A Tribe story

[Raven]

Tiger and I stood on a ledge of the mountain. We stood towards the middle of the ledge so we wouldn't either fall off or wouldn't get noticed. "You look over the ledge." Tiger meows to me.
"Why me? Why not you?" I meow. We had climbed up here to get away from the group of cats that had made den in our territory. Tiger looked at me, well, I couldn't refuse. I stepped forward and looked over the edge. The cats were swarming at the bottom of the mountain. I knew they would soon start climbing up and trying to get to us.
"So, what do you see?" Tiger asked. He did move from the middle to look down with me.
"I see that they are at the bottom of the mountain and soon they will try to climb." I meow. It was hard believe we might just die on this mountains. I shook myself and stood beside Tiger once again.
"I'm not staying here." Tiger meows. "I'm going to climb."
"What?" I meow looking over at Tiger. "You're not really going to try to climb?"
"Oh, I am going to try." Tiger meows. "And you're not going to stop me." Tiger turns around and starts climbing up the mountain behind us. I turn around and watch him. He soon makes it to the top. Tiger freezes right at the top. I try to call him, but the loud meows of frustrated cats drown my voice out. Tiger falls and lands down beside me.
"What happened?" I meow. Tiger seem winded so I waited until he was better. Tiger stands up finally and turns to me.
"The cats are up there too." He meows. "We're trapped and shall die a painful death." I just stand there. I couldn't believe it, we were trapped by these large, evil cats. I look up to see the cats at the top trying to make their way down the mountain side. I look down to see the cats at the bottom trying to make their way up. Tiger was right, we would die a painful and most devilish death by these cats. Tiger and I stand there waiting for the cats to meet on this ledge at the same time. We were doomed and every second death was even closer.

[Rose]

Dunno. My tribe, because of Tiger? (Mountains)

[Raven]

Correct. I did it in Tribe of Endless Mountains 'cause 1 it was the first tribe I was in when I made this site and 2 'cause Tribe of Endless Mountains has cats with cool names in it.

[Raven]

Tiger turned to me. "We could, you know, jump at the right time." I looked at Tiger with wide eyes.
"Are you insane! We could die if we jump from here!" I meow. It seemed like the only thing to do or we die, but I would rather die fighting than die jumping.
"It doesn't matter. If we stay here we die and if we jump we might die. We die anything we do!" Tiger meows. We both look down to see that the cats on the ground gave up on climbing. As soon as we stood up, the cats from the top were just making it to the bottom. "Oh great!" Tiger meows. He turns around and gets ready to jump.
"Don't!" I meow trying to get him to stop. Tiger turns his head and looks me in the eyes.
"You can't stop me, you know that." He meows. I knew I could stop him this time. I grabbed on to his tail and pulled back. Tiger hissed at me, but I knew he wouldn't attack me. I pulled back harder until Tiger finally gave up.
"Good." I meow then turn around to see the cats from the top coming closer. Tiger snarls and throws himself into the crowd of cats. I hold back. I wasn't a cave guard, I was a prey hunter and I didn't know how to fight. Tiger fought fiercely, but I was slipping on the edge. The cats snapped at me till the edge gave way and I fell to the ground... To my death.

[Silver]

This story is interesting.

[Raven]

I landed on the ground with a sickening snap. "No!" Tiger yowled. He jumped out of the group of cats and slid down the side of the mountain. He ran over and stood in front of me. Wait, I didn't die! I'm still alive, but it's just weird. Tiger looked down at me. The other cats gathered around to see what happened.
"She'll be dead by now." The leader meows beside Tiger.
"But she can't be!" Tiger protested. "She's a strong prey hunter and there's no way she could die from just a fall."
"Oh there are ways." The leader to the second group that was on top of the mountain meows. "Didn't you hear that sickening snap?"
"Y-y-y-yes." Tiger meows, but it was hard for him to get out the words.
"Believe it!" The leader meows. "We might as well as leave. This one," He meows pointing with his tail to Tiger, "is just not right to kill and it seems we have already killed one anyhow." The other leader nods and the two groups walk off back to their dens. Tiger looks back down at me.
"Don't worry, I'm going to take you back to camp." Tiger meows down to me. He grabs me by my cuff and drags me off back to camp.

