaw multiple times, always meeting in shadowclan territory, but they were told not to tell anyone, and darkstripe had been telling tigerclaw everything that was happening in thunderclan, sorrelkit mews that she had just wanted to see what they were doing and followed them
-everyone agrees to put a guard on darkstripe until whitestorm and yellowfang got back, mousefur and longtail offer to be the first guards and darkstripe is made to stay in the old elders den that got charred in the fire
-whitestorm, now whitestar, and yellowfang get back the next day, with bad news, they came across a patrol lead by deadfoot while in windclan and he said that shadowclan had been acting very weird for a long time, and many cats have apparently gotten sick and they believe nightstar might have recently died, and they donât know who his new deputy was because the former deputy had died of the illness, and now they keep finding shadowclan scent on their territory, whitestar tells everyone they need to be on extra guard since shadowclan had been so secretive and barely attending gatherings since nightstar had been so sick
-goldenflower is the one to inform whitestar about what darkstripe did- and has been doing, whitestar is infuriated at his half brother and his first act as thunderclanâs leader is to banish him, he tells him that if he is still so loyal to tigerclaw that he can go join him, darkstripe is chased out, sandstorm and longtail chasing him off into twoleglace, surprisingly, but before he goes darkstripe admits that it was him and tigerclaw who set the camp on fire and that all of thunderclan will die as soon as tigerclaw gets his way
-after darkstripe is chased off, whitestar decides that before he names his deputy he must make bramblekit and tawnykit apprentices, he gives tawnykit to cinderpelt and is about to give bramblekit to thornclaw when bramblekit speaks up, he doesnât want to become a warrior, he wants to become yellowfangâs apprentice and become a medicine cat, heâd wanted it ever since she and fireheart saved him from the fire, and he wanted there to be no way that he could follow in his fatherâs pawsteps and instead make up for what heâs done by healing
-yellowfang gruffly agrees that perhaps he will make a good medicine cat and comments that she needs an apprentice because sheâs not getting any younger
-whitestar then names goldenflower as his deputy, everyone is shocked, including goldenflower, because they expected fireheart or sandstorm to be chosen, but goldenflower humbly accepts her new role, tawnypaw and bramblepaw are ecstatic that their mother is now deputy of their clan
-two nights later is the gathering, shadowclan and riverclan were the first to be there, because they came together, cats from both clans intertwined under the four great oaks, with tigerclaw, now tigerstar, sitting on top of the great rock, leopardstar and blackfoot sitting underneath where deputies usually sit, and darkstripe and dustpaw not too far away, along with brokenstarâs/tigerstarâs group of rogues, which had even more members now than ever before
-Thunderclan is immediately angry and windclan is very very confused, Whitestar refuses to jump onto the Great Rock because he will not share it with Tigerstar and what the heck did he do with RiverClan? Tallstar, seeing the tension and realizing somethingâs gone down jumps off as well, trying to get answers from Whitestar, who announces that Tigerstar killed Redtail, tried to kill Bluestar, killed two other ThunderClan warriors directly, set ThunderClan on fire, and tried to lead dogs to ThunderClanâs camp
-ShadowClan goes ânooo he was with US, he brought our warriors back and helped us get rid of the illness, heâs been making us strong againâ they wonât believe tigerstar could do all that
-tigerstar continues to go on that he is now also strengthening riverclan by ridding them of their illness and joining them with shadowclan to make TIGERCLAN, the riverclan cats seem to shrink and be embarrassed, especially leopardstar, it is then that whitestar notices that riverclanâs deputy, stonefur, was not at the gathering, nor was mistyfoot or graystripe or any of their kits, who would be new apprentices by now and should be attending their first gathering
-tigerstar continues that leopardstarâs and mistyfootâs son, perchkit, died of the illness but since then the sickness had cleared after he isolated the half-clan cats in riverclan, including mistyfoot and her kits, stonefur, and the unloyal graystripe and his half-clan kits, the sickness had also killed graypool, who had tried to defend mistyfoot and stonefur from being imprisoned because she had raised them as her own when they were brought to riverclan (tigerstar actually killed her/had her killed and said it was the sickness that took her)
-tigerstar explains that it was the half-clan cats that had died from this illness because they were inherently weaker then pure blooded clan cats because their loyalty, and therefore their strength, was split no matter what they said or did, tigerstar says that the only way to get rid of this weakness in the clans is to become one clan, under him, to become as strong as they can be, riverclan already did it, and now he was proposing for windclan and thunderclan to join, even with their âdifficultâ past
-thunderclan and windclan obviously object and refuse, which tigerstar angrily retorts that then whoever doesnât join tigerclan in the next three days will be killed by his clan and that windclan and thunderclan would be destroyed either way
-the gathering ends with windclan and thunderclan leaving first, when thunderclan gets back to camp theyâre greeted by a half starved graystripe, who says that with less of tigerstarâs followers in camp he managed to escape, he trembles in fear, agony, and embarrasment as he begs for forgiveness and for help to save his kits and mosspelt, as well as mistyfoot and her kits and stonefur
-fireheart and ravenpelt immediately agree, as well as willowpelt who covers graystripe in licks and gives him a mouse to eat; sandstorm, taken aback by her cousinâs state, agrees that it would be wrong to not try to rescue his kits
-whitestar pretends to think on it for a moment, but then fully agrees that thunderclan will help in any way they can, and will take in graystripeâs kits, mosspelt, mistyfoot and her kits, and stonefur as refugees, it would be wrong to not try to help any cat, especially since most of these cats were thunderclanâs kin (he pretended to think, but we all know he would have killed tigerclan himself to save his grandkits and his cousin-siblings and niece and nephew-cousins)
-a rescue party of graystripe, ravenpelt, fireheart, and sandstorm is sent to rescue the cats: graystripe to guide where theyâre being held, ravenpelt because heâs small and sleek so he can hide easily and be sneaky, and fireheart and sandstorm because theyâre fast and can hopefully fend anyone off just enough to escape. They roll in river mud to hide their scents and pelts, especially fireheartâs
-they hide in the bushes bordering the riverclan camp by the nursery where the cats are being held hostage and theyâre met with the horrifying sight of blackclaw and dustclaw shoving graystripeâs kits, stormpaw and featherpaw, into the middle of the half-wrecked camp and mosspelt yowling in distress as two black and white toms (snake and ice) block her way of escaping through the nursery entance, stonefur is being held guard by darkstripe and blackfoot on the other side of camp as tigerstar growls that the new apprenticesâ father cowarded away like the thunderclan cat he is to leave his kits to die without him and that they must pay for their fatherâs disloyalty and cowardice, while stonefur must prove his own loyalty to tigerclan by being the one to kill them, especially his own apprentice, stormfur, yowls of objection can be heard through the nursery by mistyfoot and her kits even though they canât be seen
-leopardstar, looking miserable and defeated, looks up to tigerstar and asks him why stonefur must be so cruel, heâs already proven clan loyalty, he was her deputy, he was a brave, strong, and loyal cat even if he was half-clan, he shouldnât have to murder to prove his strength, and the apprentices hadnât had a chance to prove themselves yet, but they were crookedstarâs grandkits of course they would be strong and loyal to riverclan-
-tigerstar interrupts her there, hissing that their riverclan loyalty didnât matter, that riverclan no longer existed, only tigerclan, and she had allowed graystripe to stay even though she knew he was a disloyal thunderclan cat, and therefore she had no say and no power in this decision, which made her bristle and a glint of her old stubbornness returned to her gaze, but she said no more ase she glanced around at the glares of tigerstarâs cats and even a pawful of her own cats, who supposedly her own cats, like blackclaw who she had once seen as her brother since they were nursed and raised together
