Flick of the Eagle's Wing

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## Kin

### Mate(s)

Current: Harmony (Tribe), Koiwhisper (Tribe), Eelfin (Tribe), Mountainstorm (Tribe), Matthew (Kittypet) ---- Prev: Simmerstar (TC), Softivory (WC), Hail (Tribe), Maple (Rogue), Zeppelin (Tribe)

### Kits

Pebble, Honey, Sugar, Duck, Silver, Spark, Odd, Sharpstrike, Pumasimmer, Crag, Sprout, Dandelion -- Red, Lily, Mangepaw, Savagepaw (deceased)

## Overview

Flick of the Eagle's Wing is a former Stoneteller of Tribe, and during that time he went by the teller name of Eagleteller (Teller of the Eagle's Flight).

### Appearance

In Life: A tall and muscular white longhair tom with gray flecks on his head and back. He has light blue eyes, a pink nose, and fluffy fur that he can fluff out to look even larger than he is. He has many minor battle scars, a scar on his back from the fallen tree, a scar deep on his neck from Alistair and reopened by Auburnstar, a lightning scar from the center of his back snaking down his back leg, a patch of fur on his front right shoulder that no longer grows fur as it is a burn scar, and a deep scar in the center of his right front paw pad.

In Death: Eagleteller elects to be mostly scar-less in death, besides the scar on his paw pad which will always be a reminder of his disrespect toward the ancestors in his fit of anger. He carries with him a slight smell of tar and ash due to the loss of his final life.

### Personality

An outgoing and friendly tom, he is usually seen with his characteristic big crooked grin. He is an optimist and an empath, and he tries to minimize his size with his charisma. When he was younger he was a bit naive and definitely is more brawn than brains, but he always tried his best to do the Right and Good things. Although he might not always know what that is, he has trust in his heart and the Tribe of Endless Hunting to show him the way. As time went on and he gained experiences, good and bad, he gained more diplomatic instinct and became a bit wiser about his decisions, and prides himself on never losing a war as teller, as well as raising children who turned out (in general) well adjusted enough to succeed.

### Sexuality

Eagleteller is polyamorous pansexual, which means that he usually has multiple different mates at any given time. He also operates in open relationships pretty much exclusively.

## Early History

### To-Be Life

Flick was originally trained as a prey hunter under Light, during Lunarstar's reign over the Tribe. After a large growth spurt (and failed moons of training) he was switched to be a cave guard to-be, alongside his first friend and eventual first lover Hail.

### Cave Guard Life

As a young cave guard Flick and Hail broke up over differences in ambition, with Flick not being ready to settle down or work toward recognition in the tribe just yet. During this time, Flick met Eelfin of RiverClan, Softivory of WindClan, and Simmersnow of ThunderClan. Soon, gatherings became meeting times for the group, who all became polyamorous mates called the "power gang". They extended meeting times to other secret meetings near the ThunderClan border, as Softivory and Flick could get into trouble from their leaders for their codes. Flick clicked well with Softivory as they were openly affectionate, and with Eelfin because of the introvert-extrovert dynamic, but he was particularly drawn to Simmersnow. She was a tough nut to crack, and quickly he coined the nickname of Ice Queen for her, but he liked that he was able to get under her shell.

While a cave guard, he trained Carving, Dirt, and began to train Rivulet. Also during this time, he met a rogue named Maple who was passing through the territories. They became mates, briefly, but soon she was on her way again.

### Head Cave Guard Life

After being appointed head cave guard by Chillteller and Snow, the WindClan sickness broke out. Softivory died from it, and it was only after this that it was revealed that ThunderClan was behind the sickness spreading. Flick confronted Simmersnow about it and she defended Shroomstar's actions, making it seem like she supported the death of their mate. The two were found by Eelfin just in time for Eelfin to witness Simmersnow attacking Flick out of spite. After that event, Flick thought he was finished with the power gang, and ended things with Eelfin sadly.

Soon afterwards, in the middle of the night, after the Tribe had gotten themselves into a war allied with WindClan and BloodClan against ThunderClan for the sickness, Snow, the current heritor, decided to leave the tribe. It was unclear why they did so, but Flick found and stopped them on their way out. In that conversation, they appointed Flick the new teller, without ever having been the heritor. Shocked and unsure, feeling like he was picked purely by chance, Flick hesitantly took the new position becoming Eagleteller.

