July Gathering

[BEAR.]

Please wait for your respective Clan leader or deputy to post before you arrive!

HIGH RANKS - PLEASE USE THIS CODE FOR YOUR ROLEPLAY POSTS WITH YOUR CHARACTER!

[announcement ] [/announcement ]

Make sure you close the brackets for your post coding!

Roleplayers, feel free to have your cats react to what the leaders are saying! You can search #announcement in this thread to find all the high rank posts you get to respond to!

[ Cas, Undertaker, wnder, Moonraven -- ThunderClan will not be attending this one. ]

[BEAR.]

As always, RiverClan was the first to arrive with Lionstar at its head, stepping gingerly across the sand as he made his way through the clearing and onto the top of the stones.

His paws ached, his lungs felt cloudy, and his mind was somewhat distracted by recent events. Still, he shouldered that aside in his head as he waited for the other leaders to arrive.

Worse case scenario, if someone was holding them up, he'd start it without them. They didn't have all night and he had things he wanted to do. In much better company, though he didn't mind Twilightstar's presence. Despite her less than savory looks, he liked a cat with brains.
[ RIVERCLAN HAS ARRIVED! ]

[Puddle~]

{Open}

Berryscorch eagerly waltzed up to the Seastones after Lionstar. This was her first gathering as a warrior, and she wanted to make it a one to remember. And seeing as she was one of the first to arrive, she considered this to already be starting off on the right paw. The only problem with being early was that there was also nobody else to talk to, but... she could wait.

[Estelle]

Would you look at that: for once Gingerpaw was actually within the first of his clan to arrive.. Instead of last. And that for someone who disliked these gatherings so much. They were interesting, occasionally, but didn't let him get his rest-- not to mention how loud everyone was. Uuuggghhh... Why did he even bother coming again? Right, because gatherings are important or something like that.. Wasn't like anything of any use was ever really mention, honestly, but oh well.
The tom simply found himself a decent spot to take place and ploffed down on his hind. Hopefully this one would go by quickly and swiftly, that way he'd still have any chance of getting some form of rest.

[ Open! ]

[Rani]

First gathering! Oh starclan first gathering... Willowpaw was filled with anxiety and determination in equal measures as she trotted close to the front of the group. She giggled softly as she hit the sand of the beach, even if this gathering was awful she liked the feeling of sand soft and shifting under her paws. This was new so she decided to stick close to Snowfern until the other clans arrive head on a constant swivel to look around the area.
Mumble (She'll break off once the other clans arrive Willowpaws just a bit nervous)

[Astraea]

~Rain-puddle followed his leader and sat beside his father ~ This gathering has to been better than the last one right? Cougar

[gs29513]

Splashpaw was at her first gathering! She was an apprentice, and got to go to the gathering, like really soon after. This was AWESOME. Spotting her sister, she bounced across the clearing towards her, glad no other clans were there yet. ~RooRoo~

[~RooRoo~]

Wavepaw saw her sister coming at her so she walked towards her. Hey sis! she mewed happily. gs29513

[gs29513]

THIS IS THE BEST! WE GET TO MEET OTHER CATS! Splashpaw was ecstatic. She was gonna impress other apprentices so much! ~RooRoo~

[~RooRoo~]

I know! she meowed. She really wasn’t that exited. She hadn’t told her sister how she started getting panick attacks so this wasn’t gonna be good for her. Umm. Splashpaw. I have something to tell you. gs29513

[stag]

Most likely...*He moved away from his son*

*Redspot was cheery as normal, he was a queen but he was happy as one. One of them had told him about dark-kit, he went to the gathering tho. He'd hated leaving the kits alone with only the shecat queens, he sighed*

[stag]

*Redspot waited for the other leaders, he diddnt leave for camp because that would be rude* RainPuddle! *The scarred red black & White walked up to his Nephew* Rainpuddle are you training an app, I hear your now a senior warrior.

[Astraea]

I am .. What about you? Cougar

[stag]

Im watching your half Brother Dark-kit, he's in the med den from Riverkit. Im now a queen. *Redspot always had a cheerfull attitude about him,he was always happy doing anything other than hurting a clanmate. he went back to humming, his scared tail moved back and forth*

[pidgeon]

Icestar prowled once again into the moonlit clearing, enveloped in shadows as if she were one herself. She figured this gathering would be rather uneventful, and wasn't expecting anything exciting. She flicked her tail in a gesture to her Clan to follow her in. She noticed rather quickly that the only other Clan present was RiverClan, as was obvious by the stench. Great, she'd have to sit there alone with Lionstar until somebody else arrived. She hoped it wouldn't be long.


