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Post by | | Fudgey | | on Oct 1, 2007 14:47:07 GMT -5
Heart racing, Pridekit marveled at how easy it had been. Now all they needed to do was find their mother and hopefully she would be so impressed with them she wouldn’t mind that they had been so naughty. ”Coming” she whispered as loudly as she dared, watching her SISTER { xD } creep through the camp with huge green eyes. In fact even if a cat did see them they wouldn’t be too bothered as kittens running through camp was not forbidden in any way but with the prospect of breaking the warrior code in front of her, Pridekit felt very venerable and in the spotlight as she slunk through the camp, ebony brown belly sweeping the ground. Already her muscles were developing and her claws were so sharp she could rip a leaf in half; a feat she was keen to show off to her siblings as soon as she got the chance. Heatherkit of course had been envious as her little stumpy claws could barely balance her. But the oddball of the litter had already developed broad shoulders and a beautiful face that none of the kits noticed at the moment but would in time. These were both marks of her real parentage but of course, no one, not even Tigerlily and Eagletalon knew who they were. Reaching Falconkit on the edge of camp, Pridekit and Heatherkit both did different things. Rushing and impatient Heatherkit trembled with excitement and mewed ”when are we going!” to Falconkit insistently but careful and slightly flighty Pridekit looked back over her shoulder nervously, watching the progress of the last kitten in the litter. ”Wait for Lustkit” she mewed snappily, seeing Walnutpaw padding through the camp and feeling her heart jolt. ”Hurry up” she hissed at her brother. Heatherkit however had another question. Licking her paw and running it over her face to try and make sure Falconkit was ABSOLUTELY sure she was relaxed and not worried AT ALL. ”How we gonna find her?”
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Post by Pessimistic One on Oct 1, 2007 14:58:45 GMT -5
"I dunno. I think you're supposed to use the, um, what'chamacallits. Oh! The scent glands! Yeah. That's it." Nodding impressively, Falconkit felt rather high and mighty for knowing this; though, they might've already known it. But since they asked how they were supposed to find their mother, she assumed that they hadn't known. Opening her mouth slightly, her eyes widened at the scents she experianced. Mouse, possibly; Earthstar, even -- he must've passed by; and their mother! Yet something was wrong. Their was a different scent mingled with her unique scent, something vaguely familiar. Blood! It came to her in a jolt, and her mouth dropped open. "Mother is in trouble!" she squeaked, rushing forward as fast as her legs would carry her. She stopped at the scene before her, eyes widening briefly. No. This couldn't have happened.
Wrath growled aggressively at the collision, leaping off his victim to stand a fair distance away from Barkfur. A crooked, malicious smile graced his muzzle, and he laughed hoarsely under his breath. "Watch your backs, kitties. There's more from where that came from." The vicious rogue ignored Nightfire's appearance and, with a sidelong glance at Tigerlily's body, he bounded off swiftly, disappearing through a clump of trees as he headed for the LakeClan border.
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Post by stormphrax on Oct 1, 2007 15:15:57 GMT -5
Barkfoot bent her head to Tigerlily's desperate to stem the flow of blood. She raised it for a moment muzzle dripping with blood to growl urgently to Nightfire. "Get the kits away from here." She had no way of telling weather the she-cat was alive or dead but for a virtuous moment prayed to Starclan that she would live. It could not be right for queens to die. Still struggling to prevent more blood from escaping she began to drag the body back to camp, hoping that Shiningfrost could still do something, all her emnity briefly banished in worry.
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Post by Candy on Oct 1, 2007 15:22:16 GMT -5
The black she-cat watched as the rogue left.Wanting to run after him and claw all his fur off and let him be a naked cat in the forest she stopped and looked at Tigerlily."Boy her kits are going to cry for her a lot."She mewed to herself and tried to put Tigerlily's body on her back but it was too heavy.Instead she had to drag the body all the way back to the camp. As she did it fell down the hill and she then noticed Falconkit staring wide eyed."Falconkit what are you doing out here?!Get back to camp now and tell Shiningfrost that Tigerlily got slain by a rogue."She snapped at the kit and then muttered something under her breath.She grabbed the body again and dragged it back to camp. As she got there she pulled it over to the middle of the camp and then layed down beside it.Not knowing Tigerlily that much she still wanted to sit vigil for a friend.
