[MountainClan]
Leader: Featherstar — A silver Somali she-cat with green eyes.
Deputy: Raventalon — A black tom with ice blue eyes.
Medicine Cats:
Petalnose — A pale ginger she-cat with bright blue eyes.
Windleaf — A dark gray tom with amber eyes.
Warriors:
Molebelly — A tortoiseshell-and-white she-cat with green eyes (Apprentice: Silverpaw).
Emberstone — A russet tom with hazel eyes.
Wildbreeze — A lilac tortoiseshell she-cat with amber eyes (Apprentice: Sunpaw).
Bluewing — A blue-gray tabby she-cat with blue eyes.
Graythorn — A gray tabby she-cat with copper eyes.
Mothwhisker — A pale brown she-cat with green eyes (Apprentice: Raggedpaw).
Goldenice — A pale brown shelled tom with ice blue eyes.
Shadowstep — A black she-cat with blue eyes.
Apprentices:
Sunpaw — A chocolate tortoiseshell she-cat with amber eyes (Mentor: Wildbreeze).
Raggedpaw — A messy-furred black tom with bright green eyes (Mentor: Mothwhisker).
Silverpaw — A pale gray, almost silver she-cat with ice blue eyes (Mentor: Molebelly).
Queens:
Hawkfeather — A brown tabby she-cat with amber eyes; mother of Dawnkit and Flightkit.
Lilyclaw — A small russet-colored she-cat with blue eyes; expecting.
Kits:
Dawnkit — A ginger she-cat with blue eyes.
Flightkit — A brown tabby tom with amber eyes.
[Coyotes]
Monarch: Sunlit Claw — A tortoiseshell-and-white she-cat with hazel eyes.
Heir: Golden Whiskers — A large ruddy tabby tom with hazel eyes.
Consort: Russet Pine — A ruddy Somali tom with green eyes.
Seconds:
Red Dusk — A massive ruddy tabby tom with white paws and green eyes.
Whispering Dew — A tall tortoiseshell tom with hazel eyes.
Nimble Crow — A tall ruddy ticked tabby tom with green eyes.
Hiding Hawk — A tall ruddy ticked tabby tom with green eyes.
Shy Tiger — A tortoiseshell-and-white tom with green eyes.
Little Badger — A tortoiseshell-and-white she-cat with green eyes.
Healers:
Dawn Sky — A silver tabby she-cat with amber eyes.
Pebble Stream — A gray tom with blue eyes (Softpaw: Clover Leaf).
Frog Jumper — A mottled brown tom with green eyes.
Morning Mist — A white she-cat with orange eyes.
Sharpclaws:
Storm Chaser — A dark gray tom with orange eyes (Softpaw: Wren Flight).
Song Bird — A gray-and-white she-cat with blue eyes.
Lightning — A black tom with yellow eyes (Softpaw: Rock Jumper).
Ember Light — A dark ginger tom with amber eyes.
Ginger Rush — A golden tom with cobalt-cerulean eyes.
Dark Scorpion — A red-and-black tom with yellow eyes (Softpaw: Forest Eater).
Ebony Spring — A black she-cat with dark blue eyes (Softpaw: Black Mask).
Claw Swipe — A brown-and-beige brindled tabby she-cat with amber eyes.
Thrush Heart — A pale brown brindled tabby she-cat with one amber eye and one green eye.
Softpaws:
Forest Eater — A large calico she-cat with bright green eyes (Mentor: Dark Scorpion).
Clover Leaf — A light brown tabby tom with green eyes (Mentor: Pebble Stream).
Rock Jumper — A lean gray tom (Mentor: Lightning).
Wren Flight — A blue-gray tom with golden eyes (Mentor: Storm Chaser).
Black Mask — A tortoiseshell-and-white tom with copper eyes (Mentor: Ebony Spring).
Mother: Gold Tail — A golden-furred she-cat with hazel eyes, mother of Birch Shade and Eagle Wing.
Kits:
Birch Shade — A gray-and-white tabby tom with hazel eyes.
Eagle Wing — A golden-furred she-kit with hazel eyes.
