Another dull day -Open-

[Ivytail]

An early morning chill blew gently through the NightClan camp, stirring up a few stray leaves and causing a gray she-cat to shiver just slightly as she trotted out of her den. She ignored the refreshing breeze though, and scanned the quiet camp with dark amber eyes. The dawn patrol had already left, and anyone else who was not out hunting was either asleep or quietly eating some fresh-kill to start off the morning. The start of another dull day. In truth though, Rainstar had nothing against dull days, and as much as she enjoyed complaining about them, there was nothing better than just relaxing sometimes. She sat and glanced around, pausing for a moment over a couple of elders gossiping, to a few kits yawning as they awoke, and then to a group of warriors quietly sharing a bird. With a pang of disappointment Rainstar noted that the younger and more louder of the warriors must be out in patrol. Oh, how it amused her to listen to their boasting and bragging, and then to come up behind one of them and demand why there was so little prey in the fresh-kill pile. And then they would make some silly excuse, like 'But the fresh-kill pile has more than enough prey to feed us and a whole other clan!' and 'I just came back from a hunting patrol!' And when Rainstar began to yell at them about the importance of prey and other things that came to her, they would run off with their tails between their legs! The NightClan leader purred just thinking about it. Those silly warriors...

[Hyper||Ducky]

The black tom's eyes bounced with amusement. How unfocused his leader was. A cat from Moonclan could have easily attacked her, and she wouldn't have had the slightest idea. Yes, she, and all of her other warriors, could exellently in the dark, but she seemed so absent minded."Boo!" A loud chuckle sprang from the toms throat."You should pay more attention Rainstar." He was a teasing tom, not because he was bored, but because he found it rather amusing. He respected the she-cats in the clan though. He hoped that one day the clan would be filled with them. In fact, he would pick a she-cat for his deputy. He nodded, yes the idea of having mostly she-cats in a clan sounded so pleasant. The black tom turned to face her, his bright orange markings moved as he did to create the illusion of his markings to move like fire. Perhaps that's why the called him Shootingflame."How embaressing to have a cat from your own clan to sneak up on you." He hoped she didn't take it as critisism but all and all he was in a fun joking mood today.

[Ivytail]

Rainstar jumped at the surprise attack from her deputy, and realized it was him just before she could begin to yell 'ATTACK!' to alert the rest of the clan of an enemy's presence. Luckily though she caught herself, and with what dignity she had left, or at least what she thought she had left, she sat back down and scowled at Shootingflame. "Maybe I don't pay attention because I don't expect to be sneaked up upon by a cat from my own clan!" She stuck her gray muzzle into the air. "But at least you finally showed up. I was about to send a patrol into the warriors den to make sure you were still alive!" Despite her words, she could see the NightClan deputy's amusement, and just maybe, softened her gaze a little...Then again she most likely didn't...

[Hyper||Ducky]

The tom rolled his eyes. He looked at his chest, paws, and behind him."I'm pretty sure I'm alive and in once piece at that. Oh wait..." He paused and looked at his tail."I might be missing a piece of my tail, but that's it I promise." He smiled at his dry sense of humor."The forest is bland and quiet, I thought I would sleep in today. If that's a problem I won't do it again. However I would have love to seen a patrol of warriors go to the warrior den to see if I was still alive. That I must say, would have made my day. All they would have found was a sleeping snoring tom taking up all the nests." He shrugged his shoulders and moved closer taking a seat beside Rainstar."Now that I am up is there something I should be doing?"

[Ivytail]

Rainstar scowled for another moment until she finally realized why she needed him. She jumped up to her paws and began to pad over to the other side of the camp. "Yes, Shootingflame, now I remember. We have a serious problem here." she called behind her to her deputy as she headed toward the dens. She stopped and turned around as she reached the rock wall, and flicked her tail for the other cat to come over. Then the gray she-cat sat down, and as she waited she examined the rocks, twitching her tail impatiently. "Now, can you tell me whats wrong here?" She asked with a nod to the wall. "By that, I mean does anything strike you as off? Or maybe amiss? At fault, awry, incorrect, defective..." Rainstar trailed off as she thought of more adjectives.

[Hyper||Ducky]

Shootingflame raised his gaze to the rocks, then to her."A serious problem...and your talking about a wall? Or the fact that it's completely silent and cats aren't around." Today would be a long day, he could already tell. He wasn't one to crack stupid jokes with every line he said, but what else could he do besides sit there and tell cats to not be lazy? If he did that he would be setting a bad example since this very morning he had done the same thing. He slept in like a normal warrior would do when trouble wasn't awry. "Personally I think the rocks look fine...maybe a nicer color to complement our darker fur colors." He stepped aside and tilted his head to the side to make it look like he was examining it."Hmm perhaps a dark gray..." He let out a warm purr and looked around."Want me to fetch the worthless warriors that are lying around. The stupid pieces of mouse dung..."

[Ivytail]

Rainstar shook her head impatiently. "No, no, no!" She meowed insistently, turning her gaze back toward the rocks. Her tail flicked back and forth pressingly. "It's not the rocks that are here that I have a problem with. It's the one that isn't." She narrowed her eyes and nosed an open crack, then looked back up at Shootingflame. "The light, circular one that has been here for uncountable moons is missing!" She darkened her gaze and looked across at the nursery. "I bet it was those kits. Trying to get back at me again." This last sentence she muttered to herself, but she quickly turned back to the deputy. "Find the rock. While your doing that I'll...take a nap." As if on que she yawned, and with that began to trot back to her den.

