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Arc 1 - The Journey
Life is peaceful for SkyClan, the lone Clan of the gorge–until a massive rockfall destroys their camp and forces them to find a new home. Guided by visions from StarClan of a lake full of glittering stars, SkyClan begins their several moon long journey to find this new home. Along the way, a warrior by the name of Buzzardstrike murders a sickly apprentice, Blossompaw. In the face of exile, he flees, and the Clan mourns her loss while they are forced to move on. More warriors are lost, but eventually the Clan finds a massive twolegplace where they meet a kittypet, Atticus. He tells them stories of his supposed ancestors: ThunderClan warriors. He points them in the direction of the High Stones, a place he claims used to be sacred to these cats before they abandoned their home many seasons ago.
With a new sense of hope, SkyClan ventures to the High Stones, where they are met with StarClan warriors. Their ancestors direct them north, towards the lake, and collapse the High Stones once and for all, sealing off the old connection to StarClan. Halfway there, SkyClan journeys north, suffering a few more casualties along the way. But soon enough, they find RiverClan’s territory, and Ravenstar, the current RiverClan leader, welcomes them. They share RiverClan’s camp until the first Gathering, where SkyClan is introduced to the other three Clans–only to find Buzzardstrike has also already arrived at the lake.
Following haunting visions of his own, and the knowledge of what SkyClan’s medicine cats had seen, Buzzardstrike finds ThunderClan’s border, and is taken to see their leader, Duskstar. He claims to be from a rogue Clan who is coming to steal the lake Clans’ territory, and he tries to convince Duskstar to arm his own Clan against them. When SkyClan shows up at the Gathering and explains who they are, Duskstar accepts Buzzardstrike’s words as truth and later makes the warrior his deputy, to guide him in the coming moons with SkyClan’s new presence.
RiverClan continues to harbor SkyClan, but Buzzardstrike has sparked fear in the other Clans, and they are more hesitant about accepting SkyClan at the lake. It doesn’t take long for Buzzardstrike to betray Duskstar, and when the pair are attacked by a fox that had been terrorizing the Clan for the past moon, he lets Duskstar be killed by it, knowing the old leader is on his last lives. Buzzardstrike becomes Buzzardstar.
Harsh weather and den cave-ins cause WindClan to have to take shelter in the horseplace for the rest of leaf-bare, until the heavy snowfall is finally over. Their deputy, Mistypatch, is killed, and Cloudstripe becomes their new deputy. RiverClan suffers a Clan-wide illness, and both Ravenstar and Silversplash, the RiverClan medicine cat, fall ill. Ravenstar survives, but Silversplash dies from the sickness, and Songpaw is left as RiverClan’s only medicine cat.
On the night of the next Gathering, Buzzardstar leads an assault directly on RiverClan’s camp, targeting the SkyClanners still harbored there. Olivepaw, a SkyClan apprentice, explains what’s happening at the gathering place and the other Clans rush to RiverClan’ and SkyClan’s aid.
Some time after the attack, a kit is found on ThunderClan territory–Cherrykit. Buzzardstar, after hearing she’s from SkyClan, takes her back to ThunderClan’s camp to be treated and holds her hostage there. Receiving protest from Stormchaser, the medicine cat, and Blossomfang, the deputy, he exiles both of them for refusing to follow his commands, and eventually word reaches RiverClan that ThunderClan has Cherrykit.
A fire rages through most of ShadowClan territory and parts of ThunderClan territory, forcing ShadowClan to evacuate to the outer fringes of their territory. After making a deal with Darkstar, the ShadowClan leader, SkyClan is given the burned down territory, with the promise that they will be able to stay as the forest heals.
