𝚃 𝙷 𝚄 𝙽 𝙳 𝙴 𝚁 𝙲 𝙻 𝙰 𝙽
The Kill wrote:xxHeronpaw sat in the medicine den, sorting herbs. She
had finally memorized all of them- even the herbs that
looked nearly identical, those that were rarely found in
ThunderClan, and those that she hopefully never had to
use. She sighed with relief as she exited the den to grab
a squirrel from the fresh-kill pile. It was plump and the
smell made Heronpaw’s mouth water to the point where
she was nearly drooling. She snatched it in her jaws and
sat down by herself when Specklepaw padded over to her.
xx“Hey. How are you?” she asked in a gentle voice.
Specklepaw had been with Juniperpaw the night she
disappeared, but seemed to have forgotten her sadness
over the grief and fear of all the murders and exiles happening.
xx“I’m doing okay,” Heronpaw admitted with a shrug. She
took a bite out of her squirrel and nearly yelped when it
tasted like dung. She spat it out and jumped up, hissing. A
few maggots writhed out of the squirrel’s near-black insides.
It was clearly rotten and Heronpaw waved Allfur over with her
tail.
xx“What happened?” The deputy asked, confused.
xx“I nearly ate crowfood!” she meowed with surprise.
xx“We’ll dispose of it,” he assured her with a kind smile. He
waved over Cutstripe, one of the few warriors left in the Clan,
and they took it out of camp to bury it. Heronpaw’s appetite
had been ruined and she sighed, looking at Specklepaw.
xx“I guess that I’m going to rest now,” Heronpaw meowed. She
padded to the medicine den and curled up in her nest, drifting
into a harsh sleep. The first thing she saw was Juniperpaw’s scared
face, covered in blood and wailing in the forest. Heronpaw
immediately opened her eyes to find that she’d only slept until
the sun began sinking in the sky. She sighed, padding back to the
fresh-kill pile, and took a mouse. She took it to the medicine den
and nibbled on it until it was dusk, and cats around her began to
go to sleep. Heronpaw was about to attempt to sleep again when
she heard a sound in the forest like an injured cat. It was a short
wail that only she seemed to hear- no cat reacted. So Heronpaw
waited for a while until everybody was in their dens, and then
took off into the forest. She heard the noise again, louder this
time. She was getting close to the source, she could tell. She
broke through some underbrush to what she was sure was the
source of the sound- but all she could see was a blueberry bush.
She frowned and sniffed at it, and there seemed to be nothing but
blueberries in there. She looked around and wondered if this was a
trap before scurrying up a tree and scanning the area. Nothing that
looked even remotely dangerous. But then she heard something
that sent her nerves on fire before drowning it in relief.
xx“What are you doing up there?” a familiar voice called. It was a
Clanmate, she thought with relief. She couldn’t tell who it was, but
she looked down- nope, still nothing. Was she hallucinating out of
fear? She climbed back down the tree and then saw the cat, hiding
under a bush. Bright eyes peeked out at her and she tilted her head.
xx“What are you doing out here?” Heronpaw asked the cat. “And before
you retort, I’m out here because I heard a wounded cat.”
xx“You’ve got me there. Why don’t we just go back to camp?” but the
cat’s words seemed to betray their thoughts, because they backed up.
Heronpaw stepped closer to see what they were doing, and quick as a
flash, the cat pounced at her. She yelped in surprise and hopped out of
the way, and then she saw sharp claws flick out at her. She went into a
sprint as she ran back to camp with fear coursing through her veins. She
bolted through the camp and hid in the dirtplace, burying herself into a
bush where she hoped the cat wouldn’t find her. She waited until the
moon rose high in the sky before retreating to the medicine den, where
she slept in the medicine storage. Her last thought was of who her attacker
might be.
- family tree
Family Echo Link
Relations made by the lovely Chamrosh, family echo made by me!
mentors and apprentices
Embercloud → Heronpaw
Brookfang → Oceanpaw
Vixenfeather → Tropicalpaw
Mysticstar → Batpaw
Shallowfoot → Acornpaw
Stagshadow → Mousepaw
Ivyshade → Squirrelpaw
Cloudpelt → Juniperpaw
Cutstripe → Specklepaw
You got lucky, ThunderClan! The Guard chose to protect just the right cat!
- Leader --
↳ Mysticstar//she-cat//Slyizdrapple
Deputy --
↳ Allfur//tom//caspian
Medicine Cat --
↳ Embercloud//non-binary//:.Duplex.:
↳ Heronpaw//she-cat//BrightDays
Warriors --
↳ Vixenfeather//she-cat//honey--bee
↳ Cutstripe//tom//NerdyDisco
↳ Stagshadow//tom//monspurr
↳ Brookfang//she-cat//The One & Only Vapor
↳ Cloudpelt//she-cat//Cloudpelt
↳ Swallowfoot//non-binary//potioncat
↳ Ivyshade//she-cat//Silverflare12345
Apprentices --
↳ Batpaw//tom//montmorency
↳ Mousepaw//tom//MoonlightTabby
↳ Squirrelpaw//she-cat//AkiraAono
↳ Oceanpaw//she-cat//imp.
↳ Tropicalpaw//tom//kacchan,
↳ Specklepaw//she-cat//Prizmpaws
↳ Acornpaw//she-cat//A Voice Among Many
↳ Juniperpaw//she-cat//Zarouhi
Queens --
↳ name//gender//username
Kits --
↳ name//gender//username
Elders --
↳ name//gender//username
