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[Cradily]

Pythontail's gaze was set on the slowly lightening sky above. It was barely dawn, and cats would be awakening soon. And I'll be going to sleep soon, he thought unhappily. He had never been much of a night cat; it wasn't that he got tired, oh no, his eyelids never once felt heavy. It was just so boring. Camp guard was an important position, he wouldn't deny it--but it wasn't the one he wanted. Perhaps he should've felt more special, seeing as the clan only had four of them, but instead he'd felt nothing but unlucky from the day he'd been chosen for the position. Besides, there may have been only four camp guards, but there was only one deputy, and one leader. Those were the positions he coveted, and his brother had one of them. Why? What could Anacondafang do that Pythontail couldn't? What made his brother worthy of being deputy, and not himself? His claws sank into the soft earth beneath his paws just thinking about it. Perhaps he would have felt a bit better about things if he actually had the chance to use his teeth and claws more often, but instead he spent most of his nights sitting in silence and his days sleeping, while his clanmates hunted and patrolled and when most of the exciting things happened. Seeing as he was hardly ever very tired at the end of a shift anyway, he often stayed up half the day, or woke up after only a half day, to experience what the rest of his clanmates did--and what he should have. It just wasn't fair.

Anacondafang emerged from the warriors' den, fur neatly groomed and eyes bright, ready to begin the day. He nodded a greeting to the two camp guards, Piranhatail and Pythontail, his brother, as he passed by them. "Morning, guards," he meowed with a smile, stifling a purr when he saw Piranhatail shake herself awake. "You're looking a bit tireder than usual. Didn't sleep well yesterday?" he guessed.

Cacaopaw lay in her nest, awake, but not feeling entirely there. She could hear the hustle and bustle of her denmates, and quickly figured out it must have been dawn--which only made her curl up tighter in her nest. Why couldn't the night just last forever? She flattened her ears a bit at the sound of Canopypaw's and Toucanpaw's chattering, and felt a prickle of annoyance for Canopypaw in particular. Why did the she-cat always have to be so loud and energetic, especially when there were other cats sleeping--or at least, seemingly sleeping--in the same den? Even Kinkajoupaw with all her energy and Macawpaw with her trouble sleeping managed to be quieter. Draping her tail over her nose, she refused to open her eyes, as if keeping them closed would somehow make the world around her stop moving.

Rainfall had woken up fairly early, as usual, and had spent the former part of the morning grooming her fur on the far edge of camp, where she had a good view of everyone else, until her clanmates had started to appear from their dens. Seeing Jaguarstar and Anacondafang appear almost simultaneously from their respective dens, she paused mid-lick but stayed where she was, wondering if they were going to send out patrols immediately. But, as she expected, they seemed to be taking their time; Anacondafang had made his way over to Piranhatail and was now talking with her, while Jaguarstar had decided for some odd reason that he was going to groom himself on his branch where everyone could see him. Why not in his den? Because he thinks everyone wants to see him, I suppose, she concluded. Yes, although she hadn't known many, she knew that cats in positions of power often loved the attention on themselves, even when they were doing the most mundane of things. She spotted Creamflower eating a fish not far off, and, deciding that she had nothing better to do until her leader and deputy sent out patrols, made her way over to the queen. "Morning, Creamflower," she mewed. "Do you ever eat anything but fish?" she asked jokingly.

[Animals65]

Creamflower hears a voice and turns her head to see it was Rainfall, smiling. "Hello Rainfall!" she said. Upon hearing the she-cat's joke, she rolls her eyes, but still amused. "Oh no!" she said sarcastically. "I only eat fish for the rest of my life! But all joking aside, I do eat things other than fish. Fish is just my favorite prey. However my second favorite prey is bird eggs."

[stormythecloud]

🐾 Spottedstorm 🐾| She-cat | 24 moons | Queen | Mate: Whitetail | Tags: | Mentions:

Spottedstorm had yawned softly as she was slowly leaving the nursery and saw her fellow queen Creamflower already up. She wasn't to surprised, neither of the two queens currently had any kits or were expecting any at the moment. She was a bit upset that she hadn't began trying for some more now that Weaselpaw and his siblings were now apprentices. However her mate had been quite distant as their kits were now further into their apprenticeship. She was having some doubts and was thinking perhaps they weren't going to be mates for life like she had hoped.

