WindClan: Life Before 2023's Fire

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Nettlespark pads through WindClan's territory alone. Having left the other warrior and apprentice behind in camp, he vouched to seek out this burdock plant on his own. It was easier, more efficient, and honestly more peaceful. While making friends wasn't exactly easy when all he aimed to do was find solitude in his duties, it sure kept the others from looking down on him.

He keeps his head low as he makes his way into what he quickly comes to recognize as the Clan's burial grounds. A strange sense of serenity washes over the young tom, who came upon this sacred, sad place by sheer happenstance. Here, cats sent their beloved and their friends onward. Personal beliefs differed for Nettlespark, but regardless of what he thought of the afterlife, he admired the peacefulness of the graveyard. It was nice.

The warrior takes a moment to slow his pace and take in his surroundings more thoroughly. Hopping up onto a nearby stone, he gazes around in silence.

Once he's had his fill, and feels as though he's paid enough respect towards the dead buried around him, the tom begins to move on again. However, it is not long that he finds a beautiful and rather large, tall-growing plant similar to Peachfrost's description of burdock. "Oh, wow. That heals cats," Nettlespark comments aloud, staring up and down at the plant. Herbs, he thought, were all rather scrawny and small. But no, this thing was giant. He probably didn't need to bring too much back. What was it she needed again, though? This had big burr-looking flowers, and even BIGGER leaves!

"Well, I'll just..." Stepping forward, Nettlespark works to tear away three of the large leaves, and even manages to grab two of the spiky flowers, though those pricked at his face. With these, the tom turns and backtracks home.
[ @Rockfall - mentioning for records ig lol ]

[Sweetie]

@Moonraven

(Okay so when I wrote the last one I thought that it was rp'ed out when Brindle brought Cypress over to WC and Twilight turned them away but Arie refreshed my memory. So it turns out that it was simply discussed and never rp'ed. So now I am lost, shall we continue this route or can I switch up my story?

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(Ya know I have a horrible memory. I remember having Song rejoin but having a few posts with her I just think that since she's been missing this whole time. )


Oh, dear Starclan Songbird really wanted to glare at the leader back or be given the chance to wipe that displeased look on that rat-face.

"You can return to the clan, but I'm not placing you in the nursery anymore. You're able enough to start hunting and defending the clan as a warrior, that is what you'll be."

Usually, the molly lashed out at the idiots or stupid cats in her clan but never, never in her life has she lashed out at a higher-up; until now. "Excuse me?" Yup, being polite was out of the window. Now Songbird was glaring at the leader and tilted her head slightly. "I DO NOT want to be a warrior. You have plenty of those! I am a natural queen. I am your BEST queen." At first her voice was at a normal tone before raising to almost a yelling. "I am basically the mother of this clan! I RAISE KITS AND SHAPE THEM TO BE YOUR BEST APPRENTICES." This was outrageous!

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Padding in, Nettlespark brings his collected burdock to the herb store, where he drops it off. Given that Peachfrost likely recalled assigning him to get that, he doesn't wait around to announce it. He makes like a plant and leaves.

+3 burdock leaf, +2 burdock flower

[Moonraven]

Originally Posted by Fawnhearted

Seedheart walked into the den, slightly worried she might be annoying the leader. "Well- I uh brought you a rabbit, you've been working so hard and dealing with the clan, and you looked kind of drained at the meeting so I wanted to make sure you were okay!", she said staring at her paws. She'd probably made Twilightstar more upset at this point, stars had she ruined it? "Well, if you want I can just leave the rabbit here, but ,,, I was wondering if you needed to talk to someone about everything. There's just been a lot of stress for you lately, and I care about you a lot.", realizing what she'd said she added, "The whole clan cares about you a lot.", focusing heterochromic eyes back on her paws, she hoped she hadn't embarrassed herself again. @Moonraven

Twilightstar chuckled at the offer of prey, she was surprised that Seedheart had been able to find a rabbit. She was tired but she'd push through it like she always did, even so, it was nice to see that her clanmates did seem to care about her. "I'm always looking drained, the clan doesn't like giving me much rest." Twilightstar meowed, she felt extremely old these days even though she had quite some time before she reaches retirement age. Running a clan seemed to suck the life out of her, but little interactions like this made up for it.

At the offer to talk, Twilightstar cocked her head, thinking to herself. After a while, she let out the breath she had been holding and beckoned, and the Guardian over with a flicker of her tail and moved over a bit so the she-cat could come and sit in her nest with her. "I'm not too hungry right now, so you can share the rabbit with me and tell me what you think about Wolffang." She needed someone else's opinion on the tom.