Honeystar, the SkyClan leader, and Shrikethorn, a SkyClan warrior, visit ThunderClan’s camp to retrieve Cherrykit, but Buzzardstar refuses to hand her over. Then, Buzzardstar takes the opportunity to kill Honeystar in front of all of ThunderClan, taking all of her nine lives. Shrikethorn is chased out during a fight, and Buzzardstar takes Honeystar’s body to throw it in the lake, rather than allow her a proper burial. ThunderClan’s other medicine cat, Speckledtwig, confronts him and tries to fight him, but is killed by Buzzardstar as well. Upon returning to ThunderClan’s camp, the Clan rallies against him and exiles him for good, though the leader manages to escape with the rest of his lives. Owlstar is crowned the new leader of ThunderClan, and Buzzardstar disappears from the lake, alongside Nightclaw, a RiverClan warrior who joined ThunderClan after Buzzardstar started attacking SkyClan. Owlstar, in an attempt to forge better relations with SkyClan after everything Buzzardstar did, gives SkyClan a small portion of their territory to add to what they were given after the fire.
With a new sense of hope, SkyClan ventures to the High Stones, where they are met with StarClan warriors. Their ancestors direct them north, towards the lake, and collapse the High Stones once and for all, sealing off the old connection to StarClan. Halfway there, SkyClan journeys north, suffering a few more casualties along the way. But soon enough, they find RiverClan’s territory, and Ravenstar, the current RiverClan leader, welcomes them. They share RiverClan’s camp until the first Gathering, where SkyClan is introduced to the other three Clans–only to find Buzzardstrike has also already arrived at the lake.
Following haunting visions of his own, and the knowledge of what SkyClan’s medicine cats had seen, Buzzardstrike finds ThunderClan’s border, and is taken to see their leader, Duskstar. He claims to be from a rogue Clan who is coming to steal the lake Clans’ territory, and he tries to convince Duskstar to arm his own Clan against them. When SkyClan shows up at the Gathering and explains who they are, Duskstar accepts Buzzardstrike’s words as truth and later makes the warrior his deputy, to guide him in the coming moons with SkyClan’s new presence.
RiverClan continues to harbor SkyClan, but Buzzardstrike has sparked fear in the other Clans, and they are more hesitant about accepting SkyClan at the lake. It doesn’t take long for Buzzardstrike to betray Duskstar, and when the pair are attacked by a fox that had been terrorizing the Clan for the past moon, he lets Duskstar be killed by it, knowing the old leader is on his last lives. Buzzardstrike becomes Buzzardstar.
Harsh weather and den cave-ins cause WindClan to have to take shelter in the horseplace for the rest of leaf-bare, until the heavy snowfall is finally over. Their deputy, Mistypatch, is killed, and Cloudstripe becomes their new deputy. RiverClan suffers a Clan-wide illness, and both Ravenstar and Silversplash, the RiverClan medicine cat, fall ill. Ravenstar survives, but Silversplash dies from the sickness, and Songpaw is left as RiverClan’s only medicine cat.
On the night of the next Gathering, Buzzardstar leads an assault directly on RiverClan’s camp, targeting the SkyClanners still harbored there. Olivepaw, a SkyClan apprentice, explains what’s happening at the gathering place and the other Clans rush to RiverClan’ and SkyClan’s aid.
Some time after the attack, a kit is found on ThunderClan territory–Cherrykit. Buzzardstar, after hearing she’s from SkyClan, takes her back to ThunderClan’s camp to be treated and holds her hostage there. Receiving protest from Stormchaser, the medicine cat, and Blossomfang, the deputy, he exiles both of them for refusing to follow his commands, and eventually word reaches RiverClan that ThunderClan has Cherrykit.
A fire rages through most of ShadowClan territory and parts of ThunderClan territory, forcing ShadowClan to evacuate to the outer fringes of their territory. After making a deal with Darkstar, the ShadowClan leader, SkyClan is given the burned down territory, with the promise that they will be able to stay as the forest heals.
