Hunting in the Dark Night

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

Windpaw sets out of the camp, her bright blue eyes watching out for anything that she might hunt, or any thing that might hunt her.
She trots deeper into the forest, the smells making her feel free, and she listens closely, trying to hear any nocturnal prey.

[Golden /~/ Shatter]

Goldenshard padded through the night air, eyes shining. In her mouth she carried two voles and a mouse, a good catch for her. Though one of the fiercest warriors and best fighters you'd ever meet, hunter was not her forte. But she was getting much better. As she wound in and out of the trees, she caught the scent of one of the new apprentices in SoulClan. Changing course, she padded over to the gray cat and dropped her prey. "Hey!" She said, smiling. "I'm Goldenshard, I don't think we've met before. What's your name?"

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

Windawjumps in suppries but when she catches the sent of a SoulClan warrior, she smiles.
"Hi! I'm Windpaw." She looks at the catch.
"Good job." She says, noding to the prey.

[spottedpaw]

Dogfang padded out of the camp, his tail twitching. None of the warriors in that camp knew how to hunt, and the fresh kill pile was dangerously low. He'd noticed one of the warriors out of the den, and noted that Goldenshard was away from camp. She better be hunting or I'll have her pelt. Maybe Spottedsun turned out to be a terrible mentor to that she-cat after all. he snorted, glaring at the passing by trees. I would have been such a better mentor. That white and ginger warrior would be so much more successful than she is now.

Besides the same old forests scents that floated to his nose, two others appeared much sharper. Ahah! I must've caught up with Goldenshard. We will see how good her hunting is now. And. . .another cat.

He pushed his way through two bushes into the spot where both cats stood. Another cat, much smaller, apprentice size maybe, stood with Goldenshard. "Greetings, Goldenshard," he meowed. "Is this a trespasser you've found?" Dogfang focused his glinting eyes on the smaller she-cat.

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

Windpaw shrinks back and dips her head low.
"N-no. I'm not a tresspaser, a new SoulClanapprentice. Windpaw." She looks up, her blue eyes timid and fightend.
"May I ask who you are?" Her ears flick.

[Golden /~/ Shatter]

As the gray deputy stalked out of the woods, Goldenshard stiffened and turned to face him. He smirked as he looked at Goldenshard and Windpaw, and it took great strength to keep her face normal. She head never really liked Dogfang...he was fine at times, but sometimes he was just...a different cat. And not a good cat.

Goldenshard stiffly dipped her head. "Hello, Dogfang. And no, this isn't a trespasser, she is new to SoulClan. I was just introducing myself." She turned away from the Deputy and half smiled at Windpaw. "Nice to meet you, and thanks."

[.:.S.:.t.:.o.:.r.:.m.:.]

Stormheart hunted a mouse, killing it with a swift bite to its neck. She scraped dirt over it; she would get it later, when she was finished hunting. She continued to go on, catching another mouse, a squirrel, and a bird, when she heard Dogfang's loud voice, followed by Goldenshard's and Windpaw's quieter ones. She sat down behind a bush, quietly watching Dogfang, Goldenshard, and Windpaw, her tail swishing back and forth.

[spottedpaw]

Dogfang frowned. I don't know if I should be happy or annoyed. On one paw, a new apprentice to SoulClan is helpful, because we'll have more forces to fight off DeathClan if needed. . .On the other paw, it's another mouth to feed, and all of these warriors don't know how to get up off their lazy butts and go hunt.

Making a slight "Hrmph" noise, he nodded stiffly. "Welcome to SoulClan, Windpaw. When we get back to camp, I'll organize who your mentor is." he murmered.

Dogfang noticed he hadn't answered Windpaw's question. "I, young one," -he stepped forward menacingly,- "am your worst nightmare. I am the SoulClan deputy, and if you mess with this Clan, you're good as road-kill. Got it?" It ended in a slight growl, and he smiled to himself in victory.

The deputy detected Stormheart's sent a few tail-lengths away, and smirked. He swished his tail over the forest floor. "Come out, Stormheart. No need to hide. Unless. . .you have a problem with any one of us, and it better not be me." Dogfang swirved his head sharply so he was eyeing her with boiling eyes.

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

Windpaw cant help it when a growl slips out of her, and she stands to face her deputy.
"I dont plan on dreaming of you, so your all ready wrong about the nightmare thing.
Your wrong about me ever hurting the clan." She sniffs indigently. "I was taught never to growl at strangers unless they do you wrong, so you have no manners.
I've showed you nothing but respect untill this moment. So you have no right to growl at me. "She looks at the deputy fearlessly, wondering if she was about to have to fight him for her cheekiness.

[.:.S.:.t.:.o.:.r.:.m.:.]

Stormheart strolled out carelessly. "And why ever would I have a problem with you?" She asked innocently. She met Dogfang's boiling eyes calmly, taking no mind to the ferocity behind them. "But it seems that you have a problem with me, does it not?"

[Golden /~/ Shatter]

Goldenshard watched as the sparks flew between Dogfang, Windpaw and Stormheart. Crap...why did Dogfang have to show up? He always turns everything into an angry mess.... She looked over to Windpaw. At least she's sticking up for herself...even though Dogfang will be majorly pissed, at least she's showing she won't be pushed around by the likes of him. Her head then rotated to Stormheart. And Stormheart...Dogfang will want to pick a fight with her, after the whole DeathClan thing. She eyed the deputy, eyes narrowed, waiting to see what he would do. This really could get ugly...I'd better do something.

