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Post by Amber on Oct 18, 2007 18:19:10 GMT -5
Onyxkit rolled his eyes at Eclipsekit, hurrying ahead to the Lookout Cliff. "Don't be such a worry wart, Eclipsekit," he meowed loudly to her, "No one will ever know we were out here." Then he narrowed his eyes. Under his breath, he added just loud enough so she could hear, "Mousebrain." His pure white eyes widened to their normal size just as Eclipsekit reached him, in exaggerated slow speed. He was itching for a playfight. Praying she would notice, he pretended to be watching a leaf blowing along on the ground too far away for his sister to see. It was out on the borders. Compared to his super-feline eyes, Eclipsekit's eyes were weak and strange.
Eclipsekit snarled playfully. She didn't know what Onyxkit was looking at, and to her it seemed as if he was just looking off into space. "Mousebrain eh?" she growled, "I'll show you mousebrain." She smiled and bunched her muscles, then released and went flying high into the air. She landed on her brother's back, grinning and smacking him with her paws, claws sheathed.
Onyxkit laughed and turned over, being careful not to put much weight on his sister underneath him. She rolled out from under him and somersaulted away towards the edge of the cliff. He jumped to his paws with a yowl of warning to her, but it was too late. She went right off the rim, and for a second that felt like an eternity her little body was poised in mid-air, uncurling from its ball. He mewed throatily, but it was not a real word in any known language. Just a little, surprised meow, "Meah!" Then in that instant his sister went plummeting down to the ground so far below. She went soaring so far off the edge when she rolled that she would fall straight down, instead of at least sliding bumpily down the steep and sharp slope. At least if she had been on the slope, she'd have a good chance at living, plus a few additional scrapes and painful wounds, give or take. But now it seemed Eclipsekit's life had ended as soon as it began, and she had only been there a moment, a flicker of time. 3 moons she had been living. And this may be her last day...because of Onyxkit. He sped off that cliff faster than he had ever gone before, rolling down the slope towards his sister's falling figure. His head hit a sharp rock pretty hard, and then everything seemed to dim, then fade to black. Blood slowly dripped down his face, crimson against his black fur.
Eclipsekit screamed in surprise as a cold fear gripped her heart. She looked over her shoulder as the wind whipped past her fur and spotted Onyxkit tumbling towards the bottom of the steep slope. She seemed to hang in the air forever, and it seemed like there was no bottom to hit.
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Post by Squid on Oct 18, 2007 19:44:43 GMT -5
Sootstar and Coldfur had gone on a little hunting patrol by themselves when they heard the kits. They were at the bottom of Lookout Cliff when they saw Eclipsekit plummeting down and an unconscious Onyxkit rolling down the slope. Coldfur was off in a flash running fast as he could to get to Onyxkit. As Eclipsekit fell, Sootstar ran up a nearby tree, and decided to take her chances, summoning up every ounce of power she had, Sootstar leapt from the tree and just as Eclipsekit was falling, caught her by the scruff and slammed into the side of the cliff. Sootstar skidded a ways down before she dug her claws into the cliff about and stopped about 10 feet from the ground. Coldfur ran up the slope to Onyxkit and grabbed him by the scruff, seeing the blood drip down the young kits face.
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Post by Amber on Oct 18, 2007 20:01:48 GMT -5
Eclipsekit was trembling uncontrollably, and she wailed. "Oh no, I'm sorry Sootstar, I really am," she murmured, "What will Mother think? Oh no...We're in trouble, aren't we? I'm sorry Sootstar...will this slow our apprentice ceremonies? Can you climb back up? Am I gonna die?"
Onyxkit still didn't come to, hanging limp in Coldfur's mouth.
Mosswind yowled in horror and relief and came flying off the edge of the cliff, speeding down and skidding to a stop next to Sootstar. Her paws were made for climbing because of her loner heritage, as her father came from the mountains, so she stuck easily to the steep slope. "Hold on, I'll help," she whispered, "Oh Eclipsekit, your alive...thank you Sootstar, thank you. That adds to the big list of things to thank you for...for being my mentor, for convincing Sablestar to let me back in the Clan, for accepting me, for helping me through dark times...and now this. Thank you, Sootstar, thank you!" She grabbed Sootstar's scruff and started slowly walking up, waiting for Sootstar to start climbing behind her, with Mosswind for support.
