Poison [Open/Tagged]

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Tags: Puddlesdog Fiction

Emberpelt was walking out of camp. More like dragging herself out of camp. Her body was on fire. She couldn't feel most of her body. Tears ran from her eyes as she moved away from SunsetClan. No one could see her so weak. She wouldn't allow it! She would never be seen this weak. Not even on her death bed.

She managed to make it to the island. No one would find her here. She could die in agony and peace. That would make her happy. Not happy, but pleased. She collapsed onto her side. Her breathing shallow. She was having trouble getting air into her lungs. 

Tears filled her eyes. She hadn't told anyone about the snake. She didn't tell anyone that she was dying. She hadn't said goodbye to her kits, her mate, or even her beloved apprentice. She couldn't bring herself to burden them with her death and pain. She had always been a loner, even till the day she died.

(( I'm killing off my first ever cat! I never thought I would see this day...)

[Fiction]

Cinderweb looked around, white ears flicking. She hadn't seen her former mentor, Emberpelt, for a while. Honestly, the gray warrior was starting to worry.

Frantically, she raced to find Emberpelt's mate, Duckstrike. "Duckstrike!" she called to the tom. In a flash, she was by his side, but not tired in the least. "Have you seen Emberpelt? I haven't seen her in a while, and," Cinderweb's breathing started to become short and painful, something that she did when she was scared. "And I'm really worried because," she took a gulp to try to calm her hyperventilating, "because she's seemed different lately and...what if she's sick? What if she's going to die?"

Cinderweb's breathing became faster, she was hiccuping and gulping. She was really, really scared. Emberpelt had always been there for her, even when she had became a warrior and gotten her own apprentice. The gray she cat wouldn't know what to do when Emberpelt was gone.

OOC: Poor Emberpelt! This is so sad.

[Puddlesdog]

Duckstrike was basking in the sun, not a worry in his mind. He thought this might be the best time for him and Emberpelt to hunt. "E-" he stopped as a cat came rushing towards him. "Cinder web?" He managed to ask before the she-cat launched into worries. He frowned, his usually happy face was replaced with sorrow. "I don't know, let's go look for her." He said, she was probably hiding thinking it as a joke. He started towards the forest, her favorite place. He inhaled deeply and smiled. "I caught her scent!" His smile faltered. "but she is hurt." He ran after the scent.
@wildpelt Fiction

[Fiction]

Cinderweb ran after Duckstrike, breathing going as fast as her legs. As she ran, a terrible thought came to her. The snake. In the fields. It had bit her. Emberpelt was poisoned.
"She's poisoned," the gray warrior mananged to choke out to Duckstrike.
Running even faster, breathing becoming even more rapid, Cinderweb followed the scent to the island. She looked frantically, not caring that Duckstrike was a ways behind her.
Spotting her mentor's form, Cinderweb almost choked from her hyperventilating. "Oh, Emberpelt," she whimpered. "She's poisoned," she told Duckstrike when he caught up. "She was bitten by a snake."
The gray warrior's breath started speeding up again. Cinderweb was so, so scared.

[Puddlesdog]

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Duckstrike was faltering with every step, what was his beloved mate hiding from him? No, he thought sternly, Emberpelt must have been frightened. He kept up his pace, perhaps even speeding up. I can't lose her!! His eyes were growing misty. Not again please! Then the she-cat pulled next to him, 'no, NO!' He sped up, she couldn't die, what about him? What about everything he cared about? "NO!!" He screeched as his paws pounded the ground. He was no longer driven by curiouity, rather greif. "Emberpelt!" He shouted into the air. He suddenly saw her ahead. "Emberpelt?.." He slowed down and sat next to her, his eyes letting out the tears. "Stay with me."
OCC: poor Duckstrike.

