{crimson}MALICECLAN CAMP{rivers}

[LYNX ♥]

Staring idly at his most extremists, gahering around him slwoly, other cats surging away, or drifting forward to evesdrop, though he didn't mind, it would get the news faster. Casting his narrowed gaze of dancing crimson flame around the small, incomplete circle, he softly scoffed, and raised his proud head. "Those disgusting fools careless enough not to join the rest of us here will suffer, in time, though, my dears." He drawled, waiting one more moment for anyone else to join them, then began. "Well, I'm not going to ask you what you think of war, there's no option there, but about this Gathering business, what are your plans?"

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Scorchedpetal's yellow eyes glared ahead, filled with shame that her own Clan member had defeated her. She turned her attention to Knife as he called a meeting, and grew rigid as he called those fools who fought amongst themselves. Hopefully, he'd be unable to single her out. Scorchedpetal relaxed, she knew that he had a soft spot for the she cats. That was just how Knife was. She didn't need to kiss up to him like that horrid Deathbringer, also called "Knife's shadow." She'd just ignore that lump of fur, though.

Those fools, who wouldn't come to the meeting and ignore the Alpha, they'd pay. Scorchedpetal licked her lips and dainty paws, knowing she'd probably need to help out. She did not thirst for blood, as many of her Clan did, she lusted for everything, she wanted everyone to love her. Now, if anyone got to kill someone, she'd be the one doing it.

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[cloudy]

"Plans?" Frozensoul repeated, swiping her tongue over her lips, almost tasting the blood of the fools who had not attended this meeting, and of course the blood of the Clan cats she would soon rip to pieces. She was not afraid of speaking out; having never been interested in Knife like all the other she-cats were, she did not care what he thought of her. She was not the sort to drool over a tom anyway. Speaking out foolishly had earned her the numerous scars she bore, including the empty space where her eye had been. So she chose her words carefully. "Wait until they're busy with their stupid little affairs, when they are all too busy to notice anything else. Then we creep up behind them, and let the fun begin. That will only work if everyone keeps to the plan, of course," she added, glancing around to see if anyone dared to challenge her.

[MiNTY♥]

"Or.." Dreadwish began. "The clan cats saw Redhatred and Slash, so, they could maybe be a distraction, if we were to do something else, for example." he continued. "I imagine they will have it in a clearing, being a large clan, we could encircle them, so they have no where to run, and move in, so we have them trapped, and they can't run in the opposite direction." He lifted a silver paw and drew his tongue over it. He glanced at the cats around him, not all of the council were here. Knife should have cats that he can trust on the council. A battle, or rather a war would be good, just the thing he needed, to kill cats that he already hated, even if he did not know him. Dreadwish did not like many cats, and the ones that he did, he liked to keep his distance from. He sat and his tail curled neatly over his paws. His blue eyes fixed distantly on fighting.

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Eclipseomen snarled and pulled away from her brother. "You don't understand." She hissed. "You don't understand." She whispered, her voice shaking. She slipped into their new den and curled up, pressing her nose into her deep black fur for comfort.

Shard took a step away from his sister and eyes her wearily. His eyes were round with worry. It was not often that he found her to be this upset over something. He glanced around him before following her into the den, he almost tripped over her curled up in the shadows. "OUCH YOU FREAK" She yowled lifting a claw. His paw shot up and he pinned her to the floor, teeth bared. Their eyes burned into each others. "Its ok." He whispered to her. Neither of them moved, apart from the rise and fall of their chests. She began to struggle underneath him and he let her go. Without another word he watched as she curled up again. Flopping down by her side he lay behind her, his tail layed comfortingly over her flank.

Shard listened to her short and half hearted attempts at breathing, the unsteady rise and fall of her flank under his tail. Standing up he crept around her and pushed his nose into her flank. He flinched as she sharply lifted her head to look at him, but she did not attack him like expected. He lay down, and they curled up together. For a long time they did not speak, did not say anything, just listened to the sounds around them.

"You know I could kill him right now." He said pushing his paws into his sisters flank. Eclipseomen opened her mouth, and he could tell by the fact that her pupils spilled over the color in her eyes, leaving them black, that there was more to it that he thought. "You really like him don't you." Shard meowed with a smirk. He looked into the black pools that used to be his sisters eyes, she would have been invisible had it not been for the light catching her eyes, forming a white circle in each black pool. Eclipseomen whimpered. "We were team." She whispered. "We were supposed to stay a team, he took me out with him, to kill a rogue, who was actually his sister and he knew, and in another blow I could have killed her, but he stopped me, and he was the one who wanted me to attack her in the first place. He let me down." She meowed darkly.

Shard pushed his nose into her fur comfortingly. "You know if it made you feel any better we could kill him." He suggested, but stopped, as her eyes went from black pools to narrowed slits. "I could have." Eclipseomen meowed. "I was so angry, I had to run away." She added. There was a pause. "Wait..you are telling me you wanted to kill a cat, but you ran away because you have feelings for them. That stinking piece of fox dung." He meowed. He could still not believe that his sister actually had feelings for another tom, there had been something there all along, he just hadn't seen it, like everyone else, including her. "Yes." She meowed absently, almost as if she was betraying everything that she had worked for over the moons, well she had in a way. "If you two are going to become mates then I am laying down some rules for him." She hissed. Eclipseomen's eyes widened, so many questions ran through her head at the same time, it was all so confusing and messed up. How could she go back to him after what he had done?

