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rainsnap · 5 months

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Kit of Secrets - A Hollyleaf AU

Part 1

When Leafpool and Crowfeather’s secret was revealed to the clans. Both cats struggled to find their places in their clans once more. One day, Nightcloud approached Crowfeather with a proposition: she was pregnant by a loner, who, upon hearing of her pregnancy, fled. Afraid that her kits would be raised in hostility, she asks Crowfeather to pretend to be their father. As a means for both of them to be seen as loyal Windclan warriors. Crowfeather accepts, unaware that Leafpool is pregnant with his kits at the same moment.

Upon the winter time birth, the kits of Nightcloud are born weak and frail, each passing shortly after birth. Crowfeather and Nightcloud are both devastated, they watch their last kit (a small black she-cat) and wait for her to take her final breath. Then Crowfeather sees a vision of Feathertail, beckoning him to take the kit away and to follow her. He does exactly this. Feathertail leads him to the hollow tree where Leafpool is laid, birthing her own kits - their kits. As Crowfeather learns this discovery, the kit he is holding passes away and he demand to know why he had brought her here only to lose her too and be shown the kits he cannot have. It is then that Feathertail and Yellowfang point out the nearly identical black kit.

They tell Leafpool, Squirrelflight, and Crowfeather that the other two kits are gifted and will grow into greatness, but this third kit has no such powers and will grow to envy them and turn against them. So take her away to be raised in Windclan, a normal kit with a normal life. They all agree in the end and Squirrelflight requests that she is named Hollykit.

Crowfeather returns with Hollykit, alive and well, to Nightcloud. She is thrilled and grateful that Starclan saved her kit.

Hollypaw grows as a normal kit, doted on by both her parents. Unaware of the origins of her birth. When Crowfeather is invited to travel up the mountains, he wishes to bring Hollypaw with. It is here that Jaypaw, Lionpaw, and Hollypaw form a friendship and Hollypaw learns of their powers. All is well until the return from the mountain, when Hollypaw awakes in a field of flowers and meets a strange blue-eyed tom who tells her the truth: those two apprentices were her brothers and she should have been raised alongside them. Perhaps if she had, she would have had powers too.

Hollypaw grows resentful, beginning to train in the Dark Forest, but at the same time growing closer to her brothers. Often meeting in the tunnels beneath the moor. They train together in attempts to try to get Hollypaw’s powers to spark, but nothing happens and this pushes her only further into Hawkfrost’s manipulations. Perhaps being able to walk in the Dark Forest is her power? But her brothers would never listen to her, so she keeps it a secret.

After the three receive their warrior names. The fire scene occurs with Ashfur - Squirrelflight reveals the truth of Lionheart and Jayfather’s parents, Ashfur recalls the odd story surrounding Hollybreeze (a combo of Breezepelt and Hollyleaf as Breeezepelt does not exist in this AU)’s birth is now seeming a bit peculiar with this new information.

Lionheart and Jayfeather tell Hollybreeze of what had occurred with Ashfur and how he has threatened to tell all the clans at the next gathering. Hollybreeze begins to worry about the secret coming out, so she strikes out and murders Ashfur. Only for Hawkfrost to appear to her again and point out that her parents had lied to her this entire time, that the stars had turned against her, even Nightcloud was a liar - the kit she replaced wasn’t even of the clans to begin with, but the kit of a filthy loner. Hollybreeze is overcome with rage and anger, she appears before the gathering and declares the truth. Only moments later realizing the harm she had caused when she looks upon the faces of her parents - Crowfeather, Nightcloud, and Leafpool. When she looks at her brothers, as she sees is the hurt of her betrayal.

She flees into the tunnels and is never seen from again.

Part 2

Hollybreeze has lived in the tunnels for ages now with Fallen Leaves. She has grown accustomed to the darkness and still often visits the Dark Forest. Wandering it, believing that this is her power and that someday it will come in handy. Fallen Leaves tries to keep her away from the Dark Forest, fearing the shadowy cats, but she refuses to listen to him.

Then one day, Hawkfrost brings a new apprentice to the forest: Ivypaw. Hollybreeze is made Ivypaw’s secondary mentor (With Hawkfrost as the main influence). The two grow close, closer after Hollybreeze learns that Ivypaw’s sister is the third cat from the prophecy. This fuels their anger of being abandoned by the stars, so they train together and become like sisters. At one moment, they meet briefly in the waking world when Hollybreeze aid’s in helping Ivy out of the tunnels.

Then comes the day of the great battle and Ivypool has shown that she had turned away from the Dark Forest, becoming a spy for Hollybreeze’s brothers. Hollybreeze is hurt and refuses to turn against the Dark Forest, for they had been by her side when Starclan and the rest of the clans had failed her. Ivypool is disappointed and leaves, but Hollybreeze does not tell of the truth of the plan to the Dark Forest cats.

Instead the Battle begins and Hollybreeze finds herself unable to fight for either side, torn by who she should be loyal too. It is only when she sees Hawkfrost about to kill Ivypool that she chooses who she wants to fight for - she saves Ivypool and the two fight side by side, killing Hawkfrost. They fight together thought out the entire battle, only for Hollybreeze to vanish when the fighting is done.

Part 3

Hollybreeze has remained in the tunnels, living her life between the two clans she was born from. She sometimes visits Ivypool and the two remain close after all they’ve been through. Ivypool encourages Hollybreeze to return to Windclan or to join her in Thunderclan, but she just can’t face the clans after everything she had done and seen.

