Craneberry

Name - Craneberry

Gender - Tom

Clan - OasisClan

Rank - Warrior

Family - Hailbreeze (ex-mate)

Friends - Hailbreeze, Chestnutwing

Enemies - N/A

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Craneberry is a cream tom with a brown patch on his back. He has golden-green eyes. He also has several other, smaller brown patches, most notably one thin one over his mouth and a large one over his right eye.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Cranekit was born in OasisClan to Brightshine and Brownface. He had a pretty idyllic kithood.

When he was one moon old, two other queens had kits. Cranekit ended up being pretty close friends with Hailkit and Chestnutkit. The three of them got up to some serious shenanigans, like bothering two of the older kits, Songkit and Moonkit. They didn't like that much. Cranekit, Hailkit, and Chestnutkit found it pretty hilarious though.

Cranekit thought that Dawnkit, one of Hailkit's siblings, was very pretty and his friends teased him quite a bit about that.

#### Apprenticeship

Cranepaw was apprenticed to Wishfur shortly after Hailkit and Chestnutkit found out that he liked Dawnkit, which was rather relieving temporarily. Unfortunately, that meant he had to deal with Moonpaw and Songpaw and all the other apprentices. He disliked Beetlepaw in particular. Fortunately, he was joined by his friends rather quickly.

And oh, did he like Dawnpaw. He was also completely oblivious to the fact that Hailpaw liked him.

When they got a bit older, though, Cranepaw started to notice Chestnutpaw acting weird around Hailpaw. He also noticed that he felt rather angry about that. "Why, Cranepaw?" you may be wondering, "Why do you care? Don't you already like Dawnpaw?" Well, now he liked Hailpaw.

Oh, also, Reedpaw died. Reedpaw was Chestnutpaw's brother. RIP, Reedpaw.

Anyways, Cranepaw was rather upset. On the one hand, Chestnutpaw was his best friend. On the other, Chestnutpaw was a threat to his chances with Hailpaw. Oh no.

#### Warrior Life

Cranepaw didn't have to worry about that for too long because he became a warrior under the name Craneberry. He was soon joined by Hailbreeze, Dawnflurry, Snowstem, and Chestnutwing.

Hailbreeze stepped up her game quite a bit and Craneberry thought she was really cute. When he was about seventeen moons old, he asked her to be his mate. She said yes.

Chestnutwing was really, really upset about this, but he decided to make the best of it and became mates with Dawnflurry.

Because they were young and dumb, Hailbreeze was soon in the nursery, expecting Craneberry's kits. He was worried, but Hailbreeze told him not to worry too much.

Things did turn out okay and when Craneberry was twenty moons old, Hailbreeze had three beautiful daughters.. They decided to name the kits Cloverkit, Silverkit, and Cloudkit. Shortly afterward, Chestnutwing's mate Dawnflurry also moved into the nursery. Craneberry was very happy for his friend.

Three moons later, Cloudkit went missing. While Craneberry was frantically searching the woods for her, Dawnflurry had her kits. Except not. Dawnflurry died and one of the kits was also lost. Everyone's day got worse when Craneberry returned home with Cloudkit's tiny body. He had found her in one of the deeper streams near the outer border. How she had gotten so far from camp was a mystery to everyone, but Craneberry couldn't shake the feeling that his daughter's death was his fault.

Craneberry tried to comfort Chestnutwing after the loss of Dawnflurry, but it didn't really work.

Anyways, he tried to keep a closer eye on Cloverkit and Silverkit as they grew up, but a bad bout of greencough one leaf-bare claimed Silverkit's life and an owl scooped up Cloverkit. Hailbreeze and Craneberry had a huge fight over that. Hailbreeze thought it was Craneberry's fault, because he'd taken Cloverkit and Hopekit out of camp for a bit when the owl took her, but Craneberry told her repeatedly that it hadn't been his fault. In fact, he'd tried to fight off the owl, but he'd barely saved Hopekit and himself. The fact that only one cat died was a miracle.

In the end, Hailbreeze and Craneberry broke up. Craneberry, still grieving for his daughters, barely protested while Hailbreeze broke up with him. He couldn't do anything, not while she was this angry, so he turned to Chestnutwing. Chestnutwing believed him. Chestnutwing was grateful to him for saving Hopekit's life.

To his surprise, he received Hopepaw as his apprentice. He trained her as best he could until she was eight moons old.

When Hopepaw was eight moons old, she ran into a fox on a hunting patrol. She was killed and for the first time since Dawnflurry, Craneberry and his former best friends were drawn together in their grief.

Shortly after the funeral, he was approached by Hailbreeze, who asked if he wanted to start over as friends. Craneberry readily accepted. He hoped that someday he'd be able to win back her heart, but this was enough for now.

And that's how it's been ever since. Craneberry, Hailbreeze, and Chestnutwing are still good friends.

## Other

#### Trivia

* No, his name is not a play on the word cranberry.
* To clear things up: Craneberry liked Dawnflurry from late kithood to mid-apprenticeship, Hailbreeze liked Craneberry from early apprenticeship to their break-up as warriors, Chestnutwing liked Hailbreeze from mid-apprenticeship to Hailbreeze and Craneberry becoming mates, Dawnflurry liked Chestnutwing from mid-apprenticeship to her death, and Snowstem stayed out of it because the girls in question were his sisters.