Do explorers always die? {All are welcome}

Shadow stood at the edge of the water. Her tail curled delicately over her paws as she lapped up water from the chilly river.

It was stupid to be this close to a clan camp. She let out a slight sigh and stared at the water and her broken reflection.

"I wish you were here Meadow. You'd like it. You liked rivers right?"

Shadow froze. She couldn't remember. Did Meadow like rivers? Did she like to try and count the stars? Fear flooded her body. She couldn't remember her sister, her best friend.

"You tried to name all the stars. You named the brightest one after me. Shadow." She smiled at the memory.

Shadow and Meadow sat in a clearing, staring up at the star filled sky.

"You see that one right there? It's really bright?" Meadow indicated to a star.

"What about it?"

"I've named it Shadow. And the one next to it is Meadow."

"I'm losing you Meadow." Shadow whispered dipping her tongue into the river for another drink.

"Let's play hunting!" Angel yowled.

"Hunting is lame Angel." Meadow meowed flatly.

"Then we can fight!"

"I'm going for a walk. Come on Shadow." Meadow stood up and walked through a bush, away from their camp.

Shadow followed her sister. Leaving Angel to fight a tree or Trinity.

Shadow curled up, staring at her reflection in the water and letting memories come back.

Journeypaw
Its just another day in this very.....long.....pointless....irritating...life

Journeypaw was sneaking out of camp.He often had these bouts of insomnia at night.He liked to come out and look at the stars.It calmed him and settled him down.He would often liked to make drawings in the dirt with his tail.Letting his mind drift off and draw random designs in the sand.Sometimes the drawings would be there in the morning and confuse the morning patrol as to what made them.They would find their answer after they found a sleeping apprentice in the surrounding bush.
Journeypaw was sneaking out of camp.He often had these bouts of insomnia at night.He liked to come out and look at the stars.It calmed him and settled him down.He would often liked to make drawings in the dirt with his tail.Letting his mind drift off and draw random designs in the sand.Sometimes the drawings would be there in the morning and confuse the morning patrol as to what made them.They would find their answer after they found a sleeping apprentice in the surrounding bush.

But this night it was cold and was best if he stayed moving.The cold breeze tickled him as he walked.He loved breeze.It was just the air temp that made it a little irritating.Then a thought crossed his mind.He would sleep out by the river.He made his way through the brush and growth.After a while of walking he reached the river.The moon wasn't quite full,but it provided enough light for him to see a rouge there,looking at his reflection.She looked as if she was deep in thought,almost like she was in a trance.He decided to learn a bit more about her before reporting his sighting.

"Meadow!" Shadow yelled, chuckling and chasing her sister.

She was tackled quickly. "Don't talk while we hunt mouse-brain!" Meadow hissed.

"I couldn't see you." Shadow whispered.

Meadow was like that. Controlling almost. She had a that deathly gait. Nobody messed with her for a reason. Shadow had taken that on after her sister died. She had nearly become Meadow. Cold when you first met her and a big heart once you go to know her.

Shadow sat up, detecting someone watching her. Her blue-green eyes slid into slits as she looked around.

"Who's there?" She growled her tail flicking impatiently.

Journeypaw
Its just another day in this very.....long.....pointless....irritating...life

Journeypaw froze. He could decide.Should he answer the cat down by the river,or head back to camp.He waited and waited.He decided to answer.He opened his mouth,but no words came out.He wanted to move but he was frozen in fear.

I have to do something he thought,This cat is getting impatient.She might hurt me if i don't do something now.He finally summoned enough courage and will to take a step back,but his foot landed on a twig.It snapped and the sound could be heard for miles.He sighed.

"Im here." he called.He stepped forward and up so he could meet the rouge.

"My name is journeypaw.I'm an apprentice This is riverclan territory.Why are you here?" He asked,the thing he was taught to say.His name, his rank, his territory, and "Why are you here?"

Shadow let her eyes glance over the apprentice. She studied his face and eyes before staring strait into his eyes, something Meadow had taught her that can make most cats afraid.

"I'm Shadow. And I know where I am at."

The hit of danger and a speck of I'm going to kill you fluttered through her voice.

"Apprentices aren't to leave camp with out a warrior, yes?" She moved so the was walking in a slow circle around him. "That means you are breaking a rule. Tsk tsk. Good warriors don't break rules."

She chuckled and sat down in her original spot. "Then again. Most leaders broke rules. So maybe you intend to be leader of Riverclan."

Journeypaw
Its just another day in this very.....long.....pointless....irritating...life

Journeypaw matched her gaze as she circled around him.Her eyes and tone of voice combo was enough to make him scared.And how did she know so much about clan codes? The fact that he was on his own territory was comforting though.All he needed was to run back for help.

"Being leader would be nice. But that's not what i came out here for.I am incapable of thinking that far ahead.I just came out here to look at the stars by the river.Its been really stressful in the camp lately,so sometimes i sneak out and look at the stars.I'm trustworthy enough not to sell all of the leaders plans for fresh kill.I do it almost every night now.Just look up, draw in the sand a little, go back to camp.Sometimes i even sleep out.I know where there is a poppy seed plant from when i spied on the Medicine cat apprentice, so i pop a few in my mouth and sleep.If im found,then they let me join the morning patrol."

He paused for a moment.Surely this cat was not interested.

"How about you? What brings you to our territory?"

