Allegiances:
(Please Note: Flayclan, Dropletclan, Coralclan, Slateclan and Umbraclan all belong to me. Some cats do not belong to me, as they are O.C's. I do not own Warriors- Erin Hunter does.)
Flayclan:
Leader: Sequoiastar: Sleek she-cat with white as newly fallen snow fur, one right cerulean blue eye and one yellow-green left eye. Has light, faded, storm cloud gray markings highlighting nose, shin, forehead and face area.
Deputy: Ivywinter: Gray tabby she-cat with large white spots and black ring-like markings on her face, tail and paws with pale green eyes.
Medicine Cat: Rosegaze: Fluffy gingery-orange and light reddish tortoiseshell furred she-cat with darker rosy-brown highlights, white furred chin and salmon colored eyes.
Warriors:
Swiftdrop: Light, silvery-charcoal toned tom with gray-blue eyes.
Emberspots: Muscular, light furred, tortoiseshell tom with blazing auburn eyes.
Brackenberry: Light, sandy-bracken furred tom with a slender build and murky olive green eyes.
Silentsun: Slim, velvet orange and white colored she-cat with soft brown eyes.
Skystone: A sleek, silvery-gray she-cat with blue-gray eyes.
Queens:
Briardawn: Light brown, cream, dark brown, and gold swirled fur with dark amber eyes.
Apprentices:
Tornpaw: Rambunctious fluffy young tom with cloud-white fur with dark, pepper-brown splotches, and gray-green eyes.
Featherpaw: Lightning quick she-kit with soft, wispy gray fur and mahogany brown eyes.
Elders:
Quiverclaw: Shaggy she-cat with creamy, fading-gray fur and soft blue eyes, left eye is blind.
Dropletclan:
Leader:Fallenstar: Calm and gentle muscular and fit tom with dusty charcoal black fur and blistering bright green eyes.
Deputy:Singetail: Mischievous, troublesome she-cat with dark ginger toned fur, a white tipped tail and yellow-green eyes.
Medicine Cat:Meltingskies: Soot-gray furred tom with black climbing up his paws, a black tipped tail and darker charcoal highlights.
Warriors:
Redleaf: a kind but mute she-cat with dark reddish-brown mottled fur toned with lighter shades of tan and ginger, has kind gray-brown eyes.
Blackashes: A titanic-gray tom with raven black splotches on his back and legs, and electrifying blue eyes.
Goldenwillow: A light golden tabby she-cat with white paws and tail and honey-brown eyes.
Cedarshade: A rustic-brown colored tom with a shimmering black speckled overcoat and mint green eyes.
Swiftdrop: Light, silvery-charcoal toned tom with gray-blue eyes.
Finchsoul: Agile she-cat with white fur splotched with light-orange patches, a tail with orange rings and dark, shy-blue eyes.
Yawningpond: A calm tom with long black fur and light blue eyes.
Queens:
Snowdew: A gentle she-cat with creamy-white fur and dark, murky green eyes.
Emeraldhail: White furred she-cat with dark brown and beige spots, a pink nose and vibrant green eyes.
Silvercry: A serious and patient she-cat with silver tabby fur and navy blue eyes.
Apprentices:
Oakpaw: Short furred dark brown colored tom with sap green eyes.
Brightpaw: A playful orange tabby she-cat with bright amber eyes.
Owlpaw: Dark gray tabby tom with a white speckled underbelly and bright yellow eyes.
Elders:
Eveningclaw: Blind and cranky she-cat with mottled white fur and silvery gray spots.
Yewtalon: Friendly tom with soft sandy-beige fur, torn ears and gray eyes.
Coralclan:
Leader: Driftstar: A slim-built, young but determined she-cat with cloud white fur covered in smooth, darker-gray splotches on her back, head, stomach and legs, has sea foam green eyes.
Deputy: Beryltear: A slender, calm tom with charcoal-gray tear like markings and bright turquoise eyes.
Medicine Cat: Auburntone: Impatient but friendly nutmeg colored tortoiseshell she-cat with greenish-brown eyes.
Warriors:
Sapphirestone: Quiet she-cat with short white fur and pale blue eyes.
Wavecall: Sleek grayish-blue colored tom with intense moon-blue colored eyes.
Oceanbreeze: Boisterous and energetic she-cat with short but wavy white fur dotted with the odd pepper-brown patch, has cerulean blue eyes.
