Featherstar of ThunderClan

ShadowClan
* Some cats are listed in the allegiances but do not appear, such as Tallpoppy's kits

RiverClan
* Some cats may be listed in the allegiances but do not appear, as with Mistyfoot's kits

WindClan
* Some cats may not appear, like Ashfoot and her kits

Cats Outside the Clans
Barley - black-and-white tom that lives on a farm close to the forest

Blackfoot - large white tom with huge jet-black paws, formerly ShadowClan deputy

Boulder - silver tabby tom, formerly of ShadowClan

Princess - a light brown tabby with a distinctive white chest and paws - a kittypet

Ravenpaw - sleek black cat with a white-tipped tail who lives on the farm with Barley

Smudge - plump, friendly black-and-white kittypet who lives in a house at the edge of the forest

Prologue
Fireheart could see Tigerclaw's claws were sheathed, he was batting at his "enemy" like a kittypet, with no harm done. The cat he was fighting also had sheathed his claws.

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Tigerclaw was advancing on Bluestar. Quick as lightning, they started to battle.

No! thought Fireheart. Tigerclaw must not kill Bluestar! He quickly pounced like a cat hunting a mouse, like he was, and the mouse was Tigerclaw.

Tigerclaw let out a hiss of fury. Fireheart raked his claws down the traitor's back, but Tigerclaw flipped over. Fireheart let himself go limp, and Tigerclaw lessened the weight on his claws.

"Just like a kittypet, admitting defeat," he taunted.

Just then, Fireheart's hind paws made contact with Tigerclaw's belly and the traitor was flung into the air. Fireheart and Bluestar held him down, while Cinderpaw fetched herbs to heal the former deputy.

"What treachery is this?" Bluestar spat.

"I will kill you," Tigerclaw growled through gritted teeth. "And I will kill you again. I will kill you as many times as I have to to become leader." Fireheart and Bluestar had given Tigerclaw wounds that would have stunned, maybe killed the lesser. But still he struggled, trying to get free from Fireheart and Bluestar's combined grip, swiping the air with his claws.

"Graystripe!" Fireheart spotted his best friend, with an ugly wound. "You help Bluestar hold down Tigerclaw. I'll go and fight."

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"ThunderClan!" Fireheart yowled into the fray. "There is no way to win this battle! Retreat! Wait, don't retreat!" Bluestar? he thought. If she's out here, what happened to Tigerclaw? He looked closer. ''Wait, that's Mistyfoot! Blackclaw! Leopardfoot!''

Now the odds were better. They beat the rogues, and everything that had happened about Tigerclaw was revealed. The former deputy was sent into exile, and all was well. Or was it?

Chapter One
Featherkit and Stormkit snuggled next to each other, suckling from Goldenflower. Now that Silverstream was dead, and Graystripe was their father, Goldenflower was their foster mother.

"We have come for the kits," Leopardfoot announced. She was with the same cats, Mistyfoot and Blackclaw. "They are RiverClan kits."

"No," Bluestar snarled. "These kits are Graystripe's, and we have one more moon to decide. We will tell you at the next Gathering."

"No!" Graystripe's yowl rang clearly through the ThunderClan camp. "I'll give them Stormkit. I want to keep Featherkit. She resembles her mother, whom I miss so much. She stays with me."

"Agreed," Leopardstar dipped her head as she picked up Stormkit and gave him to Mistyfoot.

"Featherkit! Mama! Help!" Stormkit wailed.

"Stormkit!" Featherkit wailed back. "Mama, why are those RiverClan cats stealing Stormkit?"

"We have given them Stormkit," Goldenflower told Featherkit. "He belongs in RiverClan. We are keeping you."

Chapter Two
Two moons later, Featherkit was eating prey along with her siblings, Bramblekit and Tawnykit.

"Tell us a story!" Featherkit begged the elders.

"Have I told you about when Yellowfang joined us?" asked Smallear.

Featherkit shook her head.

"Well, Yellowfang was born ShadowClan," Smallear said. "She trained as a warrior, then as a medicine cat. One day, Brokenstar exiled her from ThunderClan for supposed kit murder. Fireheart, then Firepaw, found her thin and weak in the forest. They battled, and in the end Firepaw ate a rabbit with her. Firepaw was punished for breaking the warrior code, but eventually she joined our Clan as our new medicine cat, for Spottedleaf had died and had never trained an apprentice."