-ravenpelt presses graystripe to the ground as he almost letâs out a full growl in the bushes of the camp and sandstorm and fireheart start thinking of a plan, perhaps making a distraction and getting as many cats out as possible, graystripe and fireheart start vigorously digging a hole behind the nursery that maybe mistyfoot, her kits, mosspelt, and her own birth kit, dawnpaw who wouldnât leave her foster littermates or her mother, could squeeze out of while ravenpelt slinked away to make some sort of distraction, sandstorm whispers into the nursery that theyâre there to save them, mistyfoot says that she will not leave her brother, and mosspelt says that she will not leave stormpaw and feather, sandstorm says that once ravenpelt makes the distraction that she needs to call to stormpaw, featherpaw, and stonefur to run to the nursery as fast as possible
-blackfoot shoves stonefur forward to be in front of the young apprentices who look half starved like graystripe and trembling, stonefur bends down and quickly whispers something into stormpawâs and featherpawâs ears and touches his nose to stormpawâs head and gives him a knowing nod before turning to tigerstar whoâs hissing to âprove your loyalty already, no more soft heartednessâ stonefur raises his head up high and proudly states that he would never kill an apprentice, especially not innocent ones who are also his clanmates and kin
-tigerstar growls âof courseâ and flicks his tail to darkstripe and blackfoot who immediately run toward the apprentices only to be blocked by stormfurâs body, still strong with being half starved, thereâs no more time, the hole has to be big enough and ravenpeltâs yowl can be heard from the opposite side of the camp where he lays hidden several fox lengths away, mosspelt yells out to stormpaw and featherpaw to run back, and with cats running to go see what the howl was, the fight bloody fight between stonefur, darkstripe, and blackfoot, and mosspeltâs howl, ice and snake are confused enough to be pushed through by the apprentices, who even though are young and starved still have the bulk of their father to push through and daze their guards, dawnpaw slithers through the hole first, then featherpaw, stormpaw, and mosspelt after them. Mistyfoot shoves her kits toward the hole and is about to run through the entrance to help her brother until snake and ice crash through the entrance instead with growls and hisses âTHE HALF CLAN CATS ARE GETTING AWAYâ ice yells, but two of mistyfootâs kits have already gotten out of the nursery and reedpaw is almost through, snake smacks mistyfoot down with giant paws, but as reedpaw escape sandstorm slips through and pounces on the black and white tom, knocking him over into his brother and she pushes mistyfoot towards the hole, yelling at her to leave now, but she leaves through the nursery entrance instead, where sheâs met with blackfootâs jaws snapped shut around stonefurâs neck, his blood covered body gone limp and his eyes glazed over with death as blackfoot drops his body like a piece of rotten prey
-tigerstar order his cats to catch the escapees, but there are only a few left that didnât go after ravenpeltâs yowl and werenât on patrol, leopardstar yells, begs, mistyfoot to run, which snaps her out of her daze and she turns around and dashes away, pushing through the walls of the camp, sandstorm slashes and kicks at the cats that try to get in her way and mistyfoot leaps into the river, where the rest of the escapees are farther ahead, because most of the cats following tigerstar canât swim like riverclan cats, the only way they can follow them is one by one across the stepping stones, where whitestar planted a patrol of longtail, mousefur, thornclaw, and himself as back up, and trapping the tigerclan cats so they can only head back to riverclan or get clawed at with no where to escape
-blackclaw; however, was still raised riverclan and also now follows tigerstar, along with beetlenose, voleclaw, and sunfish and they swim after the escapees, sandstorm, graystripe, and fireheart reach sunningrocks and continue to run to meet them, dawnpaw, featherpaw, and stormpaw are the first to make it to shore where graystripe immediately warms them with licks, mosspelt and mistyfootâs kits make it soon after, but blackclaw is almost caught up to mistyfoot and as she gets onto shore he hooks her back leg with a claw, but fireheart and sandstorm bat him away, and whitestarâs patrol joins them, fighting the former riverclan cats who flee, being outnumbered
-the 8 riverclan refugees are quickly taken to thunderclan camp and made nests, fed, and made warm, featherpaw, stormpaw, and dawnpaw sleep in the apprentices den, and with graystripe insisting that he stays with his kits itâs quite cramped but warm, reedpaw, primrosepaw, and pikepaw stay with their mother and mosspelt in the nursery
-that night the cats of both riverclan and thunderclan sit vigil for stonefur, graystripe, mistyfoot, mosspelt, whitestar, mousefur, and one-eye stay up all night to mourn him, graystripe and mosspelt thanking him for protecting and saving stormpaw and featherpaw, stormpaw stays up as long as he can to sit vigil with them, but is pressed by his sisters to come to sleep
-whitestar spends the whole night thinking about his lost cousin, hoping that him, mosskit, oakheart, and bluestar can finally be a family in starclan, and asks them to watch over and protect their kin and clans closely in the coming days
-Whitestar wakes up the next morning only being able to think about what the future of the clans was, what the future of his kits were, and also there was barely enough warriors in thunderclan to mentor all of these new apprentices, not to mention his own kits would be apprentices in just over a moon
-Goldenflower knocks sense into him saying that itâs more important to stop tigerstar and hopefully the riverclan cats would be able to go home soon enough, whitestar agrees and yellowfang mentions the prophecy that she and whitestar got at his leader ceremony âFire alone will save the clan, but there needs to be proud wind and honorable thunder to summon the storms that will clear the shadows.â and that means that thunderclan and windclan need to stand together to be able to defeat tigerstar and his âclanâ
-whitestar agrees, but the only way to get to windclan would be through fourtrees and tigerstar definitely has patrols patrolling at all times, so it would be hard to get through without being noticed, and perhaps that was part of tigerstarâs plan, either way he decides that heâll go to windclan and talk to tallstar and decide what to do, thornclaw asks what will happen if tallstar decided to join tigerstar but whitestar retorts that tallstar would never, mistyfoot approaches and says that she will go with him, and yellowfang says she will go as well, perhaps if they come with cats who were raised in all of the other clans then it will be easier to persuade windclan to fight together, whitestar chooses longtail and thornclaw to come with them as back up in case they ran into a tigerclan patrol
-once the patrol makes it to fourtrees, tense and nervous even in their own territory, dustclaw suddenly appears on top of the Great Rock from behind it, snidely welcoming them and ask them what theyâre planning on doing there, blackclaw, sunfish, clawface, and jaggedtooth come out from behind the great rock
-yellowfang snarls at the two former shadowclan cats, telling them that she watched them grow up and she thought theyâd be good shadowclan warriors and here they are now, jaggedtooth spits at her, saying that they were better warriors then she ever was and ever could be, and twice as loyal than she was to anything
-mistyfoot hisses at blackclaw and sunfish, blackclaw replies that even her hiss is weaker since sheâs a half-clan cat and he threatens to claw her until she begs for mercy, mistyfoot retorts that heâd be dead before he could even touch her
-longtail tries to appeal to dustclaw, asking him what their parents, robinwing and fuzzypelt would think of him, and what would their four dead siblings would think of him, and if he came back now maybe he could be an honorable thunderclan warrior again
-dustclaw snarls at him saying that longtailâs become kittypet soft just like the rest of thunderclan and would never recognize his greatness or tigerstarâs and thatâs why thunderclan must be destroyed, whitestar growls and tells dustclaw that he wouldnât let him back into thunderclan anyway, and that thunderclanâs business was none of his own, clawface snears that they both have 5 cats, but one of the thunderclan patrol was an old medicine cat and another was a weakened and frail queen, yellowfang and mistyfoot hiss and sunfish and jaggedtooth visibly flinch
-just as the patrols were about to clash, a hiss is heard from windclanâs side of fourtrees and tallstar and a patrol of onewhisker, whitetail, and tornear appear and they run down to fourtrees and meet the thunderclan patrol, the tigerclan patrol have a moment of worry until dustclaw shakes it off and asks tallstar âoh, are you looking for a couple of your warriors tallstar? icetail, eaglefoot, and hedgepaw?â âno, iâm pretty positive of where they are, dustpaw, i know they joined tigerstarâs group of rogues!â dustclawâs fur bushes up and he gets defensive âi am dustCLAW now, tigerstar named me a warrior as soon as he became leader because at least appreciates me as a warrior!â tallstar sniffs and replies âheâs using you like he uses all of his other roguesâ dustclaw snarls and seems to be about to pounce until he realizes again that the two patrols together almost doubled his patrol, even with an old medicine cat and worn out warrior, and claims that theyâll have the chance to tear them apart in time, until then they had to go report to tigerstar. The warriors are about to attack as dustclaw leaps down from the great walk and strides off towards shadowclan territory with his patrol, but whitestar tells them to halt, they needed to conserve their fighting energy and couldnât risk anyone getting hurt right now
