Graystripe

Graystripe is a long-haired, broad-faced, thick-set gray tom with yellow eyes, a darker gray stripe running down his back, and a bushy tail.

Into the Wild

 * On Graypaw's first night out as an apprentice, he meets Rusty when he strays out of Twolegplace, and gets into a small fight with him. Graypaw tells him he fought a good fight for a kittypet and tells him about the Clans. He is flattered that Rusty thinks he was a warrior and explains that he is only a ThunderClan apprentice. He then scents cats from his Clan and tells Rusty to get away. Unfortunately, Rusty didn't take to the warning in time and Bluestar and Lionheart find the two, making Graypaw crouch under their presences. He begins to defend Rusty from his leader and mentor and then introduces them to Rusty. He is then pleased with Bluestar's praise as she tells them that they've been watching them and is glad to see how he reacted bravely towards an intruder. Graypaw protests when Bluestar asks Rusty to join the Clan, saying that he has no warrior blood in him, but Rusty says he wishes to give it some thought. He leaves with Lionheart, following Bluestar's signal after she tells Rusty to think about his decision.


 * When Rusty arrives at ThunderClan camp, Graypaw watches him fight Longtail, and immediately runs over to him and calls him by his new name, Firepaw. He congratulates him on his victory along with other cats of the Clan and tells him a little about a few cats, including Spottedleaf and Darkstripe. His is interupted, however, by Smallear's warning yowl, indicating that he smells trouble. He is then shocked when Ravenpaw, his fellow apprentice arrives back to camp from a battle against RiverClan with Tigerclaw or Redtail. He is shocked along with the rest of the Clan when Ravenpaw announces Redtail's death by Oakheart. He then drops into a crouch of grief when Tigerclaw returned holding Redtail's body. Then, when cats go to share tounges with him for the last time, he tells Firepaw about StarClan. He and Firepaw visit Ravenpaw, who is being treated by Spottedleaf. When Tigerclaw nudges Ravenpaw to get up, Graypaw remarks that he wouldn't want to get into a fight with him. After talking to Ravenpaw, he and Firepaw are asked to leave the den by Spottedleaf and goes to show Firepaw around the camp. He shows Firepaw the various dens and takes Firepaw to meet the elders and share prey with them. Graypaw watches Firepaw take his first bite of mouse and then eats his share. The two retire to bed in the apprentices' den as cats go to sit vigil for Redtail. The next morning, Tigerclaw and Lionheart show Graypaw and Firepaw around ThunderClan territory and Graypaw points on landmarks such as Sunningrocks and Fourtrees. The group keeps moving after observing Fourtrees and proceeds to the Thunderpath. Finally, they return to camp. The next day, Graypaw, Firepaw and Ravenpaw start hunting.


 * Two moons after Firepaw joined the Clan, Graypaw runs into him, on his way to deliver a message to the patrol along the WindClan border from Bluestar. Graypaw hunts with Firepaw to kill some time. After wandering for a while, the two reach the Thunderpath. Then, he runs off to deliver the message. When Graypaw meets up with Firepaw and Yellowfang with the patrol, he was reassured his friend that Bluestar would give him a fair punishment. Later, when Bluestar calls a Clan meeting, he is in awe when Bluestar takes Firepaw on as her apprentice and discusted at Firepaw's punishment. After the meeting, he suggests to Firepaw to see Yellowfang. And while Firepaw continues to treat Yellowfang, Graypaw assures him that Bluestar will have his training started back up in no time.


 * Graypaw and his two friends attend the first Gathering since the disappearence of WindClan and meet all sorts of cats, and he is outraged when Brokenstar reveals his Clan drove out WindClan, and refuses to join RiverClan and ShadowClan, who are sharing their hunting grounds as well as when Brokenstar mentions a ShadowClan cat who endangered kits.


 * After returning from the Gathering, Graypaw, Firepaw and Ravenpaw accompany Bluestar and Tigerclaw to the Moonstone. He and Ravenpaw stamd on guard outside while Bluestar, Tigerclaw and Firepaw go inside, though Tigerclaw joins them later. After they leave and meet Barley, who reccomends a good route to avoid the dogs, though they get attacked by rats. He fights them off with the rest of the cats and watches Bluestar lose a life. When the cats return to camp, their camp is being attacked by ShadowClan. After the battle, Lionheart is being treated by Spottedleaf for his fatal wounds and is with him when he dies. His leg was wounded in the battle and his grief made it worse. But Graypaw slowly gets better and finishes his training with Tigerclaw.


