To Love Thy Enemy

[Blazy]

Cinderfall stalked through the tall pine trees, his midnight pelt easily melding with the dark shadows cast by the thick boughs overhead. His vermillion gaze tracked the movements of a mouse as it foraged on the forest floor, oblivious to its impending doom. He pounced, light as air, and killed the hapless creature with a swift bite, devouring it nearly whole, before turning and striding confidently deeper into the trees, unafraid.

[CrimsonMoon]

The scent of Nightclan invades his nostrils... He must be deep in their territory. But the scent was stronger now... Seeming to surround him... There was a cat close.. That was certain

[Blazy]

Stopping, Cinderfall glanced around as a strong, fresh scent of cat surrounded him. No fear showed on his features, because he truly felt no fear. He simply waited where he stood for the other to reveal themselves.

[CrimsonMoon]

He waited for seconds... Then minutes... The smell still there and nt moving. The cat was teating his patience, that much was clear.

Eventually there was a soft snap of a twig nearby

[Blazy]

Flicking an ear towards the sound of the snapping twig, Cinderfall continued to wait. His patience was endless in battle, and that is just what this was to him, a battle of wills with an unknown foe.

[CrimsonMoon]

There was a longer pause, a crow calling in the distance before flapping away. Storm clouds had begun to roll over.

"... You have the patience of Starclan... That's fantastic," a soft voice came from a thorn bush almost to his immediate left

[Blazy]

(I was just thinking that he could be a descendant of Tigerclaw, when he went rogue, and was brought up by him to hate StarClan, hence his 'clan' name and knowledge of StarClan and the warrior code.)

Turning to face the thorn bush, Cinderfall cracked a wicked looking grin, "StarClan abandoned me long ago, dove." he purred, his voice the smooth drawl of a practiced politician.

[CrimsonMoon]

Golden eyes blinked slowly at him, a face or body seemed absent only because her pitch black pelt, a thin scar reached from behind her ear down her chest. The she-cat stares at him," Why do you say that?"

(Shes the daughter of Valorstart btw xD)

[Blazy]

(Yeah, I had a couple of cats in NightClan- Brokensong and Forgottenflame)

"StarClan abandons those who would follow their own path." He declared, his bright crimson eyes flashing with a dangerous glint in the darkness. "And what of you, dove? You're here, talking to an enemy instead of driving them away like your code insists. Is your StarClan really so precious to you, then?"

[CrimsonMoon]

" I talk to you because-" she steps gracefully from the bushes and stands a ways away,"- You havent threatened my Clan yet," She mews, looking unamused at the nickname he had given her

[Blazy]

Cinderfall sat back on his haunches, slightly stunned at the beautiful she-cat before him. "You're quite the sight, dove." He purred, his long tail swishing through the needles on the forest floor.

[CrimsonMoon]

" my name is BoneScream, Don't call me 'Dove'... You can't bite my throat and i'll die easily," she murmurs coldly, raising her head proudly though her gaze never wavered from him," So...? Do you pose a threat to my Clan or are you just another tom in heat?" (Lulz, she so sassy xD)

[Blazy]

"Bonescream. An interesting name. You may call me Cinderfall." He mused for a bit before answering her question, meeting her gaze. "I am a threat to everyone, and everything."

[CrimsonMoon]

"... I do not think so," She answers simply, staring straight into his eyes, staring at him

[Blazy]

Cinderfall merely shrugged, unwilling to argue his point. Without another word to Bonescream, he turned back the way he came.

[CrimsonMoon]

She pads beside him, seeming like she would escort him to the border. She remained silent as well, her tail waving faintly as she walked

[Blazy]

Spotting another mouse, Cinderfall leapt onto it, killing it quickly, and eating it just as quick. He resumed walking like it hadn't happened.

[CrimsonMoon]

Bonescream bristles but doesnt stop him, it was New Leaf after all... More mice would be born, the frogs and squirrels and thrush would emerge..

The she-cat watches him in silence, her gold eyes burnig into his pelt

[Blazy]

He knew he had done something "wrong" in the eyes of the warrior code, but he was testing the she-cat beside him. He stopped when he reached a clearing with a different scent, and turned back towards Bonescream. "I will return tomorrow, if that is what you wish."

[CrimsonMoon]

BoneScream blinks at him," I would prefer if you did not," she murmurs rather bluntly, her gold eyes starin into his red ones," For you will probably try to fight."