ALLEGIANCES
StoneClan
LEADER:
Scarredstar - brown tabby tom with a missing left eye and a mangled face
APPRENTICE – Oceanpaw
DEPUTY:
Autumnfall – unusually spotted silver she-cat with beautiful amber-gold eyes
APPRENTICE - Swiftpaw
MEDICINE CAT:
Hawktalon – skinny brown tabby tom with sharp yellow eyes
APPRENTICE - Robinpaw
WARRIORS:
Mistfur - light grey she-cat with darker flecks and blue eyes
Shadowclaw - black tom with green eyes and a white chest patch
Thistletail - dark grey tabby tom with amber eyes
Firetail - flame-coloured she-cat with yellow eyes
APPRENTICE - Windpaw
Silverwind - silver tabby she-cat with yellow eyes
Blacklegs - black tom with white socks and blue eyes
APPRENTICE - Rapidpaw
Lizardtail - older, dark brown tabby tom with green eyes
Morningsky - golden tabby she-cat with bright blue eyes
Thinclaw - black and white tom with blue eyes
Fallowstorm - ginger she-cat with green eyes
Ashpelt - black tom with yellow eyes
Snowfall - longhaired white tom with hazel eyes
Braveheart - black and white tom with yellow eyes
APPRENTICE - Redpaw
Wolftooth - muscular, sandy tom with blue eyes
Strickenflame – large golden tabby tom with amber eyes
Dapplewind - tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes
Creamflower - cream tabby and white she-cat with blue eyes
Briarfang - mottled brown tabby tom with a white chest and green eyes
Sweetfur – small brown she-cat with yellow eyes
APPRENTICES:
Robinpaw - black she-cat with green eyes, white hindpaws, and a white tail-tip
Rapidpaw – tiny, energetic grey tom with darker points and green eyes
Swiftpaw - small, light brown tabby tom with creamy points and chestnut eyes
Redpaw - reddish tabby she-cat with blue eyes
Windpaw - light grey tom with green eyes
Oceanpaw - massive orange tabby tom with blue eyes
QUEENS:
Littlewhisker – small calico she-cat with green eyes (mother of Strickenflame's kits)
Fawnkit – tiny, unusually calico tom with green eyes
Gingerkit – grey tabby she-cat with ginger cheek patches and green eyes
Flamekit – longhaired ginger tabby tom with amber eyes
Ravenkit – grey-black she-cat with blue eyes
ELDERS:
Ashwhisker - dark grey tabby tom with amber eyes
DuskClan
LEADER:
Swallowstar – blue-black she-cat with a white chest and green eyes
APPRENTICE – Finchpaw
DEPUTY:
Dogfang – flat-faced brown tom with yellow eyes
MEDICINE CAT:
Icefur – small white she-cat with blue eyes
APPRENTICE – Longpaw
WARRIORS:
Milkpelt – huge cream-coloured she-cat with yellow eyes
APPRENTICE – Owlpaw
Darktail – grey tabby tom
Sunear – tortoiseshell tom with distinctive orange ears
Ashwing – silver she-cat
Mallowheart – tabby-and-white she-cat
Shellclaw – white tom
Birdfeather – white she-cat with blue eyes
Swiftclaw – longhaired dark grey tom with green eyes
Lilyblossom - golden tabby she-cat
Mudpelt - mottled brown tom
Fogtail - black tabby tom
Mottledfeather - dappled brown she-cat
Silverwhisker - silver tabby she-cat
Tornclaws - black tom with long fur and several missing claws
APPRENTICES:
Longpaw – brown tabby tom with long white legs
Owlpaw – longhaired white she-cat with one green eye and one blue eye
Finchpaw – light grey tom with tawny stripes
QUEENS:
Leafwhisker – sleek yellow tabby she-cat (mother of Tornclaws's kits)
Mothkit - soft grey-brown tabby she-cat
Thunderkit - massive black tom with yellow eyes
Dovekit - longhaired ginger she-cat
MistClan
LEADER:
Reedstar – brown tabby she-cat with green eyes
DEPUTY:
Russetfeather – longhaired ruddy she-cat with green eyes
MEDICINE CAT:
Softpelt – silver tabby tom with amber eyes
APPRENTICE – Wishpaw
WARRIORS:
Blueclaw - dark grey tom
Silverwind - silver tabby she-cat with yellow eyes
Whitefur - white tom with blue eyes
Nightsong - orange-and-white tabby she-cat with golden brown eyes
Swiftstrike – dark brown tom with yellow eyes
Sandtail - pale ginger tom with yellow eyes
Lionmane – brown tom with a thick ruff
APPRENTICES:
Wishpaw – slender grey-and-white tabby she-cat with blue eyes
DawnClan
LEADER:
Dewstar – longhaired white tom with yellow eyes
DEPUTY:
Blacknose – black and white tom
MEDICINE CAT:
Fadedheart – off-white she-cat with dim blue eyes
WARRIORS:
Lushfur – thick-furred light brown she-cat
Blueshine - grey she-cat with blue eyes
Leopardtail - yellow tabby tom
Whiteclaw - white tom
Longtalon - ginger-and-white tom
Daisystem - orange and white tabby she-cat
Sunear - tortoiseshell she-cat with distinctive orange ears
APPRENTICE - Cloudpaw
Shinesong - creamy she-cat
APPRENTICES:
Cloudpaw – brown and white she-cat
PROLOGUE
It was right at that time, the moment between the night and the sunrise, when the sky was pale grey but not yet streaked with dawn's warm glow. The brightening light that came from no object but merely glowed from the sky itself set upon a grassy hill, where a lone figure sat, contemplative. He was lean, with well-muscled shoulders and strong paws. His body was draped with a thick dappled tortoiseshell pelt, and his eyes gleamed a sky blue. He looked pristine, a picture of untouched youth, but for a thick wound across his throat, healed and bare of any fur.
He sat alone for some time, enough for the sun to begin touching the horizon with pale pink before another figure materialized out of the mist. She was beautiful, stunningly so, with fur like sunlight and eyes the colour of newly bloomed violets. She joined the tom at the crest of the hill, looking over the endless ground. They sat in silence for some time before the tom finally spoke.
"How is it that the sun seems so much closer in StarClan?"
The she-cat cast him a gentle look. "You are asking questions that may never have answers, Mottledfoot."
Mottledfoot purred a quiet laugh, twitching his tail. "True, Whispersong. But I still feel as though I need to ask them."
They sat in silence for another moment before Mottledfoot's blue gaze clouded with worry.
"How will we be able to tell them that the world as they know it may very well end soon?"
"I don't know," Whispersong admitted, meeting his gaze with anxious eyes, "but I know that all we can do is send the sign and trust them to know how to decipher it."
"And if they don't?" Mottledfoot challenged the she-cat, though the anger and helplessness welling inside him was not directed towards her. He watched the dawn's light illuminate her delicate, slender face, and felt a pang of times long gone.
"Then there is nothing we can do."
She sounded so resigned to the fate of the cats they watched over that it raised the fur along Mottledfoot's spine, but he couldn't pretend that it was her choice to feel so. They could help, but only so far. It was a truth every StarClan cat had to accept.
"What is to happen will happen," Whispersong mewed in a soft voice as the sun rose above their heads, "regardless of what we do. The fate of the Clans is in their own paws."