Sunpelt (LC)

Sunpelt is a male lion.

Secrets of the Clans

 * Sunpelt was a bold and prideful warrior of LionClan.


 * When a large adder, Mouthclaw, was a threat to all the cats living there, Sunpelt thought he could achieve the respect of the forest if he killed her. He went to Snakerocks, where Mouthclaw was living, and called to her to come out and fight, and further antagonized her by throwing rocks into her cave.


 * During the fight, he tired Mouthclaw out by jumping away from her but always staying tantalizingly close, so that she lashed and spat poison but could never quite get close enough to kill him.


 * The fight lasted the whole day, and when Mouthclaw asked Sunpelt to spare her life, he told her that she should shrink to the length of a cat's tail, and that he would allow her to keep living there then. However, this idea backfired when Mouthclaw became thousands of snakes, each the length of a cat's tail.


 * Sunpelt was horrified and guilt-stricken at what he had done, and he fled home to confess all to his leader, Goldenstar. At first, Goldenstar is angry, but Sunpelt's spirits lift when Goldenstar also tells him that no warrior need fear now that he will be swallowed whole, as the smaller snakes were definitely less dangerous.