Icestep, medicine cat of Bearclan
Son of Squirrelfoot and Troutclaw, brother to Coldfang and Oakclaw, half brother to Snowfoot and Misteyes
Icekit was part of his mother’s first litter, born in the first days of newleaf, expected to grow into a strong cat. It was no suprise he was into the art of medicine, he was much leaner and meek than his brother and sister. His mother was happy to have a kit interested in the position, and the medicine cat happily accepted him as an apprentice. He excelled in his training, and soon was taken to the moon den to receive his name.
However, the dream that came to him tainted him. He saw blood from corpses flowing into Bearclan’s camp. He saw huge wings blotting out the sun, the roaring of a bear, pounding hooves. Corpses rained into the camp. He heard crying for help from Willowclan’s territory, but he was too terrified to move.
After the dream, he lost his charm and became always alert and on edge. One night, during a gathering, white warrior asked him if he was alright and, like always, he jumped in fright. But he got to speaking with the warrior, who said she was Bluebird of Willowclan, and soon made the first friend he had in moons.
But hardships never seemed to leave his side. After the new leader Featherstar took her place in Willowclan, she wreaked havoc in Bearclan’s camp. She told her highest warrior, Crabfang, to kill the medicine cats. He killed the first, and nearly gravely wounded Icestep, but his half-brother Snowfoot killed the tom first. After the encounter, Icestep grew cold and sullen and grave. He only had proper interactions with his friend Bluebird, and didn’t believe her to truly be a member of Willowclan.
He took an apprentice, Daisypaw, but hardly payed them any mind due to his nature, though he does care for the cat.
When Bluebird became with kits, she told Icestep that she wanted them in Bearclan, not wanting them to suffer a bloody fate because of her violent leader. Icestep begrudgingly accepted, agreeing to take the kits at a young age. On the planned day, one moon into leaf-bare, Icestep and Cougarstar went out alone, and, sure enough, found one white kit. Icestep looked all around, but did not find any other, dead or alive.
Icestep watched the kit grow up in Bearclan from a distance, and he became friendly with her in her adulthood when she became the successful Hawkheart. Though he fears worse things are coming for the cat.
