Oakstep

Oakstep is a gray tabby tom.

Firestar's Quest

 * Oakpaw is an ancient SkyClan apprentice when SkyClan is driven out of the forest by Twolegs.


 * During a flashback to an earlier time where SkyClan made the gorge their new home after being driven out of the forest by Twolegs, he is called to join a hunting patrol, his mentor then being revealed to be Mousefang.

SkyClan's Destiny

 * Oakstep is now shown to be an elder of ancient SkyClan during the time when SkyClan has already settled in the gorge, and scatters due to a rat attack.


 * When the battle patrol against the rats comes back to camp, he is shocked when he hears about Sunpelt and Fallensnow's deaths, and asks where the bodies were. When Swallowflight tells him they couldn't bring them back, he protests, saying it was wrong to leave them behind. Oakstep hobbles away, grief-stricken, to go retrieve the bodies himself, but Spiderstar stops him. Oakstep does not want to give up, and is horrified when Spiderstar says StarClan had given up on SkyClan. He decides that Cloudstar was right when he told them to never look to StarClan again.


 * Oakstep decides to stay behind with the other two elders, Nightfur, his former mentor Mousefang, Spiderstar, and Brackenheart.

Cloudstar's Journey

 * After the tree falls, Oakpaw and his mentor, Nightfur, ask if they should prepare to leave the forest. During Petalfall's vigil, Nightfur and Oakpaw return from hunting with Mousefang before them, yowling for Fawnstep, the medicine cat. Nightfur is guiding Oakpaw, who is unsteady on his paws, and is obviously hurt, wincing with nearly every step. Cloudstar demands what happened, and Nightfur explains that Oakpaw was chasing a squirrel but he chased it where the Twolegs were working and fell into one of their ditches they dug. Fawnstep examines him quickly and comments that he is lucky, and leads him into the medicine den. Buzzardtail growls that Fawnstep is right; he was lucky he didn't break his neck, and Cloudstar announces that no cat should hunt over there from now on.