Honeystar, the SkyClan leader, and Shrikethorn, a SkyClan warrior, visit ThunderClan’s camp to retrieve Cherrykit, but Buzzardstar refuses to hand her over. Then, Buzzardstar takes the opportunity to kill Honeystar in front of all of ThunderClan, taking all of her nine lives. Shrikethorn is chased out during a fight, and Buzzardstar takes Honeystar’s body to throw it in the lake, rather than allow her a proper burial. ThunderClan’s other medicine cat, Speckledtwig, confronts him and tries to fight him, but is killed by Buzzardstar as well. Upon returning to ThunderClan’s camp, the Clan rallies against him and exiles him for good, though the leader manages to escape with the rest of his lives. Owlstar is crowned the new leader of ThunderClan, and Buzzardstar disappears from the lake, alongside Nightclaw, a RiverClan warrior who joined ThunderClan after Buzzardstar started attacking SkyClan. Owlstar, in an attempt to forge better relations with SkyClan after everything Buzzardstar did, gives SkyClan a small portion of their territory to add to what they were given after the fire.
ARC 2 - THE BLOOD MOON
A few moons pass, and they’re relatively peaceful for the Clans. Shrikethorn seeks revenge on ThunderClan for what they did to Honeystar, and when Slatestar, SkyClan’s new leader, hears about what they did to innocent cats, they’re exiled from SkyClan. Slatestar is confronted about Shrikethorn at the next Gathering, and he denies any accusations about excusing the warrior’s actions. Tensions between WindClan and ThunderClan rise after the incident, and it worsens after Cloudstripe kills Houndstrike, a ThunderClan warrior, on the border.
The Clans begin struggling with rogues in the territories, and cats begin dying in every Clan. A burly, brown tabby named Titan is found with the body of Blossomfang, ThunderClan’s deputy, and he explains that if the Clans want to live, they must leave the lake within seven days, or a group called the Revelation will force them all out. ShadowClan, WindClan, and RiverClan lose noticeably more cats than ThunderClan or SkyClan do, and most of the witnessed attacks are attributed to Titan.
Goldenstar and Ravenstar both pass away from sickness, and Cloudstripe, the WindClan deputy, becomes Cloudstar. Lizardstripe is appointed his deputy. Slightfoot, the RiverClan deputy, becomes Slightstar, and appoints Troutleap as his deputy. The Clans decide not to leave after hearing about the Revelation, and seemingly nothing happens after the seven days are up. Four loners show up to join the Clans–Pumpkin to ThunderClan, Hera to ShadowClan, Flea to RiverClan, and Embers to SkyClan. Though the Clans are unaware at the time, each has been sent to sabotage the Clans and make them weaker, and learn their specific skills. Sunray, a WindClan warrior, has also been recruited for this task.
The attacks start up again, and more cats are killed in increasingly gruesome ways, and more rogues are spotted as the culprit. They quickly grow less reclusive, and openly antagonize the Clans, causing loss after loss, until the next half-moon meeting. After the meeting, the medicine cats all suddenly disappear, except for Pumpkinpaw, who was training to be a medicine cat for ThunderClan. He reveals the Revelation captured them, and that unless the Clans abandoned the lake, they would kill all of the medicine cats. Again, the Clans choose not to leave, and finally the Revelation directly attacks WindClan, who is suffering from a prey shortage. It’s revealed that Buzzardstar is leading the Revelation, and he forces WindClan into submission by taking hostages and threatening to kill them if they don’t comply. Using his new army, he storms ThunderClan, then RiverClan and ShadowClan, and finally SkyClan until he’s rounded up the weakened Clans and forced all of their leaders to step down and follow him. Ivystar, ShadowClan’s leader, flees rather than submitting to him, and he doesn’t allow Slatestar the chance to step down, instead banishing the leader from his own Clan.
Now the leader of all five Clans, he dubs the united cats as BuzzardClan, and moves their camp to the gathering island where they can all be easily monitored and contained. The island is cramped and uncomfortable, and the Revelation are obviously the ones on top, taking a majority of the prey and space available on the island. A few cats try and rise up against Buzzardstar, but they’re either subdued or escape on their own. Any of the sick, injured, or rebellious cats are taken away off the island and seemingly disappear like the medicine cats did–they are taken to the tunnels, which had been dug out to be used as a way of getting the Revelation around the lake without being noticed. Buzzardstar manages to keep his reign over the Clan for moons, even preparing heirs to someday take his place–Crowkit, Swallowkit, and Starlingkit, which he finds out are his kin from Quietfern, a ShadowClan warrior, who tells him that they’re Hollyheart's–but cats grow more and more restless, until they finally unify for an attack.
