DarkClan

Area where DarkClan lives. Photo by Rosie Fraser on Unsplash

DarkClan was a Clan made by Darkstar. While talking to Destinyflower, Warmtail explained its history. The Clan was a more organized way to live in Darkstar's eyes, rather than his old life. But he never took the warrior code into account, because he wanted it to be like his rogue lifestyle and so did his mate, Purpleslash, so his Clan basically did whatever they want. Medicine cats mating was normal, and warriors could eat prey immediately when they caught it. They always tried to hunt down for cats and other animals to kill and steal their loot, and never had anything to do with StarClan. The Clan had no punishments except for disloyalty to DarkClan, so they could be greedy, selfish and mean, and treat other Clanmates however they wanted without punishment. Because of this, all the cats who lived by DarkClan rules, and not by the warrior code, would go to the Dark Forest on their death.

DarkClan's history is really dark, indeed, hence the name. They have killed a lot of cats, and destroyed homes, families and what-not. Three-quarters of their herbs & prey was collected by other cats. Because of this, warriors can be lazy most of the time, and just focus on training themselves more. The majority of training given to apprentices is only warrior fights. None of the cats born in this Clan know about the warrior code, and medicine cats have nothing to do with StarClan.

Auburnfur & Warmtail came to this Clan before their Clan, SunClan, getting disbanded by the former's sister, Marigoldstar, from DarkClan's threatenings. Warmtail was just a kit at the time, so his aunt took him into the Clan, being evil. She felt like DarkClan would be the perfect place for her. She later on had kits with an experienced DarkClan warrior named Goldjaw. She was figured to be special much later on.

DarkClan had done a huge raid on BraveClan, which killed every cat, except for five. Later on, Darkstar discovered a prophecy, along with BraveClan, and learned about the Dark Vision led by Bloodkiller, a Dark Forest rogue leader who also happened to be an ancestor of the majority of BraveClan due to his kits joining, but also their enemy for this reason. This explained BraveClan's serious disasters and catastrophes, which later led to the battle between the two Clans.

After the battle, DarkClan had lost with all of its important members killed or displaced, and the remaining DarkClan members who weren't considered as vicious as the ones who died were spared and taken into BraveClan. Therefore, the majority of the remaining cats of DarkClan had dissolved into BraveClan. The DarkClan cats were disciplined strictly to make sure that they lost their vicious and violent ways from DarkClan, and then allowed to be normal warriors. Two of the three medicine cat apprentices decided to become normal warriors after getting training and got their warrior name immediately since they were of age. The other medicine cat apprentice continued training under the four medicine cats and got her name, however, she died due to greencough.

However, the DarkClan cats who had entered the Dark Forest weren't finished, especially Bloodkiller. They continued to threaten BraveClan and had KillerClan try to attack them every once in a while to keep them on their toes before they had a much more cunning and dastardly plan.

## Creation

Dark & Purple were happy mates with happy kits, Oak and Shrew. But then they got tired of living just only a family, and wanted an organized system with other cats, and they also wanted to be in power. So they decided to create a Clan. Darkstar was the one who became the leader because he was stronger, and he named the Clan DarkClan, but Purpleslash became the deputy and their kits, Oakpaw and Shrewpaw. They had more kits later on.

Darkstar invited tons of cats to join, evil cats especially, and trained them to be strong, with his Dark Forest mentor's idea, Bloodkiller, whom he first met when he was all by himself as a kit, and the Dark Forest cat had saved him, and trained him. Then Darkstar sent them off to kill cats. Using this method, there were usually some cats who joined out of fear of getting killed. Bloodkiller continued giving him more and more ideas.

The Clan got huge quickly, and plentiful. StarClan, however, turned their backs entirely on DarkClan, especially the StarClan cats who had gotten killed by them, and showed dead cats to the way of the Dark Forest.

Later on, they discovered the dark prophecy powers and thought they would be strong enough to fight back, until Frozenbreeze and his apprentice, Airpaw (who was a daughter of Auburnfur, a dark prophecy cat), got injured by a dog. Auburnfur and Brownpaw, Airpaw's sister, demanded her mentor to be changed to another dark prophecy cat which was Longfang, as they thought Frozenbreeze was too weak to train Airpaw.