"Well?" Shard asked. Eclipseomen stared at her brother and tilted her head slowly to the side. "I don't know." She meowed finally.

It was scary. In a matter of seconds everything she knew, everything she had known had been turned upside down, messed with. She sure wouldn't be the one to explain to Anubis what he had missed. If he really still liked her, then he would work to gain her friendship back, and if he didn't, well then it was nice knowing him. She told herself the plan over and over again, so sure of what she was going to do, so sure of how things were going to work out.

"Eclipse?" Shard meowed, interrupting the long silence.

She looked over at Shard, dear Shard. She didn't know what she would have done without him, he was such a good brother to her, he was almost too good for her. No matter what happened she was absolutely certain of one thing, her relationship with Shard would not change. She pushed her nose into his fur and closed her eyes, focusing on her breathing.

[mizuinu]

"We could even do both. We could send a few cats in to distract them, you know how they react to outsiders, and have the rest of us encircle them. When they are preoccupied with the distraction, we charge in at all angles. Send our strongest to fight there strongest, and maybe have Deathbringer and a few others go after the leaders." Thunderthighs piped in after a long period of thinking.

[LYNX ♥]

^{A small, soft sigh ushered itself from Knife, his lids half-shut, dropping with boredom, how could MaliceClan become this? Asylum would have whipped them into shape, and if Bloodkiss were around, most wouldn't be alive, was Knife going soft? Yes. Yes he was, the moonlit Alpha would have to prove himself in this war, quit screwing she-cats every second of the day, enploy more loyal council, though most were well enough, Dreadwish was quite clever, at least. Thunderthighs... well, he would stay if he wished. Listening now, Knife shouldered off Dreadwish's suggestion. "It takes place in a cave, the rouge told Redhatred, under the glacier by a big lake." He murmured at the other tom, one of the few on the council. Turning to Lust, he nodded absently. "Yes..." He mumbled. "That's a good idea. Deathbringer, Vividmurder, Fate.. who else? Scorchedpetal, perhaps you. Cormorant, Anubis, and Shard can go after the younger cats, if you wish, feel free to take prisoners, they could be useful, for ransoms and whatnot. I want no she-cats participating in the slaughter of apprentices and elders, their soft maternal instincts may hinder them.." He meowed. Severing a tick with a single claw, and flicking it away, he glanced at the clouded, darkening sky. "It approaches." He whispered, blinking. "Frozensoul, take Gallows and round up our average warriors. Leave the larger cats, toms and she-cats, to me. Frozensoul your cats will take on a kill any warriors possible, no warrior prisoners, only apprentices, deputies if you wish. Kill the healers. Dreadwish, you'll round up the smaller cats, like Rupture, any apprentices who are capable enough, and any other small cats. You will take down as many apprentices and elders as possible, create groups and take down bigger, stronger warriors, surprise them. Surprise, it's all we have. There will be forty or so cats, I think. Give or take. We want to kill as many as we can. Weaken our enemy, yes?" The silver tom looked around with dazzling crimson eyes. "We move in when the moon reaches it's full height, take on Lust's ideas. Scat, round up your cats, send the most capable and alrge to me." He ordered.}

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~Deathbringer~

[shadow=white,left,300]'I will bathe in thier blood and they will beg for mercy that shall remain unforthcoming'[/shadow]

The monsterous tom's huge claws ripped through the ground as he felt the battlesurge roil within his being. Looking from council member to council member his glorious gaze locked onto one who seemed to look right back at him. Scorchedpetal. The blood colored blades sheathed with a low hiss as he rose and looked away from her. He had no real interest in she-cats but that ones spirit burned and he respected her more than he did any other female. The sounding of his name from the tom Thunderthighs brought his focus back to his leader. His hackles prickled and shivered as he envisioned himself tearing into one of the forest fools. They always thought that because they were given nine lives that they would not die to one cats claws. They were wrong of course and he almost pitied the foolish leader who chose to charge against his master or himself in battle. . . almost but not quite. His breath-taking form shimmered as he stalked to the other side of Knife. He did not crouch but was mostly invisible to those who were not looking for him.

Deathbringer glanced at Scorchedpetal for a instant and then materialized from the depths of darkness to tower in all his terrible glory just two-tail lengths behind Knife.

[glow=red,2,300]'We move in when the moon reaches it's full height'[/glow]

Deathbringer nodded and waited for instruction. A growl rumbled in his throat and he faded again as a cat strayed too close to the council meeting. Moving at a speed not often imagined for on of his bulk he did not issue another verbal threat. Shoulders rippling with rock hard mucsle he launched himself at a large but still smaller than himself tom. His perfectly curved claws dug in but he held his power in check and did not rip the male's flesh from the bone. One increadibly powerful blow from his massive paw sent the striped tom flying backward. Landing in a crumpled heap the tom rose stiffly and hissed then turned tail and ran to a safe distance to wait for his orders. Deathbringer shook a few crimson drops from his paw and returned to his spot in Knife's shadow. He was called Knife's shadow but he also stood in it. . . happily yes but never what his lord was. The night's cool air washed over his pelt of shaded black. As shadows stirred he seemed to flicker and dance as if he was not really there but a mirrage and illusion.

