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A Vision of Shadows WQAU

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You guys voted on a post about these little losers so here is the breakdown of their dynamics and the first two books of WQAU AVoS.

To get it out of the way, AVoS has now been broken up into three chunks and is completely restructured, with a new protagonist each chunk. The first two books are about the journey to find Skyclan, from Alderpaw's PoV, the third and fourth focus on the rebellion of young cats in Shadowclan, from Violetkit/paw's PoV, and the final two are about Darktail and The Kin, from Twigpaw/shade's PoV.

SO let's get into it. Also warning, this post is very long lmao.

When the Medicine Cats receive the prophecy of "A time of great change is coming for all the Clans. Embrace what you find in the shadows, for only they can clear the sky", one of the Shadowclan medicine cat, Ryegrass, catches the scent of a Shadowclan cat and sees a white-tipped tail disappearing into the fog, but she is unable to tell who it could be before the cat is gone.

Alderkit and Sparkkit recieve their apprentices names, Alderpaw is the medicine cat apprentice under Grassheart and Littlecloud, and Sparkpaw is given to Cloverfoot.

While sleeping in his den a few nights after being apprenticed, Alderpaw receives the same prophecy that the other medicine cats did and a much more direct statement about what needs to be done by a mysterious tabby tom. He immediately goes to tell Ryegrass, but he runs into Sparkpaw as she's waking up for the dawn patrol and she manages to weasel the information out of him. Before he can go to his mentor to talk about his vision, Sparkpaw rushes him to see Russetstar.

Russetstar is really strict when it comes to the warrior code, she believes things are fine as they are among the clans and makes no allowances when someone is caught breaking the rules. So when Alderpaw comes to her talking about a fifth clan that needs to be brought to the lake, she dismisses it and tells him that Starclan will lead Skyclan if they're really supposed to be with the other clans.

Later in his den, Alderpaw gets the same visions again, but more intense this time. He runs out of the camp in panic and tries to calm himself down with a walk through the pines, but Sparkpaw follows him and she tells him that if they don't go to find Skyclan, then who will? Before Alderpaw can prossess everything, Sparkpaw is already running off towards Thunderclan territory, telling him to catch up.

Alderpaw and Sparkpaw are caught by a moonhigh hunting patrol and taken to Thunderclan camp. Alderpaw is on the verge of a panic attack, but Sparkpaw doesn't seem to notice and is trying to figure out how they can get out and continue on their quest. Pouncekit and Bristlekit overhear Sparkpaw and say they'll help them sneak out of camp but only if they can come too. Alderpaw is really against this idea and tries to convince Sparkpaw to just let it go and that they'll try again some other time, but Sparkpaw doesn't listen and tells the kits to lead the way.

After sneaking out of Thunderclan's camp, the group of young cats travels on towards the horseplace and beyond the Thunderpath, and here is where I'd like to get into each of the groups personalities.

Sparkpaw is very brash, headstrong, confident, and she does what she thinks is right as soon as she thinks it. Sparkpaw is a bit oblivious to other people's emotions and tends to act on what she thinks other people want without asking them. She is probably the fastest in the group and is the only one with any form of battle and hunting training, even if it's just a bit, so she takes on the leadership role naturally and loves teaching Pouncekit and Bristlekit how to be warriors. Sparkpaw gets a bit miffed that Bristlekit is stronger than her despite being two moons younger and still a kitten, but she tries really hard not to make it obvious (you can totally tell she hates that she isn't the strongest).

Alderpaw is the opposite of his sister, he's meek, quiet, and a massive doormat, especially when it comes to Sparkpaw. He doesn't know how to talk to cats around him and he suffers from frequent anxiety attacks. His mentor Ryegrass started giving him thyme to help with his anxiety as a kit but he doesn't have access to it while on the quest, and feels horrible for "slowing the group down". Like his sister, Alderpaw has a strong sense of justice, but acts on it in a much less forward way to Sparkpaw.

Pouncekit is trying her best. She struggles a lot as a clan cat, she doesn't catch onto social cues easily, struggles a lot with more advanced thing for warrior cats (counting/maths, tracking the moon/stars/seasons, remembering clan history, etc.), and just generally feels frustrated with how easy the other cats in Thunderclan make those things seem. She's inexperienced in the world outside of Thunderclan camp but she has a knack for hunting and terrain memorization and catches on very quick just after a lesson or two with the (practically) untrained Sparkpaw. She's also very dramatic, overexaggerating everything that affects her to the point of verging on being a pathological liar.

And Bristlekit is the most suprisingly competent cat in the group. She's responsible and always tries to see all possibilities to a situation before solving it, often making her a slow problem solver unlike the more spontaneous Sparkpaw. She's ambitious and is also the physically biggest and strongest cat out of the group. Bristlekit is very conscious of other people's opinions and is quick to change her mind if it she thinks other cats will like her more for it. She's selfless and noble, even for a kit, and will jump infront of a fox to save someone she hates.