Frozenbreeze later got lost on a solo hunting patrol, and found BraveClan after a couple of days and saved two BraveClan warriors from another dog who injured him again. BraveClan agreed to treat him and let him ago, and he was lost again until he met Dewflower who led him back to DarkClan.

Darkstar was suspicious about Frozenbreeze due to his unlucky circumstances, and wondered if he was being attacked by StarClan, so he made a decision to wait and see if he would get 'attacked' again and *then* get rid of him. Airpaw had been worried for him, too, instead of actually training which annoyed Longfang, since she was losing important training. However, when Frozenbreeze later went out and never came back for a half-moon, Darkstar just figured he died, much to Airpaw's sadness.

Darkstar met Bloodkiller from the Dark Forest, who was his and Auburnfur's Dark Forest mentor, and Bloodkiller revealed to him what Frozenbreeze did and where he had gone now, which was StarClan. This made Darkstar angry, and he concluded that Frozenbreeze wasn't being attacked by StarClan, but he defected to StarClan and betrayed DarkClan instead. Bloodkiller didn't reveal to him where BraveClan was, but he told him to look, and Darkstar did.

He constantly sent cats out to try and see what path Frozenbreeze must have took to get there, and he recognized the old BraveClan camp. It took almost eight more moons of searching to find out where it was, and after finally finding it, they sent the whole Clan (with a few cats to defend) over to BraveClan, including the dark prophecy cats.

Brownfur had killed two cats, Warmtail and Fallingspines, and Auburnfur killed a few lives of Bravestar and Marigoldstar, however, the rest of the Clan didn't have much success in fighting, as the mother and daughter had been killed by Minnowwing and Specklewhisker, children of Warmtail and Fallingspines respectively. The StarClan cats who got killed by DarkClan including Heatherfern, Bluetail, Silversun, Fenikfight and Spotface also fought, too. Airpaw, now Airhigh, and her sister, Lightheart, had witnessed their sister and mother's deaths and decided to defect to BraveClan as they figured they were free from DarkClan's clutches now.

Highjump, the deputy, and Darkstar got killed by the BraveClan warrior named Thunderflames and the BraveClan leader, Bravestar, but before he died, Darkstar named his daughter, Mothspring the deputy. After his death, she became the leader.

## Bloodkiller's Idea

Bloodkiller, while he was alive and the leader of KillerClan, had kits with one of his followers, Starlight. However, when the kits were born, Orange Storm, Dusk Shade and Maple Eyes, Starlight had stopped following KillerClan rules as she affirmed that since she was a queen she didn't have to do anything. So Bloodkiller threw her and her kits out of the Clan and alleged that she had nothing to do with them, and she was surprised, but figured she was better off.

After Bloodkiller's death he saw his kits were in BraveClan happily as apprentices, Orangepaw, Duskpaw and Maplepaw. He was angry that they had betrayed his rogue group so he sent an omen to poison the herbs used to treat greencough, therefore causing the cats with greencough to die quicker from using the herbs. He sent a lot more omens after that to punish BraveClan and his kits, and later on when they moved into the same forest as DarkClan due to their fire, he told Darkstar about the existence of BraveClan and all their secrets. Darkstar decided to keep an eye on them, and decided to wait when their numbers got low.

## Fierylight & Destinypaw

When they planted an attack on BraveClan after their civil battle, only five cats survived. Bravestar & Shadowcreek (Bravemoon & Shadowpaw at the time) hid in a place DarkClan would never check, which was inside a tree trunk, Greenmoon played dead, but got scratched, but Fierylight & Destinypaw went to DarkClan in fear of getting killed.

Things started changing when a new warrior from BraveClan, Fierylight who went with Destinypaw, got lost and found the new BraveClan again, and only Destinypaw realized she was gone. She met Warmtail later on and they both discovered the Light & Dark Prophecy on the light side. Later, they ran off to BraveClan with StarClan's guidance. Darkstar sent cats to capture and kill them (one of which was Frozenbreeze who went to StarClan, but to no luck. Darkstar was really angry about this for a while, even killing his deputy, Bronzeslope, who was one of the cats who were sent until he discovered the prophecy, too, except on the dark side.

