Mossheart (ShC)

Mossheart is a dark tortoiseshell she-cat.

Code of the Clans

 * Mossheart is an ancient ShadowClan medicine cat.


 * Mossheart is first seen healing her Clanmate Smoketalon's wounds; the most recent wounds in a long line of battles with WindClan. When she is done, she goes out to stand beside a queen named Lilyfur, who tells her that the two rival Clans are fighting again. Mossheart receives a vision, as if she is covered in blood, and she rushes to stop the battle.


 * She gets there just as Swiftfoot, the WindClan medicine cat, arrives as well. 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. She passes 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 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 Spottedpaw appears to her, and tells her this (the battle) is 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 maybe they can stop the dying. She is mournful when he leaves, realizing what worth he would have been to his Clan.


 * She tells the other medicine cats that she dreamed of her fallen Clanmate, and realize they all had had similar dreams; that their Clanmates didn't have to die for the other cat to win. They all decide to make it part of the warrior code, and to meet there on at the 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.