 * A few days later, Frostfur's kits have disappeared and their kidnapper killed Spottedleaf. In addition to that, Yellowfang has disappeared and she is accused of killing Spottedleaf and taking the kits to ShadowClan. So Bluestar assigns Firepaw to find her. Graypaw questions him, and Firepaw tells the danger Ravenpaw's in and the two take him to live with Barley, and look for Yellowfang afterwards. They find her in ShadowClan territory and find out that Yellowfang didn't steal the kits. Clawface did and Yellowfang is trying to rescue them. So while Yellowfang goes to find some cats to help her in ShadowClan, a patrol from ThunderClan finds them and agrees to help rescue the kits.


 * The cats attack openly on ShadowClan and manage to drive out Brokenstar and his warriors. Graypaw finds the kits with only minor injuries and brings them back to ThunderClan. When they get back, the Clan immediatly accuses Yellowfang of treachery, but it was Graypaw who suggeseted to look at Spottedleaf, and see the brown fur of Clawface. Whitestorm tells Bluestar of Graypaw and Firepaw's corageous fighting and are made warriors. Graypaw recieves the name Graystripe and Firepaw becomes Fireheart.

Fire and Ice

 * Graystripe and Fireheart finish their warrior vigils and go to the warriors den to get some sleep. Later, they attend the Gathering and see warriors such as Wetfoot, Blackclaw and Leopardfur. This Gathering was an important one since it was announced that Nightpelt would lead ShadowClan and that WindClan must return to the forest. Also, when ThunderClan returned to camp, it was mentioned by Dappletail that RiverClan wanted WindClan's hunting grounds because Twolegs have taken over part of the river. So, the next morning, Bluestar assigns them the task of finding WindClan and bringing them back.


 * Graystripe and Fireheart take the route past Fourtrees into WindClan territory. They hide from a RiverClan patrol hunting a rabbit. When they are gone, they are able to locate the WindClan camp and pick up their scents. With the WindClan scents on their noses, they follow the trail near the Highstones, and come to a Thunderpath. They temporarily lose the scent, but find it again on the other side. They find a tunnel and discover that the Thunderpaths are right above them. With that on their minds, they fall asleep and wake up in the morning. They go through the tunnel and emerge onto a patch of grass surrounded by Thunderpaths. In the middle were cats being scared away by Twolegs. Graystripe and Fireheart follow them into another tunnel and find the entire Clan sleeping in it.


 * The WindClan cats, who are hostile at first, because they thought it was ShadowClan cats attacking, warm up to the ThunderClan cats when they say that Brokenstar has been driven out, especially Tallstar. Once the Clan is ready, Graystripe leads the way while Fireheart travels beside the Clan. He leads the Clan through the tunnel to the final Thunderpath. Graystripe introduces Fireheart to Onewhisker, a WindClan warrior and together with Tallstar and Deadfoot, they organize groups to cross the Thunderpath and luckily, everyone crosses safely. Once they cross, Graystripe and Fireheart are thrilled meet their old friend, Ravenpaw, who made it to Barley's farm with no problems. Ravenpaw and Barley welcome the Clan to stay and hunt for the night. Graystripe talks with his two friends about how it was best that ThunderClan believed Ravenpaw was dead, and went to sleep while Ravenpaw kept watch. The next morning, the cats recieve an omen from Barkface, WindClan's medicine cat that today would bring an unnecissary death.


 * After discussing the omen breifly, Graystripe and Fireheart lead WindClan back to their camp. Once they return, Graystripe and Fireheart enjoy a meal with Deadfoot and Onewhisker, who are to escort the two exahsted warriors to Fourtrees, and he remarks to Fireheart how WindClan warriors are much better rabbit hunters than RiverClan warriors. He and Fireheart plan to take a risky route in RiverClan territory, along the gorge, to get home sooner. Graystripe objects at first, but agrees eventually agrees, saying he wants to get to get home sooner. So the cats agree to take that route and, unfortunatly, the cats run into a RiverClan patrol consisting of six cats, including Whiteclaw and Leopardfur. The cats leap into battle, but the weak, tired cats are no match for the strong, well fed RiverClan cats, at least not until a ThnderClan patrol comes by and assists the four cats. During the battle, Graystripe fights Whiteclaw, and Whiteclaw falls over the gorge to hs death. He tried to grab him, but he couldn't, and it bothers him for a long time.