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Post by smiley. on Oct 1, 2007 16:19:49 GMT -5
But Shiningfrost was suddenly sent with mixed emotions, she had no idea what to think anymore. It was as though two figures appeared on her shoulders, and they were trying to persuade her to follow them. Shiningfrost, Earthstar loves you in his own way. He cares about you, he knows you have helped him through a lot. Don't do this!
[/i] And then the other would begin speaking, and oddly enough it was Scarletvixen's voice. Earthstar hates you, he uses you. He chose Snowstar, follow me... But in the end, Shiningfrost asked herself: Scarletvixen or Earthstar? "Earthstar." She said aloud in her mind, but filled with terror as a head-splitting migrane reached her. She yelped in silent pain and realized with a jolt that everything she'd just been thinking, every little thing, Scarletvixen had heard. And, no longer caring, Shiningfrost couldn't help but think: And now I'm going to be killed.[/i] And as this migraine lasted, a memory flooded back into her mind. NO![/i] She yowled in the fiery depths of her skull, trying to stop thinking about it. But the more she tried, the more clearer it became until there was no hope at all. There he was, in all his glory. So handsome, so perfect. Her brother. Shiningpaw growled at him, having yet another quarrel. I hate you! She screamed, and it seemed as though time stopped when she slapped him across the head in rage. He collapsed and fell to the floor, and did not move. And it began to fast-forward, to warrior-hood. His name was Maniac, and he'd been exiled and sent to the rogue life for becoming so mad. All Shiningfrost's fault. She'd made her own brother go crazy, and now he was forced to live life as a rogue.Shiningfrost screamed in rage, fighting back sobs.[/color] "Earthstar!" Willowstorm, or what looked like Snowstar yelped in false happiness. She ran over to her mate, twinkles of also-fake jubilance within her eyes to sparkle like the stars. She ran over and cackled to herself, pleased with the amount of tears Snowstar was shedding. This was fantastic, absolutely perfect... "I've missed you, so much." She couldn't help but rest her head on his chest and then unsheathed her claws, preparing herself to attack. What should he receive, something that would cause complete torture. Someone annoying, someone agonizing - Someone like Appleblossom?[/size][/center][/color]
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Post by Pessimistic One on Oct 1, 2007 18:08:55 GMT -5
Falconkit's panic-stricken gaze landed on Nightfire, her eyes brimming with tears in shallow grief. Nodding, she sniffled, rising to her paws as the black she-cat dragged her mother back to LakeClan's camp. Ears and tail drooping alike, the kit, who looked so much like her deceased mother, with colours only inverted, shuffled back to the camp grudgingly, wanting to curl up where she was and stay there in her traumatized state. Why Tigerlily? Just why? Padding past Pridekit and Heatherkit remorsefully, she finally reached the camp, about to trudge over to Shiningfrost's den when her father intercepted her, his eyes alight with both fear for his kits, and anger for them leaving without his permission. "Falconkit!" he boomed. "Where have you been? And where's Heatherkit and Pridekit and Lustkit? Don't you know how...how..." Never finishing his sentence, Eagletalon's gaze gradually adjusted on his mate's dead-still body, and with a small cry, he darted over, nosing the fur along her neck in rough movements, hardly able to bear the prospect of her being dead. Not paying much mind to Nightfire, he closed his eyes shut. "Tigerlily..." Lowering himself infinitesimally slow, he rested his nose against his mate's head, breathing in her killer's scent, which had happened to cling onto her fur. You'll pay, you rotten cat.
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Post by Candy on Oct 1, 2007 18:39:16 GMT -5
Nightfire got up to her paws and looked at Falconkit and mewed "Falconkit come over here for a moment.I need to tell you something."She motioned with her tail for her to come over beside her. Nightfire glanced around for her sister Cornflower but didn't see her anywhere."I wonder where she is?"Shrugging she looked back at the kit and waited. [/size]
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Post by rain on Oct 1, 2007 20:22:10 GMT -5
ooc// Sorry I'm late!
Lustkit squeaked, darting behind Walnutpaw to catch up with his siblings. Suddenly, everything happened so quickly. Falconkit had disappeared and come back a few moments later. By the look on her face, and the feeling of dread and blood he could scent, he knew something had gone terribly wrong. A gasp escaped him as the sight of his dead mother entered his vision. His whiskers quivered as he pressed into Heatherkit's side for support before following Falconkit.
