Hiddenlight

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BloodClan (formerly)

WindClan (formerly)

Emberhawk (formerly, deceased)

Wolfsong (formerly, deceased)

Twigfrost (formerly)

Blackpaw (current)

Elmpaw (current)

## Overview

Hiddenlight is a former deputy of ShadowClan and a mutated cat.

### Appearance

Hiddenlight is similar to a chimera cat; he has a white right side and a gray left side. He has darker gray stripes on his fur and darker gray ears. Within the darker areas on his fur are white speckles. Hiddenlight has seafoam green eyes and a dark pink nose and paw pads.

### Scars

Hiddenlight has a scar running from his right upper forehead, in between his eyes and down to his left lower jaw from Valerie, a manipulative rogue. He has three large scars on his back, has a long scratch across his shoulder blades and three claw marks on his neck from a fox fight. He also has numerous claw marks on his legs. Hiddenlight has quite a few claw marks on his flanks that are inflamed and raised from Draconis' deathberry poisoned claws. Part of his left neck going down his chest and reaching his right leg is burned.

### Mutation

Hiddenlight is a very large tom, about the size of a puma. He was born like a regular kitten but grew exceptionally fast and beyond regular size. This happened due to a powerplant, nuclear leak that poisoned the clans before they were forced to move to a new territory.

### Personality

Hiddenlight is a very kind-hearted individual with good intentions for his clan and those who are close to him. He loves to meet new cats and make new friends, so he spends most of his time patrolling, going off to see who he can find next. Hiddenlight tries his best to be understanding and forgiving and to balance out both sides of an argument. He can be naïve at times but he tries his best to show good-hearted judgement in others by trying to see that good in them. Hiddenlight is seen to joke around a lot and he fumbles over his words when cats flirt with him or he senses some sort of affection besides friendship. He is a sympathetic and genuine cat and he would stand as 'neutral good' in the Alignment System.

## Detailed History

### Early Life

Hiddenlight was born in WindClan, first named Fennelkit to a mother and father he couldn't remember for they disappeared long before he became an apprentice. Fennelkit grew fast as a kit and being much bigger, he was self-conscious when playing with the other kits. He got into a lot of trouble often and hurt a lot of kits, not knowing his limits when playing and rough-housing.

Fennelkit was curious to the outsides of camp and what was beyond that. He snuck out of camp and headed out into the territory as fast as he could. Hailbelly, a WindClan Moor Runner, had caught onto his scent long moments after he left and he followed him to bring the mischievous kit back to camp. He found Fennelkit swiftly and scolded him before taking him back to camp and promised him he'd mentor and show him all of the territory once he was an apprentice.

### Apprenticeship

Fennelkit, now Fennelpaw, was mentored by Hailbelly, who did keep his promise and showed him the territories the first day he became an apprentice. Although Hailbelly was a very strict teacher he had a fiery passion for WindClan which helped Fennelpaw motivate himself to make Hailbelly proud. Many times, Hailbelly was too hard on Fennelpaw, making him overwork himself often and cursed him for his large size. He was too clumsy, too big, and too slow to be a moor runner or a tunneler. Fennelpaw loved Hailbelly very much and tried to understand why he was so harsh, in reality Hailbelly just wanted Fennelpaw to be successful. Instead of encouraging and pushing Fennelpaw gently to success, he dragged him towards the finish line. Fennelpaw befriended Robinpaw, a rather odd individual who was quirky and had a peculiar sense of cheeriness. Robinpaw was the one to encourage Fennelpaw to be more successful and in turn he gained confidence and became more extroverted. Fennelpaw and Robinpaw were best friends and were considered the two peas in a pod.

Fennelpaw came across a young tom warrior from ShadowClan named Grasspaw. Curious to his size, the ShadowClanner became easily invested in Fennelpaw's backstory and the 'secret to being large.' Fennelpaw agreed to be friends with him but rather in secret due to Hailbelly's nature and attitude towards other cats in clans other than WindClan. They met in secret, along with Robinpaw near the borders and became rather close to the ShadowClan tom. Fennelpaw suspected Robinpaw starting to have feelings for Grasspaw and confirmed his suspicions once he caught Robinpaw red handed meeting him in secret without him. Feeling betrayed, Fennelpaw didn't talk to Robinpaw for a while and sulked most of the time during training or hunting.

