How Gold became Blood

Goldenpaw/frost/star- Pretty sun-colored she-cat with feathery tail and white paws. Soft jade-green eyes.

Goldenpaw of ThunderClan has all she could possibly want to be happy: comforting parents, adventurous friends, and caring litter-mates.

But when a monstrous band of rouges comes seeking a home in the lake, the first place they look is in Thunderclan. When Goldenpaw's home is invaded, the band of rouges kills many cats to get a home, including Goldenpaw's loved ones. This is a story of how she lost it all, and became something much worse.

Allegences:

Leader: Sunstar- White and black tom with golden-yellow eyes

Deputy: Mossclaw- Grey she-cat with a broad face and vibrant green eyes

Medicine Cat: Shadowflower- All black she-cat except for paws which are unusually silver. With soft blue eyes (apprentice: Rosepaw)

Warriors:

Clawface- Tabby tom with a scarred face

Skyfeather- Silver tom with light grey tabby marks around pelt, clear blue eyes

Dawnpetal- Cream colored she-cat with amber eyes (apprentice: Duskpaw)

Fallingleaf- White tom with black and ginger patches (apprentice: Nightpaw)

Ambernose- Sleek yellow tom with harsh amber eyes

Snakepelt- tortoiseshell tom with amber eyes

Iceflower- Snowy-white she-cat with a fluffy gray tail and large green eyes

Swiftfoot- Long-legged tom with very light grey fur and black paws, fastest runner in the clan

Tancloud- Fluffy light-brown she cat with dark marks around her eyes

Skylily- Silver colored she-cat with green eyes (apprentice: Silverpaw) (Goldenpaw's mother)

Rockstripe- Large grey tom with a large white scar down his back (Goldenpaw's father)

Winterstorm- Handsome pure white tom with amber eyes (apprentice: Blazepaw)

Fireslash- Mottled brown she-cat with fiery orange eyes, known to have a bad temper

Darkwhisker- Black tom with long-curved claws (apprentice: Goldenpaw)

Willowsong- Beautiful tortoiseshell she-cat with a dappled coat

Ivywing- Silver tabby she-cat

Lavenderleaf- small brown she-cat with violet-blue eyes

Sagefrost- White tom with green eyes

Apprentices:

Nightpaw- Large handsome black tom with large sky-blue eyes

Rosepaw- (Goldenpaw's sister) Light brown she-cat with dark blue eyes, in training to become a medicine cat

Goldenpaw- Pretty sun-colored she-cat with a feathery tail and white paws, jade-green eyes

Duskpaw- (Goldenpaw's brother) Grey and white tom with clear blue eyes

Blazepaw: Handsome tom with a sand colored pelt and amber eyes

Silverpaw: Pretty grey tabby she-cat with white chest and paws and green eyes

Queens:

Rainshine- Pale grey she-cat with darker tabby stripes along her pelt. Mother to Fallingleaf's kits: Rabbitkit and Robinkit (2 moons)

Elders:

Petalwing- once-pretty tortoiseshell with dappled coat

Moonsong- mottled white tom with grey flecks, deaf in one ear (oldest cat of Thunderclan)

Ch. 1: Three disobedient kits

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Goldenkit woke up on the night before her apprentice ceremony. She just couldn't cope with her excitement; she would become an apprentice in just hours! She prodded her brother, Duskkit in the side and whispered, "Can you sleep?" He peeked open one eye and sighed, "No." "Meen either, I'll wake up Rosekit." I whispered.

"There's no need, I just can't sleep! I can't wait to be a medicine cat apprentice!" Rosekit squealed. Goldenkit wrinkled her nose. She couldn't imagine why her sister wanted to be a medicine cat over a warrior. I mean who would want to spend their whole lives with the sick and wounded. BORING! She wanted to be in action, hunting for her clan, fighting off enemies! She wriggled with excitement at the thought of becoming an apprentice.

"C'mon! Let's sneak out of camp!" I whispered

"No! What if we get caught? We'll never become apprentices!" Rosekit said sternly.

I rolled my eyes while Duskkit said, "Oh, come on Rosekit! Ever since you decided to become a medicine cat apprentice, you've been no fun! Let's just go! We'll never be able to do this again while we're still kits!"

Reluctantly Rosekit finally agreed to come with us. "But if we get in trouble, I'll claw your ears off!" she hissed. "Kind of fierce for a future medicine cat apprentice, don't you think?" Duskkit joked. Rosekit swatted his ears, but with laughter in her eyes. "C'mon," I giggled, "Before it gets too late."

We exited the camp through the dirt place tunnel, carefully avoiding Fireslash who was on guard duty. As we walked through the forest we talked about our ceremony, it was almost dawn until we reached the lake.

