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Owner: Moonblaze-Angel
Name: Mudleap
DGAB: AFAB
Origin: Clan born/raised since found as a 3 week old kitten by clan members
Eye color: Orange
Coat: Classic marking tabby tortoiseshell with low white
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[Moonblaze-Angel]

Owner: Moonblaze-Angel
Storage Link: MooseClan
Name: Mudleap
DGAB: AFAB, male
Origin: Clan born/raised since found as a 3 week old kitten by clan members
Prompt: tldr; rescues kitten from the stream to earn warrior name

"Has anyone seen my kitten? I'm sure she's around here somewhere, but I haven't seen her and I'm worried she's gotten into trouble." Maplefall asks the cats gathered in the sun-dappled clearing. Most are sharing tongues or eating, but a few stretch out and look around.

"Not for a while, Maplefall. Have you checked the medicine cat den? She might be trying to help out again," states Mintstar, his Clan leader. He gets up from his comfortable position in a sunbeam and lazily walks over to Maplefall. He flicks his tail for her to follow him to the mentioned den.

Mintstar had been the one to find Mudpaw all those moons ago, tucked away under a rotten log. He'd never held his non-Clanborn status against Mudpaw, though. In fact, MooseClan wasn't technically a thing when Mintstar (then Minthop) had found Mudpaw. It was just Moose and Mintstar before him. Maplefall joined after, and then Minnowspark was the most recent addition. Well, besides their kit.

She could get herself into all kinds of trouble! She'd put burrs in Moose's nest, followed Mintstar out of the hollow and to the stream, and even tried to hunt a mouse by herself once! I can't wait until she's an apprentice, too. Then I'll have more time for fun and training, instead of cleaning nests. Her most recent stunt had been 'helping' clean the medicine cat den by reorganizing the herbs and berries. Mintstar had been so mad, he considered keeping her a kit for an extra moon!

If the kitten had left camp by herself, she could be anywhere by now! Still, he thinks, tracking her down is better than checking Moose for ticks . . . Again. Mudpaw stands up and shakes his brindled fur out in the sun. He loves the way it looks like dappled sunlight on the forest floor, leaves scattered about.

He heads over to the nursery, sniffing all around it, finding the little nooks he used to sneak out through. He's far too big now, but it smells like a little naughty kit has been through one recently! Mudpaw glances around the clearing once before following the scent trail.

It's pretty easy to follow, weaving here and there to sniff bushes and scratch a few trees. He tracks the scent through the territory, worried when it starts to get close to the stream. Some parts are pretty deep and could be extremely dangerous to a young kit. He picks up his pace to a near run, dodging through ferns and aspen trees.

Mudpaw halts at the edge of the water, mildly out of breath. This is a part of the stream where it widens a bit and forms pools here and there, rocks blocking and trapping water. He gazes around, watching for any sing of movement. In a flash, he notices a pesky kitten hopping on the lily pads in a pool on the other side of the stream.

"Kit! Are you crazy?" He calls to her, concerned about the leaves holding her weight. "Those will fall out under you!" She glances up at him and flicks her ears.

"There's fish! I wanna catch one for Minnowspark!" She leans towards the edge of the lily pad, dipping one paw in. Mudpaw watches on in horror as the leaf starts to take on water.

"Get off the leaf! Quick-" he cuts off as she falls in with a sploosh. Mudpaw inhales in shock. She could drown! Without thinking, he launches himself in the water. The current here is thankfully weaker, with the pools and lilies, but his swimming isn't super great. He flounders a bit on the way over, trying to remember his training.

Front paws churning, left leg kick, right leg kick, left leg kick. He sees a tiny muzzle pop above the water, clawing for the lily pad. He sees it drop back below the water and dives.

At first, he only sees murk. Mudpaw isn't used to seeing underwater or trying to find small kittens. He pivots around feeling for the lily pad in his paws. Maybe... maybe if I can find the lily pad, I'll be able to find her! He feels the stalk under his claws and resurfaces near it, looking for the kit. Mudpaw spots a dark shape under the surface. Please be her and not a fish!

Mudpaw dives under and lunges for the shape. Finding fur, he grabs on and heads for the surface. His head breaks out of the water, kitten in tow, and he swims for the rocks closest to him. Pulling the kit out of the water, he hauls himself up onto the rocks next to her, heavy with water in his long fur.

"Please be okay, please be okay!" He nudges the kit, licking her fur the wrong way. Minthop and Moose had done that for him the night they'd saved him, warming him up. Being soaked in a pool of water and being covered in cold mud were probably close enough for it to work, right? He keeps licking her, waiting for signs of life to appear.

She coughs and sputters up some water.

"Yes!" He hops up on his back legs and claws the air to celebrate a successful rescue.

