Buzzardstorm

> *"Revenge never fixes anything, but cats still seek it."*
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Buzzy Jr.

Buzz

Buzzardkit ( Shadowclan )

Buzzardpaw ( Windclan )

Buzzardrose ( Windclan )

Buzzardrose ( Rogue )

Aunt: Sedgeflower

Uncle: Lion (deceased)

Brothers:

Thornkit (deceased)

Flamekit (deceased)

Icepaw (deceased)

Beetlewatcher

Stagheart (deceased)

Greykit (deceased)

Snakekit (deceased)

Sisters:

Sunblaze (deceased)

Ashkit (deceased)

Petalwing (deceased)

Ferretbounce (deceased)

Dreamshine (deceased)

Wasptoes

Poppyblaze

Silentkit (deceased)

Brookkit (deceased)

Acornspirit

## Physical Description

Buzzardstorm is a large and muscular ginger-golden tom with pine-green eyes. He is missing his left ear from a hawk, and his back right leg is permanently damaged. He has various scars, and including one next to his eye from the same the same hawk that took his ear. Most of his tail is also missing. His pelt is very similar to his father's, Lionstar. He is very fluffy, as he is a Norwegian forest cat and Maine Coon mix.

## Personality

As a kit, Buzzardstorm was a stuck-up brat. He thought he was better than everyone else at everything, and made sure everyone knew that. This stuck-up-ness caused him to move to WindClan fron ShadowClan, which was when his personality changed slightly. After talking to Skynose, he still kept his snarkiness, intelligence, slyness and sarcasm, however he also became more impulsive and his anger-issues and depression grew. But as he got older and more cats began to accept him a *bit* more, he became calmer. He is now an intelligent, slightly depressed, fierce, semi-sarcastic, and (still) sneaky tom. He's also impulsive. Sometimes.

## Skills and Weaknesses

Buzzardstorm had always been built for strength rather than speed, However after his leg was injured, his skills altered. Because of his injured leg, hunting and fighting are more of a weakness than a strength for him, though he is decent at fighting due to extra practice, and hunting has also gotten easier through practice. His best skill is probably debating, unlike when he was young and impulsive.

His other great skill is lying - he can be pretty convincing.

## Life,

### Kithood

Buzzardkit was.... interesting to say the least.

He was born in ShadowClan to Lakeblossom. And he hated it. He hated not knowing who his father was, hated his sister Poppykit, hated... well, basically everything. But mostly, he hated not having answers to his constant questions. So he went in search for his answers. First, he inquired Sunblaze, asking about his father. Of course, he did not ask directly, as he already had an important piece of information. His father held an important position in WindClan.

Furious from Sunblaze not giving him answers, he turned to interrogate Beetlewatcher. But still, he could get no answers. Whenever he asked someone who the leader of WindClan was, they always seemed to know he was asking about his father. And so they denied him an answer.

He decided he could have a little break from researching this mystery. And so he befriend Honeymoon, a warrior of ShadowClan at the time. Honeymoon taught him how to hunt mice and birds out in the woods. He also befriended Beechtalon's kit, Thornkit.

And of course, his rivalry with his sister Poppykit continued. Because *she* was *so* much better than *him. He* was just a stuck-up brat but *she* was a kind, innocent little kit. At least that's what everyone - even Raindash - thought.

One day he escaped from camp and ran into a mysterious cat who smelled like fish. Her name was Mosslight and she was very pretty. Anyway, Buzzardkit got her annoyed easily. He kept asking her to talk to him and then when she did talk to him, he didn't want to.

Buzzardkit had also befriended Maplepaw. He told her that all she-cats were weak but beautiful, except for Furstar who was strong because of her many scars. When Maplepaw came in missing an eye one day, he snarled at her and told her she was now ugly, worthless. That was the end of their friendship.

