Posts by acery75

Thanks for the bumps, everybody. :)

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Pidgeypet gave one last sad, somewhat longing look at the two-legs in red costumes that were running towards the chain link fence that she had just crossed.Then the winged pokecat trotted deeper into the forest, pausing often to turn her confused head side to side, looking for any signs of life, help, or direction.

BUMPing to get back on the first page in case The Powers That Be have not seen my request yet. Thank you.

"O--okay," Rustlekit batted a sky-blue eye at the pretty feamle. He wasn't concerned for her as he usually would have been because, as he said, "Should be plenty o' WindClan warriors and who knows who else out there snoozing away. Just watch where you step!"

The orange tom casually looked back to the intriguing she-kit in his nest. He smiled, knowing there was something different about her.
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"Cool. I was born to a loner too," Rustlekit smiled at Jadekit as their white friend stalked outside in the pitch dark. Rustlekit felt a bit weird smiling and feeling good at a statement that most kits would find no joy in, but as he said, "I guess we have common ground now."

After a moment of silent thought, he added, "Come to think of it, my mom made me trace a map of where she was sending me too... I couldn't even open my eyes yet, but she made me--"
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"...Memorize it and promise to love her and love the Warrior Code," Jadekit interrupted and finshed the statement for her sibling. "Yeah, me too," the grey tabby agreed meekly. Now she was kinda spooked at the coincidence.
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"I'm not even sure I know what the Warrior Code is yet," Rustlekit added softly as he looked down at his white paws to hide his embarrassment. "But I'm going to try my best to figure it out as I grow up," the orange tom added more brightly as he settled his front paws underneath him.
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"Wait. Hold on a minute, please," Jadekit mewed softly from the bracken and moss covered nest. "You said your mother drew you a map... and sent you off to a clan..." The grey kitten's eyes glowed with a bit of fear and a bit of excitement. "...before you could even open your eyes. And my mother," she paused to gulp down the feelings or conclusions that were beginning to bubble up, but continued, "Did the same. That's -- that's doesn't seem like a normal thing for a queen to do. Does it, Freed--"

Jadekit trailed off and blinked her grass-colored eyes in remembrance as she recalled that the white kitten had stomped off outside.

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Suddenly, a wild Weedle appeared in front of Pidgeypet!

Pidgeypet opened her mouth and a bird-like "Squawk!" of alarm came out.

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Psychic ascended into the air, her mew-like tail streaming out behind her. She flew away from the battle, quite overwhelmed, and landed on the ground near Pidgeypet, who she didn't notice.

The winged she-cat turned her brown head to the sound of another animal appearing. "Yikes!" she yelped at the sight of yet another unknown creature. "My name's Pidgeypet, and I don't know who I am anymore," she called to Psychic in a bit of a panicked frenzy. "Are you on the cat's side or on the side of these... these... creatures and their two-legs?" Pidgeypet asked with anxiety in her voice.

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"Um--ber--ron," Pidgeypet stumbled over the name as she tried to repeat it. "That's hard to say," she said teasingly with a smile and added, "but nice to meet you -- someone who knows who you -- and I -- are."

Seeing the other creature approach and annouce her kinship, the winged cat responded happily, "Oh and I see you have a family! How great." She tilted her brown head down in sadness and meowed, "I was taken from my family of two-legs. ... I miss them."

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As Pidgeypet stood talking to Umberon, the wild Weetle squealed as menacingly as a bug could. But it was enough to make Pidgeypet jump in surprise. "Oh good grief, I nearly forgot about that thing!" she exclaimed aloud.

As the brown pokecat turned to face her enemy, she automatically concentrated on it, trying to think of how to get rid of it. She didn't know why, but it felt like a threat. Suddenly, a gust of wind emanated from around the winged pokecat and swirled the insect pokemon of it's feet. It soon vanished in a digital puff.

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Ninetales looks at her, and says "Don't you remember me?"

As the wind funnel cloud and Weedle disappeared over the horizon, an even more stunned Pidgeypet turned to the animal that had called her "sister" and replied, "No. No, I'm sorry I don't kno-- remember that." Pidgeypet looked down at her paws and added sheepishly, "But, there's a lot of things I don't remember from before yesterday... when I was kidnapped and turned into this horrible monster..."

