{sheadlighton}GATHERING 9/3{thisdisaster}

[cloudy]

Whitedeath had stayed frozen to the spot at first, eyes horrified at the chaos around her. Then she snapped into action, hurling herself at the cat nearest her. She slashed her claws down the cat's flank, and white fur and blood flew everywhere. Whitedeath closed her eyes and screamed obscenities in the other cat's face, lashing out with her forepaws. She didn't care what happened. Something had taken over her, a sort of desperate emptiness, that made her fight as if it was her last moment on earth. Which it may well have been.

Frozensoul spat as she was attacked from the side by another she-cat. Whirling around she bit down hard on the cat's shoulder, feeling the blood gush into her mouth and down her throat. With a cry of rage, her single eye blazing, she rammed her shoulder hard into the deputy's front leg, unbalancing her, then moved in to finish the job.

Cloudpaw screeched in terror, looking wildly around for Nettlepaw. She couldn’t see him anywhere. She tried to get away from the crowd of screeching, spitting cats around her, but there was nowhere to run. Panicking, she yowled, “Nettlepaw!” as loud as her lungs could allow.

[MiNTY♥]

Serenewinter gasped and raced up to help the leaders, not that they would need much help. She may have looked like she could easily be snapped in two, but really she was a lot stronger and faster than one would think. With a hiss she dodged in to nip Vividmurders back leg. Then dodged away again quickly. She readyed her snow white paw to hook in at the tom's belly, and rake across his more vulnerable part.

Ghoststar yowled, backing off, standing on her hind legs and lashing out with claws as the tom's legs kicked out to her. While she was regaining her balance the tom caught her shoulder and she stiffened under the pressure of it, falling to one side a little. While Serenewinter had him distracted she lifted a massive silver paw and smashed it into his hind legs. Whipping around she lashed out at Redhatred, showing her pearl white fangs, tearing any fur that she could manage to get to. Lifting another massive silver paw she aimed to smash the red she-cats skull with it.

Spectre felt the tom's claw catch on her nose, and lay a fine scratch across it. She chuckled lightly, like a small song, above the screeching and yowling that surrounded. She flicked fur from her paw daintily, as if she was delicate almost, however she was not. Lifting a creamy white paw, she aimed to brigh it down hard on the tom's skull.

A dark red liquid flowed down his black coat, as if the give him war markings. He would not walk away from this without giving the she-cat something to remember him by. Lighting a claw he brought his massive black paw down to smash into her ear. Dodging an attack from her he leaped to her hind end and charged into her, in an attempt to unbalance her. He brought up short and got ready to dodge, or leap into battle again

Nettlepaw yowled as he fought his way in a warrior like way through the fighting cats and yowled. His head whipped around to see the familiar pretty black and white she-cat yowling his name in a panic. He wanted to fight, but he wanted her to be safe. Leaping over the cats fighting between them he was by her side, leaning on her for a little support and regaining his breath. The blood from his pelt touched hers, making her pelt run red, like the river of blood on the cave floor.

[lily ♫]

Anubis screeched as blood poured from his throat. "Damn apprentice!" He knocked Chasmpaw down, holding him down, about to claw his throat.

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Splitheart smiled as Knife joined her. She clawed at Thunderthigh's underbelly, the blood covering her pelt as it spewed out. "Traitors shall not live." she hissed, the blood melting her mind, taking her to the state of mind all MaliceClan cats knew and loved.

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Flamingpaw's eyes grew wide and her heart beat faster. The tom was going to kill Chasmpaw! She yowled, crashing into Anubis, knocking him down. The tom kicked her off, and Flamingpaw thought fast. She remembered the way Chasmpaw taught her to land. She braced herself, praying that she would land correctly, and she did. Anubis was still lying on the ground, close to death. She padded quickly over to Chasmpaw. "Are you alright?!" she meowed, worried to death.

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Poppyfur let out one last yowl, loud enough to be heard throughout the clearing, and easily recognized. The yowl took her last breath, and the rest of her strength, and she closed her eyes, accepting death.

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Lilythorn heard the yowl. It was a yowl of death... The death of Poppyfur. A tear came down Lilythorn's face, the only grieving she would be able to do during this time. Then, she was hit by Scarletsnow. She was knocked to the ground, and she lost her breath.

