Gathering April 20-After battle

[Tiger]

Quietshadow withdrew his paw, careful not to knock into anything. He looked inside the cut. "The bleeding has stopped," he declared. The medicine cat began to meticulously put the skin back together. He chewed up some marigold and spread it over the surface of the wound before bandaging it with cobwebs. "Losing that life must have healed the bleeding," he mewed, "but you might aggravate the cut if you move too much. You can stay in BeachClan for the time being if you'd like. You can stay and risk losing more lives or go. You know the way, I believe?"

[Jaystar]

"Take me . .. to Beachclan" Jaystar managed to say. Too devastated to talk. His breathing slowly returned normally, but it was still sore.

[Tiger]

"Okay. I'll be back to the battle; they'll still need me here. I'll tell Tigerstripe what to use if you need anything." He added another cobweb to the ones already on Jaystar's side. "First try to stand up. If anything hurts, lie down on your side that isn't wounded."

[Lexie]

"No! We need to get him out of here, Beachclan camp is closest from here," Blackpaw growled. Redwind touched noses with her leader. "Don't leave us," she murmured quietly. "We need to get him out of here." he meowed.

[Jaystar]

Jaystar took a deep breath and stood. He stumbled a little, but then was ready to go to Beachclan, which thankfully, wasn't that far. "What if Burntstar catches me?" Jaystar's eyes widend in sudden panic "What will I do? I can't take another attack"' Jaystar sighed.

[Tiger]

"I'll try and hold him off. That's the only time I'll let you run. Once you're a good distance away, I'll take off towards rogue territory. I believe that it's vacant." He glanced up at the Greatrock where Burnstar was fighting Icestar. "I think that he has something else on his mind, though. Let's get going." He took a few steps in the direction of BeachClan.

[Lexie]

Blackpaw shook his head. "I won't let that happen." he meowed. "I'll be back at Fourtrees making sure no cat comes, I might send Rockfang back with you," he meowed. He raced through the bushes. He looked around and watched Silentmask, Deadwhisker, they were dead. He looked at the injured cats. "This is all your fault!" Blackpaw spat at Burntstar, bitting his tail. Icestar was still attacking him. Redwind walked along side Jaystar fro support. "We're almost in Beachclan territory. Quietshadow, lead the way," she meowed.

[Jaystar]

Jaystar narrowed his eyes at the great rock and spotted Burntstar and Icestar. He couldn't think about that right now. He had to get out of here. Jaystar followed in the direction of Beachclan and pelted until he was a good, safe distance away. He stopped for a minute to catch his breath, and scented Beachclan's camp, only a couple of fox-lengths away.

[Tiger]

Quietshadow raised his head. "We're here. I think you can make it to camp on your own. If anything goes wrong, tell Tigerstripe or Basilpaw to put more cobwebs on your side and maybe some marigold." He turned and started to trot back towards Fourtrees.

ooc: Seperate board time!

[Lexie]

"Slow down! If you fall you could hurt yourself!" Redwind yowled. She pelted but her clumsy paws ran her into Jaystar. "Sorry!" she meowed helping her leader up.

[Jaystar]

Jaystar nodded "I-I'm fine" He caught his breath "Losing that last life really helped though" He had to agree "I feel stronger" He glanced at the entrance to the camp. "Stay here and gaurd the camp entrance" He ordered "I'll be fine" and with that, he walked into the camp.

[Tiger]

Quietshadow nodded and ran back to Fourtrees. He sighed, thinking about how pitifully short of a post such a brief action would cause.

ooc: xD See what I mean?

[heartnet]

Hawkstar felt a twinge of sympathy for the cat, but not enough to change his mind. "Smoketalon, I advise you to choose now. To fight as a clan cat or a rogue, your choice." he said, glancing at Icestar and Burntstar. As Cactus appeared, annoucing to the rogues, he let out a loud, strong yowl in protest. "NO! This is the clans territory, we have not been defeated!" he growled, ready to throw himself at Burntstar, glancing quickly at Smoketalon. "Choose!"

Rainfeather hissed. "Your home is with the clans now, he is an enemy to us! Stand down unless you want to be treated as a rogue." she commanded, watching as Cactus jumped onto Highrock. Stormpaw growled beside her, taking off after the larger tom.

Wolfheart didn't have time to speak when he was sent to the ground, a massive weight on top of him as Deadsoul bit down hard on his neck. He went limp under the cat, slowing his breathing to where it was barely visible. The bit had hurt and blood spattered on the ground. But it wasn't a death blow, but Deadsoul didn't know that and that's what Wolfheart wanted him to think.

[Lexie]

Deadsoul thought that Wolfheart was dead. He left the limp body there. He started to dart at Stormpaw. Drawing the apprentice the ground, he raked his flank. "I remeber you," he snarled. "You were a apprentice when I was exiled. "Tell Redwind I said hi when you get back to camp. Oh wait! I'm going to kill you first!" Deadsoul snarled.

[heartnet]

Wolfheart's eyes flickered open and he let out a small chuckle as he got to his feet. "Stupid rogue..." he looked back to Badger, his eyes narrowed as he unsheathed his claws.

Stormpaw gasped as he felt a weight crash into him and the burning sensation of the claws raking his flank. He growled. "I remember you too, filthy rogue! And don't count on it." he said, rolling over and out of his grip, scrambling to his feet. He launched himself, clingging to Deadsoul's back and digging his claws in as he bit his ear, hard.