-tallstar asks if the patrol was coming to visit thunderclan and whitestar nods, tallstar says that barkface received a prophecy from starclan and yellowfang says itâs the same one that she and whitestar received, whitestar asks if this means that thunderclan and windclan will fight side by side then, and tallstar says that of course they would. The leaders decide that the two clans will meet the next morning at fourtrees just after sun has peaked over the horizon so tigerclan wonât have time to attack individually, but two clans being at fourtrees will definitely grab their attention and they would take on tigerclan from there
-once the patrol gets back to thunderclan whitestar starts explaining the plan to everyone, he offers goldenflower to stay in camp to protect his kits and the elders (mostly because he knows it must be hard for her knowing they would be fighting her ex-mate), but goldenflower refuses saying that she must battle alongside her clanmates
-whitestar asks willowpelt if she wants to fight, to avenge redtail and brindleface, but willowpelt says she wants to stay and protect the camp, to protect their kits, frostfur steps forward and says that she will fight as well, for lionheart, for her sister brindleface and her son brackenpaw, as well as the injuries tigerstar had caused her daughters
-rainkit and sorrelkit star calling saying that they want to go fight too, they donât need to be protected theyâre NEARLY apprentices, whitestar adors his little kits but tells them that they need to stay in camp and maybe willowpelt will teach them some fighting moves, mosspelt steps up and says that sheâll stay in camp as well, featherpaw says that she wants to fight in the battle and stormpaw says that if she fights he wants to fight as well, but whitestar refuses them as they had just become apprentices the day before tigerstar took over riverclan and hadnât gotten enough battle training, primrosepaw says that they had been apprentices for a quarter moon longer than them, so they had gotten some battle training, whitestar thinks and then tells them that they need to guard the kits and elders, dappletail then retorts that she and the rest of the elders would rather die protecting the clan than die needing to be protected, so if anything were to happen the elders would fight till the end, halftail, one-eye, and smallear all heartily agree. Whitestar thinks about how the last time the elders had to battle to protect their clan that rosetail and thrushpelt had been killed, but he knew that he wouldnât be able to stop them, and if it came to it they wouldnât have a choice anyway.
-Whitestar is about to tell tawnypaw to stay behind too, but she insists on fighting, she wonât sit in camp while her father tries to destroy the clans and featherpaw insists again and her fighting as well, whitestar decides that tawnypaw can join, but stormpaw and featherpaw will not fight, he gives them to responsibility of being runners, fetching injured cats and bringing them to yellowfang and bramblepaw who will be just outside of fourtrees to attend the injured and they will assist the medicine cats as needed, ravenpelt offers to help them and make sure they donât get hurt
-whitestar starts worrying about how brightheart or cinderpelt would do in battle, as well as snowpaw, he asks brightheart first, telling her heâs unsure if sheâs ready to fight when she had just recovered for about a moon, cloudpaw interrupts and says that brightheart could fight anyone and beat them and sheâs been working will hard to train, cinderpelt, sandstorm, and fireheart agree, saying theyâve all been training very hard together and brightheart or cinderpelt could fight just as well as anyone, whitestar asks cloudpaw to fetch snowpaw and he comes back with both snowpaw and fernpaw, whitestar, using sign language, asks snowpaw if he felt comfortable fighting or if heâd rath stay and protect camp, snowpaw shakes his head and signs for âfightâ and points towards fourtrees and then signs for âspeckleâ and âtailâ, meaning he wants to fight for his mother, who died saving him from the fire that tigerstar and darkstripe started in thunderclan, fernpaw agrees that snowpaw can and will fight, and sheâll be with him and theyâll protect each other, cloudpaw agrees that he wonât let anyone hurt his clanmates, ashpaw chimes in that he will fight to avenge their mother and whitestar says that he had no doubt his apprentice was ready to battle
-whitestar realizes just how wide tigerstarâs wrath had spread, everyone in the clan had been personally effected, and decides that willowpelt, mosspelt, mistyfootâs kits, and the elders staying behind to protect the camp will have to be enough, he leads a hunting patrol of longtail, mousefur, cinderpelt, and tawnypaw, and besides that patrol they take the rest of the day to rest and prepare, though most of the clan was too restless to truly rest, yellowfang was teaching bramblepaw the different healing herbs and making leaf bundles that they and stormpaw and featherpaw would carry to the battle, the warrior apprentices trained together with thornclaw and brightheart, whitestar gives ashpaw some last minute battle tips
-before the sun had risen the clan silently pelts to fourtrees, the wind is sadly against their back and when they arrive they see two pelts slink into the bushes, one towards riverclan and one towards shadowclan, whitestar signals for his clan to fan out and they line out in front of the thunderclan border so it would be harder for anyone to try to run into thunderclan and attack the camp, whitestar is suddenly very relieved to have goldenflower standing beside him, strong, proud, and ready to fight, frostfur, mousefur, mistyfoot, and longtail stood beside her, on whitestarâs right flank was sandstorm, fireheart, graystripe, and ravenpelt beside her, thornclaw, brightheart, cinderpelt, and the apprentices created a second line of defense behind them, the apprentices close behind their mentors. Whitestar checked behind him for ashpaw, he could see fear in his eyes and his scent, but his stance was strong and confident
-pink started lining the horizon and whitestar was starting to fear that windclan wouldnât get there in time, or maybe not at all, he knew tigerstar would be aware of thunderclan being at fourtrees by now, he must be preparing and even on his way, but as soon as he thought that the bushes on windclanâs side of fourtrees started rustling and tallstar sped down the slope into the clear, a stream of windclan cats followed him and lined up in front of their border like thunderclan. Tallstar walked forward to the middle of the clearing and whitestar joined him, they both bowed their heads respectfully to each other. âIâm sorry I couldnât greet you as a leader for the first time in a better situation, Whitestar. I know your leadership has already been hard, but I am positive Bluestar chose the right cat, and I am sure she is very proud of you and her clan and will be protecting you all, just as the rest of StarClan will watch over us.â
-Whitestar suddenly felt on the spot and guilty that he didnât know tallstar as well as he should, âI know your leadership has not been easy at all, especially the past few seasons, Iâm honored to be a leader with, and to fight alongside you and your warriors. Do you have warriors staying in camp to protect your camp?â
-Deadfoot steps forward and goldenflower suddenly pelts forward to be besides whitestar again, they both nod to each other respectively and then bow to the other leader, âAshfoot is with our kit, crowkit in the nursery, Webfoot is also heavily pregnant with his own kits, and Robinwing just gave birth to Tornearâs and her daughter, Nightkit, yesterday. Theyâre all in camp with the elders, Morningflower has also stayed behind to protect them. Tigerstarâs rogues killed her son, Gorsepaw a moon ago in a border scuffle, but sheâd rather be there to defend the kits and queens just in case. Whitestar apologizes and asks where their other apprentices were, he only saw warriors in their battle formation and tallstar says that as they had learned yesterday, hedgepaw and two warriors had joined tigerstar and tigerclan, and their other two apprentices were staying back outside of fourtrees with barkface to assist him and to fetch injured cats. Whitestar nods saying that they had two apprentices to help Yellowfang and Bramblepaw as well as to assist injured cats. In big battles like this it was a standard practice, but Whitestar was still glad that the two leaders had made the same strategies.
