Snapdragon

## Brief History

Snapdragon was born a kittypet, and never knew his parents. He left this pampered life shortly after he met Frog, and the two of them ventured off to live in a cavern near the Twolegplace. They lived here for a good few moons, until Snapdragon was given the opportunity to join Trunk in the group that would soon become BloodClan. It wasn't long after the leader was overthrown that they decided BloodClan life wasn't for them, and they left, returning to their comfortable lives as loners.

## Detailed History

Two kittypets being brought together for a only a few moons before they were torn apart again is how Snapdragon was born, with his mother's Twolegs taking him away at a very young age, leaving his mother - his father already long gone. He has no memory of these early years, due to his forgetfulness, and also because he chooses not to recall those moments when he felt so alone in his adolescence... Of course, he'd grown out of the sadness very quickly, as he was adopted by his own Twolegs shortly after. They were a very organized family, and consisted of a man, a woman, and their daughter, who would always take extra care in grooming Snapdragon's beautiful pelt when her parents would be too busy to. After moons of being with these housefolk, and living a pampered life, he spotted a side door open a crack, and made a daring escape, his longing for something new in his life taking hold of him. The world was beautiful - far more beautiful than he would have imagined, as he wandered the Twolegplace on his own, taking in the sights of the other plants, the homes, and the other cats. He began to rethink his outing after getting into a fight with a stray, however, because he didn't think that other cats could ever be violent. Eventually he'd gone too far, and, keep in mind he's got the memory of a goldfish when it comes to directions and paths he'd taken, so now he was lost. He tried to wander back to where he thought was home, but instead ran into a sweet molly who went by the name of Frog. The two of them talked for a while, and a little while longer about their lives, and Snapdragon about his story he now had from sneaking out of home, but he made it clear he wanted more. More adventure to make his life less of a never-ending cycle - and Frog agreed with him, too wanting adventure. She led him back to his housefolk, but after staying one more night with his family, Snapdragon snuck out again, running to a cavern not far from the Twolegplace, where he and Frog made their home. This cavern back known as The Cavern of Stars, and the two former kittypets settled in rather easily. After a few moons it felt much like home, and Snapdragon began to follow Frog out for her little outings in which she'd bring home a pretty rock, and while out, he decided to bring home a few pretty flowers of his own, which was how his own floral collection started to grow.

Moons passed, and now, as a young adult, Snapdragon went out on little outings of his own to gather an abundance of flowers to bring home. On one of these outings, he stumbled upon Spinpaw, who told him about her temporary life in WindClan, and how she was supposed to be home in ThunderClan, but because of some Median cat, she couldn't go home. Snapdragon felt sympathy towards her, and attempted to cheer her up by talking about his life in the cavern with Frog, and how big his flower collection had gotten. His talk of flowers prompted the medicine cat apprentice to give him a lesson on which flowers were used for medicine, which were poisonous, and which were really just for looks. He did his best to actively listen along, and it was clear he'd learned a lot from just that one conversation. Before Spinpaw had gotten through her entire talk, they were joined by a WindClan warrior, Pinethorn. He was mostly only interested in hearing about where Snapdragon came from, rather than the medicine cat apprentice's lecture, which slightly upset the loner, for he was very invested in the talk of flowers. Pinethorn soon lost interest and headed home, leaving Snapdragon alone with Spinpaw again. However, she decided she had to leave as well, she told Snap told come by in a few days to this very spot, where she would leave him a flower.

It wasn't until Spinpaw returned home to ThunderClan that Snapdragon visited their meeting spot again, to find a beautiful dahlia waiting for him. He waited a while in that spot with the dahlia, hoping that maybe Spinpaw would come back to talk to him about flowers and medicines again. As the sun began to set he started to lose hope, and took his new dahlia back to the Cavern to keep it safe.

Wandering out near his meeting place with the ThunderClan medicine cat apprentice, Snapdragon ended up walking a little too far, and ended up on ShadowClan territory, where he met Rowanwolf. They talked about herbs and flowers for a little while, but the medicine cat had to leave a lot sooner than Snapdragon had hoped - since she was only out to collect herbs anyways. So, he turned and started to head back to his cavern with his head low, and he'd completely lost track of where his paws had taken him. Now he was in the Glade, a bunch of different Clan scents washing over him. One in particular stood out, as he spotted a mysterious silver molly crouched in the tall grass, looking over to the river that lead to RiverClan, or as Snapdragon called them, the Fish Cats. He came up to her without a worry in the world, until she turned on him, alarmed. Though, the moment she saw his collar and bell, she dropped her hostility, and began to go off about how terrible the Clan cats were, now referring to Snap as 'bell cat'. Snapdragon jumped in when he could, though recoiled, saddened by her words. Surely all Clan cats weren't bad? Spinpaw, and Pinethorn, and Rowanwolf were all pretty nice. But he held his tongue, up until she asked him about his own life. Suddenly he was overjoyed to go off about his home with Frog, and his beautiful flower collection, but he was cut off by the strange molly, who offered him a job - a *life* of collecting flowers. And this was something he couldn't pass up. He immediately accepted, and this was when he learned the name of this molly, Trunk. Once she decided she should go find more cats to recruit, Snapdragon wasted no time hurrying home to tell Frog about the new opportunity they'd been offered.

As Trunk's group began to grow, Snapdragon met cats like Prentice, who hurt his feelings, and Bumble, who he met near RiverClan, ushering the former medicine cat to join this group. Upon receiving his 'flower gatherer' role, he did everything he could to help out Bumble. He truly believed the group was perfect - everyone was happy to get away from living alone or in the Clans, and Katrina had even brought collars for everyone, so now Snapdragon wasn't alone with his collar and bell. He also believed that everyone seemed to get along well, until Shadow stepped up and challenged Trunk on the night of a full moon. Snapdragon, unnerved by the fight, stayed further back in the crowd... but the moment Shadow took the life of the group's former leader, along with her claw, he wasn't able to unsee it. He'd never unsee it. Now he was a warrior of BloodClan, which sounded much less welcoming than Trunk's group, and on top of that, he'd never wanted to be in a Clan.

Time drew on, and his cheery mood dwindled and dwindled, until the night after Bumble died in his sleep. Snapdragon was filled with grief, and decided he had to leave. This BloodClan was vile and cruel, and that wasn't him. He was only feeling sicker to the stomach the longer he stayed. Eager to leave, he began to gather what pretty flowers he could from his nest and the herb storage, and was spotted by Frog. Snapdragon spilled his feelings to her, about how much death and bloodshed and sadness there was here, and told her how badly he just wanted to go home. She agreed with him, and happily left alongside him, heading back to their Cavern of Stars - Snap made sure to bring back a pretty maroon pebble for Frog to add to her collection, just so that they'd never forget this little adventure in their lives. But for now, it was back to the life a loner.

He and Frog had spent another moon or so back in their Cavern, before she brought up the suggestion of moving again. Before BloodClan, they'd never really traveled before. Now their paws seemed to seek adventure. Frog mentioned a sanctuary utop a mountain on the edges of RiverClan, and she was only able to catch Snapdragon's attention by mentioning the fields of flowers on said mountain. So, they hurried to the location she spoke of, and quickly decided that the beautiful garden would become their new home.