Either way, he figured he had to find a different way to discover the truth about his father. And, according to his Fuzzybuzzy logic, the best way to do that is to follow Lakeblossom out of camp. So he did just that. Unbeknownst to her, he silently slipped through the woods after her. He hid behind a bush - and just in time, too, or a big ginger-golden tom would've spotted him. Buzzardkit looked just like him, so it was no doubt that they were related. And as he listened, he began gathering important information: 1. This big cat, Lionstar - and apparently, he used to be Flare? - was the leader of WindClan, and his father. 2. Something had happened between his father and mother ( Lake*dapple* according to Lionstar ). And 3... Lionstar and Lakeblossom had began fighting! Buzzardkit's little mind drove him to jump out of the bushes. He snarled at Lakeblossom, who, despite being his mother, he hated. But his father, he assumed, was perfect, because he was a leader.

In the middle of the fight Buzzardkit decided that he would rather be with his father, which lead to Lionstar yelling at him to run to WindClan, and Lakeblossom chasing him. Lionstar held Lakeblossom back while Buzzardkit ran away. Buzzardkit smiled to himself smugly, assuming that all would be good, now that he was away from his dreadful mother and sister.

But of course, happiness is only for a fleeting moment. Because soon after his arrival in Windclan and after he made an acquaintance with Ravenkit, Lakeblossom and Furstar showed up. Lionstar had arrived shortly before them. Lakeblossom and Furstar thought that Buzzardkit was not yet old enough to make his decisions, and insisted that he must come back to ShadowClan, and once he was six moons, he would be allowed to move to WindClan if he truly wanted to. But Lionstar wouldn't let them take Buzzardkit back. However as soon as Furstar threatened to fight Lionstar, and Lionstar said that he wouldn't let Buzzardkit go until he had lost all nine lives, Buzzardkit quickly jumped in, mewing that he would go back to ShadowClan until he was six moons. Dejectedly, he padded back to ShadowClan with Lakeblossom and Furstar.

Once he was back in ShadowClan, Buzzardkit and Poppykit began arguing even more. When Creekfrost brought her kits over from ThunderClan, Poppykit was quick to tell them to avoid Buzzardkit, for he was just a big, grumpy, brat. Annoyed to death with having to stay in ShadowClan, he thought that maybe he could try to make more friends. Of course he failed at this and only made more enemies, so he decided to stick with Honeymoon and Thornkit. However Honeymoon was soon exiled, so he only had Thornkit to hang with. Buzzardkit tried to - and succeeded with - putting thorns ( and they were big thorns ) in Poppykit's nest while she was asleep. After Poppykit woke up screaming from pain, Lakeblossom took Buzzardkit out of camp.

Lakeblossom told Buzzardkit that she would answer the questions he asked her. Being Buzzardkit, his first question was asking why she was so mean. Either way, they somehow got on the topic of his whole family, which resulted in Buzzardkit's admiration for Sedgeflower ( which would soon fade after actually meeting her ).

One day a ShadowClan warrior, Softbriar, fell ill. Buzzardkit was certain he knew how to cure her. He promised her that he knew a cure, and she believed him. He gathered some deadly nightshade berries and wrapped them up in dock leaves. She ate it - and instantly started gagging, coughing, all bad things. Ripplefeather, the medicine cat, arrived in camp and fed Softbriar yarrow. She survived, but Buzzardkit did get in lots of trouble. Ripplefeather was his new third worst enemy ( for in his mind no one could be worse than Poppykit or Lakeblossom ).

Thornkit tried to pull prey off the pile, intending to eat it, even though it was too early for him. Jayeyes told him to stop, but Buzzardkit stepped in and stated that they meant to bring it to the queens. Jayeyes didn't believe them, and Jayeyes eventually began to accuse Buzzardkit of trying to poison the queens. Furstar came over and Buzzardkit tried to tell them that he did not in fact poison it, and that even Ripplefeather would be able to prove that. But the medicine cat was nowhere to be seen.

