Post by Elf on Apr 13, 2013 14:37:06 GMT -5
THE HISTORY
the past . the present . the future
[/justify][/size]A long, long time ago there was this great leader known as Cloudstar. He had asked four clans for sanctuary, and they had tossed him and his clan out like they were crow food. Betrayed by the ancestors and his fellow clans, he took his own clan from the forest into the unknown; just up the river. He lost many cats along the way, but they settled into this petite little gorge. Prey was plentiful and the two-legs were few and in-between. Life was good, or so they thought. In the depth of the night rats came and Cloudstar's clan; Skyclan was no more. For many moons, the legend of Skyclan became just that, a legend told you kits at bed time. Until Starclan contacted a leader of the old forest and he was sent on a journey, a journey to change the fact of a lost clan forever.
His name was Firestar. They call him the founder of the second Skyclan, with help from Skywalker, a tom who told the stories his mother had told him. The only living cat whose Skyclan traditions were correct, and he died helping build that very clan. It was when the clan was finally constructed that the rats returned and their cat-speaking leader challenged the cats of the gorge. Firestar along with his mate and the rest of Skyclan fought bravely and killed the cat-speaking rat. Firestar left, Leafstar becoming the first leader of the new Skyclan. Moons would pass, and Leafstar would rule bravely and good. Her deputy would take up her position and such the life of Skyclan grew and their population blossomed to it's peak.
Then they were forced from the gorge. The two-legs ruining their territory once more, creating a damn so to stop and fill the gorge to it's top and they fled under Spiderstar. Spiderstar lead his clan north-east, through the forest around the two-leg place and deep into the wilderness. They met many cats, loners who were curious and helped and later followed them. They met rogues who hissed but ran after seeing the numbers and finally Spiderstar was given a vision. A beautiful sunset fell into the depths of a sea.
So they continued to move forward until they came to a valley and as they traveled they came to a small meadow and then they saw the sun set in the distance. Spiderstar; growing weary from the travel, padded to wards where the sun was setting with a group of warriors, and then medicine cat. They discovered it; the vision Spiderstar had witness and in that moment they were ambushed. By two different type of cats.
This was the day Skyclan met the tribes of Running Deer and Falling Waters. There was a lot of chatter that night and days to come as the tribes allowed the clan cats into their home. They divided the territory between them and gave the southern half of the territories to Skyclan, keeping them from their sacred place of visiting their ancestors. Skyclan was given terms to never gross past the trees on the western side of there territories and to never enter the eastern plains.
But they were invited to a meet and greet once a moon. Something both Tribes thought agreeable, two days of peaceful gathering where the younger ones could visit cats from other tribes and acknowledge them. Make friends and maybe enemies. Learn secrets and share news. The tribes told of their ancestors and how in those twos days they traveled down to their sacred cave where they gain news.
Thus they invited Skyclan's leader one day; and the three rulers met with not just the tribe ancestors but Skyclan's ancestors. The two groups of cats mixed together.
'This is it... welcome home.'
It's took the tribe seven and a half moons to travel from the gorge to the cliff.
It's been ten moons since they settled at the cliff.
It's been eight moons since Spiderstar passed away.
