shooting stars && satellites

[Ninjaheart]

Nudge. The little cat didn’t stir at Silentmaw’s touch, not at first. But when the pain finally managed to register through her lagging mind and she recognized the voice she came too a little bit, groggy and muddled but awake. Her yellow eyes blinked, glazed with pain, but when she saw the two toms were in one piece (although the tom-whose-name-she-didn’t-know was wounded) she purred. Well tried to purr. It was a ragged, broken, heartbreaking sound with how weak it was from the normally bright and chipper she-cat, but Ninjaheart had no strength to put in it. “Idiot. What would you do without me?” There was a trace of her wicked mischief in her eyes, and she looked to the other tom. “You gonna be okay?” She hoped he wasn’t too badly hurt, she didn’t know if she was able to get up and try to help him. But the little orange she-cat would try. She would try. With another raspy purr she tried to nudge Silentmaw, just happy to see that she had been successful and he gotten out without any hurts.

[Onyxdart]

.Check.

Checkmate smiled as the she-cat awoke. Hopefully she would be okay now? And the first thing she was worried about was the two of them?

"I suppose I'll live," he said with a slight laugh in reply to her question. But who was going to help her out? They hadn't a medicine cat... and unless the other two knew about these kind of things, he wasn't even remotely useful. Following directions he could do, albeit not always without argument. But he knew nothing of healing other wounded cats.

"I don't think the dog will bothering cats anytime soon, me. Are you okay?" he added a moment later, glancing in the direction the dog had taken, and then looking at Silentmaw.

.Checkmate.

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[Silentmaw]

Silentmaw didn’t say anything in regards to the idiot comment. “Be a lot better off,” he mewed quietly while looking at the ground. At least she was still alive and probably needed rest. He wasn’t sure about Checkmate’s condition as he wasn’t a medicine cat. Although he walked over to take a look at his injury he sustained.

There wasn’t any broken bones sticking out or blood. Except it didn’t mean the bone wasn’t broken still. Time would tell if it was though. Too bad a wandering medicine cat hadn’t happened to walk by right about now. “I’m fine.” He nodded at the other tom. "It doesn't look too serious. Maybe stay off of it for awhile and see what happens." Silentmaw commented on his injury.

[Ninjaheart]

“Heeheh, you think that.” What did she know of treating wounds? She was a warrior through and through; never once had she felt any urge to look up anything healing based. But still, there were a few things she could remember from the times she had been hurt. “I know the roots of the comfrey plant can be chewed into a poultice to help heal broken and hurt bones.” As many times as she’s sprained something back in the day back home that she had to be treated for it there was little reason for her to forget that. Oh and, “Poppy seeds ease pain. I dunno much else.” She weakly placed her head into her paws, unable to move much more then that. Just from her few simply movements she felt that all her energy had been drained, something that didn’t even happen when her and Silentmaw had been traveling all day. This was probably such an odd sight for her companion, a silent Ninjaheart, no, a silent and not bouncy Ninjaheart. Yellow eyes blinked a few times, moving back and forth between the two toms before she closed them, ears angled forward to show that she was still awake and aware but her head throbbed much less with her eyes closed.

[Onyxdart]

.Check.

Checkmate turned his head to look at his arm. It didn't feel broken. It should hurt worse if it was broken, right? Not that it didn't hurt, but it wasn't as if it truly felt broken. He dipped his head, his version of a shrug.

"I'm going to go find some poppy. I don't know what the other looks like," he told the two cats, assuming Silentmaw would want to stay behind as guard or something. He really was perfectly capable of moving around, too, except for the matter of his leg. Probably tomorrow he'd be regretting this whole thing...

With a quick grin, he turned and left to go find his bright red flowers.

.Checkmate.

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[Silentmaw]

Silentmaw watched as Checkmate hobbled off to go find some poppy. He was going to guard Ninjaheart in case any other stray cats or animal decided to try and harm her even more. Resting his tail over his front paws as he stood and gazed around the meadow like a sentinel at his post.

[Deathwind]

.x.I spy two felines.x.

Deathwind had been hiding when he scented the canine before it had went after the pretty kitty. He wasn’t stupid to try and tackle with the mutt by himself. As he sat perched in a tree, he had waited till the sound of fighting stopped before coming down.