[mizuinu]

"I am no traitor" he hissed. "I cleared some dead bodies away, there were cats hiding behind them morning and tryng to stay alive by acting dead." He screached as he jumped to his feet lashing out and scratching at the closest Maliceclan cat. "You can kill me if you wish, but I noticed a few cats slipping out without you even being notified. I would have told you but I could not find you. So if you kill me now, you will be even more outnumbered, for I have also seen Malice cats running." He sneered taking a few more blind swipes. Now he had to focus more on his own clan not killing him. He waited for them to move in.

Screechgale noticed one of the killing cats get corned by his own clanmates. How sad, she thought. She jumped to her feet and launched herself at the nearest of one of his attackers, it was Knife. Digging her claws into his back felt so wrong when she was used to mending these wounds. She clung for dear life now, realizing the size of the cat she was on.

[MiNTY♥]

Eclispeomen yowled and her head whipped up. Her heart melted as she heard Anubis's harsh curse. Her eyes grew grave to see him looking so battered. With an angry hiss she charged the apprentice, paws barley touching the ground. Head first. This useless scrap of fur they called Chasmpaw would pay. Even just for laying a claw on him he would, if he ever... No. She could not think about that. She had to kill now. Not mope around.

[cloudy]

Frozensoul slammed her paw down again and again on Whitedeath's head, until there was blood on her claws. Moving back slightly she laughed. That cat would never look the same again. Especially now that one of her eyes was missing. "Now you know how it feels!" she sneered at the deputy, and moved off.

Whitedeath struggled to get to her paws, feeling an intense pain in her left eye. Trying to ignore it, she stumbled over to a corner of the cave, and forced herself not to fall over. She knew there was something wrong. She tried to open her eye, but found she couldn't. Gulping, she shook her head and blood spattered onto the ground.

Dyingblossom snaked her way through the masses of bloodstained cats, stepping over the body of some she-cat who had just died. She spotted two apprentices, huddling together, their pelts also covered in blood. “Well, well,” she sneered. “What have we here? A couple of terrified little kitties, looking for their mommas.” She laughed coldly, and without warning lashed out at the nearest of the two, the black and white she-cat.

Cloudpaw yowled in pain as the claws connected with her throat. She was about to cower away, but then she remembered. She was no kit. She would fight to the end. For Ghoststar, and her Clan. Screeching her defiance, the she-cat hurled herself at Dyingblossom and rolled over with her, biting down hard with her fangs.

Slash came behind the silver spotted she-cat, snarling in the face of the other apprentice. He recognised Nettlepaw. “You!” he meowed in surprise. Then his face became a mask of hatred again. “Ready to die?” he growled.

[MiNTY♥]

Nettlepaw yowled and aimed a blow at the she-cat who has attacked Cloudpaw, then whipped around to face Slash. "In your dreams you stupid furball, you are the one who fled the last time remember?" His confidence had been improved since the last time, so had his need to fight, so he could get this tom out the road and check on Cloudpaw, even though she was not kitten. He rose up on his hind legs and brought his full weight to smash down on Slash the stupid tom. This, was for Cloudpaw. Absently he nodded to Irispool. Cloudpaw would be safer with her around.

[cloudy]

Slash hissed as the tom came down on top of him. He was stronger than he looked, and Slash guessed he was older than he looked as well. Older than himself. But this did not put Slash off. Just managing to push the tom off him, he scrambled to his paws, gasping for breath. He did not say anything, but he knew that he would tire quickly. He had to choose quickly. Would he fight and risk getting killed? Or would he run now? The latter simply was not an option. It went against all his instincts, and if a MaliceClan cat saw him he would be branded a coward for life. So he fought back. Lashing out with a forepaw he aimed for the tom's face. But he could feel himself gradually getting slower.

Sapphireshard was not a born fighter, and the heavy wounds on her flanks proved this. Yet she still carried on bravely, and she still managed a snarl as the one-eyes she-cat came towards her. This cat was tough and hate-filled, and normally Sapphireshard wouldn't have faced up to her. But she had to. For her Clan. For her friends. For all the dying and dead cats in this cave. She had to avenge them somehow. Yelling something indistinguishable, she crashed into the MaliceClan warrior, bringing her down.

