{playful}CELESTIALCLAN TERRA{innocence}

[MiNTY♥]

There was probably nothing to be worried about, but this was th first time he had encountered loners on the territory, and they did not look stupid enough to run through bramble bushes without a good reason. Nettlepaw nodded sharply, he turned and pelted towards the first tree, it would be faster to travel this way. Using his strong back legs he kicked off and landed on the first branch. He then began to dodge from tree to tree, better than he ever had before. He was getting better at this. Jumping down from a branch where the ground started to get flatter, he pelted into camp not wasting a second.

Nettlepaw to camp.

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Ghoststar leapt through the trees at ease her muscles bunching under her sleek silver pelt then relaxing again. This was as easy as sleeping for her, in fact she could do it in her sleep. She landed noiselessly on the other side of the trees. Nettlepaw had told her where to find the two suspicious loners. They couldn't honestly be that bad if Lightningstrike had let Nettlepaw leave him. Her nose wrinkled at she scented the loners, but she also scented blood, along with Lightningstrike. If they had touched one of her warriors, then she would make sure personally that they never crossed into her territory again. However, when they came into view it was clearly obvious that neither of them had been fighting, however the loners were bleeding, but obviously it was not Lightningstrike's doing. She cleared her throat. "May I ask why you have come?" She asked sternly. She was using her I-don't-take-no-crap-from-no-one voice again, she liked how it sounded. She looked from the two loners, to her warrior and back again. Nettlepaw had been right there was something a little suspicious about them. They had thorns sticking out there pelt, she didn't need to be a medicine cat to tell that they had ran through a thorn bush, and they did not look stupid enough to do that. When she moved to stand beside her warrior, she was taller than him, she was taller than many cats. Her eyes narrowed as if to say I'm waiting.

He could relax now that Ghoststar was on her way, it would take her no time to reach where the loners were, he has seen her move from tree to tree. Almost as if she was a bird. Maybe someday he could move like that. His legs were shaking and he just wanted to go and curl up in his nest, but he didn't want to leave the two cats with the loners. If it came to a fight he was almost as good as any warrior. He padded down to a small pool of water that had collected. As he drank from it he could taste how unfresh that it was, however it was better than nothing. He leapt up onto the nearest branch and began to make his way back to where they had met the two loners, only more slowly than Ghostar. He was feeling a little weak after his dangerous sprint through the forest. He dropped back down onto the ground and padded through the undergrowth to stand at Ghoststar's other side.

[aquadapple]

AquaDapple

'......So many thoughts that I can't get out of my head
I try to live without you, every time I do I feel dead
I know what's best for me
But I want you instead
I'll keep on wasting all my time
Over and over, over and over
I fall for you......'

The silver she-cat never went back to camp, but just jumped the trees to just be alone. Then, she wrinkled her nose to the scent of unknown cat's. Loners. She wondered where these cat's were, and followed their scent to the training hollow, where she saw Ghoststar and Lightingstrike. Aquadapple came around from the back, and waited for the loners to answer, and wait for Ghoststar's signal to attack, if it came to that.

(s) Over and Over by Three Day's Grace

[LYNX ♥]

^{A deep chord of innocence played in Redhatred's cold, pale eyes, wet now, and she was a picture of pity. "I'm sure you've charted your territory better than this, sir warrior," Redhatred's voice trembled, it wasn't all an act, though, her scratches hurt! "There are several slanted cliffs northernway," She jerked her head toward the direction they came from, "There was also a rouge that way, a she-cat," The MaliceClan scout trembled, "She forced us off a cliff, we didn't know it was there, at the base were several raspberry- er, what did you call them? Brambles, and thorn trees, we both tumbled down." She explained, lying through her teeth, but, of course, she had many moons tucked in than this cocky bucko, he couldn't detect a lie from her, after all her expirience as a scout, she thrived on doing this, she made sure he wouldn't outsmart her, or at least, if he tried to, he'd never live it out.}

[MiNTY♥]

Ghoststar stepped forward and cleared her throat. "Enough!" She yowled, her eyes darting from the loner, to Lightningstrike. Turning to the loner her eyes burned, if that was possible for such pale colored eyes. "We do know our territory very well thank you, we do not need a lesson on it." She mewoed with a sharp bite to her tone. She was not in the mood to be messed with at the moment. "No I am afraid we do not have a healer, but some of her cats know some basic things that might stop you from getting infected, if you want properly treated try one of the other clans, but what they do is none of my business." She meowed.

