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The night air was especially crisp as Autumngossamer led her guest quietly into the soothsayer den. Upon entering the den the air felt warm. The heat from the basking sunlight was still trapped inside the moss and ivy covered stone walls. There was a scent of lilac in the air from the spring heat causing water droplets to form along the moss. Spread out along the floor like a thick blanket were layers of leaves hiding the weapon that lied beneath.
She turned and smiled at her guest, a brightness in her eyes as her tail slowly slunk beneath the leaves to feel out for her trap, "I'm so glad you could come with me for this!" She said with an unusual cheerfulness. This guest was an outsider, but he was here for something far more important, it was high time she got back in the Sun God's good graces. There was no better way than through a sacrifice. This tom had good value, he was a part of the Shadow Era and she was pretty certain was also a SunClan deserter.
Her white paw found the loop she was looking for, but she made no move. Not yet. Not until the moment was right.
Firetooth eyed the she-cat wearily as he followed her into the familiar den. It had certainly been a long time since he was last in Sunclan; not since he had last gone by the name Flamefang as a failed initiate. He briefly glanced behind him at the rest of Sunclan's camp. No one knew he was here, Autumngossamer had been insistent about that. Something about 'Medicine Cat only business'. Still, he hoped to at least get a glimpse of his mother and sister before he snuck back to Swiftclan.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm here." He replied dryly, unintentionally stopping just short of where the Soothsayer wanted him. "Now what on Earth did you call me here for? What's with all the secrecy? You realize Chimerastar will have my tail if he finds out I'm here?" The tom scowled at the thought. He trusted that his apprentice Mistralpaw would be able to take care of things while he was gone; she'd probably be thrilled if he was missing all day with whatever this is. Still, something felt...off.
His eyes narrowed as he searched the other Medicine Cat's face for something, but he found no answers. "Autumngossamer...?"
She watched his movements, his motions playing gradually, time had gracefully slowed allowing her to milk in every precious moment. The way he curiously looked about SunClan as though expecting someone to be there. His no nonsense complaints about being pulled home. But by far the most beautiful part she had been waiting for, the look that last only but a perfect moment was the way his gaze turned from annoyed to concern.
"You're essential," Autumngossamer said with a smile, but it didn't meet her eyes as she moved closer. This was moons in the making, deciding he was the best pick, winning even remotely an ounce of Firetooth's trust, bringing him here. She was moments away from the Sun God finally seeing just how loyal she was. There was no better gift than this, failure was not an option. The small part of her conscience turned off as she lunged forward at Firetooth sending him hard onto his back. She gripped onto the silver wire, the gums of her mouth bleeding from it's sharpness as she began winding it around Firetooth's throat, her paws attempting to hold him in place.
"Essent-" Firetooth was unable to even finish a word before the she-cat was suddenly on him, plowing him over with a strength that could never had expected from the unassuming Soothsayer. He grit his teeth and hissed as his head slammed hard against the cold earth. He flailed wildly against Autumngossamer, trying to throw her off of him, but to no avail. He was a born and raised Medicine Cat, he had never been taught how to properly fight or defend himself. He dug his claws deep into her shoulders as she brought the wire to his throat, but as it pressed harder against his windpipe he relaxed, realizing that struggling would only suffocate him faster. "What...are you..." he wheezed, staring up at her with nothing but fear in his eyes. "This...this isn't..."
Tears stung at the corners of his eyes as the wire cut into his throat, and warm blood dripped down from the wound onto his chest. Thoughts and memories and regrets flew through his mind; the faces of his mother and sisters...and his brother. Was his father watching him right now, from Starclan? The irony was almost laughable. Creekghost had died like a hero; saving his clanmates in the flood that destroyed Earthclan, their home. He had been tricked, and now he was going to die as he deserved: loved and missed by no one, not even by his leader or apprentice. How pathetic.
Autumngossamer stood up fully, her head whipped back parting the stray tufts of fur from her eyes. A satisfied smile gleamed across her white muzzle as she pressed the stake wrapped in silver wire deep into the earth. The pad of her paw was covered in splinters stabbing her skin from the force of stomping the stake in. She rubbed the splinters free from her paw leaving the skin scraped and bloody. He was close to prey now, far from her mind as she walked away towards the center of her den. An indented stone filled with water lied in the center of the floor. Beside it was a bundle of rocky flakes that she plucked and placed inside of the stone. The water bubbled before bursting into flames, a water on fire, a trick she learned from listening closely to Glowstar's tales while in DayClan.
