WindClan: Life Before 2023's Fire

[Tiabirb]

Originally Posted by Rxmulus

╰┈➤ Wildpaw

The sticky boy hobbled up onto his three legs, bouncing forward with a small giggle snort at his sister. "You never said not to cover myself in strawberry! I just thought it would be fun," he flopped into the dust, getting even more mucky than before. He rolled onto his back, stretching little paws up into the sky with a squeaky broken purr. "Come onnn!!"

This...was going to be every bit of a test for poor Swiftfire. Every muscle wanted to smack him to his senses, or senseless. Whichever came first. But instead, she begrudgingly lowered her head, tongue stuck out as she gingerly lapped at the strawberry coating on his fur. "Would you jump off the Swooping Cliffs because I never told you not to?" She asked, crouching to get a better angle with her tongue.

"Just because someone doesn't tell you not to do something," She continued between licks. This wasn't an easy task, and her own fur was getting messy with the reddish strawberry stains from it, "Doesn't mean it's okay to do. That's why we have common sense. And brains." She snorted, "If you're anything like me, you should at least have half a brain, and know how to use it! Common sense though? Eh, that's not a flower that grows in every garden." She teased and nipped at his side, scooping up a large glob of the jam.

Swiftfire had to stop and smack her jaws, scowling with the unpleasantness of sticky in her jaws. Ugh, she'd need a trip to the stream after this.

[|+|Lemon'Heart|+|]

Originally Posted by Angelique

Squirreldash had been awake all night long. He often thought and thought about Maplebriar. Why was he acting this way? He never felt like this to the other toms he flirted with. This one was different. He made him happy when he was around them. The fire colored tom looked around, hoping to see his lovely face. He still wanted to interact with them more. He liked their company a lot.

The tom forced himself to stop looking for them. Squirreldash instead laid down in the camp, tucking his paws underneath him. He tried his best to get Maplebriar out of his head. Maybe there was a tom he could flirt with. No! He couldn't do that to his best friend. He was changing and he wanted to believe that.

Squirreldash stood up and padded over to the camp entrance. Maybe he could see if anyone wanted to go hunting with him. Get his mind off of things. Off of Maplebriar. Hopefully it wasn't him who wanted to come. He wouldn't know how to tell him he wanted to be alone for a few moments.

"Hey going out hunting! Anyone wanna come with me?", Squirreldash called.

|+| RavenHeart|+|
Ravenheart looked up and looked towards the direction of the cat calling and she trotted over "I could if you want" she told the cat
Scent currently: Rabbit

[carmen]

@Bramblefire01
"Yes, my liege, I understand." Mocking the apprentice was fun! She turned her head to glare at him, "Now are you going to be quiet or not." Silentstorms head shot upwards as Twilightstar announced another ceremony. "This better be deputy," she muttered. We've been without one for far too long.

[carmen]

@Ashnose
"Good," she nodded bluntly. "I'll come with you when the meetings over. I have some things to discuss with our leader as well." Her eyes twinkled with mishief.

[Moonraven]

Originally Posted by Stormpoppy

Clovershine - @Moonraven

Clovershine shuffled her paws nervously. "Twilightstar, I have an excuse for this! I was captured by a loner, he knocked me out so that I couldn't fight back!" she meowed fearfully, not sure if she would ever be able to return to WindClan.

Tawnykit

Tawnykit smiled a little. "I caught it. On my own." she replied. She held the vole up proudly.

The lilac blinked her eye and scowled softly after she heard Clovershine's excuse. "There's been an increase in hostiles loners around here, you need to be more careful and vigilant in the future," Twilightstar answered, making note of the cat's nervous energy. "Let's get you back to camp."
(She's done)
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"Well, aren't you the little huntress." Twilighstar praised briefly before taking on a more serious tone. "What are you doing out of camp though, Tawnykit. You do know that you aren't allowed to be out here."

Originally Posted by Moonlightwolfpup

~Cinderpelt~
@Moonraven

Cinderpelt smiled as she saw Twilightstar, she blushed abit with emaressment "yep, i got turned around abit after a butterfly.. kinda.. incident, but im glad i found my way home, sorry for being gone for so long" she said smileing abit, she was really glad to be home, being outside for to long for wasnt really her strong suite really.

"You were chasing a butterfly,"chuckling, a touch of amusement could see radiating through Twilightstar's solo eye. "I'm glad you found you're way back as well, taking better stock of your surrounding and maybe no more butterfly chasing."
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Originally Posted by Ella_heart

@Moonraven
Petalpaw shurgged uncertainly.
¨well, I wanted to explore the territory and kind of- got lost. sorry.¨ she thought that an apology was necessary.

