private The Four Cats of Apocalypse. 1x1 with Unicorncob (RP)

[Unicorncob 5,624]

Jinx tilted her head, actually looking somewhat interested in Slumberfur's story. It sounded plausible, but...

"The houses are quite a ways from here," she mewed, flicking her tail. "That's a long way to travel to make sure a stray wasn't hanging around."

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"True, but they are close enough for stray to come back here if they are there." Slumberfur meowed, he hadn't thought about the distance, but he hoped that Jinx thinking clan cats to be weird, to make her not to figure out that he had made it up.

Edited August 11, 2017 by The Cerberus

[Unicorncob 5,624]

"You forest cats are strange," Jinx mewed, unknowingly playing to Slumberfur's hopes. "There's plenty of room for one extra cat around here. You're letting me be here, aren't you?"

She glanced aside sceptically. "Well, more like keeping me here."

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"I don't expect you to understand about territories, but what would you think if I came to your garden and started eating your food and leaving dead prey everywhere?" MH pointed out "You are here because you were invited, also, we are not forcing you to stay here, you say the word and I will escort you to our border at the morning."

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Jinx swayed her tail and glanced aside, not arguing Slumberfur's logic. "Hm, fair enough. I wouldn't exactly appreciate it myself. My garden is my 'territory', to put it in a way you'd understand."

She went on, "I admit I'm curious to find out why exactly you want me around here. I just hope it won't take long, I already miss my bed."

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"Kitestar already explained you why you were invited here." Slumberfur reminded, he then looked to the sky, it wasn't long to moonhigh, "Speaking of beds, it's getting late." He stood up "We should probably get ready for sleep."

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"I suppose so," Jinx muttered, yawning and slowly getting onto her paws. "I could use some sleep after today, especially since I couldn't get my afternoon nap." She huffed, still rather upset about that.

"Thank goodness I could find some old blankets I could make into a bed. Hopefully I won't need them for long."

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"Aright, see you at the morning." Slumberfur meowed, before he started collecting dry moss, feathers and other soft things under a bush that seemed like it had already been build into a small sleeping den.  "Don't go wandering anywhere if you wake up before me."

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"Yes mother," Jinx murmured, lashing her tail softly as she padded toward the twoleg nest nearby. "I'll be on my best behaviour."

She didn't like this arrangement one bit. She decided that if any of these forest cats interrupted her beauty sleep, she'd be out of there the first chance she got.

She flopped down on the old blankets and attempted to get some sleep.

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Slumberfur continued building his bed, and it didn't take long until he had nice soft place to sleep. He had build the small shelter into the bush few moons earlier as one of his nap places, so he thought it could serve as good place to spend the night. He curled up in the bush and started sleeping.

The night was peaceful, sky was clear and there was no sounds in the forest, in fact, it was almost too quiet...
Slumberfur didn't see the four cat's in his dreams, but, he dreamed about his mother, which was odd, since he hadn't dreamed about anything from his kittypet-time since he joined Thunderclan.

Slumberfur yawned as he stretched, it was early morning, it wouldn't be long until first morning patrol left the camp. It took a second for Slumberfur to remember that he wasn't in the camp, but in his self-made den close to the abandoned twoleg-nest, and he felt slightly annoyed that he had to catch his own breakfast, but still proceeded to do so. 

After he had caught and eaten his first prey for the day, he picked up a squirrel he had also caught, and planned bringing it to Jinx, since he knew that she would be too lazy to hunt one herself.

Edited August 13, 2017 by The Cerberus

[Unicorncob 5,624]

Jinx had had an uneventful night herself. She hadn't been visited by strange cats in her dream... rather, for some reason, she was dreaming about her mother. She remembered being close to her, but this was the first time she'd ever dreamt of her since she was smaller.

As Slumberfur guessed, the kittypet was still fast asleep by the time he arrived at the twoleg nest to collect her.

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Slumberfur entered the nest and found Jinx still sleeping, he wasn't on mood to listen her complaining how she had been waken up, so he just left the squirrel close to her and exited.

When he was outside, his ears picked faint sound from the direction where Shadowclan's territory was, he listened for a moment, and concluded that it was Shadowclan's alarm-cry. At first he didn't think much about it, but then he could hear another alarm, it was even fainter, maybe coming from closer to Riverclan's border, but it too was obviously Shadowclan's. Slumberfur started to get thoughtful about what was going on, when he suddenly could hear two faint alarms from opposite direction, Windclan too.

His line of thought broke when he suddenly started feeling like someone was watching him, and it wasn't too long until he heard a rustle from a near by bush, like something had ran out of it. Without second thought Slumberfur started chasing whatever it was, but he didn't seem to be able to get any closer to it.