Her gaze concentrated on the fire like it held all the answers she ever looked for and never knew she needed. Turning back to Firetooth one final time she didn't look the same. Her eyes shined with a greed that consumed every part of her soul that he once trusted. There was nothing left of the wannabe popular rebel, it was eaten away by her need for power and approval. She wanted her status, the respect, her superiority back more than keeping some kind of friendship together. Sacrifices had to be made.
"Sun God, I call upon you to judge me, please accept my offering as my apology for dishonoring you and myself and the trust that SunClan put in me," Autumngossamer said, an old part of herself wanting to not grovel, but really what choice did she have left? She wanted what she had back and she didn't want to be continually punished, he made his point and now she had to make hers to prove herself.
Post by Honeystorm on May 31, 2020 19:52:20 GMT -5
The air suddenly felt superheated. It rippled, shimmering with a scalding warmth that to Firetooth, would seem painful, albeit not actually damaging for the moment, and to Autumngossamer, it wasn't nearly so uncomfortable as the den now thrummed with power.
And suddenly, there he was. He hardly seemed to fit into the den, massive frame taking up considerable space, gold tipped white fur threaded with flame, and molten eyes peering at the Soothsayer with unrestrained glee. "You got me a sacrifice!?" The smile that stretched across his face was light a summer's day itself, bright as could be, almost childishly gleeful. No one, at least in recent memory, had gotten her a sacrifice before! Okay, there were the failed initiates he doomed to the Dark Forest, and that one Wormwood serial killer Soothsayer, but still! No one had just gone out specifically looking at getting him a sacrifice, except for Autumngossamer, even if she'd done it to make up for previous actions.
She was right too, she picked out a good one! Because Firetooth was fated to die soon, the Sun God even let himself be visible to the captured tom. Which was likely disturbing considering just how happy he seemed about being handed Firetooth as a sacrifice.
Trapped and bleeding, Firetooth watched with wide, fearful eyes as Autumngossamer's weight lifted off of him and the she-cat walked away to the center of the den to perform the ceremony. In spite of his exhaustion, he kept his hackles raised as the temperature in the cave grew hotter and hotter, his claws digging desperately into the barren dirt as the heat began to sting at his wounds. Then, the very entity he feared finally arrived. Out of pure terror and instinct, he leapt to his feet to run, only for the short wire to dig into his neck and drag him back onto the ground as he yowled in pain, blood gushing from his neck. Laying defeated on the floor, his breath hitched as he listened to what the deity was saying. Sacrifice...? He was going to be sacrificed?
What could he do here? Even Starclan was wary of this monster; there was nowhere to run, and he definitely couldn't fight him. Left with no other options, the young tom winched as he pushed himself up against the closest wall of the cave, hissing loudly at the Sun God in defiance. If these were to be his final moments, he was going out the way he lived: stubborn and cranky as a badger.
"Don't...be so delighted, y-you fraud. She's essentially...offering you crow-food in the form of a cat."
Fire burned in her eyes, watching the heat circulate across the den in thin veins of mist. She turned her head back, the glee on the Sun God's face made it all worth it, he was pleased. "Excited?" Autumngossamer purred.
She turned back to Firetooth, bemused and cold as he hissed at them, "Oh don't cut yourself short," She cooed, her unsheathed claws pulling his chin up, choking him further. She smirked watching the natural panic spill into his eyes before letting go of him, "I'm not completely cruel though, if you have any last words say them now and I'll pass it on. Though I can tell from that look in your eyes, no one's going to miss you, huh?"
"At least believe in yourself a little bit!" The Sun God told the fearful tom, prodding him experimentally as he neared. It didn't hurt, well, at least not significantly, not more than any normal cat poking a touch harder than they needed to would. He leaned back though, after a moment, flashing a brilliantly sadistic sort of smile. "You're a quality sacrifice! And that's coming from a god, you should be honored."
His eyes slid to Autumngossamer as he nodded to her question of his own excitement, though it was quite clearly apparent in this moment already. "Any last words to leave to your dear sister? I'm sure she'd be honored to find out her brother was sacrificed to the one she worships!" Now, to most, of course it would be horrifying to learn that your sibling had been killed to appease the deity you worshiped. But for the Sun God, such a thing never actually crossed his mind, he seemed to genuinely believe Tidaldream would be happy to find out that Firetooth had been sacrificed to him.
