User blog:Starflight897/Stoneclan

This fanclan is created by Starflight, paws off!

Appearance
Stoneclan members have pelts ranging from black to light grey, with the occasional dark brown or tawny member. Their pads are hard, days of walking on stone and digging hardening them. They are usually small, less dirt to dig out to fit through tunnels. They are wiry, day after day of digging built up their strength.

Character
Stoneclan cats are resilient hard-workers. They will avoid battles, part from habit, because they prefer having the time to plan out the battle.

Diet
Stoneclan eats rabbits, moles, and the occasional mouse, whatever was unlucky enough to stray down underground.

History
When Windclan stopped digging underground, some of the cats didn't want to stop, they thought it was part of who they were. The cats, Stoneclaw, Heatherfur, and Grasstail left the clan, believing they shouldn't give up tunneling. They traveled to the Moonstone, unsure of where to go. When they left the cave, Stoneclaw noticed another cave nearby, walking into it he saw a tunnel. The cats followed the tunnel, finding a cavern much like the Moonstone cave, light shining from a hole in the roof. They made a camp there, collecting moss from outside and bringing it in to make nests. Over the next few moons, more cats came, usually the tunnelers who weren't used to having to run across the moor. The cats grew into a clan, deciding Stoneclaw should be leader. When he went to the Moonstone, Starclan accepted his decision, granting him his nine lives.

Stoneclan survived well until the next leaf-bare. They had no medicine cat, a big problem when greencough swept the new clan. Starclan sent them a sign, much like they gave to Skyclan. The sign, a feather changing into a leaf and back, signaled that Featherleaf was to be the next medicine cat. The whole clan helped teach her, remembering the remedies they had been treated with while in Windclan. The next green-leaf, the first litter of kits was born, signaling that the clan was truly a new clan.

Territory
Stoneclan lives by the original forest territory, by the Moonstone. The forest cats never saw the other caves, one of them leads to the Stoneclan camp, a large cavern where light comes in from above. They live underground for the most part, digging out new caves like the rest of Windclan used to.

Hunting Techniques
Stoneclan digs for prey, the old Windclan style. They will tunnel underground into rabbit burrows or mouse tunnels and catch the unlucky creature. If food is running low, they have the speed to catch rabbits and squirrels up on the surface.

Fighting Techniques
Instead of running into battle, Stoneclan will wait days to attack, digging out tunnels under where they want to attack, raising them very close to the surface. They dart and dodge like Windclan, sprinting out of the tunnels like rabbits to attack the other clans. If another clan attacks them, they use Windclan's fighting style.

Allegiances
Leader: Darkstar - a dark gray tom with dark blue eyes

Deputy: Skyfall - a light gray she-cat with light blue eyes

Medicine Cat: Echocall - a black-furred she-cat with bright green eyes

Warriors: OPEN!!!

Batwing - a black tom with light gray paws and gray eyes

Tawnytail - a small tortoiseshell she-cat with gold eyes

Apprentices: OPEN!!!

Rockpaw - a dark gray tom with blue eyes

Queens: OPEN!!!

Rabbitfur - a light brown she-cat with dark brown eyes flecked with gold (Mother to Darkstar's kits, Shadowkit and Heatherkit)

Elders: OPEN!!!

Molefang - a dark brown tom with black eyes