User:VanillaWhiskerz

= Grasswhisker's Journey =

ThunderClan
LEADER: Aspenstar—a tortoiseshell-tabby tom with hazel eyes.

DEPUTY: Leechcloud—a tortoiseshell she-cat with yellow eyes

MEDICINE CAT: Pigeonwhisker—a blue and cream tortoiseshell she-cat with copper eyes.

WARRIORS:

Rookpelt—a black tabby tom with gold eyes

Poppyheart—a tortoiseshell-tabby she-cat with gold eyes

Juniperstorm—a blue and cream tortoiseshell tom with green eyes

Goldstripe—a golden tabby tom with green eyes

APPRENTICES:

Sootpaw—a black tabby she-cat with long fur and gold eyes

Nightpaw—a black tabby tom with long fur and green eyes

QUEENS:

Starlingfang—a black tabby she-cat with copper eyes (Mother to Grasskit, Shinekit, Sootpaw and Nightpaw)

Icestone—a white she-cat with short fur and copper eyes

ELDERS:

Wrencloud—a chocolate tabby she-cat with short fur and yellow eyes

ShadowClan
LEADER: Rowanstar—a short haired, gray tabby tom, with green eyes.

DEPUTY: Dusklion—a dark brown and black splotches tom with blue eyes

MEDICINE CAT: Fennelpelt—a long haired, red tabby tom, with yellow eyes.

WARRIORS:

Foxlight—a red and white tom with sienna eyes

Adderkink—a dark brown tabby tom with yellow eyes and a broken tail

Orangegaze—an orange spotted she-cat with amber eyes

Frogtail—a yellowish tabby she-cat

Darkfur—a tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes

APPRENTICES:

Lilacpaw—a cream and gray tabby she-cat with pale blue eyes

Slatepaw—a gray and black spotted tom with yellow eyes

QUEENS:

None

ELDERS:

Vinescreech—a gray tabby tom

SkyClan
LEADER: Goldenstar—a golden tabby tom with green eyes

DEPUTY: Gleaming Lights—a white tom with amber eyes

MEDICINE CAT: Yarrowears—a tortoiseshell she-cat with white ears and brown eyes

WARRIORS:

Mousetail—a brown tom with yellow eyes

Greenhaze—a pale gray she-cat with green eyes

Wormleap—a blue tom with reddish eyes

Miles—a brown tabby tom with blue eyes

Beechfeather—a black and white striped she-cat with blue eyes

APPRENTICES:

Sandpaw—a pale ginger tabby she-cat with blue eyes

Birchpaw—a white and black striped she-cat with blue eyes

Nettlepaw—a golden tabby tom with blue eyes

QUEENS:

Lightstep—a gray and white she-cat with yellow eyes

ELDERS:

Heatpounce—a gray tom with no eyes

Nightfoot—a black she-cat with amber eyes

WindClan
LEADER: Squirrelstar—a white she-cat with red spots and brown eyes

DEPUTY: Newtclaw—a brown tom with pale speckles

MEDICINE CAT: Skunkwhisker—a black tom with pale blue eyes

WARRIORS:

Hailtail—a white tom with blue eyes

Jumpscar—a gray she-cat with a hideous scar on her side and green eyes

Tallfawn—a brown tuxedo she-cat with amber eyes

Possumheart—a gray tom with yellow eyes

Bruisefoot—a black tom with green eyes

APPRENTICES:

Blazepaw—an orange tabby with amber eyes

QUEENS:

Daffodilface—a pale yellow tabby she-cat with orange eyes (Mother to Featherkit and Sandykit)

Dogclaw—a brown tabby tom with dark eyes

Yellowstripe—a yellow tabby she-cat with green eyes

RiverClan
LEADER: Hailstar—a blue and white she-cat with dark eyes

DEPUTY: Thymepelt—a yellowish tabby tom with green eyes

MEDICINE CAT: Hardstone—a muscular gray she-cat with a missing hind leg and yellow eyes

WARRIORS:

Otterbelly—a brown tom with blue eyes

Leopardclaw—a golden and brown spotted she-cat with amber eyes

Blueash—a blue she-cat with yellow eyes

Sootwater—a black tom with blue eyes

Burnflame—a tortoiseshell tom with redish eyes

APPRENTICES:

Cardinalpaw—a yellow tabby tom with dark eyes

Jaypaw—a silver tabby tom with dark eyes

QUEENS:

None

ELDERS:

None

ELDERS:

None

Cats Outside Clans
Sunny Skies—a golden she-cat with amber eyes

Howie—a dark brown barn cat tom with yellow eyes

Tom—a silver tabby kittypet tom with amber eyes

Drippaw—a brown tabby tom with amber eyes

Prologue
The moon shown high above the SkyClan camp. A golden tabby tom staggered in through the entrance with a blood-stained pelt. Gasps around the edges of the camp sounded in the clearing.

"What happened, Goldenstar?" A tom yelped at the entrance of the warriors den.

"Drippaw..." Goldenstar growled. "He attacked me when we were patrolling. I he killed Sparrowsight, I tried to save his body...." Goldenstar sighed. "But Drippaw almost killed me too. I knew he's been planning something evil! He ran away once I had him chase me here." A light rain started to sprinkle the ground.

"Well, I guess there's no use chasing him now in this rain." Goldenstar growled. "He'll be aways off now, and the rain will wash his scent away." Goldenstar trailed off and suddenly fainted.

"Get out of the way!" Yarrowears mewed. "He needs air." She glanced briefly around the clearing. "Mousetail, Greenhaze, help me move him."

