Novellas

**Novellas** in the *Warriors of Elements* series are stories that fit outside the main arcs, but focus on individual characters. They follow a variety of characters and expand on their backstories.

## **CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT**

These books consist of 15 to 20 chapters and tell the stories of events not fully addressed in the main *Warriors of Elements* books. They fill in plot holes and explain the motives of many different characters, each novel having a different cat's perspective. They can take place anytime from the beginning of the Clans to the modern times.

## **BOOKS**

### ***Robinstar's Choice***

Robinpaw is an Apprentice of ForestClan. As an Apprentice, he is part of a battle patrol into the Twolegplace, where he meets a Kittypet named Hera. Moons later, Robinpeck becomes Leader of ForestClan after Furzestar dies. During his leadership, Robinstar leads battle after battle, and watches many cats die. He starts visiting the Twolegplace, and makes a friend there in Hades. He begins to visit there more and more often, as it is the only place he finds peace. After his Clan is wrecked by famine, Robinstar decides to live in the Twolegplace as a Kittypet. His Clan is shocked and revolted, but Robinstar insists that Silverblaze will make a better Leader than him. Robinstar goes to live as a Kittypet, and tells Hades that his name is now just Robin.

### ***Mousestep's Curse***

Mousekit is a kit of ForestClan. He sees visions of the future and the ghosts of dead cats, and becomes a Medicine Cat Apprentice at only four moons old. After he saves a ForestClan patrol by notifying Furzestar of his visions that show him that they are in trouble, he receives his Medicine Cat name after only a couple moons of training. When Mousestep sees a vision of his Clan starving, he tries to help his Clan by suggesting they catch extra prey and bury it in the ground to preserve it. However, days of heavy rainfall spoil the prey, and the Clan goes hungry anyway. Mousestep realizes that although he can see the future, he can do nothing to change it.

### ***Littlestep's Debt***

Littlepaw is a ForestClan Apprentice. When he is still very young, he is saved from a hawk by Clawfrost. Littlepaw feels indebted to Clawfrost after this, and does everything he can to gain the Warrior's respect. When Littlestep grows older and is made Deputy, he thinks back about how silly he was as an Apprentice for trying so hard to appease Clawfrost. Littlestep, Clawfrost, and his Apprentice, Echopaw, go to the River's Edge, and Clawfrost gets in a fight with a WaterClan patrol. Littlestep joins the fight and accidentally causes a rockfall that kills Gooseflutter, the WaterClan deputy. Littlestep tells Echopaw to go back to Camp, but Clawfrost encourages him to stay and fight. Littlestep stops Clawfrost from fighting and tells the rest of the WaterClan patrol to go back to their camp. Clawfrost then kills Littlestep, and Littlestep goes to StarClan.

### ***Clawfrost's Rage***

Clawfrost is a former ForestClan Deputy who has been exiled from the Clan by Fallenstar for trying to kill her. He gathers his Rogue followers, and sees an opportunity in the weakened FireClan. He brings them prey and leads patrols for them, and the cats of FireClan begin to rely on Clawfrost for leadership. After one of his followers fakes a sign from StarClan for him, Clawfrost is made FireClan's new Leader.

### ***Silverleaf's Belief***

Silverleaf, Sloethorn and Kestrelgaze are the children of a rogue named Cynthia and Clawstar, a former tyrant of the forest, now deceased. Having been accepted into WaterClan, they must fit in as non Clan-born cats and keep the identity of their father a secret. Silverleaf develops a yearning to heal the sick like Elmclaw, the Medicine Cat, and asks to become his Apprentice, but he says that they must wait for a sign from StarClan. Silverleaf is skeptical about the existence of such an afterlife, but complies, wanting to be a Medicine Cat more than anything. Kestrelgaze, believing that he and his siblings would be cast out if Silverleaf failed to gain StarClan’s approval, fakes a sign from their ancestors so that Silverleaf is made Elmclaw’s Apprentice without his sister’s knowledge. Silverleaf is elated and begins to believe in StarClan, but her dreams are crushed when Kestrelgaze reveals the truth. Kestrelgaze uses this secret to convince Silverleaf to fake signs for him, and Silverleaf and Sloethorn watch as their brother grows darker and distant. Many moons later, after the Clans have moved to the lake, Silverleaf sees her brother’s evil spirit in the Battle Of The Traitors, but he is unrecognizable. She speaks with Elmclaw, who passed away in the old forest, and Sloethorn, who had passed away a few seasons ago, and although they prove StarClan’s existence, Silverleaf decides to believe that their ancestors don’t always know or mean the best for the living Clans, and leaves that part of her Medicine Cat duties to her Apprentice, Whitepoppy.

