A/N: This takes place in the Forest.
Allegiances
WindClan
Leader: Amberstar: small dark brown she-cat with amber eyes
Deputy: Cloudfall: white tom with piercing blue eyes
Medicine Cat: Snaketail: brown tabby tom with a white-tipped tail and amber eyes
Apprentice: Wavepaw
Warriors
Ravenstorm: black she-cat with amber eyes
Redstripe: dark ginger tabby tom with green eyes
Apprentice: Firepaw
Smokeshadow: dark gray tom with amber eyes
Cherrysong: ginger and white she-cat with green eyes
Dustclaw: light brown tabby tom with blue eyes
Pebbletail: dark brown tabby she-cat with pale blue eyes
Apprentice: Darkpaw
Lionfrost: muscular golden tom with a white underbelly and icy blue eyes
Hollypelt: dark gray and white she-cat with green eyes
Stormheart: blue-gray she-cat with one white paw and big blue eyes
Apprentice: Spottedpaw
Lizardfang: sand-colored tabby tom with black stripes and brown eyes
Apprentices
Firepaw: ginger tabby tom with amber eyes
Spottedpaw: calico and white she-cat with amber eyes
Darkpaw: black tom with blue eyes
Wavepaw: blue-gray tabby she-cat with blue eyes, medicine cat apprentice
Queens
Treeshade: black she-cat with a brown underbelly and green eyes (mother of Dustclaw's kit: Maplekit)
Daisytail: pale brown tabby she-cat with blue eyes (expecting Cloudfall's kits)
Kits
Maplekit: tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes
Elders
Ripplestorm: dark gray tom with amber eyes
Rainfeather: handsome gray tabby tom with sightless blue eyes, retired early due to blindness
ThunderClan
Leader: Oakstar: dark red-brown tom with green eyes
Deputy: Hawktail: brown tabby tom with blue eyes
Medicine Cat: Swallowfeather: dark gray she-cat with a white chest and blue eyes
ShadowClan
Leader: Thornstar: black tom with brown eyes
Deputy: Streakfur: brown and white streaked she-cat with green eyes
Medicine Cat: Honeycloud: pale brown she-cat with amber eyes
Apprentice: Graypaw: gray tabby tom with gray eyes
RiverClan
Leader: Shadestar: pretty gray she-cat with black flecks and amber eyes
Deputy: Tigerstorm: ginger and white tabby she-cat with amber eyes
Medicine Cat: Frozensky: white tom with cold green eyes
Apprentice: Lilypool: brown tabby she-cat with a white underbelly and blue-green eyes
Chapter 1
Hollypelt ducked her head under the brambles, and crawled into the elders' den. Ripplestorm was asleep, snoring loudly. Rainfeather, Hollypelt's brother, turned to her, grinning.
"Ah, Hollypelt, nice to have you visit. This lazy oaf isn't much company nowadays," he meowed, pointing to his fellow elder with his tail.
Hollypelt purred, "How did you know it was me?"
Rainfeather flicked his ears in amusement. "Easy. You smell like lilacs."
The gray and white she-cat paused and nodded thoughtfully. "Lionfrost told me the same thing last night."
Her brother stiffened. "What were you doing with Lionfrost?"
"Just sharing tongues," she replied.
"Let's keep it that way."
Hollypelt rolled her eyes. "Rainfeather, I can take care of myself. Now let's get you out of this stuffy den and into the fresh air."
The gray tabby relaxed his body, smiling slightly. "Sounds like a plan." He stood up, stretching, and Hollypelt laid her white tail across his shoulders.
"Follow me," she whispered.
"Don't treat me like a kit, Hollypelt," he said, his tone light and teasing, "I still know how to walk."
Hollypelt pulled her tail away. "Sorry."
Rainfeather shrugged. "No worries."
The two siblings stepped out of the elders' den. Hollypelt had to narrow her eyes against the bright sunlight. Of course, Rainfeather didn't have to deal with that any more. His sightless blue eyes remained wide open.
Hollypelt found a nice spot for sunbathing, and settled down next to her brother, who in turn lay across his side.
"Ya' know," he sighed drowsily, "There's one good thing about being an elder. When you're lazing around, no one tells you to get up and get on a patrol."
"Hollypelt!" Cloudfall called, "Ravenstorm and Dustclaw need you for a hunting patrol!"
Rainfeather chuckled, "See what I mean?"
Hollypelt laughed, flicking her tail over his nose. "Yeah, I see."
After Hollypelt left, Rainfeather turned his head in the other direction.
"Let's see," he meowed, "Soft pawsteps, muffled by thick fur between the pads. It must be Pebbletail!"
The dark brown she-cat purred. "I hate it when you do that."
"Which is why I must."
Pebbletail sat down next to him. "Well, I'm about to take Darkpaw out for some training. Do you want to come? He used to be your apprentice, after all."
Rainfeather nodded enthusiastically. "I'd love too! Hollypelt seems to think that all I'm good for is sunbathing ever since my accident."
Pebbletail flinch at the mention of his "accident." That was all he ever referred to it as. The event that cost him his career as a warrior was simply an "accident." He didn't even seem to hold a grudge against the ShadowClan warrior who had blinded him. Perhaps we could all learn something from Rainfeather, Pebbletail mused.
A/N: Rainfeather is loosely based on Auggie from the USA Network's CIA drama, Covert Affairs. Anyone who watches that, do you think Rainfeather is a good Warriors representation of the totally awesome (and extremely hot) Auggie Anderson?
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