#eveningpaw

Player:  BabbleBrook

Name: Aspenface

Gender: Male; Can Sire Kits

Age: 18 moons

Clan: StormClan

Sexuality: bisexual

Description: A tall, sleek, elegant, and very handsome black spotted tabby with a pale underside an soft, pale amber eyes.

Personality:

Eveningkit grows up alongside Houndkit and Rotkit and has a relatively normal childhood until she starts to notice these small things. She didn't look anything like her momma or her younger siblings Mintkit and Stirkit. She didnt have the same soft flowy coats most of her clan mates had, or their big digging paws. When she began to question why she felt so different, it was about that time her mother told her that she wasn't originally from Loyalclan. That she was a little different but that was ok, she was a unique part of their clan, another piece of the puzzle to make their world go round. Later she would be given to Mutestar herself as an apprentice. At first a huge honor, Eveningpaw was ecstatic to have the cool and calm Mutestar. Quickly however she found it difficult to understand her mentors training methods and worries if she's falling behind the other apprentices. and if Mutestar is the right mentor for her. But after a pep talk from the warrior Moldpelt, one of Mutestar's former apprentices who tells her to just watch Mutestar, once you learn and understand her then you'll be able to learn from her. Watch she did, Mutestar follows the same path everyday, giving Eveningpaw less time to explore different areas. But she watches Mutestar ability to stop and hunt down prey perfectly every time, she seemed to know every little nook and cranny the birds and mice tended to gather to. Her moments were on point, she was definitely a skilled warrior. She doesn't say, well anything but just trying to follow after what she does, learning her behavior was teaching eveningpaw a lot. Mutestar also tended to need breaks just to sit by herself, which she would let Eveningpaw explore around nearby, giving her freedom and time to learn her own skills, how she was better than her clanmates at climbing trees and she could sprint up a tree faster than anyone, faster than the birds who try to escape the ground to the trees where she would be waiting. She may not be able to know every little hiding spot for prey or be able to swiftly dig them up like her clanmates but she could do this. She even brags about it to Mutestar later who gives her a warm smile and nod. Eveningpaw felt so proud to be her apprentice and that just maybe Mutestar was proud to be her mentor. Eveningpaw became very engrossed in her training with Mutestar she barely saw the other apprentices. She felt she may even be getting better than Rot and Hound. She was less chatty now than when she began to train with mutestar. She had a clear and focused mind that watches for all the small details while she hunted and patrolled. During one of said outings with Mutestar however she gets so engrossed in Mutestar expressing outward pride at Eveningpaw's progress she only just notices she's wandered far from camp and is at the river edge that separates their clan from Gloryclan. at the river she spots two gloryclan cats collecting plants at an overgrown bank side. one apprentice notices her. she recognizes them as rotpaws friend humidpaw. humidpaw abounds over happily and great eveningpaw. Humidpaw brother awepaw seems less than excited to go over. the two chat and ask about things like how their apprenticeship was going or how their jealous a leader is mentoring her or asking how rotpaw is doing the two are friendly and eveningpaw enjoys humidpaw good nature and chatty self. in turn eveningpaw ask what they were collecting humidpaw explains their collecting some herbs from the garden, the large abundance of plants and herbs that grew along their river bank that medicine cat collected and tended to. humidpaw says their collection some plants for coastdances, eveningpaw inquires if coastdance is their medicine cat but is explained by humidpaw that she isnt and is a queen and the plants are for her kit bitterkit as they have a sore throat. Then mentions that she and her kits have been having a hard time coping since their other mother and Humidpaw's mentor Bittertounge died. Asking what happened to Bittertounge, humidpaw grows stiff and glazed. Awepaw answers in a