Frozensoul reacted quickly, rolling over with the she-cat. She didn't want to waste her time with pathetic furballs. She had to get to the Clan leaders, and kill them. So she simply jerked her head forward and bit down on Sapphireshard's throat. Blood gushed into her mouth, the life slowly drained away. Almost done. Frozensoul's eyes burned with the bloodlust. Nothing could stop her now.

[LYNX ♥]

-The massive black and white tom looked around, another shecat was attacking him! He looked back, Redhatred could handle Ghoststar, but he stayed facing the leader. Nexy time young Serenewinter moved in to deal a blow, he kicked out like a stallion and hoped to catch her in the jaw. When his legs came back down, he used a forepaw to lash out at Ghoststar.

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The huge russet cat needed help, Ghoststar was gaining on her, pounded her to the ground, but Redhatred had a plan. Suddenly, the scout leapt up, away from the blows, flying high in the air, when she reached te ground, her paw was extended to bash Ghoststar just between her shoulder plade and neck, hopefully crumpling her.

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Lynxstar, massive and mighty, never frail, always strong, dove towards Shard, sheering away space with long glistening knives protruding from her massive wolf-paws. She dodged and dove, dealing blows or taking them accordingly. She was weakening, but not by much.

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Chasmpaw almost panicked, but held his own, fight away slashes and blows dealt by from seemed every angle, boring down, crumpling him to the ground, Anubis was upon his, heaving as Chasmpaw was, eyes wide and hating, while Chasmpaw's were soft and forgiving, but cool and dark, glistening amber. Before Anubis could finish him, the apprentice flipped and jumped up, smashing into Anubis's chest, and wriggling away. Suddenly Eclipseomen was now dashing toward him, her eyes cold and hard, ready to kill. Oh no, not him. Chasmpaw rushed forth to me her, slamming into the black she-cat, using his weight against her.

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"You are a traitor!" Knife shrieked, lashing out to drag his claws through Lust's pelt. "Soft, too soft! Weak, disgusting, freak!" Knife snarled hatefully, kicking and biting randomly, when he felt a small weight upon his back, and rolled over, smashing whoever was on him into the ground.

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Gallows chuckled as Poppyfur writhed and screeched, kicking out in pain and wiggling as blood gushed in uneven plumps, slower, and slower each time as the elder died slowly, shrieking a final time, she was dead, and proud Gallows felt rather accomplished, and dove off, joining Knife and Slitheart kill Thunderthighs. Of course, undeniable fun.

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The lean white warrior snarled at the deputy, seeing she was winning, and dove again, and again, slashing each time, gaining, winning. But the battle was taking it's toll on her. She was slowly weakening, blood was gushing by what seemed like everywhere, including her facial wounds, which had opened again.

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Nimbuspaw, enticed and inspired by Spectre's immence beauty, attempted to slash her soft plush chest, but missed, and tumbled into her, just in time to feel himself dying, life rushing out quickly through holes created by the shards of his own skull being pressed into his brain. His last thought was, ridiculously,Damn she's strong! And of course, equally idiotic, his last words were,"You're- pretty.." Where his words and breath rushed out, and his died, just like that.

[sandpoppy]

Irispool looked around... so much.....too much..... she had to get a grip on herself. She saw Nettlepaw and Cloudpaw and quickly ran up to them. Nettlepaw was doing well. She noted as she raced pass. Cloudpaw was fighting a warrior. No Moonpaw had already lost her mentor to these killers. She would not let them take Cloudpaw! "Whats the matter she-cat?" She snarled as she leapt onto her back. "Are real warriors too big and tough for you? So you chose to pick on injured apprentices instead! Coward!"

Mistakenpaw felt like he was in a dream. He had lost a bit of his ear and one of his legs was torn up. Then something woke him up. Chasmpaw! He was Abysspaws brother! He leaped. with a snarl into the air and hit against Eclipsemoon. "I'll die before you touch that cat!" He swore, suddenly his words felt empty. They were all going to die. Than Abysspaw, they would find her! "I won't let you! I won't let you hurt her! You won't take him away from her!" He was not the shy cat he was only a few hours ago. He was ready. He was ready to die for her. He was ready to kill for her! "Abysspaw!" He shouted, for he doubted he would ever say her name again.