⚡ Thornstep ⚡| Tom | 17 moons | Warriors | Apprentice: Berrypaw | Crush: none currently | Tags: | Mentions:

The young warrior had slowly shifted out of the warrior den, finding what seemed to be a lot of their clan to be already up and moving for the day. He noticed their leader first before he saw Creamflower, he eyed her for a moment as he did always note that she was quite pretty however had never made an attempt to tell her. Maybe today would be different? He wasn't sure.
He headed towards the apprentice den to see if Berrypaw was still asleep as he didn't see him in camp. He wouldn't mind having some free time before they did go out for training this morning. The tom slowly headed over to Rainfall and Creamflower, "good morning." He was going to try to act as confident as he could.

❄ Weaselpaw ❄| Tom | 9 moons | Camp Guard Apprentice | Mentor: Mambastride | Crush: None | Tags: | Mentions:

Weaselpaw had woken as he heard the camp beginning to fill with chatter, perhaps his mentor was already awake. He slowly had stretched as he got onto his paws before leaving the apprentice den. Of course he was filled with a bit dismay as he didn't see Mambastride out yet.

[Queen of flames]

Tigerlily
she> warrior> crush: open> apprentice: Cacaopaw> tags: -

She entered out of the warrior's den shaking her long fur, which was flat at her other side as she was being slept almost unmoving her whole night. Her left side was hurting a little bit too, but the walk could be good to the brawns, stretching her legs she gave a few licks to her back leg before taking a better look around the camp seeing who was up and who wasn't. She did notice Cacaopaw there, but for now, she ignored her as she wanted to know if she was going out with any patrols, then she could pick up her apprentice to training.

Rockrose
tom> warrior> crush: open> apprentice: open> tags: -

He was being up for a while now, doing some of the secret camp guard duties as he was awaken, he hated to be actually warrior as he liked to be up in nights, but as a warrior, he was most needed in day times, so being up in nights and sleeping in dawns was not a thing he could do. He was even asked to Jaguarstar to become a nighttime camp guard, but it didn't go so well as he didn't get along with the rest of the guards, as they looked him in anger as some of them wanted to sleep in nights, but could not as their task was to guard the camp.

Beetlepaw
tom> apprentice> crush: open> mentor: Okapispring> tags: -

He walked toward the middle of the clearing, checking the fresh-kill pile which was not that full anymore. Sighing he looked around the other apprentices, unhearing some of his clanmates talkings, not seeing his mentor just yet, which was very good as he didn't like the group training at all, he wanted to do think on his own or with a cat he could say to be his friend, so far there was not a such a cat.

Lochpaw
she> apprentice> crush: open> mentor: Tapirfoot> tags: -

She was still at her nest, flicking her ears toward two of her den mates there talking about hunting patrol, she was hungry and talking about food just made her even more hungry. Standing up she decided to leave the den as fast as possible not wanting to hear or think about the food right now when she knew that she could not eat before going into a hunting patrol and they prey into the pile was not for her to eat, they were for the cats who could not hunt.

[C a s]

→Jaguarstar ❦ ♂ ❦ 49 moons ❦ Mate/Crush: ❦ Apprentice: Lilypaw❦ Tags: ❦ ✯✯✯✯✯
I n one smooth leap, Jaguarstar launched himself from the tree branch onto the jungle floor. His sleek Bengal pelt was now neatly groomed, all traces of sleep lost from him. In long strides the tom padded towards Pantherstrike. He stopped beside the warrior. "Is it bad again?" he asked gently. "You may spend the day in the medicine cat's den or resting, if need be." The leader found himself concerned for all of his warriors, trying to know them all on a personal level. This had its downfalls, however; he often feared that if he were too close to every warrior they would not respect him as much.