Annoyed out of his mind, Buzzardkit began to build a 'To-kill' List. It looked something like this:

* Lakeblossom
* Lakeblossom
* Lakeblossom
* Poppykit/blaze
* Poppykit/blaze
* Poppykit/blaze
* Poppykit/blaze
* Ripplefeather
* Jayeyes
* Furstar
* Raindash ( until she died )
* Wasptoes
* Dreamshine
* Stagpaw/heart ( until he died )
* Sunblaze
* Duskkit
* Leafkit
* Leafkit/bird
* Maplepaw/nose
* Scorch
* Brindle/feather ( though he never met her )
* Violetkit/bird
* Any cat who got in his way

Finally - *finally*  - he was six moons. Furstar and Lakeblossom took him back to WindClan as they promised. His greeting of course was Wasptoes complaining about being in the same clan as him. That made Buzzardkit feel *great.* He told Dreamshine that she must be strong, because she had a big scar on her neck. She scolded him, and said that that is not how strength is determined. He pointed out that you have a scar, you must've gone through some hard time.

Well, Wasptoes had plenty of scars, so as much as he hated her, Buzzardkit respected her. When Dreamshine told him to be quiet, he wouldn't listen. When Wasptoes told him to be quiet, he shut his mouth very quickly, slightly due to fear because of all her scars. Buzzardkit forgot to be quiet and stated that he would be leader one day. Furstar promised that he could be leader once he was seven moons. Once in WindClan, Buzzardkit became best friends with his cousin, Ravenkit.

One day when he was seven moons and still had yet to be apprenticed, he ran into Skynose, an interesting cat who had caused all of his family's problems. Of course, he didn't know this. He began having a friendly conversation with her. She told him that she was sure he would be an apprentice soon, and it was silly he wasn't one already. Since she seemed to be the one cat who understood him, he confessed all of his feelings about how much he hated his siblings and family to her. Skynose gently told him that he shouldn't hate them, and told him to make amends. Buzzardkit promised to think about it, and with that he went back to WindClan camp.

### Apprenticeship

Buzzardpaw was apprenticed to Sedgeflower (now Sedgestar) and he h a t e d i t . His 'To-Kill' list now looked like this:

* SEDGEFLOWER
* Lakeblossom
* Poppykit/blaze
* Poppykit/blaze
	+ He didn't have to worry about them as much because they were in different clans now.
* Ripplefeather
* Jayeyes
* Furstar
* Raindash ( until she died )
* Wasptoes
* Dreamshine
* Stagpaw/heart ( until he died )
* Sunblaze
* Duskkit
* Leafkit
* Leafkit/bird
* Maplepaw/nose
* Scorch
* Brindle/feather ( though he never met her )
* Violetkit/bird
* Any cat who got in his way

His first order of business was to become leader of ShadowClan. He marched over and when he mother asked why he was there, he explained that he was there for important clan business. Furstar asked why he was there, and he reminded her what she had promised. He then receive a harsh lecture about pride and ignorance. It basically shaped him up, and his to-kill list was gone. Her lecture was what really drove him to do what Skynose said and make amends.

A moon after talking to Skynose, he went to the ShadowClan border to apologize to his sister. His sister saw him at the border a snarled, asking why he was there. He was about to apologize when the wind blew a large branch above her and it cracked. Buzzardpaw jumped forward and saved her, but his back right leg was permanently injured, along with his tail, which now hung limp. Poppypaw and Buzzardpaw made up.

He constantly snuck out to meet Skynose; it was the only way to escape the arguments and trouble he was always causing. He knew he would get in trouble if cats found out he was meeting Skynose, as Skynose had told him what she done, but he didn't care. One day Dreamshine caught Buzzardpaw talking to himself about Skynose. Dreamshine exploded at him, causing them to have a staring contest.

The arguments continued. And continued. He practiced extra so that he could still hunt and fight with his leg. A few moons after he injured his tail, he was looking for his sister in ShadowClan territory, when he saw Ripplefeather, ShadowClan medicine cat and one of his kit-hood enemies, bleeding out in the river. He dove in, trying to save her. They both got swept downriver and into No Clans' Land. Buzzardpaw knew he had to get Ripplefeather out, but his tail was stuck under a rock. Desperately, he bit it off so that they wouldn't drown. He swan her to shore, where they both collapsed.

