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L O S T F A C E
PEAKCLAN
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||Warrior|| ||Age- 17 Moons|| ||Location- PeakClan Territory|| ||Gender- Female|| ||Tags- Hawkeye and Rabbitfur||

As Rabbitfur started on her pelt she started to groom the hard to reach places on his pelt like the back of his head and ears in an attempt to help dry him off. She paused peeking out at the down-fall. "I hope the Clan don't worry about us. Maybe if it lightens up we can make a run for it back to camp."

L I O N S T A R
PINECLAN
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||Warriors|| ||Age- 36 Moons|| ||Location- Gathering Spot|| ||Gender- Male|| ||Tags- Petalstar||

Lionstar listened carefully to her answer thinking how similar he felt about this place. Maybe all leaders needed some time away from their clan-mates. Sometimes he felt like no one else understood the burden of making the decisions that could be life or death and meant the survival or failure of the whole Clan. Maybe Petalstar had more in common with him than he'd ever really thought of before. He paused his grooming as she shivered. He wanted to press closer to her and share his warmth but he wasn't sure the leader would appreciate the gesture. Turning his dark blue eyes towards her he meowed, "I'm here for the same reason. Perhaps PeakClan and PineClan aren't so different after all."

R A G G E D K I L L
PINECLAN
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||Warrior|| ||Age- 36 Moons|| ||Location- PineClan Territory|| ||Gender- Male|| ||Tags- Snowfur||

Raggedkill's whiskers twitched as he answered. "Whoever catches the bigger fish wins. And the loser has to teach Featherpaw how to properly use mouse-bile. I haven't had to teach her yet since we have no elders right now." He himself hated the stench of mouse-bile. Although they didn't usually need it for themselves she would need to know how to use and carry it around without getting it all over herself.

The hunting party with Featherpaw's sister is okay with Raggedkill!

S H A D O W H O P
PINECLAN
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||Warrior| ||Age- 36 Moons|| ||Location- PineClan Territory|| ||Gender- Male|| ||Tags- Embershine||

"Exactly!" he meowed glad Embershine at least seemed excited about his idea. "I think we could get one by tag-teaming it. Hopefully they will be sheltering on shore because of the rain." he meowed.

M U D S P L A S H
PINE CLAN
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||Warrior|| ||Age- 36 Moons|| ||Location- PineClan Territory|| ||Gender- Male|| ||Tags- Vixenbite, Jaywing, Darkflower & fox||

Mudpslash turned on the speed as he saw Vixenbite and Jaywing dart in on the fox. He briefly wondered if Vixenbite felt of this as her revenge. He jumped at the fox's rear sinking his teeth into its hind haunches before springing back away to avoid a retaliation bite.

[Cradily]

PeakClan

(@~GirlsDeMo~: I'm not sure if Neva and Thorn are still in PeakClan territory or if they've just left, but I hope it's alright with you if I pretend they're very close to the border, that way my cat can find them and give them someone to interact with. ^^)

Crowthorn ignored the rain as it pelted down, soaking him to the bone and forcing his fur to stick to his frame and make him look even slimmer than normal. He attempted to stay beneath the shelter of the pine trees as he walked, but there was hardly any use in it, as he was already drenched. His wounds from earlier still stung; he hadn't gotten them treated, and while normally water would have relieved them, the rain poured against them so hard that it only hurt them more. Still, he ignored the pain as he walked along. The scent of rain wiped away any prey-scents, as well as the earlier scents of the rogue and his kit in their territory, but Crowthorn wanted to make sure the two troublemakers hadn't returned, not that he had much else to do. As he neared the scorched line in the grass that marked the border, he just barely caught a glimpse of two cats in the hollow of a tree just outside the border. With the rain nearly blinding him, he thought at first that it was Flynn and Jinx again, but quickly realized that the coloring didn't match up. No, there was a long-furred white she-cat in there, with a brown-and-white kit next to her. Crowthorn was relieved that it wasn't the two cats from earlier, but still, these cats were a little too close for comfort. Stepping in front of the hollow so he could be seen, he meowed, "I hope you know you're just a fox-length away from PeakClan territory."

"Yeah, we can't stay here all night after all," Hawkeye agreed. They'd wait the storm out for a little while, but if it didn't cease by dusk, they'd have to just make a run for it back to camp. She felt herself shrink slightly when the two siblings began grooming each other as she realized she was the odd one out. Again, she could only wish that she and Crowthorn were that close. She wondered if she'd care as much or feel as envious if she'd been born an only kit. Maybe if I didn't have a littermate, I wouldn't wonder what it would be like to have one that I was actually close to, she thought bitterly. Hoping the other two hadn't been able to feel the self-consciousness emanating from her, she continued grooming her chest fur, a little more rapidly than before.