Her claws grated the rock as she climbed upon the Seastones, taking her usual place. She offered little more than a curt nod to the other leader, glaring a sidelong glance in his direction before returning her full attention to the gathering crowd below her. She was confident in her Clan. They were strong and healthy this moon, and had run into very little trouble, all things considered. At last, this promised to be a relatively normal gathering. But Icestar kept herself alert enough--she knew it was rarely that simple. Something was bound to go wrong somewhere.



SHADOWCLAN HAS ARRIVED

[gs29513]

What? Splashpaw asked, suddenly curious. ~RooRoo~

Maplepaw followed his mentor into the clearing, and stopped beside him. Anything I need to know before I head in? he asked nervously. chaton

Shrewpaw was a little scared about going to the gathering without his mentor, but he plunged down the slope anyway. Sitting near the leaders, he listened to the chatter that was already going on. (OPEN)

[Quasar]

First gathering! Oh starclan first gathering... Willowpaw was filled with anxiety and determination in equal measures as she trotted close to the front of the group. She giggled softly as she hit the sand of the beach, even if this gathering was awful she liked the feeling of sand soft and shifting under her paws. This was new so she decided to stick close to Snowfern until the other clans arrive head on a constant swivel to look around the area.
Mumble (She'll break off once the other clans arrive Willowpaws just a bit nervous)

Snowfern followed closely behind her apprentice, her eyes fixed on the open clearing that would soon be full of cats. She gave a smile to her apprentice before padding to be slightly in front of her. "Are you excited? I remember I sure was" she laughed, pushing into the clearing subconsciously. It was all just muscle memory to her now. Looking around, she noticed that Shadowclan was the only other clan that had arrived so far. Looking back down at Willowpaw, she realized how nervous the new apprentice looked. Running her tail gently down her spine in what she hoped was a comforting way, she mewed, "It's okay to be nervous, y'know"

[sootsplashed]

Sootpaw bounded into the clearing, her ears pricked up. This is so cool!" She squealed, looking back at her mentor. "I'm going to go meet some other apprentices, Leopardblaze!" She said, running off and trying to catch sight of some apprentices. She spotted Splashpaw and Wavepaw, her two sisters, and stopped nest to them. "C'mon! Let's go meet some other apprentices!" Sootpaw was oblivious to her interrupting something, but she was sure her sisters would have fun. "This is going to be so much fun!"
Leopardblaze ~RooRoo~ gs29513

Bluepaw hissed as she padded into the clearing, hoping the truce wouldn't be broken tonight.

[Arie]

-- Wings --


Doepaw once again trudged into the clearing from the pines she'd grown accustomed to living in. The sand still felt uncomfortable underneath her paws, a realization that she'd reached the seastones, despite the clear sent of the sea in the air. Taking in a deep breath she completely immersed her paws in the sand before taking a few more steps closer to the seastones. She didn't want to sit too close, often the noises got too loud for her and well, hanging around a bit further away did no harm. So settling down, she folded her tail over her paws, making sure to shake the sand out that had gotten caught up in the long tail. And so she waited. She had no interest in going looking for someone to talk to, unless they bumped into her. Truly she hoped that a certain medicine cat would decide not to follow her and start waving her paw in Doepaw's face again. That had not been fun and she didn't put it past Irisflame to do it again. But this was her chance to socialize with the other clans... despite not exactly being a fan of socializing. And so she waited, maybe when Windclan arrived she would find someone interesting to talk to. Maybe.

[Willowfern]

Stormbriar sat at the edge of the Gathering, they frowned slightly, why was there so much time for mingling? Geez, the Gathering is for sharing news, not chatting.

[vellichor]

Another gathering. Oh, no.

Beanpaw still felt majorly overwhelmed, though it seemed... quieter. Oh, only 2 Clans were there. Dear God, there was going to be a whole other Clan. Great. The siamese internally groaned and flattened his ears. He was ready for a long night and a long headache.

[open]

[lucidense]

Smallpaw would trek into the open gathering space, her tiny legs (munchkin) covered in mud due to her not being able to step over it, She glanced around in awe. ((Open for somebody to make fun of her legs or smth)

Creekleap padded to the gathering, her beautiful fur brushing against the rocks as she sat. She perked her ears at the leaders words. (Open for somebody to flirt with her lol)

[gs29513]

Hi Sootpaw! Splashkit mewed, happy her sister had come over. Do you think Lionstar will announce our being apprentices? Sugarglider ~RooRoo~

[gs29513]

Seeing Smallpaw, Shrewpaw bounded over. What do you think Icestar will announce munchkin? he asked, remembering her short legs. He wasn't trying to be mean, but it sounded kind of like a cute nickname. ~Lucid Dreams~