Skynose and Maplenose founded them. As soon as he was well again, Buzzardpaw returned to WindClan, despite wanting to stay with Skynose. His apprenticeship continued with arguments. Then the Fire happened. Buzzardpaw was at the gathering when fighting broke out between a few cats. For no reason, he attacked Hopefire, then Hopepaw. After a bit of fighting, his siblings Beetlewatcher and Dreamshine jumped up onto the rock, and told everyone to stop fighting.

Then lightning struck a tree and yay, fire. Buzzardpaw leaped onto the rock. Sneaking up behind Dreamshine, he pushed her off. He turned to Beetlewatcher, who he a discussion with. Then Beetlewatcher said that they needed to leave or else the fire would kill them. Buzzardpaw made him go ahead, because he knew his leg would slow him down.

His sister joined WindClan to be with him. Despite failing his warrior assessment, he was still given his warrior name.

Adult Life

Buzzardrose didn't feel that he deserved his warrior name, and Quailberry didn't think that she deserved hers. Buzzardrose told that he had scented some foxes, and that they could truly earn their names if they drove them off. Quailberry agreed, and said that they could tomorrow. When they went to find the foxes, Poppyblaze followed them. Instead of foxes though, a hawk attacked them. Poppyblaze lost vision in an eye. Buzzardstorm had the hardest battle with the hawk. It hooked onto his ear and refused to let go. Flailing his paws, trying to get it off, his one working back leg stumbled. Had he his other one not been limp, he mostly likely would not have tumbled into the river. When he landed in the river, his ear came off, which the hawk dropped on the river bank. The hawk flew away.

Buzzardrose, who had already been planning on leaving WindClan, used this to his advantage. The hawk would serve as a perfect excuse. Poppyblaze and Quailberry followed him as he was swept downriver. He pleaded with Poppyblaze, saying that if WindClan knew he was alive and chose to run away, they would try to find him and talk to him. Poppyblaze reluctantly agreed not to tell anyone that he was still alive.

Once Poppyblaze left, he went and found Skynose. Despite her arguing that he shouldn't leave to live with her, he ignored her, and instead asked her to be his mate, which she happily accepted. Then built a den.

Buzzardrose found Ravengale and told him that he was actually alive. Ravengale was happiness.

Then Skynose and Buzzardrose tried to join Strike's rogue group that was going to destroy the clans. Buzzardrose tried using the fake name 'Hawk' but due to Strike having already talked to Skynose, their plan failed.

Then Skynose had kits: Blossom (Named after Lakeblossom, and partially Sedgeflower), Ember (Named after Emberheart), And Flame (named after Linstar and Poppyblaze). Ember and Flame died a few moons after birth.

Then Buzzardrose decided to kill Skybright of ThunderClan for literally no reason whatsoever. Darksparrow decided to drag him back to ThunderClan camp, where a bunch of cats yelled at him, until Poppyblaze and Skynose ((under the name of 'Whiteclaw')) saved him. Stuff happened. He told Lakeblossom. She told him to join ShadowClan. He said he'd consider it.

Buzzardrose got into a fight with Skynose. Buzzardrose said that Lakeblossom wanted them to move to ShadowClan, and he did too. Skynose said that Galewind wanted them to move to WindClan. Buzzardrose said that Galewind was just a dumb dead cat with no common sense. Skynose exploded.

Buzzardrose found Skynose with a broken collarbone that cats definitely have. He dragged into to the middle of WindClan territory, but then left as he did not want anyone to find out that he was still alive.

Buzzardstorm met a nice kit named Frostkit, from ShadowClan. Nothing happened.

