Foggy Horizon

Deputy: Hazelbush (Dark ginger cat with hazel eyes, fem)

Med-cat: Amberpool (Light brown cat with blue eyes, fem)

Med-cat app.: Toadpaw (Ginger cat with green eyes, male)

Queens (all fem): N/A

Elders: Thrushwhisker (White cat with blue eyes, male)

Hollowleap (Dark brown cat with hazel eyes, fem)

Warriors: Darksplash (White cat with a mottled black pelt and hazel eyes, male)

Rippleeye (Silver cat with brown splotches and blue eyes, fem),

Fluffytail (Golden cat with a fluffy pelt and green eyes, fem),

Crowstripe (Grey tabby cat with heart shaped marking on face and yellow eyes, male) (App. Smearpaw),

Sandspeckle (Mottled golden cat with green eyes, fem),

Dawnbird (Pale white cat with blue eyes, fem),

Stripecall (Brown tabby she cat with dark brown striped and green eyes, fem),

Harestalk (Cream cat with blue eyes, fem),

Lightstep (Golden cat with amber eyes, male) (App. Palepaw),

Bouncefoot (Dark brown cat with yellow eyes, male),

Bristleclaw (Grey cat with lighter grey splotches, fem) (App. Fishpaw),

Mosstail (Light brown cat with green eyes, fem),

Mousestalk (Light brown tom with blue eyes, male) (App. Sootpaw),

Daintytuft (White cat with grey patches, fem),

Burrtumble (Grey cat with amber eyes, male),

Beepelt (Golden tom with hazel eyes, male)

Apprentices: Palepaw (White cat with yellow eyes, male) (Mentor: Lightstep),

Fishpaw (grey cat with brown eyes, fem) (Mentor: Bristleclaw)

Sootpaw (White cat with a mottled black pelt and hazel eyes, fem) (Mentor: Mousestalk)

Smearpaw (White kit with mottled cream pelt and blue eyes, male) (Mentor: Crowstripe)

Cloudedpaw (Fluffy white kit with blue eyes, fem) (Mentor: Beepelt)

Kits: None

### SilkClan

Leader: Slickstar (Silver slick cat with blue eyes, male)

Deputy: Fernheart (Pretty light brown tabby with green eyes, fem)

Med-cat: Snakepelt (White and golden cat with yellow eyes, male)

Med-cat app.: Stonepaw (Grey tabby cat with hazel eyes, fem)

Queens(all fem): N/A

Elders: Quillwing (pale white cat with black spots and green eyes, fem)

Warriors: Tinywing (Small brown and black cat with amber eyes, male)

Fangeye (Hostile tortishell with blue eyes, fem)

Whitefoot (Dark ginger cat with a white paw and yellow eyes, fem)

Amy (Former kitty pet with a light ginger cat with amber eyes, fem)

Brownstripe (White cat with brown stripes on each side and green eyes, male) (App.: Sandpaw)

Stripetail (Brown cat with black stripes on their tail with hazel eyes, fem)

Rainfoot (White cat with silver paws and blue eyes, male)

Mothclaw (Tan cat with dark brown paws and green eyes, fem)

Silverspeckle (White cat with silver speckles and yellow eyes, male)

Spottedpelt (Tortoiseshell with blue eyes, fem)

Apprentices: Sandpaw (Ginger cat with hazel eyes, male) (Mentor: Brownstripe)

Kits: None

## *PROLOGUE*

*A crackle of sunshine peeked through the bramble overhead of the nursery, the pale light slowly seeping into the kit filled den.* A large broad shouldered queen lifted herself from the soft moss bedding and quickly began to groom her long tangled cream fur. She awoke a larger cream kid with black speckles on her legs who began attempting to follow her. She quickly hushed her by lightly nudging them back down to the mossy bed with her nose before mewing in a smooth tone, "Hush children, it's okay, I'm just seeing if the dawn patrols back," she lifted her stiff body away from the warm kits before lumbering out of the den, pushing the moss blanket that covered the nursery opening out of the way, the milk scent quickly fading, almost all scents being shut out by the thick misty layer of fog. ***Not a good day to go hunting in LeopardClan,*** She thought before glancing at a white mottled tom with dark speckles who was coated in a thick layer of mud, he had just returned with the rest of dawn patrol. "Darksplash your filthy, where did you go hunting, a fox den?"

"Yeah right Harestalk, look at yourself," he mewed sarcastically, brushing a clump of moss off her back. Harestalk quickly let out a playful hiss batting him on the ear.

