Cider

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Moraystar | Biological Father | Leader of RC

### Siblings

Drakonia, Vermouth, Safi, Pomme, Cosmopolitan, Margarita, Velkhana, Alexei | BCCongerpaw, Kidakopaw | RC

## Education

### Mentor(s)

StormbornVelkhana (?)

Invictus (DF?)

Rift

## Overview

Cider was a former healer of BloodClan, mentored by Stormborn.

### Appearance

Cider is a fluffy and slightly skinny black cat, with 'faded' russet spots and cream freckle-like spots on her face. She also has a white star on her forehead. Cider's eyes are a bright orange, and her right eye is blind. Also, Cider's collar is a pale purple.

### Personality

Cider was a patient and sweet cat at first, but after Mimosa's death, she's become way more distant from both her clan and basically everyone else. Cider's more tired, quiet, and she focuses more on any other cat than herself.

## History

### Kithood

As a kit, Cider was born with her ten siblings. Two of her siblings- who looked most like Moraystar- went to RiverClan, while the rest of her siblings stayed in BloodClan- including her.

When Cider was one or two moons old, she and one of her many siblings Vermouth snuck out to watch a fight against SkyClan- which was happening outside of the camp. They were caught by a SkyClan warrior, and while Vermouth instantly ran back to the nursery, Cider gave the warrior a goodbye wave before quickly following her sibling. Despite her seeming unfazed by the battle, Cider was actually having a couple nightmares due to it.

Cider briefly spoke with Stormborn while he was checking up on Cerise and the kits. When her siblings turned six moons old- including her, of course- Stormborn hopped onto the Execution Ledge and announced that Cider would be his apprentice- the healer apprentice of BloodClan. She, of course, accepted the role.

### Killer Beginnings [Healer Apprenticeship | Part One]

Cider went to the gathering right after she was made the healer apprentice. She noticed the tensity of WindClan and ShadowClan during it. Then after the gatheirng, she was watching a bug. A cat named Shikamaru went over and after talking to her about the bug, killed the bug. Drakonia- one of Cider's many siblings- showed up and started to insult her, saying that Cider was 'a stain on their mother's name'. How mean. Velkhana- Cider sibling again- went over to try and stop Drakonia, before Cerise appeared. She didn't really do much, however. Then, Mimosa joined the conversation. It ended with Drakonia being put back by a moon, and Cider feeling ashamed for her 'actions'.

Margarita and Pomme said- from what Cider thinks- that healers are supposed to heal, not fight. She didn't like that. She spoke with Vermouth and explained a little about what had happened with Drakonia, as well as meeting Lightpaw, a ThunderClan apprentice. And then she talked to him again before the gathering, which was uneventful.

Cider got some strange bonding time with Mimosa and Alexei during battle training for the upcoming pit battle. Alexei beat her, then Cosmo joined in. Stormborn was there as well. The training ended with a draw; which Cider didn't exactly like, but oh well. She also met Sightserpent, and had a nice conversation with her. Then, the pit battle happened.

Cider and Margarita were the first ones up. She tried her hardest, but Margarita won. Cider... wasn't happy at *all.* She felt weak. She's a healer apprentice, though, and she liked being the healer apprentice! But yet... she didn't want to be weak. Cider noticed a RiverClan warrior, Crocodilesnap, who had gone after her round was up, gviving her a sympathetic glance. She stopepd herself from saying something quite rude, and instead sommented dryly that 'healers need to be able to at least protect themselves'. The rest of the event for her was watching it and taking notes on it. Congerpaw was defeated by Velkhana, and she slightly pitied him. Just a little bit.

Velkhana and her had a pleasant conversation afterwards, and Velkhana told her that he could teach her some battle moves. She agreed to it, of course. Then, Cider and Drakonia had a rather... unpleasant conversation, where Drakonia basically threatened to kill her and said that she should've been killed the moment Cider was able to die, also that she should've died in the pit during the pit battles and blah blah blah. The conversation ended with her sister cutting her on her right side as she (Drakonia) walked away. Cider also met Sapnose, SkyClan's medicine cat. She told him to give her congratulations to his apprentice, Pancakepaw, since he told her that he was going to get his full name soon.

Later at night, when Cider went to sleep, she woke up to a burning forest. She then met a cat seemingly from the Dark Forest, named Invictus. Invictus became her third mentor. The next day, she chatted and attempted to injure Shikamaru. Shikamaru was the first to officially be told about how she saw the SkyClan vs. BloodClan battle. They told her that the universe could've done her a favor and killed her right then and there during the battle.

