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Dec 3, 2017 18:15:26 GMT -5
Post by Dagegen5 on Dec 3, 2017 18:15:26 GMT -5
Emberpaw kept glancing back towards the clanmates behind him; the tom coughed lightly as he ran, both from his exhaustion and the smoke the lingered in the air. The apprentice's eyes were watering as well, both from the ash and the loss of everything he knew; he managed one look back and watched a river of fire consume his home. His stomach curdled and he felt like he might vomit. "Not now; that can wait," he thought bitterly, veering down the mountain path.
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Dec 3, 2017 18:15:37 GMT -5
Post by rosesong on Dec 3, 2017 18:15:37 GMT -5
Mistyleaf nodded and dragged herself to her paws pushing forward the best she could she felt at least a little comforted that she could feel her mate next to her and moved faster
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Dec 3, 2017 18:18:03 GMT -5
Post by Littleflower on Dec 3, 2017 18:18:03 GMT -5
Singedstar hesitated, watching her leave through panicked eyes he hesitated. Looking around trying to make sure that everyone else was ahead of him, for fear it would swallow them whole in a single bite if he wasn't careful.
When he heard something snap.
The young tom didn't think as he lunged, throwing himself at his mate before he could stop himself to think about a better solution and threw her out of the way. In time for a great tree branch, alight with fire, to come slamming down on him. Pinning him flat to the ground, unable to move. A cry of pain tore from his throat.
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ᴄʟσsᴇᴅ
Dec 3, 2017 18:24:50 GMT -5
Post by Dagegen5 on Dec 3, 2017 18:24:50 GMT -5
Emberpaw's body felt lighter when he saw his mentor next to him, giving him a bit of strength to carry forward. He watched in horror, however, as Timbershine tripped and he immediately stopped his tracks to help her get up. She did her best to get up again, collapsing from the smoke in her lungs. His heart stopped and everything suddenly felt cold; it seemed as though he was deaf to the world around hiim.
Emberpaw let out a shriek, unheard to him, as he watched his mentor collapse, embers swarming her body. He tugged on her scruff, doing his best to get her to do something; get up and run with the rest of the clan, let him carry her, but it was to no avail. He had no choice, eventually and begun backing away as the slow crawl of the fire river threatened to encase her body. "Timbershine!" he sobbed, unable to look away, still backing down the mountain. "SOMEONE," he yowled, turning his head to his other clanmates, "HELP!"
Deep in his heart, however, the tom knew it was too late.
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Post by ~Skyblaze~ on Dec 3, 2017 18:24:58 GMT -5
"Come on, we need to go faster!" Willowpaw coughed while keeping pace with her brother. Her normally sleek silver fur was matted and covered with soot, and her eyes were bleary, but she was determined. Seeing what happened to Timbershine, her eyes widened in abject horror, but she couldn't worry about herself. Her brother needed her. Ignoring her burned pads, she grabbed Emberpaw by the scruff, pulling him away as fast as she could. There was no time to waste.
Raccoonpaw was still carrying Dustkit down the mountain, ash raining down on him. He could feel his throat burning, but he forged onwards.
"Singedstar!" Snowpool gasped, running back towards him, only to rear back as embers rained down.
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Dec 3, 2017 18:26:55 GMT -5
Post by Littleflower on Dec 3, 2017 18:26:55 GMT -5
The tom howled in pain, the fire already beginning to lick at him and burn the young tom. "Get away," he yelled as loudly as he could, knowing there was probably nothing that could be done to get him free but all the same he desperately fought.
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Dec 3, 2017 18:27:55 GMT -5
Post by rosesong on Dec 3, 2017 18:27:55 GMT -5
Mistyleaf let out a scream as she ran back to her mate seeing him pinned to the ground by the branch that should have been for her "HELP." She yowled at the top of her lungs clawing her way back to her mate trying desperatly to free him while also trying not to get burned by the growing flames
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Post by Littleflower on Dec 3, 2017 18:30:22 GMT -5
(you've missed a bit HoNcho XD the fire's started)
Struggling against the crushing wait of the branch, the young tom could barely breathe. But what concerned him was the number of cats who had turned back at his suden struggle. "Get back," he yowled desperately. Eyes dark with panic. "Mistyleaf, you need to go, the kits."
