Fadinglight

Appearance & Personality
She is a light sandy color cat with dark blonde on the tip of her tail, ear, front paws, and around her muzzle. She has a very pale blonde that almost looks white on her chest, back paws, under side of her tail, stomach, and around her right eyes. She has large round vibrant blue eyes. She has a long bushy tail. Her fur is long and sleek. She has a fairly skinny build and is quite taller than average. She has sharp and strong like features often clashing with her large doe like eyes.

She is a very vibrant cat who often speaks her mind though she can be soft spoken at times. She is a very confident cat who often puts herself forward without much thought which can easily lead her to trouble. She can be very stubborn in situations and can be a little hot headed in large conflicts. Despite her stubborn behavior at times she does her best to put away her pride sometimes to help others. She isn't much of a mother like cat though she's more empathetic than sympathetic. She's a little oblivious at times but she does her best.

Brief History
Her parents often kept her and her brother close by when growing up as rogues and weren't allowed to do much for a long time throughout their lives. She was already a warrior by time the clans had been created though still fairly young she promised herself to serve her clan well as she adjusted to the fairly new lifestyle doing her best to keep up with her duties.

Early life
Most of her days she just spent wandering the areas around camp, despite her parents often urging her to stay around them she never felt much of a connection with them as they were often out and about hunting for themselves once she was old enough to really be on her own. She never made many friends before the clans were formed so she never really felt like hanging around the other kits in the group as she was growing up. It wasn't until her brother was born that she felt any urge to hang out with a cat. It was the first time in a while that her mother would stay around the group area a lot more, but it was mainly so she could care for Brightkit, her brother. Even though she enjoyed the time she spent hanging around her brother she did feel a build up of jealousy has her parents seemed to praise her sibling for how big he was gonna be and how strong he'd be in the future. It wasn't long before her brother was old enough to roam away from where the group was settled and explore more. When they went out she often reminded the other how to not always listen to her parents. In a way hoping the other would steer away from feeding into his parent's constant praising but to no avail as he continued to grow and his parents would praise him for what an amazing hunter he'd be when he was a full grown cat.

Apprenticeship
She hit apprentice age finally though the clans still didn't exist yet. She took it upon herself to try and get her brother away from their parents more believing that they were just a bad influence, not wanting to admit to her own jealousy and bitterness of being ignored most of the time. As she slowly began to drag the other away from the group more and more she noticed her parents becoming more irritated and leaving to hunt more and more often. Choosing to ignore her families behavior she began to form her own vision of how things were going down believing it was all on her parents and that they were being simply cruel instead of just wanting to care a lot for their newborn. As she dragged her brother away from camp more the more her perception of her family got twisted as she began to blame her brother for their family falling apart in the end. While out with him one day she decided to confront him, believing that it would scare him off and she could return to how things used to be. Though this outburst only lead to her brother growing agitated at her and lashing back. With little thought she leapt at her brother, wounding his shoulder as her own thoughts clouded her decision making. As her brother fought back it snapped her out of the moment and in a moment of guilt she turn and ran leaving her brother behind in the woods. Once she made it back to where the group was settled she felt a new wave of guilt wash over her as she realized what she'd done. Feeling horrible for injuring her brother she rushed to her parents in a spur of the moment. She confessed of what she'd been doing and it fueled her parent's hatred towards her as they demanded she lead the way to her sibling. As she lead the two into the woods she felt a new fear creeping over her as the strong scent of foxes flooded her nose. When they reached where her brother had been all that was left was blood stained grass where he had been laying. As Fading moved back, feeling horrified by the sight and feeling the overwhelming guilt of potentially killing her own sibling. As she fumbled for her words trying to explain to her parents that she hadn't planned to bring her brother any harm, two foxes emerged from some bushes. She stood frozen in fear as she was sure that her parents would turn and leave her for the foxes but to her surprise they leapt forward immediately going to attack the foxes. Although she wanted to believe it was to protect her, in the end she came to the conclusion this was only out of rage knowing that these foxes were most likely what had taken her brother. It seemed like hours passed by as she stood frozen watching her parents and the foxes. It wasn't long before one managed to take the life of her mother. As the she-cat fell to the ground, she looked at Fading with eyes full of rage. She spat a few bitter words at her daughter, consisting of blame for her brother's death, before she gave her final breath. As her father continued to fight she felt bitterness and fear began to stir as her mother's words echoed in her mind. Not stopping to truly think over her actions she turned and fled back to the group of rogues in a fit of rage. She didn't want to see the end of that situation. Despite the guilt she felt, she let her own anger she held towards her family lead her along. Once back to camp she went about her quiet life as usual, deciding to ignore the events that went down. Never seeing her family again.