rude "none of your business tone", saying it was rogues who had probably wandered into the territory Later on when she returns home she enjoys her catch alongside Rotpaw who she hasnt sat with for some time, its all nice and cozy evening until rotpaw cries out. A small lizard has bitten into the tip of rotpaws tail and seems to not want to let go. While the other apprentices laugh at him and help remove it, Eveningpaw notices the medicine cat Softheart staring winded eye before beckoning Thumpbranch to follow her to Mutestar den this worries eveningpaw who sneaks onto a branch over the leaders den, hearing softheart claim to have witness an omen softheart seems to think it's a dangerous warning and ask that tommorow they take a trip out to the cluster to speak with starclan mutestar agrees and says she will take eveningpaw as to give her her trip to the cluster and so the clan will no be worried by the sudden departure. Eveningpaw takes the trip with Mutestar the next day, following the winding river into the deep forest. surprised to run into Greasestar of Honorclan with Deckerpaw, then later bumping into Revelstar of Gloryclan with Awepaw and Algeasnout. Seemed every leader in the forest had the same idea tonight. Only putting Eveningpaw more on edge than before. Deckerpaw seems as clueless as a kit to the tension in the air and he doesn't stop chatting to Awepaw who barely even replies to him. After the meeting at the Cluster, none of the leaders say a word to one another on their return home but Eveningpaw can tell something bothered her leader. At the next fullmoon the clans have gather once again for a gathering under the docks. Eveningpaw had been one a Gathering once before, and it was so homely and bright and loud, but this time everyone stuck to their own clans and chatter was barely a whisper. Eveningpaw plan to stick to her mentors side, only to find Mutestar went straight to sit with the other leaders along with Deputy Waxwhisker. They clearly want to get this gathering finished quickly. Eveningpaw, being left alone begins to feel nervous and unsure what to do with herself. Until she is approached by houndpaw, she recalls the two used to train together a lot but she knows after awhile eveningpaw stopped talking to all the other apprentices as she felt she had to stick to her leader. So it suprises her a bit to have the grey tom sit with her she ask if he would rather sit would rotpaw, but Houndpaw points out that the tom sits with the younger apprentices mintpaw and stirpaw of loyalclan and Humidpaw and Awepaw of Gloryclan. Houndpaw ask how she has been, pointing out that she seems stressed recently. Eveningpaw brushes it off and claims that apprentice duties have just been very stressful recently its then that eveningpaw notices tranquilstorm excuse herself and leaves agonypaw alone, this makes eveningpaw feel bad for the sad looking she-cat. But only for a moment eveningpaw see’s deckerpaw go to stand as Tranquilstorm walks near them looking nervous but awepaw lays a tail on deckerpaws tail and has his sit back down. Awepaw has gotten much bigger since the last time they saw them. the three apprentices watch tranquilstorm leave the gathering area giving friendly mews to the few cats that greet her on the way out. Tranquilstorm leaves from under the dock and heads up the slope. Towards what seemed to be the honorclan territory. before eveningpaw does anything houndpaw questions where tranquilstorm is going as the dirtplace isnt that way. Houndpaw gets up to follow and barely listens to eveningpaw who tells them to sit back down. eveningpaw has a bad feeling about how deckerpaw and crew looked at tranquilstorm. none the less eveningpaw hurries after houndpaw who is hot on tranquilstorms trail moldpelt is the only one who seems to notice them as she puts her large tail in front of her and houndpaw. She smiles and ask were they were heading. The two akwardly saying ‘to make dirt- get fresh air-uh’ this answer amuses moldpelt who tells the two to hurry back soon from their lil trip before

