A/N: Here is a new small series of Warriors called: The Southern Clans! I will have three books based on each Clan! This one is based of WillowClan! I hope you all enjoy! Updates may come I've every weekend! But on a good week, they may come sooner! I hope you enjoy what I have in store for you!

If you like my Great Lake Clans series with TreeClan, OceanClan, RockClan, and VolcanoClan, you'll totally love these! Maybe one day, these Clans will meet! ;)

Enjoy The Souther Clans: The Heart of a Badger!

Prologue

Old and frail, I sit alone in the elders den, waiting for visitors that almost rarely arrive except when the apprentices bring me food and change my bedding. Even my own kits forget I'm here. I stare into the depths of the stars, wishing, hoping I join my forever once more.

But soon, hope flares in my chest when the bushes to my den rustle with protest. I see the sight of my past come through the entrance. A small, hurt she-cat. "Hello, young one," I meowed cautiously to the injured kit. "What's your name?"

The she-cat lifted her horrifically scarred ginger face. "It use to be Firekit, then I snuck out if camp with my littermates and was attacked by a fox. I was lucky that my father Alderstar was there to protect me. But as a punishment, he changed my name to Foxkit, now no one wants to he my friend, even my own littermates," she wailed.

I pulled the ginger she-cat closer to me, for I know the familiar pain she feels. "It is not necessarily a bad thing, Foxkit. Things happen for a reason, StarClan wouldn't put you through this unless you had a great destiny of your own," I meowed softly to the she-cat.

Light from the moon flickers into the elders den to reveal my horrible scars on my face. Foxkit gasps and backs away from my horrifying appearance. "Have no fear, young one. For I have suffered from the same mistreatment as you," I stifle a testy purr to the young cat.

Foxkits amber eyes brighten up. When she sees how friendly I am compared to my appearance. The sun begins to peak through my bushes to my den. The little kit opens her jaws into an enormous yawn. "Run along, little one. You must go to your mother," I whispered to the sleepy kit.

"Rainheart doesn't want me anywhere near my littermates. She says I've ashamed her and my father," she whimpered.

Anger flared in my chest when I heard my own daughters name. I struggled to stand as my old bones ached and burned. The white fur along my spine bristled as I stormed out if the elders den with Foxkit in my heals. I spotted my grey daughter by Alderstar, our leader and her mate. I came nose-to-nose with my daughter. "How DARE you treat your own daughter with such hatred and disgust? You know exactly how I grew up! You know exactly what I went through, and now you're putting your own daughter through it? My granddaughter?" I raged and spat at my daughter with fury.

Alderstar dipped his head as if he were ashamed as my daughters eyes grew wide with shock. Spitting one final time, I scooped Foxkit up and charged back to my den. The little kit looked at me with large amber eyes, "I'm your granddaughter?"

I snapped my infuriated gaze down at her, but it soon softened as I saw a young me. I simply nodded to the small kit. She stood and laid at my chest. She looked up at me with warm eyes and asked, "What's your story?"

I stifled a rather rough purr, "My story begins in the heart of WillowClan, where we leave under the Great Willow's roots and hunt animals of all sizes. I was born into a Clan of pride, justice, and bravery. I wouldn't be happier any other way. Let me begin when I was just a small kit like you..."

WillowClan

Leader: Branchstar- tall pale brown tabby tom with darker tabby stripes and brown eyes

Deputy: Quietwind- small, swift pale grey she-cat with blue eyes and white forepaws (Littlepaw)

Medicine-Cat: Ottershine- young pale golden she-cat with cream paws and tail tip, blue eyes

Warriors: Sundapple- pretty golden she-cat with cream hind legs

Reedwater- tall, long-furred pale brown tom with amber eyes (Fishpaw)

Oceanbird- beautiful pale silver she-cat with blue eyes (Heronpaw)

Jayflight- large pale grey tom with hard, yellow eyes (Rosepaw)

Eelbright- black she-cat with green eyes and white paws

Whalefin- large grey tom with pale grey legs and green eyes

Geckospot- small, energetic grey she-cat with black spots and yellow-green eyes

Lizardscale- glossy, black and grey spotted she-cat with amber eyes

Apprentices: Littlepaw- pale brown she-cat with green eyes and darker brown toes

Fishpaw- pale golden tabby tom with white ears, paws, and tail-tip

Heronpaw- long haired, grey tom with amber eyes

Rosepaw- creamy long haired she-cat with green eyes

Queens: Gentlebreeze- beautiful pale brown she-cat with green eyes and white toes in all paws (Mother to Whalefin's kits: Lightkit- pale brown tom with yellow eyes and white dash in chest and Blackkit- jet black she-cat with white stripe down her back and white toes on all paws; amber eyes)

Eagleflight- small white she-cat with brown paws (Expecting Jayflight's kits)

Elders: Pantherclaw- large well-muscled brown tom

Orangestone- pale ginger she-cat with amber eyes

SeaClan

Leader: Troutstar- large brown tom with green eyes (Sunpaw)

Deputy: Lionfish- large brown and white stripped tom with amber eyes (Cranepaw)

Medicine-cat: Coralbreeze- ginger she-cat with green eyes (Mouseflight- brown tabby tom)

Warriors: Lightningfish- powerful golden she-cat with white paws

Raindance- grey she-cat with blue eyes and white chest

Swanfeather- beautiful long-haired white she-cat with blue eyes

Frogjaw- black tabby tom with green eyes

Sharpwater- large golden tom with amber eyes

PineClan

Leader: Needlestar- pretty spiky-furred, dark brown she-cat with green eyes

Deputy: Fawnleap- beautiful light brown she-cat with white flecks, underbelly, and chest; green eyes (Seedpaw)

Medicine-cat: Flutterwing- pretty white she-cat with blue eyes (Molestep- brown tabby tom with amber eyes)

Warriors: Opossumfur- grey and black long-haired tom with matted, uneven fur and yellow eyes

Quailwing- brown and light brown she-cat with yellow eyes as white muzzle

Buckstride- large dark brown tom with bobtail with white underside, belly and chest

Hareleap- pretty brown she-cat with white bobtail

Squirreltail- ginger she-cat with bushy, red tail

Blacksky- large black tabby tom with amber eyes

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-Nightspirit