RiverClan Skyridge

[im a cat]

Lightkit's heart stopped she heard Kestrelstar's words 'you are welcome to kill them on sight'!? what?! NO?! That couldn't be! "We're going to war..." she whispered to her self...

Nightclaw looked up at his leader. "Well... Ill make sure to be on the border patrol more often..." He stood up and dipped his head to Kestrelstar, showing that he agreed with his decision. He was more glad then ever before to have chosen Riverclan...

[Singing Jay]

Goldenpaw had been quiet for the whole meeting but her ears pricked when she heard Kestrelstar's words, she agreed with him, cats that had left Riverclan had betrayed them and shouldn't be trusted, and Thunderclan would pay... I have to train more! she mutered to her self and rushed out of the camp and towards the training island.

[Caramel]

// @Willowfern
╰┈➤Orchidpaw

Orchidpaw blinked. For a moment she had trouble processing what had just happened, until it struck her. She was an apprentice now. The thing she had daydreamed about for ages, the thing she had been so impatient to get to. And here she was, starting her warrior training. She almost couldn't even believe it.

The bengal she-cat scanned the clearing. Let's see..who had Kestrelstar said? Hawthornmist? She didn't really know him much, in fact she didn't even know what he looked like. It took her a few more minutes of looking around until she locked eyes with a golden eyed calico coming her way. That...must be them. They looked...pretty average, not bad. Not exactly like the most exceptional or well-known of warriors but not bad I guess.

She hesitated - for some reason - for a bit before padding up to meet her mentor and touch noses with them.
What am I supposed to do now? She wondered. What came next after touching noses? She paused. "I...uh...promise to work hard." She blurted out. That didn't come out as well as she imagined. Kind of a bit more cringy than impressive or whatever she had been imagining that to sound like.

Orchidpaw perked up her ears and head to listen to what Kestrelstar had to say. Some new kits, cats who returned and...What? She extended her neck a little and listened closer. Thunderclan? Traitors? Petuniaflame? She knew that not long ago Thunderclan and Riverclan had had a skirmish over the death of a medicine cat and that Riverclan had been the ones to kill that medicine cat but she had never thought it was that bad.

But then came that last sentence.

WHAT? The bengal froze in terror for a moment. Kill them on sight? KILL THEM ON SIGHT? From all the times she had tried to memorize the warrior code, she distinctively remembered the one rule about not killing other cats unless nescessary for self defense or something along those lines she knew something was wrong. Either with Thunderclan; if Kestrelstar was giving orders to kill them then they must have done something seriously horrible; or...with Kestrelstar.

This was the first time she questioned her leader in the slightest. She had been taught that he was a great leader, that he was someone to be respected and she looked up to him a lot. So how could...

No.

I shouldn't question my leader. She thought, pushing back the terrified weird feeling in her belly. Only dumb rebellious loners do that. If he's giving warriors permission to kill Thunderclan cats, then those cats deserve it.

[littlelove]

The news of Petuniaflame's death made Morningpaw feel sick. She hadn't known the molly well, but that herb patrol the two and Acornwhisker had been on was enjoyable. She could feel her fur starting to bristle; why did these deaths have to be so senseless?

That feeling was increased tenfold as Kestrelstar's smirking face told them to kill on sight. Morningpaw's head snapped up from the ground where she was staring, her blue eyes wide and trying to detect any sort of lies or sarcasm or anything in her leader's words and face, but...

Nothing.

Morningpaw wasn't a particularly vengeful cat. As her gaze fluttered back towards the ground she wondered if she should be one. Despite all the pain and unrest Thunderclan had caused them, she just... couldn't find it in her heart to wish what had happened back on them. Too many innocents had been caught in the fire already.

[shaae_26]

Blackrunner didn't belelive Kestrelstar, He knew Thunderclan wouldn't kill a cat just because they saw her on the border. There must be more he wasn't telling. And that 2nd part was so cruel, that its beyond payback for Lionstars death. "You're liar Kestrelstar!" He growled loudly
( @spade, please have kestrel kill him, i need to narrow down my OC's)

[Nixey]

~Dawnwhisper~

Shock caused their mouth to dry, looking around themself as Kestrelstar ended the meeting. Truly, they were angry at the deaths by the claws of other cats, but was all this really needed? Would it not bring more trouble?

Shaking their head lightly, Dawnwhisper puffed out a breath and rose to their paws. They weren’t going to question their clans leader, especially not now. Padding off, this was one time where she wanted silence to think.

~Reedkit~

Her body trembled, shooting a look towards Bravekit who she had only spoken with a bit. She wasn’t prepared to hear of more death in the clan..and the way their leader looked. Terror stirred in her belly, but she pushed it down.

Opening her jaws, she spook to Bravekit ”I'm happy to have you here, I’m sure you’ll become a apprentice in no time,” trying to offer words of comfort from the last thing xe had said before Kestrelstar’s voice filled her ears. She hadn’t been expecting this, why couldn’t everyone just get along?

@distant cry in the woods
(Sorry for such a late response—)

[flat._.chair]

@Swiftstripe

//it’s perfectly fine\\

{!}bravekit{!}

bravekit nodded thankfully to the other kit, hoping to ignore the sudden talk of death. //sorry for small message\\

[Willowfern]

Hawthornmist
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@Caramel

As his apprentice touched noses with him he chuckled,
“I’m sure you will... and I’ll work hard too, I’ll make sure you become the best Warrior you can be one day.”
He drew back after this.
What he said wasn’t empty words, for Hawthornmist, apprentices were no joke, and now that he finally had one, he would do whatever it took to make sure Orchidpaw didn’t end up like... well, he was going to do his best.
As Hawthornmist sat down to continue listening to the meeting, Kestrelstar said something that sent a chill down this spine, both his blind eye and his normal eye widened in shock, he had to bite his tongue to keep from yowling at him.
Kill on sight?! No way was the Warrior to do that! His sister was in ThunderClan! He was Half-ThunderClan!
Not that he was loyal to ThunderClan in any way... he had made that decision long ago after Pinepaw ran off.
Maybe it was his ThunderClan blood speaking, but he could never kill one of his sister’s clanmates, no matter what was going on.
Also... didn’t the Warrior Code forbid this kind of conduct?
Oh yeah, though, didn’t this same almighty Code say that he, Hawthornmist, shouldn’t exist?
Yeah, but it was very clear about the no-murder thing...
He couldn’t believe Kestrelstar!
What had happened to the leader to cause him to say this?!
For the first time in his life, Hawthornmist was going to defy an order from his leader.

[Fae]

~Lionspot giggled. This so called war meant blood. She didn't care for the deaths of the others all she needed was blood. She quietly giggled as she walked away. Death in her eyes.~

[Tiabirb]

And that was it. The final straw. That was why Kestrelstar seemed so...unhinged right now. And she could understand; Starlingflight felt like she had been kicked in the gut when she heard of Petuniaflame's death. How had she not noticed? The young warrior...so much potential wasted. And what did ThunderClan have to say about it? How could they deny their actions now? Petuniaflame wasn't the first body to appear on the border, nor the first cat to be killed by ThunderClan.

Any doubt given to the benefit of ThunderClan was washed away as she listened to Kestrelstar's speech. They had no right to claim innocence now. War was coming, and Starlingflight unsheathed her claws and hissed. "They're gonna pay!"

With the dismissal of the meeting, she stalked off to mourn.