[taillow]

Dusklion - RiverClan Head Lionheart
She/her | 27 moons | Go with the Flow, Beefed Up T3, Rapid Recovery, Shadow Fiend

With the aftermath of the meeting still weighing heavily on her heart - and the fear that no one in this Clan truly liked her reemerging tenfold - Dusklion was mostly silent as she led her patrol towards the outskirts. It consisted of Seabreeze and Dunepounce. While she didn't know the latter all that much, the former had been one of the cats who seemed to understand why she had spoken out at the meeting, and therefore the dark tabby figured she wouldn't have to worry about feeling his claws hook into her pelt. Dunepounce... well, she would just have to hope with him.

Something was off though, the closer they got towards the edge of the territory. Dusk could feel it creeping up on her like a long shadow, and as the faint smell of blood wafted towards her, she froze. Blood... with a mix of a scent she knew all too well.

Immediately the head Lionheart sprang forward, flying through the forest as she tried to ignore the fear in her heart. There was an explanation for those scents - Fades maybe found a couple of outsiders and tore them up, or drove them off with a fight. Or maybe he ran into a predator, but Dusk knew her brother could take those down. The scene she came across those was none of those, and a pained wail broke free from her jaws.

Fades was on the ground, bloody and not moving, and advancing towards him were some of the largest cats that Dusklion had ever seen. What happened next was almost automatic; giving no regard to her own life the small dark tabby flung herself towards one of the outsiders, claws hooking into their pelt and tugging hard. The outsider was caught off-guard it seemed, twisting and attempting to lock their teeth into Dusk's ear.

Ripping her head back the dark tabby snarled and lunged her own jaws forward, sinking them into the outsiders face. What had started as a growl turned into panicked whimpers as Dusk bit down and tore away, feeling the blood splatter across her face. Not wasting a single moment, she ignored the fierce pain that rocketed through her as a large paw slammed down onto her side and instead slipped underneath the large cat. She raked her hind claws across their belly, deep and fatal. Blood spilled from the wound and quickly coated Dusklion, staining her fur crimson.

Seeing the legs of the outsider start to buckle, Dusk shoved their body to the side so they wouldn't fall on her, scrambling up and lifting her claws once more, continuing to tear them through the already dead cat. Her fur was fluffed up, making her look twice the small size she normally was, and a fury unlike anything burned in her eyes.

[ @Dolomedes @naiad - there's one more outsider left to kill/drive off if either of you want! someone might need to pull dusk away because she only sees red and doesn't realize the cat is dead oop ]