1: Defend your Clan, even with your life. If you are a mentor, and this is your apprentice's first battle, you must stand by their side during the battle.
2: Do not cross borders without reasons. Medicine cats and messengers are not to be attacked. No cat is allowed to hunt, but all herbs are shared unless the clan needs them.
3: Elders, kits, queens, and medicine cats are to be fed first. If this code is broken, the breaker is not allowed to eat anything for the next two sunrises and is required to do nothing but hunt for the clan.
4: Prey is killed only to be eaten. You must thank StarClan when you kill the prey and when you eat it.
5: A kit is to be five moons old to begin hunt-training and six moons old to begin battle training.
6: New warriors are to sit vigil the night of being appointed, and are to patrol the borders alone the following morning.
7: A cat is never to become deputy unless they have mentored at least two cats. They are chosen by the entire Clan, and the majority wins. The deputy is allowed to deny becoming deputy, but only after a half moon they were appointed.
8: Leaders must die before the deputy can become leader. StarClan will not give them their nine lives until the leader joins StarClan.
9: After a deputy retires or dies, the Clan must choose a new deputy before moonhigh.
10: A gathering of all four clans is held at the Stone Pile every full moon. There are to be no battles, and any cat who is to break this code must be severely punished. Their punishment is decided by all four leaders.
11: Apprentices and Medicine cats are not to cross the Stone River without 2-3 warriors with them. All territory borders are to be patrolled and marked daily.
12: No cat is to neglect a kit. If a kit is to die and you could have saved them, but did not because they were not from your Clan, you are to be banished from beyond the Stone River.
13: If enough cats believe their leader is wrong, they must challenge their leader and stand up for what is right.
14: Killing any cats, even outside the code, is forbidden. It is punishable by exile if it is done more than once. However, if the cat they kill is an elder, kit, or queen, they are to be stripped of their warrior name, and exiled.
15: A cat who is exiled is not allowed to return to any of the Clan territories. Messengers are to alert all Clans about an exile no more than three sunrises after. If they are to be found on any of the territories, they are to be attacked and held prisoner until the Clan decides they are allowed to leave the borders again.
ON MATES:
1: You may have a mate from another Clan, but if kits are born, they will belong to their mother's Clan. Even if the mother dies, they must stay with her Clan.
2: Cats cannot have mates until three moons after becoming a warrior.
3: If a cat forces themselves onto another cat, they are to be punished extremely and exiled.
4: Messengers and Medicine cats are not allowed to have mates nor kits. If this code is broken, they are forced to become warriors and are not allowed to have kits again.
5: If a warrior is to have kits, they are not to be appointed deputy until their kits are apprenticed.
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Brackenflame's Reign
FanfictionTalonstar, the leader of the new clan, TalonClan, is not the best leader for any of the clans. He doesn't think before he acts, and often drives his cats into unnecessary battles. Brackenflame is left to clean up his mess and is shocked to find out...