Cider spoke to a three-legged ShadowClan apprentice names Pandorapaw, who quickly became friends with her. She had a weird feeling towards her, but she didn't bother with trying to figure out what it was. The next gathering she went to was normal. Afterwards, Cider had a talk with Mimosa, who attempted to raise her spirits up a bit and saying that she isn't weak, but Cider didn't really buy it. She also had a small talk with Safi. Cider then spoke with Pandorapaw, and she ended up going on ShadowClan territory to one of Pandorapaw's favorite spots. She quickly returned the favor by showing one of her favorite spots to the ShadowClan apprentice. She also was given concern by the other apprentice when she accidentally tripped on a root from the ground while staring at her.

Cider woke up one day to see Mimosa and Cerise at the main den. She followed them, along with the rest of her siblings. She then met the rest of her two siblings that were in RiverClan. Most of her siblings weren't happy. She wasn't really happy too, but she tried to accept it.

The healer apprentice also met Stagtracker, the deputy of ShadowClan. They spoke before the gathering. The gathering was, again, boring. Afterwards, Cider was about to go tooth hunting with Velkhana, but he was pulled away for training. So, she went alone, but found nothing.

Cider talked to Puffinpaw (SkyClan apprentice with a strange limp) and she spoke to Sightserpent again too, as well as speaking to a strange rogue leader named Cool Whip. She *also* spoke to Pandorapaw again! She felt strange, however. They went to the Abandoned Bunker, and had some... strange interactions. (Flirty interactions owo)

Then, the gathering. It was normal, except Stagtracker was now leader of ShadowClan. Hm. Cider went out for a tooth hunt again, and found a rogue. She fought with them, and tore a long tooth out of their mouth. She then ripped it into her collar, and waltzed back into camp, a massive grin on her face. She then approached Shikamaru, who almost instantly ripped her pride away. She made a strange discovery however; Shikamaru froze and then instinctively lashed out at her when she pawed at them. Strange...

Cider then spoke with Pandorapaw again, and slept with her in one of the twoleg beds in the bunker. She also spoke with Mimosa, where she was originally drawing in the dirt, then basically told Mimosa about Pandorapaw. Her mother told her she will attempt to speak to Stagstar, which made her happy.

One day, Cider was staring at an unknown object outside of camp, when Drakonia shoved her aside. They had a short conversation, which was basically about how Cider 'deserved her claws, not her voice'. It also seemed as if Cider was starting to slowly lose her patience for Drakonia's bullcrap. Cider went herb collecting one day, and suddenly felt a tickle in her throat. She coughed away from the herbs that she was taking, and felt strangely warm for the rest of her time outside of the camp. Cider then met Glow, who was from the Tribe but was staying in ShadowClan for some reason. They talked, and then they left each other alone. Cider *then* spoke to Orion, who was making her angry by just being there. (She was already angry due to thinking about Drakonia and stuff.)

Cider and her family were all brought to a dream to meet Rift, her grandmother. Rift spoke bitterly with Drakonia, who was apparently a reincarnation of Draconis, a cat who took Rift's final life by poison- or something like that. She spoke with her grandmother a few nights later. Then the gathering arrived, which Gladelight, the medicine cat of WindClan, did a rant about how the clans were lost by the Dark Forest, and admitted to killing his mentor Buzzardgaze, an old, retired, ShadowClan medicine cat named Toadpool, and he admitted to taking six of Dreamstar's lives. Of course, most of the cats at the gathering were not happy about the news. Gladelight ran off after a mob of WindClanners started to angrily walk towards him. That was the end of that. Cider also gave both a Tribe to-be (Creek) and a WindClan apprentice (Sheeppaw) a worried look, since they both looked a bit out of it and shocked at what just happened.

Cider also munched on some herbs once she realized on her own that she had gotten sick.

### The Start of Trouble [Healer Apprenticeship | Part Two]

Cider had decided to go to an apprentice gathering, her brother Safi going as well. He was kicked out for making enemies (and went missing later) but she didn't really care. She expected something like that to happen. She had met Dawnpaw (who didn't tell Cider her name), and she had also eavesdropped on Glow and a Tribe she-cat (named Creek)'s conversation. The Tribe she-cat had apparently murdered another cat, and despite it being in self-defense, she blamed herself for it, along with another situation regarding Glow killing other cats and having a 'power' of sorts. Glow also strangely now had her right eye missing, a scar replacing it over her eye socket. She left the two alone when Creek asked Glow if she wanted to know how the Tribe was doing.

