TheElvenJedi

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Craving replies, waiting.

The Rise of WillowClan

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WillowClan Territory

interacting with: @savannahssu’s Sunfur, @PrankFox’s Stormheart

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Although they were too far away to communicate aloud, especially if they didn't want to startle their prey. Stormheart did seem to realise that his fellow hunters needed a bit more direction, and the she-cat's whiskers twitched as she spotted her Clanmate's tail flick. Her blue eyes squinted and she tried to make out what he was gesturing at, but the underbrush was far too thick and she couldn't make out even a silhouette from this distance. Spidernose waited another tail shake, just enough to figure out which one Stormheart would be aiming for.

The grey tom turned towards the thicket, and she exhaled in relief - it'd be much easier for them to catch this one than to leap blind into a bush. They couldn't afford to wait any longer. As Stormheart pounced on his prey, his paws and tail stirred up leaves and caused the other mouse to sit upright, dropping the shrivelled berry it had been eating. Spidernose hissed, wiggling her hindquarters and launching herself at it without hesitation. 

The mouse was going to run and she had to act first, think later, and pray to StarClan that she could hit the right mark and wouldn't lose it - or if she did, that Sunfur would cover her. She landed full-force on the frozen ground, her jaws flooding with the scent of mouse as the claws of one paw managed to snag the tiny rodent's tail and pin it to the frozen floor. YES! Got it!  With one final movement, Spidernose too delivered a killing bite to the mouse's spine, straightening up to look back at Sunfur over her shoulder. The mouse dangled from her jaws, and Spidernose's tail stuck straight up, the she-cat letting out a triumphant purr.  

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WillowClan Camp

interacting with: @Shadow Dragon’s Blackpelt, @savannahssu for the rogues, in case you want them to try cause trouble with this hehe ;)

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Although the conversation seemed to have moved on, Frogkit didn't want to go back to the nursery yet, not when everybody was out here and there were so many interesting things happening! A little unsteady on her small legs, she skittered after the medicine cat as he crossed to talk to the rogues. Though Frogkit thankfully seemed to have enough sense to stay behind Blackpelt, which would hopefully prevent her from getting hurt.

She looked up at the bigger tom, her ears and her tail shooting upwards as she chirped eagerly. "I could help, Blackpelt! Honest!" she insisted, her eyes shining. "Pleeeeaaaseeeee, just tell me what herbs I need to get and I'll bring them, I won't touch anything else!" Frogkit promised, bouncing on the spot as she waited for an answer.

The Rise of WillowClan

Will be trying to get posts out for both Spider and Frog within this week (by Sunday latest), sorry for the delay, I had IRL problems to tend to and now I'm super ill with the flu so I'm a little slower than usual qAq

Song Reference time

There is a hill at the bottom of the valley
Where all the poor souls go when they die...
And if you listen real close, you can hear 'em like a ghost
Sayin' "you're never gonna make it out alive"

There is a town at the bottom of that hill
They got a secret that they keep like a slave
They got a black magic preacher,
And you'd do well to let 'em teach ya
You'll be headin' up that hill to your grave

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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

The Rise of WillowClan

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

The Rise of WillowClan

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?”

The Rise of WillowClan

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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...