Shadedgaze: Tall and muscular tom with short but smooth raven black fur and soft, olive green eyes.
Firesplash: A fiery red she-cat with gray-blue eyes.
Spiderflight: A soft-spoken tom with silvery-black, tabby fur, grey eyes and a sturdy build.
Larkwind: A loyal she-cat with fluffy, snowy white fur and dark hazel colored eyes.
Queens:
Ivorygaze: Pearl colored she-cat with short fur dotted with the odd light gray spot and soft, steel gray eyes.
Peppertail: A white furred she-cat with black and gray splotches and kind amber eyes.
Apprentices:
Crackedpaw: Shy and quiet tom with tangled, gray and white bi-colored fur, torn ears and storming gray-blue eyes.
Troutpaw: Bossy young tom with storm cloud toned fur and brownish-beige eyes.
Totempaw: An energetic she-kit with dusty, sawdust brown and tan colored fur and blazing yellowish-brown eyes.
Elders:
Silkear: A wise old she-cat with shaggy beige, tan and brown bi-colored fur, a stub tail and muddy green-brown eyes.
Slateclan:
Leader: Ruinstar: A quick and stealthy cloud-white colored tom with a charcoal black mask, a black tipped tail and a black stripe running down his back, and alluring blue-green eyes.
Deputy: Sandsoul: Easy-going tom with a brownish-black overcoat, tan colored underbelly, white dusted chin, a tear in his left ear and intense dark-yellow eyes.
Medicine Cat: Sootpelt: A dusty charcoal colored she-cat with reddish-brown eyes.
Warriors:
Desertsky: Charming she-cat with white fur, pepper, tan and lush brown tri-color rings on her legs and tail, striped patterns around her face and muzzle, midnight blue eyes.
Vaultclaw: A tall gray and brown tabby tom with fierce golden-green eyes.
Tiltedtail: A casual, smooth talking tom with tan and cream colored fur, a crooked tail, and green eyes.
Templeripple: Pale beige and brown furred she-cat with light, honeydew colored eyes.
Littleberry: A genteel and petite she-cat with shimmering black fur, and orange-brown eyes.
Whitethorn: A quiet, solemn tom with pale blue eyes and shimmering white fur.
Iceglade: Slim and energetic she-kit with sleek white fur, faded gray spots, a black ringed tail and legs and intense blue-gray eyes.
Queens:
Hollyfall: A beautiful silver and white she-cat with vibrant holly-green eyes and a charcoal ringed tail.
Breezecall: An impatient but good-natured she-cat with fluffy cream-colored fur and dark yellow eyes.
Mistwhisper: Quiet calico she-cat with deep green eyes and a bobbed tail.
Apprentices:
Cryptpaw: An enthusiastic dark brown furred tom with dark brown eyes flecked with silver.
Mockingpaw: A quiet and demure she-kit with short ginger fur and dark hazel eyes.
Ashpaw: An energetic and cheerful gray she-kit with charcoal like markings.
Elders:
Gentlestream: A blind pale and gray she-cat with milky sky blue eyes.
Halfstream: Kind but quiet old tom with greying pale fur and bright, amber eyes.
Umbraclan:
Leader: Wrath: A lean looking, tri-colored tom with white fur covered in light orange and charcoal black splotches and one blue eye and one green.
Deputy: Fortunedcry: An impressively tall and slender tom with dark jet-black fur and piercing golden eyes.
Medicine Cat: Mistseeker: A skittish and clumsy tom with grayish-silver tabby fur and darting gray eyes.
Warriors:
Violetlark: An arrogant and pushy she-cat with dusty reddish-brown fur and bright amber eyes.
Thrushstrike: A quiet and considerate tom with sandy-colored fur and mint green eyes.
Forestprint: Impatient and stubborn, velvety, reddish-brown furred she-cat with unripe dandelion yellow eyes.
Visionmask: An aggressive and muscular tom with hazel-brown fur, a white mask marking and white socked paws with dark orange eyes.
Flashingeye: A quiet, soft-spoken she-cat with silvery tabby fur and bright green eyes.
Crimsonshade: Sleek and noble tom with long brownish-black fur and bright reddish-orange colored eyes.
Tornpelt: An edgy and mildly aggressive tom with ragged grayish-white fur and swamp-green eyes.
