Dapplestar

**Dapplestar** was a large white, black, brown, and orange tom with thin fur green eyes. He once wore the ShadowClan leader's tooth-studded red collar as a sign of leadership.

## Biographical Information

### Cause(s) of Death

Killed by Vixentooth in battle (1st life)Whooping cough (last life)

## ***Blackheart's Tale***

He is one of the five StarClan cats (and ShadowClan's representative) participating in Blackheart's trial. He tells the young warrior about the mistakes of Darkshade and Havenclaw, how they and their kits paid for the lies told, and what resulted from them.

*More coming soon.*

## ***Thomasin's Hardships***

### **Chapter 1**

Yellowpaw is woken up by Branchpaw to go on dawn patrol with Dapplestar, Iceheart, Pinetail, Shrewfang, and her apprentice Beechpaw. When the apprentice joins, Dapplestar nods at her, and she returns the gesture. She asks where her mentor Beetleflight is, but Pinetail responds that he doesn't know, as they haven't seen her since last night. Dapplestar mews they're wasting time and gestures with his tail for the others to follow him They leave the camp, with Yellowpaw wondering if they'll hunt. The patrol walks in single file next to the stream that serves as the RiverClan border. Yellowpaw notices a mouse scurrying along the roots of a pine tree. She stays behind and successfully catches it before rejoining her Clanmates.

After she and the others finish scent marking their borders when a small RiverClan patrol comes into view.

### **Chapter 3**

Yellowpaw has her warrior assessment proctored by Beetleflight. She passes and is named Yellowflame at her warrior ceremony. While sitting vigil later that night, Muddypaw and Blossompaw sneer at her, but she ignores them. Cricketleap, who returns from hunting, tells the two apprentices to go back to the den and show some respect for their sister. Yellowflame watches as her younger twin siblings glare at the warrior defiantly. She sighs in relief when they flounce off to the apprentices' den and thanks Cricketleap.

### **Chapter 5**

Yellowflame, Horseleap, Woodpaw, and Flowershine return from a border patrol to find Dapplestar and the rest of the Clan gathered in the camp. Everybody turns their heads to stare at them, and Yellowflame notices Havenclaw, Blackshade, Houndfur, Muddypaw, Blossompaw, and Frostkit all sitting in the center. Dapplestar approaches the four returning cats and commands them to sit with their family. As they do so, Yellowpaw asks her mother what's going on, but Havenclaw doesn't answer; instead, she flinches as Dapplestar glares at her. The family looks around to see their Clanmates staring at them coldly, to their confusion.

Dapplestar jumps onto the Clanrock and announces that Whiskerface, the medicine cat, had a vision last night. Whiskerface shares his vision with the entire Clan; the vision is of nine black and dark brown cattail reeds in the ShadowClan nursery, and Whiskerface reveals that the reeds represent a warrior of RiverClan, who is rumored to be the biological father of Havenclaw's kits. Havenclaw asks how he knows, and Whiskerface reveals that he treated Crowflight, the warrior's sister, after he attacked her and left her for dead to keep his affair secret; she told him everything. Yellowflame looks at Dapplestar; she sees the look in his eyes and realizes he knows it too. Dapplestar confronts Havenclaw for breaking the warrior honor code and deceiving her Clanmates. He announces that Havenclaw let them believe that the late warrior Oakstripe was her mate, but remembers he never mentioned wanting to have kits with her.

Dapplestar demands to know if the RiverClan tom really is Havenclaw's mate and her kits' father, saying he wants her to say it herself. He looks at Havenclaw, who keeps her mouth shut. Whiskerface suddenly spouts the warrior's name: Darkshade. The Clan is horrified, and some even prepare to attack Havenclaw and her children. Havenclaw finally speaks up, yowling that she's given the Clan nine healthy warriors. Cricketleap retorts they're half-Clan warriors, adding that RiverClan will find out about their heritage and come to claim them. Havenclaw insists they don't know, but Smokestep chimes that nine half-Clan cats in the camp will put everyone else at risk.

Angered, Dapplestar leaps down from the Clanrock and faces Havenclaw, asking how she thought she could get away with her actions. He sentences her and all her kits into exile. A shocked Yellowflame asks what they ever did to the Clan besides helping them, yowling that they can't punish her family for the lies her mother told. Dapplestar and the other cats roar in outrage, and Havenclaw scratches Yellowflame's left cheek. Havenclaw protests that he has to let them stay, but Dapplestar coldly refuses, telling them to leave and never return. Many of the cats holler that they don't belong here. Havenclaw becomes incensed; she glares at Dapplestar, vowing vengeance. As her mother leads her and her siblings out of camp, Yellowflame looks back over her shoulder at Dapplestar; he gives her a chilling look before he vanishes from sight.