The Pool of Enlightenment

**The Pool of Enlightenment** is a pool in the cave surrounding the Moonstone.

### Location

In The Mountains, where the Moonstone Cave is. It is not far to get to for the Mountain Clans, except for FlowerClan before they moved out of the Path of Flower Fields.

### Inhabitants

None, but it belongs to all four Mountain Clans since it surrounds the Moonstone.

The pool leads outside of the cave and touches the Rocky Passageway, which borders all four Clans and leads to this.

It was first discovered by the Miracle ancestors who were searching for a nigh-direct spiritual connection to them. Miracle, the first Half-Mountain Cat and the namesake of the Miracle ancestors, found this pool at midnight and discovered that the moon and stars reflected on the Pool of Enlightenment. She decided to call the Miracle ancestors StarClan and the stone in the cave Moonstone from then on.

## Etymology & Usage

The medicine cats and leaders from the four Mountain Clans sometimes drink from this pool to gain enlightenment about what to do in a dire situation, since they can't get to the Moonstone directly. They also drink from it to become full leaders and medicine cats. Since the Pool of Enlightenment has a spiritual connection, it is known to have a sleepy vibe, so that cats can visit StarClan in their sleep.

## Related Missions

### The Founders' Discovery

Moon, Adder and Snow went on a journey to discover where the Moonstone was, exactly, after Snow had a dream about it. They had to go through the Rocky Passageway for some time before they found it.

### The First Twin Dreamers

The medicine cat and deputy littermate pair, Rainstorm and Birchcreek, and their niece, Birdpaw, had to go through here for Birchcreek and Birdpaw to become a full leader and medicine cat respectively. Rainstorm was taking both of them because the previous leader, Maplestar's death was coincidentally a day before the medicine cat meetings. She also wanted Birdpaw to be a full medicine cat because Birdpaw was already twenty-five and a half moons old. Lilypool, the previous medicine cat, didn't want her to be a full medicine cat yet just in case the other Clans tried to take advantage of her condition, but Rainstorm felt it was more than time.

They decided to go before the other medicine cats would come, so that Birchcreek's ceremony could be done. Since Rainstorm and Birchcreek were Twin Dreamers, they were able to be in sync during the ceremony, and Rainstorm was able to witness everything. They told Birdpaw to keep watch, while they did his ceremony. After drinking from the Pool of Enlightenment and falling asleep, they entered the realm of StarClan, in the place of the original Miracle ancestors' camp. They saw everyone they knew that had died, but the nine cats that were standing in line were Moonstar, Goldenlily, Mousekit, Sealbranch, Hailstream, Icemoon, Stonetooth, Snowstar and finally, Maplestar. The two littermates were shocked because they all were in the order that they had seen them die, and they had known them well. So they wondered if the ceremony was going to be special somehow. The other cats they knew that had died, Shinekit, Queenkit, Vinekit, Hailkit, Icekit, Wisdomheart, Blazesky, Amberleaf, Redwater, Lilacrain and Lilypool, were standing behind them.

Rainstorm and Birchcreek got to talk to each of the nine cats that were giving the latter lives, and Maplestar gave him the name Birchstar. They also talked to some of the other StarClan cats afterwards about stuff they didn't get to talk about before while they were awake, before waking up.

They told Birdpaw everything and she was pleasantly surprised to know about this. Then they saw the other medicine cats coming, so Birchstar decided to hide behind the rocks in the Rocky Passageway to watch Birdpaw's ceremony.

Then Rainstorm did the ceremony for Birdpaw as Lilypool did for her, except adding the words, "StarClan honors your perseverance in spite of your condition" to the ceremony and gave her the name Birdwing to signify quick dexterity of the body, and indirectly the mind. Then Birdwing drank from the pool and saw all the same StarClan cats Rainstorm and Birchstar mentioned from before, and she was even more marveled by it. Her foster sister, Mousekit, her two younger siblings that died, Hailkit and Icekit, her maternal grandfather, Snowstar, her auncle, Shinekit, her maternal-maternal great-grandmother, Moonstar, and finally her previous mentor, Lilypool, all were very proud of her and congratulated her. Birdwing was happy at all of them and talked to them for a little while, too, especially Lilypool as she asked why Lilypool waited so long, before waking up. All the medicine cats from all four Clans congratulated her afterwards, especially Cloverheart and Bristlefeather who were fond of her, that despite her condition, she was a good medicine cat.

Birchstar was also secretly happy, and waited for the meeting to be over so that all three could come back. Then they told the rest of the Clan what had happened at their ceremonies.