Fennelpaw, Robinpaw and Hailbelly were on a patrol, and Fennelpaw and Robinpaw had not yet talked about what happened with Grasspaw, making their interaction awkward and mos of the patrol was silence. They were being taught which markers to place and occasional clan knowledge, when they stumbled upon several unknown and mysterious rogues. The rogues attacked the three when they knew the patrol had their guard down, making the WindClan cats believe they were badly injured and needed medication. They crippled Hailbelly, killed Robinpaw and scarred Fennelpaw's pelt and legs. Having had to carry the warrior back to camp, Fennelpaw barely managed to do so while almost fainting himself. The medicine cats healed the two and during his healing he had a lot of time to think and wallow in his depression. After some deep thought, Fennelpaw decided it was best to leave WindClan, knowing he didn't belong there. He didn't fit any of the roles WindClan had to offer, Robinpaw died, and Hailbelly could no longer train and teach him. Respectfully, Fennelpaw left WindClan, acknowledging the clan before he took his leave and decided to live his life as a loner.

### Leaving WindClan

Now a loner and no long apart of a clan, Fennelpaw decided to change his name to Hidden. Before he left, Hidden saw Grasspaw and told him what happened to Robinpaw. Both grief-stricken, they sat together to talk and send Robinpaw off to StarClan with their own prayers and wishes. Hidden left Grasspaw with a few words to send him on his way before he parted ways himself. On his own and wishing to disappear from the clans, he started to admire being 'hidden' as well as appreciated the time alone to think and recollect himself. He resided near RiverClan and the Tribe's territory but not close enough to scent the territory. Hidden started to travel near Tribe's mountains and peaks often, enjoying the extra challenge to get to mountain tops and make his way through caves. He met Navi, a puma who lived near Tribe's mountains. Seeing Hidden has a larger threat than the clan cats, she attacked him and nearly killed him had he not interested her with his fighting techniques as well as his size. Navi was more curious and she decided to try to teach him hunting and fighting techniques if he were to share his own knowledge. Agreeing, Hidden lived his life with the puma, learning her language as best he could and did well to learn about a puma's skills. After moons passed, Hidden decided he were to try to visit the clans again. Maybe not go back to WindClan but he missed clan life and the security of having many cats around him. He left Navi to search for a different clan and ran into a loner named Sleet. Sleet mentioned to Hidden about ShadowClan and how he used to formerly be from there, having fled for an unknown reason. The large tom considered it and he decided to go and explore the marsh, pine forest. He ran into Talonstar, the cat he wished to see and asked if he could join ShadowClan. The leader was hesitant at first, his size intimidating, but she allowed him to join ShadowClan as long as he were to be loyal.

### Warrior Life in ShadowClan

Upon joining ShadowClan, he took on the name Hiddenlight having thinking that his life had too many hidden meanings and there was some sort of light at the end. He didn't fit in well at first, his size being more a nuisance yet again. He was a warrior, not a tunneler or moor runner. A warrior trained to hunt and fight without squeezing through tight spaces or having to be fast on the hills of WindClan. He found comfort there and met particular friends including Sleetspider, the loner who suggested ShadowClan in the first place. Hiddenlight befriended a young she-cat that was a moon younger than him named Lakepool. Lakepool was a rather kind she-cat and Hiddenlight admired that in her. He went on patrols with her often and they became very close friends. Another cat named Rimesong, an arrogant but rather handsome tom, poked at Hiddenlight the first time they met. They bonded well after a few pushes here and there and Hiddenlight started to develop a different feeling... Perhaps something more than just friendship. Hiddenlight was assigned two apprentices due to the lack of ShadowClan warriors able to train apprentices. He was assigned Olivepaw and Cherrypaw. Having no true idea how to train apprentices, he used his experience as a former moor runner to try to teach the two how to hunt rabbits. His inexperience in training as a ShadowClan warrior didn't stop Talonstar. Hiddenlight believed she assigned him apprentices due to his size and supposed strength.

