WindClan: Life Before 2023's Fire

[Moonraven]

Originally Posted by Ravenleaf

ravenleaf sat down. "I have. and i'm quite suprised i'm not in starclan."
his laugh was nothing more than a hoarse one.

"Perhaps take an escort the next time you go out, all the same, I'm glad to see you've returned safely. You can return to the elder's den if you'd like."
(Done)

Originally Posted by ~Fierce~

~Darkclaw, the lost mother~
Darkclaw trudged through the moor, her white markings stained with dirt. Her white paws dragged through the ground, her golden eyes dull with sadness and a bit of confusion. It had been almost two moons since she had left Windclan, been exiled actually. She could have come back but she didn't. Because she had kitted.

She had kitted 4 healthy kits but she was so worried about what to do that she hadn't taken care of the kits properly. So they had left, gone missing from her life. They could be dead for all she knew. She didn't know.

She went the direction to where camp was, not caring about any noise she made. She would probably look like an outsider. She was really skinny, skinnier than usual, and her pelt was all over the place. She couldn't survive by herself, that's all she knew.
@Moonraven

Twilightstar lowered herself into a crouch, creeping closer, she shifted her weight before launching herself forwards, claws outstretched as she landed on top of a fluffy back. Her fangs sank into soft fur and flesh, she bit down until she felt the body stop writhing underneath her. She dragged her tongue over her maw, pleased with her catch, the leader stepped away from the rabbit. It was a young one, not a lot of meat on its bones, but enough or at least two of her clanmates.

The WindClan leader ducked her head to grab the rabbit by the scruff and was in the midst of heading back to camp when she spotted the cat over younger. At first, she thought that it was a loner, scrawny and unkempt, but as she drew closer Twilightstar recognized the cat's eyes.

"Darkclaw." The leader called out, setting down her rabbit before rushing over to the she-cat's side. It didn't look like she was hurt, just tired and underfed. Twilightstar silently waited for the warriors to tell her what was up. This one hadn't gone missing if she recalled, but with the time she spend out of camp, she became missing.

Originally Posted by FriedChicken

Stonefall slowly appeared

"Stonefall, you've been missing or a bit." Twilightstar meowed as soon as she spotted the tom. She raised a single ear while flattening the other while waiting for an excuse.

Originally Posted by Jay.

// @Moonraven \\

★ Ryecloud ★

Ryecloud smiled when she felt the familiar
breeze and scent of the moor. The
leaf-fall chill made her shiver so she
continued her way to WindClan camp.

She had missed her clan so much.
And she wanted to see her loved
ones so badly. She felt a little guilty
for leaving them like that-.

What is done is done, she just needed to see them.

Spotting the light brown she-cat as she reentered WindClan's territory, Twilightstar turned abruptly and walked in the cat's direction. The dark dappling and green eyes made her easy to recognize. "Where have you been, Ryecloud?" She looked alright for a missing cat

[FriedChicken]

@Moonraven "I'm sorry I don't even have a excuse" he honestly told Twilightstar

[Storm Flower]

Windmoon yawned he was relaxing in a shade

[marshall]

// @TheNyanCatMinecart

Bearbranch
___________

Once Bearbranch got back to camp he waved his tail goodbye to Fallownose and found Wolffang to tell him how the patrol went. "Me and Fallownose just came back from the border patrol you assigned us. We were able to mark everything and while we were there what seemed to b the kit of a dog was about to fall in the river, and we let it. Fallownose wanted to save it but I refused since we don't need any more dogs running around." Bearbranch said, a bit sorrowfully. He was still a bit upset about the dog kit, but he tried not to show it too much in his voice. "Oh and also, Crowspeck didn't show." He added on.

[~Fierce~]

~Darkclaw~
Darkclaw had been looking at the ground until she heard pawsteps and then a familiar voice. She looked up quickly and a small smile appeared on her face, her face muscles aching a bit. She hadn't smile in so long that she wasn't used to it.

Darkclaw took a moment to respond, her throat dry as well. "It's good to see you Twilightstar." She winced at how raspy and dry her voice sounded and she heard it crack, almost like lightning on a stormy day. Or maybe it sounded like that just to her. "I'm sorry I've been gone for so long. While I was exiled, I kitted. I hadn't been expecting it and all by myself I didn't know what to do. So, one day I left them where I was staying so I could go hunt and when I came back, they were gone. Filled with grief, the only option I had left was to come back." She hoped that Twilightstar would let her come back. She couldn't last another day all alone.
@Moonraven

[elswhere]

' Do I look lonely?
I see the shadows on my face.
People have told me,
I don't look the same. '

The dim light from the overcasted clouds made small patches of sunlight over the ground. They casted shadows along the slim, oriental-like features of Coldmist as he trotted lightly and swiftly towards the camp, grumbling under his breath about how much he'll have to explain to his childern, and Peonyprance. Stars, that would be fun. With a small sigh he lifted his head, gazes scoring the horizon of the moor for any signs of his clanmates, (perferrably not Wolffang if Coldmist had a choice) standing upon a rock.