(You should get a title for shadow>)

(What's a title? Barely three words. Add more! Shut up Kat!)

"Life. Exploration. Adventure. Love. Not really the last one at all. Not really any of the others either I guess." She mused her tail flicking back and forth with slight amusement.

"I guess a chance to see the world. But I've been hanging around the clans far to long. But can't seem to leave. Something keeps tugging me back here. Maybe it's the stars maybe it's me not wanting to leave." She stared at the twinkling stars.

She cast a side glance at him. "Why do you even care? And why haven't you chased me out of your territory yet?"

Journeypaw
Its just another day in this very.....long.....pointless....irritating...life

"I just wanted to know. Its good to now as much as you can when your in a clan.Your as good as dead if you don't know a lot about whats in your surroundings.Its also just something I do.I like to talk with rouges and loners.Hear their stories.It gives me something to think about.Thats thing about clan life.Its so boring. All you do is hunt and hang around in the clan. The elders tell good stories but.....You probably don't want to hear about that.Its boring.Just like everything else in this forest."

He sat down and let out a sigh.He gave a quick glance at the sky before speaking again.

"Do you like stars?"



(lol. A title is Your cats name,a little saying under it,and then you pimp it out with UBBC code)

"Yes."

She was quiet for a minute.

"Being a rouge isn't as great as it sounds. You never have a home. Friends. Family. You all go your separate ways. You don't trust other cats. No one to confide in. No one to talk to. It's yourself all the time. Kinda boring. And quiet."

She shifted so she was laying down, her eyes still staring at the stars.

"My sister died when I was little. I left my family to seek revenge. It's was foolish. I'll never find the rouge that killed her."

She paused for a moment. "Why am I even telling you this?"

Journeypaw
Its just another day in this very.....long.....pointless....irritating...life

"Because.You are bent out of shape and you need to find this rouge or else you wont ever feel like you did something about your sisters death.I dont know what its like to lose a sister to a killer, but it must be pretty bad."

He paused for a moment and thought of what to say next.This cat needed this so badly.To him,it was like she smacked herself every day she didnt find him. Maybe I can get her to tell me more if I earned her trust He thought.

"I think you will find this rouge person though. Whoever he or she is has to to stay in the forest.Its bot like he can go anywhere else.And the forest is quite small,considering that the clans own a lot of it. "

He paused.

"Whats your name anyway?"

Shadow studied him as her tail tip slicked back and forth. "Shadow."

"I've looked through the forest for moons. It's nearly impossible. Every time he moves and I move we could be going the same direction or different ones. Plus. He could leave the forest and maybe even go to another. You never know."

She let out a long sigh and closed her eyes and let the cats details come back to her. "He was brown with yellow eyes. Large build. Missing part of his tail. A bite taken out of his right ear."

Her eyes fluttered open. "That's all I remember about him."

Journeypaw
Its just another day in this very.....long.....pointless....irritating...life

"Wh...W..Who...." He swallowed. He ran it back through his mind to get is straight.

"He was brown with yellow eyes. Large build. Missing part of his tail. A bite taken out of his right ear."

"Oh....starclan. I think i saw him not to long ago. I was on patrol. Leader invited me to go with them. I couldn't refuse. We found a rouge in the middle of our patrol. He tried to attack us. We fought him. I didn't. They were killing him. I screamed for them to stop. They did. I don't know what happened next."

"Im so sorry. Had I known......." He didn't finish. This problably might have caused shadow to want to kill him.

"Are you going to kill me?"


(I has idea.)

"At least he's dead. Granted it would has been nice to dig my claws into his flesh and rip him apart." Shadow shook her head, trying to scatter the thoughts.

"I wouldn't kill you. You are tiny and helpless. It would be like killing a bird with a broken wing. Much to easy. I prefer a good fight. Someone who can fight back." She teased, her dark mouth twitching with amusement.

"But I guess if you wan me to kill you I can't refuse you and your suicidal ways. Though those clan cats would come after me. Tsk tsk. We can't have that now can we?"

(What is this idea that you have?)

Journeypaw
Its just another day in this very.....long.....pointless....irritating...life

"No. We cant have that. No one person can stand against the clans. I that is good. But what if he isnt dead. We just dumped him in shadowclan somewhere. He could be roaming around there!" He gave a little chuckle. He was starting to think about how cool it would be to beat her.....anybody.....in a fight. He could fight. If he had a mentor. He could do anything with a mentor.

" I hate riverclan. Its so boring. I cant be a warrior and do fun things. I cant hunt.


(1. Zack is totally not king of the lab. Hodgins FTW)
(2. Maybe, this guy that killed her sister isnt dead. I could make him, and with Journeys aide, we could find him and she could avenge her sister.)

"Shadowclan. I'll stop by there. Would be a good place to start." She whispered to herself.

"If you don't like your clan why don't you go to another? Or just leave the clans all together. Or hey, your breaking a rule by being out here and by not chasing me off. Why not go hunting outside of the territories. And as for the warrior thing. It looks over rated. You do the same things you do you are just expected to do them better."

Shadow flicked a leaf into the water and watched as it drifted out of eye sight.

"Do you want to help me find the rouge that killed Meadow?"

(1. Zack is the King of the lab. Plus he's much cuter than Hodgins. Although if we're talking cute/hotness. Booth clearly wins.)