NC} Patrol #1

[[X] Hazelstar]

Hazelstar looked with slanted eyes out over the river towards MistClan territory. She was very protective of her borders, and couldn't help but make sure every inch was cleared.

She noticed nothing extremely unusual. There was a stale scent of a MistClan patrol, but it seemed as if it was well over and done with.

She continued to pad along the riverbank, and eventually the sand below her became less and less thick.

[~Mosspelt~]

Mosspelt padded calmly after her leader, inwardly wincing at MistClan's faint smell. As she walked, she thought about her apprentice and felt slightly ashamed. She should be back at camp, mentoring her! Oh well she thought. What's done was done, and she let her mind wander to other subjects. The strong feeling that something other than Halfear finally making a funny joke was growing steadly stronger. She brushed it away as another one of her annoying thoughts that always turned out wrong.

ooc// Sorreh for this spammish post... ;-;

[Iceflower]

[glow=yellow,2,300]Firefly was bored.

The sun was going down, which meant she couldn't waste time sunning anymore.

With an annoyed grunt, she got to her paws and lifted her nose to the breeze.

Some scent...fishy...sandy...too -- musty? -- something to be MistClan. NightClan, then. It was fresh, blown to her by the breeze. She was upwind of them.

She padded to the edge of her island, where she could see the NightClan shore, and decided to see what would happen.[/glow]

((-too lazy to post for Lionpride-))

[Jadeleaf]

"It smells weird," Halfear muttered. Sniffing the air constantly, Halfear realized that this wasn't how he remembered MistClan smelled. If it wasn't MistClan.... what was it?
"Hazel-" But she had already seen it.

OOC: dun Dun DUNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[[X] Hazelstar]

Hazelstar spat. An intruder! Near MY territory?! Her over-sensitive heart about her borders was obviously showing- she slunk low to the floor, and looked around her, shifting her eyes like she was an intruder herself.

She couldn't pinpoint the smell though- MistClan was a powerful scent, and the salty spray from the water confused her just as well. "Be on your toes," she said to the patrols, but it looked as if they already were.

[~Mosspelt~]

Mosspelt felt a hiss rising in her throat as she scented the tresspasser, and looked through slittled eyes for the cat. She felt slightly jumpy, nervous that she couldn't place the scent. When we find that cat... she glarred at the area in front, as if it would sting the hiding cat.


Tiger hid in the bushes, watching. She had traveled here to be with Firefly, but she hadn't gotten very close before she had scented the Patrol. From the way the cat in front looked furious, Tiger guessed that she must be leader or deputy. Probably leader, She thought as even in her anger she stepped with grace and accuracy. I'd better go, She thought to herself, but as she left, the bushes rattled slightly, giving her original position away. She ran a distance away, hoping that they would forget about the area she had been in, and she could go back and watch.


ooc//Sorreh that I haven't been active latleh. The last few days I've been sick. <_>

[Jadeleaf]

"EENTWUDAH!!!!!!!!!!! (intruder)!!!!" shrieked Halfear, as he, without watching his feet, lunged after the rustling bushes. He stumbled over a rock, which sent him sprawling to the ground. Luckily, he caught his step and rose back. Unluckily, he realized that his paw was on his own tail and he jerked it as he jumped up to resume the chase. "YOWWW!!!!!!!!!!!" He cringed in pain. Then, telling himself he was losing time, he ran on, pain screaming through his body.

[Iceflower]

((Jadelee, in the last sentence you use 'her' for Halfear. x3))

"EH?" Lionpride said quite loudly, confused as to why the elder was running off. He hadn't been watching the bushes - he'd been trying to figure out what exactly the scent was. But the tom decided that Halfear shouldn't go off chasing cats on his own - after all, he was an elder. So Lionpride ran after Halfear who was running after something else.

[glow=yellow,2,300]Firefly couldn't help it. She cackled, long and happily. "Was that Halfear?" she said loudly, knowing quite well that the overprotective leader, Hazelstar, could hear her. Firefly was still on the island, so therefore she was not crossing borders - not that it counted if she was a loner, she should think - and therefore Hazelstar had no good reason to go trying to chase her off NightClan territory. Since when did the Clans bring elders along on patrols?[/glow]

[~Mosspelt~]

[glow=skyblue,2,300]Terror seized Tiger as two cats raced toward her, and confusion momentarily flashed through her as she saw the one in front was an elder. She shook her head quickly and turned tail and fled, she had never been the bravest cat and didn't care about trying now. She quickly took a few sharp right turns then left, not daring to look back. After a ways, she stopped, panting, and hoped that her pursuers had left.[/glow]

ooc:Sorreh that I've been lazy about posting -to lazy to post for Mosseh-
It was Tiger Halfear was chasing right??? (I guess I'm just slightly confused...)

[Jadeleaf]

"What about Halfear," Halfear retorted, giving Firefly a scornful stare. Again taking his eyes off of where he was going, he bombarded into a bush. "GREAT STARCLAN!" He screeched, branches digging into his fur and leaves rustling in his face. Collecting himself, he stood back up and sighed. That little thing, whatever it was, was obviously too fast for and elder like him. Wait, did I just condescend myself? This thought kept him occupied for a while as he picked leaves out of his tangled fur. Am I going crazy? Why am I even on a patrol, anyways? It all crashed on him like a wave. Where am I?

OOC: A lil bit at a time, he's finally realizing things.................... XP

[Iceflower]

[glow=yellow,2,300]If Firefly had been an anime character, she would have sweatdropped. But she wasn't. "That," she said dryly, referring to his crashing-into-the-bush-ness. Why had he gone running off anyway? Was someone else here? Wonderful.[/glow]

((-too lazy to post for Lionpride-))

[[X] Hazelstar]

Hazelstar sighed, half-defiantly.

She hissed at the loner who had caused so much trouble. "You're lucky! If you had set a paw on my territory, I would have torn you to shreads!" And she meant it to. Even if they weren't suppose to harm loners, even Hazelstar herself knew when she would cross the line. And that line was her borders.

Hazelstar looked at Halfear and spat. "And you, you stinkin' furball! Your age has gotten the best of you- you're never going on another patrol again!" She knew what she said was harsh, but she knew that the almost-dead elder would forget the cruel comment as soon as they got back to camp.

[Iceflower]

[glow=yellow,2,300]"Yeah, I know," Firefly said off-handedly, as if she didn't particularly care if she was torn into itty-bitty pieces. "But I haven't yet, so you have absolutely no excuse." With annoying casualness, she began to groom a forepaw, deciding not to make a comment about the way Hazelstar ran her Clan. Her problem.[/glow]

[Jadeleaf]

Halfear hissed at Hazelstar. "I'll do what I want!" He shook the last few twigs out of his fur. "And you," Halfear leered towards Firefly. "Oh, you are going to pay!" He lunged at Firefly, teeth bared and claws unsheathed.

[[X] Hazelstar]

That stupid cat! How dare he insult her clan like that!

Hazelstar, taken completely by surprise, shot up in alarm. She yowled loudly in a hiss of fury at her clanmate. "Halfear, get back here at once!" She wasn't sure if Halfear was harming the loner, or if the elder would soon wind up on the floor half-alive. Either way, she was concerned. And either way, Halfear would wind up with a horrible punishment.

But she didn't step in- she knew that Firefly would scorn her for finishing a battle that wasn't hers. Besides, she knew that the young Firefly would probably end it in a second.