"Nice job Windpaw, way to show your SoulClan spirit! SoulClan cats don't let anybody bother us, and that's why we'll always defeat that wretched DeathClan." She smiled, but with her eyes told Windpaw what she needed the new cat to know. Dogfang is a jerk, a bully, and maybe something worse...but Whisperstar trusts him somehow. She won't like it one bit if you mess with him. Be careful, try to stand up to him at a better time. Just not here, alone in this forest, where he can get away with things.

But as Storm confronted Dogfang, Goldenshard knew there was nothing she could say. If Dogfang wanted, he would pick a fight with Stormheart no matter what she did. So all she could do was shoot Stormheart a glance. Careful Storm. Whisper isn't here to see what crap Dogfang pulls. Goldenshard's blood boiled to fight him, make him take back the things he had said, but she knew it wouldn't help. Even though she wished it would, fighting wouldn't solve everything. But if Dogfang attack either one of the cats, she knew she wouldn't be able to stop herself from sinking her claws into him.

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

Windpaw waits for few more moments to see if Dogfang would attack and then turns to Goldenshard. "Thanks." She says, smiling, but not turning her eyes from Dogfang, still on her guard.

[spottedpaw]

Dogfang rolled his eyes at the little apprentice, strecthing himself upward so he was much taller than before. If this apprentice was asking to be intimidated, than that's what the little one would get. But he hoped maybe she wanted something. . .a little more. He unsheathed his claws slowly, lifting up one of his paws so they could glint in the moonlight. His eyes were as bright as lightning, and they flashed every moment as he stood in front of Windpaw.

"Watch your back, you scrawny brat. So many things are possible in this forest." He turned his head slowly this way and that, giving his words effect.

"Ha, nothing but respect? Then why don't I see you bowing down to me, instead of glaring at me like a fox glares at a cat. That, Windpaw, is no such respect. Manners are merely for fools who can't stand up for themselves. . .isn't that right, Goldenshard?"

Dogfang turned to her, his grey face producing a dark scowl. "I see your little warning glances. Quit trying to warn them about me. . .If they have to save their pelts because they pushed me just a little too far, they'll see what kind of threat I am to them." He grinned at Stormheart and Windpaw with an evil smile.

"Why, yes. . . I do, Stormheart." He lowered his face down so the shadows covered his eyes. "It's surprising that I still haven't taught you a lesson for your cockiness. A warrior should know better. . . That is, if you still follow the Warrior Code. If you don't, then why, I can rip some of your fur off right now!" He grinned menacingly.

[.:.S.:.t.:.o.:.r.:.m.:.]

"You know, if you're trying to intimidate me, you're doing a pretty lousy job of it. I don't believe I need a lesson for my cockiness, and if I do, you certainly aren't the one to be teaching it," Stormheart said, flicking her tail from side to side. "And, of course, Furball, I do follow the Warrior Code. Why else would you still be standing here?"

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

Windpaw shakes her head in shame for Dogfang, feeling he was a lost cause. To stuck up, blinded by darkness and power.
"I'll fight you if that's what you want, oh great deputy She mock bows and stands streight. "I feel no respect for pieces of fox dung as your self." She flicks her gray tail and meets Dogfangs gaze with out backing down.

[spottedpaw]

"Lousy or not, I have so much more power over you than you know." Her lifted his head to eye her. "Yes, you do need a lesson on cockiness, that's for sure. . . Maybe I need to make you an apprentice all over again so you can learn how to be more respectful to your deputy. I knew Whisperstar didn't know how to mentor her apprentice." Dogfang chuckled. "That she-cat doesn't help the Clan one bit. I never see her out hunting, ever."

The deputy allowed his eyes to burn into Stormheart's. "Why, you ask? You really want to know that answer to that?" He looked from Windpaw to Goldenshard and back to Stormheart, his ears flicking. He lowered his voice, "Because I'd rather teach you a lesson when it was just me and you. One on one. Someone wouldn't come back to camp after that lesson."

Dogfang diverted his gaze to that annoying apprentice again. "Why are you still standing there?" he asked, glaring at her. "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear what you just said. Now get out of my sight and go hunting before I confine you to the camp for three moons!"

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

"Stuck up and power mad." She murmurs sadly, shaking her head and turning with her tail and head high.
"Try not to be to annoying." She says to the deputy. "To have loyal cats you have to have kindness. I can see you dont have either."

[.:.S.:.t.:.o.:.r.:.m.:.]

"Yes, we would need a new Deputy if Goldenshard and Windpaw weren't here." Stormheart agreed, her voice icy calm. "And yes, you do have a lot of misplaced power. Power that the likes of you shouldn't have. I have no idea why Whisperstar would choose some low-life, bossy, power-hungry piece of fox-dung like yourself as Deputy."

[spottedpaw]

"You're one less unloyal cat I'll have to deal with when I get rid of you for good. Count on that, Windpaw," he hissed.

"And there are many cats that admire me and are loyal to me. But you wouldn't know them. In my eyes, you're another intruder like Stormheart here. Neither of you understand any part of the Warrior Code. You're just mangy flea-bags who can't fight for your life --and should be dead now, included-- and are more mouths to feed for my Clan."

Dogfang smiled at Stormheart with glinting, sharp teeth. "Because she's all of the above, and doesn't have the brain for a leader."

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

Windpaw smiles brightly.
"Know that I feel the same way."