Mossheart (ShC)

Mossheart is a dark tortoiseshell she-cat.

Code of the Clans

 * Mossheart is an ancient ShadowClan medicine cat.


 * Mossheart is treating Smoketalon's wound, which is one of the most recent of wounds he received from a long line of battles between ShadowClan and WindClan. When she is finished doing so, she goes to stand beside a queen named Lilyfur, who tells her that the two Clans, ShadowClan and WindClan, are fighting once again. Mossheart receives a vision that she is covered in blood, and she rushes to stop the ongoing battle.


 * She gets there at the same time as Swiftfoot, the WindClan medicine cat. They both tell the warriors of their respective Clans to go home. When Silvermask, the ShadowClan deputy, angrily asks if Mossheart wants her Clan to lose, Mossheart snaps that she wants them to live, and that he is mouse-brained for thinking so. As he stalks away, she decided to wait to tell him that his wounds would have to be treated with a goldenrod poultice. She passes by Spottedpaw, an apprentice who had been killed in the battle, and looks at him with sorrow. When Swiftfoot expresses his desire for the needless bloodshed to stop, she suggests he go to the Moonstone, and they decide to gather all the medicine cats and go together.


 * Mossheart meets with the other medicine cats at the half-moon, and she realizes with horror that the moon is red. She calms down when they reach the Moonstone chamber, only to be startled by a vision of a battle. The spirit of then Spottedpaw appears to her, and tells her the battle she just saw is what happens everyday, that this is what warriors do, and that they cannot change it. Mossheart protests that he died because of it, and he fades, telling her that they can't stop the battles, but maybe they can stop the dying. She is mournful when Spottedpaw leaves, realizing what a great warrior he would have been to his Clan.


 * She tells the other medicine cats that she dreamed of her fallen Clanmate, and they realize that they all had similar dreams. Their Clanmates didn't have to die for the other cats to win. They all decide to make it part of the warrior code, and to meet there every half-moon to share tongues together. As they are leaving, Mossheart hears Spottedpaw's voice thanking her, saying that StarClan will honor her forever and that her law will save many lives.