The Wicked Island
Moon 101 - 120
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The clans decide that they need to make as much distance from their old territory as quickly as they can. Some of the younger cats suggested riding with a watermonster away from a place that they deemed cursed. The older cats, including Smokestar, immediately try to shoot down this idea, but the cats eventually manage to sway the decision into making this risky move. After finding and sneaking into the mouth of a monster, the cats were carried over to a new island territory.
This territory, very much unlike their old one, was wide and open and seemed pretty harmless. The clans were able to peacefully divide their territory up to a degree of satisfaction that they were severely lacking in their former valley home. The clans became far more cooperative with one another as they settled into their new home that would hopefully be less chaotic than their last one.
Curiously, upon closer inspection, cats were starting to discover the appearance of a wide array of animals that they had never seen before. Sooty falcons, lynxes, African snakes; if you could think of the animal, it most likely existed somewhere on the island. It was curious and scary, but with the memory of the flooding-flaming-dog territory still fresh in their minds, they simply decided to keep an eye out for one another.
The Moonhive was quickly discovered, providing the clans with a more powerful connection with StarClan than they had had in seasons and seasons.
As time went on, more and more unfamiliar animals started to appear into the territories. This caused cat name trends to become somewhat random as region-specific names were now officially dead. As this happened, several cats started to get sick with a mysterious illness that caused a cat to go mad and excrete a white foam from their mouths. The disease was passed on through bites and countless cats died to the sickness. The whole disease was simply evil. It caused cats to act on edge and without much thought. It threw carefully balanced clan relationships out of balance. It tore families apart.
The pressures and sudden dangers caused leaders Stormstar of ShadeClan and Lionstar of BreezeClan to either vanish or die; what happened to the two to this day is still a mystery. Stormstar was succeeded by Crookedstar and Lionstar was succeeded by Owlstar respectively. Although it is confirmed that Crookedstar did receive her nine lives at the newly discovered Moonhive, the fact that Owlstar received his nine lives is somewhat ambiguous due to his rule being so short lived. A couple moons later, Grizzlystar succeeded Owlcloud who decided that his place in the clan was as a warrior; not a leader.
After his death to a fox sick with whitefroth, the legendary Leopardstar succeeded him as the leader of CloudClan. Apparently, whatever curse some thought was back at the valley territory simply followed them here; there seemed to be no escaping their misfortune.
A dark force disrupts a gathering and traps all attendants in the area. The forces warn the clans that if they don't accommodate to their commands that they will strike back with a vengeance and will destroy them all.
Leopardstar and a few other cats start getting visits from ghostly cats. They appear to have a pure aura to them and they claim that they are there to protect the clan cats from the immediate threat. They arm Leopardstar with a pendant to protect herself with and a young cat named Willowbreeze is proven to have prophetic abilities beyond anything that the clans had seen before. Together, the Watchers and clan cats devise a plan to protect themselves from the force that wants them dead.
The clans once again regroup in a very similar form to what they did back on the mountains; they had very loose borders and were once again forced to treat themselves as a monolith. It was no longer a matter of Clan Vs. Clan; it was a matter of clans Clans Vs. Certain Death.
Willowbreeze was set to go onto a journey with several others in search of a guaranteed solution to fight back their enemy. She managed to get to a point of organizing her cats to an extent, but it would never come to fruition.
Leopardstar worked with the other leaders to construct an entirely new class system to divide labor more efficiently among the clans. Smokestar was uncharacteristically involved in this process, as the leader had spent many moons in seclusion; ironically, he seemed to agree with Leopardstar more than any other leader at that time. In theory, the cats were to have hunting exclusive cats, battle exclusive cats, intelligence-gathering exclusive cats, and nursery-oriented cats. Some cats made this switch over faster than others, but the system would never fully go into effect.
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The clans were ambushed suddenly in the night. The immediate impact was enough to devastate the clans and they were soon caught off guard and fighting for their lives. Many cats died or vanished in the final flash of light that to this day no cat knows if it came from Watcher or Wicked. Their spiritual heroes were dead. Whole family lines were snuffed out and countless lives were lost.
It was soon discovered that Smokestar had betrayed them all. he was the one behind the negative energy and even for some of the bad luck that the clans faced. He had been colluding with the Wicked ever since he had left the mountains and he had managed to drive the clans to the brink of extinction... But he was gone now. Several leaders were. He was succeeded by his shaken mate, Robinstar, who, like many cats, would have never seen his betrayal coming.
Leopardstar had been lost somewhere in the fray. Some speculate her pendant created the final flash that ended the fight, but nobody knew for certain. She was succeeded by Rookstar.
Grizzlystar had vanished and a humble tom by the name of Reedstar succeeded him. Although at this point cats did not think much of the young tom, the cat would go onto be a legendary leader of his clan and a role model to those in the forest.