[LYNX ♥]

<sup>z o d i a c t e l l e r
SNowy white paws thudded lightly upon the moss-laced forest floor, inclined at such an angle that it took full concentration to take a leisurely walk through. Frigid lights did this just now, intent on the movements in the shadows, and the slope of the ground below, taking in the cliff over there, and the bluff thataway, regretfully knowing he should be training the young cat who followed him. His apprentice. Zodi blinked, hearing tense, raised voices someway off, and though he knew it was no his place to investigate, he took a rare change, for him, and followed where his ears took him, creeping along the earth until he found a satisfactory stretch of shrubbery, where he settled down to watch the scene unfold before him.

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r e d h a t r e d
Turning her attention back to the she-cat who held such great sature amoung these other buffoons, obviously the leader, she sighed, realizing she would not be able to go back to their dwelling with them, for as it stood now, her claws tingled with the sensation she got when killing another cat, bloodlust filling her vision. She really hoped it would not come to this, but a pure blood MaliceClan cat couldn't ignore the Blood Lust. Of course, at the moment, she ignored this sensation, as all innocence played on her face. She did not want to kill the young warrior, and a scout wasn't made for fighting completely, so the russet she-cat doubted she could ever take on and actually kill the silver one, though, perhaps Slash could help, she didn't want him getting killed on his first scout expedition. Her ears payed no attention to the leader babbling, rather, they only saw her cold, unforgiving eyes. "I've heard of bear more hospitable than you," Redhatred muttered icily, eyes scanning the tilted clearing. If it came to what she was planning, the two scouts would tumble to their deaths, surely these cats knew how to fight on such a landscape, where Slash and herself hadn't a clue. Still, if they struck with such a snake-like surprise at only one of the cats, to teach them a bit of respect and satisfy the Lust, then perhaps they could make it out. Pondering, she suddenly caught site of icy eyes in the bushes and smiled, that was who she would kill.</sup>

[queenboo]

_{The bored Stainedwater lies on a rock awaiting for something spectacular to arise into this boring day. He then sees a chipmunk scouting for some food. "Yes! Food! The clan does need some frsh-kill anyways!" the tom quietly said to himself. Since Stainedwater didn't want to waste his time, he just did a lazy pounce on the chipmunk but the chipmunk fled. "Oh well," he sighed and wandered around to see if there was any other of his clanmates wandering around the place.}

[cloudy]

Slash watched all this with an expressionless face, waiting simply for orders. He would not, could not, act on his own. Apart from defying his mother, he didn't want to make a foolish mistake and get himself killed. But following her gaze, he saw a cat in the bushes, and he noticed her expression. He narrowed his eyes slightly and twitched the tip of his tail. He wanted to kill, to release the anger inside him and to use up all this excess energy that was now making him fidget. Leaning slightly forward he whispered in Redhatred's ear, "What now?" He made sure that the other cats could not hear him or see his mouth moving.

[LYNX ♥]

<sup>Reization and recognition flowed freely into Redhatred's chilly sage green lights, they twitched to her son and back to Ghoststar, flicking her tail non-chalantly. "It's him. We have to kill him, it's Zodiac," She murmured. Now Redhatred was always cold, hating, burning, it was her nature, but a new feeling washed over her. Deeper than anything she'd ever felt before, like the heavens had dumped ice into her veins, her heart slowed for a minute, then sped like nothing she'd felt. That ignorant, unloyal discusting, smelly fool had mated with her! She chuckled and spoke aloud, loud enough for anyone to hear, including the tom in the bushes. "Oh, you'd never remember him, Slash. That there tom's your father," She chuckled, then broke into a some-what manical laugh, her body shaking, trembling. "His name's Zodiac, or was, whaddo they cal ya here, dear, Trueheart? Loyalsoul?" She was still laughing and chortling soldly as she spoke directly to him. Her eyes flicked to Ghoststar, though she was still directed at her former mate. "Oh yes, the brute could kill and charm with the rest of them, w'all thought he was dead, right Slash m'dear? That there's you daddy, go give him a kiss,"

