Dawning Woods

[HerbalTea]

Originally Posted by Rowan

◇BristleThorn◇
Female | 29 Moons | ShadowClan Warrior | Apprentice: Spider’Paw | Posts: 25
large, long-haired she-cat with pale calico markings and brown eyes
Purrks: None
Interaction For: @HerbalTea


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“Hmph!” she growled, narrowing her eyes at the tom. Drat. What now? She decided to dart towards the tom aiming to slam into his shoulder and knock him off balance a bit.

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Wobbling, Foxglovesting decided to push Britlethorns head down with a paw.

[Rowan]

◇BristleThorn◇
Female | 29 Moons | ShadowClan Warrior | Apprentice: Spider’Paw | Posts: 26
large, long-haired she-cat with pale calico markings and brown eyes
Purrks: None
Interaction For: @HerbalTea


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She snarled as her head got pushed but the thing that made her the most angry and fueled about that? Dirt. Her pretty face and fur and head touching the dirt. The sass queens eyes got narrow and dark and she used her back paw to go under his paws and her front foot to push his head down, hoping it would work.

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[redshiftreign]

GROUSEPAW
THE TRAILBLAZER
⋆˖ The Fool ˖⋆
SILVER TONGUE - JUST A SCRATCH - BURN, BABY, BURN
"either or, it doesn't really matter. neither really phase me, it's war and war is madness."

[ @Undertaker [ dawnstar ] , @Morrigan [ darkcloud ] ]]

"i can hunt," grousepaw grunted in acknowledgement as the dawning woods sprawled out before them. his head lifted, gaze flickering around. this was new territory for him, other than the occasional pass through, so he took minute care to file the area to memory. he wondered if mistle was sucking up to dawn by choosing the place bearing her name. probably. it earned a low laugh that pushed its way out of his throat during his reverence.

turning his attention back to dawnstar, he added, "or, i know the basics, anyway. practice can't hurt." a disarming grin tugged at his features, and his head canted. then, after a long beat of silence, he nodded and turned to slink off and find some prey.

[rolls: 11, 3, 2, 10, 12]

jaws parted to scent the air, grouse patrolled through the sparse undergrowth. ferns brushed along a thickening pelt, catching tufts of stray fur on occasion. the last stages of filling out into his adult coat meant shedding and lots of it.

hearing a low rustle, grouse slowed his pace and dropped low until he was crawling along the pine-needle soil, just a breath above the ground. his tail lay flat at his heel, tall ears pinned. then he lunged, bringing the wrath of the stars down on the mouse with ease. he loosely covered his prey, then moved to hunt further down the path he was taking.

he knew he wasn't really built for hunting- too broad, tall. too brightly coloured. at least those wide paws helped dampen the sound of his steps, but even then, his next two attempts were blunders and he was left thoroughly humbled.

still, his next two catches went well enough, and in the end he returned with a mouse and two nicely sized toads in tow. well, it was more than two, and for someone who very rarely got the chance to hunt he was rather pleased with the haul.

[1 mouse, 2 toads]

[sorry for the delay, been busy w/ visiting family for my birthday]

[Undertaker]

@redshiftreign - Grousepaw | @Morrigan - Darkcloud

Tattered battle-torn ears flickered at the response from Grousepaw. Wonderful, then she didn't need to waste time with a lesson. Still, she watched him as he went to hunt down his first prey, a mouse. After observing his technique and assuring herself that he did indeed know how to hunt, Dawnstar turned away to begin hunting.

For some reason, she never thought that having a bit of extra weight would affect how she hunts. But it did sadly. Spotting a rabbit chewing on some grass, Dawnstar discovered that she needed to widen her stance to properly distribute her weight evenly and that crouching to a certain point left her feeling uncomfortable. She had to put extra strength in her leap to sail through the air and pounce on her target. She still missed, originally aiming to land atop the rabbit, not a few paw lengths behind it.

The rabbit's initial response to freeze and then run saved her from losing the skittish animal. Her long claws barely managed to strike its hindquarters and keep it still enough to sink her fangs into its neck. She felt strongly winded after the whole thing was finished. Grumbling about stupid spawn eating up her energy, she tossed the rabbit into a nearby bush and continued hunting.

It took longer than she was proud of yet eventually returned to the bush with a crow in her maw, a squirrel, and out of raw determination a frog. The leader returned to the pair of warriors with a few bloody scratches on her front leg and cheek where she had thrust her paw into some brambles to draw out the mouse she had missed pouncing on and completely lost, and some burrs tangled in her tail, the side of her neck, and hindleg after falling into a patch during her second failed attempt to catch a frog.

Her flanks heaved as she panted through her nose and her tail whipped back and forth behind her like an agitated snake when she noticed the other two had finished hunting before her. Her pride at being able to hunt in this state dwindled rapidly when she thought about how time-consuming it had been.

"Now I understand why kittypets suck at hunting." She grumbled under her breath while glancing at each of the cats and counting their catches. "Good work, shall we head back?" Even though it was phrased as a question she gave the pair leave to go ahead of her. She needed to get the burrs out of her pelt and clean up her scratches. Dawnstar didn't want Mistlewhisker pestering her with questions or daring to think she was incapable of doing patrols.
[ +1 rabbit, 1 squirrel, 1 frog, 1 crow ]