Ebonystripe

**Ebonystripe** is a dark brown tabby she-cat with green eyes, and a long scar across her belly.

## Appearances and Mentions

### Shadows of Blood

#### Allegiances

Ebonykit is listed under Allegiance Update 4 as a kit of ShadowClan, the daughter of Greenpine and Cliffshade.

Ebonypaw is listed under Allegiance Update 5 and Allegiance Update 6 as an apprentice of ShadowClan, being mentored by Revengeheart.

Ebonypaw is listed under Final Allegiances as an apprentice of ShadowClan, being mentored by Bloodfur.

#### Chapter 17

When Brownstripe and Diamondrain's bodies are brought to camp and Depthstar calls a meeting to discuss the murders, Ebonykit squeaks from the nursery "What's going on?".

Greenpine hesitantly says it's nothing and tells her to come back and play with Flintkit. Bloodfur can understand why she doesn't want her kits to see the bodies. They're only a moon old and don't need to be exposed to such things.

#### Chapter 18

When confronting Bloodfur, Cliffshade bares his teeth and says that ShadowClan has no room for murderers, especially when he has kits in the nursery, referring to Ebonykit and Flintkit. Bloodfur bristles angrily as he asks if he thinks he'd harm kits, and Cliffshade lashes his tail as he states he wouldn't put it past a murderer.

#### Chapter 21

Outside the nursery, Greenpine is watching Ebonykit and Flintkit play. When she sees Bloodfur, she quickly murmurs to them and herds them back into the nursery.

#### Chapter 22

Depthstar calls a clan meeting, and Ebonykit and Flintkit excitedly race out of the nursery. Ebonykit encourages her brother to hurry, as he's nervously hanging back. They near the meeting rock, and Depthstar apprentices Ebonypaw to Revengeheart.

Revengeheart is startled and angry at getting an apprentice. Mistybreeze encourages him to go on, and he glares at her before reluctantly going to touch noses with Ebonypaw. She stares at him anxiously and says something, and he looks irritated as he responds. Her ears flatten.

#### Chapter 23

Early in the morning while practicing battle moves, Revengeheart angrily rants about his apprentice, Ebonypaw, calling her weak and a waste of time as he takes his anger out on Mistybreeze. Bloodfur silently notes that being fresh out of the nursery, of course she's weak.

#### Chapter 28

Revengeheart and Deserve emerge from the den where they were speaking, and Deserve tells him he'll send a patrol tonight. Swiftstalker nervously asks his brother what he did, and Revengeheart's eyes gleam as he responds he's found a solution to getting rid of their apprentices. Swiftstalker is alarmed and argues that they could recruit Ebonypaw and Flintpaw, but Revengeheart angrily insists the apprentices are weak and a waste of their time. The sooner they're dead, the better.

Deserve asks Castiel to arrange a patrol to go to the burnt sycamore where Revengeheart has arranged for the apprentices to be for a training session. Castiel asks Revengeheart to lead the way, and he does so. As the group leaves, Bloodfur watches, saddened that they're going to kill the apprentices.

#### Chapter 29

Bonfire, Papercut, and Patch are laughing and boasting about their attack on Ebonypaw and Flintpaw. Bloodfur sadly wishes they'd shut up about it. He'd been horrified when Castiel's patrol had returned early that morning and delivered the news. The apprentices had been brutally outnumbered and unprepared. Papercut and Castiel had killed Flintpaw with ease. Ebonypaw had climbed to the top of the burnt sycamore in attempt to get away, but was forced to jump off when Bonfire and Patch cornered her. She'd fallen on her shoulder, apparently too injured to get up. Castiel and Papercut had slashed open her stomach just before a ShadowClan patrol arrived, and they fled the scene. The soldiers had been bragging about it all day.

Bloodfur feels sorry for them and prays that Ebonypaw will pull through. Though Cliffshade was horrible to him, Bloodfur feels he doesn't deserve to lose his kits. He wishes he could go to ShadowClan to see how Ebonypaw is doing and asks Castiel about her injuries.

Castiel tells him Ebonypaw's injuries were bad, but Papercut was exaggerating about blood pouring EVERYWHERE. Castiel hopes Ebonypaw is dead, and Bloodfur mutters otherwise.

#### Chapter 30

During Deserve's attack on the ShadowClan camp, Poisonedsap snarls at her kits to finish Ebonypaw, as she'll be easy, but they refuse.

#### Chapter 32

Depthstar tells Bloodfur that Ebonypaw is in need of a new mentor. Once her injuries heal, he can train her, to begin earning the clan's trust. Bloodfur is glad Depthstar is already trusting him with an apprentice and purrs, promising to make her the best warrior in ShadowClan.

### Ebonypaw's Loss

#### Allegiances

Ebonypaw is listed under Allegiances as an apprentice of ShadowClan, being mentored by Bloodfur.

## Quotes

*"We're going to be apprentices! Hurry up!"*

-Ebonykit to Flintkit in *"Shadows of Blood",* chapter 22

## Gallery

Ebonystripe on the cover of Ebonypaw's LossEbonypaw and Flintpaw becoming apprentices in the Revengeheart Victorious PMV.Ebonypaw wounded beside Flintpaw's body in the Revengeheart Victorious PMV.

## Character Development and Origins

Originally, Firetail and Greenpine were mates and in the same clan. They were the parents of Ebonystripe, Flintspark, Maroonheart, Sunfire, Leopardthorn, and Brightwing.

She is originally described as a dark gray-brown tabby with black ears, nose blaze, paws, and tail tip.

In Revengeheart's original story, he wants to avenge Poisonedsap and destroy ThunderClan. He plans to become leader of ShadowClan in order to do this, but first needs an apprentice to become deputy.

He's annoyed when he's given Ebonypaw as an apprentice, as he wanted a strong young tom who would follow his path to glory. Revengeheart is furious with Ebonypaw's lack of skill and ambition, and sends she and her brother, Flintpaw to a fox den in hopes that she'll be killed. Instead, Flintpaw dies, and Ebonypaw lives.

When ShadowClan discovers Revengeheart's plot, he's exiled. Revengeheart continues living as a rogue, but vows revenge and remains ambitious.

I roleplayed with Ebonystripe a few times on a website called Kugyay. She has a scar across her belly from the attack, and is very much traumatized by her experience and mourns for her brother, Flintpaw. This concept is seen in Ebonypaw's Loss.