Wandering Ways, a warrior (1x1 between boba_tree and Alpha*)

[Alpha*]

A 1x1 between boba_tree and Alpha*

A warrior cat rp.

We will follow the rules

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Rules

-All Tess's rules apply
-No being your own Mate or Mentor
-No forced breeding/Mating
-Timeskip or Fade to black when Mating/Birthing, or take it to PM if you desire
-Don't kill someone else cat(s) without asking the owner first
-All cats have to die at some point, and any who do will go to Starclan, or the Dark Forest
-When talking in OOC (Out of Character) Use (e.g) {e.g} or [e.g] Please
-Please don't fight in OOC
-This Rp Is not Semi-Literate, but please write at least a line ^^

Have fun! ^^
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Glossary

Crow-food: rotting food
Fox dung: an insult; stronger offense then mouse-brain
Fresh-kill: recently killed prey
Gatherings: a meeting the clan will have every full moon to discuss what’s done and not done and so on.
Greencough: severe chest infection, which can be fatal in elders and young kits
Greenleaf: summer
Greenleaf Twolegplace:a place where humans visit only in the summer
Halfbridge: dock
Horseplace: fields and stables near the lake where half-tamed cats live
Housefolk: a house cat’s word for human
Kittypet: a house cat
Leaf-bare: winter
Leaf-fall: autumn/fall
Loner: a cat that lives peacefully on its own in one place but doesn’t defend its territory
Monster: usually refers to human machines such as bulldozers or cars
Moonhigh: the time at night when the moon is highest — often midnight
Mouse-brained: not very smart
Mouse dung: an insult; stronger then mouse-brain, but less offensive than fox dung
Newleaf: spring
Nofurs: another word for humans
One moon: one month (half moon = two weeks, quarter moon = one week)
Rogue: a potentially hostile cat who lives outside the Clan and never spends too long in one place
Sharing tongues: term used to describe cats grooming each other
Silverpelt: the Milky Way
Sun-drown-place: the sea to the west, where the sunsets
Sunhigh: noon
Thunderpath: a road
Tree-eater: a bulldozer
Twoleg nest: human house
Twolegplace: human town
Twolegs: the Clan word for humans
Upwalkers: another word for humans
Whitecough: mild chest infection
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The Warrior Code

1. Defend your Clan, even with your life. You may have friendships with cats from other Clans, but your loyalty must remain to your Clan.
2. Do not hunt or trespass on another Clan's territory.
3. Elders, Queens, and kits must be fed before apprentices and warriors. Unless they have permission, apprentices may not eat until they have hunted to feed the elders. If any warrior or apprentice is sick, they may eat while the elders, queens, and kits are eating.
4. Prey is killed only to be eaten. Give thanks to StarClan for its life.
5. A kit must be at least six moons old to become an apprentice.
6. Newly appointed warriors will keep a silent vigil for one night after receiving their warrior name.
7. A cat cannot be made deputy without having mentored at least one apprentice.
8. The deputy will become Clan leader when the leader dies or retires.
9. After the death or retirement of the deputy, the new deputy must be chosen before moonhigh.
10. Boundaries must be checked and marked daily. Challenge all trespassing cats.
11. No warrior can neglect a kit in pain or danger, even if the kit is from a different Clan.
12. The word of the Clan leader is law.
13. An honorable warrior does not need to kill other cats to win his/her battles, unless they are outside the warrior code or it is necessary for self-defense.
14. A warrior rejects the soft life of a kittypet.
15. Medicine cats may not have a mate or kits.