Warriorhood
She finally reached the age to be a warrior and still didn’t have much structure in her life for a while after what had happened. She usually spent most of her time out and about either hunting, though she steered away from the woods now, or simply running for the thrill of it. She wasn’t much of a troublemaker as she lived quietly for most of her life even after the actions she had taken in her earlier days. When the clans were formed by Icestar she was a bit nervous at first, fearing that a cat would somehow have known about how she lashed out and would be frowned upon in the group but slowly eased up as the cats kept going about their lives getting settled into clan life. She was fairly excited to do the same and have a clean slate from here on out. As days passed she found herself taking a liking to Rainbowstar and often spent a lot of time around the new leader, seeing her as a potential friend despite never really being a social butterfly before. As she grew more accustomed to the clan she found herself growing more and more loyal to it as well. Not long into being a warrior of her new clan she found herself helping her leader when she was attacked by a rat, alongside Junipermoon. Relieved to get the leader home safe and sound she seemed to finally be correcting her bitter thinking and taking the risks to help her clanmates instead of just thinking about herself.

Deputyship
Not long after this event Rainbowstar appointed her as the new deputy. She was fairly nervous by this new duty but took it on as a new challenge that she would overcome. Not far into her time as deputy she found herself taking a dislike for a few of the other clan’s high ranks but never voiced her slight distaste as she knew she didn’t really know any of them. As her time as deputy carried on she felt it was going pretty steadily with little conflict happening. She found herself becoming extremely fond of the leader but often denied her feelings knowing she had to stay in line. Later on when out patrolling the borders Rainbowstar met up with her and they talked for a little, despite her slight bitterness towards the leader at the time she was fairly distraught when the leader fell into the river losing a life. This moment took a toll on her attitude as her worry and stern behavior seemed to rise. With another gap of silence in her deputy time an event on a lighter note took place. She adopted Mantispaw as her own, feeling a great sorrow that the app lost not only their mentor but parents. She made a promise to protect and raise them to the best of her ability. It wasn’t long after this moment when a much bigger event came along. With The Median on the rise she became nervous for what was to happen but she does her best to stay neutral like Rainbowstar. When the deputy role was abolished she began to feel somewhat lost and seemed to lose a bit of direction as she tried to wrap her head around all that was happening.

After the events with The Median came to an end she found herself still being a bit on edge, especially knowing the cat was living amongst the clans. Though she was a bit relieved to return to her usual life. She found herself talking with her son, Mantisspring, and Rabbitpaw which helped to ease her mind about getting back into the swing of things so suddenly again. Not long after this she met up with Isu again along the border after not talking with the other for quite a while. They discussed clan life and other things they had been up to while away. She enjoyed the other's company as they talked for a long while. It was the first time she even got to openly talk about her mate, adding to her excitement during the conversation. They parted ways after a bit and although it wasn't a long conversation, the other helped to clean her mind up a bit more. A few days past when she found herself coming upon a ShadowClan apprentice, Raptorpaw, while patrolling the SC/WC border. They spoke for awhile and although Raptorpaw seemed to be pretty rude to the deputy she didn't seem to really mind or be affected by it. She found the other amusing though she did have to get onto them when they suggested just stepping over the border. Although she found their bold behavior amusing yet interesting, their interaction did end with Raptorpaw plotting to get their siblings to gang up and take her down. Although she didn't take it seriously she is keeping an eye out just to see. It wasn't long after these events that Rainbowstar told her about giving the Glade to ThunderClan. She wasn't phased by it really and for the most part was glad to have a slight alliance. It wasn't until RiverClan barged in taking the barn from them. This spiked her anger back up though she hid it away for awhile, not wanting to provoke anything or get overly worked up about it. As time went on though, she found herself losing her patience with the clan. After their first battle and losing, she couldn't help but let her walls fall a little, once again openly expressing her dislike for what was happening to her mate. She calmed down after a bit, knowing her mate had a plan and she trusted the other greatly and didn't dare doubt what she had in mind. Though when the time came to go through with the plan she grew nervous. She wasn't sure how she felt going into RiverClan's camp and attacking but decided to bite her tongue and go with it. When they arrived she tried to stay out of it at first, nervous at what would happen if she jumped in, but as she saw a RiverClan warrior dash for Rosestar as she went to destroy their herb storage she found herself rushing in. Although another cat took on the cat she found herself facing Sandpaw suddenly. Without thinking she lashed out in anger at the apprentice but was quickly taken off guard by Woolymask suddenly jumping in. With little hesitation she let her anger spill out as she attacked with the intent to greatly hurt the warrior but she was stopped dead in her tracks as she suddenly heard the word of Rosestar losing a life. She managed to knock the warrior off and rush to the entrance announcing the two clans to retreat. It was until then she noticed her mate lying unconscious in the camp, Tigertide on her. She felt a new found rage fire up in her as she rushed to her mate's side. She didn't dare attack the deputy despite her own anger wanting to leap at them she held back. She got her mate back safely though grew worried as she realized the other had lost another life, knowing she was on her last few it made her grow increasingly worried. A few days passed and her nervousness and anger only grew as she thought more on it. Not excited for the next move they took, but had the reoccurring thought of revenge on her mind every time the fight came up in her mind. It wasn't long until she got a chance to speak with her son again, they talked about Rainbowstar's behavior after that fight. This conversation led to Fading mentioning the fearful thought that Rainbowstar could be lying about her life's and being on her last one potentially but at the time refused to believe it, afraid of it being true and losing her mate forever. It wasn't long after they had this talk that she caught wind of RiverClan supposedly coming to take the Glade from ThunderClan. This sparked her worries from earlier to come back as they agreed to fight along side ThunderClan to protect the land they gave them. When the time came she was unsure of what to do but not long into the battle she spotted Woolymask once again, this time not hesitating to pounce on the she-cat with the intent to get revenge from their last fight, as she was still fairly bitter over the other butting it. As they clashed for awhile the battle was finally called off, not understanding why she noticed her mate laying across the battlefield bleeding out with Tigertide standing nearby again. She knocked the warrior off just like last time and rushed to her mate's side as they returned to camp. Her terrifying thought from the talk she had with her son returned as Rainbowstar addressed her as Fadingstar in that moment. As she laid by her mate in the medicine cat's den knowing it was the end of the line for her, she found herself growing saddened and enraged as her mate breathed her name one last time. This brought her deputyship to an end and begin her time as leader of WindClan. Despite the sorrow she feels, she refuses to let it show as she holds her chin high for now.