"Stop worrying, Tiger, she's not dead." A she-cat meows.
"But-" Tiger start.
"Yes, she fell and her bones are broken, but she's going to be alright." The she-cat meows once again to Tiger.
"I hope you're right." Tiger meows.
"And I'm always right." The cream colored she-cat turns from me to Tiger and looks at him with her ice blue eyes. Tiger purrs and runs out of the den to go do whatever cave guards do. "Can you hear me?" She asks me. I moan to tell her I heard. "Good." She meows.
I of all cats think that our leader sometimes thinks I'm still a small kit in the nursery. I keep telling her that I'm not a kit or a to-be anymore. I'm now a prey hunter, but after awhile she goes back to her old way. "Now, dear, can you feel the pain?" She meows to me as she puts one of my leg bones back into place. I nod and moan again. Oh, it really hurt!

[Raven]

"We'll wait till your bones mend back together before we deal with your tail. My tail was broken too! Well, I guess I get that from falling. "You can talk you know, no need to moan. I would rather you get rest instead of talk though. Do you want some poppy seeds?" The she-cat meows. I nod my head. I didn't want to talk since she didn't want me to talk. She gives me some poppy seeds and then walks out of the den. I wonder where she's going? I watch her leave and then I eat the poppy seeds. I had just finished my final poppy seed and I had dozed off.

"Are you awake? Hello! Wake up! It's morning already, you dozed off!" Tiger's meow sounded in my ear.
"I'm up, I'm up." I meow.
"Good. Wish is looking for you." Tiger meows and pads out of the den. I sit up and snort.
"I can do stuff on my own." I get up and wobble my to Wish's den. My legs were back to the way they're to be, but I still wasn't use to walking on them. Now, my tail is another story. You know that I had broke my tail, well, the bones didn't go back together properly so I lost the top of my tail. It stinks, but I got use to it very quickly unlike others who lose part of their tail. I kept wobbling my way to find Wish.

[Raven]

"Good, you found you're way." Wish meows walking out from the back of her den. Jay padded out following her.
"She's going to be able to walk properly, right?" Jay meows looking me in the eyes. What was up with both of them!? I'm not a small kit in the nursery any more! I wanted to yell it out, but I bit it back.
"Of course she will be." Wish purred. "Let me see your tail, Flower." Wish meows.
"What's wrong with it now?" I meow. "You trying to get rid of my whole tail!" That time I let out my anger.
"No, Flower." Wish was taken aback by my anger. I might say that she thought of me as her own kit. Well, I wasn't. I was Silver's kit and her only kit. Cloud and Tiger were her kits not me.
"I'm not you're kit either." I look from Wish to Jay. "And I'm not a kit! Why do you treat me like a kit?" Wish and Jay look at each other.
"Flower, we don't think you're still a kit. Silver is proud of you, yes." Jay meows. "But we promised to take care of you so Tribe of Roaring Waters and Tribe of Dark Lands didn't know you were a kit with mixed blood." Wish nodded along with what Jay was saying. I let out a long sigh.
"My half tail is perfectly fine." I meow calmly. "I'm walking a lot better too. I haven't fallen today."
"Flower, I have one more question for you." Wish meows. "Why were you on the mountain with Tiger in the first place?" I was taken aback by her question. OK, Wish did know I loved Tiger, but she didn't have to know why I was up there with him.
"I was hunting and Tiger was with me to make sure the group of cats didn't get me. Then out of nowhere the cats tried to attack us, but Tiger kept them back. To get away from them we had to climb up the mountain. It was the only best place to go to get away from them." I meow calmly. It wasn't the whole truth 'cause I was trying to make it sound like we weren't doing anything bad.
"You should have run back to camp." Wish meows sternly. "We can out run any cat in the mountains, they would've never found our camp."
"What, you think when someone is scared and in danger they would think right!?" I meow anger pulsing in me once again. Wish and Jay were silent. I knew they didn't have an answer for that. "We had been up there for awhile and Tiger was getting very risky. He wanted to get out of there by first climbing the mountain up to the top and then going down the other side, but on the next ledge on the mountain another group of the cats was there. We were stuck! The next risky idea Tiger had was jumping down off the ledge."
"But that's kind of what you did." Jay meows. I get even angrier at what Jay said.
"You've both got it all wrong!" I meow angrily and stalk out of the den.

[Jay]

Really cool! (Who excatly is <Me>? Flower?)

