WindClan: Life Before 2023's Fire - Page 1404

**Ever** · #**14031** January 18th, 2020, 07:01 PM

Lupinegaze huffed unhappily at all the arguing. This whole clan was something else with the half of them wanting something and the other wanting the opposite. She fluffed up her long fur and swept her duochromatic gaze through the clearing. She full well understood that they would have to wait but how long exactly.

"A raid to get our territory back is fair. We need space to hunt, every cat in the clan knows this. However, we need to make a good plan and timeline to plan for here. I, for one, am most concerned with those of us who aren't warriors facing a raid on ourselves. Not that raids should affect queens, kittens and elders, but it is always a possibility. We need to make sure we are both strong enough to defend ourself and that will obviously take some time. We need apprentices to grow into warriors first. As long as every cat realizes and accepted this, then no problem with the raid." Her fluffy gray tipped tail tapped against the gold ground. "Has anyone though about peacefully approaching this first though? Maybe we could work out an agreement with Flintstar. The gathering isn't far off."

***Moonraven*** · #**14032** January 18th, 2020, 07:56 PM

@vermin
She had no clue what the heck was coming out of the apprentice's mouth, perhaps he got into some catnip? The fawn gray molly was assuming this had something to do with that weird sickness that happened around the clan. Since she couldn't exactly afford to tell any cat that they couldn't rejoin, Twilight decided to just go with it for now and not ask him to elaborate it. "Alright... go visit Mistyfern and have him do a quick medical check. If you alright, you may return to normal clan activities. Do not disappear again." She added the last part sternly. Twilight did not want to keep doing this again. She would not be as forgiving if it happened again... even if catnip was involved.

**Jesse** · #**14033** January 18th, 2020, 10:35 PM

"Alright, I've had enough." Mistyfern parted from his apprentices side and pushed towards the front of the crowd, grumbling under his breath. When he finally emerged on the other side, he turned to face his clanmates.

"SHUT IT!" Thundered the medicine cat, his voice practically shaking the clearing. He waited until he was confident at least a few cats cared enough to listen before continuing.

"Flintstar may be a pushover and a coward, but he's no moron. He ordered his warriors to take that territory for a reason. I somewhat doubt asking nicely is going to convince him to paw it back over." He shook his head at Lupinegaze, although he appreciated her less belligerent approach. Then, after a moments pause, he shot another glare at Coldsong. "But that doesn't mean I agree we should get ourselves killed, either."

"Twilightshine.." Misty swung around to lock eyes with his leader, his brows furrowed hard. "If you send us to battle, you may very well be responsible for the destruction of Windclan. The blood of these warriors will be on your paws." And he'd be the one cleaning up after her, but he wasn't going to mention that part. "Forgive me, but I will not be standing behind a leader who would sacrifice their warriors for vengeances sake."

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**BEAR.** · #**14034** January 18th, 2020, 10:46 PM

There didn't seem to be anymore scents after Foxpudge caught his rabbit.. so he took that as a sign to head back, returning to meet up with the patrol.

"Hey!" His voice was muffled by the rabbit. "Not much out here, huh? Can't scent a damn thing and most of the tracks I found have been days old."
@hxneysuckle, @Kitty Mama

**tye** · #**14035** January 18th, 2020, 10:57 PM

"I agree! ," Warblerpaw spoke up loudly with a murky blue gaze. He truly hated agreeing with the blue oaf but it makes sense. His tail trembled, wanting to blast every cat off by calling them all idiots and fools. Calm down, Warblerpaw. " I agree with both of sides. But, instead of talking about the future can we get on with the 'now' part?" he growled, speaking through his teeth, anger slowly rising to higher degree as he continued. "Dont know about you guys but I'm freezing my ass here," and starving by the second he quietly added. The calico stared over at Lupinegaze nodding once to her words. "We need to focus on recovery and getting some of our territory back in a ..reasonable way. Anyways! What's our first move to get things running again?" Surprised of himself the overly rude, explosive anger didnt erupt like usual. He truly just want to get Windclan back on its paws and show the other clans who's boss.

