We All Fall Down [O]

[isнιηε]

;Diamond
Hey look! An intruder.

Lets go.
Lets go terrorize some prey.
It's chilly.
Chilly for even Diamond, the fluffy puff-ball of a cat.
She skipped along the frozen grass, her long flowing fur brushing on every stalk.
Just to show and intruder's been there.
And there.
And there!
A shudder through tight lips.
Diamond's hissed cursing as she scented cats.
She hopped into a bush, hoping not to be seen.

[flamingdawn]

Lithium pushed through some bushes, almost crashing into his deputy, Diamond.
"Diamond!" he exclaimed. "Were you following me?" He eyed her suspiciously.

{Post in Pondering of what to do in TOMF Camp. I need Diamond]

[isнιηε]

Occ: Fine.

Ic:
Diamond raced towards TOMF territory.

[flamingdawn]

"Diamond!" he bellowed after his deputy. "You come back here this instant, or else!"

[Speckel-Lady o' Rebel/Mischeif]

Specklestar smiled at Flystar and dipped her head slightly to the leader. With an overdramatic sigh, she remarked impudently, "Alas, no, this meeting spot is only for a day, Flystar." The leader smiled and let her blue eyes twinkle. She truly didn't like any of the leaders.

As Icehaze asked her, she raised her eyebrows in slight suprise. Noticing her Warrior's uncomfortable stance, she told him in an undertone, "I'll stay." Raising her voice so that the SnowClan leader and deputy could hear her, she added, "I'd be thankful if you did go off to hunt some more prey, Icehaze." Her gaze flickered to the rabbit she'd attempted for Frostedjay to pick up as if he'd caught it. Some cats, especially stuck-up ones, couldn't take a hint. She picked up the rabbit and moved it slightly behind her forepaws. She'd noticed Whitebird's glance.

"Diamond! You come back here this instant, or else!" The leader's blue eyes sharpened as if becoming weapons themselves. Specklestar narrowed them into slits and spun towards the sound. "Intruder?" she snarled icily, her blue eyes lethal if looks could kill.

[Lovesong]

"Diamond! You come back here this instant, or else!"

Flystar was just about to open her mouth and respond to the leader when she heard that voice. She turned around and got on her fours and hissed, "Whos their?! Show yourself!" She was in no mood to fight or battle anyone right now but if she had to fight she would. She then lifted her nose to smell but then she looked over at the other leader and sked, "Do you recognize that smell?" She didnt herself at all.

[flamingdawn]

Lithium stiffened when he heard four cats nearby.
"Intruder?" one of them snarled.
"Whos there?! Show yourself!" another one hissed. "Do you recognize that smell?"
The Tribe of Midnight Frost leader cursed silently and padded into the clearing. His gaze locked into the ginger-and-white cat's. He saw everything in there: Her hopes and dreams, her family, her name, her deepest secrets.
Lithium turned to the white cat and did the same thing. The gray cat flicked his tail and seemed to draw the warmth from the very air itself.
"Well, if it isn't Flystar and Whitebird, leader and deputy of SnowClan," he sneered. He drifted his pale amber eyes to the other two cats. "And Specklestar and Icehaze from MoonClan. Leader, Specklstar, but Icehaze is just a pitiful warrior. What do you need with him?" He didn't dip his head when he addressed the leaders. They weren't his superior. He was theirs.

Icehaze snarled and almost leaped onto the stupid strange cat, but held himself back.

"Ah, it seems I've infuriated your warrior, Specklestar." Lithium's eyes gleamed. He glanced acorss the clearing.
He looked up to the sky and sat down. His gray-and-white fur rippled in the light breeze. "I am Lithium, leader of the Tribe of Midnight Frost," he murmured. Lithium's icy stare flew downward, back to the ground. "And I have a preposition for you."

[Speckel-Lady o' Rebel/Mischeif]

Specklestar let out a low growl. She shook her head in response to Flystar's question. In a flash, a dark gray tom lept out of the bushes and looked into her eyes. Her teeth bared into a snarl. Before she could attack the tom for not giving her the proper manners, she noticed Icehaze. Keeping her gaze carefully hidden, the leader easily stepped in front of the tortioseshell. "Easy." she murmurred, closing her eyes for a moment to calm herself down. Naturally, her ivory white claws were unsheathed. Her brown ears twitched towards Lithium in bored interest.