The tom seemed to shrink into himself as Autumngossamer pulled his chin up and the Sun God simultaneously nudged him in the side. But at the mention of Tidaldream, Firetooth's expression suddenly turned cold as stone. "Don't bring my sister into this," he snarled, practically spitting in the god's face. Being killed in such a humiliating fashion was one thing, but if the Sun God decided to force Tidaldream to watch, or worse, his mother Windskip....he honestly didn't know what he'd do. "I never deserved Tidaldream. She's better than all you lot combined...you should be the one honored that a cat like her worships a tyrant like you." With those last words towards the Sun God, he pulled away with a sigh, the flame of fight left within him finally extinguished.
This was it. There was nothing he could do. He was going to die here. Firetooth slowly lifted his head to stare down Autumngossamer, his green gaze intense with an unmistakable sadness and regret. "When this is over, my final request is for you to finish my apprentice Mistralpaw's training. Teach her everything she wants to know, and everything she never knew she wanted to know. I want you to make her the best healer in the Forest, if not all of the clans, because by Starclan that kid deserves it." He was shaking now, and curled his tail around his chest as tears began to well in the corners of his eyes. "Tell her...and tell my family...that I'm sorry. For everything."
Her once white paw was now red from her own blood scraping up against the silver wire from earlier. She raised her claws at Firetooth, the heat emanating from the Sun God made the moment feel all the more tense. She slashed her claws in a clean cut that possessed such a force that it left her paw trembling. She walked over to Firetooth's pitiful side with such an emotionless saunter ice could followed in her trail.
Shadows rose from the ground like thick layers of mist dancing around the Sun God as Autumngossamer sat down beside Firetooth. She pulled the meaty sized stake out from the ground releasing his throat from further harm. Beneath the leaves that coated the ground of the soothsayer den there was an ancient symbol containing and trapping the Sun God and his power inside the space. A symbol that now the two cats in the den were safely outside of.
She raised her head to look at the Sun God with mock enthusiasm, "Omi-gaash! You look SO cute when you're confused," Autumngossamer gushed to the Sun God. Her expression smoothed over into a sickening sweet smile. "Let me help you out, you crossed the wrong cats. You back stabbed, manipulated, and hurt everyone you claimed to love and now..."
Autumngossamer's eyes burned brighter than hell fire, "this wayward, cursed soothsayer and stubborn, deserter medicine cat are about to do what everyone in this clan doesn't have the guts to do. You're going to be held accountable."
Indeed, for a long moment the deity looked shocked, and then, his rage burned. The moment he saw the symbol, he knew, knew what had happened. You didn't spend such a long time as a god and not know the things that could contain you. He could get out... eventually. If he still had Wanheda's power he might have been able to do it sooner, but as it was, she had more, more than enough time to do what she wished before he'd be free. It didn't help that he couldn't quite remember the particulars of the symbol, it was familiar, but at the very least, it had been so long since he'd seen it that though he was certain he could escape, he wasn't entirely certain how yet.
Regardless, that wasn't going to help him right now, but that didn't stop him from trying. His power grew, and grew, and grew, pressing hard against the confines, but it.. Just. Wouldn't. Budge. Damn it. "You better have something good, because you're dead to me, Autumngossamer." She had seen the Sun God angry before, after all, he'd cursed her. But she'd never quite seen him this infuriated. Unless she had some trick up her sleeve, or some other way to quell his anger, the she-cat better run far, and run fast the moment he was free, because the deity wasn't so noble as to not burn down everything and everyone she loved. She knew how to use the ancient symbol, which meant she was far, far too dangerous to be allowed to live.
Her words rang in his ears as Firetooth braced himself for the final, finishing blow...but nothing came. Instead, he felt an unmistakable shift in the air; it grew cold and heavy, and he felt he was in an almost dream-like state as his mind swam against the current, though it was difficult to tell whether it was a result of the symbol or plain blood loss. He blinked, watching in shock as Autumngossamer sat softly beside him, pulling out the stake that held him prisoner with the gentleness of a true Medicine Cat. And finally, just like that...the pieces clicked into place. For the first time that day, Firetooth grinned; an exhausted, bloody, toothy smirk as he listened to his partner in crime tell off the Sun God, determination burning in her eyes. That determination and cunning that had been hidden in them from the very start, though he had initially failed to recognize it.
He kept one eye on the Sun God as he used his claws to carefully lift the wire from around his throat, tentatively prodding at the wound with a steady paw to gauge the seriousness of the cut. "If I bleed out before this is all over, I'm blaming you," he remarked to Autumngossamer. His ear twitched at the Sun God's words, and he glanced back up at him, the terror that had been on his face just moments before now completely replaced with a bored nonchalant attitude. "Wow, that's rich, coming from you. I would've thought that all of the clans were already dead to you, especially Sunclan, considering how you toy with their lives as if you were playing with a trapped mouse. Even Starclan's not that cruel."