Looking back up at Ninetales, the winged cat asked curiously, "Did you live in the same two-leg place as I did?"

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Turning back to where the Weedle had been... and now gone, Pidgeypet pondered what had happened. Did... did that gust of over-powering wind come from ME, she wondered. All I did was think about it and how I should get rid of it.

[[Well, our medicine den thread may never finish, but I'm going to assume both kittens recover nicely, and continue on, say ohhh... a week or so later. Just so we have something to do, LOL. I have one minor plot point, but that's all...]]

Jadekit laid on the dusty, rocky stone floor near her Canvas, purring and humming happily in the warm, green leaf sunshine. The grey kitten was getting older, now very close to 6 moons, or at least, what she was going to celebrate as 6 moons, since nobody was sure of her actual age. The sensitive kitten wasn't so scrawny anymore; her muscles continued to fill out and her "baby fat" continued to melt off as she made her laps around the camp for exercise. But...was the soon-to-be-apprenticed cat dropping more weight than natural? Perhaps, but why? How?

Jadekit rolled over onto her side so that she could use both front paws and claws to draw her interpretations of mice, voles, birds, and other prey creatures. The drawings depicted happy-looking creatures, nestled together in comfortable-looking nests, or out playing in the woods, as ThunderClan kittens were always doing.

"Yeshhh. What about it?" Rustlekit added playfully and with confidence. After a moment of thought with his head tilted, his azure eyes grew larger and a smirk appeared on his face. He crouched down on his front paws, to get near to the other tabby in his nest. With more than a hint of excitement, he whispered, "You don't mean... Do you think it was the same queen that guided us? Like a special Guide Cat from Starclan like in the nursery tales?!!"

The large tom-kit was being genuine in his question, but genuinely dense as well...
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"Hmm..." Jadekit frowned at how the new idea had been thrust into her already hyper and confused brain. "I suppose it could be that," she answered quietly, not wanting to tell any other cat that she thought they were wrong. As she wagged her tail decisivly in thought, she added honestly, "I had never considered that... Me, visited by Starclan. Wow, that would be... something."

She dipped her nose onto her paws in thought, with her green eyes open but staring into nothing. She was trying to think back to those early days in order to recall anything else about the cat, the place, or other details. The grey kitten was going to think a little bit more before opening her mouth to add her own opinion of what had happened....
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The orange tabby kitten shifted his paws with unease, and a frown formed on his usually happy-go-lucky expression. "You don't sound like you believe me..." he said sadly to Jadekit. Looking up again, he added, "But, c'mon! It's too weird and similar to be total coincidence!" His blue eyes honed in on the seemingly smarter tabby, and asked for confirmation: "Right? Don't you think?..."

Turning her grey head lazily towards the happy sounds, Jadekit smiled and answered matter-of-factly from where she laid, "Drawing nice prey creatures; can't you tell?... See, this is the mouse family that lives--" Jadekit flicked her tail towards the highest carving, indicating the drawing of the mice and continued with a bit of harshness in her voice. "--- er, used to live until some warriors destroyed part of their home as they hunted them down and brutally murdered the oldest two, leaving the babies as orphans." Easing back in her expression and tone, she continued, "over the small hill I can see from the camp entrance. ... And this is the mother sparrow and her nest of new babies that we can see in the tiny tree across the way from a perch in the big tree here near the Canvas."

Jadekit then rolled over on her back to face her shiny white friend. She licked a grey paw and ran it casually over her ear before blinking with happiness at Freedomkit. "Have you ever noticed that the rest of the creatures in the forest have families and rules, kinda like our clan, Freedomkit? It's pretty fascinating! ...And they're so cute!" Jadekit ended with a short purr. Would her best friend think she was crazy for calling birds and mice "cute" and describing them as "friends" and "family"?

[[Yes, I know a wild cat becoming / being a vegetarian isn't anywhere close to cannon, but Jadekit despertly needed a character flaw. Or at least an oddity. ;) ]]

Jadekit nodded firmly and smiled half-heartedly at her glowing friend's face. "Yes, I understand that. And I respect everyone's decision to eat meat, but... but... I'm fairly certain that *I* can and *want to* survive by eating bugs and wild plants." The grey kitten's voice trembled as she ended the sentence; she was afraid that Freedomkit would tell her she couldn't do that... And then where would she be? What could she do? This was a kitten still highly regarded in the clan.

