Antpelt (WC)

> "*These are my Clanmates more than WindClan ever was. Where else would I go?*"
> ― Antpelt to Ivypool[source]
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## Education

### Dark Forest mentors:

Shredtail, Thistleclaw

Antpelt is a ginger tom with one black ear and amber eyes.

**Antpelt** was a WindClan warrior under Onestar's leadership in the lake territories. He joined the Dark Forest and trained with Ivypool. However, Thistleclaw accused Antpelt of cowardice and severely injured him, and he died of his injuries. Antpelt joined the Dark Forest, and Ivypool killed him to prove her loyalty.

## History

### In the *Omen of the Stars* arc

#### *Night Whispers*

Antpelt is revealed by Ivypaw to be training in the Dark Forest for unknown reasons. In one dream, Thistleclaw tells the cats to work together, and when Ivypaw leaps forward to attack, Antpelt knocks her aside, though it isn't known if he meant it purposefully or
not. Thistleclaw gets angry at Antpelt for not cooperating and deals
the younger warrior a hard blow to his ear. Ivypaw looks away, sickened, as she feels Antpelt's blood splatter on her muzzle. She wakes him up so he goes to
the waking world. Ivypaw sits with him, Tigerheart, Hollowpaw, and Breezepelt while Tigerstar begins to talk about the end of the Clans; Ivypaw is horrified when she sees Antpelt's eyes shining with pleasure.

#### *Sign of the Moon*

Antpelt joins Thistleclaw and the newly named Ivypool in a training session. He is told to attack Ivypool and to try and drive her
to the top of a heap of logs. At first, Antpelt keeps his claws sheathed
 and his blows light, but when Thistleclaw yowls at them to stop
fighting like kits,
 Antpelt attacks Ivypool with full force. When she slips and falls, he
gives her a sympathetic look and waits for her to get up. Thistleclaw
sees this and takes it as a sign of cowardice. He attacks Antpelt,
causing serious wounds to his back and throat. Ivypool crouches over
Antpelt and begs him to wake up; he then groans, and vanishes. Later, at a Gathering, Dovewing overhears Tornear and Webfoot talking to other cats about Antpelt, who is covered in dreadful wounds. The cats are bewildered at what could have caused this but believed it
 was the dogs from the horseplace. They also say that Kestrelflight does not think he will survive. Dovewing, standing on a hill overlooking the lake territories, casting her senses out to the WindClan camp as Antpelt dies from his wounds, surrounded by his Clanmates along with Swallowtail. Kestrelflight can't do anything more for him, and Dovewing is horrified when Antpelt finally dies. Later, Antpelt is seen walking through the Dark Forest with the
scars on his throat and back that killed him. He tells Ivypool that the
Dark Forest cats were more of his Clanmates than WindClan ever had been.
 He also tells her that she may see him dead, but to him, it was simply
staying in the Dark Forest forever. He pads away from her into the
gloom.

#### *The Forgotten Warrior*

Antpelt is first seen at a training session yelling orders when Ivypool sees him. Ivypool expresses her disgust, and Breezepelt states
that ever since he died, he thinks he's better than everyone. When
Ivypool lands in a pile of leaves, Antpelt stands over her and pins her
down. She reminds him that she helped him when Thistleclaw wounded him
so badly that he died. Antpelt retorts that he is a warrior in the Dark
Forest, and he deserves the position that he is in. He also states that
the Place of No Stars is better than StarClan. Ivypool tells Hawkfrost and Brokenstar that she wants to become a warrior and to be in the front line when the final battle comes and not in the back, where the cowards hide.
Hawkfrost is impressed by her loyalty, and Brokenstar tells her that if
she can beat Antpelt again, she can be a Dark Forest warrior. Ivypool
realizes this battle will mean life or death for her. As she fights with
 Antpelt, she realizes that he is stronger and that he must have done
nothing but train since he died. During the fight, she imagines her
sister, Dovewing, and the Clans, giving her strength to defeat Antpelt.
Ivypool finishes him off by ripping him open from throat to tail, and
Antpelt collapses, then fades. Later, Breezepelt asks Ivypool if she had destroyed Antpelt's
spirit, and when she confirms this by telling him her loyalty was
greater than his, Breezepelt angrily tells her they may be Clanmates in
the Dark Forest, but they are not Clanmates in the real world, and he
would make sure she was punished.

#### *The Last Hope*

While he does not formally appear due to having died twice, Ivypool remembers his death while she is in the Dark Forest. The Memory of
his death floods her mind as she remembers that she had been forced to
kill Antpelt to prove her loyalty to Tigerstar and Brokenstar. It is
noted that Ivypool knows that she'd never wash the scent of his blood
from her paws. When Jayfeather walks in Ivypool's memories to find out if the Dark Forest cats can fade, he comes across Antpelt's death in her mind, and he recoils,
feeling sick. Ivypool pushes the thought away and does not mention his
death to her Clanmates.

### In the *Novellas*

#### *Mistystar's Omen*

Antpelt is seen when Pebblefoot, on Mistystar's hunting patrol accidentally chases a squirrel onto WindClan territory in full view. Antpelt, who is on this patrol, yells at Pebblefoot, saying that he is a
 trespasser and a prey-thief. Mistystar rushes to the border and yells
back, defending her Clanmate. Pebblefoot is embarrassed and apologizes
to the WindClan cats. Antpelt refuses to accept the apology and
continues accusing Pebblefoot of deliberately trying to steal WindClan's
 prey. Mistystar is embarrassed because, with the RiverClan cats' thin
pelts and scrawny frames, it was obvious that they didn't have enough
prey. Ashfoot,
 the head of the WindClan patrol, comes forward, and Mistystar
apologizes again for her Clanmate, saying it was a genuine mistake.
Antpelt snarls at them and tells them to get their mangy pelts off of
their territory, or they'd make them. He then raises a paw threateningly
 and shows his claws. Ashfoot orders Antpelt to stop, and then
"suggests" that Mistystar and her patrol return to their own territory
and renew their scent markers so it doesn't happen again. Ashfoot then
orders Antpelt to put his claws away and leads the patrol back to the
WindClan camp. Later, as the RiverClan patrol makes its way back to
their camp, Pebblefoot complains about Antpelt and how he had treated
them.

## Trivia

### Mistakes

* In *The Forgotten Warrior* and *The Last Hope*, Antpelt is still listed in the allegiances, despite having died in *Sign of the Moon*.
* He is called a ShadowClan warrior in *Battles of the Clans*.
	+ He also has an unnamed apprentice.