"Yes, you're not the first who's gotten lost although you have more of a reason. Don't go wandering out of camp without a warrior, I don't like it when younger apprentices leave the camp alone, they get lost or worse." Scolding the leader, yet, Twilightstar didn't seem all that upset with her. "Let's head back home."
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Originally Posted by Wintersun

Nightkit had wandered outside of the camp and got lost, she had tried to find her way back, but instead got even more lost, and with the dog on the loose the smallest sound frightened her. Finally tho she tracked back to the camp. @Moonraven

On her way out, Twilightstar noticed the small blob of fur making its way towards the camp. The lithe scarred molly felt curiosity pull at her, and she made her way over to the young cat. "It's you, Nightkit." The leader sounded a tad bit surprised to see her. "How'd you get out here?"

Originally Posted by Twilight Wing

Bravewind looked up at a hazy shape that was right beside her,she groaned and rolled over and stood on wobbly legs.She blinked several times trying to make out the shape,"T-TwilightStar?"she murmured,one of her deep wounds on her flank had opened up and started to bleed,dropping scarlet droplets on the dusty earth.The vultures started to circle higher into the sky until they were nothing but specks on the Horizon.Bravewinds legs started to shake threatening to bring the warrior down."T-Twilight star",she coughed and continued,"I can explain"she coughed again,harder this time.
@Moonraven

With the birds gone, her worry ebbed slightly, but she still felt frazzled with Bravewind's injuries in plain sight. "Explain to me in a moment," She interrupted the cat before glancing around once more and then padding off. Twilightstar returned moments later with a few cobwebs stuck to her pelt. She used them to soak up most of the blood, trying to stop the bleeding as best she could. "Where have you been and who did you get into a fight with."

Originally Posted by Shimm

Brindlejaw eyes watched as the leader rubbed her face as if she was rubbing the sleep away. Did she still like to lay around and snooze? Well, that didn't matter at the moment but he did keep the fresh scars in mind.

The tom also noticed the displeasure in her voice but he...Brindlejaw looked at the molly in front of him with slight annoyance. I'm back here because I'm done searching for a molly that vanished in thin air with my kits and taking care of my sole daughter." Dear Starclan, the warrior never spoke to anyone like that before with such a passive-aggressiveness. "Cypress, my daughter died no thanks to you." Now with that he placed slight venom in that comment. "I was on a patrol near the Shadowclan border when I found the kit and it smelled like her mother and Windclan. It was after you turned Cypress away. I waited for a moon for Shadowclan to notice their lost kit and they never did. I nursed her back to health but the harsh winter got the best of us." Brindlejaw broke eye contact and looked away, not allowing the molly to see the tears threatening to show. "I'm back here because I have nothing else to do." The tortoiseshell hated that he had to explain himself to her.

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Songbird heard that slight huff, how rude! Twilightstar was the leader who dealt with more crap and this queen was the least of it. The mottled queen wanted to scoff at the leader but refrained from doing so and calmly walked into the den.
Even though Songbird was presentable the queen wanted to groom herself once more. "I was out on a walk out on the territory with my mate, Whitesong, when we were surprised by a landslide and got lost." Gosh, Songbird was embarrassed. What kind of Windclanner is she if she didn't know her own land? Well, the queen hadn't been out of the camp in moons but still. "I couldn't find Whitesong and it took me a while to find my way back."

@Moonraven

Did it look like she was in the mood for sass? She made her agitation clear with her next words. "I'm so glad that you have the time to simply go off and abandon the clan whenever you please." The fur stood on end along the base of her spine as frowned at Brindlejaw. "It must be so nice to simply leave everything and one behind to go and search for you're missing kin." Two could play this little blame game he seemed to have started.

"What your tongue, Brindlejaw." Her warning came out as a hiss, while her tail twitched slowly behind her. "I don't remember any kit by the name of Cypress showing up in WindClan. Even if they did, I don't recklessly turn cats away, and I certainly wouldn't do it with a kit. Not to mention, if you were so concerned for your kit's healthy, why the hell didn't you bring her back to one of the clans with medicine cats. No medicine cat would turn away an injured kit. Even if you couldn't take her to ShadowClan, RiverClan, ThunderClan, and my Clan's medicine cats would have done something if anything could have been done." Twilightstar spat, sighing loudly as glared at Brindlejaw. She remained unmoved by his sadness. He was being far too selfish and just completely ignorant for her to try and sympathize with him.

"I don't see how any of what happened to that kit had to do with me. Why the hell would you wait for a whole moon for ShadowClan to notice anything? If it were my kit I would have brought them back immediately, borders be damned, otherwise, I would have brought them back home to my clan. Rarely do leaders with common sense turn away kits, there were a million different things you could have done. You've just decided that it's easier to blame me for all the bad in your life?" Twilightstar had no problems owning up to anything if she truly believed that the fault lied with her. She felt like she had a lot to be guilty about, but she wasn't going to throw a pity party for herself. She owned her flaws and faults and tried to learn from them rather than run away from them. So many cats failed to do that.

