Post by Willowishness on Jul 29, 2008 18:19:13 GMT -5
((Leafy asked me to kill HeatherStar for her and to name VioletLight as the new leader: VioletStar.))
HeatherStar's slender form flashed through dappled sun and shadow as she made her way across the training hollow, following the scent of a pair of dogs. She was still a little skinny from DeathStroke poisioning her, but she was getting much better, thanks to ShiverClaws' potions.
She was certainly healthy enough to go on a lone patrol searching out the two dogs that had killed rabbit on her clan's territory earlier.
She heard a squeak. HeatherStar tipped her head to the side to hear better.
That had sounded like a kit, or was she mistaken? But it was impossible for one of her clan's kits to wander so far without being picked off by a predator or collapsing with exhaustion on the way...
The well muscled she-cat cautiously poked her head around a dew-speckled fern. Her eyes widened as the view from behind the fern revealed a squirming mass of 2 to 3 moon old kits in a nest of vines.
She padded forward less cautiously now, ignoring the hisses of the little kits, sniffing each of the 12 thoroughly. Who had left them here? She could easily smell the scent of a rogue tom and under that, the very faint scent of a she-cat. But the she-cat's mark on the kits was so faint, HeatherStar could discern nothing about her. So maybe their father had left them here for some reason or another? Maybe the mother hadnt wanted or been able to care for 12 kits and asked her mate to put them here in hopes some cat would care for them?
A sudden hostile scent bombarded the leader's scent glands. HeatherStar glanced up, then bolted up the nearest tree at the sight that greeted her. Two huge dogs, bigger than any she'd ever seen, were advancing through the ferns towards the pile of kittens. The dogs, from the sound of them, were following the scent trail towards the kittens.
HeatherStar's heart pounded as she wondered what to do.
She made up her mind and bounded off the low branch she had been clinging to and darted towards the dogs. She yowled loudly to get their attention and then raced off towards Loner territory, unwilling to leave two such dogs on her clan's territory.
The dogs followed with woofs of interest.
HeatherStar was dismayed to see how fast the dogs were when she glanced back. They had cut the distance between HeatherStar and them in half! She had thought all dogs were dumb and slow...
She put on more speed but tired quickly. She still wasnt fully recovered and didnt have her full stamina to use.
The moment when the dogs caught up was worst. The lead dog dipped it's head to pick her up and flung her in the air. She landed on it's back with years of battle talent and raked her claws across it's ears before the second dog grabbed her. Maybe if there had only been one dog, she could have made it out with a few of her lives still intact...
=Several hours later=
((A patrol needs to stumble onto the kits and HeatherStar's body(the dogs are long gone) and realize what happened.))
HeatherStar's slender form flashed through dappled sun and shadow as she made her way across the training hollow, following the scent of a pair of dogs. She was still a little skinny from DeathStroke poisioning her, but she was getting much better, thanks to ShiverClaws' potions.
She was certainly healthy enough to go on a lone patrol searching out the two dogs that had killed rabbit on her clan's territory earlier.
She heard a squeak. HeatherStar tipped her head to the side to hear better.
That had sounded like a kit, or was she mistaken? But it was impossible for one of her clan's kits to wander so far without being picked off by a predator or collapsing with exhaustion on the way...
The well muscled she-cat cautiously poked her head around a dew-speckled fern. Her eyes widened as the view from behind the fern revealed a squirming mass of 2 to 3 moon old kits in a nest of vines.
She padded forward less cautiously now, ignoring the hisses of the little kits, sniffing each of the 12 thoroughly. Who had left them here? She could easily smell the scent of a rogue tom and under that, the very faint scent of a she-cat. But the she-cat's mark on the kits was so faint, HeatherStar could discern nothing about her. So maybe their father had left them here for some reason or another? Maybe the mother hadnt wanted or been able to care for 12 kits and asked her mate to put them here in hopes some cat would care for them?
A sudden hostile scent bombarded the leader's scent glands. HeatherStar glanced up, then bolted up the nearest tree at the sight that greeted her. Two huge dogs, bigger than any she'd ever seen, were advancing through the ferns towards the pile of kittens. The dogs, from the sound of them, were following the scent trail towards the kittens.
HeatherStar's heart pounded as she wondered what to do.
She made up her mind and bounded off the low branch she had been clinging to and darted towards the dogs. She yowled loudly to get their attention and then raced off towards Loner territory, unwilling to leave two such dogs on her clan's territory.
The dogs followed with woofs of interest.
HeatherStar was dismayed to see how fast the dogs were when she glanced back. They had cut the distance between HeatherStar and them in half! She had thought all dogs were dumb and slow...
She put on more speed but tired quickly. She still wasnt fully recovered and didnt have her full stamina to use.
The moment when the dogs caught up was worst. The lead dog dipped it's head to pick her up and flung her in the air. She landed on it's back with years of battle talent and raked her claws across it's ears before the second dog grabbed her. Maybe if there had only been one dog, she could have made it out with a few of her lives still intact...
=Several hours later=
((A patrol needs to stumble onto the kits and HeatherStar's body(the dogs are long gone) and realize what happened.))
