SUNPAW
✦ THIS TOO SHALL PASS
- Mar 25, 2024
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Word had spread like wildfire. When Skyclaw brings his band of traitors and exiles back, Sunpaw is cautiously lingering in the camp clearing. Cats begin to erupt in outraged chatter- cats that were not originally on Skyclaws side (or perhaps they always were) interject as well.
Is this how Thunderclan implodes?
Skyclaw jumps up to highrock and his mother goes after him- “Mama!” he cries, like a kit for his mother, eyes wide because Stars if they took one of Howlings lives like she had said they did… His stomach churns wildly as Smokefur darts in front of her, a paw raised and-
Flamewhisker tumbles backwards against a powerful slash. Sunpaw half expects to see his mother dead upon the ground, dead like Morningcloud, dead like his father. His heart stops for a moment because… oh, Stars- had he just become an orphan? Lost his mother to the violence caused by these cats? Maybe its his mind playing tricks on him, but he had not seen a glint of claws, blood spray, had not seen gore splashed in to the rocks and dirt below. Please be okay. He sees a future where he visits both of his parents graves, dropping off a flower like he had done for Flycatcher.
He cannot tear his eyes away.
She gets back up and lets out a hiss, and he lets out a breath of relief before he scrambles to Flamewhiskers side, back arched in the most ferocious way he could manage. “Don’t touch my mom!” he hisses, though his voice wobbles for just a second. Be brave. Even when hes afraid, he has to be brave. Be brave for his mother, be brave for his brother, for his sisters.
Where is Bugpaw? He tears his eyes away. Where is Scorchedpaw, Squirrelpaw? He spots Falconheart in the crowd and he finds himself even more relieved to see his big brother. It gives him the strength to whip back around with another snarl on his face.
// mobile post & too lazy for template lolol
Is this how Thunderclan implodes?
Skyclaw jumps up to highrock and his mother goes after him- “Mama!” he cries, like a kit for his mother, eyes wide because Stars if they took one of Howlings lives like she had said they did… His stomach churns wildly as Smokefur darts in front of her, a paw raised and-
Flamewhisker tumbles backwards against a powerful slash. Sunpaw half expects to see his mother dead upon the ground, dead like Morningcloud, dead like his father. His heart stops for a moment because… oh, Stars- had he just become an orphan? Lost his mother to the violence caused by these cats? Maybe its his mind playing tricks on him, but he had not seen a glint of claws, blood spray, had not seen gore splashed in to the rocks and dirt below. Please be okay. He sees a future where he visits both of his parents graves, dropping off a flower like he had done for Flycatcher.
He cannot tear his eyes away.
She gets back up and lets out a hiss, and he lets out a breath of relief before he scrambles to Flamewhiskers side, back arched in the most ferocious way he could manage. “Don’t touch my mom!” he hisses, though his voice wobbles for just a second. Be brave. Even when hes afraid, he has to be brave. Be brave for his mother, be brave for his brother, for his sisters.
Where is Bugpaw? He tears his eyes away. Where is Scorchedpaw, Squirrelpaw? He spots Falconheart in the crowd and he finds himself even more relieved to see his big brother. It gives him the strength to whip back around with another snarl on his face.
// mobile post & too lazy for template lolol