**Kitty Mama** · #**14036** January 18th, 2020, 11:37 PM

Cranepaw poked his head out, bright eyes searching the clearing and ears tilted forward. His pelt was ragged with grass and twigs from hiding between the dens, and he'd become brave enough to eavesdrop in on what the clan was discussing now.
RAIDS? Cranepaw tensed, sharply inhaling. This topic was far from his mentor assignment! His mind buzzed along with his paws that tingled from anxiety: No, no, no! Windclan can't do a raid! A raid would lead to more raids, more violence, maybe even a war! Oh jeez! They're going to want me to fight, but I can hardly even talk to my own clan-mates! Broken little noises spilled from him as he spun with possibilities, and his eye twitched from the stress of it. Please no raid, raids are bad, very bad... Cranepaw's muscles went stiff as the raid-idea became overwhelming, and he felt himself tipping over but was unable to do anything about it except helplessly fall into the brush.

***Moonraven*** · #**14037** January 19th, 2020, 01:34 AM

Twilightshine didn't know why she even bothered, she should just let Coldsong and Foxpudge lead the meeting. They got things done and Twilight didn't even need to raise her voice. She sat back and watched everything unfold. Bright even added her own opinion which aligned with her own pretty well. They'd bid their time, train, heal as best they could, and then regain what they had lost or at least attempt to. In truth, Thunderclan shouldn't retaliate since they started it in the first place. They took territory that didn't belong to them. Next to Windclan, Thunderclan was the weakest, she didn't think they'd want to go back and forth and kill each other. But she didn't know Flintstar all that way so he might be willing...
As the cats went back and forth on whether they should raid or not, she was surprised that even if they were given some time to get everything together they still didn't want to fight for their territory. It was interesting, honestly. She assumed they'd want to fight, guessed she was wrong. Foxpudge and Coldsong were making some very good arguments, but it didn't seem like the clan was understanding this raid would be in the future as in NOT FREAKING RIGHT NOW!!!! She wasn't really certain if they were getting that point even with the two toms yowling at them. Still, if they didn't want to fight she wasn't to force them.
She was pleased to hear Lupingaze voice her opinion, the queen had some good ideas as well. As much as Twilight might like to settle this peacefully, she didn't know Flintstar well enough to assume that he'd just hand their territory over. He could but if his clan needed it as badly as Windclan did then she was highly doubting he would, but was it worth spilling blood for it? She'd have to see if she could gauge the tom during the next gathering. How much blood was he willing to spill for something he had wrongfully taken?
The fern cat was being boisterous, between him and Cold she was going to be deaf in at least one ear. She kind of half-listened to Misty, not everything that came out of his maw was that interesting. Oh! That last bit directed at her was super entertaining though! So hilarious that Twilight couldn't help but throw her head back and laughed at the tom's words. She couldn't help it she found it amusing. It took a few seconds before she got her breath back and could speak, her tail swung back and forth in an almost playful manner. It's been a while since she laughed like that.
"You're amusing Mistyfern." Yet another cat that she was having trouble taking seriously. "Windclan was falling apart long before I stepped up here." There was barely anything here for her to lead, this clan was a dumpster fire and that was being nice. "But if it makes you feel better to blame me for its destruction then go ahead." They were going to blame her for everything that went wrong anyway if he wanted to make her a scapegoat then so be it, it was understandable. No matter what she'd tried to do someone was going to hate and she'd knew that so why care or take it personally. She'd deal with it. "The blood of the clans' warriors are on every leaders' paws, it comes with something called responsibility alongside a bunch of other adjectives I don't feel like listing." She wasn't sure if the tom was trying to threating her or something but it wasn't really working. "I'm not sacraficing anyone and I'm certainly not doing anything involving vengeance. I'm not even sure where you got that idea from." Who said anything about vengeance? "I'm looking for the clan's input regarding a possible raid, one that I might add that I did not come up with. I wanted to play it safe, no one spoke up when I voiced that, and I'm pretty sure you and Coyotesnarl had more important matters to attend to then listen to me rant about that, so now we're talking about raids." She scoffed with a clock of her head. "A raid to return the territory that was stolen from us, no vengeance or anything involved just Windclan getting back what is ours. Again, if we do this raid it would be some time that is not now. You and your apprentice clearly need more knowledge about healing, you won't be able to save any lives without it. Knowlege that you will acquire as soon as physically possible from one of the other clans or someone. Otherwise, you won't need to worry about standing behind me at all." It was an order mixed with an actual threat. If she didn't see some sort of improvement or an attempt to improve themselves, considering the amount of time they've both been in their rank with not much being done (Haaaa! like she could talk), Twilight had no problem removing them and finding cats who actually were willing to go the extra mile to be proper medicine cats.
She wasn't sure who Mistyfern thought he was, she had no clue if he was trying to challenge her or not, threaten her or not, she was going to make sure that he understood she wouldn't tolerate whatever it was. He was a medicine cat his job was to heal the sick, the wounded, to care for the clan in a way that she could not. Whether the wounds came from a battle she ordered or from a simply sparring accident, regardless his job was to clean up the mess, hers or anyone else. It could be worse he could have to clean up the mayhem that was Windclan, loved to see him do that.
Warblerpaw's words reminded her that they were taking far too long with this meeting. It was about time to bring it to a close. "If I see the changes needed to make a raid possible then we can raid, if not, then we'll think of some other way to recover our lost territory and continue to focus on our clan." She called out in a voice that screams finality. She waited to see if there were any last parting words before she leaped down and dismissed the meeting.
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**Kitty Mama** · #**14038** January 19th, 2020, 02:26 AM

