Dark Forest Resident: Batkit
Aliases / Nicknames: ??
Gender: tom
Sexuality: homosexual
Family: unnamed mother, unnamed father, Pebblekit (sister), Barkkit (brother)
Other Relations: N/A
Clan: WindClan
Rank: kit
Characteristics: impulsive, afraid of heights, afraid of birds
Murder Motive: wants quiet
Number of Victims: 1 (unintentionally)
Number of Murders: 1 (unintentionally)
Murder Method: leaving in the open for a hawk
Known Victims: Gorsekit
Victim Profile: noisy kit
Cause of Death: shock
Cautionary Tale: ??
Story:
He didn't understand.
He knew that it was cold outside, and that's why he had to stay in the nursery, especially during the night. But nothing had to be explained to him further than that; he didn't want to go outside when it was cold anyways.
So he didn't know the dangers.
He didn't know that you could die.
When Littlesplash had her litter of kits, the tiny things were so noisy!
Batkit was awed at first to see cats so small, and was amazed that he had been so small himself, but soon enough the little things showed irksome behaviour. In particular was Gorsekit, who cried for no good reason day-in and day-out.
Too, it seemed everyone in the nursery was a heavy sleeper--everyone but Batkit.
He had enough. He wanted some rest, and to get the noise away from him. So he picked the little kit up and plopped him outside of the nursery, where the den walls would muffle his cries. And maybe the cold would teach him to be quite!
Then he was gone.
Batkit woke to the alarmed wailing of Littlesplash, who cried that she couldn't find Gorsekit anywhere. The Clan searched around and, feeling guilty, Batkit did as well.
But soon it became clear that Gorsekit wasn't still in the camp. Had he run away? Had Batkit upset him that much? Now that he wasn't so irritated from a lack of sleep, he felt bad for what he had done, made worse by everyone's panic.
Still, he didn't tell them the truth, too afraid of being scolded. Instead, while everyone was distracted, he snuck out of camp in search of the little kit.
There was no scent trials. Batkit was getting lost.
A shadow loomed over him, and before he knew it, he was being carried into the air. He screeched, alarmed, which caught the attention of Littlesplash and a patrol, who had left the camp earlier to search for her son.
The queen leaped into the air, unbalancing the hawk. It dropped him, then grabbed him again by the tail while Littlesplash clawed at it. It gripped onto him tightly.
Littlesplash slipped, but managed to grab onto Batkit. She pulled him down, trying to free him at the same time that the hawk jerked upward. Then there was a tearing, and an awful pain that made him screech, then they were falling to the ground.
Batkit and Littlesplash survived the crash thanks to the cats below catching them, but something was wrong. He was breathing quickly, everything was distorted. Cats around him were panicking, and soon, it was all dark.
Additional Information:
--If not for the shock, he would have survived his injuries--though his apprenticeship would definitely have to be delayed.
--Story inspired by both A Thief in ThunderClan and Tallstar's Revenge.
In TS, Stagkit took Tallkit out of the den because he kept crying, and Sandgorse found him.
--Gorsekit was out in the open, small, and loud, so a hawk quickly found him and took him in a heartbeat. I figured that if they didn't smell the hawk in ATiT, they wouldn't smell it here, and not when it was a blink-in-the-eye swoop.
--He is adopted by Tarantulastar and Hummingbirdstar (likely seeing the Gossamer Trees as somewhere a bird could never get him because of all the mesh). He is adopted when he is three moons old. Charkit/lynx, his adopted brother, is also three moons old, though they do have an age gap of roughly two weeks. This also makes him an adoptive Smalljump grandbaby!
--Base: F2U Oriental Shorthair Cat Base by Grassdew44 on DeviantArt (his ref is more his adult form)