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Post by | | Fudgey | | on Oct 2, 2007 10:43:20 GMT -5
Pridekit couldn’t speak. Her throat blocked itself and it felt like the time she had swallowed a clump of mouse far too big for her tiny mouth to manage and started choking. But Tigerlily had been there to gently turn her upside-down and help her spit out her very first hairball, something she had also been quick to boast about in the quiet confines of the nursery later. But her mother …dead… It was too much to believe, far too much to believe. ”She can’t be …she can’t be” the kitten choked over and over again, eyes brimming with tears, feeling too hopeless to even look at Falconkit, Lustkit or Heatherkit. He mother - dead. ”It’s okay, it’s okay” Heatherkit sobbed into Lustkit’s shoulder, trying to console herself as well as her brother. She couldn’t believe it; Tigerlily was gone, her life snatched away from her like a twig snapping. Heatherkit took a shaky step towards her dead mother and heard a snap beneath her. Looking down she saw a severed stick nestling in its final resting place beneath her paw and was suddenly engulfed in a wave of fear. Was it that easy to die? Were they all just twigs waiting to be stepped on? But why Tigerlily? Who decided who lives and who dies …why did Starclan see fit to snatch her mother from her? ”Who did it” the kitten mewed, voice shaking with rage, claws sinking into the ground, eyes flashing exactly like Earthstar’s did.
Cornflower padded shakily over to her sister, looking down in horror at the dead body she had dragged in. She watched Falconkit and Pridekit for a while, feeling an overwhelming sense of pity. So young to have lost a loved one. ”Who did it?” she whispered to herself, sniffing the body, making sure to respectfully lick the queen’s cheek one last time. It was a sour, pungent smell that was none she recognized although there was tiny bit of everything mixed in. ”A rogue’ she hissed coldly, arching her body away from the stricken she-cat and looking sadly at Eagletalon. ”Poor Eagletalon” she mewed to Nightfire, putting her muzzle close to her sisters ear so no other cats could hear them; especially not Eagletalon. The Warrior would probably be very touchy and not want to talk about the event and the golden she-cat did not blame him in the slightest. ”There’s someone out there” she mewed, stating the obvious but in a deadly quiet and ponderous voice. ”Someone …oh Fireclan - THUNDERFOOT!” She wheeled around and sprinted from the camp, blindly crashing through the forest, calling out the name of her mate in panic. ”Thunderfoot, THUNDERFOOT!”
”Me too” Earthstar purred, licking Snowstar’s cheek completely unaware of who she really was. He did notice a slightly musky scent hung around her, something the beautiful she-cat didn’t usually smell like. At once the fur on the back of his neck stood on end, bristling as if he was about to be attacked but Earthstar ignored it just as he had ignored the strange scent in the forest. Both fatal mistakes. ”So …how’s life in Dreamclan?” he purred, rubbing his head against her flank in affection. It was so good when they were together, he forget about everything, everyone and everywhere; it was just him and Snowstar for ever and for ever. Of course they had matters to discuss but that could come later - he had all the time in the world.
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Post by Pessimistic One on Oct 2, 2007 15:13:06 GMT -5
Oh woe was her. Out of all the cats in this forest, the one to be taken down just had to be her mother. And not just her mother. Lustki's mother, Pridekit's mother...Heatherkit's. All four of them had to loose the one they felt most attached to, besides their father; but it was too sudden, so abrupt that she had barely had time to comprehend it all, make sense out of the confusing and turmultous thoughts whirling around in her small head. Shaking her cranium twice, she faced Nightfire bleakly, trodding around Tigerlily's too-dead body with a wide berth, not intending to get too close, as if death was a contagious disease waiting to take over. Stepping up to the she-cat, she sat down in a plop, gazing up to meet the warrior's gaze bleakly. She wanted to mewl like she had when she was smaller than she was now, cry like her very life depended on it. On the verge of tears once more, she rubbed a paw against her eyes a few times for good measure before returning her widened eyes on Nightfire.
