Feather Star

## **Description**

**Feather Star** is a small, chubby long-furred grey cat covered with scars big and small, paws wider than normal cats. Leader mark is on the chest.

**Feather Star** often behaviors serious and harsh toward the cats he doesn't know, worse if he doesn't like them. He would even pick on the cats he doesn't like. Quite arrogant, likes to challenge the rules. Cares about himself the most, then the cats who agree with him.

## **History**

### **Kit**

Before opening his eyes. **Feather** already behaved quite rough compared to other kit in the nursery. Some said it meant that he would be a great warrior one day, but it worried his mother, Pink, somehow.

After opening his eyes, like every kit, he dreamed about training to be the greatest warrior, talking about the wars he wanted to be a part of. Instead of fighting and the battles, his mother spent more time telling him how to be a good cat. **Feather** thought it was because Pink was a kittypet so that she refused to let him learn about the fighting techniques, even more frustrated when he knew more about himself— son of the leader of the clan, a great warrior's kin. **Feather** often disobeyed Pink's words, sneaking out to hang out with the apprentices, Smoke Moon and Lizard Eye, or staying in the elder den so that he could heard about the stories he dreamed to be part of. He knew it would hurt his mother's feelings, and Blizzard Star often punished him for doing so, but he could help it.

His father, Blizzard Star, didn't spend as much time as his mother to be by their side due to his rank. **Feather** learnt about his father from Pink and the elders' stories, which he preferred latter because those fitted his images of a great warrior he wanted to be.

With his three silblings, Wolf, Shadow, and Shelly, his kithood wasn't lonely. Despite being punished often due to his natural of breaking the rules, the three still followed him around, unless **Feather** attempted to do something stupid or may get in trouble. And they would tattle on him, which sometimes broke arguments among them, but still, like most siblings in the world, they were still close to each other.

### **Apprentice**

Blizzard Star learnt about **Feather Heart**'s behaviors so he assigned Pine Needle and Cloud Flutter as he and Wolf Pelt's mentors, hoping to adjust those inappropriate actions. But not surprisingly, the expectation failed.

As a stalker, it required patient and self-control, which **Feather Heart** had none and refused to have. Pine Needle and him they were just a waste of time to each other and their lesson session was cut due to an accident.

#### Accident

**Feather Heart** was having the balancing lesson with Pine Needle, when **Feather** tried to leap among the branches like *nothing* Pine Needle told him to, they heard dogs. Pine Needle felt them coming toward, and there was no way that she would outrun them with a four-moon-old apprentice in her jaw, so she ordered **Feather Heart** to stay up there, out of the dogs reach and she went to get help. Due to the fear of the only-heard-of beasts, **Feather Heart** didn't disobey Pine Needle order for a while.

Not long after, the dogs showed up, discovering **Feather Heart**'s hiding spot, but as Pine Needle predicted, they couldn't reach him. So he started to get bold, teasing the dogs out of reach— then the branch broke because he was bouncing on it. He called for help, but the only cat around was Pink. Pink wasn't a good fighter, but had quite technique at distracting the dogs. In order to help **Feather Heart**, Pink got the dogs away from the tree. She was good, but there were too much dogs, and when the patrol came to help, Pink was already in one of those mouths.

Pine Needle's stalker Feather Heart lesson pissed both of them off. **Feather** knew the correct action, even better one, but he liked to hold the opposite ground just because he could. When he was asked to climb a tree and catch a squirrel, he shook the tree and made the squirrel fall. The result was what important to him, as for the way to get it, *"If it could lead to the same ending then it's a good way."*, which was called irresponsible by Pine Needle.

Feather Heart was there, witness his their mother's death firsthand, alongside with his brother Shell Teeth. Though he never liked what Pink did for him because she was a kittypet, but he still loved his mother. Feather Heart didn't join others when mourning Pink, instead, he waited for others to leave and there were only his father and siblings left. He was scolded by Shell Teeth, being cold-blooded to his own mother, turning down her love, disappearing when clan was mourning for her. And that's when he and Shell Teeth started to drift apart.

Later, Feather Heart became Cloud Flutter's full apprentice. Since Cloud Flutter didn't like Feather Heart's father, Blizzard Star, and he would do everything to make things difficult for him. Cloud Flutter always told Feather Heart how terrible a apprentice he was and it was a shame to be his mentor, Feather Heart held the opposite place, like he always did. In other word, Cloud Flutter's insult push Feather Heart to be a better warrior than he would if he lived comfortably.

Non of these stopped Feather Heart from staying out of trouble though. He would skip his apprentice duties or asked other to help or cover it for him, which pissed both his mentor and brothers off. When a fight broke out between him and a HillsLeaping apprentice, Jagged Spots, who tried to pick on Shell Teeth, Cloud Flutter and Blizzard Star punished him by delay his warrior ceremony. Feather Heart got bitter but also relief that he wouldn't need to go to The Waterfall any time sooner.

When he knew Shell Teeth accidentally hurt Smoke Moon on his last assessment, Feather Heart tried to comfort Shell Teeth but saying something that triggered him. Shell Teeth never talked to Feather Heart again. Fearther Heart is frustrated but couldn't do anything about it.

Feather Star became warrior tow moons later than his brothers, in the meantime, his mentor's mate, Leaf Heart, giving birth to their first litter of kits. With nothing left but attitude to teach, new born kits to taken care of, Feather Heart spent more time in camp than out, picking fleas and sorting bedding, because an apprentice cannot leave the camp without higher rank cat's permission. Feather Heart soften his impulse and cocky personality while working in the elders den and the nursery. Elders' slow pace of living taught him patient and passing down some experience Cloud Flutter couldn't due to his age; the duties in nursery may change him the most- how strong a cat could be when it comes to protect their love ones, how valuable and precious life is. But the rebellious just exist, Feather Heart was never the type to follow the path some other had had for him.

When came to Feather Heart's last day of apprentice, Blizzard Star brought him to The Waterfall, sharing tongue with StarClan. The vision is a shooting star ran across the sky, its heat and pressure also came after it. Feather Heart tried to run, but there nothing he could do when racing with a star. Soon, the star caught up and melt into Feather Heart's body. His pace slowed down because his paws were getting heavier and heavier, he almost lost his breath before he thought about walking instead of running. He started walking slowly, catching up his breath, until he calms down and gets used to the weight.