Ok here the first chapter of Riverclan! I will be switching clans each chapter so you never know when it will be Windclan, Riverclan, Shadowclan or Thunderclan. Hehe.

I will be using each of the cats sent in, but here is the deal! (Freeze!)

Only one person has one cat, so it will be like it is you're out there in the story!

Your cat may be one of the main character or a side character or even both, it all depends on their personalities. So please review and send in some characters!

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Riverclan I

"Did you hear anything from Starclan lately?" A husky aged voice whispered into the darkness. Pale green eyes flickered side to side as if someone was following the old male cat. His dull white coat had patches of fur missing on his shoulders and gray was outlining his mussel. Being white it wasn't hard to spot in the darkness, it was a weakness the tom wished he never had.

"No…" A sweet female voice answered him up ahead, her light gray tabby coat shimmered in the moonlight. The tom smiled in the darkness and padded up to her brushing pelts with the female as he sat down beside her.

"I was just thinking…" She meowed letting her blue eyes drop to her paws. The she-cats tabby coat suppressed a shiver. It was at the end leaf-bear and the cats normal routine of fighting for survival was slowly coming to a close. Although the robins and birds haven't arrived, the rivers ice was slowly thinning and the mice were scurrying out of their dens once more. The leafless trees groaned as the wind tugged at their branches.

"You shouldn't be out here Willowshine, it is still freezing out here when the sun sets… and we do not need our medicine cat sick. Grasspaw already has a cold, so you must gather all the herbs by yourself now." The tom meowed a hint of worry traced in his tone.

"Don't worry about me Iceheart, you worry about me, more then you do yourself." The she-cat replied looking back up and staring into the toms green eyes.

"I do not!" He accused letting his tail swish to the side in a teasing matter.

Willowshine smiled her features more bright with Iceheart beside her. Iceheart gave her a reason to keep going, even when leaf-bare brought the harshest of winters.

The she-cat folded her tail neatly over her paws and flicked her tail to the side in thought. Her baby blue eyes darted over to a smaller enclosed den up ahead, a small stream curved around the thorny entrance and a sense of worry and doubt bounced off her pelt like waves of an ocean.

Iceheart followed the she-cats gaze and let his eyes glaze over the den in thought.

"What's ruffling your fur?" He meowed curiously, not taking his eyes off the den.

The she-cat sighed and seemed to sink into a dept of concern as she continued to look at the enclosure. Willowshine seemed almost in a trance, lost in her own thoughts.

After a moment of silence Iceheart took notice of Willowshines sudden quietness and turned to gaze at her.

She sighed and meowed in a quiet voice, "New kits… They are the clans hope and worst fears at the same time."

The tom stifled a laugh and meowed, "Is that what the problem is? A few bundles of extra fur to feed? No worries Willowshine they will be feed they-"

"NO you don't understand do you?" She growled with sudden force.

The white toms fur fluffed in surprise as he took two sudden steps back from the angered she-cat. "Apparently not…" He mumbled as she regained her composer from the sudden outburst.

Willowshines eyes stretched in fear and she meowed, "I'm sorry I didn't mean to yell I'm just…" She trail off looking for the right words.

"Its ok I know your under a lot of pressure since the last kit incident…" He stopped not wanting to remind her of the kitting gone horribly wrong.

"But we all know you are a great medicine cat and not to sweat over the little things, besides how many kits are there?" He questioned.

"Three..only…three." She meowed almost mechanically, looking at her paws.

"See? That takes care of the food problem, only three more mouths to feed and-"

Willowshine cut him off again with a stern meow, "One has green cough."

Iceheart shut his mouth and gazed at her thoughtfully. The wind blew over the two cats as it tugged and tore at their fur in attempt to drive them off their paws.

The camp became unusually quiet and empty inside as they stared into one another's eyes to grasp one each others thoughts. In the distance a waterfall tumbled and roared, crashing into a pool of water below.

A sigh rippled inside the she-cats chest as she let loose the hot air within.

"They are so tiny Iceheart… They are no bigger then a mouse itself…" She seemed to be talking to herself more then him. But the tom listened letting his tail rest on her shoulder in comfort.

"And…and I don't know what to do Iceheart!" She cried out in pain.

"The little male kit is too young to eat meat, and he refuses to drink his mothers milk!" Her voice began to quiver as she sunk lower into the ground.

"Only if there was another queen with kits, but Tigerlily is a few full moons from her kitting, and there is no other cat to take care of the kit besides his mother."

