[Willowfern]

 

Originally Posted by Starfall

Spiderthroat
@poppy.

The calico responded to those who looked at him with a confident grin, ears twitching as he got a little more attention than he wished. It was all right though, he was speaking up about how he felt.

Right now...however. He felt peeved.

It felt like...well it felt like a month since Aspenstar spoke up. In reality it was nothing more than a few minutes, but it still managed to drag on. After standing awkwardly in silence, watching as the kits stood there as well, the Warrior lashed his tail and stepped forwards.

"Are you just going to stand there, or are you going to give these kits the ceremony they've been waiting for." he asked, a bored tone dripping from his words. "Lots of talk about you changing but minutes after your spheel you're back to the same nonsense." Spiderthroat looked up with an annoyed expression.

"Or can you not actually go through with your promises. It wouldn't surprise me. Great Starclan do something." he barked.

Dogbark gave a growl as he turned away, someone was speaking, a voice he knew well.
Dogbark (tired of waiting patiently for Aspenstar to do the job she was given, though she treated it like a chore) turned back around, walked back into camp, and stared Spiderthroat down.
“Spiderthroat, I fully agree with you, something must be done, though considering you didn’t report in your patrol, you’re really one to talk.”
Dogbark then moved to stand behind Swiftkit [ @Binx ], Pondkit [ @Angelique ], and Sagekit [ @sid ], disappointed that the poor kits hadn’t even received their new names.
“I apologize, kits, but it seems you won’t be receiving your new names right now,” Sadness flickered in his eyes, “I suggest you three head back to the Nursery for the time being.”
Aspenstar had promised to be better in this very meeting, yet now she wasn’t doing a thing! She was just sitting there for what felt like weeks! Anger was building in the tom, but he choked it down, he had to be professional.
Leaping on a root with a glare directed clearly at Aspenstar, Dogbark gave an announcement to the waiting clan,
“It seems like nothing more will be happening today, I apologize for this wasted meeting, It will be made up in due time, I can tell you that.
For now, I’ll say that this meeting is over. How I wish that this meeting could have gone differently with actual proof of Aspenstar changing, it did not, so I advise you all to go back to whatever you were doing prior to the meeting being called… or even better, go out and do some hunting, we’ll be needing all the prey we can get.”
The gray tom let out a sigh of frustration through his nose at the cats still praising Aspenstar’s every word. Certainly, he’d been open to let her right all this not even a few minutes ago, but she was doing nothing, he could not just stand by anymore, so before the clan dispersed, he had a few words to say of his own.
“Noble words, Flamelight, but empty promises are empty promises, and I believe you are one to put too much faith in our Leadership. Yes, I admit, it is not completely Aspenstar’s fault, as I said before, I failed to get patrols out in a timely manner, and that is on me, and once again, I completely apologize for that, and hope in time you will all come to trust me once again. Stars, though, Aspenstar is botching her new role, and I hate to say it, but I really believe that many of you are quite blind. If I were not me and I were one of you, I wouldn’t trust Aspenstar’s nor my words, and I understand that. [ @Ritsuka ]
“Leafecho, you are demonstrating this blind, ever so sightless faith, Aspenstar made a promise, yes, but there is no magical way to make one keep one’s promise, you seem to be living in a fantasy land, but it’s time you wake up and see not all promises are kept. [ @Toodle ]
“A medicine cat doesn’t fix everything, Leafwind. Sure! Medicine cats receive signs from StarClan, visions, omens, anything of that nature! But it’s the cats who are sent to enforce it who really hold up anything a Medicine cat prophecies, and right now, Aspenstar is really bombing it. [ @Dawnfallstar ]
“Hell, it’s almost as if you cats think I enjoy cleaning up messes?? Mallardstep, I get what you’re saying, but sometimes you need to understand that the lazy way of life is not ideal. Sometimes, however premature it may seem, action must be taken. [ @Mistletoe ]
Dogbark took a deep breath, Stars, he’d be dead of old age before this all ended.
“StarClan makes mistakes, Larkstorm. They aren’t all knowing, they’re a bunch of dead cats who aren’t any wiser than they were before they died. They’re pretty much alive, with perks. [ @Raven~ ]
“Maplewhisker! What in StarClan’s name gives you any right to speak like that to anyone?” This idiot was more than he could handle, she was first screaming at clanmates, then showing what seemed to be a very split decision on what she thought of this whole mess. Dogbark couldn’t let this slide, “Well! If you think a moon could be enough time to fix mistakes, then we’ll see you in a moon! I will not tolerate the way you are treating your clanmates, leave for a moon, fix whatever is going on that has made you treat anyone in your clan in such a way! Maybe after you’ve had time to think, I’ll consider letting you return!” [ @Berd (As I don’t really believe you should have her go missing for a month in real time, she will be exiled for a week real time, though she must have a minimum of two posts in the outskirts during that time)]
Finally having said his peice and getting the Maplewhisker problem handled in the only way he saw fit at this point, Dogbark felt like he’d aged a hundred moons and he really needed a good night’s sleep, but that wouldn’t be happening any time soon, undoubtedly questions and yelling would ensue now, and he had to be there for his clan, as it was his duty.
Oh Stars, this was one Hell of a day.