#hollyleaf's story is getting a name change and being turned into a super edition

[warriorcatsrewriteantinomy]

List of Super Editions & Novellas

CUT BOOKS

Firestar’s Quest SkyClan's Destiny Bramblestar's Storm Hawkwing's Journey Squirrelflight's Hope Graystripe's Vow Leopardstar's Honor Riverstar's Home Mistystar’s Omen Cloudstar’s Journey Tigerclaw’s Fury Dovewing’s Silence Ravenpaw’s Farewell Redtail’s Debt Shadowstar’s Life Pebbleshine’s Kits Tree’’s Roots Thunderstar’s Echo Spotfur’s Rebellion

KEPT BOOKS + CHANGES

Moth Flight’s Vision (No name changes) Tallstar’s Revenge -> Star Larkdusk’s Revenge Yellowfang’s Secret (No name changes) Crookedstar’s Promise -> Star Crookedjaw’s Promise Bluestar’s Prophecy -> Star Bluefrost’s Prophecy Tigerheart’s Shadow (No name changes) Crowfeather’s Trial (No name changes) Onestar’s Confession -> Star Onewhisker’s Confession Hollyleaf’s Story -> Hollyleaf’s Acceptance Leafpool’s Wish  (No name changes) Mapleshade's Vengeance (No name changes) Goosefeather’s Curse (No name changes) Pinestar’s Choice -> Star Pineheart’s Choice Tawnypelt’s Clan -> Tawnypelt’s Guild Mothwing’s Secret (No name changes) Daisy’s Kin (No name changes) Blackfoot’s Reckoning -> Star Blackfoot’s Atonement

I WILL PUT A LINK TO ALL THESE BOOKS WHEN I’M DONE!

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This started as an au idea but it became an outline for a Po3 and OotS rewrite by accident lmao

Au where Ferncloud and by extension, Ashfur, know Leafpool’s secret from the start. Ferncloud gets in on helping Leafpool, because she knows a pregnant cat when she sees one. She’s pretty close with her brother and as such privately confides in him what’s going on. It pisses him off that squirrel is happily living a lie, but out of respect for his sister, he keeps the secret. The tipping point is getting Lionpaw as an apprentice, refreshing the subject in his mind… And being visited by Hawkfrost, whispering sweet nothings of satisfied spite.

It does work, although it takes a fair bit longer to convince Ashfur to go against his sister’s wishes than to aid in the taking of one of Firestar’s lives took. Ashfur invites his sister to go walking with him, and tries to convince her of the need for the secret to be out. The conversation sours dramatically and by the time the return to camp, Ferncloud is distraught and enraged, and Ash has a fresh clawmark in his cheek. Not long after this, comes the scene where he fights too rough with Lionpaw.

As he sees it, having to keep these secrets has been a knife in the chest for all this time, and he starts to just get… angrier. He takes out his anger on Lionpaw, he snaps back at well meaning concerns. Firestar’s mistake is in misreading the warning signs as him lashing out over his falling out with his sister, and so doesn’t reassign Lionpaw and tries instead to help them reconcile while not knowing what their fallout was over, although still punishing him when he’s caught being ornery of course. But his efforts only make things worse.

Hollypaw and Jaypaw, both warrior apprentices because I say so, see that Lion doesn’t have a normal relationship with his mentor, and start to question what his beef is with their family, Jay even trying to prod Ferncloud’s dreams over it, but even in her dreams Ferncloud won’t dare tell even what she thinks is a fake dream version of Jay what Ash’s problem is. Holly and Jay try what they can to convince Lion that Ash is not a normal mentor, but Lion figures he’s just going hard on him because he sees his potential, in much the same way the dark forest cats have convinced him of the same while he trains there.

The three, at the request of Squirrelflight, are named Hollyleaf, Jaythorn, and and Lionfern, for Leafpool, Brambleclaw (abstractly), and Ferncloud.

Ashfur turns to whom he sees as his last resort: brambleclaw, as they were friends once, and he thinks that Bramble of all cats would be interested in knowing his mate has been lying to him this long. Bramble… isn’t angry. He’s just… upset that she hadn’t trusted him enough to tell him the truth. Ashfur is confused and pissed. And this reveal happens right before the fire scene. Both rush back to camp with intent to help.

The fire plays out similarly to canon, where Ash sees his opportunity and takes it, amid the heightened emotions of the aborted argument and panic of the blaze. Lion sees Ash for what he is, Holly and Jay see the truth.

From that point on, things play out similarly to canon, but when Lion kills someone (probably not russetfur just because I’m a Russetstar fan, probably like, oakfur bc he sucks and was a jackass about Jay being blind, so it makes sense that Lion might get Too Pissed and kill him in the process,) and stops training with the dark forest, he asks to become a medicine cat, choosing to use his powers to essentially, become an unkillable doctor, making him an essential asset in the fight against the dark forest as even dark forest cats who would stoop to killing a medicine cat to prevent their opponents treatment, Can’t Touch Lion.

Dovewing serves as a remote scout, and her hyper awareness combined with Ivypools gathered intelligence saves a lot of lives. Dovewings alerts send Cinderheart and Icecloud to save their moms, and sends Leafpool and Squirrelflight to save they’re dad… Although they’re too late. Her perceived failure to save Firestar’s last life is ultimately one of many motivators that lead to her decision to leave the clans.

Holly still doesn’t have powers, but is an essential asset in the final battle, and also doesn’t die, becoming leader after brambleclaw sacrifices himself facing the ghost of Ashfur to save her, whom went to the dark forest, bc I mean it’s only logical really as accomplice to murder and intent to murder are among his sins, brambleclaw naming hollyleaf his deputy at his dying breath, having not yet received his nine lives.

Nightcloud kicks Breezepelt’s butt, (whom is fighting with the dark forest still not cuz he wants to like in canon, but because somewhere along the line he started getting cold feet, but he’s become convinced that he has to be on the winning side or everyone he cares about will die. His dad issues were how they got him, fear was how they kept him. I changed his motives and a bit of his actions to make his redemption post final battle feel more believable,) and sends him running home instead of crowfeather bc as much as Crow’s super edition made me like him more it didn’t make him sending breeze running in the battle feel any more satisfying. It should be someone who breeze actually respects at the time doing it lol

And that concludes what I have written lmao

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this is so good, these are such small changes but make the story so much better and make more sense