 * Graystripe and Fireheart return to ThunderClan camp and are congradulated for their accompliciment, but are briefly scolded for traveling through RiverClan territory, and Graystripe is consantly reminded of Whiteclaw's death by Tigerclaw, who brought them home. And later, while Fireheart is thrilled that he and Graystripe get to mentor two of Frostfur's kits, Graystripe is disappointed that he has given RiverClan a reason to attack, and ThunderClan needs more apprentices. With that, Graystrpe and Fireheart recieve their apprentices, Brackenpaw and Cinderpaw. Graystripe and Fireheart take their apprentices around the forest separately, to the dismay of Fireheart. They agree later to share a mouse and compare apprentices, and they go their seperate ways, with Graystripe still feeling pain at Whiteclaw's death. When he returns, he feels better, saying that Brackenpaw was a quick learner and enjoys being a mentor.


 * The next day, Graystripe agrees to take Cinderpaw when Fireheart wants to go see his sister, Princess, though Graystripe doesn't know this. When Fireheart returns, Graystripe feels a little better about the battle with RiverClan, but he still feels resposible for Whiteclaw's death. The day after that, he and Fireheart show their apprentices how to hunt and as they head back to the camp, Cinderpaw runs out on the frozen river to look at it. Then, in between two pieces of ice, he sees a water vole. He runs out to catch it, but the ice beneath him breaks and he falls in the river. As he flows downstream, Silverstream, a RiverClan cat rescues him. Graystripe and his friends are thankful and Graystripe could barely take his eyes off of Silverstream, and only starts to feel the effects of the ice water when she leaves, and sees Yellowfang when he returns to camp and must stay in camp because he has a chill. Then, to Firehearts surprise, Graystripe isn't very hungery.


 * Later, Graystripe is acting very odd. He often sneaks out of camp, even though he is sick, and begins to neglect Brackenpaw's training.

Forest of Secrets

 * Later, when the river is flooded, he and Fireheart catch ThunderClan prey and give it to RiverClan. After a short time, Silverstream becomes pregnant with his kits. Although delighted, he knows the trouble this brings. He also continues to neglect Brackenpaw.


 * Graystripe and Fireheart hear mewling from the river. They both cross into RiverClan territory to rescue two drowning kits, who turn out to be Mistyfoot's. Crookedstar thanks them grudgingly.


 * Towards the end of the book, Graystripe meets with Silverstream again, but this time, her kits start to come. Fireheart discovers them and soon it is apparent that something is wrong with her kitting. Fireheart fetches Cinderpaw and she tries to save Silverstream. The two kits are saved, but Silverstream bleeds to death. Graystripe is devastated. After a long conflict between RiverClan and ThunderClan over who will take the kits, Graystripe lets them go to RiverClan. It is only just before he takes them that he tells Fireheart that he is going with them to join RiverClan, much to Fireheart's dismay.

Rising Storm

 * Graystripe is not seen in most of the book, only mentioned by Fireheart and his other former Clanmates.


 * Fireheart thinks about his best friend and what he would say when Cloudpaw goes away to find food, leaving Fireheart to take his pigeon back to camp. Then, when Fireheart goes to Bluestar about Ashkit and Fernkit's apprentice ceremonies, Bluestar suggests that Graystripe mentor one of them, forgeting that he left the Clan. Also, on their way to the Highstones, Bluestar and Fireheart pass RiverClan and Fireheart gets excited that he may see Graystripe.


 * At the Gathering, Graystripe was not there, but Fireheart asked about him from Leopardfur, she says he is getting used to the water and that his kits are strong and clever. Also, when Sandstorm and Fireheart follow Whitethroat and Littlecloud home to ShadowClan, they saw them disappear through the tunnel under the Thunderpath, like the one he and Graystripe used to find WindClan.


 * Through the whole course of the story, Graystripe does his best to remain loyal to RiverClan, but deep down he his loyalties still lie with ThunderClan. When a huge fire rages through ThunderClan camp, driving them into RiverClan territory, Graystripe is ecstatic to see Fireheart again. He shows him proudly how well his kits, Featherkit and Stormkit, are doing. Graystripe hints to Bluestar that he would like to return to ThunderClan and help with the repairs, but she fiercely refuses, leaving a disappointed Graystripe.