Then one day, when Ivypool goes to visit her, she notes that the tunnels smell strange. Stoats begin to swarm out of the tunnel mouth, causing Ivypool to flee. In fear she tells Dovewing of Hollybreeze. Leafpool, Jayfeather, Lionheart, all hear of this news and worry about the safety of Hollybreeze. They all go out to search for her, only to be spotted by a Windclan patrol who ask what’s up. When told, Crowfeather and Nightcloud both join the search party, Nightcloud grows the most desperate of the them all, daring to take the plunge and enter the tunnels.

The patrol follows her, but are split up in the fight and each must flee. Only Nightcloud doesn’t make it out. The group continues to try to search for any signs of the two black she-cats, but with no luck. Eventually, Ivypool discovers that Hollybreeze had fled to the abandoned two-leg place after the stoats had taken over. She tells Hollybreeze of the party of cats, of her family, who were all searching for her worried and how Nightcloud is now missing. Hollybreeze still sees Nightcloud as her mother and joins the patrol. The rest of the cats are hesitant to enter the tunnels again, but Hollybreeze refuses to leave Nightcloud down there.

So she takes the plunge and fights against the stoats, making her way down into her old home. Discovering where Nightcloud has been stashed away by the stoats. Still alive. Hollybreeze saves her and the two fight their way out of the tunnels, joined by the rest of the patrol and greeted at the end by Jayfeather and Leafpool who are eager to treat their wounds. The family is reunited. Hollybreeze returns to Windclan and makes amends with her family.

After this, Hollybreeze struggles to settle back in clan life, but this time her family is there to help her. Encouraging her on and making sure she knows she isn’t alone. She grows close to her parents again and settles into clan life once more, Heathertail and her (who were close as apprentices) are now low-key mates. Eventually this leads to Hollybreeze being declared the deputy by Harestar (who, like her, trained in the Dark Forest and knows just how strong Hollybreeze can be.)

Part 4

The time has come for the cats to face Ashfur in the Dark Forest. The chaos he had wrought upon the clans has gone on for long enough. Each clan choose a cat to enter the Dark Forest, and Hollybreeze is one of them. She tells Ivypool that she will do everything in her strength to protect her daughter, Bristlefrost. Ivypool doesn’t wish for Hollybreeze to leave, no one does, but she enters the Dark Forest and is a great aid, for she knows the forest well having trained in it since being an apprentice.

The fight with Ashfur begins, she sees Bristlefrost racing to save Shadowsight from Ashfur’s grasps. They begin to go over, into the dark waters and Hollybreeze cannot let this happen. She cannot allow Ivypool to lose her daughter, she promised to protect her! Hollybreeze snatches Bristlefrost away, throwing her back to land and taking her place. Fighting Ashfur again. She makes a comment about not having killed him good enough the first time, gotta try again. The two drown together in the darkness.

Hollybreeze dreams not of a world that doesn’t exist, but of the world she ended up gaining in the end. Of her mate, of her family, of her parents (Leafpool, Crowfeather, and Nightcloud are now in a poly relationship), of her aunt and her uncle, of her brother and of Ivypool who was like a daughter to her and of Bristlefrost, who can now live and be free to love. She dreams that she was part of a prophecy, one that no one was aware of, of a kit born into the darkness of secrecy in order to truly defeat it.

#errornoises #warrior cats rewrite #wc au #warrior cat au #Hollyleaf #Hollyleaf AU #oops I did it again I wrote another AU #tbh Hollyleaf should have been the one to kill Ashfur in the Dark Forest #Because I love the idea of her killing him yet again by a body of water #Possible option is that Holly becomes leader of Windclan before the final battle with Ashfur #and when she sinks into the murky water she appears again when it drains because she had back up lives

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malkumtend · 4 years

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Where the hell is the chemistry for CrowSquirrel in the canon books? This is such a random ship it's pathetically laughable. Are you Squirrelflight stans so desperate for romance that you'll resort to anything. I don't know who's more stupid, you or the morons reading this shit.

Huh... Y’know considering the canon series has relationships that promote domestic abuse and paedophilia, I think I can live without sticking to them.

So, SquirrelCrow has no canon chemistry? Okay, maybe that’s true. But how about these ships - LeafHawk, MothPool, IvyBreeze, RootShadow, HareCrow, IvyHawk, DustSand, HollyBreeze (this one used to be massive). All of these are relatively popular ships, and none of them have any canon hints to build them up. The only thing they have is that they are cats that have worked together at some point, or they are friends, like SquirrelCrow. But here’s the thing, it really does not matter at all. Because AU’s exist!

I’m not claiming to follow canon, I’m just twisting the narrative a little so a cat bonds with a different cat to the canon. But even if this was the most random ship in the entire fandom, would I stop shipping it because some c**t disagrees with me. Not a chance. People are allowed to ship anything they want. And if they present a narrative that gives a cool reason for the two to get together, then that’s even better! We should embrace the multitudes of AU’s that can be crafted throughout the fandom! Try expanding your tastes to see why people like these ships and, while you don’t have to like it, you can maybe understand why these people do.

It’s called basic human respect. Look it up.

If you don’t like the same ship as me, and if you hate my story, that is within your right. But don’t come at me because you are offended I’m not following your precious canon (if every ship had to follow the canon, it would be really damn boring). And don’t ever insult the people supporting me, because they have more brains and romantic taste than you could ever hope to have in your life!

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