FOREVERCLAN
LEADER: Icestar- Blue-grey tom with dark, stormy grey eyes, lean, thin, but large compared to other cats
DEPUTY: Doeleap- Soft-furred shorthair cream she-cat with white paws and soft, doe-like, big brown eyes
apprentice, Fallenpaw- light brown-colored she-cat with cream colored underbelly and paws, has amber eyes
MEDICINE CAT: Shinepool- elderly silver she-cat with blue eyes so deep they look like an endless abyss
apprentices, Dewshine- medium-sized golden she-cat with dark, leopard-like spots, has moist yellow- green eyes
Gorsepaw- small, grey tom with heather colored eyes and white paws
WARRIORS:
(Toms and queens without kits over 12 moons old)
Thunderbird- Black tom with orange eyes, very large and broad- shouldered
apprentice, Riverpaw- A silver she-cat with pepper-like black spots, has green eyes
Crowflame- Black tom with amber eyes
Smokeheart- Grey tom with white stripes and amber eyes
Firestripe- Ginger tom with green eyes and grey stripes
Mistlight- Grey and white she-cat with grey eyes
Dustwind- Light grey tom with silvery green eyes
Stagstep- Dark brown tom-cat with soft, doe-like brown eyes
apprentice, Snowpaw- Black tom with white paws and green-blue eyes
Echoleap- Grey she-cat with silver eyes and stripes
Flowerfur- Cream-colored she-cat with dark brown paws and blue eyes
apprentice, Flamepaw - ginger tom with white stripes and green eyes
Fawnheart- Cream-colored she-cat with white under-belly and mottled brown spots and brown doe-like eyes
apprentice, Birdpaw- Dark brown tom with blue eyes
Shadowfur- Dark grey tom with black stripes and green eyes
apprentice, Blizzardpaw- white she-cat with ice blue eyes
Spiderfur- Black tom with grey spots around his face, amber eyes
apprentice, Sunpaw- golden tom with amber eyes
Iceflower- Snowpaw's mother; blue-grey she-cat with silver eyes
Brownfur- Light brown tom with white spots and amber eyes
CROOKED-FATES:
(Cats that can't be full-fledged warriors due to "problems")
Tanglefoot- Clumsy, dust-colored tom with pale grey eyes, is blind
Brokensong- White she-cat with grey stripes and pale grey eyes; is blind
Silentwind- Black tom with a bright, cheery blue gaze; is mute
QUEENS:
(She-cats with kits)
Shimmermoon- Silver she-cat with blue eyes; mates with Crowflame
Kits (second litter): Mistkit (silver she-cat with green eyes)
Mintheart- Black she-cat with green eyes; mates with Thunderbird
Kits (third litter): Jaykit (blue-eyed black tom), Ravenkit (black she-cat with green eyes), Hawkkit (silver and black tom)
Frostface- White-faced grey she-cat with blye eyes; mates with Firestripe
KIts (fourth litter): Leafkit (brown, ginger,and white she-cat with amber eyes)
Nightsnow- Black she-cat with white, snow-like drips spots, has pale grey eyes; mates with Spiderfur
Kits (first litter): Greykit (dark grey tom, silver eyes),Blackkit (black tom with white spots around his blue eyes),Shadowkit (dark grey tom with grey stripes, green eyes)
ELDERS:
(Toms and she-cats over a certain number of moons)
Crookedheart- grey tom-cat with black spots and blue eyes
ROUGES:
(Cats that left or were exiled)
Blizzardpelt- Thin, ragged white she-cat with a missing eye
Ashwing- Black she-cat with dark grey stripes and soft green-blue eyes
Raccoonstep- Black-and-grey striped tom with white paws and muzzle, and white-tipped bushy tail
Blazepelt- A ginger tom with black paws and amber eyes
Chapter One
The hot, swift wind of Greenleaf was one of torture. Throughout the forest where the clan resided, it was as green and fresh as it was every year, but the unconditional heat was out of the ordinary. One would think, with the river leading to the lake so close by, that the wind would get cooler as it traveled over. One would hope, but it didn't happen.
But it was on a much cooler day that Leafkit was making her rounds around the camp. She would jump up on the cool stone under the tall oaks that surrounded the camp, and strut around like her apprenticed siblings would when boasting to her that they would become great warriors. Leafkit didn't mind, because she knew she wasn't ever going to become a warrior. There was something wrong with her. Her parents, Frostface and Firestripe, would whisper about it deep into the night.
