A Warriors Fanfiction

[Kitty]

((Someday I'll think of a name. That someday, however, is not today.))

Clan Allegiances:

RiverClan:

Leader:
Rainstar - small light gray she-cat with darker flecks and green eyes

Deputy:
Stonefoot - dark gray tabby tom with amber eyes
Apprentice: Smallpaw

Medicine cat:
Birchnose - pale gray tom with amber eyes
Apprentice: Icepaw

Warriors:
Brambletail - light brown tabby she-cat with amber eyes

Grayheart - large gray tom
Apprentice: Reedpaw

Thrushclaw - dark gray tom

Whitefur - pretty long-haired white she-cat with blue eyes
Apprentice: Mousepaw

Otterwhisker - brown tabby tom with amber eyes

Shellflower - pale gray she-cat with green eyes

Lilyflight - white she-cat with light ginger tabby splotches
Apprentice: Nightpaw

Darktail - dark brown tabby tom with a very long tail

Creampelt - pale ginger she-cat

Silverstorm - light gray she-cat with black stripes
Apprentice: Rockpaw

Sparrowheart - brown tabby tom with green eyes
Apprentice: Palepaw

Apprentices:
Smallpaw - small white and gray tom with yellow eyes
Mentor: Stonefoot

Icepaw - white she-cat with green eyes
Mentor: Birchnose

Reedpaw - skinny black tom with amber eyes
Mentor: Grayheart

Nightpaw - very dark gray, almost black, she-cat with green eyes
Mentor: Lilyflight

Mousepaw - small light brown she-cat with green eyes
Mentor: Whitefur

Rockpaw - gray tom with darker flecks and amber eyes
Mentor: Silverstorm

Palepaw - pale ginger she-cat with green eyes
Mentor: Sparrowheart

Queens:
Puddlesong - silver tabby with blue eyes
Mother of Stonefoot's kits: Aspenkit (light gray tabby she-kit) and Stormkit (gray tom)

Dovewing - white with green eyes
Mother of Grayheart's kit: Snowkit (white she-kit)

Elders:
Berryclaw - creamy white she-cat

Rippleheart - silver tom with black stripes; oldest cat in RiverClan

ShadowClan:

Leader:
Redstar - dark ginger tabby tom

Deputy:
Nightwing - black she-cat

Medicine cat:
Hollytail - dark gray she-cat

Warriors:
Cinderflower - dark gray she-cat
Apprentice: Toadpaw

Volefur - brown tabby tom with amber eyes

Sorrelpelt - tortoise-shell and white she-cat with amber eyes
Apprentice: Lizardpaw

Leafclaw - brown and white tabby she-cat with amber eyes

Dustclaw - light brown tabby tom

Brackenfeather - handsome ginger tabby tom with green eyes

Weaselclaw - brown tabby tom with amber eyes
Apprentice: Firepaw

Spottedwhisker - white she-cat with black spots

Blacknose - small solid black she-cat
Apprentice: Gorsepaw

Apprentices:
Toadpaw - dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes
Mentor: Cinderflower

Lizardpaw - brown tabby tom with amber eyes
Mentor: Sorrelpelt

Firepaw - small dark ginger tabby tom with green eyes
Mentor: Weaselclaw

Gorsepaw - small dark ginger tabby tom
Mentor: Blacknose

Queens:
Honeyflower - light ginger tabby
Mother of Volefur's kits: Brownkit (brown tabby she-kit), Tigerkit (ginger tabby tom), and Flamekit (ginger tabby tom)

Russetclaw - dark ginger tabby
Soon-to-be mother of Dustclaw's kits

Elders:
Webflight - gray tabby tom

Finchfang - light brown tabby tom; oldest cat in ShadowClan


ThunderClan:

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Leader:
Miststar - pale gray she-cat with darker flecks

Deputy:
Tigerfang - dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes

Medicine Cat:
Dappleheart - dark brown long-haired she-cat with ginger flecks

Warriors:

Apprentices:

Queens:

Elders


WindClan:

Leader:
Thistlestar - brown tabby tom with unruly fur

Deputy:
Heatherheart - light brown tabby she-cat

Medicine cat:
Tinyfeather - small white and brown tabby she-cat

Warriors:

Apprentices:

Queens:

Elders:

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[Kitty]

Chapter 1

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"Palekit, Rock-kit. Please come forward."

Trembling with excitement, the young pale ginger cat followed a slightly larger gray one as she stepped towards Rainstar. Today was the day. The day she'd looked for for the last six moons of her life. All her kithood. After everything she'd been through to get to this point, it was finally here. The time for she and her brother, Rock-kit, to become apprentices.

Rainstar continued in a voice loud enough to be heard throughout the camp and loud enough for even the deafest elder to hear. "This is a proud day for RiverClan. By naming apprentices we show that RiverClan will survive and remain strong. Rock-kit, Palekit, from this moment on until you recieve your warrior name you will be known as Rockpaw and Palepaw." The gray flecked leader faced Rock-kit first, and newly-named Palepaw could see him trembling with barely suppressed excitement. He was just as excited as she, but she knew that her eyes did not have that calmness in them. Hers were probably filled with eagerness.

"Silverstorm." A light gray she-cat with dark stripes looked up proudly at the sound of her name from the middle of a group of warriors. Rainstar went on. "You are ready for your first apprentice. You will be mentor to Rockpaw. I know you will pass on your wisdom and strength to him, and teach him the skills that will make him a brave warrior of RiverClan."

