She was first foreseen in a vision long before  she was born, in the early days of the Clans.  

The first-ever medicine cat, Moth Flight, had  recurring dreams of what would later become  

the nine lives ceremony, and Yellowfang was  one of the cats she witnessed giving a life. 

It was countless seasons later, during Cedarstar's  leadership of ShadowClan, that Yellowkit and her  

littermates Nutkit and Rowankit were born to the  warriors Brackenfoot and Brightflower. Yellowkit  

was close with her mother's mother Silverflame,  who was one of the Clan's elders, and even when  

she was just two moons old, Yellowkit dreamed  of being a warrior and a queen like her mother. 

During her kithood, there were strange moments  where Yellowkit felt pain seemingly without  

reason – a sore paw with no thorn in it, or  a bellyache without having eaten crowfood.  

Other cats always seemed to be  injured or sick at the same time,  

but this wasn't something  Yellowkit paid much attention to. 

At the age of six moons, at the first snowfall of  leaf-bare, Yellowpaw was apprenticed to Deerleap,  

a senior warrior who was known for being a strict  mentor. The exciting day was marred by sadness,  

however, as this was when Yellowpaw's  grandmother Silverflame joined StarClan. 

Yellowpaw admired the older apprentice Raggedpaw,  and they started to become close around the  

time he became a warrior, with the new name  Raggedpelt. They drifted apart again, however,  

after an idea of hers led to him meeting his  kittypet father – who promptly disowned him. 

Deerleap's rigorous training regimen turned  Yellowpaw into a skilled hunter and fighter.  

She and her littermates became warriors, with the  names of Yellowfang, Nutwhisker, and Rowanberry.  

It was after Yellowfang's first battle as  a warrior that she learned more about the  

strange pains she'd been feeling throughout her  life. Upon visiting the medicine cat Sagewhisker,  

the older she-cat pointed out that Yellowfang  wasn't actually wounded, but that other cats  

had similar injuries: Yellowfang was feeling  the other cats' pain. Sagewhisker felt that  

StarClan had given Yellowfang this gift for a  reason, and urged her to become a medicine cat,  

but Yellowfang had no interest in this  and was determined to remain a warrior. 

She grew close to Raggedpelt again after saving  him from a badger, and the two of them began  

to become more than friends, a fact that some of  their Clanmates noticed and began to gossip about. 

Throughout that bitter leaf-bare, Yellowfang  gathered herbs for Sagewhisker and occasionally  

helped sick and injured cats, partly just to help  ease the pain for herself. Sagewhisker continued  

to insist that Yellowfang become her apprentice.  Finally, after Yellowfang saved the life of a  

kit while Sagewhisker was at the Moonstone, the  older medicine cat lost her patience and snapped  

at Yellowfang that it was her destiny to become  a medicine cat. Yellowfang thought about it and  

came to accept that perhaps it was the best way  to help her Clan, and so she finally accepted. 

The first few days of Yellowfang's new  apprenticeship were difficult and lonely,  

with so many things to learn, and being  treated differently by all of her Clanmates.  

Raggedpelt, for one, was furious when he learned  of her decision, feeling that she'd chosen being  

a medicine cat over him. The first visit  to the Moonstone comforted her, however:  

the other medicine cats were welcoming,  and when Yellowfang dreamed, it was of  

her grandmother Silverflame,  who promised to watch over her. 

As leaf-bare turned to newleaf, Raggedpelt  was announced as the Clan's new deputy.  

Yellowfang met him in the forest one day,  where they admitted that they still had  

feelings for each other, and they decided  to carry on their relationship in secret. 

That leaf-fall, Raggedpelt's apprentice  Cloudpaw was badly injured by rogues.  

Sagewhisker felt he was too far gone to be  saved, but Yellowfang didn't give up on him.  

She worked fiercely to save his live, and he  pulled through. Sagewhisker was proud of her,  

and announced that Yellowfang was ready  to take on the full title of medicine cat.  

Yellowfang knew that this was truly her  destiny, and so she would have to give  

up her secret relationship with Raggedpelt. When she dreamed at the Moonstone after the  

ceremony, she had a vision  of kits that disappeared.  

Yellowfang soon learned what this meant when  she realized that she was expecting kits.  

In the midst of trying to figure out what  to do, she also had a worrying dream where a  

StarClan cat gave her a message: “There is a cat  coming, a cat who should never have been born,  

whose life will bring fire and blood to the  forest, yet StarClan is powerless to stop him!”  

Yellowfang feared that this  referred to her coming kits. 

Sagewhisker could tell Yellowfang was  pregnant, and after confronting her,  

let the younger she-cat make up  her own decision on what to do.  