[lucidense]

Smallpaw flicked her ear at the toms comment. "Don't call me munchkin- and I dunno." She would mew. gs29513

[sootsplashed]

"YEAH!" Sootpaw half yelled, half mewed. "Where are ThunderClan and WindClan? Are they here yet?"" She tilted her head as she closed her eyes and sniffed for the two clans. ShadowClan was here, what else would smell like frogs at the seastones? "Let's go talk to those cats!" She was pointing with her tail at two cats (shrew and small).
gs29513
~RooRoo~

[duckie]

Sootflare
__________

The RiverClan came up the rear of the clan as always and made note of the ShadowClanners beginning to filter in after Icestar not long after. He kept an eye out for Beastspark and would've made his way over to the Seastones immediately if it weren't for noticing Beanpaw in the crowd. He remembered the nervous little kit that Grizzlybug had brought along and Sootflare was taken aback by the difference between then and now. A short detour wouldn't hurt anyone so he padded over, "You're doing great bud." he meowed. The tiredness in his own body and actions were evident but he offered a reassuring smile all the same, "I can't stay but this one shouldn't take too long - we'll be heading home in no time." He smiled again before finally heading to take his place under Lionstar.


[ elysian ]

[vellichor]

Beanpaw nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard a voice beside him, embarrassed that he hadn’t even realized some cat was talking to him. And not just some cat — Sootflare! Beanpaw listened to the deputy with surprise. Surprised that some cat was saying this to him (besides Grizzlybug, he didn’t know too many other cats) and surprised that Soot had gone out of his way to say it. There wasn’t much time to say anything, but the apprentice replied with a small smile and a genuine "Thanks." He watched the RiverClanner pad away and join the others under the big rock. That small interaction had changed his mindset just a little.

Maybe this wouldn’t be that bad.

wnder [still open for any non-riverclanner]

[Leopardblaze]

Leopardblaze purred, a small smile spreading across her face. "Alright, you have fun," she meowed, watching Sootpaw bound away. She glanced around trying to decided where she wanted to sit or try to recognize someone to sit beside. She hadn't spoken to anyone outside Riverclan in a while and she thought it would be good to talk to someone new.

Sugarglider

(Open)

[skreelyshark]

StealthWarrior

Reedwhisker turned to his apprentice.

"Feel free to talk to other cats. This is the first time you will be fraternizing with other Clans. Introduce yourself!"

[dionysus]

[ elysian ]

Woah.... that was all Iciclepaw could think as she walked into sea stones. This place was massive! She immediately felt small and frail and the molly shrunk in on herself, wishing Snowpaw was here. Hell, she’d even take Frigidpaw or Freezepaw at this point even if they weren’t as nice to her as Snow was.

Gulping, Iciclepaw gingerly stepped into the crowd of cats, trying not to think about the last time she was this closed in. It seemed as though flashes of silver were cutting into her sight and Iciclepaw yelped at the memory, feeling that familiar panic seep in. She took off as though someone had pounced on her haunches and ended up stopping short as she smashed right into another cat.

Dazed from the impact, Iciclepaw pulled in on herself and blinked wide eyes at the cat whom she’d bumped into. Thank the stars it appeared to be another apprentice- Iciclepaw didn’t know what she would do if she’d bumped into a strange warrior. Shyly, the white feline murmured,

“S-sorry!”

[Abyssopelagic]

Riverclan has arrived
Flyfur padded about, pacing a bit before finding a spot to sit. She turned to Creekleap. "Would you like to sit with me?"

~Lucid Dreams~

°•○●°•○●°•○●°•○●°•○●°•○●•°

[Open- please talk to my grumpy boi]

Cricketchirp plopped himself to the sidelines. These social thingies happened way too often, in his opinion, but they were starting to bother him less and less.

[Undertaker]

The broad shouldered tabby stalked out of the shadows behind his leader, his ears erect as he made his way over to his usual spot. Since the last gathering, there hasn't been too much going on in ShadowClan. He hasn't seen nor heard of any more traps and the twoleg activity has seemed to have died down. Beastspark wondered what became of that murdered in WindClan. He also wondered how Doepaw would fare this gathering, she was fitting in with ShadowClan very well, but what her thought would be on hearing about her former clanmates. Beastspark was sure spitfire would be fine he was just needlessly worrying, the deputy finally arrived at his spot, dipped his head to Sootflare in a wordless greeting before taking his seat under his leader.

