Warrior Cats

Warrior Cats (or *Warriors*) is a series based on the adventures of multiple clan of wild cats. The series is written by authors Kate Carry, Cherith Baldry, and Tut T. Sutherland The concept and plot of the pilot series (*The Prophecies Begin*) was developed by now-series editor Victoria Holmes.

## Books and Films

There are currently seven sub-series, each containing six books:

### Warriors: The Prophecies Begin

***The Prophecies Begin*** is the first arc of the *Warriors* series. It follows Rusty as he joins ThunderClan and becomes a warrior named Fireheart, and later ThunderClan's leader, Firestar. It consist of 6 books:

#### Into the Wild

Rusty, a kittypet, ventures out of his Twoleg's nest and meets Graypaw, Bluestar and Lionheart. He joins their Clan, ThunderClan as an apprentice named Firepaw. Bluestar has a suspicion that he may be the fire who will save the Clan, as Spottedleaf had mentioned to her. Firepaw makes friends with Graypaw and Ravenpaw, though scorned for his upbringing by others. The ginger tom deals with the kittypet taunts, and earns a grudging respect when he takes a chunk out of Longtail's ear. He settles into Clan life, and is mentored by Lionheart and Tigerclaw. Ravenpaw, meanwhile, suffers under Tigerclaw's harsh mentorship and the knowledge that the he murdered Redtail. Firepaw finds Yellowfang, and they fought, but Firepaw ends up feeding her instead. He was forced to take care of her as his punishment for breaking the warrior code. Spottedleaf, the medicine cat whom Firepaw had a crush on, is murdered by Clawface, and Yellowfang and Frostfur's kits go missing. Everybody suspects Yellowfang, and Bluestar sends Firepaw and his friends to find her. When he and Graypaw are looking for Yellowfang, they told Ravenpaw to run away from Tigerclaw to Barley's farm. A ThunderClan patrol catches them, and with Yellowfang's help, form a plan. Together with his friends, he aids in forcing Brokenstar out of ShadowClan along with his closest followers. This earns him his warrior name of Fireheart, and he Graystripe have their ceremonies together, and Yellowfang is made ThunderClan's medicine cat after Spottedleaf.

#### Fire and Ice

Fireheart goes with his friend Graystripe go on a journey and return WindClan to the forest, since they'd been beaten away by Brokenstar. Their mission is successful. On their way home, they took a shortcut back to camp by the RiverClan gorge, and after a skirmish, Whiteclaw dies. This ends it, and tensions stay high. Fireheart and Graystripe both received apprentices, and while out on patrol together, the gray warrior falls through the ice on the river. A RiverClan warrior name Silverstream saves him, and they continue meeting romantically after that. Fireheart told Greystripe to stop meeting Silverstream, which Greystripe did not care. Later, Tigerclaw called Bluster to came to the thunderpath. Fireheart's apprentice, Cinderpaw, got her leg permanently twisted on the Thunderpath by a Twoleg monster. As whitecough breaks out in camp, and Fireheart visits his sister Princess in the Twolegplace to fetch catmint. At the next Gathering, ThunderClan accuses ShadowClan of stealing prey, but soon finds that Brokenstar's rogues are the real thieves. They attacked the camp when there were only few warriors there since Tigerclaw took every warrior but Fireheart to fight ShadowClan, but are beaten off and Brokentail was kept prisoned in Thunderclan. Onewhisker comes up with news that WindClan has been attacked by both RiverClan and ShadowClan, so ThunderClan comes to help and saves WindClan. However, Tigerclaw distrusts Fireheart, because he shows mercy to Silverstream during the battle upon recognizing her as Graystripe's mate.

#### Forest of Secrets

Fireheart searches for answers about Redtail's death, and gathers information from both Ravenpaw and Mistyfoot. He thought about it, and concluded that Cinderpaw's accident was actually a trap set for Bluestar by Tigerclaw. Fireheart began to trust Tigerclaw less, and Graypool reveals to him that Mistyfoot and Stonefur aren't her kits, but are from ThunderClan. In the midst of these investigations, Fireheart carries out his warrior duties, helped to keep Graystripe and Silverstream's meetings a secret, supervise Brackenpaw's training, put up with his disobedient nephew Cloudkit, and face Tigerclaw's continuous hostility. After he and Graystripe rescue a pair of RiverClan kits, they offered to hunt for the rival Clan, and are punished when both Fireheart and Greystripe was founded. ShadowClan founds out that ThunderClan is sheltering Brokentail, which sends WindClan into an uproar, and an alliance began to form. Meanwhile, Silverstream is now expecting Graystripe's kits, but she died misearably during the birth, which led Cinderpaw frustrated. The two kits survive, however, RiverClan demanded to have them. Cloudpaw is now apprenticed to Fireheart, and while on a hunting mission, they saw Tigerclaw leading a band of rogues to attack ThunderClan's camp. They were beaten off with help from a RiverClan patrol, but Bluestar is badly shaken by her deputy's betrayal. She banishes him from the Clan, and announces that Fireheart will be the new deputy, also breaking the warrior code by naming him after moonhigh, which shakes the Clan's faith. The leader also surrenders Silverstream's kits to RiverClan, and Graystripe goes with them.

### Warriors: Dawn of the Clans

This series is the prequel of the legendary Firestar prophecy, as this is the creation of the clans.

### **The Sun Trail**

A group of cats called"Cats of the Mountains" were suffering from the harsh weather elements and the lack of prey. As the group suffers, the leader called "The Teller of the Pointed Stone/Half-Moon" was trying to find a way to help the group to survive, her friend/adviser suggested that some cats can part ways from the group to find a better land to live off of. Half-Moon at first disagreed with the idea because of a past event but over time thought it was the best idea for the group. As a hunting group was going on, two cat names Gray-wing and Clear-sky was working together to take down a eagle