Snowmoon

Pampered, Spoiled

Snowmoon was a ThunderClan warrior who served under Ashstar's and Harestar's leaderships, living from before Sixth Generation to current. She was born to Weedfeather and Rockblaze alongside her siblings, Thriftkit and Puddlekit. She was approached by her grandmother, Snowshard, in her dreams and began training under her and other Dark Forest cats. In the Dark Forest, she met her distant kin, Tuftfrost, who protected her from meaner Dark Forest cats. She viewed him as an older brother. She was mentored by Mouseshine. She blackmailed Loudnose into leading Oakbud and Spotstorm into an ambush. She poisoned Duckpetal with deathberries. Snowmoon works with Volefang to kill Loudnose before leaving the clans with Tuftfrost. In Twolegplace, they become close friends with Sootie, Toadskip, and Whiskerpelt, and Snowmoon even views Whiskerpelt as a mother.

# Appearance

Small, round white she-cat with soft fur and golden-amber eyes. Described as weak as a kit.

# History

Snowkit was named after her grandmother, Snowshard, as she had perished a quarter-moon before her birth. Her father, Rockblaze, hoped she would redeem the prefix “Snow” so he wouldn’t have to associate it with his horrid, villainous mother. Snowkit was the last-born and the weakest of her litter. Her sister, Puddlekit, was born first, and her brother, Thriftkit, was the strongest and healthiest. Yet, despite that, she was the one to survive when leafbare hit and her siblings, including her older brother Oakbud, caught greencough. Her parents and older siblings mourned the death of their young kin when they died, although luckily Oakbud survived. Snowkit felt the loss of her siblings, although she was far too young to really understand. She was coddled by her parents and older siblings, and she enjoyed the attention a lot. The other nursery kits, Newtkit, Spiderkit, and Snailkit, always let her be the leader in their games too. She was even more thrilled when one day as she slept she was visited by the spirit of her grandmother, the one she was named after. Snowshard.

Snowshard told her she was the reason Snowkit had survived leafbare- that it was her spirit keeping her warm and healthy, and that it was their shared names- Snow- that gave them the power to survive leafbare. Leafbare was their kingdom. Needless to say, Snowkit enjoyed the praise and the “help” from her kin. It never once crossed her mind to be suspicious of the fact her grandmother was not from StarClan, but the Dark Forest, a fact Snowshard never hid although never directly stated. Snowkit trained under her grandmother, delighted to be the special kit in the Dark Forest. Thistlesong, the leader or "mother" of the Dark Forest, even praised her- they were kin, after all. Snowkit was having the time of her life. She even met a friend there, a young warrior by the name of Tuftfrost who had fought off two fading Dark Forest spirits when they tried to attack Snowkit when Snowshard wasn’t around. The two became close friends, and, seeing as they were kin through Thistlesong, both thought of each other as brother and sister.

She was apprenticed to Mouseshine when she became Snowpaw. Her apprenticeship took longer than most other's seeing as she often slacked off or whined or wanted others to do her work for her and always made up excuses. She hated Mouseshine’s urging to learn to do things on her own, when Snowpaw believed Mouseshine to be a bit of a “damsel in distress” herself. It was Tuftfrost who actually got her to learn to be a little more independent, although she still relied heavily on him. It was him saying that they lived in different clans and territories, so he wouldn’t be able to protect “his little sister” always. Snowpaw came up with the idea for them to meet at the border, or to have Tuftfrost mask his scent and watch her from the trees. The two often shirked their duties to talk and train with each other.

One day, Snowpaw learned that Amberheart was mates with a kittypet named Freddy, after following her when she was acting suspicious. She consulted with her Dark Forest friends and mentors on what to do. When Amberheart was killed while visiting him, Snowpaw was the only one who knew the truth (Tuftfrost too, seeing as she told him). Snowpaw informs Loudnose, son of Amberheart, of the truth of his heritage, and threatens to tell the whole clan he was half-kittypet and his mother a traitor to the clan if he didn’t do what she wanted. Loudnose agreed. Shortly after, Snowpaw finally gained her warrior name, Snowmoon. When Loudnose is put on patrol with Spotstorm and Oakbud, Snowmoon finally sees an opportunity to use her blackmail to her advantage. Snowshard had slowly manipulated her to hate her kin that didn’t follow the path Thistlesong had laid out for them, and Snowshard told Snowmoon to take out Spotstorm- Snowshard’s own sister, who had never agreed with what Snowshard had done- and Oakbud- who Snowshard believed was a “disgraceful soft kittypet of a warrior”. Snowmoon ordered Loudnose to lead them to BoneClan- a group of rogues- territory, and he begrudgingly did so. BoneClan rogues who had been in contact with the Dark Forest and knew of the plan, immediately slaughtered Spotstorm and Oakbud. To Snowmoon’s surprise, she felt regret at what she had done, knowing Oakbud had always been so happy and bright, and so eager to coddle his little sister (although she shook the thought away, reminding herself Tuftfrost was her only true brother), and that Spotstorm had always been kind, if not distant, and never hesitated to offer advice. Loudnose is distraught at what he’d done, and threatens Snowmoon that he’ll reveal to ThunderClan that she plotted murder with BoneClan. She sneeringly tells him that if he does that, she’ll drag him down with her- after all, he had lead them to their deaths, *and* she still held his kittypet blood over his head too. They both blackmail each other into silence.