OOC:Don't kill him! Just really beat him up. I'll post with rest later. That's a lot of cats! Alright one more

Snowflight saw Thunderthighs. He was the enemy and he was....saving them. Compassion for the tom filled him and he charge toward Knife. He was almost as big as the massive alpha. "If you spend your time killing your cats I hardly see how you still have a clan left." He snarled throwing his weight against him. "Your killing my clan, your massacring innocent cats. I get that part. What I don't get is why?"

[MiNTY♥]

She met the younger tom with force, but he did not budge, she felt sore where they had collided, but not enough to knock her off course, she was strong, this apprentice was in la-la land obviously. She snarled and aimed to bring a blow down on his head. Eclipseomen kicked out with her hind legs absently at the apprentice who had just landed on her, with a lot more force than she had intended to shake the smaller cat off. Her eyes danced with anger. She turned her focus back to Chasmpaw and took in his appreance. He was big and meaty, like most Maliceclan toms, she knew the typical way they fought. Her advantage now would be her speed. She grinned only giving her apprentice a glimpse of her fangs then dived in and away from him in swift movements, with sharp well aimed blows and bared fangs.

Nettlepaw yowled as he felt a claw catch his pelt he snarled and lashed out, aiming blows in all directions. Making himself untouchable. He snarled and spat. He was angry and he was strong. It didn't take him long to notice that Slash had also noticed that he was strong, and older too. He had obviously taken the apprentice with a little surprise. He grinned a grin that showed off all his fangs. A snarl ripped from his throat. He knew he had the upper hand, he knew the other rom thought he would lose by his hesitation. Those Maliceclan cats cared too much what others thought of him, that was where he had his advantage, it almost made him smile, but he would not stop fighting just to look at his own luck. Or the possibility that the fact he had trained so hard had finally payed off. He would now give up now, he would become a warrior before he let himself come even a little close to dying.

Spectre gasped as the soft bundle of fur tumbled into her. She blinked. She had just killed another cat, she had actually killed another cat. How could she? Her maw dropped open. She bent down and stared at the tom. His last words burned, touching her racing heart, slowing it down. "I didn't mean to I'm sorry." She managed to stutter out, sobbing lightly. Her tongue began to draw over the wounds she had inflicted on him, her eyes were large nad black and she melted right there on the spot. She flopped onto her bottom and pushed her nose into the fur of the cat she had just killed. What would the rest of her clan think if they knew? She regretted ever coming to battle, she could have avoided this, this toms life could have been spared. Her tears dropped silently onto the toms pelt. The tom who was not grey, but not brown either.

Shard dodged Lynxstar's blows quite easily, this battle was going nowhere, without Anubis they were equally as strong as each other the two cats. He kicked off, leaping over her, meaning for his hind legs to collide with her head as he did. Leaping off he met another cat in battle. Aquadapple. He kicked and slahed at her, she was not guarded enough, weak even. He snarled and spat. She pinned him down, they rolled together, when he had her pinned for definite he moved in. His fangs meeting her soft delicate throat, sinking into it. Her yowl was cut short, and her heart slowed to a stop. He licked his fangs clean with a swipe of his tongue, and sent the body flying, it smashed into the wall and he returned to Lynxstar, to fight with her.

Serenewinter felt her jaw being knocked up at an odd angle. She took time to choke blood from her mouth, to fill her lungs with air again, for the inflicted area to stop throbbing but it did not. She snarled, angry now. It was rare for her to get angry, but she felt a little temper flare up inside her. Collecting her cool she charged at the black and white tom, with unsheathed claws and a forceful blow ready. She acted with a lot more control than most cats fighting around her. If she could manage it she would try and force the tom back, try and get him to fall off the rock.

Redhatred had crumpled her before the blow from Vividmurder had time to sink into her, she didn't even realise where she had been wounded. Kicking up at the fat she-cat on top of her she leapt to her paws and aimed a blow at the eyes of the russet she-cat, then her nose. Some of the she-cat most vulnerable features. She kicked out behind, hoping Vividmurder was close enough to feel the damage from her kick.