The battle of the Blood Moon, prophesied by StarClan moons earlier, begins. The moon itself turns red as the Revelation and the Clans fight, and despite their weakened state, the Clans win and either kill or run off a vast majority of the Revelation. Finally, Buzzardstar stands alone, his Clan defeated and his reign of terror over. The five leaders, having returned for the final battle, take one each of his remaining lives, executing him in front of all of the Clans.
The Clans begin struggling with rogues in the territories, and cats begin dying in every Clan. A burly, brown tabby named Titan is found with the body of Blossomfang, ThunderClan’s deputy, and he explains that if the Clans want to live, they must leave the lake within seven days, or a group called the Revelation will force them all out. ShadowClan, WindClan, and RiverClan lose noticeably more cats than ThunderClan or SkyClan do, and most of the witnessed attacks are attributed to Titan.
Goldenstar and Ravenstar both pass away from sickness, and Cloudstripe, the WindClan deputy, becomes Cloudstar. Lizardstripe is appointed his deputy. Slightfoot, the RiverClan deputy, becomes Slightstar, and appoints Troutleap as his deputy. The Clans decide not to leave after hearing about the Revelation, and seemingly nothing happens after the seven days are up. Four loners show up to join the Clans–Pumpkin to ThunderClan, Hera to ShadowClan, Flea to RiverClan, and Embers to SkyClan. Though the Clans are unaware at the time, each has been sent to sabotage the Clans and make them weaker, and learn their specific skills. Sunray, a WindClan warrior, has also been recruited for this task.
The attacks start up again, and more cats are killed in increasingly gruesome ways, and more rogues are spotted as the culprit. They quickly grow less reclusive, and openly antagonize the Clans, causing loss after loss, until the next half-moon meeting. After the meeting, the medicine cats all suddenly disappear, except for Pumpkinpaw, who was training to be a medicine cat for ThunderClan. He reveals the Revelation captured them, and that unless the Clans abandoned the lake, they would kill all of the medicine cats. Again, the Clans choose not to leave, and finally the Revelation directly attacks WindClan, who is suffering from a prey shortage. It’s revealed that Buzzardstar is leading the Revelation, and he forces WindClan into submission by taking hostages and threatening to kill them if they don’t comply. Using his new army, he storms ThunderClan, then RiverClan and ShadowClan, and finally SkyClan until he’s rounded up the weakened Clans and forced all of their leaders to step down and follow him. Ivystar, ShadowClan’s leader, flees rather than submitting to him, and he doesn’t allow Slatestar the chance to step down, instead banishing the leader from his own Clan.
Now the leader of all five Clans, he dubs the united cats as BuzzardClan, and moves their camp to the gathering island where they can all be easily monitored and contained. The island is cramped and uncomfortable, and the Revelation are obviously the ones on top, taking a majority of the prey and space available on the island. A few cats try and rise up against Buzzardstar, but they’re either subdued or escape on their own. Any of the sick, injured, or rebellious cats are taken away off the island and seemingly disappear like the medicine cats did–they are taken to the tunnels, which had been dug out to be used as a way of getting the Revelation around the lake without being noticed. Buzzardstar manages to keep his reign over the Clan for moons, even preparing heirs to someday take his place–Crowkit, Swallowkit, and Starlingkit, which he finds out are his kin from Quietfern, a ShadowClan warrior, who tells him that they’re Hollyheart's–but cats grow more and more restless, until they finally unify for an attack.
The battle of the Blood Moon, prophesied by StarClan moons earlier, begins. The moon itself turns red as the Revelation and the Clans fight, and despite their weakened state, the Clans win and either kill or run off a vast majority of the Revelation. Finally, Buzzardstar stands alone, his Clan defeated and his reign of terror over. The five leaders, having returned for the final battle, take one each of his remaining lives, executing him in front of all of the Clans.
