WARNING: Mention of murder, blood, and scarring
After I was born, which just happened to be in the dead of Leaf-bare, the leader died along with the deputy, the medicine cat barely making it up to the rock to announce the new leader and deputy.
"Tundrafoot, you will be ChainedClan's leader. You may pick the deputy who will walk beside you for their entire life." The medicine cat, Crystalgaze, coughed and spat. Everyone thought she was going to die the same death as the previous leader and deputy.
Tundrafoot, a menacing looking grey tom with a white foot, walked up the snow covered rock.
"The first thing I wish to do as leader is change the name of a kit who is destined to be the one who rips this Clan from limb to limb as the leader and deputy died after it's birth. Yarrowtail, the mother of Fadekit, please approach the Stained Rock for the name changing ceremony with your kit." Tundrafoot hissed.
My mother picked me up and approached the rock, setting me in between her two front paws. Tundrafoot walked off the rock and sat in front of me, a nasty scar went down from the top of his forehead, down his right eye, and down to the tip of his tail. He glared at me before looking up, towards my mother and the Clan.
"This kit will end up murdering us all and I am here to make StarClan change their minds to save us all. StarClan, you can see the kit before you and you know him by name. I ask you to change that very name to really represent what he will become. StarClan, as leader, I change this kit's name. Fadekit, you now will never be called by that name and now you will respond to the name "Nightshadekit", representing the poisonous flower, Deadly Nightshade. The flower that was forced down the throats of the former leader and deputy. Your name will be a burden to you and I get to show StarClan what I mean by that." Tundrafoot drew his paw backwards before slamming it into the side of my face, he kept repeating that over and over again until it was time for the other side of my face.
He did the same before picking me up off the ground after I had been slammed into the ground. He began to rake the front of my face. He did that till all I could see was my own blood.
Then, the medicine cat was called and she had wrapped up my entire face. The Clan had witnessed my face being mauled by the leader and none of them did anything. They seemed to have agreed with his actions.
I felt like ripping his face off and that is what I plan on doing now, as an apprentice, nearly a warrior, named Nightshadepaw with my entire face being covered in scars from my experience as a kit. My mentor, Crazedeyes, an insane, naturally skinny, sharp-toothed, male stood beside me, agreeing with my plan. When Tundrastar said something about me ripping the Clan limb from limb I think he meant himself. Crazedeyes told me to follow him, so I did.
We left camp and he began rambling about what I should do and how badly I should injure the leader. At the end of what seemed to be an essay, he let out a small, insane giggle, his claws unsheathed. I didn't expect his claws to be as long as they are but it sure did intimidate me. I nodded at every sentence he spoke before he whispered in to my ear "Rip one of his claws out and wear it like a trophy. "
I unsheathed my claws as he smiled, his sharp teeth being shone opon by the rising sun. The black spots on his face seemed to give him a more evil look as he smiled.
"If you can, rip a tooth out of his mouth and I'll wear it. No one can beat us when we are together. We will wear his bones as a trophy."
I nodded as he traced my scars with a unsheathed claw.
"Show him who is the boss around here. He deserves it." He set his paw back on the ground before roughly licking the back of my left ear, the only unscarred part of my face, "I'll kill him for you if he begins to beat you up."
The warrior sharply smiled before walking back into camp.
I smiled, my canines glowing under the sun, my green eyes glowing as well before I walked back into camp with my mentor.
"Tundrastar, I want my apprentice to become a warrior. He deserves it. He's been the greatest apprentice a warrior could have." Crazedeyes smiled without his sharp teeth.
Tundrastar nodded, "I'll be sure to give him the most murderous suffix I can think of then, Crazedeyes."
He trotted up onto the rock, Crazedeyes being the first to find his spot for the meeting.
"All cats able to catch and kill prey, please gather underneath the Stained Rock for a warrior ceremony"
I sat next to my mentor, slightly shorter than him.
"Crazedeyes has wished that his apprentice, Nightshadepaw, would become a warrior at this very moment. Nightshadepaw approach the Stained Rock." Tundrastar spoke before I approached the rock.
He stepped off the rock and stood in front of me.
"StarClan, this apprentice has trained hard under your code and I call opon you to make him a warrior. Nightshadepaw, your warrior name is now Nightshade's Death. You have gotten this name for how the Deadly Nightshade killed the former leader and deputy. Now, since you have received a name like this, by the tradition started at your apprentice ceremony, I will scar you." Tundrastar pushed me down, raking my left shoulder until my shoulder was covered in blood. Nothing but blood.
Crazedeyes stood up quicker than the rest, picking me up and racing me to the medicine den.
"PLEASE DON'T LET HIM DIE!" He wailed, tears flowed down his black spotted face as he set me down on an empty moss bed.
Crystalgaze ran to our assistance, quickly bandaging my shoulder.
"I'm going to kill that DAMN LEADER!" I yowled, clawing at the ground before finding my footing.
Crazedeyes stood beside me.
"That's the spirit." He whispered before letting out a quiet, insane giggle.
I pushed through the small crowd before heading to the leader's den to give him a taste of his own medicine. I prayed to StarClan that when I'm finished with him, he'll see, taste, and smell his own damn blood.
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Thank you for reading this chapter of "Driven Insane Like Him". If you can't tell, Crazedeyes is inspired by Gyutaro from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, no regrets making Crazedeyes inspired off of that man. He's my favorite demon if you can't tell. Anyways, I have nothing else to put here except I will eventually continue "Condolences" and "Refusing". Again, thank you for reading ꉂ(ˊᗜˋ*)♡
