Rise Against Now, Never time to fall

[Amberstar]

<sub>As soon the tail of Kestrel whipped out of sight, she turned and with a quick strut, ran to the rock and stood, yowling. It was like thunder, clashing over the emerald camp. Her voice was strong with dignity, and it was important. Let all cats, old enough or not, to catch their own prey come to this rock immediatly!! She howled, tail flashing with the fire that only a battle could do to her tail.

Onyxpelt, Maplepaw, step up to the rock, please.

Waiting for them to approach, she called out the importance to the cats clustering around her. For those of you who have not heard... She let her gaze fall on Teppobeat and Sunpelt, and the others whom had gathered at their conversation. Myself and Blackheart have agreed alliance to Risingclan and Kestrel, the clans down in Rogue Meadows. A war is beginning, between Risingclan and Boneclan. Boneclan has hurt many cats, more than one clan, and we shall get our revenge.

She let her gaze wander the crowd, eyes blazing with liveliness. First, some will be apprenticed, some will earn their warriorship and names. She gritted her teeth, claws digging into the side of the stone. Many will come with me to the fight. Yes, I shall fight along side my warriors, for I was once one too. She closed her eyes.

Speak now if you do not approve.</sub>

[Onyxdart]

Onyxpelt tilted her head to the side for a second and then stood and trotted to sit at the base of the rock. She hadn't heard Amberstar's comment earlier, so she was a little confused, but she wasn't entirely clueless, either. And she didn't /think/ she'd done anything likely to get her in trouble lately. So it couldn't be that. A small, slightly shy grin lit her face for just a moment.

[Sunpelt]

Sunpelt, broken from his revere by the disappearance of Kestrel, turned and trotted to the front of the rock, taking a seat just behind Onyxpelt. It was there he heard his leader's report. He waited sometime after that for any other cat to speak up, when none came, Sunpelt, quite surprisingly, decided that he would go first."I approve your choice, Amberstar,"he meowed in return, "Yet how can we be sure of Kestrel's honesty? And will our alliance disrupt the peace between the other Clans of Starclan?"

He wished not to assume that his leader was incapable of a good decision, but he felt that his leader was too quick to answer; no fore-thought and more action can get the clan killed, or make things worse then they need to be. Sunpelt had to be sure that his young leader saw and understood these things, before action should be taken. So he sat, waiting for an answer from Amberstar.

[Amberstar]

<sub>She seemed unbothered by the comment. In fact, she seemed almost happy it came. She was expecting it, at least. She speaks the truth, Sunpelt. I've seen Boneclan before, and know what they are capable of. We've had many cats turn their backs on Treeclan FOR boneclan.

I'd not trust her if I didn't know for myself that she spoke the truth. She commented softly, tail flicking.</sub>

[ringtail]

Her ears pricked up as she heard the leader call out the clan meeting.Darkhate padded slowly out of the area she was to lisen."a war? With boneclan! they could tare us apart!"she shouted back."They shouldn't be messed with.But a fight sounds good."She sat down again remembering her fight with mom.Her amber(or green)eyes were clouded and she was deep in thought.

[Amberstar]

_{we are the allied of a war.. Perhaps even more, should Kestrel manage to talk with our other alliances, Stoneclan and Mistclan. She said calmly, eyes burning with even more battlethirst.}

[Teppobeat]

"I say this a great alliance!" shouted Teppobeat, "And BoneClan's never goin' to tear us apart!" He sat assured and confident, chest puffed out and tail waving like a brush. "So are Onyxpelt and Maplepaw goin' to become warriors now?" He smiled. "Awesome!"

[ringtail]

Darkhate smiled.This was a chance to rid the clans of the vile boneclan!"yes! one less clan to deal with!"she shouted. she glanced at Teppobeat and smiled at him thinking how great the forest would be with out the boneclan cats.




ooc:She can become darkpaw and get a different warrior name if that can happen. Or amberstar can choose a name for her and she can go with that.Is darkhate truing into a warrior or an apprentince.

[Onyxdart]

Onyxpelt tilted her head to the side at Darkhate. The idea here wasn't that they were ridding the forest of a clan, but that they were ridding the forest of a crew of evil cats. She opened her mouth to say as much, and then shut it, thinking maybe it wasn't her place. Then she decided she was just speaking, and that wasn't a crime.

"Actually, you could look at it the other way. We have one more clan to deal with, as we've allied with Risingclan. But that's a good thing. Especially as we have the chance to rid the forest of some less than good natured cats. It's not like we're going after them simple because they're a clan. We're going after them because of what they've done. If we were the only clan in the forest..." Onyxpelt paused, and then licked her nose. That was more than the shy cat usually ever spoke at once. She was done with whatever she was saying. It'd be a sad forest if they were the only ones in it.