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Herbs/ Plants


Poppy seeds - used to numb pain
Cobwebs - used to stop bleeding
Feverfew - used to cool feverish cats and treat head pain
Borage leaves - used to treat fevers
Marigold - used to treat infection and heal wounds and sores
Horsetail - used to treat infected wounds
Burdock root - used to treat infections, especially rat bites
Chervil (root) - used to treat infections
Wild garlic - rolling in this can help to keep out infection
Coltsfoot - used to treat kittencough
Catnip - used to treat blackcough, whitecough, and greencough, and can help to relax a cat
Chickweed - used to help treat greencough
Tansy - used to treat coughs
Thyme - used to calm a cat
Camomile - used to calm a cat
Juniper berries - used to treat bellyache
Chervil - used to treat bellyache
Water mint - used to treat bellyache
Daisy leaves - used to treat aching joints
Comfrey - used to treat broken bones
Nettle leaves - used to treat swelling
Celadine - used to treat ailments of the eyes
Snakeroot - used to counter poison
Honey - used to treat sore throats
Mouse bile - used to remove parasites from a cat's coat
Dock leaves - used to make a cat's coat slippery
Yarrow - used to make a cat vomit and expel poisons from the body
Deathberries (yew) - of no medicinal value; bright scarlet berries that can kill a cat if they are not expelled quickly enough
Nightshade - of no medicinal value; much the same as yew
Alder Bark: The bark is used to treat cats who get toothaches, and the pain may heal.
Beech Leaves: Medicine cats use beech leaves to carry herbs around.
Blackberry Leaves: These leaves are chewed into a pulp to treat bee stings.
Borage Leaves: It is easily distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves. When it is chewed and eaten by nursing queens, it produces more, better milk. It also brings down fevers.
Burdock Root: Tall stemmed thistle with a sharp smell and dark leaves. When the root is dug up and the soil is washed off it, it is chewed into a pulp, and put on wounds inflicted by rats to keep them from becoming infected. Can also be used on infected rat bites to lessen and heal the pain.
Catmint/Catnip: A leafy and delicious-smelling plant. They are rarely found in the wild, and are mostly found in Twoleg gardens. Best remedy for the deadly greencough, which kits and elders usually catch in the season of leaf-bare. It is also the best remedy for less deadly Whitecough.
Celandine: This herb can be used to soothe the eyes if ever damaged.
Chamomile: A small, white flower with a yellow center, this herb can be used to strengthen the heart and soothe the mind.
Chervil: A sweet smelling plant with large, spreading, leafy, fern like leaves and small white flowers. The juice of the leaves can be used for infected wounds, and chewing the root also helps with bellyache
Chickweed: Like catmint/catnip, it can be used to treat greencough though often times catmint is much preferred.
Cobwebs: Very common in the forest, put it on a wound to soak up and stop (or slow) the bleeding. It may also be used to bind broken bones.
Coltsfoot: A flowering, dandelion-like plant with yellow or white flowers. The leaves are chewed into a pulp, and given to cats with difficulty breathing or a cough. It also can be used to treat kitten-cough, as well as cracked or sore pads.
Comfrey: Large leaves and small shaped flowers, which range in color from pink, white, or purple. Its fat, black-colored roots, when chewed into a poultice, can be used to repair broken bones or to soothe wounds.
Daisy Leaf: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves. Chewed into a paste, it can help aching joints.
Dandelions: The white liquid inside the stem is used forbeestings. Its roots can also be chewed to act like poppy seeds.
Dock: Similar to sorrel, the leaves can be chewed up and applied to soothe scratches, although it may sting when being applied to a wound, and it has a very tangy scent and taste.
Dried Oak Leaf: Most readily available in autumn/leaf-fall, the leaves are stored in a dry place, and can stop infection when applied.
Feverfew: Small bush with flowers like a daisy. The leaves can be eaten to reduce body temperature, especially cats with fever or chills. Also heals aches and headaches.
Goldenrod: A tall, plant with bright, yellow flowers. When chewed into a poultice, it is good for healing wounds.