Yellowfang made up her mind that for the good  of the Clan, she could not raise the kits.  

She revealed to Raggedpelt what was going on,  and though he was thrilled to be a father,  

he was angry when he learned that she  wasn't going to be a mother to them.  

He made her promise that if she was going to do  this, she would never reveal that she was the  

kits' mother. He knew how hard it was knowing  that a parent had willingly abandoned him,  

and he didn't want his kits to go through  the same thing. Yellowfang promised. 

Yellowfang gave birth to three kits in a dead tree  outside of ShadowClan territory. Two were female,  

but one of the she-kits was stillborn, and  the other died shortly after her birth. If the  

official family tree is to be believed, Yellowfang  gave these kits the names Hopekit and Wishkit.  

As for the third kit, he was a tom, and he  seemed to be a fighter from the beginning.  

Yellowfang brought him back to the camp, and she  and Raggedpelt brought him to the only nursing  

queen, Lizardstripe. Lizardstripe wasn't  happy about having to care for another kit,  

but she took him in. Yellowfang told her that the  kit's name was Brokenkit, and most cats assumed  

that the name came from a bend in the kit's tail,  but the truth was that she'd named him for the  

feeling in her heart as she gave him up. She watched from afar as Brokenkit grew.  

Silverflame advised Yellowfang that even  if she couldn't be a mother to Brokenkit,  

she could be a friend, and  Yellowfang tried this, but ultimately  

it resulted in Brokenkit being bullied more by  the other kits, so he chose to stop visiting her. 

Many changes occurred in Yellowfang's life in  the moons afterward. Sagewhisker joined StarClan,  

leaving Yellowfang as the only medicine  cat. She wasn't alone for long, though:  

when Brokenpaw was apprenticed, Yellowfang took  one of his adopted littermates, Runningpaw,  

as her apprentice. In the following  moons, Cedarstar lost his final life,  

and the newly named Raggedstar named Brokentail  a warrior upon returning from the Moonstone.  

Around this time, Yellowfang gave her apprentice  his full medicine cat name, Runningnose. 

Although she had initially been proud of her  son's skills, eventually, Yellowfang became more  

and more worried about Brokentail's behavior.  He was a harsh mentor, and when the Clan deputy  

Cloudpelt died in battle, Yellowfang believed that  Brokentail might have something to do with it.  

She pleaded with Raggedstar not to name Brokentail  as the next deputy, but he refused to listen. 

With him as deputy, the Clan began to focus mostly  on fighting. Yellowfang had yet another horrifying  

vision: this one was of kits fighting each other  and dying – and Raggedstar had the same dream.  

One day, Brokentail returned to camp with  Raggedstar's dead body, reporting that  

WindClan had ambushed their patrol. Yellowfang  was shocked at her former mate's sudden death. 

Things only got worse under Brokenstar's  leadership, since now nobody could oppose  

his thirst for battle. He apprenticed kits  at only three moons of age – several of them  

died as a result – and banished the  elders to the edge of the territory.  

It got so bad that Yellowfang confronted  him about it and threatened to get StarClan  

to take away his nine lives, but StarClan  told her there was nothing they could do. 

There was a small bit of happiness  during this time when Yellowfang  

helped her mother Brightflower  deliver a second litter of kits,  

Yellowfang's younger sisters  Mintkit and Marigoldkit.  

But the kits were only half a moon old when they  went missing, and Yellowfang found them in the  

forest, dead. Brokenstar accused her of murdering  them – even her own parents believed it - and  

banished her from the Clan. Yellowfang fled,  feeling wretched, with nothing else to live for. 

She collapsed near Fourtrees, and was found and  defeated by the ThunderClan apprentice Firepaw.  

ThunderClan took her prisoner, and  charged Firepaw with caring for her.  

Over time, she grew to respect and care for  the young tom like a son, and Yellowfang was  

formally invited to join the Clan after defending  the nursery from the ShadowClan deputy Blackfoot.  

ShadowClan attacked again not long afterward,  though, and this time, they were successful in  

stealing the kits. Yellowfang tracked them, was  found by Firepaw and a ThunderClan patrol, and  

they teamed up with the exiled ShadowClan elders  to try to drive out Brokenstar. It was there that  

Brokenstar revealed that he'd been the one to  kill Raggedstar, and Yellowfang was horrified.  

Ultimately, Yellowfang's battle plan was  successful, and Brokenstar was forced to flee.  

Since the ThunderClan medicine cat Spottedleaf  had been killed when the kits were stolen,  

Yellowfang decided to remain in  ThunderClan and become their medicine cat. 

Even though Brokenstar had been driven out of  ShadowClan, the forest wasn't free of him yet.  

