ThunderClan: Life Before 2023's Sinkhole

[~dust~]

The joys of being a warrior Dustsong sighs as she sits down in the clearing. Her brown pelt glistening and green eyes sparkling she really wanted a friend a she-cat. She really just needed someone to explain her feelings to.




it was simple she liked she-cats .



sighing she places her head on her legs her short stubby little legs laying down beneath her. She wondered what her mother would have down. Neglected her just like she always did to Dustsong just neglected her.



She wondered if she’d ever find the person she longed to spend her life with the person she wanted to love the person who’d help her raise her kits.

[Arie]

Originally Posted by Beau

[ @Arie ]

Wow... why did she sound so chipper? Cormorantglide’s head was starting to hurt and it was all he could do to follow along with her spiel but the words that she sang like an eager bird hit him more like a boulder. Her family was eaten? Dang, that mother comment he’d made to himself didn’t age well.

“Er... I can’t teach you to take on a badger, kid- if you come across one again just run and hide. You said your uh brothers survived? How many do you have?”

She began to attack his paws and Cormorantglide nudged her away with ease, peering down at her uneasily.

“At your size, I wouldn’t go for the paws. Take advantage of your size in battle and try to keep moving. If you dart under them and between their paws and scratch at them you can unbalance them pretty easily- especially if they are large. Plus, you have good access to the belly which is a very vulnerable spot. Hit it hard enough and the battle is over- they’ll have to run off and get help so they don’t bleed out and to avoid you ripping their guts out- which I wouldn’t advise you do. That’s against the warrior code unless absolutely necessary.”

Cormorantglide wasn’t very good with kids...

This was AWESOME! She was learning how to fight. And how to rip out organs. Swallowkit was loving this and she couldn't help her bouncing as she listened 'carefully' to what he was saying. Okay. So.. don't attack badgers. "WELL! If I run and hide its going to come after me! thats what happened to Ma and Pa and Lil Sis! They like... ran and hid. And the badger found them and started munching them. I've got two brothers! Kestrelkit and Wrenkit. Both are wusses! Don't worry about them!" And then he was going on to teaching her! She was excited and couldn't help her tail from flopping around showing her excitement and she slowly got bigger as her fur fluffed up. This would be FUN! "So I gotta be fast? But... I'm not fast! I'm big and strong!" Yeah! She was! Deciding to try out his move though she rushed underneath the warrior and aimed to jump up so she was throwing the entirety of herself against his belly. "I can rip your organs out! Thanks for teaching me that! Wait does cats also eat other cats liike? go munch munch?"

Originally Posted by Redtalon

Kestrelkit did recognize that Swallowkit was better at climbing than he was, but StarClan knew he wasn't about to agree with her. He lived in denial quite happily, thank you very much. The tom-kit stretched out his limbs, arching his back and lifting chin high in the air to appear bigger than his was. He fixed his sister with a glare only an older brother was capable of giving.

"Well I've got floof too. If I had gotten to the tree first, I would have beaten you just as easily!" Kestrelkit's ears twitched when she mentioned the elder, the elder responsible for Swallowkit's victory. "You think everyone's nice, Swallow. That grumpy old elder was boring as dirt. I wonder how long it'll be till he joins StarClan."

Kestrelkit winced at the pitch of Swallowkit's squeal, wondering if his ears would still work after this. He watched her calico fur expand until she was a ridiculous, tricolored puffball. When his sister's charge toward the rock, uh-- TREE -- ended in the smack of her head against the stone (though not hard enough to seriously injure her), Kestrel's first brotherly instinct was to laugh until his stomach hurt from exertion. The tomkit only stopped snickering when he saw that somehow she had indeed managed to climb the rock. Amazing! First of all, it was possible. He could make it too-- and without banging his head. Second, yes, it did prove that Swallowkit probably really did beat him; Kestrelkit continued to blame the elder for distracting him.

"Get down, get down! It's my turn now!" he screeched, muscles coiling with tension as he prepared to execute the most ginormous leap he was capable of. He couldn't wait to brag to Wrenkit about scaling the rock tree in one jump.

Okay. Get down! Deciding that to bounce down the stone would be an extremely successful idea and while dizzy it would be especially fun. So Swallowkit nodded. "I'M COMING DOWN NOW, BE PREPARED FOR LANDING!" With that the calico leaped from her rock and aimed directly for Kestrel and hopefully would bowl into her brother. "LOOOK I'M AWESOME! NoW YOU GOTTA CLIMB THE ROCK!"

[Abyssopelagic]

Originally Posted by Wolfgirl8

Forestpaw gave him a small smile but something he said made her tilt her head. She hadn't seen Birchpelt or mom...around recently. Could something have happened to her? Was she hurt? Was she missing? These thoughts all raced through Forestpaw's mind as she started to frown. Was she okay? Was she.....stop! Focus! And stop frowning you might worry Bloompaw! Snapping back to attention she asked Bloompaw curiosly, "Who have you made friends with?". She didn't want to be nosy she was honestly just curios.
( @Rainquail )

"A tom named Lionwhisker. He's the Medicine Cat. A healer! And this big goofy tom cat that almost ran me over! But he apologized!"

