Help! (Private Now: Sand)

[Midnight]

"Adventure, adventure, adventure!" Brackenkit mewed repeatedly as he led his sisters and Poppykit to the river. "Don't know where we're going, but it's going to be an adventure!"

"Maybe we can find Tigerstorm!" Sorrelkit squealed hopefully.

"I wish she hadn't left." Brackenkit said.

"She's probably dead!" Poppykit sneered at the other kits, finding their mother's leaving the Clan, or death, whichever had happened, to be very amusing.

"Why are you always so mean, Poppykit?" Sorrelkit snarled, bowling into the she-cat.

The two rolled in their fight, Brackenkit and Lilykit following closely, until they hit the river, where both scrambled to escape.

"Sorrelkit!" Lilykit shouted for the first time, charging to her sister, pulling her by the scruff out of the water. When Sorrelkit was out of the river, just barely, at that, she was shaking and her pelt was drenched. The brown tabby she-cat padded over to her brother and leaned on him.

Brackenkit stood with his eyes wide and jaw dropped, not knowing what to do.

"HELP ME, TOO, MOUSEBRAIN!" Poppykit screeched at Lilykit, her eyes dilated in fear. She reached out her little paws, claws unsheathed, and grabbed hold of Lilykit's tail, which she'd offered to the ginger she-cat.

Lilykit struggled forward, her tail beginning to bleed from Poppykit's claws pulling on it. However, the waves were too strong, and Lilykit was pulled into the water.


Mudpaw and Smokepaw were hunting together, having nothing better to do. Seeing the kits out of the camp made them worry, and they exchanged a glance before bounding forward and seeing what was wrong. "We have to save them!" Mudpaw said. Smokepaw nodded in agreement and the two toms recklessly leaped into the water, each one trying to grab a kit.

Even the apprentices were no match for the water, and with that, Mudpaw, Smokepaw, Poppykit, and Lilykit were carried over the waterfall.

Sorrelkit shook even more now, and not just because she was cold.

"H.. Help.." Brackenkit muttered before yowling it nonstop. "Help us! Help! Some cat help!" He, too, was trembling now, and he and now his only living littermate crouched next to each other, screeching, in hope that some cat would hear.

[Sand]

Ravenpaw had been hunting for the elders since dawn and was nearing the river when she heard a yowl for help she quickened her pace slightly and saw the kits and apprentices in the river. She looked around desperately then suddenly remembered seeing Jade in the forest she took of looking for the white she cat and found her about to pounce on the mouse. She raced forwards and slammed into Jade to get her attention, "Kits...apprentices...river," she meowed out of breath and she was also very shy.

Jade heard what Ravenpaw said and was able to string together what the apprentice said and took off towards the river. She reached the river and looked around knowing that with her long legs she would be able to swim. Even though she hated the thought of getting wet she dove into the churning water.

Ooc: I just realized that I have two Ravens in Midnightclan

[Midnight]

(Lol, I know that feeling)

"What are you doing?!" Brackenkit screeched, "They're dead! They've fallen down the waterfall already! They're gone. They're gone. I just... I want to go home." The tom's ears flattened against his head and he hissed in anger at himself. Why had he brought the others out of camp? He knew it wasn't allowed. Flamestar would never let him be an apprentice at this rate!

Sorrelkit gulped in fear. What if Jade didn't make it back, either?

[Sand]

Jade swung her head around to glare at Brackenkit, "I won't give up on them, I already lost my sister, I will not loose another clan mate," she hissed. Then she began to swim her long legs carrying her easily through the water. 'I won't give up on them,' she thought swimming towards the water fall taking a deep breath and dove over the water fall hitting the deeper water under the water fall.

Ravenpaw stumbled back to the river and began to panic when she saw Jade disappear which caused her to fall into a coughing fit. She looked around seeing a branch near the place the waterfall ended and she ran over to it trying to drag it over to the river to save Jade.

Ooc: jade is okay, Ravenpaw just panics to easily

[Midnight]

How does she expect to survive with all of the rocks at the bottom? The waterfall is so huge, too.. Sorrelkit thought, feeling worried about Jade, yet she couldn't help but admire the she-cat for her bravery. She's pretty cool! Sorrelkit decided, standing up a bit.

Brackenkit couldn't watch anymore. With a single yowl, he broke down, turning and running into the forest until he tripped on his own paws and got stuck in growing plants on the ground. Letting out another yowl, Brackenkit said, "I DON'T WANNA BE IN A CLAN ANYMORE."

[Sand]

"I-I know th-That Jade wi-will live," Ravenpaw stammered giving up on the stick and walked over to the river. "Some times I wonder why she isn't a Stormclan or Sunsetclan cat," she meowed to the two kits.