## Stoneteller Life

#### Life 1: Fortitude

Eagleteller's first act as teller was to appoint his old apprentice Carving as the new heritor under him. Because he had never been trained on healing, he turned to his ally BloodClan to help him to learn to heal, and was trained by Harmony, who later joined the tribe permanently and became one of Eagleteller's mates. During his training time, he discovered both Pebble and Duck as abandoned kits and took them in to raise them as his own. Not long after, his old flame Maple returned to the Tribe with his kits, Honey and Sugar, in tow, which he also took in. Finally, as Auburnstar's rule over SkyClan became harsher, the Tribe took in some refugees including Zeppelinthunder, a former daylight warrior who was forced to chose between his homes. Eagleteller and Zeppelinthunder bonded quickly during Eagleteller's fledgling leadership, and would go on to become mates as well.

Near the end of the war, when officially Tribe and ThunderClan were enemies, secretly Eagleteller and Simmersnow began to meet again. He was convinced he had known her well enough to know that she had good inside of her, and he tried to talk her out of her support of her leader, Shroomstar. During one of these secret meetings they were discovered by Eelfin, who understandably was upset, and Eagleteller and Eelfin's relationship was left for many moons on a sour note. However he thought he had succeeded in talking Simmersnow into good during that time. When the war ended, Simmerstar became the new ThunderClan leader. Eagleteller and SImmerstar changed their codes to make legal cross-clan relationships, and publicly announced both their alliance and their relationship at a gathering. Soon, Simmerstar told Eagleteller she was expecting his kits.

Eagleteller immediately becoming mates and allies with a clan he was previously against was a very reckless decision to Spiderstar, who called off the WindClan alliance with Tribe. At the same time, BloodClan was beginning Alistair's conquests, taking over SkyClan and aiming next for the Tribe. Eagleteller confronted Alistair, his former ally, about this fact, and they had a violent falling out, resulting in Alistair taking Eagleteller's first life.

#### Life 2: Pride

After ending the BloodClan alliance, the alliance of ThunderClan and Tribe found a new third ally in Waterstar of RiverClan. Together, the three groups defeated BloodClan at the Tribe's border, and went on to drive them out of SkyClan. During this battle, a powerful power cat Mountainstorm concocted a thunderstorm, which struck a tree near where Eagleteller was fighting Alistiar. It fell on the two toms, taking the second life from Eagleteller, and saving Alistair from the teller's killing blow. Eagleteller was then partially rescued by Alistair before the BloodClan leader admitted defeat and retreated his forces.

However, this defeat was not clean. ThunderClan had said they would help in the battle, but halfway through, when RiverClan was already indisposed, their forces left the Tribe to fight alone. SkyClan was liberated without any RiverClan or ThunderClan help, and also against Auburnstar's wishes as he was stubborn enough to claim he didn't need help.

#### Life 3: Love

Simmerstar continued to strain the alliance between them. In an attempt to gain more land began to intrude in WindClan's territory, even though the wounds of their sickness attack on WindClan was still fresh. She was threatening war for no good reason on WindClan, which meant Tribe could be dragged into a new war for nothing besides loyalty to ThunderClan. Yet, in the name of their love, Eagleteller forgave SImmerstar.

RiverClan gained a new leader, Newtstar, who broke off all of RiverClan's previous alliances. Eagleteller after talks with Newtstar was on his way to restoring that alliance, but Simmerstar took the break-off of the alliance so personally that she declared she was uninterested in alliances outright, which barred Tribe's prospects. Yet, again, Eagleteller forgave Simmerstar.

Finally, Newtstar met Viper, a rogue who had been a prisoner of SImmerstar's, who reported that Simmerstar was torturing and starving her prisoners, using them for labor and imprisoning them for next to no reason. Firestorm, the then-deputy, passed this information on to Eagleteller, who at first did not believe him. He went to get Simmerstar's side of the story, only to discover they were telling the truth. She wasn't even apologetic about it, there was still blood from her last torture session. When he called her out for this, and declared his intentions to ally with RiverClan, she called off their relationship and allyship, and barred Eagleteller from ever seeing his unborn kits. He could not forgive Simmerstar this time.

Eagleteller announced Simmerstar's horrible actions at the gathering, and publicly invited RiverClan to live on Tribe's territory as the island was being invaded by twolegs. During this time, he rekindled his feelings with Eelfin, as well as meeting Mountainstorm, a powerful shecat who was staying with RiverClan as a loner.

