Warrior Cats: The Four Clans

Jaggedpine · ThunderClan Deputy

RE: [ slightly futuristic gifted || plot and twist ] six roles open; .|| STARTED.

Souki · Rogue

Joshua made a noise that might or might not have been of agreement. His moral compass completely non-existent, he continued to lean back against the tree, listening to the dull noises the arrows made as they thudded into earth and wood.

"We've been listening the whole time," he returned snarkily, spinning the blade from one finger to another. He was getting rather annoyed at this whole misadventure, and wondered if life could get any more annoying. Even as he thought, he knew it would; "Rain's gonna come down really hard later on," he commented softly without thinking. "Better get home soon."

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Lulubell was probably more amused than she should have been at the fact that younger generation of Gifted were making things more difficult than it really had to be for the Resistance to convert them. She changed her mind about trying to kill the speed demon and aimed for the male moments before he went invisible.

"Che," she snorted as she slowed down. She was going to give her squadron members hell if they didn't come and help out with the infestation by the end of the hour; she wasn't going to deal with docked pay because of a failed mission just because her companions had been too stupid to help her out.

Duskstar · ThunderClan Leader

Aetius shrugged his shoulders. "I guess. But I mean, look at that arrow. It's shiny. Do you know how rare it is that we see shiny things? And this one is made nicely too. There have to be so many beautiful things out there. I guess...I guess I'd just wonder, if we never went. Do you know what I mean?"

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Sarah's eye twitched. How could these children not believe her and her companion? It was just...astounding. Perhaps because they knew of nothing but their own peaceful life? She obviously couldn't convince them with the thought of saving tons of lives, they had probably never even seen another human before. "I bet you that if, left to their devices, the Hunters would destroy this forest, use it to make more technology, expand their cities. Then you'll be at their mercy. You have a choice now. But it's slipping."

Souki · Rogue

"You just like shiny things," Joshua said in a slightly accusatory tone. The blade danced from one finger to another at a slightly faster pace as he thought, although he had to admit, he was still completely unconvinced. Who was this lady to talk? What kind of idiot would instantly believe some stranger spouting nonsense about the "outside world" without proof? For all he knew these people had gone and ticked off some people they shouldn't have and were now getting their rightly deserved punishment.

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Lulubell was amused to no end by the Resistance's failure to convert the children, and also at their foolish conjectures. They really knew nothing. The forest would stay until the children died, and since the facility was run by the government who was the common peoples' first, last, and only defense against the Gifted, there would be no pressure from the public to cut the forest down. By the time the trees came down, it would be far too late for the three to protest--after all, if dead men could tell no tales, they most certainly weren't going to voice complaints.

Duskstar · ThunderClan Leader

"But...but...it's SHINY." Aetius knew he sounded like a little child, but the glimmers held his eyes. "I mean, we've only ever seen the river. Have you ever thought of what might happen at the end of the river? Or at the beginning? If there even are ends and beginnings to rivers?" The outside world was something he always wanted to explore, but for some reason, he had never gone really far, as if something willed him to go home for dinner. He could never take a step past a certain area. Which was where they were now. And he was having no problems moving forward.

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"Look...I know you guys don't believe me about these other people, but...they need your help. They're dying out there while you're sitting here cooking rabbits!" Sarah was seriously running out of arguments and considering using her speed to knock them out and run. Perhaps they'd believe her once they got to headquarters.

Souki · Rogue

Joshua would have slammed his face into the tree he was hiding against if he didn't know that it would probably hurt a lot more than was worth conveying his frustration, and so he settled for sighing and muttering incoherently under his breath.

"Look, we'll pick up your shinies afterwards, aright?" Joshua stood, the knife spinning in the air before he caught it and shoved it back into its hiding place. He didn't comment on Sarah's attempt at winning them over. Really? Insults only worked on children, and the blonde was going to feed the bird that sang regularly outside their window poison before he fell for that ruse.

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The pale hunter had unstrung her bow and had ghosted her way over to not a meter away from where the woman was, still not giving up on her attempt to woo the children over. Shaking her head, she lifted the blowpipe to her lips and after puffing, sending the poisoned dart towards the woman, she began slinking away again, her disappearance just as, if not more quiet than, her approach and attack.

Duskstar · ThunderClan Leader

Sarah choked on a breath, and scrabbled at the back of her neck, where she felt a feathered thing sticking out. A dart. Poisoned? Perhaps. Sarah flinched, and sank down to her knees as whatever chemical the dart had been dipped in began working it's way through her system. Can't die now...of every day I had to pick to get hurt, today would not have been it.

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Aetius had stopped as the girl fell to her knees, taking a step back. Who was this woman? And who was she messing with? That dart looked quite deadly, even to a human. Had it been dipped in something poisonous from the strange-colored leaves in the forest?

Jaggedpine · ThunderClan Deputy

Javin yelped as Sarah was shot. He leaped to her side, even thought no one could see him. "Sarah, no!" he cried to his partner, reaching out an invisible hand to stroke some of the blood away. He looked to where the two kids were, and made himself visible. "Do you guys know what we can do here?" he called desperately. He turned back to Sarah. "Don't worry, I won't let you die," he promised.

Souki · Rogue

Joshua rolled his eyes. Goodness, these people were useless, weren't they? Still, while he wasn't willing to go out to help people who didn't exist, he wasn't going to let some idiot die--he would be depriving the world of a laughingstock, and he said as much.

"Oh, you people are completely hopeless," he mumbled to himself, exasperated. Striding into the clearing, he shoved at the place where the invisible fretting idiot's voice was coming from. Well, I wanted proof, Joshua thought to himself bitterly, aiming another kick around the fallen woman to make sure that he really was out of the way. Squatting, he stared expectantly at the woman, waiting for her to tell him where she had gotten herself shot.

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Lulubell chuckled, the ghostly noise wafting out over the people crouched in the clearing. "Come, now. With such incompetent fools forming the ranks of the Resistance, we should be ashamed that you people are still alive and running. All thanks to your pathetic gifts, of course." The smug smirk could almost be seen as a wind blew through the clearing. "Go ahead and heal yourselves; I'll be watching."

Duskstar · ThunderClan Leader

"It's in her neck, brother," Aetius murmured, walking swiftly over. As soon as he heard the voice, however, he spun pulling out the knives again and staring that the trees, searching for the speaker. This was more humans than they had seen in....well, forever.

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Sarah felt Javin come by but had already slipped too far to reply. Where had his strength gone? Or had he always been so girlish? She hadn't noticed, she realized as consciousness slipped away from her.