She gulped down some timidness and continued in what came out as a pleading tone, but her green eyes looked past her fluffy BFF, staring into nothing but her own conscience. Meekly, Jadekit asked aloud, mostly to herself, "It can't hurt anything if one clan member doesn't eat from the fresh-kill pile, can it? ... Wouldn't we actually be better off if there were less faces to spread the prey around?"

She sighed and closed her jade eyes, trying to reassure herself that she would not be harming anybody or disobeying the Warrior Code by becoming a bug-atarian.

[[Thanks for the tip; edited to fix.]]

Jadekit let out a giant, genuine yawn as it was now past midnight and the escape from ThunderClan was rather tiring. "Rustlekit, I don't disbelive you... I just don't know what to think right now with all this new information," she said through her yawn. "Let me get some sleep and we can continue this conversation in the morning when I have... more... better brain function." The she-kit stumbled over her words as sleppiness set in hard. "Is that okay?" The green eyes pleaded with the orange tom to put the conversation on hold.
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"Oh! Oh... sure. Yea, that's fine," the large orange kit replied with a smile and then a yawn, realizing he was tired himself. "And hey, I'll stay up until your friend comes back. Make sure nothing bad happens to her," Rustlekit added with genuine concern for Freedomkit in his voice.

Jadekit nodded drowsily and buried her head in her shoulder. She closed her eyes and was quickly fast asleep.
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* * * * Timeskip to a few hours after the kittens fall asleep. They are deep into REM sleep and thus, have a "dream". I bought 2 of the "Afterlife Contact" shop items to use here, one for each kitten to see the same Starclan cat. I'm not sure how the rules work for another cat with Super Senses to see a Starclan cat visiting another. But if you want Freedomkit to be in on this, and know how to make it work, feel free. :) * * * *

As the orange tabby lost his last grip on consciousness and slumped slowly to the ground in sleep, Jadekit started wiggling her paws while sleeping in Rustlekit's nest. The grey kitten had slept restlessly since she was used to sleeping with Freedomkit's fluffy, warm, cuddly body next to her, but this was more than restlessness.

Jadekit was dreaming of an eerie night in the ThunderClan woods, dark and full of lightning flashes in the starry sky. As the grey kitten padded slowly and warily on a well-trod dirt path, she kept her ears back and head low out of fear of this strange place. She padded slowly forward, trying to make as little sound as possible for she felt something.. or some cat... was watching her. Waiting. It almost felt like... she was being hunted.

Soon, she saw a dark figure in the distance. Fear wanted her legs to stop moving, or to run away, but something else she couldn't understand propelled her forward. As she got closer to the shadowy cat figure, her ears and tail shot up with relief and delight. That orange tabby outline was familiar -- it was Rustlekit!
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Rustlekit had drifted off into a dream as well. The large, strong and proud-looking kit stood on the top of a hill in the midst of a dark and unknown forest.

He wasn't as scared as Jadekit, just confused, and trying to get his bearings. When a small shadowy figure raced up to him, the spikey fur on the back of his neck raised in alarm, but when he recognized the potential invader as the same kitten that he had met earlier today, Rustlekit immediatly made the fur lie flat again as he took a deep breath.

"Jadekit! What are you doing here?" he asked the female in puzzled, but concerned voice. "It doesn't seem safe -- here -- wherever here is," he added with an overly-protective air. "Do you know where we are? Or... or how we got here?" Rustlekit always stammered when he was nervous, but for some reason, it was lessened right now, as if he had nothing to be afraid of.

"My-- my paws feel funny... tingly, or something..." the tabby kit said as he looked down at his white paws to make sure they were there. They were, but... they appeared kinda shimmer-y, as if his body was a mirage.

Jadekit's gravel colored fur stood on end as her BFF seemed to be getting angry, very angry, at her. Fear scent began to rise from her pelt as she took a few cowering steps backwards. Surprisingly, the timid kit still was able to speak in the face of such a strange reaction. "I-- I-- I just don't-- don't like the taste of regular prey--y all that much, Freedomkit," she stammered in defense of her idea.