"If that's the only reason you've come back here, I don't want back in WindClan. For whatever reason, it's clear that you resent me for something, and I could live with that, but it doesn't seem like you give dung about WindClan at all. You disappear whenever you please, thinking only of yourself and what you've had to go through. That is something a loner does, being selfish and worrying about yourself won't fly in a clan, you know that!"

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Whitesong? Yet another cat that she's failed to have seen a while. Twilightstar continued looking at Songbird with a displeased expression on her face. Normally she wouldn't be so irritable with the molly, but it felt like every time she let her back into the clan, she vanished not long after coming back. Twilightstar took her back in without any questions, and then she was gone again. It was vexing at most, but Twilightstar did her best to swallow her emotions.

"I've not seen Whitesong in moons, that fact that you were strolling around with him when he's technically not allowed on our territory without speaking to me, is concerning," Twilightstar explained relaxing her facial muscles. "If you do happen to see him again, I expect you to have him come speak with me. You seem alright and you're not the first I've heard get lost in the territory. You can return to the clan, but I'm not placing you in the nursery anymore. You're able enough to start hunting and defending the clan as a warrior, that is what you'll be."

Originally Posted by Jackpot

Morningpaw
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The patchy-furred she-cat swallowed thickly as she stepped over the border, six-toed paws shaking with each step she took. A frayed and dirty collar hung around her neck, her attempts at getting it off obvious from just a glance at it. The smell of twolegs that hung around her absolutely sickened the small she-cat, her expression absolutely miserable. Never before had she felt so stars damn humiliated, not even when she had been berated by her family for just looking different. At least she had learned to ignore that... but this? This was impossible to just look past, to forget. To be reduced to a mere kittypet practically tore all her morals and ideals away from her.

Morningpaw took in a deep breath before entering the camp, her face burning hot with embarrassment. "Twilightstar, I... I am so sorry. I never meant for this to happen" Her voice came out more gravelly and hoarse than normal, eyes darting to stare into the ground. Her one normal ear was pinned agaisnt her head, with the folded one simply flattening more. Already constricted pupils shrunk into mere pinpricks, small slivers in the middle of olive colored irises.

// @Moonraven

Her muscles quivered underneath her pelt as a fresh breeze wafted through the opening of her dim den. She was puzzled almost immediately and uncurled herself from her nest, to breathe through her nostrils once more. She parted her maw this time and found the same send lingering in the air. Twilightstar gave a very small stretch, making sure to mind her wounds before she got to her paws and padded over to the entrance. Stepping outside, she immediately began looking around for a kittypet, but found the source of the scent to be one of her missing clanmates.

Morningpaw looked rather terrible and what was that wrapped around her neck? Twilightstar's met a few kittypet but she never seen one with an actual collar on their neck, it looked uncomfortable. Her nostrils flared as she inhaled once more this time pushing past the odor that practically overpowered all others. Twilightstar was checking for any blood or infection but found nothing beyond the odor. Morningpaw needed a bath and to roll around in some heather.

"Don't apologize, there's no need for one. I'm guessing you got caught by twolegs?" She started, fulling stepping out of her den and closing the distances between them to sniff at the collar and then wrinkle her nose before turning her head away to sneeze. "Can you get that thing off?" She asked, gently raising a paw to poke at the side of Morningpaw's neck. The collar was going to irritate her, it was not meant for wild cats and certainly not clan cats. It was a disgrace! Twolegs were horrible.

[Wintersun]

Surprised flashed at her and she jumped. "Oh,h-hi Twilight star..." She murmured, "I was kind of exploring camp and stumbled outside, and gt a little lost..." She was so embarassed! She shrunk inside of her pelt. Well she still had about 2 moons until she became an apprentice maybe this would blow over...

[MelonMile]

Originally Posted by Dahliamoon

Cloversplash took no offense. "If you say so! How about down by the RiverClan border?"

"Exciting, I didn't know you were the type to look for trouble," said Foxwind sarcastically, figuring that wasn't the warrior's intent.

[Mercury]

Originally Posted by Cherry_Jay

"Exciting, I didn't know you were the type to look for trouble," said Foxwind sarcastically, figuring that wasn't the warrior's intent.

Cloversplash swished her tail. "That's exactly it! There's bound to be plenty of prey on our side of the border because you don't go 'looking for trouble' there!" She teased.

[Raven~]

Dustypaw padded out of the apprentices den, stretching. She was bored. Maybe someone would like to talk to her. Or go hunting.
//Open//

[starry]

Tawnykit took a deep breath. Ok, now to those matters. "I... went exploring. The nursery is so cramped, and boring! No warrior stopped me, they could've. I caught the vole, but then I got lost! Now I managed to find my way back." she meowed, trying to sound convincing. But it was true. The nursery was boring! Even elders storys were, if you heard them a lot.

// @Moonraven