two. site plot

rogues, loners, and kittypets have always called the forest home. however, four cats with an astounding dream are told to gather their friends and make a life among the trees and darkness of the forest. so thunder, river, wind, and shadow collected their friends, kittypets, loners, and rogues, to start on the most amazing journey of their life. they set markers, created territories, and learned the cats they spoke to had the name of starclan. now settling in on their fourth generation of cats, the clans are well-established and thriving. however, a huge fire ripped through the forest, leaving shadowclan wounded and broken. yet, the other clans are not at peace and are not as stable as they seem.

starving and desperate, shadowclan's avenging leader, littlestar, has become twisted with a terrible secret: she killed gannetstar to grant herself leadership and lead shadowclan like no cat had seen before. her mate, gorsetalon, knows not of this secret but suspects she was the cause of the death of their first litter--a she-cat who drowned his kits. unable to face the truth of her crime, she has ran off-- leaving the young and inexperienced whitesmoke to lead the clan. yet, shadowclan is divided as to how to proceed; with the outspoken words of the infamous sunflower, shadowclan has decided to part from the territory and starclan in pursuit of a territory richer under the new leadership of littlestar's only son, smallclaw.

those cats who remained behind, under the leadership of whitesmoke turned into skyclan-- a clan of new beginnings. rising up from the ashes and the destruction in our past, a clan who does not cower in fear with the obstacles, but rather, one that will rise to the sky and reach challenge the boundaries and the restrictions that were once forced upon us by the darkness. they are a clan of both light and dark, balancing it together to form the graceful beauty and the epitome of existence that even the stars hold on to dearly. as shadowclan's territory gets better, so does skyclan's strength-- becoming an ambitious and threatening clan that challenges both the peace in the forest as well as the balance of power that flows within the clans.

in windclan, twilightstar's death sorrowed every cat, but when the reigning deputy, quillfur, is not accepted by starclan, they choose windclan's medicine cat tallstep to bring windclan back to harmony. never in the forest has a medicine cat been granted leadership, and gossip and rumors stir amongst the cats, some not trusting tallstep's lack of warrior knowledge. a medicine cat leader might make other clans strong, but windclan is suffering from a lack of guidance. without proper training, tallstar is useless-- windclan, the most powerful clan in the forest, becomes broken as tallstar and his mate, clovercloud dies at the hands of the twolegs who have set up traps all over their territory, leaving the inexperienced and young emberfang in the same position shadowclan was earlier: divided, distraught, desperate.

unstable riverclan can't seem to keep a deputy and leader for more than seven moons, and the loss of flintstar and lionstar left lynxchaser the only cat suitable for the role. however, lynxchaser never received his nine lives, and at the first gathering of the new year starclan punishes riverclan by sending down a reign of fire and a falling asteroid kills lynxstar, sending fourtrees up in flames. starclan and silverfur-- now nowhere to be found-- took vengeance and appointed the unannounced milkfur as leader. ravenpaw, the apprentice of frostbite (medicine cat) has recently been appointed the medicine cat of riverclan, but at too young an age to recieve her warrior name, ravenpaw is too inexperienced to heal the clan. yet, that is not the least of their worries: with the new leader, there are new policies to be implemented. with the medicine cat and the leader at each other's throats about the ideology and welcoming of strangers into the clan, riverclan has become split, the river has frozen over, and all hopes of prosperity and peace have died at the paws of the cats starclan have chosen to lead and heal the clan.

while appearing to be more stable than the other clans, thunderclan is not without its own punishment. a horrible bout of greencough has taken over the clan, causing the cats to lay in their dens-- sick and immobile. the desperation grips their hearts like the threatening breath of skyclan on their necks, thunderclan is too weak and overwhelmed to even take care of their own cats. without herbs and without prey, thunderclan is becoming weaker by the moment-- it is only a matter of time before they suffer the punishments of blizzardstar's thoughtless words from the last gathering.

no cat is safe from the wrath of starclan.