Mouthclaw

Mouthclaw is a large, female adder. She has sharp-fanged jaws and is ten fox-lengths long and as wide as a pregnant badger.

Secrets of the Clans

 * Mouthclaw lives in a dark cave near Snakerocks at the time of the ancient Clans, LionClan, LeopardClan, and TigerClan. She had killed many warriors from all the Clans and was feared by every cat. With her fangs, she could swallow a living cat whole, and she spits out deadly venom.


 * Sunpelt, a warrior of LionClan, thinks he can defeat Mouthclaw and prove what a brave warrior he is, so he plans to kill her. One morning he waits and calls for Mouthclaw outside of her cave, where she eventually comes out, angry. She wants to fight Sunpelt, and kill him, because he made her angry. She attacks him, but Sunpelt dodges. The fight goes on for the whole day, but Mouthclaw can't get close enough to Sunpelt to kill him. She becomes too weak to fight, and promises to Sunpelt that if he will spare her life, she will grant him one wish.


 * Sunpelt thinks about what he could wish for. He then chooses and tells Mouthclaw that he wishes that she would be the length of a cat's tail, then she could do no harm to the Clans, but, Mouthclaw tricks Sunpelt into bringing a thousand snakes the size of a cat's tail to the forest, all deadly and fierce, but not as dangerous as Mouthclaw. The snakes continue to reproduce, and live at Snakerocks until the Twolegs destroy their territory.