Warriors of RaptorClan
-Scarredstar
-Moonsong
-Hawkmask
-Silvershadow (deputy)
-Thundersong
-Burnsoul
-Hollowfang
-Ravenfeather (med cat)
-Thornpaw (apprentice)
-Meadowflower (queen)
-Goldkit, Graykit, Thunderkit, Mothkit, Tornkit (kits)
-Scarredstar
-Moonsong
-Hawkmask
-Silvershadow (deputy)
-Thundersong
-Burnsoul
-Hollowfang
-Ravenfeather (med cat)
-Thornpaw (apprentice)
-Meadowflower (queen)
-Goldkit, Graykit, Thunderkit, Mothkit, Tornkit (kits)
Scarredstar hissed and dug his claws into the rough earth in his den.
ReplyDelete"For the last time, Stormstar. Neither me or my warriors have stolen any herbs or prey from you. Now you have 3 seconds to get out of my territory or I will rip your pelt off of your body and use it to line my nest!!" he yelled, lashing his broad tail behind him.
"We found your clan's scent in our medcine den and over our border!! The evidence is all there!! prepare yourself for war, Scarredstar. Because that is what you have caused." Stormstar spat, turning and leaving the den, her tail hitting against his legs as she did so.
Scarredstar snorted and followed her out of his den. "Darkrise escort her to the border." he ordered, leaping up ontop of his den and laying down.
Darkrise dipped his head and started towards the furious leader.
"What makes you think I need an escort? I didnt bring my warriors. what harm could I possibly do?" Stormstar asked, turning to look at Scarredstar.
"Its not so much what YOU could do that I'm worried about. Its about what the Raptors could do to you. Good bye, Stormstar." he said dismissively, but when he turned his head to look at her, he had a gleam in his eyes.
Moonsong played with her claws.
ReplyDeleteLet them slide in and out. in,out,in,out,in,out,in,out,in,out,in,out,in,out...... She sighed.
The last moons were so hard. First she was rejected to have kits with her former mate. Then he drifted away from her, and left her shortly after. Then, lastly, he killed him.
She shook her head.
"Don't think about it...." she murmured to herself.
Scarredstar watched her play with her claws, an eyebrow raised quizzically.
ReplyDeleteThen he shook his head and jumped down off his den and walked over to her.
"uh, what're ya doin'?" he asked, sitting across from her and flicking his ears.
Moonsong sat up quickly. "Honestly, going over my thoughts about the last moon I have gone through," she mewed.
ReplyDeleteScarredstar tilted his head. "What do you mean?"
She flattened her ears. "I've done some things I'm not proud of."
He gave her a crooked grin and laughed.
ReplyDelete"Noone's done more of those than I have. Darkrise can side with me on that. Trust me. It's ok to have some things to not be proud of. But try not to make the list of them longer than it has to be. In other words, dont follow in my pawsteps." He mewed, flicking his ears and looking at the ground in front of him.
Hawkpath
ReplyDeleteI stared at Silvershadow as she walked out of camp to go hunting.
'Stupid mousebrain!' I thought angrily. 'Why didn't you ask her to go with you? Or if you could go with her?'
"Because," I answered myself out loud. "I have no way to tell her I love her."
Luckily no one else was in camp, so no one heard. Ravenfeather was out gathering herbs and everyone else (being Scarredsta and Moonsong and Silvershadow) was out doing whatever.
"yes you do. Just tell her. It's not that hard. Just do it, Lovesick mousebrain." Thornpaw said, surprising Hawkpath.
ReplyDelete"Just 3 words. Give yourself 20 seconds of bravery. That's all you need." he continued, sitting next to the still surprised tom.
(That wasn't 3 words LOL)
ReplyDeleteMoonsong looked up at her new leader. "Please if anything, you would be walking in my paw steps," she meowed.
Scarredstar looked up, "Oh really?"
Moonsong nodded with a smile, "Really."
The leader rolled his eyes, "I doubt it."
Moonsong stood up and flicked her tail for him to follow her. "I want to know just what you did, if you don't mind. But we should put ourselves to use while we're at it. Out for a hunt O' Bad One?" she asked.
Scarredstar was a little shocked that she wasn't afriad to speak her mind, even around a leader.
Hawkmask
ReplyDelete"Thanks, Thornpaw," I said.
(It's short. LAZY)
"uhh. ok." Scarredstar said, trotting out of camp.
