Stormfur

Stormfur is a reoccurring supporting character in the Warriors series. He was born alongside Feathertail in a forbidden half-Clan relationship between Graystripe of ThunderClan and Silverstream of RiverClan. Due to his mother dying while kitting, his father moved to RiverClan to raise him and his sister, where the two are later imprisoned for being half-Clan. Later, he goes with Feathertail when she's chosen for a special mission by StarClan, and on the way back meets the Tribe of Rushing Water. He later decides staying at the Tribe, becoming mates and starting a family with one of its members named Brook Where Small Fish Swim.
==Appearance==
Stormfur is a large, muscular tom with a broad head and pair of shoulders. He has amber eyes and sleek, fluffy dark gray fur with his muzzle being tinged silver. Similar to how Feathertail looks like Silverstream, he bears a striking resemblance to Graystripe.
== Biography==
===The Prophecies Begin===
====Forest of Secrets====
Silverstream goes into labor early near Sunningrocks, giving birth to Stormkit and Featherkit. Tigerclaw then arrives, and Cinderpaw orders him to start licking Stormkit while Fireheart licks Featherkit and she and Graystripe tend to Silverstream. Tigerclaw protests, but Cinderpaw demands he lick Stormkit to keep him warm or else the kit will die. Silverstream bleeds out excessively during the kitting, and despite Cinderpaw's best efforts to save her, she dies of bloodloss soon after.
Leaving Graystripe to grieve the loss of his mate, the other three cats bring the newborn kittens to ThunderClan and have Goldenflower nurse them. The rest of the Clan is shocked when finding out about Graystripe's secret half-Clan relationship, but Bluestar allows him and his kits to stay, saying that the loss of Silverstream is already punishment enough for his codebreaking.
Some time after, a RiverClan patrol comes to ThunderClan demanding that Silverstream's children be given to them, as traditionally half-Clan offspring are raised in their mother's Clan. After much contemplation, Graystripe agrees to let RiverClan have the kits to prevent sparking a war between the two Clans. He also decides to move to RiverClan himself to raise them.
==== Rising Storm====
While ThunderClan is sheltering in RiverClan after a wild fire burns through their camp, Fireheart catches up with Graystripe, who shows him how his kids are doing. Upon entering the nursery, the two kits pounce on their father, saying they caught his scent before he entered. They're excited to meet Fireheart as their dad had told them much about his old friend, and soon after their foster mother Mosspelt calls them back into the nursery as it would rain soon. Graystripe then remarks that Stormkit is a strong one and Featherkit is just like her mother.
====A Dangerous Path====
Stormpaw and Featherpaw are now warrior apprentices being mentored by Stonefur and Mistyfoot respectively. After Leopardstar exiles Graystripe, his kits stay behind in RiverClan rather than rejoining ThunderClan with him. Neither are surprised that he went back to his original Clan, telling Mosspelt that they could both see how much he wanted to.
====The Darkest Hour ====
Tigerstar combines ShadowClan and RiverClan to make TigerClan, imprisoning Stonefur, Mistyfoot and their apprentices for being half-Clan. After sneaking into TigerClan's new camp, Firestar, Graystripe and Ravenpaw see Tigerstar calling forth Stonefur, Stormpaw and Featherpaw. He then demands that Stonefur prove his loyalty by killing the two apprentices, but the deputy refuses to do anything the ShadowClan leader commands of him, looking to Leopardstar, who solemnly tells him to do what he's told.
Stormpaw promises his sister that he won't let Stonefur kill them, but instead of attacking, Stonefur once again refuses to harm the two. Tigerstar then orders Darkstripe and Blackfoot to kill him, sending Stormpaw and Featherpaw back into their prison with Mistyfoot afterwards. After Tigerstar leaves, Ravenpaw pretends to be a BloodClan cat to get the prison guard away before Firestar and Graystripe sneak the prisoners out. The three half-Clan cats are refuged in ThunderClan, where Graystripe appoints himself as his son's temporary mentor while Sandstorm is appointed as Featherpaw's.
