Unfortunately I made the mistake of thinking that Lionheart will make something representative of the real thing and on that basis bought it. I was so excited for this as I love the original aircraft. I should have waited for reviews but my excitement got the better of me.
Born as a kittypet named Rusty, one day he joined ThunderClan, becoming its apprentice and later on warrior, receiving name Fireheart. Upon discovering and foiling a conspiracy plot of Tigerclaw, Fireheart became the Clan's new deputy, and after Bluestar's death, its new leader, Firestar. His leadership was well-known for his good heart, patience and mercy. After losing his last life in The Great Battle, Firestar joined StarClan, where he continued to send prophecies to ThunderClan and guiding it.
Firestar was once a house cat named Rusty who lived near the forest. He was always fascinated about what he could see in the distance from the garden fence. He kept having dreams about trying to catch mice in the wild, but always woke up before he could catch it. One day, he finally went outside and met his friend, a kitten named Smudge, who warned him about the wild forest cats in the nearby forest. Despite Smudge's words, Rusty went out into the forest anyway, but was suddenly attacked by Graypaw, an apprentice from one of the Clans. Two other cats appeared. One was Bluestar, the leader of ThunderClan. And the other was Lionheart, a huge warrior who was Graypaw's mentor. Bluestar, seeing the potential that Rusty had, decided to invite Rusty to join her Clan. She gave him a day to think about it. At noon next day, he met Lionheart again, with another cat named Whitestorm. They started to take him to camp, and he kept up well, despite being a kittypet. When Bluestar announced his arrival to the Clan, Longtail, a new warrior, challenged Rusty to a fight to prove his worth. Rusty's collar snapped, signifying his ties with twolegs had broken. Rusty won the fight and, in doing so, became a part of ThunderClan.
He was made an apprentice by Bluestar and renamed Firepaw, due to his flame-colored coat. He started out sharing Tigerclaw and Lionheart as both his and his friend's mentors, but eventually he was apprenticed to Bluestar. His old life as a kittypet was over and his new life as a wild forest cat began. Firepaw and Graypaw spent most of their time together training with Ravenpaw. The day Rusty joined the ThunderClan cats, Redtail died in battle after fighting RiverClan, a rival warrior Clan. Lionheart then became deputy, much to Tigerclaw's anger. Firepaw kept training, getting better and better, each day. The Clan now only had five apprentices: Firepaw, Graypaw, Ravenpaw, Sandpaw, and Dustpaw. Both Sandpaw and Dustpaw didn't like the newcomer, and they let that be known, as they ridiculed and taunted him for his kittypet roots. Firepaw learned fast about the warrior code. He met other Clan cats and went to Gatherings. He seemed to like the medicine cat, Spottedleaf. When Firepaw was one day hunting for his Clan, he ran into the former ShadowClan medicine cat, Yellowfang, who at that point, was a rogue. She was very hostile towards him, despite her obviously being sick and wounded. They have a small fight, then they share a rabbit Firepaw caught. The two are found by a patrol, and Firepaw lands in serious trouble. Yellowfang was allowed to stay at the ThunderClan camp after Bluestar's decision as a prisoner. Firepaw then has to take care of her during her stay in ThunderClan. Ravenpaw hinted numerous times that the death of Redtail was not what it seemed. It was revealed to Firepaw by Ravenpaw that Tigerclaw killed Redtail. Firepaw began to suspect Tigerclaw was going to kill Ravenpaw for knowing too much. Tigerclaw starts hinting that Ravenpaw is a traitor. Then ShadowClan attacked and killed Spottedleaf and they stole some kits which were fortunately later returned. Lionheart was killed and Tigerclaw became deputy. Yellowfang goes to save the kits. Firepaw takes the opportunity to sneak Ravenpaw away to a nearby farm. Graypaw takes them to Barley, a farm cat they met earlier before coming back from Mothermouth. After dropping off, Ravenpaw, Firepaw and Graypaw head to ShadowClan territory. They come across Yellowfang, some ShadowClan elders and ThunderClan warriors. They attack Brokenstar's warriors and take back their kits while chasing Brokenstar and his followers out. They returned to ThunderClan as heroes. Firepaw tells everyone Ravenpaw was killed by a ShadowClan patrol. Yellowfang later took the position of medicine cat for ThunderClan.
After battling alongside ShadowClan to drive out Brokenstar, Firepaw and Graypaw received their warrior names: Fireheart and Graystripe. They then rescue two kits, which belonged to a RiverClan queen, from a river when it flooded. They discover RiverClan's fish are poisoned, and they feed the RiverClan cats' food from their territory. Now Bluestar sent him and Graystripe to find WindClan, who was earlier driven out of their territory by Brokenstar. This was their first mission as warriors. They searched for a few days, and they find the missing Clan. Tallstar, WindClan's leader, allowed the two to lead them home. Fireheart and Graystripe helped to carry a kit named Gorsekit for Morningflower. They also met Onewhisker and the WindClan deputy, Deadfoot. When they arrived back at WindClan territory, Tallstar had Onewhisker and Deadfoot take the two warriors back home. On their way back they crossed into RiverClan territory, where they ran into a RiverClan patrol. Leopardfur, their deputy, and her warriors attack the small group. Then, a ThunderClan patrol arrives and helps to fight the RiverClan warriors. Later in the battle, Graystripe accidentally pushed Whiteclaw, another RiverClan warrior, off a cliff, killing him. but Fireheart saved Sandpaw from falling. After that she seemed to accept him. Fireheart then was given an apprentice named Cinderpaw. Graystripe got her brother, Brackenpaw. They take their apprentices out to show them their territory. When they were walking along the river Graystripe fell in after showing off to his apprentice. Silverstream, Crookedstar's daughter, saved him from drowning. Graystripe soon falls in love with her. His forbidden relationship greatly interfered with his apprentice duties, and he could not train Brackenpaw. Fireheart decided to take up Brackenpaw's training while Graystripe was chasing after Silverstream. When Fireheart found out about Graystripe's love for her, he repeatedly advised both of them to stop seeing each other, but they don't listen. This severed his and Greystripe's friendship. Fireheart later discovers his pregnant kittypet sister, Princess, after visiting the Twolegplace. When her kits were born, she gave him her firstborn son so he could live as a warrior in ThunderClan. Bluestar allowed the kit to stay and named him Cloudkit. Brindleface took care of him.
