The Creek of Blood

The Creek of Blood is on the Mountains. There is a cliff which can lead to the creek if fell off of. It borders MoonClan and SnowClan. It is the closest place to get water for MoonClan.

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### Level

27 tree-lengths above sea-level (1 tree-length drop)

### Location

Between MoonClan and SnowClan's territories, next to a small cliff (that can be climbed up and down from)

### Inhabitants

SnowClan and MoonClan share this territory and use it for water.

Birchcreek, the sixth deputy of MoonClan, had prohibited MoonClan cats from going here since too many cats died here (and everyone agreed, especially the cats who fell in), and the second SnowClan leader, Briarstar, did so, too.

## Etymology

It is called this because several cats had fallen in and died, or almost died. A few battles had also ensued between MoonClan and SnowClan to have total custody over this creek.

After Redwater and Fangstar's deaths in the Battle of Fangstar's Revenge, MoonClan, AdderClan, SnowClan and FlowerClan agreed on the name Birchcreek suggested, *"The Creek of Blood",* since other cats also fell in (listed below).

## Related Missions

### The mystery of Adderstar and Snowstar's deaths

Ever since they had to be the leaders of the new Mountain Clans, Adderstar and Snowstar had to be separated from each other which caused a lot of anguish in them, however, they still tried to be allies in the early days of the Mountain Clans, and fought against Moonstar and MoonClan together, whom they believed was a partial cause of this (since she got the visions first).

Later on, Snowstar realized the error of her ways and reconciled with Moonstar. They fought against Adderstar and his Clan together, and he felt betrayed by Snowstar, since he thought she loved him. This caused him to take several mates after Snowstar's indirect rejection. Ever since, AdderClan was enemies with both Clans for quite a long time.

A moon before the Battle of Moonstar's Death (where Moonstar died), Adderstar sought to take revenge on Snowstar. Snowstar had left SnowClan by faking her death (making Briarstar the leader) and trying to look for her and Adderstar's daughter by this time, since she had to give her up as a kittypet since she was Adderstar's daughter.

She met Adderstar when she came back to the cliff of the Creek of Blood, where she got a sense of familiarity, and she was friendly with him, and even offered him to look for their daughter, Mary. Adderstar already knew about their daughter, but he wasn't interested in her. He started an argument with Snowstar about her betrayal, making her shocked. Snowstar retaliated intelligently, however, much to Adderstar's dismay, and in desperation, he pushed her off, and she immediately lost all her lives when she fell on a sharp rock.

Realizing what he had done, he remembered Moonstar's words about peace, and finally realized why Snowstar betrayed him. Feeling too guilty, he jumped off and fell next to Snowstar, killing himself, too.

### Primrosekit's fall

When Primrosekit was only a moon old, she felt bored and had nothing to do since her sister, Dandelionkit, and mother, Rosepetal were sleeping. The other kits and apprentice were playing with each other outside of the nursery, but she was too shy to talk to them. Also, her condition didn't fit the game they were playing. So she decided to leave the nursery and camp altogether by herself. While exploring and smelling some flowers, she didn't notice the mountain's edge and fell off. Luckily for her, she fell onto a small branch that was there.

She was very scared, hungry and tired, and she kept constantly calling for help for an hour, until an apprentice, Quailpaw came. He told his mentor, Blazesky, to get Primrosekit. Blazesky came and jumped into the creek into an area which he knew was perfectly safe. Then he told Primrosekit to let go of the branch, and she did. Blazesky caught her and pulled her back up. He told Quailpaw to run back and tell the Clan, and he did. Then Blazesky climbed up the cliff with Primrosekit on his back, and together they went back to camp.

Although she didn't remember it very well, Primrosekit was still traumatized from this incident, especially when her friends Whitestripe and Swanpaw fell down this same creek and got way more injured than she did when she was an apprentice, Primrosepaw.

*See: Chapter 5: Primrosekit & Dandelionkit*

### The Fallen Two Battle

When Birchpaw was only thirteen moons old, a large patrol of ten cats from MoonClan (including Birchpaw) went to the creek to collect water using moss balls. They were about to climb down the mountain normally to get to the water, until a huge AdderClan patrol of eight cats came. The MoonClan and AdderClan patrols were surprised that so many cats were here, until Fangstar said that they came through SnowClan to hunt. He then declared a battle.

