Bramblestar's Storm/Cliffnotes

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*Firestar is hunting in StarClan. He and Bluestar talk about the future of ThunderClan following the Great Battle and a difficult leaf-bare.
*Cloudstar, an ancient SkyClan leader, wakes up Firestar and tells him that one Clan cannot survive without another sometimes, and that saving SkyClan was important.
*Cloudstar also delivers the prophecy Firestar must tell Bramblestar by slicing his paw over a lake; "When water meets blood, blood will rise."
*Cloudstar does not tell Firestar what it means, just that Bramblestar will know what it means when he needs to.
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*Bramblestar joins a patrol consisting of Berrynose, Millie, Rosepetal, Spiderleg, and Amberpaw.
*On their way to the WindClan border, Amberpaw is noted to be very outgoing and uncontrollable, and Spiderleg, her mentor, is trying different ways to control her.
*They pass Leafpool, who is bundling herbs for Jayfeather.
*Millie notes that Briarlight's exercises are keeping her chest clear.
*Bramblestar thinks about how terrible the disease was that ravaged their camp the previous season, having killed Toadstep, Icecloud, and Hazeltail.
*Amberpaw wants to mark the border, and instead falls into a stream.
*As they are hauling Amberpaw out, a WindClan patrol appears and taunts ThunderClan, saying that they do not regard boundaries. 
*Rosepetal hops the stream and faces the WindClan warriors herself. Two of the warriors surround her and Bramblestar demands she gets back on the ThunderClan side of the water. 
*Bramblestar explains what has happened and then the two Clans make idle chat before turning away to head back to their respective camps.
*Berrynose begins to talk about how there are no expecting she-cats and that ThunderClan will need more warriors.
*Bramblestar arrives back at camp, and notes how it is still very easy to tell where the Dark Forest cats had broken the barrier to get into the camp.
*Jayfeather has propped a branch with no bark under the Highledge with claw marks on it, each representing a life lost during the Great Battle. 
*Whitewing, Dewpaw, Bumblestripe, Seedpaw, Poppyfrost, and Lilypaw are all looking at the branch, and Dewpaw is reciting who each mark represents and how that cat died.
*Bramblestar is grief-stricken as Dewpaw speaks about Firestar, and Jayfeather admits he also misses their former leader.
**Jayfeather also says he can no longer read minds.
*The apprentices go out training, except Amberpaw, who fetches moss for Purdy. 
*Bramblestar and Sandstorm talk about how there are no kits but they are lucky they have lively apprentices. 
*Bramblestar thinks about how old Sandstorm and Graystripe are getting.
*Daisy speaks to Bramblestar about how Cinderheart will soon be expecting Lionblaze's kits.
**Bramblestar talks to Lionblaze.
*Dustpelt returns from a patrol and Bramblestar notices how exhausted he is.
**Dustpelt refuses to retire.
*Brightheart's patrol bursts back into the clearing with news of having smelled ShadowClan beyond the border.
**Dovewing is noted to be shaky, having lost her intense hearing powers.
*Mousewhisker thinks that Bramblestar should attack ShadowClan right then, but the leader decides to instead go to ShadowClan and reason with Blackstar. 
*Bramblestar thinks that perhaps Mousewhisker is so ready to attack because he wants to test out the skills he learned in the Dark Forest.
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*Bramblestar chooses cats to come with him to speak to ShadowClan. He makes a point to choose no former Dark Forest trainees.
*The patrol, consisting of Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, Brackenfur, and Cinderheart. 
*Passing the abandoned Twoleg nest, they see Leafpool tending to some herbs.
**Squirrelflight speaks about how happy she is her sister was able to fall back into place as ThunderClan's medicine cat.
*Bramblestar falls back to talk to Brackenfur, who is still grieving for Sorreltail.
*They smell ShadowClan scent far beyond the border, well inside ThunderClan's territory. Bramblestar reminds his cats that they are here to talk, not fight.
*They meet a patrol, lead by Bramblestar's sister, Tawnypelt. She leads them to the ShadowClan camp.
*Blackstar and deputy Rowanclaw are in the camp. Littlecloud, along with many warriors, gather around the clearing. 
*Blackstar is looking frail.
*Bramblestar confronts him about ShadowClan's trespassing.