Originally Posted by Rippleshade

@Moonraven "yes i'm sure." (where its warm and there's a moor, there will be prarie dogs. This includes Maine in Greenleaf. If it is not Greenleaf then I made a mistake, I thought it was Greenleaf. There aren't a lot of prairie dogs in Maine, but enough I think)

[I don't think there are prairie dogs in Maine, I looked it up, I couldn't find anywhere saying that prairie dogs are located in Maine... I might not be searching right though...]

Originally Posted by -Skyfall-

@Moonraven

Mushroomkit frowned thoughtfully. Sparrowflight's sister... hm... Welp. She was a little cold anyways. OH he liked Seedheart! He grinned at Twilightstar. I like Seedheart! She's nice, and loyal... ya know, you should've made her deputy. Not that I'm insulting Wolfang, cuz Wolfang is like super cool, but Seedheart would've been a great choice too! Maybe Seedheart can be my mentor!
She wanted him to tell the other kits what to do! Wow! This was awesome, carryig out orders from Twilightstar. She must trust me! He thought gleefully.
Okay! I'll keep 'em in line, don't you worry Twilightstar! He puffed out his chest and grinned.

If she could she would have rolled her eyes as Mushroomkit mewed about Seedheart and naming her deputy. It was great to see that the molly had made a great impression on the young one, it was strangely difficult finding kits that actually wanted a certain mentor. Seedheart was a guardian and Twilightstar didn't usually give Guardian apprentices since their jobs required them to remain close to the camp, but so long as they balance both apprentice and their guard duty, she didn't mind giving Mushroomkit to Seedheart for training.

"I'll keep that in mind when it's your turn to become an apprentice," Twilightstar told him, shaking her head as the kit got extremely excited at the prospect of telling the other kits what to do. "Shouldn't you be getting back to the nursery?" Did no one miss him when he walked off on his own. Twilightstar wasn't a queen, even if the kit wasn't her own, she'd probably always be fretting on where all of them were.

Originally Posted by Pheasantflight

@Ashnose @Moonraven
Silentstorm walked into the leaders den, her friend trailing behind her. They were going to ask about Ashnose getting an apprentice, but that wasn't what she was there for. That was just a cover. A cover for her to become the most bestest friends in the universe with the most powerful cat in Winclan! She was epic for thinking of it. Ever since she was an apprentice, she admired the leader, though over the passed few moons she was less certain. How would her master plan work if she was completely forgettable. But now, Silentstorm had an apprentice. And Snakepaw was the way in.

"Twilightstar, may I speak with you?" Her voice reverberated around the den as she waited for a response. She suddenly remembered Ashnose. "Ashnose is here too." Her blue eyes surveyed the den. Where was the leader?

Twilightstar parted her maw, yawning softly, as she shook the sleep from her eyes. She was a little disappointed to have been woken up, she wasn't used to actually sleeping without Dawnstar invading her dreams, but she hadn't seen her this time. Either the stress of her deputy and feeding the clan has taken up every little space in her mind and shoved the tyrant out of her head, or the poppy seeds were working. The heavily allowed one more yawn to slip through her maw before she stretched and sat up.

"Come on in." Twilightstar meowed, turning her head to give her fur some licks. "What can I do for you two?" The lilac feline questioned after she finished cleaning her fur. Silentstorm and Ashnose, she was not expecting to see either of them.
@Ashnose

Originally Posted by Quickpaw

"Twilightstar," only now had Sharpkit thought about what she was doing and had realized how big of a risk this was. "I would like to speak to you about a punishment you made for my friend, Dirtpaw, here." Sharpkit stopped. She had called him her friend. She shook it off. "If I could be let in, we could discuss it and make it more fair.
Sharpkit wasn't used to-in fact, she hated-being part of something big. That meant she was noticed and Sharpkit did not like being noticed. But, now she had a friend. Someone she had to be there for. And if that meant she got in trouble and all the Clan knew about her, at least she had a friend, right? And Dirtpaw wouldn't say that he didn't want to be her friend, right? Hopefully. Sharpkit gulped. Thinking of that didn't make her very happy.
@Moonraven

Originally Posted by FrostCat

Dirtpaw stood next to Sharpkit, wondering what he had gotten himself into. @Moonraven @Quickpaw

"Sharpkit." Twilightstar frowns deeply as the kit walked into her den wanted to speak. She blinked her eye and took in a deep breath as the kit went on about making the punishment she gave Dirtpaw fair. Sharpkit would be obtaining the same punishment when she becomes an apprentice. Twilightstar wasn't certain how it was unfair. The two of them had snuck out of camp as kits, and instead of holding back Dirtpaw's ceremony, Twilightstar had settled on keeping him in camp. He could still do training, and he needed to learn how to handle apprentice duties anyway. So what about it was unfair.

