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Post by Kuromai on Jan 30, 2007 19:41:17 GMT -5
"How can she love me when she barely knows who I am? My apologies that you are her friend, but to me she holds the title of my mother; nothing more. I let her make her own choices as she does for mine. If she choses to love me, fine. I just hope she doesn't expect anything back from the part of me that she resents," Ryuu mewed, turning his face out to look out at the overlying mountian range.
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 30, 2007 19:46:09 GMT -5
" Ryuu, have you no faith in your mother? She knows your the part of Liam back then. She knows it, and she knows what he's done. If she hated it, why would she have kits with your father?! Ryuu, don't you get it?! She's your mother. She loves you no matter what. Why take advantage of that and push her away?!"
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Post by Kuromai on Jan 30, 2007 19:55:28 GMT -5
"She loved the side of Tsuki, the side that overpowered her hate against me. But now she has everything with my sister, and she can die happy. I don't care if she claims to love me. I don't care! I don't love her!" Ryuu spat and scaled the slope behind him until he was satisfied with the distance between him and Hawkstorm. "And nothing you say or do can change that fact!"
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 30, 2007 19:59:37 GMT -5
" I wasn't asking you to," Hawkstorm mewed. Her tone was even. " I was trying to explain this to you. I know you hate your mother. But why say it behind her back? Why did you never say it to her face?"
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Post by Kuromai on Jan 30, 2007 20:17:43 GMT -5
"I would be surprised if she didn't already know," Ryuu mewed cooly, stance held with pride. "If she comes to ask, then good for her to learn something knew. Her thoughts of me are regardless."
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 30, 2007 20:19:34 GMT -5
" Do you know what it's like to love?" Hawkstorm asked, curious. The question had popped into her head randomly, even she hadn't expected to say it outloud.
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Post by Kuromai on Jan 30, 2007 20:26:11 GMT -5
The tom kit drew back for a moment, words lost to him from the abrupt question. "I... no. I love no one but myself and Tsuki. I only truely know what it's like to feel pain," he mewed. His air of authority had vanished, his workds weakened on the unscathed topic. "Why?"
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 30, 2007 20:29:19 GMT -5
" Uhm... Curiosity?" Hawkstorm sounded unsure. She was a bit baffled. " Wait- what do you mean pain? What has hurt you?" She guessed it was his father's death, but still.
Why was she asking so many questions?
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Post by Kuromai on Jan 30, 2007 20:36:48 GMT -5
Ryuu sighed, his usual cold composure seemed to be forgotten completely. "I don't know. The pain that my father had and passed to me, the pain ofnot being cared for by anyone other then my sister and Liam had until he died. Sorrow builds a cage of fear, you know? You've felt so much of it that you can't seem to get out. Then you just stop trying." His necklace was glowing slightly in the shadows of the mountianside, a calm blue that hald Tsuki's presance by his side. Maybe that was why he didn't care about spilling his gut out to a cat he barely knew.
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 30, 2007 20:45:42 GMT -5
Hawkstorm looked at Ryuu. " You have no clue about my past or why I pain." She mewed, though her vioce wasn't so tempered.
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Post by Kuromai on Jan 30, 2007 20:50:36 GMT -5
"You have lost many those to you and have been rejected by all you cared for. You are long past the one-too-many others decide to quit at. And though that is all I know," Ryuu mewed as his paws began to decend the mountianside once more, "I know it is enough. That and the first cause of your pain- your father, correct? I can not imagine ever haveing any distaste for Liam myself."
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 30, 2007 20:53:15 GMT -5
The mention of her father nearly made Hawkstorm have a heartattack. She dipped her head to the apprentice. " My father has caused many pains to me and what remains of my family. He still roams these mountains. He plans to have an army like Tigerheart, then kill everyone in it once he's succeeded. But I haven't scented or seen him since... since an incident I had as an apprentice." Hawkstorm mewed, approaching to mountain to wait for Ryuu.
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Post by Kuromai on Jan 30, 2007 21:03:07 GMT -5
Ryuu bounded down the slope as he listened, his paws slipping only once for him to catch himself on another ledge. The tom took a breath before mewing a level, "Then I would take it that this is a good thing. But if I were to think as your father would, he wouldn't be here. Not yet. First he'd need an army, then he'd have to follow the trail back to the clans before he would think to look for another pack of rouges. Don't count him out by lack of scent. Fear him for how much time has passed." His last words fell as he landed beside Hawkstorm, finally looking up at the warroir.
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 30, 2007 21:05:25 GMT -5
Hawkstorm looked at Ryuu. " I can only wonder how one so young has become so wise." Hawkstorm mewed, looking down at him. " But mark my words, if Greystones dare show his face near me or the one friend I've managed to make I'll claw him to shreds."
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Post by Kuromai on Jan 30, 2007 21:13:25 GMT -5
"Then I would thank you for protecting-"
"RYUU! HAWKSTORM!"
"-my sister?" Ryuu mewed, baffled, before he fled down the slope to meet Tsuki as she clammered up the slope, falling in the snoe every few leaps for lack of strength. "Tsuki! What's happened? Are you all right?"
"I am fine brother," she panted; her eyes were shut for a moment to cope with her legs before she rested her gaze upon her friend. "Hello Hawkstorm," Tsuki smiled. "Have you seen my mother? Thunderstar said that she left the camp in search of Ryuu, but... from last I saw, she knew of this mountian."
"You mean when we said...?"
"Goodbye for forever and a day? Yes, Ryuu."
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 30, 2007 21:15:58 GMT -5
Hawkstorm's eyes were shifty for a moment. She didn't dare say what she knew. Instead, she stood silent and watched Ryuu and Tsuki.