The two warriors scurried to their medicine cat's side and Yarrowears lifted her unconscious leader onto Mousetails back and helped Greenhaze keep him steady. They carried Goldenstar to Yarrowears den and set him on a mossy nest.

Yarrowears flicked her tail tip towards a pile of fresh moss. "Fetch some water for Goldenstar with that moss ." She instructed to Greenhaze. "Mousetail, tell the others Goldenstar will be okay." They nodded and hurried to do what they were asked.

Outside, Lightstep was pacing, anxious for her mate to be okay. She nodded to Greenhaze and Moustail as the walked out past her.

"Goldenstar will be okay!" Mousetail yowled for the clan to hear.

"Are you sure?" Lightstep worried.

"Yarrowear said." He assured the expecting she-cat. "If Yarrowear says he'll be alright, he'll be alright."

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A large brown tabby tom, about 15 moons old, lunged. He aimed at an old, tall, oak tree. With all his anger gathered in the swipe, his claws gouged the trunk leaving deep claw marks.

"I'll get you back!" He growled, ripping up grass and dirt inbetween his claws.

The tom clawed the oak tree again, imagining that it was his enemy. He imagined a golden tom, pure hatred in his eyes, glaring at him, with bleeding wounds all over. The brown tom couldn't wait until the day he might see his past mentor in a state like this. Though he knew it would probably never happen.

"I'll kill you if I ever see you again!" He yowled into the forest. "I can't believe that that mouse brained SkyClan believes him." He sighed. Drippaw had been watching from the edge of camp to see what Goldenstar did after he ran. He had been soaked in the lake when Goldenstar tried to drown him after he killed Sparrowsight in a fight that had been caused only by an arguement. "Well I guess he is the leader. Even if I didn't kill Sparrowsight—which I did't." He corrected himself. "—Goldenstar still could have exiled me…."

Chapter 1
It was bright outside with not a single cloud in the sky to ruin the perfect day flowers were starting to bloom after a cold, long leaf-bare. The leaves in trees high above camp were swaying, well, the leaves that the trees had. Starlingfang had kitted almost six moons ago and her two kits were hyper and excited. Aspenstar had decided to make them apprentices when they were only almost six moons.

"Come on Shinekit!" Grasskit squealed, pinning Shinekit in a play battle again. They had been wrestling all day and still had enough energy to run around the lake and back. "You've got to work harder! We're almost apprentices! You wouldn't want to be considered weak for how you fought as a kit when your a warrior, would you?" Grass kit lashed her tail in annoyance. "It's not fun when you don't try."

"I was!" Shinekit mewed. Of course she wasn't trying her hardest, but she was too exited.

Grasskit frowned. She was annoyed by her sister, Shinekit never really tried.

"Grasskit! Shinekit! Come here, your ceremony is soon." Starlingfang called from the soft mossy nursery.

"Coming!" Shinekit mewled. She turned to Grasskit as the two padded from the ThunderClan's camp clearing toward the nursery. "Aren't you excited too?"

"Of course!" Grasskit smiled. "I bet I'm more excited! Race you!"

Shinekit sprinted ahead, she always was faster than Grasskit. "Why do I even ask?" Grasskit chuckled. She raced after her sister and didn't even get close to winning. Shinekit beat her to Starlingfang.

"I've been waiting." Shinekit chuckled.

"Now kits," Starlingfang mewed. "get along. I will wash you." She lapped Shinekit and Grasskit all over, leaving no dirt or dust behind.

"May all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather beneath highledge for a clan meeting!" Aspenstar's call sounded from high above the camp.

Grasskit proudly walked out of the nursery, tail high, Shinekit padded behind.

Aspenstar was crouching on highledge watching his clanmates emerging from their dens or looking up from the fresh kill pile. Leechcloud, his mate and deputy, sat beside him. The sun was high, and the clearing was bright. The grass above ThunderClan's hollow swayed in the gentle breeze. This was the perfect day to become an apprentice.

Juniperstorm and Poppyheart sat side by side, tails entwined. Rookpelt joined Starlingfang, Shinekit, and Grasskit under highledge and licked Starlingfang's cheek. He smiled down at his youngest kits, his broad black frame giving off heat from the sun.

Nightpaw and Sootpaw sat together at the edge of the clearing, and watched their little sisters proudly and a little bit relieved because other Apprentices could do chores now.

"We have gathered here today for one of the most important parts of clan life." Aspenstar started. "The making of apprentices. Grasskit, Shinekit, step forward.: He beckoned the two kits with a flick of his tail. "Grasskit, you are almost six moons, and it is time for you to be apprenticed. From this day until you get your warrior name, you will be known as Grasspaw." He turned to Juniperstorm. "Juniperstorm, you have shown great loyalty, and strength to your clan, and you are ready to take on your second apprentice. I hope you will pass on your skills to Grasspaw."

Grasspaw burst with pride. Juniperstorm was the strongest cat in Thunderclan! Well I'll beat him in being the strongest soon! Grasspaw thought. She dipped her head to Aspenstar and smiled back at Rookpelt and Starlingfang. Then she padded over to Juniperstorm and touched noses, and sat beside him.

"What will we do first?" Grasspaw whispered.

"Hush." Juniperstorm growled. "You mustn't disturb the meeting. For StarClan sake it's for your sister!"

"...Then from now on until you get your warrior name, you will be known as Shinepaw. Goldstripe, you are ready for an apprentice, may you pass down your skills in hunting and reason to Shinepaw."

"Thank you, it would be an honor to mentor Shinepaw."

Goldenstripe and Shine paw touched noses and sat together.

"Clan dissmissed." Aspenstar yowled.