through the dark. - [ warrior cat rp ]

[katarinabluu]

nettleclan has always been at the peak,
when it comes to fighting to finding food they always seem that
they know their way around and can do it almost easily. let say -
they’ve never had a real challenge. well, now they do. a huge wildfire
and spread through there beloved territory, there leader; nightstar, is
not there to help his clan through this tough time, his is as well missing
along with 3/5 of the clan. yet while most cats think that it was there
ancestors forsaking this awful curse upon them, sandthistle thinks someone
is after them, well out for bloodshed. while she’s dealing with this she is
also questioning her mate’s loyalty, not only to her but to her clan. sandthistle
is determined to find out what the cause of the fire is, - along with the help
of some friends along the way.

discussion thread

chapter one
chapter two
chapter [url]three[/url]
chapter [url]four[/url]

meeting clans;
[url]rainclan[/url]

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leader;
[ x ] nightstar - male
- a bulky, jet black tom with chestnut colored eyes
deputy;
[ x ] cindereyes - female
- a dusty small grey she-cat with dull, emotionless eyes.
medicine cat;
[ x ] linnetclaw - female
- a average sized she-cat, small agile body with large claws. has folded ears.
- apprentice; shrikekit - male

warriors;
[ x ] smokestream - male
- a tri-color, grey, black, and white tom with a large paws.
[ x ] lightningwhisker - male
- very small light brown tom with, long whiskers and green eyes.
[ x ] pikenose - male
- very large tom with jetblack paws and light brown pelt, grey eyes.
[ x ] sandthistle -female
- a medium sized she-cat, with warm hazel eyes and a cream pelt.
[ x ] birchjaw - male
- a white tom with some brown markings, blue eyes.
[ x ] palefoot - female
- a female with pale brown body and a twisted foot.

apprentices;
[ x ] beepaw - male
- a gray tom with black stripes, handsome green eyes.
[ x ] sootpaw - female
- a pretty light grey she-cat, with doe brown eyes.
[ x ] gannetpaw - male
- a small, timid, dark brown cat with light brown eyes.

elders;
[ x ] honeyear - female
- a light yellowish brown she-cat w/ white paws. deaf.
[ x ] specklespots - female
- a black she-cat with white blotches, dark brown eyes.
[ x ] spottedstripe - male
- a averge sized tom with multiple scratch/bite marks.
queens;
[ x ] ternclaw
- a very pretty white she-cat with blue eyes. not deaf.
- kits; shrikekit, newtkit, robinkit
- mate; birchjaw

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cindereyes has a crush on smokestream
smokestream has a crush on linnetclaw
nightstar had a crush on sandthistle
gannetpaw has a crush on sootpaw

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pikenose and sandthistle are mates
birchjaw and ternclaw are mates

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smokestream mentors beepaw
sandthistle mentors sootpaw
palefoot mentors gannetpaw

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the echoing sound of pawsteps went throughout the forest, a raging fire sweeping everything in its wake. one single clan stuck in the midst of it. sandthistles lungs burned as she kept moving when a mewling was heard nearby, seriously!? what else could go wrong! turning around she walked around blindly her nose meeting a clump of fur, a nettleclan apprentice.

“shrikekit!” she called grabbing the mouthful of fur and racing towards the exit, and onto the other side of the river.

she leaped into the icy water, she could do nothing for the other cats stranded on the other side of the river bed, but she kept pushing. keeping the kit above the chilly water her paws paddling furiously to the other side of the bank.
her paws met a muddy surface, managing to get onto the other side of the bank. the lost howls of her once clan mates vanished almost instantly, with darkness invading her eyelids, her hearing blank, and her memories of that one night wanted to be forgotten from her heart.

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“pikenose! pikenose!” called a loud voice almost bursting her eardrums. groaning she rolled over onto her back getting a mouth of unknown fur, spitting it out angrily her eyelids shot open.
it was shrikekit, the to-be medicine cat apprentice, yet something seemed wrong with him and she couldn't quite put her paw on it.

turning around she was met by shining eyes,

“pikenose?” she croaked a little to loudly her scratchy throat making her close her eyes in pain.
“sandthistle? are you alright?” he questioned softly nuzzling his muzzle into her neck. she nodded vigorously, afraid that if she spoke her voice would be lost completely.
her eyes turned staring back at linnetclaw, the actual medicine cat of nettleclan. speaking of nettleclan, where was everyone?

sandthistle's confused gaze washed out of the medicine cat's den and into what looked like nothing of nettleclan's clearing. "where is everyone?" she spoke softly her eyes still fixed to the outside of the den. linnetclaw's gaze turned dark once more and her and pikenose exchanged glance from on and another.