Arc 3 - Calm before the storm
A new dawn rises on the Clans after the battle of the Blood Moon, with Buzzardstar’s final, haunting words hanging over their heads. Leaf-bare has officially begun, and the Clans pick up the pieces of what BuzzardClan left behind, burying their dead and treating their ill. Borders tentatively go back in place, and patrols are set up to guard the outer borders, as the lack of patrolling has allowed predators and other dangers to return to the lake.
Leaf-bare is unforgiving, and the tentative peace between the Clans doesn’t last for long. With all of the Clans weakened and hungry, tensions slowly rise again, mostly with the unresolved anger between WindClan and ThunderClan. ThunderClan chases a badger off their territory and into WindClan’s own, but never warns the Clan, resulting in Swiftdapple’s death and the near-death of their deputy. In addition, WindClan scents ThunderClan on their territory repeatedly, but Owlstar continuously denies any such thing, until the culprit is caught one night by Lizardstripe–a grey molly by the name of Ashstorm, who had been sneaking across WindClan’s territory to meet with Alderheart, a RiverClan warrior.
Meanwhile, RiverClan and ShadowClan begin having problems of their own, as Pebblepaw and Salamandermask cross the border to hunt in ShadowClan territory when RiverClan is facing a shortage of fish throughout leaf-bare. ShadowClan accuses them of trespassing, and RiverClan denies it.
Eventually, they meet on the border again, and when Cinderstar, ShadowClan’s new leader after Ivyclaw stepped down, accuses them of continuing to trespass, Pebblepaw challenges her, and initiates a border skirmish. Troutleap, the RiverClan deputy, does nothing to try and stop it, and a full attack breaks out, which ends with Starlingpaw accidentally killing Newtripple, a RiverClan warrior.
At the next Gathering, Cloudstar accuses Owlstar of not punishing Ashstorm for being caught trespassing, and the two argue–until Cinderstar and Slightstar interrupt with their own quarreling. Slightstar calls for the execution of Starlingpaw after the border skirmish, and Cinderstar refuses, growing angry at the leader as he claims her to be just like her father and too dangerous to be allowed to stay at the lake. The gathering ends abruptly when Slightstar is thrown off the Great Oak by Cinderstar, causing him to lose a life.
At ThunderClan’s camp, Ashstorm asks Thistlebark to tell her the story of an old ThunderClan warrior, Sootfrost. Suddenly, he stops being able to breathe, and Ashstorm reveals that she is in fact Sootfrost, and she’s been reincarnated. She tells him that she’s poisoned him for his own good, and that she plans on destroying the Clans, since their anger and hatred for each other is what caused her death.
Ashstorm flees ThunderClan, and Thistlebark barely survives, telling the Clan about what Ashstorm said to him.
RiverClan and ShadowClan both suffer a mysterious death each–Pipitpaw, a RiverClan apprentice, is found dead along the border with only a patch of gray fur under their claws to indicate who did it, and Snowpetal, the ShadowClan medicine cat, is killed within ShadowClan’s own territory, surrounded by RiverClan scent. Cats also mysteriously vanish from the two Clans–Alderheart and Pebbleclaw disappear from RiverClan, and Quietfern from ShadowClan. With so little known about each death, RiverClan accuses Starlingpaw of murdering another one of their clanmates, and ShadowClan accuses RiverClan of breaking the code obscenely with the attack on a medicine cat. RiverClan denies having ever targeted a medicine cat.
Meanwhile, Ashstorm sneaks onto ThunderClan's territory again and murders Mothflutter after the molly tries talking to her. She escapes with her body, leaving ThunderClan without any closure regarding her death. Pumpkinpaw, Oakpad, Mousefang, and Juniperthorn all go to the tunnels when the medicine cat apprentice goes to try and rescue his mentor's, Stormchaser, spirit from when he was left there by Buzzardstar. Together, they find his body and give him a proper burial, releasing his spirit into StarClan.