[lucidense]

Creekleap purred, padding over to Flyfur. "Sure." She would sit next to the she cat, happy to sit with somebody she knew instead of a big shot tom that would try to flirt with her. Rainquail

(That has happened 3 times XD)

[Moonraven]

It literally felt like she was just here, and now they were back again. Twilightstar paws fluttered lightly across the sandy clearing, barely leaving any pawprints, and went straight over to the Seastones, noting that ShadowClan had already arrived. Lionstar and Icestar always looked so at odds at each other even when they were just sitting in each other vicinity. It was funny. Twilightstar already knew ThunderClan would not be attending this Gathering, Duskstar didn't look the greatest when she had left RiverClan territory. Hm, perhaps this meeting would be nice and quick. Twilightstar bounced up onto the stones and took a seat in between the two leaders, she gave them a silent greet with a respectful nod while wrapping her tail around her paws. She doubted ShadowClan had any idea what had gone on in ThunderClan. They seemed more like the type to keep to themselves and ignore the other clans' plights. That was not how you made friends, a bunch of shadowy loners they were.

WINDCLAN HAS ARRIVED

[teddy.]

Oddear strolled down onto the beach behind Twilightstar, wondering along the sandy banks to find some company to occupy him that full moon. The moons light made his pelt feel warm, shiney, lush. Nothing was really around to bother him this gathering. How nice! the tall skinny Tom took a seat in the sand, feathery tail swaying side to side as he did so.

{ OPEN!!! }

[cmdR_Paige]

Oddear strolled down onto the beach behind Twilightstar, wondering along the sandy banks to find some company to occupy him that full moon. The moons light made his pelt feel warm, shiney, lush. Nothing was really around to bother him this gathering. How nice! the tall skinny Tom took a seat in the sand, feathery tail swaying side to side as he did so.

{ OPEN!!! }


Wolftail had always been curious about the strange... tom. At least that's what everyone said he was. Wolftail could never be sure of his clanmates. Sometimes cats that looked like mollies called themselves toms. Sometimes the most apparent of toms asked to be called queens, for goodness' sake. Thankfully Crescentmoon and Brindlejaw were easy to read.

Of course, Wolftail couldn't judge Oddear; that would be rude.

What wouldn't be rude would be walking over and striking up a conversation.

Right?

"Uh..." he awkwardly coughed. "I don't believe we've met. Oddear, was it?"

[Moonraven]

A small fluffy chimera padded in behind her leader and the rest of her clanmates, she felt much better since the last gathering. Deadpool stopped to look around for her ShadowClan friends, stifling the urge to hiss at the huge tom who pushed his way past her. He didn't bother sparing her a glance as he immediately went to find a place away from everyone else. Deadpool watched him for a moment before vanishing into the crowd of cats on a hunt.
implimm Rainquail [if they want to bother her].

[open]
His long curved claws scratched along the small grains of sand as he took a seat closer to the water and away from the rest of the clans.Batglare fluffs up his white and brown pelt and his glaring green-yellow eyes looked up towards the seastones. The anti-social loner hated coming to Gatherings, but since he had missed something intriguing last time and mildly worried about seeming weak with their lack of a deputy, Batglare decided to make an exception this time. He wrapped his tail around his big paws tightly, silently fretting about the grains he'd be cleaning out after this.

[Wings]

[ OPEN ]
-Russetstrike-

This was Russetstrike's first gathering as a RiverClan cat. He had decided not to go last gathering.. for personal reasons. Though, it felt nice to arrive at the gathering first with RiverClan and he choose a spot in the middle and watched as the different clans filled out around him. First ShadowClan, then WindClan. All who was left was... ThunderClan. He wondered if they were even coming because of the fire.

--

[ OPEN - not for Dewpaw Cobralily ]
-Echopaw-

This gathering would be different. It had to be! She would stay clear of Dewpaw if he came and might see if she could go over to Condorpaw when ThunderClan arrived. (Little did she know that they had had a fire) She took a spot closer to where the medicine cats gathered usually and just waited. Either for someone to come up to her or for Condorpaw to arrive.

--

[ Arie ]
-Creekpaw-

Another gathering, and he still wasn't a warrior yet. Brindlejaw was taking forever to get his assessment going and it was starting to get on his nerves. Though, shrugging it off, he padded into Seastones along with the rest of his clan. Looking up to the leaders, he only spotted Lionstar and Icestar.. Great, ShadowClan was here. It was ineviable that ShadowClan would be here and he only hoped that Mountainmist wasn't. He despised the queen at the moment and wanted nothing to do with her.
Going off to the edge of the crowd, he spotted a smaller she than him but, she looked experienced? Even though she looked so young? Shrugging that off, he padded over. Quickly noticing her twitching ears made him think of Eaglesoul. He had done similarly and Creekpaw wondered if the ShadowClan? she was blind too.

