Re: RP with FireBlaze!

[FireBlaze]

Firegaze took her time finishing up with her leaders body. Because he was unconscious the whole time, she may have taken a few lives from him without knowing, but fuck it to hell, she was already evil and corrupt. She was totally unaware of any spying eyes.

[Duststar1349]

Greyfoot concentrated on his work until nightfall, sorting herbs and treating a number of minor wounds his clanmates received, including a few from yet another border argument gone violent.  He hoped she hadn't been on the other end of that.

[FireBlaze]

Hours later, Firegaze lay beside the warrior den dozing off in some warm sunshine, overhearing a conversation between a group of warriors and a very tired looking Whitestar. They were discussing some border skirmish that had occurred, when suddenly one of the warrior's proposed attacking the enemy camp.

Firegaze laid her ears back flat when Whitestar looked pointedly at her and nodded. "Yes, we will attack them at once! Warriors of Airclan, assemble and prepare for battle!"

[Duststar1349]

Greyfoot was still busily tending to a kit's sprained paw when Mottledfinch, a young warrior, sprinted into the camp, eyes wide.  "Rowanstar!  Rowanstar!"  He yowled, looking around the camp in a panic.  The leader emerged from his clifftop den a few heartbeats later.

"What is it, Mottledfinch?"  Rowanstar's frown was evident.

"Airclan has sent an attack party this way!"  The mottled tom said, panting.  "We don't have long before they arrive!"  The clan erupted into a mix of murmurs and panicked gasps.  

Rowanstar growled and muttered something under his breath.  "Senior Warriors, form up in the camp entrance.  Cover the whole entrance, then form rows behind that.  We will not let them inside."  Turning to the medicine cat, he gestured for Greyfoot to follow him into the leader's den, which he did.

[FireBlaze]

Fireblaze breathed deeply in an attempt to calm herself as she strode alongside her clanmates, heading through the enemy territory towards their camp. She had felt her heart freeze in terror when Whitestar had deliberately chosen her to be part of the first attacking patrol. The other one was going around to flank the other side of the camp.
She didn't know what she would do. What if she came face to face with Greyfoot? She would never be able to hurt him. She knew that they had only minutes before they arrived to the camp.

[Duststar1349]

Rowanstar sat down inside the den while Greyfoot remained standing.
"You were in their camp earlier today." The leader mesdd simply.

"Yes, why does that matter?" Greyfoot asked, his heart sinking as he wondered what the other Tom meant. Did Rowanstar know about his secret relationship?

"Did you have any idea that they were coming to attack?" Rowanstar growled quietly, causing Greyfoot to pin his ears back, though he sighed with relief.

"No, Rowanstar, any plans they made, they made after I left."

"Hmm, perhaps they aren't as mousebrained as they seem." Rowanstar sat down again, deep in thought. Padding out of his den, he issued a few new orders to the warriors, having a number of them hide in the nearby woods or in the dens inside of camp, while a group of four continued to bar the camp entrance. The rest lied in wait to ambush the Airclan attackers.

"Mottledfinch, guard the medicine den with Greyfoot." Rowanstar ordered, he himself marching to just behind the line at the entrance, awaiting the arrival of the attackers. Inside the den, Mottledfinch's heavy, rapid breathing created a slight distraction for Greyfoot as he prepared herbs for treating the cats who were sure to be injured afterwards.

[FireBlaze]

Here it goes Before the party had reached the camp entrance, they had slowed to a stop to make a silent approach and form a loose semicircle at the front of the camp. Whitestar, also on the patrol, raised his tail before bringing it down like a whip, signaling for the warriors to attack. Screeching erupted around her, and Firegaze leapt forward into battle.

Caught up in the adrenaline of the battle, and aware of what was at stake, Firegaze immediately adjusted so she could use her best battle skills. In a whirl, she began fighting Lightningclan warriors, dealing many blows but all the while receiving some in return. She barely felt one cut directly above her eye, though she knew it was deep by how much blood ran down into her eyes.

As a Lightningclan warrior tackled her, they fell along the camp trying to pin each other, unknowingly approaching the medicine-den but not quite reaching it when Firegaze finally pinned down the other warrior.

Angry from the wounds she had received and wanting vengeance against the fierce warrior, she leaned down and hissed in the Lightningclan cat's ear, "I'm going to rip your throat out, you fox-heart."

