;.what next--

[SHADE. :D]

A lone figure crouched in the pale moonlight filtering through the claw-like slit in the ceiling of the cage which had occupied so many great leaders in the past: Banditstar, Racoonstar, Emberstar, Shadestar.... and now Amethyststar. The cat was hunched over, back arched, paws tucked hastily underneath her body, which was cloaked in dark black fur. Her eyes glowed dark amber in the moonlight, reflecting the fear and panic burning within. The tail was flicking slowly from side to side, and the silver claws were unsheathed, as if the queen expected a enemy warrior to leapt out of nowhere and ambush her.

Amethyststar looked on in bleak silence. The night stretched ahead of her, and her ears angled toward the cave entrance. She would not let this 'Tribe of Nightmares' invade her territory, or her camp, or her clan. Nor even this den. She loathed then already, for taking her parents and little Aspenkit. What was their strange power...? She looked at her paws, hardened against the harsh ground in her territory. Her claws scraed noisily against the slate flooring the cave and the black cat looked outwards with a hiss of anger and distress. An evil omen.

[FIREH!!]

"Knock knock," came a soft voice. It was Spicetalon. "Can I come in?'' he meowed.

[razor]

_{Strangled cries of horror came shrieking out from the Warriors den, floating from the mouth of the shady Warrior Ravencurse. The tom thrashed wildly, his eyes clamped shut and his claws out. With a jolt he awoke, breathing heavily, he ached all over and felt like some one had been ripping his wings out, plucking each feather one by one. Tears began to slowly dribble down his cheeks ad he remembered. How horrible it had been, his own mother had been trying to kill him. His large clover-green eyes were stretched, the pupils shrunk to tiny slits. He got up and moved slowly out the den, limping slowly as he walked. He was hurting and he didn't know why, the dream had left so real. Shutting his eyes he walked blindly to his sisters den before collapsing in a shivering mental heap by the entrance of Amethyststars den.}

[FIREH!!]

Spicetalon heard the thud. "Ravencurse?" meowed Spicetalon. The scent of Ravencurse made Spicetalon sure it was him. "What happened to you? You look horrible!"

[SHADE. :D]

Amethyststar hissed as she caught the whiff of death coming from her brother's crippled body. She got to her paws nd swept over to him, breifly sniffing him before cloaing her amber eyes and sighing. This Tribe was clever, very clever. ow they were after one of the strongest warriors in the clan. Her jaw curled into a snarl and her throat rumbled in anger. They may be clever but she was more clever.

"Come on then, you cowards, show yourselves!" she yowled to the open night sky.

[FIREH!!]

Spicetalon looked at his sister carefully. "Amethyststar, are you okay?" he asked, concerned. Oh how Razorswipe and Sahdestar still live on in this clan. His sister, oh how she looked like Shadestar. Razortomb, like his grandfather. "Oh mama and papa," he whispered, crumpling to the ground beside Ravencurse.

[razor]

_{Ravencurse swallowed heavily and stood up, at least he had been eating properly. He had some body mass now to ass on with his muscles instead of the skeletal sickness he had recently went through. He stood himself and tried to flex his wings, a loud wail braking past his lips. "I feel like I've had my feathers ripped out.." he gasped softly. He leaned against his sister, tears roling down his cheeks, "mother was killing me.. in my dreams" he breathed into her ear before falling into the realms of her den, body lit up by the claw like slit in the ceiling.}

[FIREH!!]

Spicetalon saw the pain in Ravencurse's eyes. "What happened? Are you okay?" he asked.

[razor]

_{"I-I was dreaming, it was a nightmare, my mother was killing me and when I woke up I could still feel it, still feel the claws in my fur, my feathers getting ripped out" he said, pushing the tears away. He knew he had to be strong, he had to keep strong, this for Amethyst, for Aspenkit.. for his Parents and for his Clan.}

[FIREH!!]

"Does it still hurt? Do you feel the pain?" Spicetalon pressed himself against his brother for comfort.

[Eclipseclan is made mostly of Shade and Razor kin!! lol]

[SHADE. :D]

Ooc; ou do know Spicetalon is Ravencurse's brother, don't you...?
Ooc; Amethyststar glared at Spicetalon. Fine," she snapped. She glared at Ravencurse as he stumbled into her den, amber eyes narrow. "Mother wouldn't do that. Do not tlk of such cruel things." The leader hissed and whisked into her den, sitting in the shadows with her tail curled tight around her small body.

[razor]

_{Ravencurse growled at her, "It was, the Tribe have taken here, I think they.. I think they steal the souls of dead cats and make them.. evil" he murmured. "I saw it with Aspenkit, his body, it burst into flame.. he was screaming them they stole his soul" he cried out at her.}

[FIREH!!]

"Okay..." meowed Spicetalon. "What's gotten into you?" he meowed.

[SHADE. :D]

"Aspenkit was burid!" hissed Amethyststar, eyes raw with greif as Ravencurse so harshly mentioned her dead grandson. Her daughter's kit... She closed her eyes breifly, then opened them to look furiously at her brothers. "No tribe has taken our mother, she resides in StarClan!" she growled. She longed to say, she gave me my ninth life! but she was forbidden, by ancient lw, to speak of her ceremony. The black queen clawed at the cave floor, filling the small space ith the foul sound of keratin on stone.