→Canopypaw ❥ ♀ ❥ 10 moons ❥ Mate/Crush: ❥ Mentor: Sunleaf❥ Tags: Sunleaf, Crescentclaw
C a n o p y p a w angled her ears towards her mentor, who had appeared and was talking to his adoptive sister. She bounced to her paws and trotted towards them, pleased to see that her mentor seemed to be matching her energy. "Good morning, Sunleaf, Crescentclaw," she purred, dipping her head in respect to both cats.

→Toucanpaw ♰ ♂ ♰ 10 moons ♰ Mate/Crush: ♰ Mentor: Leopardheart♰ Tags:
T o u c a n p a w felt a hot wave of shame roll over him at his mentor's scolding, but bit his tongue until it turned into irritation. Bristling slightly, he stalked out of the den. The tom padded over to the fresh-kill pile, only to be disappointed. All of yesterday's large prey had been eaten, save a couple of small schooling fish. He picked one up, wrinkling his nose slightly, before heading towards the apprentices' den. He settled down outside to eat.

→Piranhatail ✴ ♀ ✴ 28 moons ✴ Mate/Crush: ✴ Apprentice: ✴ Tags: Pythontail, Anacondafang
P i r a n h a t a i l had just started to doze off when Anacondafang's voice shook her awake. "Good morning," she managed, straightening herself up and trying to look alert. "I didn't," she agreed with the deputy. "But that's okay. I'll make up for it today when Mambastride and Weaselpaw relieve us. I'm thinking a long nap and then some fresh-kill would do me moons of good."

→Tapirfoot ✧ ♂ ✧ 44 moons ✧ Mate/Crush: ✧ Apprentice: Lochpaw ✧ Tags:
T a p i r f o o t slept soundly in the warriors' den. He had woken up briefly, noticing it had still been dark, and had rolled over in his nest, not bothering to leave the deep earthen den. All round him his campmates were beginning to wake, but he didn't mind - he could sleep through the noise and he was in no hurry to catch the dawn patrol, or the earliest hunting party.

[A m n e s i a]

CobraStorm
Female//36 Moons//Warrior//Bisexual//Single//Apprentice: Duskpaw//Tags: SlothNose, open

The she-cat let out an annoyed huff at the fact her apprentice wasn't up yet and she felt slightly disappointed in her apprentice because of it. She decided to go over to her father, SlothNose, and lay down next to him for the time being until her apprentice decided to finally poke his head out of the apprentices den.

SlothNose
Male//110 Moons//Elder//Straight//Single//Tags: CobraStorm, open

He noticed his daughter looking displeased but was glad when she decided to relax next to him "So, DuskPaw not up yet?" he asked slightly joking and let out a chuckle at CobraStorms soft glare which definitely answered his question.

MacawPaw
Female//11 Moons//Apprentice//Pansexual//Single//Mentor: Coatistare//Tags: ToucanPaw

MacawPaw glanced over at the other apprentice when he sat down a couple of taillengths away from her and decided to talk to him, finding it would be a good chance to get away from her own thoughts "Morning ToucanPaw" she greeted her fellow apprentice with her usual soft sounding voice and padded over to him.

[Cradily]

Rainfall shuddered at the mention of the things. She wasn't a fan of bird eggs--or birds themselves, for that matter. No, she much preferred prey with fur on it and warm blood inside, but such prey was rare in the jungle. Seeing Thornstep come over, she flicked her tail in greeting to him. "Morning." Stretching her legs, she added to Creamflower, "Well, three's a crowd. I'll see you later," before padding off. She spotted Beetlepaw at the center of camp, seemingly looking for prey to eat at first before looking around at his clanmates, and made her way towards him. "You look lost," she observed.

Anacondafang nodded. "Yes, that sounds good. I know, those long nights can get a bit boring and tiresome." Lowering his voice, he nudged her and said with a slight chuckle, "Especially when you've got my brother to watch with all night. Not the greatest conversationalist, is he?"