[Wolves]
Monarch: Snow Sun — A long-furred brown-and-black she-cat.
Heir: Rising Moon — A dark, silver-gray tabby she-cat with green eyes.
Consort: Midnight Shadow — A black, brown, and white tom with with emerald green eyes.
Seconds:
Stone Trail — A dark gray-and-white tom with blue eyes.
Yarrow Frost — A ginger-and-white tom with light blue eyes.
Willow Blaze — A large gray-and-white tabby she-cat with golden eyes.
Mud Pelt — A dark brown tom.
White Rose — A white she-cat with amber eyes.
Healers:
Thorn Spike — A gray tom with green eyes.
Rain Cloud — A pale gray tabby she-cat with amber eyes.
Sparrow Sky — A brown tom with blue eyes.
Sharpclaws:
Brown Stripe — A light brown tom with green eyes (Softpaw: Spider Claw).
Running Light — A white-and-sandy-colored tabby she-cat with bright amber eyes.
Curled Bramble — A dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes (Softpaw: Dust Ear).
Grass Claw — A brown tom with blue eyes.
Soot Whisker — A dark brown tom with amber eyes.
Marigold — A ginger she-cat (Softpaw: Green Leaf).
Faded Stripe — A large, gray-and-dusty brown she-cat with green eyes.
Little Snow — A small, gray-and-white she-cat with blue eyes.
Blazing Fire — A dark ginger she-cat with light amber eyes.
Clouded Water — A white-and-gray mottled she-cat with large, scarred, and blind jade-green eyes.
Silver Night — A dark gray-and-white she-cat with green eyes.
Eagle Flight — A reddish-brown-and-gray tom with striking amber eyes.
Softpaws:
Green Leaf — A brown tabby tom with green eyes (Mentor: Marigold).
Dust Ear — A gray tom (Mentor: Curled Bramble).
Spider Claw — A black tom with brown eyes (Mentor: Brown Stripe).
Mothers:
Rising Moon — See Heir, mother of Darkening Sun and Dappled Shade.
Starling Feather — A gray and black tabby she-cat, expecting Grass Claw's kits.
Kits:
Dark Sun — A smoked-and-white tom with green eyes.
Dappled Shade — A dilute tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes.
[Foxes]
Monarch: Shadow Eye — A black tabby tom.
Heir: Bark Wing — A dark brown tabby tom.
Consort: Juniper Branch — A mottled gray she-cat with amber eyes.
Seconds:
Soot Dust — A brown-and-black dappled tom with yellow eyes.
Raven Wind — A small black tom with golden eyes.
Snowy Fields — A gray and white she-cat with pale green eyes.
Heather Eyes — A black she-cat with hazel eyes.
Healers:
Morning Rose — A chocolate tortoiseshell she-cat.
Snow Hare — A large, white she-cat with blue eyes.
Dark Claw — A black she-cat with green eyes.
Golden Dawn — A golden-and-white furred she-cat.
Water Petal — A large, blue-gray tom with copper eyes.
Sharpclaws:
Running Raven — A black tom with amber eyes (Softpaw: Amber Poppy).
Eagle Feather — A ginger mottled tom with blue eyes (Softpaw: Calm Ash).
Pine Needle — A golden tabby tom with amber eyes (Softpaw: Jay Skip).
Nettle Shade — A large, dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes (Softpaw: Rushing Creek).
Sun Paws — A small, golden-and-white tom with cobalt-emerald eyes.
Ash Wing — A gray tom with green eyes (Softpaw: Turtle Patches).
White Frost — An albino tom with pink eyes.
Owl Face — A small and sleek ginger-and-white tom with orange eyes.
Blizzard Storm — A gray-and-white tom with ice blue eyes (Softpaw: Wolf Run).
Frost Rabbit — A light gray-and-white she-cat with ice blue eyes.
Mouse Jump — A small, brown-and-gray she-cat with mint green eyes.
Vole Pounce — A small, brown-and-gray she-cat with mint green eyes.
Cloud Dance — A white tom with pale blue eyes.