[Arie]

-- Beau Slushie --

His second gathering! Stagpaw limped in directly behind Twiglight and his eyes once again widened. It was still MASSIVE! And despite being like... some of the later clan to arrive, he bumbled into the gathering, running and then falling over his bad paw once again. It seemed this would be a trend in how his life would go. Run, trip, get up, run, trip, get up. And then bother Twiglight. "Twiggy going back up on stone?" he asked Mushy who it seemed was following him. Wouldn't Mushy go find friends of his own... wait. Twiglight had assigned him to watch over him hadn't he? "Come on Mushy! I need to go find Curlpaw! He ate beetles with me last time!" With that he ran off into the throng of cats, looking for that one friend of his. "Wait... I think Curlpaw is fish cat. Can you help me find him?" he directed the question at the warrior. He didn't exactly know how to find fish cats in this mess.

[Greenleap]

[Open!]
Greenheart walked into the gathering. Her first gathering as a warrior! So exciting!

[Open!]
Swiftpaw padded into the clearing, looking confident. The small tom sat down and looked around. Where was thunderclan, anyways? Probably late, not like he cared.

[dionysus]

[ Romulus ]

Heathernose stepped gingerly into sea stones and looked around. She wasn’t particularly in the mood to fraternize with other cats but she had thought that perhaps the distraction would help take her mind off of her conflicting emotions. Still, now that she was here, talking to strangers didn’t really appeal to her. Sighing, she resigned herself to a long, lonely night when she spotted Oddear. The tom had been kind to her at the meeting and she’d always noticed that he was a friendly cat so perhaps he wouldn’t mind talking to her.

Picking her way over to the oriental shorthair, Heathernose waved her tail in greeting and offered a small smile.

“Hi, Oddear, how are you tonight?”

-

[ Arie Slushie ]

Rushingmoor was looking forward to conversing with a few cats from other clans- particularly Buckbranch if Thunderclan even managed to come. He wanted to check in on the tom and his clan mate’s well being, feeling somewhat as though he were a part of it because of his work with Windclan building makeshift dens.

Of course, his plans for the evening were dashed when a certain weak-footed apprentice went tumbling into the gathered cats. Groaning, Mushdad followed along, but wait... Curlpaw? He was going to have to babysit two beetle eating apprentices? Why did Starclan hate him? Or more accurately, why did Twiggy hate him?

Glaring up at the lilac leader though he knew she couldn’t see it, Rushingmoor trudged after the kid, grumbling,

“How am I supposed to know where the other bug is?”

[panchiko]

robinpaw // [wc] // taken
---
hrmm, a gathering. cool, cool. this was his first, but he wasn't going to let himself freak out. nope, not yet. holding a worm in one paw -- although honestly he wasn't sure if it was dead or not? it looked the same? -- robinpaw searched for a worthy cat to.. gift it to. worms were great gifts, right? unlike spiders. blach. those were the nastiest, vilest, evilest----robinpaw shook his thoughts clear, eyes darting around the crowd as he sat down and waited for anyone to come remotely near him.
dreampaw // [shc] // opennn
---
another gathering! this was cool. this was fun. she was so ready to bug someone new again! was badgerpaw here like last time? maybe she'd thought of some new interests?! shdsjdl, dreampaw was so excited. walking around confidently, the shadowclan apprentice looked around for anyone that looked like they would have no problem with talking to her.
redraven // [wc] // opennnnn
---
following windclan into the gathering, redraven took a seat in the midst of all the other cats, glancing around uninterestedly. who should she talk to? tsk tsk. everyone else was either talking to someone or they seemed like they would surely give her a headache, although redraven wouldn't mind. waiting for anyone to approach, the female pawed at the ground beneath her for entertainment, making little swirl textures.

[Dovey]

{Open}

Berryscorch eagerly waltzed up to the Seastones after Lionstar. This was her first gathering as a warrior, and she wanted to make it a one to remember. And seeing as she was one of the first to arrive, she considered this to already be starting off on the right paw. The only problem with being early was that there was also nobody else to talk to, but... she could wait.
"Hey Berryscorch!" Almondpaw jumped. "Is this your first gathering? It's mine!" he said.