Later, the large warrior had an idea to try to take down a deer for ShadowClan for prey, he had a patrol alongside Lakepool, Rimesong, Sleetspider, and other warriors of the clan to go out and hunt. They hunted near Tribe and SkyClan's borders and the patrol drove the deer to Hiddenlight who was down near the trees and bushes, using his darker side to hide. He was able to grapple the deer and bring it down and with that, the patrol all attacked the deer until it died. The patrol brought it back as a prize and having being the first clan to hunt deer, ShadowClan was at it's peak and because of this, Talonstar made Hiddenlight deputy of ShadowClan due to a false insight that the leader thought was StarClan. Hiddenlight met and made many friends during his time in ShadowClan including Lightstorm, Whitesplash, Soleil, Furystar, Snowripple, Littlewhisper, Hawkshade, Lastlight, Chill, Ashcall, Snow, Forest, Blossomspirit, and others.

Hoth, a Dark Forest cat, was one of those cats he befriended and she came to him in his dreams, hoping to get close to the ShadowClan deputy to have influence and power. Hiddenlight maneuvered around her tricks and instead made his way into her heart. Hoth and Hiddenlight became rather close friends and eventually Hoth visited regularly in his dreams. Though what he didn't know was a cat named Torrentchaser was monitoring him while Hoth visited.

### Kidnapped

Hiddenlight was doing well in ShadowClan and was on a short border patrol near the Twoleg place with a warrior named Owlfur. Owlfur saw a weird monster as well as twolegs in weird pelts come towards them at alarming speeds. They had weird sticks and were shouting words that they couldn't understand. The two warriors started to flee but Hiddenlight was tranquilized and his world went black, he wasn't sure if Owlfur had escaped or not. The large tom woke up in a bright, white den with strange shiny circular objects with metallic tasting water and brown pellets. The same looking twolegs came in to the den often, poking him with tiny sticks that pricked his skin. He didn't remember how many moons he was there but during that time, he shut down and lost all of his past memories.

The tom met another strange looking animal that looked similar to the twolegs but not completely, having strange paws like the twolegs did. He could speak strange languages and one of them was cat. He couldn't understand the creature very well but he did make out '091' as his name. He met an old she-cat but she never told him her name. She was particular as well, having two tails and extra toes. They came to her den often as well and poked sharp sticks in her and 091 could never figure out why. Days passed by or maybe it was longer than that... 091 didn't really know why he was here or why any of the creatures were here. He couldn't figure it out and couldn't really talk to any of the other animals except the old she-cat who died not long after he met her. Alone and confused, 091 tried to adapt to the life he had, thankful that the twolegs fed him. Every once and a while, the twolegs would feed him raw meat, the only part of of his day that he liked. As he continued to ponder his existence he also pondered what was outside of the den.

### Breaking Out

091 managed to break out of the clear walls and break out of the twoleg den, having been tortured by their sharp objects for too long. The large cat escaped and met Sleetspider after trekking a few hours away from where he was trapped. Sleetspider and the clan had been looking for him for a long time and Sleetspider left ShadowClan to search for him. Confused and very lost, 091 was told that his name was Hiddenlight of ShadowClan. 091 took the name Hidden once again after Sleetspider explained everything that happened. Not wanting to join a clan without his memories back, Hidden wandered once more around the clan territories searching for answers. Some memories stuck with him but very few such as a cat with a skull and his fighting techniques and skills he learned throughout his life. Searching and searching but no clue where to search he wandered aimlessly but with a cause. Hidden came across Talonstar during his search and travels and she was overjoyed to see he was alright but very concerned once she learned of his lost memories. She invited him back to ShadowClan and he refused her offer but thanking her for being so kind. He realized he felt like he didn't have a home in his former clan until he got his memories back and she was understanding and sent him off on his way with warmhearted words.

He later met Breathless, an ambitious young BloodClan tom who was freaked out by his size but confronted him full force anyways. He and the BloodClan tom became friends rather quickly and met up every once and a while by the borders. Breathless tried to convinced Hidden to join BloodClan though Hidden was very hesitant since he was unsure BloodClan had the answers to what he wanted. He said he'd join BloodClan but if he thought the clan wouldn't suit him or he thought otherwise, he would leave.