**Blackstar says that ThunderClan should strengthen their borders. 
**Before Bramblestar can speak, an elder, Ratscar, challenges Bramblestar, and Squirrelflight reminds him that Ratscar trained in the Dark Forest. 
**Rowanclaw makes Ratscar calm down and suggests that both clans renew the scent markers rather than fight. 
**When Blackstar asks Tawnypelt to escort them to the border, Squirrelflight says they do not need an escort, calling ShadowClan maggot-ridden. Bramblestar scolds her for this.
*Littlecloud follows them out of camp to ask about the two ThunderClan medicine cats. 
*Squirrelflight begins to talk to him, but Bramblestar makes her stop, reminding her that they are not medicine cats and Clan quarrels still affect them.
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*Bramblestar returns to ThunderClan's camp and tells the other cats what happened.
*Briarlight follows Jayfeather out of the medicine den.
**She still has not fully recover from greencough and is still not her cheerful self. 
**Cinderheart and Purdy, along with many other warriors, gather to help the injured warrior and offer her prey and sunlight to sit in.
**Millie comforts her and then shares a thrush with Graystripe.
*Bramblestar asks if he can help her in anyway.
**Briarlight says she just wants to be "like every other cat." 
**Bramblestar explains that all cats are different and special in their own way. 
**Briarlight says that sometimes it is really difficult to be Briarlight.
*Briarlight asks Jayfeather to help her move back to the medicine den. 
**Jayfeather is determined to keep her out of the semi-stuffy medicine den 
**Purdy reminds Briarlight that she has to share a mouse with him.
*Jayfeather reminds Bramblestar that it is the full moon that night. The previous Gathering had been missed.
*Bramblestar listens to Blossomfall and Thornclaw talking about wanting to attend the Gathering and he is uneasy, wondering out loud if they want to go to rekindle Dark Forest friendships. 
**Lionblaze says that all Clanmates must be trusted, since what has happened cannot be undone.
**Squirrelflight is having a hard time trusting the former Dark Forest warriors, since she lost a lot during the battle, even if they fought on the side of the Clans.
*Bramblestar looks at Squirrelflight, Lionblaze, and Jayfeather with admiration, remembering that they are all his family, even though they are not blood related. He feels sorry for Hollyleaf, remembering the she-cat he once thought was his daughter.
*The apprentices fool around by the lakebed as the Clan heads to the Gathering. 
**Snowpaw falls into the lake and Brackenfur and Cloudtail pull him out. Snowpaw apologizes and says that the lake has risen. 
**Bramblestar agrees and says that he will let Snowpaw still come to the Gathering but there must be no more horseplay.
*Onestar and his cats appear from over the ridge and begin to antagonize the ThunderClan cats. 
*Two sets of eyes gleam from the horseplace barn, and Bramblestar asks Daisy if she knows whose eyes they are. She immediately calls out to Smoky but the eyes disappear.
*On the island, all of the Clans are sitting by themselves.
**RiverClan looks battered and injured.
*While the other leaders jump into the Great Oak, Blackstar stays on the ground and begins to remember the fallen. He speaks a list of cats from each Clan, killed in the Great Battle. 
*It is said he does this every Gathering, and Bramblestar wonders why Blackstar is saying the names of the fallen ThunderClan cats. 
*Mistystar steps forward and asks Blackstar why he gets the privilege of saying the names of the dead RiverClan cats.
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*Blackstar insists that the dead must be honored.
**ShadowClan supports their leader, but the other Clans agree that they should be able to remember their fallen Clanmates in their own way.
**Blackstar almost leaves the Gathering but Rowanclaw convinces him to stay.
*The Gathering continues like normal once Blackstar joins the other leaders.
**Mistystar announces a new litter of kits, belonging to Petalfur and Mallownose.
**Blackstar announces Snowbird new litter with Scorchfur.
**WindClan does not have new kits yet but are expecting some soon, from Sedgewhisker and Emberfoot.
**Bramblestar wonders why every leader is making such a big deal of kits, considering there is much time left before newleaf is over. 
**He announces that ThunderClan will be watching their borders, and announces all five apprentices.
*Suddenly, a cloud drifts across the moon and the Gathering is over.
*Bramblestar sees Squirrelflight staring at Tigerheart and Ratscar, both formerly training in the Dark Forest.