-Whitestar dips his head to his fellow leader and raises his voice so the rest of the cats could hear him, âMay our clans fight alongside each other and lookout for each other. And may StarClan guide us well.â
-As soon as he finishes speaking the wind suddenly changes and a rush of ShadowClan and RiverClan scent swamps the clearing and soon countless pawsteps can be heard and then bushes on RiverClanâs side of the border start to rustle and Blackfoot steps through, Leopardstar close behind him, with many cats, most riverclan but with several shadowclan cats and rogues, following them. Then the bushes on ShadowClanâs side start rustles, shadowclan, riverclan, and rogues streaming forward into the clearing, and then finally, Tigertstar strides out from within his group of cats, darkstripe and dustclaw close behind. The large dark tabby stares down the leaders, not even looking at his former mate, whoâs green eyes are now narrowed and her fur bristling, her claws already unsheathed and sheâs obviously keeping in a snarl. âSo,â Tigerstar oddly purrs, âHave the great leaders of ThunderClan and WindClan made their decision on joining my clan?â
âWe already told you our answer, Tigerstar, our answer is no,â Tallstar responded cooly. Whitestar quickly glanced over all sides of the clearing, almost all the cats of every clan were there, including all of Tigerstarâs rogues and even ShadowClan elders; ThunderClan and WindClan were greatly outnumbered. Whitestar realized that Tigerstar had fixed his gaze onto him.
âAnd you? Great ThunderClan leader, Whitestar, the one I considered to be like a brother,â his eyes widened to look innocent.
Whitestarâs pelt bristled, âYou are no brother of mine! ThunderClan would never join you. WindClan and ThunderClan will defend ourselves until the last breath!â
Tigerstarâs amber eyes narrowed and his claws unsheathed as he growled, âThen die.â
Before Tigerstar could wave his tail to signal his warriors to attack, a yowl came from RiverClanâs side of Fourtrees.
âNo!â It was Leopardstar, her eyes filled with anger, her pelt bristled, and claws unsheathed. Tigerstar paused to look over to her, his eyes like fire and his teeth bared.
âNo!â she repeated, her teeth now bared as well, âI am Leopardstar, and I am the leader of RiverClan. We will no longer be a part of TigerClan, I never should have agreed to it in the first place. We will night fight with you Tigerstar! You killed my deputy and dear friend, you held my mate, kits, and clanmates hostage! You brought rogues into my camp! Youâve disrespected and harmed my clan. We will night fight with you, but we will fight against you!â
Shock flooded through the RiverClan cats, as well as several hisses from the rogues and a few warriors, but most of the RiverClan warriors seemed to stand taller and confidently behind their leader. Relief flooded over Whitestar even as snarls, hissing, and yowls erupted from Tigerstarâs followers and rogues, but to his surprise many ShadowClan cats were looking confused or disheartened.
Whitestar had to do something, âShadowClan! You donât have to fight with Tigerstar. You can fight for what you know is right and you will be even more of a loyal ShadowClan warrior for it!â
Tigerstarâs lips drew back in a snarl, âYou do not tell my clan what to do! They follow my orders and my orders alone, that is the warrior code!â
âYou donât care what the warrior code is!â Sandstorm hissed. Agreement rang across the clearing.
âEnough!â Tigerstar yowled, âI will no longer be merciful, you will all die for your betrayal to StarClanâs wishes and to destiny! TigerClan, attack!â
In an uproar cats from ShadowClan and RiverClanâs sides erupted into the clearing, clashing into WindClan and ThunderClan. Whitestar tried to keep track of where Tigerstar was, but in the flurry of battle, he could no longer spot his dark pelt.
Iâve been in plenty of battles before, but none like this.
Suddenly Whitestarâs breath was struck out of his body as a dark gray body slammed into him and claws sank into his fur. While Whitestar was trying to assess the battle, Darkstripe had taken the opportunity to attack.
âFinally,â Darkstripeâs breath was hot on Whitestarâs muzzle as he struggled to turn towards the striped tom, âI get to do what Iâve been wanting to do for moons!â Darkstripeâs claws raked down Whitestarâs side and he hissed in pain. Whitestar was a pretty decent fighter, but the surprise attack and the fact that Darkstripe was his kin and a former clanmate was making Whitestar struggle to fight back as hard as he could. He swiped at Darkstripeâs muzzle and beads of blood appeared, but Darkstripe was ruthless bit down into Whitestarâs shoulder, but barely missing his neck as Whitestar dodged. Darkstripe sunk his teeth deeper into Whitestarâs shoulder, blood running down his white pelt. Darkstripe wasnât letting go and instead started thrashing his head. Whitestar yowled in pain, hardly able to combat the tomâs dirty attack.
Suddenly Darkstripeâs teeth were relieved from Whitestarâs shoulder and another thick gray pelt was beside him, a single thick darker gray stripe running down the back. Graystripe had tackled Darkstripe away from Whitestar and was now battering him with heavy blows. Graystripe, being bigger and heavier than Darkstripe easily overwhelmed him with blows.
âGet away from my father!â he yowled. Darkstripe hissed and lunged for Graystripeâs throat, but instead Graystripeâs unsheathed claws landed on Darkstripeâs and in one heavy slash, Darkstripeâs throat was sliced open and he fell to the ground. With his yellow eyes wide, he desperately tried to push himself to his paws, but before he could stand he fumbled back to the ground, soaked in blood. His eyes glazed over, empty with death. Whitestar tensed as he recognized his fatherâs dying eyes in the gray tom. They were exactly the same.
