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Post by Wolf on Aug 18, 2008 11:01:34 GMT -5
Preciousring He who makes a beast out of himself... All was peaceful at the Cascade rocks. The sun shone brightly onto them, casting dancing light that reflected from the water. All was peaceful.
That was, until a hairless critter leapt onto one of the rocks, yowling piteously."Aaaaaaaooooow! Noooo! The light! The burning light!" The creature moaned, collapsing onto the rock.
The hairless 'creature' was, in fact, a cat. A cat named Preciousring. Preciousring slowly peeked his nose out from under a webbed paw, before speaking again. "Why must the brightness cause Preciousring pain?!" He screeched, looking at the sky angrily.
In truth, the fact of the matter was, Preciousring's lack of fur was allowing his wrinkly grey-pink skin to burn. But he did not know this.
The tom suddenly leapt to his paws, his thin yet muscular legs twitching. "Coward....COWARD!!!" He hissed, a new, angry tone to his voice now. "Preciousring is a coward. Can't even fight the brightness....Coward..." The tom hissed mockingly.
"No, nooo!" Preciousring mewled, his face turning sad and distressed once more, "Preciousring not a coward!"
He isssss....he issssss" The mocking voice returned once more, before the tom collapsed in a sobbing heap. After a few moments he covered his face with his paws. "Go away." He mewed pathetically.
(Open for Shadey!) |
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Post by SHADE. :D on Aug 18, 2008 12:04:16 GMT -5
violetwisp It had chased her. Chased her down, hunted her. It was gone no, yes yes, but it had chased her. Never had it done such a thing before. It was frightening. Yes, it had spoken to her. That scared her enough, the whispering voices that poisoned her mind every night went she tried to sink into the black blanket. But they just wouldn't let her! And now she had run somewhere and she didn't know where. Where was the some? Some was the where! She didn't know anything! The small tabby shape that was Violetwisp swayed from side to side as she stumbled among the trees in EclipseClan territory. One paw lifted as she walked, nearly stepping down on some moss. She screeched and jumped several feet backwards. "No, bless my soul, dear whisperer!" she yowled. "I didn't mean for it to go! You were... Hard to see with my poor eyes! Spare me!"
Violetwisp turned tail and ran. Her paws splashed through water, and suddenly she could see something. "Run! The whisperer is angry!" she warned the other cat, bristling. "Run, Hairless One! Run because it will get you to! Like me! Like poor Violetwisp!" |
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Post by Wolf on Aug 18, 2008 12:39:53 GMT -5
Preciousring He who makes a beast out of himself... Preciousring remained still, his head buried beneath his webbed paws, sobbing quietly in a rasping tone. Then, he heard pawsteps. He peeked one mustard eye at the she-cat, who was running towards him. He blinked slowly, then leapt up as she shouted urgently at him.
Preciousring did not know what the whisperer was, but he ran after the she-cat anyway, just in case it really was angry. He turned his bald head to face her, and spoke hesitantly."Forgive Preciousring, but he does not know what the whisperer is, kinnykin. What's whisperer, kin?" He asked, still running from whatever it was.
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Post by SHADE. :D on Aug 18, 2008 12:49:48 GMT -5
violetwisp Violetwisp's blue eyes bulged as she stared urgently at Preciousring. "Come, move your tail, move your tail! she urged, her own tail lashing wildly. As he leapt down, she streaked away, her chest and sides heaving. She didn't know how far she had run. Had to shake it off, all of it, all! Her paws slowed to a stop. In water. A log. They were back where they started. "Is gone, is gone," she whispered. "Has spared poor Violetwisp. Has spared me. This time. But still it whispers! Still! Still!" The tabby turned to face Preciousring, as though she had forgotten he was there. "The whisperer? The whisperer is the whisperer!" she hissed. "Whispering and getting into your thoughts like slithering worms. Get into your brain. Then they eat. And eat. And eat!" Violetwisp yowled. "When will they finish their feast! I have nothing left to give, whisperer!"
She sat down heavily, dirty water curling around her paws and belly. "Forgive me," she muttered. "My brain is being eaten by the spiders and the birds. They're all in league with the whisperer. They're all just the same..." She turned her watery eyes onto Preciousring. "The whisperer will always be here, Ring That Is Precious." |
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Post by Wolf on Aug 18, 2008 13:12:16 GMT -5
Preciousring He who makes a beast out of himself... As Violetwisp stopped running, so did the hairless one. Preciousring blinked his mustard-coloured eyes at the tabby. He listened, eyes growing wider and wider until they appeared to be nearly falling out of his furless head. He let out a quiet noise that was somewhere between a whimper and a yowl, then sat down, looking around nervously.
He watched as Violetwisp sat down beside him, and then listened again as she continued to speak. "Spiders? Birds, kinnykin? Eat, eat, eat? Preciousring looked horrified, his mouth hanging open. "They eat...Preciousring's brain, kin?" He asked.
