The Escape from The Fire -private rp with leafygreenss-

[Abbster]

This is a private rp between me (Abbster) and leafygreenss, if you are not me or them, please do NOT comment. You can read the rp for fun though.

Two best friends live in an abandoned barn and one day it catches on fire in the middle of the night. One friend wakes up and instantly rushes over to wake her friend so they can escape. As they escape, the barn falls to the ground, everything the two of them knew, destroyed in a blink of an eye. When they begin to find a new place to live they realize that the forest could be a lot more dangerous. They have to fight wolves, and foxes. Will the two find a new home, or be stuck in the forest forever? 

Characters: (leafygreenss is making an updated version. Will get the new version in when I get it from them)

Maple (Abbster)
Juhi (leafygreenss)
Rocky (both)
Clover (leafygreenss)
Sunrise (Abbster)
Snowflurry (Abbster)

[Abbster]

Maple stretched in her hay nest she had made the night before. Yawning, she stood up and gazed around the barn. She noticed Juhi still sleeping in her hay nest a few fox-lenghts away. Maple smiled and trotted over to her best friend, nudging her gently. "gooood morning!" She said in a cheery tone. "its time to get the day started!" Male meowed, nudging Juhi again and then sniffing the morning air. "I'll catch us some breakfast, what do you want?" she asked

[leafygreenss]

Juhi let out a groan, "Maple. It's barely sunrise," She curled her tail over her eyes, snuggling deeper into her nest. "You're as bad as a rooster." She mumbled through her fur, although she was smiling slightly. At Maple's mention of breakfast she practically shot out of her nest. "Nuh Uh-" She said with a grin, "I'll catch us prey. I must defend my title as the best mouse-hunter of the Vale." She mewed teasingly, speaking of their small community of barn cats that lived in the valley barn.

[Abbster]

"Good luck with that" Maple teased. "You know that Rocky is going to try and keep beating you no matter how long it takes him" Maple said. "Oh, and I know you hate them, but get me a squirrel please!" Maple called after Juhi. She rolled her eyes, and padded back to her nest. "So what if I like getting up before sunrise" Maple purred to herself, settling down on her nest as she waited for Juhi to return with breakfast.

[leafygreenss]

Juhi only grinned, "I'm not letting that tom beat me. He's as much as a rooster as you." She purred, suddenly wrinkling her nose at Maple's mention of a squirrel. "You are gonna be the reason i'm picking squirrel fur out of my teeth later." She grumbled, flicking her tail slightly. She watched as Maple settled in her nest before she jumped up- into the supports. Towards her little secret hunting spot. She extended her claws, digging them into the soft wood as she climbed up and through the crossbeams. She'd reached the roof, only taking a few more pawsteps before she stepped out onto the roof. The wind ruffled her fur and she let out a small purr. Without hesitation, she scaled up the roof, to the branch of an old oak that extended down to meet her. She climbed up it, in her element. Her home.

It didn't take long to find a squirrel. She'd passed between just a few trees she'd seen a flash of it's grey fur, after a thrilling chase amongst the branches, she'd ended it's life quickly, thanking the earth and the stars for the prey. She stored the annoyingly furry creature in a hollow tree knot. A small house sparrow was her next victim. She'd slunk across a few more branches before seeing it just a few tail-lengths below her. She'd leaped upon it from above. It had no time to call out, or even try to escape.

She retrieved the squirrel, padding back through the branches to the barn rooftop, slinking into the rafters with her catch.m As she climbed down the final beam, she'd spat the squirrel out onto the loft floor instantly. "I got your squirrel." She said, unable to hide her pride at her swift catches. She hadn't taken but a moment. "Rocky could never treehunt." She said, her voice thick with laughter, "He prefers the ground, the scaredy bat."

[Abbster]

"I heard that!" Rocky hissed from where he lay bellow them in the main section of the barn.

Maple let out a purr. "Thanks!" she said, jumping up and grabbing her squirrel, and then letting out a morrow of laughter as she heard Rocky's hiss from below. She sat down on her nest and began devouring her prey. "why...do...you...hate...squirrels?" Maple asked through a mouthful of fur. Rocky, jumped up the boxes that lead to the loft. "Thats a great question, Maple" he said, looking at Juhi. "well good morning Rocky" Maple meowed. "come to show my best friend that you're still going to beat her, have you?" Maple purred. Rocky flicked his tail behind him. "oh Maple" he said. "You very well know the answer to that question" he said. "But yes." he said. "I may not hunt in trees like you do, Juhi, but I am a better hunter than you ever will be" he said, challengingly.

[leafygreenss]

"Ugh!" Juhi said with a hiss, practically spitting out her next words, "Squirrel is just so furry- it's gross." As Rocky leapt up to the loft, she rolled her eyes at Maple's teasing mew. "You wish Rocky." Juhi grinned, "Remember when we had that one hunting competition, where you caught two mice and I caught-" Rocky cut her off, "SEVEN- seriously Juhi, how was I supposed to compete with that? What cat in their right mind would think to catch seven mice?" He mewed, exasperated. "Me." She said, grinning even wider as laughter danced in her eyes. "A good hunter can hunt anywhere. If you want to be as good as me, you'd best start heading for the trees." Juhi purred with a smirk, very, very aware that Rocky hates heights.