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Post by Squid on Oct 18, 2007 20:11:12 GMT -5
Sootstar shook her head "No need for thanks Mosswind, its my job now as leader to protect the clan" She pulled away from Mosswind's grip on her scruff, she was not made for climbing but she could fall. Using her claws, she half skidded, half fell the 10 feet down, obviously ripping up her paw pads pretty bad because as she went down she left a trail of blood. Coldfur climbed back up Lookout Cliff, Onyxkit still held firmly in his jaws.
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Post by Amber on Oct 18, 2007 20:22:08 GMT -5
"You might have accepted my help, then you wouldn't have to go see Oceanpearl," Mosswind called, annoyed. She walked down the rest of the way effortlessly. "Why don't you ever listen to me?" She glared at Sootstar. "Maybe I was wrong about you."
Onyxkit's eyes flew open and he scrambled out of Coldfur's grasp. "Where's Eclipsekit?" he mewled frantically.
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Post by Squid on Oct 18, 2007 20:29:41 GMT -5
It looked liek Sootstar hadnt heard her or noticed her glare, or if she did she didn't show it. Coldfur opened his jaws when Onyxkit scrambled away "Your sister is fine, Sootstar caught her as she was falling and she is with her and your mother"
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Post by Amber on Oct 18, 2007 20:42:56 GMT -5
Mosswind scowled in disgust, shaking her head in dismissal. "Somecat once told me that the warrior code is sacred. She taught me in the ways of a warrior, and accepted me when I came back to RageClan," she meowed. Her gaze turned cold. Her tail flicked in anger, and she growled for an instant at her leader, but forced herself to stop. "I miss that she-cat," she mewed, voice sharp and harsh, fury dripping from it like venom. She snatched Eclipsekit away from Sootstar and without another word turned her back on the cat she used to know. She walked away towards camp, tail twitching every now and then. Sootstar is mouse-brained, she thought bitterly, She thinks she can act that way to me. She used to be my idol. My IDOL! Ha. Idol, my paw. Fox dung!
Eclipsekit didn't put up a fight when her mother picked her up and carried her away. She just looked back at the leader, gulped down her fears, and took a daring and brave action. She stuck out her tongue at Sootstar.
Onyxkit looked down and jumped onto the slope, sliding down and then running after his mother and sister without a second glance at Sootstar.
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Post by Squid on Oct 18, 2007 20:45:50 GMT -5
Sootstar narrowed her eyes but said nothing, turning to Coldfur she said "Come on, we should head back to camp" Coldfur had heard everything Mosswind said and was shocked that she'd speak to the leader like that, but when his mother said they needed to go back he obeyed and followed her.
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Post by Amber on Oct 18, 2007 21:00:03 GMT -5
Mosswind snarled from deep within her throat when she heard Sootstar sound so nonchalant. Her face twisted into a look of pure hatred and she put Eclipsekit down, whipping around to face her former friend. "Don't be such a mouse brain," she hissed, "You act like all of a sudden you hate me, and I don't know why. You expect me to not act this way?" Suddenly her eyes widened and she gave a horrible choking sound. And then Mosswind's body fell forward, lifeless and limp. Vampirate stood behind her, claws dripping with crimson blood.
"Whoops," Vampirate chuckled, "Slipped." He leaned back and just laughed. He was Mosswind's father, and yet he didn't feel one ounce of loss. "Just finishing what I started," he called to Sootstar, "Moons ago, when Petalscent, Mintkit, and Littlekit mysteriously vanished, and Mosskit was too shocked and scared to tell you what happened? That was me. That mouse-brained piece of fox dung escaped my grasp...but I got her this time." He then looked at her, tsk-tsking whilst shaking his head. "Look at that," he mused, "She was scowling. Wonder if she was mad at you." He turned to the kits. "I'll take them."
