Name: Fireflower
Gender: Female
Role: Warrior
Clan: LavenderClan
Personality: Although she is the kin of the merciless murderer, Firemoth, she refuses to be an evil cat like her and works hard to live a loyal, unregrettable life. She is very sweet and caring, despite her ruined, scarred look.
Mentor: Brightmoon
Previous Names:
Fireflower is a badly scarred dark ginger she-cat with beautiful blue eyes. half her face is mauled, and she is blind in that area. She has soft fur and a long, feathery tail.
Mother: Redheart
Father: Leafclaw
Littermate(s): N/A
Mate: Bluethunder
Kits: N/A
Leafclaw, Firekit's father, after finding out that his newborn daughter was named "Firekit", threatened to leave the Clan if the name wasn't changed. However, Redheart refused and kept the name Firekit, resulting in Leafclaw fleeing LavenderClan. What Redheart haven't known, was that Leafclaw was Firemoth's father's brother. And finding out his daughter was named with the same name as the murderous traitor Firemoth, he couldn't believe himself or his mate.
3 moons later, Leafclaw secretly snuck into LavenderClan camp and took Firekit straight from the nursery while the other queens weren't looking.
Then, determined to end the lives of anyone who resembled or was related to Firemoth, he tore away the left side of Firekit's face and severly injured her, then fled without leaving a clear scent. When a LavenderClan search party found the kit lying unconscious in a pool of blood, they immediately brought her to Blueflower, the medicine cat.
Nobody knew it was Leafclaw that badly scarred his own kit until Firepaw was several moon into her apprenticeship. A patrol that she was participating in, had met Leafclaw along the border. Horrified, Leafclaw had yelled;
"You're alive?! I thought I killed you when you were just a kit!"
Turns out, that wasn't the best way to react to seeing your kit for the first time in moons. Firepaw had challenged to fight Leafclaw, and before things could get really bloody, Hawkwater, the leader of the patrol, stopped her from doing so and chased Leafclaw away.
When Firepaw earned her warrior name, Fireflower, she was thrilled. But the spirit of her kin, Firemoth, had come to visit her. Though she had never met Firemoth in her life, Fireflower immediately recognised her from descriptions; long, matted ginger fur, slick with blood, scars on the left side of her body, and piercing blue eyes just like hers.
"Oh, Fireflower... How are you, my dear, murderous, kin?" Firemoth hissed.
"I am NOT murderous and I never will be, you MONSTER!" Fireflower growled, her fur standing on end.
"Don't you know?" Firemoth extended her claws at her. "Murder flows through your blood. It is inside you... Somewhere. Do you not ever want to get revenge on your father? Your Clan? Other Clans that have wronged you?"
"Of course not! I love my Clan, and the other Clans. That's all history now. Everyone knows I'm a loyal and trusted cat." Fireflower began flexing her claws.
"You're foolish, Fireflower. I thought my kin could do better. Look at you. More scarred than the fiercest warrior ever. You're born to be a fighter- a murderer!"
"What is wrong with you?!" Fireflower yowled. "What's up with you and being a murderer?!" With a sharp hiss, she launched herself at Firemoth, claws extended. Firemoth swiftly dodged.
"Look at you, Fireflower!" She purred. "Trying to kill and already dead cat. I knew you had some potential."
Fireflower growled and stepped back.
"You're insane." She breathed, taking another step, away from the former LavenderClan warrior.
"Anyone can be insane if they're looked at from a negative perspective." Firemoth said. "LavenderClan always wronged me. Thought I was useless. Weak. SpringClan knew my powers. They knew I could help so much with their Clan with myself. I've killed 2 of LavenderClan's leaders. My parents. My litternates. My former Clanmates. Just like I do now, SpringClan saw POTENTIAL in me. That's why they named me SpringClan's deputy. Until Sundewstar came... And crushed my hopes and dreams with one small patrol. What would you do... If that ever happened to you?"
"IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN!" Fireflower hissed. "THERE WILL BE NO REASON WHATSOEVER FOR MY CLAN TO KILL ME!"
"But... What if...?"
Fireflower once again lunged at Firemoth, latched onto her and bit down hard on her scruff. Firemoth hissed in pain, and with a puff of shadowy smoke, she disappeared.