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Username: Strawberry Milk
Cat Name: Pearpelt

Gender: Molly
Rank: Warrior
Age: 24 moons
Clan: Graniteclan

Prompt: (1000 words max)
Extra: (+750 words OR +1 art piece)

[sforzando.]

Username: vos.
Cat Name: poppyfern

Gender: she-cat
Rank: warrior
Age: 17 moons
Clan: snowclan

Prompt: infatuation with the new apprentice that helped out the nursery when she was a kit
the whole clan knew of her infatuation with cloudpaw, but what the clan did not know was that she hadn't fallen in love with him. oh no, the 2 moon old kit hardly even knew of the word "love," let alone knew what it meant. she followed him around endlessly when he assisted the queens and helped clean the nursery, and after some time, he began spending the evening just outside the nursery to tell her what the territory was like.
Extra: heartbreak of losing her first friend
she was running as fast as she could. her paws scrambled through the thick snow, and her lungs burned from the freezing air and from the exercise she was putting in.

[Yellow.]

Username: Yellow.
Cat Name: Foxnettle

Gender: female
Rank: warrior
Age: 42 moons
Clan: Ridgeclan

Prompt:
Foxnettle is a rather abrasive and standoffish molly, even as a kit she didn’t make friends easily. She preferred to play alone, even with her three siblings and many other kits in the nursery at the time Foxnettle was often found alone, just observing the warriors and the apprentices. It wasn’t until Eclipse was taken in as a loner that Foxnettle showed any interest in another cat outside of what she had to.

He was different and exciting, an elder who knew so much about the outside world that she couldn’t learn from the elders of the clan. Out of curtsy for a mutual friend who had helped the clan before Robinstar took the elder tom in exchange for more information from the mutual friend about a threat the clan had been dealing with. While all of this sounded very exciting Foxnettle was more interested in the stories the new tom had to tell.

Foxnettle along with all the kits in the nursery were told to stay far away from the loner, even if the leader took them in the queens refused to trust him. But like kit Foxnettle was prone to trying to bend the rules when she could and found a way to sneak off to hear stories that the loner would tell her.

“Eclipse will you tell me another story.” She asked one afternoon, after all, he’d told her many stories before only furthering to pull her into the idea of life outside the clan.

“Alright let’s see what story can I tell you now since I’ve told you so many.” Eclipse laughed before pausing to ponder just what he could tell the kit. “How about I tell you about what lies beyond the ridge, the mountain the ridge that walls you clan in and gives it it’s namesake.”

Foxnettle’s eyes widened at the idea of hearing what was beyond the ridge, the mountains as if the idea of anything being back there had never accrued to her. “The queens say the mountains protect us.”

“The ridge protects you in a way, but it also keeps you very closed in, there is a whole world out there that your clan does not see because of the ridge. Although to be fair there’s nothing anyone can do about it and I doubt even your traveling cats venture past it very often if ever at all, there are only two ways to do so and both are rather well lets just say not very cat-friendly.”

“So let’s see something beyond that that would be fun to tell you about is a place called the ocean. You’ve tasted salt on the rocks before I’m sure, well the ocean is a body of water with salt and its bigger than the lake, it goes out so far that you can’t even see land when you look out over it.”

Foxnettle’s eyes res wide as she listened to Eclipse talk if they could get any wider at all. She was just a kit though and Eclipse was sure she didn’t really understand the ocean, but her imagination would fill in pieces and it would paint and picture for her that was all her own.

“It holds creatures unlike you’ve ever seen and living on its shore is a group of cats much like this one called The Tribe of Cresting Waves.”

“A clan?” Foxnettle asks with the tilt of her head.

“Not a clan really, they are a bit different, but their foundation is the same. The cats are daring and brave some of the worst storms that build over the ocean and crash onto the land that I’ve ever seen.”

“Did you come from that place, live with the cats there?” Foxnettle asked.

“I didn’t come from them no, I’m a traveler can’t stay one place too long before I feel the need to move on to the next one. But I stayed with them for a time yes, I find it best to learn from as many as you can and in return, I teach others what I know. I’m sadly getting too old now to do much of what I used to but I hope to teach your clan something before I leave.”

“You can teach me!” Foxnettle yep as she jumped up excitedly.

Eclipse laughed at the kits excitement at the kits enthusiasm but agreed to teach her what he knew none the less. For the next three moons long enough for Foxnettle to become an apprentice Eclipse taught the young molly what he knew. While the rest of the clan avoided the strange tom they’d taken in Foxnettle hung on his every word and for the first time had someone to call a friend.

It was after the three months that her learning ended only when Eclipse left to join the gods in the stars. Foxnettle learned than what it meant to lose a friend, to lose someone she’d grown close to.

“Mom, the gods will accept Eclipse among the stars won’t they?” Foxnettle asked on the night the clan sent the tom off to join the others lost.

“Of course Foxpaw.”

Foxnettle wasn’t sure she believed her though, Eclipse has thought her many things, including how many different ideas cats had about death and how even he didn’t know which one to believe.

In the end, Eclipse gave Foxnettle images and ideas and for there on every story, he told her she held them close and vowed that she’d one day see the places for herself.
Extra: (+750 words OR +1 art piece)

[Hawky<3]

Username: TheSongOfTheStars
Cat Name: Whisperstorm
Gender: female
Rank: warrior
Age: 8 moons
Clan: Songclan
Prompt:
1,362 words
The structure was far beyond any limit the kit was supposed to wander: out of the nursery, past the camp boundaries, beneath the clawing bare fingers of the dead oak tree, and over the stream via the fallen log covered in moss.
But Whisperkit felt not an ounce of guilt as she stared up at the strange sqaure mountain in front of her. Kits like her didn't come with guilt built in, life hammers i into them through painful experiance.
The same goes for fear and Whisperkit felt none of that either as she went tripping over her own velvet paws up the front steps. The cut wood was strange under her feet, but not bad and when she reached the porch she set about exploring the wide flat area.
It wasn't long before she noticed an odd creaking sound and after tracking it to the sound, she was driven wild with curiousity with the strange bow shaped object that rocked back and forth gently. WHAT WAS IT.
"Hello little stranger," a soft, aged voice rumbled from the other side of the rocking wood "Where's your mother?"
Whisperkit toddled over to the voice and found an old black Labrador, her muzzle sprinkled with white. The dog smiled at her, limp ears perked slightly.
"Mother's back in the woods," Whiskerkit replied honestly "I came here all by myself."
"Long journey for one so small, I hope you're planning to stay a bit and keep an old dog company."
"Well of course," Whisperkit agreed and sat down. She spent the rest of the afternoon chatting with the dog, who's name she learned, was Millie.
Sometime, when the light was beginning to fade the creaking beside them stopped and Whisperkit felt something run along her back. She tensed.
"Don't scratch my human please, dear," Millie said quickly "She won't hurt you and its been ever so long since we've had a cat and she does so miss that old calico."
Whisperkit didn't scratch and actually the human's touch wasn't so bad.
"You should probably be getting home, kitten," Millie said, after her human rose from the rocking chair with a heavy sigh. Whisperkit couldn't argue.
[snip]

oh my gosh this story completely broke my heart.. such a sweet relationship! i loved it.
thank you everyone for entering!

[TheSongOfTheStars]

Tysm! Super pumped to have Whisperstorm!