Leadership Part 1
Starting off her leadership she attended the gathering a day after the loss of Rainbowstar and announced her death there. After the gathering ended she held her mate's vigil, allowing Sunnygrove to attend that night. During this moment she takes the other's collar to wear in her memory, using this moment to push forward and hold her chin high despite knowing her mate was no longer there. Not long into her leadership she was patrolling the borders near SC when she was suddenly taken off guard by an apprentice pouncing on her. Due to her odd behavior lately she failed to fight off the other and found herself losing a life to the apprentice, Heronpaw. When she awoke the other was no where in sight, a part of her was relived to see the other run off as she feared of how she'd react if he was still there. She hasn't told anyone about this situation and decided to keep it that way so she didn't worry anyone with her inability to really fight at the moment. Days seemed to drag by with little happening after that encounter until again while patrolling an unfamiliar cat from SkC was lounging in WC territory. She quickly confronted the cat, Equinox, but to no avail as the cat didn't budge. As the cat began to say harsh things about her dead mate it caused her to boil over and lash out with little thought. She barely injured the cat though they got a few hits in on her. The cat gave declared the possibility of coming back with her clan in mind for future plans. After the cat got one more scratch on her, they turn and ran but not back to their clan. She is unaware of where the cat ran off to and has new worries about what this cat could be plotting. Once returning to camp though she found this encounter led to her thoughts clearing up a bit about one thing. Her deputy option. She spoke with Pinethorn for a little bit before making her way to the highledge to announce Pinethorn as the new deputy of WindClan.