Jade resurfaced just as she heard Ravenpaw, "I hate water is why," she growled her long legs still churning the water. Her body hurt from slamming into the rocks but she had fallen out of a tree once and had survived that. She looked around hissing in announce as water kept getting into her eyes. She was usually very calm and it was hard to make her loose her temper but the water was getting on her last nerves. She plunged back under water searching for the kits an apprentices.

Ooc: Jade hates water way to much, sadly she would be good for Storm or Sunset, but she only gets near water if she has to

[Midnight]

(That would make for some interesting threads.)

"Brackenkit!" Sorrelkit mewed to her brother as he ran off. Sighing, the she-cat looked from Ravenpaw and Jade to where her brother ran off, and she meowed loudly to Ravenpaw and Jade, "Brackenkit ran off! The others are dead, he's right, there's no use! We have to find my brother before some animal gets him, though!" The she-cat was letting out little mews of distress at this point, and she was circling nervously around. It looked as though Sorrelkit was slowly chasing her tail.

[Sand]

Jade glanced at Sorrelkit then at Ravenpaw, "Ravenpaw go ahead, I'll catch up," she meowed climbed out of the water trying to shake as much water out of her fur as she could. Her fur which was on the long side took longer then most cats fur to dry and she couldn't really concentrate when her fur was wet.

Ravenpaw nodded and followed Brackenkits scent trail hoping that no animals would try to attack them because she couldn't fight that well because she was small and she had, had a cough since she was a kit.

[Midnight]

Sorrelkit tried her best to stay by Ravenpaw's side, which wasn't easy since she was small and her pelt was still very wet. Suddenly, the kit wished she'd stayed with Jade, but Sorrelkit couldn't just sit around and wait while some other cat looked for her brother. They may not have always gotten along, but they were still littermates, still siblings, and with Lilykit and Tigerstorm gone, they had no one left. It wasn't like they knew that their father was a StormClanner, either, so that was hopeless.

Brackenkit growled, his left hind leg beginning to bleed from the thorny plant that trapped it. The little, sharp thorns were poking their way into the tabby's leg, and he yelped in pain every time he tried to free his leg. "Help!" He yowled again.

[Sand]

Ravenpaw reached Brackenkits side and tugged at the thorny plant and after a few minutes she was able to pull it away and three the thorny plant to the side glancing over her shoulder to see if Sorrelkit was still behind her.

Ooc: Sorrelkit wouldn't have had to much trouble keeping up Ravenpaw is small for her size and isn't as healthy as her den mates

[Midnight]

(Oh, okay.)

Sorrelkit watched helplessly as Ravenpaw helped her brother out of the thorns. "Can we go back to camp now?" Sorrelkit's barely-green eyes were wide in exhaustion and unhappiness. "I think Brackenkit will need to go to Lotusmoon."

Brackenkit slowly nodded, whimpering as blood dripped out of his leg. "It hurts, but I can still move it." He mewed.

[Sand]

Ravenpaw nodded looking around for Jade not really sure a weak cat like herself could carry a kit all the way back to the camp and to Lotusmoon. The scent of Jade washed over her and she looked up spotting the white she-cat.

Jade caught up to them seeing Ravenpaw hesisitate and walked over to Brackenkit picking up the young tom and glanced at Ravenpaw.

[Midnight]

"I said I could walk!" Brackenkit protested as he was picked up. The kit sneezed after, which completely doused his argument, and then hissed in annoyance, weakly lashing his tail. He knew he was far too tired to make it all the way back to camp on paw, but it wasn't like that fact would ever stop Brackenkit.

"Oh, shut up already, Brackenkit!" Sorrelkit spit at her brother. "Let's go." She mewed quietly, looking at Jade to lead, since she didn't know where they were. After all, it wasn't like Sorrelkit had ever been out of camp before.

"We're going to be in a lot of trouble when you tell Flamestar, aren't we?" Brackenkit asked. "You kinda have to tell her since four of our Clan's cats died.."

[Sand]

Jade could only manage a nod since her mew would have been muffled by Brackenkits fur and she began to walk to the camp followed closely by Ravenpaw. She hoped that the cats hadn't died and had been washed up onto Stormclan territory but she knew that she was just getting her hopes up.

[Midnight]

Sorrelkit followed, tripping over her paws often. Her fur was finally drying, fluffing up. She'd have to wash it down later, but that was one of Sorrelkit's last concerns after all that had just happened.

Brackenkit groaned pathetically, his tail tip twitching.

(New thread in Flamestar's den?)