[Hyper||Ducky]

Shootingflame's jaws dropped slightly and tightened. "Right....a rock..." He looked towards the nursery and shook his head."A kit wouldn't be able to take a rock. Perhaps Stardustclan sent you a wrong dream. Or maybe you have had WAY to many poppy seeds." He coughed and poked his head into the nursery. The queens and the kits, sleeping innocently in their nests. He sat their for a moment just to look. They were so cute and innocent you couldn't help but feel bad for them. How the older cats always blamed them for the trouble.Shes sending her deputy....to find a rock... why not an apprentice or a warrior for a warrior mission. Perhaps she is clinically insane? Shootingflame laughed in his head. When she had gone into her den. He spun around and layed down in the warmer part of camp. Someone else can find her rock...For Stardustclan's sake its just a rock.....

[Hamster]

Lullabypaw quickly walked past the two quarreling warriors. Honestly. Fawnspots had insisted that she clean out the Moss Tree. Apparently, a huge pile of rocks had appeared out of nowhere, blocking most of the entrance to the den. "No, that won't do! Clean it up!" Fawnspots had insisted.

She looked around for a place to relocate the rock. It was a pretty rock: slate gray, and strangely circular. It felt good in her jaw after she had spent hours cleaning out the pile--and she was barely halfway done.

She just couldn't seem to find somewhere to put this rock! It was getting late and she was getting frustrated. Maybe over there. No, too many rocks already. Or that spot over there. No, it just didn't seem right.

ooc| We're all seeming to be frantic about a...ROCK, aren't we? xD

[Cloudedstar]

Fawnspots emerged from the Moss Tree, letting out a yawn and stretching luxuriously beneath the huge leaf that draped overhead. Then, she licked her lips and sat down, wrapping her tail neatly over her paws. Her mouth felt raw and her teeth sore from moving rocks out of her den all morning. Fawnspots wasn't sure who put them there, but the soft, milky scents of kits all around her den made her suspect that the kits had done it just to annoy her. She would have to have a word with the queens later.

The red-brown she-cat rose to her paws, the white spots on her flanks glowing softly in the darkness. "Hurry up with that stone, Lullabypaw!" Fawnspots called softly across the clearing. "We have much work to do today, especially after those rocks delayed our herb hunting!"

[Hamster]

She glanced at Fawnspots to signal to her that she'd heard her, and ran out of the camp. Picking a random bush, she threw the rock inside. The leaves rustled, and when they quieted, she found herself feeling a bit sad--and, for some reason, guilty--that the rock was gone. Maybe she would find it again? Spinning around, she tried locating the rock again, but her search was fruitless.

Ah, well, I'd better finish the job or I'll be on it past sun set, she thought to herself. Taking a quick route back to the Moss Tree, she stopped nearby where her deputy was. Rainstar had gone back to her den. Shootingflame seemed to be in a pessimistic mood today. "Are you looking for something?" asked the apprentice in a soft voice.

[Ivytail]

"What was that Shottingflame?" Rainstar meowed as she trotted toward her den, only picking up a few of the deputy's words. "You need some poppy seeds? You better see Fawnspots then, I'm sure she has some laying around." She was about to enter her den when she paused, changing her mind about taking a nap. This whole incident had her all riled up now, there was no way she would be able to sleep with that on her mind! She turned around after a moment. What else can I do around here? She examined the camp with uninterest. There was always hunting...Or she could bother Fawnspots, that always amused her. But Fawnspots did look rather busy carrying rocks out of her den. Rainstar stopped. Wait....rocks! She nearly jumped up to her paws when she remembered that she had sent Shootingflame out to find the missing stone. Why should she bother herself to do it? But as Lullabypaw happened by, asking why that lazy deputy was so down today, she supposed there was nothing better to do anyways at the moment. "He's investigating the disappearance of part of the rock wall." She cut in, looking very serious.

[Hamster]

Lullabypaw jumped slightly as her leader abruptly appeared beside them. Quietly, she mewled,"rock wall? It disappeared?" This was news to her. "There's a huge pile of rocks beside the Moss Tree. Fawnspots and I are trying to move it. We've got about half the pile done. We didn't know about the rock wall, so we just scattered them around in the territory." She paused, wondering if she should mention her strange find. "I also found a weird rock which..." Nah, she shouldn't say anything. No need to burden Rainstar anymore.

[Ivytail]

Rainstar only took in half of this, and turned her head to glare at the ground. "So Fawnspots is behind this." She meowed darkly to herself, barely waiting for Lullibypaw to finish. "I should have known." She looked back up, as if not realizing the others could hear her. "Now, Shootingflame is looking for a certain rock. The one that fits in there." She flicked her tail toward the crack in the wall. "If I remember correctly it is roundish and gray, like the others." She coughed, shaking her pelt. "Now." she turned to Shootingflame. "I want this rock found before Sunhigh. So get to it!"

[Hamster]

"But Fawnspots didn't know about the wall either," countered Lullabypaw. Then, she suddenly looked sheepish. Her voice much softer than her previous comment, she said, "I saw a rock that might have fit in there. Is it something important?" She was avoiding directly stating that she had disposed of the rock, scared of what her leader would do.