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ᴄʟσsᴇᴅ
Dec 3, 2017 18:31:36 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by Honcho on Dec 3, 2017 18:31:36 GMT -5
Raggedclaw quickly found Singedstar. Trapped, he needed help. Tears came into his eyes, "No!" He screamed, "Singedstar!" There was nothing he could do. Coding by P H O Σ N I X
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Dec 3, 2017 18:32:12 GMT -5
Post by Dagegen5 on Dec 3, 2017 18:32:12 GMT -5
Emberpaw faintly heard his sister's call, to grief-stricken to make sense of the situation. He turned to her, and let out a mangled cry before he managed to pull himself together and return to her side, leaving his mentor's burning corpse behind. His horrified eyes scanned the rest of the clan, still wishing that what he had just seen was a hoax; perhaps Timbershine was somewhere in the crowd.
What he saw was much worse. His fur felt plastered with soot and as heavy as his heart when he watched a branch careen down out of a tree, falling squarely on Singedstar, his leader and father. "He.. he has lives left!" the apprentice thought hopefully, tears threatening to erupt from his eyes. The massive tom hadn't even lost a life to the falling branch, and the apprentice felt his heart surge. He raced to his side, faintly hearing his words of "get out!". Emberpaw did what he did best; he ignored his father.
"We won't leave you!" he cried loudly, trying to find the best point to position his paws and shove the smoldering bough from his father's back.
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Dec 3, 2017 18:35:25 GMT -5
Post by rosesong on Dec 3, 2017 18:35:25 GMT -5
Mistyleaf shook her head "I cant leave you" she meowed as a tear trickled down her cheek. she saw her son arrive and let out a hiss. "Go." she growled at him "Ive got this. Protect your sister. Please." She said this with such a tone that any cat would do what she asked. "I have Raggedclaw to help me. He will be fine. Help your sister. She has nobody. Find her." As her son turned around and left she turned her attention back to her mate "please dont make me. They need you. I need you" she pushed her nose her mates nose and let out a soft sob
(someone is gonna have to make her leave.)
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Dec 3, 2017 18:35:46 GMT -5
Post by Littleflower on Dec 3, 2017 18:35:46 GMT -5
Desperately trying to free himself but to no avail, the slender tom quickly gave up his fate if it meant his family made their way free. He snarled, "No Emberpaw, you'll get yourself killed," he insisted but could do little to force him away. Tears streamed down his own cheeks, despite the pain and fear he pressed his nose into his mate's fur. "We're all going to die on this mountain if you don't move." His voice was dark with fear not for himself but for the shecat he loved, he needed her to get out of here. He looked to Raggedclaw with a growl, "Make her leave."
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Dec 3, 2017 18:39:57 GMT -5
Post by Dagegen5 on Dec 3, 2017 18:39:57 GMT -5
Emberpaw heard his mother's words and the apprentice couldn't stop himself from the tears that threatened to pour down his face. He was a sobbing wreck and he looked over to his two siblings, imploring them to help free Singedstar. His father's words stung as he paused for a moment. "I can't lose you too..." he cried, no longer caring if his paws were burnt by the branch as he shoved with all of his might, still unable to feel the bough move off of Singedstar. The tom glanced at Mistyleaf and thought about her kits, then he looked back up the mountain, engulfed in flames that were creeping voraciously toward the cowering clan. His heart felt like stone as he realized that Singedstar was right.
Through bitter tears, he left his meaningless task behind and nudged his mother, "We... we have to go," he sobbed, not sure if he even really wanted to carry on.
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Dec 3, 2017 18:40:38 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by ~Skyblaze~ on Dec 3, 2017 18:40:38 GMT -5
"No! No!" Willowpaw shrieked, but in her heart, she knew her father needed to see them get to safety. She nudged Emberpaw down the slope. 'If you dont come now, StarClan help me or i will haul you down this mountain myself!" She hissed sternly at her brother. She cast a silent look of love at her father, her heart breaking as she obeyed his final wish.
Snowpool's eyes widened at this. 'kits?!' She gasped. 'GO Mistyleaf. I'll stay here and help Singedstar.' She mewed, the white she-cat pushing Mistyleaf after her children bedore turning in an attempt to haul the branch off of her leader, claws burning.
