Don't Look down
Tribe Alliances:
Tribe-Healer: Teller of the Pointed Stones (Stoneteller)- Dusky brown pelt,and cold amber eyes.
No to-be
Prey-hunters:
Owl that Flies in snow (Owl)- Molted tabby tom with amber eyes
Howl of distant wolf (Howl) Gray she-cat with yellow eyes
Sky of early morning sun (Sky) Light gray she-cat
To-be: Lilac
Flash of star behind cloud (Flash) Dark tom
Sparrow that escapes claws (Sparrow) Dark ginger she-cat
Cave-Guards:
Rumble of Falling water (Rumble) Scarred gray Tom with amber eyes
Scratch of claws on stone (Scratch) tough tabby She-cat
To-be: Shadow
Roar of wind on water (Roar) Gray and white tom (litermate of Flight)
To-be: Hawk
Stalk of mighty lion (Stalk) Brown tabby tom
Grass that waves in breeze (Grass) Yellow tabby tom
Kit Mothers:
Flight of leaves in wind (Flight) Dappled white she-cat
Kits: Frost that creeps over stone (Frost) Pure white she-kit
Breeze that warms the ground (Breeze) Warm eyed tabby she-cat (Expecting Sparrow's kits)
To-bes:
Mud that streaks hawk's wings (Hawk or Mud) Brown tabby with yellow eyes
Lilac that grows on edge (Lilac) Dark cream she-cat with chaotic amber eyes
Shadow of hidden vally (Shadow) Young black she-cat
Elders:
Pad of echoing footsteps (Pad) Old molted tom
Cats outside of the tribe:
Hop and Soar,two gray pelted brothers
Chapter 1: Going,going,gone
She was leaving.
Leaving her home,all she ever knew.
Because of him.
A cold,night wind ruffled her mud-streaked pelt,but she didn't flinch. Mostly because of the mud,but also she knew her blood couldn't get any colder if she tried. She knew what she saw.
She stumbled down the harsh,grey stone she used to call home and she glanced up at the sky.
"Dark clouds covering the moon... Huh,it's almost like the Tribe of endless Hunting is descirbing my day." She thought then paused for a second. "Or mocking it."
Suddenly she spat,her eyes flashed with annoyance as she lifted her paw. A sharp rock,had cut her pad,and now blood soaked the sheer rock under her paw.
"Oh,great," She thought. "Just what I need. A scent trail,for both wolves and cats alike. Yay. My day just keeps on gets better and better."
"Lilac! Lilac,wait up!" A voice called out to her. She felt a flicker of warmth in her iced heart, she knew that voice very well.
Lilac turned around and ignored the stabbing pain in her paw. "Hawk?"
A brown tabby,streaked in mud,was bounding down the moutainside. He stopped on a ledge a few foxlenghts away from her,not able to reach her.
He blinked his confused yellow eyes,and mewed, "Your running away." It wasn't a question,it was a statment.
Lilac sighed,"Yes."
Hawk didn't even blink,"Why?"
She hesitated,and Hawk sighed. "Lilac,I'm your best friend. We've know echother since we were kits." He paused,then added,"Which wasn't too long ago,mind you."
Lilac sighed and sat down. She felt like after this day she had aged a thousand moons. But he was right,he deserved to know.
Lilac made a strangled noise at the back of her throat,then said, "Stoneteller,he...he killed my mother."
~Flashback to that morning~
Lilac jolted awake at a harsh yowl. Groggily she wondered if it was her teacher. But no,Sky would never yell like that,she was too nice. Besides,she was getting healed. Lilac may have,er,chalanged an eagle over a rabbit while out hunting...and lets just say things got ugly.
A nest next to her's stirred. Suddenly yellow eyes shot open with alarm. A tabby lept to his paws.
"Please don't tell me that was-" Hawk started but was cut off.
"MUD! GET OUT HERE!" Hawk winced at his full name was "Mud that streaks hawk's wings" but Lilac knew that he hated it. That's why she called him 'Hawk'.
"Just great." Lilac heard him grumble under his breath. "Tribe of endless hunting,please have mercy on me..." Then he raised his voice,"I'm comming Roar!" He yelled and rushed out,flicking his tail to Lilac as he ran out.
Lilac yawned and streached. "Well,there goes my sleep. I might as well get up." Lilac thought,and then walked out of the to-be cave.
As soon as she came out,a little bundle of pure white fur crashed into her leg. Two innocent green eyes gazed up at her.
