.Blurb.

A time of great hardship has fallen upon the lake clans. After the Dark Forest battle, a new sickness rose with symptoms so awful the medicine cats unanimously named it Blackdeath. Oddly, the disease's symptoms appear almost exclusively in she-cats, with only the occasional tom suffering alongside the rest. The disease kills within a quarter moon of symptoms surfacing, a fact proven time and time again. Within two months, dozens of cats had fallen. Facing fears of obliteration (more toms were falling ill each day) medicine cats finally found a cure. The lengthy time the cure had taken had a dire cost: each clan retained only a handful of she-cats. RiverClan, where a vital herb included in the cure grew, was the clan with the least casualties of either gender. The rest weren't so lucky.

ThunderClan's future rests soley on the shoulders of two she-cats, one of which is a kit. Their reproductive future is bleak. ThunderClan will almost surely die out, unless they find more she-cats... fast.

And they'll do anything to get what they want.

.Allegiances.

THUNDERCLAN

Leader: Bramblestar-dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes

Deputy: Lionblaze-golden tabby tom with amber eyes

Medicine Cat: Jayfeather-gray tabby tom with blind blue eyes

Apprentice: Seedfall – very pale ginger she-cat with dark green eyes

Warriors:

Cloudtail-long-haired white tom with blue eyes

Thornclaw-golden brown tabby tom

Spiderleg-long-limbed black tom with brown underbelly and amber eyes

Berrynose-cream-colored tom

Mousewhisker-gray-and-white tom

Foxleap- ginger tom with amber eyes

Toadstep-black-and-white tom

Molenose- brown-and-cream tom with amber eyes and a long tail

Dewclaw - dark gray tom with amber eyes

Snowpelt - white tom with amber eyes

Apprentices:

Seedfall (medicine cat apprentice): very pale ginger she-cat with dark green eyes

Lightpaw (apprentice to Lionblaze): golden tom with blue eyes

Queens (and kits):

Rosepetal (expecting Foxleap's kits, already had Berrynose's kits: Maplekit, a cream and brown tabby she-cat, and Grasskit, a cream tom) a dark cream she-cat

Elders:

Graystripe-long-haired gray tom

Dustpelt-dark brown tabby tom


SHADOWCLAN

Leader: Rowanstar- red-brown powerful tom with green eyes

Deputy: Crowfrost-black-and-white tom

Medicine Cat: Fallowstripe - white tom with a thick black stripe on one side of his face and amber eyes

Warriors:

Ratscar-brown tom with long scar across his back

Owlclaw-light brown tabby tom

Shrewfoot-gray she-cat with black feet

Kinkfur-tabby she-cat, with long fur that sticks out at all angles

Scorchfur-dark gray tom

Redwillow-mottled brown-and-ginger tom

Tigerheart-dark brown tabby tom

Ferretclaw-cream-and-gray tom

Starlingwing-ginger tom

Sparrowflight- tabby tom with dark blue eyes

Dawnpelt - a cream furred she-cat

Apprentices-

Fogpaw - a cream-and-white she-cat with blue eyes

Lionpaw - a brown tabby tom with blue eyes

Runningpaw - a black and white tom

Queens:

Ivytail-black, white, and tortoiseshell she-cat (nursing Tigerheart's kits: Yellowkit, a yellow-tinged white tom with blue eyes and Bluekit, a blue-gray tom with amber eyes)

Elders:

Oakfur-small brown tom


WINDCLAN

Leader: Ashstar- gray she-cat

Deputy: Crowfeather- older dark gray tom

Medicine Cat: Kestrelflight-mottled gray tom

Warriors:

Gorsetail-very pale gray-and-white tom with blue eyes

Weaselfur-ginger tom with white paws

Harespring-brown-and-white tom

Leaftail-dark tabby tom with amber eyes

Emberfoot-gray tom with two dark paws

Heathertail-light brown tabby she-cat with blue eyes

Whiskerpelt-light brown tom

Boulderfur-large pale gray tom

Apprentices:

Gustpaw (apprentice to boulderfur) - a light brown tabby she-cat with blue eyes

Swiftpaw (apprentice to Crowfeather) - a tan and brown she-cat with amber eyes

Larkpaw (med cat apprentice) - silver tabby she-cat with amber eyes

Queens:

Sunstrike-tortoiseshell she-cat with large white mark on her forehead (mother to emberfoot's kits: brightkit, a white she-kit and dark-kit, a brown tabby tom)

Elders:


RIVERCLAN

Leader: Mistystar-gray she-cat with blue eyes

Deputy: Reedwhisker-black tom

Medicine Cat: Willowshine (gray tabby she-cat)

Warriors:

Pebblefoot-mottled gray tom

Mallownose-light brown tabby tom

Robinwing-tortoiseshell-and-white tom

Beetlewhisker-brown-and-white tabby tom

Grasspelt-light brown tom

Mosspelt-tortoiseshell she-cat with blue eyes

Pouncetail-ginger-and-white tom

Hollowreed- dark brown tabby tom

Rushstone- light brown tabby tom

Apprentices:

Honeypaw (apprentice to Mosspelt)- brown tabby she-cat with eyes the color of honey

Leafpaw (apprentice to Mistystar)- very small white she-cat with long fur that kinks unpredictably (green eyes)

Badgerpaw (apprentice to Beetlewhisker)- brown and cream striped she-cat

Berrypaw (apprentice to troutleap)- ginger and white tom with amber eyes

Queens (and kits):

Mossyrocks- brown and white she-cat with long fur (expecting Robinwing's kits)

Icewing - white she-cat (expecting Reedwhisker's kits)

Elders


These allegiances roughly follow those of The Last Hope. Some apprentices you may not recognize.

Among the dead:

Squirrelflight, Brightheart, Birchpelt, Leafpool, Whitewing, Icecloud, Hazeltail, Dovewing, Ivypool, Daisy, Cherryfur, Lilypaw, Amberpaw, Bumblestripe, Blossomfall, Briarlight, Cinderheart (after having Lightpaw), Sandstorm, Brackenfur, Tawnypelt, Olivenose, Littlecloud, Pinenose, Blackstar, Applefur, Flamekit (one of Dawnpelt's kits, a she-kit), Onestar, Whitetail, Nightcloud, Sedgewhisker, Swallowtail, Furzejump, Icewing, Troutleap, Petalfur, Dapplenose, Graymist, Minnowtail, Mothwing