### Joining BloodClan

A very prideful Breathless brought Hidden to BloodClan and presented him to Alistair, BloodClan's leader at the time. Alistair allowed him to join but he was suspicious of him and said he'd keep a close eye on him. Hidden met many more cats in BloodClan but they were... A lot different than what he was used to in the lab.

Hidden was patrolling BloodClan and RiverClan borders when he ran into Lightstorm again and she was particular happy to see him and he didn't understand why. She seemed rather familiar but he couldn't put his paw on it. Realizing that he had lost his memories, Lightstorm's purpose besides her clan was to help Hiddenlight recover his memories. Hiddenlight came back to the RiverClan borders often to meet with her to continue to try to get his memories back. While he was doing that, he continued his journey along the clans' borders to try to find answers beyond Lightstorm.

Moons pass and Alistair makes an announcement that he has big plans for BloodClan and the clans would no longer belittle them. The leader sent three warriors to spy on the clans and give him information. These cats were Breathless, Silence and Deafening. Silence and Breathless were sent to SkyClan and Deafening was sent to ShadowClan. This announcement came across Hidden as something more than just the clan talking it out with the others and the fighting pit didn't reassure his stay either. Fearing BloodClan would hurt his possible former friends, he approached Breathless with his worries before he left. Breathless told him to stay here and wait for him and that he wouldn't be gone long. As he left, Hidden grew anxious with Breathless away as his only friend was no longer around and he didn't know anyone else. He decided to try to make some other friends to curb the unease that he felt. He eventually befriended Steak, Summoner, Salamander, and Knickknack while Breathless was away as most of the other BloodClan cats gave him glares or disgusted stares. Days went by and no sign of Breathless and Hidden grew ever the more worrisome that something bad was happening. Leaving BloodClan without saying goodbye, Hidden returned to his life as a loner and went straight for SkyClan... Or where he thought SkyClan was. The tom got there quicker than he thought and eventually found Breathless after coming back to the borders every day or so. He explained to the tom that he no longer wanted to be apart of BloodClan and that the clan didn't have what he needed. Breathless was furious and very angry that he left, which tarnished his reputation in his clan and that he brought back a cat that had important information. He apologized one last time to the tom before he continued onward with his goal.

### Recollection

Hidden carried on with his search and he found a puma in mountain territory who was rather... Strange and also seemed familar. He could understand her for a reason he couldn't recall. She asked for his name and he told her his name was Hidden but he was unable to remember her name. Thinking he was being deceitful and pretending to be her former friend, she attacked him. They both fought ruthlessly and during their fight, the puma shoved Hidden off part of the mountain and he fell and hit his head on one of the rocks. Stars exploded in his head but he had no time to waste as the puma was advancing on him and was about to kill him. The name came back to him. Navi. Before she was about to strike down at him, he said her name and she hesitated. He remembered everything that happened and his past memories came flooding back to him. Hidden said he remembered her and he realized that he left Navi without a meaningful goodbye and that was apart of why she was so angry and attacked him. She forgave him after realizing his loneliness and his upset emotions. He parted ways with her again, thanking her and promised her he'd visit her again soon.

### The Return

With his memories back, Hidden returned to ShadowClan but to his surprise, Talonstar was no where to be seen and his friend Lakestar was the new leader of ShadowClan. Lakestar accepted him back into ShadowClan instantly and his name Hiddenlight was his once again. Talonstar and Rimesong weren't there anymore, which was quiet upsetting to him as they were close to him as well. Returning to ShadowClan life was rather easy for Hiddenlight and he was able to reconnect with all of his friends that he had forgotten. He became quite close with the ShadowClan she-cat Koiwhisper, having gone on many nightwalks, patrols, and hunts with her though he kept his past close to him and had his heart closed off. He thought perhaps this would be another Robinpaw situation and he didn't want that grief to happen a second time.

Hiddenlight received more apprentices, but this time he was more experienced and ready. He received Wolfpaw, Emberpaw and Twigpaw as moons went by. He trained them well and Emberpaw was the first to receive her warrior name, Wolfpaw was his first apprentice but she was blind and needed more training in order to be successful. Emberpaw became Emberhawk and Hiddenlight couldn't have been more proud of his apprentice. He continued to train Wolfpaw and Twigpaw to advance them to their Warrior assessment.