"Sharpkit, you'll be obtaining the same punishment as Dirtpaw when you're apprenticed, you two knew that kit isn't allowed outside of camp and yet you snuck out anyway. It's not like you got lost or something of that sort, you walked out of the entrance." Twilightstar kept her voice soft yet stern. "How exactly is this punishment unfair. Usually, I'd make kits wait for a whole extra moon to become an apprentice for something like that."

Originally Posted by Bonehead

@Moonraven
{I cam up with the plot that Jag attacks Flicker in front of the whole Clan but then I went inactive, so now I'm just flying by the seat of my pants here, nw, sky is ok with this}

Jaggedscar stalked into the leader's den, lip curled with menace. Twilightstar! He barked, unsheathing his claws. I think you are missing an apprentice! A certain apprentice... my former one, perhaps?

The feline's fur bristled as Jaggedscar came into her den extremely agitated, she forced her fur to lay flat and her muscles to remain relaxed. "I'm missing an apprentice?" She repeated confused, not sure how this warranted such an aggressive approached. "Explain in a manner which I can understand."

[Moonraven]

Originally Posted by finnzel

@Moonraven //

oakflame grinned, eyes bright despite the fact he looked..well, uhm, pretty worn out. he nodded at the leaders question, answering only a few seconds after. "yes, actually, i'd like to join windclan." it was pretty self explanatory, it wasn't odd for cats to leave clans and join another one, or even become a loner or kittypet. "...if you don't mind, of course." he added on, making sure his request didn't seem like a demand instead.

he took in the appearance of twilightstar, a bit shocked at all of the scars, but didn't show it. it also wasn't uncommon for cats to get scars and lose eyes. (it was a bit uncomon for another clan leader to kidnap another leader though. that whole ordeal was exhausting to watch in the stars.)

oh!! he almost forgot...new identity and stuff. "i have a name...but..for personal reasons, i'd like to go by cedarbuzz, if you allow me to join and if that's fine with you." the tom said. cedarbuzz, what a cool name, huh. totally fit him.

Twilightstar was mildly surprised to hear a former RiverClanner want to join WindClan. For whatever reason, it sounded rather odd to her. Most cats left their clans to join RiverClan, Twilightstar wasn't super certain on what made RiverClan just an appealing clan to join, but to each their own.

"I suppose I don't mind." She answered, trying to avoid sounding too confused or astonished by the request. "If you'd like the name Cedarbuzz, it's acceptable. A new clan deserves a new name, but may I ask why you want to come to WindClan. RiverClan seemed to be alright the last I checked." It was strange, but considering all that RiverClan has done for WindClan, Twilightstar couldn't think of a dangerous reason for the sudden arrival and joining of a former RiverClan cat. There was no point to be wary of RiverClan.

"Ah, you'll need to take a mentor. I'm sure you're fighting and hunting skills are acceptable of a warrior, but you could probably use some lessons in different hunting techniques WindClan uses." Twilightstar adds, having failed to offer one to the last clan-hopper that joined WindClan.

Originally Posted by CreativeWolf

| @Moonraven |
Mosskit looked at her leader I'm Sorry Twilightstar...I saw a butterfly and tarted to chase it and i didn't realise that i left camp and when i didn't i-i didn't know where i was she said sadly.

So kits needed a lesson on not chasing insects out of the camp, apparently. Actually, the warriors might need one as well. "Well, I'm glad to hear that you're shaping up to become quite the hunter, you need to pay more attention to your surroundings," Twilightstar explained gently. "No more bug chasing, Mosskit." Twilightstar waved her tail taking the kit back to camp.
(Done)

Originally Posted by Moon Kit

Swiftheart looked over, brightening when she saw her leader. "Twilightstar!" Her relief was replaced by worry. Surely the she-cat would let her back into the clan? "I'm really sorry."
The words rushed out of her. "I was tired of being stuck in the nursery and so I went for a walk to the edge of our territory but then my kits started coming and I was stuck there for a little while but I'm better now and I have three healthy kits and please, please, please let me rejoin!"

Oh, Twilighttar wasn't expecting to hear this. Having kits outside of the clan was rather dangerous. Her eye looked over Swiftheart once more to check for injuries but wasn't smelling or seeing anything wrong with the cat. "Of course you can come back," Twilightstar responded, cast her gaze around the queen. "Let's fetch your kits and get them to the nursery."
(Done, make sure the kits are submitted to the allegiances.)

