A/N:
So, this is my first fanfiction, entitled "A Loner Among Clans." It's a Warriors fanfic, features a fan Clan, and is the first in a planned trilogy. It's based a few years after The Last Hope, so everyone from the canon seres is dead. Like in Legend of Korra. Except with cats. And angst. I put a bunch of OC's based on various characters in, so try to spot them all. Constructive criticism is welcome.
Allegiances
SnowClan
Leader: Fernstar. Mother of Mistyheart and Cloverpaw. Has brownish fur streaked
with gray on her head. Very gentle and kind. Formerly from RiverClan, but left
when Mistyheart became an apprentice.
Deputy: Mistyheart. Young brown she-cat with cerulean eyes. One ear is orange.
Loves to swim. Apprentice: Darkpaw (jet-black tom with amber eyes)
Medicine Cat: Graciepelt. Plump old she-cat with long dark gray fur and green
eyes. Former kittypet name: Gracie. Apprentice: Smoketail (gray tom with blue
eyes)
Warriors:
Bumbletail: Smoky gray tom with yellow eyes and a striped yellow-and-black tail.
(A bit of a jokester, but has a big heart and will always serve his Clan)
Apprentice: Softpaw
Emberleap. Black tom with green eyes and long legs. Former kittypet name: Ember. Tinatail's brother. Apprentice: Cloverpaw
Tinatail: Gray tabby she-cat with green eyes and a long thin tail. Has a white
ruff of fur on her chest. Former kittypet name: Tina. Emberleap's sister.
Apprentice: Goldenpaw
Scarpelt: Old, battle-hungry whitish tom with short legs. He is covered in scars
and refuses to join the elders' den even though he is the oldest cat in the Clan.
Frostfeather: White she-cat with short legs and striking blue eyes. Apprentice:
Cloudpaw
Skipper: Gray and black tom with black lightning-shaped birthmarks under his
amber eyes.
Moonclaw: Blue-gray tom with short legs. Apprentice: Sunpaw. Mate: Creamwhisker.
Creamwhisker: Cream-colored she-cat with brown eyes. Mate: Moonclaw. Previously
belonged to ShadowClan. Kits: Sunpaw and Streakpaw.
Violetstripe: Blue-gray she-cat, used to belong to ThunderClan. Her long fur
appears purple in the moonlight. She has distinctive tufts of fur on her ears
and a fiery personality. Apprentice: Streakpaw.
Smallfoot: White tom with short legs and black paws.
Apprentice: Fuzzpaw
Lionfur: Golden-furred tom with blue eyes.
Ashwhisker: Gray-furred she-cat with green eyes and short legs
Robincloud: Brown-and-white she-cat with blue eyes
Mintblaze: Tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes
Queens:
Icepelt: White she-cat with long fur. Kits: Palekit, Willowkit, Breezekit.
Apprentices:
Darkpaw: Jet-black tom with amber eyes. Mentor: Mistyheart.
Cloverpaw: Brown she-cat with hazel eyes. Mentor: Emberleap.
Sunpaw: Golden she-cat with short legs and green eyes.
Yellowpaw: Golden and white tom with short legs, a star-shaped marking on his
forehead, and amber eyes.
Cloudpaw: Fluffy white tom with short legs and blue eyes. He is deaf.
Rustpaw: Ginger she-cat with bright green eyes.
Softpaw: Brown and white she-cat, only answers to Bristlepaw
Goldenpaw: Cheerful, yellow-furred she-cat with blue eyes
Fuzzpaw: Black and white tom, cheerful and joking like Bumbletail
Elders:
Russetflower: Ginger she-cat with amber eyes and short legs.
Tornstripe: Gray and white tom with blue eyes and short legs. Changed his name
to Tornstripe and became and elder when a mountain lion clawed off one of his
legs and left a huge scar.
Fawnleaf: Speckled she-cat with dark green eyes.
ThunderClan
Leader: Shiningstar: Wise tabby she-cat with green eyes.
Deputy: Sparrowclaw: Brown tom with blue eyes.
Medicine Cat: Bluewhisker: Blue-gray tom with gray eyes. Apprentice: Threepaw (Small tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes. Born without her left front leg.)
Warriors:
Stormfire: Fierce flame-colored tom
Goldensong: Golden she-cat with brown eyes and a silky tail. (Very beautiful,
refuses to take a mate)
Rippledawn: Brown tabby tom with amber eyes.
