Heart and star this if you enjoyed! I'm not sure I want to keep making this is if no one cares. I'm looking for 20 hearts before I make more. Also make sure you offer OCs for me to use in the story! I'm gonna need some :3 __________________________________________ Shadetail shoves Nightpaw forward, toward the camp entrance, rain streaming down both of their fur. Nightpaw's body seemed to be on fire. Blood seeped from his wounds, and from his jaws. "You don't tell anyone what happened on the patrol. Dont even say a word. They must believe it was you." Nightpaw's fur bristles. He had suspected that was the purpose of keeping him alive, but hearing it from Shadetail—his own kin—made his insides a swirl of emotion, consisting of anxiety, betrayal, and anger. "Why should I?" Nightpaw says defiantly, hoping his voice didn';t tremble. Shadetail gets right up to Nightpaw's face, his amber eyes glittering with malice. "Or else everyone you care about will be... taken care of." A knowing look flashes in Shadetail's eyes and Nightpaw knows he is talking about Rosedawn. Fear lances through Nightpaw's spine. Not Rosedawn. Nightpaw looks down, and nods his head silently. "Good," Shadetail says. Shadetail grabs Nightpaw's scruff, dragging him in roughly into the camp. Nightpaw yowls as Shadetail's teeth break through his skin. Cats looked out from their dens with alarm, then with shock as they see Shadetail dragging Nightpaw, wounded. As Shadetail releases his scruff, his legs give out, and he collapses on the ground. His body hurts, and he'd lost a lot of blood on the way over to camp. Rosedawn, her green eyes sparkling with concern and confusion, ran forward out of the warriors den and into the rain. She stood in front of Nightpaw, protecting him from the angry glare of Shadetail. "Why are you hurting him?" Shadetail pushes Rosedawn out of the way, making her stumble. Nightpaw was too tired to feel much more than a flash of anger. "Where is Brightstar? A heavily pregnant queen, Smallfern, yowls as she exits the nursery. All of the Clan exits the shelter of the dens, most not even flinching as the rain batters their pelts, too curious and confused to care. Questions and nervous meows echo around the camp. "Brightstar is dead," Shadetail growls. "And Nightpaw—" Shadetail shoves him with his paw—"is responsible." Shocked yowls break out, and Nightpaw closes his eyes miserable, his breathing going harsh. He couldn't bear to see Rosedawn's face, her hate and distrust of him that she must be feeling right now. "While we were patrolling by the river, Nightpaw jumped on Brightstar and pushed her into the river. I didn't get to them until it was too late." Caterwauls of grief sound out in the air. "Nightpaw is banished from the Clans, and if he is found on Clan land—ANY Clan land—he will be killed," Shadetail says, grabbing Nightpaw by the scruff again, and dragging him outside the entrance. Yowls of anger, shock sounds behind him as he him as he limps away, defeat hunching his shoulders. Everything that he had cared about—his family, his Clan, his crush—all thought he was a murderer. Tears blur his vision, and, despite the searing pain it causes, he runs. runs away from the Clan who hates him. Runs away from his past... END
Shadetail is Nightpaw's kin, having the same parents but Nightpaw was in their second litter. Shadetail had 2 littermates who succumbed to greencough. Nightpaw was in a litter of 2, his sister being a stillborn. They kinda depend on each other to be there for each other—at least before Shadetail murdered Brightstar. I thought the song I used was fitting :D Rosedawn and Nightpaw both crush on each other, but neither has a clue. Song ~ Someone you Loved, by Lewis Capaldi Characters ~ Nightpaw - dark gray tom with Ice blue eyes | crushes on Rosedawn Shadetail - black tom with white spots and amber eyes Rosedawn - ginger tabby she-cat with white paws and one white circle around her eye with green eyes | crushes on Nightpaw Smallfern - gray she-cat with pale green eyes (random character I made)
