The Five Apprentices: Book 1 - The Prophecy

Allegiances
ForestClan

Leader: Brookstar - A dark brown tabby tom with green eyes.

Deputy: Amberstripe - A dark ginger she - cat with lighter stripes. Apprentice: Icepaw

Medicine Cat: Breezewhisker - A blue - grey she - cat with shining whiskers.

Warriors

Badgerfur - A black and white tom with bright green eyes.

Talonclaw - A dark grey tom with sharp, long claws. Apprentice: Treepaw

Thornheart - A long - haired grey tom with yellow eyes. Apprentice: Dustypaw

Firebreeze - A fiery ginger she - cat with white paws.

Waterflood - A blue - grey she - cat with ice blue eyes.

Stormtail - A white tom with a grey tail.

Clawfur - A pale grey tom with ragged fur.

Ivypelt - A wiry brown she - cat. Apprentice: Leopardpaw

Queens

Willowwind - A pale grey she - cat with green eyes. Mother of Brookstar’s kits: Meadowkit, Swiftkit, Wildkit and Scarkit

Croweyes - A black she - cat with keen eyes. Mother of Stormtail’s kits: Hawkkit, Runningkit, Lionkit and Bramblekit.

Elders

Sunclaw - A dark ginger tom.

Whisperheart - A once - beautiful looking tortoiseshell she - cat.

PineClan

Leader: Thistlestar - A wiry brown tom with amber eyes.

Deputy: Longpelt - A large fluffy white tom with blue eyes.

Medicine Cat: Velvetclaw - A pale ginger she - cat with unusual white stripes.

Warriors

Cedarclaw - A light brown she - cat.

Raggedscar - A very dark brown, battle scarred tabby tom. Apprentice: Tallpaw

Brokentooth - A pale grey tabby tom with a broken tooth.

Lionstorm - A dark ginger she - cat with amber eyes. Apprentice: Tawnypaw

Dawnheart - A small tortoiseshell she - cat. Apprentice: Rowanpaw

Jaguarpelt - A huge light brown tom with spots like a jaguar’s.

Queens

Shadowfur - A black she - cat with light green eyes. Mother of Longpelt’s kits: Patchkit and Featherkit.

Elders

Mousetail - A small pale grey she - cat with an even smaller tail.

Marshstorm - A white tom.

MoorClan

Leader: Windstar - A pale tabby she - cat.

Deputy: Swiftfoot - A black and white tom with amber eyes.

Medicine Cat: Fernbreeze - a grey tabby tom.

Warriors

Ravencloud - A pure black tom with green eyes.

Honeyfur - A large golden - brown she - cat. Apprentice: Fernpaw

Adderbite - A vicious black tom with a white tip on tail.

Gingerheart - A curious ginger she - cat.

Brightpelt - A light brown she - cat with ginger patches.

Clawfur - A bad - tempered brown tom.

Queens

Squirreltail - A dark grey, long - haired she - cat. Mother of Adderbite’s kits: Molekit, Frostkit and Nightkit.

GrassClan

Leader: Sunstar: A dark ginger tom with green eyes.

Deputy: Foxclaw - A slim young tabby she - cat.

Medicine Cat: Morningbreeze - A beautiful tortoiseshell she - cat. Apprentice: Skypaw

Warriors

Emeraldfrost - A startling white she - cat with green eyes. Apprentice: Flamepaw

Tigerpool - A golden - brown tom with tabby stripes.

Lakeheart - A large creamy coloured she - cat Apprentice: Lionpaw

Thorntail - A dark brown tom with a fluffy tail.

Queens

Robinwing - A brown and white she - cat. Mother of Tigerpool’s kits: Mountainkit, Summerkit and Larkkit.

Frostcloud - A grey and white she- cat. Soon to be mother of Thorntail’s kits.

Prologue
The moon shone brightly onto a patch of oak trees planted in a strange circle. A large hill was in between these, almost as high as the top of the oaks themselves. A dark ginger tom looked around warily. Stars glimmered low in the sky and everything seemed unreal. This was not in the territories. The cat shivered, he must be in a dream. A magnificent white cat stalked majestically over, stars glittering around his paws. “Moon? I thought you had been killed in the battle over territories. What are you doing here?” The ginger tom asked, fear going through him. “Calm down young leader.” Moon meowed gently. “You are in StarClan but not dead. Come, I must show you something.” The ginger tom padded wonderously after Moon. He was still curious about how his old Tribe leader had come here. Moon had been the leader of one of the small tribes of cats. There had been a war and many were killed including Moon. Then there were four leaders picked to become Clan leaders by a mysterious cat from a place called StarClan. Moon stopped at the true version of the oak tree circle. But the ginger tom noticed some differences. The grass on the hill looked more worn and there were thousands of different paw prints imprinted on the ground. Five apprentices sat at the bottom of the hill. “There will be a time when five shall be needed, five cats who are the kin of you and the other leaders.” Moon hissed. “But these shall not just be distant kin, they will be more closer to you than anyone else will ever be. The five will overcome great evil and will have powers even StarClan are envious of.” The ginger tom looked at Moon puzzled but then everything started to fade away. “Moon, you can’t go, I don’t know what you mean!” The tom yowled. But Moon was gone and the oaks were disappearing. Soon there was nothing left and the tom was alone.

