WindClan: Life Before 2023's Fire

[Willowfern]

Originally Posted by Lynxpaw

[ @Bread @Willowfern ]

Eaglepaw

The tabby tom headed over to the other two cats, copper eyes dull. "We should head out" Eaglepaw commented, quickly stretching.

[ So sorry for the short reply. Brain says NO to creativity pfpf ]

“Obviously,” Swiftstorm muttered to herself, “Let’s go then?” She asked aloud to Snailspark [ @Bread ].

[Fairytale]

(All? Sorry lol I'm confused @Lionblaze2008)

[crumbl]

Originally Posted by Larkstripe

(Oh no worries, I think it’s just National Geographic whack-a-mole lmao)
@Snow Carrot
When the panicked gopher scrambled out of the opposite end of the tunnel, it was directly into Sparkfrost’s waiting jaws. The young warrior snatched the creature up and gave it a firm shake, before padding over to Sagebrook and placing it on the ground, eyes bright with satisfaction, “Easy pickings. These things are dumb and delicious.” He declared, “Ill trade places with you if you want—I can scare one towards you.”

"Sure," Sagebrook purred. The hunt was more sport than practicality, and she knew it wouldn't hurt to stock the fresh-kill pile well as leaf-bare came along. Putting herself in position at the end of one burrow, she glanced toward Sparkfrost expectantly. "Ready when you are!"

[ghostwriter]

@Snow Carrot

Sparkfrost lowered his body to the ground, ears flattened, and waited. He spotted a heavily whiskered rodent nose push its way out of a nearby burrow, and he sprung, almost fox-like, onto the hole, sending the panicked gopher barreling down the tunnel to the opposite end.

[Dovey]

[ @Rainquail; ]

Spotkit ran over to Sunhawk. "Sunhawks!" He smiled. The white tom snuggled up close to her. "What have you bean doing?" His mew happy. Sure, he missed his real parents, but Sunhawk was pretty great. I bet you she's a cool, warrior.

[Zero]

- @TheNyanCatMinecart

Quiverpaw padded into the training moor, fluffing out her pelt against the brisk bite of the breeze without another thought as they left the shelter of camp. It looked deceivingly warm with the sun shining brightly above them. In any other circumstance, she may have wanted to return to the warmth of her nest, but Quiverpaw was excited to get out and train after so long.
When Rosebrair turned to her with a big smile, she automatically returned it with a small, pleasant one of her own. It was easy, when she was happy about having a nice mentor, to return such pleasantries. She wasn't quite perceptive enough to pick up on any subtle cues about Rosebriar's true thoughts and opinions, not that she was the type to point those out if she had noticed in the first place - she didn't like to make trouble.
Quiverpaw nodded as Rosebrair explained what they'd be doing today. "Got it!" She tried not to let any nerves settle in, trying to be confident in her skills that she'd learned so far. StarClan, she just hoped she hadn't gotten rusty in all this time. Breathing out a slow breath, she shook those thoughts away, straightening her posture slightly in an attempt to give off a more confident persona as she waited for further instructions about this test.

[Moonraven]

Deadpool had an automatic urge to stick out a forepaw and keep the little bomb at least a tail length away from her at all times. But that would be too mean, even for her. So she just took his little hug, ignoring the natural urge to simply purr about it, and listen to him as he went on about the leader.
"Think I happer Leader fed clan before Leader-self." Deadpool answered, finding it a little cute that the apprentice was so devoted to his mentor. She felt it was hard to form mentor and apprentice bonds as strong as the one Twilightstar had with Pestpaw. Maybe it was because they already thought of each other as family?
"No, bad Pestpaw. Rude." Deadpool scolded the tom as he waved a paw in her face suddenly, making her want to jump back, not expecting it. "No worry me not. Hunt doing." She responded, turning her attention back to her surroundings. The chimera didn't think she'd lose the apprentice since he was so loud and chatty. The she-cat's eyes honed in on a small rabbit near a bush, it wasn't hard to sneak up on it and spring. It looked like a young thing, a bit scrawny but prey was prey.
"Talk less, hunt more." Deadpool urged Pestpaw as she padded back over to the apprentice and dropped her rabbit by his catch.
@Arie [Oh, I forgot we can do that!]