**Bramblestar watches Tigerheart and Ivypool speaking and hears the ShadowClan tom talking about Dovewing. He wonders what he is missing
*Squirrelflight reminds Bramblestar that he has to give the signal to leave and Pouncetail, a RiverClan elder, says that Bramblestar his lucky to have Squirrelflight to keep him in line.
*At the camp, Daisy is pacing in front of the nursery and she tells Bramblestar that she is worried about Smoky, and wants to go to the horseplace to find out what is wrong. 
*Bramblestar insists that he must come with her.
**Graystripe wonders if Daisy wants to return to the horseplace, feeling useless with no kits in camp.
**Bramblestar wonders why kits is all cats ever talk about.
**On the way to the horseplace, Amberpaw and Dewpaw jump on top of Daisy and she falls to the ground. Bramblestar pulls 
***Bramblestar makes them get off her, and the apprentices explain that they were practicing their stalking.
***Their mentors arrive and scold them for attacking Daisy, who was not a threat and was unprepared.
*Daisy and Bramblestar find Smoky.
**Smoky tells Daisy that Floss and Pip are dead.
**He introduces her to Coriander, his mate. Smoky says that Coriander replaced Floss and Daisy wonders how any cat could just "replace" Floss.
**Daisy is no longer interested in the barn and Bramblestar says they should leave.
*On the way home, Daisy is unusually quiet.
*Bramblestar tries to comfort her, and she is upset because she does not know why Smoky did not tell her sooner than Floss had died.
**Bramblestar has a flashback, of when Squirrelflight is attempting to get Hollykit, Lionkit, and Jaykit to eat a vole.
*Bramblestar tells Daisy that nothing stays the same.
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*The next morning is windy.
*Bramblestar leads a patrol to the ShadowClan border and find no signs of trespassers. 
*Blossomfall says the water in the lake has risen, then is swept off a rock by a large wave.
**Sandstorm and Molewhisker hold a branch and Bramblestar walks out onto it, letting Blossomfall bite his tail. 
**He pulls her to safety.
**Bramblestar decides that the whole Clan must stay away from the lake until the water level goes down.
**Blossomfall refuses to go back to camp and Bramblestar wonders if she is trying to prove her loyalty.
*They see a WindClan patrol chasing birds, and Bramblestar notices they are using hunting techniques similar to the Tribe's.
*Blossomfall is tell Molewhisker about the Long Dry when a bird flies overhead.
**Molewhisker kills it, then notices it is the same bird WindClan was chasing.
**Nightcloud and her patrol approach the border, insisting that the bird is WindClan's. 
**Molewhisker says that he killed it, so it is his.
**Sandstorm says that ThunderClan has plenty of prey and should let the WindClan cats have it, and that is what Firestar would have done. 
**Bramblestar says he is not Firestar, and the prey is ThunderClan's.
**After a moment, Sandstorm says that he did the right thing.
*Bramblestar and Squirrelflight realize that these birds came from the sun-drown-place.
*Bramblestar cannot sleep, dreaming of badgers.
*Jayfeather wakes him and says something is very wrong.
**Jayfeather leads Bramblestar to the Twoleg den, where the medicine cats' garden is. 
**The garden has been destroyed by the weather.
**Jayfeather says that this is an omen for something tragic, destructive, and dark to come soon, and that he can feel it in the wind.
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*The Clan is awake and restless when they return to camp. Squirrelflight says that this day is far too similar to the day when the tree fell, killing Longtail and injuring Briarlight.
*Bramblestar is worried about Dovewing as she is still trying to use her powers.
*Lionblaze and Cinderheart come back into camp and the tom complains that it is too hard to hunt in this weather. Cinderheart reminds him that he will have to get used to being able to be hurt.
*Patrols are organized and Bramblestar orders that every patrol have one cat to watch for danger, like falling trees or branches. The apprentices are to stay in camp and keep it clean and safe for others.
*Bramblestar goes on patrol with Bumblestripe, Mousewhisker, and Cherryfall, and they go to the abandoned Twoleg den. Cherryfall climbs onto one of the ceiling rafts after a mouse, but the wind shifts and she falls, barely clinging on with one claw. Mousewhisker goes onto the branch as Bumblestripe and Bramblestar make a safe-net for her to land on with leaves and litter. Mousewhisker leans down to grab Cherryfall's scruff but is just out of reach and the she-cat falls. Bramblestar lunges forward and breaks his fall, and he blacks out. The leader wonders if he is losing a life but he soon comes back.