A Dangerous Path

 * Graystripe still struggles to remain loyal to RiverClan. Leopardstar is suspicious of him, and feels that he will betray them at some point. Soon, Leopardstar demands that ThunderClan repay RiverClan for shelter from the fire by giving up Sunningrocks. Naturally, ThunderClan refuses, and battle ensues. Graystripe finds that he cannot fight against ThunderClan. He warns Fireheart when Leopardstar attacks him. She then tells Graystripe to attack Fireheart or else he will have 'major consequences'. Graystripe refuses, and Leopardstar, furious, starts to threaten Graystripe until reinforcements from ThunderClan show up. She takes one look and flees. In fury after the battle, Leopardstar exiles him from RiverClan. Graystripe goes back to ThunderClan, but most of the Clan members do not accept him, much to his dismay. He tells Fireheart that they will never trust him again, after what he'd done.


 * Sandstorm, who is mad at Fireheart for not choosing her to mentor Tawnykit, spends a lot of time with Graystripe, and points this out loudly as often as she can.


 * Graystripe is one of the few "runners" chosen by Fireheart, that lure the dog pack to the gorge.


 * When Bluestar is dying after saving Fireheart from an attack by a dog pack, he keeps Tigerstar at bay, so Fireheart can share tongues with Bluestar one last time. When Bluestar dies, Graystripe stops fighting Tigerstar and goes over to comfort his friend.

The Darkest Hour

 * Now that Firestar is leader, the Clan becomes balanced and they begin to accept Graystripe again. Although happy, Graystripe is desperate to get information about his RiverClan kits. He is worried about them now that Tigerstar has taken over RiverClan. Firestar, Ravenpaw and Graystripe go into RiverClan territory, soon seeing that not only are Graystripe's kits to be killed, but so is Mistyfoot and Stonefur. The three of them bravely rescue them and bring them to ThunderClan for safety (unable to save Stonefur). Graystripe temporarily mentors Stormpaw while he stays in ThunderClan. Graystripe is delighted, but when RiverClan is freed from Tigerstar's clutches, his kits return to RiverClan. In the battle with BloodClan, he kills Darkstripe to protect Firestar. Graystripe becomes the new deputy of ThunderClan in the battle, just after Whitestorm dies.

Firestar's Quest

 * Graystripe is deputy when this book starts.


 * When Firestar decided to tell someone about the journey he would be embarking on, Graystripe was one of the three cats he told, along with Sandstorm and Cinderpelt. Before Firestar could finish telling the three cats, Graystripe and Sandstorm accuse him of abandoning his Clan to return to his kittypet life, as that is what they believed he was going to tell them.


 * When Firestar left, Graystripe was left in charge of the Clan along with Cinderpelt until Firestar and Sandstorm, who was chosen to accompany him, returned from rebuilding SkyClan.

Bluestar's Prophecy

 * At the end of the book, Bluestar sees Rusty sitting on his fence post. Bluestar then instructs Whitestorm to tell Graypaw to keep an eye on this kittypet.


 * He is also seen training with Sandpaw, Dustpaw, and Ravenpaw.

Midnight

 * In Midnight, it is revealed that he knows about the Fire and Tiger prophecy that Cinderpelt received when a piece of Twoleg rubbish set alight a dried bracken bush when she was out with Leafpaw collecting herbs. Even though Firestar is very worried about it, he appears to be okay with the knowledge.


 * At the beginning of the book, Squirrelpaw gets caught in a bramble bush, but Brambleclaw helps her free herself. Firestar walks in just after she becomes unstuck and rebukes them for being together, his fear of them destroying ThunderClan making him stressed. Graystripe then arrives and tells Firestar they aren't doing any harm.


 * His kits, Feathertail and Stormfur, went on a quest to find "Midnight" at the sun-drown-place.


 * He is still seen a lot with Firestar and continues to be ThunderClan's deputy.

Moonrise

 * He worries about Feathertail and Stormfur a lot now while Firestar worries about Squirrelpaw and sometimes Brambleclaw. He provides support for Firestar, as he is going through the same thing. When Leafpaw asks Graystripe if any cat knew Mothwing's and Hawkfrost's father was, he replies, "No. I always assumed it was another rogue."