After inviting Mountainstorm to live with the tribe, Eagleteller had a vision sent by the ancestors of the entire island territory being overrun by black oil at the hands of the twolegs. Soon, the territories were all being destroyed, and it was clear the clans couldn't stay in their territory, so they set out to new lands by walking the treacherous bridge the twolegs had constructed to get there. On this journey, and to defend his past to-be, Rivulet, Eageteller lost his 3rd life to rats.

#### Life 4: Forgiveness

Along with the clans, the Tribe stayed in a communal den when first arriving on the other side of the bridge. Along with Firestorm and Newtstar, Eagleteller was lead by an eagle to the new volcanic home for the Tribe of Flowing Lava. Right after the move, Carving revealed to Eagleteller that she was unable to perform heritor duties and wanted instead to focus on raising a family, stepping down from her position. In replacement, Eagleteller appointed Duck, one of his oldest children, to train as his next heritor from to-be age.

Eagleteller patrolled with his cave guards often to set the boundaries of their new territory, especially with the territory-hungry SkyClan as their neighbor. During one of these patrols Eagleteller unknowingly came to the den of the poison-powered rogue Viper himself, who in being threatened attacked Eagleteller with his power, taking the life from the teller.

#### Life 5: Curse of Selfishness

After regaining consciousness from his lost life he healed himself and also the wounded Viper. Viper had been held and tortured by Simmerstar in ThunderClan, and in discovering Eagleteller was Simmerstar's enemy and no longer mate, he and Eagleteller struck up a tentative alliance.

During this time, in SkyClan, the deputy Quietskies and her secret mate, the medicine cat Raccoonleap, had a kit born with a power. Knowing the kit wouldn't be safe under Auburnstar in SkyClan, Quietskies gave her kit to Zeppelin, her old apprentice, and named the kit Spark of Inferno's Heart. Zeppelin returned with Spark and Eagleteller adopted him, making him a to-be shortly after.

Soon after this, it was announced at the gathering by Simmerstar that Eelfin, Eagleteller's mate, had willingly joined ThunderClan. As Eelfin had actually been missing from his home RiverClan for weeks before this and had said nothing, neither Newtstar nor Eagleteller believed this, and with their knowledge of Simmerstar's prisoner treatment, the two planned their rescue of the tom. They planned an ambush of Simmerstar and her group that was supposed to contain Eelfin at the border, with RiverClan meeting her face-to-face and Tribe there as reinforcements. However, when Simmerstar gloated and insulted Newtstar, Eelfin, and Eagleteller, as well as talking about their shared kits who he had still never met, Eagleteller lost his composure and attacked Simmerstar, blowing their cover and losing them the first battle.

After this loss, and many other stressors of being a deputy, Firestorm stepped down from RiverClan deputy-ship at the dismay of both Newtstar and Eagleteller, leaving to live as a rogue and dying shortly after. Also during this time, the to-be Spark went missing, with only the lingering scent of fox and his own near the SkyClan border.

Despite their losses both in war and personal, Newtstar and Eagleteller were not going to leave Eelfin behind. So they regrouped and planned a full-out ThunderClan camp raid, with Viper brought in as a secret ally. In the middle of the night the two groups attacked ThunderClan camp, with Viper taking a life from Simmerstar right off the bat to get her out of the picture, or so they planned. After fighting off the guards, Eagleteller found and rescued Eelfin, but he had actually been kept in the nursery. Also in the nursery, he discovered, were Eagleteller and Simmerstars' kits Pumakit, Sharpkit, and Oddkit.

After getting Eelfin to saftey, despite his better judgement, Eagleteller went back into the camp as the battle died down to take his kits to his home as well. There, to his surprise, was Simmerstar, recovering from her life loss but ready to fight to the death to defend her kits. Eagleteller attacked her in an attempt to get past her, but couldn't bring himself to hurt her severely. Luckily for him, Newtstar came to the nursery soon after and battled Simmerstar instead, giving Eagleteller time to steal his children. Newtstar during this battle drowned Simmerstar in the pond inside of the ThunderClan nursery, taking another life. Also during this battle, a trusted tribe member named Cold was captured and kept a prisoner, although her fate was originally unknown to the Tribe.