Heather Flower: It can be included in herbal mixtures, to make it easier to swallow.
Honey: A tasteless golden-colored liquid that is created by bees. While difficult to obtain without being stung, it is great for soothing infections, sore throats, or cats who have breathed smoke. Also helps cats swallow other medicine. It is given to cats using wads of moss soaked in it.
Horsetail: A tall, bristly-stemmed plant that grows in marshy areas. The leaves can be chewed into a poultice, and applied to infected wounds to help treat them.
Ivy Leaf: Some medicine cats use ivy leaves to store herbs.
Juniper Berries: Juniper berries grow on a bush with dark green, spiky leaves. The berries are purple in color, and can soothe bellyaches, give strength, and help troubled breathing. It is also used to help calm cats.
Lamb's Ear: Commonly found in the mountains, this herb gives a cat strength.
Lavender: A small, purple, flowering plant that cures fever and chills.
Mallow: The leaves are best collected at sunhigh, when they are dry. It soothes a cat's belly.
Marigold: A low-growing flower that is bright orange or yellow in color. The petals or leaves can be chewed into a pulp and applied to wounds as a poultice to stop infection. It could be used to treat rat bites, but it's sometimes not strong enough.
Mouse Bile: Extracted from the mouse. The only remedy for ticks, mouse bile is foul smelling, and is stored in moss. When dabbed on a tick, the tick falls off. Smell can be masked by wild garlic, or by washing paws in running water. If accidentally swallowed, can leave a horrible taste in mouth for days. Medicine cats always have to remember to wash their paws in a body of water, such as a creek or stream, after using mouse bile.
Nettle Seed: Green, spiny seeds. Like yarrow, can be used if a cat has swallowed poison.
Parsley: Stops a queen from producing milk if her kits die, don't need milk anymore, or are producing too much milk.
Poppy Seeds: Small black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flower head. They can put a cat to sleep, or soothe shock and distress, but is not recommended for nursing queens. They are given by wetting the paw, pressing on them, causing them to stick to the paw, and then having the sick or injured cat lick them off. Another method is to place them on a leaf, and have the sick or injured cat lick them off there. They also help soothe pain.
Ragwort Leaves: Crushed and mixed into a poultice with juniper berries, it can help aching joints. It can also be used to keep a cat's strength up.
Ragweed: Like lamb's ear, this herb, commonly found in the mountains, gives a cat strength.
Raspberry Leaves: A herb used in kittings, it could be a painkiller, or to help stop bleeding during the kitting.
Rush: This herb is used to bind broken bones. It has long narrow leaves and lavender colored head stalks.
Stinging Nettle: The leaves, when applied to a wound, can bring down swelling. The spiny green seeds can be given to a cat who has been poisoned by crowfood, Twoleg waste, or other toxic objects.
Snakeroot: The best remedy for poison, especially for snake bites.
Tansy: The tansy plant has round, yellow leaves, and a very sweet and strong smell, making it good at disguising a cat's scent. It is used for curing coughs, but must be eaten in small doses.
Tormentil: This root is good for all wounds and expelling poison. It has a strong romantic scent to it and a sharp aste.
Thyme: This herb can be eaten to calm nervousness, anxiety, and cats who are in shock.
Traveling Herbs: Traveling Herbs consists of sorrel, daisy, chamomile and burnet. Chamomile strengthens hearts, and calms cats. The other herbs' uses are unknown.
Watermint: A green, leafy plant found in streams or damp earth. Usually chewed into a pulp and fed to cats with suffering from a bellyache.
Wild Garlic: When rolled in, it can help prevent infection. Especially good for rat bites. Due to its strong smell, it is good at hiding the scent of a certain Clan, and disguising cats on raids.
Willow Bark: This bark serves as a painkiller.
Yarrow: A flowering plant whose leaves can be made into a poultice, and applied to wounds to extract poison. Also will make a cat vomit. The ointment of yarrow can also be used to soften and help heal cracked paw pads.

