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( Credit of borders to Azure )

## **Ant Mender of the Shrouded Claws**

(WIP NOT FINISHED YET)

***Name***-Ant

***Username-***Tigerstar76

***Rank***-Mender

***Gender***-Male

***Mate***-Thyme

***Kits***-Azure, Willow, and Holly

***About***-Ant is a small tan/brown splotched tomcat with no claws, He is pretty fast, but can hardly fight or hunt, due to his no claws and that he lacks the skills to do this. He chose to become a mender because his parents had greencough and had left him with Berryfall in The Shrouded Claws, and wanted to be helpful and learn how heal the awful sickness, His mother, Whisker, had taught him some herbs but neither them or his father knew how to heal greencough. (thats all for now)

***Family***-His father is a brown/tan tomcat named Sun which is the brother of Berryfall, making Berryfall his uncle, Sun and Berryfall don't remember their parents names due to being with them for so little, His mother is a silver and white shecat named Whisker, There isn't much i know about her side of the family, His mate is Thyme, a tan splotched shecat, similar to himself, idk much about thyme's family either cri, Ant and Thyme had a litter of three shekits, Azure, Holly, and Willow, Ant's cousin is Cherry due to her being Berryfall's daughter, Cherry has a tomkit named Pumpkin sooo he'd be my nephew i think :P, tell me if you know cri, and i beleive thats all, wowwie i got a big family.

***Backstory***-Ant was born to two rouge cats. The Father a brown tan splotched tomcat with a black underbelly and amber eyes named Sun, His mother a Silver and white shecat with green eyes named Whisker. Ant had lived with the two all his life, his father told him stories about friends, enemies, his own times, and the most about his brother Blackberry which was ant's uncle. His mother didn't have very many stories that didn't involve her and Sun but Ant enjoyed them none the less. His mother taught him all the herbs she knew from her own and some she learned from watching and over hearing some clan cats in the forests. He and his parents traveled a lot, mostly aimlessly just looking for the next place to shelter after they stayed in one long enough. They didn't want to make an amazing den with everything they could ever need in case they would have to move out again, so normally they'd stay in the same den for about a week, or once prey or herbs run low, or when danger is anywhere close. All of this walking from day to day had made ant a very fast cat and make his pads more used to hard surfaces and scratches and walking. They never had much food making Ant pretty thin. But nothing stays good forever, first Sun had gotten sick from green cough and then it spread to Whisker, they tried as hard as the could to find a cure but couldn't. Sun and Whisker were afraid they'd spread it to Ant and potentially kill him. One day on their travels, Sun scented clan scent. This wasn't knew, he had crossed clan territory plenty of times, he never hunted on it knowing how the clans can be. But he did smell something else. Something more familiar. His brother, Blackberry. He was shocked and longed to see his younger brother once more. But he knew he couldn't go. He knew Blackberry well and believed he would never forgive him. But Blackberry couldn't let his own nephew die, so after speaking with Whisker they sent ant to Blackberry. Both of them didn't want to see him go, and Ant didn't want to go either, but for his safety he had to. He followed the scent that led him to the camp of the Shrouded Claws. There he soon met Blackberry which was now called Berryfall, he was the deputy of the clan. He met Emerald and few other cats at the beginning. Then soon made many friend within the clan and grew attached to it. He still misses his parents and wishes some day he could take some catmint and go search for them and heal them. But he has grown a place within The Shrouded Claws and doesn't plan on leaving any time soon.