#herbtail

Stormshine:

pelt color: gray and light gray, dark gray paws

eyes: light gray blue

Personality: angry, easily irritable, sweet occasionally. Tired.

Stormshine song: a Baby for Pree by Neutral Milk Hotel

Story: 

Stormkit was born to Mousetooth and Herbclaw during a rain storm. Mousetooth was already a bit old for having kits, and were residents in Riverclan. 

Stormkit was born with the power to see dead kits and how they died. It haunted her in her daily life. (think goosefeather, he would see dead cats everywhere)  

Her parents wanted her to be medicine cat, because Herbclaw was before having kits with Mousetooth and becoming a warrior. 

Stormpaw refuses, and after being mistreated in her clan for rejecting the medicine cat role, she begins to leave the camp at night for fresh air.

She meets Liontail, a windclan warrior, at the gathering spot. She approaches and talks to him, a spark of a romance.

9 note: liontail is not that much older than Stormpaw, only 2 moons)

The next day after meeting Liontail, she becomes a warrior. 

She continues to meet with Liontail, feeling like she is in control of something for once. She eventually gets pregnant. 

Mousetooth comments on Stormshine getting fatter, and Stormshine proudly says that she is pregnant with kits. She says that she its a windclans cat. She is proud of her kits, she believes that Liontail loves her. 

Mousetooth and Herbtail are enraged, and Mousetooth claws at her, saying she cannot have windclan kits in their good clan.

Stormshine leaves Riverclan, daring anyone to hurt her or her unborn kits.

She runs away to windclan, confident that Liontail will be with her. She arrives and a patrol brings her in. Beetlestar and Peltclaw question why she is there, to which she replies that she is Liontail’s mate and these are his kits. Liontail walks in, neither happy nor upset to see her. He confirms that they are mates, 

She is accepted into windclan, since they want more kits. The clan gets used to her, and she befriends Goldenfoot (another queen who is pregnant around the same time as her)

Liontail often leaves camp on “patrol” or some other reasons. This irritates Stormshine, as she expected him to be a bit more happy about the kits. 

She follows him one day and he gets upset that she was following him, saying she should stay in the nursery and never go out. He gets angry when she protests and claws her stomach slightly. This terrifies her, and she runs back to camp and stays in the nursery.

[SUMMER]

Moons later, she has the kits. She gives birth to Webkit and Gorsekit. Webkit is a stillborn, due to the injury that Liontail gave her. Gorsekit is her only kit that survives of the litter. She becomes protective of them, swearing that nothing will come to harm them ever again. 

Goldenfoot had her kit a day before, naming him Shadekit. Stormshine has trouble producing milk for Gorsekit, so Goldenfoot feeds Gorsekit occasionally when Stormshine has trouble producing. 

As Gorsekit and Shadekit grow up together, Stormshine is still in the nursery, scared about Liontail who has become meaner and harsher on her. 

Gorsekit sees this, and follows Liontail one day, hoping to help their mother.

Liontail sees this and knicks Gorsekit’s ear with his claws. Gorsekit yowls as Liontail tries to drag Gorsekit from running away. Stormshine hears this and runs over, fiercly clawing Liontail and giving him a scar across his face. She is furrious and fearful for her kit. She goes back to the nursery, with a new anger in her heart.

She still sees dead kits everywhere, and how they died. She has gotten used to it, but it only makes her more fearful for Gorsekit when she sees a memory of a kit being murdered by another cat.

She decides to follow Liontail when he goes out once more, being sneaky and careful. She finds him with a kittypet, who is obviously pregnant. She sees this, and instead of attacking him, she goes back to camp. She is in shock that this whole time he was seeing another cat.

One day, Liontail uncharacteristically asks Gorsekit to come play. Goldenfoot was watching Gorsekit for Stormshine so she says yes. Liontail leads Gorsekit out of camp and is trying to take them to be a kittypet with his other mate and the unborn ktis. He believes that Gorsekit will be better off with him. Gorsekit doesnt want to and tries to leave, but Liontail picks them up by the scruff and yells that this is for the best, and that they don’t need Stormshine. 

Gorsekit meows for Stormshine, but no one hears except Wrinklestep, the medicine cat. He runs back, dropping his herbs everywhere, and yowls that Gorsekit is being taken away by Liontail. 

Stormshine hears this and goes into Save My Kit mode, running with her claws fully out and desperate to get to her baby. 

It begins to rain, so the scent is hard to find, and she panics for a moment before hearing someone talk to her. Its a few dead kit ghosts, telling her to follow them and they will help her find her kit. They lead the way, and Stormshine finds Liontail and Gorsekit, Gorsekit screaming out when they see their mother. 

Stormshine demands to know what Liontail is doing, what is he doing with her kit. Liontail is taking Gorsekit to be a kittypet with him, where its safer. Stormshine says that Liontail cant just take her kit. 

Stormshine attacks Liontail, who puts up a fight but eventually lets Gorsekit go. 

Stormshine goes back to the camp, and tells the now Peltstar about Liontail and how hes leaving to be a kittypet.

Liontail comes back to the camp and Peltstar questions him about what Stormshine said. He admits it and is banished for hurting a kit, cheating on Stormshine, and etc. 

Stormshine’s novel ends with Gorsekit becoming a paw with Shadekit. Stormshine watches the ceremony, and watches as another memory of a deadkit appears next to her. Its not a memory, but her own kit Webkit. They sit next to Stormshine and watch the ceremony, smiling. They both watch as Gorsepaw’s name is shouted among the clan. 

Stormshine smiles, and says Gorsepaw’s name. Webkit does the same, and fades away.