Sandflower

"Good". It was his only answer to her big eyes. He lashed his tail and waited patiently for the reply, not wanting to already get on the bad side of the other felines just yet. It would be rather bad if he did so and they joined up with one of the other clans just to take revenge, but what if they were the only left... He shook the thought away.

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"Where am I? Who was talking? What's going on?" Questions rushed through her brain as she stood up. She began walking in large circles while mumbling to herself possible answers. Bluepool eventually shook her head and went out of her world. She looked at the other cats "There's other cats alive?! Yay!" she ran around Sandflower and Ravenpaw

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Sandflower

His ears perked at the sound of the other she-cat ringed through them, his ears then flattened as she ran around them, making him rather nervous. "Yes, we are indeed alive, and could you please stop running around, you are giving me a headache" he answered, the fur on his long tail raised a little. Hurray, a hyper daydreamer, just what we needed... he thought to himself, staying silent otherwise.

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"Oh..umm sorry" Bluepool stopped running and sat down. She shuffled her paws and examined the other cats more carefully. "What clan are you from" she asked as her tail curled around her paws *I'm not very familiar with these two" she thought and looked at Blazefeather with slight concern for their safety

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Sandflower

He gave a quick thanking nod as she stopped, letting out a soft sigh afterwards. He looked over at Ravenpaw and then at the female, looking rather surprised at the question. "Let me guess, you don't really look at the cats at the gatherings and stick around your own clan?" he asked, trying to stay on the polite side, but it was getting harder and harder. "Riverclan" he then answered.

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Bluepool looked at Sandflower then tilted her head when he spoke "Yea how do you know what I do?" she started thinking and looked into the sky *He's a spy! Wait no then he would know my name. Unless he's playing dumb or he's not, or he's really smart and knew how to confuse me* she started getting frustrated

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Sandflower

"A wild guess" he said and laid down onto his stomach, his claws sunk into the soft soil below them. His amber eyes glared around as he waited for an answer to his last question to the other female, his mind started to get clouded as he waited. He just wanted away from here, away from all the dead cats, away from the stank. Away from everything.

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Ravenpaw was watching this interaction intently. Sandflower seemed to be getting more and more frustrated as this conversation continued. His tail was twitching a lot. However, Ravenpaw was growing bored of cat watching, but she remembered what Sandflower had said, and made sure to sit still and be quiet, to not annoy the other cats.

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"Oh ok hmmm" She pawed at the ground still thinking *He must be tricking me, oh he's good* she thought and stared at Sandflower. She began examining him just in case. *I never thought Riverclan would have a spy...maybe every clan had a spy. I wonder who they were* her tail flicked wildly at this thought "I miss the others" she said completely ignoring her new thoughts

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Owlstar awoke with a violent jerk, his amber eyes blinking in the dim light. No cat? But I just saw... his own thoughts were interrupted by the last, fading echoes of his dream. Good luck... What was that supposed to mean? The lake would be no more? Ridiculous. I just ate a bad piece of fresh-kill, he thought, pushing himself to his paws and shaking his pelt.

Owlstar frowned suddenly. Although the past moons had been hard and they had fewer cats than ever, camp activities were typically bustling at this point. No warriors calling to apprentices, and where was the sound of Lizardtail calling out patrol assignments?

Uneasily, Owlstar tentatively padded out of his den and into the deserted camp clearing. No, no, no, he thought, anxiety gripping his heart. His paws carried him over to the warrior's den, and he slipped inside. Lizardtail slept at the front of the den, all sprawled out, the way he slept since they were kits in the nursery. But there was none of the typical twitching or muttering in his sleep. Owlstar quivered as he surveyed the rest of the den, his eyes resting on his most senior warriors. Pikefur, Redclaw, Fernstripe... He pressed his nose into their pelts in turn before recoiling, backing out of the den and into the deserted camp.

Are they all dead? he wondered, coming to a halt in front of the nursery. Just the other day, Lakesong had her kits, two she-cats and a tom. He heard no mewling of hungry newborns, and he dared not go in.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw movement from the medicine cat den, and Frostfeather stepped out. Without a second thought, Owlstar bounded over to her, pressing his nose to her shoulder in a rare show of affection. At least someone other than him made it out alive.

