Using his father's death as an excuse, he launches many attacks on WindClan, many of which Yellowfang considers unnecessary. Having taken over ShadowClan, Brokenstar institutes a vicious regime, bullying his way to eventual near-totalitarian power. Brokentail eventually murders Raggedstar to gain control of the Clan, while blaming the death on neighboring WindClan. Brokentail trains his apprentices with extreme methods, which go unchecked as his father refuses to see the wrong in his son's actions. Brokentail receives his warrior name, and becomes ShadowClan's deputy (second-in-command and future leader). While he is growing up, Raggedpelt becomes a leader, being renamed Raggedstar. As a result, he grows into a vicious cat without learning empathy or kindness. His adoptive mother shuns him and his adoptive littermates bully him. Brokenkit grows up spoiled and mistreated: his father, who is in a position of power, indulges him and refuses to punish him. Yellowfang gives Brokenkit up to another she-cat in the Clan, withholding her identity as the mother. Yellowfang gives birth in secret, but only one kit, Brokenkit, survives. Despite this, she has a relationship with ShadowClan warrior Raggedpelt in secret, and Yellowfang ultimately becomes pregnant with his kits. Sagewhisker thus takes Yellowfang on as an apprentice, and Yellowfang takes the medicine cats' vows, including the forsaking of taking a mate. Sagewhisker, the ShadowClan medicine cat, convinces Yellowfang that this ability would make her effective as a medicine cat if she could learn to control the power. The book takes place chronologically at around the same time as the other Super Editions Bluestar's Prophecy and Crookedstar's Promise.įrom a young age, Yellowfang physically experiences others' pain as if it were her own. Yellowfang trains as a warrior apprentice, but realizes that she is better suited as a medicine cat, and begins to train as one. Yellowfang's Secret follows Yellowfang, the ThunderClan medicine cat, during her early life in ShadowClan. Yellowfang's Secret was first released in hardcover on 9 October 2012. It is the fifth 'Super Edition' in the Warriors novel series. Yellowfang's Secret is a children's fantasy novel written by Cherith Baldry under the pseudonym Erin Hunter.

2012 novel by Erin Hunter Yellowfang's Secret

Yellowfang's Secret by Erin Hunter