ShadowClan Life Before Destruction

[pidgeon]

@Siren Bliss @Undertaker

Owlfeather let out a strangled cry of agony as she watched her grandaughter slaughter Icestar. For a moment she couldn't move or say anything at all. She could do nothing but stare as Hailstorm fled the scene and left the leader's body laying there motionless. Those wounds...Owlfeather could tell that Icestar wasn't coming back. She hurried up to her oldest daughter's body once she found the strength to move. Her eyes scanned the leader's black fur and surveyed her injuries, and a moment of clarity seemed to come to her.

She pressed her muzzle into Icestar's fur as tears welled in her eyes. She may have been cruel...but she was her daughter.
"...Please, Stars, give her a safe journey to StarClan..." Please let her go to StarClan... Her body was already growing cold...that wasn't supposed to happen if she was regaining a life.

She lifted her head to see Citrusflower and Ebonyfang, unsurprised to see how hurt her younger daughter seemed. She shakily padded over.
"She's...she's not coming back," she croaked.

[Festive Neon]

Originally Posted by Trouble

Sparklight hissed

"sorry if that went against your opinions but it's mine and I respect yours in every way"

[-Ash-]

Originally Posted by Neon Lights

"sorry if that went against your opinions but it's mine and I respect yours in every way"

"No, it's not that," Sparklight reassured. "I'm just hoping your opinion isn't correct. Now that Icestar's gone... Well, ShadowClan needs a good leader."

[Caramel]

To say Sparrowpaw was shocked was an understatement, he was livid.
How dare some random cat he didn't even know kill his leader? Icestar was a role model, this perfect cat every cat should aspire to be, and then someone just slaughtered her in front of the whole clan?!
Sparrowpaw had not been paying much attention up til now, he had come back to camp from some solo hunting around halfway into the clan meeting to find everyone freaking out and Icestar's dead body.
His face held an angry and shocked expression, dropping his mouse on the ground. He saw Icestar's family members huddled around her, mourning her as she lost her last life, Sparrowpaw didn't care though, he barged past other cats to get close to her, trying his best catch a glimpse of her.

[OPEN]

[Festive Neon]

Originally Posted by Trouble

"No, it's not that," Sparklight reassured. "I'm just hoping your opinion isn't correct. Now that Icestar's gone... Well, ShadowClan needs a good leader."

"I know me to but that's how it seems and if that's true she has to pick a good deputy"

[-Ash-]

Originally Posted by Neon Lights

"I know me to but that's how it seems and if that's true she has to pick a good deputy"

Sparklight nodded in agreement

[~Berry~]

Sunpaw walked over.
Swiftkit sat down.

[Festive Neon]

Originally Posted by Trouble

Sparklight nodded in agreement

"Now i'm not sure who would be a good choice at the moment"

[-Ash-]

Originally Posted by Neon Lights

"Now i'm not sure who would be a good choice at the moment"

“Neither do I,” Sparklight admitted. ”Though I do think Adderfang would be a good choice.”

[Undertaker]

@BILL.
Dawnstripe hadn't been paying attention, far too busy basking in her new rank and reading the expressions on the cats' faces. Trying to figure out who was going to turn on her and mother next, which traitors were plotting their demise? She should have been watching the one right in front of her. It happened faster then she could keep track, she should have seen that shifty look in Hailstorm's eyes. Could have reacted in time, she didn't. Now Icestar throat was torn out and the traitor darting off.

She had extra lives, Dawnstripe knew she had some lives left over. She'd get back up, should get back up, but this death felt different. Like no matter how long she sat over her mother's body she'd never get up again.

"Hehehehehe."It started soft and so low it was nearly inaudible. Yet little by little, second by second, her laughter grew into hysteria. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!" It was funny so freaking funny! Dawnstripe slapped a paw over her face, unsheathed her claws, and dragged them down from the left just above her eye down diagonally. She didn't notice what she had done until she felt the blood drizzling down. Dawnstripe didn't care that she had carved a nasty looking X into her face, she was too busy laughing at her mother's fate.

"Really! Mother, you molded me into the best, the strongest, you make me your deputy finally. Then you die! Hehe, Hahaha!" Insanity stole into her mind like a deranged thief, taking what was important to her, adding new dangerous ideas, seeding a new personality, and muddling up the rest. New sparks of ideas that once she would have dismissed as bizarre started to grow roots, deep roots, they started to make sense in one revolutionary eureka moment after another. Her laughter tettered off, muscles stiffening as cats started getting closer to Icestar.

"GET AWAY!" Dawnstripe didn't want her anywhere near her mother's body. "NONE OF YOU TOUCH HER!" She whipped around to yowl and address the clan. Her Clan, her pawns, her toys to play with until she joined her mother, this was all hers now. But Hailstorm... she needed to catch Hailstorm! Even with her mind broken, her cunning remained along with most of her intelligence. Dawnstripe bolts off the ground and straight onto the Highbranch. One of them could go get that murderous traitor, but which one...

"Listen up and listen well. I am your leader now." Rage had her eyes wildly flittering back and forth as she scanned the cats in the crowd. So weak so soft, she was going to fix it, she had to fix it. First though, who? Who does she...

"Falcondive," A crooked sneer sits on her lips as she peers down at the tom."I'm going to give you a tas- No! A mission." Dawnstripe was hurting, somewhere deep, deep, way down, she needed to make sure Hailstorm was too. She wasn't going to kill her sister, that would be too easy, too simple, she didn't deserve death she deserved to suffer for eternity. She hoped Hailstorm lived a nice long life, found happiness, made friends, all so Dawnstripe could crush it. She was going to take everyone and thing Hailstorm held dear and kill it.

"Falcondive, you are hereby exiled from ShadowClan until you find me that traitor who brutally murdered my mother. You have no ties to my clan now, feel free to do as you please, walk where you want, ignore my orders. Join whichever clan you want, but if you try to come back here empty-pawed, I'll make you regret it."

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@Arie
Beastspark had been still reeling from the sudden switch in rank, the overwhelming sense of utter failure that crushed his heart. He hadn't wanted the rank at the start, but now he wanted his rank back more than anything else. The large tom was drawn out of his self-loathing at Doetuft's touch. He pushed aside his shame, fear, and guilt to focus on the rest of the clan meeting. Much like everyone in the clan, shock caught him off guard as Icestar's lifeless body hit the ground and Hailstorm stood over her?

"No." The tom muttered to himself as he shot to his paws. NO! Did she realize what she had just done?! Beastspark head swerved in the direction of Dawnstripe with cation, this gaze remained glued to her even after Hailstorm took off. The tom had to bit down hard on his tongue as he physically felt sick as dread turned his stomach. The several long moons he stood by his clan as deputy was gone, and the one small instant that Hailstorm decided to be brave and do what she felt was right, now put Dawnstripe as their leader!? What the hell was this!? Not even deputy for five seconds, chosen purely by favoritism, and now she was the clan leader! If this was fate, it was the cruelest blow delivered to him.