Owlstar drew back, his amber eyes narrowed. "What happened?" he asked, his voice tense with worry. "I woke up, and everyone's-- everyone's dead, Frostfeather." His heart sank as he recalled Bramblestar's words. "StarClan knew, too. They sent me a dream."

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Owlstar hesitated, sending a quick glance to the dens behind him. Truth be told, he absolutely did not want to go back in any of those and deal with the fact that almost his entire Clan was dead, destroyed. Taking a deep breath, he looked back at Frostfeather and squared himself up. Dead or not, they were and forever would be his Clan members, and his loyalty lay to them first and foremost. Ideally, they would hold a vigil too, but if they had to meet with the other Clan cats by nightfall, there would be no time for that.

"Of course we're burying them," he growled. "It's what they all deserve." His voice cracked with grief as he spoke. No cat should ever have to bury their entire Clan in one day.

With that, he turned away, squeezing into the nursery. After a moment's hesitation and with unusually great delicacy, he picked up the limp body of Berrykit and emerged, making his way out of camp toward the burial place. Why would StarClan do this to us? What did we ever do to deserve something like this? Perhaps this was a sign they had abandoned the Clans...

((burial's obviously gonna take a long time, Nny, so if you want to do a little timeskip in the next post so they can meet up with everyone/do something more interesting, i'd be all right with that))

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{lacking muse, bleh xc}

Blackpaw
Medicine Cat Apprentice of ThunderClan

Snapping out of his increasingly jumbled and agitated thoughts at Foxstride's exclamation, it gave him ever so slight relief and helped the young tom ignore the sickening scents, thinking. It was a good way to deal with things with ignorance, something he rarely approved of, but this was a special situation. Three apprentice jumped a bit, admittedly back away from Foxstride, when he rose suddenly and spoke. Quickly he hurried behind the large tom, ”I'm coming!” He hissed glad to something else to focus on, however once he reached the entrance he couldn't help but glance back a last time, they should have at least put catmint, lavender and rosemary on everyone, and he had wished to give his mentor a proper burial. She was barely thrice his age, Mousepelt didn't even have grey hairs on her muzzle yet and already she died. No, murdered, and by StarClan no less! The fur along his spine rose a bit upon realizing that Blackpaw shook himself and started for ShadowClan.

He toke off at a more bounding pace carefully avoiding patches of brambles, even in this situation he disliked the idea of something sticking to his pelt, and tall trees that seemed to rise up out of nowhere just to block his path, but by this time Blackpaw knew the forest well and was able to predict the placement of larger obstacles. Faintly could he smell the border markers, checking them wasn't as important as hunting to provide for all of the sick cats so they were almost undetectable even to his sharp sense of smell. Stopping at the border, the apprentice was reluctant to cross, he had only ever gone into the other territories with his mentor and it was only to help the other medicine cats or ask for supplies. Ears raised and alert he lowered his head as he stepped across into ShadowClan, he felt almost as though he was trespassing, especially as he went further with the dark pines looming over his head and looking down at him.

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Owlstar ||

The ShadowClan leader felt his shoulders sag as Frostfeather brought in Ravenwing. With a heavy sigh, he repeated the process they had repeated these past few hours: rub a bit of mint, lavender and rosemary on the body, murmur a small prayer and begin burying the dead cat. As he repeated the prayer for each cat, Owlstar felt himself believing the words less and less, and as he buried Ravenwing, he wondered if StarClan was even the best place for his cats anymore. Surely not, if they--

Clenching his jaw, Owlstar shook that thought away. No, this had to have been the work of the Dark Forest, somehow. The thought was of little comfort to him.

As soon as he finished scraping the soft earth over Ravenwing's body, a familiar scent hit his nose. "ThunderClan," he hissed softly, narrowing his eyes. Even in disaster, they had no respect for borders. Could this not have waited until they had to meet later that evening?

"I'll go look," he said with a dismissive twitch of his tail before heading off towards the intruders. To be honest, he was quite thankful for the distraction. Dealing with ThunderClan intruders almost seemed... normal, but as he walked he desperately wished he had his warriors by his side.

The ThunderClan medicine cat apprentice came into view first. Hardly a threat. Owlstar stopped a few foxlengths away. "Can I help you?" he asked coldly.

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