Exiled Family

[Footy]

Darkdove leaped down the tree.
" Lay back down, Mink, right this instant!" he growled. He had love and compassion in his eyes but his voice was sharp and crisp. His fur was tearstreaked and he was shaking, obviously upset about something. " Great Roseforest you're exactly like Mistydove! Exactly like her! She died under these same circumstances! Do you want to die, Mink? Do you want her to come for you too?" He bared his teeth. " Do you want to hurt youself?"

[➤ rainbowbear]

"Mink!" Splash yelled

[~Cιиdєrρєlt~]

Mink let out a low growl, but lay back down. She had nothing left in her to make her move. So she sat down, itching to get up and run, or hunt, or climb a tree..... but she knew that might never happen again. She did have her heart swell a bit when DarkDove said she was exactly like MistyDove.

[Footy]

Darkdove buried his head in her side.
" I only do these things because I love you, Mink. Can't you just see that and stop trying to kill yourself? Why does everyone I love have be killed?" He closed his eyes. A voice rang in his ears. " You shall be great, Darkkit. Someday."
" I will?"
" Yes, young one."
Then, later...
" Try again, Darkpaw! Try again!"
" Yes, Dappletree."
His training had intensified. By now he was a warrior.
" Just because you're a warrior does not mean you do not have more to learn!"
" I know, Dappletree. I know."
" Then try it again, Darkwhisper."
" Yes."
He was now rising further in rank. Soon he would be farther.
" You're deputy now, Darkwhisper."
" Yes."
" Will you be a leader?"
" Of course!"
" Then prove it! Kill Giantdove!"
Darkdove had carried through with it. He had killed his leader.
" Darkwhisper?" Giantdove whispered.
" Yes, oh great 'dove?"
" Why?"
" Because I need to become leader. I need my nine lives and name."
He dealt the killing blow, his claws sharp as knives. Blood sprayed.
" All hail the great king! Are you proud of yourself, Darkdove? Are you?" His mother murmured in his ear. " I loved you!" Her voice rose to a shrill scream.
" Then love me!" He retorted, staring at the she-cat. " Everyone else does."
" Everyone else is scared of you, Darkdove. Even Deathlily. Misty."
" No. Misty loves me!"

Then his daughter, Mistwhisper, had risen to take the spot of secondary leader. Her name became Mistdove.
It all went downhill.
The Vinerose drove them out. Misty, Mistdove and Darkdove went on as loners. Until Deathlily found them and killed them. He slaughtered them.

Darkdove gave a screech as he was torn from his memories.
" I did it for you!" He screamed again and again, lost to his own mind.

[♔ Xxing]

_{Zinnia sighed when Mink sat back down. But when Darkdove began screaming repetitively, she jumped into the air. "What the-" She stopped herself. Darkdove had a hard life, and he was probably going through some kind of post traumatic stress.}

[~Cιиdєrρєlt~]

Mink's eyes widened in fear and care when DarkDove screeched into her side. But, she loyaly stayed still.

[`συтѕι∂єя ♥]

Lion watched Darkdove and then looked down at Mink.

[~Cιиdєrρєlt~]

Mink looked up at her father, her head tilted slightly.

[♔ Xxing]

_{Zinnia decided she ought to speak up. "Darkdove, are you alright?" She asked calmly.}

[Footy]

He stared at her.
" They all loved me, Roserain. They all loved me. They weren't scared. I didn't do it on purpose! Giantdove died! Please!" He whispered. He was still in his own memories, his eyes glazed over. " Deathlily.. no..." he closed his eyes. Then he shot back to reality.
" It's time I told you my past, dear friends." He murmured to them. His voice shook as he sat down.

[♔ Xxing]

_{Zinnia nodded, sitting down too. She eyed him uneasily, what was going on with him? Obviously, something very, very terrible.}

[~Cιиdєrρєlt~]

Mink stood back up on 3 paws, and daged her broken one 3 steps over to DarkDove. She fell with a muffled screech of pain. She put her head on his tail, and looked up, her blue eyes meeting his honey colored ones.

[Footy]

" I was born to a group called The Vinerose. We were a great group of cats, strong and plentiful. I was born Darkkit. A kit born to The Vinerose was always kit, much like the clans. Then they would get their warrior name. When I was a kit, I was visited by a she-cat named Dappletree. She worked me hard, promising I would be a leader one day. At the time, Giantdove was leader. Talondove was secondary. See, in The Vinerose, a leader's title is 'dove. Not 'star. Anyway. I became an apprentice far before any of my littermates. I was now Darkpaw, proud and strong. Dappletree agreed. But she also said I needed more training. I woke up every morning with aches and pains. But I soon became a warrior by saving a kit's life. I was named Darkwhisper. Dappletree continued to push me, harder and harder. She became brutal and mean, slashing at me and making me practice more and more. I visited our Healer many times. But there was nothing she could do. I was getting hurt too much, too fast. But I soon became deputy. That was when Giantdove lost his eighth life. Dappletree persuaded me to kill Giantdove. And I did. I took Giantdove's last life. I became leader. Our secondary leader, Talondove, was soon murdered by a fox. I became Darkdove. My daughter, Mistwhisper, became Mistdove. My mother told me over and over that I was evil. That I shouldn't have existed. I didn't listen. Everyone was scared of me. Except Misty, my mate, Mistdove, my daughter, and my two sons, Yewhawk and Flashflame. A she-cat named Deathlily plotted against me and my family. They drove us out. Deathlily hunted us down and killed Misty. Then she killed Yewhawk and Flashflame. Then, she repeatedly murdered my daughter, Mistdove. I watched, scraped and cut myself, as she killed her one last time. I turned and ran. I've spent the rest of my life trying to repent for what I've done. To make Roseforest proud of me. Roseforest is our Starclan." He kept his eyes closed, his voice growing weak by the end. " And then everything seemed to shoot back at me. Songspirit died, we got driven from our home... and Mink broke her leg."

[♔ Xxing]

_{Zinnia looked at him with many emotions. "You had a horrible past, and most of which was made off of your own bad decisions. You can't go back, and you can't save the lives you lost. All you can do is keep moving on, just make the right choices from now on. Alright?" Zinnia told him in a sympathetic tone. True, the fact that Darkdove was a murderer still made her slightly wary of him, but besides that, she just knew he'd made all the wrong choices.}

[Footy]

" I didn't know.. I didn't know it was the Fallen Petals that were making me do that. They told me they were Roseforest cats! I believed them! They told me Giantdove was evil, that I was doing the right thing. Making the right choices. I thought I was... please. Giantdove trained kits! Four moons old, being trained as warriors. I was ready to become a warrior. I was strong. Before I was an apprentice, at three moons old, I caught a rabbit. I was born late. Because my mother couldn't finish kitting. She was sickly. She blamed me." Darkdove was mumbling now. " Please.."