[RedHead]

Ripplepaw was enjoying going to this gathering once more. Last moon's hadn't turned out well for her, she'd been left alone the majority of the time and it hadn't been good for her sanity. This time though, she was determined to find someone to talk to. Shaking out her pelt, Ripplepaw turned and began to search for someone anyone who looked like they wouldn't mind talking to the likes of her. Even if they did mind well... it would be too bad for them. Though unfortunately, because she was kind of walking backwards and not paying much attention, she ended up stumbling into some other cat. Turning around, Ripplepaw opened her maw to apologize, it had been her fault of course, that was clear, but then her eyes drifted past the Windclan apprentice to spot whom he was looking at. GAH! "You!" She growled, ducking behind the Windclan tom, which was no easy feat with her size. Even being young Ripplepaw was already larger than most of the apprentices older than her in her clan. "Stay away from me sand thrower! You better not come one pawstep closer! If you even try anything I'll go drown you in the river!" Ripplepaw didn't really even give any heed to the poor tomcat she was hiding behind, he was her shield and that was that.

Arie Wings

----

Moonraven

Gross. That was the thought that every gathering was met with when Freezepaw had to go. She'd much rather stay in camp, away from having to socialize and away from having to.... be around all this. Sitting around and listening to politics and boring leaders talk and argue like old married couples wasn't the ideal time for the diluted feline.
Freezepaw was sitting with her tail curled around her paws, ears flattened against her head as she watched the goings on with narrowed eyes. But as Windclan walked in, Freezepaw noticed with growing interest a certain tomcat who didn't seem interested in talking to others either. He sat alone, near the back, much like her. Now well... that was a promising sign. Plus, he did seem to be on the more buff side of cats, and Freezepaw had to admit to herself that was also a plus, buff cats were nice to look at, and most seemed to be particularly reasonable and not as annoying and gross as other cats. Icestar was a good example. So, after a few more moments of careful decision making in her head, Freezepaw got to her paws and padded over, giving the Windclan tom a nod of greeting instead of a smile. Smiling was overrated. "You don't seem to be enjoying yourself, now do you?" She noted as she sat down near him, curling her tail around her paws to try and keep it off the sandy ground.

[The Kitty.]

---Leopardpaw---
Upon catching sight of Twilightstar clambering up onto the Seastones, a huge, sturdily-built cashmere scanned the horde of collecting cats through creased yellow eyes. Puffing out a rather candid snort, Leopardpaw stalked on back toward the edge of the crowd before finally situating a seat near a screen of snaking brambles.
[open]

-

---Sparrowsnap---
Sparrowsnap lumbered heavily after Icestar, chin tilting up as she watched her Clan leader hop up onto the base of the Seastones. Huffing, she let her yellow eyes dart brief, half-lidded glances this way and that. It was funny almost: this moonlit gathering would probably be one of the tan warrior's lasfor at least a good couple of moons, taking into consideration the recent discovery of her... Kits.
[ Slushie ]

[StealthWarrior]

"There are this many cats? That's impossible!" Stealthpaw exclaimed, she didn't think there were this many cats in the world! She raced off to explore.
esa

[teddy.]

Wolftail had always been curious about the strange... tom. At least that's what everyone said he was. Wolftail could never be sure of his clanmates. Sometimes cats that looked like mollies called themselves toms. Sometimes the most apparent of toms asked to be called queens, for goodness' sake. Thankfully Crescentmoon and Brindlejaw were easy to read.

Of course, Wolftail couldn't judge Oddear; that would be rude.

What wouldn't be rude would be walking over and striking up a conversation.

Right?

"Uh..." he awkwardly coughed. "I don't believe we've met. Oddear, was it?"

[ Romulus ]

Heathernose stepped gingerly into sea stones and looked around. She wasn’t particularly in the mood to fraternize with other cats but she had thought that perhaps the distraction would help take her mind off of her conflicting emotions. Still, now that she was here, talking to strangers didn’t really appeal to her. Sighing, she resigned herself to a long, lonely night when she spotted Oddear. The tom had been kind to her at the meeting and she’d always noticed that he was a friendly cat so perhaps he wouldn’t mind talking to her.

Picking her way over to the oriental shorthair, Heathernose waved her tail in greeting and offered a small smile.

“Hi, Oddear, how are you tonight?”

Oddear found himself perking up. Two cats, both wanted his attention?! Absolutely so! It made his heart warm when he had two besides him for company that evening. He flashed a smile, snaggletooth canine flashing in the moon light. "Pleasurable evening to both of you this fine full moon!"He hummed to both, a tilt to his head as he took in Wolftail. Had they talked before? Nope. Time to change that!

"The one and only Oddear if I do say so myself, indeed indeed! I hold many titles, nicknames, tags. But Oddear is the current one yet I suspect not the last!" Maybe he was rambling but he honestly didn't care.

His long feathery tail wrapped itself neatly around Heathernose, eager to make her feel included.