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Her icy voice was like a whip, tearing through his memories, leaving a deep gash as Zodiacteller slowly, doggedly crept from his hiding place, keeping his glacial blue pools away from Ghoststar, whom he knew was glaring or something. She knew he was never the most loyal nor social cat. Now she knew why. Suddenly, something was growing in his chest. At first Zodiacteller thought it was rememberance and love, but its heat grew until the inky tom thought he would burst; it was hatred. He hated that stupid slut! Why would the Gods of the Hell Pit ever send that creature? Was his destiny back at home? No, surely not, the alpha would kill him, his dignity would not alow it. He raised his head slowly, eyes meeting Redhatred's, then Slash's; chilling green, then unfeeling amber. Oh how he wished his son wasn't a part of that pit of... dogs. Narrowing his lights, his voice was stone cold. "You... slut! You stupid, lying mongrel!" He yowled, all claws unshealthing at once, creating a ghostly dirge, for whom he did not know, nor care. Suddenly he was bunched, all his muscles coiled, then he was flying through the air, landing on the MaliceClan scout, sinking his fangs in her throat.</sup>

[cloudy]

Slash froze at his mother's words. This Clan cat was his father? He instantly felt hatred course through him, without knowing why. He didn't have a pure MaliceClan cat for a father, instead he had this heap of foxdung. This blue-eyed fool was obviously soft and pathetic compared to MaliceClan. A snarl ripped through him, and as his father leapt at his mother, Slash slammed in between them and lashed out with his front paws at the tom.

[MiNTY♥]

Ghoststar continued to start on at the new comers, as a not so happy family story unraveled before her eyes. Her whiskers twitched, a silent witness, for the moment anyway. She hesitated in stopping the battle between them, it was their problem to sort, but Zodiacteller was one of her warriors, whether she liked it or not, and she should be protecting him. He didn't have to hide anymore, she knew. She growled and thrust herself into the battle, she was angry, angry at Zodiacteller for lying, and angry at his kin for disrupting things. She thrust herself in between the fighting family, muscles bunched, ready for the impact of attack.

Nettlepaw gasped, Ghoststar hadn't said anything, but it was a battle, and he would be defending his clan. She didn't look as though she needed much help, but either way, he was almost a warrior, he could help. Leaping forward he flanked Ghoststar and glared at the fighting cats.

[LYNX ♥]

<sup>"Hahaha, don't be silly," Redhatred snarled, sitting back with a cheerful smile on her face as Zodiac was knocked roughly to the ground by his own son, their own son. It was nice to know the loyalties of Slash, he really wasn't a bad tom. She threw herself past Ghoststar, whom seemed to be sitting in the middle of the battle like a lump, though she managed to pull a deep gash across Nettlepaw's chest in the process. She rolled, ducking and ramming into her old mate, leaping upon him and proceeded to sink her claws into his ribs whiel she sneered in his ear,"Liar, cheater, creep, star-watcher. Why shouldn't I kill you?" She chuckled, slashing across his face leaving perfectly aligned slashes across his chee and eye, satisfied when blood welled up.

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Zodiacteller shrieked when his own son threw all his bulk at him, being much stronger and young than the inky black warrior, Zodi was thrown to the ground when he saw blood splatter Redhatred's body from the cut she'd managed to create in Nettlepaw, making the she-cat look quite guresome as she approached in bounds and leaps. She leapt upon him and he cried out, his yelp that of agony when she drew her claws across his face. "No! Stop, please!" He yowled, looking pleadingly at Slash. "Son, don't, don't fight me! Kill her! Look what disgusting beast she's turning you into! Come with me-" He was cut short for a moment, gasping for breath as Redhatred gave him the hardest back-paw he'd ever felt in his life. Redhatred was completely unaware of Nettlepaw or Ghoststar behind her.</sup>

[MiNTY♥]

Nettlepaw gasped as he felt the impact of the she-cats claws on his chest. Within moments blood was pouring from the wound, he snarled angry now at what the she-cat had dared do to him. Giving his chest fur a few quick licks he leaped to his paws, dodged Ghoststar when she tried to hold him back and sprung for the she-cat back letting his claws slide out as he neared her fur. A growl escape his throat, only to be cut off when he felt himself falling, and with a light thud hit the ground, but was on his paws again quickly.