Later, after Tigerstar's death, TigerClan is disbanded, with RiverClan and ShadowClan joining LionClan. Together, the four Clans fight off BloodClan from taking over the forest. During the battle, ThunderClan's deputy Whitestorm is killed by BloodClan's deputy Bone, and to avenge his death, Stormpaw and Featherpaw team up with Bramblepaw, Tawnypaw, Ashpaw and Fernpaw to kill him. After BloodClan's defeat, Stormpaw and Featherpaw decide to stay in RiverClan, even though they miss their father. Stormpaw states that RiverClan has lost a lot of cats, and their Clanmates need them now more than ever.
===The New Prophecy ===
====Midnight ====
StarClan chooses a cat from each Clan to go to the sun-drown place and meet a badger named Midnight. Feathertail is chosen from RiverClan, and upon hearing about this Stormfur goes with her to make sure she's safe. The two go to Fourtrees to meet up with the other three chosen cats: Brambleclaw of ThunderClan, Tawnypelt of ShadowClan, and Crowpaw of WindClan. The ThunderClan apprentice Squirrelpaw also goes with them, wanting to go on an adventure.
As the six head towards the sun-drown place, they pass through the twolegplace where Stormfur and Crowpaw are cornered by two large hostile kittypets. Squirrelpaw attacks them, which impresses Stormfur, causing him to have slight feelings for her. Brambleclaw then scolds the ginger she-cat for her recklessness, but Stormfur tells him to stop, pointing out her courage.
Once the group reaches the sun-drown place, Brambleclaw and Squirrelpaw fall into the water and Stormfur dives in after them. Squirrelpaw is able to save herself and the brown tabby tom on her own though, and after climbing out of the water Stormfur tells him that she took a huge risk, his tone disapproving but his eyes glowing as he looks at her. Upon meeting Midnight and learning of the forest's upcoming destruction, he's just as horrified as everyone else. The group then decide to stay in Midnight's cave for the night before heading back home the next morning.
====Moonrise ====
The next morning, Crowpaw complains about having to go through the twolegplace again and says he'd prefer going through the mountains, which the other five agree to do. While travelling, Stormfur picks up on the WindClan apprentice's crush on his sister, with Feathertail being rather affectionate towards him as well. Though he's upset that she has feeling for a cat of another Clan, he doesn't tell her this, figuring she already knows the trouble that comes from cross-Clan relationships after what happened to their parents. Despite this, he finds his own fondness for Squirrelpaw growing, though pushes the thoughts away knowing that they're from different Clans, and Brambleclaw would probably be a better fit for her anyways.
Soon enough, the six come upon a group of cats who live in the mountains known as the Tribe of Rushing Water. The cats of the Tribe see the water on Stormfur's pelt makes it shine silver, wondering if he's the prophesized silver cat to save them from the mountain lion Sharptooth. The gray tom then quickly befriends one of the Tribe's members named Brook Where Small Fish Swim. The other Tribe cats are friendly with him as well, and he thinks they just like him for who he is until they reveal to him the silver cat prophecy and task him with taking care of Sharptooth, who has ben killing many of their members as of late. The Tribe then makes the other five Clan cats leave while holding a hurt and betrayed Stormfur prisoner. Brook apologizes to him, but Stormfur is still hurt that she hid her true intentions from him the whole time.
The Clan cats return to get Stormfur back, with Feathertail and Tawnypelt getting him out while the Tribe is distracted by Sharptooth's attack. As the six leave, he sees the kit-mother Star That Shines On Water yowling for help as Sharptooth carries her away. On the way back to the forest, Silverstream visits her son in her dreams to tell him that every problem has more than one solution. After telling his companions this, he convinces them to go back an help the Tribe. Squirrelpaw get the idea of killing Sharptooth by feeding it a rabbit full of poisonous deathberries. Her plan goes awry however, but just as Sharptooth is about to kill Crowpaw, Feathertail leaps onto a loose stalagmite, causing it to fall on top of and kill Sharptooth. The Tribe cats realize that Feathertail had been the silver cat all along instead of Stormfur, and cheer at Sharptooth's defeat. 