"You found her!" Mudpaw turns his head to find Maplefall on the other side of the river. She smoothly hops across the stones to get to her kit. "I saw you come out of the water from upstream and ran as fast as I could, but it looks like you have things covered."

Maplefall pushes her head against him. "Thank you." She picks up her kit, purring, and leads them both back to camp. Once there, she sets the kitten in the middle of the clearing.

"Mintstar, Mintstar! Mudpaw saved my kit! He leapt into the stream and pulled her out." He pauses at the edge of the clearing, startled at being recognized. Every cat would do the same, right?

Mintstar comes forward and sniffs Mudpaw's fur. "I can see that, he has a lily pad stuck to his fur. Is she okay, Maplefall?" The leader turns his head back to the kitten in the middle. Maplefall nods, curling up around the kit. Mintstar turns back to Mudpaw, contemplative.

Oh no... I'm gonna get in trouble for leaving camp alone and swimming by myself and pulling up a lily pad and-

"Mudpaw, do you promise to uphold the warrior code and defend and protect your clan, even at the cost of your life?" Mintstar says to him. Mudpaw stares, mouth open. He shuts it. Opens it. Shuts it again.

He opens it once more. "Yes?" He squeaks out, hopeful this mean what he thinks it does. Mintstar twitches his whiskers in amusement.

"Then I, Mintstar, leader of MooseClan, call upon our ancestors to look down on this apprentice. He has worked hard to learn your code, and I commend him to you." He continues, "Mudpaw, for your quick thinking and bravely leaping into action, I give you your warrior name. From this moment on, you will be known as Mudleap."

rip sorry for word count i got carried away

[ArithMedic]

Owner: ArithMedic
Storage Link: Hallowed
Name: Frogflame
DGAB: AFAB (Nonbinary)
Origin: Stray
Prompt: What cat, that is clearly a frog /j

This cat is a frog farmer and grew up and lives by a pond. They joined the Hallowed to have social connections and protection but return to the pond regularly to make sure the frogs are doing okay.

[DachasaurusZen]

Owner: DachasaurusZen
Storage Link: ShellClan
Name: LoachYowl
DGAB: AFAB
Origin: Kittypet
Prompt: WIP, she's a prized show-cat

[KelpieMomma]

Owner: KelpieMomma
Storage Link: GorgeClan
Name: Pumpkin Spice
DGAB: afab
Origin: Stray
Prompt: Formerly a friendly stray who lived close to a corner-store, Pumpkin got her name for the season she was born and her coloring. She was used to humans, cars, dogs, and all the comings-and-goings that involved living within a human community. Her and her family, both parents and her siblings, were well taken care of as feral cats. Both of her parents disappeared one day and came back not long after smelling strange, frightening in a way, talking of flat white walls and being squished before a thin claw jabbed their side, and then sleep. As Pumpkin got older she grew wary of the cages that would pop up on occasion, as her siblings would venture in and be unable to escape before they'd be picked up by a human and transported away. They'd return just like their parents, smelling strange and telling stories of white walls, white flat fur, and a thin claw that made them sleep. Unfortunately the people who were typically found at the corner store changed one day, and the inviting place that took care of Pumpkin and her family soon became dangerous. The family struggled to find a new place to live and, slowly, they each ventured off on their own. Pumpkin was one of the few who decided to check out the wilderness, finding an place far more interesting than she thought possible.

[Alizba]

Owner: Moonblaze-Angel
Storage Link: MooseClan
Name: Mudleap
DGAB: AFAB, male
Origin: Clan born/raised since found as a 3 week old kitten by clan members
Prompt: tldr; rescues kitten from the stream to earn warrior name

"Has anyone seen my kitten? I'm sure she's around here somewhere, but I haven't seen her and I'm worried she's gotten into trouble." Maplefall asks the cats gathered in the sun-dappled clearing. Most are sharing tongues or eating, but a few stretch out and look around.

"Not for a while, Maplefall. Have you checked the medicine cat den? She might be trying to help out again," states Mintstar, his Clan leader. He gets up from his comfortable position in a sunbeam and lazily walks over to Maplefall. He flicks his tail for her to follow him to the mentioned den.

Mintstar had been the one to find Mudpaw all those moons ago, tucked away under a rotten log. He'd never held his non-Clanborn status against Mudpaw, though. In fact, MooseClan wasn't technically a thing when Mintstar (then Minthop) had found Mudpaw. It was just Moose and Mintstar before him. Maplefall joined after, and then Minnowspark was the most recent addition. Well, besides their kit.

She could get herself into all kinds of trouble! She'd put burrs in Moose's nest, followed Mintstar out of the hollow and to the stream, and even tried to hunt a mouse by herself once! I can't wait until she's an apprentice, too. Then I'll have more time for fun and training, instead of cleaning nests. Her most recent stunt had been 'helping' clean the medicine cat den by reorganizing the herbs and berries. Mintstar had been so mad, he considered keeping her a kit for an extra moon!