### Manipulation at it's Finest

He met a manipulative rogue named Valerie who attacked him and gave him his major face scar while he was resting inside of ShadowClan borders. She taunted him and dodged his attacks easily and realized she struck a nerve with him when she mentioned he was a kittypet. She pieced together that he had some sort of connection with twolegs and she taunted him more by saying that he was most likely used as a lab pet and they wouldn't just allow him to be free which brought fear and anger within him. As he finally captured her and held her by the scruff, she said she could help and stop the twolegs and keep them at bay if he didn't kill her and did as he was told. Hiddenlight let her go and agreed with her, acting purely on his fear. He met the rogue she-cat again a few days later and Koiwhisper was with him this time. She manipulated Koiwhisper at first glance that Hiddenlight was being horrible to her and to cover this up, Hiddenlight laughed it off and told Valerie he was only teasing her. Valerie went along with the joke and this left Koiwhisper very confused.

Valerie tried and almost successfully manipulated both Koiwhisper and Hiddenlight multiple times, stating that Hiddenlight was a cat not to be trusted and that he was just twisting her mind to hurt her later on in life. In turn, she told Hiddenlight he was selfish and cruel for not sharing his past while everyone else gave their heart out to him and shared their past and messed with his head. Worried and unsure of who to trust, Koiwhisper distanced herself from Hiddenlight and he noticed that behavior and how unusual it was of her. Finally coming clean, she told Hiddenlight all of what Valerie told her and he realized that Valerie was tricking them both. He was able to confront her at the borders and caught her lies and in a whirl of panic, Valerie admitted to her deceit. She told him the truth and had no intention of being friends with him, only to use him and manipulate him. Confused and hurt, Hiddenlight tried to understand why but it was only simply because she wanted to and her intentions was to hurt him and his relationships. Thinking he'd try to kill her, Valerie encouraged him to fight her and attack her but Hiddenlight refused and tried to start over and continue to be friends. The friendship that was one sided but one that Hiddenlight genuinely treasured. Valerie burst into a rage of fury as he didn't attack and she suddenly became disgusted and fled the territory, leaving Hiddenlight behind.

Hiddenlight hadn't seen Lightstorm for quite a while even as he patrolled the borders of RiverClan many times. For weeks on end, he continued to wonder where she was as she was absent and met Steak along the borders of ShadowClan and unclaimed territory. Steak told Hiddenlight that she left BloodClan, knowing all too well that she no longer wanted to be there. Perhaps she felt as though she didn't belong... Or maybe she wanted to wander the lands. He didn't know the answer, knowing Steak was a wild card. Steak told Hiddenlight that she helped Lightstorm as best she could but she ended up dying in BloodClan. Hiddenlight was furious and was able to rein in his anger after moments of silence. He swore that he would find this killer and he would give them the justice they deserved. The justice Lightstorm deserved and possibly wanted.

The tom was pretty affected by Valerie's sudden lies and leave but was able to recover once he was with Koiwhisper and a couple of other cats named Rex, now known as Wolfheart, and Heathersong. Heathersong has a lust for bones and loved collecting them and she tried to manipulate Hiddenlight and acted rather meek and friendly. He fell for her tricks and almost fell for her trap if it weren't for Rex to step in and warn Hiddenlight of who she really was. Despite these warnings, Hiddenlight continued to see her and try to figure out what was really going on with her. She realized that Hiddenlight was a good cat and she would feel too guilty to kill him off. Heathersong tried to warn him off and told him she was dangerous but Hiddenlight persisted and wished to know what she was capable of and why she was doing what she was doing. Heathersong ran off as he continued to ask, clearly not giving up and she ran into Rex as he was watching over Hiddenlight, already having high suspicions of who she was. Heathersong panicked and accused Hiddenlight of trying to actively get rid of her and used Rex as an excuse to call him someone not to be trusted. Angry at what happened, Hiddenlight went back to camp and came to the thoughts that he couldn't really trust anyone.