[razor]

_{"She isn't" he snapped, cuffing her with one sheathed paw. "Think sense, the Prophecy you yowled, 'They'll cut you with your Razor-blade, they'll blanket you in Shade' they where talking about Razorstar and Shadestar!" he shouted at her, trying to make his sister understand and he shook his paining body.}

[FIREH!!]

"Why hasn't she spoken to you in your dreams then?'' meowed Spicetalon. "They must've tooken Razorstar aswell. He hasn't spoken to me in a while..." he meowed thoughtfully, his eyes raw with grief as well.

[SHADE. :D]

Amethyststar hissed furiously at her brother as he cuffed her. She may be his sister, but she was also his clan leader! He had no right to do that! To show her anger at him, she turned her back on Ravencurse and looked at Spicetalon.
"Even if this Tribe do have our parents, they must be prisoners!" she hissed. "Our mother and father would never agree to be part of a group against their own kin! And if I know them they won't stay prisoners for long, they'll escape, then everything will be alright!" she desperately clung to belief that her words were true.

[razor]

_{Ravencurse gave out a snarl of exasperation before he turned his sister round to face him. In a voice more softer he sighed and met noses with her. "Sister of mine.. I don't think they can escape, the Tribe has wipes all memory I believe and replaced with something else.. they turn them evil Amethyst, I don't think there is hope, I'm not going to meet claw to claw with my father" he whispered. Heclosed his eyes and sighed gently, eyes on the ground.}

[SHADE. :D]

"How do you know? You are not of this Tribe!" the she-cat looked more desperate than angry. She just could not believe her parents would join up this Tribe. She looked at her paws, remembering how she and her mother had argued so. Over everything, anything they could pick a fight over. Amethyststar recalled just how stubborn a cat she was, and her ears burnt with shame. And then her father... She barely knew him. As a kit, she had never known him, and as an apprentice she had only breifly met him. Then as a warrior, him nd her mother had both killed themselves in a whirl of torn up hearts and emotions. A tear trickled down her cheek as she remembered the screams of Shadestar's second mate, Wolfwing. He had disappeared, no cat knew whether he had simply ran away or been killd. Amethyststar doubted the brown tom would leave his four kits, Pantherstealth, Oblivionpelt, Serpentsong and Daintfoot.

[razor]

_{"I've seen it" he snapped before giving up completely, his sister was a stubborn hard headed mule at the moment in time and he didn't want to push it further. He could hardly knock some sense into her now could he. Turning he sunk down at the back of the den. "I envy you.. you got mother all your life.. I barely even saw her that much, it was always me and Father.. together. everywhere, never once did he betray mother, always kept her heart on her" he murmured almost dreamily. A heavy sigh passed his lips as a single tear slipped down his cheek. He didn't know what to do anymore.}

[SHADE. :D]

Amethyststar rounded on her brother immediatly, claws unleashed.
"Mother never betrayed father either!" she yowled. "She was confused, he just couldn't se that, because he didn't know how to forgive!"
The black she-cat looked at her brother, shaking with anger. She padded out of her den suddenly and looked into a small puddle outside. Her eyes widened. "I look just like him," she mewed in surprise, as if she had never realised before.

[razor]

_{Ravencurse sighed and padded out after her, sitting down by the puddle. He looked into the puddle sadly, he was just like his mother in almost every way. "I look just like Mother.. Razorstar knew how to forgive.. he just had a strange way of showing it" he murmured quietly, licking her ear. He looked around the camp, "Most of this Clan is made up from kin.."}

[SHADE. :D]

The aggresive she-cat bristled.
"And that's a bd thing how?" she asked.

[razor]

"No.. its comforting, maybe its a sign" he murmured, eyes still gazing deep into the pool. Face lit up by teh faint silver glow of the moon's reflection bathing him.

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[FIREH!!]

Spicetalon walked up to them. " We need to show mom and dad that we are there for them, no matter what. Are you two in? We will find a way to beat this tribe. We need to believe that. We need to set all the captive spirits free, okay?" he rasped his tongue over his sister's ear comfortingly.

[SHADE. :D]

Amethyststar pricked her ears as if roused from a trance. She licked Spicetalon's ear, then looked hard at her two brothers. How different they were: one deep black, one silver tabby. She eyed them, then mewed: "I must travel to the Moonstone. You two will accompany me, and I shall leave Fernpelt in charge. Are we agreed?" She looked at Ravencurse in particilar with narrowed amber eyes, knowing he did not care for her deputy very much, and had insulted her more than once.

[razor]

_{Ravencurse grunted softly, his mind falling on sweet Sugarcane. She seemed to good to be kin of theirs, she seemed just perfect in almost every way. Smiling lightly he licked his sisters ear, "What about Sugarcane.." he murmured. Swiping his tongue over his whiskers he looked nervously up at the sky, it seemed that Silverpelt dared not to watch any more.}

[SHADE. :D]

Amethyststar sighed and rolled her eyes. Somewhow she had known Ravencursec would have something to enquire about. "She will remain here, with Fernpelt, and defend the camp if MoonClan decides to attack. Remember that they are hostile to us a the moment."
The black she-cat twitched ear tail. "We leave at dawn. Ravencurse, go and fetch Lunardance and bring her here. Then I want both of you to rest. Your travelling herbs will await your in the morning."

[razor]

_{Lunardance had already caught the drift that the family were going to do something, she brought three lots of herbs over and dropped one by each of them. She shook her head, "I can read your mind" she chuckled before looking around Camp. Things seemed pretty normal.}

[FIREH!!]

Spicetalon nodded in agreement and munched up his herbs.