Pythontail narrowed his eyes as his brother stalked past. Anacondafang had greeted him briefly as he passed, but had continued straight towards Piranhatail and was now making conversation with her and laughing under his breath. Pythontail couldn't hear what the two were saying, but it made his pelt crawl anyway. Why did his brother have to be so painfully obvious? Flattening his ears, he stretched his legs one by one and began to pad around camp. His shift was practically over anyway. Grabbing a snake from the fresh-kill pile, he went to the far edge of camp where Cobrastorm and Slothnose were lying and plopped down a few tail-lengths away to tear into his meal.

Cacaopaw lay in her nest, awake, but not feeling entirely there. She could hear the hustle and bustle of her denmates, and quickly figured out it must have been dawn--which only made her curl up tighter in her nest. Why couldn't the night just last forever? She flattened her ears a bit at the sound of Canopypaw's and Toucanpaw's chattering, and felt a prickle of annoyance for Canopypaw in particular. Why did the she-cat always have to be so loud and energetic, especially when there were other cats sleeping--or at least, seemingly sleeping--in the same den? Even Kinkajoupaw with all her energy and Macawpaw with her trouble sleeping managed to be quieter. Draping her tail over her nose, she refused to open her eyes, as if keeping them closed would somehow make the world around her stop moving.

[Animals65]

Creamflower hears another voice and turns her head to see it was Thornstep, smiling at the tom. "Hello Thornstep!" she said. Upon hearing Rainfall say she is going to leave, she nods, understanding how busy warriors can be. "Bye Rainfall!" she said. She takes another bite of her fish, savoring the delicious taste.

[Nyverria]

Leopardheart | 36 moons | Female | Warrior | Apprentice: Toucanpaw | Crush: Open | Tags;
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The molly waited until her apprentice found something to eat. She sat near the warrior's den once more as she watched the other felines get their fair share of prey from the pile. Leopardheart preferred waiting until after the day was over, her appetite adjusted to when she normally eats which is about once a day anyways. The fae spotted her brother with an amused look on his face as he eyed her. "He probably watched me scold my apprentice.." she thought to herself as she rolled her clear blue eyes at him. She's always wondered why her brother chose to not become a warrior, he had the strength and physique to be an impressive warrior but Leopardheart never questioned him..as long as he was happy.

Harpytalon | 36 moons | Male | Medicine Cat | Apprentice: Bluepaw | Crush: Forbidden | Tags; Jaguarstar, Pantherstrike
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Harpytalon watched his sister sit by the warrior's den and watched as she rolled her eyes at him. He chuckled to himself until he noticed Jungleclan's leader leap down from the large branch and walk over to Pantherstrike. His ears perked with interest as he noticed Pantherstrike acting different. Standing up, the tall tom made his way over to the two hearing what Jaguarstar was saying. "He can come into my den and I'll take a look at him if he wants." the tom spoke calmly as he slightly looked down at the other two toms. "I might have something to help but some of my stocks are low." he added as he looked at the leader of the clan.

[Craboom-047]

Bluepaw

Medicine cat apprentice<>♂<>11 moons<>mentor: Harpytalon<>no crush<>tags: none

Bluepaw laid beside the medicine cat's den. He considered getting up to find his mentor, but he hesitated for the time being. Instead, he simply watched the other cats go by, curious of what was going on in the clan.

Sunleaf

Warrior<>♂<>30 moons<>apprentice: Canopypaw<>crush: open<>tags: Crescentclaw

"Good morning Canopypaw," Sunleaf replied, "How's my favorite little apprentice doing? Ready for another day of training?"
He glanced over at his sister, who he could tell did not want to stick around at the mentioning of training, which she made obvious in her next comment. He replied, "Well alright then. I shall see you in a bit."

Crescentclaw

Warrior<>♀<>30 moons<>no apprentice<>crush: open<>tags: Sunleaf

"Well, good morning to you, Canopypaw," Crescentclaw managed to reply before her brother. She took a moment to glance over as he replied to his apprentice. She glanced over at her brother for a moment, and once he returned her glance she spoke once more, "I suppose that's my cue to let you two get to training. I'll see you two later."