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Post by winterstar on Jan 9, 2010 22:54:00 GMT -8
The full moon hung over the half island as Winterstar stepped into the clearing with four trees. Her white and light gray pelt shining in the moon light she jumped up on one of the branches on a tree and sat there starring at the moon. /Why can't Starclan help us now?/ She though as she waited for the nightclan leader to come. It had been many moons since they got here and most of their cats stayed behind or died on the journey. Only had the call of starclan lead them here with very few cats, Winterstar had told nightclan that she wanted them to have a gathering alone to talk about this problem. Just maybe, starclan would help them tonight with a message or good omen. Right at this moment any sign of starclan seemed good. Winterstar looked out for the other leader as the stars twinkled in the sky, Silver pelt was there tonight at least.
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Post by whispers on Jan 14, 2010 16:58:10 GMT -8
Featherstar, the new leader of hawkclan, walked along the ridge of the island. Formally known as Feathersong the deputy he hoped to lead his clan back to peace, for his clan was known for stealing prey and attacking the other clans for no apparent reason. Of course he did want the clans to live as one, that was a bit of ambition, but he had been to busy caring for his clan and raising the kits to be strong warriors. He had heard about the leaders going alone, even though the others did not know he was the new leader yet, so he came but he wondered what they would say to him.
The leader looked up at the full moon and jumped onto the stepping stones, he wanted to eat before he actually got there. There was a small fish in the water, after all it was leaf bare, Featherstar kept his shadow away. Raising his paws he swiftly clawed it up and out of the water and gripped it in his jaws. With a smile across his face he ripped into the clean flesh of the moist fish. After he started towards the clearing of four trees, what would the other leaders think of him?
Entering the clearing the young leader spotted Winterstar leader of mountainclan. Featherstar dipped his head and jumped onto a tree across from Winterstar,he wondered what Winterstar was thinking about him being here. After all the sickness that had killed his leaders last life was unseen and he showed no sign of hurt. His death was declared as a green cough victim by Featherstar. After all not that long ago their medicine cat died and their medicine cat apprentice ran away to the twolegs.
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Post by Skyflower on Jan 15, 2010 18:40:10 GMT -8
StarClan's warriors and the full moon shone down from Silverpelt tonight, lighting the way for the NightClan leader's way to the special Gathering place. The brown spotted tabby carefully placed her paws on the stepping stones to the Half-Island were, most likely, the other two leaders waited for her. Brightstar had stayed behind in her camp for a little while to be sure that none of her warriors were going to follow her to the leaders-only Gathering, causing her to arrive later than the others.
Now Brightstar looked briefly to the stars, whispering a plea to StarClan to send them a sign on what to do for the cats she had to leave behind. "Show us what to do...."she said in a voice hardly audible. Finally she reached the Half-Island and kept her head down as she approached the tree where the other two were waiting for hee, embarrased that she had to stay behind to make sure her warriors wouldn't disobey one of her orders and delay the Gathering. She bounded up onto the tree and landed on the branch, causing the leaves to shake slightly.
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Post by winterstar on Jan 15, 2010 19:01:45 GMT -8
Winterstar looked at the other leader as she arrived. The she-cat looked up at Featherstar, "Wheres your leader Featherwing and why are you here?" she said in a quiet voice. The leader wanted to speak of a mysterious "sickness" that had been killing cats. But it had no symptoms just before the cat died they coughed up blood and a small white thing. The leaader stood to her paws afraid somehting had happened to the old Hawkclan leader.
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Post by whispers on Jan 15, 2010 19:15:17 GMT -8
Featherstar lowered his head with no response. He wish he could speak, after all he had lost his voice after a twoleg took him away and did something to him, the male stood up and opened his mouth but nothing but air spoke out. The young leader wondered how he was to communicate, but he managed to use sign language.
Flicking his tail he pointed his paw at silverpelt, to tell them she was in starclan now, and then pretended to be dead "peacefully". The leader had died coughing up blood then a white wriggly thing, a horrible death with no pain. It was almost as if Dapplestar haunted Featherstar in his dreams.
/Starcaln take care of her/ He prayed in his thoughts. It sucked not being able to talk, for a cat, he had to act silly to communicate. The male sat down again and watched the others, he wondered if they got his message about Dapplestar. She was a good leader, and he hoped starclan honored her, the clan sure would.
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Post by Skyflower on Jan 15, 2010 19:25:07 GMT -8
Brightstar tried to understand what Featherwing- no, Featherstar now, was trying to say. /StarClan....or it could be Silverpelt.....coughing up something.....something, um, dead....Oh. He's talking about Dapplestar,/ she thought. Brightstar nodded after a while of thought, and said quietly, "NightClan is sorry for your loss. Um...Dapplestar was a great leader...and I hope that she is watching over us from StarClan tonight." She was rather unsure of what to say to Featherstar after the loss of his leader, having not becaome leader too long ago.