After bringing Eelfin back to his home and his kits to Tribe, Eagleteller worked on attempting to accustom his kits to the Tribe. They didn't take to this well at all, besides Oddkit, who had a strange familiarity with Tribe and enthusiastically welcomed her new life. After a moon, Eagleteller allowed his kits to decide if they wanted to return to their mother, which Sharpkit and Pumakit chose immediately. However, Oddkit decided to stay, becoming a to-be and changing her name to Odd. She didn't come with the Tribe during the gathering when her siblings were returned, for her own safety.

This turned out to be a good decision, because when arriving at the gathering and allowing his kits to join ThunderClan, Simmerstar announced to the gathered cats that she had the Tribe prisoner (Cold) with her, and if Odd was not returned immediately, Cold would be executed during the gathering. Because Odd wouldn't be returned, Eagleteller called for his Tribe to defend Cold, attacking Simmerstar as his tribe-mates attacked ThunderClan, and during this battle Cold was killed by ThunderClan. Understandably, under the gathering full moon, StarClan was furious about this, sending a violent thunderstorm. Simmerstar and Eagleteller, the shecat pinned down by the tom, were both struck by a bolt of lightning, taking a life from both instantly.

#### Life 6: Fidelity

After the eventful gathering, and the death of Cold but retention of Odd, ThunderClan and the Tribe to came to a bit of a standstill, which turned into a small time of peace. During this time, Mountainstorm joined the Tribe as a permanent queen, named Mountain Peak Over Raging Storm, and became mates with Eagleteller. Cobra, a rogue as he claimed, also joined the Tribe as a to-be. Additionally, Eagleteller's mate Harmony gave birth to a litter of their kits, named Dandelion, Lily, Sprout, and Crag.

Cat, a to-be, went missing during this time, but this event was quickly overshadowed by an announcement that SkyClan and ThunderClan were to combine, with Simmerstar and Auburnstar being joint leaders of a new clan, StormClan. Eagleteller at this gathering announces that he will be open to StormClan refugees. Also during this time, but unknown to Eagleteller, Simmerstar began to meet with Duck and blackmail her. She challenged Duck about her daughter Odd, demanding that Duck persuade Odd to leave the tribe, or Simmerstar would take Duck's life or reveal their plan. After Duck eventually revealed this to Eagleteller in shame, it was discovered that Cat along with Spark were now brainwashed members of StormClan, fighting under new names, for the glory of Simmerstar and Auburnstar. Because of the abuse of their cats, Eagleteller along with his RiverClan allies attacked StormClan at the border but lost the first battle as StormClan anticipated the attack. Eagleteller lost a life to Auburnstar during this fight, along with killing his first warrior in battle.

#### Life 7: Curse of Wrath

Never to be defeated, Eagleteller went to both BloodClan and ShadowClan with the warning that StormClan was dangerous and needed to be disbanded. With RC, Tribe, BC, and SC forces, they stormed StormClan camp and drove SkyClan out entirely. During this battle Eagleteller took a life from Simmerstar in his rage, only regretting his actions afterwards as he attempted to heal her. Hyena took a life from Auburnstar during this, and Cat was rescued, returning to the Tribe. Spark, who then went by Infernostrike, did not return with the Tribe, even at Eagleteller revealing who his parents truly were. StormClan's disbanding was enforced by patrols occupying ThunderClan territory.

After StormClan, there entered another tentative time of peace, but it was not so peaceful for Eagleteller, who was plagued with his two murders in battle, and feelings of anger and resentment which made nearly all of his feelings more confusing. During a meeting with Newtstar discussing fate and 'what ifs', Eagleteller kissed Newtstar, a tom happily already mated. This did not go over well, and created a bit of a rift between the two clans. Zeppelin, one of his mates, and Eagleteller also got into a fight during this time, somewhat about Newtstar, somewhat about Simmerstar as always, and a lot about their own issues between the two. Eagleteller during this Wrath curse, on top of the rejections and guilt, was also ignored by the ancestors, his time at the telling stones never amounting to anything except flashbacks of his own wrongdoings.

