The Elvenqueen

The Rise of WillowClan

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WillowClan Territory

interacting with: @savannahssu’s Sunfur, @PrankFox’s Stormheart
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Spidernose nodded her head in agreement, keeping low to the ground so if there was any nearby prey it would be less likely to spot the hunting warriors, she padded along beside the tom, whispering back. "Yeah. We can't really afford to turn our noses up at any prey, no matter how small, with leafbare setting in and all. We need all the fresh-kill we can get."
The she-cat kept pace with her Clanmate, slowly and carefully lifting her head to open her jaws and taste the air every few pawsteps. She was disappointed, however, to find that all she could smell was faint traces of bird. They were more likely than not all spooked up into the branches from her and Sunfur's earlier stunt and Spidernose didn't much feel confident enough to pull it off successfully again.

The brown and cream she-cat let out another sigh as Sunfur pushed through the brambles to head further in, and once the other warrior's ginger tail tip had disappeared into the brush, she ducked inside after him, her ears pressed back as she began to worry that all they'd have to show for their efforts was one tiny bird for the entire Clan. That just wouldn't do, and she hoped Stormheart had had a bit more luck. When the scent of mouse filled her jaws the next time she took a pause to taste the air, Spidernose froze beside Sunfur.

Blue eyes met blue as she, too, noticed Stormheart and her whiskers trembled slightly in confusion at the grey tom. What was Stormheart doing? Why hadn't he caught the mouse yet? Glancing across at Sunfur, she noticed the other warrior twitching his whiskers and appearing just as confused. Spidernose's brow furrowed as she tried to think about what might have given their Clanmate pause. The she-cat tasted the air again and realised that the smell of mouse was quite strong. That made sense of course, the prey was right in front of them, but what if…

She turned to Sunfur and mouthed "What if there's more than one??", subtly flicking one ear in the direction of Stormheart and the visible mouse and hoping that the senior warrior would understand what she was hinting at.

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I'll get a response out for you as soon as I can sav, but it might take me up to a week DD: long story short I'm not in my apartment rn so I'm writing solely from mobile which takes me a long time XD

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He's tryin' his best. Paralyzed by indecision about mice though

@PrankFox

Poor boy XD Hopefully Sunfur and Spidernose'll be along to help him soon :P

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Stormheart the MVP here, catching the whoooleee Clan food, he deserves a medal

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WillowClan Territory

interacting with: @savannahssu’s Sunfur
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The birds startled just as Sunfur had said they would, and in a flurry of wingbeats and shrieking they erupted off the branch they’d been perched on and fluttered away. As they whipped past her, the she-cat tried to lunge out with a paw and snag at the feathers of the second bird, but she wasn’t quite quick enough and her claws passed through empty air as it got away. Spidernose spat a curse softly, but clung to her perch tightly with her other three paws, she didn’t dare risk trying to rear up onto her hindlegs on such a narrow branch and at such a height, if she fell it could spell disaster. Yes, the Clan was hungry, but one tiny bird wasn’t worth her life.
So, she just hunkered down for now and prayed Sunfur would manage to grab the other one, at least.

Hearing her Clanmate call for her, Spidernose’s ears pricked and she slid carefully back down the tree trunk to join Sunfur on solid ground once more, much to her own relief. The she-cat shook her fur out, her tail curling upwards at the praise. It worked? it must have or Sunfur wouldn’t be so happy, surely. So, this time she mewed out loud, glad that their hunting party had finally managed to catch something for the fresh-kill pile, however small. “It worked! Nice job, Sunfur! We should try and grab a few more prey pieces if we can though...maybe Stormheart’s managed to find some mice, or voles?”

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WillowClan Territory

interacting with: @savannahssu’s Sunfur, @PrankFox’s Stormheart
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The cream-and-brown she-cat watched and waited as Sunfur then ordered Stormheart to circle back a little and see what else he could try and catch, leaving the remaining two members of the hunting party to focus all of their energy on the birds. Spidernose felt a vaguely uneasy shiver creep its way down the fur on her spine, prickling like ant bites, as she remembered the incident with the snake (even though the bite had turned out to be pretty harmless in the end) the last time she and the ginger tom opposite her had hunted together.
She really hoped this time they would have much more success.