Originally Posted by Stormpoppy

Brindlefern

Brindlefern padded out of the bushes. The pain was back. Again. She guessed her kits would b coming sometime soon, maybe today. "Twilightstar?" the queen called out.

@Moonraven

The leader stopped as she heard her name called. She turned lean muscles tense, as the she-cat padded out of the bush. Her green eye lit up with recognition as she walked over to her. "Brindlefern." Twilightstar had been certain that she had just brought the queen back into the clan, so why was had she gone missing again. "What are you doing out here?'

Originally Posted by Shimm

@Moonraven

(Okay so when I wrote the last one I thought that it was rp'ed out when Brindle brought Cypress over to WC and Twilight turned them away but Arie refreshed my memory. So it turns out that it was simply discussed and never rp'ed. So now I am lost, shall we continue this route or can I switch up my story?

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(Ya know I have a horrible memory. I remember having Song rejoin but having a few posts with her I just think that since she's been missing this whole time. )


Oh, dear Starclan Songbird really wanted to glare at the leader back or be given the chance to wipe that displeased look on that rat-face.

"You can return to the clan, but I'm not placing you in the nursery anymore. You're able enough to start hunting and defending the clan as a warrior, that is what you'll be."

Usually, the molly lashed out at the idiots or stupid cats in her clan but never, never in her life has she lashed out at a higher-up; until now. "Excuse me?" Yup, being polite was out of the window. Now Songbird was glaring at the leader and tilted her head slightly. "I DO NOT want to be a warrior. You have plenty of those! I am a natural queen. I am your BEST queen." At first her voice was at a normal tone before raising to almost a yelling. "I am basically the mother of this clan! I RAISE KITS AND SHAPE THEM TO BE YOUR BEST APPRENTICES." This was outrageous!

(You can decide on what you want to do with that. I'm not certain he'll be getting back into the Clan at the moment, unless the interaction changes, Twilightstar's really not happy with him. He can change the story, but he'd have to make it really believable for her. Song got a free pass, you made a post or two in the clan, and then she went missing again, so to Twilightstar she hasn't been missing the whole time.)

Twilightstar slowly curled her lips back as she snarled at the molly's loud voice. She was getting so tired of selfish cats making such a fuss about such things. At one point in time, she had relied greatly on Songbird, but now she was wondering why she had.

"You do not get decided your rank. I do." Twilightstar spat and bristled, glaring at the other cat. "I don't care if you do not want to be a warrior, you've been gone for moons, return, and then disappear again, you've not raised any kits in a long while. Some mother you are, a real mother doesn't abandon or desert her clan for any reason. You dear call yourself the best queen, ridiculous." Twilightstar scuffed, [b]"Not to mention, I don't recall ever allowing you to become a forever queen." Even though filled with anger, Twilightstar did not resort to yowling and screeching like Songbird.

"You will return to the clan as a warrior, or not at all. I'm not negotiating with you. You've no right to return to the clan as a queen, if you not going to help fight and feed the clan, then I don't see the point in allowing you back. "

[Fawnhearted]

Surprised at the offer she padded over, listening to Twilightstars request on her opinion.

“Wolffang is,,, a good warrior?", Seedheart meowed hesitantly. She didn't like him very much but nobody could deny he was a good hunter and fighter. "I think some of his views on other cats are so mistake, he tends to prefer "pure-blood" cats whatever that means, and was quick to dismiss cats because of disabilities." Seedy wasn't quite sure what else she could say, Wolffang wasn't her favorite cat but she respected him for the clan.

"I don't doubt you thought about the sake of the clan and chose what you knew was the right choice, Wolffang can be a good cat, maybe after he gets used to the role that'll show through?", she suggested hopefully.
@Moonraven

[Raven~]

Dirtpaw felt pretty uncomfortable just sitting there listening to Sharpkit vouch for him, and Twilightstar saying no, and him saying nothing at all. Then he heard Twilightstar say Sharpkit would be punished. What? "Please don't punish Sharpkit," He blurted. "It was by idea!"
@Moonraven @Quickpaw

[Glitch_Candle]

[that's ok] @Moonraven ig

[starry]

Skyleaf

Skyleaf padded into the medicine den, wincing as the blood continued flowing out of her hind leg. At least she had helped. The warrior dropped down onto the floor, as she just couldn't stand anymore. It was too much for her.

@Rockfall

[poppy]

@Moonraven

Mushroomkit shrugged, looking at his paws. There's no one left to worry about me, but I can go back anyways? Her dismissal was probably a way to send him off without hurting his feelings, so...