sensitive topics CAN'T GO ON &. return from battle


-ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ- PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS PLACED CURRENTLY DURING THE BATTLE! ORANGEHEART LEFT EARLY TO TRY AND ATTEMPT TO GET HELP FOR MYRTLEPAW BUT SHE IS NOT ALIVE!!
cw for blood and death!
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"c-come on... just... a bit further..."

he's exhausted. amberhaze, his opponent, had done everything in his power to exhaust him in an attempt to make him easier to subdue. ultimately, it worked. but somehow, the killer had a heart in the moment. maybe orangeheart's pleas had been enough for something because he let him leave. it means a lot, and orangeheart knows that he shouldn't be grateful for narrowly escaping death again but it's... not the same for his dear friend. one of his best friends had her life stolen from her, and in spite of knowing– seeing the proof for himself– he still holds onto the slim chance she's still there. still alive. still can be saved. optimism is his curse to carry, it seem, as he tries so hard to make it back to camp. he trips over something and myrtlepaw's limp body falls off of him, his eyes widening as he rushes over to try and pick her up again. he just can't. he's too weak, too tired. she has to get up so he can help her. stars, please let her get up.

"n-no no, oh, golly– i'm sorry, i didnt mean t...to... yiu have to get up, myrtlepaw. I can't.. I can't carry you... it's... I can't... please... please don't leave me..."

he feels like he's trembling way too much. tears fall onto her pelt and he feels worse. oh, he's getting her dirty.

"ah! i– didn't mean to.. come on... come on."

he grabs onto her scruff, the only thing he can manage to do now is to drag her the rest of the way. the medicine cats are out, fighting still, but there had to be someone here to help. stars, let there be someone to help. why were they gone? why... why didn't he save her? why couldn't he have saved her? was this what it meant to be a warrior? to watch everyone he loved die? watching them leave him? he tries to hold back the broken sobs that leave him hiccuping, and barely able to catch his breath. he's never cried once in front of a single cat– aside from maybe gentlestorm but did that really count if he wasn't really crying?. he'd briefly teared up, but this is different. he never not wore a smile– but he can't even bring himself to fake that. he can't bring himself to do anything but collapse over the body of his friend, blood stained pushing to her wound, as he wails against her.

"s-someone please... help... help her..."

// edit: he is aware she can't be helped and will likely not want anyone to touch her body rn!


 
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〕Despite her mother and several siblings going to the Shadowclan border to potentially fight, she had decided to stay back and help defend the camp. Not because she was afraid to spill more Shadowclan blood, but she was worried that Riverclan or Skyclan would take advantage of her mother's publicly declared war plans and attack the camp. If they did try, it would be a big mistake. It felt odd though, sitting here waiting...wondering what was happening on the other side of the territory. Were they fighting now? Or did Shadowclan see Flamestar's patrol and decide to back down? She doubted it, but hopefully Shadowclan's leader had some scrap of common sense between her ears.

Her ears perked as she smelled copper, quickly followed by crashing through the camp's tunnel. The young warrior leaped to her paws, her claws instinctively sliding out. So Riverclan was brave enough, huh? She thought, but it wasn't the fish-breaths that tore through their tunnel....it was Orangeheart and Myrtlepaw. "Huh?" Was all she could muster as she took in the sight. They were both littered with claw marks, and there was...so...much..blood. Her former denmate hung in his jaws by her scruff, and her eyes looked so distant...

s-someone please... help... help her.

His voice was trembling, full of hiccups. Ravenblaze glanced around for anyone that could possibly help, but nobody here was healers...Gentlestorm and Hopepaw were with the battle patrol. "Orange...I-I.." her voice caught as she approached the pair on her own now heavy legs. "She's..." dead. The word doesn't dare fall from her tongue, but she finds herself falling quiet, unable to speak.
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  • RAVENBLAZE —— warrior of thunderclan , mentored by wildheart . flamestar x flycatcher . sibling to bugchaser, squirrelsong, sunbird, falconheart, stormfeather, sparrowpaw ✦ penned by icey !
    afab / she/her / 13 moons & ages every 1st
    single / heterosexual/ mono / open to crushes
    peaceful and healing powerplay permitted / underline & tag account when attacking
    —— moderate in battle

    "speech", 'thoughts', all opinions are in character
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    a longhaired tortoiseshell with low white and green eyes. Ravenblaze bares a pitch black pelt, broken up by vibrant blazes of red fire. Her fur is long, curling up around her face. She has dark green eyes like her mother, and carries a light, athletic build like her mother. She has very minimal white like her father, only having a little spot above her nose on her face, and her front left toes. Her front left leg is encapsulated by blazing fire, wrapping around her back up into her bushy fox-like tail.
 
A ragged shadow approaches cautiously, taking a cursory inventory of the limp body of his former denmate. She's already a corpse, an empty husk. He knows the look, he's seen it before. It's something more than unconsciousness, an instinct looking upon it that screams a sense of wrongness. Where Ravenblaze hesitates to speak the words, Bramblepaw says them out loud, blunt as ever. "She's dead." Then, remembering the manners the queens had tried to teach him, he tries, "I am... sorry."

ShadowClan must be vile creatures indeed, to take the life of one so young. Bramblepaw will be her age in only a few moons, bigger and sturdier than her rapidly-cooling frame. With a huff of breath from his nose, he resolves to protect cats like her once he's big enough. He didn't have anybody to protect him as a kitten, so he promises silently to be the cat he needed back then.