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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 18:13:03 GMT -5
Grizzleyheart shook his head quickly. "Oh no no! It wasn't rough. Not for me, really. Not compared to others! I mean, I traveled around alot. Nobody to hold me back, tell me how to live, where to go. I loved each new home I created. Twolegplace is large, at least the one I talk about. I met a good friend there, but before that, I met my first mate...I was young, and bold and foolish. I overlooked her savageness and bitterness because she never directed it to me. She commanded the cats of Twolegplace with iron paws, and while she did a darn good job of bringing together and protecting starving and broken cats, she was brutal and violent and tolerated nothing but obedience."
Grizzleyheart shook his head. "Before it was too late, we had kits and I was reluctant to leave her and our only kit, but I couldn't bear to stay there as an iron-pawed leader ar her side. The respect and protection I got...it wasn't worth the bitterness and blood. So...once he was old enough, I left. I didn't look back, I couldn't look back. I retreated to the part of Twolegplace that the clans know much better, with small nests. I found an abandoned one and filled it with my collections. Then I met a cat named Gregory. One of my best friends. I do miss him."
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Post by 🌙Moonpower🌙 on Apr 21, 2018 18:29:20 GMT -5
Moonstar flicked her ear. "I'm glad to hear you got out of there, Grizzleyheart." She paused, squinting with curiousness. "Gregory? I believe that name has come up a time or two."
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Post by Scarfur on Apr 21, 2018 18:33:06 GMT -5
"I...fail to see-..." Grizzleyheart cut off, forgetting that blood ties were way more valued in the clans. He knew his own kits were techincally violations of the code. Even so, he looked at Moonstar and asked her. "Do they know? I mean, even if they did, what would it matter? Rouge blood or blood of a bad cat shouldn't mean anything compared to what a cat does of their own accord." He inquired. Lilacbreeze lifted a gentle paw with a mock growl, and Stormkit commanded loudly. "Shadowclan, attack!" Maplekit growled loudly before charging at Lilacbreeze, moving to swipe at her. Owlkit looked from Lilacbreeze to the kits, not sure why she said Shadowclan. Weren't they Windclan?
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 18:35:24 GMT -5
Moonstar flicked her ear. "I'm glad to hear you got out of there, Grizzleyheart." She paused, squinting with curiousness. "Gregory? I believe that name has come up a time or two." "One of the finest friends a cat could ask for. He showed me how to hide from the searching cats after me, and how to protect my twolegnest." Grizzleyheart's voice suddenly became softer and fonder. "Then, one day, I saw her. The most beautiful she-cat a tom could lay his eyes on. Walking in a line down the border. She never passed it, but she'd go hunting, hold her catch and sit and kinda stare out sometimes. She looked real sad, and lonely, but she took my breath away." He sighed at the memory.
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 18:37:55 GMT -5
"I...fail to see-..." Grizzleyheart cut off, forgetting that blood ties were way more valued in the clans. He knew his own kits were techincally violations of the code. Even so, he looked at Moonstar and asked her. "Do they know? I mean, even if they did, what would it matter? Rouge blood or blood of a bad cat shouldn't mean anything compared to what a cat does of their own accord." He inquired. Lilacbreeze lifted a gentle paw with a mock growl, and Stormkit commanded loudly. "Shadowclan, attack!" Maplekit growled loudly before charging at Lilacbreeze, moving to swipe at her. Owlkit looked from Lilacbreeze to the kits, not sure why she said Shadowclan. Weren't they Windclan? Lilacbreeze gave a rusty hum of laughter, her rough yet motherly voice chiming in with another mock growl as she swatted a paw slowly at Maplekit. She felt Stormkit clamber onto her back, as Eveningkit and Solarkit tugged on her tail together. "A Windclan warrior? Has Windclan come to aid the Shadowclan patrol?" Lilacbreeze asked Maplekit with a grin.
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Post by Scarfur on Apr 21, 2018 18:41:13 GMT -5
Maplekit glanced at Owlkit and purred softly before couching down, "the alliance isn't just skin deep!" She meowed as she rolled from the swatting paw.
