watching the [HIBISCUS] sprout a [THORN]

[MIMPPHI. \\]

<sub>Name--

Hibiscusthorn

Gender--

female

Age--

80 moons

Clan--

Cloud

Rank--

Elder/Queen

Looks--

Though her name doesn't serve her pelt or her attitude, she's doesn't really look like any other elder, her coat still has that new warrior shine and her build is perfect and strong. Starting with her dark tail, it is average length and extremely fluffy the color that holds into it is a deep black, tips turning brown with age. Her body is well built and you would think she would still be a warrior with her deep black pelt that has the same browning tips. The fur here is layered accordingly, though it's all thick the underneath coat is a deep set black that holds the shine while the upper coat starts to show that she isn't really what she seems with the browning tips with dulling deep black.

Moving on to her neck. Around her whole neck is a large fluffy collar of dark, dark brown fur, in the middle of her chest however is a large upside down rectangle of white fur. Growing up it had been one of the causes of all of her loves and her fights, or so she thinks her fights. Going up to the head. It is in an average triangular form with mostly a deep black fur. Around her eyes are faded brown fur. Her ears are larger then normal with the deep black fur, on the inside is white yes but the short fur that lines the inside is the aging brown that was once a shiny black. Her beautiful eyes is how she got her name, as her mother was naming her she thought of a yellow hibiscus for she had been born with her eyes open. Her eyes are like the glowing morning sun just as some thin clouds roll over them, her eyes are always bright even in the saddest times and is the second cause of all her loves.

Going all the way down to her belly. It is almost completely brown from aging and has a small white streak that she never really noticed until after a long while. Moving to her legs. They are average sized and a deep black with no aging brown spots, on her right back leg her toes are pure white but also on that leg it is lame. She twisted it during battle and it became lame and while not using it stiffened, it has no further use to her so she drags it around.

Actions--

Though her pelt doesn't look the part she has a nasty attitude. You don't want to get on this felines bad side or it's nasty scowls and horrid arguments that usually she ends up winning. She has a reputation for holding the longest grudge but even though your not friends she won't let you forget what you did whether it was to her or to her friends. She is a very pride lusting cat, no matter what this she-cats pride toward her most loved ones won't die, even if they murdered someone or tried to kill the leader. She is a very loving she-cat if your on her good side and if you want to get on her good side your going to have to do a lot more then change her bedding and bring her food.

She is a very respected warrior for her battle ready attitude and fabulous strategy planning, though she doesn't do any of that anymore she still keeps her opinion in the heads of her clan-mates. She is a very open minded cat and speaks whatever comes to her mind whether it was good or bad, she doesn't really care. Yes she is sensitive but rarely shows it because she thinks it's a weakness. She is loyal to the death to her clan and would fight with her lame leg for them any day. She thinks that her only weakness is kits, only two of her mates had promised her kits but three gave them to her, she loves to watch over kits when their mothers have to do something else but she wouldn't dare touch one without permission from the parents.

Past--

At birth Pixiedust was frightened to see that one of her kits had come from her whom with both eyes wide open and body unmoving, she almost didn't bother cleaning the little kit but her instincts told her it was best even if it was dead. As soon as the kit was clean and the circulation was flowing the little kit started to breathe and move around like her brothers. Pixiedust named the black male with dark amber paws and tail Fallenkit, the dark amber pelted one Foxkit, and the black one with bright yellow eyes Hibiscuskit. Now growing up with two brother Hibiscuskit was made to be tough and liked to get down and dirty, not hanging back with any of the other girlie kits she even took down a few of the older kits as she got bigger. And when she was just turning six moons she was large for her age but her brothers were just as large so they were the only challengers.

After her ceremony her mentor was very excited to have her as his apprentice for he was a battle lover as well, so that was the thing she mastered, but then her mentor got to close to her. He spilled his guts to her one night, said that he would rather kill himself then be without her. She was only eight to nine moons old, of course she knew what love meant but did she feel it toward the old man. No. She had told him that she was sorry and that she didn't love him back, not even as family. So he did what he had promised himself. The next day Hibiscuspaw found out that her mentor had killed himself, no one knew why but her but she never showed it. Drawing close to the end of her apprenticeship days, she found out that she had fallen in love with her new mentors brother. So before the day of her ceremony Fadedmoon had taken her on a hunting patrol with only the two of them, he told her that he loved her and she did the same.

