High Rank Announcement [#hrannouncement]

**silver.** · #**821** October 2nd, 2023, 07:06 AM

eveningdance // he/him // 44 moons
purrks: -

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Backlash was to be anticipated. One didn't draw attention to themself and not escape without the angry eyes of the blind. Of those unaffected by the pain of loss. Mismatched gaze meets that of Lioncrest with a rage of his own, a low boil amongst his hues. These cats... Were they truly so foolish?

"I appreciate your concern. But if a leader cannot accept the criticism and wrath of her kin then she is hardly fit to be one at all. If to speak against her is to be punished or to be labeled an anarchist then this clan falls to a tyrant. I will deal with the 'loss of my ears' with my own claws and teeth."

At least Eveningdance was a feline that thought with his mind rather than his heart. The words that lacerate poor Mapleface's wails and demands, along with his own, would have any other cat swinging at the molly deciding to push forward and involve herself in a situation that didn't involve her. Last time he checked he was speaking to Bumblestar. Not Lioncrest, nor Violetfreckle. The leader could handle herself. If not then she truly wasn't meant for this. He turns an unimpressed gaze upon the younger cat as she moves away, words following her with a vicious cold.

"Mind your words. Remember where you sleep. Garner the anger of your fellow warriors and do not be surprised when we do not rush to your aid in your time of need. Mapleface is grieving her brother. That is who she is. If you know not the situation, either, I suggest you mind your manners and stay out of it."

This was the most he had spoken in some time. But enough was enough. As of late Thunderclan was tumbling recklessly down a bloody path. A path he didn't approve of. He would always be loyal, always defend his home and his people. But the death of two kits, as a tom who cared for his own so deeply, would not pass without his judgement and obvious discontent. And if there are cats that wish to try and force him to step down, so be it. But they would find themselves at the the sharp end of his paws. Attention returning to the leader standing high above them all, he offers a slow blink of his eyes, claw digging into the dirt.

"It is obvious you murdered Cracklekit, yes? Your pelt reeks of his blood." He mews, a challenge glinting in green and yellow visage. "You are a thoughtful leader. I understand there must be a reason for your actions. But blood only invites more blood. Anger only invites more anger. You act for us... You think for us... But you do not think of us. Is whatever idea of glory you idealize worth the pain of your clanmates? Surely there was a better course of action other than death."

lioncrest | @Jayvines // violetfreckle | @vex // bumblestar | @dino.

**Moxie Foxy** · #**822** October 2nd, 2023, 08:19 AM

Shypaw Rolled her Eye's at the cats around her antics.

She stood up as Rootbear headbutted her gently. Rootbear tilted their head, with a soft whisper meowed "Hush, Come you two, lets go farther back and watch from a distance. Best to Get away from that fluff brain Ghostwhisper" Bubbles mewed, side eyeing Ghostwhisper.

Shypaw Turned to Violetfreckle, Nodding at the She-cats words, while glaring at the Ghost fool.

@vex @Shadowed Flower @vampire

**dino.** · #**823** October 2nd, 2023, 08:32 AM

High Rank Announcement [#hrannouncement]

Oh, confound it all, someone was already getting on her nerves. Bumblestar’s head swiveled in Goatscrunch’s direction, pupils shrinking to dark slivers. “I’ll be as loud as I wanna be,” she snapped. “Shut up before I get down there and make you!” Agh, headache, headache, headache– she didn’t have the energy for this, the capacity to handle it. Every little thing was sending her closer to the tipping point. She needed a dark den and no noise and cold air and maybe a creek to go jump into to cool off but they HAD NO CREEK because they had LOST IT-

She tipped her head back, eyes squeezing shut as she tried to suck in a deep breath to relax. It sounded more like a growl than anything else. She gave up on calming down.

There was a kit by the body, when she had specifically told the kits to stay in the nursery. Luckily Violetfreckle got to it before she did, because whatever Bumblestar would have said would have been much less kind in comparison to the other warrior’s wordless comfort. But, stars, Mapleface would be a far worse pain to deal with; the sheer volume already made her headache spike sharply through her skull, and she pinned her ears back to counter it with another growl. Her eyes lingered on the queen as she ran her tongue over her jaws, still tasting the iron tang that clung to her lips. She needed to wash off.