After a moment of running, Slumberfur had totally lost who he was chasing and grunted frustrated, before turning around to go back to the twoleg-nest. It wasn't until then, when he noticed something in a bush, one of the apprentices was laying down there, and with closer inspection, it became apparent that she had been killed. Slumberfur sounded alarm, and not long after that, another alarm could be heard from different part of the territory.

Edited August 14, 2017 by The Cerberus

[Unicorncob 5,624]

A little while after Slumberfur left, Jinx finally awoke slowly. She sat up and stretched out with a lazy yawn, and eyed up the squirrel he had left for her. Wasting no time, she started stuffing the prey into her mouth. It was delicious of course, but she couldn't see herself pouncing after one or climbing a tree to chase one. She preferred easy food, like this.

She slowly padded out of the twoleg nest and took in the morning air. Slumberfur's close yowl of alarm got her attention, and once she'd made dirt she followed after it out of sheer curiosity.

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It didn't take long for the patrol lead by Thunderclan's deputy to arrive to Slumberfur's location. When they arrived, Slumberfur showed them the apprentice's body and one of the warriors, who happened to be her mentor, went to make her ready to be carried to the camp. Both Slumberfur and the deputy looked at the warrior sympathetically, before Slumberfur started to explain what he knew. 

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It didn't take long for Jinx to catch up, since Slumberfur and the other cats were closeby. She let out another yawn before speaking. "So what is all the noise abo--"

She halted when she saw the apprentice's body, and her fur bristled with surprise. "Oh no, what happened here?"

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Only the deputy and Slumberfur turned towards Jinx, the other warriors were too busy calming down the apprentice's mentor. Deputy dismissed Slumberfur, since he had just finished his explanation, and Slumberfur went to Jinx "Same as yesterday, 2 cats has been killed, most likely from every clan." he showed with his tail Jinx to follow, as he walked past her "Suspect being the dark cat who visited us yesterday." "Only problem, besides us two, no cat has seen it."

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Jinx followed after Slumberfur, feeling rather nervous now. Cats were being killed somehow, and she was in the forest so as far as she knew, she could be a target.

"It could be anything though, right?" She mewed, looking over her shoulder back toward the scene again. "I mean, there are foxes and badgers and other things around here."

That notion only served to make her feel more nervous. She couldn't take on a fox!

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"Not really, only another cat would slit cat's throat so cleanly." Slumberfur replied coldly "But you have no reason to worry, I'm pretty sure the cat wasn't lying about not killing kittypets, why else would we still be alive, I even attacked that cursed cat." He was fully aware he had just admitted that he was a kittypet, or at least used to be one, but he was too angry at the dark visitor to care.

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Jinx had forgotten that part about not killing kittypets, so she felt a little more comfortable. Though she hadn't missed his accidental confession, and she looked at him curiously.

"I had a feeling you were one," she purred, swaying her tail confidently, "I had a feeling you knew too much about the good life."

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"Yes, I  was one." Slumberfur admitted, giving Jinx a surprisingly hostile look "And in any different situation, you would regret mentioning it" he turned his head back towards where they were going, they were almost back at the twoleg-nest, "So you're lucky, I won't shred you if you get too curious about it." He almost hoped that Jinx would get annoyingly curious, it would give him something else to think about, and talking to a kittypet about being kittypet wasn't that bad of a thing, as long as other clan cats weren't hearing it.

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Jinx raised a paw defensively mid-step, taken aback slightly by Slumberfur's sudden hostile glare.

"Take it easy," she mewed, "I wasn't going to make fun of you or anything. I'm just wondering why you'd give up such a nice life for... that." She pointed toward the sight of the dead apprentices with her tail.

And she had no idea why, but the more she looked at Slumberfur, the stronger the feeling she had that he seemed familiar...

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"Easy life doesn't equal nice life." Slumberfur meowed "And I didn't exactly give up being kittypet for clan-life." "I choose clan-life over being a stray." he then admitted, but quickly added "But I wouldn't go back to kittypet life even if I could."

Edited August 18, 2017 by The Cerberus

[Unicorncob 5,624]

"Ah, humans threw you out?" Jinx guessed, shaking her head. Humans are so strange. Why they choose to deny cats of the best food and beds is beyond me."

She tilted her head at his next comment. "Why wouldn't you go back? I'd much prefer not dying."

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Slumberfur didn't comment to Jinx's guess. "I wouldn't go back because I would die to boredom, and also because I have way more freedom here." He then stayed silent for a moment, he checked around like making sure they were alone, "Can I ask you something about an another kittypet?"

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"I'd much prefer to be worshipped by humans than have my life threatened," Jinx mewed, sounding less snobbish about her comment. She was being honest.

Slumberfur's question caused her to tilt her head curiously. "What is it?"