After the death of their medicine cat, ShadowClan reaches out to ThunderClan, asking for help in training a replacement. Owlstar agrees, and the two Clans form an alliance. In response, RiverClan and WindClan form an alliance of their own to protect themselves in case the other two Clans ever tried to fight together, and SkyClan continues to stay out of the fighting, refusing to pick a side.
This culminates to another border fight, with Cinderstar and Slightstar themselves on the patrols. The fighting is vicious, and ends in the deaths of Cloudmask and Pebblebriar. Starlingsong confronts Slightstar about the accusations and challenges him directly, and both Clans take their patrols home.
After the fight, Slightstar asks Cloudstar to stage an attack on ThunderClan, knowing their medicine cat was currently aiding ShadowClan and an attack might force her to return to ThunderClan. Cloudstar, frustrated with ThunderClan after moons of tension and fighting between the two Clans, agrees, and WindClan prepares to attack ThunderClan through the tunnels.
The patrol invades the camp and targets their herb supply, aiming to ruin it and then escape quickly before a full fight started. They attack in the middle of the night while ThunderClan is sleeping, and right when WindClan is about to retreat, part of the camp wall finally gives way, having been dug out when the Revelation used ThunderClan’s camp as their own. Two ThunderClan cats are killed, and two WindClan cats are heavily injured in the collapse. WindClan retreats, and ThunderClan is left to recover from the attack.
At the next Gathering, announcements proceed normally, despite the obvious tensions between each Clan--until Cinderstar, rather than make the regular announcements, states that there will be no Gathering on the next moon, and officially declares war on RiverClan. She says that ShadowClan will be waiting for RiverClan's arrival at the island to finish the fight once and for all, and if they do not show, ShadowClan will take RiverClan's territory for their own. When Cloudstar objects to her command, she challenges WindClan to try and stop them. Shocked, the other leaders say nothing as Cinderstar ends the Gathering, and all of the Clans head home, the threat of the next Gathering present in everyone's minds.
Finally, the night of the Gathering arrives, and all five Clans arrive at the Gathering island, ready to fight. Cinderstar confronts Slightstar and makes one final demand that he admit his crimes against ShadowClan, but the RiverClan leader refuses, claiming ShadowClan has harmed RiverClan too much for that. They give the command to attack, and the five Clans dive into battle. Slatestar, having failed to talk the others down from battle, attempts to take his Clan and leave but they end up stuck in the midst of the battle, unable to get out. Doveface and Thornheart, ThunderClan warriors, Rabbittail, a WindClan warrior, and Glaciergleam, a RiverClan warrior die in the battle.
After some time, Lizardstripe notices a strange cat hiding in the roots of the Great Oak. When he draws closer to investigate, he realizes it's Ashstorm and the rest of her ex-Clan group and demands to know what she's doing back on Clan territory. She announces that she's here to watch the Clans tear themselves apart, and the two fight, with Wolfbristle stepping in to help her. Ashstorm kills Lizardstripe after Wolfbristle manages to pin him down, and begins to make her way up the Great Oak, to the branches where the leaders give their announcements.
Once more cats begin to notice her presence, she boasts about how ruthless and cold-hearted the Clans are, to kill so easily at the slightest bit of wounded pride. She lays their crimes bare for all to see, and at every attempt at their defense, she shoots them down. Until Mousefang calls her Sootfrost, and she snaps, shouting about how she was wrongly murdered for breaking the code to help WindClan in a time of need by ThunderClan's leader. She grows more and more frustrated as the Clans refuse to see her points, trying over and over again to show how the Clans need to change.
Eventually she gives up, and scorns the Clans for their nature. She admits to her own actions, but places the blame for the countless deaths and fighting on the Clans, claiming that all of them refused to try and stop it, choosing instead to solve their problems with blood. Slatestar steps forward, acknowledging her point but condemning the claims she made towards solving the Clans' problems, ordering the rogues to leave--though the other leaders seem unhappy with letting them go without a fight. They do leave, however, and the bloody Gathering finally comes to an end.
