Snow thief!

[Magicheart]

Laughingfox trotted alongside the singing stream. Green foliage was beginning to erupt from the ground, and Laughingfox frowned at it, lifting his paw as if he stepped in mud. This is proposterous! Leaf-bare seems to get shorter and shorter each year! he thought to himself with a growl. "Why must you rob me of my wonderous snow, again and again New-leaf?" he whined. "You....YOU'RE nothing but a SNOW THIEF!" he bawled out, his words echoing in the empty forest. He touched his paw to his forehead. "Laughingfox, my poor handsome fellow, it has finally happened. You have lost your sanity!" he said in a mock melodramatic tone and then began laughing at himself. "I mean, I guess new-leaf isn't SO bad..." he grumbled as he stalked farther along the stream.

[-.NighTSighT.-]

Dewpaw crouched stealthily under the thick undergrowth of new-leaf. Her turquoise eyes anxiously following the movement of a small rodent. She lashed her tail with anticipation, unsheathing her claws in eagerness, at the moment she was about to leap an echo filled the air, startling her and the creature alike. "Mouse-dung!" She exclaimed furiously, she looked around in search for the source of such scandal and swiftly approached a warrior. "You ruined my hunt." She snorted before she even paused in front of him. "Oh.. Laughingfox.." She meowed to herself recognizing the weird acting tom and narrowing her eyes.

[winterleaf]

"Hello!" A high pitched voice meowed from the distance. Huge emerald orbs were staring at the Riverclan apprentice and the warrior curiously from below a lusty fern. Finchpaw skipped out of the moisty plant to face both Riverclanners, lathering his ginger excitedly. He trotted to them with a smile and curious olive eyes. "What are you doing?" he inquiered quizzically.

[Magicheart]

"Oh" was all Laughingfox said in reply to Dewpaw. Then a grin crept up the sides of his face. "My dear Dewpaw, you should learn to appreciate the art of acting! There is much prey in the forest, but stumbling upon such a talented actor" he said as he caughed the words "myself" before continuing. "...young she-cat, is quite a catch indeed!" He lifted his gaze as Finchpaw came over. "Ah! There, you see Dewpaw? There cames my fans now!" he said as he beckoned the apprentice over with his paw.

[-.NighTSighT.-]

"Right.." Dewpaw meowed rolling her eyes and giving a cold turquoise glare. "Maybe he too was startled by your yowls." She meowed and turned to her den-mate, "Hello Finchpaw!" She called in a much cheery voice, then glanced at Laughingfox and gave a small satisfied grin.

[Magicheart]

Laughingfox lifted an eyebrow at the young she-cat. "As you wish, Dewpaw, but it's your loss!" The tom meowed flatly. He yawned and gazed at his reflection in the water, admiring his fur. "Not everyone can have such an astute appreciation for such things as you do, Laughingfox" he said to himself.

[winterleaf]

Finchpaw smiled edgy at Dewpaw, but his olive green gaze was on Laughingfox. "Since when am I your fan?" he snapped. But then, decided to continue with the joke. "Oh yes, oh dear one, I shall follow your steps for as long as I live" he meowed, bowing exagerately to show his obvious prank. The ginger tom then collapsed on the floor with laughter, glancing at Dewpaw to see if she had considered this funny.

[-.NighTSighT.-]

Dewpaw smiled when Finchpaw glanced at her, she began to do the same as him, letting her paws slip and falling to the ground exaggeratedly laughing. She rolled over her belly looking up to the warrior, with a mischievous grin on her face. Her turquoise eyes moving from the warrior to her friend, and blinking to him.

[winterleaf]

Finchpaw chortled in laughter as he started to chant Laughingfox's name in a mocking tone. He rubbed his tongue by his tail again, glimpsing Dewpaw's mottled coat and Laughingfox's silver tabby pelt. He felt his paws getting numb when he stepped on a patch of snow in the floor. The young apprentice felt more than a mild discomfort when he felt its coldness and instantly backened away. "Man, why does Leaf-bare has to exist?!" Finchpaw grunted.

[Magicheart]

Laughingfox hissed in annoyance. They would insult my beloved snow! Curse the company of these obnoxious apprentices! He thought as he glared at both cats before padding off by himself farther downstream. Laughingfox wasn't a big fan of younger cats, he never knew quite how to act around them and he usually found their rambunctiousness annoying.

[-.NighTSighT.-]

Dewpaw stretched a bit on her position and then stood up, flicking with her tail dust from her mottled fur, then noticing the warrior padding away gave a startled look and padded after him, "Hey what have we done now?" She asked with innocent eyes but a slight deblish grin formed on her muzzle.

[Magicheart]

Laughingfox raised his hackles. "Don't play your games with me, Dewpaw! Though I suppose they must be so much more fun when you're the one playing them!" The tom padded off angrily. No one can appreciate humor in this clan....no one loves the snow in this clan....no one can appreciate ME in this clan either! Laughingfox bristled as he headed off towards the border. He was known to never have much regard for the rules, and at the moment he especially felt like breaking them.

[winterleaf]

Finchpaw shruggered as he stood up again to follow Dewpaw and Laughingfox. "Where are we going?" the tawny colored apprentice asked, his eyes widening curiously. He glanced at Dewpaw and noticed her somewhat evil grin, making him doubt more about what came next.

[Magicheart]

Laughingfox bristled his fur. "WE are not going anywhere! I am going to the border! I'll leave you two to enjoy each other's pleasant company!" The tom said with flattened ears.

[winterleaf]

Finchpaw narrowed his eyes. "Too bad, we want to annoy you!" he snapped in a mocking tone, grinning wickedly. He slashed Laughingfox's tail and followed him to the border, jauntiness as he bounced besides the Riverclan warrior.