Allegiances
Darkened Shadows
Leader- Euclid- A white she-cat with golden yellow eyes. Wears a golden gem around her neck.
Healer- Sunrise- A light ginger she-cat with blue eyes. Wears a blue gem around her neck.
Forces-
Flint- A light gray tom with dark gray speckles and copper eyes. Wears a copper gem around his neck.
Mithra- A dark brown and black tabby she-cat with orange eyes. Wears an orange gem around his neck.
Trainee- Phoenix
Ra- A ginger tom with darker paws, muzzle, ears, tail, chest, and belly with golden eyes. Wears a golden gem around his neck.
Trainee- Trinity
Sage- A light brown and white tabby she-cat with green eyes. Wears a green gem around her neck.
Trainee- Vida
Owl- A white tom with black specks and green eyes. Wears a green gem around his neck.
Moon- A black she-cat with a white belly, chest, muzzle, and paws with hazel eyes. Wears a light green gem around her neck.
Olympia- A pure, snow white she-cat with one green eye and one blue eye. Wears a blue gem around her neck.
Daliah- A black she-cat with light gray paws and ears with green eyes. Wears a green gem around her neck.
Yukon- A white and light gray tabby tom with hazel eyes. Wears a light green gem around his neck.
Trainees-
Phoenix- A ginger tom with amber eyes. Wears an amber gem around his neck.
Trinity- A black she-cat with silver hairs and green eyes. Wears a green gem around her neck.
Vida- A blue-gray she-cat with blue eyes. Wears a blue gem around her neck.
Mothers-
Willow- A smoked gray she-cat with bright green eyes. Wears a green gem around her neck.
Kits-
Lynx- A tipped black she-kit with golden eyes. Wears a golden gem around her neck.
Dusk- A dark gray she-cat with black paws, ears, tail tip, and chest with amber eyes. Wears an amber gem around her neck.
Golden Sunsets
Leader- Alpha- A light and dark gray tabby tom with green eyes. Wears a green gem around his neck.
Healer- Flip- A cream and ginger tom with dark eyes. Wears a black gem around his neck.
Forces-
Ajax- A large, ginger tom with cream paws and blue eyes. Wears a blue gem around his neck.
Zenith- A ginger and black tabby she-cat with green eyes. Wears a green gem around her neck.
Trainee- Axel
Fade- A white she-cat with cream paws, chest, tail tip, and muzzle. Wears a yellow gem around her neck.
Calypso- A blue-gray tom with green eyes. Wears a green gem around his neck.
Trainee- Nesca
Dior- A tortoiseshell tom with amber eyes. Wears an amber gem around his neck.
Blaze- A dark brown and black tabby she-cat with ice blue eyes. Wears a light blue gem around his neck.
Trainees-
Axel- A tipped russet tom with copper eyes. Wears a copper gem around his neck.
Nesca- A calico she-cat with amber eyes. Wears an amber gem around her neck.
Mothers-
Caesara- A small, bicolor ginger and white she-cat with one green eye and one blue eye. Wears a green gem around her neck.
Storming Clouds
Leader- Nicosia- A russet colored she-cat with black ears and chest with green eyes. Wears a green gem around her neck.
Healer- Kael- A black tom with bright blue eyes. Wears a blue gem around his neck.
Forces-
Cosimia- A black and cream tabby with dark blue eyes. Wears a dark blue gem around their neck.
Faye- A white and dark brown she-cat with dark eyes. Wears a black gem around her neck.
Laili- A black she-cat with yellow eyes. Wears a yellow gem around her neck.
Trainee- Occult
Dagon- A dark gray tom with a very thin tail. Wears a light green gem around his neck.
Fonx- A she-cat with light brown fur and golden eyes. Wears a golden gem around her neck.
Galileo- A dark brown tom with dark green eyes. Wears a dark green gem around his neck.
Trainee- Wicca
Kaddish- A gray tom with black ears and dark eyes. Wears a black gem around his neck.
Trainees-
Occult- A black she-cat with bright green eyes. Wears a bright green gem around her neck.
Wicca- A white tom with dark blue eyes. Wears a dark blue gem around his neck.