Ghoststar snarled and leapt forward to stop Nettlepaw in his paw steps, but he was fast and full of energy, she had not expected a dodge like that to come from him. A few seconds passed as she bounced after him and knocked him off the she-cat, she would not let Nettlepaw face her, she hastily looked at him as if to say, maybe try the younger cat. In the same moment she had turned around and was wrenching the loner off of her warrior.

[cloudy]

Slash sneered in his father's face. "I know where my loyalties lie," he hissed, and scored his claws down the tom's flank. He noticed there was a younger cat among them, and while any other cat probably wouldn't take on one smaller than themselves, he was a MaliceClan cat. Looming over the young tom he aimed a hard blow at his shoulder, enough to knock him aside. He didn't want to waste his time on that little puny weakling. Turning around, Slash saw the silver she-cat trying to drag his mother away. He leaped at the Clan cat and aimed a blow at her throat. The red mist was down, and all he wanted to do was feel warm blood in his mouth.

[LYNX ♥]

<sup>Zodiacteller cried out painfully, writhing under Redhatred's weight, though it seemed be dragged off of him, he looked up into Ghoststar's unusually cold eyes, she'd been acting alot diffferent lately. But now was no time to think about it, he leapt to his paws and instantly fell back down, eh pain was too great, he felt like such a weakling! Maybe he was.. No! He felt the MaliceClan Lust closing in, and he threw himself at Redhatred.

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Twisting in Ghoststar's grip, Redhatred aimed a sound blow to Ghoststar's throat with her forepaw, while at the same time, she lashed out with both hindlegs and caught the leader in the gut, she hoped. Twisting out of her hold, Redhatred, ducked Zodi's atack and whirled around to, with a lightning quick movement, thrust her claws around his throat, trhowing him to the ground, she lept upon him, slashing again and again, unable to control herself, she felt strange as she mercilessly tore the tom apart, his cries fading while his blood splashed her gruesomly. Finally, he was dead! "This is not the last of us, SIlvercat. Slash, come on!" She called, and bounded away as fast as her legs could take her, though it was a hard uphill struggle, she corssed the border and flooded down the valleyside, pleased but astonished to see her clan down there milling about. MaliceClan had arrived. A rough purr escaped her blood-splattered maw as she proceded down the hill to make her report....</sup>


WHOOOO. MALICECLAN HAS ARRIVED!

[toxin]

~Gryphonflight~

'Blood. . . there's blood scent in the air' A dark orang-pink nose twitched. With one silver ear rotating to listen the cat began to move. His thick coat sleeked to his body he slid through the terratory with surprising grace considering how large he was. In his snow white fangs there was a bundle of Marigold and Feverfew wrapped in a large dock leaf. 'No. . . oh no' The cat's pace tripled and he flew over the landscape. He felt his long hooked claws unsheath as he barreled across a slippery log. Bark curling under his paws he launched skyward as he reached the end. long twisted roots grabbed at his fur. One snagged his flank and broke off. Leaving a small, sharp root in his side. He let out a small 'oof' as he landed and nearly dropped his herbs. Shaking his head he gathered his ebony back paws under him and began his race once more.

Gryphonflight skidded to a wary stop and creeped out of the brambles to see blood on the ground. His hackles rose in warning but he slinked forward ears flat. The medicine cat crouched and then saw Redhatred. He had entered her path. The tom drew himself up to full height and his fur bristled. He couldn't quite speak around his herbs but his glare was enough of a threat. A low hiss escaped through the leaf and he half arched his back. Gryphonflight was out of his territory and he knew it but he could not find good Feverfew at this time of year in Celestialclan. 'What is this cat doing here? Why does she smell of Celestialclan and of blood?' Thoughts slammed Gryphonflight like stones and he narrowed his eyes waiting for an explination.