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Emberpelt raised her head. She saw Duckstrike and Cinderweb. No! No! No! Her heart died right then and there. Her mate's face killed her inside. "Duckstrike... Cinderweb... I'm so sorry I didn't tell the two of you. I... I..." And her voice broke, "I didn't want to hurt you. I came here to hide from you." Tears ran down her face. She couldn't hold it back any longer.

((IKR )

[Puddlesdog]

OCC: @wildpelt
Duckstrike felt the tears streaming down his face. He lowered himself onto his knees to be level with Emberpelt. "Shhhh it's okay. Calm down." The tom licked the she-cats head. "It's okay, I understand, but I would have fought every cat who made fun of you." He said grooming her fur. He was calming himself down, he knew if she died, he wouldn't be the same again. "If you go," he said casually. "Just know I will charish the moments we had, because they were awesome." He smiled warmly and stood again, he swallowed hard fighting the urge to shake his mate to life once more.

[Fiction]

Cinderweb waited respectfully as Duckstrike said good-bye, uncharacteristically quiet. When the tom stepped back, Cinderweb lay next to her former mentor. "I'm so sorry Emberpelt," she whispered. "This is all my fault." The gray warrior lowered her head.
Then she raised it to look in Emberpelt's painful eyes. "but I'll make it up to you. I'll take care of your kits, just like I said I would." She took in a shuddering breath. "Thank you Emberpelt."
She motioned for Duckstrike to lay next to her, then buryed her nose into her former mentor's fur. Tears trickled down her face and fell onto Emberpelt's fur.

OOC: I'm choking up right now. This is definitely the saddest thing I've ever roleplayed.

[Puddlesdog]

OCC: @wildpelt, Fiction I feel so bad for doing this to Duckstrike. *cries*
Duckstrike followed Cinderweb down onto where Emberpelt lay. "As will I look after the kits as best as a know how." The tom closed his eyes as emotions rushed into him. He buried his face into her fur, and then raised his head. "Go from this painful world and live in peace in StarClan." His lip trembled and the tom did something he had never done before. He sobbed. The tears streaked down his face and he coukdnt keep himself back anymore. "DONT GO!!! NO..." Duckstrike yelled into the skies. "Why now? Why did you do this to me?" He asked the StarClan cats above. The tom shook and then stopped althogether, he laid down next to Emberpelt and stayed there moitionless. After all the drama he just sat there wishing her back. "Goodbye." He whispered, "I will miss you." Came another whisper. He stayed down moitionless, except for the tears streaking down his face.

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Emberpelt starred at the two cats there. A strange peace had come over her. An almost smile crossed her lips. "Thank you. I hope they will thrive." And then a tears came to her eyes again. "All I ever wanted was to be a mother, and I couldn't even do that. I'm sorry..." And her voice drifted away. The light died from her eyes. Her soul slipped away from her. Emberpelt was dead.

((I'm crying right now! My sister is giving me an odd look, but I don't care! My poor Emberpelt. -Wails-))

[Fiction]

Cinderweb stood and bowed her head. A few stray tears dripped from her tightly closed eyes onto the ground.
She remembered being an apprentice. How Emberpelt had the patience to put up with her babbling and questions and curiosity.
When she was a warrior. How Emberpelt was so proud and helpful.
And now, Emberpelt dying. She couldn't be a mother to her own kits, but she was mother enough for Cinderweb.

After a long while, Cinderweb spoke, gently and quietly. "She was a good cat. She didn't deserve to die."

[Puddlesdog]

Duckstrike breathed in and exhaled, his heart pounding. She was dead, it took a moment to process it. He swallowed as the lump came up but looked to Cinderweb as she spoke. "Yes she was. If she were here she would be glad to hear that. He smiled awkwardly before standing up. "Well we must bring her back to camp so she can be properly buried." He glanced at Cinderweb and grabbed the scruff of Emberpelt "Easy goes." He hoisted her onto his back, looking back to Cinderweb, "Can you help?" He asked knowing he couldn't do it alone.
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