FireClan
Leader:
Redstar- reddish tom with amber eyes
Deputy:
Nighttrance- black she-cat with yellow eyes
Medicine cat:
Leafflight- ginger she-cat with yellow eyes
Apprentice- Grasspaw
Warriors:
Mousepelt- brown she-cat with green eyes
Apprentice- Mistypaw
Larksong- black tom with green eyes
Apprentice- Emberpaw
Moonflower- grey she-cat with white tail tip and yellow eyes
Skyfur- bluish greyish tom with white spots and yellow eyes
Apprentice- Frostpaw
Barknose- brown tom with amber eyes
Pearlclaw- white she cat with blue eyes
Apprentice- Poppypaw
Bramblepelt- brown tom with amber eyes
Firefrost- orange she-cat with white paws
Ashnose- black tom with green eyes
Sharpstorm- grey tom with yellow eyes
Icewing-white she-cat
Apprentices:
Grasspaw- grey tom with brown paws
Emberpaw- black tom with green eyes
Mistypaw- grey she-cat with green eyes
Frostpaw- white she-cat with blue eyes
Poppypaw- ginger she-cat with blue eyes
Queens:
Birchnose-black she-cat with white stripes
Tulipstripe-light ginger she-cat with striped legs
Elders:
Goldenstorm-yellow tom with hearing problems
Dapplestream- grey she-cat with lighter splotches
Lightpelt- ginger she-cat
Mudblaze-brown tom with white chest fur
Warriors: The Chosen One
by: Serena Wang
The little black kitten opened his eyes sleepily and looked around his surroundings. Mews of excitement sounded above him. Beside him was a grey kit.
"Birchnose! You're okay, right?"
"Of course I am," the black and white cat replied. "My new kits will grow up strong and healthy, I know it. Don't worry, Moonflower."
Redstar padded over. "I know they will, Birchnose."
Ashnose licked his son. "What shall we name them?"
"Emberkit, and Mistykit." Birchnose replied at once.
"What wonderful names," Redstar meowed. "May StarClan grant them a good life."
"Thank you, Redstar."
Chapter 1
Emberkit batted at his sister, Mistykit's tail. She pounced on him playfully and they rolled around in the FireClan nursery. Emberkit kicked her lightly with his hind legs.
"Alright, kits, time for some food," Birchnose said, dropping a chaffinch for the two siblings to share.
"Thanks, Birchnose!" They synchronized. They bit down onto the prey. After they had eaten their share, their mother insisted that they go to sleep.
6 Moons Later
Redstar bounded up to the Rock Ledge, and yowled, "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey join beneath the Rock Ledge for a Clan meeting."
Once all the cats were gathered, Redstar said, "Today we will apprentice two kits of Birchnose."
Emberkit and Mistykit's eyes grew wide. Birchnose nudged them gently, and they padded up toward the Rock Ledge. "Emberkit, you will now be known as Emberpaw. Larksong, you have learned well. I trust you to pass on those skills to Emberpaw."
The black cats both stepped forward and touched noses. "Mistykit, you will now be known as Mistypaw. Mousepelt, you have learned well. I trust you to pass on those skills to Mistypaw." The two cats stepped forward and touched noses too.
"Emberpaw! Mistypaw! Emberpaw! Mistypaw!" The cats chanted their names.
The next sunrise, the two apprentices woke up in the apprentices den. "Time for training," Mousepelt mewed. Larksong was waiting at the entrance.
"Coming, Larksong!" Emberpaw said.
They went hunting together. Larksong showed him the hunters' crouch. Suddenly a squirrel darted by. Emberpaw took off the way his mentor had shown him, yowling loudly.
Larksong watched proudly as his apprentice bit down hard onto the squirrel's neck. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a vole. He dropped into a low crouch, and suddenly a silver cat leapt out of the bushes in front of him, and her claws dug into the squirrel. He recognized her as Moonflower.
"I'm on a hunting patrol," she explained. She pointed her tail to the other cats, Bramblepelt and Firefrost. Then she darted away.
Larksong never really liked Moonflower, and he gritted his teeth and flexed his claws.
"Larksong? Look, I caught a squirrel," a voice said behind him. It was Emberpaw. Larksong turned around.
"That's wonderful. See if you can catch more."
Emberpaw looked satisfied with the compliments, and darted off. Mousepelt turned to him. "They're doing so well, don't you think?"
Larksong nodded.
The cats returned at sundown, with a chaffinch, vole, squirrel, and a mouse. Suddenly a cat- Larksong recognized her as Pearlclaw, rushed in, Barknose and Ashnose following her with horror-struck eyes. Redstar saw them, and instantly mewed, "What's wrong? Come in my den."
The 4 cats disappeared under the Rock Ledge. Soon after, while Emberpaw, Mistypaw, Mousepelt and Larksong were eating the prey that they caught, Redstar bounded up to the Rock Ledge. He yowled the normal sayings, and soon the whole camp were gathered around him. "Pearlclaw, Barknose, and Ashnose have claimed to have seen a monster, one bigger than normal. Pearlclaw, tell them."
"Well, it was yellow, and very very smelly. It had a huge curved mouth with no cover. It was digging up dirt and putting it in the nest behind it, and.." she shivered and couldn't say anymore.
Ashnose took her place. "It was uprooting the trees! And Twolegs were in it's belly. It was a few fox-lengths from the Owl Oak, maybe 12 or so."
"It was really loud!" Barknose remarked. "It's coming closer, we think."
"Nighttrance, Firefrost, and Icewing, all of you go to the Owl Oak and see how much damage is done tomorrow. Report to me about it. We may have to move."
"Move?" Tulipstripe yowled. "The elders won't be able to make it! And my kits are coming, and even if they are born before we move, they will not be able to make the trip."
"We will have other cats carry them," Redstar reassured her. "If we lose too much prey and water and land, we will have to go. The Clan may be dismissed."
Emberpaw felt worried. He turned to Larksong. "What will happen now?"
Larksong closed his eyes and shook his head. "That's up to the leader and deputy to decide." Mousepelt looked worried too.
That night, Emberpaw fell asleep right away. He opened his eyes to find he was not in the apprentice's den, but in an unexplored part of the forest. "Where am I? Birchnose! Larksong! Mistypaw!" He called. But then a tortoise-shell she-cat appeared in the shadows. She padded out, making herself seen.
"Relax, Emberpaw. You will find your way out. But I would like to tell you something."
"What?"
"My name is Fawnseeker. I was the former leader of FireClan. Have you heard of the other four clans?"
"ThunderClan, RiverClan, WindClan, and ShadowClan?"
She nodded. "Correct. One cat from ThunderClan and one cat from RiverClan will come and help your Clan survive."
"What about WindClan and ShadowClan?"
"The prophecy doesn't include them."
"What prophecy?"
"Thunder and River
Will come to Fire
And release them
from the Dark Forest's
grasp."
"That's it?"
She nodded. "But that's not the point. You see, Leafflight? A very long time ago, when she was just a kit, StarClan came to her and spoke to her. She didn't tell me until she was a warrior. Now, it's time for you to return to the real world."