[Raven]

I made her up, she's not one of the cats from the site.

[Raven]

"Flower are you alright it?" A tom meows from in front of the cave guards den. I sigh.
"One-eye, Wish and Jay don't understand what I'm telling them." I meow. One-eye nods to me and I walk on.

The mountain trail seemed like eyes were watching me from every corner. I shivered. Was this what Wish and Jay felt when the tribe had been attacked by wolves and I wasn't born yet? I brushed the pelt of some other cat. I jumped and my fur was bristling. I got down and barred my teeth. The cat turned to me and dropped a rock mouse.
"What are you doing, Flower?" It was only Ava. Ava was sister to One-eye. They had been born to Brook and Eagle. Brook and Eagle use to be not part of the tribe, but the leader before Wish, I think his name was Hawk, took them in when he noticed Brook was expecting kits. Brook never gave them tribe names because she planned on leaving with her kits and Eagle. The amazing thing is that they stayed.
"I thought you were one of those evil cats." I meow trying to stay as calm as I could. Ava purred.
"I can understand that since somewhere on this pass is their den where they stay." Ava picks back up the small rock mouse. "Why not hunt a bit to get your mind off whatever it is on." I nod to what Ava said and continue walking on down the trail.

[Raven]

I had only caught a few slow mice. It was hard hunting since I still wasn't use to hunting. Then something whipped by my pelt blowing it flat on me in different directions. I stiffen up and a low vicious snarl came from behind me. I whipped around, but the snarling stopped and only silence went through me and the two pairs of eyes. "Um..." I didn't know what to say to this cat.
"Do not speak for I do not fight nor come in peace." The cat's meow was hoarse and sounded weird to me. I tilted my head to the side wondering what this cat was talking about.
"I don't understand a word you said." I meow. The cat came out of the darkness. He was lean and smelled of Plains. "Hold on! You smell of Tribe of High Plain!" I meow angrily, but then again this cat was very skinny so he couldn't be a Plains cat.
"Tribe of High Plains? What do you speak of?" The tall black cat meows. I tilt my head to the side. "You make no sense either so a fight it is." The cat got down ready to jump at me, but something else from the shadows jumps out. I go down on the ground and try to not get hit.
"Get off our territory Flare." It was One-eye! I didn't know he was out here, but he just was and thank-goodness he was!
"Why should I?" The black cat named Flare meows.
"You and your band of rogues get out!" One-eye snarled. I stayed on the ground and I hoped I wouldn't be seen.
"We have made home here out of Waters territory. You alone can't get us out." Once Flare had finished talking a bunch of eyes were seen in the dark. One-eye looked around.
"Let's go, Flower." He meows and pelts out of there. I run after him stumbling a few times, but I didn't get hurt.

[Raven]

One-eye and I made it back into camp. We're tired and panting. Oh well, I left the mouse behind.
"What happened?" Wish runs out of her den and goes over to us.
"Are you both alright?" Jay meows.
"Flower, I thought you were suppose to stay in camp?" Tiger meows beside Jay.
"Oh dear, you might be in trouble." Cloud meows beside Wish.
"I'm perfectly fine." I retorted. "I can do what I want." I snorted and turned away. "I didn't get hurt and I perfectly fine."
"One-eye, what happened?" Wish didn't even notice me. I felt so alone. I turned back and looked at everyone, only Tiger was worried about me. Everyone else was looking at One-eye. I spoke again.
"Am I a nobody? Does no one care about me just because I don't have the blood of this tribe? Is that the reason?" I meow not mad, but sad.
"No, Flower, everyone cares about you." Tiger meows walking up to me. We both sit down together and wrap our tails around each other. Chime turns to us and stares at her brother.
"Don't you want to listen to One-eye?" Cloud never liked both of us being together. I think she wants her brother to mate a Tribe of Endless Mountains cat instead of me.
"I don't care what One-eye has to say." Tiger snarls to his sister. "He's just like Flower, a cat not from the tribe. Everyone listens to him, but no one listens to what Flower has to say." Cloud was taken aback by her brother's anger.
"I was just walking through the mountains on patrol when I saw Flare. He moved into the mountains now I'm afraid." One-eye meows.
"But you don't know the whole thing." I retort. "You weren't there the whole time."
"Either were you." One-eye meows. I burn with anger.
"I was there the whole time! I first saw Flare while I was hunting. He first seemed like a good cat just a loner. Then he got all mad at me and then you! You jump over me and try to attack Flare. I ducked down on the ground so I didn't get hit by you!" I meow angrily.
"You weren't there first. I got there and then you were behind me." One-eye stands up his tail lashing from side-to-side.
"I'm just someone everyone thinks is a prisoner! I hate being here!" I run out of there. Cloud watches me go with a smile on her face. Tiger snarls at Cloud and runs after me.
"Tiger, where are you going?" Cloud meows after him.
"Tiger!" Wish's frantic meow sounds from behind him.
"Tiger, get back here." Jay's stern meow is heard, but Tiger doesn't stop.