"Wow! I have never seen the lake before! It's HUGE!" I bounced.

"It sure is! I've heard warriors talk about it but I never realized…" Duskkit gasped.

"Look! Plenty of herbs grow around it too!" Rosekit said with her eyes shining.

"Look! There are disobedient kits that will never become apprentices!" someone mewed behind them.

Goldenkit whirled around, it was Fireslash. "What were you thinking? Coming down by yourselves all the way down to the lake! A fox could have easily gulped you all up in one bite!" she scolded. "It was Goldenkit's idea!" Rosekit squeaked. "I don't care whose idea it was but after I tell Sunstar you'll be lucky to become apprentices by the next full moon!" Fireslash snapped. "Come with me, your mother is worried sick."

It was true, Skylily was so mad when we came back. "I want to know what gave you the motives of leaving the camp!" she fumed. "W-well, we wanted to l-leave the camp once before we be-became ap-prentices." I trembled.

Our father, Rockstripe, just looked disappointed and didn't even say a word. To me that was even worse than Skylily's scolding. "If any of you want to become apprentices by the end of this moon, you will have to prove it! And you, Goldenkit, will be confined to the nursery for two weeks!" She shrieked. "But-" I protested. "AND THAT'S FINAL!" she hissed.

So for two whole weeks, I had to stay in the nursery and basically do nothing except chat with Silverkit and Blazepaw, who were now going to become apprentices only a little after Duskkit, Rosekit and I were.

"So, did you hear that Clawface is going to become an elder soon?" Silverkit mewed while we shared a magpie in the nursery.

"No way, he's been a warrior forever!" I gasped.

"I know! He said that he was getting too old for fighting and hunting! It's true though, I heard Nightpaw saying that he looked like a slow caterpillar, trying to hunt! You'd think he'd have more sense to respect old warriors don't you?" she asked.

"I can't believe he said that! I feel bad for Fallingleaf; he would be a pain in the butt for an apprentice!" I said.

"Excuse me? I'm a pain in the butt, you little hypocrite. I'm not the one who couldn't stay one night without causing any unnecessary trouble!" Nightpaw retorted. He had come in to bring fresh-kill for Rainshine.

"Oops. Sorry I didn't see you there Nightpaw." I said innocently.

He snorted and said, "Well, at least you got what you deserved."

"Whatever." I snapped.

He backed out of the nursery. "Good-riddance!" I muttered.

Finally, when my two weeks were up, I could prove to everyone that I would be a great apprentice. For almost three weeks I spent my days cleaning out the dens with Duskkit and helping Rosekit and Shadeflower collect herbs. Although, Rosekit was the one who mostly helped Shadeflower, which I didn't have any problem with because the scent of herbs in the medicine cat's den was almost nauseating.

And then one night, Sunstar beckoned me to him and I nervously padded up to him. "I have been watching you and your littermates and I have decided that tomorrow morning you will all become apprentices." He whispered. I almost leaped out of my fur! I cried in delight and said, "Thank-you Sunstar!" "Don't thank me, you all deserve it." He smiled as I scampered away into the nursery to tell Duskkit and Rosekit the good news.

"This dawn, we gather together to name three new apprentices." Sunstar's voice rang out through the clearing. "Step forward, you three." I darted out of my mother's side into the clearing. Duskkit and Rosekit came more slowly, with frowns of seriousness as they walked to the foot of the High-ledge. "From this day forward," Sunstar mewed addressing to me, "Until you receive your warrior name, you will be called, Goldenpaw." I wanted to jump for joy, but I forced myself to keep a calm face. "Darkwhisker," he meowed, "you are ready for your first apprentice. You will begin Goldenpaw's training, and I expect you to pass on everything you learned from Clawface to this young apprentice." I leaped over to Darkwhisker and touched noses with him. His grey eyes glowed with warmth.

"And this apprentice," He turned his gaze towards Duskkit, "will be known as Duskpaw. Dawnpetal, you will train Duskpaw like you have with Fireslash." Duskpaw strode over to Dawnpetal ad touched noses with his new mentor. "And finally," Sunstar's gaze shifted to Rosekit, "From this day forward, until you earn your new name, you will be known as Rosepaw. Shadeflower, since you are the current medicine cat you will mentor Rosepaw. I expect you to pass on all the information that you learned from Mintfrost to this young apprentice." Rosepaw padded up to Shadeflower and touched noses with her. And with that the clan chanted, "Goldenpaw! Duskpaw! Rosepaw! Goldenpaw! Duskpaw! Rosepaw!" While my littermates and I watched, our eyes glittering with happiness.

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Ambercloud of SkyClan