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Time/Seasons

Leaf-bare - the season of winter
Newleaf - the season of spring
Greenleaf - the season of summer
Leaf-fall - the season of autumn
Quarter-moon - a week
Moon - a 28-day period (one full moon to another), a month
Moonhigh - 12 o'clock a.m. (midnight)
Sunhigh - 12 o'clock p.m. (noon)

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Measurements

Mouselength- Around an inch
Kittenstep - less than an inch
Rabbitlength/Taillength - Around a foot
Foxlength - Around a yard

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Ranks/Names

Leader - the cat who leads a Clan
Deputy - the cat who is second-in-command to the Clan leader
Medicine cat - a cat who is trained specifically in the ways of healing
Warrior - a cat trained in the ways of combat; warriors defend, hunt for, and fight for their Clan
Apprentice - a cat who is in training to become a warrior or medicine cat
Queen - a she-cat expecting or nursing kits
Kit - a kitten
Elder - a retired warrior or medicine cat
Kittypet - a house cat; the term can also be used as an insult
Loner - a cat who is neither owned by humans or part of a Clan
Rogue - like a loner but causes the Clans distress or problems
Twoleg - a human
Fresh-kill - freshly caught prey
Crowfood - rotting, dead prey
Gathering - a meeting that the Clans hold in peace when the moon is at its fullest
Moonstone, Moonpool - a place where medicine cats and leaders meet and share dreams with StarClan
Silverpelt - the large swath of stars in the sky; StarClan is represented by Silverpelt
Thunderpath - a road, more specifically, a highway
Monster - a human vehicle (cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc)
Halfbridge - a dock
Twoleg nest - a human house
Twolegplace - a human town
Greenleaf Twolegplace - a place where humans visit only in the summer (a resort, etc)
Horseplace - a horse ranch or stables
Healer - a loner's or rouges's medicine cat
Wanderer - Cat who often travels

[Alpha*]

(I work best without constructs)

Username: Alpha*
Cat name: Fallen (will be FallenRains) (some call him Fell, others Ghost)
Cat appearance: He is all shades of silver, looks like starlight on snow with wide blue eyes. Fell is thin compared to his half brother, he has scars on his face that makes others believe he is blind. Extra toes, long floofy tail. Eyes are blue-silver
Cat living area: Mountains, whereever,..
Cat Type: Loner to Warrior
Other: Killer, around 19 or 20 moons. Considered a senior warrior, though he is quite young. Has a reserved personality, but will always do what is right. He has a thirst for knowledge and an idetic memory.
Clan:
Rank: he was a loner, but due to star clans messages he joined the clan. He is now considered a Senior Warrior. He was Sent by RisingStar to follow a clan member and keep them safe. He had a mate and kits during this time, who died. He picked up a ton of healing during his travels and upbringing.

[Ratfish]

Username: boba_tree
Cat name: dawnstripe
Cat appearance: white pelt with patches of brown and a long black stripe across his body
Cat Type: med cat
Other: he is a shy cat and tends to doubt himself. he has memorized many herbs and remedies.
Clan: thunderclan I guess

[Alpha*]

Morning hasn't quite broken, the darkness is yet to abate, the moon hasn't set, the sun has yet to make an appearance - if it would at all. There are dark, low hanging clouds that had scurried over the low valley in the night, with them came a chill wind that threatens a colder day and frigid following night. Something picks its way through tree branches, paws silent, sharp claws prickling bark and leaves - but the whispy figure has no scent of his own.

He knows where he is, though he's not entirely sure why his paws have carried him back here. It's been many moons since he'd been stolen from this part of the world. Would they let him back into their home? Loneliness twinges at his two hearts, and pain, it wasn't his fault that he'd been stolen all that time ago. Would they love him? Would they allow him to stay? A rare and fading ray of moonlighting illuminates a pelt and the way he'd travel and he freezes. There is the border, he can smell it. He can see classic marks in the wood.

Did they miss him?

Rain begins to patter onto the leaves and soil, gentle at first and then harder; as if a whole river needs to come from the sky in sheets or all at once. He pauses his travel to glare up at the sky in distaste, almost to the border between RiverClan and ThunderClan...

[Ratfish]

Dawnstripe - med cat

Dawn was upset. some rogue had gotten into camp at moon high, and stole the lot of his herbs. he walked on over to a forked tree, to find a large cobweb strung between the split trunks. he gently pulled it off, and redirected his attention to a rather vibrant bush of feverfew. as he was about to pluck the flowers, he herd a rustling nearby. he hissed and unsheathed his claws, ready to fight.

[Alpha*]

Fallen

He crosses the border and the rain cascades where he goes; he's not a magic cat like in the stories, not in the least. But, occasionally star pelted dead do direct his way. Do visit. Do give advice. This time, as he's going to turn and leave the clan lands - mentally scolding himself for the foolish desire to return and join and even more foolish hope that they'd want him - this time they send him firmly northwest. Why?