Hiddenlight was able to reconnect with Hoth and they embraced each other, missing the other. Hoth thought Hiddenlight was gone for good and Hiddenlight had forgotten Hoth due to his memory loss. He was able to revisit Hoth regularly again but one night he was dragged in to the Dark Forest by Valkhir. An old Dark Forest member who had plans for his come back and it started with Hiddenlight. Unsure of what to think of him, Hiddenlight decided to trust him through his manipulative nature. They made a deal and that deal was to remember his name and in return, Valkhir would train Hiddenlight to be able to protect his clan with advanced Dark Forest moves. Hiddenlight was now visited by Valkhir every few nights to continue his training and his trained hard but being as slow as he was, he wasn't able to train as fast as a regular sized warrior. He believed Hoth was unaware of this training and wasn't sure if she even knew who Valkhir was.

Later, Hiddenlight was visited by another Dark Forest cat named Torrentchaser, the cat who had been watching his and Hoth's interactions. He told Hiddenlight to not trust Hoth, for she has ruined many many cat's lives. Sure of who Hoth was, Hiddenlight refused Torrentchaser's pact and it meant Hiddenlight's protection but to abandon Hoth completely and spread word of his name. Torrentchaser offered him one last time to come to terms with his deal and he refused yet again. Sighing with disappointment, he told him he was sorry before he created illusions of twolegs around Hiddenlight. Scarred and traumatized from the last encounter with twolegs, he tried to escape. They popped out of no where and finally being cornered, the large tom mentally broke down and finally agreed to Torrentchaser's deal.

### Confessions

Few nights pass again and Hoth summoned Hiddenlight to the Dark Forest, unbeknownst that Torrentchaser was there as well. They were happy to see each other and the mood was quickly crushed by Torrentchaser's presence. Torrentchaser poked Hiddenlight and scolded him, telling him that he should've known better and that he should've listened to what he said. Hiddenlight grew wary and defensive of what Torrentchaser said and Hoth also became wary, insisting on knowing what he was going on about. Torrentchaser explained to Hoth his anger and resentment towards her and easily taunted her and Hiddenlight and he also explained what she did to many cats and her dark secrets. The Dark Forest tom easily overpowered Hoth with her skull off of her face as she felt insecure. He almost made Hoth choose between her skull and Hiddenlight to keep and Hiddenlight immediately said to keep the skull. He knew that skull meant a lot to her and she held possession of it for many many moons. She pleaded for Torrentchaser to not do this to her and he called her pathetic, leaving her, the skull, and Hiddenlight alone. Hiddenlight watched the tom go deeper into the depths of the Dark Forest and gave Hoth her skull back, comforting her. Hoth was afraid Hiddenlight would leave her and forget her to fade away, but he realized that he still wished to remain friends with her even after what happened. Thankful, Hoth continued to be friends with the large tom.

Hiddenlight visited Lakestar often due to knowing leadership can be overwhelming as well as other personal life problems can get in the way. He tried to offer support to her as much as he could and she appreciated it. She decided to tell Hiddenlight that she helped with Shroomstar's murder as her burdens seemed to be a lot for her. Hiddenlight tried to convince her that Shroomstar hurt innocent cats and deserved justice and she couldn't shake that feeling off of her chest. Still in shock of what happened, Lakestar seemed to be unable to get over it. She begged him to not tell anyone and he told her he wouldn't dare and continued to tell her that one of many cats who deserved justice was Shroomstar. She didn't say much after that.

### Retribution

- Hiddenlight finds out Emberhawk is dead -

- Hiddenlight gets burned and taken prisoner -

- Hiddenlight gets tortured by Draconis and she reveals she is the one who killed Emberhawk -

- Hiddenlight escapes with a rescue party -

### The New Territory

- Hiddenlight helped many cats cross over a slippery slope

- Hiddenlight helps Greenbriar escape SkyClan's prison and attacked the SkyClan camp along with BloodClan -

- Hiddenlight opens up to Soleil and ends up confesses his love to her -

- Hiddenlight tries to save Wolfsong from the frozen river and she dies from hypothermia -

- Hiddenlight fights against StormClan -

- Hiddenlight and Soleil become mates -

- Hiddenlight is there for Soleil for kitting and she dies giving birth and reincarnates into one -

- Retires to the elder's den -

- Dies and goes to StarClan -