CLOSED Tumbling

[Guest]

Sunclaw was tumbling down the mountainside. She seemed to pass in and out of consciousness, sometimes fearing for her own life and sometimes fearing for the others' lives.
Sky-Moon help us all, she thought as she passed out once more...

[Runfast]

Mosspaw, when she'd begun to fall, had found herself sliding backwards. She was able to see the white, terrifying wave coming towards them so quickly, it was a wonder they'd managed to let when go before it began to fall - but would they make it?
Her mouth had been open, only silence - the wave - the wall - white, harsh, soft, broken, stealing, killing, tree-eating, light-taking, back-breaking, life-taking - death. Death was on their heels!
The she-cat passed out of thought and mind as she clipped a tree.

Cold, for all his strength, tried his hardest to make his fall easier, somehow faster yet more uniform - yet he was buffeted around like a kit played with a leaf.
He felt his front claws being torn.

OOC: I don't really want to post anymore on the falling - wake me when they hit bottom.

[Loki]

The ledge had slipped out with a giant CRACK!
Joy held tightly on to Sinewpaw as it fell down, their claws etched in.
Joy gave a cry of shock, "Well, would you look at that?"
Then with blue eyes widening in horror she mewed, "Its coming right at us!?"
Sinewpaw gave a horrified laugh, "I wonder whose fault that was..."

He looked away and saw that everyone was falling.
"Oh-"
Falling with the ledge was the best thing they could have done.
"Its heavy, so were escaping!"
Sinewpaw looked around and saw Mosspaw and couldn't help but call out...

OOC: haha

[Longstorm]

OOC: Ever seen the movie 'Balto', when the sled dogs, lead by Balto, were running through the ice cave? I'm thinking that music would play here if this was a movie. this song here!
You know, that or major choir/orchestra music.
And this is actually starting to get a little funny - I mean, still serious, but funny! Cats and avalanches - like the big Warriors RPG that had a volcano...

IC: Windface could feel the sprays of the chips of ice biting at his heels as he slid - or maybe that was just the snow he was sliding through? He wasn't sure, but the last thing he wanted to do was look behind himself - then he heard a cry.
"Help me!"
He looked back and saw Beampaw, the littlest apprentice Moonclan had ever seen, tumbling towards a patch of sharp rocks that Windface himself had had the fortune of missing.
"I'll save you," he yowled, setting his claws into the ice - and losing a few - slowing his descent, latching his claws into a falling tree, heaved upwards and forwards, just managing to snag the rocks and pulling himself up. He stood there, facing the avalanche, the unnatural wind and shadows falling over him.
When Beampaw was near enough, he leaped forward, knocking her away from what would have surely killed her, if not something else, and tossed her towards the two cats he heard (OOC: You know - "WHEEEE-EE!") speeding past on their ledge.
He watched her as she was sliding behind them instead of somewhere else, hoping that what he had done would be worth it.

Not a second later, the wave engulfed him.

Leafheart, seeing, shrieked, "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" - and passed out when he tumbled and clipped (OOC: nice word) a rock.

Beampaw fell with her mouth clamped shut and her eyes wide.
What sort of medicine cat could I ever be?!? He died. He's dead! He's dead - and all because of me... all because... Tears began to stream from her eyes.

Jace fell with his eyes squeezed shut. It wasn't often that he was utterly terrified - in fact, he didn't remember any situation where he had been.
But he was quietly mewling like a kit as he tumbled. He knew the snow was coming for him, eating trees and cats, soon him.
I'll have to face it - but not right now!

OOC: I won't include Icepaw or the Tribe cats in here till they reach the bottom.

[Meany]

Blackfire, in his tumble, had been caught by the falling snow many times over. Somehow, each time, it had released him and thrown him back into his free-fall.
He'd never been in an avalanche before. Blackfire had been told of avalanches by his parents and by elders as an apprentice.
What he had been told was absolutely nothing compared to the real-life experience.
Blackfire had no description for what was chewing and spitting him out on occasion, what was tearing trees and crushing animals.
No description at all.

Snowfeather was unconscious.

Cloudscar was gripping staying as close to his sister as his sliding would allow. Sometimes he would try to knock her out of the way of an obstacle, but aside from that they remained four fox-lengths apart.
The warrior hoped it would end soon, a sentiment he knew was shared by everyone.

[Longstorm]

The avalanche on the south side of the Indigo Mountains was spotted via binoculars from the Village of Bree.
The humans there were not concerned, however, as the avalanche was too far away to do any damage to their town.
Regardless, there were still many cats either caught by, tumbling, or surfing away from the terrible wave.
The warrior cats found themselves chucked well over what was like a ramp up in those mountains, and landed with an unsightly 'crunch', as there was a bare patch and a pile of fallen trees on the other end.
Many of the cats found themselves here, protected as the avalanche went over the ramp they were underneath.
Some others, though, kept going. Where they would land, they didn't know.

OOC: Outside of Bree

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