Realization (Open) Everyone welcome!

[HawkShadow]

HawkShadow stood at the fallen tree that crossed the gap between the territories and the Gathering Island. She took a deep breath. She carefully put one paw on front of the other, trying to grip the soft, slippery bark. The scent of blood, fear, and death was so strong the she-cat's instinct was to run far, far away. However, she needed to find her mate, and her clan mates. She leaped down onto the island, the sand moving beneath her paws.

The she-cat moved through the foliage, towards the clearing the clans would be in. She didn't stop when some fur caught on some thorns. She let some fluffs of fur behind on the branches, with scratches. It didn't matter to her. She was numb with dread.

"No!" She yowled. She had just stepped into the clearing. Blood. Bodies. Death. The first cat she recognized was a nine moon old apprentice. She leaped over some rocks to get to the young cat. Gone. She remembered this apprentice just getting clearance to go.

"You may go. Stay close to your mentor, and try to just stay as back up." Said their leader. The apprentice nodded, "I'll stay safe."

The tom was sprawled, appearing to have tripped on a branch. HakwShadow could imagine his attacker had used the opportunity to pounce and slash the cat's neck open. HawkShadow licked her fallen clan-mates white face, stained red with blood.

The Wind Clan she-cat turned, scanning the clearing.

"The battle... Must have been horrible. These cats killed. Will they still join Star Clan?" The she cat said, her head tilted to the sky. 

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Muse: Better than earlier

[~.:Firefeather:.~]

Firefeather
OOC: TIME WARP!

Firefeather made the journey from ShadowClan's Camp. She could handle not knowing if her mate, Jetstar, had been killed in the heat of battle. Firefeather stopped herself when she stood in front of the fallen tree that connected the gathering island to the surrounding territories. 'Am I ready to know the truth?'   

Firefeather took a deep breath and carefully made her way across the fallen tree. 
She only made it half way across when she could see the body of a ShadowcClan apprentice. She fought her way through the bushes, to the clearing where all the other cats bodies layed limp in the grass. She tried to keep her nerves at bay as she checked the cat to see if it was still breathing. It wasn't.  She looked around the island and  there was nothing. Nothing but bodies of clan mates and other clans cats spread along the ground as far as the island stretched.  Firefeather felt numb and didn't even know what to think of what her surroundings  held.

'Jetstar... I must find Jetstar...'  She thought to herself, at last a clear thought had ran through her mind.  She tasted the air to try to find his familiar scent but all she could sense was the horrible stench of blood. Firefeather quickly tried to find him by looking for his Golden pelt. But No luck...


Firefeather looked towards a pile of rocks towards the fallen tree. She sensed movement. She was to shocked to even care what or who the movement was coming from. She was numb.  

[HawkShadow]

HawkShadow saw FireFeather. The WindClan she-cat tried to remember what clan FireFeather was from.
ShadowClan, she was Jetstar's mate. 

HawkShadow carefully jumped down towards FireFeather, "Hello,"

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T A W N Y F O O T

Tawnyfoot sighed, pulling clan-mate after clan-mate off to the side so that they could come back to the same spot to carry the dead home instead of wandering the bodies. It took a while before he grabbed onto the scruff of a familiar cat. Through the dirt and blood, he could tell that the tom's pelt was golden. He was torn apart and only died recently as his pelt was still warm. "Terrible. When will the fighting end?"

It was at this moment that Tawnyfoot noticed Hawkshadow's absence. He dashed toward her scent, only to find her padding up to Firefeather, Jetstar's once pregnant mate. Her belly wasn't heavy with kits anymore, it was lithe and even with the rest of her body. Her kits must have been born recently. Taking a deep breath, Tawnyfoot padded down the slope behind Hawkshadow. "Hello, Firefeather. It is sad that we've met in this way." The tom dipped his head in respectful greeting before turning to Hawkshadow. "I think I've found him." the tone of the large medicine cat's voice was heavy with sorrow.

He turned back to Firefeather and sighed. "The fighting must end, Firefeather. The clans will not survive if we continue this war."


B E R R Y T A I L

Berrytail wandered the island, looking desperately for Pricklepelt. She had finished kitting only hours ago and the sun was beginning to set. She wanted her kits to see their father before the light of silverpelt started to show down upon the camp. Where are you, Pricklepelt?

As she came around the leaders' tree, the white she-cat noticed warriors from other clans. Before the war, Berrytail had happily chatted with Firefeather and Hawkshadow during gatherings. She hoped there would be no hostility as she padded into view, much to the dismay of Tawnyfoot, the windclan medicine cat apprentice. Berrytail nodded her greeting to everyone. "I would normally say good day, but it isn't one, is it?"

[HawkShadow]

HawkShadow's eyes filled with tears. "Where is he?" We looked desperately around, "Is he still alive? Can we save him?"

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r i p p l e t a i l
leader, riverclan

Rippletail decided to skip the tree trunk and swim across to the island. She smelled the fear, blood, and death from far away -- and the scents of the other clans. She padded down to the shore line and dove into the water, swimming swiftly across.

Reaching the other side, she shook the extra water from her pelt and moved to the side of the island where RiverClan smelled strongest. She opened her nose for her leader and her mentor's scents, hoping against all hope that they were alive.

Rippletail poked her nose through the bushes and reached the body of her leader. Toadstar's body, cold and hard, had lost all of the warmth and vitality she saw before he left for battle.

Her Clan was lost.

