Amberleaf

Amberleaf is the first medicine cat of AdderClan, preceding Hollyclaw. Her tribe healer predecessor was Icestem.

## Predecessors & Successors

She was known as the youngest tribe healer in the time when there was still a Tribe, and the oldest medicine cat (and even cat) of the Mountain Clans for reaching a ripe old age of 105 moons which was hard to reach in the Mountains. When she died to save her grandson, Thymeclaw, she revealed the fact to Fangstar that she was his real mother. She always wanted a kit so she was surprised to find out there was a rule in the warrior code that medicine cats couldn't mate. She was one of the few cats that Adderstar, Fangstar and even the future leader Airstar always liked.

## Youth

Amber was born to Dawn, but her mother died shortly after and Amber got adopted by Sand. Pine and Storm, Sand's sons with a kittypet named Gordon, also liked her. They were only a few moons older than her. Even Sand's nephew, Calm liked her, who was already a healer-in-training. Amber had a high opinion of them and Sand so she wanted to be a healer like Calm and Sand.

## Healer-in-Training/Medicine Cat Apprentice

She was the youngest Mountain Tribe healer out of the four healers, Calm, Ice and Sand. She was still so young that she was a healer-in-training and still needed to be trained by Sand, the oldest healer, in the time when the Mountain Clans were about to be formed.

Amber was one of the cats who needed to be a medicine cat for a Clan, and she was worried that Sand wouldn't be with her. However, sometime after the three cats' revelation of the Mountain Clan Prophecy, a hawk attacked Sand and injured her greatly. Adder, one of the three cats in the prophecy, managed to kill the hawk before it could kill Sand, but Sand later died from her injuries. Before she died, she told everyone she knew that she wanted to die with the name Sandpounce and told the other three healers that she could continue to teach them from StarClan.

This devastated Amber, as she was only nine moons old and hadn't learned everything yet. Calm and Ice were also shocked, and tried to teach Amber in the same way Sandpounce did but Amber didn't think it was really the same. The three healers wondered how Sandpounce would teach them from StarClan until she came to them in their dreams and continued their training as normal. When the time came for the cats to be sorted into a Clan, Amber wanted to be with Adder as he tried to save Sandpounce before she died. Adder was happy about this and appointed her as the first medicine cat of AdderClan. However, since she was too young to even be a warrior, she was only renamed Amberpaw.

## Medicine Cat

Amberpaw continued learning medicine from Sandpounce in StarClan, and even got to birth Adderstar's sister's kit, Fightkit, without any complications from inexperience, until she was sixteen moons old. Then when Amberpaw went to the Moonstone, along with Calmpond of MoonClan and Icestem of SnowClan, Sandpounce gave her the name Amberleaf and the other two medicine cats congratulated her.

Later on, Amberleaf continued being friends with Calmpond and Icestem even when the Clans fought each other and was one of the cats to discourage Adderstar from fighting. When Fightkit became a warrior, Fightface, he fell in love with her. Amberleaf accepted the love but she told him that it was forbidden. He understood and didn't continue the relationship. Later on, she mentored a kit of one of her friends, Cougarlily, named Hollykit who wanted to be a medicine cat, however she had died from greencough as a young adult at twenty moons. So she mentored Hollyclaw's nephew, Reedthorn instead.

However, when Amberleaf became fifty-four moons old and Fightface forty-five, they continued the relationship but she realized she was pregnant with his kit. She was mentoring Bristlepaw at this time, so she didn't know what to do. She gave birth somewhere outside of camp to Fangkit with Fightface, who suggested the name. Amberleaf snuck Fangkit into a queen named Gardenpetal's litter, who was Adderstar's current mate. She made sure to check him for any complications from birth and to her relief, he was perfectly healthy.