Fierylight got lost and happened to be back in BraveClan on her second moon of living in DarkClan. Destinypaw, however stayed for much longer. She ran away with Warmtail with six DarkClan cats (one was a medicine cat) chasing them. However, the Dark Forest guided all of them back to DarkClan, but none of them had the heart to report to Darkstar what happened.

When Darkstar asked the deputy (Bronzeslope) where they had gone, he had broken into tears, saying, "FORGIVE ME, MY LEADER! PLEASE MERCY!" Darkstar understood what this had meant. "Great, now people are leaving this Clan? Sure, they can DIE for this Clan, I'm perfectly okay with that, but leaving this Clan and leaving only footprints behind?!" he had shouted.

When he decided he couldn't be so calm anymore, Darkstar lunged forward and bit Bronzeslope in the neck rather harshly, causing him to die. Highjump became the deputy after that.

## Dark & Light Prophecy

Bluntgaze had seen a cat in the vicinity, but she realized that cat was the third SunClan leader, Marigoldstar. She had tried to kill her, but it was a fail. Marigoldstar still had her nine lives, and Bluntgaze happened to get killed. Her last words were, "Darkstar will come after you, just wait..."

Darkstar had gotten the dark version of the prophecy while sleeping, which he called a message. He had told this message to the Clan, but only Oakbush, Longpaw & Auburnfur recognized it. They four worked together figuring out the message.

The first power used was when Oakbush picked up a flower and it started withering. Everybody was confused. The next power in DarkClan was Longpaw's, where a rouge tried to attack him, but Longpaw sliced through the rouge's body really easily. He became a warrior at only ten moons after that, becoming very respected throughout DarkClan, thinking he also had the perfect warrior genes.

Longpaw saw he had claws which would strip off bark in a swipe. He also ate prey very differently. Auburnfur, when touching her partner while thinking about killing a cat and there was blood everywhere, saw that Goldjaw started coughing out blood, and it also came out of his ears. She was horrified, and jolted herself away from him. It stopped. She didn't know that could happen, so she apologized to him.

## Destruction

Darkstar challenged BraveClan to a final battle, after he knew where it was, after finally tracing down the path which Frozenbreeze went to get to BraveClan. He hid behind a tree, so he wouldn't be spotted, and went back and told Darkstar.

BraveClan, having no other choice but to fight DarkClan or succumb to it, took the chance to fight. Darkstar thought it would be easy, having his fellow dark prophecy cats, Longfang, Oakbush & Auburnfur. But they had no knowledge of the other four having powers.

The light prophecy cats didn't know the dark prophecy cats had powers, either, so they were shocked. The battle started, and they started fighting really good. The Legacy Prophecy cats also fought, already having knowledge of warrior moves from their old lives. Only Warmtail died on the light side, but all the DarkClan warriors died after StarClan cats (the ones who got killed by DarkClan) arrived and helped BraveClan & some SunClan members win.

Darkstar also died, and Mothspring became the leader (after Highjump died of course). However, since Darkstar was the only leader so far, Mothstar wasn't sure how to get her nine lives. She simply just went to the Dark Forest and asked for help, as there was only Purpleslash (who became an elder), elders, queens, apprentices & kits.

Darkstar in the Dark Forest said to move the Clan to a bigger and better location, but it was too late. Apprentices & kits got kitnapped by StarClan cats, the parents got murdered, and chaos was left behind in DarkClan.

## Aftermath

Mothstar was still living, but she had fallen down after being scratched by a StarClan cat ferociously. She was expecting Charredbelly's kits at the time, and saw everyone was dead. After a few seconds from her waking, something dawned on her. She had realized she had been living inside a dungeon.

She had tried to run off to BraveClan + SunClan, but she was rejected entry. "You're a rogue now," was Bravestar's words of rejection.

It is unknown what happened to Mothstar after that, but DarkClan was completely dead except for elders, who was close to natural death anyway. The prey & herbs were all gone, and given back to their previous owners. The kits & apprentices got adopted by several cats. About a quarter went to BraveClan, and they were so confused about what they thought was only BraveClan rules, but was really just the warrior code.