*Ivypool's patrol approaches the den and the she-cat insists Bramblestar goes back to see Jayfeather. Ivypool reports no signs of WindClan by the border. Bramblestar talks to Jayfeather, and he wonders if Cherryfall's fall was the bad news StarClan had given the omen about. Squirrelflight's patrol returns with no prey and Bramblestar hopes that Mousewhisker and Bumblestripe had caught that mouse.
*Bramblestar has Seedpaw and Lilypaw help shore up the walls of Purdy's den, and he asks Daisy to sleep with Purdy that night, just in case another tree falls.
*Millie tells Bramblestar that Briarlight is nervous about trees falling and Bramblestar offers that she sleep on the Highledge, in Bramblestar's den, where there is no chance of a tree falling on her. Bramblestar takes Briarlight onto his back and Brackenfur and Molewhisker come to help bring her up. Millie sleeps with Briarlight. Dustpelt and Brackenfur are repairing holes in the den, a job the two are known for doing, mainly together.
*Bramblestar pads around quietly checking to see every cat is safe and comfortable. He knows he would not have been able to sleep so he heads out near the lake. He senses something is wrong, and, only halfway to the lake's normal height, he falls into the water. With a small struggle to pull himself out, he races back to the hollow, knowing that lake has severely flooded.
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*It is still raining hard.
*Bramblestar alerts Thornclaw, and after he shows the tom, Bramblestar and the senior warriors discuss what they should do about the flood. Cats begin to emerge from the dens, saying that they are soaked through. Squirrelflight suggests they leave the camp, but Graystripe convinces Bramblestar otherwise, saying they will find out about it eventually. Bramblestar decides to tell the others nothing about how the lake flooded.
*Purdy yowls that water is leaking through the elders' den. Other cats wake up and complain about the deluge as well.
*They move everyone to the nursery and the apprentices' den, since the rest of the dens are leaking.
*The clan is anxious until Purdy starts telling stories to help them calm down.
*Thornclaw waked Bramblestar up in the middle of the night to show him that the lake has reached the camp.
*All the cats evacuate up the hollow to the top of the cliffs.
*Purdy almost slips to his death but is saved by Sandstorm and Bramblestar.
*The cats help drag Briarlight up to the top of the hollow using their strength and sticks found in the hollow.
*The hollow completely fills up with water, and the cats look down on the other Clans, with RiverClan and ShadowClan being completely flooded.
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*Bramblestar decides the Clan needs to move.
*Ivypool suggests the Clan moves into the tunnels.
*The Clan goes into the tunnels.
*Bramblestar gets closer to the cave.
*The Clan decides to settle in the caves for the time being.
*The warriors divide themselves into groups.
*Leafpool and Jayfeather insist on getting herbs. Almost all the herbs are spoiled.
*The Clan realizes the water is polluted and the closest to where the water is fresh is in WindClan Territory. Instead, Bramblestar finds puddles of rainwater and insists the Clan drinks that.
*WindClan threatens battle over the few drops of water they have. They decide it is no't worth it.
*Bramblestar worries about RiverClan and ShadowClan's existence, since ThunderClan and WindClan are doing so terribly.
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*Bramblestar returns to the tunnel.
*The Clan is miserable.
*Purdy refuses to eat, but later does.
*Bramblestar sets Cloudtail and Lionblaze on watch.
*Bramblestar, Dovewing, Thornclaw, and Graystripe set a patrol to check on ShadowClan and RiverClan.
*They visit the ShadowClan camp, and find it underwater.
**ShadowClan finds the patrol and says everyone is fine, but does not mention Blackstar. 
*Graystripe mentions that Blackstar may be dead.
*The water rises, and the patrol walks around Twolegplace.
**They see a flooded monster.
*The patrol sees RiverClan's camp underwater.
*RiverClan finds them and takes them back to camp. 
**Mistystar and Bramblestar explain their situations.
*Bramblestar mentions he is glad no Clan is alone.
*An unknown cat screams for help.
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