Leadership Part 2
It wasn't long after the run in with the SkyClan cat that she began to patrol the borders a bit more herself to ensure the cat didn't return. While patrolling one day she stumbled upon another strange cat lurking near the border. She confronted the tom who quickly told why he was there. He was from the rogue group that lived in the area before the clans were formed. He was there to ask to join the new clan life. Fadingstar allowed the cat to join back, finding herself oddly calm around the cat. She led him to camp, learning that his name is Smoky. They agreed to get him a warrior name to properly help him get settled into his new life. She got him a nest in the warriors den and told him she'd help him with his duties once he was settled in. After that she left the tom for the night, still a bit hesitant about the newcomer but something about him put her at ease. Though at this time she was unaware of the other's intentions or their connections to her past mate. Due to her growing worry about the strange cats just appearing along the WC border she decided to go for another patrol to be on the safe side. While walking she crossed paths with Woolymask, the warrior she had fought twice during the conflict between WindClan|ThunderClan vs RiverClan. She felt bitter at first seeing as both times she had to let the other go due to her mate losing a life each time but as they began to talk she seemed to ease up as she got to know the other. The other had originally come with an apology from the apprentice who had ambushed her, but she was unaware of why the apprentice was apologizing, which left her first life she lost a secret still. After chatting for awhile and exchanging apologies the two quickly became friends after clearing up the air. They even bonded over their adopted sons, Mantisspring and Sandocean. They also exchanged a few words about each other's leadership and such before finally parting ways as night began to creep up on them. As days passed she began to speak more and more with Smokystep, seeming to grow fairly close with the other quickly. She was still hesitant around the other until one morning when they were out patrolling. Despite knowing the heat issues she decided to try and go for an early morning patrol, inviting Smokystep to join her. As they made their way along Smokystep spotted fire growing and coming towards them nearby. Fadingstar hardly noticed it as she stared across the RiverClan border her mind elsewhere. As they continued to walk the flames drew closer and finally Smokystep put his plan into action and warned the leader. He had been aware of the flame the whole time and had allowed the leader to almost walk into it before stopping her a few pawsteps away to appear as a hero to her as he lead her away from the growing flames and back to camp. Once they were back in the safety of camp they took a moment to relax before she invited the other to join her in her den to cool off for a bit longer. They spoke for awhile before she felt herself grow exhausted talking about her mate. Once Smokystep had left her den she immediately fell asleep, waking up in the familiar field that her mate usually sat in waiting for her. Her mate was off a little this night and although she noticed she wasn't quite sure what was up. They talked for a long time, catching up since it had been awhile since Fadingstar had been in the dream meadow. As they neared the end of their conversation Fadingstar was suddenly awoken. She managed to get out a single sentence before it happened but she is unaware of the cause that had awoken her so fast. Days seemed to drag by as she continued to keep working away as leader, her thoughts never seeming to stop. Though new worries seem to come up after her talk with Rainbow. She began to grow worried for her son as thoughts of losing her mate begin to haunt her again. When she spotted the other coming into camp one day she quickly took this opportunity to speak with him. Since she had a deputy now to help with duties she had a chance to sit down with the other and check back in with him. It hadn't taken her long to realize her son had been out collecting herbs in the heat so she quickly got him to her nest not wanting him to overheat as her paranoia only grew. Once he settled into her nest she began to let all her worries out that she had about him. The fear of losing her first and only son scared her and she couldn't help but go full paranoid mode as she reminded the other how proud of him she was and how amazing he's been doing. Despite the other reassuring her that he was fine and could take care of himself she couldn't shake the fear that the rest of her family would be taken from her. The thought of losing her son driving her to put her leader duties aside more and get in more talks and moments with the other not wanting him to slip away before she really gets a chance to make up for all the time she missed out on really being his mother even if she was only his adoptive mother. As their conversation continued on she finally joined the other in her nest, keeping a close eye on Mantisspring glad to have him close by as they both drifted off to sleep. A while later the two woke up in the middle of the night. She accompanied her son to the herb storage to put the horsetail he collected in their. As he looked for herbs to help his aching paws it was quickly discovered that they were out. Not wanting him to be lacking supplies, Fadingstar offered to go with him to find some herbs. Mantisspring hesitated at first hesitant since it was late at night but soon agreeing since they both figured it'd be easier to get them while the sun wasn't out and it got extremely hot during the days recently. As they made their way out they decided to head to the barn knowing most the herbs would be fairly in tact there still. As they reached the barn past memories from the place began to creep back up on Fadingstar but she didn't let this steer her away. The two walked inside and since Fadingstar wasn't sure what to be looking for she let her son do the herb searching. While he was looking for the herbs he needed Fadingstar decided to head to the top floor in the barn to look out the window, a place Rainbowstar had taken her and Junipermoon. She glanced out enjoying the view for a moment before having the idea to bring her son up so he could see too. As she turned around she realized he was no where in site. So she decided to venture back down and get him but as she took a step forward the board beneath her creaked. She nervously glanced around thinking rats might be lurking nearby so she took another step forward ready to defend her son. Without warning the board beneath her snapped and she quickly fell down. The wood on the sides of the hole badly scratching her as she plummeted to the first floor which ended up taking a life. She quickly awoke to her son shaking her with tears in his eyes. In a moment of panic she quickly reassured the other that she was fine and began to stand but this only freaked the other out more. He quickly told her to lay back down so she quickly did so allowing the other to do his work but trying her best to help him calm down in the moment.