Her ears flattened as an image sprang into her vision, "I-I am afraid the other two will catch the cough as well, or worse if I leave him there!" Willowshines eyes were shimmering with wetness. "But I don't want to take him away if there is the slightest chance he will survive." She seemed torn from the situation as her body began to shiver, not just from the cold driving wind.

Iceheart bent down beside the she-cat and nuzzled his chin against hers.

"Willowshine, you can not kill yourself over this… Lack of sleep, hardly eating, and grooming for that matter, it has got to stop. Dying is apart of life and it is Starclans will if he must go."

Willowshine growled lightly and turned her blue eyed gaze upon him. "But I'm the medicine cat, I save cats lives, not kill them!"

Iceheart brushed his tail over her back and responded, "I know… But for now why don't you sleep on it, maybe he will make a fast and miraculous recovery." His tone wasn't convincing, but is was warm and kindness overflowed in his meow.

Willowshines eyes flashed with doubt and looked up into the sky her eyes filled with wetness.

"Come on, you look like a half dead badger who hasn't eaten in days." Iceheart murmured standing on his paws and lifting the she-cat to her own gently.

"I certainly feel like it…" She replied steadying her wobbly legs and catching her balance.

"Plus Riverclan isn't much of a clan when their medicine cat is too tired to work." Iceheart meowed feeling the wind tug at his fur once more almost pushing them both back down on their belly fur.

"I wonder if this is how Windclan feels everyday…" He laughed gazing back toward the she-cat.

Willowshine shrugged and meowed, "Possibly." Her eyes were clouded from loss of sleep and her paws felt like stones weighing her down.

"Funny, I never even felt tired when I came up here."

"That is because you are such a worry wart my dear…"

Willowshine pawed at the males white form and caught the edge of his gleaming white ear. Iceheart ducked and laughed at her attempt to knock the senses from his head.

Bunching up his muscles he leaped down from the hill and half skidded, half galloped down the moist ground until he hit a small stream and a splash of water signaled the center of Riverclan. Another splashed concluded that Willowshine had slid in beside him, her fur dripping wet belly high water drifted around them.

"Nice choice of direction…" She mumbled leaping out of the water and shaking droplets from her fur and spraying the tom slightly.

Iceheart laughed and padded out beside her, "You could have came down a different path you know." His voice teasing.

Willowshine smirked, "But you always make things, interesting, even though I would rather have not gotten wet at the moment..." But no anger cat from the females words and she smiled and began to pad forward her fur soaked in stream water and headed towards the medicine den, where a series of coughs entered the she-cats hearing range. Iceheart padded after her, his fur dripping wet. When she was right outside the medicine den she stopped and shook off more of the water then turned to face Iceheart who had sat down to wash the wetness from his fur.

"Thank you." She mumbled.

Iceheart stopped midlick and gazed upward meeting her own eyes with his, "For what?"

"Listening to me… Being with me, you know…" She butted her soft head against his wet shoulder.

"Oh…anytime.." he murmured and gave a cheesy grin. "But in the meantime you should think about resting, at least…" A sound of pitiful coughing interrupted the toms words.

"At least try." He meowed gazing into the thorny den where he coughs came from.

Willowshine nodded and began to turn around when Iceheart meowed, "Tell Grasspaw I said to get better or else." The gray tabby she-cat looked over her shoulder and meowed, "I will make sure he gets the message," and quietly slipped into the den.

Iceheart took in a deep breath of air and looked behind him the moon was shinning brightly on the toms white coat making him look like the moon himself. Stifling a yawn he padded over to the elders den stopped shook droplets of water from his fur and mumbled, "It is not like the first time I slept with wet fur.." He quickly padded inside, found his nest and collapsed inside as snores quickly traveled through the den.

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A piercing scream bounced throughout Riverclans camp. It was not a scream of terror more then a scream of losing control. Something was terribly wrong.

Willowshines eyes snapped open as another wail echoed around the camp, horrified shivers trailed down her back as she recognized the female screaming. Fur fluffed, Willowshine jumped to her paws and pushed her way outside where the wailing continued, only much louder. Warriors, and apprentices streamed from their dens, worried expressions on their features.

A brown tabby she-cat bound over to her franticly, "Its Spottedfur! Something's wrong with Spottedfur!" The frightened females fur was fluffed twice her size as two apprentices huddled beside the nursery in curiosity and fright.

"Orangepaw, Whitepaw!" Willowshine meowed, "Go inform Mintstar right away, she is on a patrol I am sure." The orange and white apprentice nodded and obeyed the medicine cat as she dashed away from the den and zipped out into Riverclan territory.