[~RooRoo~]

Wavepaw swallowed. I’ve been having panic attacks lately. she mewed. gs29513

[dionysus]

[ Romulus ]

Heathernose hadn’t noticed the other cat somehow and suddenly worried that she was intruding but Oddear addressed them both and partially assuaged her concern. The rest of the fear melted away as he wrapped his tail around her and the tortoiseshell thought she might actually cry. It had been so long since someone just held her- not that he was doing that but it was close enough. But shouldn’t she be going to Thornsprint for physical reassurance? Ugh everything was so confusing.

“The moon is extraordinary tonight.”

[gs29513]

RC
Oh no! Splashpaw squealed in dismay. Are you alright? Do you want to meet other cats? Confused on what to do next, Splashpaw followed her adopted sister over to where two Shadowclan cats were sitting. HI! I'm Splashpaw! she mewed, plunging right in.

SC
Shrewpaw chuckled, as munchkin, that was so her nickname, got mad at him. Sorry little munchkin. he mewed teasingly. Whirling around at the sound of another apprentice, he bristled. Ugh, a Riverclanner. What do you want? he grunted. He knew he was supposed to be friendly, but it was going to be SO HARD! With a sigh, he tried for a nicer tone. Sorry, that was a bit rude. I'm Shrewpaw. Who are your friends? he asked, seeing the other apprentices. ~RooRoo~ ~Lucid Dreams~ Sugarglider

Maplepaw didn't see his mentor coming, so he plunged down the slope, and into the clearing. Most everyone was here already, and he looked around to see if he could find, what was her name? Rosepaw, oh gosh she was beautiful. Looking around eagerly, he padded towards the fringes of the crowd, hoping to find her there. TheNyanCatMinecart (if you want)

WC
Skunkblaze bounded into the clearing. Rosepaw had been before, so she figured her apprentice could handle herself. Suppressing a laugh as Stagpaw dragged Rushingmoor through the crowd, she sat down near the leaders perch. Looking around, she didn't see anyone she knew, so she stayed put. (OPEN)

Wishpool hadn't really wanted to come, but she figured she should come, in case Dodgepaw needed something, if he even came. She realized she hadn't been giving her apprentice the attention he deserved lately, and resolved to do a bit better. Sitting on the fringes, she shuddered at the memory of the killings and betrayals that had followed the last one. Hopefully this one would be better. (OPEN)

[Fawnhearted]

Lynxstep sat down and carefully watched the cats, she was worried about her kits who were back home, especially Daisykit, she was worried Leopardbi- sorry Leopardpaw might be harrasing her, Lynxstep looked for another queen to gossip with.

(OPEN)

[~RooRoo~]

Don’t be sorry. Well ya I want to meet other cats I, I just wanted you to know. You are the first person I told. Before mom, which I probably should tell her. she mewed cheering up a little bit. gs29513

[lucidense]

Smallpaw bristled at her clanmates teasing tone. She was not in the mood for this. She would pad off, sitting somewhere else. gs29513 (Open for someone else)


Icepaw arrived at the gathering, gazing around. It was huge! (Open for non RiverClan)

[gs29513]

Disappointed at Smallpaw's disappearance, Shrewpaw turned his attention to the other apprentices. You look like you're still kits! he mewed. They did look rather young. ~RooRoo~ Sugarglider

[Shade.]

Lotusheart walked around the other cats. In every gathering she felt a bit awkward since her height made her noticeable. She found a spot free of too many cats, suitable for her size and sat down.




Lizardpaw was honestly a bit excited about the gathering. It was her first one. Suddenly, a horrible feeling gripped her heart. What would the ShadowClan cats say? What would her idol Icestar say? She left them for RiverClan. Her heart ached.

[~RooRoo~]

Ya. We were just apprenticed. she meowed her heart racing trying not to have a panic attack. (How about she does at some point and we figure out that Splash is the only one whom can stop it?) gs29513

[gs29513]

(I'm ok with that)
Yeah! Cause we were so good Lionstar made us apprentices early! Splashpaw bragged to the Shadowclan apprentice.

Well, in a fight, you would lose cause your tiny! Shrewpaw mewed, determined to beat these kits in the battle of wills. ~RooRoo~

[~RooRoo~]

No. Tiny is mighty! she bragged her heart beating faster. She knew this feeling. She was scared of it. It was her enemy. gs29513

[gs29513]

Really? Shrewpaw asked incredulously. He wasn't going to fight, but he wanted to see what these she-cats would do.