Gingerleaf's ears pricked at the familiar sound of Blossomcloud's voice and her own name being called, but before she even turned around, she could tell something was wrong. There was a certain note in the elder's voice that made Gingerleaf nervous, and when she whirled around to meet the older she-cat's gaze, she wasn't surprised to find a darkening sadness there. Her eyes widened with horror and her heart skipped a beat as Blossomcloud explained what had happened. Littlepaw? Dead? Why, she had only seen him a short while ago. How could he be dead already? Uneasiness prickled beneath her pelt, and she couldn't help but wonder if it was stronger than usual because of Sunpaw's own incident, or because she realized the apprentice getting killed by a rockslide could have just as easily been her own daughter if things had been different. It was a horrible way to think about it, really, but in a way Gingerleaf felt better about Sunpaw's accident in comparison. It took her a moment to process the information before she finally answered the elder's question. "Ah, yes...Yes, I should have some thyme here for her, just let me..." She pawed through her pile of herbs until she found the small, sticky leaves and picked them up. Beckoning Blossomcloud with her tail, she exited the den, flattening her ears against the rain, and rushed into the nursery. Badgerlight was curled into her nest, looking understandably disturbed. Gingerleaf felt disturbed as well, but she knew she had to remain calm, even internally, if she wanted to comfort the queen. "Hello, Badgerlight," she greeted the she-cat softly, setting the thyme down on the den floor. "Blossomcloud told me what's happened. Are you alright? Here, eat these--" She nudged the small leaves closer to Badgerlight's paws. "They'll make you feel better."

PineClan

Southwind stiffened slightly as Icepaw's pelt brushed against his before relaxing again. He wanted to comfort the apprentice, but there wasn't much else he could say, and so he simply let his tail touch her flank, somewhat awkwardly as he was still carrying Swiftstep on his back. It began to rain just as they returned to camp, and together with Kestrelclaw and Aspenheart, they brought Swiftstep to the medicine den and let her slide into a nest. "Let's give Aspenheart some space to work," Southwind murmured gently to Icepaw, beckoning her out of the den with his tail.

Having brought Swiftstep into the medicine cat's den, Kestrelclaw knew there was no more they could do but let Aspenheart do his best and pray and hope to StarClan that the injured she-cat would be okay. As he exited the den, he couldn't help but feel guilty; perhaps if he hadn't told the others to go on ahead of him while he and Jaywing tried to deal with the loner, this wouldn't have happened. If he had only been there to help...

Timberfoot nodded his agreement, but before he could start to move back to the shelter of the pines, Kestrelclaw, Southwind, and Aspenheart entered camp, with Icepaw at their side--and an injured Swiftstep on their backs. Timberfoot's eyes grew large at the sight. "The fox must have done that," he murmured, concern in his tone. Swiftstep was taken straight to the medicine den, but Kestrelclaw re-emerged a moment later, looking distraught.

Darkflower glanced behind her to see that Vixenbite had entered the scene, but although the fox had temporarily been slowed down by the cats attacking it at all sides, she could see that it hadn't given up on the chase, and it was quickly gaining on her. Her legs were aching from running so fast and she was out of breath, but she forced herself to keep going. The river was in sight now. If she could just make it a little bit farther...
And just like that, she tripped over a root bulging out of the ground and tumbled to her paws. Horror surged through her as the fox towered over her and opened its jaws, preparing to sink its teeth right into her face. StarClan, I've been good, haven't I?

[~GirlsDeMo~]

(@Cradily That works! They took shelter because of the rain so they are still quite close.)

Neva/Female/Location: Forest /Tags: Thorn, Crowthorn.

Neva smiled and laid her head down. "Another story you say? Well-." Suddenly she smelled a strange scent and saw another cat, this time it was an adult and he was very close. Her protective nature kicked in and she stood up and fluffed up her fur; body-blocking the other cat from getting near her son. Turns out it was just another of the clan cats coming to tell them how close they were to their territory, but she still wouldn't let her guard down. "We've already been told by another one of your kin to leave and we are.. But we also don't want to get soaked in a blinding storm." Her eyes remained cold and serious as she watched the tom's every movement intently. She was ready to protect her son at all costs.

Thorn/Male/Location: Forest /Tags: Neva, Crowthorn.

Thorn was intently listening when his mother suddenly shot up and stepped in front of him; her voice also changed into a much colder and serious voice. It didn't take long before Thorn noticed another cat which was a rather large tom. "M-Mom?" He always feared when his mother became like this because he knew that she meant business and that she was ready to fight for him. Would this tom force them out of their shelter?