"Let me go set this frog down," Darksplash meowed carrying a plump frog over to the prey pile. Though the prey pile wasn't empty, it was definitely scarcer then it normally was, she attempted not to worry about it. She took a plump thrush from the pile, carrying it to the nursery, flicking her tail in goodbye. She rested it next to the kits. She ripped part of the bird off before splitting the chunk the took in two. All the kits besides one snow white kit with a fluffy white pelt headed to the bird, "Go on Cloudedkit, get it, unless you're that pathetic,"

The kitten looked down in shame before Harestalk knocked her back with a unsheathed paw, "Knew you couldn't do it, freak," she hissed.

She quickly looked at a cream colored kit with black ears and mottled black paws attacking a white kit with cream colored speckles who was writhing under his sisters grasp, "Sootkit, don't attack Smearkit,"

"Fine," spat the young she-kit, lifting herself off of her smaller brother before attempting to leap onto Cloudedkit who simply mewed loudly in alarm and began calling for her mother, "Cloudedkit, if you want to be a good warrior you got to learn how to defend yourself, or else you're gonna **die**, and you don't want that do you?"

## *CHAPTER 1*

*"All cats old enough to catch their own prey, gather underneath the high rock," announced Yarrowstar, his matted fur puffed out in unorganized clumps.* Sootkit quickly scrabbled after her mother over to the high rock, encasing her in a blanket of shadow. She looked up at Yarrowstar as her siblings approached with their mother, "I call you all here today to celebrate the apprenticeship of three kits, Sootkit," Yarrowstar announced glancing at her, "Smearkit, and Sootkit," his gaze shifted from Sootkit to the white kittens, "Sootkit**,**you have reached the age of six moons, and it is time for you to be apprenticed. From this day on, until you receive your warrior name, you will be known as Sootpaw. Your mentor will be Mousestalk. I hope Mousestalk will pass down all he knows on to you," He said with a loud boom in his voice puffing out his chest even more. Sootpaw approached the high rock with Mousestalk, the larger toms shadow making it hard to navigate where she was going.

As she neared the top of the high rock, her claws screeched against the stone creating a unpleasant noise, but Sootpaw tried to conceal it by walking mainly with the back of her paw, avoiding touching the stone with all her might. She soon reached the top with Mousestalk before turning to each other, her heart racing. They silently dipped their heads, Sootpaw giving giving him a quick lick on the shoulder before touching noses. She quickly leaped down from the high rock, returning to the rest of her siblings, "Good job, *Sootpaw,*" Smearkit mewed before chanting with the rest of the clan, "Sootpaw! Sootpaw! Sootpaw!" they all meowed, flattering her.

"Smearkit**,**you have reached the age of six moons, and it is time for you to be apprenticed. From this day on, until you receive your warrior name, you will be known as Smearpaw. Your mentor will be Crowstripe. I hope Crowstripe will pass down all he knows on to you," His voice only got louder as he continued on, still pushing his chest fur out farther. Sootpaw watched her brother scrabble up to the high rock with Crowstripe, their coat colors contrasting harshly. Smearpaw quickly touched noses with Crowstripe before leaping down as the clan began their chanting, "Smearpaw! Smearpaw! Smearpaw!" she glanced at her brother and could see him burning up with embarrassment.

"Cloudedkit will not be able to come onto the high rock, so we will greet her below it," Yarrowstar mewed, his voice suddenly becoming quieter, his chest retracting. He leaped off of the great stone tower that was the high rock to sit next to Cloudedkit, who seemed to be nearly asleep. ***How can someone be so tired on the day of their apprenticeship?*** Sootpaw questioned herself before quickly brushing it off, "Cloudedkit**,**you have reached the age of six moons, and it is time for you to be apprenticed. From this day on, until you receive your warrior name, you will be known as Cloudedpaw. Your mentor will be Beepelt. I hope Beepelt will pass down all he knows on to you," Yarrowstar mewed, his voice laced with kindness and compassion, unlike the boldness they had been covered in when he had apprenticed both Sootpaw and Smearpaw.

Beepelt walked over, a slight tang of disappointment in his eyes as he touched noses with Cloudedpaw. Cloudedpaw seemed to jolt awake when he had done this, as if she'd been struck with a bolt of lightning. She quickly retracted away from Beepelt in shock before calming, "Cloudedpaw! Cloudedpaw! Cloudedpaw!" The clan chanted, though it had been toned down from the booming echo of the first two chants.

## *CHAPTER 2*

THIS STORY WILL BE ON HOLD UNTIL FINCH'S TAIL IS COMPLETE