Head lowered he plods on; then he hears something ahead. It's not a patrol. What is it?

He isn't near enough to see, let alone stop, the reddish and ash colored animal as it leaps from the bushes it had been in. The silver cat doesn't see leaf litter still clinging to its' fur, or quick white teeth snapping inches from the shoulder of the medicine cat. Blue eyes dont catch the way brownish-orange eyes gleam with malace and hunger. He doesn't note how it's bones seem brittle under that dulled coat, the animal thin from being hungry far too long. He doesn't see it drool, or the way muscles jerk uncoordinatedly when that adversary stands from where it had tripped and lunges again after its would-be prey, quicker than one would imagine with its' desperation.

He doesn't see it... but he knows it is occurring as if it were something he could see. His pace quickens - no longer as carefully thought out as it was. The silver spectre leaps from one sturdy branch to the next- ignoring the smells of prey that's ripe for the taking in their torpor.

Almost there! is mentally yowled. Leaf and Star don't let me be too late! is prayed almost bitterly, Not again.

[Ratfish]

Dawnstripe - medcat

Dawnstripe was too slow to dodge the foxes attack. the beast pounced onto him, pinning him down. he yelped in pain, and lashed his claws across the beasts eyes. it hissed and recoiled back, temporarily removing itself off the medicine cat's body. the fox was probably young, as inexperienced with hunting as it was big. taking the chance, Dawnstripe attempted to escape, only to be met with the silvery sharp claws of the fox.

[Alpha*]

Fallen

He drops from the branches onto the opponent, claws extended and embedding into narrow shoulders- rolling to one side when he hits the fox's back, forcing it to roll with him. And for once the tactic works far too well: he's buried under its' weight for a moment, losing his breath. Theres a guesture that should be considered an order, he opens his mouth to speak when jaws clamp at his throat. Its by the grace of leaf and star that he escapes - A cough, pelt fluffed so he appears larger, tail tucked so it can't get caught by that slavering maw. Can't that cat get up a tree??

He leaps backwards, and the animal takes the bait - it lurches after him and the chase begins. It has longer legs than he does, it towers over him. It's neck fur is thick and he almost doubts he'd survive this encounter... Shoulda kept walking Fell. is grumbled when his shoulder is pulled out of socket - there would be no tree climbing for escape this time. -

Again is his breath stolen when other injuries are savagely given to him. Color bleeds back into his eyes when the fox lays dead. Fallen pulls himself out from under it, gasping silently at the pain that is incurred.

The silver loner takes a cautious step... and goes down, unconscious.

[Ratfish]

Dawnstripe-med cat

Dawnstripe walks over, cautiously stepping towards the loners knocked - out body. he gently nudges his face to try to wake him, but to no avail. he begins to survey the injuries given to thr he-cat, and there is no doubt that his injuries are far worse than dawnstripes. he begins to patch up fell, and disinfects the wounds. this is easy, as the cat is unconscious, and there are many medicinal plants surrounding them. he can't fix the dislocated shoulder just yet, he'll have to wait until the cat wakes. he begins scalling a tree, pulling the tom with him. he curls up, and drifts off, waiting for the next day.

[Alpha*]

Fallen

He wakes up to another dawn; nose pressed into fur that smells of herbs. He wakes up to golden and peach light dappling its way through foliage to his sore body. Birds call in the distance, and he moves to put some distance between the stranger and himself - instantly aware that they are in a tree. Last I remember I just got out from under that dead fox. a surge of pride at managing to kill it burns in his chest for a moment. Got better at killing those, haven't i?! Timidly he licks at the ruffled fur of his chest, only to make a face at the taste of fox blood. Where am I? Whose this? Although he is sure this is the cat he'd rescued he hadn't exactly stuck around for a name. Hadn't had time.

The silver cat opens his mouth to speak... and nothing comes out. Oh. Right, the bite. A wrinkle of his nose, then, Fallen gently prods his... rescuer.