Warriors RPG

[Hopeflower]

Insolitus felt it when the sun came up. The warmth that came with it, though less so than in newleaf and greenleaf, heated his fur a bit and made him open his eyes and lift his head. As he stood and stretched, and tried to shake himself awake, the details of the environment came to him bit by bit. He was standing on the branch he'd fallen asleep on the night before, looking down at a faintly frosted forest floor. Soon it'll be too cold to sleep in the open, he thought, frowning slightly. Then what will I do...?

"Mouse dung," Hawksight muttered, sitting and glaring into the pool she'd been staring into since the moon had begun to set. "Nothing. Where could they be?" She was looking for the missing Clan cats. So far she'd found nothing. A cold claw pierced her heart as she was struck with a thought. What if they were all...but no, she would have seen some of them here. "Come on," she muttered under her breath. "Try another pool. They can't all be dead. Some of them have to be by the lake." She got up and padded swiftly to another pool close by to resume her search.

[C S]

The white tom's eyes were wide open throughout the night. His body pressed against a tree branch. His gaze fixed on the clan. His breaths steady. Another night gone, another night passed where he still had his family. He thought angrilly to himself "Put your selfishness aside Snowstar" He picked himself up. "A leader breathes and bleeds for their clan! You cant worry about your own alone!" He snapped his body around and walked down the branch of the tree, whose leaves were drifting by him in a shower of reds and bright orange. "Starclan damn it! What would Shadowstar say!?" His claws dug into the tree trunk, and he launched himself at close branch, hitting it from the side feet frist and kicking off, hitting another tree and repeating the process until he descended all the way down to the ground. His paws slammed into the dew covered grass and he slid a small distance before he planted his feet down firmly. He may have been cursed by the Dark forest, like the kit who had a breath of flame. But he wasnt going to let it dominate his life, and he wasnt going to spend every moment with his daughters thinking it might be their last...

[Iceking]

Shadowfang opened his eyes and blinked a few times, getting used to the the sunlight. Opening his jaws in a yawn, he glanced at the other occupied branches of the tree he was in, noticing that the other cats were also waking up. The first concern of the black and grey rogue was his thirst, which was why he preffered to have chosen a place to sleep that was near a stream, so he and his companions would have easy access to a water supply...

[The Kingpin]

"Feeling restless again, Snowstar?" growled a familiar voice from the trees, Wraith following from above, leaping off a branch and landing with a soft thump next to Snowstar...

[Hopeflower]

Insolitus stretched, feeling the need to get moving. His brief feelings of longing for safety and companionship were chased away by the dawn. He felt full of energy, able to run up mountains. With a few swift licks to his gray tabby pelt, he leaped to the forest floor and set off at a brisk pace, away from StormClan's territory. He wanted to explore the forest a bit more, so he didn't make the same mistakes twice. Thinking back on the Clan cats, he thought it probably wouldn't be the best idea to ask to join a Clan, if the rest of the cats by the lake were as touchy as those two she-cats had been. he was probably best off on his own. Still...a lingering doubt nagged at him. It will be too cold to sleep in the open before long, he thought, frowning again. And where will I be then? I'm a longer at heart...I've always been on my own and never felt the need for companionship. I've made it through leaf-bare before. I can do it again...I think. He continued on, absentmindedly swerving around clumps of frost-encrusted bracken, lost in thought.

[dinoman666]

Insolitus nearly bumped right into a second cat, this one with ragged brown fur and pale yellow eyes that seemed to stare into the distance. If the tom noticed Insolitus, he obviously didn't care, simply sitting and murring to himself too quietly for Insolitus to easily hear him...

[Hopeflower]

"Whoa!" Insolitus stopped dead to avoid walking into the cat, surprised that he hadn't seen or smelled it. "Sorry, I didn't see you there," he meowed. He paused and cocked a head at the tom's odd behavior. "Um...you alright?"

[dinoman666]

The tom stopped murring and turned his head around after a moment, staring at Insolitus, but saying nothing. His previously empty eyes seemed to speak for him all of the sudden, almost curious as to why there would be another cat there...

[Hopeflower]

Insolitus blinked a few times, his own blue eyes puzzled and a bit alarmed. "....Okay then...uh...never mind?" he tried, starting to wonder if he should be trying to talk to the stranger.

[dinoman666]

The tom cocked his head, finally giving a rasping mew: "You are not one of the tame ones..."

[Hopeflower]

Insolitus felt his eyes widen. "The...tame ones?' he asked, not sure he heard the tom right.

[dinoman666]

The tom stood and turned to face Insolitus. "You do not smell of the hairless ones. You smell of..." He sniffed the air a few times. "...the wilds." He sat down again and simply stared at the other cat, his eyes empty again.

[Hopeflower]

"Oh. I see," Insolitus meowed, suddenly understanding. "You mean I'm not a kittypet. No - I'm a loner." he was a bit unnerved by the cat's stare. It was like the tom...wasn't even seeing him.

[dinoman666]

"Call them what you will," the tom replied flatly. "You may call this one Renny if you so wish it."

[Hopeflower]

"Okay, then...Renny," Insolitus meowed uncertainly, wondering at the cat's odd manner of speaking. "My name is Insolitus." It was a bit weird, to be speaking his name aloud. He hadn't said it to another cat in a while.

[dinoman666]

"A curious name," Renny said, standing up, circling Insolitus curiously, as if he was a whole new cat. "Tell me... Insolitus, have you ever had a master?"

[Hopeflower]

Insolitus turned his head, following Renny's movements warily. "Do you mean a leader?" he asked, not quite sure what the other cat was asking him.

[dinoman666]

"A furless one!" Renny replied, somewhat aggravated that the other cat had no idea what he was talking about. "Have you ever had one as a master?"

[Hopeflower]

"Oh...no," Insolitus meowed, his ears twitching. This cat used words he'd never heard in his life. "Never."

[dinoman666]

"I assume you have never had a... what did you call it? Leader, either?" Renny mewed curiously, halting in front of Insolitus and sitting back down.