Graypool

Graypool

Graypool is a skinny gray she-cat with patched fur, a scarred muzzle turned white with age, broken teeth, and pale yellow eyes.

Crookedstar’s Promise

Graykit is born to Fallowtail of RiverClan, and Reedfeather of WindClan along with her sister, Willowkit, though at that time, it is unknown that Reedfeather is her father.

Crookedkit takes Graykit and her sister out to play, and while watching the two play, he sees a Heron circling high above the RiverClan camp. The heron dives down and attempts to attack RiverClan, Crookedkit protects her and her littermate. Afterwards, Graykit claims that she did not see the heron because Crookedkit was sitting on top of her, not realizing Crookedkit saved her life.

Reedfeather comes to claim his kits after a big quarrel happened between Fallowtail and Reedfeather. He wins the fight and gets the kits while Fallowtail is put in deep depression and sorrow. Some time later, Hailstar come into camp with two bundles of fur which are kits. Fallowtail runs to her kits, licks them and cries.

Graykit and Willowkit become apprentices. Much later on, Graypaw gets her warrior name when she and her sister pass their final assessments. She earns the name Graypool, and Willowpaw is named Willowbreeze.

She is later seen expecting Rippleclaw's kits. She bears them, and names them Morningkit and Splashkit, but they die as sick and weak kits. She grieves for a very long time until two stray kits suddenly turn up. Oakheart states that he found them abandoned in the forest, and they are named Mistykit and Stonekit. In the manga at the end of her book, her fostered kits are seen as grown warriors, named Mistyfoot and Stonefur.

Forest of Secrets

When Oakheart takes his and Bluestar's kits to RiverClan to become RiverClan kits, he gives them to Graypool, who is then the oldest nursing queen, to nurse and raise them. He tells her that they were abandoned in the forest, not revealing his and Bluestar's secret love. Since she had just recently lost her kits, Graypool agrees to nurse them, though she refuses to believe that a mother would abandon her kits in the middle of the forest, especially during the middle of a cold leaf-bare. She questions Oakheart a little bit saying that she's known the loss of kits to a mother, but when he refuses, she doesn't push it. She then smells ThunderClan scent on them. The kits grow up to be Mistyfoot and Stonefur. They know Graypool as their mother, not Bluestar, and since they have the same colored pelt they never questioned that she was their mother.

Graypool later tells Fireheart about their heritage, because he wants to know why Oakheart had told Redtail, "No ThunderClan cat will ever harm that warrior!" at the battle at Sunningrocks. Graypool says to Fireheart that she is proud of her two foster kits, mentioning that they kind of look like her. Graypool also earns Fireheart's respect, and she gets him to promise he will never tell Mistyfoot and Stonefur of their divided heritage because she likes that they think that she's their mother and sees them as like her own kits.

Rising Storm

Graypool does not formally appear in Rising Storm, but is listed in the allegiances.

A Dangerous Path

Due to her age, Graypool's mind starts to give way and she starts to wander around aimlessly by herself.

She finds the ShadowClan leader, Tigerstar, at Fourtrees, and mistakes him for being Oakheart. She accidentally reveals the truth about some ThunderClan kits in RiverClan. Fireheart watches in horror as she realizes Tigerstar isn't Oakheart, and she begins to back up as Tigerstar tries to learn more. She then slips off the slope, hits her head on a rock, and instantly dies. Tigerstar crouches to sniff her body, then bounds back up the slope toward his own territory.

A short while later, Graystripe and Mistyfoot come by and bring her body back to the RiverClan camp after Fireheart explains that she had slipped, not mentioning Tigerstar, although he is worried that because he is nearby, he will be thought partly responsible for her death. Fireheart then asks if he can help bury Graypool, but Mistyfoot says that he has done enough.

Night Whispers

Graypool is seen with Mudfur at the Moonpool in StarClan when Jayfeather walks in Willowshine's dream. Her paws are mentioned to be rooted to the stone, and she stares intently at Willowshine, while saying that their ancestors will walk with them.

Cats of the Clans

Rock tells the StarClan kits about how Oakheart gave his kits to Graypool to raise. He knew that she would smell their ThunderClan scent, but trusted her to keep quiet, as she would not purposely let two helpless kits die. No cat, including Mistyfoot and Stonefur themselves, questioned that she was their mother, because of their similarly colored fur, and she treated them like any other RiverClan kits. Other than Bluestar, and Oakheart, Graypool is the only cat who knew Mistyfoot and Stonefur's true heritage (although it is revealed in Crookedstar's Promise that Crookedstar knew of their heritage as well).

Battles of the Clans

She and her sister, Willowkit, are given to their WindClan father, Reedfeather, by Fallowtail. Hailstar then secretly leads a raiding party to steal the two kits back. He finds them, along with Timberfur and Ottersplash, and they threaten to kill two WindClan warriors to get away alive. They get back to RiverClan after a fight.

Later, at the end of their apprenticeship, their mother, Fallowtail, comes to Hailstar asking that Graypaw be named Graypool and Willowpaw be named Willowbreeze, so they will forever remember that they carry the strength of both the wind and the water within them.

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