Hi all, I'm back with another update. Thank you so much to all of you who reviewed! I still need more cats so please continue submitting them! I really need a lot more trainees and elders so if you be great if you could submit a lot of them! I had to move a lot of the cat's positions around so sorry to anyone who's cat didn't get the position they wanted.
Here is some more info about my clans: the cats of the Clan of the High Peaks are small with sturdy and strong limbs for running and jumping and tough pads. The cats of the Clan of the Blue River have thick pelts and strong legs for fishing and swimming in their river. The cats of the Clan of the Dark Caves are typically smaller with wide paws and thin pelts for digging in their caves. The cats of the Clan of the Morning Sun are lean, muscular and tough. They love the open air and wind and sunlight.
- Maplebreeze of MountainClan
The Clan of the Morning Sun
Chieftain: Mossy Moon - dark brown tabby she-cat with blue eyes, a white chest, and muzzle (closed)
Regent: Falling Star - white furred she-cat with cream colored ears and paws and amber eyes (closed)
Healer: Red Maple - russet she-cat with green eyes and white forepaws (closed)
Council Cats: Cloudy Water - dark grey and white tom
Bracken Tail - golden brown tabby tom with a ginger tail
Rising Water - very pale gray tabby she-cat
Sharp Wind - dark red brown tom with black stripes (closed)
Fighters: Yellow Sky - dark smoky gray she-cat
Sage Fur - cream colored she-cat with green eyes, a white muzzle and paws
Soaring Hawk - large, broad, dark brown tabby tom with brown tabby stripes
Dewy Grass - mottled dark gray and brown she-cat
Rabbit Nose - pale brown tabby and white tom
Raven Swoop - sleek black tom (closed)
Hunters: Smoke Pelt - dark gray tabby tom with amber eyes
Maple Sky - tortoiseshell and white she-cat with amber eyes
Quick Clouds - white tom with large pale gray patches
Running Wave - lithe dark brown tabby tom
Dawn Sky - pretty pale grey and white she-cat
Rowan Leaves - reddish tabby tom
Willow Leaf - slim silver tabby she-cat with white face, paws, chest and tail tip (closed)
Trainees: Dappled Pelt - sleek, light brown tabby she-cat with small white spots
Amber Mist - lithe amber-gold she-cat with one white paw and a white chest
Whispering Rain - pale silver she-cat with blue-grey speckles and white paws (two more)
Mothers: Deer Spot - pale brown she-cat with darker brown spots, mother of Bright Feather (light brown and white she-kit), Blossom Fur (white she-kit with golden patches), and Tall Pine (black and dark gray tom)
Waving Fern - dark brown and gray she-cat with a gray tail, mother of Dew Dapple (silver tabby she-kit) and Jagged Path (black tabby tom) (closed)
Elders: Quiet Sun - pale reddish and golden she-cat
Tumbling Stone - solidly built dark grey tom with greying muzzle
Shining Feather - skinny pale gray tabby she-cat (closed)
The Clan of the Blue River
Chieftain: Flame Moon - dark ginger tabby tom with green eyes (closed)
Regent: Gray Stream - sleek gray tom with stormy blue eyes (closed)
Healer: Apple Blossom - dark brown tom with a white chest and green eyes (closed)
Council Cats: Wind Fur - gray tabby tom with black stripes on his spine and amber eyes (three more)
Fighters: Dark Night - sleek black tom with yellow eyes
Misty Stream - pale silver tabby she-cat (five more)
Hunters: Nettle Claw - mottled dark gray tabby tom with dark green eyes
Honey Song - golden tabby she-cat with green eyes
Dark Song - dark gray tabby she-cat with a with a swirl of tabby stripes (three more)
Trainees: Quiet Stream - beautiful silver tabby she-cat
Storm Breeze - dark silver tabby she-cat with green eyes (four more)
Mothers: Cloudy Sky - pale gray she-cat with a black tipped tail and smokey blue eyes, mother of Light Feather, Stream Song and Golden Tail
Pine Needle - lithe silver tabby she-cat, mother of Blue Moon (silver tabby she-cat), Mint Leaf (gray she-cat) , Tall Peak (light gray tom), and Silver Feather (black and silver dappled she-cat) (closed)
Elders: (two to four)
The Clan of the Dark Caves
Chieftain: Hawk Moon - dark brown and black tabby tom (closed)
