Year 9 / Moon 6 / Newleaf
Sunclan Times
News from the Wise and Corageous
Roll: 28
Foxflame and Wildfur are hunting together near the border when they encounter a group of rogues. These rogues come in peace with some information. The leader of the rogues tells the siblings that word has gotten around near their normal hunting grounds about a tom who claims to be searching for a group called Sunclan. Wildfur and Foxflame are curious and try to ask more about this cat, but the rogue doesn't know any other details. Foxflame thanks the cats for their information and sends them on their way.
They aren't sure who it may be or that it is even a cat of their clan, but they want to figure it out (Foxflame does at least). The next morning they leave with Cloudstar's permission to find this tom and follow the rogues' scent back to their territory.
The search goes very smoothly and after only a day and a night, they come across their younger brother,
Fidgetfeather, while he is hunting. He immediately recognizes them, and they have a heartfelt reunion. On their way back to Sunclan, he demands that they tell him all about what has happened since he was gone. They tell him about Sunstar's death and Cloudstar becoming leader. They tell him about his kits Featherflight and Dustbelly, but they don't have the heart to tell him that they and their mother are dead.
When they finally arrive at Sunclan and Fidgetfeather is the most excited to see Willowtuft and his kits, they try to stop him to tell the truth, but he bursts into camp with excitement before they can speak. His clanmates gather around to welcome him home, but he can't seem to find Willowtuft anywhere. After searching the entire camp, Elmspirit tells him to follow and leads him to the spot where he buried Willowtuft after the battle. Elmspirit tries to comfort Fidgetfeather, but he pushes him away, refusing to believe that it's true. He runs off into the forest and doesn't return that night.
Foxflame and Wildfur hopelessly wait for him, feeling terrible for not telling him in the first place. Finally, after a week, he returns disheveled, eyes to the ground. He returns to his warrior duties the next day without a word. Foxflame and Wildfur can only hope that he'll recover eventually.
In very different news, Violetsong announces that she and Aspenleaf are having kits. Aspenleaf is happy to carry on his parents' legacy with a cat so dear to him. Being with her is making him go soft, which he doesn't seem to mind at all.
Notes:
@/Gadriel Heh, kinda funny that Fidgetfeather comes back right after we talk about missing cats. I could extend the rescue rolls past the original 30 days. Hopeshard will probably be an elder by then, but it's kind of anticlimactic if my last og cat just disappears and never returns. Though I guess Sunstar's death was anticlimactic as well.
Honestly, Fidgetfeather probably has one of the most tragic stories out of all my cats. Thinking about tragic cats, Diamond had a pretty tragic story: came to the clan for romance, found romance, immediately lost that romance to war, and lost her innocence before dying. Junipertail and Minnowsplash also lost practically all of their family before dying as well. There was also Magnoliacloud who was murdered while pregnant... Oh god, this game!!!