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Post by whirlpool on Dec 17, 2006 14:19:43 GMT -5
Cricket leapt unto one of the large, flat rocks. He had just left his home about a day ago and ended up here. 'This is really warm' he thinks has he pads at the rocks feeling the heat warm up his pads. He looked around 'I wander where I am? I guessing this is one of the clans territory. No matter.'With one more glance of the land the large, tailless, brown tabby lied down and drifted off to sleep.
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Post by shadowthunder on Dec 17, 2006 14:51:30 GMT -5
From farther in the territory of RiverClan, two orbs of brown watched the loner as he fell into a light sleep. The cat was curious about the intruder, but his clan instincts told him to remain alert around the tom. He lay there inocently enough, but Shadowthunder could tell by his careless demenor that this cat was far too confident and ignorant of Clan boundries to be allowed to remain there.
Shadowthunder tensed his muscles and padded forth, revealing himself to the cat, if he had been awake that is. The sunlight danced off of his tanned fur, shining in his deeper brown eyes. Sunning Rocks had been won from ThunderClan and was now RiverClan's, however, there were often scuffles over the piece of land. At first, the tom believed this new threat to be from ThunderClan. An overconfident warrior who felt Sunning Rocks to belong to ThunderClan. However, after taking in his scent, Shadowthunder decided against his first theory. This scent belonged to no clans; it was a loner's scent.
"Loner!" Shadowthunder's voice was firm, yet not quite threatening, "State your buisness here! This is RiverClan territory!"
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Post by whirlpool on Dec 17, 2006 14:58:08 GMT -5
Cricket squirmed in his sleep, as he looked up at the loud brown tom. He glared at the cat with annoyance. With out bothering to get up he stated, “Why’d you wake me up? I’m not harming anything.” With a closer look at this cat he sat up just incase. You never know if the other tom would just attack, but he didn’t seem to be the type to do that. “Just leave me be, you stupid clanner,” He meowed calmly. Clanner was his word for the cats that lived in the clans, and to him they were just plain annoying.
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Post by shadowthunder on Dec 17, 2006 18:55:31 GMT -5
Shadowthunder, surprisingly, gave no change in expression and appeared not to have even heard the tom cat's words. He forced his fur to lie a little flatter on his back and half relaxed. Although the intruder did refuse to leave, he didn't appear to have any interest in attacking him.
Shadowthunder stepped forward slightly, to make himself appear a bit more stern, and eyed the loner to see what kind of threat he could pose. The cat seemed well muscled, and on top of that, Shadowthunder knew he was far older than himself. He would probably be outmatched in a fight, but Shdaowthunder prayed to StarClan that it wouldn't come to that.
"Whether you cause problems or not does not matter. Leave now." Shadowthunder bit his lip, "You're not to tread on RiverClan land."
Shadowthunder held steady and stared directly at the loner, but did nothing else to show any upset. He was rather calm about this after all. His claws remained sheathed, his fur was flat, and his tail, though still, was relaxed as ever.
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Post by whirlpool on Dec 17, 2006 19:08:19 GMT -5
With a smile Cricket spoke, "Why? Why should I leave? Why do want me gone? Do I pose as a threat? Are you afraid I can over power you? Well, you thought right.” Cricket realized with the way the cat looked, that he was a lot younger than himself by many moons. “You should respect your elders.” He said halfway making fun of himself and the tom. Cricket’s smile turned into an eerie grin. “Do you really think you have anything to protect here? I’m sure they aren’t your family; I doubt you even have a family with the attitude you have.” He said family with a familiar distasteful voice. Now his face wore into a smirk. Cricket sat, whiskers twitching with amusement. 'This young one will be fun to tease for sure' he thought. He positioned his ears forward waiting for a response. ((Dramatic much ))
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Post by shadowthunder on Dec 17, 2006 19:30:14 GMT -5
Shadowthunder's eyes widened. Who...who was this loner? This cat... he knew. He knew something. or did he? Shadowthunder's mind raced. His troubled eyes focused on the loner's face. A shiver threatened to run down the tom's spine. Memories flashed through his mind. They were unstoppable, so much so that his own instinctive block against them couldn't hold them back. He's was falling apart, and all because of a few tossed words that this intruder had thrown at him.
'Calm down Shadowthunder.' The common sense in Shadowthunder's mind had kicked in. 'He knows nothing. Just keep your mind focused on now.'
He straightened up a bit and sat back on his haunches, though not as relaxed as he had been moments before. His fur had been too ruffled and he had allowed the words to crawl too far under his skin. A numb pain ached in his chest and seemed to stay.
"Leave RiverClan's territory immediately." Shadowthunder's eyes had regained their composure, but a trace of wariness could be picked up in his voice.
