Shrewpatch

Current

**Shrewpatch** is a 73 moons-old reddish-brown, gold and white she-cat with blue eyes, and with a scar on her left side and a torn ear. She has the 'Vengeful' personality and 'Good teacher' trait.

## History

Shrewpatch was born during year 2, in Burdockfoot and Duskcloud's litter, with her littermates, Hopkit and Cricketkit. As a kit, she had the 'Bossy' personality.

During year 3, she was mentored by Cinderpetal. On their first patrol, they ran into a soda, and Shrewpatch got a little sick from it. She had a slight stomachache, but didn't wanted her mentor to get into trouble because of this, so she just dealt with it for a bit. After Duskcloud's death, she became more bitter and angry, always saying that she wants to get revenge on a cat who did it. She really liked Stoneleaf, and probably picked up her 'Good teacher' trait from him, as the tom used to tag along on her patrols. She was determined to claw some CreekClan warriors for revenge.

During year 4, she participated in a border skirmish along with Burdockfoot, and while her mother accepted that it was a bad thing to do, Shrewpatch was just angrier. Sandstar gave her an apprentice this year, and there were whispers that others had deserved one instead. During their first patrol together, they ran into a soda, and Shrewpatch blocked her apprentice, Hazelrunner from drinking it, like she did when she was an apprentice. She did her best, and was a good teacher, but she just did not have patience, since the Stoneleaf drama had been stressing her out. She had been snappy and even got into a fight with Hopwhisker, claiming that her sister moved on from both Duskcloud's, and Cricketflower's death way too fast, and was ready to leave everyone behind for her her mate, Twigclaw. Stoneleaf made her feel like no one can be trusted, and everyone is against her. This is the start of Shrewpatch's abandonment issues, which will lead her to make bad decisions later.

Year 5 was an eventful year for Shrewpatch. She ran into CreekClan on a border patrol, and attacked Brokentail, ignoring orders. During the fight, the CreekClan warrior wounded her side pretty badly before the battle was broken up, and Shrewpatch felt humiliated. Hopwhisker then yelled at her for being reckless and disobeying Sandstar's orders of not engaging in fights. Surprisingly, Sandstar assigned Aspenrunner's former apprentice to Shrewpatch, after Aspenrunner's death. The leader was probably trying to get her focus on other things beside revenge, and possibly trying to get her make up with her sister, as Hopwhisker was also a mentor at this time. After her mother became the leader, she became a bit less insistent on revenge, choosing to focus on clan duties.

During year 6, Shrewpatch and Hopwhisker finally managed to patch things up with each other. Shrewpatch wasn't trying to instigate anything with CreekClan, and she was able to break through Hopwhisker's wall of icy emotions, sharing their emotions with each other. Shrewpatch told her that she was upset after Cricketflower's death, feeling like she was left behind in someway, while Hopwhisker got a mate and even had a kit. Shrewpatch was unable to face the future, and was stuck in the past, constantly trying to avenge her father and brother. After getting all of this off her chest, she understood Hopwhisker way better than before, and the two of them started to share prey with each other, and go on patrols. During a patrol, they ran into rogues and Shrewpatch got a torn ear from the rouge Spruce, but fortunately, it wasn't anything serious.

During year 7, she did not take Hopwhisker's death well, as she felt like this was another way of abandonment, even though she knew it was out of her control, and kind of reverted back to her snappy personality, starting arguments and rushing into fights. Both her and Burdockstar had seemed to have issues with lashing out emotions when they were in pain. Earlier, before her sister's death, she acted a bit suspicious and was curious about other clans, but she was just investigating on another cat, who turned out to be Ottertail.

During year 8, Shrewpatch died when she was 73 moons-old. She was killed on patrol, when she ran into a dog, Burdockstar had also been there, and she lost some of her lives as well. The only cat who was unhurt on that patrol was Shrewpatch's apprentice, Cloudpaw, who had been ordered to climb a tree, and had to witness the brutal event. Fortunately the dog was chased off when the apprentice leaped down, and a patrol of Ravenspot, Ottertail and Bubblespeck helped him to chase it off. Earlier the year, Brokentail picked a fight on a patrol by crossing the border, and Shrewpatch managed to beat her and chase her off, giving her a scar as well. She seemed to have a crush on a former loner who joined the clan, Bristlethroat, and Shrewpatch had been playing with her kits and was bonding with her on patrols. In StarClan, she was hanging out with Stoneleaf a lot, so she possibly managed to make up with him.

## Gallery

Burdockfoot's litter was bornShrewkit in Year 2Shrewpaw gets sick from the soda she finds on patrol (Year 3)Shrewpatch blocks Hazelpaw from drinking the soda, like she did (Year 4)Shrewpatch in Year 3Shrewpatch in Year 4Shrewpatch picks a fight with Brokentail, and loses, leaving a big wound on her side (Year 5)Shrewpatch becomes Emberpaw's new mentor, after Aspenrunner dies. (Year 5)Shrewpatch in Year 5Shrewpatch and Hopwhisker in Year 6Shrewpatch in Year 7Shrewpatch wins a fight with Brokentail, while her new apprentice, Cloudpaw, watches (Year 8)Shrewpatch gets killed by a dog, While Cloudpaw has to climb a tree and watch (Year 8)Shrewpatch in Year 8/Starclan