[dionysus]

[ @Arie ]

This kid was... weird to say the least. Cormorantglide guessed it must have been a coping mechanism that she was so hyper and cheery even when talking about her family’s death- it definitely wasn’t normal. Great, it would be the cuckoo kit who came up to him and started bothering him! Swallowkit was interesting, though, in all fairness, and Corm found himself disliking the idea of her following her family’s path and becoming badger breakfast.

“If you see a badger run and get a warrior- very few full grown warriors can fend off a badger alone, let alone kittens. Finding help is your only shot- but you don’t need to worry about it for now, you won’t be in any badgers way in camp and since you’re not allowed to leave it I doubt that badgers should be top of your list of worries at the moment.”

Swallow’s imitation of the battle move he’d suggested was interesting and Corm twitched his whiskers thoughtfully. He choked on air as he caught her question and snorted in amusement.

“Erm, no. Cats don’t eat each other- at least most of us don’t and definitely don’t condone it. And remember- ripping out the organs is not the goal. Always err on the side of not killing someone when you can. Trust me, watching someone die isn’t nearly as fun as the kit tales make it out to be and it does not make you a true warrior.”

[Arie]

-- @Beau @Redtalon --

"I AM a warrior! I got training and all! I can fight him! I KNOW IT!" Swallowkit was probably way too enthusiastic at the thought of fighting her leader but who wouldn't be? It would surely prove she was ready to be an apprentice already! And then she would ace through that and WIN! But when she noticed that Wrennie was having a panic attack she kind of regretted her words with the badgers. But... you couldn't look at it negatively! or things went wrong... like really wrong. And Swallow was not on board to let things go wrong. This leaf wouldn't sink on the lake! IT COULDN'T! So deciding instead to bounce around and bounced into Wrenkit and Kestrelkit she smiled at the fact that they WERE being included in his prank. "SO like you know.... we could hide in his nest and then surprise attack him and beat him to the ground! LIke I can lead the attack but... YOU CAN HELP!" Was all Swallowkit thought about fighting? Nah! She wanted to climb trees and be the best climber but seeing as the tree wasn't allowed to be climbed on... she wouldn't become a climber YET! "Wren come on! We can come put thorns and leaves in Buckstar's nest and he'll be really happy when we do it alright big bro, he will be HAPPY. Like I am! Like how you'll be! LIike Kestrel is NOT!" Kestrel was never happy and Swallow didn't mind in truth. That was just how her brother worked. So fluffing up her fur again, to triple her size the calico kit stood springing to her paws ready to BOUNCE.

[Wolfgirl8]

Forestpaw's eyes widened in surprise as he told her he made friends with the medicine cat, Lionwhisker, she had thought he was grumpy but she must have thought wrong. Then widened even more as he said he almost got run over!? "W-Well that's intresting," She mewed imagining Bloompaw being run over. It was horrifying to think about. Espicially when she had a knack for imagining the worst possibilities. @Rainquail

[Abyssopelagic]

"Lionwhisker is very nice! Just lonely. He likes flowers, though. I didn't know adults liked flowers! And Soft guy is really nice, he just didn't see me! Probably because I was on the ground."
Bloompaw purred and bumped heads with Forestpaw.

@Wolfgirl8

[dino.]

[ @Siren Bliss, @Beau ]

Buckstar nodded. Even though he knew Jay couldn't see him, he was smiling, and this time it was genuine and relaxed. "Then welcome to ThunderClan; we'll be happy to have you among our ranks. At the next meeting, you'll be given a mentor and have 'paw' added to your name. Cormorantglide," he added to the younger warrior, "why don't you give him a tour of the camp?"

[ we can end it here! submit him to the allegiances and send in an apprentice ceremony request here <3 ]

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[ @Dovesong ]

As soon as he smelled outsider, Buckstar was on his feet and making his way toward the trio, his fur bristling with evident hostility. He stopped in front of them. moss green eyes burning. "What are you doing here and how the hell did you find this place?" he snarled. And HOW had none of ThunderClan noticed them?

[Madelaine]

[ Open ]

---Linnetwing---

The silver tabby had spent the past couple of weeks staying in the warriors den. She had bee depressed since then, but today she wanted to spend some time with her clanmates, possibly do some hunting. No not possibly she would do some hunting. Linnetwing padded up to a random cat even if they weren't a warrior. "Want to do some hunting?", she asked. She was now such a skinny cat after eating less.

[Madelaine]

[ @Sakura; @Shadeleaf; @esa; @soot; ]

---Deerpetal---

The queen looked down at her kits. Of course the den they went into was the leaders den. It was the only reason there would be one nest. "You shouldn't have went in that den. It's the leaders den.", she meowed. Deerpetal was a bit angry, but not too much. The queen placed her head down to allow them to play a game of mossball.