Owlkit blinked and looked around before trying to dart under Lilacbreeze.
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 18:46:29 GMT -5
Lilacbreeze gave a gasp of mock surprise at Owlkit's move. "I forgot how fast you Windclan cats are! How can I possibly defeat such a strong alliance?"
Lionshade rested on his stomach, Silverkit dozing lazily with him as he watched his family and the Windclan kits playing.
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Post by 🌙Moonpower🌙 on Apr 21, 2018 18:48:00 GMT -5
Moonstar rolled her eyes, of course this would turn into his love tale, but she sighed anyway. "Go on."
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 18:57:11 GMT -5
Moonstar rolled her eyes, of course this would turn into his love tale, but she sighed anyway. "Go on." "Have you ever loved somebody so much, that everything in your life comes to a stop and you wonder why the world was kind enough to give you such a cat? I knew of clan cats, but I had never met one until I met her. She bristled at me at first, but I told her I was hunting, that I wasn't expecting to run into a beautiful she-cat...and she looked me in the eyes and told me the same thing right back." He closed his eyes fondly. He opened them, looking a bit sadly at Moonstar. "I know the code frowns upon such behavior, but she was hurting when she met me. She loved her clan, but she was convinced it didn't mean anything. I...she told me I was free, and that I was unlike any cat she knew. I made her smile." He swallowed. "But we lived in two worlds. Even as we met, every begging of me for her to run away with me was met with quiet no's...and she didn't want me joining Shadowclan. She didn't want me to change, I suppose. But, when she had the kits, she decided. She needed to think about them and in the end chose her clan. She visited less, only to show me our sons....and one day she didn't come back. She had died for her leader, and I had never felt such pain in my life."
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Post by Scarfur on Apr 21, 2018 19:02:22 GMT -5
Owlkit was at least attempting now, but anything he did was more like a fly landing.
Maplekit grinned brightly, "you will never defeat us badger!"
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 19:12:36 GMT -5
"You might be right!" Lilacbreeze gasped, finally allowing herself to fall beneath all the kits. "I've fallen!"
"Take that, Badger!" Stormkit purred with a laugh, standing proudly on his mother's flank. Eveningkit gave a squeal of victory. "You were really strong!" Solarkit grinned towards Maplekit and Owlkit.
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Post by Scarfur on Apr 21, 2018 19:14:52 GMT -5
Maplekit stood proudly in front of them, her tail twitching eagerly, "No clan shall have to face the wraith of a charging badger!"
Owlkit purred softly, a rough sound for a kit, but he tried at least.
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Post by 🌙Moonpower🌙 on Apr 21, 2018 19:35:35 GMT -5
Moonstar flicked her ear and looked away from him, her thoughts briefly recalled Closeheart of SkyClan and father of her kits. She pushed the thought away with a hardened heart. "I'm sorry for you loss, Grizzleyheart. Rubycloud was a good warrior."
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 19:46:19 GMT -5
"A noble warrior indeed." Lilacbreeze hummed to Maplekit with warm respect.
Grizzleyheart looked at Moonstar with a small grin. "It was bearable when I realized even if I lost her, she would always be with me. By then, she had changed my view. I believed in Starclan, in her enough to have faith. And I knew my sons would be safe in the clan. Where they were raised. I returned to my nest and just...kept collecting...until Goldberry came stumbling into Twolegplace. The wounds on his face, the wildness in his eyes. He was fighting something inside himself and he just wouldn't sleep." Grizzleyheart's eyes grew protective.
"One of my sons was alone in Shadowclan and the other was writhing and fighting himself in my home. I felt helpless, I truly did. It was only when he remembered about the Moonstone that we tried to do something."
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Post by 🌙Moonpower🌙 on Apr 21, 2018 19:48:37 GMT -5
"I remember it well." Moonstar mewed back to him. "Goldberry was brave."