' Maybe I lost weight.
I'm playing hooky with the best of the best,
put my heart on my chest so that you can see it, too.
I'm walking the long road, watching the sky fall. '

His pelt seemed.. dull and not as shiny as is used to. He seemed scrawnier, thinner than his usual self. His dark, misty blue eyes seemed like a blazing fire of determination. He was home, and for the last time.



' The death of a bachelor!
Oh oh.
Seems so fitting for,
Happily ever after. (woo)
How could I ask for more?
A lifetime of laughter,
at the expense of the death of a bachelor. '

The finale, Coldmist finally caught the sight of a figure standing straing across from him, what seemed like a million fox-lengths away. Twilightstar. The name etched in his mind forever as a small smile spread across his face. She would take him home, home. One of the best words he'd heard so far in his life, or at this moment.



//: @Moonraven

[bailu]

Originally Posted by Peril

Blazeclaw | @Eclipse. | wt Firekit
The queen purred, the kitten was quite an energetic one! That's wonderful! I'm doing great too. she said with a sparkle to her eyes. Her smile spread wider, tail swishing lightly side-to-side. Her front paws uncrossed as she stretched slightly. Her belly was growing uncomfortable, so sheshifted the position she was laying in.

Firekit smiled happily.

"I like playing mossball as well!" she chirped. "I beat my friend Whirlkit the other day or two. "

She padded over to the entrance, looking wistfully out at the breezy moor. Firekit wished she was an apprentice already. Going back to Blzeclaw, she opened her maw to speak again.

"I'm almost six moons old," she announced brightly. "Just two more moons and the one and only... me will become an apprentice!"

She looked hopefully at the queen. "Then after that I'm going to be a great warrior!"

[TheNyanCatMinecart]

(I'm making another post just to move things along. Don't forget, your character needs a minimum of two posts not counting the patrol place, or else they'll get punished.)

~ WOLFFANG ~

Annoyingly, the other members of his patrol weren't listening. Wolffang huffed, his big ears flattening. This was his patrol, and he didn't want his own patrolmates to be lazy. Well, he'd go ahead and do some hunting, and then try to gather them up again. After all, what would it look like if he was punished as the leader of his own patrol? The tom looked around the moor, feeling the cold leaf-fall wind ruffling his thick gray fur, which did offer a layer of protection. Was there a rabbit or something he could take down? He saw one with brown-and-white fur that blended in with the moor. The tom crouched down, pinpointing its position, and circled around to get a better view on it. Then he dashed forward, across the moor.

Wolffang was big for a WindClan cat, with a broader, sturdier, more muscular build than most. However, he was lithe around the middle, and seasons of WindClan training were still with him. His paws flew across the grass with his gray tail streaming out behind him, his chest and neck fluff ruffling in the wind, as he bolted toward the rabbit. The rabbit turned toward him and squeaked, running off in the other direction, but Wolffang persisted. He was getting closer and closer. And then he was right there, so close. He jumped with his powerful hind legs and soared through the air, landing right in front of the spotted creature. It squealed and tried to turn, but he whipped around and planted his paws on it, jaws closing around its neck for a clean killing bite.

He gripped its brown-and-white scruff and padded back over to the other cats of his patrol. Then he plopped it on the ground. "I hope you two did some hunting while I was chasing that rabbit," he growled. "Come on, let's see what else we can find." The tom scraped some grass over the rabbit, then began to prowl forward. Would they get lucky and find more prey? The brown-and-white rabbit had been a good catch. But then he spotted something. Up ahead, it was yet another rabbit, nibbling on the grass. But it was huge. Bigger than any rabbit he'd ever seen. Black-and-white, it was, and it hadn't noticed them. Imagine if we caught that. That could feed multiple cats.

Wolffang turned to the rest of his patrol. "This is our opportunity to work together as a team. See this rabbit? It's massive. It would feed multiple of our Clanmates. I have a plan to catch it." His ears flicked toward the surprisingly large rabbit. "Skyflare, you circle around and scare the rabbit from behind. Reedsong, when Skyflare scares the rabbit, make sure that it's headed toward me. I believe that I'm the largest cat on this patrol, so it'll be better if I catch it. But I'll probably need some cat's help to pin it down because it's so big."

He looked toward the rabbit, then nodded. "I'll hide by this nearby outcropping of rocks. Are you ready?"

@vermin @Cxndy_Fatal

[ChillyCiabattas]

@Beetlenose @Rainquail

Cloudsong shifted nervously. Where were the other patrol members? This was her third patrol and she didn't want to fail. "Hello?" She called "Are we just going to wait the rest of the day?" She immediately clamped her jaws shut.

(Hello? Are we doing this?)

[Abyssopelagic]

Coldamber pads up to the rest of her patrol. She hadn't heard Wolffang's call the first time and if a passing cat hadn't told her she'd been called for a patrol, she wouldn't have known.
"I'm here now. Sorry."
Her apology wasn't heartfelt, but rather a reflex.

//I don't think the notification went through for me because this is the first I've seen about being on a patrol, sorry @xXCloudsongXx @Beetlenose