{ pre-korvidclan }

Thornpetal was born as Molly during newleaf, to Snake and May, two kittypets. Molly expirenced what would be recognized in our medical system as Absence Seizures, or brief, sudden lapses in consciousness. This worried Snake and May, and they'd heard the wildcats knew how to help. Though, the tales of the bone-cracking, kitten-eating, and bloodthirsty wildcats worried them, so they simply decided to drop him off in the forest, leave, and if he never returned, that'd be that. They groomed their son for the last time and let him wander outside the gates, like he'd always dreamed. Since Molly was only a month old, he tired quickly and when he expirenced an absence seizure, a cat had lunged at him. He didn't wake up for a few days.

{ korvidclan }

Molly awoke to one of those big scary wildcats placing leaves on him. He let out a weak hiss before the wildcat purred in amusement. When the cat asked for his name, Molly said Python. He thought it'd scare the cat and he always liked when the housefolk's other cats would call him Python after his father and for his play-fighting skills. The cat simply purred their name was Rainfoot after. Python asked about the cat who lunged at him and Rainfoot told him he'd been mistaken for a rabbit because of his erratic movements, small size, and white fur. Python fell into sleep once again, but when he woke up the next time, Rainfoot was excitedly telling him about him joining the wildcats. Python didn't object as he was renamed Thornkit and got to play with other kits. By the time Thornkit was renamed to Thornpaw and made a prophet, the absence seizures had stopped. Thornpaw was apprenticed to Foxleap, who taught him to sit down and shut up, unless he had a death wish. Since prophets usually graduated earlier than warriors, Thornpaw got to graduate with his slightly older friends. Thornpaw got his final name, Thornpetal. He liked this name, it reminded him a little of May, who always had white petals in her fur. A few days after Thornpetal's 22nd birthday, Thornpetal spotted a small kit, her name was 'Stone'. Thornpetal renamed her to Rabbitkit. He took care of them and when Rabbitkit was five moons old, Thornpetal recieved an omen. A bloody, weak gray rabbit. Thornpetal told Hailstar about this omen, and they both agreed that this meant starclan would be upset if Rabbitkit grew into a prophet. Thornpetal still mentored her, scared that another warrior like Foxleap would instead mentor her. Four moons after Rabbitpaw's apprentice ceremony, the sun went hollow. The sun's light was overtaken by a black disc, and yowls filled the air. Thornpetal immediately recognized Tumblestorm's screech of pain.

{ post-eclipse }

Thornpetal ran. He wasn't too fast and didn't have much stamina but he didn't care. He was running on adrenaline. When he came across a badger den, the source of Tumblestorm's screams, Thornpetal didn't think. He ran in, Rabbitpaw and Cascadewind ran in with him. Thornpetal barely lived to see Tumblestorm escape, with his son and Cascadewind. Thornpetal closed his eyes, hoping the stars would let him escape the pain. Thornpetal did wake up, but not as himself.