"A proposition?" she meowed, keeping her voice steady. Even still, there was a shiver of rage running through it. Her lip had once again covered her teeth. Sapphire blue eyes flashing, the MoonClan leader stepped forward. "So do I. Which one first?" she meowed, as if she were having a light coversation about the weather. Only the fact that there was a snarl hidden in the words did she indicate it wasn't so.

The leader glanced at Icehaze, smiling confidently. "Don't let him see you angry." She made it only audible for the tom, blocking Lithium's gaze so he couldn't see her lips moving. The leader blinked and turned slowly to the Tribe of Midnight Frost leader with a snort.

[flamingdawn]

Lithium swiveled his silver ears to Specklestar. "Oh do you?" he responded nonchalantly. "Well, I think I'll go first, since I am the superior." Yellow eyes flashed murderously, taunting the MoonClan idiot.
"So, my preposition: Get a message to the other two Clans. Meet me at dawn at the Lowrock tomorrow. I will be waiting." He bared his teeth. "It will be worth it. Trust me.
"Now, what was yours, dear Specklestar? Mayhap it was something about me getting off your territory?"

Icehaze snarled again. He wanted to shout at Specklestar to get the Dark Forest out of his way, but, of course, he could never yell at his leader. So he just sat down. "I can control my temper, Specklestar. I'm not an apprentice." He huffed, his whiskers fluttering.

[Lovesong]

Flystar let out a growl and just watched the two cats talk. She saw how he insulted the warrior and saw he wanted to pounce but he held back. Smart thinking. She stayed by whitebird and waited to see what he was going to say to them. She saw he was talk to the other clans right now. She held her ground and wouldnt go. She was ready for whatever this cat was going to tell her or say to her. She still held a quiet growl and lowered her head and watched very closely with what this cat was doing. A message for the two other clans? What kind of message? She strained her ears to try and listen more closely.

[Speckel-Lady o' Rebel/Mischeif]

Specklestar glanced at Icehaze. "That's why you were ready to attack," she remarked wrly in reply, careful to keep her voice low. The MoonClan leader's head swivelled back to the ToMF's leader. A heartless smile was on her face; her blue eyes were past the throught of flames. They'd become slits of blue ice. "A superior cat doesn't need to remark that she is superior," Specklestar remarked, making sure to put emphasis on the 'she.'

Listening to Lithium's demand as if actually interested, she nodded ever so slightly to Icehaze. She stepped out of the MoonClan warrior's way and raised an eyebrow to the piece of foxdung in front of her. "What makes you expect that I'm going to do such a thing?" she cut in coldly. At Lithium's second comment, her tail twitched in annoyance. That was exactly what I was going to say! With a sardonic smile, Specklestar shook her head. "No, my preposition goes like this. Your doom is sealed." The white and brown she-cat sat down, her blue eyes sparkling mockingly. In a brief moment, her smile became that of a killer. All fangs showing, her smile held no hint of amusement, nor no emotion but danger.

[flamingdawn]

Lithium rolled his eyes. "You really think you can beat me in battle?" He snorted. "Sure. You haven't seen me fight have you?" His dark gray face suddenly twisted into a snarl so fearsome, it would've made the evilest cat in the Dark Forest cower with fear. "You know what lithium is, Specklestar?" Lithium's teeth bared in a gruesome smile, still locked into a snarl. "Me."

Icehaze's eyes widened with horror as he saw the grim snarl on the crazy cat's face. It rooted him to the spot with fear. He couldn't remember who he was.... Those amber eyes were so calming, almost like cool water after a scorched throat.... He shook his tortoiseshell head. Lithium's power was getting to him.

Lithium sank into a crouch unknown to any Clan cats'. It was odd; his tail was tucked under him, his paws extended and ripping the grass. Anyone with half a mind that lived in the ToMF knew that this was the battle crouch, also known as Lithium's death crouch. No one lived after he began his crouch.

[Speckel-Lady o' Rebel/Mischeif]

Specklestar narrowed her eyes, watching Lithium warily. She avoided the tom's eyes carefully. They were too calm to be real. "Actually, I know I can." She almost shivered from the smile, but instead returned one of the exact same caliber back to the gray tom.

Her tail tapped Icehaze on the head. He had to be her second, just incase she didn't make it out of here... Shaking her head, the she-cat glared coldly at Lithium. Of course she'd make it out alive. It was this idiot piece of fox dung that wasn't. When the tom dropped into the crouch, Specklestar's ears twitched in confusion. She'd never seen it before.... But, it seemed almost blood-coated...

Specklestar could sort of interpret things like that. Her ivory claws sheathed once more before unsheathing again, slicing narrow holes into the dirt. She was ready.