Eagleteller's romantic pursuits were not all lost, as the refugee Cobra expressed his feelings for Eagleteller as well, but that would turn out to be even more unwelcome. The peace stopped abruptly as Ivy the prey hunter and Lichen the cave guard went missing and were found a week later dead on the rocky edge of the volcano mouth, as if fallen from the sky. Eagleteller sent the volcano into a lockdown to try and determine what was killing them, and turned to the Tribe of Endless Hunting for guidance once again. When met with nothing but flashbacks of war and flash forwards of blood, Eagleteller took this as a sign from the ancestors that Tribe was doomed to not have peace, not with him, and in a fit of anger slashed at and broke a few of the telling stone stalactites, cutting his paw deeply, a wound he elected not to heal. Another cat, a to-be named Beetle, and then finally Eagleteller's own kit Lily of the Valley that Grows on Stone were killed. Lily was killed in camp the night that a cave guard, Night, was on duty, so Eagleteller put him under guard in Chewey's empty den to interrogate him. After threatening his life, Night revealed that Cobra, the refugee turned lover of Eagleteller, had been lying to everyone and was the cat who was murdering them all. Cobra, after Eagleteller attacked him, revealed in return that Night was in cahoots with him. Cobra was revealed to be Venomstrike, a murderer from RiverClan who had been banished.

Eagleteller fought Cobra while Hyena chased down and killed Night. In the end, Eagleteller overpowered the other tom, throwing him from the teller's den down into the lava of the volcano caldera. But because they were so close to the lava, the surface splashed on to Eagleteller and set him on fire, taking his last curse life.

#### Life 8: Responsibility

Eagleteller and Duck had a fight about Night being killed, Duck saying that no cat in the tribe should be killed, but also disrespecting her father at the same time. Because of this Eagleteller temporarily put Duck on probation, effectively making her nothing but a healer, until she eventually owned up for her mistakes and Eagleteller apologized to her in return.

Alongside this, Eagleteller went to Newtstar and revealed Cobra's identity, finally explaining the lockdown and sorting out with him the tension they had had. While returning from this meeting, he also encountered a kittypet by the name of Matthew, who he found used to be a SkyClan Daylight warrior. After offering to train the tom and be a partner for skirmishes just for fun, Eagleteller and Matthew became mates as well.

Not long after their meeting, Newtstar went into a coma which Eagleteller was informed of by Firestorm from StarClan. Newtstar had been trapped in the Dark Forest by Venomstrike. Thawspring, Newtstar's deputy, came to Eagleteller with the hope that he would know more, and so Eagleteller went to RiverClan to attempt to reach the tom, unsuccessfully. During this trek, Eagleteller also fell sick. His paw wound from his breaking of the telling stones had somehow survived his loss of a life, and had become infected, getting into his blood and eventually taking his life. Eagleteller, using this to his advantage, was sent to the Dark Forest briefly during his death to meet with and talk to Newtstar. Newtstar revealed to Eagleteller that he and Firestorm had a plan to free him.

#### Life 9: Good Judgement

Eagleteller returned to RiverClan in order to give the news of the plan to Thawspring, and also to deliver to Mudfoot Newtstar's message of love. Also during his visits to RiverClan, Eagleteller caught up again with his mate Eelfin, who he discovered now had a new mate, Koiwhisper, as well. He offered for both of them to join the Tribe and live with him, which they did. Eagleteller then went on to become mates with Koiwhisper as well.

Things in the Tribe began to change around this time, as Eagleteller, now in his final life, began to give Duck more agency in her duties. Hail, the current head cave guard, had been crushed by a boulder and lost function in his leg, which resulted in him being demoted to a regular Cave Guard. Eagleteller allowed Duck to pick the next head cave guard as a test to see if she was ready to lead. Duck picked Odd, a choice Eagleteller approved of.

Things also changed quickly in Eagleteller's personal life, as Zeppelin and Eagleteller, after moons of a strained relationship, decided to break up. They agreed they both rushed into it too quickly. Also during this time, Harmony went missing and then was discovered to be dead, having been eaten by a wolf. Finally, Duck had also been approached by a tom she discovered to be her biological father, Hawkflight, who expressed to her that he wanted to reconnect with her. After coming to Eagleteller, the two of them decided to meet Duck's father at the tar pits. There, along with Duck's biological sister Goose, Hawkflight met with Duck and Eagleteller. He revealed to them that he had intended to kill Duck all those moons ago when he left her in the woods for Eagleteller to find her, and that now he was here to finish the job. He lunged at Duck but Eagleteller took the blow, pulling them both into the tar pits and killing them both in order to save Duck and her future as Duckteller.