From over in the Crooked-Fates den came the young voice of Tanglefeet. But right after, the sound of him falling roughly down caused him to say, "Hey! Why'd those rotten apprentices move the moss beds over here?"
Leafkit felt sorry for him. Tanglefeet was only 13 moons old, 6 moons older than Leafkit, who should've been made an apprentice by now. She used to wonder why, before realizing that she wasn't cut out to be a warrior. She wasn't cut out to be much of anything.
"Hey!" shouted Sunpaw from the bramble tunnel that led into the camp. "You! Leafkit!"
Leafkit glanced around, her muscles rippling under her multicolored coat. She blinked, and trotted over to the large apprentice. Leafkit was dwarfed by all of the apprentices, even by most of the kits. Despite being 7 moons old, she was no bigger than the smallest kit in the nursery, who was 3 moons old. She hated how small she was, and wondered if the fact that she was this small was why everyone said something was off with her.
Sunpaw chuckled like he did whenever he got the chance to pick on Leafkit. He crossed the sandy grass in the middle of the camp to reach her, and whispered, "How does it feel to be destined to be a Crooked-Fate? You'd better go talk to them, and get used to it!"
Leafkit flinched and held in a breath, along with the venom on her tongue. Her voice came out low and weak. "Why don't you?"
Sunpaw smiled his toothy smile, his whiskers raising. "Because I'm normal. You're not. You're small, like a hawk's dinner. You're weak, like a kit!"
Leafkit cocked her head, ignoring him. She had just noticed something creeping behind her. Interested, she began to trot into the tunnel, where the figure had slunk. Sunpaw whipped around, just noticing her leaving.
"Hey!" he said. "You can't go out there!"
She ignored him once again. By now, her paws were crossing the tunnel's sandy bottom and into the undergrowth of the forest and the strewn leaves. She had ventured out here before, usually with her friends Fallenpaw and Snowpaw, but never alone. But that didn't matter at the moment. She was too focused on-
Sunpaw leaped in front of her, the leaves being thrown every which way. "Hey!" he hissed at her. "You're not allowed out here alone!"
"But you're here," she said coolly, trotting along aside him. He glanced down at her. They were the same age, but he couldn't get the fact that she was several pounds smaller than him. She was just as smart as him, but with her small body, she was so much easier to bully for him. He smiled. An opportunity.
"Sure," he said, intent on scaring her, "Have you heard the story of the white cat that stalks and kills kits?"
Leafkit glanced up at him and scoffed.
"Well, her name's Blizzardpelt, and she's a very thin white cat. She sneaks into the camp and grabs little kits who look like her... and kills them!" said Sunpaw dramatically as they continued walking.
"I don't look anything like her."
'You've got white on you," Sunpaw said impishly. "So that counts."
After walking for a few minutes, Sunpaw launched at Leafkit, grabbing her scruff and lifting her up into the air. "I got you!" he said between his teeth in a high, girly voice. "I'll get you now! You're dead!"
Leafkit hit his face with unsheathed claws and landed on her paws. "Shut up," she said sadly. She hated him bullying her like this. If it was verbal, she was fine, but she hated that. That annoyed her, made her face her so-called "problem": her size.
Something rustled the leaves around them.
"What was that?" Sunpaw hissed. They stopped.
Leafkit sighed. "What?"
A white figure jumped out at them claws outstretched, catching the light. A lean she-cat's face was so close to Leafkit that the kit had to step back. A sadistic grin crossed the cat's face, a large scar running down the left side of her face.
"Little kit, little kit..." Blizzardpelt sang softly, "why must you go? Come to me, little kit, little kit, I'll send you home. Little kit, little kit, where would you rather die? From the claws I have, or from the home you reside? Answer me quickly little kit, before I'm pulled back home.. the Forest of No Stars, a place no one knows."
Leafkit jerked awake, lying on the grass. Sunpaw was over her, glancing around wildly. "Did you see that? She disappeared..."
"Let's get back home," suggested Leafkit.
"Yeah," Sunpaw said, but something in his eyes glittered with joy, joy from seeing Leafkit scared,
