ThunderClan
Leader: Hawkstar - dark brown tabby tom with golden eyes. (formerly Hawktail, 5 lives)
Deputy: Tanglefire - gray and black tabby tom with bright amber eyes
Apprentice: Rockpaw
Medicine Cat: Wildclaw - ginger tabby tom with blue eyes and long claws.
Warriors:
Swifttalon - brown tabby she-cat with white paws and pale blue eyes
Raineyes - blue-gray tabby tom with white on his underbelly and blue eyes
Thornfur - dark brown tom with amber eyes
Apprentice: Sandpaw
Fuzzytail - black tom with fluffy tail and green eyes
Apprentice: Dawnpaw
Mudmask - white she-cat with brown splotches on her face and back and brown eyes
Loudface - Gray tabby tom with white on his face and blue eyes
Apprentice: Spottedpaw
Bramblestorm - brown tabby tom with amber eyes
Mossfoot - silvery tabby she-cat with green eyes
Leopardears - light ginger tabby she-cat with golden eyes
Scarpelt - black tom with blue eyes and a white line like a scar down his back
Apprentice: Icepaw
Brightnose - ginger she-cat with white on her muzzle and green eyes
Runningheart - blue-gray tabby tom with white on his chest and blue eyes
Apprentices:
Sandpaw - ginger she-cat with green eyes
Dawnpaw - tortoiseshell she-cat with pale green-yellow eyes
Icepaw - pure white she-cat with black paws and dark blue eyes
Spottedpaw - white tom with black spots and feet, with amber eyes
Rockpaw - dark gray tom with amber eyes
Kits:
Redkit - ginger tabby she-cat with slightly darker fur on her belly and green eyes
(Parents: Brightnose & Hawkstar)
Mousekit - pale brown tabby tom with black paws and blue eyes
(Parents: Brightnose & Hawkstar)
Tigerkit - dark brown tabby tom with golden eyes
(Parents: Brightnose & Hawkstar)
Flowerkit - white, black, brown and ginger calico she-cat with green-and-yellow-sunburst eyes
(Parents: Thornfur & Leopardears)
Thunderkit - Dark brown tom with white paws and tail-tip and stormy blue eyes
(Parents: Thornfur & Leopardears)
Tawnykit - Light brown and ginger tortoiseshell she-cat with pale green eyes
(Parents: Thornfur & Leopardears)
Shellkit - white she-cat with slightly visible ginger stripes and blue eyes.
(Parents: Thornfur & Leopardears)
Elders:
Clawbelly - pale ginger tom with a scar on his belly and dull green eyes
RiverClan
Leader: Timberstar - large, dark brown tom with green eyes and white paws
Deputy: Duskshine - light brown she-cat with green eyes
Medicine Cat: Blazefang - dark ginger tom with amber eyes.
Apprentice: Stormpaw
Warriors:
Cloudshadow - White tom with blue eyes and black on his tail and paws.
Apprentice: Streampaw
Ashmist - dark gray she-cat with pale blue eyes
Poppybreeze - white she-cat with black and ginger patches and blue eyes.
Briarflower - dark ginger, brown, and white calico she-cat with green eyes
Apprentice: Cherrypaw
Smokebreath - dark gray tom with blue eyes
Ratstalker - light brown tom with yellow eyes
Barkpath - Dark brown tabby tom with black legs and amber eyes
Weaselcry - dark ginger and white she-cat with blue eyes
Antleg - light brown tom with long, black legs and brown eyes
Apprentice: Hollypaw
Reedsky - light brown she-cat with darker stripes and blue eyes
Nettlepool - pale gray she-cat with darker stripes and blue eyes
Fawnflight - brown tabby she-cat with amber eyes and white splotches.
Apprentices:
Cherrypaw - pale ginger she-cat with white paws and green eyes
Hollypaw - black she-cat with green eyes
Streampaw - blue-gray tabby tom with blue eyes and white paws
Stormpaw - dark gray, thick-furred tom with stormy blue eyes
WindClan
Leader: Larkstar - light brown tabby she-cat with white on her chest and belly and blue eyes
Deputy: Jayhead - pale gray tom with blue eyes and white on his chest.
Medicine Cat: Shiningfern - white she-cat with bright ginger patches and black on her tail, green eyes
Warriors:
Flickerwish - calico she-cat with yellow-sunburst eyes
Blacksayer - black tom with green eyes and white on his muzzle
Apprentice: Tornpaw
Graywing - light gray tabby she-cat with white legs and pale green eyes
Lionstep - golden-brown tabby tom with golden eyes
Badgerstripe - black tom with white on his belly and paws and forehead, blue eyes
Sunwhisker - bright ginger tabby tom with yellow-green eyes
Apprentice: Emberpaw
Otterfall - dark brown tabby tom with white on his underbelly and blue eyes
Leafdawn - light brown tabby she-cat with white paws and bright amber eyes
Spiderscale - black and brown tabby tom with strange markings around his paws and light brown eyes
Apprentice: Shrewpaw
Honeystream - light brown she-cat with white paws and tail-tip and bright blue eyes
Blossomleaf - white she-cat with very pale ginger patches and leaf-green eyes
Apprentice: Ferretpaw
Rowantooth - dark ginger tabby tom with brown eyes
Apprentices:
Shrewpaw - dark brown tom with white on his belly, paws and tail-tip, green eyes
Tornpaw - black and white tom with a splash of white on one ear
Ferretpaw - brown she-cat with white on her chest and underbelly, white splotches on her face, blue eyes
Emberpaw - dark ginger tabby she-cat with green eyes
ShadowClan
Leader: Ravenstar - black she-cat with a splash on white on her chest and blue eyes
Deputy: Bluefire - dark, blue-gray tom with white on his underbelly and pale amber eyes
Medicine Cat: Moonfrost - Light gray she-cat with white on her belly and paws, light blue eyes
Warriors:
Pebbleblaze - light brown she-cat with ginger patches and green eyes
Apprentice: Fernpaw
Robinthroat - Light brown she-cat with a splash of ginger across her chest
Darkpoppy - black she-cat with bright gold eyes and white spots
Squirrelfoot - dark ginger tom with white on one leg and green eyes
Cloudsun - thick-furred white tom with dark orange eyes
Apprentice: Whitepaw
Goosescar - light brown tom with white on his underbelly and a dark scar across his face
Shadecloud - dark gray tabby she-cat with white splotches and yellow eyes
Flamenight - ginger tabby tom with almost-black stripes and dark blue eyes
Apprentice: Ivypaw
Sagewater - light ginger tabby she-cat with pale blue eyes
Mountainsong - brown tabby she-cat with white on her throat and blue eyes
Addersplash - light brown tabby tom with dark stripes and dark brown eyes, with a white dash across his chest.