Crypticstreak yowled and threw himslef onto the she-cat who was killing Sapphireshard. He wanted to go to her side, to clean her wounds and to watch her go to sleep, and wake up again perfectly healed. However, the she-cat who had done this to her would have to pay first. He was strong. He was mighty. He felt as if he was flying as he crashed into the she-cat with such a strong force it left even him feeling weary. He yowled and aimed to sink his claws into the she-cat fur.

[lily ♫]

Flamingpaw nodded to Chasmpaw. She padded quickly over to the black tom, seeing if he was alive still. She poked him with her paw, and she shuddered as he let out a growl. He didn't have enough strength to fight back. She unsheathed her claws and sunk them into his throat, trying to kill him quicker.

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Anubis' eyes went wide as the fire colored apprentice clawed his throat even more. "Eclipse..." he rasped, barely loud enough for her to hear him.

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Lilythorn snarled. "You can't take me down." She lashed out, all claws and teeth, ignoring her pain. The she-cat was losing more blood that she was. She hissed, trying to knock her opponet down.

[LYNX ♥]

^{The massive tom swore softly and swung around, aiming his blow to Eclipseomen's throat, windpipe, anywhere that would hinder her escape. "Kill him Flamingpaw!" He snarled loudly, trying to fend off Eclipseomen at the same time. She was quick, but Chasmpaw was not a lumbering bear. He was young, still, and nimble, though big, and wove along with her, darting in to nip and blow.}

[MiNTY♥]

Eclipseomen looked up from what she was doing, only to recieve a smash from the tom she was fighting with.It only took her a moment to get back to her paws. She gasped to hear Anubis calling her name. "NOOO!" She screeched, loud enough to fill who whole cave, and still have the sound ringing through cats ears. She kicked off the groud, flying through the air and aiming to drive her claws straight into Flamingpaw. One thing was for sure, she had managed to collide with the apprentice, as she felt warm fur against hers. She yowled and screeched and lashed out angrier than ever, even angrier than she had been before when Anubis had betrayed her. She yowled at the she-cat before fleeing to Anubis's side. She began to rapidly lick his wounds, worry taking over.

Phantomcry noticed some apprentices messing with Eclipseomen and Anubis, he snarled and nodded to his brother was nearby. His massive figure charged through the crowd of cats, along with his brothers, pushing all cats in the way, out of it. He aimed a smash to the red she-cat skull. Surely enough to send any cat flying, he was strong, sometimes too strong for his own good, with his brother by his side they were unbeatable, but he would not kill any apprentices, it was the warriors he wanted to die. Dreadwish nodded to his brother as they began to drive the apprentices away.

[LYNX ♥]

Knife felt more cats attacking him, and laughed gleefully. "Oh, dear tom, you're wasting your breath!" He yowled in Snowflight's face, writhing and wriggling out of the white warrior's gripped, and then charging back, ramming Snowflight into a wall, he spun around and lashed at Screechpaw.

Gallows saw several cats attacking his alpha, and hissed ominously, then padded over to Screechpaw, and plucked her off, throwing her to the ground and sinking his fangs into her neck.

Scarletsnow snarled. "I don't need to, she-cat. Can't you see you're losing? Look around, we're winning. I'm not trying to kill you, just trying to survive. I promised my mate I wouldn't die. I don't- plan - on - failing him!" She snarled smugly between blows, strength still receeding, but she had a good store left.

Redhatred shrieked in pain, howling out at Ghoststar's now rapid blows and stroke, weakening the russet she-cat every time.. the scout was becoming badly battered, as she randomly lashed out and clawed and tore and bit anywhere she could manage. Finally, heaving, she dealt a surprisingly strong, piercing blow to Ghoststar's chest. If Redhatred were to die, she'd take the Ghost-cat along with her.

Lynxstar was slightly dazed, but not by much. She was bigger than this tom. She could take him. She hoped. The massive, lynx-like she-cat slowly strode forward, cringing when she hard Aquadapple's life cut short, and rushed to meet Shard, knocking him hard in the front, like a giant battering ram.

Vividmurder, his attention taken from Ghoststar, gawped at Sernewinter. She was just so dainty, she reminded him of another surtain bitch he hated. Slitheart. Now he wanted to kill her more than ever. "Die softy!" He shrieked, and dove for the white she-cat.