Sagefeather: A charismatic and rebellious she-cat with dark-brown tabby fur and bright, fiery amber eyes.
Tanglechase: A witty young tom that's deaf in one ear, has red-brindle fur and yellowish-orange eyes.
Queens:
Evendawn: Small, slender she-cat with soft, honey fur and sunset orange eyes.
Faithstream: Sensitive she-cat with short white fur and dark yellow eyes.
Apprentices:
Moonpaw: A silver-gray furred she-kit with midnight-blue eyes and white-socked paws.
Saplingpaw: Small and runty tom with fluffy brownish-beige fur and mossy green eyes.
Olivepaw: A dark black tabby-furred tom with murky green eyes.
Spottedpaw: Quiet she-kit with white fur dappled in honey brown spots with dark brown eyes.
Elders:
Fernfall: An intelligent and cunning she-cat with thick soil-brown shaded fur and pale greenish-grey eyes.
Cats with unknown clans or no clans:
Softshadow: Silvery-gray tortoiseshell she-cat with darker charcoal-black markings, ringed tail, white toned chin, underbelly, and misty green eyes.
Kite: A reddish-brown brindle furred she-cat with a white underbelly, white socked paws, and light grey eyes.
Cisco: White furred tom with patches of brindled brown on his back and legs with bright grey-blue eyes.
Echotrail: Sleek and slender dusty-brown furred she-cat with a dark, hazel-brown covered overcoat, leaf-green eyes and a bobbed tail.
* * * Prologue * * *
In the darkness of moonhigh, two cats padded through dense, and heavily shrouded undergrowth. Their pelts were thick with rainwater, and their paws were shaky, and caked with mud. After some walking, they came upon a small clearing, in which they could finally see eye to eye.
The first cat was an elegant, slender she-cat with velvety reddish-brown fur, and unripe dandelion eyes that could stare down any foe, yet alter themselves into soft, nurturing eyes all but with one single blink. Her name was Forestprint. A stubborn, headstrong she-cat with a bitter longing for lust that lurked inches beneath the surface for any tom who would be foolish enough to fall for her devious good looks.
The other cat, yet another she-cat, was almost a complete opposite of her fellow traveler. Her name was Evendawn. She had tiny, delicate paws that made not but a sound when they made contact with the ground, and large, silky, smooth ears that were soft like stems of herbaceous flowers. Her eyes were a soft, gentle sunset orange, like the shades a small flame would cast when burning atop a candle head. Her fur flowed evenly in gentle little wisps and shone the finest shades of honeys and gold. She was a quiet, misunderstood one, that would much rather go unnoticed all her life, then be adored by many cats.
Forestprint's optics flickered, their faded dandelion shade of yellow vibrant and aglow as the moon's light cast it's milky glow down on them.
"Well?" she hissed in a displeased, annoyed voice. "Are we here? Because I, for one, am not moving an inch until you tell me exactly what is going on. Do I make myself clear?"
Evendawn narrowed her eyes and flicked her tail, fed up with the dreadful she-cat's nagging and bickering. In fact, as she had recalled, Forestprint hadn't managed to keep her muzzle shut for more then a few heartbeats the entire journey.
"Just wait a minute!" Evendawn replied hastily in her soft as silk voice. "Miracles don't just happen to show up, you know."
"Oh, please, darling." Forestprint snorted, waving a paw daintily. "However you suppose I was born?"
Evendawn shook her head and rolled her eyes. "I'm… not going to answer that, if you don't mind." She answered respectively.
Forestprint glared, miffed at the other she-cat's seriousness. "So, why exactly are we here?" she inquired, flicking her long tail.
Evendawn closed her eyes and tilted her head to one side while sighing loudly. "Can I trust you to keep a secret, Forestprint? It's extremely important that you do not breath a word of this to any other cat in the forest. Alright?"
Forestprint, startled by the sudden importance in Evendawn's tone nodded rather quickly.
With a wave of her tail, Evendawn crept over to a large oak tree. Damp leaves were scattered by its twisting and winding roots, which poked up from beneath their earthly surface. Parting the leaves with her nose, she unearthed something that was much too difficult for Forestprint to see, what with the darkness and pile of leaves. Dipping her head, Evendawn grabbed whatever it was and strode over to Forestprint, uneasiness in her melting-orange eyes. She stopped suddenly in front of her companion's paws, and placed the whatever-it-was down.
