Wandering

[~B*l*a*z*e~]

A lightly tinted silver she-cat walked into the old barn. She was a ThunderClan warriror, but was banned without a second thought about it. She didn't do anything, but stop her leader from making Srpinklestorm fight. "Hello!" the sound of creeping pawprints echoed into a distance. Getting mud on her paw, she tasted the air, and mice scents krept up her nose into her body and warmed her tempature witch felt like a icyicle. "Does anyone live here...?" She was still in quiet shock. THe ShadowClan and RiverClan leaders offered her to stay in their camps but she said no.

[Ghost]

"No..." replied a deep voice, "anyone does no live here. I do." With that, the calico cat jumped out from his hiding place. He had been watching this peculiar new cat. "Why are you here.. in MY barn?" His tail wipped on the ground and anger was in the air.

[~B*l*a*z*e~]

Sprinklestorm jumped back at the sight of a new cat. "My dearest regards..." the silver she-cat mewed to the tom. The air that came towards her was anger, and she could tell she disturbed him. "I'm really sorry that I disturbed you." Her sea blue eyes were searching the ground helplessly tring to find something to look at, but there was nothing. She looked at his muddy paws, as she kept her head as low as a bow.

[Ghost]

Ghost nodded. "Apology accepted... for now." He advacned forward. "Why are you here?" he asked, spying her. "Why are you in my barn? My shelter?"

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[SPRiNKL3, , =]]

"Well you see..." Sprinklestorm started, she tipped her silver head in a acward position, "I need a shelter, and I was hoping I could stay here. But since you live here, I don't think you want me into your bisniess, but if I beg you pardon, I was wondering if I could stay here." The silver she-cat let her blue eys wander down onn the dry floor of the warm barn.

[Ghost]

Very polite, he thought. Maybe it won't be too bad to have her here. But what if Brownclaw sees? Will she think I betrayed her? Na, she doesn't even like me. After he talked in his head he nodded. "Yes, you can stay for now. But if i say you leave, you leave. Got it?"

[Icekit]

Looking up for the first time, Sprinklestorm finally noticed Ghost's face. It was the first time she ven looked up from the ground. "Thank you. Forgive me from asking, but what is your name?" She asked, with a huge thankful tone in her voice.

[Ghost]

"Forgiven, for now." Ghost looked into her eyes. Very pretty, he thought. Very pretty. "I am Ghost. Nothing more. nothing less. And yours is..."

[brownie]

"Sprinklestorm?" Brownclaw called, stepping forward into the barn. Dropping her measly catch of a young weasel, the young tabby narrowed her eyes as she regarded the ThunderClan outcast. "What are you doing here?" It was a well-known fact that Sprinklestorm would have had to cross WindClan territory in order to reach Ghost and his barn, and it was up to Brownclaw to defend her territory. Oh, they weren't in it now, but if that stupid outcast set on paw on WindClan territory...But that wasn't the only reason for Brownclaw's anger. She felt a sharp knot of jealousy in her stomach, resentful of the fact that another she-cat had met Ghost. Pushing that thought away, Brownclaw instead thought of Rowanfur, her Brother, and how he loved Sprinklestorm.

[SPRiNKL3, , =]]

Sprinklestorm turned around and reconized the dark brown tabby as one of Rowanfur's siblings. It wasn't long though before the silver tabby spoke up, ''Oh... Brownclaw, I'm sorry that I ran through your terriotry." The tabby felt sorta starnge about apoligizing about comong into WindClan's territory. Looked up, and her dark blue eyes met the she-ct's peircing green eyes, and before moving them back to the barn floor she noticed that jealously flashed in her eyes, but didn't take anything of it.

[Ghost]

//Brownclaw, are you going to continue a cry for help?//


Ghost turned his gaze to look at Brownclaw. "Brownie?" He smiled. "It is nice to see you. I supose you know my new guest, Sprinklestorm. She will be staying with me.. in this barn until we find her another place." He knew that Brownclaw might feel jealousy, so he decided that maybe he should try his bet to provoke it.

[brownie]

"Hmm," Brownclaw mewed, looking Sprinklestorm up and down with a curious eye. "Well, don't let it happen again. And as for living with Ghost? Well, I wish you luck with finding a good Denmate within him - when he was Forestpaw, and Apprentice of WindClan, it would take forever to get some sleep!" Though she hid it with humour, Darkfur's Daughter was, quite clearly, annoyed at this new alliance. She knew instinctively, that Ghost was acting this way to provoke her, and she kenw exactly how to respond. "WindClan ahs a new Warrior, Magnoliaheart," As she said his name, Brownie sighed lsightly, acting as if she liked Magnoliaheart as in liked. "He's a fit Warrior for WindClan."

[Ghost]

Ghost looked rather angry but then softened. "Oh really..." he said. He turned to Sprinklestorm. "Don't listen to her.. you will enjoy it here." He winked and then turned to Browclaw again. "Well, I hope Magnoliaheart enjoys WindClan." The words came out like venom(SP?). "For I did not find Clan life that much to my liking." His eyes narrowed on Brownclaw.

[Savannah&Faith]

Sprinklestorm flicked her tail. Immediatly, she could tell that Ghost likedd Brownclaw, but yet the silver warrrior didn't know why Brownclaw had brought a tom in WIndClan, unless she was jealous of Sprinklestorm. She nodded at Brownclaw, "Thank-you for warning me, Brownclaw." Sprinklestorm didn't mean to be rude to the she-cat warrior, Brownclaw not at all. "But sorry if that sounded rude."