She’d been watching the birds as they preened, her muscles poised to spring the moment the other warrior gave her the signal. Blue eyes shifted from the prey across to Sunfur as he crept up to join her and she spotted his tail signal, raising hers to give it a quick flick towards the tom as if to reassure him that she understood the order. Here we go.
The she-cat flexed her claws to make sure none of them had gotten caught in the hard, frost-laden bark of the tree, and when she was sure that she could make the jump, gave a few wiggles of her hindquarters and then launched herself across the gap between the two branches to land beside the nest, hissing loudly and swiping at the birds to scare them towards Sunfur.

Spidernose hoped they would go the right way, and that Sunfur could grab at least one. Maybe if she was lucky, her balance would hold out and she could snag the second one and pull it back down to pin it to the branch before it could fly away out of their reach...

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Will be getting a posts out tomorrow, I'm visiting family today so I likely won't have time to write up replies till I get back home :3

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Spidernose Wants To Go Home part 2

Please do not cripple Stonefall's not-wife before he has a chance to propose, Sunfur, p l e a s e XD

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WillowClan Territory

interacting with: @savannahssu’s Sunfur, @PrankFox’s Stormheart
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To say Spidernose was afraid was perhaps a bit of an understatement, in truth she was more like terrified. Stormheart’s caution hadn’t gone unnoticed, and it gave his fellow hunter the bit of courage she needed to not chicken out and turn back then and there. She may be frightened, yes, but she was also determined, as a warrior of WillowClan she had to do everything in her power to ensure that she both fought and hunted to keep her Clanmates fed. Even if that meant going along with mouse-brained, dangerous plans like this. The brown-and-cream she-cat’s tail bushed out as she did her best to scrabble up the length of the tree trunk, and remained stood on end, although tucked against her body so as to not alert the potential prey in the nests, as she finally reached the branch Sunfur had indicated.

She didn’t dare look down.

StarClan knew how high it was, but Spidernose was certain if she was to glance towards the ground, that the only reason she would see it at all was because it was leafbare and the trees lacked their own foliage. She doubted it would be visible in greenleaf. Oh, StarClan please, please don’t let me fall… she prayed, hoping their ancestors would hear and take pity on her. Her eyes wide, she gripped tightly onto the branch beneath her with her claws to give herself a more secure footing, and squinted downwards to wait for some sort of signal from Sunfur that it was time to scare the birds.

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WillowClan Camp

interacting with: @PrankFox’s Duskwing, @Shadow Dragon’s Blackpelt
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Frogkit’s cheeks puffed out grumpily as the medicine cat continued to scold her, and the kit let out a very overdramatic huff through her mouth, rolling her eyes up towards the sky before they met the black tom’s again and she muttered sulkily. “Well maybe if you told me which ones that was meant to be, I wouldn’t touch ‘em then. Cause I’d know not to!” StarClan above, save the entirety of WillowClan from this kit’s curiosity. Some part of Frogkit knew deep down, however, that messing around in Blackpelt’s herb store while he was out of camp was bad. But how else was she supposed to see what it was like? He never let any other cat go in there, if she tried asking him before he simply shoo’ed her away like she was some sort of annoyance.

She only wanted to learn! Her tail had continued to lash, as the medicine cat’s tone did not seem to be helping calm her down in any way, but thankfully when Duskwing spoke, her ears did prick up and she quickly turned away from Blackpelt to face the warrior instead. The angry glint in her kit-blue eyes seemed to die down, then, and she looked down at the ground, suddenly more apologetic as Frogkit mumbled a soft: “Oh. I just wanted to see ‘em, honest, I didn’t mean to mess ‘em up.”

Frogkit shuffled her paws to and fro for a few moments, and then finally looked back to the medicine cat, and though her apology was hesitant, it was no less genuine-sounding. “Sorry, Blackpelt...I won’t do it again.”

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@The Elvenqueen That post was great! I'm loving Frogkit's personality and Blackpelt is going to have his paws full training her as his apprentice haha @Hazelrah It's VERY good to see you back, and I really hope that things are getting more manageable for you and that you'll be able to post regularly again soon. The main plotline of this story is going to be picking up speed right about now so make sure everyone is reading everyone else's posts and putting effort into theirs. Most of you are doing wonderfully so far!

@savannahssu

Ah thank you! I'm having so much fun with her, she's gonna certainly be a challenge for ol' Blackpelt, I'm looking forward to seeing whether he'll soften up and like her a bit more as they train or if they'll end up more like Leafpool and Jayfeather but in reverse

Also getting posts out today! Had my 2nd vaxx on Sunday so I've been a little out of it till now, sorry! XD