ReplyDeleteThornpaw nodded, then shoved him towards his mentor.
"Go ask her to go hunting with you, and then if you do, tell her you love her." he directed, flicking his tail.
Moonsong gazed at the sky. "So what you got?"
ReplyDelete"I got a bad past and a sad story of rejection and hate." Scarredstar said, flicking his ears. He smiled a little.
ReplyDelete"well, it's only sad for the kind-hearted ones. Anyways, as soon as I had opened my eyes, I was thrown into a fighting ring to fight against this other huge, full grown cat. I ran and got away.
But then I was caught by some more twolegs and was trained to fight. And I mean like fight-to-the-death kindda fight. I was trained to kill. So after I had finished my training, I left and found DuskClan. They're from way over the mountains. I got settled down, found a girl I really liked. but... she didnt return my love. She and this other guy, Icewhistle was his name I think, they got together. She had kits with him, and completely ignored me. It was like it was her world and I was just passing through...So..." he mewed slowly, his eyes getting a distant look. He squeezed them shut before continuing, his voice strained.
"So I... I killed her. I killed her, I killed him, and I even killed their kits. I spared noone that night. But, I didnt stay long enough to check if she was dead or not, I just left as soon as I had attacked. Then I wandered to a Twoleg place where I was picked up in an alley and thrown into another fighting ring. Thats where I met Darkrise. And you should be able to figure out the rest on your own." he concluded. "wait... no, nevermind. You and the other warriors will probably figure it out sooner or later, the more she stops by to pay us a visit."
Meadowflower
ReplyDeleteLooking at my kits play, I felt happy. Meadow was no more-when I could contain her-and my kits were in a safe place. I still missed Facade. He was dead now, courtesy to whoever killed him that dark night. But the kits didn't have to suffer my pain.
(I was thinking that Scarredstar killed Facade on accident. Somehow we could work that in, right?)
(hmm... I was kindda thinkin that it was Stormstar, and make more leader 0drama but your idea works in great! *thumbs up* :D
DeleteMoonsong jumpped up on a stump.
ReplyDelete"I was born a killer my friend," she meowed flicking her tail. "My mother killed my brother's and sisters, my father killed to be a leader. Of this clan," she shook her head. "I don't even remember the name and I was there only a few moons ago."
"Why did your mother do that?" her leader asked.
Moonsong lifted her chin. "She only wanted strong kits...." she murmured. "Those were her words. I used to mutter things in my sleep.... Dark Forest. I would mutter. And soon I started to rememeber those dreams. They were of Dark Forest cats, Darkstripe was my mentor. He taught me to kill, as you were. I was an extremely good apprentice and became a warrior in less then three moons."
Moonsong looked faint, as if she was in a different world.
"It's funny because our stories are so different, yet so alike. I liked this tom, Roughtail I believe, and we were mates for a while, but for the last moon I was there, he drifted away from me."
She sank her claws into the roots of the stump and felt the tears threatening to spill. "That jerk! He was cheating on me. I got so mad one night....."
"And killed him," Scarredstar finished, snapping Moonsong out of her own private world where she could see it all playing through her head.
She looked back down. "Yes. And not long after that my dad was over thrown. He died at my paws, begging for me to help him. I cried so much that night.... saying 'Don't die daddy, we could start a new life.' I ran away to here when he started weasing. I just couldn't stand to see him die. We're so alike it's like looking at myself dying," she meowed. "He could be alive, looking for me, calling for me to help him. To save him...."
Moonsong cleared her throat. "I think we have a tie," she bowed her head.
Scarredstar raised an eyebrow and laid down with his paws crossed.
ReplyDelete"And I thought mine was a sad sob story." he sneered, laughing.
"If you were wanting me to feel sorry for you, I hate to disappoint you. But, as you said, we're evenly matched on this." he added, standing back up and stretching.
Moonsong blushed for a moment. But then corrected herself and sat up straight.
ReplyDelete"You don't need to be sorry for me," she meowed. "It was hard, but I grew stronger. If I hadn't.... I wouldn't be here right now."
Scarredstar nodded. "You have, that I am grateful for."
"because I dont take wimps in my clan." he said in a mocking voice, standing straighter. "Said old Coldstar before me." he added in his normal voice, smiling.
ReplyDeleteHe pushed the fact that he had seen her blush at his previous comment to the back of his mind.