With the one impudent tom sent away Deathbringer settled once more. His claws retracted the blood glistening wetly but otherwise not even changing the color of his claws. He wiped his tounge around his jaws and blinked. [shadow=white,left,300]'Soon you will get the chance to show Knife what you are made of'[/shadow] The ever present voice echoed in his massive head and he smiled grimly at the thought. He would take a prisoner if he had to but death was his specialty.

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[MiNTY♥]

Dreadwish nodded absently, always the easy jobs that got given to him. He did not say anything further, there was no need to.

Shard checked to see that his sister was awake. "We should go and see if we are needed." he meowed, he knew she was upset, but they had a duty to do, to serve Maliceclan. Eclipseomen nodded and stood up, she flanked Shard as they left the den together, everything felt so surreal now, everything buzzing with activity. They looked over the heads of the smaller cats and to where Knife was holding a council meeting. He let out a sigh. "Everything will work out." He meowed, it could have been the battle he was talking about, but it wasn't, it was Eclipseomen's problem. Things often in the end would work themselves out. Their tall figures slipped through camp, while they walked they talked, and while they talked, they grew more curious. It was clear that his sister was in the fighting mood, the killing mood, he knew how it felt, to be so close to killing something, then to have been told to stop. In his mind, she should have kept on going.

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Frozensoul nodded to Knife, padding off in search of some of the average warriors, as he had instructed. It would probably be better to wait until the alpha had chosen some of the stronger warriors, so she could see who was left. She gazed around the camp with narrowed eyes, selecting in her mind who would be best to come on this mission.

[mizuinu]

Thunderthighs nodded as he heard his leader tell him his juob. Then dashed off to find Petal. When he finally located her he whispered in her ear, "Look, I'm going off to fight, and I may not come back the same way I am, but I want my bloodline to continue. I would be extatic if you would bare my children."

[sandpoppy]

Petal first felling was relief, than she felt worried, than calm. "I would be honored to bear you kits." She replied.

[LYNX ♥]

The massive alpha, quite satisfied with the members of council who'd shown, smugly smirked at Deathbringer, acknowledging the tom's presence and loyalty. It would get him something someday. What? He did not know yet, something, though. "Deathbringer, stay here." He meowed gruffly, and pattered off, lashing cats with his tail as he went, then pointing, with a claw of course, towards Deathbringer. In all, Thunderthighs, Firehalo, Anubis, Shard, Ire, Scorchedpetal, and Vividmurder were lashed and directed, when finished, Knife nodded to Frozensoul, indicating for her to round up her group, then he wandered back to his 'bodyguard'. "You cats," He began,"Are the biggest, strongest, and most capable of killing larger, powerful cats. Such as," A grim smile unfolded itself. "Leaders... deputies... medicine cats." He laughed shortly. "Yes, don't bother actually destroying the leaders, they have many lives, as I do. Rather, just take a few. Deathbringer will lead you. I will be fighting everyone, elders, warriors, and apprentices, alongside Frozensoul and Dreadwish." He nodded, and padded off.

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Freeze felt excitement building up. She took a deep breath. Relaxing herself. It was easier for her to concentrate when she was relaxed. Her eyes where only opened a slit. She smelled the air and focused on one scent. Ice was only a few feet from her. She waited until he took a step feeling the vibrations under her paws. She lashed out bearly breaking his skin. Ice only nodded. She gritted her teeth in frustration. Why was her brother like this? And worse why did she want to protect him?

[MiNTY♥]

As Shard saw the glint of a claw pointing in his direction, he left his sisters side, tail trailing from her pelt. Once they had lost contact he turned and padded to join the rest of the group thaqt had been called out. Anubis was in it. His claws flexed and teased the dirt below his paws, caressing it lightly.

Phantomcry slipped out of a dark corner, muscles rippling under his pelt, and watched his brother from where he stood. Spectre stood, wide eyes beside him. He could tell what he was thinking. "Yes, you will be coming." He told his daughter. As much as a battle would normally be fun to him, he was also protective, and all his kits would be in the battle, he knew they were no longer helpless kits, but he felt a nagging duty to protect them, all of them. This would never work out, they could protest themselves, after all they were his kits. He locked eyes with Dreshwish, the two brothers silently shared each others thoughts.

[LYNX ♥]

Frozensoul, Frozengale, Vixen, Addervenom, Ice, Gallows, Scarletsnow, Demonsoul, Eclipseomen, Knife, Dreadwish, Phantomcry, Fate

and any other warriors you have will be fighting other warriors, please make more.

Rupture, Freeze, Dyingblossom, Spectre, Asphyxia, Basilpaw, Rainpaw

Are going to attack apprentices and elders, any other small/young cats you have shall join them.