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Post by SHADE. :D on Aug 19, 2008 5:30:11 GMT -5
violetwisp The small brown tabby she-cat tensed. She didn't seem to have heard Preciousring's fearful mew. She stood, sides heaving, eyes wide. Then relaxed. "The whisperer has spared us," she breathed out, her ears twitching as though a fly were buzzing annoyingly around them. She lifted a paw an batted at the air around her head. "Begone, begone, crawlers!" Shuddering, Violetwisp turned to look at Preciousring. Kindness spread across her face, and she looked almost normal, excluding her popping blue eyes. "Hello. What do you call yourself?" This brief moment passed and she jumped to her skittering around Preciousring in a circle, on the tips of her paws. "Who? Who?" The she-cat twitched, lookng around for Slatesky. Whenever the Whisperer bit another chunk out of her brain, he was there to help her. But not this time, no. No. No no no.
The she-cat blinked at Preciousring. This cat was definately not her Slatesky. Grey, he was, grey! Not all... Skinny and fleshy! Violetwisp's expression changed to a pleading, desperate expression. "Skinny one, have you seen my Slatesky? Grey he is, grey. Have you seen him?" |
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Post by Wolf on Aug 19, 2008 5:49:07 GMT -5
Preciousring He who makes a beast out of himself... Preciousring blinked, his mustard coloured eyes huge as the she-cat began dancing around him. He shook his head slowly, then spoke. "Preciousring is what Preciousring calls himself, kinnykin." The hairless tom blinked slowly at Violetwisp, his scabby ears twitching occasionally.
When Violetwisp spoke again, Preciousring almost leapt out of his skin; he had forgotten where he was and what was going on, due to staring at a butterfly in interest. He had thought it was very pretty, all blue and black, but then it had got caught in a spider's web. Oh well.
He turned his wrinkled head to face the she-cat again. Who was this Slatesky? "Grey your Slatesky, kin? Preciousring has not seen grey cat, kinnykin. Preciousring has not seen no cat since left camp before the burning light came." The cat stared around, as though searching for Slatesky, appearing almost sane.
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Post by SHADE. :D on Aug 19, 2008 5:58:10 GMT -5
violetwisp Violetwisp nodded vigorously as Preciousring introduced himself. The she-cat blinked unhappily as he spoke of her Slatesky. No.. Not here. Gone, gone forever. Or was it her? Only the whisperer really knew. "My Slatesky," she whimpered. "Poor me, poor Violetwisp. Poor Slatesky." The brown tabby she-cat looked around, her tail swinging from side to side. The small warrior lifted her paws several times, as though kneading bedding. She then remembered what the other cat had said, and turned to face him suddenly. "Burning light?" she mewed, her voice confused. "Ah, the lights! I know them, Violetwisp know's them, she does. The lights that burn my eyes like pebbles left out all of the lightmoons!" The she-cat twitched. "Do... Do the lights stalk you to, Ring That Is Precious?" The she-cat stared at him, as though searching for something he couldn't give.
// Sucky. Sorry. =[ |
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Post by Wolf on Aug 19, 2008 6:06:08 GMT -5
Preciousring He who makes a beast out of himself... Preciousring watched with round eyes as the she-cat kneeded her paws on the ground, speaking of the grey Slatesky. He jumped slightly as the she-cat turned to him suddenly, speaking of the burning light. The hairless tom nodded quickly, hopping up and down like a frog. "Yes, yes, yes, kin! The burning light comes looking for Preciousring to burn him all up, kinnykin! Burn, burn, burn him up to be shrivelled like the leaves in the freezy!"
The cat then seemed to calm down slightly, he sat back down heavily, and turned to look at Violetwisp once more. "Violetwisp has lost her grey Slatesky, and that is why Violetwisp is away from Violetwispclan, kin?" He asked. |
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Post by SHADE. :D on Aug 20, 2008 13:26:25 GMT -5
violetwisp The small brown tabby shook her head fiercely at the tom's words. No! She had no lost her Slatesky! She needed him, and whenever she needed him he just appeared. Like the whisperer, but benign. The Sky-Slater. "No, nono," she mewed, shaking her head, her voice little more than a groan. "I went into the grassy trees, the tree's grass, to chase the little four-legs and scurriers. But then I heard the whisperer. It was getting so loud, like a bee-buzz buzz buzz buzz in my ear! Buzz!" Violetwisp lifted a paw and batted at her ears, as though she could still hear the voices. "So I ran, Violetwisp ran like the wind thunderers in the sky. I ran and ran and ran and then I ran some more. After that, I ran..." She blinked down at the water swilling around her paws. "Then I met the Ring That Is Precious." |
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Post by Wolf on Aug 20, 2008 13:38:48 GMT -5
Preciousring He who makes a beast out of himself... Preciousring listened in silence to Violetwisp's reply, nodding vigorously. He jumped back slightly when she mentioned the whisperer buzzing in her ears, and he looked around quickly, eyes wide. Then she mentioned the thunderers. "Thunderers, kin? What's thunderers, kinnykin?" Then his eyes lit up and he nodded quickly, "The roaring clouds, kin! Preciousring knows, he knows!" He stood up as Violetwisp finished her story.