Russet Bird — A reddish-brown-and-white tom with yellow eyes.
Stoat Frost — A reddish-brown, white, and black tom with bright green eyes.
Horse — A tall dilute calico tom with green eyes.
Softpaws:
Amber Poppy — A ginger tom with orange eyes (Mentor: Running Raven).
Calm Ash — A ginger she-cat with green eyes (Mentor: Eagle Feather).
Jay Skip — A dark gray tom with yellow eyes (Mentor: Pine Needle).
Turtle Patches — A tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes (Mentor: Gray Wing).
Rushing Creek — A gray tabby she-cat with dark blue eyes (Mentor: Pine Shade).
Wolf Run — A gray-and-brown tom with orange eyes (Mentor: Blizzard Storm).
Mothers:
Soft Feather — A silver tabby she-cat with blue eyes, mother of Falling Ember, Moon Shine, and Mole Hill.
Frosted Rose — A short, white she-cat with amber eyes, mother of Fish Whisker, Gray Snow, and Light Skip.
Lily Pond — A blue-gray she-cat with light blue eyes, mother of Quiet Stream, Fawn Dance, Stag Leap, and Oak Shadow.
Kits:
Falling Ember — A small, pale gray she-cat with green eyes.
Moon Shine — A sleek-furred silver tabby she-cat with light blue eyes.
Mole Hill — A large, mottled brown-and-white tom with amber eyes.
Fish Whisker — A silver tabby she-kit with blue eyes.
Gray Snow — A pale gray-and-white she-kit with emerald green eyes.
Light Skip — A small, pale golden-and-white tabby tom with emerald eyes.
Quiet Stream — A small, light gray-and-white she-cat with ice blue eyes.
Fawn Dance — A ginger she-cat with orange eyes.
Stag Leap — A dark ginger tom with one blue eye and one orange eye.
Oak Shadow — A calico tom with bright green eyes.
Most kits were confined to the nursery when they were her age.
Queens wanted to protect them from the cold that resided in the main camp until they lost most of their kit fluff and away from the sharp stones that made their homes there until they were more coordinated. If a queen did allow for her kits to leave the nursery, she would watch them like she was a hawk rather than a cat. Molebelly, though, was different — with no queens in the nursery and wanting to continue on with her warrior duties, she allowed for both Sunkit and Raggedkit to play in the large cavern that made up MountainClan's camp and trusted the warriors and apprentices to watch over them for her when she wasn't around to do so herself.
That wasn't the case right then, though. With no patrols demanding her attention, the tortoiseshell watched over her kits herself as they tousled.
It was soon proven that kits of their age, lacking coordination as they were, shouldn't be trusted to play fight in the main camp. Raggedkit had knocked his sister over, and she had cut her cheek on a sharp stone. Though he'd apologized profusely, the damage was done, and Sunkit found herself fighting off tears borne from the stinging pain. She watched through tear-blurred vision as the darker tortoiseshell got to her paws and padded over, and without any preamble she dipped her head to lick at her wound, clearing away blood in her daughter's paler tortoiseshell fur.
"Are you alright?" Molebelly asked once she'd pulled away.
Sunkit only sniffled, more blood slowly oozing out of her wound. In response, the older cat hummed.
"Let's take you to the medicine cats," Molebelly meowed. She took Sunkit's scruff in her teeth before she had any time to worry about the statement, flicked her tail to Raggedkit in a silent order for him to follow, then headed off in the direction of the nursery and medicine den. The tunnel, in the kit's young perspective, seemed wide and yawning. The farther down they went through the passage, the harder it was to see, and when they came across a fork in it Molebelly took the path on the left.
Sunkit was gently set down on the ground, and she turned to look at Raggedkit with wide, worried eyes. In return, her brother offered her an encouraging but wobbly smile, trotting over to her on uncoordinated paws and plopping himself down next to her.
"Petalnose?" Molebelly called. "Windpaw?"
A dark gray tom poked his head around the corner of the den. He blinked amber eyes at the trio, and when he stepped fully into view Sunkit saw a leaf caught in his long fur.
