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Post by xx snakey on Feb 6, 2010 21:58:32 GMT -5
Dawnkit, enjoying her newfound freedom, slid acrossed the thin river ice, mewling joyously. It was so fun, sliding across the ice and watching the waer rush by underneath her. She was utterly oblivious of the danger she was in, the ice dangerously thin. She spun on the ice, sliding to a stop in the center of the river. She sprang up, slipping and scampered around, sliding and slipping as she went. It was all fun to her.
Crack! A long, thin white line apeared under her paws. She clawed herself to a stop and looked at it, wondering what it was. Crack! Another, and another apeared under her feet like little spider webs. She smiled. What were these things? Webs in the water? She smiled, jumping up in delight. And then, she fell through.
ooc: Someone! Save her! xD
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Post by spottypelt on Feb 7, 2010 1:01:48 GMT -5
Fallingfrost pounced on the tiny vole with a serge of pride. Yes! The vole was scrawney, but it was something to take back to her hungry clan. She lifted her head triumphantly, only to have her blood run cold. Was that what she thought it was? She swiveled her ears towards the river and strained to hear any sounds of distress. Another moment of silence, and then CRACK!
Fallingfrost dropped the vole and sprang through the reeds and frozen ferns towards the river. Oh no no no! This can't be happening again!? She thought desperately. When she was a kit, her sister Wildtalon had fallen through the ice, and she had watched it all. Please Starclan, she thought, please let me be wrong!
She burst through the ferns in time to see little dawnkit fall through the crumbling ice. Why was she out here!? Surly her mother would have never let her be here at this time of year! She bounded over to the edge of the river, only to stop short, looking at the rushing water flowing under the cracked and broken ice.
Fallingfrost was petrified of water. Ever since Wildtalon had fallen in and gotten sick, she had vowed never to swim again, and hadn't set paw in water since. She barly knew how to swim, let alone in freezing water. She knew she had to help Dawnkit, but she couldn't bring herself to leap in. This can't be happening!!!
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Post by xx snakey on Feb 7, 2010 11:55:33 GMT -5
Dawnkit couldn't breath, her head bobbing under the water and surfacing too fast for her to get a good breath in. She cried out, but the sound was drown by water filling her lungs. Her little paws churned uselessly in the water, and she clsed her eyes, praying to Starclan that soemone whould help her. She came up again, gasping for breath, the ice above her disapating in the wider part of the river. She reached out, trying to grab the edge of the ice but it broke away under her grip. She yowled, clinging to the small peice of rappidly melting ice under her paws and looking around wildly. "Help!" She manged to cry out before she was drug under again. The poor Thunderclan kit's paws flailed, but with no avail, she had no knowing of how to swim. How could she!?
Duskstar smiled, the mouse under his paws struggling to free it's self. He sneered, bending his head to kill it. But a sound caught his attention, a small, familar yowl. He stiffened. "Dawnkit?" He mused out loud. There was no way, she'd been in the nursery when he'd left. "Help!" the far off voice screamed, filling him with concern. That was Dawnkit! He let the mouse go, pelting through the frozen underbrush toward the cry of his kit's voice.
The bank of the river came into veiw and he leapt toward it, landing with a thump and looking around franticly. "Dawnkit!?" Duskstar called out, looking for her familar gray pelt. Down the river her gray head bobbed out from under the water only to be swept under again. He cried out in horror, racing to the edge of the ice. Webs of cracks rang out under his first pawstep. He cursed himself, then looked for something to help him.
A she-cat, standing at the edge of a hole in the ice caught his eye. Fury surged through him. "What are you doing!? Your a Riverclanner aren't you!? Save her! Save her for Starclan's sake! That's my kit! Please!" His voice went from angry to pleading as more of Dawnkit's cries filled his ears. "Please!" Agony filled hsi heart. His daughter was going to drown!
ooc: I'm curious to see how Fallingfrost will react. ;)
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Post by spottypelt on Feb 7, 2010 12:31:16 GMT -5
Fallingfrost looked helplessly from Dawnkit to Duskstar and back. What was she to do!? If she jumped in, she would just end up being dead-weight and dragging Dawnkit further downstream.
She shook her head to clear her thoughts. No! She would not be a coward, and she wouldn't be mouse-brained either. She was Riverclan, she could handle a little water. And a good idea had just popped into her head.
"Hang on Dawnkit, I'm coming!" She sped off downstream, racing the churning water. A tree had falled over the river last Leaf-fall, and Fallingfrost knew it was just low enough over the water for her to stand on it and snatch Dawnkit right up.
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