[ti]Private[/ti]Much Like Suffocating

[Mama]

Yesterday, at moonhigh, Shadespirit had finally figured out her gameplan, and she was ready. This was the day she had been planning for, training for, and making sure no one- not anycat, came. Today, it was just her... and Bearstar.



Shadespirit hated the cat as soon as she set her eye on her, from the name to the face to her awful personality. It was wrong, and this cat would never, not ever, be worthy of being leader. There was much more potential in others, ones who were strong and ready to fight, those who tried that were never given a living chance. She had been one of those cats, after the bear attack many if not all lost hope in the tiny feline. But she didn't lose hope in herself... and now sought out her revenge.


It was moonhigh and the forest was dark, with Shadespirit trailing behind Bearstar while they looked for 'prey'. Little did the leader know, she already found hers, and was waiting for the time to strike. 

[LupTacco]

It had been an... unusual request, certainly, to have the young warrior request an outing so late. However, her hunting trips with Goldenmane were proving relaxing, so perhaps doing the same with others would increase her bond with her clan while also providing her with much needed maintenance of her skill level. A part of her hoped that she might even be helpful in... well, alleviating some of Shadespirit's troubles. She knew it had to be hard to deal with someone named after such a potentially horrible creature on a daily basis, but surely the warrior didn't harbor any true ill-will for something Bearstar herself hadn't really chosen. 

It was a quiet night, but not silent- if she listened closely, she could hear birds tweet occasionally in the trees, or a mouse's squeak in the underbrush, and something a little bigger too. "There's some prey up ahead. Rabbit, I think. I'll tackle it from this angle, how about you go around the side?" she whispered, flicking her tail to gesture around a tree in front of them. Coming into the forest this late would be its last mistake. Her guard lowered and her attention focused on the hare, Bearstar was entirely unaware of the icy gaze and cruel intentions of the cat she hunted with tonight. 

[Mama]

The scent of prey filled her nose, but she ignored it easily and gave a small purr towards the leader noticing it also. "Of course, that makes perfect sense." The feline replied, her eye glinting before she lurked into the shadows. Her pelt blended in easily, and it was hard to see her against anything. Once the leader started to give chase and focused only on the rabbit... it would be like beating up a kit.

Her stubby tail flickered back and forth, and she made it seem as if she was heading towards the rabbit to get it from behind, but at the last second she had jumped up a tree for a diving attack.

[LupTacco]

Bearstar's ears twitched and swiveled as she pinpointed the rabbit's location, prowling around the other side of the tree, where she expected Shadespirit would have it cornered with her. She could hear it snuffling at some grass, unaware of her presence as the air was still and no winds were carrying her scent to the prey. That would soon change, however. The brown she-cat bunched up her body, her front legs almost lifted off the ground as she prepared to pounce. She was so intent on the plan and the prey that she didn't register the light scratching opposite her as the sound of claws on bark. 

Even less did she expect anything to go wrong. Shooting herself forward upon the hare, she realized dimly that Shadespirit was nowhere to be seen. We'll lose the this if she doesn't show up- what is she waiting for? Bearstar growled internally. 

[Mama]

In the trees, Shadepsirit made sure to keep an eye on the leader, who seemed to be looking for that rabbit. 'Good, she's distracted.' The shecat thought with a grin, her tail twitching faster and faster. It was clear the brown feline thought that she was about to come around any second now, to help with the prey. Too bad she was wrong.

With a sudden spring of her legs, she shot straight down ontop of the leader, her claws smashing into her shoulders and her hind legs driving down on her back. 'You're mine!' Shadespirit thought with a grin, before aiming to sink her teeth into her now pinned leader's neck.

[silverfang218]

Sootpaw had always liked to take walks at night, look up at Silverpelt. Silverfang always said his lost family was up there somewhere; even though he will never meet them in life, he enjoys spending time under the stars, basking in their warmth. Sometimes, it even feels like there are cats sitting beside him, watching over and protecting him. Tonight he had found a perch up in a tree; he is laying across a branch, looking for all the world like a stray bunch of snow caught up on the tree branch.

There’s just one problem; someone cursed Sootpaw to always be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And tonight, his curse strikes again.

He paid no mind to the hunters or rabbit below him; the breeze was such that his scent likely wouldn’t scare away the prey, and he was too busy in his own mind to worry about cats gathering below him.