Spectre

* Cat Form
* Smoke Form

## **Overview**

**Spectre** is a former power cat of SkyClan, who was able to manipulate and control smoke.

### **Appearance**

Spectre is a tall, slightly broad shoulder pure white she-cat. She has dark grey ears and paws, as well as grey "eyeshadow" and on her muzzle. Her tail is tipped with dark grey, followed by 3 thin stripes. Her right ear has a notch in it, and scars on her left back leg and left shoulder. She has slightly narrow, pale teal eyes.

### **Personality**

Spectre is a very solitary and introverted cat. From a young age she rarely spoke to anyone aside from her family, and rarely shows any emotion. She closely guards her personal feelings on certain subjects, only vocalizing them when around her (few) friends, and can be shy around others she doesn't know or trust.

### **Power (Retired)**

Spectre can manipulate smoke in 2 ways. She can form her entire body into smoke, and travel short distances as her smoke form. Alongside that, she can also form barriers of smoke to protect others from harm. Using her power for a short amount of time will often leave Spectre with fatique and headaches. Prolonged use, including remaining in her smoke form, will cause her body to slowly start to dissapate permanently. Smoke tufts from her tail and back legs would fall away from her and remain for 2 seconds before disappearing.

## **History**

### **Early Life**

Spectre was born in SkyClan uner the name of **Frostkit** as the second oldest of 4 kits during the early days of **Auburnstar's** reign. Her parents supported Auburnstar, and worked hard to maintain that their children were also supporters, including quiet Frostkit. All 4 were apprenticed at 6 moons, enjoying a relatively quiet apprenticehip, before being named a warrior as **Froststone**. Sometime before the siblings were going to be named warriors, **Stonepaw** dissappeared with no trace.

### **Warrior Life**

Froststone fought in the battle with ShadowClan, sustaining a broken leg while fighting a ShadowClan apprentice named Tigerpaw, causing her to stay in the med den for an extended period of time. During her time in the medicine den, she shared a very brief conversation with **Raccoonleap** about Auburnstar. She was allowed out of the medicine den a few days later, but only to stay in camp so she didn't reinjure her leg, spending much of her time guarding a prisoner. The prisoner in question was **Infernopaw**, a power cat who was kidnapped by Auburnstar and indoctrinated to SkyClan's ways. The two seemed to get on fine, before Froststone ended the conversation.

### **Discovering Her Power**

After finally being released from the medicine cat den because of her injuries, Froststone went for a walk out in the territory near the border with SkyClan. While on her walk, Froststone was attacked by an eagle, and unknowingly activated her power, turning her body to smoke for the first time. A nearby Tribe cat, **Hyena**, told Froststone she has received a power from StarClan, something Froststone feared to have. While she was unsure of any power cats in SkyClan, she was certain Auburnstar would've ended them instantly, or chased them away. Hyena gave her an invitation to join the Celestial Council, a group of power cats who met and helped each other, but Froststone refused. She later met with Raccoonleap, asking him about other power cats in SkyClan during or before Auburnstar's time. She also revealed her power to him.

Some time later, Froststone was out on a walk with the recently named **Infernostrike**, when he out of the blue, revealed his power to her. Stunned and encouraged by this, she revealed her own power to him as a sign of trust. Infernostrike, being one of Auburnstar's most fervent supporters, got angry that she hid her power from Auburnstar, despite Froststone's attempts to reason that he would've killed her by then if he knew. Despite what Froststone thought he would do, Infernostrike in the end say he would not tell Auburnstar.

Froststone fought during the battle against RiverClan and the Tribe, during which she was attacked and knocked unconscious by a RiverClan warrior. She spent a few moons recuperating, subsequently missing the following battle with the other clans. During the battle, she fled to the original SkyClan camp, despite her lack of cognitive awareness.

Soon after the battle Froststone went to the medicine den to get some herbs for her headache, and happened upon a conversation between Raccoonleap and **Quietskies**. All 3 got on well, and Frost revealed her power to Quietskies, who also opposed Auburnstar. Soon after she was released from the medicine den, she watched her sister **Palewing** get killed by Auburnstar. He then made her bury her sister's body.

Soon after, she spoke to Infernostrike, and attempted to train against his powers. It did not end in her favor. Then she decided to get her name changed, to reflect a new (although mostly transparent) loyalty towards Auburnstar, and her new powers, chosing her prefix of Spectre. Auburnstar chose her suffix, path, as a reminder of the new path she would be undertaking, renaming her **Spectrepath**. Later, she spoke with Lunarstar, who was going among the ranks of Auburnstar's warriors and requesting to train them. She refused, not wanting to believe Lunarstar, who she feared would reveal her power to Auburnstar.

### **Uncharted Waters**

Sometime later, Spectrepath was speaking with Auburnstar in her smoke morph when she finally revealed to him that she was the second power cat of SkyClan, explaining her discretion as fear that Lunarstar would betray her to him. Surprisingly, Auburnstar did not kill her, and instead placed her on probation and warned her against any future rebellion.

