NoClan

Leader: NoStar - White cat with vacant markings and white eyes.
Deputy: Hellfire - Thin black cat with red eyes with split muzzle.
Medicine Cat: Bloodpelt - Blood-soaked grey cat with green eyes and torn leg.
Warriors:
Onekill - Ginger cat with dead eyes and injured foot.
Sliteye - Proud tortoiseshell with slit eye and mangled tail.
Bonetalon - Bone-thin cat with light grey fur and blood-soaked claws.
Elfblood - White furred cat flecked with grey, pointed ears and blue eyes.
Russetfang - Dark gray cat with dislocated fangs and mangled fur.
Tornface - Tom with black stripes with bloody eyes and a torn, mangled face.
Palewind - White cat with grey markings, torn ears and green eyes.
Icegaze - White she-cat with grey stripes, bloodied paws that trail blood everywhere.
Wiltingheart - Dark sick she-cat with bloodied throat and mangled tail, blue eyes.
Yourflesh - Tortoiseshell tom with sliced open arteries, black eyes yet still manages to survive.
Diamondstep - Beautiful pale she-cat with blue eyes.
Crywing - Ginger mangled fur cat, worried eyes.
Eagleclaw - Dark gray tom with amber eyes and mangled hind legs.
Deadclaw - Amber-furred she-cat with dislocated claws.
Notswipe - Nervous black and white tom with mangled muzzle.
Starblood - Intelligent ginger tom with amber eyes.
Scarface - Scarred evil tom with red eyes and black pelt
Apprentices:
Itpaw - Spotted white cat with unusually long fangs.
Snowpaw - Pale grey she-cat with black eyes.
Tigerpaw - Pale brown tom with hazel eyes.
Lionpaw - Black and white pelt cat with one blue eye and one green.
Throatpaw - Ginger tom with angry eyes.
Manglepaw - Monstrous black cat with hazel eyes.
Bloodpaw - Flame-pelt tom with red eyes
Talonpaw - Grey striped she-cat with green eyes
Nightpaw - Raven black cat with white muzzle and black eyes
Direpaw - Fadingly white pelt cat with black eyefur and blue eyes.
Blackpaw - Completely black cat with green eyes.
Hawkpaw - Blue-white frosty cat with blue eyes.
Potentpaw - Leopardspot cat with amber eyes.
Youngpaw - Small ginger cat with green eyes.
Poisonkit - Black, scrawny kit with green eyes.
Venomkit - Grey, leopardspot kit with tawny eyes.
Queens:
Lostthought - Grey she-cat with white stripes.
Spiritfall - Tortoiseshell she-cat with black eyes.
Howlwatch - Dark she-cat with green eyes.
Dovesweet - Pale grey striped she-cat with blue eyes.
Barrensnow - Soft brown she-cat flecked with white.
Oldfrost - Fussy tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes.
Kits:
Darkkit - Black kit.
Pandakit - White kit with black eyepatches.
Hungerkit - Soft ginger coloured kit.
Deathkit - Grey kit with silver markings.
Lightkit - Pale white kit with blue eyes.
Eclipsekit - White and black faded pelt kit with green eyes.
Nokit - White kit with white eyes.
Blindkit - Fading pelt kit with grey eyes.
Monsterkit - Dark brown pelt kit with black eyes.
Shrillkit - Freckled black kit with blue eyes.
Elders:
Malicefang - Dark tom with yellow eyes.
Grotesquetail - Mangled white she-cat with hiss.
Moonbother - Soft grey she-cat with green stare.
Vacanteye - Dark furred tom with white gaze.

Smallkit stared from the warm paws of his mother's body and shivered. 'Mama, is Dada here?'

'Hush.' Freebird sighed. 'I do love you, my son, but there is no way I will be able to support you. Boarheart will never accept you, sweetheart.'

'Why not?' The kit's white eyes widened in sudden fear as the whole prospect sank into his pelt.

His mother's strained green eyes stared in his own, a small, sad smile playing on her muzzle. She licked her only kit gently, coaxing a tuft of white fur to stay in place. 'Because you are different, Smallkit. You are, as he says, a flawed tool.' Near complete hysterics, Freebird dropped him inside the WindClan Nursery, cautious as she lay soft catnip leaves and moss over her newborn. 'I don't think you are a bad omen,' she managed to purr. 'Your pelt is as white as snow- perfect for camouflage in the days of leaf bare. Snouts are meant to be unique, too, and I do not think yours is any exception.'

'What about my eyes? Daddy said I was blind!'

'Your eyes may be white, Smallkit, but they are beautiful to me. They are not blind.'

Gently, Freebird kissed her son on the muzzle.

'Oh, mum! That tickles!' The snowy cat laughed, paws scrabbling.

'Don't let Dada see you,' she whispered. 'Because he will come.'

'Mama, don't leave me! Sing me a song.'

Sighing, Freebird stroked his fur as her mouth began to open and sweet notes flew out in rhythm, almost like a conduction of orchestras.

'Down in the Riverbed,

Flawed by esteem.

Down in the Windbare,

Flawed as can be.

I see you, my darling

As the spiritfall.

Sing with the fieldmice,

As they crawl.'

Smallkit's eyes were slowly closing as the lullaby continued.

'Down in the Shadowdepths,

Things aren't as nice

For all those members

Cannot think twice,

Down in the Thunderskies,

Bravery shines.

Cats of justicity

Cannot be mice.'

Smallkit's chest rose and fell as the final line of the song broke.

Purring, Freebird covered him in the remaining moss as he was placed gently inside a canopy of maple leaves.

'May StarClan light your way, little one.'

A heartbeat passed.

And she was gone.

Meanwhile, Smallkit was on the brink of feverish excitement, dreaming of his apprenticeship and wonderful new warrior names.

'Search the border!' snarled Boarheart. As deputy of WindClan, he organized a collection of warriors, all of which were only minutes before happily sharing tongues, talking of their news. 'Freebird has fled!'

The warriors cast horrified glances at each other. They knew what this meant. Boarheart would tear the camp down looking for his mate. Nervously they dipped their heads in respect briefly, then raced out of the WindClan camp, Boarheart himself at their very heels. The brown tom snarled at Insectwing, yowled at Openmind for getting in the way, then sneered at Jaggedfur as the senior warrior attempted to outrun him.

'There she is!' Pinefang yowled. His paw gestured toward the huddled shape of the light grey warrior, lean against the coldness of the sand. Boarheart bound towards her, desperation playing in his eyes. 'Freebird? FREEBIRD!' He shook the body of Freebird, but even corpses do not answer.

'Her soul is with StarClan now,' Openmind murmured. 'Even you cannot do anything about it.'