Mouseshine dies from greencough, and Snowmoon finds herself surprised that she feels sad to see her mentor go, as much as they never got along. Snowmoon, once again, convinces herself that Snowshard was her only true mentor. She quickly moves on, following Snowshard’s orders to kill her “stupid, mouse-brained” sister, Duckpetal. Tuftfrost gives Snowmoon deathberries that she gives to Duckpetal, claiming they were “really sweet tasting berries!” Duckpetal fails for it and dies of poisoning. When the clan confronts her, Snowmoon cries and pretends she didn’t know they were deathberries. She gets away with it, the only one knowing the truth being Loudnose. Next, seeing as Ashstar, more of her “traitorous” kin, was on his last life, she makes up a convincing story about how the Dark Forest were haunting her dreams and she knew he used to be allies with them and if he knew how to make them go away. Ashstar visits the Dark Forest, only to be ambushed and mauled to death. Harestar becomes the new leader of ThunderClan, and no one is the wiser, not even Loudnose, that she had played a strong part in Ashstar’s death. Even Ashstar is not certain whether she knew of the ambush or not, that is, until he glimpsed her taunting him from the Dark Forest while he was in StarClan.

Loudnose begins confronting and arguing with Snowmoon more, so she decides to torment him further, becoming good friends with his ex-mate, Sheeptail, and her kits, Shinepaw, Fallowpaw and Volepaw. She plants ideas in Sheeptail’s head, and encourages her wrath at her former lover taking on a new mate, Newtpond, and having kits with her, Horsekit, Pearkit and Lightkit. Sheeptail ends up attacking Newtpond and her kits in the nursery in a wild rage. She wounds both Newtpond and Lightkit, but is killed before she can harm them further. Snowmoon is briefly horrified at the thought of innocent kits dying, but quickly stomps the emotions away. Sheeptail and Snowshard encourage Snowmoon and Volepaw, now Volefang, to plot together to kill Loudnose, so they do. Snowmoon leads Loudnose away from camp while Volefang trails them, and Tuftfrost secretly watches from the trees. Loudnose is under the belief they are going to have another “blackmail session” when Volefang suddenly appears and slaughters him. Snowmoon left Volefang to have her fun, chatting and joking with Tuftfrost. Suddenly, Tuftfrost says he smells a patrol coming their way and hides in the trees. Snowmoon bolts back to camp. Not that much later, a patrol carried a blood-covered Volefang into camp. Seeing as Harestar was out of camp, Antfall, the deputy, was left to decide Volefang’s fate, as it was made clear she was ready to kill the warriors pinning her down and run. He agrees to kill her, and her clanmates quickly go for the killing bite. Volefang fights to stay alive, calling upon Snowmoon for help. Snowmoon freezes up and stays silent. Volefang calls her a traitor for not helping her. Once Volefang is killed, the clan questions whether Snowmoon was involved with Loudnose’s murder- she was good friends with Volefang, and it was known she and Loudnose never got along. Snowmoon denies everything.

At night, Snowmoon bolts out of camp, meeting Tuftfrost at the border. She had never felt so afraid in her life. She doesn’t want to face the consequences of her actions and Tuftfrost suggests they run away. She agrees and they promptly leave the clans. Snowshard, Sheeptail and Volefang haunt her dreams, trying to convince her to go back to the clans and help kill more cats- even calling her a coward and pathetic, as she had never even killed a cat with her own claws before, and that she had never been the smartest murder planner anyway. Tuftfrost and Snowmoon get as far away as possible, going to the Twolegplace, where, to their surprise, they meet Whiskerpelt, Sootpatch- now Sootie, and Toadskip, all ShadowClan warriors who left. The run-a-way criminals settle down with the three, not admitting to their crimes and dark past, although the three had their suspicions. To Tuftfrost and Snowmoon’s surprise, the three were rather accepting and mellow, not holding many grudges and just happy to be away from the drama that was clanlife. They were well-pampered by the twolegs too, and had fun exploring the alleyways and rooftops. They even had a few kittypet friends they liked to play with. Life seemed… relaxed and fun, here, no dark spirits haunting them in their dreams, no bloodshed, no plotting, no bloodline and kin you had to follow, no rules except your own… Tuftfrost and Snowmoon grew to love it, and started viewing the three former ShadowClan warriors as their adopted kin, seeing Whiskerpelt as a calm and caring mother, far different from their “mother” that was Thistlesong, an evil and conniving she-cat, and Sootie and Toadskip as their sisters, both energetic, welcoming and joyful. Secretly, they reminded Snowmoon of Oakbud, but less smothering with love. It sent both guilt and love shimmering through her.

They put their past to rest and spent the rest of their lives carefree with their new found family.

# Fun Facts

* The twolegs named her Snow White.
* She got spayed and vaccinated by Twolegs.
* She has SkyClan and WindClan blood from her great-grandparents, Thistlesong and Driftleap respectively, on her father's side.