Wanted: Dead or Alive

[pidgeon]

@Undertaker @Sparkling Flower (I figured I'd make a thread for Dawn and Ebony's search patrol to find Hailstorm! I hope this is okay.)


Hailstorm had been living outside the clans for over a moon now, and she was still wondering if she had made the right choice. She knew Icestar better than anyone else, except Dawnstripe. She knew all the little insignificant things the leader did to get under people's pelts, manipulating them blind.


She pounced, catching a mouse that she'd been stalking through the trees. It wasn't until she put the creature down and took a moment to look around that she realized how close she was to the Waterbarn. She sighed. She'd never been able to convince herself to move farther away. She'd made herself a little den quite a distance behind the barn, unseen, but she couldn't fully abandon ShadowClan. She wasn't ready for that yet. She felt guilty for leaving, when she knew she could have done more. She could have helped take down her mother.


She blinked sadly and picked up her mouse. I need to get away from the border before someone sees me.

[Undertaker]

@Cas [ Cool! I was wondering when we were doing this.] @Sparkling Flower

Dawnstripe's been skimming around the edges of the territory in search of her wayward sister. Icestar had told her to find her and she intended to do it. Ebonypaw was an additional pawn her mother demanded she bring, but so long as the she-cat didn't get in her way Dawnstripe would tolerate her presenence. She was sure what Icestar saw in Ebonypaw, she was big like them, but beyond that Dawnstripe didn't see much inner strength. Tch! Whatever, find the weakling first.

Her paws brought her up to the waterbarn, she had searched around this area before but hadn't bother going much further then inside the den and around the den. Dawnstripe didn't like going outside the territory to far, it unnever her the unknown and she was uncertain if Ebonypaw could handle herself if they got in trouble. The huge tabby scented the air, she found nothing out of the ordanairy, but today she wanted to venture outside their borders.

"Ebonypaw, stay close. I don't know what's outside our borders." She meowed, glancing at the black cat before she stepped into the outskirts. She unseathed her claws and moved with the stealth granted to her through moons of training. Dawnstripe was going to claw Hail's face for making her running around looking for her when Dawnstripe could clearly be doing something better.

[Madelaine]

(Ebonypaw is now considered a he)

The young black fluffy tom padded after his cousin, keeping close to her. Ebonypaw wasn't showing any emotions which was what he normally did. He padded beside her. "You won't have to worry about me. I can take on anyone.", he meowed, calmly. There wasn't a point for Ebonypaw to make Dawnstripe mad. He didn't want to do that. The young tom didn't like being out in the outskirts it made her feel more like her father. Oh how much he would hate to be like that idiot tom.

[ @Undertaker; ]

[pidgeon]

@Undertaker @Sparkling Flower

Hailstorm froze. She had heard voices.
Damn it, damn it! I have to get out of here, she fretted, looking frantically around before diving into the bushes, leaving the mouse behind. She crouched down low, praying to the stars that her scent was masked.

But...the mouse! She'd left it! I'm such an idiot. I've set myself up for failure, I might as well just make a run for it. She was about to carry through with her plan when she realized.

She recognized the voices.

Dawnstripe. Of course, of all cats it had to be her sister. She took note of Ebonypaw as well, but she had never had any quarrel with her younger cousin. She held her breath, trying to stay as silent as she possibly could, despite all the odds against her.

[pidgeon]

I kinda lost this in the sea of threads in here but I believe it was @Undertaker 's turn!

[Undertaker]

@Cas @Sparkling Flower [Thanks, lost this thread as well.]
Dawnstripe would need to see it to believe it. Still she respected the tom spunk and attitude. It was nice to know that even though he had a weakling of a mother, under Icestar's tutelage he might make something of himself. After he fell silent, Dawnstripe scented the air and caught the fresh scent of blood. That caught her interest. Following the scent she found a mouse literally just killed too.

"Ebonypaw, come show that you've actually learned something from my mother." It would be easy for her to locate the scent, if her nose was right she already knew where the culprit was. This could be a test for Ebonypaw, an easy one, but a test none the less. Dawnstripe had been a moon away from warriorhood at his age while training under Icestar, she'd be very disappointed if he wasn't at least as half as competent as she was at his age. Of course he'd never be as good as Dawnstripe was, yet he should stand above all others if he was going to try and take a place beside her mother.

"Where's the one who caught the mouse?" All she wanted was him to track, simple as that.