Stonetooth

Stonetooth was a heavily-scarred spotted dark gray tabby tom with one white paw and black rings around his eyes. He was a ThunderClan warrior who found his way to the Place of No Stars after his death. He was responsible for the death of the ThunderClan leader, Shellstar, and was banished from the Clan for his crimes against ThunderClan. He walked through the forest as a rougue, and "befriended" many rogues and loners that lived near the Clan territories, creating a "Clan" of his own and naming it "DarkClan". Although he did not receive nine lives, Stonetooth took on the name Stonestar and ruled over DarkClan for several years before he died in a battle with the ThunderClan warrior Streambattle and a patrol of ThunderClan warriors. When Stonetooth died, DarkClan was said to have disbanded, but later was found to exist beyond the Clan territories.

Stonetooth was born in ThunderClan many years before the current storyline. The son of Shellstar, Stonetooth grew up with the hopes of one day succeeding his father as ThunderClan leader. He was mentored by a hot-headed, battle-hungry tom named Sunfire, and taught how to fight mercilessly and with deadly accuracy. He was taught by Sunfire to hate his father for his pacifist ways, and Stonetooth eventually grew up to despise the peaceful, kind demeanor of his father and of ThunderClan and vowed to change the Clan into one that would be feared and respected by the other four. Prompted by Sunfire to challenge his father to a battle for leadership, Stonetooth decided to kill his father during the night, to avoid having to fight him fairly. He was caught by the ThunderClan warrior Streambattle after he had committed the deed, and was banished from the Clan for his crimes. His mentor, Sunfire, was horrified at Stonetooth's crime, claiming that he told Stonetooth to fight his father in a one-on-one battle, not murder him in his sleep. Stonetooth sneered that his mentor was a coward, and that his own rules of mercilessness and cunning meant nothing to Sunfire and were only hollow words.