[Broken Fate]

Nightblaze, PineClan, Warrior, Male, 24 Moons
Tagged: Spiderdust

"But, the fisher!" he said, stubborn as ever as he desperately tried to haul himself back up onto the branch through slashing claws and gnashing teeth, rain now causing his claws to lose their grip. Using all the strength he had in one last desperate attempt, he pulled himself as high as he could and gripped the fisher by the back of it's neck with one paw, while it wildly thrashed about Nightblaze secured his grip and let go of the branch, now entirely holding onto the fisher. Nightblaze attempted to wince away the pain of the barrage of bites he was receiving and kick the both of them off the branch, hoping his clanmate would be able to cushion the fall without harming themselves too much as well. He wondered if he'd even be able to fight a fisher after a fall from such a height? Finally, as his back legs continued to toil they caught the the stiff pine wood and he thrust with all his might, tearing into the skin at the fishers neck as he refused to take the fall alone.

With a wild screech from the creature, and a terrified yowl from Nightblaze, they began to plummet back down to the ground. Both the fisher and the warrior hitting branches on the way down as they scrambled for some sort of surface to cling to. Nightblaze met eyes with the creature for a brief second and saw the same fear in it's eyes, for a moment he took pity on his opponent. Then, all at once, they were met with the ground.

'Mousedung,' he thought, surrounded in blackness, ears ringing, unable to breathe. 'the grass always feels so much softer underfoot, why was it so hard just now?' he opened his eyes to see a fuzzy image of the fisher and his clanmate around him, but no matter how hard he heaved his chest seemed to not take in any air whatsoever. His head bobbled to look at himself, and he noticed that blood was gushing from the bite wounds he had sustained from the animal. He looked to his prey, who was also clearly dazed and injured, it should be an easy kill, it can't run, it can barely fight anymore, he could have his recognition. He just needed to get to his feet. He once again begged his muscles to use all their strength, trying to fight through the haze and stand, but as he did, one of his back legs screamed in pain. He tried to avoid putting weight on it as he limped toward the fisher.

'I can do this, I need to do this, think of how many mouths it will fill. Let me show you guys, I'm a great warrior, I just need a little more strength..' Nightblaze strained as he pressed forward he could almost taste his own blood in his mouth. 'just a little more..' he reached the fisher, who at this point was trying to crawl away as well, back legs trailing like dead weight behind it. He rolled the prey, who couldn't put much of a fight up any longer, onto it's side and ended the struggle right there. He turned to look at Spiderdust who he had only missed landing on by a few feet,

"Spiderdust," Nightblaze's voice was hoarse, he began to feel very weak and dizzy his paws didn't even feel as though they were touching the ground, "...Aspenheart?" was all he could manage to say before his vision grew dim and the cold earth met the side of his face. The last thing he could knew before he went into a deep sleep, was the sound of the thud when his body hit the ground, the sound of his name, the taste of blood, and the cold rain. Could he hold on?

'Will you notice me my Clan? Aren't I a great warrior?'

[Cradily]

"I see." Crowthorn blinked at the she-cat. "Well, I would ask why you were so close to our territory to begin with before it started raining, but honestly, I'm not interested in any 'I couldn't smell the obvious scent marker!' excuse you have to offer." He took a step forward. "So, instead, you can share your shelter with me until it stops raining. That's only fair, isn't it? You wouldn't make me walk all the way back to my own home in the pouring rain, would you?"

[~GirlsDeMo~]

Neva/Female/Location: Forest /Tags: Thorn, Crowthorn.

It seemed like the tom didn't want to fight and she didn't really want to start one or be forced out into the storm so she agreed. "Alright, fair enough you can come in." She laid down next to her son who was up against the wall of the tree. It didn't seem like the storm would let up anytime soon so she suspected it would be an awkward few hours.

Thorn/Male/Location: Forest /Tags: Neva, Crowthorn.

The young kit watched intently but was relieved that blood wouldn't be drawn so he laid back down and curled up against his mother. Burying his nose in her soft white fur and purring softly. He wasn't going to make his mother tell stories while a random stranger was in the shelter with them.