the leaders finish their announcements and the have to go back home and gives them a cheeky wink. as they leave from under the dock eveningpaw can hear the leaders doing announcements in the distance. houndpaw is on tranquilstorms scent and its not long before they catch her in the distance, trying to not get caught eveningpaw climbs up into the trees moving quietly. While houndpaw follows on the floor below in a low quiet trot eveningpaw truly grows suspicious as she watches this she-cat wander so far off into honorclan tranquilstorm finally stops and waits. Its moments before a large smelly speckled grey brown tom steps out. He drops plops down a large whole fish to the she-cat. Tranquilstorm begins to speak to the tom while the two apprentices watch on, Tranquilstorm thanks the tom saying his name ‘Rooster’ ’Rooster’ in turn ask her how long she’s gonna be needing the fish, as their not easy to get ahold of. ‘Plus ya said the kid would be gone ages ago’ they chat on for a bit about this ‘kid’ and ‘plan’ eveningpaw struggling to put together this story until she hears agonypaws name tranquilstorm says it loud as day ‘i already got agonypaws eye, and she trusts me more than ever. The final blow will only be more sweet. Any day now they will be able to execute the plan’ the story being layed out horrifies eveningpaw, her fur stands on end. She had to warn everyone. Its then that she branch she stands on sways. eveningpaw turns around and nearly jumps out of her fur when she see’s mintpaw has just leapt from a branch onto hers and is struggling to hold on. eveningpaw harshly whispers what she was doing here and mintpaw just claims she wanted to come with, that eveningpaw never hangs out with them because shes too busy being the leaders apprentice. And beside rotpaws stories were getting boring before mintpaw can ramble on eveningpaw hushes her, placing her tail in the younger apprentices mouth. its too late. Tranquilstorm not only heard the whispers but also the branch still moving as mintpaw still struggles to balance, Eveningpaw prays to starclan this isnt how it ends and then her prayers are answered in the form of a new threat as more rustling happens across the clearing from them and followed by what sounds like a loud bark, tranquilstorm and rooster jump and give up on whatever was in the tree with the threat of the dog, the two scurry off eveningpaw finally grabs mintpaw and pulls her to a thicker part of the branch not wanting her to fall to the floor where this dog was. eveningpaw glances down in a panic and doesn’t see houndpaw. Her heart races before she see’s houndpaw walk out of the bushes from where the barking came from. Her beating her slows, he was safe eveningpaw ask how the tom is ok and he bashfully smiles before giving out a bark like noise even knowing the source of the noise still caused her to jump a bit, she remarks how incredible that is and how he did that. again shy, houndpaw fluster shrugs and just says he just happens to be good at it. Its hardly ever helpful however so he just keeps it to himself. But kinda laughs and says ‘why do you think my mother named me that, said I yipped up a storm in the nursery. Eveningpaw warms and laughs at the remark before returning to the ground. It takes her a moment to remember however what just happened. Eveningpaw tells them they have to get back asap and tell Gloryclan, Agonypaw is in danger

the two race through the forest but are too late, all that's left is the last of loyalclan departing back home. Moldpelt who seemed to be waiting for them laughs saying ‘they musta had fun they nearly missed everyone leaving home’

eveningpaw feels guilting for for getting back faster, and feels her stomuch in knots. She doesn’t know how to bring it up to her clanmates so she follows quietly.

on the way home rain drops fall from the sky and onto her coat

it has been 2 days since the gathering, it hasn’t stopped raining and eveningpaw attempts to get to gloryclan and warn them have been in vain. Loyalclan has even been low on prey as they weather has been named dangerous conditions

eveningpaw wonders how gloryclan handles this rain. She also remembers how deckerpaw said honorclan camp was close to a river but she’s sure they would take refuge in the city. She also guesses that gloryclan was founded on gloryclan being able to survive conditions that loyalclan chose not to dare endure as they willingly chose to live out in the mud.

Houndpaw comes around to share the kill he got on his short hunting patrol, houndpaw tells her that he knows when she’s feeling down, she never as chatty when she’s upset. And knows its about tranquilstorm and agonypaw.

houndpaw reminds her that there isnt anything they can do,the river is too high to cross and the weather as bad as it is will swoop her up in its winds in a heartbeat. Houndpaw gives her a comforting lick and goes to take their scraps away assuring her that gloryclan can take care of themselves

eveningpaw choses to take houndpaws advice and try to get her mind off of tranquilstorm as there will be nothing she can do for now. Even if she told her clanmates, none of them could cross the river to help them, she would just cause more problems.

Mintpaw however enters in after Houndpaw steps out and immediatly ask Eveningpaw why she hasnt told anyone about Tranquilstorm. she says she knows eveningpaw and houndpaw told her to not tell anyone but she doesn’t understand

eveningpaw tries her best to explain that its not always easy to tell everyone that a cat in another clan might be up to something bad especially when the storm is keeping them from doing much for themselves

she choses to say that while the clans are all united together that its expected of each group to be able to take care of their own internal problems. Mintpaw chews on her scrap of meat seeming to not be happy with that answer. mintpaw bluntly ask why they dont just go and warn them

eveningpaw just shakes her head and brushes off the remark again telling her thats its too dangerous and none of her business, repeating houndpaws words

the next day eveningpaw is out in the rain once more. She is with brashtounge and moldpelt and houndpaw as they go out to the river to check the level of the river water.

the water is high, reaching about two feet more of water to the river, the trees on the coast of the river’s root are drowned and the branches sway in a flimsy manner. Less than a paw of rock can only be seen of their old stepping stones.