When Adderstar questioned the parentage of Fangkit, Amberleaf knew she couldn't say Gardenpetal was his mother as she was Adderstar's mate. Fightface also wanted to be known as the father of Fangkit so that he could be known as the great-nephew of Adderstar. So Amberleaf told Adderstar that Fightface's mate was a kittypet who had died giving birth to Fangkit and Adderstar was okay with this and allowed Gardenpetal to continue nursing Fangkit. Upon learning that Fangkit was her grandson, Clovergrass also spent a lot of time with him.

Amberleaf tried not to pay too much attention to Fangkit as he was growing up and instead focused on mentoring Bristlepaw until he got his medicine cat name, Bristlefeather, of which Reedthorn suggested to Amberleaf after his father, Lionfeather.

Amberleaf and Clovergrass told Adderstar that he should be Fangkit's mentor, since they wanted the best for Fangkit and Adderstar agreed. When Fangpaw fought SnowClan bravely and even managed to injure the second leader, Briarstar, he became a warrior with the name of Fangclaw, which made Amberleaf proud. However, she was still disagreeing about how he came to become a warrior.

Amberleaf was happy when Fangclaw got chosen as a deputy after defending the Clan from several foxes that tried to attack it, especially after the previous one, Lionclaw, died from this incident. Later when Adderstar got killed by a mysterious fall off the cliff, he became leader and Amberleaf and him went to the Moonstone to get his nine lives. Fangstar appointed Longfoot as the new deputy.

Amberleaf is mentioned by Begoniaclaw, a warrior as old as Fangstar, to be better than the rest of AdderClan and Amberleaf comforted her as a kit when her mother and her sibling, Smoothkit both died from the birth. Amberleaf also defended Begoniaclaw when she got accused of mating with a SnowClan cat, and was surprised when Fangstar exiled her from the Clan. She was relieved to learn that MoonClan took her in as refuge, and took care of her kits, Sorrelkit and Brownkit. When Begoniaclaw returned with a MoonClan warrior, Stonetooth, who wanted to join the Clan as well, Amberleaf was really happy and convinced Fangstar to welcome them in. But Begoniaclaw was still kept under high watch and so was Stonetooth.

Amberleaf got a vision from StarClan about a kit named Airkit, a kit of a queen, Twilightflower (who was also one of Adderstar's kits), who would soon be a future leader of AdderClan. So she recommended to Fangstar to make Airkit his apprentice and he agreed.

Amberleaf went on the mission to hunt on MoonClan's territory, although she along with Reedthorn warned Fangstar not to do this. She was shocked when a MoonClan warrior and apprentice, Whitestripe and Swanpaw got cajoled off the cliff into the Creek of Blood and told Fangstar to stop fighting them immediately in a harsh tone no other cat would be tolerated to ever speak in and Fangstar obliged and the patrol left. She was secretly proud of two MoonClan apprentices who were also littermates, Birchpaw and Rainpaw for saving their two fallen Clanmates.

When Fangstar accused Stonetooth, her mate Desertflames, his mother Bluewater and her kits, Frogpaw and Adderkit, of disloyalty and either exiled or killed, Amberleaf told him to reverse the decision otherwise she would give him deathberries, but Fangstar insisted that they would cause corruption. Fangstar also told Briarstar about who Desertflames' parents against Amberleaf's wishes, and Briarstar exiled Highstorm, Desertflames' father, from the Clan. Fangstar also kidnapped Stonetooth's niece, Bluepaw.

Stonetooth spoke good things about Amberleaf to Birchcreek, including how she defended and comforted Begoniaclaw and her. She also said that Amberleaf was a good medicine cat and Clanmate, too, and always tried to make Fangstar make the fight decision, and Birchcreek agreed.

Amberleaf watched Stonetooth save Birchcreek from the boulder falling on him and she died instead, and so Amberleaf prayed that Stonetooth would go to StarClan. She was very relieved when Birchcreek and Stonetooth's kits and Bluepaw ran back to MoonClan safely.