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 19:59:10 GMT -5
"Yes. Braver than I could ever understand. But he was scared. And seeing the gentleness in his eyes turn to fear and misery, it broke my heart. I realized then, even when we saved Spiderfang in the fire and when Starclan chased away the Dark Forest from him, I knew I couldn't let him go back alone. I had to stop being an adventurer and start being the father I could have been moons ago. Lynxdapple was so happy. It made it better, seeing him so happy. I can never repay you for helping him, I am eternally grateful." Grizzleyheart nodded.
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Post by 🌙Moonpower🌙 on Apr 21, 2018 20:17:53 GMT -5
"We would've done the same for any cat." Moonstar mewed, looking away from him once again to gaze across the hunting grounds
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 20:23:08 GMT -5
"Well, you did it for him, and that's good enough for me." He gave a small chuckle, and Grizzleyheart mewed. "I do remember helping to save Northstar from Twolegplace. What a wild moon that was." He breathed.
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Post by 🌙Moonpower🌙 on Apr 21, 2018 20:32:01 GMT -5
"All of StarClan was concerned. Two leaders taken from their Clan like that has never happened before." Moonstar nodded in agreement.
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 20:40:32 GMT -5
"Oh goodness...the death stick..." Grizzleyheart bristled at the thought, hearing the heart-stopping pop and seeing the Riverclan leader down and bloody. He shook his head frantically. "Foxes and badgers and snakes will never compare to the death stick..."
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Post by 🌙Moonpower🌙 on Apr 21, 2018 20:47:03 GMT -5
"All creatures fear that thing." Moonstar nodded in agreement.
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 20:52:45 GMT -5
"All creatures fear that thing." Moonstar nodded in agreement. "The worst is when the young ones ignored our warnings to not go near the twolegs at night...they never listened, those poor fools." Grizzleyheart shook his head sadly. "That is one thing I can appreciate in the clans. Never having to hear that dreadful noise again."
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Post by 🌙Moonpower🌙 on Apr 21, 2018 20:56:25 GMT -5
"We are thankful that the twolegs don't come to the forest. The closest they tread is SkyClan's territory and the thunderpaths." Moonstar nodded in agreement.
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 21:22:40 GMT -5
"We are thankful that the twolegs don't come to the forest. The closest they tread is SkyClan's territory and the thunderpaths." Moonstar nodded in agreement. "One less thing to worry about up here then." Grizzleyheart nodded in agreement. He tipped his head, looking out. "You must have seen a whole world of things. I can only imagine what leaders do. 9 lives. That's the difference."
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Post by 🌙Moonpower🌙 on Apr 21, 2018 21:23:53 GMT -5
"There are those of us who do not get the chance to live all nine lives." Moonstar looked at Grizzleyheart with a solemn expression. "It happens all too often."
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 21:45:19 GMT -5
"I...imagine there is a story behind your statement." Grizzleyheart mewed slowly.
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Post by 🌙Moonpower🌙 on Apr 21, 2018 21:48:52 GMT -5
"Just look at any of the leaders, Grizzleyheart. Scarstar lost two lives right off the bat because of her old age. Warriors of RiverClan schemed to kill Spottedstar. Darkstar lost most of his lives to his genetic illness. Fogstar of SkyClan died before receiving her nine lives. There is rarely a leader that reigns as long as Northstar has now."
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 22:03:00 GMT -5
"Who would want to?" Grizzleyheart mewed quietly. "To live that long? To die over and over while the others only live once? To have all that stress and all those lives. But I guessed, after meeting Northstar, something that my mate didn't. That things change and that's okay. Because as nice as leadership sounds to the little ones, nobody wants to do it for that long without feeling some sort of pain." The golden tom sat on his haunches.
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Post by 🌙Moonpower🌙 on Apr 21, 2018 22:05:14 GMT -5
"It is a great honor and a great burden." Moonstar nodded. "But a leader only lasts as long as they should."
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 21, 2018 22:14:04 GMT -5
"Wouldn't fit me. I would be the worst at telling cats what to do. Felt too controlling, even when I was technically a leader in Twolegplace. I guess I'd prefer hunting all day." Grizzleyheart smiled leasurely.
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