((Dear lord, she spoke quite a lot there, didn't she? Also, I don't /think/ Onyx gets a warrior name, does she? It was an accident when I made her that I gave her a warrior's name, so if you want to rename her, have at, but I'm just telling you, you don't have to. ))

[Teppobeat]

"Yeah?" Teppo leaned forward, interested. He found this shy black cat fascinating. But he straightened, swishing his tail absentmindedly. "I think I get it. We need each other, us four clans. And maybe RisingClan now, too. Just like in the Firestar stories!" He stood and began to pace, remembering his childhood of playing with the group of other kits, with the occaisional tale. "And BoneClan is like BloodClan! But if we were the only Clan, then things would fall apart!" He stopped and flopped down into a sit the way that he did. "Right?"

[ringtail]

Her tail dropped as she heard the one more clan we would be dealing with but her tail shot strait back up when Teppobeat talked about the stories"wow. boneclan sound like bloodclan too."she said, her eyes sparklying with exitment."that is super cool! what happened in the story?"she asked. This will be great!


ooc:is Onyx the black cat?

[Onyxdart]

((Yeah, though, the black cat Amberstar is always referring to is Blackheart, not Onyx.))

Onyx smiled slightly at Teppobeat, glad someone had understood what she was saying. Or what she hadn't said, as the case may be. And that he'd explained it. She hadn't wanted to explain it, but she thought she would have had to if he hadn't.

"Right. Thank you," she said, and then was quiet so he could go on with his story telling. He seemed like he'd be the sort to be good at that kind of thing.

[Teppobeat]

"You're welcome Onyxpelt," Teppobeat said. He stood and drew himself up with a sort of theatrical strut forward. Teppo opened his mouth to start his tale...and then became suddenly intensely aware that they were in the middle of a Clan meeting. He turned to Amberstar, and dipped his head in respect. "Oh. Sorry Amberstar!"

OOC: Sorry it's short, but I just realized that we'd sort of left Amberstar in the dust. ^^.

[ringtail]

Darkhate felt embaresed."yes, Amberstar we are still pay attention."she yelled to her leader. Then to Teppobeat,"You can tell me the story later 'k?"

[Amberstar]

((She'll be an apprentice, but that will be after the battle because we need the warriors and though it isn't said, Amberstar won't send apprentices and kits. Only her warriors, which means she has to apprentice the warriors to have more in her part of the war. See what I mean? Unless she was an adult to begin with. I thought she was, because she didn't have the kit or 'paw' name. Btw, Onyx, you can select a different name if you so choose to. ^^))

<sub>Amberstar nodded patiently, flicking her tail dismissively. She scanned the crowd for Maplepaw, seeing how only one of the two she-cats had approached the rock as commanded. Speaking of which, she hadn't seen her for quite some time now!! She was irritable, but she wouldn't let it show. Perhaps she had other matters to attend to... Hmph.

Indeed, Teppobeat. She said, pleased. That is considered 'teamwork', and that is what a clan is all about. The warriors I must send... You must use teamwork, even with your ally clans, if we intend to defeat Boneclan. They shant stand their paws on our land while they are covered in blood and sins... No, I won't let that happen. Her gaze fell over them all. You must understand my need to rid of them.. It is painful for me to even see an innocent cat perish beneath a bloodneedy claw. Boneclan has caused much grief to three of the clans, though i'm not sure Duskclan can be considered one who has suffered.</sub>

[Blackheart]

The entire time, the old black tom remained silent. Wise yellow hues remained ever watchful – resting upon that of his leader. Like she, he too had suffered much from Boneclan…much that had yet to be told. Ah, but how the string was cut by those ever meddling Fates.

It was time.

He blinked, rising to his paws.

“No more murders. No more needless pain, and needless suffering. It is time for such acts to end. Time for us to unite, with the other clans…”

His gaze turned, resting on each other cat one by one.

“…and each other.”

[Fishstick]

Fishstick padded in silently from his den, just a bit late for the meeting Amberstar had called. He had dozed off, and missed his leader's call. Tip-toeing to the back of the group of cats, he heard Blackheart speaking, and began to listen quietly and intently as if he had been there the whole time. The Abyissinian turned to a random cat beside him, not taking any notice of who it was - but by their scent he guessed it was Darkhate - his bright green eyes giving away his excitement.

"What's going on?" he meowed to the she-cat, not taking his eyes off of his leader. "What's the meeting about?" His tail twitched with the fire of not knowing what the heck was going on. The whiskers above his eyes twitched in sync to his tail.

[ringtail]

"this is going to be great!"Darkhate smiled a goofy smile. She thought joining a clan would be bad but this is WAY more fun than being in a rouge clan.

ooc:i can change Darkhate into Darkpaw cause she's an apprentice still.Amberstar can choose a better warrior name when she earns it. I'm fine with changing her name, so you got my word to do that. I think you can make a ceremony for that to change her name.(just a suggestion)

[Amberstar]

((That's 'A' Ok by me! ^^ I like Darkhate, but both of us can ask around for suggestions if you want better.))

[Lucky]

A sleek she-cat entered the clearing, she had planned to show Takumi around camp and speak to him in Japanese, but a Clan Meeting had brought her here.

Lucky was not one for RisingClan - they had kept her captive after all - but there was something about them that made her want to fight for them.

The golden she-cat swished her tail. "May I speak Amberstar?" she cooed.

Ooc: If Lucky lives, do you think she could get a real Warrior Name... after the war?