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Post by Thorn//\\Dark||Shimmer on Mar 3, 2009 23:31:21 GMT -6
He screams at the top of his lungs, rage pouring through him. He claws fiercely at the traitors as they tackle him and pin him down. He twists and squirms, but to no avail. Suddenly, he hears a screech, and when he turns his head, Moonstream is dead. But suddenly it isn't Moonstream any more, but Shadowwhiskers. And then it somehow becomes both of them at the same time, with the same dead eyes and blood spilling from their throat....
Thornclaw wakes up to find himself in the Warriors' den. He can still hear that horrible shriek from his dream. He shudders, then slowly gets up, leaves the den, and then slinks out of camp.
He slowly drags his paws across the ground. He sighs and wanders around, listening to the peaceful sounds of the night. The crickets chirping, the grass swaying, the stream nearby rippling about the stones, all these sounds he concentrated on, letting them clean his mind and fill it with peace.
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Post by Thorn//\\Dark||Shimmer on Mar 3, 2009 23:42:30 GMT -6
After a few moments he is at the little stream. He lazily dips his paw in and makes little swirls in the water, scattering the little minnows as it passed.
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Post by Thorn//\\Dark||Shimmer on Mar 4, 2009 13:34:07 GMT -6
But again the horrible images flashed through his head, forever haunting him. He sat up and shook his paw. Then he slowly wandered around the territory in a sort of trance as he forced himself to keep his mind completely blank. Alone and miserable, he finally wandered back to camp just as dawn was breaking. But for some reason he had no desire to go inside, somehow feeling as if he didn't belong in there, so he simply sat down outside the camp entrance and waited for the Clan to wake up.
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Post by Thorn//\\Dark||Shimmer on Mar 7, 2009 22:30:14 GMT -6
All that day he did all the regular warrior stuff: patrolling, hunting, eating, grooming; but he wasn't actually there. That entire day felt like a fog to him, and the next day, and the next, until finally he just felt as if there was nothing left inside him. He was just a slave.....a slave following the chains of time....
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Post by Thorn//\\Dark||Shimmer on Mar 10, 2009 15:05:55 GMT -6
One day, he is on a patrol, when all of a sudden the fog breaks, and he is flooded with adrenalin and a blind anger. Then he hastily excused himself from from the other cats before he could explode with rage. As soon as he was out of earshot, he ran and ran as fast as he could. eventually he stopped in a small clearing. In blind rage, he attacks a rabbit and rips it to shreds, crushing its skull and spine. By the time he stopped, heaving with exhaustion, there was blood all over the clearing, and bits and pieces of rabbit pelt were scattered everywhere. Suddenly, he sat heavily on the ground out shuddered, totally surprised at what he had done. That savagery, that primal rage, had not escaped him in a long time. And what else surprised him was that he had somehow forgotten how much he liked it........
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Post by Silverleaf//xoxoDinosaurxoxo on Mar 10, 2009 15:24:42 GMT -6
Silverleaf followed the smell of blood, coming towards Thornclaw. She saw the blood scattered around with rabbit, and slightly gasping she asked, her voice shakey.
"Wh-What happened here Thornclaw?"
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Post by .:.S.:.t.:.o.:.r.:.m.:. on Mar 10, 2009 15:37:09 GMT -6
Stormkit walked up to Thornclaw. "Why'd you just tear that rabbit apart?" She asked.
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Post by Thorn//\\Dark||Shimmer on Mar 10, 2009 15:47:58 GMT -6
So he sat there, all dirty, when the sun began to set. A bright red filled the sky. It was an ordinary sunset, but to him it somehow contained a message....a message about how he had been living the past few weeks. And the message was plain and simple; he could almost hear Moonstream admonishing him. Now what was that for, Thornclaw?
"I-I.." But he couldn't put it into words, so he whispered hastily, "I am so angry at the god damn world and I just couldn't hold it in any more......"
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Post by Silverleaf//xoxoDinosaurxoxo on Mar 10, 2009 15:50:38 GMT -6
Silverleaf looked at Thornclaw thoughtfully and finally meowed.
"Its ok Thornclaw, we all get mad at ourselves and the world."
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Post by Thorn//\\Dark||Shimmer on Mar 10, 2009 15:53:15 GMT -6
"Yeah.....I'm going to go clean up I guess..." He slinks over to the river and stares at his reflection.
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Post by Silverleaf//xoxoDinosaurxoxo on Mar 10, 2009 15:54:38 GMT -6
She watched him carefully.
"Ok Thornclaw... If you need any help, Ill be in the camp. See yea." Silverleaf started to walk away
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Post by Thorn//\\Dark||Shimmer on Mar 10, 2009 15:56:27 GMT -6
"ARG!" He shouts and smacks the water. "Stupid, good for nothing-!" Sits there, watching as his reflection slowly came back into focus. Might as well not even be here!
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Post by spottedpaw on Mar 10, 2009 16:09:05 GMT -6
Spottedsun slinked out of some reeds a little ways away from Thornclaw. She had been hunting fish, and noted to herself not to forget the three fish she had caught, that were buried among the reeds. She gazed at Thornclaw, and watched the water settle, ripples expanding on the water until they were out of sight. She padded closer to him. "What's the matter, Thornclaw?" she asked him, glancing out into the water.
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Post by Thorn//\\Dark||Shimmer on Mar 10, 2009 16:15:16 GMT -6
"I'm...I'm remembering someone who used to be, but now never will." He washes his face of the stupid rabbit's blood and says, "Sometimes a tragedy never goes away, no matter how far you run. I think mine has caught up with me and is determined to smother me..."
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Post by spottedpaw on Mar 10, 2009 16:16:34 GMT -6
"Well, have you ever thought of fighting back?" she asked him.
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Post by tangletail on Mar 10, 2009 16:21:30 GMT -6
[red]Tangletail watched Thornclaw from the bushes and she suddenly sees his eyes start to glow. She shakes her head, but they eyes there are blood-red. She stares at it and then a blink right after. As if nothing had happened, his eyes were back to their usual golden color. At first she thought she was going crazy, then she took a moment to analyze it.
What the hell are you trying to tell me now?[/red]
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Post by Thorn//\\Dark||Shimmer on Mar 10, 2009 16:22:54 GMT -6
"I have...but it is a fight against the guilt of failing the one i loved, and she was the only person I knew that could help me fight anything that I felt. She was a support, but she's gone, and for some stupid reason I cannot accept it completely, even though it has been so long sense she- sense she died."
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Post by tangletail on Mar 10, 2009 16:25:30 GMT -6
Tangletail suddenly emerged from the bushes and sat down in front of Thornclaw.
"How did she die?"
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Post by Thorn//\\Dark||Shimmer on Mar 10, 2009 16:27:09 GMT -6
"Oh...My former Clan killed her cuz she left to be with me after the Clan had exiled me for a crime I didn't do."
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Post by spottedpaw on Mar 10, 2009 16:30:15 GMT -6
Spottedsun held herself from jumping back in surprise, and forced her fur to keep flat. She knew there was something strange she had smelt. Oh well, that didn't matter; Thornclaw needed some encouragement and help, and no blood was going to spilt because Tangletail was only trying to help him. She kept silent.
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