He tried to attack ThunderClan again with a  gang of rogues. Yellowfang fought him during the  

battle, blinding him and taking a life, but she  couldn't bring herself to kill her son for good.  

He remained there as a prisoner under her  care for a few moons, but when he and the  

traitorous deputy Tigerclaw plotted with  the rogues to attack the Clan yet again,  

Yellowfang knew she had to kill Brokenstar to keep  the forest and her adopted Clan safe. She fed him  

deathberries, revealing to him as he died that  she was his mother, and he lost his final life. 

Meanwhile, a young apprentice named Cinderpaw  had been badly injured on the Thunderpath, and  

she stayed in Yellowfang's den for a long time  as she recovered. It quickly became clear that  

she'd never become a warrior, but during her stay  there she and Yellowfang developed a strong bond,  

and eventually Yellowfang asked  Cinderpaw to become her apprentice. 

When it was finally time for Cinderpaw to receive  her full medicine cat name, Yellowfang feared  

that StarClan might reject the young cat  due to Yellowfang's murder of Brokenstar.  

After the ceremony when Yellowfang dreamed,  however, she was not met with accusations  

or punishments, but rather, was  given a profound sense of relief.  

Sagewhisker and the StarClan cat Molepelt  reassured her that Brokenstar's own choices had  

led to his fate, and that it wasn't Yellowfang's  fault for giving birth to him or killing him.  

StarClan accepted Cinderpelt and promised  that they'd always be with Yellowfang. 

One night in greenleaf, the Clan awoke to  fire roaring through the forest. They fled,  

and Yellowfang and Fireheart went back into the  camp to help try to get the remaining elders out.  

As Yellowfang tried to carry  Halftail out of the camp,  

a burning tree fell and blocked the  camp entrance, trapping them in.  

Yellowfang brought him back to her den to try to  shelter from the flames, but unfortunately this  

did not save either of them. Halftail died, and  Yellowfang herself breathed in too much smoke.  

Fireheart found her before the end, and  she had enough time to reveal what she  

had done to Brokenstar, and thank Fireheart for  bringing her to the Clan, before she passed on. 

Once in StarClan, Yellowfang enjoyed  hunting with her former Clanmates,  

although she somehow still  managed to have fleas there. 

Despite being dead, she still had an active  presence and was still involved with the Clans.  

As Moth Flight had once foreseen, Yellowfang had  the honor of giving young Firestar one of his nine  

lives, a life for compassion. Once the Clans left  the forest and moved to a lake, she saw an omen  

that she shared with the rest of StarClan: Before  there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the  

lake will run red – which meant that Brambleclaw  would kill his evil half-brother, Hawkfrost.  

She, Bluestar, and Lionheart also visited the  young ThunderClan medicine cat Leafpool to  

warn her that she would tread a path that few  medicine cats had walked before her – meaning  

that she would have kits, as Yellowfang once had. As the time grew near, Yellowfang told Leafpool  

that she too had given birth to kits, and that  her son had been Brokenstar. Yellowfang couldn't  

be certain how ThunderClan would react to Leafpool  giving birth, but she comforted Leafpool that the  

kits could walk a different path than Brokenstar  if they knew from the start that they were loved.  

Leafpool brought Squirrelflight to  the Moonpool with her, and there,  

Yellowfang suggested to Squirrelflight that she  could raise Leafpool's kits as her own. She felt  

that this was the best option, and she went as  far as lying and telling Squirrelflight that she  

couldn't have kits and would never otherwise  be a mother, in order to try to convince her.  

When the kits were finally born,  Yellowfang helped with the delivery. 

Leafpool's kits were prophesied to “hold  the power of the stars in their paws”,  

and one of them, Jaypaw, had the  ability to walk in other cats' dreams.  

Yellowfang was determined to keep an eye on him  and try to convince him to not misuse his power.  

StarClan decided to keep the kits' true  parentage a secret from the three of them,  

but after Squirrelfight revealed that she wasn't  their mother, Yellowfang decided that the time  

for secrets was over and gave Jayfeather a  crow's feather to hint at who his father was. 

It turned out that only two of Leafpool's three  kits were part of the Power of Three prophecy,  

and that the actual third cat was  Dovepaw, another of Firestar's kin.  

Yellowfang decided it would be best to  send a sign that the young cat was special,  

and she spoke a prophecy to Dovepaw herself:  “After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion,  

peace will come on dove's gentle wing.” Yellowfang didn't know at first what the Three's  

powers were for, but she sensed that something  bad was going to happen. Jayfeather told her that  

the WindClan warrior Breezepelt and the spirit  of Brokenstar had attacked him at the Moonpool,  

and that he knew that Dark Forest warriors  like Tigerstar were training living cats.