Strong United Together [Closed Solo]

Viperstorm had been working hard these past few moons. She couldn't rest knowing Shade was out there, she wanted to kill the tom with her own claws. Every time the tom seemed to show up he would slip away just like that.. She would catch up with him one day, and when that day came he better be praying to Starclan to let him in because she wasn't going to let him get away again.

But today was another dead end. Dead ends after dead ends. Her claws dug into the ground as the roar of the gorge sounded near by. Her blue eyes narrowed as her mind raced. Where could this rogue be? The barn was a thought that hung in her mind but she couldn't go there.. What if he showed up again while she was gone? She couldn't let him slip through her claws again. No. He would face the wraith of Riverclan.  

A strong gust of wind broke her out of her thoughts. The wind carried the scent of Windclan but it came from further up the gorge.. Was one of them stupid enough to cross the border? Viperstorm's claws dug into the ground as every paw step brought her closer and closer to the cat that crossed the border. Soon she caught sight of a charcoal colored tom around her size. He certainly was Windclan because he was scrawny, and his scent gave it away.. With a roar Viperstorm charged and tackled the tom to the ground.

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Badgerthorn couldn't get it out of his head that he had a sibling this whole time.. A sibling in Riverclan.. and that he actually belonged to Riverclan.. Or at least if his mom hadn't died in the presence of her sister he would be in Riverclan.. He didn't know what to think besides that he wanted to meet the she-cat.. Viperstorm.. He had seen her a couple of times but not many.. What would she think? How would such a warrior like her react to meeting him?

His amber eyes turned to the ground as the scent of the Riverclan border was growing stronger. He knew he wasn't supposed to cross the border, but it compelled him. This is where his mom.. no Nightheart, met his actual mother.. It would make sense this is where he would try to meet Viperstorm right? He knew it was risky but somewhere in him told him to keep going, that this was the right time.

As soon as he heard the war cry of a warrior he froze in his spot by the gorge. He could feel the warrior's claws digging into his fur as he was pinned to the ground. Above him a blue gray warrior, blue eyes like ice their teeth bared ready to snap at his throat with one wrong move. His amber eyes stared up at the riverclan warrior while he struggled to get unpinned. He knew he was in the wrong but he didn't want to admit it. He didn't want to admit it and risk dying. He had to meet his sister!

The charcoal tom struggled under Viperstorm, his back paws trying to kick her off. The pressure of her front paws keeping him pinned as he wiggled trying to struggle free but it was in vain. He could feel the ground under him starting to give way, he opened his mouth to say something to save them both from plummeting into the gorge but as soon as the first word came out the little bit of ground gave way, sending him backwards off the little bit of ground he could still feel, the blue gray warrior coming with him.

"Badgerthorn! Viperstorm! No!" A voice called out.

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She.. She hadn't realized.. She was too caught up in her own failure, her own anger to realize that they were in risk of falling in the gorge.. Her blue eyes looked at the tom's shock as the fell into the gorge. She could see the water below them. The turning of the windclan warrior as he tried to right himself before they met the water's surface. Just before she hit the water she felt her body collide with a rock that jutted out from the wall of the gorge, her front left leg taking the brunt of the force. She let out a yowl of pain as she fell in to the water.

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He didn't like this. The feeling of falling. The doom that was coming for him. He could feel the regret deep in his gut as he feel. He didn't have time to reflect on the doom he brought to him and this Riverclan warrior. He heard a crunch as his back end hit a jagged surface. His back right leg hit first setting him off his rotation to land into the water. He panicked his limbs moving wildly as he tried to right himself for landing in the water. He could feel the pain of hitting the surface of the water.

The bubbles of the water swirling around him from where he landed, he didn't know which direction he was facing. Was it up was it down? He didn't know. He tried to kick, get to the surface his mind told him, but the current was pushing him all sorts of directions. He could see the blue gray she-cat drifted motionlessly in the current. He could feel the pain in his back leg as he tried to move it but he couldn't focus on that now. He had to save Viperstorm.. His sister... For her name was called earlier. Was she with a patrol? Would they be waiting on them as they got further down the river? He pushed himself through the water as best as he could grabbing the scruff of the riverclan warrior. The current dragging them along down stream. He felt his paws graze the bottom of the river, he took advantage of it, using his hind paws to push himself up to the surface. He gasped in a breath, his lungs burning from lack of air.

He kicked through the pain. He had to keep near the surface even if the current wanted to push him back down. He could feel blood in his mouth from how tightly he gripped the other warrior. The rocks that battered them leaving cuts and gashes on them..  As soon as the current steadied out his rushed to the nearest bank. He dropped the warrior on the dry ground the water lapping at her paws. He couldn't just leave her to die.. He didn't care if he was caught by Riverclan patrols. He began to try to warm Viperstorm up.

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Viperstorm let out a sputtering cough as she woke up. She wasn't dead? Her lungs burned. Her front leg hurt.. She kept coughing until she couldn't anymore. Her breathing was coming in rasps. The warrior pushed herself up. The pain in her leg causing her to put all of her wait on her right leg. She was on the riverclan side of the border? How? Her eyes turned and that is when she saw the Charcoal tom sitting near by staring at her with concern. How? How did this Windclan tom save her life?

"How?" She croaked out.

"I'm part Riverclan.. I'm actually your brother.." The tom said to her. Badgerthorn looked away from her as he said all of this. "I have a knack for swimming just like you do."

"No. I don't have a brother. The only sibling I have is Silverfang.." She responded with a raspy growl. Thistleblaze died because of her. She was the only one. Thistleblaze, from her moonstone visit, never told her about any sibling. But.. His eyes looked exactly like hers.. Was it actually true? She shoved her self forward shoving her nose into the tom's wet pelt. The Windclan's warrior's scent was gone but what remained was a familiar scent that was unmistakable. He smelled like family.. "So it is.. true.. In that case you have to come back to Riverclan with me, it's were you belong!" Viperstorm said.

"No.. I am loyal to Windclan. Besides that is where our mother wanted me. She may have been a Riverclan warrior but she was born Windclan. She wanted windclan to have a part of her, which is me." He stated.

It didn't make sense but at the same time it did.. Viperstorm didn't know what to think of the tom's loyalty for Windclan. It would explain the stories of Thistleblaze joining Riverclan as a kit.. It all seemed to piece together.. She wanted her family together in Riverclan but she couldn't argue with Thistleblazes wishes or forcibly change the tom's loyalties... "Fine.." She growled. "Then us meeting doesn't change much. We might be siblings but our loyalties are separate. Since you saved my life I will forgive you crossing the border. Now go home." She growled as she forced herself to her paws. She started to limp away slowly.

"Wait!" Badgerthorn called as he pushed himself to his paws as well his back right leg not wanting to work. "What?" The Riverclan warrior snapped. "I'm sorry..." He said to her. He turned and limped away from her. He needed to get home just as much as she did. Though he felt like this meeting made them both stronger.. in some way.