The Seeker - Preface & Allegiances
This is my new Warriors fanfic. It contains A LOT of OCs. In fact... the whole story is about OCs. It takes place long ago, before the Clans left the forest. This is the first book of three. This is also finished so I will posting chapters quickly. This mostly takes place outside of Clan territories and in made up settings. All of the characters and most of the settings in this story belong to me. I hope you enjoy. :)
I do not own Warriors.
Preface
My name is Cat.
Do you know what it's like to be named after what you are? The puns and snide comments are endless.
My mother is all the family I have. I never met my father. My mother always told me that he left her after he found out she was expecting kits. Sometimes the story would change—in one, he would leave her for another she-cat, and in others he would leave her to join this Clan of wild cats that lived in the forest near the river. I never knew what to believe since her story was so inconsistent.
Without my father around, she always said that life was even more difficult than normal—she had to hunt for herself and take care of herself since my father wasn't there anymore. I was born two leaf-bares ago when the ground was coated with snow and the river was almost frozen solid. My mother told me that it was a hard birth and I once had three littermates, but they died shortly after to greencough. She named me Cat because she didn't know what else to call me.
I wasn't pretty—I was a dark, tortoiseshell she-cat with brown as a base color, and ginger, white, and black splotches splattered carelessly across my pelt. My left eye was blue and my right eye was green. I had a flat, scrunched-in face and long fur that was matted in some places and completely gone in other, showing bare patches of skin. No tom would ever want to mate with me. I was not beautiful, but I was relatively smart. I was smarter than most cats I've met. I had a certain ability to be able to work things out if I thought about them long enough—maybe it was just the fact that I spent the time thinking about things that others didn't think about.
As I grew, my mother taught me how to hunt, and how to fight. She raised me as well as she could, but I would never say that she loved me. My mother was not the emotional mother that tells their children she loves them daily; she was strict and constantly scolded me. Sometimes, she would beat me down with her sharp tongue—insult me, degrade me, make me feel like I never should have been born. Maybe she wished that. I knew she blamed me for my father leaving.
Now, she's older and a severe case of arthritis has contained her to our small den. Normally, I would have left her by now and gone off on my own to begin my own life, but I couldn't leave my mother; she could barely walk let alone hunt for herself. So I take care of her now, hunt for her, fetch her water, groom her—all of the things that she can't do anymore with her stiff muscles.
My mother will die soon. Her arthritis is getting so bad that she can barely move her jaws to eat and drink. When she dies, my plan is to try to find my father. I've never really taken an interest him, but I want to find him and meet him. I want to see what he's like—he helped bring me into the world after all. I didn't know if he would be a cat that I would want to have in my life, or if he would be a cat that I would instantly hate, but I had this self-fulfilling prophecy that I needed to find him. However, my mission was not going to be as simple as I had hoped.
My name is Cat, and this is my story.
Characters
Cats Outside the Clans
Cat: dark tortoiseshell she-cat with mottled brown base color and ginger, white and black patches on her fur, one blue eye and one green eye, a flattened face and long, matted fur and furless in some places
Misty: brittle gray tabby she-cat with darker stripes and blue eyes, short, smooth fur, and white-tipped tail; Cat's mother
Storm: muscular, broad-shouldered dark gray tomcat with bright blue eyes, one white paw on his front right leg, a white-tipped tail, a white muzzle, and v-shape cut in his left ear; Bagel's brother
Bagel: slender light brown tom with a white underbelly, chest, muzzle, paws, and tail-tip, as well as green eyes; former kittypet; Storm's brother
Fern: light brown tabby she-cat with a white muzzle, amber eyes, and her tail is missing, presumed to have been bitten off
Soda: slender, sleek light gray tom with blue eyes and white-tipped tail
October: longhaired white tomcat with orange eyes and a flat face
RiverClan
Leader: Icestar: large, sleek, white tomcat with bright green eyes, broad shoulders and large paws with long, sharp claws and a long scar stretching across his right flank
Deputy: Reedtail: slender, sleek dark brown tabby tomcat with even darker stripes and amber eyes with a white-tipped tail
Apprentice: Duckpaw
Medicine Cat: Shoreleaf: slender white she-cat with amber eyes and a scar across her nose, she is also deaf in one ear
Warriors:
Otterclaw: long-haired, dark brown tabby tom with green eyes and a white-tipped tail
Troutfin: light gray tom with darker gray flecks, blue eyes and white paws
Beavertail: large, broad-shouldered dark brown tom with amber eyes and darker brown paws and tail
Apprentice: Mosspaw
Wavestorm: slender, sleek gray tom with green eyes and torn ears
Lilypool: pale ginger she-cat with amber eyes and a white dash on her chest
Blackclaw: large, black tom with green eyes and a white-tipped tail and a large scar stretching from his forehead, across his right eye and down to his chin
Apprentice: Mothpaw
Pebblefur: gray she-cat with darker gray flecks and amber eyes with white chest, underbelly and tail-tip
Heronflight: large, plump white tomcat with blue eyes and large paws
Salmontail: ginger she-cat with unusual black paws and ears
Apprentice: Mintpaw
Featherpelt: long-haired gray tabby she-cat with blue eyes and a long, bushy tail
Snowfall: pure white she-cat with amber eyes
Moonshine: dark gray she-cat with small, almost unnoticeable white dots in her fur and pale yellow eyes
Apprentices:
Duckpaw: small, dark tortoiseshell she-cat with orange-colored eyes and a pretty face
Mosspaw: brown tabby she-cat with bright green eyes
Mothpaw: golden tabby she-cat with amber eyes, a white muzzle, chest, underbelly, paws, and tail-tip
Mintpaw: white she-cat with gray legs, ears, muzzle and tail-tip and blue eyes
Queens:
Sweetflower: pretty light gray she-cat with pale yellows eyes; she is the mother of Blackclaw's kits: Rootkit (brown tom), Minnowkit (light gray she-cat), and Robinkit (ginger she-cat)
Gingertail: pale ginger she-cat with amber eyes; she is the mother of Icestar's kits: Troutkit (gray tom), Willowkit (gray she-cat), and Rainkit (gray tomcat)
Cloudflight: pure white she-cat with blue eyes; she is the mother of Heronflight's kits
Elders:
Stormcloud: dark gray tomcat with pale yellow eyes and a scar across his chest
Foxtail: ginger tomcat with white paws
Nightclaw: black she-cat with blue eyes
ThunderClan (partial)
Leader: Acornstar: brown tabby tom with amber eyes and white chest and underbelly
Deputy: Lakestorm: black tom with blue eyes and white ears
Medicine Cat: Ashleaf: pale gray tabby tom with darker stripes and blue eyes
A/N: This is only the beginning!
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