[Duststar1349]

"Greyfoot, I'm frightened."  Mottledfinch mewled quietly before battle was joined.  Greyfoot leaned over to mew a "you've got this." Quitely into the other tom's ear.  Smiling reassuringly, he got back to work with the herbs despite the commotion outside.  Greyfoot had always liked the young warrior, even as far back as his apprentics years.  Suddenly, a pair of fighting warriors rolled just outside his den.  The warrior next to him tensed when he recognized his father beneath Firegaze.

"Get off of him!"  Mottledfinch yowled, the young warrior leaping at Firegaze, screeching with fury as Greyfoot whirled around,not having had enough time yet to react to her presence.

[FireBlaze]

Firegaze whipped her head around as the warrior hurtled towards her, her paw in mid-air to deliver a blow to the neck of the warrior beneath her. Thinking quickly, Firegaze pressed her paw, claws unsheathed, against the neck of the warrior beneath her and threatened, "Stop right there or I swear by Starclan I will kill this cat," she hissed, not knowing he was the tom's father.

[Duststar1349]

"Fuck you!"  Mottledfinch yowled as he launched himself into her side, rage burning in his eyes as he flew towards the she-cat.

"Firegaze!"  Greyfoot yowled from inside his den, meaning to defuse the situation, but as Mottledfinch tackled Firegaze, it was too late.

[FireBlaze]

As the tom leapt at her, Firegaze reflexively pushed her paw down so her claws jammed down into the tom's throat before being ripped back out as Mottledfinch tackled her. They rolled together, clenching each other's shoulders with claws bare, biting and clawing fiercely.

In the background, Firegaze heard Greyfoot shout her name, but it was simply background noise compared to the attack, and the fact that she was now fighting for her life against Mottledfinch.

[Duststar1349]

Mottledfinch screeched and clawed wildly at the she-cat as Greyfoot dragged the body of his father into the medicine den, trying desparately to save the tom.

[FireBlaze]

Firegaze rapidly felt herself weakening from the one-on-one battle, and soon she lay on the ground, utterly exhausted, at the paws of Mottledfinch. Gasping, she turned her head to glare at him and raised her paw to block any blows he aimed at her upper body.

[Duststar1349]

Mottledfinch battered at her until he too was exhausted, having scratched up her shielding paw until it was raw and bleeding everywhere.  Hissing, he ducked back into the battle.

Greyfoot sighed and pressed his ear to the senior warrior's chest, hoping to hear some sort of faint noise, but to no avail.

Elsewhere, Rowanstar finally made his way through the melee to Whitestar.  "Whitestar."  He growled, glaring defiantly at his opposite.

[FireBlaze]

Gasping and heaving from exertion, Firegaze scrambled to her paws and backed up slowly until she slowly entered the medicine-den, and whipped around when she noticed someone else was in there. She stared in shock at the sight of the limp warrior and the medicine-cat standing above him, looking for any signs of life.

"Rowanstar, your clan has intruded against mine, in more ways than one," Whitestar growled, showing off his claws in the sunlight. "And I plan to make your entire clan pay for it, from the smallest kit to the oldest warrior." He began to stalk threateningly towards the other leader.

[Duststar1349]

IGreyfoot looked up grimly to see who had entered, expecting it to be the young warrior checking on his father.  He was surprised to see Firegaze instead.  He simply stared into her eyes for a few heartbeats, looking for any sort of reaction, his forepaws bloodied by his attempts to save the Tom on his floor.

Rowanstar chuckled.  "Beating up on kits sounds just like something you would do, Whitestar.  It's a shame you don't know our terrain, I'd love to fight you on equal terms sometime.  But this is not that time."  Turning to the woods, he yowled "Lightningclan, attack!"  The hidden warriors sprang free from the barrier around the camp and several of the dens, reinforcing the weary Warriors who were already fighting.  With that, he leapt at the other leader, claws outstretched and unsheathed.

[FireBlaze]

Firegaze looked down at the limp body and back up into the medicine-cat's eyes, uncertain. She had thought that she had simply been defending herself, but when she saw Greyfoot's paws covered in blood she knew she may have taken it too far. Finally, she locked eyes with Greyfoot and mewed uncertainly, "Greyfoot...will he...will he survive?"

