Trapped

[EclipseFur]

As the afternoon began to turn into night,EclipseFur toke another peek through the only hole she can actually see from.Her eyes began to water as she let out a horse cry. She was hungry,tiered,and from all the meowing and yowling for help...thirsty. Sighing EclipseFur began to lose hope of ever being found,letting out one last yowl she tried to make it as loud as possible,but her dried up throat was making it hard for her to even let out a simple meow. Turning away from the peek hole,she padded slowly away from it as she let her tail drop and her head hang,she padded to a corner of the tumbled rocks and curled into a tight ball.Half closing her eyes she whispered a soft quiet pray."Oh StarClan,let someone find me!....

[Kovu]

Scuffling could be heard now, echoing softly yet hesitantly at first...then steadily growing louder did it sound as the scrabbling was at long last made out. The scent of earth and death overflowed into the trapped cat's den as light began to shine through newly formed cracks the scrabbling had unearthed. Panting and brawn were coming about as an unknown creature reeking of aforesaid objects looked closer. Fear must have been struck into the victim's heart as the digging commensed...until at long last, a tiny entrance was uncovered as rocks were moved here and there and the light displayed a fearsome amount of cat holding up the entrance.

Hawktide spat, "Hurry! Out!"

He didn't know what led him to turn back until that moment. He thought he was done with unearthing dead bodies, thought that was all there was to be found, thought he was done swinging. Never had he been so wrong.

[EclipseFur]

EclipseFur's eyes lifted up as the stranger yelled.Not hesitating nor questioning,she scurried out the fur on her back bristled as she fear the rocks would collapse. She looked at at the stranger her eyes widen showing fear yet she was filled with relief and joy.

She could be ever so thankful to the cat."Thank You so much!" she mewed happily.

Oh how ever grateful she could be to the stranger,she was skinny,very skinny and her eyes looked dull from lack of sleep.Yet she was full of energy excited to see her clan members once more after being trapped for days ever since the earthquake had passed.

[Kovu]

Using his shoulders to bear the weight of the boulder threatening to crush him and crumble into blocking her way out, Hawktide made a huge grunt/growl of effort as he heaved his body out to safety as quick as possible; followed by a huge rumble of dissent from the earth as it crashed all around him. His flanks heaved as he whirled around to looked Eclipsedur all up and down, "You are unhurt?" he wondered, his voice just a croak for he as unused to speaking to living cats.

His bright green depths took in her giant, quivering form as he assessed the damage done to her as if he were a medicine cat. She was starving. He should catch her something but his own rumbling, dull and deadened stomach suggested otherwise along with the fact that...there was no prey.

[EclipseFur]

EclipsedFur sat down,as she looked at HawkTide for a moment before actually responding.

"I was fast enough to run from harms way.....but I wasnt fast enough to run from being trapped and almost starve to death..."She mewed softly as she looked at the tom gratefully.

She hadn't been so happy to be able to breath cleaner air,to be able to see more light then plain darkness and the smell of dust making her unable to barely breath.She was glad this cat had past by to hear her cry. Her prayers were answered and she was very grateful to him and StarClan.

"My name is EclipseFur by the way....whats your name?..."she mewed softly her eyes filling up with curiosity

[Kovu]

The tall Tom met her gaze squarely, his own eyes filled with multiple things at once. Relief that another cat had been found alive, pride for he had been the one to find said cat, and pain that she had to feel all that...for he was sure Gingervoice had become exactly like so until she died...he blinked as he realized the new at was actually grateful to him. Hawktide cleared his throat, hoping to do the same with his head and heart at the same time, "Any warrior would have done the same if they had heard your cries..." his remaining ear flattened as he squeezed his eyes shut and shuddered briefly, knowing that what he should have been doing for his sweetheart recently passed.

His eyes opened sharply at the mention of her name. "Eclipsefur, pleasure to meet you. I am Hawktide, MarshClan." he bowed his head humbly, courteous to the last; no matter his inner turmoil.

[EclipseFur]

EclipseFur Jumped up at the mentioning of her clan how glad to see a member from her birth clan after days of nothing but the sent of death.

"Really!? Iv been stuck under all of those rocks I dont remember you from MarshClan...Im a MarshClan warrior as well....I haven't really seen you but I think Iv seen you once before...before all this happened."She mewed softly.

She was even more glad now to actually see one of her clanmates now. She tilted her head as she saw how he reacted to her grateful feelings,yet she didn't dare ask him what was wrong.Instead she didnt hesitate to speak once more.

"Should we start heading out of here and find the rest of our clan?"she mewed quietly as she looked around at the tumbled rocks and back at HawkTide.

"By the way...Nice meeting you HawkTide"She meowed,letting out a grin.

[Kovu]

Hawktide stared at her as if she had grown a second head. "Really? I have been around MarshClan since my birth along with my sisters...Perhaps you have seen me with Bumblestrike and Gingervoice? We used to always be around one another." he licked his suddenly dry lips at the mention of his lost love but continued on. "Ah well, it is of no importance. You are correct...but I'm afraid you are simply a little late to the party for we have gathered as much as have been found of our members in one particular spot." he blinked.