"Alright, alright, alright. go find some food." he snarled in a good way, lashing his tail, telling Moonsong that their conversation was at an end.
Moonsong dipped her head. She felt as if she had bonded closer with her leader, and respected him and trusted him more.
ReplyDeleteShe waved her tail in fairwell and disappeared into the bushes to hunt. From then on Moonsong was more determinded to help her clan, no matter what happened.
She thought she heard Scarredstar snort and start laughing a little.
Wheather it did happen or not, she started laughing herself. But not loud enough for all the prey to be scared off.
"what are you laughing for?" Hollowfang asked, dropping the rabbit he had just caught in the hole he was digging.
ReplyDeleteHe sat down and flicked an ear, waiting for her answer.
She cut off her laughter and lifted her head. "Nothing you need to worry about Hollowfang, shouldn't you be back at camp, you know doing something?"
ReplyDeleteHe snorted.
ReplyDelete"I was told to go hunting with Burnsoul. So that's what I'm doing. But then I saw you laughing and wanted to see why. Forgive me if my obedience bothers you, princess." he snarled, getting up.
Silvershadow
ReplyDeleteWatching the cats fight, I felt a pang of dread as I stepped out of the shadows.
"Why are you guys fighting?" I asked in my fiercest voice. I sounded like a mouse. "You aren't feeding the Clan when you squabble like apprentices."
She dipped her head. "Sorry if I bothered you somehow Silvershadow. This is none of your conseren," Moonsong said briskly.
ReplyDeleteShe then turned to Hollowfang. "If you were hunging with Burnsoul you better get to it. I was just talking to Scarredstar over there," she pointed her tail to behind her. "So are we here to act like warriors or act as if you should be a part of everyone's conversation," she looking at Silvershadow as she said this.
Then she continued into the bushes.
Like she thought, she was determind to serve her clan. Not to talk to cats that she hardly liked. Hollowfang was okay, but Silvershadow just got on her bad side.
Whatever, she would make it work somehow.
"we werent fighting..." Hollowfang grumbled under his breath as he turned and left.
ReplyDeleteI felt my fur grow hot. I had just sounded like a bossy mouse-brain. I backed away so I couldn't stick my muzzle in their business any more n
ReplyDelete"Good save," she called, if Hollowfang was listening let alone even there.
ReplyDelete"Not so bad yourself." he said around yet another rabbit.
ReplyDeleteMoonsong swiped at a vole coming out of the ground. It squealed, giving her time to kill it. "You're not so bad Hollowfang. Maybe we could be....friends?" she asked.
ReplyDeleteThere was a silence, then "I would like that," he meowed from somewhere in the trees.
"So princess. Caught anything good?" he asked as he came back into view with his 3 rabbits and a squirrel.
ReplyDeleteMoonsong flixked her ears. "You going to keep calling me that?" she asked.
ReplyDeleteHe nodded. "Yep."
"Well anyway," she went on. "I just caught a vole, my paws are dragging today."
He tossed one of his rabbits and the squirrel at her.
ReplyDelete"now you caught a vole, a rabbit, and a squirrel." he corrected her. "I have a reputation as the worst hunter in the clan to uphold." He smiled.
She narrowed her eyes at the tom.
ReplyDelete"Why are you being so nice to me? I mean, you didn't even know me until just a hunt ago," Moonsong asked.
"I TOLD you. I have a reputation to uphold." he said stiffly, snarling and lashing his tail behind him. "Take them or leave them. the Raptors will get them eventually, anyway."
ReplyDeleteMoonsong took them (Only for the good of the clan) and nudged Hollowfang.
ReplyDelete"Stop being like that," she mewed through the mouthful of prey.
He flattened his ears. "Like what?"
Moonsong rolled her eyes. "Being nice and then harsh at the next moment when I comment that your being nice. Is it forbidden to be nice for you?"
He shook his head. "No, well its complicated."
Hollowfang padded off before she could ask him anything else about it. He went through the entrance and dropped his prey on the pile. But, he started thinking and soon grabbed one of the rabbits to take to Meadowflower.
ReplyDeleteHe sighed and stopped outside the nursery.
"20 seconds of courage... Go." he muttered, going inside the nursery.
"Hey Meadowflower, I was wonderin if you wanted to share a rabbit with me." he asked. That took away 5 seconds. He still had 15 seconds to tell her.