"Lilac! Lilac! Pad promised to tell me a story! He said you can come too! Come on!" The little fluff ball mewed,excited.
Lilac couldn't help but laugh,"Okay,Frost. I'm comming!" She wasn't suprised that Pad had agreed,even though he was grumpy. No one could say no to her sister. Yes,I said her sister.
'Frost that creeps over stone' was her full name. She slightly resembled Lilac,with the same light pelt and adventurous glint in their eyes,but that was where it began and ended.
But unlike Lilac's shadowed cream pelt and chaotic amber eyes. Frost's pelt was pure white,and her bright green eyes were excited,and she reeked of innocence. Everyone loved her,and she had them all wrapped around her paw.
"Lilac?" Lilac looked down at her little sister. "Will you take me outside,now?" Frost mewed and looked up pledingly at her.
Lilac sighed,"Frost,I told you. You can't go out till your eight moons. I'm barely that,and even I can't go out alone."
"Well,how old am I?" Frost asked perkily,her ears pricked.
Lilac smiled,"Four moons,you have four more moons to go."
A cat hissed,"If you survive that long. And if you want a chance,I suggest to quit acting like a kit." A old,gray tabby appeared from behind a rock.
Frost's eyes widened,but not in fear in fury. She bristled out her fur so much,she looked like a angery snowball. "Of course I'm going to survive that long!" She declared,her green eyes glaring.
Lilac wasn't all that happy either. "Frost,go to Pad. I'll meet up."
"But-"
"Frost. Go. Now."
"Fine." She muttered and stumbled off,still fluffed up.
Lilac turned and glared,dipping her head sarcasticly. "Stoneteller." She hissed.
Stoneteller smirked,"I can see the family resemblance between you two,young one." He hissed. "You both do not know when to speak,and when to be slient." He walked,sliding his paws like a snake towards Lilac.
Lilac smirked,"Well atleast I know how to treat a tribemate."
Stoneteller faked shock,"Really? Then why is Sky injured?" Lilac was slient,and Stoneteller smirked,he knew he had got her.
Lilac finally spoke up,"Why do you hate us so much?"
Stoneteller glared,"Be careful what you say,young one. Your mouth might get you in trouble some day." He hissed,and walked off.
Lilac rolled her eyes and walked in the direction Frost had gone.
"Why should I care what Stoneteller says? He's always hated me." But for some reason,it still bothered her.
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It was sun down,nearly night fall. Lilac had finished her meal with Hawk but she wasn't really tired.
"Hawk," She whispered in the tabby's ear. "I'm going out to the ledge,cover for me."
Hawk looked startled. "But Lilac,you know the rules!" He protested,but Lilac shushed him.
"I'll be fine,no eagle is going to get me. I'll be back later,Hawk!" Lilac mewed quietly,and flicked her tail in farewell.
Lilac padded among the shadows,hiding her light pelt the best she could. Slowly she moved,ducking behind rocks,through cracks,and out of the light,so not to get caught.
She had sneaked out before,actually a lot. She had only been caught once before,and she wanted to avoid something like that happening again.
"The rules or for our safety,I guess. But if your smart enough,you know what to do and not to do. But knowing my tribe...I guess we do need these rules."
Finally she broke out of the cave mouth and into the moonlight streaming through water. She rolled her eyes at the guard snoring loudly in the shadow of a rock. How he didn't get caught with his thunder-like snoring was beyond her.
As she slowly made her way up the stones,the water reflected the last rays of the dying sun,making it look like running blood.
"A dark omen..." Something in her mind whispered.
"Shut up." She muttered.
As she made up to the last stone,she smelled something,something she knew. She froze,then ducked in the shadows of a crack in the stone.
"Stoneteller...and...and my mother?!" Her mouth fell open. She suddenly pricked her ears to listen as they talked.
"I don't know how this is any of concern,Flight!" Stoneteller yowled.
"It is my concern,and it should be yours too!" Her mother yelled back.
Stoneteller spat.
"What have you become?" Flight asked in a trembling voice. "Your not the same cat I knew."
Slience rang clearly through the fading sun as Stoneteller continued to coldly stare down Flight.
Flight's voice was barely a whisper. "She's you daughter."
"No...no...it can't...No.."
Stoneteller started pacing back and forth on the rock ledge. "She was a mistake! A monster! She should've never been born." He spat.
Flight glared,"Your lying." She said calmly. "This isn't about Lilac. It's about the prophecy."
"WE DO NOT SPEAK OF IT!" Stoneteller screeched at her then paused. Suddenly his amber eyes locked on Lilac's in the shadows,a cold smile spread across his face.