[flamingdawn]

Specklestar's tail rapped Icehaze sharply on the head, almost knocking him unconcious. Ow! he protested silently, but he got the message. If Specklestar died, pray to StarClan that she didn't, he would take over. He didn't think he could take on this cat at all. Right now, he was almost shaking out of his fur.

[Speckel-Lady o' Rebel/Mischeif]

((What am I supposed to say to that? Just add Lithium to that post or post it below. If you can.))

[flamingdawn]

[Yeah, I was going to post for Lithium, but I had to go quickly. Sorry about that!]

Lithium twitched his ears as Specklestar copied him, making an almost-as-gruesome-as-Lithium's-own-creepy-one smile.
"So, Specklestar," he snarled through clenched teeth. "You going to die or not? Because I have nine lives, too. I am invincible."
And he pounced onto the idiot leader.

Icehaze watched in horror as Lithium pounced. And, on that happy note, he backed away slowly, not wanting to interfere. Oh, StarClan! he yowled. What have you done to us?

[Speckel-Lady o' Rebel/Mischeif]

Specklestar snarled coldly. She responded before he lept at her, "So do I." The she-cat lightly dodged away from the tom before spinning back to hop atop the landed tom. She didn't come away completely unscathed though. She'd waited a moment too long and the Tribe of Midnight Frost had scratched the side of her ribcage. Two long, but not very serious, injuries marked the side of her right ribcage. The MoonClan leader let out a snarl and swiped at Lithium, her blue eyes blazing. She'd noticed Icehaze back away. Good. I won't hit him now. She quickly began to strike and step out of reach before leaping in and out once more. After a third repitition, she paused, wondering if she'd gotten any hits. After all, such quick moves were hard to dodge, but this tom wasn't average.

[flamingdawn]

Lithium hissed as Specklestar darted her slow paw around him. He was a million times faster. He dodged every blow the laggard cat landed on him. Molten gold eyes narrowed, and the small gray cat propelled himself forward at blinding speed, a speed that even he would have a tricky time dodging, indeed, even with his unnatural agility.

[Speckel-Lady o' Rebel/Mischeif]

((Specklestar is fast... >.>))

Specklestar hissed in frustration. At least one of those blows should've hit. As Lithium began to charge towards her, the leader began putting the pedal to the medal. She easily dodged the first couple attacks, then, ignoring a minor blow to her shoulder, the WindClan leader jumped towards the tom, landing right in front of him. Quickly, she fainted to the right before propelling herself under the tom. Specklestar stretched out her hind legs in an attempt to knock over the tom as she lashed out at his chest as she passed right under his tail. She smiled, hoping that this time there'd be some crimson liquid on her claws.

[flamingdawn]

{Lithium is super small for his age. I don't think Specklestar could fit under him. xD}

The youngish gray cat hissed at Specklestar slashed his tail. The stupid leader would pay for that. Lithium spun around and dived under her, spraying dirt to blind his enemy with his hind claws as he slid under her, aiming his front claws for her soft belly. Lithium had dived under her sideways, so if she collapsed on top of him, he would be able to escape before she did.

[Speckel-Lady o' Rebel/Mischeif]

((She's big and tiny and super skinny. Her legs coulda stuck out > HEHEHEHEEEE!! Sorry if this is close to keeping her unwounded, but she's a favorite of mine.))

Dirt blinded the leader, and the leader blindly swung at the spot where Lithium had been, hitting nothing but air. She felt air whistle by her and feeling the prick of claws on her belly, lept away before the claws could do lethal damage. Blinking the dirt out of her eyes, she located Lithium, and spun towards, him blue eyes, teared from the dirt but otherwise blazing with cold fury.Mercilessly, she dove towards him, her paws outstretched, she lept into the air, slashed downward and landed beside him, within reach of his claws. Ignoring any wounds he gave her (if he does), the MoonClan leader fought on, swinging her claws as fast as she can, hoping at least one would miss. She swung underpaw, overpaw, right, left, forward. Anything to break through Lthium's wall of defense.

[flamingdawn]

Lithium leisurely deflected Specklestar's blows, and landing two on her {cuz you said any....}.
He barely jumped as the MoonClan leader jumped down beside him, and casually flicked his tail. The leader suddenly had an idea pop into his head.
Backing up, the gray cat backed against a tree, and put his ears and tail flat as though giving up. He swiped his paw over his muzzle, concealing a quick, crafty sneer.