[Lexie]

Deadsoul yowled. "No!" he spat. "Your going to loose, I could actually be your leader one day," he snarled. "Burntstar promised me respect from you filthy clan cats. I actually liked living with the clan, until I made a simple mistake!" he spat into Stormpaw's ear. Then Deadsoul twisted his back around and leaned back, crashing onto the ground, which Stormpaw hit the ground first. "Good thing I fell on you, I would of hurt myself badly." Deadsoul teased.

[heartnet]

Stormpaw didn't have time to respond, or he didn't have the breath to. As he was pushed to the ground, Deadsoul's weight crushing the breath out of him. He lay on his side, his eyes closed in a wince, feeling a stabbing pain in his side, maybe a broken rib. He could hardly get his breath, staggering to get to his paws.

[Tiger]

Quietshadow reappeared in Fourtrees to see Deadsoul fighting Stormpaw. He ran forward. "Rainlight, look at that!" He flicked his tail at the two fighting cats. "I'll try to get Stormpaw out of there." He trotted forward and tried to shoulder Deadsoul off of Stormpaw.

[Lexie]

Deadsoul let the apprentice sit there, "I'll finish you when I can have fun beating you up while you have energy. He pounced at Wolfheart again, watching him try to get to Badger. He raked his flank once more. "I see you made it to your paws!" he snarled, gripping onto his neck.

[Tiger]

As Deadsoul ran off, Quietshadow hurried to the tree where the injured cats resided. He grabbed from the pile herbs for a poultice: comfrey, broom, ragwort, and juniper berries. He wrapped them in a leaf and padded back to Stormpaw. "Are you okay?" he asked, setting down the herbs. "Looks like Deadsoul got you pretty good in your side."

[heartnet]

Wolfheart shook Deadsoul off, facing him once more. "You just don't quit, do you?" he asked, unsheathing his claws and crouching low as he watched the tom.

After Deadsoul left him, Stormpaw collapsed to his side. He lay there, breathing hard as he tried to regain his breath. As he heard pawsteps, he opened one eye, seeing Quietshadow. He barely nodded, opening his mouth slightly to respond. "...I....I ...I can't catch...I can't catch...my breath....my side.... hurts....a lot.." he said between gasps of breath, his face twisted in pain.

[Tiger]

Quietshadow looked at Stormpaw's injured side. It had the appearance of being dented. "You've fractured a rib," he mewed calmly, as to not stress teh apperntice increase his respiratory rate. "It's not life-threatening if you get treated right, but it's extremely painful to breathe and such. Here." He found a few poppyseeds scattered on the ground and pushed three in front of Stormpaw's nose. "Eat those while I make a poultice for the bone." Quietshadow chewed his herbs and spit them out on a leaf. He covered the poultice with the leaf and smashed it with his paws. Finally he lifted the leaf and spread the mixture over Stormpaw's injured side. "This will help."

[heartnet]

Stormpaw blinked his thanks to Quietshadow, chewing the seeds quickly, coughing slightly as he swallowed, his body trembling. He winced slightly as the medicne cat spread the mixture on his side and he souch up some blood, wincing. "Thank..you." he whispered hoarsely.

[Tiger]

"You're welcome," he mewed. "Don't talk unless you have to. It will hurt and may aggravate the injury. We'll have to figure out a way on how to get you back to camp, of course, because it would be a bad idea for you to walk right now. You shouldn't take too long to heal; you're still pretty young."

[heartnet]

Stormpaw nodded, Quietshadow's words fading as the sounds of battle overwhelmed his voice. He should be out there fighting, helping the clans. But he was careless and now he was injured. What kind of warrior would he be if he couldn't help his clan more than this?

[Lexie]

Deadsoul pounced onto Wolfheart before he was able to get to him after taking him off. He raked onto his scar that he left before going to Stormpaw. "I'm pretty smart, huh kitty?" he hissed. Before saying another word, Deadsoul kicked, jumped off of the tom and then kicked once more till he tossed him over to a tree. He ran over to Quietshadow, stalking, he pounced, then took his front paws and forced his head to the ground. "I can see the coward has come to help the apprentice for once!" he snarled.

[Redcloud]

Badger growled at Deadsoul, angry that his prey was taken from him once again. He growled again and turned, leaping at Hawkstar, still nearby and ready to attack Burntstar. His large paws crashed into the leader's back, claws digging in fiercely as he tackled Hawkstar.

[Tiger]

Quietshadow raised his shoulders, also bringing up his head. "What?" he meowed. "I'm supposed to help injured cats." He kicked up his hind legs like a bucking horse, trying to force Deadsoul off. To onlookers, this would look quite silly.

[heartnet]

Wolfheart growled, glancing between his leader and the medicine cat and apprentice. He was supposed to defend his leader, but Quietshadow needed him more now. He leapt onto Deadsoul, knocking him away from Quietshadow and pinning him to the ground. "Pick on someone your own size." he growled, bitting hard on his neck.

Stormpaw's eyes flew open as he heard the voice till he hit the tree. He sunk to the ground, his back right leg bent in an unnatural position. His breathing was so shallow, it was hard to tell if he had joined the ranks of Starclan or not.

Hawkstar collapsed to the ground, yolwing as he felt the rogue's claws. He bared his teeth, rolling over and pummeling Badger's exposed belly before throwing him off.

[Redcloud]

Badger landed ungracefully, rolling to his own paws as soon as he hit the ground. He lept at the leader once more, aiming for Hawkstar's exposed neck.