"Flight," He said in a strangly pleasent voice. "Flight of leaves in wind,lets see if your true to your name sake.
And with that,he lept forward at Flight with his claws digging in her shoulder. She yowled and tried to regain her balance,but he was too strong. Before Lilac could jump in and protect her mother,the brown tabby knocked her over the ledge. For a split second,Flight's eyes met with Lilac's own. It was a look of pure terror.
"No..." Lilac whispered. Stoneteller gave her a cold smile. A slient threat. A warning.
Green eyes and white fur flashed in her eyes.
Frost.
Her sister.
"No."
The cooling freed-water breeze rustled her fur,and suddenly she figured out what to do. To protect her sister,her friends,and herself,she had to run.
Lilac rose and glared at Stoneteller,"May The Tribe of endless Suffering condem you." She said,she spoke so calmly she even suprised herself. "For someone like you is not worthy of life."
He did not reply,just gave her a cold glare and a show of long,white fangs.
And with that Lilac took a flying leap across the river that rushed down into the waterfall,protecting her tribe for countless moons,and landed on the other side.
As she raced down into the narrow path that led down the other side of the moutain,she didn't look back. But she could swear she felt his iced amber gaze following her pawsteps down the moutain.
"Be careful what you say,young one. Your mouth might get you in trouble some day."
~End of FlashBack~
Hawk stared at Lilac,"Lilac...I'm...I'm so sorry."
Lilac shoulders shook as if holding back a sob,"Y-yeah,Hawk. I am too." Then she glanced at the sky. "I have to leave."
Hawk didn't miss a beat when he replied,"I'll come too!" A flicker of a smile crossed Lilac's face,but she shook her head.
"No,Hawk." At a look at her friend's face,she added,"I need you to take care of Frost. Protect her,Hawk." Her voice dropped down to a whisper,and Hawk wasn't sure if she was talking to him or herself. "Please. I don't want anyone else to get hurt because of me."
Hawk's voice became soft and deep,"Don't worry,Lilac. Don't worry. You can count on me."
She dipped her hear,her paws trembling as she began to speak,"Goodbye,Hawk. Maybe someday I'll be back. B-but until then,may the Tribe of Endless Hunting guide your path." She mewed,her voice cracking.
"And yours," Hawk whispered back. And with that,the dark cream she-cat raced on her path. Feeling once more,a gaze burning on her back. Watching her leave her home.
Maybe it was a trick of the light,but the tabby watching her knew he saw tears rolling down her face. He had to blink a few out of his yellow eyes as he watched her leave.
Maybe it was selfish that he didn't want her to go. But maybe it was out of concern,too. He had know her long enough to say she didn't know where she was running. But he also knew she was very smart. A born hunter and a fighter. She could survive anywhere.
He turned as she disapered in the distance,the tribe would be getting up soon and he didn't want to be caught. And maybe it was dumb hope,a haze in his mind,but some how he knew he was going to see his flower again.
As Lilac ran down the moutainside,she felt her heart rip. But she had to keep going. She had to keep moving. She had to keep her friends safe. She had to...
A faint memory sprung in her head,and the wise voice of her mother filled her ears,
"In times like this,you gotta pick up your past,cross the gap,and don't look down."
Don't look down...
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Heyz cats of all clans! I'm back!
I know I haven't been updating my warrior fics,and by now I doubt anyone remembers them. Sadly,I've been going through writers block with them,but I promise I will continue them eventally. (Also,the allience is comming up later...)
Yeah,I know sobbness. I killed off Flight. But it could've been worse! I was half planning to kill Frost...but she was too cute to kill.
Frost: Yep!
Me: So,ya'll are lucky.
Frost: I'M FLUFFY AND I KNOW IT! *Dances*
Me: Umm,okay then... Oh,and by the way. Fun fact: Frost is Lilac's half sister. Her father name was Snake that sleeps in sun,and died ironicly by a moutain snake. *Snickers*
Snake: *Appears out of nowhere* There is nothing funny about how I died!
Me: How did you...? Never mind. Go away.
Snake: NEVER! *Poof*
Me: Anyway-
Lilac: Don't I get a say in this thing?!
Me: Don't annoy me,or I'll tell everyone how you and Hawk like echother!
Lilac: Psh..no... *Blushes*
Me: Anywaaay,I hate doing this... So,Frost?
Frost: 'Wifty don't own Warriors.
All: AWWW!
Me: What do you think will happen next? Leave comments and suggestions,and...
REVIEW!