Amberleaf greets Greenstar of FlowerClan when it is instated, and congratulates MoonClan for doing so, to the scorn of her Clan and Briarstar.

Later on, when Amberleaf was 104 moons old, she went on a gathering patrol by herself despite Fangstar and Airdaisy, the new deputy's wishes. But she noticed Fangstar and another cat whom she recognized as a MoonClan cat named Redwater bickering about a cat named Thymeclaw, who was Redwater's son. Amberleaf learned that they were talking about *their* son, and Fangstar was talking about how he was being raised incorrectly. Upon learning about Thymeclaw being her grandson, Amberleaf decided to keep quiet until it would be the right time to reveal it, and walked away without Fangstar or Redwater seeing her.

## Death

A moon later, Fangstar launched a huge raid on MoonClan with all of the warriors except for few that would be guarding the camp, and Amberleaf along with her apprentices, Reedthorn and Bristlefeather, also had to come. Maplestar, the leader at the time, was outraged at this and had all warriors defend each den, especially the nursery and elders' den. Redwater was also outraged and fought Fangstar head on.

Amberleaf noticed this and saw Thymeclaw and Airdaisy fighting. Airdaisy knocked over a tree that was about to fall on Thymeclaw. Redwater and Fangstar also noticed this but they were way too far away to save him. So Amberleaf pushed Thymeclaw out of the way before it could fall on him and it fell on her instead. While dying, she told Thymeclaw to tell Fangstar that she was Fangstar's mother, not that kittypet. Thymeclaw was confused and shocked at the same time and he tried to save Amberleaf by calling for one of the medicine cats, which were Rainstorm, Birdpaw, Reedthorn and Bristlefeather, but she had already died from her wounds.

MoonClan and AdderClan were watching this and they remembered Stonetooth saving Birchcreek from that boulder, especially Fangstar who was shocked.

## Post-Mortem

Thymeclaw thought he couldn't tell anyone while battling but when Fangstar retreated and attacked the next day at The Creek of Blood, he saw Redwater and Fangstar fighting again. He wondered why Amberleaf told him this until a ghost of Amberleaf appeared and revealed to him that Fangstar was his father. Thymeclaw was the only one who could see and hear her and he felt shocked and betrayed that this was so.

He asked Redwater why she mated with Fangstar and both Clans were shocked, especially Thymeclaw's parents. Thymeclaw also told Fangstar that Amberleaf was his mother and Fangstar told him that he was lying, but Airdaisy and another MoonClan cat who overheard, Primrosestorm, confirmed that they did hear Amberleaf said this, but they were surprised as well about Fangstar being Thymeclaw's father.

In exasperation, Fangstar and Redwater ignored them and battled each other very harshly to the point that they fell into the creek and immediately died. Fangstar lost his remaining three lives due to drowning. Amberleaf appeared again to Thymeclaw and she said that it would be okay. Thymeclaw asked his grandmother what happened and Amberleaf just replies that Redwater went to StarClan but she was unsure about Fangstar. Thymeclaw presses her for the truth but Amberleaf fades away.

Finally Amberleaf ascended to StarClan.

Airdaisy, now Airstar, had already gone with Reedthorn to get her nine lives, and Amberleaf gives her the first life of judgement.

Everyone talks about Amberleaf, Redwater and Fangstar from both Clans, and when SnowClan finds out, too, Briarstar gets angry and launches an attack on both Clans. The one versus one versus one fight begins as all three Clans are battling. FlowerClan also tries to help, but Amberleaf helps MoonClan fight AdderClan. Seeing that Amberleaf betrayed AdderClan, Airstar tries to kill her but Amberleaf kills her first life which, ironically, was the first life that she gave her.

The story of Amberleaf is told through the generations, and she also appears in Birdwing, Kestrelpetal, Snowmist and Tallsoot's medicine cat ceremonies. She gives her descendant through Thymeclaw, Jaystar, the life of loyalty.

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