Allegiances and Chapter 1:
Hi! This is my first story, so sorry if it's completely awful! If it's decent, maybe leave a review? I won't ask anymore though, don't worry! I need names for future characters and the rest of the clans, if you'd like to submit any.
- -Brownfur
Echokit awoke, and found herself being swung from her scruff in her mother's jaws.
Brackenflower unceremoniously dropped her into the peat, Echokit's chin now aching. "Mama, why aren't we at home?"
The kit gazed around the pine trees unfamiliarly. The woods were unlike the sparsely populated fields she had been living in for the past 5 moons of her life. She looked at the moon-high skies and realized Brambleflower must have walked all night. The last thing she remembered was her mother giving her a mouse, with a stranger taste than usual.
"You are going home." Brackenflower turned her dull, tired eyes upon her kit and lashed a scarred, patched tail.
"This isn't home!" Echokit squeaked. "What about our cave in the fields? And where is Whisperkit and Nightkit, anyways?" Echokit began to worry as she realized her brown tabby brother and tortoiseshell sister were gone.
"You're the strongest of them," Brackenflower mewed, as if that explained everything. "Listen, now. You will go straight into the pine woods until you come across a stream. It isn't far from here."
"But ma-"
"Hush. There you will wait. Soon enough a group of cats will appear and take you into your new home. There is a cat named Spirestrike, a tall brown tom." Brackenflower's eyes misted as she spoke his name. "You will tell the cats there you are Brackenflower's last kit. Tell Spirestrike you are his. And they will take you in."
Echokitcurled her tail around herself. "Why? I want to be with you. And Whisperkit and Nightkit." She mewed, almost a whisper.
"I will be with you. In your dreams." Brackenflower's gaze fell to her sheathed claws. "If you want to survive, you will do as I say. Join them."
"But who are these cats?" Echokit stood and gazed into her mother's amber eyes and saw her young face, a smoky brown tabby with white around her face running all down to her underbelly reflected.
With a change in demeanor, Brackenflower lowered her voice, "Shadowclan. Who I've been telling you kits about."
Silence filled the clearing for a moment before Brackenflower pushed Echokit away with her tail. "Go. I love you, but you must fulfill your design. I will visit you."
Design?
Echokit opened her mouth to speak and stepped forwards, but her mother lashed out an unsheathed paw.
"Leave."
"I-"
The claws reached for Echokit's neck, but stopped before impact, and pushed the kit away once more.
Eyes stinging, Echokit whirled around and began to run into the pine woods.
"Good." Brackenflower whispered as she watched her last kitten leave her. She choked out a sob and dug her claws into the ground.
A dark spirit-cat, starless and whites of the eyes turned into void, slunk beside Brackenflower. "You did what you had to, darling. She will be our savior." The mostly black tortoiseshell she-cat rasped a tongue down the no-longer-sobbing queen's cheek.
"I know, mother. Ravenblood." The pale calico cat stood, determination filling her eyes.
"You have fulfilled your part of the prophecy. Join us once more, Brambleflower." The shadow spoke and curled her tail around her daughter's.
Brambleflower nodded slowly and unsheathed her claws. "She will be my revenge. My legacy."
"Our revenge. Our legacy. Our star." Ravenblood whispered.
With those words, Brambleflower took her claws and shoved them into her own throat.
Then ripping the paw from her neck, she looked down at the blood gushing from herself. It came slowly, then poured out. Brambleflower crumpled to her belly and began laughing maniacally. She wheezed, and ran her claws down her eyes, pain ravaging through.
Let my blood be for yours, Echokit.
The last thing she felt alive was her own blood seeping down her throat and joy finally warming her heart.
Allegiances:
Shadowclan:
Leader:
Driftstar- Tall black tabby she-cat with white ears and bright orange eyes.
Deputy:
Rubblerace- Silver and white dappled tom with brown eyes.
Medicine Cat:
Streakfern- brown spotted tom with a ginger stripe reaching down to his tail and green eyes.
Warriors:
Bladetooth- Grey tabby she-cat with a snaggle tooth and blue eyes.
Writheclaws- ginger tom with a white tail and amber eyes.
Roaringice- Blue she-cat with grey eyes and scars down throat.
