The Ultimate Guide/StarClan Makes Its Choice

:Below contains in-depth information for the chapter "StarClan Makes Its Choice" of The Ultimate Guide. If you are looking for a shorter summary of the entire book, please check the main article.
==Chapter description==
:Tigerclaw and Runningnose are outside of the tunnel leading to the Moonstone, and Tigerclaw is excited to finally receive his nine lives. As they walk into the tunnel, Tigerclaw silently disparages the medicine cat, who tells him to touch the Moonstone with his nose. Runningnose explains that StarClan may not come to him, similar to how they did not give Nightpelt his lives, but Tigerclaw thinks that the medicine cat is foolish. He opens his eyes to find himself in a place reminiscent of ShadowClan territory, and Cedarstar greets him and reveals more StarClan cats behind him. A small she-cat named Littlebird steps forward, and Tigerclaw tells her that he will lead ShadowClan to victory and thinks that he will use his Clan to seek revenge. Images of cats with all different emotions fill his mind as Littlebird gives him a life for compassion. The next cat who steps up is Badgerfang, who is as small as a kit. Tigerclaw mentions his size, and Badgerfang states that he was forced to fight by Brokenstar, and he gives Tigerclaw a life for mentoring young cats wisely. Tigerclaw promises to make ShadowClan more powerful than ever.
:Pinestar steps up, and Tigerclaw snarls that he died a kittypet. After Pinestar gives him a life, his father tells him that he should not assume every cat is worthless or an enemy. Whitetail, a small pale gray she-cat, gives him his next life for respecting all cats regardless of their size or appearance. Sedgestar, an ancient ShadowClan leader, gives him a life for pride in his Clan, and Flowerstar follows with one for being faithful to StarClan. Redscar, Flowerstar's medicine cat, tells Tigerclaw that he faked the sign that made Flowerstar leader and gives him a life for trusting his own instincts. Mossheart gives Tigerclaw his sixth life for mercy, but Tigerclaw thinks to himself that those who lose deserve to die. Last of all, Cedarstar steps up and gives him his final life for farsightedness, and Tigerclaw asks why he never received lives for strength or revenge. Cedarstar replies that he already has enough of those traits, andthe StarClan cats hail him by his new name, Tigerstar. He relishes StarClan's cheers and vows to restore ShadowClan to its former glory, and the starry cats gradually fade. Tigerstar wakes to see Runningnose, who advises him to remember what StarClan has told him. They return to ShadowClan territory, and Tigerstar whispers that he now has nine lives to make ShadowClan remember him forever.
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==Trivia==
*Tigerstar's leadership ceremony is also in The Ultimate Guide: Updated and Expanded Edition. The story remains the same, though Poolcloud, Archeye, Hollyflower, Crowtail, Featherstorm, and Brightflower appear as the ShadowClan elders at the end instead of Cinderfur, Tallpoppy, Darkflower, and Dawncloud.
==Important events==
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==Notes and references==
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