Though Whitestar was relieved, he couldnât help but grieve for his half brother. If only you could have been better than our father. Graystripe stood over Darkstripeâs body, blood and scratches on his pelt. Whitestar realized he had never seen his son so injured, no battle in his life had been this hard and suddenly his grief moved to his son, who had never killed another cat in his life and had already lost so much, to now have killed his own kin, his own half brother.
To save my life. He saved my life.
Whitestar flicked his tail down his sonâs pelt, âYou didnât have to do that, I have more lives than you, you couldâve been hurt,â Whitestar hesitated, suddenly feeling warm pride in his son, âBut you saved my life anyway. You were so brave, my son you are a great warrior.â
Graystripe let out a loud purr, âI could never stand by and watch someone kill you!â
âAnd I would give all my nine lives for you,â Whitestar purred back.
Graystripeâs whiskers twitched in gratitude, and maybe a little embarrassment, then turned around and rushed back into battle.
I need to find Tigerstar. Whitestar thought, refocusing back to the battle surrounding him. Featherpaw and Stormpaw were rushing a RiverClan cat to Yellowfang and Bramblepaw. Mistyfoot slashed and grappled with Blackfoot across the clearing. She raked Blackfootâs ears with her claws then grabbed him by the throat and slammed him to the ground, mercilessly finishing him by ripping open his throat.
And as he deserves. Why should she show mercy when he didnât when he killed her brother.
Leopardstar fought Blackclaw a few fox lengths away, slamming his shoulders into the ground. Suddenly Deadfoot was thrown a few tail lengths away from Whitestar; the ShadowClan warrior, Jaggedtooth, jumping to pin the older tom to the ground. Both cats were covered in blood, but Deadfoot was in much worse condition. Whitestar immediately threw himself at the ginger warrior, his search for Tigerstar would have to wait. Jaggedtooth stumbled away from the black tom as Whitestarâs weight knocked him aside. Whitestar hooked his claws into the tomâs shoulders, there were already wounds there and the ginger tom yowled in pain and tried to tear himself away. Whitestar slashed at his muzzle, Jaggedtooth went low to attack his underbelly, but Whitestar quickly spun around and kicked the tom directly in the skull. Dazed, heavily bleeding, and his jaw possibly broken, Jaggedtooth turned tail and fled from Whitestar and the battle.
Whitestar quickly turned his attention to the WindClan deputy, still heavily bleeding. He crouched down, trying to evaluate his wounds, âDonât worry, old friend, the medicine cats will get you patched up,â Whitestar tried to gently purr and grazed his muzzle across Deadfootâs. His one twisted paw seemed to be even more twisted than usual.
Deadfoot twitched his ears, âI know, I trust our medicine cats with my life. As well as StarClan,â he breathed heavily. Suddenly another black pelt, Ravenpelt, ran to Whitestarâs and Deadfootâs side.
âDeadfoot!â Ravenpelt yelped and immediately started to move Deadfoot onto his back, âAll the runners are already busy, Iâll take him to Barkface,â and with determination in his eyes, Ravenpelt dragged Deadfoot to the edge of the clearing. Whitestar felt such deeply imbedded pride in the young warrior who had once been the most timid kit heâd ever seen. Even though he still might not be in love with fighting, Ravenpelt was a truly courageous warrior of ThunderClan and Whitestar was extremely grateful to have him as his clanmate. He kept a watch to make sure no one attacked the two black cats before plunging back into the heat of battle.
Though things were simmering down; many bodies lay limp and lifeless on the floor of Fourtrees and very few of Tigerstarâs followers remained. A dark brown tabby pelt appeared at the top of the Great Rock. His amber eyes fiery and bright in the bright morning sun.
âTigerstar!â Whitestar hissed, fury heated his pelt as he charged forward. No one got in his way as he halted in front of the Great Rock, âTigerstar! Come down he and face the consequences of your war like a warrior!â
Tigerstar crouched down, almost as if he were bowing to his enemy, âAs you wish, Whitestar,â and with a glisten in his eye he leapt off of the Great Rock and before Whitestar could realize-
The large tabby landed directly on Whitestarâs neck.
Whitestar awoke in a grassy field and immediately pushed himself to his paws. He anxiously looked around, expecting to see Fourtrees and countless cats fighting, but instead he was met with the starry figures of his late loved one: Bluestar and Snowfur stood in front of him, and Lionheart, Redtail, and Spottedleaf stood beside him.
Of course, he was in StarClan. Tigerstar had killed him, but Whitestar had a sudden rush of emotion and love seeing his mother, aunt, and friends once again.
âMother! Bluestar!â Whitestar stepped forward and both of his mothers lovingly nuzzled him. He turned and Lionheart and Redtail both touched their noses to his, Spottedleaf licked his ear. Though he was overwhelmed with joy of seeing his loved ones, the feeling was soon washed away with anxiety, âIâm happy to see you again, but I need to go back. I still have eight lives, correct? Please, send me back, who knows what Tigerstar could be doing right now!â
âPlease, Whitestar,â Snowfur mewed, âYour neck was just broken, please stay for just a few heartbeats as your body heals. I promise it will be okay, my love,â she began to lap at his ears as any mother would do to calm her kit.
His motherâs words calmed him a bit, as well as hit him with a wave of grief that he hadnât been able to grow up with her to teach him and comfort him.
Bluestar nodded, âI know that it may feel like youâre here for a long time, but thatâs only because youâre anxious, you know that when a leader loses a life they come back to life in just a few moments. No matter how long it feels here, in the living world youâll only have been dead for a few heartbeats,â she purred.
Redtail twitched his whiskers, âYouâre always patient for every cat except yourself!â he flicked his tail tip over Whitestarâs face, just as heâd done when they were warriors together and Redtail would tease him.
Whitestar jokingly cuffed his old friendâs ear, âBut Redtail, you know better than anyone else how dangerous Tigerstar is!â
âYes,â Lionheart answered, âbut most of his followers are dead or have ran away, it is only him against all of the clan now,â he shared a playful and proud glance with Redtail, âYou should know better than anyone else that your clanmates, and the other clans cats, are very capable and defending themselves.â
Redtail raised his head high, purring as Spottedleaf nodded and returned her gaze back to Whitestar, âYou should be proud, Whitestar. You should be proud of everything youâve accomplished, and everyone youâve touched the hearts of,â she mewed.
âAnd not to mention you picked a great deputy!â Lionheart added triumphantly. Whitestar purred at Lionheartâs obvious affection and pride for his sister.
Redtail stepped closer to Whitestar again and touched his nose to his, his green gaze, which looked exactly like Sandstormâs, now calmer and serious, but still full of affection, âThank you, Whitestar,â he purred, âfor everything youâve done for me and my kin.â
As Redtail stepped away, Bluestar stepped forward and pressed her forehead to Whitestarâs, and Whitestar drew in her warm scent, just as it was when she was alive, âItâs time for you to go back Whitestar. Remember to trust your choices, to trust yourself and your clanmates. And remember that I named Sandstorm after you for a reason.â
When Whitestar opened his eyes his head and body pulsed with aches. He immediately stood and quickly took in the scene. What had he missed, how long was he in StarClan before he continued on his next life? Where was Tigerstar? But before he could get a clear focus his legs started to give. Goldenflower was quickly by his side and steadied him before returning a cold gaze down at her former mate.