Forestprint's eyes flickered down to her paws, and a gasp-like noise escaped her throat.
What Forestprint saw, was a small, filthy kit, lying in a small, quivering bundle.
"Great Starclan, above!" she gasped, dropping to her belly and collecting the mewling kit in a close, nest-like embrace. "What is the little darling doing this far from home? How long has it been here? Where did you find it? Where is its parents?" her eyes suddenly widened in shock. "Are they dead? Great Starclan, they're dead, aren't they?"
"Get a hold of yourself, Forestprint, honestly!" Evendawn yowled. She dropped down beside Forestprint, who was frantically licking the kit, and sighed.
"I'll tell you, but… you promise not to tell anyone?"
Forestprint looked up and nodded quickly.
"Alright," Evendawn started. "Well, a quarter moon ago, I was busy tracking an injured quail, when I lost my footing. I stumbled, and in effect, the quail herd me and took off in a series of fluttering hobbles. Not wanting to lose my prey so easily, I followed after it. Its scent trail led me here, and well, this is where I found the kit. See that gorse bush over there? I found her half dead in that. She was mewling so quietly you could barely hear it, but I did. I was so glad I found here when I did, because she was much, much thinner than she is now, and was covered in wounds."
Forestprint turned her head to see a gorse bush, a fox length away, coated in a thick layer of past rainwater.
She turned back to face Evendawn, and looked down at the kit with sad eyes. "Poor little thing, however have you been able to come and check to see if she's alright?"
"Do you recall my recent disappearances shortly after eating fresh kill with the clan?" Evendawn questioned her companion.
Forestprint scrunched up her nose in recollection, tilting her head slightly and nibbling her lip. "Ah, yes! Now I remember, you would dart off saying you thought you heard something, or something in that air of peculiar-ness, nonetheless."
Evendawn nodded respectfully. "I was heading off to check on the kit."
Suddenly, Forestprint made a squeaking sort of noise in her throat that made Evendawn look up. "Darling, however have you been feeding her? She's much too young to be eating meat. And oh, she looks awfully thin…"
With a clearing of her throat, Evendawn looked away, as if discomfited by the topic. "Do you… recall my stillborn litter of kits?" she asked in a hushed voice.
Forestprint's eyes softened. "Oh…so you mean to say that you've been supplying her with the milk you've had left?"
Evendawn nodded, stifling her sadness. "Y-Yes…But it hasn't been enough, and… and… She'll get skinny and die of hunger, or frost if I can't take care of her."
Flicking her luxurious feather-like tail, Forestprint wrapped it around her friend for moral support.
Evendawn looked at her with tired eyes, but managed to crack a single, small grin.
Forestprint, despite having almost nothing in common with the other cat, returned the grin. "She's a beautiful one, not much to look at, and a little small, but certainly a finely featured little she-cat, indeed."
Chuckling Evendawn moved closer to stare at the little kit. Now that Forestprint had properly cleaned her fur, she could now see that it was a wonderfully dusty shaded peppery-brown. A large portion of her back was a richer, darker brown, like that of moist soil during rare summer rains. Her tail was short, in fact it was nothing more then a tuft, like that of a bobcat's. Her tiny, delicate nose was the same rich soil color that covered almost her whole back, and her eyes, which were always blinking and were merely half open, were a dark, khaki green color, like the color of a sapling's leaves in newleaf.
Forestprint's face lit up quite suddenly. "She needs a name! Evendawn, let's name her now. Can't we, please?"
Evendawn smiled is amusement. "I suppose she does, now doesn't she?" she tilted her head and thought for a moment, staring at the little, softly breathing fluff of fur. "Hmm… Perhaps…"
"Her name needs to be something unique, what does she remind you of?" Forestprint asked, piping up.
Evendawn thought back for a moment, and then a foreign memory resurfaced from her early kitten-hood. She remembered bouncing on the large boulders, and curved rocks that covered a slanted slope on the base of a wooded mountain. She had lived in that forest for the early days of her life with her fellow clanmates. The mountain in which the clan had dug out in areas to make cave-like dens had been given the name, 'Echo Valley' for it's caverns that dotted the mountain ridges that were rumored to be filled with precious gems and rare ores.
"Echo." Evendawn said with an air of finality. "We shall call her Echo. Little Echokit."
Forestprint smiled. "Lovely."