Ashstar

Ashstar is ShadowClan's leader.

### Skills

**Ashstar** was top of her class in just about everything, except swimming. She was *terrified* of water! She learns quickly, and is rather patient, making her a successful hunter more than anything else, even fighting, which was a close second.

## Life

### Kithood & Adolescence

Ash lived for her parents - who were rogues - on a farm for the first two weeks of her life, with her siblings, Snake, Dapple and Creek. The family moved to join a group of rogues who called themsevles 'AshClan' though, when the kits were three moons old. AshClan lived alongside SoulClan, SunClan and FrostClan and Ash was always drawn to SoulClan's darker, forest landscape. Dapple and Creek hadn't wanted to leave the farm, so they were always moping.

Ash was renamed Ashkit and Snake was renamed Snakekit. The two littermates rejoiced over there new names and their parents, Fallstone and Hailfeather, were proud. Dapple and Creek, of course, refused the new names. Ashkit's father, Hailfeather, wanted to train the kits immediately in fighting techniques, while Fallstone begged to give them private hunting classes. Ashkit went straight for the fighting classes, but they had to do it in secret. Otherwise the whole family would get into big trouble.

Ashkit decided the risk wasn't worth not having the security of AshClan, so she gave up the classes and waited patiently for her sixth moon to roll around.

As she reached her sixth moon, Ashkit was delighted to begin her training as Ashpaw, an apprentice of AshClan. Snakepaw was apprenticed too, and so were Dapple and Creek, who were forced to be named Dapplepaw and Creekpaw. Snakepaw and Ashpaw didn't care for rule-breaking at this point, so they went out of camp at night, determined to try out their new skills as fighters their father had briefly taught them.

It was that night Ashpaw met her first victim of murder.

A young tom, seemingly seven moons old attacked Ashpaw and Snakepaw, and took Snakepaw out of the fight. Ashpaw had killed the young tom, not caring who his family was. All she knew was that he deserved death to greet him. She had hauled Snakepaw back to AshClan and woken Fallstone, who cried at the sight of her mangled son. She said it wasn't safe for him in AshClan anymore, because of his injuries, and took him out of camp, searching for SoulClan. Hailfeather went with her.

Ashpaw had been subdued by the murder of the tom and the loss of her brother and she even refused to train. She hadn't known how to feel about the murder. All she wanted was another kill. She liked the bloodbath... But why did she? She hadn't known the answer.

She resumed training in her eighth moon and excelled in everything, except swimming. She wouldn't even enter the water.

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## Pedigree

**Mother:** Fallstone; deceased. Resident of StarClan

**Father:** Hailfeather; deceased. Unknown residence

**Brother(s):** Snakefang; deceased. Resident of the Dark Forest

**Sister(s):** Dapplecreek; deceased. Resident of StarClan

Creekdew; deceased. No afterlife residence

**Mate(s):** Many toms, too many to list all. So I'll list her favourites

Blackheart; deceased. Resident of the Dark Forest.

Foxface; deceased. Unknown residence

Torntail; deceased. Resident of StarClan

**Kits:** Darkwhisper; deceased. Resident of StarClan

Unknown kits

## Relationships

### Family

**Hailfeather:**

*"Look. He was a good father and all... But I just don't have a good concept of love. Hey, don't judge me for having more than one mate! Anyway. He trained me well, I do admit. He trained me how to kill and he taught me how to be vengeful. I fail to believe he cared that much about me, but hey! Love is pretty much foreign to me, but he is one of the few cats I have ever respected. And probably ever will. His death was... Needed, in the long run of my plans. He would have held me back."*

Ashstar considers her father as a mentor, but she doesn't really believe he had any proper love for her. He trained her out of respect, and she respects him more than anyone else she has ever met. She doesn't regret killing him, showing that she had no love for him, either.

**Fallstone:**

*"I never really paid attention to her, now that I think about it. Except in classes, she threatened to beat me up! I was a stupid apprentice, how was I supposed to know I could have killed her in one swipe? Which I did, in the end. She pushed me, really hard, to learn new stuff to do with hunting. I took in every moment of it. I mean, how different is a rabbit compared to a cat? Not that different in the terms of how to kill it. She helped me, but she took Snakefang away from me... And I can never forgive that."*

Ashstar thinks of Fallstone not as a mother, but as a mentor, like her father. She doesn't love her, not one bit after Fallstone took away Snakefang, though. Ashstar knows her mother really helped her in the long run of things, but she is just too proud to admit it.

**Dapplecreek:**

*"Meh. I never noticed her, really. She was always in the background, always the weakest, slowest, lamest... You get the picture. I don't care where she ended up, or how she ended up there, but all I know is that she was a hurdle, one that took time to leap over. I don't like her or love her one bit, but I do not think I'd stretch so much to say I hate her."*

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**Creekdew:**

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**Snakefang:**

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**Darkwhisper:**

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### Love Interests

**Blackheart:**

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**Foxface:**

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**Torntail:**

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### Friends

She barely considered anyone worthy of her attention.