### ***Spottedbark's Wish***

Spottedbark is a Medicine Cat of ForestClan. She is expecting the AirClan Warrior Snookwhisker's kits. Since she has no Apprentice or Mentor to take over her duties while she's in the Nursery, having kits is forbidden to her. She tries to get her sister, Brightflame, to raise the kits as her own. Brightflame declines, as she feels she is not ready to raise kits yet, even if they aren't her own. Brightflame is eventually visited by Breezefeather, who finally convinces her to take Spottedbark's kits. Spottedbark gives up her kits (Ravenkit, Heronkit, and Larkkit) so she can continue being a Medicine Cat.

### ***Stormstar's Omen***

Stormcloud prepares to step up as Leader of WaterClan after Juniperstar's death. She chooses Gravelpelt as her Deputy before she and Silverleaf leave for the Starpond. After receiving her nine lives, Stormstar learns that Silverleaf does not believe in StarClan. Stormstar is shocked and confused as to how a Medicine Cat could lack faith in StarClan. She demotes Silverleaf to an Elder, leaving Whitepoppy as the only Medicine Cat. However, when Nutpelt is badly injured by dogs, Stormstar lets Silverleaf be a Medicine Cat again, realizing that she only wants the best for her Clan, and saving Nutpelt.

### ***Echopaw's Farewell***

Echopaw is a former Apprentice of ForestClan who now lives in a barn with a cat named Oatmeal. The two loners learn that Glory, Oatmeal's sister, has had a litter of kits. Two of the kits, Pounce and Fuzz, beg Echopaw to let them become Warriors. Nightwave visits Ravenpaw in a dream and tells him to take the kits to EarthClan. Echopaw journeys there with the kits and Oatmeal. Froststar initially refuses them, but after they help her with a Kittypet problem, he lets Pounce and Fuzz become Apprentices. Echopaw is told by Nightwave that he will not make it back to the barn. Echopaw dies from a painful lump in his belly in Blackmist's den, with Oatmeal right beside him.

### ***Heronclaw's Story***

Heronclaw decides to leave ForestClan to think about the prophecy and all that is happening and has happened in his life. After being caught in a skirmish with a territorial stoat, he faints from the blood loss right after the stoat retreats. He wakes up in a cave to find that another cat is taking care of him. He recognizes this cat as Brookwhisper, the former WaterClan Medicine Cat Apprentice. As Heronclaw heals from his injuries, he finds out a lot of things about Brookwhisper, such as the fact that he felt pressured into the role of Medicine Cat by his Clan, and left when he couldn't take the pressue anymore. Brookwhisper teaches him to survive in caves, and the two cats become very close friends, and eventually mates. However, Heronclaw is homesick, and sometimes goes back up onto ForestClan territory. Brookwhisper is upset that he risks being caught, but Heronclaw still does not stop the visits. The two of them eventually encounter an orphaned fox cub, and Brookwhisper suggests the two of them adopt it as their own. They take the fox in and name her Red, raising her in their cave and teaching her cat speech. Shortly after, he is forced to reveal himself to Finchcry and Milkhaze to help them stop AirClan from attacking ForestClan using the tunnels, and eventually rejoins ForestClan entirely. Brookwhisper and Red are saddened to see Heronclaw return to the Clans, but he promises to visit them soon.

### ***Finchcry's Silence***

Finchcry is a Warrior of ForestClan recovering after the Battle Of The Traitors. She is deeply shaken after all the deaths during the battle. Finchcry tries to user her powers to see how the other Clans are doing, but discovers that she can't. Meanwhile, all the former Place Of No Stars trainees are being isolated and ridiculed by their Clanmates. The Clan Leaders decide to have them swear an oath of loyalty to their Clans, but some cats are still not satisfied. Eventually, Finchcry talks to Larkfrost and Ravenblaze, who have also lost their powers. They go to the Sandyplace, where Dawnsun simply tells them that their powers are not needed anymore.

## **CHARACTERS**

### **Main Characters**

* Tawnyflame
* Longwhisker
* Willowface
* Lilyfur
* Reaper
* Twigheart
* Moonheart
* Lionstar
* Flashfur
* Bracken
* Robinstar
* Mousestep
* Goldenspots
* Littlestep
* Clawfrost
* Silverleaf
* Spottedbark
* Stormstar
* Echopaw
* Heronclaw
* Finchcry

### **Major Characters**

####  *Lilyfur's Desire*

* Brightfur
* Finchkit
* Lilacpetal
* Reedstar