Upon his way down, he had noticed the she-cat had survived. Pity that she hadn’t died. Also the black tom seemed unharmed unlike his counterpart. Deathwind had just missed seeing the other tom run off to find poppy to ease their pain.

Not like they’d want him around any way. No one did. And it hurt. The sandy brown feline eased his way down the truck and landed on the ground, moving behind the tree and out of sight. Sitting down, Deathwind began washing a paw to clean behind an ear.

.x.You don’t see me just like all others do.x.

(Yuffie already said it was ok for me to bring him in. If you don't want my other char in then just tell me and I'll delete this post, Onyx.)

[Onyxdart]

.Check.

Checkmate was working along towards his remembered flowers, muttering under his breath. What he was muttering was anyone's guess, but it was probably equal parts annoyance with himself and reminders to find poppy.

And find it he did- a small patch not quite where he remembered it. He didn't know what part of it he was supposed to get, so he ripped some of the plants up roots and all. After nudging them all together with his nose, he reached down and grabbed them up in his mouth.

The leaves got in his way of seeing, and the roots dragged the ground near his front leg. So he held his head up to avoid tripping, and hoped he wouldn't miss seeing anything terribly important, like something chest-height. And then he started back towards the clearing.

.Checkmate.

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Works for me!

[Ninjaheart]

Ninjaheart lay as still as death, still in the same position as she had fallen. Her tail tip’s slight twitching motion was the only visible sign of life, then, Purrrrururuurrr that raspy, broken purr once sounded so fragilely yet determinedly into the air. The orange cat knew that Silentmaw had remained behind, knew that her friend was protecting her, and there was no touching her happiness, it was boundless. But even all wounded-like, the little she-cat almost immediately knew another had entered their little patch of the Meadow, and the purr broke off into an uncertain whimper, yellow eyes sliding open as she tried to look around to see who the owner of the unknown scent was. Maybe another friend like the-tom-who’s-name-she-didn’t-know?

[Onyxdart]

.Check.

Checkmate came hobbling back into camp cautiously. He thought he smelled another cat... And the injured she-cat looked suspicious too.

He walked over to the two and spit out the poppy plants. Then he looked around, and shrugged. If someone was watching, he wasn't going to provoke them. If they wanted a fight, they'd get one, but he wasn't going to encourage it.

"I didn't know what part of the plant... so I brought the whole thing," he said, quietly as if he was trying to pretend he wasn't here. He wanted to know the she-cat's name, but he figured that could wait.

.Checkmate.

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[Silentmaw]

Silentmaw sniffed the air cautiously. There was definitely another cat around, but where was the question. Even Ninjaheart noticed another presence that wasn’t Checkmate. Either way the sleek black tom wasn’t going to go find the intruder to their little spot unless they wanted to come out and start something. Once the other tom came back with some poppy, this cat wasn’t sure about which part of the plant to eat. Since he hadn’t had to have any in quite some time.

[Deathwind]

.x.Well look what we have here, another injured cat.x.

The brown tom scented the air as another came up to the other two. He flicked his tail in anger as he peered around the tree to see the other tom had gathered poppy for either both him and she-cat or just the she-cat. Just looking at them made him sick!

All of them acting like friends but anyone could turn at any moment. Friends or family never lasted for ever. Everyone is just an enemy in hiding. Ears perked up as he heard something small moving a few yard lengths away from him. Turning around he went to investigate.

Slowly creeping along as to not startle the prey. Green hues landed on a small robin flittering from branch to branch in a bush. With a swift movement, Deathwind leaped into the air and pounced on the bird. Quickly moving to kill it before eating.

.x.Just an example of how life works.x.

[Ninjaheart]

“I think it’s the seeds. Iffa I remember right you know,” Ninjaheart said, lifting her head slightly as she tried to see who it was that had come into her scent range. A stranger, a stranger and she didn’t know if he was friend or foe, didn’t know if this new other was gonna try to hurt her two companion type buddies or not, didn’t know if she had the strength left in her to rise and try her darnedness to protect them…swallowing harshly, the orange cat pushed herself all shaky-like into a semi-leaning sit, trying to rise as high as she could before her body chose to crash on her to see who it was. “Hello? Who’sthereareyouafriend?”

[Onyxdart]

.Check.

Checkmate whirled around on his hind paws as the she-cat sat up and shouted at whoever was in the bushes. So much for pretending he wasn't there.

