WindClan: Life Before 2023's Fire

[Pepperkins]

[ @Moonraven ]

He had half expected her to yell at him and call him a traitor for trying to satisfy his own hunger over the clan's. That would have been the answer he was prepared for. In all honesty, he hadn't even been hungry from what he remembered. He was just chasing it around for the sport of it till it ran out of camp. Still bad, never the less. The answer that came from the leader was what sent a shiver down his spine. Did he hear correctly? Shrewpaw's eyes lit up in surprise when he was told he wouldn't be punished. Twilightshi- Twilightstar, was even better than he thought! He heard her say something about leaving out again before his warriors ceremony and just bristled at the thought. Going out and risking the possibility of getting caputured again? There wasn't any worry about breaking the rules again, that lesson had been taught! Nodding frantically, he started to turn away, eager to get back to the life he had once thought as nothing more than a day by day basis before realizing a key fact. Those rogues were still out there. What if he was attacked even when with someone?! Then he remembered that he had seen a few start to turn away from the chase and heard towards something else. Near the Thunderclan border none the less. He trotted back quickly to warn the leader but seeing that she was already busy, he shrugged it off for the moment and ran off to the apprentices den to get some of the best sleep he had gotten for nights.

[Moonraven]

Tch! That wasn't very smart why was Brightstar being so reckless? Twilightshine scowled as the cream molly charged the tom without much thought. She had numbers on her side, Brightstar should use them. Teamwork makes dream work or so she's heard. Displeased, Twilight decided to jump into the fight. The lilac she-cat kept close to the walls as she crept around the brawling cats. Seeing how Mountaingrowl attention was on Brightstar, Tawnystep, and Foxpudge, Twilightshine felt like she had done a reasonable enough job of being forgotten. Her eyes honed in on the tom's back, bunching her muscles she took a chance and aimed to leap on it. Should she land, she'd hook her back claws into whatever fur and muscles she could find to keep herself steady while her forepaws would go straight for his eyes, claws intending to score across the optics and blind him.
@BILL. @hxneysuckle @Fuzzy

[BEAR.]

[ got permission from fuzz to skip her & say he munched her neck ]

His strike was true: fangs sinking into the throat of the creamy-ginger she-cat, and he was quick to rip his fangs out, taking a piece of her flesh with it. Oh, how delightful was it to taste her coppery blood. One less annoyance to worry about..

Discarding Brightstar, Mountaingrowl snarled as Tawnystep and Foxpudge both lunged toward him. He was prepared, to some extent as Tawnystep's claws ripped into his fur and Foxpudge's teeth found his shoulder-- to swipe at the two to knock them away, but their distraction made him vulnerable to the sneaky Twilightshine.

He didn't have much time to react to her jumping onto his back, and like a bull he attempted to buck her off-- only succeeding in pushing her claws deeper across his eyes.

Hissing in pain, Mountaingrowl thrashed wildly-- blindly lashing out at anything he could as he tried to get this stupid cat off him!! His defenses were lowered in his desperation to get Twilightshine off him-- this wasn't how this was supposed to go. She should be beneath him, this stupid she-cat..

He didn't even process how open to more attacks he was because of this.

[ @hxneysuckle, @Moonraven ]

[Moonraven]

Twilightstar sighed lightly and shook her head back and forth as she heard Warblerpaw speak up. Did he just say he decline his new mentor? Did it look like she was giving him a choice? He really enjoyed being a burr in her pelt. She had other things that she needed to get to but she felt like she should sort the tom out before that. "Gentlerose hasn't been seen for some time around camp and so is missing. I'm not waiting for her to return so she can train you, Warblerpaw." The apprentice had spirit and stupidity so she wanted to shut this down as fast as possible. "You can accept Leopardflare as your new mentor and actively work to obtain your warrior name thus helping the clan. Or you can try your luck outside of the clan and go search for her yourself, you won't be allowed to return until you've found her." She wasn't exiling him if she was allowing him to return with his mentor dead or alive, or at least that is how it was in her logic. "Or you can behave, train with Leopardflare, and if Gentlerose happens to show up with a good enough excuse for her disappearance I may be willing to pair the two of you up again." She had no clue why he was so dead set on training with Gentlerose, Twilightstar didn't care so long as he was trained. She gave the tom her terms and waited to see his choice.
@vermin

[lio]

[ @Moonraven @Fuzzy @BILL. ]

She hissed as Mountaingrowl's claws swiped at her in his attempts to knock her away, leaping off of him just in time for Twilightshine to claw at his eyes. The russet molly grimaced as she caught sight of Brightstar's bleeding throat, the scent of blood causing her mouth to water. The russet warrior shoved away her thoughts, however, and turned back to the rat, lunging at him and aiming to sink her teeth into his flesh. Wherever she landed, it was fine by her- as long as she got to taste the blood of this freak washing over her tongue.