In the few moons after Tigerclaw's exile, Bluestar was driven mad by grief. She appointed Fireheart deputy since she did not know which another cat to choose. After that, she decided to stay isolated in her den, believing that her Clan was filled with rogues and traitors. This caused Fireheart to take up most of her duties. He had some help from Whitestorm, and support from the medicine cats as well. Darkstripe, being Tigerstar's main supporter, taunted Fireheart for his kittypet heritage. He always tried to make Fireheart's duties difficult. Fireheart kept training Cloudpaw and he later had to choose mentors for Ashpaw and Fernpaw with the help of Cinderpelt and Yellowfang. Dustpelt became Ashpaw's mentor and Darkstripe became Fernpaw's mentor. Then two ShadowClan warriors, Littlecloud and Whitethroat, asked for help from ThunderClan. Greencough had spread through ShadowClan's camp and killed their deputy and new leader, Nightstar. Fireheart sent them away, thinking they would try to infect ThunderClan. But he soon discovered that they were still on his territory. He also found Cinderpelt helping them to recover in secret. He decided to let her treat them. Not long after, Tigerclaw and Brokentail's rogues attacked a ThunderClan patrol and killed Runningwind. ThunderClan chased them away. Fireheart noticed that Cloudpaw was looking relatively fatter than the other cats in the camp. He also saw him going to twolegplace a lot more often, though he merely assumed that Cloudpaw was visiting his mother. But later, he found out that this is really because Cloudpaw had been letting twolegs feed him. Just when Fireheart saw this, the twolegs who were feeding Cloudpaw captured him in a truck and took him to their house. Fireheart was unable to help his nephew. Ravenpaw payed a visit after Tigerclaw had left. He had found Cloudpaw in a new house near where he lived. Ravenpaw took Fireheart and Sandstorm to the house where he saw the apprentice, and they saved Cloudpaw and took him home to ThunderClan. On the way back to camp, they were attacked by Mudclaw, his apprentice, Webpaw, and Deadfoot from WindClan. They chased the WindClan patrol off and returned to ThunderClan. One day, a great fire burned through the forest. Most of the cats escaped to RiverClan except for Patchpelt, Halftail and Yellowfang. All three died of smoke inhalation. Fireheart spoke with Yellowfang before she died in her den. She told him about Brokentail's death and that she killed him, but he already knew that, since he saw her do so. She wished Fireheart was her son instead. After a while, she passed away in the fire. Bluestar then became and Fireheart had to take her place at the Gathering. There he found out Tigerclaw had become ShadowClan's new leader. After the Gathering, some patrols found signs of dogs in the forest. Bluestar thought it was WindClan who was stealing prey from ThunderClan territory, but Fireheart knew it was the dog pack.
Bluestar then announced she wanted to attack WindClan. Fireheart then told his Clanmates about the dogs and stopped the attack on WindClan. Cloudpaw was made into a warrior named Cloudtail. Swiftpaw, Longtail's apprentice, became angry along with Brightpaw and Thornpaw because they didn't become warriors. Although, they were the same age. Swiftpaw and Brightpaw went to attack the dogs but sadly, Swiftpaw was killed and Brightpaw was badly injured. Brightpaw was on death's doorstep but lived. Bluestar named her Lostface so if she died then she would be given to StarClan as a warrior. She survived but was blind on one side. Cloudtail never left her side the whole time. Fireheart then figured out Tigerstar was feeding the pack of dogs and was planning to lead them to ThunderClan so they could destroy the Clan. Fireheart told Cloudtail to take the Clan to Sunningrocks while he and some of the fastest warriors could leer the dogs away. One by one the cats took turns running, letting the dogs chase them. Fireheart was the last cat to leer the dogs to the gorge. Tigerstar stopped him and pinned Fireheart down. The pack leader grabbed Fireheart and almost killed him. Bluestar appeared and attacked the dogs. She fell off the gorge and Fireheart jumped in after her to try saving her. During the floods he had learned from Graypool, a RiverClan elder, that Oakheart had mated with Bluestar, and she gave birth to two kits but she gave them to Oakheart so she could save her Clan and become deputy. Now as Fireheart and Bluestar were drowning, her kits came to their rescue. Mistyfoot and the new RiverClan deputy, Stonefur, helped Fireheart carry Bluestar to the bank. Before she died, both of her children told her that they forgave her for giving them up. Graystripe had rejoined the Clan and arrived to help Fireheart. Tigerstar appeared ready to finish off Bluestar, but Graystripe stopped him.