Blazestar

**Blazestar** is a huge, muscular ginger tabby she-cat with fluffy fur and dark amber eyes.

## Personality

Fierce and stubborn, and often hot-headed. She starts wars over nothing, and doesn’t always make the right choice for her clan. Blazestar is loyal to her clan, and wouldn’t ever leave it. Ever. She throws caution to the wind, almost always. She can fight very well, and you wouldn’t want to meet her in battle.

## History

Blazekit and her brother Burnkit were born to a mother who died giving birth, and were raised by their father, who eventually died of old age as an elder. When she earned her warrior name, she was named Blazefire, for her aggressive fighting style and personality. Over the course of her life she was promoted to deputy and then to leader, replacing her unnamed predecessor.

### First Leaf-fall

The morning of the Highlands expedition, Blazestar shouts for Runningwolf, Drizzlemask, Rookflight, and Peapaw to get up and leave for their patrol. She is in a particularly bad mood due to a fierce argument with her deputy Flaxbriar earlier. Her attitude aggravates the members of the patrol, with Drizzlemask objecting on Runningwolf's behalf, which irritates Blazestar further. She threatens to slash their eyes out if they don't hurry up and leave. Runningwolf protests and steps in front of Peapaw to protect her.

Rookflight joins belatedly, and Ermineflight follows him out to intervene if needed. Blazestar shouts down the others and summons all five cats out of camp alongside her. To everyone's surprise she does not punish them, simply sending them out with the order to return by moonhigh at the earliest. She sets Runningwolf and Drizzlemask as the leading scouts, Rookflight and Ermineflight to the back, and Peapaw in the middle. They leave, and she sneaks after them, with the intent of testing them to see how long it takes for them to catch her scent.

However, her test is interrupted when the patrol comes upon two of the Bloodhides' scrappers, Erebos and Vesper, hunting in the Valerian Valley. Bursting from the brush, she threatens the rogues and tells them to give up the prey they have caught. At Runningwolf's surprise upon seeing her, she explains her test, though proclaims it doesn't matter now it seems they have a *flea* problem. Erebos pokes fun at the EagleClanners not knowing their leader's scent, to which Blazestar becomes defensive, preparing to run them off their territory herself. Before a fight breaks out, Erebos suggests that surely it would be dishonourable and break the warrior code for six cats to attack a meagre two. To everyone's surprise, Blazestar allows them to take what they caught, on the condition that they are escorted to the border by Rookflight, Drizzlemask, and Peapaw. Though Runningwolf objects to his apprentice escorting rogues, Blazestar insists that the decision is final.

Once the patrol has reached the Highlands, Blazestar emerges from the bushes once more when Runningwolf wonders why she allowed the Bloodhides to take their prey. She claims that if she had not, there would have been a fight. After this she leaves and returns to camp.

The next morning, Blazestar is one of many woken by the return of Peapaw and Ermineflight. As Peapaw explains they were attacked, Blazestar asks who it was, quickly going through options until she reaches the Bloodhides and realises it must be them. She orders Goatwhisker, Owltuft, Shadowstreak, and Tigerpelt to go and reinforce the patrol at the base of the Highlands.