Regent: (one)
Healer: Night Pelt - black tom with green eyes (closed)
Trainee: Doe Leap
Council Cats: (four)
Fighters: Lark Feather - thick brown tom with a scarred pelt
Dawn Leaves - silver and white tabby she-cat with amber eyes
Dark Flames - dark gray tom with lighter stripes and belly (three more)
Hunters: Sun Flight - golden tabby tom with light paws, belly and tail tip and green eyes (six more)
Trainees: (six)
Mothers: Ember Heart - light ginger she-cat with gray patches, mother of Flower Petal (small, white she-cat, with tortoiseshell patches) and Wolf Howl (dark gray she-cat with a light brown muzzle, underbelly, and paws) (two more, one expecting kits)
Elders: (three)
The Clan of the High Peaks
Chieftain: Grass Moon - blue gray tabby she-cat with white paws and green eyes (closed)
Regent: Ash Leap - pale gray tom with darker flecks (closed)
Healer: Silver Song - silver and white tabby she-cat (closed)
Trainee, Blue Streak - blue gray tom with a darker streak along his spine
Council Cats: Echoing Breeze - blue-gray she-cat (three more)
Fighters: Tawny Fang - brown tabby tom with blue eyes
Blazing Dawn - orange and white tabby she-cat (three more)
Hunters: Darkening Skies - very dark gray tom with lighter gray paws
Singing Dove - sleek light brown tabby she-cat
Small Foot - black she-cat with a brown underbelly
Singing Jay - black tom piercing blue eyes (two more)
Trainees: Pricking Thorn - spiky light brown tabby tom with darker tabby stripes (three more)
Mothers: Willow Song - very pale gray she-cat, mother of Fluttering Wing (beautiful white she-cat) and Bubbling Creek (very dark tabby gray tom)
Dusk Leaf - dark brown tabby she-cat, mother of Berry Foot (pale cream and white tom) and Pale Mist (light gray she-kit) (closed)
Elders: (three)
Here is a sneak preview of the beginning of the prologue!
Prologue
Dark trees towered over a clearing, surrounding it on all four sides. A small brook fell gently down a cliff face that was protruding from the earth at the back of the clearing. It came to rest in a pool, who rippling surface shown with starlight, reflected from the heavens above. Dim ferns that grew near the top of the hill surrounded the clearing, stirred in a breeze as a shape emerged from the shadows of the tall oak trees. A russet colored she-cat with white forepaws bounded down the slope. She came to a halt by the pool's edge and gazed down into the starlit waters for a moment.
A rustle came from the ridge above the waterfall. A twig snapping. The russet she-cat glanced up to see a young blue-gray tom and a silver tabby she-cat, her muzzle gray with age, making their way down the hillside. "Silver Song, Blue Streak, nice to see you again. How's the prey running?" The she-cat called to the cats in a friendly tone.
The pair of them stopped at the foot of the dark hill, standing beside the russet she-cat. Dipping his head to the elder she-cat, the blue-grey tom replied, "About as well as can be expected for this time of year."
"How is Dusk Leaf? Have her kits come yet?" The red she-cat asked.
"She is fine. Her kits came about a half moon ago, two of them. There is a pale gray she-kit named Pale Mist and a dark brown tabby tom called Berry Foot." Silver Song reported.
"Tell her congratulations from me," The russet she-cat replied.
"I will, Red Maple," Silver Song promised. The three cats look up at the hill above them as more cats appeared over the side of the ridge. It was a large group of cats, this time, a dozen or more toms and she-cats with pelts of all different colors.
A dark brown she-cat with a distinctive white chest dashed ahead of the patrol. "Silver Song! Blue Streak! Red Maple!" She yowled joyfully, her young legs carrying her quickly down the slope.
A smile on his blue-gray face, Blue Steak leaned forward to touch noses with the youthful she-cat. "How are you, Apple Blossom?" He asked happily.
"I'm good. It's great to see all of you again. Sometimes it seems like a moon-cycle takes forever." She replied, bouncing around the larger tom.
"No trainee yet? Are there not of enough kits in the Clan of the Blue River?" Blue Streak asked playfully.