[Moonraven]

Um, this could be a problem. Not the honey, that was like an entirely separate problem, the whole not growing up was an issue. Twilightstar was wondering how in the world she had gotten into this situation? This could have been another cat's problem! If only she had given Parasite to someone else. She did regret yet not regret taking him as her apprentice. He had taught her a lot about herself, but nine times out of ten he annoyed the hell out of her. She swore there were more cons than pros with him. Alas, her heart was tethered to him, like it was tethered to her clan.
Despite all his faults and numerous flaws, and the whole killing her situation, he's never left her. He irked her to no end, had her questioning her sanity daily, and he was all around bad for her health, sososo bad for her health. She would like to assume that her heart would hate him with the stress he put through, but for whatever reason, she still loved her pain-in-the-ass dumbson. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
She gave an indigent hiss as he slapped a paw over her face! She clearly needed to beat this child more often. The hiss shifted into a low growl as she twisted her head out of the brat's grasp. Her chest expanded, filling with air, as she tipped her head back and sneeze, one, two, three, four, five times, by the time she was done she slightly disorientated and had to give her head a shake. He was such a turd!
"You have to grow up you don't just get to stop it. There's no way unless you're willing to go to StarClan." Snarled the she-cat as she raised her tail, using it to smack the tom in the face in retaliation for the sneezing.
"You. Have. To. Grow. Up. It's literally apart of life, you get no choices for it. There is a lot more to growing up than a cool name." She adds, rolling her eyes at him. Why did she put herself through this torture? Twilightstar knew that she was literally just wasting her breath. She was going to need a long thorough bath after this.

***

Twilightstar nodded her, half paying attention to the battle patrol and solely focusing on the failed patrol aspects. Quite frankly, she felt rather disappointing to hear about the cats who not only failed to report it but also didn't bother coming to get reprimanded for it. She felt they were making a mockery of the deputy and blatant disregard to WindClan. It was bad enough that they hadn't bothered to do the patrol but to not even show up with an attempt at an excuse, it was just....Ugh! Seriously they weren't rogues.
The leader felt the fur along her spine start to rise and made a silent effort to relax it and herself. What's done was done, she should focus on how to deal with it in the future rather than dwell on the past.
"The ones that can't hunt, I think sending them out to bring whatever number of prey you deem fit back would do. Don't allow them to eat until they bother to bring some prey back to the clan. The ones who don't want to patrol borders, I believe confining them in camp on apprentice duties for a few sunrises would be befitting." They weren't overly harsh punishment but hopefully would get the point across. If not and the repeated offenders continued to not take patrol seriously, Twilightstar might do something more extreme and Twilightstar would rather avoid that.
In other news, it was nice to hear that she and Breezefeather were on the same page, mostly. "I'll see about taking a few guardians with me, I'd like to keep the majority of them here to keep an eye on the camp." Since they acquired the rank, Twilightstar felt a little better knowing they had cats watching over the camp for any incoming threats. It ruffled her fur a little thinking about taking them all away from their duty. It was probably just a mental thing, but it wouldn't hurt to keep a few behind.
Her whiskers shifted as the corner of a maw lifted in a half-smile at Breezefeather's gratitude for being kept in the loop. She hadn't don't a fantastic job with talk to her last two deputies, Twilightstar was really trying to come out of her little bubble and change that with Breezefeather.
"I don't think we'll have any trouble with RiverClan. He must have been a stable and somewhat rational tom if he managed to stay deputy as long as he had." The thought had her thinking of an overgrown tom who she had felt would have made a good leader if his leader hadn't been so ambitious. Dawnstar was like Icestar's final insult from beyond the grave.
"I'd like you to see about doing some evacuation drills with cats who are staying behind, kits, queen, and any of the guardians, and the likes. Not just for fires, anything. I think it would be a good idea to make sure they know what they're doing and where they're going if remaining in camp is not something we'll be able to do." The one time they had to abandon camp and it had been a mess. They had gotten back on their paws, but whether it happed again or not, she'd rather be over-prepared than not.
Her concentration was momentarily shattered by Snailswirl scrambling into her den looking as if they had seen a ghost. Twilightstar curled her tail and scowled as she made sense of what they were saying. The last vision from StarClan was right about this time, leafbare, as well and it resulted in a coyote attack. Why could StarClan want to mess with her clan when the weather was warmer. This literally felt like a repeat of the last season.
"Slow down and breath, Snailswirl." The leader coaxed tranquility, not going to even bother getting her tail in a knot over this. Yet another thing WindClan would have to deal with and triumph over.
@Arie @elysian [Just going to mash Breeze and Snail into one timeframe here]

[Dovey]

[ @Xmas Bliss; ]

Radishpaw sighed. "Why did the let them come down? Who made these? Why did they make these? Seedsmart GIVE ME AWESNERSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" She said, coming up with a much better nickname for Seedsmart. Being the idiot she was, she kept asking. "Who was the first cat to come down?"

[shaae_26]

Originally Posted by Phoenix Fire

(All? Sorry lol I'm confused @Lionblaze2008)

(Just post your kit being born!)