Th(o)rns

[Rose]

Delilah

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A beautiful white she-cat padded through the once crisp to the core place. She noticed that plants were now growing back. But they were just basic plants, none were as beautiful as they were before the fire. She saw a beautiful red flower ahead. She ran forward and sniffed it. A rose. The she-cat named Delilah thought. She stepped one more step forward and stumbled into the thorns of the rosebush. She screeched as thorns dug into her muzzle and underbelly. She tried to struggle free, but with no help, she got thorn all over her well-kept pelt. She let out another screech hoping a cat would here her.

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[ally ♥]

A pale silver tabby walked through the barren wastelands, mildly irritated by the new brush slapping at her belly at she walked. Still, the brush meant that everything was growing back, which was a good thing for the Cult... she guessed. "Like we're not going to have the other clans with their faces to the floor soon anyways,"Ace meowed aloud, with a cold laugh. She was fairly certain that the Cult had no intention in staying in these pathetic scraps of wasteland anyways. Just then, a loud screech alerted Ace of another cats presence. She'd been too intent on her thoughts to smell the prominent scent of another she cat. She recognized the scent faintly, but didn't put a name to it. Ace caught sight of Delilah, a pretty white she cat Protector, with her ice blue eyes and sighed. The poor she cat was caught in a thorn bush. Usually, this is the moment where Ace would laugh and say something around the lines of 'sucks for you'. But, today Ace didn't feel rude. She moved over to the she cat and gave her a nod of recognition. "Here, let me help you." Ace hesitated. It was going to be hard to get the she cat out without ripping the thorny bushes away from her pelt so she didn't know what to do. She didn't want to harm the she cat any more than the thorns already were, but Delilah obviously couldn't live in these bushes.

[Rose]

"Get me out of here. I can't have my kits in here, I can't hunt in here. I'll die in here if you don't GET THESE THINGS OFF OF ME." Delilah hissed. She tried to struggle free again, but that only led her to the thorns digging in her again. She let out another screech of pain. She sighed and tried to lay down in the thorns. If you weren't so stupid you wouldn't be here. Delilah thought inside. She waited for Ace to let her free. Yet no help came. "HELP ME YOU FLEA-BAG." Screeched the angry she-cat. She realized how rude she had just been. "Your not a flea-bag but can you please get me out?" Delilah mewed pitifully. She just wanted to race away, to go and have her kits. To just get them out of her.

[ally ♥]

Great StarClan, this she cat is not in a good mood... Ace thought, raising an eyebrow in amusement. She knew it wasn't polite to find something like this funny, but she couldn't help herself. It just was. "All right, all right. This might hurt a little, but I'll try to do it the best way possible." Ace saw an opening of how to get the she cat out- basically, all she had to do was hold a couple of the branchesto one side so there was a little opening for her to crawl out. "When there's a little opening, get out quickly." Ace meowed, opening her mouth. She grasped one of the thorn branches in her mouth, slightly wincing as a thorn caught her in the mouth. With her front paw, she pushed another branch out of the way and waited for the she cat to get out.

[redwhisker]

Bone was walking around to see if there was anything to do beside killing loners, kittypets an clan cats. It wasn't really fun being bored. Ever since he became cult leader he was happier than ever. He spotted Ace and padded over to her. He looked at Delilah and saw that she had just gotten out of the thorn bush. "how is everything going?" he asked the she-cats

[Rose]

Delilah hissed as she backed out of the bush. "What do you wish from us!" Delilah screeched before running off toward a patch of trees. She wasn't very social but when it came to Coalstorm she was more than happy to be social. Yes a Clan cat was her mate yet no one knew. NO ONE! And that was her and his little secret. She had always washed before and after her visits with him. So she was unnoticed in his territory.

[ally ♥]

"Great StarClan Delilah," Ace meowed at her, snorting a little. She had known the she cat was shy, but this was mouse-brained. "This is Bone, the leader of the Cult. You should be showing a little more respect." Ace swiveled her head to look at him through her pale, slitted ice blue eyes. While she didn't know much about Bone except for his personality, she knew enough to appreciate him. He was a handsome tom, that much was sure, with his white pelt and his deep yellow eyes. Ace looked at him, but pretended to be casual, almost aloof. "We're fine, Delilah just had a little tussle with a rose bush. And I do believe the rose bush won. But other than that, quite fine. And yourself?" Ace forced herself not to laugh at her own words, which normally she would do; Ace needed to work on her ego. She eyed him one last time. He still needed a queen, and hadn't been pinned down by any she cat yet. Power wouldn't do anything awful to her complexion. That made her internally snort at herself. Yeah, she just found herself slightly obsessed with the idea of power. Unfortunately, the Cult was patriarchal. If she merely had to kill him to become leader, she probably already would've. But Ace knew better to share these thoughts with the other cats, or that she believed Bone and her would make a good match. So she merely smiled, slightly condescendingly, at these cats and hid her ugly thoughts.

[redwhisker]

Bone looked at Delilah. "What Ace says is true, I am leader" He said. He looked at Delilah and smiled. "Ah rose bushes are no fun to be in and you better watch where you are going, or you might just end up in another one" he said. He looked at Ace. He wanted her to be his Queen but would she? "Ace, I have a very important question to ask you." He said with a smile.