A sudden surge of pain ran through his chest, disrupting the numbness.
'Father... Rubbishkit... Solemnheart....'
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Post by whirlpool on Dec 17, 2006 19:57:40 GMT -5
Cricket saw the slight shock in the tom’s body language. He tried not to smile as he might have found a weak point.
He stared at this tom with intent brown eyes, and jumped of the rock not tearing his gaze from the Riverclanner. He stalked around the tom eyeing him warily taking in everything he knew about him.
'He’s young and naive I’m sure, but he doesn’t seem to be to strong, but he might have speed. If he does have the advantage of speed he…well, no because I have strength and experience' he thought.
Cricket might not seem to be to threatening with his round body and no tail, but you could tell he had muscles, and that he was a threat. After making one round on the tom, he looked up to the tom’s face. Some cats might have mistaken him for a raccoon with his markings, but his scent and body structure was definitely of a cat.
“So, you’re not hiding anything right? Nothing to tell me on your life, just keeping it all on the inside until one day it explodes and tears you apart?” Cricket stated while walking a farther distance from the tom, about four to six tail-lengths away.
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Post by shadowthunder on Dec 17, 2006 20:24:00 GMT -5
Shadowthunder tensed up, his eyes following the loner as he stalked around him. He was sizing him up, Shadowthunder could tell by the look in the intruder's eyes that he was evaluating Shadowthunder. The tom felt himself shrink a bit under the unforgiving gaze of the other tom, but, going against his instincts, Shadowthunder sat upright, keeping a collected look to him.
Shadowthunder listened to the loner's words, but at the same time, tried to block them out. He didn't want to become dragged back into the past, the past that was filled with unwanted memories. 'Just stay calm. Just stay calm.' The tom repeated it in his mind. He hated this feeling. The feeling of being backed into a corner.
"I won't play your game. Now who are you?" Shadowthunder spoke, trying to look uneffected by the loner's words.
Shadowthunder now knew that expecting him to leave, or even asking him to, was useless. This outsider wanted to have some 'fun.' He saw the slight smile that had flashed on the loner's maw.
Despite his determination to keep collected, Shadowthunder felt another jolt of agony run through his heart, causing his small frown to widen and stretch into a thin, wavering line.
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Post by whirlpool on Dec 17, 2006 20:40:37 GMT -5
“My name is Cricket,” He said with an arrogant smirk ignoring the first part of the tom’s speech. He acted as though this was very important and that he was enlightening the other tom.
“And as I’m sure you already guessed I’m a loner, of no clan.” He said proudly.
Cricket wasn’t usually like this, he just felt satisfaction that he was actually going somewhere into this tom’s thoughts.
“And you?” He asked, not really caring about the other cat’s name, as it served him no purpose.
Cricket sat down on his hunches comfortably, and peered at the tom with boredom. “Yes tell me of your clan. The clan that just houses you for your abilities. They don’t care about you. They only want you there to feel safe. Now don’t you think that’s selfish?”
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Post by shadowthunder on Dec 17, 2006 21:12:02 GMT -5
Shadowthunder looked directly into the eyes of the loner. Cricket. The name almost burned into his mind, in fact, that Shadowthunder actually flinched as the word was said. He brushed it off quickly, though, as not to drawn attention to it from Cricket.
When the tom asked for his own name, Shadowthunder hesitated. Should he give him his name? Would that make it easier to drag him into Cricket's game? Deciding that, since it wouldn't do any good to lie, he told his name to the stranger.
"Shadowthunder."
It was a simple answer. One that couldn't be taken the wrong way or be twisted to suit Cricket's 'fun.' Still, he felt uneasy around this tom now. It was time that this ended.
Shadowthunder then thought about what Cricket had next to say. Use him? Hate him? It was obvious to Shadowthunder that Cricket was still only trying to twist his mind into thinking he was right. The RiverClan warrior blocked out the nonsense that sputtered from Cricket's jaws. He couldn't wait any longer.
"My own personal life has nothing to do with someone like you!" Shadowthunder snapped. He was surprised at himself. He never got angry enough to do something like that. Never! "It's time you left." He added in a soft murmur.
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Post by whirlpool on Dec 17, 2006 21:24:28 GMT -5
Cricket jolted quickly up to Shadowthunder, only a few inches from his face in mere seconds. “What’s that? What’d you say?” Cricket asked with a menacingly voice. He cocked his head and smirked inching away by the second.
“I’ll just ignore what you said, and I’ll be back later.” Cricket said. He stalked away, leaping unto a rock and jumped off it on the other side. “I’ll be back!” He yelled and left, letting Shadowthunder ponder on what he said.
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