Chapter 1
Meadowkit woke up quickly, his eyes wide. Panting, he scrambled to his paws and looked around. He had had another strange dream. In fact, he had had these dreams three times before. Looking around he saw that everything was normal. Willowwind, his mother opened her eyes and looked at her son curiously. “What’s wrong, Meadowkit? It’s still very early.” Willowwind asked. “Oh, nothing much. I just had a bit of a surprise when I woke up and found Wildkit gone. But I can see she’s with you mother, sorry.” Meadowkit lied back as best as he could. Willowwind nodded and then shut her eyes, wrapping her tail comfortingly around Meadowkit. He felt safe with his mother but he didn’t fall asleep. Very soon the first light of dawn crept up and Meadowkit watched the sun rise and he saw cats starting to wake and get up. A patrol of cats set off and then he was lost in thoughts. He thought about when he could go on patrols and fight battles and hunt for the Clan as an honourable warrior. Maybe one day he would be leader of the Clan! Meadowkit was roused from his thoughts by Wildkit’s impatient mew. “Hey, Meadowkit, aren’t you coming out for a play before our apprentice naming ceremony?” “Huh?” Meadowkit jumped up instantly, making one of the younger kits jump. He had completely forgotten! How could he forget about their apprenticeship? Today was going to be a big day for him and his siblings. “OK. Should we ask Croweyes if the others can play too?” Meadowkit asked eagerly. “Yeah, great idea! I’ll just go and ask her!” Wildkit squeaked happily. Meadowkit waited outside for his sister with his other sister and brother, Scarkit and Swiftkit. Soon, Wildkit came out with the other kits, Hawkkit, Runningkit, Lionkit and Bramblekit. “So, who’s going to play as who?” Scarkit piped up. “I’ll be Meadowstar, leader of ForestClan!” Meadowkit meowed quickly. “I’ll be your deputy then!” Bramblekit squeaked. “I’ll be…um… Brambletalon!” “I’ll be Swiftstar of MoorClan.” Swiftkit told everyone. “And Wildclaw can be deputy.” Hawkkit was Hawkstar of PineClan and Lionkit became Lionstar of MeadowClan. Runningkit was a warrior of PineClan. “Grarr… how dare you enter our territory Lionstar!” Bramblekit growled playfully. “This is ForestClan territory.” The two kits got into a play fight but Bramblekit won and the Hawkkit and Meadowkit play fought too. Soon the young kits were scrambling around, having the time of their lives. “Come on now, you four.” Willowwind called out. “You should be getting ready for your apprentice ceremony. The rest of you can go back to the nursery.” “It’s not fair!” Lionkit wailed. “I want to be an appwentice now!” But soon he was shooed away back to Croweyes with the others. Willowwind licked her kits in turn, Meadowkit being first. “Mum, get off me, I’m clean enough.” He protested. But his mother carried on grooming him until he was sleek and good looking. Meadowkit gleefully raced out of the way and watched Wildkit squirming under their mother’s tongue. Suddenly, Brookstar, Meadowkit’s leader and father leapt up onto the Greatrock and called out the traditional words of a Clan meeting. Meadowkit bounded over to Willowwind’s side and looked up expectantly at his leader. “We are gathered her today to name four new apprentices.” Brookstar proudly meowed. “Come forward young ones.” Meadowkit stepped forwards along with Swiftkit, Scarkit and Wildkit. First, Brookstar looked at Scarkit. “From this day forward until he has earned his warrior name, this apprentice will be called Scarpaw. Breezewhisker has been waiting for an apprentice and she wants to take on an apprentice. As Scarpaw is willing to, she will become a medicine cat apprentice. Meadowkit watched as the medicine cat touched noses with Scarpaw. The two then walked back into the crowd of cats. Now, Brookstar turned his gaze onto Wildkit. He named Meadowkit’s sister Wildpaw and gave her to Stormtail to mentor. Also, Swiftkit, now Swiftpaw was to be mentored by Badgerfur. Soon, Brookstar turned to look at the excited Meadowkit. “From this day forwards, until he has earned his warrior name, this apprentice will be called Meadowpaw. I will take on Meadowpaw as I wish to train one of my kits.” Many of the cats looked honourably at Meadowpaw and soon, all the cats in the clearing chanted out the names of the four new apprentices. “Meadowpaw! Scarpaw! Wildpaw! Swiftpaw!” Meadowpaw felt as if he could burst with pride. First of all, he was an apprentice and secondly, he was the leader’s apprentice!

Hope you like my fanfic! More coming soon. By Whitefire