Apprentice: Longpaw
Talonclaw - dark brown tom with long claws and dark green eyes
Apprentices:
Whitepaw - snowy-white she-cat with blue eyes and black spots on her belly
Fernpaw - white she-cat with black patches and green eyes
Longpaw - pale brown tabby tom with dark stripes and a long tail, pale blue eyes
Ivypaw - pale gray tabby tom with white on his belly and green eyes
Prologue
A ginger tabby tom opened his blue eyes to find himself on the Island where the Clans gathered each full moon. He flexed his long, black claws in anticipation and waited. After a moment, starry figures began appearing before him, forming the cats who had gone before him. StarClan was ready to speak with him. The ginger tom waited until a white she-cat with pale ginger patches and bright green eyes stepped forward and greeted him. "Welcome, Wildclaw."
Wildclaw dipped his great head. "Why have you summoned me, Aspenstar?" he asked. "It is not yet half-moon."
Aspenstar heaved a sigh. "Great changes are coming for ThunderClan," she responded. "As well as all the other Clans of the Lake." She glanced at the cats around her. "One cat poses a threat to all four Clans, and as usual, ThunderClan has the cat who can save them."
The vision changed and Wildclaw was sitting beside Aspenstar, former leader of ThunderClan, watching a raging battle take place on ThunderClan territory. He could scent all four Clans there, but he could see that there were more than just the four Clans fighting. One cat he didn't recognize seemed to be the leader of at least part of the fighting cats. He was a large, dark gray tom with thunderous blue eyes, and he had huge paws and long black claws. He was fighting with various cats, either killing them or sending them running away. Until one small she-cat stepped forward to confront him, her pale ginger stripes flashing menacingly in the sunlight. She fought him, pushing him back toward the edges of WindClan territory where he came from. Aspenstar whispered in Wildclaw's ear,"A fragile shell can be stronger than the greatest Storm, and so the kin of Aspen and Hawk will banish the Storm which threatens the Clans."
The ginger tabby medicine cat woke with a start as a ginger queen came yowling into his den. "What is it Brightnose?" he grumped. "Why do you wake me at Moonhigh?"
"Leopardears' kits are coming," Brightnose panted. "Now!"
Wildclaw's ear twitched as he gathered various herbs and trotted across the camp to the Nursery. Leopardears, Aspenstar's daughter, was kitting! Just after he received that ominous dream too. He could only remember the prophecy: A fragile Shell can be stronger than the greatest Storm, and so the kin of Aspen and Hawk will banish the Storm which threatens the Clans.
This night, Leopardears, daughter of Aspenstar, and Thornfur, son of Hawkstar, had kits. Wildclaw pondered what this could mean as he helped the light ginger, almost brown, tabby queen give birth. After dawn had come, four kits had been born. Wildclaw sent Brightnose to fetch Thornfur. The kits sleeping in Brightnose's nest were Thornfur's younger siblings, Mousekit, Tigerkit and Redkit. When the dark brown father of the newest litter arrived, Wildclaw retreated to a corner of the den so he could hear the names the queen would give her kits.
Thornfur licked Leopardears' ear affectionately, sitting beside her. There were three she-kits and one tom in this litter. The tom was a dark brown cat like his father, with white paws and tail-tip. The first she-cat was a calico, the second a light tortoiseshell, and the last a white she-cat with barely visible ginger stripes. She reminded the parents of the late Aspenstar. "The tom should be Thunderkit," muttered Thornfur.
"Alright," agreed Leopardears, too tired to care very much. "And the tortoiseshell Tawnykit."
"Then the calico can be Flowerkit, and the white one Daisykit?"
"No," Leopardears disagreed. Wildclaw's whiskers twitched in amusement. Thunderkit and Tawnykit were good names. "We shouldn't have two kits who are named after flowers!"
"Then Flowerkit and Shellkit?" Thornfur suggested. "If you look closely you can see that the white one has very pale ginger stripes, like that shell that Poppybreeze showed us at the last gathering."
Leopardears purred. "Alright," she meowed. "Flowerkit and Shellkit it is!"
Wildclaw smiled, then quietly left the Nursery, heading for his own den to get a little more sleep. Hawkstar, meanwhile, was heading for the Nursery to see his grandchildren. By sunhigh, the whole Clan had met Thunderkit, Tawnykit, Flowerkit and Shellkit.