Leaf-bare is unforgiving, and the tentative peace between the Clans doesn’t last for long. With all of the Clans weakened and hungry, tensions slowly rise again, mostly with the unresolved anger between WindClan and ThunderClan. ThunderClan chases a badger off their territory and into WindClan’s own, but never warns the Clan, resulting in Swiftdapple’s death and the near-death of their deputy. In addition, WindClan scents ThunderClan on their territory repeatedly, but Owlstar continuously denies any such thing, until the culprit is caught one night by Lizardstripe–a grey molly by the name of Ashstorm, who had been sneaking across WindClan’s territory to meet with Alderheart, a RiverClan warrior.
Meanwhile, RiverClan and ShadowClan begin having problems of their own, as Pebblepaw and Salamandermask cross the border to hunt in ShadowClan territory when RiverClan is facing a shortage of fish throughout leaf-bare. ShadowClan accuses them of trespassing, and RiverClan denies it.
Eventually, they meet on the border again, and when Cinderstar, ShadowClan’s new leader after Ivyclaw stepped down, accuses them of continuing to trespass, Pebblepaw challenges her, and initiates a border skirmish. Troutleap, the RiverClan deputy, does nothing to try and stop it, and a full attack breaks out, which ends with Starlingpaw accidentally killing Newtripple, a RiverClan warrior.
At the next Gathering, Cloudstar accuses Owlstar of not punishing Ashstorm for being caught trespassing, and the two argue–until Cinderstar and Slightstar interrupt with their own quarreling. Slightstar calls for the execution of Starlingpaw after the border skirmish, and Cinderstar refuses, growing angry at the leader as he claims her to be just like her father and too dangerous to be allowed to stay at the lake. The gathering ends abruptly when Slightstar is thrown off the Great Oak by Cinderstar, causing him to lose a life.
At ThunderClan’s camp, Ashstorm asks Thistlebark to tell her the story of an old ThunderClan warrior, Sootfrost. Suddenly, he stops being able to breathe, and Ashstorm reveals that she is in fact Sootfrost, and she’s been reincarnated. She tells him that she’s poisoned him for his own good, and that she plans on destroying the Clans, since their anger and hatred for each other is what caused her death.
Ashstorm flees ThunderClan, and Thistlebark barely survives, telling the Clan about what Ashstorm said to him.
RiverClan and ShadowClan both suffer a mysterious death each–Pipitpaw, a RiverClan apprentice, is found dead along the border with only a patch of gray fur under their claws to indicate who did it, and Snowpetal, the ShadowClan medicine cat, is killed within ShadowClan’s own territory, surrounded by RiverClan scent. Cats also mysteriously vanish from the two Clans–Alderheart and Pebbleclaw disappear from RiverClan, and Quietfern from ShadowClan. With so little known about each death, RiverClan accuses Starlingpaw of murdering another one of their clanmates, and ShadowClan accuses RiverClan of breaking the code obscenely with the attack on a medicine cat. RiverClan denies having ever targeted a medicine cat.
Meanwhile, Ashstorm sneaks onto ThunderClan's territory again and murders Mothflutter after the molly tries talking to her. She escapes with her body, leaving ThunderClan without any closure regarding her death. Pumpkinpaw, Oakpad, Mousefang, and Juniperthorn all go to the tunnels when the medicine cat apprentice goes to try and rescue his mentor's, Stormchaser, spirit from when he was left there by Buzzardstar. Together, they find his body and give him a proper burial, releasing his spirit into StarClan.
After the death of their medicine cat, ShadowClan reaches out to ThunderClan, asking for help in training a replacement. Owlstar agrees, and the two Clans form an alliance. In response, RiverClan and WindClan form an alliance of their own to protect themselves in case the other two Clans ever tried to fight together, and SkyClan continues to stay out of the fighting, refusing to pick a side.
This culminates to another border fight, with Cinderstar and Slightstar themselves on the patrols. The fighting is vicious, and ends in the deaths of Cloudmask and Pebblebriar. Starlingsong confronts Slightstar about the accusations and challenges him directly, and both Clans take their patrols home.