Before Whitestar could give his deputy thanks, his vision finally cleared and he followed Goldenflowerâs gaze. A few fox lengths away was Tigerstar. Fireheartâs claws were dug deep in his back and shoulders; the ginger tomâs green eyes were filled with more ferocity and anger than Whitestar had ever seen in them before. In front of Tigerstar was Sandstorm, fur risen, tail lashing, and her eyes full of hatred, spitting at Tigerstar. For a moment Tigerstar struggled to get out from Fireheartâs grip before seeming to give in, even though his expression still showed nothing but unwavering brutality. Howls, hissing, and growls filled the clearing. Cats closed in around the the fighting cats in a circle to get closer, some trying to get in their own swipe, but there wasnât enough room.
âHeâs a traitor among the clans!â
âAnd the warrior code!â
âDisgusting,â Tigerstar spat, âTo be pinned by a kittypet and be guarded by a cat I once thought could be a fierce warrior. Allying yourself with the kittypet made you soft, Sandstorm. You canât even kill me like a warrior can you? Youâre just like your fathers! Weak, fragile, and too soft-hearted to be true warriors!â
Sandstorm bared her teeth, and with a yowl, reared onto her hind legs and slashed her unsheathed claws down Tigerstarâs eyes. Blood sprayed from his face as he let out a howl. Fireheart struggled to keep Tigerstar pinned down as he lurched upwards in pain.
âDonât you ever talk about my fathers like that! They were better warriors than you could ever be in all your nine lives!â Sandstorm hissed.
Tigerstar snarled in her direction as he attempted to open his eyes, but there was nothing but blood, streaming down his eyes and face. He suddenly lurched to the side, tearing Fireheartâs claws off him and knocking him over with a roar. Sandstorm lunged for Tigerstar and snapped her jaws down directly on his throat. Tigerstar gagged as blood spilled onto the ground and down Sandstormâs chin. Then she let go. Tigerstarâs body thumped onto the ground. Sandstorm stared down at his body. Her ferocity and hatred quickly faded into horror as she realized what she had just done.
Whitestar felt a wave of grief and sorrow. Not for the death of Tigerstar, but for his former apprentice. Sandstorm⊠You didnât deserve any of this. This shouldnât have been your burden to bear.
Whitestar glanced next to him at Goldenflower. He was steadier now so he took his weight off of her, but she didnât move away. Her gaze was somber, but steady as she stared down at the ground in front of her paws. Whitestar knew that she didnât want to look at her former mateâs dead body. And he also knew that she knew that it wasnât over yet.
Fireheart rushed to Sandstormâs side and Ravenpelt paced behind them. Sandstormâs gaze cleared as she caught her breath and raised her head high.
âStarClan couldnât have possibly given someone like Tigerstar 9 lives, right?â
Leopardstar stepped forward from the crowd, her fur battered and bloody, matted onto her neck. She must have lost a life at some point during the battle.
âNo. He was definitely given lives,â she addressed above the murmurs of the crowd, âI know because I killed him once. I took one of his lives trying to reclaim my clan,â She paused and gritted her, âHis followers then took one of my own lives in revenge. And then when both Tigerstar and I came back he killed me again for his own personal revenge.â
Leopardstar stood strong against the eyes of the clans, but Whitestar heard the cracks in her voice. Some cats narrowed their eyes in suspicion, some murmured pity, and a couple growled or hissed in anger.
âHow could StarClan give him lives!?â Bramblepawâs yowl echoed across the clearing.
âMaybe he lost his last one, he hasnât come back to life yet.â
âYeah, Whitestar got back up almost instantly!â Ashpaw blurted, running up beside his mentor.
Runningnose pressed through the crowd. He looked older and sicker than usual. He stood beside Leopardstar and he opened his mouth to speak, but before he could, Tigerstarâs pelt rippled. Cats gasped and Fireheart pressed himself in front of Sandstorm and snarled, his claws unsheathed and ready to defend his mate.
Tigerstar let out a cough and blood spat out of his mouth. He rose to his paws, some wounds healed, at least enough, but blood still dripped from his face and mouth. He gritted his teeth and snarled, snapping his head from side to side. He kept his torn up eyes closed. He was blind. Cats yowled and hissed, some trying to move forward to get to Tigerstar, but before anyone reached him Tigerstar turned to face Whitestar and opened his eyes.
âWhitestar!â Tigerstar charged and then leapt for the ThunderClan leader, giant, unsheathed claws outreached. Whitestar was taken by surprise, but instinctively met his former close friend with his own outstretched claws. As Tigerstarâs claws sank into Whitestarâs shoulders, Whitestarâs forepaw slammed into Tigerstarâs still-wounded neck. Whitestar felt the strength of the entire forest rush through his legs and paws as his claws sank into Tigerstarâs throat and he slammed his body onto the ground. He felt and heard a crack as Tigerstar choked. Then his amber eyes went dull and blank as Whitestar stood on top of him.
The cats stayed quiet as Whitestar caught his breath and stepped away from Tigerstarâs body. He looked to Goldenflower, her lips drawn back in a snarl and claws unsheathed. Her face showed nothing but anger looking down at Tigerstar. Tawnypaw ran up from the crowd to press herself against her mother; Bramblepaw followed behind her more cautiously.
âIâm sorry,â Runningnose sniffed shyly, âI should have spoken soonerâŠâ The cats around murmured, some even twitching their whiskers in amusement at the old medicine cat. âBut I have an explanation. And I know I should have told ShadowClan sooner, I should have told anyone sooner. But I donât think Tigerstar received his lives from StarClan.â
âHow does he have lives then?â
âWho gave him lives?â
Runningnose cleared his throat and tried to speak above the chatter while also repeatedly glancing over to Tigerstarâs body nervously, âWe never made it to the Moonstone. Tigerstar said that the entrance to Mothermouth was far enough for him, I tried to persuade him, but he just got angry. He fell asleep, but I couldnât sense the presence of StarClan at all! But he kept twitching and grunting in his sleep, sometimes hissing and snarling. I was hoping that he was just having a bad dream instead of getting lives, but he apparently did, and they definitely arenât from StarClan.â
âHe would have been almost completely healed if they were from StarClan!â
âAnd he was dead way longer!â
âWhy wouldnât you tell us immediately!â
âWhy would you keep a secret like that from your clan!â
âWasnât Runningnose raised with Brokenstar? How can we trust him!â
âWhat kind of medicine cat would do that?â
Runningnose shrank back in guilt and shame and was about to slink back into the crowd when Littlecloud ran up and Flintfang stepped forward.
âRunningnose is a great medicine cat!â Littlecloud defended his mentor, âNo one wouldâve been able to do anything! If he had said something Tigerstar would have banished him or even had him killed!â
âLittlecloud is right,â Flintfang growled, âNothing like this has happened in anyoneâs memory. Runningnose has done as much as he can just to keep ShadowClan alive! No one one wouldâve been able to do better than he has!â
The cats all started murmuring and chattering again as Yellowfang walked through the crowd to stand beside Whitestar and her former apprentice, âIâve only heard stories of this when I was a kit and my old mentor had mentioned it maybe twice in passing. But there may be something other than StarClan; a place where the worst cats go where they die instead of StarClan. A place of no stars, where light can barely filter into the forest. I believe the elders called it the Dark Forest. It could be entirely possible that they have the power to give lives just like StarClan,â she looked down at Tigerstar, âbut perhaps are not as good at healing.â
âI remember that name!â
âIâve heard some stories about that, but isnât it just a nursery tale?â
âThatâs why he didnât want to go to the Moonstone!â
In the din Tigerstarâs pelt rippled once again. His wounds were crusted over with dried blood as he struggled to return to his paws. He couldnât open his eyes. Whitestar took a step back. How many more times do we have to do this? Six? Do we have to just keep killing him over and over? What if he has more than nine lives from the Dark Forest?