[Speckel-Lady o' Rebel/Mischeif]

Specklestar glanced at the [-cough-supposedly-cough-] retreating leader. She'd felt two blows sting her fur, maybe more than minor, but not even close to lethal. She paused for a moment, tilting her head in consideration. There was a tree behind Lithium. With a snarl, the leader back up, her fangs bared. Once she was a far enough distance away, she changed tactics. Specklestar charged with an eerie flash of cold emotion in her eyes.
"Get.." she spat. "Away..." She heard an almost silent thud from near her left forepaw and felt her paw sprain. The MoonClan leader winced and slowed down to extract her paw out of the hole it'd fallen in and began to gallop towards Lithium once more, favoring her left forepaw. She'd probably sprained it. As she neared Lithium, she bunched up, and using her muscular haunches, soared into the air.

[Grady]

(Jeesh...missed a lot, didn't I...Sorry!)

Whitebird had remained silent at the arrival of the strange new tom. There was no need for her to open her mouth - with Flystar at her side, and Specklestar instigating the tom - there was no reason for her to step in and disturb her own hide. The tom seemed a bigotted, and insane - to take on a leader of any of the clans, to demand that they must meet with him...and to propose that Starclan had granted him nine lives. This loner...this rouge...he was disturbing.

But what was more disturbing was, somehow, he knew all of their names.

As the fighting escalated, however, Whitebird's paws itched, her claws slicing through the soft ground at her paws. Had Flystar been the one to start a fight, Whitebird, of course, would have been on her tail. But now Specklestar was bleeding from her side, and something was going to happen. Whitebird wanted to leap in - not to aid the enemy leader, par say - but to drive the rogue away from both their territories. There were four of them, for Starclan's sake! Even if Flystar wanted to stand down, and Icehaze seemed to desire retreat.

The off-white deputy turned to her leader, asking permission to step forward and rake her own claws into the braggard.

[flamingdawn]

{Bah, Grady, tiz fine....}

Lithium almost leaped for joy as Specklestar did what he thought she was going to do. With glee, as Specklestar sailed through the air towards him, he jumped up, snagging his extra sharp claws into his enemy's fur. They landed with a loud thump! onto the ground.
Lithium snarled as Whitebird leaned towards Flystar. "This is not your fight," he hissed. "If you value your own lives, and your friends, for that matter, you shall not interfere."

[Speckel-Lady o' Rebel/Mischeif]

Specklestar felt Lithium's claws. The leader couldn't avoid them as as she was caught by the tom, she felt herself falling. She had to think fast. Adjusting her position, she felt the ground vibrate her spine, she bunched up and, as if she were jumping, rammed her hindlegs into the direction of Lithium's stomach. Of course, it would almost be impossible to miss in such close quarters, but Specklestar's injuries were beginning to affect her.
Seeing that the ToMF leader was distracted, the leader began to back away to catch her breath. There had to be some way to get this tom out of her territory. She snarled, breathing deeply.

[Lovesong]

Flystar gave a growl and nodded to her deputy to go for it. She felt a range in her she had never felt before in her life. Her claws came out now and she growled. Yet she wasnt going to make a move just yet, besdes, this wasnt her battle. not yet..

[flamingdawn]

Lithium grunted as Specklestar's claws dug into him. He flung backwards, half-propelling himself on purpose, to make Specklestar think that she had hit him hard. He landed with a thump and pretended to be knocked out against an old oak.

[Speckel-Lady o' Rebel/Mischeif]

Specklestar glanced at the tom curiously. She wasn't that strong, was she? Suspicion clouded some of her anger, though sparks still flew in her brilliant blue gaze. And how would he go unconscious if she heard no sound of hit between him and the oak. The leader didn't quite think the tom was faking, but she'd rather stay on the safe side and catch her breath. Maybe Lithium was unconscious. Maybe he wasn't. After a few moments, Specklestar took a couple steps forward, still favoring her left foreleg. She glanced at Flystar. Thanks for the help! she thought bitterly. Glancing at Lithium, she closed her eyes. "As for this little tom, tell him I ain't goin' to his little meeting!" She would of course, but not without Icehaze and Frostedjay... Yes, even Frostedjay would come. Just those two.

[flamingdawn]

Lithium blinked open his eyes like seeing daylight for the first time. He struggled to his paws. His amber gaze swept across the clearing, noticing the other four cats. "Who--who are you?" he stammered. "Where are we?" the gray cat demanded. He gasped at the claw marks on the speckled she-cat in front of him. 'You're hurt!" Lithium exclaimed, darting forward to examine the strange she-cat.