Tigerleap: Striped tabby tom with long legs and a long tail.
Dawnblaze: Blue-gray she-cat with blue eyes.
Owltooth: Brown tom with yellow eyes.
Apprentices:
Dapplepaw: Dappled she-cat with amber eyes.
Bouncepaw: Small brown tom with dark eyes and a short tail. (Like his friend
Tigerleap, loves to jump. Very energetic.)
ShadowClan
Leader: Oakstar: Brown tom with amber eyes.
Deputy: Goldenfeather. Golden she-cat with orange eyes.
Medicine Cat: Fernpelt. Yellow-furred she-cat with green eyes.
Apprentices:
Batpaw (dark gray tom with big ears)
Warriors:
Ambercloud (Batpaw's mentor)
Spikepelt: Blue-gray and black she-cat with violet eyes and white paws.
Pinebreeze: Tortoiseshell tom with yellow eyes. Mate: Robinflower.
Robinflower: Attractive brown she-cat with green eyes. Is slightly clumsy
because she lost half of her tail in a fight.
Ravenflower: Black she-cat with blue eyes. Kit: Batpaw.
RiverClan
Leader: Shimmerstar: Gray she-cat with striking blue eyes.
Deputy: Petalmist: Skinny beige she-cat with green eyes.
Medicine Cat: Rabbitwing. White tom with amber eyes.
Warriors:
Wolftail: Black and white she-cat with golden eyes. She wears a pink
flower in her ear.
Briarhaze: Blue-gray tom with green eyes.
Emberflower: Orange tabby she-cat with amber eyes
Badgertail: Black and white she-cat with blue eyes
Goldenstreak: Gray tom with hazel eyes and a yellow stripe down his back.
Elders:
Lilywind: Blue-gray she-cat with calm green eyes.
Goldenmist: Gold-furred she-cat with blue eyes.
Apprentices:
Amberpaw: Tawny she-cat with amber eyes.
WindClan
Leader: Ashstar. Gray tom with brown eyes.
Deputy: Dustberry. Brown tom with green eyes.
Medicine Cat: Echofern: Tawny she-cat with amber eyes. Apprentice:
Honeyblaze (Honey-colored tom with amber eyes)
Kits: Cherrykit. Tortoiseshell with blue eyes. (Mother died before the story
begins)
Warriors:
Bramblestorm: Brown tabby she-cat with blue eyes.
Scarletheart: Black she-cat with amber eyes.
Sagefur: Black and white tom with green eyes
Swiftclaw: Gray and white tom with gray eyes.
Cats Outside of Clans
Cricket: Black and white loner tom with brown eyes.
Pebble: Black-and-white blind kittypet
Cinder: Tabby tom with a scar on the left side of his face
Breeze: White tom with a blue-gray stripe on his head.
Sandfang: Tawny she-cat with blue eyes.
Rosefang: Pale reddish she-cat with pink eyes
Tribe of Rushing Water:
Healer: Stoneteller: Brown tom with blue eyes. Father of Rabbit That Bounds Down Mountain
Cave-guards:
Rabbit that Bounds Down Mountain (Rabbit): Brown-furred tom with a stripe on his head and a crooked tail.
Cloud That Gleams: Silver-furred she-cat with blue eyes.
Bolt That Breaks Clouds: Black-furred tom with yellow eyes.
Prey-hunters:
Stream that Gently Ripples: Brown-furred she-cat with blue eyes.
Pond In Leaf-bare: Blue-gray tom with pale green eyes.
To-bes:
Floating Feather In The Wind: Brown tabby she-cat with green eyes
Fog Waning In The Night: Silver tabby tom with dark blue eyes.
Feline Titans
A small group of Clan cats, loners, and kittypets that work to protect the
Clans, and were given honorary warrior names.
Robinwing: Black and gray tom with pale eyes. (ThunderClan)
Flamepool: Red and tawny she-cat with green eyes. (SkyClan)
Mossear: Cream-colored tom with green eyes. (RiverClan)
Rockwhisker: Brown tom with a scar on his left eye. Was injured in a fight and
lost several parts of his body, but was found by Twolegs and given replacement
parts. (WindClan)
Clan Backstory
Many moons after the epic battle between StarClan and the Dark Forest, five cats from each Clan realized that they were not suited to life in their Clan, and
sought each other out. They met each night, and decided to form their own Clan.