"well, you see, there was a fire and not everyone escaped. including the nightstar & cindereyes." the words pikenose spoke washed over her and her memory revised itself and everything came crashing down. "who is here right now?" she questioned pikenose again watching linnetclaw slip her way to the back. "smokestream, ternclaw, birchjaw, lightningwhisker, me, you, shrikepaw, linnetclaw, beepaw, gannetpaw, robinkit, newtkit, palefoot, honeyear, specklespots, spottedstripe, and i think that is about it."

we sighed in unision, almost half of the clan had been lost to the fire, and there was no doubt there would not be any survivors besides the one in the place where they are now. "no sign of cindereyes or nightstar?" she asked asked and when it seemed like she wouldn't get a response from him he spoke up a simple, "nope."

getting up on her paws she leaned against the cold wall, looking around, it seemed as though the medicine cat got a lot of the herbs and since where they got there herbs was nowhere near the camp they could get more. "it could've been worse." she muttered and looked up to see pikenose glaring at her childishly like she shouldn't have spoke. snorting she glared right back and bit her tongue from an insult. pushing past him she exited through the make-shift medicine cat den.

everyone was outside and doing there own thing. her best friend, palefoot was in the clearing washing her twisted limb, smiling to herself she prodded over to her sitting next to her numbly. her cream colored friend looked up with delight in her eyes mixed with sorrow.

"hey palefoot," she numbly spoke cringing at how deafeted she spoke. "hello sandthistle." forcing a smile on her maw her body shook with a cough plopping down next to her best friend.

when severel pairs of paws shook the entrance, her whole body tensing up, she knew what was about to come.

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it was the least to say, that everyone that everyone knew what was coming heads turned and low growls erupted from lightningwhisker making palefoot chuckle slighty. sighing the entrance bursts through little apprentices rolling on top of each other a exhausted smokestream trailing behind and plopping on the floor. ferns from the etntrance where snagging in his pelt and his chest rising and falling smoothly but really fast.

“ gannetpaw, sootpaw, and beepaw! ” sandthistle growled in annoyance, sootpaw rolled her eyes in a snoody manner, which is typical sootpaw the one gannetpaw was falling head over paws for. poor scrap. the bouncy apprentices trailed behind sootpaw, beepaw's eyes wild in excitement, sootpaw's in annoyance and gannetpaw's in fear.

palefoot sat up and mimicked her own exspression smirking with amusement with seriousness in the same peircing eyelook. to be honest, nothing had happened to the clan in over fifty-three plus moons so it must've been exciting for the apprentices to finally have something happen.

“what were you thinking barging in here while we have had the most traumatic moment in forever!” she sighed and looked at palefoot's stance, even she looked quite scared. turning back sootpaws eyes were blown wide, while gannetpaw was shaking. "sorry guy's i'm stressed i guess, why don't you see if linnetclaw needs anything for now?"
she told them softly licking gannetpaws ear in comfort. they scampered off in the direction of the medicine cat's den making her sigh.

"that was harsh wasn't it." she turned towards palefoot when she burst out laughing. "this isn't funny palefoot!"
"yes it is you should've saw how scared they were!"

“i know i did!”she let out a small chuckle, waving her tail dismissing herself from there conversations.
“ hey birchjaw ” she smiled light-heartedly to the friendly tom, they had always grown up as close friends, more like sister and brother. "hey sandthistle, you gave them quite a mouthful back there."
a chuckle erupted from the back of her throat, smiling. "yea i know i think i was a little harsh. anyways, how are the kits and ternclaw?"

ternclaw and birchjaw had been mates for starclan knows how long, and it was about time they made the announcement that they were going to have kits. the kits were only two moons old. "there all fine, im glad the fire didn't get to them or i don't know what i would do." he muttered darkly, she brought her tail and rubbed it down his spine soothingly.

"thankfully there safe." when he looked up she offered a gentle smile before turning to smokestream who looked still exhausted, she wanted to see how every cat was dealing with the fire. "hey smokestream." she grinned giggling a little bit when he popped his woozy head up. "hey sandy."

he stood up shaking the ferns and leaves from his pelt, leaving it poking up in places it shouldn't be. "don't you just look dashing today." he chuckled licking his chest in embaressment. "where did you go with the apprentices?"

"oh to the old territory." her face fell and she mentally face-tailed. "the old territory! are you bee-brained!" she whispered urgently, no one had set out patrols to clear out there fallen clanmates.

" what about the bodies of our fallen clanmates! what'd you do with those!"

"the what?"

"the bodies!" she growled loudly in annoyance, he could sure be feather-brained sometimes. "hm, oh yeah we cle- wait!"
he paused concern in his eyes

"there were no bodies! there should've been! no one has left camp!"
someone, cleared out the bodies.

then out of no were, her mate, pikenose had appeared with a annoyed look in his eyes.
"you zanders! i did, i cleared them out and buried them peacefully by a rivebed."

annoyance shot through sandthistle at the thought of not saying her goodbye-wishes.
"why didn't you tell me! or even us!" she snarled walking towards the brown tom with fury in her eyes making sure she stood at his towering height. " i didn't want to make a scene!" "this isn't about you pikenose!" she hissed and right as he was about to talk smokestream spoke up,

"how did you move them by yourself?" pikenose growled and mumbled incoherently what seemed like "i know cats" "it's none of buisness." he shot back pushing her back and into the clearing of the camp. good thing they were by the back of the camp, were the entrance was or everyone would have heard there heated match.

"what a self-centered cat."she hissed and crawling through the entrance, followed alongside smokestream.