Lavenderfrost: f, a new mother struggling to raise her three kits in a time of turmoil for her clan. Icespark: m, lavenderfrost’s mate, a strict but kind father, he’s doing his best to support his clan, while also hoping to be made deputy. Palmclaw: m, an ex-rouge who joined his clan with his mate, watershine. He was once a feared and strong warrior, and still has plenty of scars to prove it, but he is now a nursery queen, raising his daughter sandkit, after watershine died of sickness.
Lavenderfrost - A determined and intelligent she-cat. Lavenderfrost always tries to excel at whatever she does - and that includes raising her kits, despite the current situation the clan finds itself in. Lavenderfrost is extremely resourceful, she always seems to be able to find a solution to any problem, and she is trying her best to use this ability to help give her kits as good a life as they can under the circumstances, she is grateful to have Icespark there for support, she is a proud cat but even she admits that this is a task she couldn’t do on her own,15/10
Icespark - A serious and kind tom. Icespark wants to do his best to protect his family and his clan, he is a great believer in following the warrior code but will allow for some rule bending from time to time if it is truly the best thing to do, he doesn’t like to see cats suffer unnecessarily. Icespark always tries his best to keep a balance between what his clanmates want and what they actually need, and he will often take charge when the opportunity presents itself - he feels that his steady head is what the clan needs in such times, and he hopes his leader will recognise this, 15/10
Palmclaw - A courageous and caring tom. Palmclaw may appear fearsome, especially when you hear tales of his many bloody battles, but you will be hard pressed to find a cat that loves so deeply and intensely as he does, he has given up the ferocious lifestyle he loved to ensure his daughter has a constant parental figure in her life and to honour Watershine’s memory - he goes to her grave to lay a pebble or a flower every day in her memory, when she died something broke in him he don’t think he will ever be able to fix, but he knows Sandkit will help- she is the most important thing in his life now and he will do anything to make sure she is happy and safe. Palmclaw never backs down from a fight and will always be the first to charge into a dangerous situation, both out of a sense of exhilaration and the loyalty he has to his clanmates, he may have been born a rogue but it would be his honour to die a clan cat, 13/10
This takes place a few days after Snow arrives in Meadowclan. Since he is still a kit, he becomes fostered by Eagleflight’s mate Pinestripe and grew up with their kits Redkit, Tigerkit, and Fawnkit.
Lavenderfrost was born as Snow to Hail and Sweetpea. He lived in the Old Mill on the southside of Shoreclan territory with a clowder of Kittypets, loners, and rogues under the supervision of Shoreclan leader Snapstar.
Snow lived in the Mill until three moons old when he was swept away by a young hawk. He struggled until he got a good angle and bit the Hawks leg causing him to be dropped. The Hawk came back for Snow but a large Meadowclan warrior named Eagleflight defended Snow and the Hawk gave up. Snow was seriously injured and brought back to Meadowclan camp to be treated by their medicine cat Firestorm.
Snow was terribly scarred and needed to stay in Meadowclan camp until he was fully healed. In that time, Eagleflight and his mate Pinestripe became his foster parents. Snow slowly learned about clan life from his foster family and grew to appreciate it. When the time came for Snow to return home, he decided he wanted to stay in Meadowclan. There was pushback from some warriors of the clan but Sandstar allowed him to stay and apprenticed Snow, now Lavenderpaw, to Eagleflight.
Lavenderpaw trains to be a Meadowclan warrior under Eagleflight for the next seven moons. During this time, he is shown to be very empathetic and Firestorm suggests that he see if he would be interested in learning medicine. Lavenderpaw isn't keen on the idea at first but after about a moon learning medicine from Firestorm on the side, he finds it more engaging than his warrior training. He tells Eagleflight who passes the message to Sandstar who then declines. Sandstar tells Eagleflight that having a former loner for a medicine cat may cause more upset than it's worth and considering Lavenderpaw has completed his Warrior training save for his assessment he might as well become a warrior.
Lavenderfrost becomes a warrior of Meadowclan while continuing his side education in medicine and becomes a bit of a dual-purpose warrior which catches the attention of the Shoreclan medicine cat Walnutglow and the two become friends. Around the same time, his foster sister Fawnhop brings a former Kittypet named Levi to the clan and confesses her love for him to her father and now deputy Eagleflight and Sandstar. Once again there is pushback with Levi as well but Lavenderfrost steps in and supports his sister and her mate. Sandstar is hesitant but also allows him to stay, once again ruffling the fur of her warriors. It wouldn't be long before Fawnhop announces she is expecting kits and later gives birth to Rainkit, Stormkit, and Lightningkit.
Lavenderfrost gains Stormpaw as an apprentice early due to a surplus of kits being born. While Lavenderfrost was an amazing teacher and Stormpaw a bright and receptive apprentice, the two never quite formed the bond Mentors and Apprentices often do and he suspects it was because he still wanted to become a Medicine Cat. He brings it back up to Sandstar who once again declines. Lavenderfrost tries to put his foot down and debate with her which only causes him to lose any hope he had of her giving in. He leaves defeated and tries to drop the desire in favor of Warrior life.