âIâm not afraid to die! Iâll come back again and again. Iâll outlast you, Iâll outlast your kits and your kits kits! The clans will never be rid of my claws!â Tigerstar roared.
Goldenflower nudged her kits backwards into the crowd and then stepped forward. She stood in front of Tigerstar, her expression unreadable. Whitestar wanted to tell her to get back, but he had never seen Goldenflower like this and the words seemed to get stuck in his throat.
Tigerstar faced his former mate; his ears and whiskers twitched, âGoldenflower,â he purred, âHave you decided to join me? To choose your mate over your clan? I saw Bramblepaw and Tawnypaw before too. Iâm glad youâve all come to your senses.â
Goldenflower stayed quiet, her green gaze burning into the dark tabby. The rest of the clans had fallen silent, no one was sure what was going on or what to do.
âIâd die before I joined you,â Goldenflower murmured, âIâd die before I let my kits be influenced by you,â her lips pulled back in a snarl, âAnd Iâd die before I let you, my former mate, the one I used to love and respect so much, hurt my clan, or any clan again!â She lunged forward, tucking her head under Tigerstarâs chest and shoving him backwards. Before he fell onto his back, Goldenflower aimed her strike, hooking her claws into Tigerstarâs throat and slamming him to the ground with full force. Tigerstarâs scabbed eyes shot open in shock as he choked in pain, blood gurgling out of his throat. Goldenflower then swiftly raked her claws from his throat down his chest and exposed belly. She stumbled backwards, bloody fur stuck in her claws as blood spurted from Tigerstarâs belly. His eyes had already gone blank as blood continued to spill from his body.
No one spoke. The entirety of Fourtrees was frozen except for the pool of Tigerstarâs blood. Tawnypaw and Bramblepaw stared in shock from the crowd. Ashpaw coward behind Whitestar. Leopardstar, Littlecloud, and Runningnose stood shocked, but Leopardstar looked vaguely impressed. Fireheart, Sandstorm, and Ravenpelt pressed against one another. Whitestar could only glance at Goldenflower before staring at Tigerstarâs corpse. His amber eyes flashing back to life, his pelt rippling and mouth gasping and choking before growing dull and lifeless again. Over and over again. Until he finally lay still forever.
Epilogue: After The Battle
A bunch of Tigerstarâs rogue and former kittypet followers
-Tigerstar: killed by Sandstorm and Fireheart, Whitestar, and Goldenflower
-Darkstripe: killed by Graystripe
-Hedgepaw: Killed by one of Tigerstarâs allies when he tried to run away
-Icetail: Killed by his sister, Whitetail, and Onewhisker
-Deadfoot: he made it back to WindClanâs camp but died shortly after
-Blackclaw (Tigerstarâs ally): Killed by Leopardstar
-Sunfish (Tigerstarâs ally)
-Beetlenose (Tigerstarâs ally)
-Blackfoot (Tigerstarâs ally): Killed by Mistyfoot
-Clawface (Tigerstarâs ally)
-Nightwhisper (Tigerstarâs ally)
-probably a couple elders since Tigerstar made them fight
-couple of other warriors i donât feel like finding names for
-Itâs not even sunhigh when the battle is over, Whitestar sees Onewhisker carrying Hedgepawâs body to the group of WindClan cats and prays to StarClan that unless he truly had darkness in his heart to allow him to hunt with them in their hunting grounds because he was too young.
-Tallstar approaches Whitestar and tells him that WindClan will be returning to their territory now, he wants to see how Deadfoot is doing and that he wants to make sure any injured can be treated by Barkface, and that they were glad to have help, Whitestar apologizes to the WindClan leader for his clanâs loses today, but Tallstar replies by saying that it was an honor to fight for the sake of the clans and to be allies with him and ThunderClan, he turns around, gathers his warriors, and leaves.
-Whitestar sees Graystripe leave Darkstripeâs body and ask Leopardstar if he can take Darkstripeâs body back to ThunderClan, he wanted to tell Willowpelt himself what happened. Leopardstar agrees as long as Whitestar is okay with it, she glances over to him âBut I donât think thereâs any doubt heâll let you.â Graystripe bounds over to Whitestar and before he even asks, Whitestar says yes, he may, and offers to help him carry their half-brotherâs body, which Graystripe answers with a nod.
-Goldenflower, Tawnypaw, and Bramblepaw are gathered around Tigerstarâs corpse. Whitestar is about to go to them when his apprentice, Ashpaw, speaks up âWhoâs going to take his body?â Whitestar says that ThunderClan will take Tigerstarâs body, as he was born and raised in ThunderClan, but he will be buried outside ThunderClanâs border. Flintfang steps forward and says that ShadowClan will take the bodies and bury them outside of their territory by Twoleg Place. Russetfur objects saying that he doesnât have the right to make that decision for the clan and that there are almost as many dead rogues as there are ShadowClan cats. Flintfang says that they were technically ShadowClan cats at one point, so they will be taken away by ShadowClan. No one else objects
-Tawnypaw stands up from her fatherâs corpse and says that she wants to help ShadowClan bury the bodies, that she has decided that she wants to join them. Goldenflower is shocked and objects and Bramblepaw cries saying that he thought she wasnât actually going to join ShadowClan like she once said she would in private. Tawnypaw looks to her mother and then to ShadowClan and she says that she felt like it was her duty as the daughter of Tigerstar to help heal ShadowClan and put her strength into them, helping them to be strong and become stronger.
-Russetfur and several others spit that they donât want some ThunderClan brat joining them, that they donât need ThunderClanâs help, ShadowClan was strong on its own. Littlecloud runs up and stands by Tawnypaw though, saying that any apprentice of Cinderpeltâs would be a strong and honorable warrior. Whitethroat agrees and Rowanpaw, from the back of the crowd, yells that if she joined that they could beat her up whenever they wanted to. Cinderpelt meets with Tawnypaw and Littlecloud and asks if this is really what she wanted to do and with grief in her eyes, Tawnypaw says yes. They all look to Whitestar and he says that she would basically have to start her training all over again, which Tawnypaw says that she knows and understands. Whitestar then says that if itâs truly what she wants then she doesnât need his permission, itâs ShadowClan she needs to get the permission from.
-Flintfang hesitates, but then nods and agrees to take her in, and makes a remark, âAnd Russetfur, you can be her mentor; you know what itâs like being an outsider of ShadowClan coming in.â Whitestar thinks to himself that Flintfang would make a good and noble leader for ShadowClan. Several cats flinch, no one usually dares mention that Russetfur was once a kittypet that joined ShadowClan, but after a hiss at the gray tom, Russetfur only motions to Tawnypaw, âFine, then earn your keep now and start helping to carry one of these bodies.â But before she runs off, Tawnypaw turns around and nuzzles her mother, brother, and now former mentor. She promises that theyâll see each other on patrols and at gatherings, and that maybe sheâll see Bramblepaw when heâs out gathering herbs by the ShadowClan border.