. @Xeno
Jittery and wild-eyed, Cranepaw was standing at an awkward angle outside of the medicine cats' den, his pose struck from uncertainty over whether he should go in. Going in would be a talk with Mistyfern, maybe Coyotesnarl! Neither had a welcoming air about them. But what was he supposed to do? Train in this condition?
No, he couldn't train today. It would get worse, and then he would die and that sounded pretty awful overall. Cranepaw took a hesitant step closer and squawked, scrambling backwards and shaking out his snow-covered paw. Must have put it in one of the small drifts that built up in camp. In chugging puffs, he forced himself closer, steps smaller the less distance there was. When he could, he leaned forward on his tippy toes to gaze inside. He couldn't believe he was doing this. "Mi-isty--?" Oh, oh no. What was that suffix again? Cranepaw froze, couldn't think. His memory was failing him. He had this all rehearsed and everything, now it was for naught.

**BEAR.** · #**14039** January 19th, 2020, 02:34 AM

At least that was something. Better than the trash the ten cats that talked threw out. Mistyfern was right about peace not necessarily being an option, Foxpudge didn't believe it was at all-- but that didn't mean he agreed with the rest of what he said. If this was for vengeance, then hedgehogs flew! This was about reclaiming what they were losing.. and he was glad Twilightshine beat him to saying it.

"What is your plan with getting the lives?" It was a partial change of subject out of curiosity. "We've never had a leader step down with all of them intact. Is Brightstar going with you..? Will StarClan accept her resignation?" If they were both leaving, would Brightstar arrange patrols first?

@Moonraven, @Fuzzy

This was all so exciting. Absolutely. Mountaingrowl definitely didn't get bored five hours ago.

"Are you pussycats done yet?" He barked out, clearly annoyed with all the pointless bickering. "If you keep arguin' any longer, you'll die of thirst with all the words you're spittin' out. Are you a Clan or a bunch of goddamn dandelions waving in the grasses? 'Cause right now, you ain't lookin' like a Clan to me."

**Jesse** · #**14040** January 19th, 2020, 02:47 AM

Mistyfern felt a snarl leap up his throat. Amusing? Amusing?! Nothing about this was amusing! Laughing at a time like this.. as though she took none of it seriously! It made his blood boil.

"Let's not forget that while you were deputy you did nothing but sit around licking your rear like a flea-bitten elder all day while your clan tore itself apart! At least Brightstar pretended to care." The medicine cat was not about to tuck his tail between his legs and just take it silently. Her half-threat only made him want to dig in deeper.

"Lazy cur."

He'd have spat on her if she didn't have the power to exile him- that was, of course, if she didn't decide to do it anyway after he stepped out of line like he had. Then again, he had a feeling she didn't care. It was probably just all just a big game to her.. Amusing. He snorted incredulously. Really, amusing? Then finally he turned and limped back up toward Coyotesnarl, who was still waiting by the den. "Come, we have no business here." he growled as ducked into the shady entrance.

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