Cider watched a pit battle between Orion and Drakonia, which Orion won. Drakonia looked so peeved. A few 'normal' gatherings later, SkyClan attacked BloodClan's camp while she was out. She came back to see Sparkstar and Mimosa attacking each other. Cider was frozen for a moment, then an (NPC) apprentice named Rainpaw attacked her. She accidentally killed the apprentice and was called a murderer by another (NPC) SkyClan cat.

A couple gatherings passed by, and ShadowClan had showed everyone Gladelight's rotting corpse. She didn't really care that much. She also noticed that Mimosa was in her den most of the time, which scared her a bit (but she would never tell anyone that). Cider spoke to Drizzle, who went on a walk with her and gave her a mouse to eat, and she also spoke to Shikamaru, which went as well as you'd think it would've. Poorly.

At the gathering, Pancakebelly's body was found in the middle of the gathering. Icicleweb (and Sparkstar, sort of) had an outburst, and Cider left after the extremely short gathering. She didn't come back to camp until the next morning. During that time, she found a dead dog, which she stole six of its teeth and four of its claws.

Stormborn had decided to step down, so despite her thinking that she wasn't ready yet, Cider was made into the full healer of BloodClan.

### Sickly Sweet [Full Healer-ship | Part One]

Days had started to slightly blur together after Cider was made into the full healer of BloodClan.

Cider talked to Drizzle (who had been taken by SkyClan a couple days prior, then was able to escape), and they had a conversation about the other clans' opinions on them. Cider's thoughts were close to Drizzle's, but she hid that fact. SkyClan and BloodClan were starting to become angry at each other. She also spoke to a ShadowClan apprentice named Palepaw, who was weirdly excited about meeting a BloodClan cat, and then to a loner named Bucket, who spoke in the third person and was also rather eager to meet her. They spoke for a bit more than the conversation Cider had with Palepaw.

Days went by, and Cider had a lot of things on her mind. She spoke to Luke (a kit from Mimosa's newer litter), she also spoke to Indica, and encountered Pandoralily finally (last time they encountered each otehr was their last meeting, which Cider touched Pandoralily's nose with her own). They confessed to each other and boom, they're a couple now! :D

A battle with ThunderClan and SkyClan happened in BloodClan's camp after the gathering, and Cider ended up healing a ThunderClan warrior named Mangolily at the demand of another warrior (Logpelt). *Another* ThunderClan cat appeared (Lightspirit) as well. Logpelt also gave her a small scar on her muzzle, and Velkhana had died during the battle, although she didn't really care.

RiverClan and BloodClan invaded ThunderClan's camp, with WindClan coming to help ThunderClan halfway in. Coralflowers had been taken, but wasn't in the prisoners' den. And then ThunderClan, WindClan, and SkyClan attacked BloodClan's camp, with some RiverClan cats staying in camp as extra protection. Cider met a ThunderClan warrior (Goldenstripe), who was... pretty bad at fighting. They shuffled for a moment, before Cider had to watch as Sparkstar, thinking that Mimosa killed all those poor cats, killed her own mother. Sparkstar died shortly after. Cider was frozen, then desperately tried to save her mother, who was already dead at that point. Rust had to stop her from using every single herb in the medicine den to save a dead cat (which she probably would've done if he didn't stop her).

Cider blamed herself for not being able to save her.

...

*That might've made her break a little inside.*

### Hidden Health [Full Healer-ship | Part Two]

Cider was in the healers' den for the most part. Drakonia went into her den for herbs, and that interaction ended in Drakonia giving her a small scar on her nose. She met Pandoralily again before a pit battle that Rust talked to her about Mattison and her joining beforehand. Cider was put against Saltfissure, which she then lost due to her being really sick. Saltfissure called the battle in as a tie, then afterwards Cider passed out while she was meeting Pandoralily again.

She stayed with ShadowClan for at least a moon or two, being there for when RiverClan and ShadowClan attempted to have a fun ally event that ended in dogs, before she went back to BloodClan. Cider then spoke to Rust about stepping down and fighting someone to become a full BloodClan warrior. She then killed Camel, a cat who was getting on Rust's nerves.

She was a strong BloodClan warrior now.