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themainframe2013-08-31 05:59 pm
notmyprophecy) wrote in themainframe2013-08-31 05:59 pm
1st Prophecy; Video;
[These memories aren't broadcast far and wide. Maybe that's a blessing. Rather, they appear on the D-Terminals of Jinx, Kovu, Wheeljack, Ultra Magnus, Sora, Yu, Mami, and Waver.
The scene is a cliff of a forest hollow, surrounded by fire. Hollyleaf -- very much a cat -- and her brothers, Jayfeather and Lionblaze, are crouched at one end of a large branch, which creates a bridge through the fire. At the other end, Ashfur, a gray cat, and Squirrelflight, an injured ginger cat, face off. Ashfur stands at the end of the branch, blocking Hollyleaf and her brothers' escape.
"This is the only way to make you feel the same pain that you caused me." Ashfur's voice rises above the fire. "You tore my heart out when you chose Brambleclaw over me. Anything I did to you would never hurt as much. But your kits..." He looks through the flames, toward the siblings. "If you watch them die, then you'll know the pain I felt."
A flicker, through the fire, in but a moment. Squirrelflight's steely response: "Kill them, then. You won't hurt me that way."
A flicker. "They are not my kits."
Hollyleaf's shocked and dismayed face fades, into a brief jumble of words.
Hollyleaf's horrified and shocked voice, first: "We might not even be Clan cats!"
And again, desperate: "We've got to stop him somehow. Otherwise he'll tell all four Clans about us."
A male voice now, one of her brothers: "...nd they might drive us away from the lake."
A brief, flickered image, through Hollyleaf's eyes. She's looking at Ashfur, who appears wary. "What do you want?"
"How do you know I want anything?"
"Aren't you going to try to make me change my mind, like Squirrelflight and your littermates."
"No." A shocked expression is her reward. "I know there's nothing I can do. It's your decision to betray your own Clan."
Another flicker, like the conversation jumps. Hollyleaf's voice echoes, "And it's not betrayal when you weaken ThunderClan in front of the other Clans, so soon after the Great Battle?"
Ashfur's face gets very close, his lips drawn back in a snarl. "If you're trying to scare me, it's not working."
"And you don't scare me either. Nothing scares me more than the thought that you're not afraid of what will happen after you've spoken out."
His narrowed eyes. "I'll purr over what will happen after I've revealed the truth."
The scene shakes into darkness. Hollyleaf's distressed voice again, shaking. "I couldn't let him do that! I couldn't let them find out the truth--that Firestar's Clan was even less pure than they thought."
The sun's going down. Ashfur faces off against Hollyleaf again, through her point of view, appearing almost disgruntled or annoyed with her. He starts to say something, something-- "I thought you said you didn't want t--"
Quite suddenly, Ashfur's getting closer-- Hollyleaf's leaped at him. He gasps and she pushes her paw against his neck, easily pinning him down. It's chaos, as he thrashes and they toss and turn, and in the midst of it, she hisses, "You left me no choice," and a gurgling noise rises from Ashfur's throat.
He's choking in the water of a stream, which is slowly dying red from the wound across his neck. Wide-eyed, he stares and he dies.
The water reflects Hollyleaf's face, green eyes cold and stone-y, mouth touched with blood...and paws covered in it. They dip in the water, which washes it away.
"Ashfur would've destroyed ThunderClan."
Blood. From her paws to the water, all in her gaze. Ashfur's body starts to slip away, floating in the water. Still, the blood in the water fills Hollyleaf's vision.
And a the memories flicker out.
For only a second, the human-Hollyleaf's eyes are wide and shocked at the memory; then the D-Terminal flicks off.]
The scene is a cliff of a forest hollow, surrounded by fire. Hollyleaf -- very much a cat -- and her brothers, Jayfeather and Lionblaze, are crouched at one end of a large branch, which creates a bridge through the fire. At the other end, Ashfur, a gray cat, and Squirrelflight, an injured ginger cat, face off. Ashfur stands at the end of the branch, blocking Hollyleaf and her brothers' escape.
"This is the only way to make you feel the same pain that you caused me." Ashfur's voice rises above the fire. "You tore my heart out when you chose Brambleclaw over me. Anything I did to you would never hurt as much. But your kits..." He looks through the flames, toward the siblings. "If you watch them die, then you'll know the pain I felt."
A flicker, through the fire, in but a moment. Squirrelflight's steely response: "Kill them, then. You won't hurt me that way."
A flicker. "They are not my kits."
Hollyleaf's shocked and dismayed face fades, into a brief jumble of words.
Hollyleaf's horrified and shocked voice, first: "We might not even be Clan cats!"
And again, desperate: "We've got to stop him somehow. Otherwise he'll tell all four Clans about us."
A male voice now, one of her brothers: "...nd they might drive us away from the lake."
A brief, flickered image, through Hollyleaf's eyes. She's looking at Ashfur, who appears wary. "What do you want?"
"How do you know I want anything?"
"Aren't you going to try to make me change my mind, like Squirrelflight and your littermates."
"No." A shocked expression is her reward. "I know there's nothing I can do. It's your decision to betray your own Clan."
Another flicker, like the conversation jumps. Hollyleaf's voice echoes, "And it's not betrayal when you weaken ThunderClan in front of the other Clans, so soon after the Great Battle?"
Ashfur's face gets very close, his lips drawn back in a snarl. "If you're trying to scare me, it's not working."
"And you don't scare me either. Nothing scares me more than the thought that you're not afraid of what will happen after you've spoken out."
His narrowed eyes. "I'll purr over what will happen after I've revealed the truth."
The scene shakes into darkness. Hollyleaf's distressed voice again, shaking. "I couldn't let him do that! I couldn't let them find out the truth--that Firestar's Clan was even less pure than they thought."
The sun's going down. Ashfur faces off against Hollyleaf again, through her point of view, appearing almost disgruntled or annoyed with her. He starts to say something, something-- "I thought you said you didn't want t--"
Quite suddenly, Ashfur's getting closer-- Hollyleaf's leaped at him. He gasps and she pushes her paw against his neck, easily pinning him down. It's chaos, as he thrashes and they toss and turn, and in the midst of it, she hisses, "You left me no choice," and a gurgling noise rises from Ashfur's throat.
He's choking in the water of a stream, which is slowly dying red from the wound across his neck. Wide-eyed, he stares and he dies.
The water reflects Hollyleaf's face, green eyes cold and stone-y, mouth touched with blood...and paws covered in it. They dip in the water, which washes it away.
"Ashfur would've destroyed ThunderClan."
Blood. From her paws to the water, all in her gaze. Ashfur's body starts to slip away, floating in the water. Still, the blood in the water fills Hollyleaf's vision.
And a the memories flicker out.
For only a second, the human-Hollyleaf's eyes are wide and shocked at the memory; then the D-Terminal flicks off.]
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Waver? ...Mmhm.
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Are you...okay?
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[Waver sat down on the edge of the bed, visibly hesitant.] ...I'm sorry. I was hoping you'd manage to avoid this.
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I didn't want him to destroy my Clan. But...I did it all on my own.
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