Mothers-
Pele- A rusty colored she-cat with golden eyes. Wears a golden gem around her neck.
Kits-
Satya- A russet tom with yellow eyes. Wears a yellow gem around his neck.
Warrior- A small, red she-cat with amber eyes. Wears an amber gem around her neck.
Burnt Ashes
Leader- Bacardi- A black tom with gray markings around his green eyes. Wears a green gem around his neck.
Healer- Ixkin- A dark brown and black tabby she-cat with dark eyes. Wears a black gem around her neck.
Forces-
Cadyna- A gray she-cat with a kinked tail. Wears a green gem around her neck.
Haven- A small, light brown she-cat with green eyes. Wears a green gem around her neck.
Trainee- Flair
Daegan- A black tom with bright blue eyes. Wears a bright blue gem around her neck.
Tahki- A ginger and white tabby with hazel eyes. Wears a light green gem around her neck.
Oblivion- A black she-cat with a gray chest, belly, and paws with copper eyes. Wears a copper gem around her neck.
Trainees-
Flair- A ginger tom with bright amber eyes. Wears an amber gem around her neck.
Forest Cats (HunterClan)
Leader- Cliffstar- A dark brown tom with black paws and golden eyes.
Deputy- Clovershade- A dark gray tom with brown ears, tail, and muzzle with copper eyes.
Medicine Cat- Forestflower- An albino she-cat with violet eyes.
Apprentice- Covepaw
Warriors-
Honeyspring- A ginger and cream she-cat with blue eyes.
Cavegrass- A dark gray tom with shining green eyes.
Blazewhisker- A shaded brown tom with amber eyes.
Juniperleap- A dark brown she-cat with a white chest and ears with bright green eyes.
Apprentice- Wolfpaw
Sparrowrise- A light brown tom with black patches and hazel hazel eyes.
Apprentice- Poolpaw
Apprentices-
Wolfpaw- A black tom with white paws, muzzle, and chest with amber eyes.
Covepaw- A light gray she-cat with pale blue eyes.
Poolpaw- A blue-gray she-cat with dark eyes.
A tipped, black she-kit with half lidded, golden eyes watched carefully as her littermate waited anxiously in the clearing, the golden gem around her neck glittering in the sunlight. Said littermate was a dark gray she-kit with black paws, ears, tail tip, and chest with amber eyes with an amber gem around her neck. "What're you waiting for, Dusk?" the black she-kit asked, letting out a yawn.
"Trinity told me that she'd teach me a battle move or two," Dusk explained happily.
The black cat huffed. "We're almost five moons, can't you wait?" the gray and black she-kit shook her head.
"No, we should be prepared for training!" the other kit was unconvinced. "Come on, Lynx! If you asked, I'm sure Trinity would be willing to teach you, too!"
"I think my Teacher would want me to wait for me to become a Trainee," Lynx argued, closing her golden eyes and enjoying the dim sunlight on her fur. Her tail lazily flicked back and forth.
Kits weren't even allowed to leave their Gang's alley, let alone start training. Of course, most Trainees taught kits some small, defensive fighting moves, and no one bothered to break that tradition. Lynx, herself, had gained the basics of the moves from watching them be taught to Dusk.
"Come on, Lynx!" Dusk begged, padding over to her littermate, her Spirit Gem steady on her chest. The black kit opened one eye to look up at her. The enigmatic kit was standing over her with one paw raised, ready to shake her with it. "Please just do it with me? Once?"
She was blocking her sunlight. Lynx let out a sigh, Dusk was going to stand there until her fur was cool, anyways. She sat up and shook herself while her littermate let out a cheer.
"Just once," she reminded, stretching and letting out a yawn.
"Just once," Dusk mocked, padding back and forth excitedly. "Trinity is going to love this! You never really talk to any of the Trainees, so now that I convinced you into training, she'll be bragging about this to Phoenix and Vida for days!"
"Will she really?" Lynx asked, stretching her toes apart on one of her paws absently.
"Yeah! She keeps asking me if you hate Darkened Shadows, and I have to keep saying 'no, she's just antisocial'," Dusk meowed. Lynx hummed in response.