"And, besides," Jadekit went on quietly, not yet daring to look her friend in the eyes yet. "It's not like I'm going to eat death-berries by accident... I-- I-- While you were getting help from Chimingkit, Ladypaw and I had a nice talk about some berries that weren't necessarily medicine, but just tasty and wholesome to eat." Her grey tail waved low over the ground in unease, still, but Jadekit was starting to stand up from her defensive crouched position as she kept rolling and found her arguments.

"Surely you don't think of me as a helpless, stupid newborn kit, unable to defend myself!" Jadekit spat out the last words with actual spit; she was as upset as she'd ever been so far. But that anger subsided immediately as a new thought floated into her head. Jadekit tilted her head, her green eyes soft with concern and worry as she calmly asked, "Oh. Oh Freedomkit. I'm so sorry... You must still be so sick with worry about your father. And-- and-- and not wanting to loose anyone else. Do you want to talk about him?"

The grey tabby sat down and looked at the white princess kit with all the compassion that adorable kittens have. "But... but look at me. Take a deep breath and look at me for a second, please. After only a few days of eating bugs and yummy fruit, I'm already less puny looking. Well--..." Jadekit trailed off, having done the closest thing to boasting about herself that she would ever do. She would never say she looked "good" or "better", but she certainly felt better after having given up varmint for dinner.

A friendly, somewhat confident smile spread across Jadekit's face as she blinked at Freedomkit and waited to see if her friend would calm down or continue squealing.

Jadekit's ears pricked at Freedomkit's call, but it was Rustlekit who answered her. "Freedomkit! Over here!" he called while waving his fluffy orange tail.

Automatically assuming and taking the protective-leader role once again, the orange tabby flicked his ear and added, "I think we're supposed to go this way..."
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"But, Rustlekit. It's so dark... and spooky," Jadekit turned pitiful jade eyes up towards the confident-sounding tom-kit. "What makes you think we're supposed to go anywhere. I... I want to hide under a tree until this storm passes," she added as her fear scent grew stronger.
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"Well," Rustlekit started calmly but firmly. "I... I don't think this is a *real* storm, Jadekit. Something about it... about this place... doesn't feel normal--" Here he paused to scan the dark area with his sky blue gaze and then added, "--not natural. Doesn't that lightning look, um... err-- 'fuzzy' to you?"

A ripple of part excitement and part uncertainty ran down Rustlekit's back. "I think this might be a puzzle... or a test... or whatever you want to call it," he said, suddenly very up-beat. "I loooovvveee puzzles," the large kit meowed playfully and absent mindfully. Then he cleared his throat and continued in his take-charge voice, "And, I always think the best and fastest way to solve a puzzle is to push the limits on it. To see what breaks first, what looks different, ya know? And then use that weakness to solve the rest of the puzzle."

Rustlekit smiled and nodded with determination and as much confidence as he could muster, hoping the two females would follow his lead if he seemed sure enough of himself.

"What do you think, Freedomkit? How do you solve puzzles?" he asked in a friendly and not so commanding voice. Rustlekit knew the she-kit had a bad impression of him, but he was going to brush it off, as usual, and try his best to include what seemed to be an intelligent friend in his planning.

[[It won't be much longer; I promise. I think after your next reply, the Starclan visitor will appear. ;) ]]

Always quick to forgive and forget, Jadekit padded over to the sad, white ball of fluff and stood with her grey tail resting on her BFF. She turned and touched warm noses with Freedomkit as she purred encouragingly. While still close to the snow-colored face, Jadekit whispered warmly, "It's okay, friend. I think we both surprised each other and over-reacted because of it."

The small, grey face drew back to a comfortable distance and continued in her soothing tone, "I'll forgive you, if you forgive me." She winked hopefully at Freedomkit.

"Soooo..." Jadekit began anew as if nothing had happened. She circled once and then sat down, letting the warmth of the sun start to melt every problem away. "Let's do what we do best and talk this out, like the adult cats -- we aren't!" She giggled at her own joke, hoping that Freedomkit could relax just a bit and help Jadekit see where she was coming from.