Autumngossamer playfully bumped the side of Firetooth's shoulder, "Are you kidding, you can't die, you would haunt me for life!" She grinned back at him and briefly wondered if this was what it was like to have a sibling. Someone you can rely on or maybe this was just the first time she had a real friend.
Her ears went back at the Sun God's initial rage, but perked back up almost immediately. She had a dull expression watching him with the kind of confidence that only an all knowing God should have. He had cruelly forced her to control her emotions or suffer the humiliation of appearing physically disfigured. At this point she knew he had broken parts of her, the kind that should be afraid in this moment, her ability to cry. He took parts of her that made her feel natural, like a cat with a heart. But he broke the wrong parts of her.
"You're in an awful state of distress for someone who stabbed themselves in the foot. Remember hon, betrayal is all I'll know."
Autumngossamer moved to the back of the den, collecting some herbs in a leaf pouch before bring them over. She set cobwebs down beside Firetooth as she began to unpack her things. The sad truth was none of this would have been possible without the Sun God. Maybe if he hadn't cursed Deal he wouldn't have told her that the Moon Goddess cured him. Maybe if he hadn't put Moonlitnocturne in such a shameful place he wouldn't have pounced at the idea of spying in WinterClan. Maybe if he hadn't played mind games with Bloodyrondo he wouldn't have gone to DayClan and found his weakness. And just maybe if he hadn't messed with her she wouldn't have gone to DayClan and discovered this little symbol. In other words, if the Sun God had been nicer none of this would have been possible.
She laughed lightly, with a smile as faint as gossamer, "It's incredible, you're the sickest man I've ever encountered. Ready to flaunt the death of Firetooth to his sister and I bet you truly believe she would be proud. Yet somehow people still worship you. I did... I craved your love, the kind I never got being an orphan. I needed you to want me, but I was never perfect enough for you. Your love was never free," The fire grew in her voice, "Bloody, that boy loves you and you neglect him. You're blessed to have such a capable leader like Littlestar, but you waste her time with your antics. You have a clan that would kill for you and you exploit them. I will never give up on them like you did to me. Even when all is said and done tonight, if I'm engraved in history as the bad guy that's fine. But for the first time, I'm going to do the right thing even if it costs me everything."
For the first time she didn't need to find someone's paw to hold. She felt strength grow out from her like wings. He hadn't broken her after all, he had put her through hell, but she was flying back as an angel seeking justice at any cost. "I'm ready Firetooth."
If he had any sense, the Sun God would take an ounce of accountability for himself. But he didn't, and that was exactly why he was in this mess at all, one could suppose. He was so arrogant in the fact that he refused to even acknowledge he could have made a mistake, that his anger burned only ever brighter. "Turning against me is as good as turning against your clan in everything they believe. Don't lie to yourself. You're just bitter than you got punished." The Sun God was too angry to be scared, and so he just glared at her for a long moment, racking through his mind to try and figure out how to escape. Step one, figure out if his entire power was here, or only part of it. If it was all, all here, that wasn't good, and perhaps not only for him. But if it wasn't... then he might just have the chance of getting out of this. He'd just have to figure out how to attack the rune with whatever power wasn't locked in here, perhaps call for someone like Bloodyrondo, that certainly seemed like a good candidate to get him out of this. Littlestar would probably just laugh and leave him.
Autumngossamer placed a flower in front of her and then place her paw and Firetooth's paw over a second flower. She looked back at the Sun God, the rage in his eyes shocked her out of her composure, she could feel her paws trembling before the fear set in. She breathed in and let her rawest emotions take over. Dread dug deep into the pit of her stomach as fear and anxiety plunged deep into her mind and heart, but she wouldn't lose sight of the goal. Her form mutated, the skin loosening, fur turning mangy. Her limbs grew disproportionately and her teeth swerved into a crooked position. She was wearing her flaws, her curse on full display, no longer concealing her emotions to maintain her beauty. For just a moment, it took over, what was she doing? Was he right? Was this betraying SunClan? For a moment there was pure panic, but somewhere between the self doubt and wonder she found something new.
"You know, you can take a lot from me, but you'll never take my pain, I own that. This pain is mine to feel, mine to grow from. I'm not bitter, I'm stronger for it. You put me through hell and now I'm walking out with wings on my back." For just a moment, anyone could have sworn the painted eye on her forehead was pushed back opening a true third eye. She gasped once closing her eyes and inhaled. This time when she reopened her eyes they were darker than brown with coppery centers, licked with a burning gold shade. The paint on her forehead was still there, but a little smeared.