Redrose- Smoky red tomcat with long fur, a plumy tail and brown eyes.
Ashenspots- Spotted grey tomcat with darker grey face, paws, and tail, and blue eyes.
Cindercoat- Pale grey she-cat with darker grey face, paws, and tail, and amber eyes.
Batears- Skinny brown striped tomcat with huge ears and grey eyes.
Fawnflight- Cinnamon she-cat with white patches and green eyes.
Starksnow- Bright white tom with bobtail and green eyes.
Spirestrike- Thick brown tabby tom with long fur and amber eyes.
Lonestride- Blue and pale ginger dappled she-cat with tufted ears and grey eyes.
Palestripe- Peach colored tomcat with white stripes and yellow eyes.
Thistlerash- Grey tom with white legs and grey eyes.
Queens:
Ebonypool- Longfurred black and white patched queen with brown eyes and mother of Batears' kits; Opalkit- a She-kit, black with tall white ears, and Ivorykit- a tom-kit, black with white back and front legs.
Curlyears- Grey striped queen with blue eyes and strange ears curled back towards head, (look up American curl) expecting Rubblerace's kits.
Poppyjaw- White she-cat with black speckles on chin, tail and legs with yellow eyes, mother of Ashenspot's kit; Speckledkit- Spotted grey tom kit with grey eyes and short tail.
Apprentices:
Birchpaw- Yellow tom with black stripes, long fur and grey eyes, apprenticed to; Starksnow.
Rapidpaw- Yellow and gold she-cat with brown eyes, apprenticed to; Thistlerash.
Thawpaw- Skinny blue and white tomcat with green eyes, apprenticed to; Curlyears.
Greenpaw- Brown-Black she-cat with green eyes and tufted ears, apprenticed to; Spirestrike.
Elders:
Rubyshard- Red and orange she-cat, half blind with greyed blue eyes.
Lashclaw- Brown and black tom with grey eyes.
Thunderclan:
Leader:
Slipstar- Aging white tomcat with brown eyes.
Deputy:
Fallowclaw- Yellow striped She-cat with green eyes and silver streamed claws.
Medicine Cat:
Moongaze: White she-Cat with grey eyes.
Warriors:
Skyshard- Blue and grey striped she-cat with cut tail and grey eyes.
Swallowskies- Red and silver she-Cat with torn ears and brown eyes.
Apprentices:
Heartpaw- Large golden tabby and white tom with grey-blue eyes and a gold splash on chest, apprenticed to Swallowskies.
Doepaw- Tall golden brown she-cat with green eyes apprenticed to Skyshard.
Oakpaw- Brown tom with white back and brown eyes apprentices to Moongaze.
Windclan:
Leader:
Shredstar- Slim orange she-cat with blue eyes and heavily pregnant with Talonscreech's kits.
Deputy:
Lakeeyes- Blue tom cat with pale, almost white eyes.
Medicine Cat:
Mallowbreeze: Soft-furred sandy she-cat with green eyes.
Warriors:
Droughtpelt- Cinnamon tomcat with long fur and red eyes.
Talonscreech- Grey pointed tom with brown eyes.
Voltclaw- Solid talon she-cat with yellow eyes.
Apprentices:
Flickpaw- Grey tabby she- cat with grey eyes, apprenticed to Voltclaw.
Wailpaw- Tortoiseshell she-cat with blue eyes and thick legs, apprenticed to :
Leader:
Furledstar- Brown tabby tom with tail typically carried over back (look up American Ringtail) and brown eyes.
Deputy:
Plummetleap- Grey and orange she-cat with blue eyes.
Medicine Cat:
Oceancry: Scrawny blue tom with silver stripes around his eyes and green eyes.
Cats outside of the Clans:
Marsh- Young brown tabby rogue tom with one amber eye and one green eye.
Kyli- A female silver classic tabby kittypet with long fur and grey eyes.
Brackenflower- Longfurred dilute calico she-cat with blue eyes, mother of Spirestrike's kits; Whisperkit- Brown tabby tom with silvery eyes and long fur, Echokit- Brown and white tabby she-kit with plumy tail and tufted ears, and Nightkit- Dark tortoiseshell She-kit with long fur, grey eyes, and tufted ears.