CherryHide

**Name: CherryHide (Previously known as CherryPaw and CherryKit)**

**Gender: Female**

**Status: Deceased (StarClan cat)**

**Cause of death: Lilly's DeathWish**

**Background: Clan born within SlateClan**

**Occupation: Former messenger**

## **Description**

CherryHide is a dark ginger tabby she-cat who had a long mane and amber eyes, she was a former messenger of SlateClan. CherryHide was described as being stoic and hesitant by her clanmates. CherryHide died when she was given Lilly's DeathWish due to her inability to recover from Bay poisoning.

## **Story**

### **Backstory**

CherryKit was born into SlateClan during LillyStar's leadership. The young kit was always interested in clan discussions and drama, and enjoyed spending time with DarkCrystal, SlateClan's current Messenger. When CherryKit's parents, WeepingWisteria and AridSong, suggested that their kit became DarkCrystal's apprentice to LillyStar, she agreed to make CherryKit a Messenger apprentice. When CherryKit was made an apprentice, she was given DarkCrystal as her mentor, and was going to take on the role of being SlateClan's new Messenger. CherryPaw was happy to have the job they always wanted but was upset when her clanmates made fun of her for not becoming a warrior apprentice. DarkCrystal told CherryPaw not to listen to her clanmates, as they didn't know the importance of the Messenger job within their clan. DarkCrystal took CherryPaw to a strange two-leg object one day, DarkCrystal said that this object was known as the SkyPearl, and that it was used for the Messengers and the Leaders of the clans to communicate with their ancestors. CherryPaw was awed at the idea of being able to communicate with StarClan, something she thought was only possible to the leaders and deputies of the clans. When CherryPaw spoke to StarClan for the first time, she saw her grandmother, MarshWing. MarshWing told her grandkit they were destined for greatness in their future as a Messenger. CherryPaw would be told to take messages back and forth the clans and would travel to the SkyPeal once a moon to gather prophecies, omens, and any sort of information from StarClan. CherryPaw eventually completed their training, and was given the name CherryHide by DarkCrystal, and was also given the title of being a full Messenger of SlateClan.

CherryHide eventually fell in love with a clanmate named SilverCrest and the two became mates, and soon, had kits. CherryHide gave birth to two kits, GullKit and DoveKit. But soon after the birth of CherryHide and SilverCrest's kits, a neighboring clan of SlateClan, FrostClan, launched an attack on SlateClan's camp. SilverCrest fought fiercely to protect his new family from the other clan. While the FrostClan patrol was eventually driven from the camp, CherryHide discovered that her mate had risked his life to protect her and her kits. CherryHide struggled with the loss of her mate, and the ability to raise her kits, but she was able to prevail through this tough time of her life. She lived to watch her kits become apprentices, and then, warriors. During a dry and hot Greenleaf, SlateClan struggled with a recent drought. CherryHide found a water source, and due to her desperate need for water, she drank from the water source. She later became sick after drinking the water, but she kept this away from her clanmates. DarkCrystal was already fighting a case of IndigoCough, and she didn't want SlateClan to go without a Messenger during this moon, especially because of how desperate the clan need advice from StarClan during this time. Once DarkCrystal recovered from IndigoCough, and once her clanmates started to suspect that CherryHide was ill, she came to the Healer about becoming sick from drinking out of the water source. The Healer scolded CherryHide from waiting to tell them for this long, as the she-cat had gotten Bay Poisoning, and it had quickly worsened overtime. But CherryHide didn't think of the consequences that would arrive from not telling the Healer about her sickness, as her clan needed her during this desperate time, and also because she thought that she would get over it soon. But CherryHide quickly began to regret her decision, as her condition worsened, and never seemed to heal. It eventually gotten to the point where the Healer was sure that CherryHide would never recover from her disease, as the sickness had gotten so strong. CherryHide was in agony, and the Healer didn't want the Messenger to suffer any longer. The Healer brought a strange and unfamiliar herb to CherryHide one day and told her to eat it. Once she did eat the herb, CherryHide quickly passed out, and once they awoken, they found themselves in StarClan.

One day, CherryHide and another StarClan cat named MallowStream were confronted by a StarClan cat named DarkCreek. DarkCreek explained that they had been given a prophecy, and that they believed it meant that a new clan would be formed, and that they would need CherryHide and MallowStream to talk to two specific cats within the group that would become the new clan. CherryHide and MallowStream agreed to help DarkCreek, and the two StarClan cats merged the dreams of BuzzardPelt and FizzBop together to visit the two cats. Once they were in the shared dream, CheryHide took FizzBop aside and told them that they needed to leave the clan, and help SunSpot's group as a Messenger. FizzBop now fully understood what her destiny was by knowing that Starclan supported the groups decision to leave SlateClan. CherryHide and MallowStream returned to Starclan after properly making BuzzardPelt a Healer, and FizzBop a Messenger. CherryHide remains in StarClan, where she lives with SilverCrest. The two watched their children grow, have families of their own, and eventually, guided them to Starclan themselves to reunite their family.

## **Family**

Mate: SilverCrest

Family: WeepingWisteria (Mother), AridSong (Father), GullFeather (Kit), and DoveSpring(Kit)

Apprentice: Unknown

## **Gallery**

CherryHide, as a StarClan CatCherryHide, a former Messenger of SlateClanA drawling that showcases CherryKit and her soon-to-be mentor, DarkCrystal.