However, Stormfur rushes over to his sister's side in a panic, as she had been fatally wounded in the fall. She opens her eyes when he comes near, telling him that no matter how hard it is, he needs to leave her behind and save the Clans. She then tells him that she'll always be his sister and will always love him, her body shuddering before she passes away. Moments after, Stormfur looks up and sees the two silver silhouettes of his sister and mother in the waterfall's spray, disappearing when he blinks. The Tribe then honors Feathertail and her sacrifice by burying her at the bottom of the waterfall, where Stormfur and Crowpaw hold vigil for her together, the gray tom feeling he understands the WindClan apprentice a bit more through their shared grief.
====Dawn ====
The group of travelling cats return to the Clans to see the forest being destroyed by twolegs. He then regretfully informs his father of Feathertail's death, and later convinces the rest of RiverClan that their territory is no longer hospitable and they need to move away with the rest of the Clans. After Graystripe is taken away by twolegs, Stormfur is heartbroken as he now has no family left.
As the Clans travel to the lake, they stop to rest at the Tribe. When they're about to leave though, Stormfur decides to live in the Tribe. Upon telling Squirrelpaw this, she's outraged until he explains that he's fallen in love with Brook, and how he has no one left in the Clans anyways, not even his old mentor. He doubts that Graystripe will ever come back if he's still alive at all, and in the Tribe he at least has his sister's grave. The adds that RiverClan still doesn't fully accept him for being half-Clan either, reasoning that he'll eventually learn how to be a Tribe cat. His Clanmates and old traveling companions then say their goodbyes to him as they continue on towards the lake.
====Sunset====
After ThunderClan is attacked by badgers, Stormfur and Brook arrive and decide to stay to help them rebuild, helping to hunt and go on border patrols. Stormfur later joins a search party to look for Berrykit, finding him in ShadowClan territory with his tail caught in a fox trap. A ShadowClan patrol is there, and Stormfur questions why they wouldn't help the kitten. He becomes furious when they tell him that helping non-Clanborn kits isn't apart of the warrior code, accusing the gray tom of not being loyal to said code. He nearly attacks before Brambleclaw stops him. He and Brook later move to RiverClan, stating they feel it's the only way to prove their loyalty and they do not intend on leaving.
The RiverClan warrior Hawkfrost is rather irritated by Stormfur and Brook joining his Clan, seeing the former as competition to his goal of becoming deputy. he tries getting them kicked out by pressuring his medicine cat sister mothwing into faking a sign from StarClan that they don't belong, but this fails. While going to RiverClan to assess their problem with twoleg pollution, Brambleclaw sees Brook chase a squirrel into ShadowClan territory. Stormfur and Hawkfrost are with her, and the latter threatens to report her trespassing to Leopardstar. He then berates her lack of knowledge regarding Clan life, to which Stormfur defends her. Hawkfrost then take the two back to camp and announces what Brook did to everyone, hinting that he wants them to be exiled. he succeeds by provoking Stormfur into attacking him, causing Leopardstar to banish the gray tom.
Stormfur and Brook leave RiverClan territory and Brambleclaw catches up with them, offering them a place in ThunderClan, which they accept. Some cats, Dustpelt and Mousefur especially, are dubious of the two newcomers. They tell Firestar that they don't want their Clan to be full of outsiders, but Squirrelflight argues to let them stay. Firestar decides to let them stay, and when his Clanmates complain about it, he reminds them that they helped rebuild after the badger attack. Brambleclaw thinks that since Stormfur is the son of Graystripe, Firestar owes his best friend something and decided to let him stay.
=== The Power of Three ===
====The Sight====
Stormfur scolds Hollykit, Jaykit and Lionkit for playing with a mouse, but lets them continue when they say they're training to be warriors. He later is on patrol to look for foxes that had been scented on the territory. When Firestar gives up a bit of territory to ShadowClan, Stormfur says it was a wise decision as the land didn't have much prey and wasn't worth fighting over. Spiderleg accuses him of not caring about the territory because he's not a ThunderClan cat, which angers Stormfur, but Brackenfur cuts in before a fight can start.
When Graystripe escapes the twolegs and returns to ThunderClan, Stormfur is overjoyed to see his father is still alive, and Graystripe is in turn excited to find out that he'll be in the same Clan as his son. Stormfur is also a bit shocked to see his dad has taken a new mate: an ex-kittypet named Millie who helped him escape and find the Clans. Nevertheless, he accepts his choice and is happy for him.
