Hunting in the Dark Night

[peacecat]

Ashfur had just got done killing a mouse. or trying to, she had been successful. With a broad smile on her face she saw Dogfang, licking his paws. As she turned her head. Ashfur saw three cats walk away. She gave Dogfang a questionable stare. She slowly pawed over to him. "Dogfang!" Ashfur's voice thrilled to see the Deputy. As she arrived in front of him.


"Im not sure, we've entirely met? I've heard many things about you." Ashfur's voice high.

[♥S.C.O.U.T.♥]

Sandheart's eyes gleamed and her tail lashed. She sighed. Dogfang had never been mean to Sandheart...but that was probably just because she was medicine cat and he had to honor her views....but suddenly, she felt cold hatred to Dogfang as he yelled at that new apprentice, Windpaw, Joypaw, Stormheart, and Goldenshard. No one deserved that.

When it was only her, Ashfur (who was she?) and Dogfang, she leapt out of the tree she'd watched from. Her eyes narrowed, Sandheart padded up to Dogfang and the pure black cat. "Hello, Dogfang." Sandheart greeted kinda short.

[peacecat]

Ashfur suddenly spotted Sandheart. Turning her head she narrowed her yellow eyes.

"Hello," She smirked lightly. "I'm Ashfur."

[joygirl33]

Joypaw flicked her tail in greeting to Goldenshard and Stormheart, coming up behind her and Windpaw. She decided to cover up her unhappiness. "Where do you want to go hunting?" she asked, twitching her ears toward the forest. She bounded deeper into the lushous wood, drinking in the scents, feeling the comforting presence her home cover her anger, and she relaxed, and her neck fur stopped bristling. She stopped abruptly, seeing a large, fat squirrel looming ahead of them. She swiftly dropped unto a hunter's crouch, and began stalking it, and pounced, killing it with a quick bite to the neck. Then she carried it the the rest of the cats, whiskers twitching with satisfication.

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

"Good catch" Windpaw says, and she looks around for her own chance to hunt. She see's a vole scrabing around near an oak tree, and she creeps twords it slowly, but she steps on a twig, and the vole starts and runs into the safty of the roots.

[joygirl33]

"Good try! You'll get the next one." Padding further into the wood, she stopped again, and hissed softly, trying not to the distract the prey, "Why don't you try that one?" Joypaw angled her ears forward to a mouse, a good one, busily sniffing acorns at the bottom of a tree.

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

She nods and sets to the mouse, silent and walking carefully. She gets with in a few tail lengths of her prey, and it stiffens, sensing her. In a desperate move, she leaps the distance, landing on the mouse and killing it.

[joygirl33]

"Great catch! Why don't we go near the border? You can learn DeathClan's filthy scent so you recognize it if they come on our territory, which happens quite often." Though I've gone there before, too, she thought, shuddering visibly. She closed her eyes for a moment, picturing Saidie looming over her and Stormheart nearby as she took her last breath. Then she blinked them open again, and began walking again. She had forgotten about Dogfang in the hunt, trying to show Windpaw good places, and help her to get to know the territory. Her ocean-blue eyes, which were said to shine when she was happy, had begun glowing again, but at the thought of DeathClan, they dulled again. Quickening her pace, she approached the border.

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

Windpaw notices her friend get sad again and she walks beside her.
"Whats bothering you?" She asks, her long legs getting caught in a tree root and sending her head over heels. She gets up quickly, feeling embarrassed.

[joygirl33]

Joypaw rested her tail on Windpaw's shoulder a moment. Then she sat down, curling her tail neatly over her small paws. "Will you believe me? That's what I'm worried about if I tell you, but I trust you." Licking a paw and drawing it over her ear to hide her embarressment, she meowed, "I'm not the first Joypaw. I'm the second. I'm the same cat- I kept my memory, though my body was new- same size and looks, but no wounds. Same spirit and looks and memory, just new body. Well, good as new, I mean. The first time, I died in DeathClan territory. I don't want to bring it up. But I'll tell you-" she lowered her voice- "It was Stormheart who killed me. She didn't mean to, and I forgave her, it was an accident. And I was reincarnated. Whenever I think of DeathClan, I think of what happened, and it brings me down." Joypaw sighed. "But Storm and I are still best friends, we like to act as if it never happened. I'd give my pelt to live the time over again and be more careful, but I can't." Joypaw sighed again.