Dawn

 * His son, Stormfur, returns from the sun-drown-place. When they reach Sunningrocks, Stormfur informs Graystripe on Feathertail's death. Graystripe turns to Brambleclaw and puts the blame on him for "taking her away," but Squirrelpaw bravely defends Brambleclaw, saying it wasn't his fault. Graystripe apologizes, saying that it wasn't fair, because losing Feathertail felt like losing Silverstream all over again.


 * He takes a ThunderClan patrol to rescue ThunderClan cats Brightheart, Cloudtail, and Leafpaw, along with Gorsetail of WindClan, and Mistyfoot of RiverClan. Also among the cats rescued were Cody, a kittypet and many rogues including the RiverClan cats Hawkfrost and Mothwing's mother Sasha. Having rescued all the cats though, Graystripe is not able to get out of the Twoleg monster before the doors close and lock him in, getting captured and taken away by the Twolegs.


 * When the ThunderClan patrol returns to camp, they explain to Firestar that Graystripe was captured by Twolegs.

Starlight

 * He remains ThunderClan's official deputy as Firestar refuses to appoint another until he has proof that Graystripe is dead.

Twilight

 * He remains ThunderClan's official deputy as Firestar still refuses to appoint another.

Sunset

 * Firestar appoints Brambleclaw deputy as Graystripe's successor, finally admitting that it is likely that Graystripe is dead.

The Lost Warrior

 * Graystripe is determined not to live the life of a kittypet and get back to ThunderClan. One time he ended up getting into a fight with another kittypet named Duke, and lost. Then he met Millie, who told him that nobody ever won a fight against Duke. She led him back to his Twoleg nest. He comments, "Lose a fight with a kittypet, then get too lost to find my way back here? I want to curl up somewhere and die." A few days later, Millie showed him a forest to make him happy. In that forest, Graystripe taught Millie how to hunt and fight. Eventually, Duke saw them practicing and taunted them. This time, it was three on two (Duke brought some of his friends with him). While Millie fights off Duke's friends, Graystripe aims for Duke. This time, he beats Duke.


 * Graystripe thinks he isn't a warrior anymore, until Silverstream appears to him in a dream and tells him to return to ThunderClan. Millie doesn't come to accompany him on his journey at first, but after ten days, she catches up to him. Until then, Graystripe is so lost that he wanders in circles for days, starving and hallucinating. He thinks he saw Firestar, then imagines he heard Sandstorm, Cloudtail, and Bluestar's voices. Millie's eventually gets louder than the rest of them. Millie wonders who Silverstream was, so Graystripe explains that she was his first mate, but died giving birth to his kits. He says he would never stop loving Silverstream, but since he met Millie, he isn't lonely anymore. Millie says that if Graystripe needed help, he had her.

Warrior's Refuge

 * Graystripe and Millie continue in their journey to find ThunderClan. He and Millie are separated in a corn field, after running from a huge combine. They are reunited by a small group of barn cats who were kicked out of their Twoleg's nest after their old owners died. The cats are Husker, his mate Moss, Moss' brother Splash, and their kits, Birdy, Pad, Raindrop, and Little Mew. After rescuing a female Twoleg kit, the Twolegs befriend the barn cats and care for them. Graystripe and Millie find the Great Sycamore tree, and Graystripe discovers the old ThunderClan camp, which is now deserted.

Warrior's Return

 * Graystripe sees that ThunderClan's camp has been destroyed, and that only the medicine cats' den made it through. He and Millie go to the barn on WindClan territory, where they meet Ravenpaw and Barley, and they give him directions to where the Clans went. They go to Mac's Truckstop, where they meet a cat named Diesel. Graystripe is hit by a monster, and is wounded. The two stay at the truck stop while Graystripe heals. During this, Graystripe thinks of ways of how to tell Millie how he feels about her. He also soon becomes jealous of Diesel since he and Millie had become close friends. Graystripe later reveals his feelings to Millie and learns that she feels the same towards him. After he heals, he and Millie ride on a monster to Sun-Drown-Place. After, they meet a rogue who tells them that he saw the Clans coming through. They arrive at the Clans' new home, and see the cats on the way to the Gathering. Then, before they go down, Graystripe asks Millie to be his mate, and she accepts. Then, they go to the island, and see the Clans.