During a nasty border dispute between Meadowclan and Ridgeclan, Stormpaw falls into the Rushing River and Lavenderfrost dives in to save her. He's able to hand Stormpaw off to Levi before being swept downriver. Lavenderfrost awakes to three cats trying to resuscitate him on the bank. They introduce themselves as Hina, Aki, and Emi before convincing Lavenderfrost, whom they refer to as Lavender during his stay, to come back to their den with them until he can regain his strength. The three turn out to be a group of siblings living with some other barn cats on a Twoleg farm. While resting, Lavender meets an old she-cat named Amber, a former Meadowclan warrior who seems to have so much disdain for her former clan that she refuses to give Lavender the way back home, instead insisting he stay. Lavender refuses and tries to head home early the next morning but is too far from home to find his way back. He gives up and returns to the barn hoping that he can wrangle the way back out of Amber.
Lavender ends up staying for quite a while at the Twoleg barn and gets to know the cats there pretty well. Especially Emi, who is very interested in what clan life is like but could never get anything out of Amber. Eventually, she brings up wanting to follow Lavender back to Meadowclan to be a warrior. Lavender thinks about it but ultimately decides it wouldn't be worth it considering Meadowclan already let in two outsiders within a short time and both times fights broke out. He also finds himself feeling homesick for the Mill where he grew up with his birth family before being carried away. Lavender makes a mental note to go see his family when he gets back home.
One night in Leafbare, Lavender is visited by Sandstar who delivers a message to him. She says Whitecough broke out in Meadowclan and that hers became Greencough and took her last life. Firestorm has fallen ill with Whitecough and it threatens to become Greencough if she has no time to treat herself. Sandstar tells Lavender that another Starclan cat has visited Amber as well and that she should tell him how to return home now. Lavender wakes up and decides to grab catmint from the Twoleg's protected garden before heading home to get a head start on treating the afflicted cats. Emi catches him and, refusing to take no for an answer, helps him gather catmint intending to take her own mouth full back to Meadowclan with Lavender. The two finally get directions from Amber and before departing, she asks Lavender to tell Eaglepaw she's always thinking of him and that she's sorry. It doesn't take much to put 2 and 2 together and figure out she meant Eagleflight. He promises to and the two leave for Meadowclan.
They arrive at Meadowclan camp just before sunrise and Lavenderfrost rushes to the Medicine Cat den, heartbroken to find that Firestorm is dying. Realizing there is nothing he can do, he stops to spend time with her in her last moments. The commotion of Lavenderfrost returning woke up Firestorm's apprentice Tawnypaw who finds the two in the Medicine Cat den. Before she dies, Firestorm invites Tawnypaw into the den to meet Lavenderfrost and tells her that he will be her new mentor and Medicine Cat. Lavenderfrost is stunned by this development but takes it with honor and quickly begins instructing Emi and Tawnypaw on how to help the sick cats.
The illness was becoming manageable but Lavenderfrost knew if he didn't get more catmint the illness would pick up again. Eagleflight (who hadn't had the chance to visit the Mooncave) organized healthy cats to go with Lavenderfrost to Shoreclan to ask for catmint. Fawnhop, Nightwing, and his former apprentice Stormridge accompanied him there. The group meets up with Walnutglow and Lavenderfrost has a brief reunion with his friend. While they do retrieve Catmint from Walnutglow, it's very little. Walnutglow suggests they see if there's a covered patch in the Old Mill, which Lavenderfrost takes up instantly.
The Mill Cats don't recognize Lavenderfrost at first but Sweetpea does and she runs to greet him with tears in her eyes. The two have a warm reunion along with Hail, Rain, and Hail's sister Blizzard who helped raise Lavenderfrost. Much to Lavenderfrosts relief, the Mill Cats do still have Catmint and let him take as much of it as he needs. He says goodbye to his family and takes the catmint back to Meadowclan, successfully healing the sick cats. However, despite the efforts of Lavenderfrost three do still perish being Greystone, Swiftmist, and Goldenfur.
Eagleflight decides to hold a vigil for the fallen cats before he and Lavenderfrost leave for the Mooncave. Lavenderfrost mourns Firestorm and laments for always wanting to be a Medicine Cat but never wanting it to happen like this. After the sun rises and the dead are buried, Lavenderfrost and Eagleflight set out for the Mooncave. To reach the Mooncave, the two need to pass all the way through Ridgeclan territory and catch the attention of a patrol to escort them. Along the way, the group ever so happens to run into the new Ridgeclan Medicine Cat Barleytail, who despite seeming friendly enough, gave Lavenderfrost wicked feelings and left him feeling uneasy.
Upon reaching the Mooncave, Lavenderfrost remembers what Amber had said and tells Eagleflight while the two are waiting for Moonhigh. Eagleflight tells Lavenderfrost that Amber, formerly Ambersun, was his mother and that she abandoned him, his brother, and his father in the midst of a dispute over reforming the Warrior Code, saying the clans were no longer a place she wished to live. Eagleflight elaborates on the reforms that would have been made in the clan had it been successful and Lavenderfrost asks him if he wishes to try reforming the code again once he became leader. Eagleflight is unsure and admits to Lavenderfrost that he would most likely be following in Sandstar's pawsteps, trying not to ruffle fur too much and just worry about keeping his clan alive.
The two head into the Mooncave at Moonhigh and Eaglestar receives his nine lives and a troubling vision, which he shares with Lavenderfrost once they reach the surface. Eaglestar said the reformist cats who perished gave him a prophecy that foretold doom for the clans if the Warrior Code and the ways of the clans weren't changed. He says that he isn't sure what needs to happen but when he finds out, he will give it all he's got. Lavenderfrost is satisfied with his leader’s resolve and vows to stand by his side no matter what the change may bring.
