Yellowtail

Yellowtail is a pale yellow she-cat with ripped ears and multiple scars. She has a dark ginger blaze on her muzzle, ginger stripes, and amber eyes.

## Personality

Cold, cunning, easily angered, vengeful, jealous, confident, heartless, merciless.

### Strengths

Yellowtail is a skilled fighter, often adopting the cruelest and most effective battle moves to use against her trainees or enemies. She is quick to learn and quick to make others learn through methods of pain and fear. She enjoys controlling cats through manipulation and lies, redirecting their anger so that she can achieve her goals.

### Weaknesses

Though Yellowtail may make a confident appearance at times, she's actually more of a coward. She hates doing her own dirty work and will make other cats do it for her whenever possible. She's quick to duck out of a fight, especially those she knows she can't win.

## Backstory

### Past

Yellow was born a rogue along with her brother, Needle. Due to her parents abusive nature, Yellow would often help her parents team up on her brother. She developed a deep hatred for the tom, especially when he left to join the clan. Under the instruction of Stone Claw, she set out to join Fernclan with the intention of taking down her brother. However, she came to find out it wouldn't be as easy as expected. Pebblestar had already seen Needlepaw's potential. Yellowpaw decides to stay with the clan longer, hoping that someday she'll become clan leader instead of her brother. They are soon made warriors, and Yellowtail can't help but notice the leader's favoritism over Needlestrike. She begins to plot his death, though deems it too reckless for the time being.

Soon Scarletkit, Shardkit, and Briarkit are ready to be apprenticed. Briarpaw is apprenticed to Yellowtail while her brother is apprenticed to Needlestrike. Yellowtail takes the opportunity to turn Briarpaw against Needlestrike, as well as her own brother, Shardpaw. She trains Briarpaw rather harshly, often pitting her against Shardpaw in pointless squabbles. Needlestrike seems to do the same.

In one battle against a rival clan, Briarpaw and Shardpaw's father is killed. Yellowtail sees the apprentice's distress, and vaguely hints that it was Needlestrike who killed Harefoot, as he was the only cat standing in the way of him becoming deputy.
At the next battle, Yellowtail orders Briarpaw to kill Needlestrike. Briarpaw is reluctant, but Yellowtail hisses that it's what Harefoot would've wanted. Briarpaw does as she is told, but as she lunges for Needlestrike Shardpaw leaps to his mentor's defense, recieving the killing blow. Needlestrike vows revenge on the apprentice, heading back to camp to report to Pebblestar. Yellowtail confronts her panic stricken apprentice, naming her a failure and threatening to kill her if she does not kill Needlestrike. Briarpaw then flees the territory, running from both Yellowtail and Needlestrike who now want her dead. To Yellowtail's dismay, Pebblestar is pleased with Needlestrike's honesty and makes him deputy.

This pushes Yellowtail over the edge, and the next day while Needlestrike is hunting she plots to kill him herself. However, her plan goes wrong as Needlestrike spots her moments before her claws meet his throat. In the moments that ensue their desperate tussle turns for the worse, Yellowtail being wounded by Needlestrike's claws. With her last breath she promises vengeance on Needlestrike, promptly dying afterwards.

### Since

Yellowtail makes her first appearance during one of Scarletflame's final visits to the Moonlake. Scarletflame confronts a mysterious Dark Forest cat who scoffs at the medicine cat's skills and claims that she would never make Snakekit a worthy warrior on her own. She offers to train young Snakekit, but not without a price. Reluctantly, Scarletflame agrees.

## Education

Mentor: Unknown

Apprentice(s): Briar, Snakefang (Dark forest)