Poppyblaze found Buzzardrose and told him that Skynose was in WindClan. Buzzardrose told her what had happened. Poppyblaze exploded, saying that she gave up her life in ShadowClan to live with him and help him in WindClan, and reminded him that Skynose was in WindClan. Buzzardrose shrugged and walked away as he said, "Figure it out yourself."

Out of spite, Buzzardrose joined ShadowClan, where he was given the name Buzzardstorm ((After his temper, not his father)) and he learned that his least favorite sibling Wasptoes - now Waspstrike - was there. They mostly made up.

Buzzardstorm just wanted to talk to Skynose because he missed her so much, so went into WindClan camp, where Sedgestar yelled at him for stuff. Beetlewatcher was actually happy that Buzzardstorm was alive.

Buzzardstorm talked to Skynose. Skynose was mad that he joined ShadowClan with Blossom. They fought a bit but then made up.

Blossom died.

Frostkit, now Frostpaw, murdered a kit and got exiled. It was the second exile since Buzzardstorm joined ShadowClan ((a cat named Crowbite had been exiled a few moons before, for various reasons)).

Buzzardstorm snapped at Acornkit and then felt bad about it. Nothing happened.

Buzzardstorm took up swimming as a hobby.

There was a rebellion in ShadowClan, in which Crowbite and a few others took over. A few cats were able to escape with Lakestar to WindClan, but Buzzardstorm was stuck in ShadowClan. A few ((or, a lot)) of cats were put into bramble cells by one of the tyrants, Cedarsoul ((Violetbird's sister)), one of which was his sister, Acornpaw, and another was Bouncestream. Buzzardstorm was mad, and he offered to get food for the cats, particularly Bouncestream and Acornpaw. Bouncestream refused to eat until Violetbird ((who was also imprisoned)) also got food, so Buzzardstorm fetched food for both.

Violetbird confessed that there was a hole in her cell, and she could sneak out, but she was afraid of the tyrants seeing her. Buzzardstorm convinced her to go on a walk with him at night, to gather herbs and food for the cats loyal to ShadowClan, and said it would be good for her to get out and stretch.

Yay ShadowClan was reclaimed.

Buzzardstorm helped console Violetbird as Cedarsoul was thrown into a cell and, later, killed.

Buzzardstorm went on another walk with Violetbird, now one of his close friends, and they played in the water.

Buzzardstorm talked to Violetbird's daughter, Lilackit, who he had become friends with. She insisted that he like Violetbird, and that Acornpaw and Honeysong also thought he did.

Buzzardstorm told Violetbird what the other cats thought about them and there was a lot of nervous and awkward chuckling as they both assured each other neither of them liked the other. Even though they were both lying but shhh-

Lilacpaw was apprenticed to Buzzardstorm and every training session for a while was basically them arguing about whether or not her like Violetbird.

Then he went on a walk with Violetbird again and they made daisy flower crowns that they gave to each other. Much cuteness.

Then he told Skynose that he loved Violetbird. Skynose yelled at him for betraying her, and she ran off crying. Buzzardstorm woke up from StarClan in the middle of the night, crying. Still crying, he stumbled out of the den and into the middle of camp, where Lilacpaw saw him. He yelled at her for trying to set him up with Violetbird. He felt really bad, but didn't want to apologize because of his own pride. Instead, he ran out into territory, where Lakestar found him. They had an.. interesting conversation.

Then Buzzardstorm saw his old best friend Silvermoon in StarClan, and she gave him advice on how to propose to Violetbird.

Buzzardstorm apologized to Lilacpaw and told her that he really did love Violetbird, and that he was going to ask her to be his mate. Lilacpaw was joy.

Buzzardstorm was pacing in camp when Violetbird found him. She insisted that something was wrong, and maybe he was sick and should go to the medicine den. He claimed he was alright, and she suggested a walk to clear his thoughts. He brought Violetbird to the Endless Salt Lake and gave her a flower crown of violets, which he had hidden behind a rock, asking her to be his mate. She happily agreed. Also it was sunset so yes. It looked romantic.

Skynose was mad in StarClan.