Leadership Part 3
After taking some time to rest after the loss of another life Fadingstar quietly returned to her duties pushing aside her growing anxiety about her lives. She was determined to hold on to the lives she had left as long as she could for her son and clan. Though worry always seemed to lurk with her as she grew uncertain of what the future held. As the gathering approached the next night Fadingstar went as usual, still sore from the barn incident but she pushed through to give her updates on WindClan. Though when she arrived she stayed a bit more quiet around this time not having much energy to chat with the other leaders. To her shock though none of the other leaders got to make their usual announcements before a cloud of smoke suddenly appeared, engulfing the leaders in it. Within seconds of this Sulfurstar made his appearance. His voice ringing out through the gathering place. Fadingstar was unable to see him in the moment as she frantically glanced around the smoke that had engulfed them in mere moments, her panic rising as she feared she'd lose another life right after the one from the barn. She backed up instinctively, somewhat hoping to escape the action but as she moved back the smoke vanished, fully revealing Sulfurstar to all who were there. She watched in horror and rage at first as the Aspguard leader spoke to them all but with no warning Glitch suddenly appeared knocking the tom off the rock and standing in his place. Fadingstar was left in shock as she watched the tom fall. She was sure that Glitch was going to leap down and finish him off but another surprising turn happened as Shiningheart, a council of nine cat, made her appearance in the gathering. She felt helpless as all she could do was watch with wide eyes as the she-cat took Sulfurstar's life. Once she had left and Sulfurstar was faded for good she hoped it was over. Glitch did not leave though, with a swift motion she landed a quick fatal blow to each leader. Inevitably taking a life from all five leaders. Fadingstar had no time to react as she felt her throat get slit and she collapsed to the ground not moving. When she awoke she felt all the anger she had been working to push back flood back in. She had failed to keep hold of another life which left her feeling more bitter and angered than she had before. As Mantisspring and Pinethorn approached her side she got a sickening feeling as she had to be helped home making her almost feel weak. Once home she left to her den not letting any cat come check on her as she thought over the events from that gathering several times, each time she was left with more questions and more anger to follow. As time went on she slowly felt her movements slowing down as she grew older and older. She continued serving her clan despite her past injuries causing some difficulties along with her age. As she was resting up one night BloodClan stormed in raiding WindClan's fresh kill pile. She did all she could to stop them from taking anything but was stopped by a BloodClan cat, Chief, who ended up taking a life. After BloodClan left she awoke, her injuries seemed worse than before as she was stuck with a fairly bad limp. She pushed through and returned to her nest to simply sleep it off for the day. Days past and her injuries seemed to not improve all that much but she continued on. While out patrolling one day she lost another life due to overheating. Upon awakening she slowly began to realize she might not be able to lead her clan for much longer due to the injuries she's sustained and old age slowly creeping upon her making it harder and harder to do some things each day. With the lack of prey she began to work harder trying to keep her clan fed, often eating last or not at all. This caused her to often be weak and fall ill for causing yet another life loss fairly quickly after the last. She did her best to rest up and save her last few lives but that didn't go as planned when BloodClan returned to WindClan raiding the herb storage this time. She did her best to fight and get to the medicine den but was stopped by a BloodClan cat, Creek, who easily kept her down. Near the end of the fight he took a life leaving her to bleed out as BloodClan retreated with their herbs. She lost another life from the blood loss leaving her with one life now. She realized she could no longer run her clan with how weak she was and the lack of lives she had. When Pinethorn came to check on her she told the other about her stepping down and at first he tried convincing her to keep going but in the end she refused to go on as leader. She retired to the elders den and returned to her warrior name, now sleeping away most of her days.

Lives
1. Life of Wisdom given by Graystar

2. Life of Patience given by Doeeyes

3. Life of Friendship given by Isu

4. Life of Trust given by Kestrelfall

5. Life of Self Respect given by Dovefeather

6. Life of Diligence given by Willowstar

7. Life of Ambition given by Icestar

8. Life of Compassion given by Mellowbug

9. Family given by Rainbowstar

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 * 1) Taken by Heronpaw, who ambushed her while patrolling
 * 2) Lost when she fell through the top floor of the barn
 * 3) Taken by Glitch when taking a life from every leader to prove her power
 * 4) Taken by a BloodClan cat, Chief, when BloodClan raided WindClan
 * 5) Lost from overheating while patrolling
 * 6) Died from exhaustion
 * 7) Taken by Creek during the second BloodClan raid
 * 8) Died from blood loss