[Abbster]

Rocky let out a growl. “Oh if you want me to hunt in the trees! You’ve got ANOTHER thing coming” he growled, as Maple let out another morrow of laughter. “Oh this is such comedy!” Maple said. “Oh shut up Maple!” Rocky growled. Maple finished eating her squirrel and then she stared directly into Rocky’s eyes. “What did you just say to me?” She hissed, padding to stand beside Juhi. “I said, shut up!” Rocky hissed again. Maple flicked her tail angrily. “Say that again” she dared

[leafygreenss]

Juhi plopped herself down, "treehunting is the highest form of hunting. And the most effective." She teased him, but her mew went unnoticed at Maple's proclamations. Setting her mew in a mocking tone Juhi purred, "Ohhh, this is such comedy," with a grin at Maple. She started plucking the feathers from the sparrow. "Say that again." Maple mewed to Rocky, likely not hearing Juhi. A voice from the lower levels of the barn yowled up at them "Oh shut up all of you." Juhi burst out into unrepressed laughter as Clover leapt up the boxes, glaring at the two bickering cats. Her black and white tail was all fluffed up, "I was asleep." Clover hissed.

[Abbster]

“Oh sorry” maple said rolling her eyes. “Its about time you got up anyway!” Maple joked, as she padded back to her bed and rolled around for a moment. “Mouse brains” Rocky hissed before he jumped off the loft and down. “Clover, get your tail down here and leave those two ALONE!” Rocky meowed to Clover before he padded out of the barn to catch his own breakfast. Maple rolled her eyes. “Clovers always in a mood” she commented

[leafygreenss]

Juhi looked at Maple skeptically, "She's only in a mood when you wake her up." She pointed out. "Which is every. Single. Sunrise. And she's still young, she needs time to grow out of her kittenhood dreams." She finished plucking the feathers from her bird, picking up the small fluffy pile she'd made, hefting herself to her paws and dropping half in her nest, half in Maple's. Clover had reluctantly jumped down the boxes, padding after Rocky. "Clover-" She called after her, "Treehunting lessons at sunhigh- don't be late or i'm leaving without you." Clover excitedly mewed her reply before leaving the barn. Juhi crouched down next to her sparrow, "Want some?" She asked Maple, "I'm sure it's better than squirrel." She teased.

[Abbster]

“And what about my tree hunting lessons?” Maple growled. “When Clover joined us, it’s like you’ve forgotten ALL about my tree hunting lessons” maple said, glaring at the cat. She scoffed a bit. “I’m good” she said. “If I want a sparrow, I’ll catch my own” Maple said, settling down in her nest. “And ya know, what if I just start taking hunting lessons from Rocky instead” she said, glaring at Clover again. “I hate that cat. She thinks she knows EVERYTHING!” Maple hissed

[leafygreenss]

Juhi's gaze turned cold. "if my memory serves correct- as it usually does- you chose to stop coming to my treehunting lessons because of your inmature rivalry with Clover. She's barely grown out of her kitten-fur!" She said, sounding somewhat disappointed. "I offered you sparrow because you are my friend, not to spite you. If you so badly want to go hunting with Rocky, who if I must remind you, you almost just started a fight with, I won't be offended at all." She growled, her voice low. "Because Clover is a child Maple. She is practically a kit, and you are so determined to make her life Demons. She's nine moons old. Grow up." She spat the words out, her fur bristling. 

[Abbster]

Maple blinked a bit. “Wow” Maple mumbled. “What happened to the best friend I know and love?” Maple mumbled, standing up, walking over to the edge of the loft. “You have NEVER talked to me like this before….what changed?” Maple asked, jumping down onto the box and then off onto the floor. She raced out of the barn, and climbed up a tree, sitting on the edge of it, with sadness in her eyes. She sighed shakily. “How could Juhi just say that to me…?” Maple mumbled

[leafygreenss]

Juhi only tracked the she-cat's movements as Maple padded away from her, over to the boxes. "You did." She said, sadness seeping through her mew. She watched the calico disappear from view. She looked down at her sparrow, her hunger now forgotten. She left the bird, and up the rafters she went, up onto the roof. She could see Maple, about twenty tail-lengths from the shingles' edge, up a tree, her back towards the barn. She just hates Clover. She does this every time a new cat shows up, and she always chases them off. Why does she hate them so much? Farrah and Minthe both left because she wouldn't stop pestering them, nitpicking their every action. I took them both to Sabra so they'd be safe.  Juhi turned away from Maple, climbing an oak on the opposite side and racing through the branches. What happened to my Maple, who loved kits and new friends? Telling stories and hunting? Why did she leave? Juhi, stopped dashing through the trees, her chest heaving. Why is my world falling apart?