He blinked slowly, and then nodded as though deciding something."The grey Slatesky must be back in Violetwisp's clan, kin." He meowed, nodding vigorously. "The Preciousring knows the trees. He knows, he knows. He can show way back to Violetwispclan, he can. If Violetwisp wants Preciousring to show her, kinnykin kin." He meowed in a voice that was almost gentle, except for the tom's ever-present rasp. |
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Post by SHADE. :D on Aug 20, 2008 13:47:20 GMT -5
violetwisp The small warrioress nodded as Preciousring spoke of the Thunderers. Violetwisp blinked at the EclipseClan tom as he mentioned her Slatesky. Her blue eyes popped out of their sockets. "Ring... Ring That Is Precious can show Violetwisp the way to her Slatesky?" she breathed, the words almost sounding normal. She shuffled her paws, looking awkward, then suddenly jumped a foot in the air as though she had been stung by a woodant. She took several steps forward, then looked back at Preciousring, her ears tall and her tail held high. "Come on! Show me the way, the way! Show the way to me! Show it! Go! Go forward! Go!" Violetwisp stamped her paws in the water, looking fiercely impatient. |
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Post by Wolf on Aug 21, 2008 6:19:12 GMT -5
Preciousring He who makes a beast out of himself... A small, crooked smile spread onto Preciousring's wrinkled face. He actually felt pleased that he was going to help this cat. He actually quite liked this cat. As strange as it was, he felt he had a link to Violetwisp, in their shared anxieties and fears. He wriggled his ears and tail in pleasure, then skipped forwards to stand beside Violetwisp.
"Preciousring take Violetwisp back to her clan, and her grey Slatesky!" He mewed, hopping up and down before taking a few steps forwards. He turned back to face her. "It is this way, kin. Through the dark treeses, kinnykin." He blinked at the she-cat, then smiled, leading the way forwards. "Come, kin! Preciousring knows the way, kinnykin kin!" He meowed over his lumpy shoulder.
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Post by SHADE. :D on Aug 21, 2008 7:54:02 GMT -5
violetwisp The brown tabby she-cat blinked at Preciousring as he bounded forward. Her expression seemed to clear. What a nice cat. Her thoughts were, for once, not clouded by the madness that had caught her mind for so long. But soon it was back, slipping between her rational thoughts and whispering cruel words to them. The blue-eyed tabby nodded at the tom's words. "Yes, show, show!" she commanded, her tail held high. She padded after him, her paws getting wet as she trotted through the water. Violetwisp soon caught up with him, but did not walk beside him. She wasn't sure she could trust him. He might work for the whisperer. "The whisperer is roused," she breathed, as a breeze blew the treetops gently. "Make haste, haste make, make! Haste, haste!" Violetwisp increased her pace, her teeth clenched and her blue eyes hunted. |
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Post by Wolf on Aug 21, 2008 8:05:06 GMT -5
Preciousring He who makes a beast out of himself... Preciousring turned his head to face Violetwisp. "Preciousring show, kinnykin!" He meowed excitedly. He was slightly cheered up by the fact that he might be making a friend. He even managed to forget the burning light that still burnt his vulnerable skin. "Preciousring show Violetwisp way to clan, kin! Kinnykin, kinnykin, kinnykinnykinnykin kin!" He sang raspingly as he trotted along.
He turned to face Violetwisp as she mentioned the whisperer again. He blinked a few times, looking slightly panicked, then hurried after her as she rushed ahead. "Preciousring knows way! He leads you back before whisperer come calling again! Preciousring won't let the whispererses eat Violetwisp brain again again, kin kin kinnykin!" He meowed at her, before taking the lead again, but making sure she kept up.
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Post by SHADE. :D on Aug 22, 2008 5:25:42 GMT -5
violetwisp The brown tabby still glanced about feverishly, even after Preciousring's words. The breeze stirring her short fur was warm, but inspired nothing but uneasiness inside of her. Violetwisp looked from side to side, her blue eyes wide. She wondered where they were, and if Preciousring really knew where he was taking her. She shuddered. Anywhere was better than here. This was the whisperer's territory - she could feel it in her claws. He was perched here, somewhere, ready to pounce on her and eat her brain. Violetwisp blinked as she recognized a large twisted oak tree, struck by lightning so that it had been morphed into that odd shape. Was she back in the place? The place where Slatesky was? The place where things bit at her ears as she slept, where cats stared at her with their big eyes?
The scents were correct. She seemed to be here. "Are we here, are we away from it? It, it, it?" her voice was hushed, as though she were speaking to a cat in the last moments of it's life. She glanced around her, biting her lips, frightened of what might be hiding behind trees and bushes. |
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Post by Wolf on Aug 22, 2008 5:29:08 GMT -5
(OOC: I'm going to post in Brightclan territory now)
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