The red flower floated into the air, its wilted petals opening as power poured like spores from its being. This was the key. Deal told her the Moon Goddess stopped his curse. Then learning that WinterClan followed the Moon Goddess she discovered Snowbunny, the knight of the stars. She couldn't have done it without Firetooth, the plan would have been over the moment it began if she was caught near WinterClan. But with his help there was no suspicions on her. The knight enchanted the flower to curse any one person, even a God, this was his curse now.
“I am your justice now. You will behave or misbehave, but should you go against what in my opinion is right… You will lose a portion of your power depending on the severity of your deed, which will last until you correct yourself or do something right for a change. And just to make things interesting: when we are finished here you will not remember a single thing that has happened here this hour." Autumngossamer smiled, and the Sun God could tell she had poured hours if not moons into this. “I will leave you with the instinct to not cheat and undo the curse yourself. If you did that would count as misbehaving, and the moment you make the move to remove the curse on your own… You’ll lose whatever portion of magic that the punishment deserves forever. Who knows, maybe you’ll come to me for help the way I came looking for you thinking you were my FRIEND.” Breathing out she continued on, “And,” She grinned staring into his eyes, the moment of true revenge she had been waiting for, but it broke at the last moment, “You have to be a good best friend to me.”
(Joy's still gotta reply, but just letting you know there is a way to break the curse!)
Firetooth nodded to Autumngossamer just as he finished patching the wound on his neck with cobwebs. It wasn't much, and the gash would mostly certainly open back up again when he would eventually make the long trek back to Swiftclan, but it was just enough to ensure he wouldn't bleed out here on the Soothsayer's Den floor. He took a breath and the she-cat moved his paw onto the flower, his lungs still burning as he struggled to remain upright, claws digging deep into his earth to keep himself balanced. He didn't even notice his partner's appearance change at all, keeping his burning gaze fixed unwavering on the trapped Sun God. Even if he did notice Autumngossamer's curse, he wouldn't care. She was putting far more on the line than he ever could; she had something to lose. A mate, a family; she was brave in a way he could only ever dream of being.
The sharp, pounding pain faded away into a dull ache as he listened to her deliver the curse, feeling the warmth of her pelt brushing against his. He had no idea what expression was on his face right now, and it was unlikely that he'd never truly understand the flurry of emotions that ran through his veins at that moment. But he'd certainly never forget it: this was their victory.
"One last thing," his voice cut through the air like a claw, while his mind struggled to catch up to his mouth upon realizing what he had just done. It had never been the plan for Firetooth to add anything here. The next few seconds stretched on for what felt like millions of years, as the Medicine Cat searched for something, anything, to say. What would be best for his mother and sister? What would his father and grandmother approve of? Would it even really matter what he added to the curse?
No. Of course it would matter.
He knew exactly what to say, and he spit it out at the Sun God like fire.
"For someone who claims to embody the Sun itself, I think you've forgotten what it's actual purpose is. Yeah, it's burning is all-powerful, and it could probably scorch us all to death if it wanted to. But it doesn't. The sun brings warmth and life to the world. To us. Sunclan has given everything for you, and yet you still play with their lives like they don't matter! Act how you will with those who don't worship you, but treat your followers with the respect and benevolence they deserve; the sun should actually give a piece of mouse-dung about the world it's shining on!"
(Okay I realize you should probably have something to react to like an effect so time to put in some flashy special effects! xD)
Light built up inside of the flower from the center through the petals. Slowly a stem from the flower grew down, rooting thickly onto the dens floor. The roots wrapped around Autumngossamer and Firetooth's paws forcing them in place. All at once light exploded out from the flower beaming onto the Sun God erasing him from view completely. The toll of the power came from Autumn and Fire as the roots slowly drained at them mentally. If they didn't have the inner strength, as well as the inner turmoil to go through with the curse it wouldn't be complete. The roots grew hire, consuming Autumngossamer and Firetooth's chest and stomach now. Autumngossamer took a breath, the light seemed to unravel instead of dim as though it were a tangible thing. Breathing out her brown eyes laser focused onto the Sun God as the light dominated him entirely.
The light faded as the curse settled in, only static was left in its place occasionally rippling over the gods body. The roots that clung to Autumngossamer and Firetooth gradually loosened and soon enough they were able to pull free from it completely.