-Cinderpelt leans over to Littlecloud and asks him to please watch over Tawnypaw and thanks him, touching the tip of his ear with her nose and Littlecloud says of course, touching his nose to CInderpeltâs. ShadowClan, with all the bodies gathered, leaves for their own territory, the last thing that can be seen is Tawnypawâs fluffed up, golden and brown tabby tail.
-Mistyfoot approaches Leopardstar, a wary awkwardness between them. Leopardstarâs eyes soften for a moment, a rare sight to see. Mistyfoot says that sheâs going to fetch their kits and Mosspelt. Leopardstarâs eyes harden again, as if sheâs suddenly aware that she had let herself soften and responds, âNo. I want to fetch them,â them softens her tone, realizing that she started to harshly, âMistyfoot, please take RiverClan back to camp for me.â
-Mistyfoot is shocked as well as the cats who were in earshot, but she nods and agrees, but then whispers to Leopardstar, âOnly if they want to come back, Leopardstar.â Leopardstar shifts her paws and says of course.
-Stormpaw and Featherpaw say they want to come get them as well and Leopardstar hesitates and then agrees. Mistyfoot collects the RiverClan cats and they begin to leave as Leopardstar walks to Whitestars, slightly nods and tells him to take the lead. Whitestar says that Goldenflower can lead with Bramblepaw as they carry Tigerstarâs body and he and Graystripe will follow behind with Darkstripeâs. Leopardstar walks in step with him, Stormpaw and Featherpaw trotting behind their father. âCome, ThunderClan, weâre going home,â Whitestar says, he notices that Fireheart, Sandstorm, and Ravenpelt take the back, just behind Ashpaw, Fernpaw, Cloudpaw, and Snowpaw. Whitestar takes not on how brave all four of them had to be today, and notices with sadness that they all have blood on their pelts.
-On the way to camp, Leopardstar admits to Whitestar that she saw the cat, Sasha, running towards RiverClan territory, and that she expects she will be in their camp when she gets back. She says that she was Tigerstarâs mate and one of his closest cats, which Goldenflower, overhearing, visibly twitches her tail at. Bramblepawâs fur raises. Whitestar asks her what sheâll do with Sasha if she is and Leopardstar replies that Sasha is a good cat and i snothing like Tigerstar, and that she believe she is expecting his kits, she would never turn away an expectant queen. Goldenflower is heard swallowing a growl and her ears are pinned back, while Bramble seems to shrink in his own fur.
-They reach camp and lay the two bodies in the clearing, the cats who stay behind swarm around the group of cats, Primrosepaw quickly asks where Mistyfoot is, fearfully. Leopardstar consoles them that their mother is fine and took RiverClan home and that everything should be back to normal soon. Or as normal as it can be. Pikepaw says he wants to go home right away, his siblings and Dawnpaw agreeing.
-Graystripe tells Willowpelt what happened with Darkstripe and then steps away to let her grieve over her older son. Whitestar can tell that he feels worried about something when Graystripe cautiously approaches him. They go under the Highrock and Graystripe asks Whitestar if he can rejoin ThunderClan. His kits are apprentices now and he trusts Mistyfoot, Mosspelt, and whoever will train Stormpaw next to take care of them. He says that he has never felt like a RiverClan cat and that every moment heâs in RiverClan he misses ThunderClan. It doesnât feel like a home, he canât be a good warrior there.
-Whitestar feels both pity, joy, and worry. He would take his son back in a heartbeat, but he looks over to Frostfur and her kits, then Sandstorm, and then back to Graystripe. Would they ever be able to forgive him for neglecting Brackenpaw and that leading to his death? If I show that I trust him, they will.
-Whitestar nods, but warns that heâll have to work twice as hard to gain the rest of his clanmatesâ trust back, but Graystripe gleefully says of course and then bounds over to Willowpelt and his younger brothers and sister to tell them, then, more solemnly heads towards the RiverClan cats.
-Stormpaw and Featherpaw are absolutely dejected. Mosspeltâs face turns hurt and sad and says that she had a feeling he would decide this. Leopardstar says that she knew he would decide this for moons now. There is hesitancy and side eyes from a few ThunderClan cats. Graystripe confronts his kits and tells them that they donât need him anymore, theyâre apprentices and are RiverClan through and through, if he were to stay in RiverClan he would just be a reminder that theyâre half ThunderClan to their entire clan and he felt like they wouldnât get the respect they deserve. He says that heâll always be there for them if they need him though and that heâll always be their father and that he loves them so much and he knows that so does their mother who will always watch over them in StarClan. Mosspelt rubs her muzzle to his and whisper to him that heâs a good cat and a good father, giving him a look with a glow of love in her eyes. Graystripe says thank you and then presses his muzzle against both of his kits and licks them both between the ears before turning back to Mosspelt and asks her to take care of them. They both say of course.
-The apprentices all say goodbye, Stormpaw and Featherpaw especially take a moment to say goodbye to Willowpelt and her kits. Leopardstar walks over to Whitestar and whispers her thanks for taking care of them all and tells him that heâs a good leader. Whitestar nods and says of course, and that sheâs a good leader as well. Mosspelt says her thanks as well and then the RiverClan cats leave to return to their home.
-Fireheart and Ravenpelt pounce onto Graystripe in a welcome back. Sandstorm staying more to the side, but affection for the gray tom can be seen in her eyes and she nods to him. Rainkit and Sorrelkit jump onto Graystripeâs back for a badger ride. Graystripe can hardly stand up with both of the kits on his back.
-The elders, Willowpelt, Goldenflower, and Bramblepaw all take Tigerstar and Darkstripe to be buried just outside of ThunderClanâs border and Whitestar sends a patrol of Longtail, Mousefur, Thornclaw, and all four of the warrior apprentices to go hunting. After the burial patrol returns, the hunting patrol returns with jaws full of prey. Newleaf is surely almost here.
-After everyone eats their fill and Yellowfang and Bramblepaw were able to treat everyoneâs injuries, Whitestar calls for a clan meeting. He tells everyone that heâs so proud of ThunderClan and all of the clans for their victory over Tigerstar and that he hopes that after this their can be peace in newleaf. He says that in celebration, their warrior apprentices are ready to become warriors. He calls on Ashpaw, Fernpaw, Snowpaw, and Cloudpaw. He says that they were all so brave during the battle and then to come home and almost immediately go out and bring back fresh-kill for their clan. They were true warriors. He turns to Ashpaw first and says that he was so proud to be his mentor, and names him Ashfur. Then asks Longtail if Fernpaw was ready to be a warrior and when he says yes, says that Fernpaw is graceful and compassionate and names her Ferncloud. Then he asks Frostfur if Snowpaw is ready to be a warrior and when she says he is Whitestar says, while also signing to Snowpaw, that he is patient and intelligent and from this moment forward he will be named Snowears. And then finally Whitestar asks Fireheart if Cloudpaw is ready to be a warrior and after Fireheart says yes Whitestar says that Cloudpaw is passionate and confident and from this moment forward he will be named Cloudtail.
-ThunderClan chants the new warriorsâ names, and some even sign the names for Snowears.
-Whitestar apologized to Bramblepaw since heâll be the only apprentice now, but then Sorrelkit announces that she and her brother can be apprentices with him, but Whitestar refuses, saying that they still have to wait about another moon.
-The sun sets on the clans. They are rid of the evil that was Tigerstar, and are full of promise for a happy future.