His maw twitched but he did not smile back, the pain had left him too haggard and drawn to do such...Smiling? Why should he now? His happiness was gone.

[EclipseFur]

EclipseFur stood silent,she didn't know anyone from her clan but seeing their faces again would make her feel at home. Even if her home was destroyed.

"Well...where so you think they have gone?" She said with a curious but almost silent voice.

As she thought, she remembered the mentioned names of his friends.She looked around once more,her tail lashing as she she began to stalk around the area for any sings of living prey.She looked weak and dull,but the desperate need for food and water made her seem full of energy and strength.

"Maybe we should find something to eat,then we can head off and find your missing friends." She suggested a glow of hope rising through her shy blue eyes.

[Kovu]

Hawktide cleared his throat to tell her he had something meaningful to say. "I know where they wait..." he licked his lips and scented the air. "Prey now. Your friends later." his head lifted to draw out any, any trace at all, of much needed prey. Trees. That's where most would be. A good perhaps in the roots...or hopefully a bird or wistful thinking: two.

His tail lashed for her to follow him an he broke out into a slow lope, his head turning back to see if she could keep up with his pace. It was just that; the faster she got fed; the longer she would live. Hawktide would make sure of her survival...too many cats had not.

[EclipseFur]

EclipseFur followed right under his heels she would have gone faster but she didn't know where exactly they were heading,and so she let him to lead on. All she needed to worry about was to find any sings of prey before heading on off. As she looked around everything seemed to be..dead.Disappointment glew in her eyes.

"Maybe we should look around an area that doesn't seem so dead" She meowed.

With the looks of this place not even scavengers would look for food here. At least a place with sings of life would be a nice advantage for luck to come and give them some prey. Her mouth began to water at the thought of food,but right now she needed to focus and follow this Tom out of here.

[Kovu]

"Patience and silence are two worthy virtues in life to get to know, Eclipsefur..." he grunted, now moving faster with his voice low as they came closer to the lone oak. He snorted and grimaced as he didn't pick up a trace of anything...until he screeched to a halt and twitched in the direction of a particularly thick root a small finch was jumping around.

Nothing would conceal him...so he thanked his lucky stars that they were downwind. He crept cautiously up as close as he could go without alerting the bird, flinching and freezing whenever it tilted its head in a direction near him. Then; when the time became right; he pounced...just as the bird spotted him. It squeaked as it hopped up but Hawktide had been there first and it had reacted too late. The bird caught, he droppe it at Eclipsefur's paws without a word.

[EclipseFur]

EclipsedFur looked at the bird with such joy her eyes glittering as she bent down to take a bite.Lashing her tail she sniffed the bird and looked up at HawkTide a large smile on her face. For her extremely shy personality she was acting sociable,it was strange for her to smile.

"Nice Catch!" She praised before she toke two large mouthfuls leaving only half of the bird.

This time she stood up,as she stared at HawkTide with a serious look on her face and her eyes sharp.There was little prey for to cats around her and she knew they will have to make the best of it for both of them to survive out of here and find their missing clan and other living clan-mates.

"Eat"She meowed strictly her tail lashing.

"There is little prey and you know we both need as much strength and energy we can get...eat your half so we can head off,along the way we can stop and find any other living prey,we can gather those up and take them with us....but right now you need to eat...no hesitation we are both thin,weak,tiered,and starving....Im not going to be selfish and let you starve...."She meowed sitting up straight and rapping her tail neatly around her paws.

[Kovu]

He stared at her, surprised at her compliment when he especially thought it was a sloppy kill. But he knew beggars couldn't be choosers particularly when he was starving. So he made do. He watched her eat, swiping his tongue around his jaws and just now realizing how starving he was. His paws itched to make off with the kill he was so hungry and very skin and bones as well but said nothing.

Hearing her tone and sternness at him, his eyes narrowed at her. His voice was low with warning. "You will starve before I if you eat a mere two bites. That is not near enough. If we are smiled upon from above, then will I be able to catch something. And even then, I will give it to my elder father. And after him, the queens for they are unable and need food much more than I." his voice held no room for argument.

"Finish that. I think I scent the lingerings of a shrew or vole..." he grunted suddenly, harshly in his frantics, his nose drawing in the scents of the oak around him. "And stay quiet." he locked eyes with her before darting around the tree.

[EclipseFur]

EclipseFur let out a huff. She felt so selfish eating the half that was left,but this tom was more strict and she couldn't argue about anything. He was somehow right,yet she noticed he was literally as thin as she was.Standing up she raced behind him,her paws barely making any sound at all,she had the half of the bird on her jaws,she chewed it quickly and picked up the pace,her paws itching to catch something of her own as well.

"You know....your hard-headed"she mumbled a silent whisper.

All she wanted was to be nice and not let him starve even more then he already was,but he hesitated and had told her to eat the other half,and she just listen and devoured it,but now she couldn't stop having the guilty feeling on her stomach,lashing her tail she tried her best to clear her mind and move on.