Someone dropped something in the background. She knew what it was. She didn’t care to look.

Her gaze snapped briefly to Eveningdance and she bristled, but Lioncrest at least had some freaking sense and interjected before she could. Might as well, thought it wasn’t helping the slowly growing, pulsing ache in her stomach and her head. And of course one more cat just had to get their piece in. Her ears flattened against her head again as the noise seemed to rise continuously, and with it, that swirling, expanding ball of ache in her gut that combusted once it got too big.

“VIOLETFRECKLE!" The she-cat’s name exploded from Bumblestar’s jaws like a gunshot, accentuated with an abrupt shift to standing position. She wasn’t even sure why this was what got to her the most, but bright stars above and grim forests below, did it get to her. She had enough clarity left over to regret the furious tone as soon as she heard it, and with a snarl directed mostly to herself, shook her head sharply and tore her gaze away, no longer interested in pursuing whatever train of thought she had been headed down. She didn’t really remember, anyway. And whatever Eveningdance said next was lost to her, meaningless noise amongst the rest. “Would all of you shut it before I start yanking tongues? I’m getting a starsdamned headache from all your senseless yammering. Quit screaming your heads off ‘n leaping over ravines to get to illogical conclusions.”

Back to Mapleface. Easiest place to start. Only place she would start. “Use your freakin’ eyes. One, that isn’t a kit, he was sixteen moons old, an adult, ‘n fully capable of making his own idiotic decisions. Two, he murdered Vinekit, so I took care of the problem.” Bumblestar wasn’t about to shy away from this topic, and although her eyes were on Mapleface for the moment, her words were directed to the whole of the Clan. “Caught him slamming a paw into the kit’s head in a secluded part of camp. Impact killed Vinekit instantly, he didn’t even have a chance to react to it before he went down.”

Her attention turned away from the queen to rest on the Clan as a whole, hackles rising. “How none of you managed to hear the amount of screaming coming from that idiot’s jaws and be concerned about it, I’ll never know, but I had to be the one to deal with it. I don’t want to turn my claws on my Clanmates, but given his track record, I’m not shocked it came down to this. And if any of you ever so much as lay a single paw on a kit like that, you’ll meet the same fate he did.

"Vinekit’ll be buried at Willow’s Rise; someone take him there now so that more kits don’t wander outside ‘n chance seeing it. We can hold a vigil later. I want someone else to take the rat’s body into the outskirts. I don’t care what you do with it there, I just don’t want it anywhere on ThunderClan territory.” Personally, she’d rather the vultures and coyotes tear it apart than shield it beneath the soil. It could rot down to nothing but bones for all she cared.

She shot Eveningdance a smoldering look, as if silently challenging him to combat her further on this.

#tcmeeting

**ChaosBringer.** · #**824** October 2nd, 2023, 08:36 AM

Fawnpaw

Fawnpaw listened to her leaders fear in her eyes. The apprentice was glad she hasn't pissed Bumblestar off. Following her friend and Rootbear, her fur bristled with fear. @Demini @dino.

Katiethewolfchild · #**825** October 2nd, 2023, 08:38 AM

Sunleap's eyes were open wide. He thought CRACKLEKIT MURDERED VINEKIT! He would have offered to take one of the bodies but he knew that he probably should get his injuries looked at right after the meeting.

Rainclaw listened.