"You're still one yourself," the dark brown she-cat reminded her friend.
"Ah, but I have made the journey to the Crystal Falls and spoken with the ancestors myself." He replied, eyes twinkling with laughter.
"I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't fall into a least one hole on the way, you clumsy furball." Apple Blossom joked, nudging her companion.
Silver Song padded over to the pair of them. "Apple Blossom, Blue Streak, you know the ancient rules. We must be sollum on the Night of the Council." She scolded them gently. At her words, the two younger cats nodded and exchanged sheepish glances. The rest of the patrol came to a stop beside the dark banks of the pool. A long haired black tom, his ancient muzzle crisscrossed with scars, stepped forward to greet the other cats.
"Greeting, Night Pelt," Red Maple meowed, dipping her head to the elder tom.
"Greetings, Red Maple," the black tom replied, his voice deep, almost a growl. "How is the prey running in the Clan of the Morning Sun?" He asked, his piercing ice-blue gaze fixed pointedly on her.
"Very well, thank you," The russet she-cat replied, her voice crisp and eyes narrowed, trying to figure out what the tom was actually meaning to say.
"Healers, may I present my new trainee, Doe Leap?" Night Pelt stepped backward and motioned for a mottled light brown dappled she-cat to step forward. The small trainee ducked her head shyly as the other cats took a look at her.
"New trainee, eh?" Blue Streak meowed slyly, his dark green gaze glinting. "After you couldn't hang onto the last one?"
Night Pelt was about to retort, but Silver Song beat him to it, "That was rude Blue Streak! I expect my trainees to know better than to insult another healer and such an esteemed one at that!" The silver she-cat scolded her blue-grey trainee, cuffing him over one ear.
"Healers! When you are done gossiping, join us!" A large light brown tabby tom called from his place beside the pool. The six healers turned and took the places around the edge of the pool.
"Let this council begin!" A regal dark brown tabby she-cat yowled from where she sat, perched on a ledge that protruded from the cliff to the left of the waterfall. Another cat, a great pale ginger tabby tom scrambled up beside her. Two other cats, a bramble colored tom with darker stripes and a blue-grey she-cat that was the spitting image of Blue Streak, sat side by side on a ledge adjacent to the other.
Four other cats, one for every leader, took a seat below them on a broad, flat stone at the base of the cliff face. A dozen more cats rested in a full ring around the pond. Their eyes glowed in the moonlight as they looked up expectantly at the four cats on the highest ledges.
The healers took their places on the flat rocks that stuck out over the pool. Red Maple sat on the dark stone nearest to the cats on the ledge; Apple Blossom was next, and then on the other side of the starlit pool sat Silver Song and Blue Streak on a large rock. Night Pelt beckoned Doe Leap to stand with him on the banks of the pond, directly across from the eight cats. The cats around the small lake grew quiet as Night Pelt raised his sleek muzzle, waiting for the ancient ceremony to begin.
"I am Night Pelt, Healer of the Clan of the Dark Caves!" His gruff voice rang through the small hollow as he recited the ancient words. "I call upon the ancestors of light, darkness, air, and water to recognize my new trainee, Doe Leap. If you chose to welcome her, then teach her the ancient ways. If you reject her, then let her be scorned and cast her out forever. Let the judgment. Pass. Now!"
As he finished, the last word echoed throughout the hollow, and the whole clearing was silent. The whole forest was still as if every leaf on every tree was holding its breath. In the sky the stars were beginning to fade as a flicker of light flashed quickly. Then more lights shone, twinkling like millions of little stars. Red, orange, and yellow lights streamed down, illuminating the entire clearing.
They trickled down, surrounding all of the cats in a cocoon of bright lights. Night Pelt stepped to the side as the lights enveloped Doe Leap in a whirl of shimmering lights, her dappled brown pelt shining like a flame. The small trainee turned in a circle, her eyes wide with surprise. The flickering lights danced on the water of the pond, the red, orange, and yellow colors shimmering on the untouched surface.
Then the lights folded together, disappearing one by one. The last spark of light drifted up to hover just above the new trainee's forehead and then, with a flash, was gone. Where there was no mark before, now shone a small gray leaf, branded into the light brown fur of her head. It was Erania, the mark of the healer.