As with tradition, Silverstorm padded up to the front of the camp and touched noses with Rockpaw. Then Rockpaw followed her off to the side, glancing back at Palepaw enthusiastically. Palepaw's focus was returned to Rainstar when she began speaking again, though. "Sparrowheart. You are ready for your first apprentice. You will be mentor to Palepaw." Sparrowheart, a brown tabby, rose to his paws. Suddenly it was hard for Palepaw to sit still. She shot to her paws. "I know you will pass on your courage and thoughtfulness to her, and teach her the skills needed to be a brave warrior of RiverClan." Palepaw skittered over to Sparrowheart, too impatient for him to come all the way to her. She reached up and touched his nose with her own. She was finally an apprentice! She followed her new mentor over to where Rock-kit sat with Silverstorm. The surrounding cats burst into welcoming yowls of 'Rockpaw! Rockpaw!' and 'Palepaw! Palepaw!'

Rainstar leapt down from the roof of her den where she stood to call Clan meetings and the gathering of cats broke up, some veering off to congratulate she and Rockpaw. She accepted them with a nod, itching to do something apprentice-worthy. She looked up at Sparrowheart.

"You should go with the other apprentices and find a place in the den," he suggested, and Silverstorm nodded her agreement. Icepaw, a she-cat who'd already been an apprentice for a few moons, came bounding over from the other apprentices as if by some unspoken signal.

"C'mon! We'll show you where you're supposed to sleep!" she invited, eyes warm. Palepaw followed willingly. She was going to be sleeping in the apprentice den now! No more nursery! No more newborns wailing about something or other! No more queens nagging her to clean her pelt! No more sharing warmth with the other kits...maybe there had been some good things about the nursery. Some.

Rockpaw and Palepaw followed Icepaw and another apprentice, Reedpaw, into the den. Icepaw and Reedpaw were siblings, and only three moons older than Rockpaw and Palepaw, so they'd been in the nursery together. Then Reedpaw took Rockpaw over to a nest near the back of the den. Icepaw led Palepaw to one beside it. "You can sleep here," she invited. "Its right next to mine," she added, but Palepaw already could tell that by scent. "And your brother will be next to you, too. Sometime soon we'll go out and get more moss." Icepaw prodded a piece of the squishy green stuff. "You don't have much here right now, but we'll fix that soon enough."

"That's great!" Palepaw agreed enthusiastically, rearranging the moss in her new nest so it would be more comfortable. She was still fixing her "fluffy green stuff" when Rockpaw flicked his tail in farewell and followed Reedpaw out of the den, the two of them chattering as they went.

"C'mon!" Icepaw meowed, spinning towards the entrance. She glanced back over her shoulder at Palepaw, blue eyes examining her for a moment. Then she blinked and her eyes turned warm. "The Clan'll be celebrating! We don't want them to get all the good fresh-kill!" She pranced outside, the pale ginger she-cat at her heels. A nice, juicy fish was just what she needed right now, and friends to share it with would make it even better!

They reached the pile, and Rockpaw and Reedpaw were already there. "Oh, there you are!" Rockpaw meowed. "We saved you two some fish." He pushed two plump fish over to the she-cats, and Palepaw purred her thanks, grabbing the nearest shiny, slippery, delicious thing and gulping a bite of it down. Icepaw giggled at her appetite and ate her own fish a little slower.

Palepaw's fish was gone within heartbeats, and she sat up, whiskers twitching. She licked her paws and rubbed them, now damp, across her muzzle repeatedly. The rest of the evening, she endured more cats congratulated her and her brother. She chatted with the other apprentices, and even Rainstar herself came over to congratulate them.

"Welcome to the apprentice den, young ones," she purred, examining the two of them with green eyes as she spoke. "I hope you don't give your mentors any troubles. After all, they know how to punish naughty apprentices!" Icepaw and Reedpaw snickered over Rockpaw and Palepaw's horrified looks, and Rainstar let out a mrrow of laughter. "Ah, just do as you're told and you'll have no difficulties. I'll be checking up on your training!" she promised, and trotted off, leaving a confused Palepaw to figure out whether or not her leader was joking, with no success.

Night fell, and Reedpaw retired to the apprentice den. The other cats followed one by one, warriors and apprentices alike, but Palepaw, Rockpaw, and Icepaw were far from the last cats in the clearing when they followed suit and went to their nests.

Icepaw curled up in her nest and Rockpaw went to his. He began arranging his moss - something he hadn't done earlier when Palepaw had - while Palepaw began a thorough groom for one last time before bed. Her brother used to think that that was weird - its just going to get messed up, right? But he soon grew used to it, because it became a daily thing for Palepaw, and she'd done it ever since she was before 3 moons old.

Just then, Sparrowheart's head poked into the den. "Might wanna get some sleep. Tomorrow we're going hunting and on a tour of the territory," he announced.

"Wow!" icepaw exclaimed from her nest, cracking open a blue eye. "Hunting and a territory tour! You should sleep! Hunting alone takes a lot out of ya! But not as much as fighting does. But since you're going on a tour of the territory too it'll be, like, twice as bad as battle training!" How encouraging. "Go on, sleep!" Palepaw obeyed her happily. After everything that happened today, she was glad for the nest.

"Good night, Rockpaw," she purred to her brother several heartbeats later, but he was already fast asleep.[/center]