Skynose talked with Buzzardstorm. By talked, I mean that they had a really big fight where Skynose yelled, "Go be happy without me." Determined to prove he loved Skynose more than Violetbird, Buzzardstorm tried to jump off a cliff so that he could be with Skynose in StarClan. Skynose's ghost came, and surprised, Buzzardstorm stumbled back over the cliff, but caught him self with most of the front of his body. He should've been able to pull himself back up, but he couldn't because of his back leg being injured. Skynose pleaded with him not to do it, but Buzzardstorm reminded her *why* he was doing and Skynose wasn't very happy. Skynose tried to help him up, but because she was a ghost she couldn't. She ran off to get Violetbird, who was nearby. Buzzardstorm took this opportunity to let go. And, unfortunately for him (at the time), there was a small ledge right below that caught him. He turned around to jump off it, but then Violetbird appeared above him, and he knew he couldn't make her watch that. So after a lot of convincing, Violetbird pulled him back up with a branch/vine/something and they talked.

Then Violetbird had Spottedbelly and Ivybranch's kits which has no effect on Buzzardstorm.

Strikepaw was apprenticed to Buzzardstorm.

Buzzardstorm and Violetbird had a conversation about possibly having kits of their own.

Buzzardstorm accidently stalked a mouse from ShadowClan's territory to a fox-length in ThunderClan's territory without noticing it. He caught the mouse and ran into Sunstar. Nervously, he asked how ThunderClan was doing, and Sunstar said fine, but there was a lot of death. He added that Buzzardstorm was part of that (\*even though he killed Skybright like 30 moons ago\*). Buzzardstorm said he knew how hard loss was and Sunstar said "You better." Sunstar then yelled at him to get out of ThunderClan territory or something along those lines, and Buzzardstorm sprinted back over the border, but accidently dropped the mouse halfway there. He went back to retrieve it, but then Sunstar attacked him. Sunstar won, of course, and took the mouse back to ThunderClan.

Buzzardstorm stumbled home and lied to everyone that he "crossed the border just a pawstep and caught this mouse, and then Sunstar attacked me." This led to the start of the ShadowClan-ThunderClan war. Yay.

Before the first battle, Buzzardstorm caught a rabbit and brought it to Violetbird, who was still the nursery with SpottedIvy kits. They shared the rabbit and Buzzardstorm assured her that he would do whatever it would take to make sure he got home, along with Lilacfrost.

## Friends and Family

List using 'paragraph' and underline. Set out like this:

Ravengale - WindClan, tom, warrior, best friend

Skynose - WindClan Exile, she-cat, Exile, mate

Thorncall - ShadowClan, tom, warrior, best friend

Honeymoon - ShadowClan Exile, she-cat, rogue, best friend

Maplenose - ShadowClan, she-cat, warrior, best friend

Violetbird - ShadowClan, she-cat, warrior, mate

Lilacfrost- ShadowClan, she-cat, warrior, friend and step-daughter

\_\_\_paw - \_\_\_Clan, she-cat/tom, apprentice, friend

## Notable Quotes

"If I was loyal to WindClan - /truly loyal/ - then I wouldn't have ever seen you. Befriended you. Loved you." - Buzzardrose to Skynose before he asks her to be his mate.

"...It's not about the cat who she /was/, it's the cat who she /is/." - Buzzardrose to Dapple about Skynose.

*"*...Because your heart will always lead you to where your true loyalty lies. That much I've learned." - Buzzardrose to Lakeblossom about possibly moving back to ShadowClan.

"I won't abandon ShadowClan again. I won't abandon anyone again. I will stay loyal for moons until I die." - Buzzardstorm talking to himself.

"I will always be sad, for all the moons I have yet to live. But I've felt this grief before, with my other two kits, with my best friends that have died. I've gotten over it enough to live." - Buzzardstorm to Bouncestream about Blossom('s death).

"They're honourary fish." - Buzzardstorm to Soot/riddle, referring to RiverClan.