Chapter 4
Allegiances
ThunderClan:
Leader: Wolfstar- a gray tom with a white chest and underbelly and seating amber eyes
Deputy: Hailstroke- a silver tabby with a white muzzle, throat, chest, and underbelly and icy blue eyes
Medicine Cat: Dullspark- a dark ginger-red tom with a black muzzle and dull yellow eyes
Apprentice: Littlepaw (a small ginger tabby she-cat with hazel eyes)
Warriors: (toms and she-cats without kits)
Featherpounce- a light gray she-cat with a white throat, chest, underbelly, and undertail, and dark blue eyes
Jackalfrost- a dark brown she-cat with a white chest, underbelly, and warriors, amber eyes
Apprentice: Cloudpaw
Hardpad- a dark brown tabby with green eyes
Galebreeze- a silver tabby she-cat with light green eyes
Tawnysplay- a gray tortoiseshell she-cat with black and sandy-yellow markings and green eyes
Lynxfade- a pale gray-brown she-cat with darker legs, tail, ears, and muzzle, yellow eyes
Apprentice: Poppypaw
Apprentices: (toms and she-cats training to be warriors)
Cloudpaw- a fluffy white tom with blue eyes and a silver mask
Flashpaw- a Black tom with a white sash on his chest and yellow eyes
Poppypaw- a dark ginger tortoiseshell with black and white makings, a distinctive dash on white on her chest, and amber eyes
Queens: (she-cats nursing or expecting kits)
Dappledleaf- a brown tortoiseshell she-cat with a distinctive orange and black spotted pelt and brilliant green eyes mother to Seedkit (a dark brown tabby she-kit with a white sash under one eyes) and Nightkit (a black tom with white paws and eartips)
Elders: (toms and she-cats who have retired from being warriors)
Ashdart- a gray tom with darker flecks and blue eyes
RiverClan:
Leader: Raggedstar- a ragged-furred gray tom with amber eyes
Deputy: Fernsway- a gray tabby she-cat with green eyes
Warriors (toms and she-cats without kits)
Flarefall- a dark ginger tom with pale brown paws and yellow eyes
Queens: (she-cats nursing or expecting kits)
Murkyspark- a pale brown she-cat with a dark ginger tail and dark ginger bands around legs, green eyes. Mother to Ripplekit (a blue-gray she-kit with pale brown paws and blind blue eyes), Petalkit (a pale brown she-kit with dark ginger ears and silver paws, yellow eyes), and Emberkit (a dark ginger tomkit with a blue-gray mask and bands on tail and legs, yellow eyes).
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Pale brown-gray was visible among the sandy splits of the beach. Just barely visible reflected yellow eyes betrayed sorrow. The she-cat was unaware of the tawny tortoiseshell pelt slinking among the nearby woods. The tawny pelt of the woods leaped forward, her paws barely missing the tip of Lynxfade's dark brown-gray tail. The warrior turned with a hiss of surprise to face Tawnysplay, obvious surprise glittering in the yellow depths. The gray-brown cat slashed a claw out, drawing claws over Tawnysplay's nose.
"Tawnysplay! What are you doing?" the older warrior mewed, her voice hurt and confused.
"What I promised Mapleshade!" Tawnysplay tried to hiss, but if came out more of a half-wail.
"Who- Mapleshade? But she's a Dark Forest ca-" Lynxfade didn't finish her sentence as Tawnysplay pounced on her, bowling her over.
Sand splayed out at Lynxfade's impact, littering Tawnysplay's paw as well as Lynxfade's pelt. Tawnysplay slashed her claws over Lynxfade's stomach, hoping to end it sooner rather than later, but Lynxfade wouldn't give in easily. The experienced warrior rolled, flipping Tawnysplay under her.
Tawnysplay responded by raking her gray hind paws over Lynxfade's pale brown-gray belly, throwing the she-cat off of her and scrambling to her paws quickly. She rushed forward again, going for Lynxfade's throat, but the pale brown-gray Warrior was ready and sidestepped easily, clawing Tawnysplay's shoulder and side, but Tawnysplay turned her head to ram into Lynxfade's side. The she-cat fell to the ground with a "hmph". Wasting no time, Tawnysplay dipped her head down and but deep into her Clanmate's throat until her victim's dark brown-gray legs stopped kicking our desperately and her yellow eyes clouded with distance. She stood up, her green eyes glittering with guilt and grief.
"H-How could you?" Tawnysplay's Tawny pelt bushed at the silkily deep voice. She turned just as claws met her face, too near to her eye for comfort.
She ended face-to-face with Flashpaw, behind him she could see two more warriors: Jackalfrost and Galebreeze. Their pelts were all bristling, there eyes alight with hostility and shock.
"Tawnysplay. You were seen murdering Lynxfade, what do you have to say?" Wolfstar's rumbling and gruff voice sent shivers down Tawnysplay's side.
"I- I'm sorry. A-and...." She paused for a moment, "I... I killed Burrstrike too!"
Surprised and hostile hissed sounded all around Tawnysplay, making her shrink beneath her pelt. She kept her gaze on Wolfstar, whose powerful gray form stood intimidatingly on the Highledgr. His white chest and underbelly glimmered dimly has n the sun's falling rays. His amber eyes hard and blazing.
"Get out of my Clan," Wolfstar growled, "come back, and you will be slaughtered."
Tawnysplay didn't need to be told twice. She ran up the rock tumbles to the entrance, not caring as the thorns ripped through her tortoiseshell pelt. She could hear pawsteps beyond her, no doubt warriors making sure she left Clan territory. She instinctively headed towards where she has met and battled Mackerel. She intended to find the tom, but not yet, she wanted to know Mapleshade's next "level".
A sandy yellow pelt was dragged from the line. Black specks under his green eyes glittered with stars, glowing dimly among the fungi of the trees. 'Sandfall.'
"Alright. Flarefall. A RiverClan warrior. He's a dark ginger tom with pale brown paws and yellow eyes. Him for this one." Mapleshade nodded to Sandfall.
'This'll be a bit harder... but I'll get it done!'
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