She sat by his body, ignoring the mewlings of the other cats she scented. She owed Toadstar this last vigil.

[Midnightive]

Leopardstorm stood looking down at the four trees. She took a deep breath and walked down to the bloody messy of what was Four Trees. Her heart turned as she walked over bodies with her mouth open. She turned and looked over to Coalfeathers body, she saw it she knew where it was she walked over to him.

Her stomach twisted as she used a paw to shut his eyes. ”we’ve escaped death so many times Love I guess this time was to much for me” She laid close to him and side. ”We’ve had three beautiful kits Coal.” she ignored the cats around her keeping her eyes down on Coal before turning.

”this is not our war anymore, from this day on we’ll say this war is over this clan has always had four clans and we need to remake” she told them. Her eyes full of hurt and she spoke true before lying back down next to Coal. ”we’ll burry all of these cats together, somewhere in the middle of all four clans to remind us of what should never happen again” she suggested. ”or today we help each other in the name of our forest”

ooc: Sorry about Leopard she's very... strong headed also who you don't mind me butting in.

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{My OOCs will be in these fancy brackets. You might want to remember to change the "people" to cats ^^}

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T A W N Y F O O T

Tawnyfoot hung his head and shook it, looking sadly at Hawkshadow. "He is with Starclan, as is all of our clan that came here." He sighed, looking at the group of clan-mates that lay not far away. The golden tom lay half-groomed just a little ways away from the rest of the clan mates. "I set him apart to make him easy to see." It made Tawnyfoot feel terrible, and he could see his mentor far on the other side of the clearing.

Returning to the other conversation, Tawnyfoot looked around. "Here, we should burry them here. This is Starclan's island, so they should stay on Starclan's land." It made sense to the Medicine Cat and he nodded, looking from Rippletail to Firefeather, To Berrytail, Leopardstorm, and Hawkshadow. "Do you all agree?"

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B E R R Y T A I L

Berrytail nodded, agreeing with the windclan tom. She didn't stick around long, though, and continued her search for Pricklepelt. Her kits needed to see and scent Pricklepelt before he was buried. They needed to know their father.

It took a long time to find him. Pricklepelt was laying on his back with his belly ripped open among other things. Berrytail immediately began grooming the tom, and when he was clean and nice looking, the white she-cat bid the other cats good bye and went to her camp, to unite her mate with his family one last time.

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r i p p l e t a i l
leader, riverclan

Rippletail gazed at her leader's body one last time and turned to the other cats. "RiverClan's cats will be buried on our territory in our home. Unless StarClan wills otherwise, I will bury my dead."

She gentle pulled Toadstar's body closer to the bush she first entered the clearing from, and methodically worked her way through the bodies. With each Clanmate discovered, memories flashed through her head and overwhelmed her with grief. Her salty tears washed through the bloody pelts of her Clanmates and rolled to the ground. While she gathered the cats, she listened for the other's responses to her bold statement.

I never thought I could be so bold. StarClan give me strength, she thought.

[HawkShadow]

HakwShadow mewed, "No... We must take them back to our territoies. They would want to be buried near home." The she cats head ducked. She turned and walked towards were her mate was.

her eye picked out his pelt, the coat of fur she knew so well. She wailed mand collapsed. H sides heavîng. Her world had crumbled. Everything.... Dead. No on to lead. Her mate gone, pregnant with kits, no one to help.

someting was wrong. The pain in her sides.. She was kitting. She needed to relax... But ho does she relax in. Place like this?

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[~.:Firefeather:.~]

Firefeather

Firefeather looked over at Hawkshadow, she could sense something wasn't right. Her body language suggested that  she was in pain. Firefeather stood up and padded towards the pregnant Windclan queen ," Are you alright? You look like you're in pain."  She looked back at the other females, looking for some assistance.  She directed her attention back at Hawkshadow ," I know this is hard on you, its hard for everyone of us here. Most of us are pregnant or have recently had our kittens. We all know your pain Hawkshadow... Our kits will never know their fathers, or how a clan truly works. I pity them." She whimpered to the she cat. She looked around and scanned the area, hoping to spot a glimps of her mate, but once again, nothing.




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OOC: Been busy sorry guys!

[HawkShadow]

HawkShadow looked towards her clan's medicine cat, "I think I'm kitting!" The stress in her voice was so evident, a mouse cold understand her feelings. This was probably the worst place to kit, blood and bodies everywhere, out in the open where predators could attack... The list goes on.

The brown tabby collapses, and tries to shut off the world, placing her paws over her face. Too much was happening... To much..

OoC: Is it fine if she gets a vision from StarClan telling her to basically suck it up and lead WC? ^^

[~.:Firefeather:.~]

((OOC: Sure Go For it))

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T A W N Y F O O T

THe Tom's pelt stood on end and he dashed over to Hawkshadow, looking her over and growling at himself for letting her out of the camp so close to kitting. "You're kits are coming, Hawkshadow." the tom confirmed, weaving through the cats and shaking his head. He didn't have his herbs with him. She would need them with the stress she's under. Great Starclan, why now?! he asked silently.

"Hawkshadow, I don't have my herbs. I can run to get them, but you might be done kitting by the time I come back. Do you want me to get the herbs or wait until I can take you back to camp?" Tawnyfoot was sure that with his size, it wouldn't be any problem to carry two kits in his mouth, maybe three if he really struggled. The problem was crossing the log. It might be right in front of their territory, but it was slippery and no place for kits to cross.



((OOC: Weee! XD sorry there's no color))