Brightheart

Brightheart is a white she-cat with ginger splotches, like fallen leaves and one green eye. She also has a large scar on one side of her face from a fight with a dog, leaving her with one empty eye socket and a badly shredded ear.

==	History==

=== 	In the Original Series ===

====	Into the Wild====

They are later fetched back by a group of ShadowClan cats, Yellowfang, Ashfur, Nightpelt and Dawncloud, plus a ThunderClan patrol. The kits were found by Graypaw and Firepaw. When searching for the kits, Firepaw and Graypaw follow a scent trail, and then smell the kits' blood and stop.

====	Fire and Ice====



====	Forest of Secrets====

Fireheart notices Brightpaw's hunting skills, observing what a great hunter she was.

====	Rising Storm====

Brightpaw assures him that she did.



She goes back to tell Whitestorm where Fireheart and Sandstorm went. When the fire begins, she flees the camp to RiverClan territory with the rest of the Clan.

====	A Dangerous Path====

She and Swiftpaw thought that they could find and drive out the dog pack that Tigerstar had brought into the forest. When they found the dog pack, they could not fight them, resulting in Swiftpaw's death and Brightpaw becoming seriously injured, losing one eye, getting a large scar on one side of her face, and having a shredded ear. Before Cinderpelt nursed her back to health, Bluestar gave her the cruel name of Lostface. Cloudtail then never left her side.



This caused her to ask to see her reflection. Then, Cloudtail trained her to be a warrior using a special fighting style that meant she only needed one eye.

====	The Darkest Hour====

After questioning One-eye, he performed a rarely used ceremony to change Lostface's name to Brightheart. Firestar allowed her to battle against BloodClan, and soon after let her sleep in the warrior's den, as she was a full warrior.

=== 	In the Super Edition Series ===

====	Firestar's Quest====



=== 	In the New Prophecy Series ===

====	Midnight====

She is seen in the beginning of the book, on a hunting patrol with Cloudtail and Brambleclaw. Her daughter Whitepaw, is shown as an apprentice along with Squirrelpaw, Leafpaw, Shrewpaw, Spiderpaw, and Sorrelpaw. She is also one of the first cats to notice that Brambleclaw is not in the warrior's den, and is not in camp. However, she doesn't think anything of it, and assumes that he has just gone hunting on his own.

====	Moonrise====

Whitepaw is extremely worried because no cat knows what happened to them. It is later revealed that Brightheart and Cloudtail were captured by Twolegs along with Leafpaw, Mistyfoot, and other Clan cats, as well as rogues and kittypets.

====	Dawn====

Whitepaw is still very worried about her mother and father. They are all later rescued by a ThunderClan patrol, though Graystripe is kidnapped by the twolegs and taken away.

====	Starlight====



====	Twilight====

She later argues with Cloudtail about this. When Daisy is shocked by her face, she is very hurt.

It's most likely that Brightheart started to help Cinderpelt and Leafpool because Cloudtail was spending more time with Daisy. When Leafpool leaves, she thinks it was her fault because she was taking up a lot of medicine cat jobs and made Leafpool jealous, but is later reasurred that she did not drive Leafpool away.

====	Sunset====

She later tells Leafpool that she will return to her warrior duties. Leafpool, who was earlier annoyed by Brightheart's help, wishes she would have stayed around to help longer.

She and Cloudtail rekindle their relationship, when Cloudtail asks her to go out hunting with him.

=== 	In the Power of Three Series ===

====	The Sight====

She mentors Jaypaw for a short time before he becomes a medicine cat. Brightheart doesn't take him in the forest much, mainly keeping him in camp to tend to the elders.

This promise is broken when Firestar gives Foxkit to Squirrelflight and Icekit to Whitewing to mentor. It is mentioned that whenever Jaypaw tried to make her understand his new decision, she always changed the subject or made an excuse to leave.

Brightheart thinks about it, but replies saying though they lost much in the past with the dog pack, they can't let that happen again to another Clan. Also when there is a greencough epidemic she helps Jaypaw while Leafpool is fetching catmint from RiverClan.

====	Dark River====



====	Outcast====

She also tells Berrypaw that Firestar would never give a cat a mean name, when Berrypaw is worrying that Firestar will name him in regard to his tail by naming him 'Berrystumpytail'.

====	Eclipse====



====	Long Shadows====

She is one of the cats that watch Firestar lose one of his lives.

====	Sunrise====

At the end of Sunrise, Whitewing, her daughter, gives birth to Birchfall's kits, Dovekit and Ivykit, making the two kits Brighheart and Cloudtail's granddaughters.

===	In the Omen of the Stars Series===

====	The Fourth Apprentice====

She is one of the few cats who are sympathetic towards Rainstorm when the RiverClan warrior came to ThunderClan to rest after getting stuck in the mud. She volunteers to collect traveling herbs for Lionblaze and Dovepaw. She asks Jayfeather what herbs she needs to collect, but Jayfeather cannot remember the traveling herbs. She helps him by describing the Herbs; sorrel, daisy, chamomile, and burnet from when she ate them at the beginning of her journey to the Moonstone in the old forest.

====	Fading Echoes====



===	In the Lost Warrior Series===

====	The Lost Warrior====

Instead, Graystripe shoves the cat out of the back of the truck. He rescues Brightheart, and all the cats escape from the truck except Graystripe, who is taken away in the truck.

===	In the Field Guide Series===

====	Secrets of the Clans====

She said that when she woke up after she fainted, her face felt frozen on one side. She also said that she would have never made it had it not been for Cloudtail.

====	Cats of the Clans====

He tells how she can remember how she didn't use to be ugly and scarred, and it pains her to see her reflection in the lake, or remember her first warrior name, Lostface. She no longer flinches when kits or other warriors stare at her scars, but Rock says she needs to see inside herself to her own beautiful courage, loyalty, and devotion.

===	Short Stories and Plays===

====	Ultimate Leader Election: Firestar====



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==	Warrior Ceremony==

Brightheart's warrior ceremony

Firestar-

There's one more ceremony to preform. Spirits of StarClan, you know every cat by name. I ask you now to take away the name from the cat you see before you, for it no longer stands for who she is. By my authority as Clan leader, and with the approval of our warrior ancestors, I give this cat a new name. From this moment she will be known as Brightheart, for though her body has been gravely injured, we honor her brave spirit and the light that shines within her.

Clan-

Brightheart! Brightheart!

Firestar-

Well? Is that fair enough for you?

Cloutail-

Its perfect, Firestar.

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