The Sight

 * Graystripe and Millie arrive on the island, where the Clans are having a gathering. At first, no one recognizes Graystripe, and attack them both. But Firestar stops them with a yowl, suddenly recognizing his long lost friend. He jumps down from the Great Oak to meet him. Graystripe and Millie look very ragged, dirty, tired, and hungry. Firestar immediately brings them back to the camp, and Graystripe announces that Millie is his new mate. When they get back to camp, Graystripe and Millie eat and rest. It takes a while for them both to regain their strength. Meanwhile, Firestar is worried about who's going to be deputy. He didn't know if he should appoint Graystripe the deputy as he once was, or leave Brambleclaw the deputy. After consulting StarClan and Leafpool, Firestar decided to let Brambleclaw remain deputy. Brackenfur wasn't happy about this at first, speaking up for his former mentor. But Graystripe didn't mind not being deputy. He understood that Brambleclaw knew the Clan better, and would make a great deputy.

Dark River

 * Graystripe is the first to defend Millie when she decides to keep her name as her warrior name. At the beginning of the book he helps Birchfall expand the warrior's den. Graystripe is also seen with a bellyache and Millie is tormenting him about how he ate too much.

Outcast

 * Graystripe serves as ThunderClan's temporary deputy while Brambleclaw, the current deputy, is journeying to the mountains, along with his mate and kits. Graystripe's mate, Millie is also pregnant with his kits.

Eclipse

 * Graystripe's mate, Millie, has her kits. Before the kits are born, Graystripe says to Jaypaw, "If you have to choose to save anyone save her." He seems to be afraid that things will end badly as they did with Silverstream's kitting. However, their kits are born without a problem and they are named Bumblekit, Briarkit, and Blossomkit.


 * After WindClan attacks, Firestar orders Graystripe to stay behind and guard the camp. Graystripe is noticeably relieved that he can stay near Millie and their kits.


 * He seems worried when Millie catches whitecough that she will die, thus sending him into another flashback to Silverstream.

Long Shadows

 * It is stated when Millie and Briarkit have greencough and are moved to the abandoned Twoleg den, he is depressed and really misses her, and so do the healthy kits. When Millie was departing with the other sick cats, he had to be restrained from going to her by Hollyleaf and Lionblaze, and he had nearly attacked Lionblaze.

Sunrise

 * When Firestar takes a patrol to WindClan to ask if they know anything about Ashfur's death, he tells Graystripe to keep an eye on Thornclaw and the others. Graystripe then says that he will stick closer to them closer than their pelts. Graystripe is chosen as stand-in deputy when Brambleclaw takes a patrol to go after Sol. He seemed worried about not being able to do a good job, and he repeatedly asks Brambleclaw for help. His kit, Briarkit, strays too close to a crack in the sunning area, and nearly gets bitten by an adder. Honeyfern knocked her out of the way, losing her life in the process.

The Fourth Apprentice

 * Graystripe is seen complaining about the drought at the Gathering. He is crouched next to Lionblaze, who tells Graystripe that Jayfeather hasn't had any dreams from StarClan about the drought. He later rebukes Lionblaze when he overhears him muttering to himself about Squirrelflight and the lies she told everyone, claiming that her sister Leafpool's kits as her own, and he wondered why Firestar picked her to mentor Rosepetal. When Lionblaze feels sorry for RiverClan, Graystripe retorts that everyone is starving, not just RiverClan, however they are suffering the most as they rely on one type of prey, fish.


 * When Jayfeather recalls how Firestar got attacked by a fox on the ShadowClan border, by the dead tree, Graystripe waited with him, Sandstorm and Thornclaw until Jayfeather arrived to attempt to save Firestar's life, but was unsuccessful. He later assisted Firestar back to camp.


 * Later, when a small fire breaks out in the camp, the Clan leader tells Jayfeather to get a patrol together and fetch water from the lake, but Graystripe disagrees and quickly tells everyone to kick dust on it. When this doesn't work, they are all about to start panicking and Jayfeather moves towards the entrance to obey Firestar's order, Lionblaze and Cloudtail arrive with wet moss and the fire is put out safely.


 * When Dovepaw returns from hunting, and Graystripe praises her catch, and touches Millie on the shoulder when she complains about the lack of rain. He also sypathises with Dovepaw when everyone else accuses her of making up stories about the brown animals blocking the stream between ShadowClan and ThunderClan, kindly saying that all the apprentices played games, he then heads to the warriors den with Millie.