[Moonraven]

That was most likely a life, great. She let out a low hiss of displeasure seeing the blood spurting from Brightstar's wound. The she-cat returned all her attention on the task at paw when the creep began bucking like a bronco, she might have found it funny how ironically their positions were reversed if it wasn't so hard to hang on with him doing that. It did give her a reason to sink her claws deeper into his sockets. This was becoming bothersome, her hind legs were having trouble keeping their grip and she didn't feel like taking a rough fall. Her talons left the tom's eyes so she could reposition them on his back and give her a better grip, she wanted to see if she could get him to roll over so one of them could after his belly. This jumping thing he was doing was going to make her vomit, she wasn't going to be able to stay up here for much longer. Noticing her maw was not doing anything and the side of his neck was right there, Twilightshine decided to go with for it. She aimed her bite straight for the side of his neck.
@BILL. @hxneysuckle

[Kitty Mama]

. @Xeno
"I'M NOT CHEWY!" Cranepaw shrieked in offended horror, then fell into quiet because THAT was not the thing to be offended about here! "Nevermind! Very ch-chewy. I'm very chewy." He was glad he wasn't palatable to Mistyfern or he could imagine he would've been in that pile next, right after the kit-appetizer.
When Mistyfern's evaluation concluded with a grand total of nothing wrong with him, Cranepaw looked at his lame legs, confused. "Are you sure? Because they're n-not cooperative...! I guess my head, that's not cooperative either b-b-but still." Cranepaw had to take his word for it, though. He was the medicine cat and probably knew what he was talking about, and if he stayed around here, he wasn't convinced he wouldn't become a snack of convenience. So with care and complete precision, he struggled to his paws and held himself there, shaking. But he was up. Meow cracking, he exclaimed, "I did it! I-I'm cured! Chewypaw is out of here!"

((Oh no I didnt see you replied sorry ))

[Kitty Mama]

. @vermin
After Leopardflare had finished cheering for the new promotions, his enthusiasm was curbed by getting an apprentice. Not one of those nice ones either, one of those sharky mean apprentices. Mind backtracking, he realized what Twilightstar had said, the echo resounding: '... since you do not have a mentor you will take over Warblerpaw's training...' If a mentor was what it would take to get him free from that Warblerpaw, he would do it. "I can get a mentor if I need to!" he meowed in offering. Leopardflare didn't know what he'd learn, but it would probably be a more enjoyable experience than training (and messing up) a youngin.
Warblerpaw's response seemed to coincide with his feelings on the matter, but it also confirmed he wasn't qualified to teach him. He was already using fancy words. "Yeah, decline!" he chimed in, nodding approvingly. "I also nominate Gentlerose." He didn't know who that was, however anyone was better than him.

@hxneysuckle
Cranepaw's chest rose and fell in rapid bursts. A new mentor? The only positive in his mind was that it wasn't Coldsong. He couldn't go up on the breezerock though, and his paws stayed planted firmly in place- he wasn't willing to fall off and die, or maybe worse embarrass himself in front of everyone by vomiting there as well. Legs trembling, they threatened to give out when Bramblebear approached him, and his tiny pupils swept over her in quick speculation. All he could reply with was a squeaky, "O-okay." She was..sturdier than he thought she'd be. Please don't crush me, pleasedon'tcrushme...

[Madelaine]

| @Moonraven; |

Lacy was brought into camp by a couple of warriors after straying too close to the territory. She crossed it without meaning, but was found. The expecting molly walked with the two warriors on her way here and they talked about life in Windclan. It sounds like a hard life, but it's better than roaming alone, especially so close to having her kits.

She looked over at Pinewish who had been one of the warriors to find her. The other one left to go do something. She didn't say anything.

~~~

Pinewish spotted the new leader not too far away. "Twilightstar. I found this queen across our border. She would like to join our clan.", he meowed. The tom stuck close to her.

[BEAR.]

Mountaingrowl was in a frenzy, hissing and spitting as he attempted to correct his maneuvers, trying to refocus his attention on the cats attacking his sides too-- the fat black cat and the stupid red thing, but it was hard to stay on guard when his eyes stung like hell. He couldn't see-- his world had gone dark, with only vague shadows as his only indicators..

Ugh, he hated this! Why couldn't these stupid WindClan cats just bend over and die!

Fueled by his rage, a snarl ripped from his muzzle as he stumble-ly charged for Tawnystep, her teeth sinking into his skin as his claws aimed to rip down her chest (not that he could see where he was aiming!). He was sick of this, this wasn't how it was supposed to go-- he should be on top.

He whipped around when he felt claws on his flank, lashing wildly to strike Foxpudge down before he noticed Twilightshine was re-positioning on his back, and..

Mountaingrowl hardly had time to react when he realized teeth were in his neck, his jagged moments causing the wound to rip open in her mouth. A hard gasp escaped the mountainous tom, and his steps staggered until he sank onto the cold stone floor.

"You.." he could hardly get the words out. "... filthy snakeheart, do you know what you've done..."

The world around him was swirling into darkness, but the scent of the lilac leader was heavy in his mind. "... i'm not done with you yet.."

[ @hxneysuckle, @Moonraven ]