"Molebelly?" he questioned. "What's wrong?"
"Sunkit hurt her cheek." The kit in question felt her mother's tail curl loosely around her. "Where's Petalnose?"
"Out gathering herbs," Windpaw answered. "But I can take care of a cut, don't worry." With that, the tom turned and disappeared back the way he had come.
"Raggedkit, Sunkit," Molebelly began, causing both of her kits to crane their necks to look up at her. Her voice sounded as cold and sharp as the wind that howled outside of the cave — it always did — but despite all that it still comforted the younger she-cat. "What have you learned from this?"
Sunkit moved to lift a paw to press against her cheek, but her mother rested her tail tip on it and put an end to the action. "Stone hurts," she answered, her voice thick with tears.
Molebelly tilted her head, impassive. "You're not wrong," she decided. "But what else?"
The kit's ears flattened as she thought, but no answer came to mind. Her and Raggedkit shared a glance, as if that would help, but neither of them spoke after they had done so. Their mother sighed, shaking her head before she spoke.
"The mountain is dangerous," she told them. "There's snow and ice and stone that will put an end to a cat if they're not careful. It's a harsh place to live, and if we're going to stay here, we have to be just as harsh. Do you understand?"
Always eager to learn a new lesson, grasp a new piece of information between her paws and tuck it securely into her mind, Sunkit gave a firm nod of her head. At the same time as her brother, she mewed, "Yes, Molebelly."
Sunpaw's first lesson as a 'paw was just as harsh as a MountainClan apprentice's should be.
Her mentor, Wildbreeze, was an intimidating she-cat. She was strong and firm and demanded respect everywhere she went; she didn't put up with any rule-breaking (Sunpaw was more concerned with Raggedpaw doing that than herself) or anything less than her apprentice trying her best (something that Sunpaw had no trouble obeying). She didn't enjoy having to repeat herself in any way, shape, or form, and the new apprentice quickly learned that it was better to learn everything quickly and accept any corrections given to her rather than ask for clarification. Though her lilac tortoiseshell pelt was short, she seemed to deal with the cold just fine, and that only added to her imposing figure.
After her ceremony and she'd been allowed time to receive congradulations from Molebelly, Wildbreeze led her outside of camp. She looked over the mountain with eager eyes, falling into step behind her mentor as she led her across the stone-and-snow landscape. Eventually, they paused on a flat, even bit of the mountain, from which the chocolate tortoiseshell could see the rest of the range.
The warrior had unsheathed her claws and swiped at her ears before Sunpaw could so much as blink, creating a nic in the fragile skin there. The wound stung in the biting mountain air, and she could feel the blood trickling from the cut and getting caught in her fur.
Sunpaw had noticed that a lot of warriors carried scars like that.
Wildbreeze fixed her with her sharp amber gaze. "You can't learn anything from me until your body learns to scar," she'd told her.
She didn't quite know what that was supposed to mean, but she was as eager to learn as she always was, and responded, "Yes, Wildbreeze."
hey, remember this? you might notice some differences.
Ashpaw is now Sunpaw — her appearance changed as well, but i think this fits better for her. i also changed up some details about her family, so it makes more sense genetics-wise, too. Wildwind is now Wildbreeze — a name that i feel fits her a lot better, and can't be confused with Windleaf (which i did a few times while writing).
i also changed some characters' names — there were two Snow Hares (one of which was changed to Frost Rabbit in the Foxes, to avoid the repeat of 'Snow' as well) and there were also two Eagle Flights (one of which is now Eagle Feather, also in the Foxes). other names were changed to be more realistic, or in Jaded Sight and Clawed Back's case, because i don't imagine that these groups have name changing ceremonies. as such, Jaded Sight's name has been changed to Clouded Water, as is listed in her history, and Clawed Back has been changed to Claw Swipe. other changes i made were to make appearances more realistic.
anyways, i figured that the people who submitted characters for this have waited for it long enough, though i don't have very many pre-written. unlike Dance With Shadows, i have all the submitted characters for this saved online, so i won't lose any of them!