[Raven]

It had been a few days since Tiger and I ran away from the tribe. "Are you sure you don't want to go back?" Tiger meows.
"What you think I want to go back and be treated like a kit!? No thank you." I meow washing myself. Paw steps were heard from outside the den. Tiger poked his head out.
"Tiger! Tiger, where are you? I have something for you?" Cloud meows looking around for Tiger. Tiger looks back at me. I nod my head for him to be allowed to go out. He takes a few steps out.
"Tiger! You're alright." Cloud runs over to him. "The scent of the tribe is stale in your fur. Why don't you come back with me?"
"What do you have for me?" Tiger's meow was sharp with anger still. Cloud looks at him with wide eyes.
"Oh right, what I have for you." Cloud gulps down. "I have words from mom. She wants you to come back. She misses you so much and she needs you to come back."
"Why would I do that when you treat Flower like a kit." He snaps at Cloud. Cloud takes a few steps back. "You tell mom that I'm never coming back whatever she does or tries to do to get me back." Tiger turns away. "I don't ever want to see your face again. I will never call you my sister again." Tiger walks back to the den. Cloud looks at him with wide, sad eyes. She run off. I look at Tiger.
"Are we going to stay in this den and hunt for ourselves? If I'm going to have kits I need somewhere more warm and comfortable." I meow still grooming myself.
"That's it!" Tiger meows. "We'll have lots of protection if we join Flare's group of rogues. We're rogues you know."
"Good idea." I meow. "Let's go find them now." Tiger nods and we walk off together with our tails twisted together.

"What are you saying?" Charcoal meows.
"We would like to join your group of rogues. You see we're rogues too." Tiger meows.
"Oh alright, I'll go get Flare." Charcoal walks off. Tiger and I look at each other happily.
"Good day rogues." Flare meows. "You want to join our group you say." Then his eyes rested on me. "Hold on you're the she-cat who was with One-eye. You ran away from the tribe?"
"Yes I did. They treated me like an outsider, a kit even!" I meow. "i never want to go back."
"Good, that means you are both allowed to join our group. Follow me back to our camp." Tiger and I look at each other again. I'm pretty sure they same thing when through our minds that that was easy just to get into the group of rogues.

(This part is the starts of writing in third person)
Cloud runs back into camp with tears running down her face.
"What happened Cloud? Does he want to come back?" Wish meows looking up from her food.
"No, he doesn't want to come back." Cloud meows. "He wouldn't come back with us treating Flower like a kit. He told me to tell you that he's never coming back no matter what you try. He doesn't want to see my face again and he's never going to call me sister any more." Cloud wails like a kit. Wish stand up and pushes herself against Cloud.
"We shall do whatever we can to get him back!" Wish meows to the whole tribe. The tribe nods in agreement.
"I know where he is staying. He's probably with Flower." Cloud quietly spats under her breath.
"Good. Now everyone, let's go. Cloud you lead the way." Wish meows. Cloud nods and they all run out of the camp. Only leaving the nursing queens and elders back at the camp.

Cloud and the others stood outside the den. "Tiger, we know you're in there. Come on out." Cloud meows.
"Come on Tiger!" Wish meows. The others stand around to make a half circle so Tiger couldn't escape.
"I'm going in." Cloud meows. "If he's not going to come out then we should go in." Cloud walks in.
A few minutes after she walks in. She came back out her head down. She walked over in front of her mom. "He's gone." She meows. Wish drops her head.
"Let's all go back to camp." She meows with sadness in her meow. Everyone follows her and Cloud as they leave.

[Silver]

Flower is now one of Mary-Jay and Shadowfire's kits, just to tell you.