It's Twoleg Place that I'm not fond of, she thought, looking at the brick wall across from her. She thought that the place was boring: it was all stone and metal and loud noises and Twolegs.
She wondered where Moon and Owl were from. The two cats weren't always part of Darkened Shadows: they had found the group in the middle of a fight with another Gang called Burnt Ashes. Euclid, their leader, had laid eyes on them and immediately claimed that they looked like a cat that used to be part of their group that had had kits, but the kits were never found. They were welcomed into the group with open paws.
"But wouldn't they betray us easily?" Dusk had asked, tilting her head.
Their mother, a smoked gray she-cat named Willow, had shaken her head. "Gangs work on bloodlines: a group based on how willing you are to put your family before yourself. Moon and Owl are family just as much as the rest of us are."
And that was that. Lynx and Dusk never questioned the two cat's easy acceptance into the group again. Besides, they had seemed loyal enough to Lynx, and if they had an idea for a different place for her to go to, even if just for a bit, then she was all for them being part of the Gang.
"Hey, Trinity!" Dusk meowed loudly, snapping the other kit out of her thoughts. Lynx looked up to see a black she-cat with silver hairs in her pelt and green eyes with a green Spirit Gem padding into the alley, right behind her Teacher, a ginger tom named Ra. She carried a bird whose feathers were coated in mud, but the feathers could easily be plucked to get to the meat under it. Trinity nodded to them before dropping her prey in a small pile that was in the shade. She dipped her head to Ra, then bounded over to the kits, her Spirit Gem bouncing on her chest.
"Hey, Dusk!" Trinity meowed, before turning her eyes to Lynx. She blinked. "Did you…" she trailed off.
"Yup!" Dusk nudged her littermate with her shoulder, but she barely moved. "Lynx will be learning with me!"
A smile emerged on Trinity's face. "Great!" she meowed. "So, first things first, how much do you know, Lynx?"
"I've seen what Dusk has learned," she responded. Trinity nodded.
"Alright. When you actually do them, don't get frustrated if you didn't do it right," the she-cat meowed. "You've only seen them, after all." Lynx nodded.
"Okay," Trinity began, "according to the stories, we learned this one from the Great Spirit himself." Trinity leapt at Lynx, making her eyes widen. The larger cat swerved in the air and landed on her paws beside her, her teeth gently sinking into the fur on the kit's tail. She quickly ran around the kit, making her trip and land with a soft 'thump' on a tail that was placed in front of her. "And that's how you do it," Trinity's voice sounded above the kit.
"That looks hard," Dusk complained.
"It's a lot easier than it looks," the Trainee meowed. "Lynx, you want to try first?"
Lynx got to her paws. "Sure," she meowed. She focused her attention on Dusk, getting into a crouch and leaping. Instead of landing behind her, she landed on her shoulders, forcing her littermate's chin into the concrete below her.
"Ow," Dusk complained. Trinity was laughing behind them.
"Technically, that works," she meowed, "but that's not really what we're going for." Trinity padded a bit closer to Lynx as she got off of her littermate. "Focus on the spot where you want to land, then pounce." The kit nodded, turning her attention to the spot next to her littermate's tail.
She got into a crouch, her eyes still trained on that spot. "Use your tail to turn in the air," Trinity ordered. Lynx nodded, pouncing. She soared over Dusk, lashing her tail to turn her around and land next to the gray cat's tail. She sunk her teeth into the fur before running around the kit, making her trip over her paws that she had just stood up on.
"Perfect!" Trinity praised.
A black shape watched the cats, his tail elegantly curled around his paws. He, himself, was the picture of elegance: his fur was groomed to perfection, not a strand out of place. His ice blue eyes stood out against his fur (as did the gem in his chest that was the same color), but seemed to fit with the personality that was leaking out of his stance. Even the world around him was duller than the living world.
The Great Spirit knew that the black kit's… dislike of Twoleg Place was a thing that must be fixed. Something that he would need to use everything he had to fix. Her Teacher would be carefully selected, he would send omens, and if needed, would threaten her.
Still, he doubted if it was enough.
So, this is based off of a song by Lord Huron that's called, shockingly, The Yawning Grave. It's a really good song, you should listen to it. Do it. Do it.