[stormythecloud]

⩤ Badgerlight ⩥ 28 moons | She-cat | Queen of Peakclan | Mate: Waspecho | Tags: Gingerleaf | Mentions:

Badgerlight sighed as she tried to dry herself off, finding it a little hard as she was beginning to be quite plump from her kits. She couldn't shake off seeing Littlepaw though, it just retriggered memories of Lightpaw how her sibling had gotten carried away by a hawk. With that filling her thoughts she didn't even notice Gingerleaf at first come into the nursery, she nodded in greeting as she listened to the medicine cat. "Thank you... I'm okay... Just kinda thinking about Lightpaw though," she frowned and glanced at the leaves next to her paws. She slowly picked them up and had them to please the medicine cat, she knew that they wouldn't leave until she had them. "It's sad you know? To see deaths like that. I can't imagine how you deal with seeing some cats slowly die of illness in your den."

⩤ Bravepaw ⩥ 8 moons | Tom | Apprentice of Peakclan | Mentor: Lightningwing | Crush: open | Tags: Rayfeather, Sparrowcall | Mentions:

"Of course Sparrowcall!" The apprentice told her as they finished up and she thanked them both into helping. Bravepaw quickly had went back to just barely outside of the apprentice's den to stay out from the rain, glancing as he wondered where his den mates were as he didn't know about Littlepaw yet nor the status of Sunpaw but he had other denmates though he saw none of them in their dens yet.

⩤ Snowpetal ⩥ 38 moons | She-cat | Warrior of Pineclan | Apprentice: None | Crush: Raggedkill | Tags: Raggedkill, Embershine, Shadowhop | Mentions:

Snowpetal shakes her head a bit at the thought of mouse bile being on her but she probably would find it hilarious if Raggedkill had to smell like that for a day or two. "You're on, I hope you enjoy smelling like it," she teased him before they got to the river where she glanced around for any movement for a fish.

⩤ Icepaw ⩥ 11 moons | She-cat | Apprentice of Pineclan | Mentor: Swiftstep | Crush: open | Tags: Southwind | Mentions: Aspenheart

Icepaw stayed close to Southwind while they had brought Swiftstep back into camp, following him to the medicine cat den. She wanted to watch Aspenheart but when hearing the warriors words, she gave a slight nod as she left the den with him. The apprentice's face burying slightly against her clanmate Southwind's pelt, seeking any kind of comfort she could get from him.

⩤ Aspenheart ⩥ 18 moons | Tom | Medicine Cat of Pineclan | Apprentice: none | Crush: Forbidden | Tags: Icepaw, Southwind, Kestrelclaw | Mentions: -

Aspenheart followed the warriors inside of his den and immediately began working as fast as he could to help Swiftstep. Though it didn't take him long to figure out once he just barely started the warrior had been sent to starclan. The tom felt awful, he didn't want to share the news at all of this as he wondered if he could of done anything better, he was still a young medicine cat but he didn't think so. With Swiftstep it was a time game and her time ran out before he could actually help her.

⩤ Ashstorm ⩥ 18 moons | She-cat | Warrior of Pineclan | Apprentice: none | Crush: open | Tags: open | Mentions: -

The warrior sighed as she watched the camp from the opening of the warrior den, attempting to stay dry from the rain. She didn't mind the rain entirely but it was awful at times since it took awhile for the water to dry off her coat even if she groomed it the best she could. It was dense and somewhat long but it wasn't the longest in the clan. Ashstorm watched the apprentices, wondering what was happening outside of the camp as she had seen her brother rush out along with the deputy.

[CJClaire]

PeakClan

Fogsprint - 35 moons - PeakClan Warrior - Apprentice: Marigoldpaw - Tags: Marigoldpaw
Fogsprint sped up as the rain got heavier. It was too bad that their hunting session had to be cut short, but this was looking to be a bad storm, with the heavy rain and winds. He made sure to keep an eye on Marigoldpaw as they headed back to camp, wanting to make sure that nothing happened to his apprentice.

Puddlespring - 25 moons - PeakClan Warrior - Apprentice: Littlepaw - Tags: Stormeye
The young warrior let out another cry, shoulders slumping. Stormeye was right. It was too later. If only she had done better at keeping an eye on Littlepaw sooner. "You're right." She mewed, defeated, turning as he nudged her. "We should be in camp." She repeated, and started to pad back, rain dripping off of her pelt.

Yewbriar - 98 moons - PeakClan Elder - Tags: Waspecho
Yewbriar was silent as he returned to camp with Waspecho, carrying Littlepaw's body. It was an unfair end to the apprentice's life, but they needed to make sure he was buried and treated with respect. The elder padded into camp, and set Littlepaw's body down carefully, trying to find a place that was a little more sheltered from the rain, so that they wouldn't be sharing tongues with him for the last time and getting soaked.