**SSakii** · #**826** October 2nd, 2023, 08:52 AM

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| ⛆ Closed ⛆ |
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˚₊‧꒰ა ☁︎ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

⛆ No… God no… FrogPaw looked… utterly destroyed… Gone… Crackles was gone… She couldn’t believe it… She wanted to speak, ask to see him, but not a singular sound escaped her mouth… She couldn’t even cry… The only one that seemed interested in her, wether it had been a crush or a simple friendship- It really didn’t matter…! Crackles… Her crackles was DEAD. Killed by BumbleStar… Which was also against the code…

⛆ The code, their very foundation…! It made her so sick that someone had yet again disrespected it… But, the brown mollie found herself being more upset about the death of crackles… Gosh, now what was she going to do…? He was the only one she could truly rely on… She is yet to cry…The only thing FrogPaw could really do was stand up and limp her way to her nest…

⛆ Silently, FrogPaw has left the meeting…

˚₊‧꒰ა ☁︎ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚
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**elswhere** · #**827** October 2nd, 2023, 09:02 AM

Lightningpaw
female | 8 moons

It just didn't click.

Well, it never did for her, but right now it really didn't.

Emerging from the apprentice's den, awoken from her nap, the sharp, irony scent of blood caught in her throat, making her gag. Why would there be blood? This was camp, maybe somebody just stepped on a stone right? Just cut their pad and Drizzlecloud would fix 'em up nice and quick. Blue-brown eyes flickered amongst the gathering cats that flocked in the camp's clearing, near the Stormcrest, a extremely bloodied Bumblestar stood high upon stone, eyes blazing. No, nobody cut their pad. Before the yellow tabby had any chance to say anything, Lightningpaw caught sight of Cracklekit's bloodied white fur, the blood that stained the clearing, Vinekit's lifeless lump that lay gently away from the white tom's body. Horror struck her features as she froze in her place, eyes wide. None of this seemed real, as if she was still in her nest, dreaming as she was a couple of moments ago.

Her claws dug in the packed earth of the camp floor, she couldn't move, and it hurt to even breath. Eyes frantically searched for her siblings, Lamb, Lotus, Leaf, somebody that she could lean on. She didn't know the dead cat too much but stars, she hated seeing this, hated seeing death all around her. The fact the her own leader murder an apprentice just didn't sit right with her.

@poppy. @eris. @Leafy (mentions of your kitties) @elaif (crackles haha)

Reedpaw
5/100
male | 10 moons

Well, this wasn't good. Not good at all.

Also, stars damn, why was every one yelling so much? Couldn't they just shut up? Jeez.

Reedpaw sat silently, anger bristling his fur as he listening to Bumblebutt's yowling, and the other warriors' yapping back. Stars everyone here was so stupid, why couldn't they just have a normal meeting for once, where there wasn't death and violence and adults that were supposed to be mature acting like kits. Blue eyes traveled down from watching the bristling yellow leader (he understood where "Bumble" came from) and caught sight of Crackles' lifeless, bloodied body laying unceremoniously beneath the Stormcrest, while Vinekit (a cat he never cared to know) was laid gentler, farther away from the white apprentice's body. A sick, amused snort came from Reedpaw as he gazed at Crackleidiot's body. I knew it was coming. One day he would push it too far and now look where he is. Should Reed had been a little less rude about it, considering this was his previous denmate and a friend of his? Yes. But leave it to Reed to laugh at his buddy's funeral.

@/elaif (crackles' little buddie who griddyed on him) @FrostyGalaxy (if you want pebble to come talk w/ his brother)

**Moxie Foxy** · #**828** October 2nd, 2023, 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shadowed Flower

Fawnpaw

Fawnpaw listened to her leaderz fear in her eyes. The apprentice was glad she hasn't pissed Bumblestar off. Following her friend and Rootbear, her fur bristled with fear. @Demini @dino.

Rootbear and Shypaw settled down in a corner, shypaw waved for her bestie to join them

**sturgeonwind** · #**829** October 2nd, 2023, 09:11 AM

Dragonflycliff
(Image by Pangoligon)

" I'll take Vinekit." The words tumbled out of her mouth as she hoped the little murderer went to the Dark Forest. StarClan forbid Cracklekit was loved. "You could come with me, if you'd like."
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"Sorry for you, little kit." she mumbled into the limp body. What's the deal, Crackle? Why'd you kill?

- @dino. - Open for anyone to follow -

**shaae_26** · #**830** October 2nd, 2023, 09:19 AM

That was.. definitely something to hear. Pretty shocking. Sparkleap shuddered

Brambleberrys jaw dropped at the report