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Post by winterstar on Jan 15, 2010 19:35:44 GMT -8
Winterstar was confused for a second, Dapplestar? The leader shook he head and stood up, "Everyone ready to start the gathering?" she asked looking at Featherstar. How could a cat loose it's perfectly fine voice? She knew it had to do with twolegs, the creatures always messing up things. Winterstar dipped her head also for Dapplestar was a great leader, she then looked at Brightstar.
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Post by whispers on Jan 15, 2010 19:42:16 GMT -8
Featherstar looked at Brightstar and nodded his thanks, he turned to Winterstar and nodded as well. The young leader coughed a bit, ever since that twoleg took him away he had a dry throat all the time, the medicine cat was surprised when he coughed and was not sick. It was strange really how he lost his voice, something felt missing out of his throat.
The male looked at silverpelt, /Help us now if you can/ he blinked as he prayed. The forest seemed quiet since Dapplestar had died, she had been there when he was born into hawkclan. Dapplestar in fact was Dappleheart back then, and foster mothered him after his mother died by a fox. Dapplestar meant a lot to Featherstar, and she was no longer here, no not here but in starclan watching over them.
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Post by Skyflower on Jan 15, 2010 19:59:36 GMT -8
Brightstar looked to StarClan again, sending one more mental prayer for the safety of her Clan, then nodded to Winterstar to let her know she would start the Gathering. She began, surprised at how confident she sounded compared to how she felt.
"Well, we all know why we are here. A strange new disease is going through the Clans, and we don't really know how to stop it. It starts out with a healthy cat, who somehow gets the disease. A few days later, they cough up a strange white parasite worm with some blood, then die. They don't seem to be in pain when they die but the worm seems to die with them, or a few seconds after. We don't even know how it spreads. But our medicine cat has made two new discoveries. First, there is one symptom to the new disease. Around two days before an infected cat dies, they get a mild cough that continues until the time of death. And the other...."
She stopped, wondering if it was wise to let the other leaders know her secret. If she kept it away from them, she would get an advantage in future battles with the other cats fighting the sickness. But no, she decided, this concerned all of them. There HAD to be four Clans in the forest. If her Clan survived while the others were dying, she would never be able to forgive herself.
"There may be a way to stop it, or at least keep the parasite from killing them for a while." She stopped again, to let the information sink in.
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Post by winterstar on Jan 15, 2010 20:17:04 GMT -8
Winterstar was surprised to hear about the "sickness" it sounded like the same sickness that had killed Wingedstar before the last gathering. Winterstar stood up to her paws, ready to speak for her clan now, "That's funny that is in my clan as well, in fact that is what killed Wingedstar" she said looking at Featherstar.
"Other then that, we shall be getting a new deputy and medicine cat soon and, well Featherstar have you seen this Sickness in your claN?" Winterstar trailed off from her medicine cat and eputy thing to the sickness, what was it? What horrible creature could have gotten into the cats bodies and killed them with no pain?
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Post by thebugeater on Jan 15, 2010 20:33:45 GMT -8
Whispers//
Featherstar leaped to his paws, nodding he franticly span around in a circle. He was a new leader and did not know what do do when things like this happened, he may be loyal but tonight he was tired and confused. He stopped and looked at silverpelt, he opened his mouth and mouthed the words, "What do we do?" hopefully the others knew how to read lips. Maybe he found a way to talk to others!
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Post by thebugeater on Jan 15, 2010 20:54:25 GMT -8
[glow=red,2,300]Sorrowstar smiled, she always arrived late to the gatherings, she stepped on a twig and it snapped. Her sleek black body slithered like a snake up to the last empty tree. he jumped onto a low branch and looked at the other leaders, even though her deputy had died of a strange sickness she seemed not that worried. Her gold copper eyes drifted to silverpelt then back over to the three other leaders. Oh the irony, Sorrowstar had a burnt over past meaning she hated the clans because of their past. Even though most would let the past go she let is stick like bees to honey. Her clan also had not forgiven what the clans did to the former rogues back then, but now they respected them as a clan? Sorrowstar spat silently sending a curse to starclan, as much as she hated the clans starclan still helped her.[/glow]
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Post by Skyflower on Jan 22, 2010 14:01:27 GMT -8
Brightstar lowered her ears in sadness. The sickness was spreading faster than she had thought. "There is some good news. NightClan's medicine cat, Skyfeather, has discovered a strange herb near our camp that may be able to prevent the parasite from killing the cat. There isn't much, and it seems to only grow in that area. We'll only have enough, if no more cats get sick, for about one quater-moon. We must find some more," she said, looking at Featherstar. He seemed to be trying to say something, but she missed the beginning. "I'm sorry Featherstar, could you repeat that? I didn't get all of it." Brightstar looked at Sorrowstar who had just arrived and nodded shortly, then looked back to Featherstar.