[FireBlaze]

(sorry forgot the second part)

What? Whitestar thought, as enemy warriors sprang from nowhere. They had had the upperhand before, but now with fresh reinforcements, they had lost that. He knew that to win the camp, there was only one more option. "Warriors of Airclan, form a circle and fight towards the nursery. He heard some of his warriors gasp at the idea, but his word was law, and they would obey it.

[Duststar1349]

Greyfoot slowly shook his head, eyes closed.  "He's already gone.  He bled out."  Sighing, he looked down at his paws until his ears perked when he heard Whitestar's command.  "What?"  He mewed in disbelief, limping out of his den into the chaos.

"Lightningclan, stop them at all costs!"  Rowanstar ordered his warriors, disbelief and a little painic edging their way into his mew.  With a yowl, he launched himself into the middle of Airclan's circle, trying to cause general chaos and ruin the plan.

[FireBlaze]

"Greyfoot," she meowed uncertainly Ashe brushed past, and she ran after him. "Please... wait..." She stopped when she saw the circle of her own clan,s warriors desperately fighting amid chaos, slowly making progress towards the nursery. "What? We're not...we're not monsters..." She whispered to herself, then glanced at her bloodstained paws, "are we?"

With a yowl, Whitestar clawed at the Tom then turned and spun around and made a full-on sprint for the nursery, where he could hear the terrified mewling of kits and panicking meows of queens.

[Duststar1349]

Greyfoot growled when he realized what the Airclan warriors were planning and then limped into the battle himself, more than ready to claw the faces off of a few Airclanners, as he, like the rest of the clan, fought like lions to try and prevent the enemy from reaching the nursery, though they steadily began to give ground to the circle of Airclan warriors.

Rowanstar reeled back at Whitestar's especially painful blow across his chest, a deep claw mark now running diagonally across its length.  Hissing, he ran in front of the entrance to the nursery and tried to beat back the enemy party.

[FireBlaze]

Firegaze stood, unsure what to do as her clanmates made steady progress for the nursery. The cats she had been born to live with, fight alongside, and depend on each for survival, were all cats she cared for deeply, except for Whitestar. But now she couldn't believe what they were doing, all because of the order of her leader. Eyes narrowing, she began to run toward the nursery, though not all that sure who's side she'd be on once she got there.

Whitestar snarled in Rowanstar's face when he blocked the entrance of the nursery. Seeing the claw-mark on his chest, he aimed another claw-strike in the same place, hoping to puncture the skin entirely and claw the vital organs wtihin his chest. Behind him, he heard his clan nearing closer and closer to the nursery.

[Duststar1349]

"Stay away from them!"  Greyfoot yowled out at the Airclan warriors, hissing as a stray paw scratched his cheek.  "Think about what you're doing!"  He hoped his cries would bring some sense to the Warriors, who had now almost gotten to the entrance.  He backed in to Mottledfinch accidentally, the brown Tom whirling around instinctively. The pair shared a silent nod, an understanding.  They went back into the fray, each Tom backing into the nursery entrance as they dealt as much damage as they could.

The Lightningclan leader deflected Whitestar's attack and screeched in rage, falling back just inside the nursery entrance with Greyfoot and Mottledfinch as the trio defended the nursery as best they could.

[FireBlaze]

Firegaze quickly reached the den and stood several tail lengths away from the entrance, the main battle happening beyond her. No Lightningclan cat had seen her yet, so now she had to decide whether to attack or not. If she didn't, Whitestar could use that as an excuse to exile her, but otherwise she'd have to attack kits and queens. Making a decision, she darted inside the nursery beneath one of the toms' legs and whirled around to help barricade the entrance, hoping they'd understand.

Whitestar yowled an order after his death-blow was deflected, "swarm the entrance, and once you get in, show no mercy!" He sprinted around the den to the back and began to claw a hole through the back, hoping to surprise them from behind while his warriors went in through the entrance, not knowing how quickly they were tiring and how most of them wanted nothing to do with hurting kits.

[Duststar1349]

Mottledfinch turned around to see none other than Whitestar and Firegaze creeping up behind them, yowling out as the leader clawed his flank.  Hissing, he turned around to face Whitestar and began to attack furiously.

Rowanstar looked to Firegaze, and realized she seemed to be defecting to their side.  "Push them back!  Their own warriors are joining our cause!"  He yowled triumphantly.

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