(gonna let Spotsy handle the stuff after that XD)
-----meanwhile-----
Ashblade saw Moonsong coming back through the entrance and trotted up to her.
"Hey Moonsong, wanna go train? It's boring around here." he asked, grinning.
"Oh," Moonsong meowed. All these toms were making her head dizzy with confusion. "Sure, why not?"
ReplyDeleteThey both fell into step, heading to the forest.
Then suddenly Moonsong thought, 'Wait, I might hurt him,' she shook her head. 'Just remember to keep your claws in.'
"So you need a friend?" Moonsong asked.
Ashblade rolled his eyes, "Tell me about it."
Meadowflower
ReplyDeleteI looked at Hollowfang, feeling wary.
"Sure," I said, feeling unsure for some reason. He reminded me of someone, I just couldn't put my paw on it. Then it came to me.
"Hollow?!?"
Hollowfang-
ReplyDelete"yes, Facade's half brother." he clarified.
Ashblade-
He looked at her sideways before saying anything else. "and no, I dont like you the way your assuming. I just need someone to hang around since its boring in camp." he mewed, flicking his ears. "Because I'm 'antisocial' as Burnsoul had put it."
"Oh! Of course not! It's just it seems that I've been hanging around toms all my life. My father, my friends.... I guess I don't really know about a she-cat's need for gossip. But I assure you," Moonsong meowed. "I did not think that at all... Honestly I need a friend or at least someone to talk to so I'm happy to hang out."
ReplyDelete"No she cats?" he asked.
She shook her head.
"Really?"
"Well not as a real friend. And I didn't know my mother for that long," she flicked her ears. "Can we continue?"
"Yeah," Ashblade meowed.
They slowly made it to the forest.
"ladies first." he mewed, bracing himself for whatever move she would throw at him.
ReplyDeleteSilently Moonsong jumpped on the gray tom's back and put her paws over his eyes :P
ReplyDeleteAshblade threw his head back, taken aback by the move she had done.
ReplyDelete"what?" he mewed, laughing a little as he jerked his head around trying to get the spotted she-cat to get her paws off of his eyes, but to no avail.
"Yeah, by this time you would be screwed huh? I could've blinded you right them by sinking my claws into your eye sockets. You should learn this one, it's quiet useful," Moonsong meowed as Ashblade continued to laugh to himself.
ReplyDeleteShe shrugged. "And your confused so that helps too." She loosened her grip a small amount and Asblade went into action and pinned her to the ground.
"I'm always confused. I'm what some cats call 'slow'." he said, before putting a paw to her throat.
ReplyDelete"you're dead. I win. again?" he said simply, shaking the dust out of his pelt.
"Oh, so we're playing that way huh?" Moonsong teased and lept on his back to cover his eyes.
ReplyDeleteBut Ashblade reconized this move and pinned her down again. Moonsong accidentally forgot to leave her claws in and gave him a good belly rake.
"hey!! claws in." he growled, again placing his paw on her throat.
ReplyDelete"I win again..." he muttered, sitting back and letting her up.
Blood ran down his back leg.
ReplyDelete"Your bleeding....." Moonsong murmured. "I'm so sorry its just that I learned to fight with claws out all the time. I need to get used to it," she meowed.
Near a tree was marigolds, Moonsong took the petals and started to chew them and found some cobwebs and started back towards Ashblade.
"I'm really sorry," she said through the pulp in her mouth.
Ashblade looked at her confused and meowed, "Are you a warrior or a medichine cat???"
Moonsong dropped her gaze. "My father wanted to much of me. He wanted me to be a warrior that could read the stars if they wanted me to. And now I can. I know ever herb that was discovered, quite scary actually."
Ashblade blinked.
ReplyDelete"uh. ok...?" he mewed, flicking an ear.
"Do you want to stop practicing?" she asked.
ReplyDelete"I'm fine. Just keep your claws in this time." he mewed, getting into his stance.
ReplyDeleteMoonsong slipped under his belly remembering to keep her claws in and belly raked him.
ReplyDeleteAshblade gave a suprized yowl and bit softly at her hind leg.
He softly grabbed hold of her leg with his mouth and yanked his head sideways, causing her to fall on her side. Before she could react he had her pinned with his paw to her throat.
ReplyDelete"I win. again." he said, smiling and letting her up.
She dipped her head. "It's been fun training with you. We should do it again some time."
ReplyDeleteAshblade grunted in response as he leapt up a tree.
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