Teaching The Death Kill (Cerberus, Wasp & Kestrel)

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Cerberus left long before the sun rose into the sky leaving his kits sound asleep in the hollow. For two moons he had been training them to hunt and fight. Now it was time to teach them to kill, he was headed out in search of to cats apprentices preferably. He headed first for Obsidianclan. He slunk into their territory and waited, it wasn't long before an apprentice came along hunting on it's own. He quickly attacked and knocked it out. Once unconscious he dragged the cat out of the border. He rolled himself and the apprentice in garlic to hide their scents before continuing on his way. Next stop would be Torchclan it was on his way back to The Lost Lands. He tied the apprentice in vines then went and snuck into Torchclan. He found his way into the camp and kidnapped a kit and ran as fast as he could back to where he had left the apprentice. The kit was wailing but he threatened to kill it if it didn't shut up. Setting the kit down he told it to follow him or else and he continued on his way dragging the apprentice.

It was a long walk back and by the time he returned the sun was beginning to rise up in the sky. He threw the apprentice on the ground and heard him groan. "WASP, KESTREL GET DOWN HERE!" He yowled to his sleeping kits. "Time for training I have a surprise for you guys." He turned to the kit and smiled cruelly at it. He could tell he was terrified because it was shaking like a leaf. He ducked under the roots and ripped a rabbit leg off of the kill from the night before and came back out. "Here kit eat up, it will be the last thing you eat for a while." He didn't want to frighten it too much and tell the kit it would be the last thing it ate period. He was just trying to get it to calm down enough until his kits woke and came down from the tree.

Kestrel lay sleeping silently in the tree hollow, never feeling the emptiness when her father woke up and left. In her sleep, she just curled up closer to her brother Wasp. As she slept she dreamed of her mother, she was trying to tell her something. But she couldn't hear her. Dollie shook her head sadly and began to walk away. Kestrel ran after her, screaming for her to wait for her. Why was she leaving her? Why didn't she let her catch up so she could hear what she was trying to tell her? "Mom don't leave me, come back." She cried out in her dream. Dollie turned and looked back at her, there were tears in her eyes. She opened her mouth to say something. "WASP, KESTREL GET DOWN HERE!" What the? 

Two mismatched eyes one of blue and one of amber blinked open as she snapped out of her dream by her father's voice. "It was just a dream," she sighed then began cleaning herself. A moment later Kestrel heard her father's voice once again as he said it was time for training and that he had a surprise for them. Excited she quickly nudged Wasp before jumping out of the hollow. She climbed onto the branch just outside of their den and looked down. "Morning dad, whatcha got for us today?" Her eyes grew wide as she saw the kit, probably no more than two moons old. And next to the kit was another cat either dead or unconscious. It was the size of an apprentice and had the scent of Obsidianclan and Torchclan. She felt bad for them and hoped her father wouldn't make her hurt the kit. Quick as the bird, she was named after she leaped from branch to branch before jumping to the ground.

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Wasp awoke to the sound of his sister crying out in her sleep, and this wasn’t the first time she had done this either. “Oh shut up Kestrel...” he mumbled through the soft fur of the sleeping cats body pressed up against his own for warmth and shuffled his own body into a new position to try and actually get some sleep in. Groaning irritably as the position proved to be just as uncomfortable as the first, but closed his eyes again all the same. Whatever his sister was dreaming about seemed to be about their mother, dead mother to be precise. And honestly it was all a little amusing to him, because how could Dollie possibly come back to them? She was gone, and rightly so. And it wasn’t that he never loved her, of course he did in his own way. But weak cats hold you back, and they deserved whatever they got, even as family. That was the law of this miserable world after all. Kill or be killed.