[Ghost]

Ghost narrowed his eyes. "Don't worry, Sprinklestorm. You couldn't offend Brownclaw if you tried." He laughed. "And trust me.. I've tried." He moved his tail up and down.

[brownie]

"Tried rather pathetically I hasten to add," Brownclaw mewed dryly at Ghost's calculated insult. "Sprinklestorm, I am sorry about what happened in ThunderClan, if Silverstar weren't talking sense and ordered me to break the Warrior Code I would do the same as you...though I don't think I would run to this desolate place, theres not a cell of intelligence to be found anywhere." Another insult, another taunt, all of this part of ehr private 'war' with Ghost, a tantalising battle of words to try to hide there feelings.

[Ghost]

Ghost's fur bristled. There it was.. another unsult from her. Poor Sprinklestorm.. she has no idea.. well maybe I should fill her in. "You wouldn't want to go to WindClan anyhow. I hear its full of cats that break each other's hearts. I mean, I heard of Hollowheart and Windstorm." His eyes now looked right into Browclaw's own pair of orbs.

[SPRiNKL3, , =]]

Sprinklestorm watched blankly as the two cats battled it out. Breaking eachothers heart? What's that about? The silver warrior asked herself quetionally. She decided to talk, "Okay..." The silver arriro had none whatso ever idea of what to say. Sprinklestorm let herself stop talking, and let the two contuine their fight, it had nothhing to do with her, so she should stay out of it.

[brownie]

This new taunt broke through Brownie's shell. Her hackles bristled uncomfortably as she remembered Windstorm's trial, the night the silver Queen had attacked her too. And Hollowheart, her Father's killer. "Don't mention either name to me, Ghost," She snarled as she spoke, flexing her claws.

[Ghost]

She is missing the point, he thought to himself. "Why.. whats wrong with them.. is Brownclaw afraid of those names?" He stared at her. "Or is it becaue you know you are like them.. because you broke my heart!" Thats it.. he had said it. He had admitted to her that she had broken his heart.

[brownie]

"I am nothing like them," Brownie hissed, staring defiantly into Ghost's eyes. "Windstorm tried to murder me when I was an Apprentice, and Hollowheart killed my Father! Do you really think I would like to hear of them?" It was after she said this that the dark tabby remembered Sprinklestorm was with them. Embarassed that Ghost had brought up personal problems infront of a relative stranger. "And its not my fault you began to fall in lvoe with me, you even tried to seduce me twice, once when I was an Apprentice and the other after my first love had died. I'd say, we're even."

[SPRiNKL3, , =]]

Sprinklestorm kept quiet, but he thoughts went off, I knew because of Rowanfur, that his father died becasue of Hollowheart, but was that what he was hiding from me when we were apprentices, and refused to tell me where he went after he got back from somewhere, alone? The warrior then heard Brownclaw say that Ghost was in love with her. Sprinklestorm's thoughts had been correct about that. These cats were just giving out personal information none stop.

[Ghost]

"Of course your not like them, Brownclaw," he hissed back. "You have more sense." He sighed. "Well... maybe not enough to realize that hunting your father's killer down is a death mission," he added to himself. "And i did not try and decuce you.. I admitted my love for you. And you rejected me."

[brownie]

"Live with it," Brownclaw hissed at Ghost. The pair of them were always fighting, way too many arguements happened between them, and now they ahd just blabbed their personal buissness infront of a stranger.

[Ghost]

//Poor Sprinklestorm.. she is watching a cat two cats in love bicker...//

Ghost growled. "Is that your answer to everything? 'Live with it'." He stepped forward. "Is that all you think? Of course, when its your problem.. you have to fix it. But with everyone else's problem.. they have to live with it!"

[brownie]

"I never meant to hurt you," Brownclaw hissed, falttening her ears and narrowing her eyes in anger. "Would it really be fair to lie that I returned your feelings? To lead you on and finally get up the courage to leave you?"

[Ghost]

Ghost looked into her eyes. "No, I expected you to fall in love with Silverwing and that everything was a dream. Then he died and I knew that my dreaming was time to become reality. And I knew that ou did love me and the reason that you didn't say anything was because you were scared." He looked down again. "Why else would you come to me, looking for comfort? And then after you come to me you tell me that you don't love me. You lead me on the moment you asked me to come on your trip and the moment you stepped into my barn." A tear fell from his eye.

[SPRiNKL3, , =]]

Sprinklestorm was shocked. Emotions fled into her as she watched as the fight went on. She watched Ghost explain to Brownclaw of her own love. This was not how Rowanfur's and Sprinklestorm's relationship started. Their relationship had been gently raised to mates since they were apprentices. They were so fond of eachother, but these to just seemed to bicker.

As a tear fell from Ghost's brown orbs, the she-cat felt sorry for the loner. Rowanfur had once had tears flow from his eyes. It was after another meeting with his siblings, Torrentheart, Brownclaw, and Winterwind. Apparently they had gotten into a huge fight, and so Sprinklestorm had tried so hard to calm him. Sprinklestorm hadn't ever remembered if she cried though. Not even when her mother, the old deputy Sandfur died, and her father never even said anything to her f her sister, Greyheart who had died of kit birth she thought, because Sprinlestorm never saw her.

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[brownie]

Brownclaw snorted at Ghost's reply, then turned on ehr heel and stormed off. When she had left the inside of the barn, the dark tabby broke into a run and charged away, back to WindClan terra where she felt safe.

[Ghost]

Ghost rushed out of the door wan watched her leave. "Run, Brownie. Go ahead. Run away from all your fears and problems!" He snorted and walked ack into the den, rain soaked

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