====Dark River====
When Millie announces that she wants to keep her name after joining ThunderClan, Brook and Daisy back up her decision. Stormfur joins in, saying that a cat keeping their name instead of getting a traditional Clan one doesn't make them disloyal. He later helps in the fight against WindClan over a squirrel that crossed the border. Afterwards, he helps take his injured Clanmates back to camp. He then stays by Brook's side as Leafpool treats a large wound she'd sustained.
====Outcast====
Before before Stormfur and Brook had come to the Clans, it's revealed that a group of Rogues had been terrorizing the Tribe. Stormfur tried teaching his Tribemates fighting moves and leads them into battle, but they are defeated and several members are killed. Stoneteller exiles Stormfur for this, and Brook goes with him as he seeks refuge in his old Clan.
In the present, Stormfur tells Lionpaw about the journey to the sun-drown place, and how he admired Squirrelflight, but once he met Brook he realized he loved her in a different way than his admiration for the ginger she-cat.
Later, two Tribe cats named Talon of Swooping Eagle and Night of No Stars visit ThunderClan, explaining the situation with the rogues and how they went against Stoneteller's wishes to ask the Clan cats for help. Stormfur and Brook go with them back to the mountains alongside Brambleclaw, Squirrelflight, Crowfeather, Hollypaw, Jaypaw, Lionpaw and Breezepaw. Once they get to the Tribe, Stoneteller is irate about Night and Talon going behind his back, but eventually accepts the Clan cat's assistance. After preparing the Tribe and teaching them battle moves, the rogues are driven off. Stormfur and Brook are given the chance to rejoin the Tribe, which they accept. 
====Eclipse====
Stormfur and Brook say goodbye to the Clan cats as they head back home, slightly terse when accepting the prey gifted to the Tribe as he sees it as admitting weakness. His farewell to Lionpaw is especially affectionate, and Jaypaw picks up on how the gray tom thinks his destiny is that of a Tribe cat.
===Omen of the Stars===
====Sign of the Moon====
Stormfur and Brook have their first litter of kits: a light brown tom named Pine That Clings to Rock and a gray she-kit named Lark That Sings at Dawn. After returning from a border patrol, Stormfur's kits run into him and Brook warns them that their father is probably tired. He says that he's fine and it was an easy trip, but Screech of Angry Owl objects that there are intruders in the mountains. Stormfur replies that the intruders aren't going anywhere, and they just need to focus on defending their own territory, with Swoop of Chestnut Hawk backing him up. He then tells Brook that the Tribe's borders are mostly holding up, but he scented unknown cats in the territory and found stray eagle feathers, worriedly sating that the intruders are stealing prey again. He then says that the problem won't just go away on it's own and that they need to increase border patrols. Screech retorts that the whole mountain should be their territory and that they shouldn't have to patrol it, and before Stormfur can argue Stoneteller agrees with Screech. Stormfur wants to rebuke this, but Brook shakes her head at him and reluctantly he yields.
When they Clan cats visit the Tribe, Squirrelflight asks where Stormfur is and Brook informs her that he's on patrol and will return soon. Once he comes back, he greets his old friends and asks how ThunderClan and RiverClan are faring. When Jayfeather tells him about the drought last greenleaf and how Dovewing discovered and helped destroy the beaver dam causing it, Stormfur looks at the light gray she-cat with respect. He compliments her on how wells she did, causing her a bit of embarrassment. Dovewing then tells him that Leopardstar is dead, to which he bows his head in mourning and says she was a great leader, adding that RiverClan's new leader Mistystar will be a good one as well.
Dovewing notes a longing in his voice when he asks about the Clans, figuring that though the Tribe is his new home, his still misses Clan life. Jayfeather interrupts by asking who the next Stoneteller will be as the current one is getting old, and Stormfur admits that the current one hasn't chosen a successor yet, and the Tribe is uncomfortable with this. He then explains to Dovewing that normally, Stonetellers choose and train a successor, but the current one hasn't yet. He continues that since the current one is old and ill, the Tribe is worried that he'll pass away without a successor and leave them all leaderless. He then hears something and stops talking, turning to see the Stoneteller taking a walk outside. Stormfur becomes uneasy, explaining that Stonetellers aren't allowed outside the cave, and by leaving the current one is defying the Tribe's customs and their ancestors.