 * When Dovepaw, along with Lionblaze, is chosen to go on the special mission upstream to find out what is blocking the stream, and some ThunderClan cats protest against Firestar's decision, he asks if ThunderClan doesn't trust its leader, which silences the protesters.

Fading Echoes

 * Graystripe's daughter, Briarpaw, is severly injured when a beech tree falls on the camp. She is stuck under it, along with Longtail, a ThunderClan elder. Due to the tree, her backbone was broken, giving her no ability to use her legs. He is seen comforting his mate, and Briarpaw's mother, Millie, as she is very distraught over her daughter's injuries. Later in the book, he is seen very proud as his kits earn their warrior names, Bumblestripe, Briarlight, and Blossomfall.

Cats of the Clans

 * Rock questions whether Graystripe has any enemies, saying that he and Firestar share the same kind of foolish generosity. He also says that Graystripe's life was not all full of heroics, however; he fell in love with a RiverClan cat, Silverstream.


 * Rock says that after fathering Silverstream's kits, he chose to take them to RiverClan. According to the old cat, this was probably for the best as ThunderClan are not always so welcoming to half-Clan cats.


 * Graystripe's choice to stay with his kits tore him apart, as he lost not only his birth Clan, but his best friend, Firestar. However, he later returns to his Clan when he realizes his loyalties lie with ThunderClan still.

Battles of the Clans

 * Graystripe narrates the battle against the foxes. He represents ThunderClan at a Gathering while Firestar and Sandstorm are away. The Gathering is held at Snakerocks since foxes have made their dens at Fourtrees. The other Clans are nervous about being so far into ThunderClan territory. In response to that, Graystripe has an idea about driving the foxes out.


 * The cats agree to attack when the foxes are focused on hunting or something of that nature since foxes are most aggressive when they are in their dens, guarding their kits. They will use each Clan's strengths to drive them out together and Graystripe would lead them into a battle for their homes.


 * Cloudtail leads the patrol consisting of Graystripe, Mousefur, her apprentice Spiderpaw, and Brightheart with his keen nose. Graystripe is happy when they see a flash of red fur and sends Mousefur with the dead rabbit since she is faster than him. She leads the foxes to the ShadowClan ambush. Then Graystripe joins Mistyfoot and RiverClan and his patrol distracts the four foxes while WindClan attack the dens. The ambush traps the foxes. Blackstar and Graystripe order the foxes to leave and never come back and they reatreat. Blackstar congratulates Graystripe, saying Firestar would be proud.

Trivia

 * It was revealed on Vicky's facebook page that Willowpelt and Patchpelt were his parents.
 * It was never mentioned that he had a darker stripe of fur running down his back until The Sight.

Members
Mates:
 * Silverstream: Deceased, Verified StarClan member
 * Millie:

Daughters:
 * Feathertail: Deceased, Verified Tribe of Endless Hunting and StarClan member
 * Blossomfall:
 * Briarlight:

Sons:
 * Stormfur:
 * Bumblestripe:

Mother:
 * Willowpelt: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member

Father:
 * Patchpelt: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member

Half-Brothers:
 * Darkstripe : Deceased, Verified Place of No Stars member
 * Longtail : Deceased, Suspected StarClan member
 * Sootfur: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member
 * Rainwhisker: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member

Half-Sister:
 * Sorreltail:

Grandmother:
 * Swiftbreeze: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member

Grandfather:
 * Adderfang: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member

Uncle:
 * Redtail: Deceased, Verified StarClan member

Aunts:
 * Leopardfoot: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member
 * Spottedleaf: Deceased, Verified StarClan member

Cousins:
 * Nightkit: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member
 * Mistkit: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member
 * Tigerstar: Deceased, Verified Place of No Stars member
 * Sandstorm:
 * Brambleclaw:
 * Tawnypelt:
 * Hawkfrost: Deceased, Verified Place of No Stars member
 * Mothwing:
 * Tadpole: Deceased, Residence Unknown
 * Leafpool:
 * Squirrelflight:
 * Tigerheart:
 * Flametail:
 * Dawnpelt:
 * Lionblaze:
 * Jayfeather:
 * Hollyleaf: Status Unknown

Half Nephew:
 * Molepaw: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member

Half-Nieces:
 * Cinderheart:
 * Poppyfrost:
 * Honeyfern: Deceased, Verified StarClan member

Grand-Half Niece:
 * Cherrykit:

Grand-half-Nephew:
 * Molekit: