A Gathering Among Stars

ooc: I'll just start here. -sigh- I don' think their will be much of a turn out tonight @.@

Hazelstar gazed down upon her clanmates, they appeared so strong and willed, although the rain still continued to sprinkle upon their pelts. Turning her gaze to the sky she wondered how the moon could still shine so--bright?
Sighing she slowly scanned the sea of cats, she recognized about every soul upon the island. All of these cats held a tale within their hearts, and all of these stories were just dying to be told.

Blinking her gaze landed on the remaining three leaders, Riverstar of Thunderclan. She was the perfect she-cat to lead the clan, she was noble, strong, and wise. Snowstar of Riverclan, the she-cat was small, but her glinting gaze told otherwise. Thievingstreak of Shadowclan, the she-cat that Starclan had chosen from the beginning to lead that clan. And then their was her, the oldest leader upon The Great Tree.

She wasn't all that grand, she was nothing compared to these strong-noble cats. But--somehow she belonged here, perhaps it was because she earned her position through hard-work and fought every hardship? Or perhaps it was dumb luck? But she was here now because of it, and since she was the oldest one here it was her duty.

Closing her eyes she tried to remember her younger self, stupid, clumsy, and had no clue what the warrior code was. Yep, that sounded a lot like my former self. But I'm still the same cat. Opening her honey-colored orbs she finally meowed,

"Are you all ready for this gathering to begin?"

<sup>SPIRITPAW
King of the forest.
Spiritpaw sat done near to front of the group. He wanted to hear everything the leaders had to say. Maybe they would unknowingly show signs of weakness. The more he learned about the other Clans then the easier it will be to take over when he was strong enough.


LIONSTRIKE
Sweet stutterer.
Lionstrike sat down, curling his tail around his feet as he waited for the gathering to commence. It was about time too, he was freezing from the cold rain and couldn't wait to get back in his den.</sup>

<sup>Snowstar padded across the damp, soggy log that lead into the clearing that was packed with cats from all four clans. Shaking the droplets off of her slim white coat she looked around the clearing seeing the other leaders already up by the tree. Snowstar quickly padded over to the leaders and took a spot near the bottom scanning the clearing for her clanmates.

With a last glance at the clearing her blue gaze caught the light of the moon that shone above them. Slanting her head she looked up at the moon and sighed deeply, breathing in the cool breeze of the river that was just beyond the trees. Snowstar wished she could just take a few minutes before the gathering to clear her thoughts and do the thing she likes best, swimming. Slowly closing her eyes she shook her head pushing back the thought, and right after that the chocolate leader had spoke. Blinking open her eyes she looked up at the wise leader and dipped her head in agreement. The sooner they get this started the faster she could get back to her nest.</sup>

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ooc: Duskpaw is still clueless about her real siblings, k?

Duskpaw slid through the brambles, her green gaze followed her brother's muscular form. I'm going to talk to him--I'm going to talk to him without being angry. Letting a small sigh escape her mouth she approached the larger tom,

"Nightpaw? Let's sit together ok? It is our first gathering." she smiled slightly, so it was kind of forced but she missed the days of when she and her brother could talk endlessly. Ever since she discovered the true meanings of powers and his dreams, she tried her best to stay away.

Sliding through the bodies of cats she selected a spot right next to a skinny Windclan apprentice. Turning her head she studied the tom, he was coal black, just like Nightpaw and her. But his eyes were a rich amber, blinking her own eyes she meowed,

"Hi, I'm Duskpaw and this is Nightpaw." she meowed flicking her tail to her brother. Why did he seem so familiar?

Dawnfrost sat apart from the other cats, the she-cat had become decidedly less friendly as the days went by. She narrowed her eyes and waited, silent as ever. She gazed at the other cats, shivering in the rain, her lips curled with distain, weaklings. That is what they were.
Her eyes turned to the leaders, ambition gilnting in those orbs.

<sup>SPIRITPAW
King of the forest.
Spritpaw didn't move when a Duskpaw came up to him. Did he care about what this cat had to say? No. So he figured the only way to get her to go away was to give her the cold shoulder. His eyes moved and looked at the two cats. They both looked like him.

After a few moments of silence, Spiritpaw replied to her. "I'm Spiritpaw." and then he fell silent.</sup>

Hmmm, Spiritpaw? Funny name, I haven't heard of a cat with Spirit as a prefix before. Blinking she smiled, the words of her next statement were at the tip of her tongue, but suddenly she couldn't speak. Her eyes grew round, while her fur began to bristle uncontrollably. I should've known this would've happened, it always happens when I look a cat in the eye!
The black tom's whole life flashed before her now milky white eyes, and it ended with his death. This all happened within a couple seconds, slowly her eyes regained their beautiful shade of emerald, and her rich black fur smoothed out. She was in control of her body now.

Nervously she gazed at the tom, he-his life is still a mystery to me even though I just witnessed it. This was the first time a cat's life was ever portrayed like this. Well it only happened once, and that was when she had looked at Nightpaw those many moons ago. Perhaps--NO! She shook the thought away, that couldn't be right!

"N-nice to meet you." she muttered at last.

<sup>SPIRITPAW
King of the forest.
Spiritpaw gave a gruff hmph in reply. But seeing as she seemed a little shaken up, he decided to do the nice thing and see if the cat was alright.

"You okay." he growled, still not moving and watching her from the corner of his eye.</sup>

ooc:I wanna test Spiritpaw's powers xP

"Yes!" she meowed a little too loud, instantly she could feel the heat rise within her. Embarrassed she looked away,
"I mean this happens to me a lot, I just blank out. It's kind of like I have control over nothing." Slowly she turned back, smiling she meowed,

"I guess that's kind of weird huh?"

The little she-cat was about to say more when suddenly she felt a deep aching pain arise from within her small petite paw. Clenching her teeth she looked down at her paws, apparently when she was talking a cat had stepped backwards and practically tore the claw right from her paw.

"O-ow-ow!" she stuttered, her pain slowly creeping up the rest of her. Why did this have to happen?! I must look like such a fool!

<sup>SPIRITPAW
King of the forest.
Spiritpaw jumped up. Duskpaw was hurt? So it seemed. She was emmitting the "hurt" sound. Ow Spiritpaw thought That is another way of saying "I'm hurt" might as well see what it is. Better not be something so tiny that it was a waste for me to move he growled and went over to her. "Hold still." and then looked at her paw.

Well, she almost tore a claw out. Too bad he doesn't know anything about fixing that. He wished he could, after all she had been nice to him. But then again she just met him. He closed his eyes, wishing her claw to be healed. When he opened them, it was.

Spiritpaw jumped back. What the...? that claw had been hanging just a second ago, and now there was no more blood and no more hanging claw. Had he done that? If he did, how?</sup>

<sup>Suddenly the pain stopped, blinking she immediately threw her gaze down towards her once injured paw. Eyes wide she looked at Spiritpaw,
"Are you--" pausing she closed her eyes tightly and then suddenly she seemed to burst with awe,
"Are you a medicine cat or something? Because I have no idea what you did but that was pretty amazing. And if your a medicine cat shouldn't you be by your mentor?" Blinking she didn't really know why she was freaking out, if he was a medicine cat perhaps Starclan gave him some powers to heal me!

Gazing at the tom she ushered a smile, he seemed so mean at first but now it seems as if he's really nice!
"Thanks." she murmured quietly.

ooc:I think I'm murdering the personality I gave her xD</sup>

<sup>SPIRITPAW
King of the forest.
Spiritpaw just looked at her. Her personality was, well, weird. Weird as weird could be. "Of course I'm not a medicine cat apprentice, mouse-brained." he growled. "Why would I want to be a medicine cat? There's no such thing as StarClan."

A few cats around the two looked at Spiritpaw oddly, but went back to listening to the leaders.</sup>

<sup>"No such thing as StarClan?" Nightpaw snorted, narrowing his eyes. He was trying his hardest to ignore Spiritpaw, objecting Duskpaw's friendly tone toward the apprentice, but at the sound of his total rejection toward StarClan made him furious.

Though his father taught him not to believe in StarClan, he couldn't help but be mystified by the sound of them. And since he heard the name he couldn't help but admire them. But as usual, he took his father's path, disbelieving the fact that there is such a thing existing and that starry warriors from above to watch over them and protect them, and it was easy at first. Who'd believe such a thing? But there's just more and more things piling up that prove they to actually exist.

Luckily, Nightpaw caught his inner self just in time. And he changed his expression of disbelief back to his calm structure. "Who knew such a puny little tom could actually grasp that a fairy tale isn't real." he taunted.

Riverstar nodded to Hazelstar, trying to hold a strong appearance instead of looking like a small kit admiring the old leader. "Whenever you are." Turning toward the other leaders she asked, dipping her head, "Who'd like to start off?"</sup>

Duskpaw glared at her brother, her eyes hot,
"Nightpaw, you shouldn't taunt him him just because you think your so superior." she hissed, oh yeah now I remember, Nightpaw's a total jerk. Narrowing her eyes she muttered loud enough for only Nightpaw to hear,

"I don't care that your want to rule the forest, but at least can you show the Nightpaw I used to know?" Shaking her head she turned her attention to the leaders, apparently the Gathering was finally going to begin.

Hazelstar gazed at the other leaders, dipping her head she meowed,
"I'll speak first." Turning to the sea of cats she let out a loud caterwaul, her voice echoing across the island. As everyone grew quiet she began her report,

"Windclan has been doing well, we've encountered a rogue on the edge of our territory. But it's something that can be handled." pausing her eyes landed on Spiritpaw the young tom seemed rather irritated.

"We have five seven new apprentices, Tanglepaw, Rosepaw, Midnightpaw, Eaglepaw, Jadepaw, Spiritpaw, and Thornpaw." Raking her eyes across the clan she meowed, "Overall Windclan is striving." Stepping back she offered for Riverstar to speak next.

<sup>Riverstar stepped forward, acknowledging her chance to report her own Clan's news and get it over with. She always felt like she was being pressured when taking turn in being the one watched by all, but once it was over she felt a bit of satsifaction. She just hoped she was get used to it. She should have already now.

"ThunderClan brings unfortunate news, but positive news as well. Sadly, our deputy, Hazelstrike, as died." Riverstar didn't bother explaining why, nor did she have time before a quiet mourning started to ripple throughout the crowd. Waiting patiently for everything to settle, she continued.

"Owltalon is the new deputy of ThunderClan." Pride sparkled in Riverstar's eyes as she looked down at her past apprentice. Who knew he'd be the next leader. And it looked like Swiftstar's little prophecy was right. Amusement flickered like a flame in her chest when everyone's eyes locked onto the new deputy. "In other news, we have two new apprentices. Tigerpaw and Patchpaw."

Riverstar stepped back, dismissing her chance to speak.</sup>

( If I missed anything please notify me ^_^; I just looked at the past ThunderClan meetings to see what had happened that was important. )