Later, Squirrelflight tells Jayfeather that she's going hunting with Stormfur and Brook, wanting to catch up with the former on their time apart. Before he goes hunting though, Stormfur scolds his second litter of kits - a brown she-kit named Breeze That Rustles the Leaves and a gray tom named Feather of Flying Hawk - for bothering Jayfeather. He tells them to go listen to Talon's story of when he first came to the mountains as a RiverClan warrior to keep them busy. He later joins a hunting party of Dovewing, Foxleap, Swoop, Crag Where Eagles Nest, Gray Sky Before Dawn and Splash When Fish Leaps. He notices Dovewing lagging behind and asks if she's ok, with her saying she is. He then hides with the others when an eagle attacks, and rescues Dovewing falls into a cleft. He then asks if she wants to go back to the cave and offers to have Swoop escort her there, but she declines.
Later, when Dovewing pounces for a vole near a stream, Stormfur pushes her aside. He then explains that she would have froze to death if she fell in the stream, apologizing if he hurt her, and she assures him that he didn't. Stormfur then teaches her how Tribe cats hunt, and they get the vole. Stormfur later helps in the battle to drive the intruding rogues out of the mountains. Later still, after Stoneteller dies and the Tribe is left without a healer and leader, Stormfur supports Jayfeather's decision to have Crag take on the role and welcomes the new Stoneteller.
===Tawnypelt's Clan===
After he has a vision about the Tribe, Tawnypelt and Dovewing take Shadowkit there, with Tawnypelt greeting Stormfur and Brook. The gray tom worries that the Clans are in trouble, but Tawnypelt tell him they're fine. He then tells her and Dovewing that Lark and Pine are now cave-guards, while Feather and Breeze are to-be's. When asked if he still misses the Clans, he states that he doesn't and his true home is in the Tribe.
When Shadowkit starts screaming for the Tribe to evacuate to avoid a tree that will soon fall, Stormfur is skeptical of Stoneteller's belief in the kit. He arranges his Tribemates to climb up the rocky cliffside in a specific order to help each other up, and helps push rocks into the river to block the tree from falling into their home. He and Brook both yowl for Breeze when she falls into the river and is swept away, and both are thankful when Tawnypelt saves her. After the tree falls, he stares in horror as it's swept downstream, but is blocked by the stone barricade. The tree then breaks free, but before it can hit the Tribe's cave, lightning strikes it and it explodes. Later, Brook asks her mate to hunt with her and their younger litter before the Clan cats leave.
===Graystripe's Vow===
Graystripe and Flipclaw decide to go through the mountains to visit the Tribe, the former wanting to see his son. When they get there, Moon Shining on Water and Thorn That Grows in Cleft escort them inside the cave where Graystripe greets Stormfur. The gray Tribe cat is excited to see his dad again, introducing him to his children and catching up with him. The next day, Flipclaw and Feather are buried under a rockslide while out hunting together. Feather is able to dig himself out as he was near the edge, and together with his father and grandfather they rescue Flipclaw. Graystripe later leaves to try contacting StarClan via the Moonstone in the old forest territories, and when heading back to the Clans he stops by the Tribe to visit Stormfur again before returning to the lake with Flipclaw.
== Gallery ==
File:StormkitCrookedstarsPromise.webp|Stormkit in the mange epilogue of Crookedstar's Promise
File:StormfurConceptArt.webp|Concept art for Stormfur
File:StormfurCatsOfClans.webp|Stormfur in Cats of the Clans
File:StormfurBrookTheUltimateGuide.webp|Stormfur and Brook in The Ultimate Guide (2013)
File:StormfurFactSheet.webp|Stormfur's fact sheet on the official website
File:StormfurFamilyTree.webp|Stormfur's icon on the family tree
==Trivia==
*Stormfur is possibly named after his grandfather Crookedstar's original name, Stormkit.
*In Forest of Secrets, it's stated that Greenflower would nurse him and Featherkit in RiverClan. However, in Rising Storm, Mosspelt is the one to nurse them instead.
*Though not revealed in the books themselves, on author Victoria Holmes' Facebook page it's stated that Slatefur became Stormpaw's new mentor after Stonefur's death.
==External links==
Stormfur on the Warriors Wiki
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