Nightheart

Nightheart is a brown tabby tom with amber eyes

Night was born to Henry and Cardinal alongside his unknown littermates. Night‘s mother, Cardinal, was friends with Nightberry, the Creekclan medicine cat, and led the Creekclan cats to believe that he was the father of her kits. Soon after Nightberry’s death, Cardinal sent Night to live with Creekclan when he was six moons old. However, she explained to him before he left that the clans were awful places, and he needed to help her destroy him by gaining their trust. Cardinal brought Night to the clan, and because the clan had believed he was Nightberry’s son, took him in. Night was given an apprentice name, Nightpaw, and apprenticed to Heatherpelt.

As an apprentice, Nightpaw excels at battle training. He fights in a border scuffle and has to be dragged off of a Gorgeclan apprentice by Heatherpelt. Nightpaw also becomes close to his denmates Bramblepaw, Berrypaw, and Pebblepaw. However, Bramblepaw and Nightpaw soon form a rivalry. Nightpaw often snuck out at night to meet with his mother and her group about taking the clan down.

Nightheart earns his warrior name and becomes a well known and feared warrior of Creekclan. Nightheart has begun to feel a sense of kinship to Creekclan, which he tries to deny to himself. Cardinal suggests that he finds a mate so that they could have more kits for the battle. Nightheart was already beginning to fall for Pebblepaw and he began to spend more time with her. Pebblepaw earns her warrior name, Pebblestep alongside Bramblebite and Berryligh. Nightheart continued to meet with his mother and the group to talk about their battle with the clans. Nightheart learns that Pebblestep is expecting kits and is thrilled, but sadden by the fact that they’d be forced into battle. Pebblestep gives birth to Jawkit, Pikekit, and Songkit. Cardinal then decides that she’s waited long enough to attack the clans and decides that they will attack the next day. Nightheart is torn between loyalty to his clan and love for his mate as well as his loyalty to his mother and birth group.

The day of the battle, the group of cats attacks the camp and Nightheart rushes to the nursery to tell Pebblestep to get herself and the kits out of there, but he is stopped by Bramblebite who stands in front of the nursery to protect his sister. Nightheart tries to get past him but Bramblebite attacks him and the two cats scuffle. Nightheart ends up killing Bramblebite and Pebblestep comes outside horrified. By now, the battle is over and Pinestar has killed Cardinal. Nightheart doesn’t feel much grief and realizes the horrible things that she had done.

Pebblestep tells her mother how Nightheart killed her brother. Pinestar then puts Nightheart on trial and orders him to tell the clan what happened. He then tells the clan how his father was not Nightberry, but instead a cat from the farm named Henry. He also tells them how the attack was planned. In anger, Pinestar banishes Nightheart from Creekclan. He begs her to let him stay because Pebblestep was all he had now. However, Pebblestep is furious that he killed Bramblebite, and says whatever love she had for him was gone, and his kits would grow up knowing what monster their father was. Nightheart is sent away and exiled, where he retook his original rogue name Night.

He lived the rest of his life as a rogue, refusing to return to the barn and regretting what he had done. When he died, Night went to the dark forest, where he was once again known as Nightheart.