With a calm expression, the she-kit commented, "It sounds like you've had a bad experience with bugs.... or berries." Green eyes darted side to side as she added, "Or know someone that did." With a flick of one ear to show concern and interest, Jadekit asked, "Did someone get hurt by eating this stuff? Or not eating meat? If so, perhaps we can figure out what or why, and then you won't have to worry about me!"

[[Leave it to jadekit to make a short plot into a long one, LOL!]]

Jadekit smiled when her green eyes landed on her favorite climbing tree that Freedomkit pointed out, but she squeaked when Freedomkit gasped at the mirage of being high in the sky. "I... I think you're right, Rustlekit -- this isn't real," she said in a whisper.

But her mind was distracted as strong, musky smell wafted towards them, and then seemed to cover the kits in the strong smell of milk. Trying to figure out what the smell was, since it seemed so familiar, yet so foreign, Jadekit lifted her nose as high in the air as it would go. She inhaled deeply, and instantly she felt sleepy... and happy all at once.
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"Yuck!! What's that stench?!" Rustlekit exclaimed, totally not bothered by or interested in the new sights, but the warm, strange scent of a queen.

The large orange kit turned on his hindquarters towards the scent. When his eyes adjusted to the absence of light again, those blue orbs grew huge with wonder and excitement. He couldn't have taken his gaze off of the shadowy figure if he'd wanted to, so he meowed loudly without turning around, "Hey girls?!! Do ya'll have another friend, 'cause there's another mysterious cat coming towards us, I think... And it's the source of the stink." Rustlekit's last comment was without emotion this time, because his emotions were busy trying to figure out why they were so drawn to the distant figure.
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"Another wha--?" Jadekit replied with a surprised and confused question. It took the grey kitten a while to tear her gaze from the beautiful view of her home, but when she did turn towards the rust-colored kit, her gaze immediatly locked on to the figure. The figure that wasn't so mysterious any more...

A slightly ratty-looking golden she-cat emerged from the mist and held her head high as her steady pace brought her closer to the group of kittens. The edges of her paws, her coat with patches of fur missing, her nose covered with a scar all shimmered with starlight.

Jadekit found herself unable to even blink -- not wanting to take her gaze off this scrawny looking female. The grey kitten briefly remembered that it was rude to stare, but she couldn't stop herself! The sight, no... the smell... made her purr.
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The starry cat purred as loudly as any cat ever purred as she came to a neat stop in front of the three kittens. She kept sweeping her brown eyes all over the two tabbies, trying to look them all over without disturbing them. When finished, she smiled warmly at them. Then, without warning, her legs went weak with all of the emotion in the moment.

The pride. The sadness. The joy.

She crumpled to her knees without a jolt or a sound. And without batting an eyelash, she flicked her long flowing tail to beckon them closer. "Oh my precious. How you've grown. It won't be long before you're adults and helping your clan. ...Helping protect your clan," she ended with a mumble as she turned her golden head down towards her paws, revealing a moderate dent and ugly bruise on her face above her eye.

"Come here," she commanded kindly, flicking her tail again. "Let me feel your pelts once again." The sparkles seemed to glow brighter as the she-cat became more caught up with emotions.
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"Woah, woah. Hold on a leaf," Rustlekit huffed as he stepped between the translucent stranger and his friends. "Why were you looking at us like that?!" Sky blue eyes tried to burn into the Starclan cat's pelt. He had no idea that he was talking to a cat of his dreams, let alone the relationship that existed among them. "That was pretty creepy there, lady," he spat.

"Ahhh," jadekit purred sympathetically and gave her friend's white ear a lick. "That's horrible, Freedomkit," the grey kitten said quietly. "But see now," she started in an up-beat, encouraging tone. "... I have great friends around to help me and tell me these kinds of things. So I should be safe as long as I watch what I'm doing," she mewed in a positive tone.

Tilting her grey head to rub Freedomkit's shoulder affectionatly, she continued, "Now what about eating bugs?... Aside from the "ick" factor?" she joked as she started purring again. After a brief pause to let them both think, Jadekit answered her own question: "I know lots of bugs are not good to eat, or even poisnous. But I'm only planning on eating a few varieties, not everything I see." She winked at her friend.