Scarheart approached the border, chuckling as he saw the number of SoulClan cats there. He groaned inwardly when he saw that both Joypaw and Stormheart were there- chief targets- but Shattergaze said not to attack a patrol, and he wouldn't. Stonekit was following him. "Well, well," he mewed, sneering, "Looks like we have quite a lot today."

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

Windpaw sits and take this in.
"Well, I'm glad your here now. I'm sorry about your past." She licks Joypaws head in comfort and and looks around hearing something from the DeathClan border.

Stonekit looks at the Soulclan cats, her little eyes wide. She wrinkles her nose.
"Scarheart, there stinky!" She complains.

[joygirl33]

Joypaw smiled at her friend, her sea blue eyes sparkling again. "Thank you, Windpaw. It's good to have you here, too." She purred at her. Then her purring faltered as DeathClan scent grew stronger, and voices were heard. Her eyes dulled again, and she whipped around, finding her to face Scarheart and a kit she didn't know. "You don't smell so wonderful yourself, kit," she spat, emphasizing the word kit.

Scarheart laughed. "Of course. Their scent is penetrating enough without their softhearted, weak selves." At Joypaw's comment, he drew himself up to full height, looming. "Don't speak that way around a warrior, apprentice," he snarled back at her.

[♥S.C.O.U.T.♥]

Whitepaw smirked and trailed after Scarheart and Stonekit. A smirk was plastered on her face. "Joypaw!" Her smile was of course, fake. "Damn, I haven't seen you since we forced Storm to kill you!" She said brightly. "We must catch up!"

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

Stonekit growls and backs behind Scarheart, a bit frightened. "Quiet, fox dung SoulClan!" She says, feeling like a coward and stepping out from behind the older warrior. "Don't you dare speak to me that way!"

Windpaw growls, stepping to face Scarheat.
"I suggest you leave. I've already had to talk to one idiot piece of foxdung. I have no need to talk with the likes of you, and some silly little kit. She shouldn't even be out, if you care about her safety." Windpaw spits at the DeathClan cats feet, her neck fur bristling at how careless there were with a kits life.
She turns to Whitepaw, a fierce growl coming from her. "Foxdung. Come acros the border and say that."

[♥S.C.O.U.T.♥]

Whitepaw sneered and stepped over the border, sitting at least three foxlengths away. "Joypaw! Damn, I haven't seen you since we forced Storm to kill you!" She said in the same bright voice. "We must catch up!" Whitepaw repeated the exact words.

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

Windpaw lunges, her long legs getting her to Whitepaw in one leap. She scratches at her face, landing a good blow and riping the side of Whitepaw's face . This splatters blood all over herself, Whitepaw and the forest floor.

Stonekit yelps in surprise, unable to think of what to do. She runs across the border and tries to leap on Windpaw's back, and she sinks her little claws deep into the she-cats skin.

[♥S.C.O.U.T.♥]

Whitepaw snarled in surprise. "WHAT THE HELL?" She screamed, clawing at Windpaw with confusion. She heaved the apprentice off her and whipped her head around to glare at her. Without any warning, she too, launched herself at Windpaw, crushing her onto her side and yanking away flesh whenever Windpaw took a break from trying to get Whitepaw to lose her grip. "I learned that one." She growled. "From Stormheart."

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

Windpaw sinks her teeth deep into Whitepaws flesh, not even sure what she was biting. She starts to scratch Whitepaw's soft underbelly with her hind legs, feeling blood enter her mouth as she breaks the skin. She bites down even harder. Whitepaw releases her and she stands looking at the blood dripping from Whitepaw's shoulder and belly, and she can feel the wounds on herself. She hisses and waits to see what would happen next.

Stonekit runs to the border, hiding under some bushes and wishing Whitepaw would kill the stupid apprentice from SoulClan.

[♥S.C.O.U.T.♥]

As Whitepaw was attacked again, she finally pulled away panting for a second before remembering the number one rule. Pain was just in your mind, taking over your head. It wasn't real. Just your mind playing tricks on you. Almost immediately, the pain of all her wounds left, only leaving behind a numb feeling.

Pulling back her lips, she bared her fangs and leapt at Windpaw again. Her claws out stretched, she slashed her muzzle and neck, tackling her back down to the ground and clawing at her face. Foolish, young apprentice. How could she win this?

[Wind:.*.:Stone]

Windpaw goes limp, and her breathing slow, as blood covers the ground.

Stonekit mews encouragement to Whitepaw, waiting for it to be over.