Post by //holly.leaf\\ on Nov 12, 2008 21:24:51 GMT -5
SPOILERS. Only a few but they are major one.s
Made up by me, Aquafrost.
If you have anything to tell me about this, evidence, info from books, then tell me!
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Case: Ashfur's Death
Suspects: Squirrelflight, Lionblaze, Hollyleaf, Jayfeather, Brambleclaw, and Ashfur himself!
Evidence:
There is a claw mark on Ashfur's neck!
Found in WindClan stream
What we know from the book
Squirrelflight gets mad at Ashfur, she probably doesent show it. Here is the quote from the book:
"You don't understand." Ashfur looked at her as if he was seeing her for the first time; his voice was puzzled and petulant. "This is the only way to make you feel the same pain that you caused me. You tore my heart out when you chose Brambleclaw over me. Anything I did to you would never hurt as much. But your kits..." He looked through the flames at Hollyleaf and her brothers, his eyes narrowing to dark blue slits. "If you watch them die, then you'll know the pain I felt."
The flames crackled threateningly closer; Hollyleaf felt as if the heat was about to sear her pelt into ashes. She edged backward, only to feel the edge of the hollow give way under her hind paws. The three of them were pressed tightly together, so close that if one of them lost their balance, all three would be dragged off the cliff. Hollyleaf couldn't control the trembling that shook her whole body as her glance flickered between the cliff and the fire.
Jayfeather was crouched close to the ground, looking tinier than ever with his pelt slicked flat by the rain. Lionblaze's claws were unsheathed, glinting as the lightning flashed out again, but the tension in his haunches didn't come from preparing to leap at Ashfur; it came from the effort of keeping himself on the top of the cliff.
Squirrelflight raised her head, her gaze locked on Ashfur's crazed eyes. "Kill them then," she meowed. "You won't hurt me that way."
Ashfur opened his jaws to reply, but said nothing. Hollyleaf and her brothers stared at their mother. What was Squirrelflight saying?
Squirrelflight took a step away from them, and glanced carelessly over her shoulder. Her green eyes were fiercer than Hollyleaf had ever seen them, with an expression she couldn't read.
"If you really want to hurt me, you'll have to find a better way than that," Squirrelflight snarled. "They are not my kits."
The noise of the storm and fire faded and the only sound Jayfeather could hear was the blood roaring in his ears. He shook his head, straining to hear what Squirrelflight and Ashfur said next, cursing the blindness that hid their expressions from him.
"You're lying." Ashfur's voice was choked with disbelief.
"No, I'm not," Squirrelflight spoke quietly, her voice crackling the the flames. "Did you see me give birth? Did I nurse them? Stay in the nursery until they were apprentices? No."
"But--I" Ashfur fell silent. Jayfeather could almost hear the paws of memory racing through his mind.
"I fooled all of you, even Brambleclaw," Squirrelflight went on scornfully. "They're not mine."
"And no cat in the Clan knows?" Ashfur's voice was slowly changing from disbelief to uncertainty.
"No. They're all as blind as you are to the truth."
"You are the blind one, not Jayfeather. Who do you think sent Firestar the message to go down to the lake, where the fox trap was? I wanted him to die, to take your father away so you'd know the real meaning of pain."
Hollyleaf's shocked gaze met Lionblaze's. "He tried to kill Firestar?
Another quote that will give you a HEART ATTACK:
A gasp from Leafpool jolted him awake. Horror swirled around him like a stream in flood. "What's the matter?" he meowed.
For a heartbeat, he heard her tongue working busily. Then she hissed, "Come and look at this!"
Jayfeather bit back the sarcastic reply that he couldn't look at anything. He worked his way around Ashfur's body until he was crouching next to his mentor. All Leafpool's muscles were still and her fur was standing on end.
Jayfeather sniffed, picking up the scent of blood and raw flesh.Investigating with his paw, he felt the edges of Ashfur's throat, the kind of mark he would expect to see on a piece of freshly killed prey.
The kind of mark a cat didn't get when falling into a stream and drowning, but was made delibirately. With a slash of claws.
"He didn't drown," Leafpool whispered hoarsely. "He was murdered!"
Jayfeather's mind whirled. If it wasn't for Leafpool's care of the body, no cat would have ever known how he died. What would happen now?
"I'm going to tell Firestar," Leafpool meowed.
Jayfeather heard her racing across the clearing towards the tumbled rocks. A few moments later, two sets of paw steps returned, and Firestar crouched beside him to examine Ashfur's body.
"Who would do this?" Firestar sounded completely bewildered.
"WindClan?" Leafpool suggested, her voice sharp with suspicion. "We found him near the WindClan border."
"You know very well there was no WindClan scent on him," Firestar reminded her. Jayfeather could feel strong sensations of doubt coming from his leader. "I know the water could have washed it away but..." His voice grew softer, as if he was arguing with himself. "Why would WindClan kill just one warrior? Were they trying to warn us? But we're not a threat to WindClan."
"And Ashfur was Clanborn," Jayfeather put in. "WindClan has no reason to quarrel with him personally."
"True," Firestar murmured. Jayfeather could hear his claws scoring the earth. "But if it wasn't WindClan...then a ThunderClan cat must've killed Ashfur."
"Are you saying one of us killed Ashfur?"
Jayfeather's heart thudded as he waited for Firestar's reply. His littermates tensed beside him, and he could hear Squirrelflight trying not to gulp for air as if she were being smothered...
A little farther away, Sqirrelflight held her breath altogether. Jayfeather knew they were all thinking of the scene at the top of the cliff, when Squirrelflight's terrible secret had been shared in storm and fire. That, and that alone had to be the reason for Ashfur's murder.
Now for their own sake, and the sake of their clan, they must all conspire to keep the truth hidden forever."
SCARY.
IConclusions
Squirrelflight is our top suspect, and she seems the most likely to have killed Ashfur. We can rule out Brambleclaw and Ashfur.