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Post by ~Skyblaze~ on Dec 3, 2017 18:42:05 GMT -5
(Snowpool is gonna die trying to free Singedstar)
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Dec 3, 2017 18:46:26 GMT -5
Post by rosesong on Dec 3, 2017 18:46:26 GMT -5
Mistyleaf shook her head and ran back to her mate and lay her head next to his licking his ear while tears filled her eyes "I cant leave you. I love you too much." She wrapped her tail around her belly. "Its going to be okay. We are all going to be okay." She looked up at Raggedclaw and Snowpool trying to free her mate and hoped they would do it in time
(Raggedclaw should drag her away. But singedstar will have to order it probably)
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Dec 3, 2017 18:46:28 GMT -5
Post by Dagegen5 on Dec 3, 2017 18:46:28 GMT -5
Emberpaw gave Willowpaw the most pitiful look he had ever managed, his face streaked with his tears and whiskers turned down. He somberly nodded to her, knowing that she was right. He nudged his mother again and forcefully tried to make her move, "We have to go!" he howled, feeling his chest sting with every breath and word, bitterly aware that with every word he spoke, he was ensuring his father's death.
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Dec 3, 2017 18:49:57 GMT -5
Post by Littleflower on Dec 3, 2017 18:49:57 GMT -5
Growling to his son, eyes darkening with desperation he let out in a tone he had never used with his kits. "Get your mother out of here, otherwise she'll get herself killed," he said with a dark warning, pain rippling through him with every word from his mouth. He wouldn't have much longer before the flames swallowed him whole. The fire was quickly catching up on the entire group.
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Post by rosesong on Dec 3, 2017 18:51:42 GMT -5
Mistyleaf shook her head "Please Starclan no." she sobbed pressing her nose to her mates neck.
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Post by Littleflower on Dec 3, 2017 18:53:54 GMT -5
"Go otherwise you'll get my kits killed," Singedstar suddenly snarled fury rippling through every inch of him. Knowing none of his kits would leave their mother if she stayed here on the mountainside, and knowing his unborn litter would suffer the same fate all too quickly.
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Dec 3, 2017 18:54:22 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by ~Skyblaze~ on Dec 3, 2017 18:54:22 GMT -5
Before she left, Willowpaw paused and pushed her nose into Singedstar's fur,ignoring the heat against her nose. 'I love you, father.' She murmured hoarsely, before heading down the slope, making sure her brother and mother came with her.
Racconpaw was meanwhile making his way down the hill, before tripping with a yowl of pain. Still holding Dustkit, he realized his leg was sprained. Knowing he couldnt make it any farther but refusing to let the kit die, he took refuge in a hollow tree.
Snowpool struggled with the branch, determined to get her leader out, but her own struggles were weakening as lava surrounded them.
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Post by rosesong on Dec 3, 2017 18:56:03 GMT -5
Mistyleaf let out a cry at her mates words and heaved herself to her paws giving her mate one last lick before padding away leaning on her son and sobbing
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Dec 3, 2017 18:56:39 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by Honcho on Dec 3, 2017 18:56:39 GMT -5
"Leave!" He hissed to Mistysky. "Singedstar I told you! You can't die! Please!" He begged, "I can't be leader, I don't know how I can keep Mountainclan alive..." Coding by P H O Σ N I X
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Post by Littleflower on Dec 3, 2017 18:59:24 GMT -5
Singedstar's heart broke into a thousand pieces as he watched his mate and kits leave, but his eyes were already half closed by the time they had reached the closest hill, and he was gone by the time they thought to look back.
Stormflight skidded to a stop as she at last made it to the bottom of the mountainside, but the battle was only half over. For now they needed to find shelter in a place which could withstand the fire and the lava.
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Post by Dagegen5 on Dec 3, 2017 19:01:22 GMT -5
Emberpaw licked his father's forehead as his entire being quaked in frustration at the world. He uttered a shaky and unsure, "Make it back, alright? I.. I love you," before turning away from Singedstar and Snowbird, praying to StarClan that they would be able to make it out alive and well. He supported his wailing mother as they followed Willowpaw down the mountainside, refusing to look back.
He knew the river of fire had gotten to them; there was no way they made it out.
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Dec 3, 2017 19:01:40 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by Honcho on Dec 3, 2017 19:01:40 GMT -5
Raggedclaw realized he was gone. He quickly ran and caught up the Mistyleaf and the rest. He was leader know, and he couldn't get that through him. The thought of Singedstar was beyond him. Coding by P H O Σ N I X
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Dec 3, 2017 19:05:34 GMT -5
Post by rosesong on Dec 3, 2017 19:05:34 GMT -5
Mistyleaf continued to sob and wail as they reached safety. She collapsed letting her sobs grow as the thought that she would never see her mate again filled her head.
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