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Post by winterstar on Jan 22, 2010 14:29:18 GMT -8
Winterstar looked at Sorrowstar with a frown then back at Featherstar, she understood him. "He said what are we going to do?" she repeated his words for the other leaders. Winterstar then turned to Brightstar "are you sure it cures it all the way?" she asked. The leader stretched then sprawled her limbs across the branch, he eyes locked on sorrowstar.
ooc// Winterstar knows what Sorrowstar did to Icefeather xD. Sorry for the short post muse is running low.
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Post by whispers on Jan 25, 2010 1:44:41 GMT -8
ooc// Sorry if it is a short post it was late and I was tired.
Bic//
Featherstar, not alarmed by sorrowstar, nodded at Winterstar. The moon shining brightly on his pelt his eyes drifted towards Brightstar. Was she sure that the cure cured the cats all the way? And after all none of the other clans but Nightclan at the moment had medicine cats. His eyes widened as he heard of the cure, "Are you sure there is enough to cure all of our sick cats?" he mouthed hopefully Brightstar could get all of his words.
His body shifted as he saw the moon move, the gathering was almost over they needed to talk more. Featherstar no important news was going on in his clan, and at the moment they were so concentrated on this sickness. with all the trouble in their clans what were they to do? He jumped onto a higher branch and waited to see brightstars answer as well as the others reactions.
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Post by Skyflower on Jan 27, 2010 16:24:20 GMT -8
Brightstar looked nervously at Featherstar and Winterstar. She shifted her weight on her paws, something she did as a habit when she was upset. "Um...Skyfeather doesn't know quite yet if it kills the parasite, but I don't think so. It just delays the cat's death. We're running low on the herb, though." The female leader looked up at Silverpelt. The full moon that signaled the truce between the four Clans was sinking lower into the night sky, meaning the Gathering wold have to end soon. "P-perhaps we should...um, continue this Gathering at the MoonPool? Maybe StarClan's message will be clearer if we go there," she meowed, hopping down from her branch and landing on the floor, looking guiltily up at the other leaders as if she had done something wrong.
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Post by winterstar on Jan 27, 2010 18:04:17 GMT -8
Winterstar looked at brightstar, she could tell the nightclan leader was worried. Winterstar lowered her head, "Brightstar you should feel lucky all the rest of clans mostly have few members and at the moment we have no deputy or medicine cats. Starclan even told me it was alright not to appoint these ranks to any cat until we find the cats fit for it." she said looking at the stars. The mountainclan leader looked at the others, Sorrowstar did not seem so worried, she had a smile her face. Winterstar as well as all the leader knew Sorrowstar used to be a former rogue and no cat was in her clan yet since Icefeather died. She then looked back at Brighstar, brightstar was the best leader any clan could have she was old then any of the others or more experienced. Then featherstar, the other leaders did not know much about featherstar since they just figured out he was leader but he WAS a good cat. "Perhaps we could but would starclan get angry at us?" she asked almost to starclan but then looked back at brightstar.
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Post by whispers on Jan 27, 2010 18:55:16 GMT -8
Featherstar looked at all of them, they all looked worried, what was starclan doing to them? He looked at the stars and thought of the past leader, "Won't you guide us now?" he mouthed hoping they had heard his prayer. The leader worried so much about the past leader, he liked her a lot. Jumping back down to the low branch he looked to hear what brightstar had said.
"You would think starclan would be helping us now." he mouthed to them sitting with his head in his paws. Where was their starclan now? Enjoying seeing their cats die? Featherstar looked at teh star with a snarl, where were they now why were they not helping them? He stood up, "Where is our starclan now?" he mouthed angerly at them.
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Post by whispers on Jan 27, 2010 19:20:16 GMT -8
The bug eater//
[glow=red,2,300]Sorrowstar smiled at the other leaders as if to mock them. Turning her head towards the sky she giggled when the leader started talking about the sickness. "You can't turn to starclan now my friends. This is something they would like to see us die from" she snarled getting up. "They have no power what so ever, can't you see you blind cats they gave you nine lives but do they stop fights to they stop killing cats?" she snapped. "Starclan i better off gone" Sorrowstar slowed and lowered her eyes. They had taken her daughter and her son had turned into a traitor. She had never told anyone that she had a daughter let alone son, and later she killed her son for having a kit with another darkclan cat. Sorrowstar sat down again she felt betrayed by starclan, "Sorry" she mused to the others. She may be evil but she still had feelings.[/glow]
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Post by Skyflower on Jan 31, 2010 16:43:23 GMT -8
Brighstar lowered her ears and looked up to Sorrowstar. "StarClan is watching us now, as they always have been. Just because they can't help with this doesn't mean that they have abandoned us. I'm going to go to the Moonpool, you may come with me if you wish. I'm going to ask StarClan for a sign," she meowed, turning around to walk away from the Half-Island with her tail flicking thoughtfully. She looked over her shoulder at the other three leaders, then padded away in the direction of MountainClan territory.
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