After the fight, Slightstar asks Cloudstar to stage an attack on ThunderClan, knowing their medicine cat was currently aiding ShadowClan and an attack might force her to return to ThunderClan. Cloudstar, frustrated with ThunderClan after moons of tension and fighting between the two Clans, agrees, and WindClan prepares to attack ThunderClan through the tunnels.
The patrol invades the camp and targets their herb supply, aiming to ruin it and then escape quickly before a full fight started. They attack in the middle of the night while ThunderClan is sleeping, and right when WindClan is about to retreat, part of the camp wall finally gives way, having been dug out when the Revelation used ThunderClan’s camp as their own. Two ThunderClan cats are killed, and two WindClan cats are heavily injured in the collapse. WindClan retreats, and ThunderClan is left to recover from the attack.
At the next Gathering, announcements proceed normally, despite the obvious tensions between each Clan--until Cinderstar, rather than make the regular announcements, states that there will be no Gathering on the next moon, and officially declares war on RiverClan. She says that ShadowClan will be waiting for RiverClan's arrival at the island to finish the fight once and for all, and if they do not show, ShadowClan will take RiverClan's territory for their own. When Cloudstar objects to her command, she challenges WindClan to try and stop them. Shocked, the other leaders say nothing as Cinderstar ends the Gathering, and all of the Clans head home, the threat of the next Gathering present in everyone's minds.
Finally, the night of the Gathering arrives, and all five Clans arrive at the Gathering island, ready to fight. Cinderstar confronts Slightstar and makes one final demand that he admit his crimes against ShadowClan, but the RiverClan leader refuses, claiming ShadowClan has harmed RiverClan too much for that. They give the command to attack, and the five Clans dive into battle. Slatestar, having failed to talk the others down from battle, attempts to take his Clan and leave but they end up stuck in the midst of the battle, unable to get out. Doveface and Thornheart, ThunderClan warriors, Rabbittail, a WindClan warrior, and Glaciergleam, a RiverClan warrior die in the battle.
After some time, Lizardstripe notices a strange cat hiding in the roots of the Great Oak. When he draws closer to investigate, he realizes it's Ashstorm and the rest of her ex-Clan group and demands to know what she's doing back on Clan territory. She announces that she's here to watch the Clans tear themselves apart, and the two fight, with Wolfbristle stepping in to help her. Ashstorm kills Lizardstripe after Wolfbristle manages to pin him down, and begins to make her way up the Great Oak, to the branches where the leaders give their announcements.
Once more cats begin to notice her presence, she boasts about how ruthless and cold-hearted the Clans are, to kill so easily at the slightest bit of wounded pride. She lays their crimes bare for all to see, and at every attempt at their defense, she shoots them down. Until Mousefang calls her Sootfrost, and she snaps, shouting about how she was wrongly murdered for breaking the code to help WindClan in a time of need by ThunderClan's leader. She grows more and more frustrated as the Clans refuse to see her points, trying over and over again to show how the Clans need to change.
Eventually she gives up, and scorns the Clans for their nature. She admits to her own actions, but places the blame for the countless deaths and fighting on the Clans, claiming that all of them refused to try and stop it, choosing instead to solve their problems with blood. Slatestar steps forward, acknowledging her point but condemning the claims she made towards solving the Clans' problems, ordering the rogues to leave--though the other leaders seem unhappy with letting them go without a fight. They do leave, however, and the bloody Gathering finally comes to an end.
Arc 5 - Loose Ends
With Ash and her group of rogues gone from the lake, tensions start to fade from the fazed Clans with Slightstar and Cinderstar having made tentative amends, each Clan retreats to the solace of their own territories and attempts to move on from the events of the Gathering. Slightstar, shocked and appalled by Troutleap's actions, exiles him from RiverClan, appointing Salamandermask in his place. Goosebelly, plagued by Ashstorm's accusations of inaction, confronts Cloudstar about his position as WindClan's leader before he has a chance to elect a new deputy. He agrees to step down, and Goosebelly becomes WindClan's new leader, choosing Hawkswipe as her deputy.
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Arc 6 - Fallen Stars
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