A sad day to remember

[owlfeather]

Featherheart padded along the side the gorge looking down as the water flowed. As she looked down she noticed something white. Not only that...the scent was so familiar.
No...it can't be!
She found a ledge and climbed down and dragged the bloody bundle of fur on shore and rolled it over only to find her best friend cold and motionless.
"No..." She whispered and dug her face into her fur that no longer smelled like her, but like death. She threw her head back and yelled as loud as she could.
"NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[coal]

Cold light above us
There is nothing left of you
I can see it in your eyes
Sing the anthem of the angels
And say the last good bye

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Coalstorm padded through the forest, the trees were thin here because it bordered the gorge. The black tom turned his head as a shriek pierced the air. Coalstorm's heart jumped to his throat, it came from the gorge. The fluffy tom quickly made his way to the edge of the cliff and, making sure his footing was secure, peered over the edge. What he saw made him gasp. There were two cats, one white and another gray. The beautiful, snow white fur... Coalstorm wold know it anywhere. The warrior made his way down the stony wall, all thoughts of caution eradicated from his mind. Snowfur... No, no, no, please... StarClan no! He finally made his way down to the two cats, recognizing the other cat now as Featherheart. Though he stood a few tail lengths away, he knew she was gone. '' Oh... My love... My one and only love... '' Coalstorm crouched down and tried to curl in on himself as much as he could, trying to escape the world, the sick reality that was forming around him.

Snowfur was dead. StarClan had taken her from him. What StarClan didn't know was that when they took Snowfur, they took his reason why, too.

[owlfeather]

Featehrheart sadly looked over at Coalstorm.
"We'd better bring her back to camp."
She mewed, her voice cracked with sadness.
"I know how you feel, she was like a sister to me. Me and her were the only two kits to survive an outbreak of greencough and ever since then we've stuck together...."
She let the tears roll freely down her cheeks.
She helped Coalstorm pick up her friend and the both walked back to camp carrying her cold, lifeless body. Up ahead she could see Wolfstar, who heard their pawsteps and turned to face them, at first smileing but his expression darkening as he looked at Snowfur.

[~flameh~]

Wolfstar had just gotten finished talking to Icegaze. His spirits were up since she reported that more prey was coming in. Plus she was such a horrible flirt, though only he knew it. He was proud of how his clan was coming along. He turned towards the entrance of the camp, hearing pawsteps. Featherheart and Coalstorm, returning at last. But, not with prey. With Snowfur's dead body. His pelt bristled. "What happened? I want to hear every detail that you know." he growled, looking at her mangled body.

[coal]

Coalstorm just blinked at Wolfstar with watery yellow eyes and placed Snowfur's body gently on the ground. He stred at her lifeless body for a few moments that felt like eternity and then turned to his leader, '' I... I don't know Wolfstar... I just found Snowfur an Featherheart at the bottom of the gorge and Snowfur was... '' The big black tom could not bring himself to say the word dead. '' Please excuse me Wolfstar. '' He said quietly and then padded out of camp again, dragging his big fluffy tail behind him and leaving a trail in the dirt.

Coalstorm just walked, his paws carrying him to some unknown destination. The sounds o the forest seemed muted to him and his body to numb to feel the calming touch of the wind or the soft grass beneath his paws. The black tom looked around, knowing where his paws had carried him. It was the tree were he and Snowfur had fallen in love, where they had watched the sun set together... Their black and white pelts melting together like yin and yang... Never again would their pelts touch, giving each other warmth.

[owlfeather]

Featherheart looked up at her angry leader, wanting to claw off some of his fur.
"Don't get pissed off at us because we found her dead at the bottom of the gorge! We don't know how she died we just found her there when it was to late to save her! If you think your pissed off about it, then how do you think we feel?! She was closer to us than any of you!"
She hissed at her leader.

[~flameh~]

Wolfstar's eyes narrowed. "Watch it, Featherheart. Who ever said I was 'pissed'? I certainly didn't and for a fact, I am not. And about your last stupid comment, for Coalstorm that holds true. But what you do not understand is the bond a cat holds between themselves and their clan leader. At one point we were closer than you could imagine. So before you go yelling at me for running my mouth and 'sounding' pissed, i suggest you shut your mouth. Just because your clan mate died doesn't give you reason to go around and spit at other cats." he growled, turning his head away from the she-cat.