SO back to the actual story. After travelling out of clan territory and arriving in Twolegplace, Alderpaw feels a presence join them, and he starts seeing flickers of the tabby tom out of the corner of his eye.

The group settles in Twolegplace, and Alderpaw is visited by the dark brown tom in his dreams, he calls himself Spiderstar and he tells Alderheart that he will be his guide to find Skyclan.

The group continues through Twolegplace, stopping every day or so to let Alderpaw talk to Spiderstar. The journey is mostly as uneventful to be honest, just a few kittypet encounters here and there.

When the group finally reaches the gorge after over a moon of travelling, they find Skyclan, led by Leafstar, and they tell her and their medicine cats about the prophecy to bring Skyclan to the lake where they belong. Leafstar is against this, saying that SkyClan has been fine on their own for years and that leaving now could ruin everything Firestar helped them put together.

Leafstar and her pregnant deputy, Pebblewing, grant them permission to stay in camp for a few days to regain their strength. After about 2 or 3 days, Bristlekit realizes that since they've finally found Skyclan, they deserve their apprentice's names, and so she and Pouncekit change their suffixes to -paw and go out of camp for a celebratory hunt to honor the occasion.

After catching a pheasant, they return to the Skyclan camp, due to a storm staring to brew, but they are followed. The new apprentices return to Skyclan camp with their catch and the other cats celebrate their apprenticeship alongside them.

Just as cats start retiring to their dens to hide from the rain, a group of rouges attack. Chaos breaks out, blood and fur are flying everywhere and Alderpaw quickly scrambles to Sparkpaw, Pouncepaw, and Bristlepaw to try and get away out of the battle. As they sprint out of camp Pebblewing yowls for a medicine cat and announces she's kitting. Alderpaw and Bristlepaw support her between them, running out into Twoleg fields, desperately looking for somewhere safe from the rain and rouges.

The apprentices rush Pebblewing into a sheltered divot in the ground surrounded by rocks, and Alderpaw helps deliver her kits. Before Pebblewing can regain her strength enough to give them their names, a swell of water from the flooded river fills the hole. She is swept away by the river, leaving her unnamed kits in the paws of the apprentices.

Sparkpaw gathers the group and they run for a tree near the thunderpath, hoping to find shelter.

But they are attacked again. Leafstar's daughter, Firefern, leaps onto Bristlepaw screaming that her mother is dead and it's all Bristlepaw's fault for leading those rouges into camp. Pouncepaw jumps onto Firefern, clawing at her and yowling at her to stay away from her sister.

Firefern flips Pouncepaw onto the ground and bites her through the throat, leaving her limp in the rain covered grass. Alderpaw and Sparkpaw rush to attack Firefern as Bristlefrost tries to help her sister.

As Pouncepaw lays dying, Bristlepaw frantically tries to stop the bleeding, doing everything she can to help her sister. But Pouncepaw is already too far gone, as she stares into the stars, she asks Bristlepaw if she thinks Starclan will give her a nice warrior name, something pretty like Pouncedove. Bristlepaw is screaming at Pouncepaw, begging her to stay with her, to stop acting like it's all over. The light in Pouncepaw's eyes go dull and Bristlepaw feels a piece of her heart wither and die right there.

Bristlepaw turns to Alderpaw and Sparkpaw, still fighting Firefern, and jumps into the fight. Firefern is lying dead in a pool of her own blood before she could even turn to face Bristlepaw.

After Sparkpaw and Alderpaw bury Pouncepaw, they let Bristlepaw say her goodbyes before they start their journey back to the lake. They're all numb after the death of Pouncepaw, Bristlefrost barely eats in the half-moon it takes them to retrace their steps home.

As the trio completes their journey around the pebbled shore of the lake towards their clans, Bristlepaw can't bring herself to say goodbye to the only constants in her life for the past two moons, she turns at the edge of Thunderclan territory and dissapears into the forest before she has to admit that it's all over.

Sparkpaw and Alderpaw continue to Shadowclan, thin and miserable, with Violetkit and Twigkit in their jaws. They're found by a border patrol and taken back to camp, Tawnyclaw and Squirrelflight almost smothering them when they realize their kits are alive.

Alderpaw lies in his nest for the first time in moons and wonders if it was even worth it, if Skyclan had even come to the lake, would Pouncepaw be there to see it with them? When Pouncepaw looks down from Starclan, if she was even close enough to their ancestors to reach the endless hunting ground, would she be proud of him?

Alderpaw doesn't sleep well that night, and he doesn't know if he ever will again.

Ok so that is AVoS part one! This took ages to make so the next two parts may take a while lmao. I was originally going to kill Bris, but you guys voted on her staying alive (for now...) so Pouncepaw ended up being the next choice ^^!

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