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Post by Kuromai on Jan 30, 2007 21:24:27 GMT -5
Ryuu stared at Haekstorm for a moment, vauge suspision growing with every movement the she-cat made; Memory noted this and took Hawkstorm dwn as another to watch, just like Vani. The tom thought she had something to hide- so it became Memory's job to find out if she did.
"Brother, have you seen mother?" Tsuki mewed, unknowing to the actions of the cats around her. "I would hate for her to get hurt. I haven't seen her much since then...."
"No, I have not. I'm sure we would've been able to tell either way," Ryuu replied as he aided his sister to climb the slope, scanning the mountian for some sort of shelter other then the cavern for his sister. An overhang would suit fair enough; the duo aimed for the clearing that was just out of sight to keep her nameless.
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 30, 2007 21:27:46 GMT -5
" Tsuki, your mother's... well, either she's dead or she dying." Was all Hawkstorm could say. " She has an unknown illness and no one can risk having her in the Clan, so Thornsoul took her to a remote area in the forest. She vowed if she survived she go look for... Greystones. There was nothing I could do to save her, or change her mind." Hawkstorm padded next to Ryuu, though she barely knew him, she suspected Nightpaw was up to something. She looked up at the sky for only a moment.
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Post by Kuromai on Jan 30, 2007 21:36:09 GMT -5
"What?!" Tsuki yeowled in a hushed voice as she stepped into the overhang, slipping slightly on a piece of ice.
"Are you all right, Tsuki?" Ryuu mewed, coming to her aid oif she needed it.
"I'm fine. But...." She paused as the word 'Graystone' hung in her mind for a moment. She shook her head to clear it before mewing a solumn, "Mother...."
"There was nothing you could do, sister," the tom mewed and gave his sister a gentle lick.
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 31, 2007 16:45:36 GMT -5
Hawkstorm pressed her muzzle onto Tsuki's head. " Thunderstar thought the less you knew the safer you were. Guess he was wrong." Hawkstorm heaved a sighed and looked at where StormClan's new camp was, a ledge under a waterfall. As an apprentice she had landed on it and popped her left foreleg. " Should we get back before Tigerheart gets suspsicious? Then again, I don't think he'll mind too much."
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Post by Blackleg on Jan 31, 2007 17:25:40 GMT -5
Skullpaw had come back awhile ago and was quietly sitting in the back of the cavern, haveing no intrest in the happening around him.
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 31, 2007 17:28:39 GMT -5
Hawkstorm shook her head. " I'm going back. I suggest you guys do aswell, there's a couple mountain lions around here. Come." She mewed. Without waiting she padded into the den, rested her eyes on Skullpaw, and veered strait out of the cavern again and back to Ryuu and Tsuki.
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Post by Wavestorm on Jan 31, 2007 18:19:31 GMT -5
Vani watched silently as Hawkstorm, Tsuki, and Ryuu talked about Ivorysoul. She tried to listen in on what they were saying, but was out of earshot. I wonder if Thunderstar knows that Hawkstorm left for the mountains... For a minute she thought about telling Silentpaw, but it was too sooon to go back and she had learned nothing. She decided to wait until she knew more before leaving.
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 31, 2007 18:26:08 GMT -5
Tigerheart shifted his weight on his paws. " Vani, it's too cold to stay so close to the entrance. Sit in the back with the rest of us." Tigerheart mewed. His tone meant now. It wasn't a question. It was an order.
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Post by Blackleg on Jan 31, 2007 18:34:08 GMT -5
Skullpaw looked at Vani, flicking his tail in greeting. 'I wonder why she's here..' he wondered, as he wasn't here when she came to join the RA. He noticed Hawkfrost, and felt a pang of guilt, 'Hawkstorm....' he thought, remembering how she had said she loved him, but he had already loved another, he was so clueless sometimes.
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 31, 2007 18:48:21 GMT -5
Cloudpaw walked into the camp. " Bad news, Tigerheart." She winced. " Leopardclaw's going to stay for a bit longer than you expected. Ivorysoul's gone missing, Sapphirepaw is going to die, and Blackleg just died." She mewed and padded back out.
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Post by Blackleg on Jan 31, 2007 18:51:46 GMT -5
Skullpaw's eyes went from looking at Hawkstorm to being glued to the ground, 'I knew Sapphirepaw wasn't gunna make it...' he thought, holding back his tears, 'and now my uncle is dead too... my poor father.... and aunt... and mother... and cousins.'
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 31, 2007 18:55:28 GMT -5
Hawkstorm didn't say anything, it was evident she was avoiding the apprentice's gaze. In order: Nighstorm... Darkshadow... Wolfstar... Wavepaw... Skullpaw. There could've been a chance... but now it was allover for Hawkstorm. All over. Gone.
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Post by Kuromai on Jan 31, 2007 19:51:47 GMT -5
Ryuu sighed as he and Tsuki returned to just outside of the cave, resting by Hawkstorm. Memory had retreated to the depths of the cavern in search of warmpth and Karma; she could not be blamed. A light snowfall drifted from the darkening sky- it had dropped the air to just below freezing. The two sibilings huddled together as Tsuki motioned for Hawksytorm to join; it took her a moment to register the look in her eyes.
"Please, do not give up hope," the she-cat mewed with a knowledge Ryuu had not of the warrior. "There are more then two that still care about you, Hawkstorm. Please...." It was too much to think that she may lose her mother and only friend at the same time. She wouldn't let it happen. She couldn't.
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Post by Thunderstar♥ on Jan 31, 2007 20:01:39 GMT -5
Hawkstorm pressed her muzzle to Tsuki's head, pain in her eyes. But then again, there was always pain in her dull blue eyes. Hawkstorm lay next to Ryuu and Tsuki calmly. Tigerheart seemed to make no note of Hawkstorm.
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