If the kitten had left camp by herself, she could be anywhere by now! Still, he thinks, tracking her down is better than checking Moose for ticks . . . Again. Mudpaw stands up and shakes his brindled fur out in the sun. He loves the way it looks like dappled sunlight on the forest floor, leaves scattered about.

He heads over to the nursery, sniffing all around it, finding the little nooks he used to sneak out through. He's far too big now, but it smells like a little naughty kit has been through one recently! Mudpaw glances around the clearing once before following the scent trail.

It's pretty easy to follow, weaving here and there to sniff bushes and scratch a few trees. He tracks the scent through the territory, worried when it starts to get close to the stream. Some parts are pretty deep and could be extremely dangerous to a young kit. He picks up his pace to a near run, dodging through ferns and aspen trees.

Mudpaw halts at the edge of the water, mildly out of breath. This is a part of the stream where it widens a bit and forms pools here and there, rocks blocking and trapping water. He gazes around, watching for any sing of movement. In a flash, he notices a pesky kitten hopping on the lily pads in a pool on the other side of the stream.

"Kit! Are you crazy?" He calls to her, concerned about the leaves holding her weight. "Those will fall out under you!" She glances up at him and flicks her ears.

"There's fish! I wanna catch one for Minnowspark!" She leans towards the edge of the lily pad, dipping one paw in. Mudpaw watches on in horror as the leaf starts to take on water.

"Get off the leaf! Quick-" he cuts off as she falls in with a sploosh. Mudpaw inhales in shock. She could drown! Without thinking, he launches himself in the water. The current here is thankfully weaker, with the pools and lilies, but his swimming isn't super great. He flounders a bit on the way over, trying to remember his training.

Front paws churning, left leg kick, right leg kick, left leg kick. He sees a tiny muzzle pop above the water, clawing for the lily pad. He sees it drop back below the water and dives.

At first, he only sees murk. Mudpaw isn't used to seeing underwater or trying to find small kittens. He pivots around feeling for the lily pad in his paws. Maybe... maybe if I can find the lily pad, I'll be able to find her! He feels the stalk under his claws and resurfaces near it, looking for the kit. Mudpaw spots a dark shape under the surface. Please be her and not a fish!

Mudpaw dives under and lunges for the shape. Finding fur, he grabs on and heads for the surface. His head breaks out of the water, kitten in tow, and he swims for the rocks closest to him. Pulling the kit out of the water, he hauls himself up onto the rocks next to her, heavy with water in his long fur.

"Please be okay, please be okay!" He nudges the kit, licking her fur the wrong way. Minthop and Moose had done that for him the night they'd saved him, warming him up. Being soaked in a pool of water and being covered in cold mud were probably close enough for it to work, right? He keeps licking her, waiting for signs of life to appear.

She coughs and sputters up some water.

"Yes!" He hops up on his back legs and claws the air to celebrate a successful rescue.

"You found her!" Mudpaw turns his head to find Maplefall on the other side of the river. She smoothly hops across the stones to get to her kit. "I saw you come out of the water from upstream and ran as fast as I could, but it looks like you have things covered."

Maplefall pushes her head against him. "Thank you." She picks up her kit, purring, and leads them both back to camp. Once there, she sets the kitten in the middle of the clearing.

"Mintstar, Mintstar! Mudpaw saved my kit! He leapt into the stream and pulled her out." He pauses at the edge of the clearing, startled at being recognized. Every cat would do the same, right?

Mintstar comes forward and sniffs Mudpaw's fur. "I can see that, he has a lily pad stuck to his fur. Is she okay, Maplefall?" The leader turns his head back to the kitten in the middle. Maplefall nods, curling up around the kit. Mintstar turns back to Mudpaw, contemplative.

Oh no... I'm gonna get in trouble for leaving camp alone and swimming by myself and pulling up a lily pad and-

"Mudpaw, do you promise to uphold the warrior code and defend and protect your clan, even at the cost of your life?" Mintstar says to him. Mudpaw stares, mouth open. He shuts it. Opens it. Shuts it again.

He opens it once more. "Yes?" He squeaks out, hopeful this mean what he thinks it does. Mintstar twitches his whiskers in amusement.

"Then I, Mintstar, leader of MooseClan, call upon our ancestors to look down on this apprentice. He has worked hard to learn your code, and I commend him to you." He continues, "Mudpaw, for your quick thinking and bravely leaping into action, I give you your warrior name. From this moment on, you will be known as Mudleap."

rip sorry for word count i got carried away

Cognations on your new cat!

[Moonblaze-Angel]

thank you!!