"Oh, I can guess who did it all right! A stinkin' rogue! Why, if I ever find him, I'll rake my claws alongt his own face and kill him myself and see how he likes it!" the outrageous warrior yowled suddenly, withdrawing his nose from his mate's body to leap up to his paws with fur on end. Unconsciously, he unsheathed his long, curved claws, scraping them against the earth in outright chagrin. What was worse was that the smell of the killer was somehow familiar, and it seemed to click in the back of his mind, but he couldn't interpret it. He knew he should know it, but he didn't. Thinking that he might remember the scent eventually, Eageletalon attempted to breath evenly, failing horribly. If it was a shocker for him, how much of a shocker was it for his kits? Yet they probably didn't feel any gut-wrenching guilt; he did. He could have gone with her and had some other cat watch the rambunctious tykes... And he didn't. Anger changing to depression in a swift minute, the warrior slumped back to a laying position, his eyes gazing dully at the body of the she-cat he had loved.
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Post by smiley. on Oct 2, 2007 16:13:42 GMT -5
ooc - fudgey forgot scarletvixenn (:
bic - Thunderfoot was laying in a jumbled heap by the BoulderClan border, his eyes widened as he shivered. He lay by a tree, mouth ajar at the sight he had just seen. He had passed the border, venturing to BoulderClan, when a terrible site came upon him. His sister. A stick had been stabbed through her heart, but he recognized that smile. What he didn't recognize were those eyes, filled with sadness and hatred - they seemed to happy that they no longer had to stare at anything in the world. A tear rolled down Thunderfoot's cheek, and then another. Another, and another. They were slow and solemn, but he couldn't believe his sister had killed herself. He knew she had, it was inevitable. And he'd lost Cornflower too, she hated him and he'd never get her back... Thunderfoot couldn't help but wonder - did he even want her back? Of course he did, but all these thoughts clouded his mind and he barely heard her calling his name.
"Earthstar, I have a confession to make -" A smile spread across Snowstar's features as Willowstorm purred out of the DreamClan leader's body. "I'm not Snowstar." But before Earthstar could reply to this haneous comment, Willowstorm immediately clawed a deep carving of a blossom into his left paw. She could've done an apple, but an apple wasn't...hmm, girly enough. Willowstorm smiled at its deepness, how long would it take before it wore off? Weeks? Months? Years? She guessed months, nothing that deep could heal within weeks. Snowstar was still sobbing, and Willowstorm grew angry and annoyed once more. To reply, she slammed her front paw against the ground roughly, sending piercing pain through it - in Snowstar's feeling, of course. But that's when it happened, it took her by complete surprise. Suddenly, she'd lost total feeling in Snowstar's body. She was in the dark forest again, listening to Snowstar speak inside her own body. "Earthstar, I love you! I'm so sorry, I'm being controlle -" But then Willowstorm regained her composure, and Snowstar was silent again. Well now, Willowstorm needed to stay away from the real Earthstar for a while.
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Post by rain on Oct 2, 2007 16:45:40 GMT -5
Trembling, Lustkit crawled over to Tigerlily's body, pressing his nose into her cooling flank like he had seen other cats do. He lay down and closed his eyes, drinking in her scent for the last time. "You didn't deserve this," he whispered sadly, "We'll avenge your death one day." He sighed softly, drowning out the other noises around him, concentrating only on the memories of when Tigerlily was alive and well.
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Post by Cari on Oct 2, 2007 18:24:45 GMT -5
ooc:.... WOW..... I dunno how to join in with Ashy.....
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Post by Owl on Oct 2, 2007 19:04:34 GMT -5
ooc; I'll just pretend my characters were there. ^^; d**n homework.
ic; Smokefoot looked at the body once, eyes flashing with fear. There would be time to pay respects to a lost cause; yet his mate, Badgerstripe! (Changed her name. xD) He dissapeared immediately, his thin feet tearing the ground to the nursery. He stood over Badgerstripe protectively, refusing to let anything happen. His ears flattened and hissed when anyone approached, even clanmates.
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Post by Cari on Oct 2, 2007 19:13:37 GMT -5
ooc: *blows a trumpet* Hurrah! Super rain is here! Bic: Ashfeather nodded listlessly. "Sure, I'll come." He got up and stretched his legs, then stood beside Silverfoot, ready to leave. He cou;dn't help but feel a little envious of Stoneriver, having an apprentice and all... but that would come for his soon.
ooc: sorry it was so short but I g2g.
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