A few days after her warrior ceremony, Hibiscusthorn went to Dragonflydance because of stomach pains and found out she was pregnant. She even told her mate that she wasn't ready for kits but he helped her through it, so nine moons later she had two kits and named a black female with gray flecks Paintedkit and a pure silver male Palekit. She couldn't really take the nine moons of staying cooped up in the nursery and she thought she'd go crazy if she had to stay in for six more moons, but like before Fadedmoon helped her through it and she turned out to love being in the nursery with kits. A few moons after her kits became apprentice's a report came back that a BrightClan body was found inside CloudClan territory, the body had looked like it had been torn into shreds by some inhuman animal. Fadedmoon had volunteered to go on a search for the animal, he had promised Hibiscusthorn that he'd be back. She had watched him go with two others, only two had made it back, none of them were Fadedmoon. They two had said that he had wondered off by himself and they found him trying to fight an invisible force, they would have brought him back if it hadn't tried to attack them as well. You would think that was the end of Hibiscusthorn the mighty, you would think she turned depressed and stopped caring, but no this is only the beginning.

After the death of her first mate, Hibiscusthorn wasn't sad but angry, Fadedmoon had promised to come back but he didn't. In her anger and frustration she marched out of camp and swooped along the border of SerenityClan. Just as she came to the edge she was attacked by a SerenityClan male, he was an exile and wasn't even supposed to be on the territory. She didn't tell anyone about her rape just that she had given birth to Fadedmoon's litter of kits, a promise before he went off. Everyone but her first mates sister believed her, though her former mentor didn't push her she still hinted that she knew they weren't her brothers. One moons after four kits were born a terrible omen had happened, her mother had died of a mysterious disease that Dragonflydance and Cometpaw couldn't cure. With another litter of kits, her first litter as warriors, her mate dead, and her being raped still didn't send Hibiscusthorn into depression. She fought through her fathers death even when her kits became apprentice's. But that wasn't the end.

The Tribe Battle took place a little less then a moon after wards. She fought in it receiving a bunch of scars and three of her kits being killed, after gathering and bringing them back to camp she begged Stormstar to give them their warrior names because they were of Woodpelt's litter. She spent a lot of time in the nursery but then she was driven into the territory she met a rogue, though she knew it was wrong, he made her think he loved her with his seductive words and body language. A week or so after that she was pregnant again, just a day or two before she had them she told Sage when they met in the territory. He seemed delighted about it but the next night when she had her kits the rogue had barged through the camp and slaughtered the poor kits and tried to kill Hibiscusthorn but in self-defense she and a bunch of other queens killed him. Exhausted and light-headed Hibiscusthorn finally fell into depression. You might want to think that's it, but there's only a little more of this story to tell.

Hibiscusthorn was only depressed when she wasn't around the nursery, loosing kits made her think of Fadedmoon and her mother and her father and the kits she lost in the tribe battle. You would think that she had learned her lesson about the males that had promised her kits, in her own clan again she thought she was in love again. But he was a player and he was always asking for danger, he had promised to give her all the kits in the world but she had found out that he was with two other she-cats in different clans. In anger she had screamed at him and pushed him away from her when he tried to come close, the day after that she had never seen him again. A few moons after that she had gotten into a fight with a badger, it had chomped into her leg so hard that not even the best of medicine cats could keep it from being able to go fast. Being afraid to walk on it Hibiscusthorn let it stiffen and now it's just a lame leg that she drags behind her. Feeling useless she asked Stormstar to make her and elder but after that she still couldn't stay out of the nursery.

Relationships/Kin--

mother--Pixiedust[deceased]
father--Obsidianwind[deceased]
brothers--Fallendarkness, Foxgazer
daughters--Paintedghost, Petrelmist, Flamingkiss[deceased], Cometkit[deceased], Passionkit[deceased]
sons--Paleeyes, Saintspirit[deceased], Cranerunner[deceased], Turtlekit[deceased]
nieces--Whisperingspirit, Hollowpulse, Meteorpaw[deceased]
nephew--Climbingvines[deceased]
great-nieces--Thunderbird, Dancingmirage
great-nephews--Wolfbane, Snakethorn, Nocturnalrain
mates--Fadedmoon[deceased], Woodpelt[deceased], Sage[deceased], Cedarglade[deceased]

Other--

credit to Rogue for the history

Codewords--

Painting Portraits Of Ghosts</sub>

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Accepted.