Birchpaw, Swanpaw, Primrosepaw, Dandelionpaw and Rainpaw, the apprentices that were there, were very shocked, but they decided to use their skills. Primrosepaw defended Rainpaw whenever a warrior tried attacking them while Rainpaw tended to cats' minor injuries. Birchpaw stayed with his mentor, Peonyclaw, and her son, Whitestripe, and all three fought together, and tried to bring down Fangstar.

Swanpaw stayed with Blazesky, the deputy Sealbranch, *her* apprentice, Dandelionpaw and *her* father, Maplestripe. However, at some point, she ended up somewhere near the cliff and she had to fight an AdderClan apprentice, Airpaw.

Soon, the AdderClan patrol realized that they were outnumbered and losing, so they started to retreat, until Whitestripe pounced on the AdderClan deputy, Windwing, while they were at the edge of the cliff. Birchpaw and Peonyclaw tried to follow Whitestripe while being careful. He aimed perfectly, however, Windwing managed to kick Whitestripe off of him, but he kicked him off the cliff. Whitestripe's sister, Stonetooth, was in this patrol, but she was shocked when she saw what happened.

A couple of seconds after that, an AdderClan warrior named Littlemoon pounced on Swanpaw. Swanpaw managed to dodge, but she lost her balance and also fell off the cliff.

Whitestripe and Swanpaw's bodies fell into the water next to the rocks, but their limbs broke on the rocks, and so did their tails. They got unconscious and submerged under the water, so they started drowning. Primrosepaw remembered what happened to her and Quailclaw as kits, and Peonyclaw and Blazesky were shocked because one of them was her son.

Birchpaw didn't really wait to do anything since he had an obligation to rescue them, so he jumped into the water close to them, but away from the rocks he could see. However, his right hind leg hit a rock that was underwater and impossible to see from the cliff very hard, and felt white-hot pain, but he tried to swim to Whitestripe and Swanpaw using his remaining three legs, and tried to pull them above the water. AdderClan had already retreated by this time, satisfied that they had killed two MoonClan cats.

Rainpaw had asked Blazesky where the safest spot to jump into the creek would be and he pointed to a clear and deep water spot with no rocks. So Rainpaw also jumped in with a ton of cobwebs and moss balls that she had brought to cover up and clean injuries. However, she took two minutes to swim to them, which would have been too late for Whitestripe and Swanpaw without Birchpaw.

Birchpaw tried to pull them by the neck but he figured it would be too late. Using all his strength, he tried to push Swanpaw's body while hanging onto Whitestripe's scruff, and finally situated them onto the rocks after almost one minute passed. The two cats were bleeding due to abrasions on the rocks, and so was Birchpaw's leg. However, he passed out on top of them as well.

When Rainpaw finally got there, she put the cobwebs on everyone's injuries, so she ultimately saved the three of them before they could bleed to death. The other MoonClan warriors were climbing down the mountain except for Peonyclaw, since she was still in shock. She also needed to stay with the other two apprentices, Dandelionpaw and Primrosepaw, of which Primrosepaw had fainted from the shock.

Sealbranch, Blazesky and Maplestripe all got to the three of them, and along with Rainpaw, they safely used the shortest trail through the forest all the way to get up to the cliff.

The ten cats went back home, and Primrosepaw had woken up by this time, who was very relieved that they were saved, and so was Peonyclaw.

Birchpaw, when he woke up a couple of days later, became a warrior one moon early for nearly sacrificing himself to save Whitestripe and Swanpaw. He was given the name Birchcreek to remember his good deed. Whitestripe and Swanpaw woke up after three-quarters of a moon and healed in another three-quarters thanks to Lilypool and Rainpaw, and Birchcreek's leg healed almost completely in that moon.

Rainpaw, due to her good deed of going in immediately and giving them the herbs they needed, became a full medicine cat after Whitestripe and Swanpaw were fully healed at fourteen and a half moons, and her new name was Rainstorm.

Swanpaw's training was delayed by a moon, but she managed to become a warrior at fifteen moons. Their tails' nerves were still damaged for ten moons, however, until they also healed, however, they never functioned completely well again.

*See: Chapter 31: The Creek of Blood*