Eclipsekit hissed, between her sniffling that had begun after her mother had been killed right before her eyes. Holding back tears she stared vengefully at Vampirate and puffed at her chest defiantly. "No, you won't," she hissed, then jumped and landed on Vampirate's back. She growled and sunk ivory claws into his back.
Onyxkit gasped, then he too started to attack the murderous tom. He stayed where he was, but he drew three long red slashes down Vampirate's flank in the second it took him to strike.
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Post by Squid on Oct 18, 2007 21:02:54 GMT -5
Sootstar looked back, eyes wide as she saw her former apprentice struck down by her father "How dare you" She was not going to let such a murderous cat live. Sootstar ran at Vampirate and sunk her claws into his side, then ripped them down, cutting some of his stomach as well.
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Post by Amber on Oct 18, 2007 21:06:57 GMT -5
Vampirate howled in rage and searing pain. He sunk long yellow fangs into the closest part of Sootstar he could find, relying entirely on pure instinct.
Eclipsekit was thrown off as Vampirate jerked. She hit the ground, then hopped back up hissing.
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Post by Squid on Oct 18, 2007 21:12:11 GMT -5
Sootstar snarled venemously. Coldfur ran head on at Vampirate and slammed into him "You leave my mom and those kits alone you wretched piece of fox dung!"
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Post by Amber on Oct 18, 2007 22:47:05 GMT -5
Vampirate threw every attack off, spitting in rage. He growled, but ran off, vanishing into RageClan outskirts.
Eclipsekit whimpered as she looked at her mother's body, forevering glaring, but eyes slightly widened in shock. They stared sightlessly at the sky, but they were not empty of all emotion. Traces of Mosswind's anger still lingered in those dead orbs. She had died still furious at her former friend - died thinking she had moved on and didn't want anything to do with Mosswind anymore.
Mosswind eyes opened and she got up, stretching. Then she shrieked in surprise at the scene before her eyes. "Am I...Am I dead?" she whispered to no one in particular.
OOC: Squid can you have Nightsplash come, since he was of RageClan?
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Post by Squid on Oct 18, 2007 22:53:07 GMT -5
Nightsplash's faded figure appeared beside "Unfortunately, yes Mosswind, thanks to Vampirate" Sootstar growled as she was flung off Vampirate and skidded on the ground before standing up and about to give chase before remembering Eclipsekit and Onyxkit. "Coldfur, help me carry Mosswind's body back to camp, come on Eclipsekit, Onyxkit, we need to go back" She said, gripping Mosswind's lifeless body by the scruff.
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Post by Amber on Oct 19, 2007 10:07:26 GMT -5
"No, no!" Mosswind screamed, denying it, "I can't be dead, I can't be dead, I have 5 kits and there only 3 moons old!" She ran to Eclipsekit, trying frantically to talk to her. "Eclipsekit!" she exclaimed, "I'm right here!"
Eclipsekit's ears flicked back when she thought she heard something, and she paused, but then she kept walking with her brother.
Onyxkit too stopped, but he actually looked back. He usually didn't hear much if it was quiet.
Mosswind let out a tiny wail. "No!" She rushed ahead of them again, stopping and staring longingly. "Can't you...see me?" she whispered into the wind, unknowingly making it so that everyone there, Sootstar, Coldfur, Eclipsekit, and Onyxkit, could hear her, "I'm here! I'm here. Why won't you listen?" She looked back at Nightsplash, once again whispering into the wind, "Am I really dead, Nightsplash? Oh, I'll get Sootstar for this...She...She made me turn and...I don't forgive you Sootstar!" She knew it was a bit harsh but her anger was rekinded and she hissed into Sootstar's ear.
Onyxkit jumped in surprise, confused at hearing his now dead mother's voice. "Wha...?" he murmured, pausing and listening to her whole sentence, then the other. He rounded on Sootstar, face questioning.
Eclipsekit whipped round, trying to find the practical joker who was faking Mosswind's speech. But there was none. She, too, whipped around to face Sootstar. What's going on? she asked with her eyes.
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