He sat like that, his good front paw barely touching the ground as he balanced back on his hind legs. He wasn't touching the poppy til he knew it was safe. And anyway, he knew it'd help, but he wasn't sure how long. His shoulder felt all loose and all... and funny. Not broken. Dislocated maybe? He wasn't sure quite how he planned on fixing that. Later.

Then he turned his head without unbalancing and looked at the she-cat.

"What's your name? I can't keep thinking of you as thatoneshe-cat," he said.

.Checkmate.

[Deathwind]

.x.Why do you care?.x.

After licking his lips after eating, the tom stepped out from under the bush. His left ear twiched when the she-cat called out to him. Of course he wasn’t very quiet while jumping around in the undergrowth. What cat could with leaves and branches in the way?

“Friend?” he asked as if the word was foriegn to him. Bright green eyes looked at each one of them. The black tom seemed like the smarter one out of the three. Just the way he sat there told Deathwish he didn’t want to be around anyone. Except this feline didn’t know his reason to why that was.

The brown tom sat down away from them all. As he looked back at the pretty she-cat his mind thought of her bounding up to him (if she wasn’t hurt) and asking to be friends. The thought was enough to make him sneer. She was pretty stupid if he was going to go for that act.

.x.I hate naive cats.x.

[Silentmaw]

Silentmaw looked over at the bushes to see who was there. If need be he would fight off the other feline if he decided to cause any problems. There was no need for Checkmate to get into the fray from being injured by the dog. The black tom was more focused upon the emerging sandy brown feline instead of the other two talking amongst themselves for the time being. Yellow-green hues looked at him intently - unsure if this cat was to be trusted. It surely looked to him like he didn’t trust anyone but himself.

[Ninjaheart]

Huhuh, oh! The tom-whose-name-she-didn’t-know was talking to her! “Imma Ninjaheart! Do you have something for me to call you other then tom-whose-name-I-dunno-yet?” Yellow eyes turned back to the stranger as he approached the trio, ears twitching a few times as she listened. Twitchtwitch. “Yess, are you a friend?” She probably would have bounded right up to him all happy and cheerful if she had been able to actually get up, but she could barely keep her front legs under her, let along try to get her back legs working. The ninja kitty managed to scoot to the side slightly so to nudge Silentmaw’s shoulder in some sort of comforting gesture. She believed in the black tom, and knew his strengths. As much as an emo idiot as he could be, Ninjaheart trusted him with her life. She and the other tom couldn’t deal with their injuries if this newcomer was an enemy, they would have to rely on Silentmaw. She didn’t like it at all, wanted to get right up, after they figured out where the newcomer stood, chase him off if he tried to hurt them.

[Onyxdart]

.Check.

Checkmate flashed a quick grin at Ninjaheart.

"Checkmate," he informed her, still balancing up on his hind legs. It was really a very comfortable way to sit, if you could manage it. Then he turned, all serious again, and wary, to the new tom.

He wasn't sure what put him off about the new one, but it made him more wary than even he was usually given to be. Back on all four paws now, or all three, he seemed to be standing on his toes, like he was going to run.

Again. Haven't we been through this once today, Checkmate?

.Checkmate.

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[Silentmaw]

Silentmaw finally took his eyes off of the other feline to look at Checkmate. He dipped his head once he told them his name as a sign of acknowledgment. Hues went back to the brown tom. For some reason he couldn’t trust him or even attempt to. “He doesn’t seem like you, Ninjaheart, with wanting to be everyone’s friend,” he stated low enough for her and Checkmate to hear. He didn’t even do anything when she nudged him. As she would fall over if he moved away from the contact.

[Deathwind]

.x.Judging rather quickly, aren’t we? .x.

Deathwind didn’t have to hear to know what was said. Just how many times has he heard it before? Even his own mother left him for dead. So even if his mother didn’t want him - no one did.

Even his adopted mother showed him kindness that his adopted siblings crushed with every chance they could get because he wasn’t like them. His eyes closed as that thought came to the surface and forced it to go back where it came from.

Upon opening his eyes his tail flickered with anger. “Friend is just a word to get others to trust you before they throw you away like you meant nothing in the first place. Even I can see that the tom with the scarf doesn’t want to be around either of you.” He stated.

.x.Prove that I am wrong black tom I dare you.x.