Ripplepelt

Ripplepelt is a orange tom with brown eyes. He is a WindClan warrior who serves under Stormstar's and Amberstar's leaderships.

## History

### Dark Sky

In Dark Sky, Ripplepelt is walking with Berrytail, and hears Guardian scraping his claws on a rock. Ripplepelt then wonders who it is and then sees Guardian in a tree. Ripplepelt calls out and sees Guardian, and calls his old name, Duskfur. He says he changed his name to Guardian, but notices Berrytail. Berrytail asks why he is on WindClan territory, and he replies and says why he shouldn't be.

Guardian says that its his clan, but Berrytail says he was exiled, and she was glad he was. Ripplepelt steps in, saying that they still don't know how he was exiled, and thinks about when he and Guardian were friends. Guardian says that they were friends, echoing his thoughts, saying that when Finchpaw accused him, Ripplepelt wasn't surprised. He continued and said that Ripplepelt was scared of him. Ripplepelt defended himself, saying that he wasn't scared of him anymore, and that he was a loyal WindClan cat, and that whoever believed Finchpaw was a mouse-brain. He then started to head back to camp, when Guardian shouted that he was right, and that Finchpaw had killed his sister, and he would never do that. Ripplepelt looked back, and thought that Guardian had touched a nerve.

Ripplepelt goes back to the WindClan camp, and sees that other cats are putting fresh-kill in the pile. It was sunhigh, and he looked around. He saw Stormstar and Amberclaw talking to each other, and Ripplepelt gets closer to hear. They notice him and Stormstar says hello, and that they did a good job hunting. Ripplepelt thanks him, and tells him that he and Berrytail saw Duskfur/Guardian. Stormstar is surprised, but he tells him that he ran away. Blacktail then approaches Ripplepelt saying, that Guardian was his old friend and a coward. Finchpaw then approaches them and stands beside her mentor, Blacktail, and says that he ran away when feeding a loner. Ripplepelt fur bristled, but when Berrytail spoke, he relaxed. Blacktail then said that this was going nowhere, and she left with Finchpaw.

As they left, he turned to his nest, but as he started to fall asleep, he heard a scream. He thought maybe it was just his clanmates fighting, but then he heard Flickerpaw call to someone, then a yelp. He heard Finchpaw say something to Flickerpaw, something about killing Stormstar. He sat up in his nest, his eyes widening.

Before he could do anything, Guardian jumped on top of him and stuffed a paw in his mouth. He kicked at his former friends stomach, knocking the air out of him. While Guardian was catching his breath, he spun around and said that he was a mouse-brain and they were friends. Guardian denied it, saying that Ripplepelt had betrayed him, and raked his claws across his face. Ripplepelt spats back, saying that he would never betray his friend, and bit his hind leg. Guardian whipped around and pinned Ripplepelt to the ground and spat that he didn't stand up for him, letting Finchpaw lie. Ripplepelt then tried to push him off, but failed. He said that he cannot disagree with Stormstar, and that he was the one who had banished him. He pushed off Guardian and sunk his claws into his back. He defended Finchpaw by saying that she only murdered cats then blamed Guardian for it. Guardian tried to push him off, but Ripplepelt clawed at his neck and Guardian went limp. Sleeksight saw her friend and tackled Ripplepelt. Berrytail hissed at pushed off Sleeksight, and called her crow-food.

Sleeksight prepared to jump onto Berrytail when Guardian knocked them off their paws, and then pinned Berrytail to the ground. Ripplepelt heard a hiss and turned to see Finchpaw preparing to kill Flickerpaw. All at once, Guardian, Sleeksight, Berrytail, and Ripplepelt charged at Finchpaw, pinning her to the ground. Finchpaw protested saying why they doing this to her. Guardian revealed that he and Sleeksight were getting revenge. Amberclaw then saw what was happening, and saw Stormstar's body. His legs buckled. Finchpaw hissed, and saw that she was trying to get free of their claws. Ripplepelt heard a voice rise above Finchpaw's hissing. She revealed that Finchpaw had murdered all those cats, not Guardian or Sleeksight. From Finchpaw's face, she was surprised to see her mentor alive. Amberclaw said he would take it from here, and pounced on Finchpaw. Sleeksight asked what they were going to do with her, and Amberclaw said she would have to die. He raised a claw, and striked her. Finchpaw's eyes widened, then faded.