with the water still not far enough inland to be worried about yet they take their chance at hunting

their out for awhile only able to catch a mouse or two. its then that houndpaw spots a peasant who seems to be scratchin for food. The two see the older warriors havent yet noticed it. Houndpaw whispers to eveningpaw. He stalks off to one side of the bird while evening goes to the other side

houndpaw lets out one of his barks, and watches the bird take off. Eveningpaw keeps her eye on the bird taking off into the trees like a bolt of lightning. Eveningpaw has adapted and gotten used to the wet swaying branches, working with them as she intercepts the bird flawlessly the older warriors upon realizing what had happened congratulate the two apprentices on the good catch and teamwork

they begin walking them home saying their due for warrior ceremonies any day now, maybe once the weather clears mutestar will put thought into giving them assessments

houndpaw nudges eveningpaw excitedly before getting quiet. He softly compliments her catch. The two fall back from the others. Eveningpaw thinks of what they said and quietly say ‘the storm wont stop, its just going to get worse and worse’

houndpaw is quiet for a moment before telling her that he thinks she’s incredible and that he know that she is capable of great things. Just that catch alone proves it.

he’s quiet one more moment before he tells her to ‘stop the storm’ eveningpaw is confused for a mere moment before nodding and running past their senior warriors.

eveningpaw runs full sprint to the river. She launches into a tree feeling its sway on her paws. She climbs higher and as far as she could get on these tree branches before she’s forced to leap off the branch and over the river

Eveningpaw races through the thick wet muds of Gloryclan territory until she catches the set of their cats, finding what looked to be trails they follow.

She tracks down their hidden away camp and sprints into the middle of it without warning, startling every awake cat as this Loyalclan apprentice has just busted into their camp with no warning.

Revelstar approaches her first and questions her presence, and Eveningpaw begs that Revelstar hear her out and not turn her away even if she sounded mad

She spills out the story of seeing Tranquilstorm with the Alley cat Rooster, of what of her plans she seemed to understand.

Eveningpaw stands there, Revelstars eyes on here hoping she wasnt turned away

But Revelstar looks up to her medicine cats who seemed to be frightened by her words.

Revelstar leans and whispers to Eveningaw "Are you sure of what you heard?"

Eveningpaw nods furiously, Revelstar believed her? had she come in time? Would Agonypaw be safe.

Revelstar hollers for Tranquilstorm, only for the warriors in the den to tell her she was gone, along with Humidfur and Aweshine.

And from the apprentices den the three apprentices, Bitterpaw, Tenderpaw and Railpaw tell them Agonypaw was gone as well.

Revelstar spoke calmly as she called out a few warriors names to follow her, but Eveningpaw saw the strain in her body and face, her claws clenching the mud. She was terrified.

The leader, Eveningpaw and the gaggle of warriors they had collected race out into the marshes to follow what train they had of the missing Gloryclan cats.

The trails leading to the Grotto, deep within nearly out of view from the banks they can see Tranquilstorm with the missing apprentices and warriors. A large turtle with his jaws clenched tight onto Tranquilstorms tail, Eveningpaw couldnt keep her eyes on the sight.

Her mind swimming as everyone shouts and makes noises.

Next thing she knows they've gotten all the cats from out of the mud and turtles grasp. and head home.

Revelstar thanks Eveningpaw for what she did for them.

Eveningpaw stays in Gloryclan for the rest of the day, wanting to make sure everyone was ok and for the rain to stop and the rivers to die down.

The rain had finally stopped as agonypaw laid by her mentors side in the medicine cat den. Eveningpaw couldn't understand it, this was the cat who wanted to get her killed yet here she laid by her side. Did she not understand that Tranquilstorm was the one who had put her in that situation?

Agonypaw's parents Jocundbounce and Pridebriar thanks Eveningpaw over and over again, so grateful that she risked her life to be here

It isnt much later when Mutestar, Houndpaw and a few other Loyalclan cats appeared at Gloryclans camp searching for Eveningpaw.

This would come to be settled out, but Eveningpaw could tell that Mutestar and Revelstar seemed to have some tension, all the cats did. Eveningpaw knew the events of this day may have done some serious damage to the trust of the clan cats...

Its not much long after when Eveningpaw, Rotpaw and Houndpaw are all given their Warrior names was Eveningvolley, Houndbellow and Rotroot.