She fought during the war with ShadowClan, during which time she felt increasingly worried for her safety. Some time after a second raid, she witnessed Auburnstar attack Infernostrike, and Quietskies exiling herself from the clan. With her two allies gone, she had little to turn too, aside from her new friends **Orangebreeze** and **Blackfeather**. During the ShadowClan raid on SkyClan, Spectrepath fought using her powers for the first time. Afterwards, as she was going to rest from her long usage, she was stopped by Infernostrike, who had reclaimed his new identity as **Spark**. He told her she wasn't safe in SkyClan anymore, and Spectrepath agreed. Together, the two left SkyClan, upsetting Blackfeather. Spectrepath soon after cast aside her suffix, the last of her ties to SkyClan, now being known as **Spectre**. The two, in need of sleep, especially Spectre, ran into Quietskies and Raccoonleap, who took them in alongside **Tumblebee**. During their stay with Tumbleebee, her relationship with Spark suffered slightly, due to the feelings she felt for Spark.

### **Return**

The group, during their separation, had become allies with ShadowClan and the Celestial Council, as allies in helping depose of Auburnstar. Spectre was less involved in this than the others, but nonetheless showed her support for retaking SkyClan from Auburnstar.

When the day came for them to return to SkyClan, Spectre went with them, and was visibly concerned to find a SkyClan camp, with no Auburnstar. Blackfeather, in a fit of hysteria, ordered the remaining supporters of Auburnstar to attack. Her family immediately turned onto the young she-cat, verbally attacking her while ignoring the others attacking camp. Even with Spark's help, her family was unrelenting, and Spectre finally couldn't take it anymore. Using her powers, she pushed her family and Spark away, before locking herself into a smoke barrier bubble, where she remained for the rest of the battle. At the end, traumatized by the assault by her family, she ran off to be alone.

Spectre at some point ran into Tumblebee again, who she talked to for a brief amount of time, before returning to SkyClan after three days. During those 3 days, she found and also spoke to a loner she had heard was a very good healer. Despite the loner's best attempts, she was unable to heal Spectre of her PTSD. Upon her return to SkyClan, she was approached by **Quietstar**, who questioned her about her name. After some deliberation, she choose to keep her name Spectre, not taking on a new suffix.

Spectre suffered through her PTSD with little care or worry for her personal safety. It essentially ruled her life, further worsening her relationship with others. After a while of trying to get over it herself, Spectre finally got the help she needed, in the form of Palewing, her deceased sister. Together, the two purged the PTSD from her mind, and Spectre immediately became better. Feeling shameful for letting her friendships worsen, she began to rebuild her relationship with **Sparkleap**, as well as with Blackfeather (who by then had rejoined the clan).

Over time, Spectre became more aware of the other power cats in and within the clans, and had run ins with a few of them. She had a somewhat friendly one with **Mimosa**, BloodClan's latest. Upon meeting **Jayclaw**, she had a somewhat more tense encounter, due to the other's control of birds and sending them after Spectre. She also helped Sparkleap after he lost his power by finding **Toadpool**, and bringing the old medicine cat to Sparkleap to help him. Her power also began to seemingly grow a mind of it's own, becoming uncontrollable. Unfortunately, by the time it did grow a mind of it's own, it was too late.

### **Enenra**

While returning to camp, Spectre's power finally seized an opportunity. It began to separate from her body, leaving from her mouth and melting off of her body. The smoke collected near her, forming into a being of dark smoke and fury; **Enenra**. Spectre, overcome by the trauma and pain from the separation, as well as the fact that her body had seemingly split in half, fell into a deep coma. Fortunately, Enenra didn't get far, as it was unable to do much without a living host that it could feed off of. Sparkleap then brought Spectre to Sapnose, hoping he would be able to help her.

Spectre remained in a coma for almost 3 moons, before awakening during a Gathering. Despite recognizing that she had endured tremendous pain and suffering as a result of her power, she resolved to ease back into her routine by going hunting. Leaving during the Gathering, she returned some time later to find some of her clanmates, notably Sparkleap, panicking over her disappearance. Confronting her about what happened, Spark demanded she return to the medicine den. Insisting that she was fine (to which she mostly was), Spectre reminded him that she had survived worse, which seemed to calm him down.

After some more time of getting back into the groove of things after awakening from her coma, Spectre participated in the battle against the foxes, and witnessed Quietstar's return home. Soon after the fight, she and Spark confessed their feelings for each other, and became mates (cute).

### Whole New World

A few moons past of Spectre being happily in love with Spark, until (of course) something bad happened. Quietstar had begun to act strangely, which Spark of course picked up on. Confronting his mother after she called a meeting, Quietstar demoted Spark for arguing with her, something very out of character. Spectre watched in horror as Quietstar sent him to the prisoner's den, and promoted his brother, **Scorchberry**, in his place.

Spectre then went to the Gathering, where she witnessed the other leaders slowly dealing with what Quietstar was. Watching on in dismay, Spectre watched Quietstar violently kill **Dreamstar** by throwing him off the Hightree after an argument between him, Quietstar, and **Timberstar**. Quietstar then left the Gathering early, bringing everyone back early. Meeting up with Spark, Spectre told him about what happened, and the two pondered what was happening. Spark told Spectre that it was the Dark Forest and Auburnstar, who had somehow posessed Quietstar (as, during their argument, Quietstar called Spark Infernostrike). The two then shared a tender moment.

Spectre fought in both the battle of RiverClan, and then the battle of BloodClan not long afterwards. Amazingly, she did so while also in the early stages of pregnancy (though she wasn't aware at the time). Quietstar soon returned to normal, then stepped down, and Spark became leader, taking on the name of Sparkstar. Not long later, Spectre learned she was indeed pregnant, something she thought would not be possible (as many in her family were barren in the past). Waiting some time to tell Sparkstar, the two shared a joyous moment together.