The two RiftClan apprentices, Minkpaw and Whiskerpaw!
- Minkpaw, later Minksnout, is a fighter apprentice. She’s a small but energetic little fireball of a cat who keeps the other fighters on their collective toes during their training sessions. Her dream is to live up to the tales she’s heard from the other fighters about her incrredibly skilled mother Jackdawflight, who died from greencough a few moons after Minkpaw was born, and to make her father Smokestorm notice her just once.
- Whiskerpaw, later Whiskertail, is a definite oddball in the Clan. Born in Twolegplace, he set out from his home to find out about the Clans and the father his mother had told him countless tales about. Only problem is, he ran into the wrong clan first. Once Whiskerpaw was able to convince the cats of RiftClan that he wasn’t in some way diseased (being the only Lykoi these cats had ever seen), they aided him in tracking down his PineClan father Cloudbreeze, only to find out that he’d died in a flood. Not wanting to return home after getting a taste of Clan life, he instead stayed and became a hunter apprentice.