PineClan

Rainpaw - 8 moons - PineClan Apprentice - Mentor: Foxcloud - Tags: Leopardpaw, Featherpaw
"What? Afraid of thunder, no!" Rainpaw lied, maybe too quickly to be believable. "But Featherpaw is right, we should go in, that way we don't get all wet when the rain starts." She scrunched up her face at the thought of that. "I'm definitely not afraid of thunder, I'm not a kit." She said defensively, but couldn't help but jump a little when another rumble of thunder rolled through the sky. As Featherpaw said she was going to the den, Rainpaw stood and padded after her sister. She did pause for a moment to look back to Leopardpaw. "Are you coming too, Leopardpaw?"

[Queen of flames]

PEAKCLAN
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Lightningwing
(she)(warrior)(30ms)(apprentice: Bravepaw )(crush: open)(tags: open
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Sighing she shaked her long fur as the rain started to get harder, looking over to her clanmates as she started to make her way toward the warriors den to get some shelter.

Ivythorn
(she)(warrior)(20ms)(apprentice: n/a)(crush: open)(tags: open)
🌱
She watched up to the tree as her three clan mates got somewhere out of the rain, she instead enjoyed the small rain hitting into her tortoiseshell pelt under the leaves which gave her little bit of a shelter.

Rayfeather
(tom)(warrior)(20ms)(apprentice: n/a)(crush: open)(tags: Bravepaw, Sparrowcall)
☀️
He nodded to the she-cat and started to carry the fresh kills to the safer place out of the rain. The fresh smell on his nose made him hungry, but he ignored that for now.

Starlingpaw
(tom)(apprentice)(10ms)(mentor: Redfeather)(crush: open)(tags: open)
🐦
He watched the camp for a moment, but as the rain started to get harder, he got inside the apprentice's den. He sat near the den entrance out of the rain, but still, to see what was going on into the clan, his eyes looked over to Bravepaw who helped to carry the preys with Rayfeather and Sparrowcall.

PINECLAN
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Vixenbite
(she)(deputy)(30ms)(apprentice: n/a)(crush: Mudsplash)(tags: the patrol )
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She held up to the fox neck for a moment, but needed to let go as the fox movements made her lose her place, so she jumped away from the fox, but struck it once more, this time focusing to its face. She barely avoided its teets as she pushed the Darkflower out of the way and slashed into its left eye, feeling the blood and the fox cry as its eye could be lost by that "what about that? are you still fighting?" she yowled to the fox, growling.

Leopardpaw
(tom)(apprentice)(12ms)(mentor: Timberfoot)(crush: open)(tags: Rainpaw, Featherpaw)
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He gave the two she-cats little suspicious look "Of course, of course" he murmured a smile coming to his face for a moment, but he got back to his normal look "I think thunderstorms are kind of cool, even if getting wet is not that nice" he told them. He looked up to the sky then back to Rainpaw "I guess..." he meowed walking after her toward the apprentice's den.

[Cradily]

PeakClan

Crowthorn looked surprised for a moment; he hadn't been expecting the stranger to so easily agree. But the surprise turned to satisfaction as he slipped into the hollow and immediately began grooming himself, never taking his eyes off the two cats. "So, what are your names?" he asked at last.

"It is hard," Gingerleaf agreed in a soft voice, not saying any more as she curled around the plump queen and began grooming her to soothe her. "I just do the best I can. I have to entrust the rest to StarClan. But that doesn't mean it doesn't still hurt..." She paused for a moment, then asked, "Do you want to talk about it?" although whether she was referring to Littlepaw or Lightpaw, she didn't specify. She figured Badgerlight would simply talk about whatever was most on her mind, if she wanted to; and if she didn't, well, she'd say so. Gingerleaf knew from experience how painful it was to bottle things up, to not be able to talk to others about what you were feeling, what you wanted, what were you scared of. She'd kept her tone gentle, not wanting to pressure Badgerlight into talking about anything she didn't want to, but she still wanted the queen to have the option.

PineClan

Southwind's gaze rested gently on Icepaw. He knew there were no words that could comfort her, and so he simply curled his tail around her and gave her a lick on the forehead. "Aspenheart will do the best he can. Come on, we should get into the den before it starts pouring..." He started towards the warriors' den, only to remember that Icepaw was still an apprentice. He paused for a moment, unsure what to do, before adding, "You can join me in the warriors' den for a bit if you'd like. You're almost a warrior after all."

Relief swamped over Darkflower as the deputy came to her rescue, serving as a barrier between herself and the fox. She scrambled to her paws, wincing slightly at the pain in her paw, before leaping out of the way and over to the fox's side to give it another good swipe. She was exhausted from running, but she knew she couldn't stop fighting until the fox was gone.