'I can save him I must save him!' She thought inside her head her thoughts whirling around in a jumble. 'What if the other two are sick? Can I save them? What if they all died while I was asleep?! Please Starclan don't put that Burdon on me!'

Willowshine stood in front of the nursery her paws heavy as rocks.

"My baby! He's dead, my son is gone, Starclan why? Why?" The yowling burst into the medicines cats ears like an open wound.

With one quick push, Willowshine found herself padding into a room that smelt like milk and sickness combined. Letting the darkness adjust to her eyes she gazed at the form laying in front of her a curled up mass with three bundles nearby her belly. She gazed at the motionless calico form Spottedfur was prodding with her nose, but the male kits eyes were shut and there was no movement. He was no bigger then a field mouse. The two other kits squirmed and huddled beside her warm milky belly, kneading her tummy for milk. The mother cat had her tail wrapped around them both protectively. Spottedfurs eyes were wet and her body trembled with anger.

"My baby is dead!" She yowled again and her eyes shot up to Willowshines bleak form, they were wild and untamed eyes, revengeful.

"You!" She snarled. "You let him die!" She accused her voice full of fury.

Willowshine was taken aback, "No! No I tried too but…"

"Tried? You gave up! You gave up on me and you gave up on my kits because were not worth your time huh? You piece of-" She was to the point of screaming when a loud, commanding voice padded into the den. "Spottedfur! Control yourself."

The angry mother switched her gaze to see a gray she-cat stand beside Willowshine her green gaze hard, he breathing rapid, like she had ran all the way from the gathering to here.

"Willowshine did all she could have done to help you and your kits, now we must continue on with our lives and move on! One cat does not blame others for things that should not be blamed for in the first place."

Spottedfur let her gaze fall on her paws in silence.

The she-cat sighed and meowed, "I know it is not easy losing kits… and it will feel odd without that extra bundle but for now nothing can change and that is that." She paused and sighed in sadness watching Spottedfur stare at the lifeless kit, taking in short spastic breaths.

"We will bury him tonight, right now." the female commanded, the continued, "we do not want your other two kits catching a cold too do we?"

Spottedfurs eyes flashed in alarm and pulled her two remaining kits closer in fright.

Willowshine watched as Spottedfurs anger turned to despair and sadness twisted inside the she-cats belly. Turning to the gray female beside her she meowed, "Thank you Mintstar…"

The leader did not look up as she padded forward and snatched the calico kit and turned to pad outside, but before leaving though she looked over at Willowshine and nodded slightly in response then pushed her way outside towards the camp exit.

Willowshine sighed and looked at Spottedfurs fearful form as she continued to stare at the empty space were her kit was laying just a moment ago. Biting her lip she didn't want to disturb her anymore and turned to follow her leader outside.

"Willowshine…wait." The gray female stopped and looked behind her to see Spottedfur looking at her straight in the eye.

"I fell guilty about-"

"Don't be." Willowshine murmured and added, "It happens all the time." Her blue gaze looked back at the exit of the nursery and was prepared to leave when Spottedfur interrupted once more.

"That's no excuse…I should never have even said those cruel things out loud in the first place, I didn't mean to mark you as if you didn't care at all.."

Willowshine smiled and turned herself around and padded back up to her shaking her head back and forth. "You are something Spottedfur."

The calico she-cat looked puzzle at her wording and pulled back her ears.

Willowshine sat down and meowed, "How are your other two kits doing, do you have their names picked out yet?" She meowed hoping to distract her from her dead kit.

"They are doing...better then…" She stopped and shock her calico head trying to rid of an awful memory.

"Never mind… " Spottedfur mumbled and looked down at her two kits and nosed at the silver one kneading her tummy. "This one is Moonkit, she seems a tad cold, but her nose is moist and seems healthy to me I guess…"

"She looks like the moons light." Willowshine commented.

Spottedfur paused and nodded then nosed the kit next to Moonkit, it looked like a replica of Spottedfur herself. "The other one is smaller then Moonkit her name is Maplekit."

"Just like her mother." Willowshine meowed surprised.

Spottedfur purred sleepily, "Yup." She then snuggled into her remaining kits letting her tail sweep over them once again and dug her nose beside her silver kit and closed her eyes.

"Goodnight Spottedfur, goodnight Moonkit and Maplekit." Willowshine meowed quietly before slipping out of the warm den and into the cold crisp morning air.

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Ok there is my first real chapter, it is not that interesting right now, though it will be later on in the story after all the introductions of the clans are set.

Please review!