#luckstripe

The Clan can’t seem to escape loss.  After slowly fading for many moons, the elder Darkpetal (160) was found dead in his nest.  Bushmask (131) and Brightfalcon (164) are saddened by the loss of their friend so soon after the loss of their children.  Tremors wrack Brightfalcon’s body as she dwells on how Darkpetal won’t see another morning.  Bushmask goes over the best moments he shared with Darkpetal in his mind, again and again, until he’s certain he’ll remember Darkpetal forever.  Airclaw (63) misses her father and wonders how she’ll move on without him.  Cressfreckle (37) and Yellowcreek (48) comfort her.  In light of their losses, ElementClan and FurledClan have decided to end the war.  It had devolved into a stalemate and both sides were able to find common ground.  Despite the end of the war, Chervilcry (100) is busy.  She pulls Midgepurr (18) aside and asks him quietly about his crush.  He looks at her confused.  What crush?  He doesn’t have one.  Peakspots (90) has been worried that Cressfreckle is spending so much time with his mate instead of going on patrols.  This leads to a fight between them that Chervilcry has to break up, and Yellowcreek starts complaining about him behind his back.  Although not all is well in their romance.  Cressfreckle wants kits, but Airclaw isn’t quite ready yet.  She wants to see how their relationship progresses before taking the step into parenthood.  Chervilcry also helps them work through it. The final member of the quadrangle, Graysong (34), has noticed that his mother is having a hard time and surprises her with some of her favorite herbs that he grew.   Sadly, while on a patrol, Pythonrush (18) is killed by a thunderpath.  Flinttooth (22) is a little shaken that she couldn’t save him, but isn’t that torn up.  She wasn’t super close to him.  However, instead of shrinking this moon, the Clan actually grows.  A tom named Luckstripe (58) and his newborn kits have joined the Clan. He and one of his kits, Mothkit (0), are fire-blessed.  Chervilcry has to put out a small fire Mothkit starts in the nursery.  But the other two. . .are star-blessed.  And one of them, Flightkit (0), is so powerful that she almost blinded Caterpillarmallow (71) when she inspected the kits.  The other, Lilykit (0), is slightly less powerful, but still pretty strong.  Yuccastar (100) is intimidated.

Despite the disaster, the Clan must go on. With a somber mood still hanging over the camp, Yuccastar (106) makes Luckstripes kits apprentices. Mothpaw (6) is apprenticed to Fry (34), as they are both fire-blessed.  The powerful Flightpaw (6) is apprenticed to Moorleg (39).  And Yuccastar takes on Lilypaw (6) as their own apprentice. Maybe if she trains a star-blessed cat, they’ll be able to create an ally in her.  Peakspots (96) is enjoying having more fire-blessed cats in the Clan again, especially during a war.  It takes some of  the pressure off of him.  Cressfreckle (43) is trying to adjust to life as a single father, after expecting to have the help of three other cats raising his kit.  He absolutely adores Gladekit (3) and is so proud of how thoughtful he is becoming.  He’ll make a great Healer. Just like his dad.  Cressfreckle wants to do something about Yuccastar, but he’s not sure what. He and his mates’ plan was to get Luckstripe on their side to protect his kits, but he’s gone now.  Fry doesn’t seem to be a huge Yuccastar fan.  Maybe he could get him on his side.  Fry’s kits are trying to recover from the loss of their sister, and Steppepaw (10) is really taking to her role as a Healer apprentice.  She enjoys thinking about how to keep the Clan healthy and taking care of others.  Sadly, while out on her first patrol, a ChaffinchClan patrol shoves a boulder onto Flightpaw and kills her.  The Clan mourns the loss of an apprentice, and Mothpaw and Lilypaw mourn their sister less than a moon after the loss of their father. 

Lilykit; Age 0 moons; star-blessed she-kit with a power level of 61 (medium high)