For the longest time, warriors lived alone, with no bond with the land they lived on. But strange things happened, things that not even StarClan could have predicted. Winged twolegs, calling themselves ‘fairies’, or the fae, presented themselves to the cats and communicated with them. The first clan that was truly known to find the fae was what now is considered a myth- SunnyClan.
The cats tolerated the fae on their land at first, as they gave them warnings of storms and disasters. They let the fae collect gems and grow their strange rocky flowers, until one day, Heathershine, a young SunnyClan warrior, formed a storng bond with Lumi, a fairy who called herself the Spirit of Light.
She was able to communicate with the land through a dropped gem of Lumi’s and was able to accurately predict an incoming storm, and explained the significance of the crystal flowers to her clan. The leader, Bloomstar, was curious and asked her medicine cat, Gullwing, to ask StarClan about this.
StarClan told Gullwing that fae should be welcomed into the clans as their spirits. Those who bonded with the spirit would be called the spirit cats. Young fairies could train under the spirits as their apprentices, and the cats could train an apprentice too. When the crystals came up, StarClan decided that an assessment or approval wasn’t the only requirement to earn a full name. Crystals were special to the fae, and in turn, they should be special to the cats.
With Gullwing relaying what information he knew to StarClan, the starry cats decided each new warrior, spirit cat, or medicine cat would be given a crystal that corresponds to their actions. The spirit, the leader, the apprentice’s mentor, and the spirit cats would discuss the apprentice together in private, and the spirit would harvest the corresponding crystal. Then, the spirit cats and the fairy would take the apprentice to find at least one herb and one gem. At the ceremony, the spirit or, in the case of a medicine cat apprentice, the medicine cat would present the crystal once the apprentice received their full name. The newly named cat would give their herb to the medicine cats and the gem to the spirit cats as soon as possible.
Gullwing agreed, and StarClan spread the news to other clans. SunnyClan had fully settled in, but some cats weren’t as accepting to the fae. They insulted them and the spirit cats and their crystals. Those that did not comply often were exiled or ran off by themselves.
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"The Tree of Life still gives me no response. This is not good... It grew from a seedling just fine. Is it still not mature? To revitalize the land and repopulate it with a Clan, I'll need the help of the Tree of Life. Perhaps this task was too ambitious to assign to a newly trained spirit..."
Nymph Seasong had only just recently passed the Trial of Spirits and received her title of Spirit of the Seas. From there, the Souls of the Earth had tasked her with going to Greenmeadow Grove, a place mostly abandoned due to the deteriorating quality of the world around it, and returning the land to its former glory. She was gifted a seedling to grow a Tree of Life, a plant that helps the fae connect to the world around them and heal it, as well as letting them communicate with other spirits and even the Souls of the Earth, spirits who had ascended to Greater Earth. It had grown, but it did not respond to her.
She was perplexed. How was she supposed to save Greenmeadow Grove when she couldn't even communicate with the Souls or other spirits? At least the crystal flowers were growing and the gemstones let her send her pleas and wishes to the earth.
Her prayers, however, would soon be answered.
"What is this place? Why did I dream of it?"
Nymph turned her attention to a brown tabby cat. She knelt down and smiled. "Greenmeadow Grove. I think you're the answer to my prayers. My name is Nymph Seasong, Spirit of the Seas. I'm here to heal the land and form a Clan."
Nymph took the time to explain her problems to the she-cat, before presenting a solution. "Maybe, just maybe, the land will heal as we build a bigger Clan and the Tree of Life will respond. You, what is your name?"
"My name is Brook, descendant of the warriors of SunnyClan, according to my parents, that is. I don't know how true it is... I lived in a Clan for a while, but my parents decided to continue journeying. I was going to stay until I had a dream about this place. It must be my destiny to help you."
Nymph smiled. She had just taken the first steps on her journey to complete her goal.
Brook practiced fishing, but didn't catch anything.
Nymph practiced the piano, playing a song that embodied her current feelings of hope.
After her failures with fishing, Brook tired hunting on land. She only managed to catch a lizard to feed herself.
After that, the two went to sleep, dreaming of days to come...
Inspired by Seri Pixel Biologist on YouTube, using the world Meadow Glen by My Sim Reality
