Mischeif Managed (Spottedstar)

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Hawkwhisper slunk between the undergrowth walking into camp. She saw Spottedstar near the prey pile. She chuckled to herself. Who would have thought that Spottedstar would turn out to have the gusto for it after all She thought to herself. She had thought that Shadowclan was destined for weakness but Spottedstar was starting to change her mind.

She walked over to the cat and picked up a mouse. "Greetings Spottedstar. How does the crow fly with you?"

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Spottedstar had been laying near the fresh-kill pile, a frog between her paws. Instead of eating the piece of prey, she had been staring at it. Her mind still whirled with the day's events. Terms with ThunderClan were only getting worse, and she could have lost two of her warriors, just after loosing an apprentice. She closed her eyes in frustration, wanting to know why ShadowClan outright disobeyed her. Swiftstar never seemed to have this problem. Maybe I'll try to visit StarClan tonight in my sleep.

Her mind was brought back by the mention of her name. Her amber eyes opened quickly, and she looked up to see Hawkwhisper. At first, the only thing that came to her was puzzlement. It wasn't hard to guess that she wasn't Hawkwhisper's favorite cat in the forest. But no sign of hostility were showing- yet.

The ginger-white leader rose to her paws. "Fine, thanks. And you?"

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Hawkwhisper just blinked and nodded to her leader. "Fine thank you." She settled down with her meal and started to take a bite. She looked at her leader, She looked worn down almost like she needed a pick-me-up. Perhaps just a nudge of support... She looked at the leader. "Well I heard about Runningpath and I wouldn't have handled it any other way. Treachery is not to be allowed." She said in her firm voice. It was meant to be a praise to the leader but you could never tell these things with Hakwhisper. she said them with a resolve that said this is what I beleive and don't counter me Anyways having just praised the leader she gave herself a mental pat on the back. step one- be nicer to leader. CHECK! She thought to herself.

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Spottedstar glared down at the frog, still uneaten between her paws. "Then there is at least one other sensible cat in ShadowClan, she muttered. Her claws began working at the earth. "Now she wants to come crawling back, but still wants to cause a fuss over Starpaw. I'm none the happier, having lost a valuable apprentice, but it was StarClan's will. Runningpath should know better." She looked back up to Hawkwhisper. "No cat in this Clan seems to honor my word. If warriors don't follow their leader, then they're nothing better than rouges."

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Hawkwhisper nodded her head. "Trust me, noone agree's more with you than I. However, I think you are at a crossroads. Either you let her back into the clan and seem caring yet weak or you do not let her reenter and seem harsh yet strong. Its a tough situation I must say." She said taking another bite and chewing slowly to think before she spoke. She had to be careful not to offend with harsh words. "No one is happy to loose an apprentice, but Starclan's will is Starclan's will." She said swallowing and then realizing she had spoken with a full mouth how rude! She looked around quickly to make sure no one had gotten a peak at the lizards tail in her mouth.

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Spottedstar snarled slightly at the thought of weakness. "I don't want to except her back. The worst that could happen, though, would be that her kits go with her. They're the last of our apprentices." She flicked her tail irritably. "I had planed to go to Mothermouth tonight, and Runningpath tells me that she also plans to do so- to try and get Starpaw back, no doubt." Why couldn't the thick-skulled queen think? She was just making life difficult for everyone else.

"She's not the only cat, either. There's Dirtfur. I've had it up to here with his disobedience and lack of concern. Both loving and killing that ThunderClan warrior started this whole problem in the first place. After that I wanted to trust him, but all he's done is make his situation worse." She shook her head, then realized that she was pouring out all of her frustrations and problems. Wouldn't this make her seem weak? Complaining to a warrior? Not wanting to let it show, she averted her eyes to the frog. She picked it put to swiftly place it back on the fresh-kill pile for some other cat.

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"Then don't" Hawkwhisper said slyly. "You are after all our leader. We must all accept your judgement." She nodded to the leader as she went on about the kits leaving with their mother. "Those kits have been trained in Shadowclan to have loyalty in their heart. I doubt they will leave." Hawkwhisper hissed a little to herself when she heard of Runningpath's presumptuousness. "Oh so we should all just forget about our problems and let Runningpath run the clan." She rolled her eyes and looked at the leader next to her. "Trust me you aren't the only one annoyed by her selfishness"

Her sarcastic streak was getting the best of her. "It's no wonder all the other clans think we are heartless. Not one of us seem to have the minds to follow the code. -besides us of course." She laughed a little to herself hoping the leader got her joke. She saw her look sort of put out and wondered what the leader was thinking. "Sharing your worries is not weakness unless i was from another clan."

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Spottedstar looked thoughtful for a moment, then shook out her pelt. "Your words are true. Well, then, I'll go to the Moonstone tonight with the apprentices, make sure they keep their loyalty to us and StarClan. I suppose Runningpath will go too even if I don't agree to bring her, so there's no point in arguing over that." Her amber eyes gave a swift glance to the sky overhead, the sun vanishing slowly, soon to be replaced by the moon's silver lighting. "For now I'll leave the fates of disloyal cats to StarClan. Now, I must prepare to leave." She turned towards to walk away, then cast a look over her shoulder, back to Hawkwhisper. "It's good to know there's one less warrior I need to worry about." With that she quickly bounded over to the medicine cats den.