They would live in the mountains, the cats established, and would hunt in the snow.
They would call themselves SnowClan. They talked to their leaders, who approved
of the idea. After all, every Clan needed allies, and forming a group with an
even number of cats from each Clan would help the cats survive. The cats left
the lake and trekked high up into the mountains. Finally, after searching for a
home, the cats found one. It was a large cave similar the one that belonged to the
Tribe of Rushing Water, with tunnels leading into smaller caves that could be
used for dens. There was even a cave to replace the Moonpool, a small pond
covered in a layer of ice that would never melt, even in greenleaf. It was
called the Starpond. StarClan approved.
Later on, the medicine cat, a tom by the name of Berryclaw, who
had been one of the original twenty cats who had journeyed here, discovered that
by crushing berries, dipping his claws in the juice, and scratching the juice on
the walls of the cave in which the Clan lived, he could create paintings that
would last forever. The medicine cat eagerly told his news to the rest of the
Clan. They immortalized heroic warriors, old stories told by elders, epic
battles, and warnings to kits about the dangers of the mountains.
In the Starpond cave, the twenty cats who had founded SnowClan
were painted onto the walls with extreme care. It took two moons, and the cats
who painted it were exhausted by the time they were done. But the result was a
beautiful mural that will stand for generations to come. The berrypaint soon
became a central part of life in SnowClan, and helped define the young Clan.
Moons passed. The SnowClan cats began to adapt to the harsh life
of the mountains, growing thick fluffy pelts that were usually paler colored
then those of the Clans by the lake so that they could hunt in the snow without
being noticed by prey. SnowClan kits were often born with short legs and big,
flat paws so that they could dig through the snow and walk on it. Some wise cats
realized that by taking prey to a chamber at the summit of the mountain, they
could freeze it and store it for the harsh leaf-bare, when blizzards would
strike, wind would howl, and kits would be swept out of the cave and off of the
cliff.
Only one of the twenty original cats remained, and she missed her
old WindClan more than anything. The Clan was rather small, and they needed more
cats to help them hunt and fight the rogues that sometimes came to attack them
for food. So that final cat, Whispertail, sent out a patrol of sturdy SnowClan
warriors, along with the currant leader and medicine cat, to the lake Clans.
Together, they formed a pact. Once in newleaf and once in greenleaf, SnowClan
would journey down the mountains to the lake. They would scatter and stay with
the Clan they were most comfortable with, while looking for new cats to join the
ranks of SnowClan. Some would wander around Twolegplace, looking for kittypets
or rogues to join as well. At the end of the moon, they would join for a
Gathering. The leader of SnowClan would address the cats just as the leader of
any of the other Clans would, sharing news of good hunting, kits born, and
apprentices made warriors. At that point, any cat who was interested in joining SnowClan would announce this, and the kittypets and rogues would come and announce this too. The cats would say their farewells, and the newly expanded Clan would return to the mountains.
SnowClan has thrived for many generations because of this pact with the Clans, their superb hunting skills (with no rivals except for the Tribe of Rushing Water, who are usually peaceful) and their ability to survive in the cold.
A Loner Among Clans: Book One of the SnowClan Trilogy
Prologue
Four cats sat around a pool of sparkling water. Many sat behind them, hoping to
get a glimpse of the prophesied cat. The clear leader, a flame-pelted tom, began
to speak.
"This cat will save the newest Clan, SnowClan. Take a look," the fiery tome meowed. The other three, a blue-gray she-cat, a gray tom, and a small black tom peered into the pool. A small brown kit twitched at her mother's stomach. One of her ears was orange and slightly bigger than the other.
"Pffft. That thing? Look at it! It's weaker than a kittypet!" A brown tom ridiculed as he walked up to the four cats.
A flame-colored she-cat stood up and glared at the tom.
"If I remember correctly, Dustpelt, there was once a rather powerful
cat who saved the Clans twice who was a kittypet for the first few moons of his
life."
Dustpelt backed away, but some cats began to murmur amongst themselves,
contemplating the lack of power in this strange kit. The blue-gray she-cat
stiffened, her fur standing on end.
"When the mist rises, the wolf will no longer howl with the moon,"
she whispered.
"So be it," the flame-colored tom replied. "This cat will save the
Clan."