He sighed feeling himself slowly being pulled back into a well needed sleep, only to hear his father’s voice yelling him and his sisters’ names from below. A rush of excitement jolted through him, wondering what kind of 'surprise' it would be. And so opening one green eye as a quiet rustling told him that Kestrel had now awoken from her nightmare and should probably be getting up too. And so he flicked the tip of his tail before slowly lifting up his paws to stretch his front legs forwards sleepily and yawned widely and licked his lips. “Mhm” he mumbled as Kestrel nudged him and would have shoved her right back out of the tree in retaliation if she hadn’t have then leaped straight out of their hollow and out of reach. He blinked and quickly followed her out onto the branches outside and shook the moss from his fur.

He smiled softly as he saw what a surprise the two of them truly had in store for today and proceeded to make his way down to the ground, not nearly as speedily nor as gracefully as Kestrel. But he didn’t really care for tree jumping anyway, that wasn’t what he had come out of the den for after all. It was Training. And he supposed the two clan cats were to be some part of whatever game their father had planned for them today. As yes, it was indeed a game to him, and games were very fun. He waved his tail with exhilaration “A-are t-th-ey for us!?” he grinned stuttering happily at his sister not noticing her eyes widening at the thought of what was soon going to be happening here. Too hyper with curiosity to sit still for long, he bounded over to the kit intending to poke it bemusedly with a claw before turning to look at the older one.

Tilting his head at the unconscious lump of fur, “That one’s being lazy!” he announced teasingly before closing his mouth rather abruptly and looking back up at Cerberus, reverting back into some kind of soldier like obedience realising he was beginning to get a little carried away with himself. “What are we going to do with them?” he purred and sat down flicking his tail over his paws in anticipation. Cerberus obviously intended on using these clan cats for something, and he very much doubted they would be simply here as play mates for him and Kestrel. Definitely not, they were here for training. And he liked that, liked that a lot.

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Cerberus looked up as his daughter called out good morning. He grunted, she was way too cheerful for his liking but she was strong and graceful. Her strength made up for the sickly sweet way she acted sometimes. It wasn't long before his kittens joined him down at the base of the tree. He was proud to see how excited his son was. Wasp had gotten his stutter that he had when he was excited. He purred and ran his tail down his son's back. "Yes they are." He bent and whispered in his children's ears so the two cats he kidnapped would not hear. "T...Today I t...teach you......... the death kill." He was growing excited at the thought of seeing his children spill the blood of these two clan cats. he stood up and took a deep shuttering breath. "Your right Wasp, and a lazy cat is no fun." He walked over and sank his teeth in the apprentices tail making it jump awake. "Good you're awake if you want to live you'll do as I say." He forced himself not to laugh for there was no way he would live. For if Wasp didn't kill him Cerberus would. "Kestrel the kit is yours, Wasp the apprentice is yours. Now I want you to show me the front paw strike, followed up by the belly rake and then the duck and twist. And you will not stop until you perfect them. And if you two want to live and return to your clan you will stand still and let my kit's practice their battle moves on you."

Kestrel remained frozen in place as her brother bounded over to the kit. he obviously hoped that he got the kit. She hoped he did as well, she could fight an apprentice or a warrior. But she would never be able to bring herself to harm a kit. As their father approached them and bent to whisper in their ears she stiffened as she heard he was going to teach them the death kill. What he said to the two cats from that point on she knew was a lie. He promised to return them to the clan if they did as he said. But she knew that they would never see their family ever again. She felt bad for the kit. When she heard that the kit was hers she bit her lip. She listened as her father ordered them to show him certain moves and told them that they where not allowed to stop until they perfect them. She swallowed she had to perfect them fast she didn't want the kit to suffer to much. "Yes Cerberus, I'll do as you say." She bent and hissed, not wanting her father or brother to see her unwillingness to hurt the kit for they would think she was weak. And weak cats were killed.

Taking a deep breath Kestrel leaped forward at the kit and sliced down with her paw making sure her claws were sheethed and aimed her paw at his face. She quickly slid under the kit and sliced at it's belly again with sheethed paws. She then did the duck and twist and as she twisted she nipped out at the kits leg like their father had taught them to do it. The enite time she attacked the kit it stood frozen in place shaking with fear. It let out cries as her paws patted it but other then bruised a bit it wasn't hurt.


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