It's ok Wavepaw. Splashpaw told her sister, tempering her own excitement. He's just jealous cause he had to wait, and we got to be apprentices early. ~RooRoo~

[~RooRoo~]

Ok. she meowed. She was looking for a bush. When she saw one she just left not saying anything and went into it. gs29513

[gs29513]

Wavepaw? Are you alright? Splashpaw mewed, panicking a bit. Following her sister into the bush, she looked around. ~RooRoo~

Ha! Riverclan fishhearts! Shrewpaw crowed, looking around for someone else. Maybe the gathering would be fun! (OPEN)

[~RooRoo~]

Yayaya. she panicked. Then it started. She didn’t know what to do. Last time it happened she was alone island it just went away. Then words started to surround her. She was scared. Curled up in a small ball of fur like a kit. She whimpered. gs29513

[gs29513]

It's ok Wavepaw Splashpaw mewed, curling around her sister. She hoped she would be ok. She needed her sister! ~RooRoo~

[~RooRoo~]

As she felt her sister curl on her the voices started fading but she kept whimpering. She was still having it. (Maybe tell her a joke or make her laugh. Maybe talk about something she likes?) gs29513

[Mango]

Stempaw stalked into the gathering, her first gathering, she narrowed her eyes at the apprentices from Riverclan and Windclan, she had to learn what their weaknesses were, along with their strengths.
(OPEN—SHC)

Fennelheart hadn’t been to a gathering in moons, so she was quite excited to be here, she skimmed the clearing to see if she recognized anyone from the old Skyclan, but was more than willing to talk to another clan.
(OPEN—RC)

Gullpaw trotted into the gathering. This was her second gathering. She was looking around to see who she’d want to talk to. She flicked her tail casually.
(OPEN—WC)

[Exis]

Foxblaze padded heavily into the gathering, she felt heavier than usual and with her small stature it was noticeable if she gained any weight.

(Open )

—-

Blackpaw and Frecklpaw glided through the mass of cats. They’re eyes seemed to have a good over them as they walked to find a place to sit.
SKYe (open to Ash or anyone else) (this is also just open)

[gs29513]

Wavepaw, what uh, does a young fish do? Splashpaw asked, hoping to make her sister laugh. It practices schooling! ~RooRoo~ (Its lame, I know)

[~RooRoo~]

She let out snort and looked at her sister. gs29513 like a laugh snort

[gs29513]

Are you ok? Splashpaw asked, worried. ~RooRoo~ (GTG, I'm making scones)

[~RooRoo~]

Ya. she meowed sitting up then nuzzled her sister. (Sadness. Have fun!) gs29513

[Nightbound]

Leappaw stalked into the clearing. She looked around mildly excited. She was looking for a place to sit when she almost stepped on someone's tail. "And excuse me but who are you?" She said furiously. Leappaw glared at the tom. hope

[panchiko]

// Nightbound "robinpaw, the one and only. i hope i'm the one and only, at least... haven't met any other robinpaws so far, so! that's good!" he replied, purposefully ignoring leappaw's .. lack of manners. "who are you, anyway?" he asked in retaliation, getting his worm handy just in case this cat turned out to be... less enjoyable than expected. "oh! almost forgot! can you please watch where you're going?! my goodness, you almost stepped on my tail. my beautiful tail!" robinpaw scolded her, shaking his head disapprovingly. the disrespect!

[Nightbound]

Leappaw flicked her ear annoyed. "The one and only Leappaw. And as for your tail you should watch it. I didn't see it." She replied. Then she noticed a spider. The molly caught and held it up. "Touch me with the worm and you will have a spider in your face." Leappaw said smirking. hope (leaps blind on her left side so she actually didn't see his tail.)

[sootsplashed]

Sootpaw gasped at the jerk ShadowClan apprentice. She ran after Wavepaw and Splashpaw, though she was a bit late to finding them, they were already in conversation. "Wavepaw! Are you okay?" She knew she was just like a third wheel, though there was no dating involved. "That apprentice was mean. Don't worry, I'd bet you would win a battle!" She wanted to be closer to her sisters, so of course she was helping!
~RooRoo~ gs29513

[Elementals]

PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE THIS!

Shc~Foggypaw~
[Open]

Bouncing after the group of Shadowclan cats, Foggypaw was excited for her first gathering. Even though she heard that it was mostly a place of drama, she couldn’t wait to meet new cats. Though Riverclan was more on the fishy side, she tolerated it.

Rc~Silentpaw~
[Open]

Feeling like the gathering was a tad bit better than the now stuffy Riverclan, Silentpaw was ready for the second gathering of his life. Though the last one was quite chaotic than he had anticipated.

Shc~Mouseleap~
[Open]

Feeling a twinge of sadness that Thunderclan was absent, Mouseleap looked forward in talking to the warrior she loved to share things with.

Wc~Fallenghost~
[Open]

Watching the cats with curiosity, Fallenghost wondered what was to come. To be honest, she didn’t mind any of the cats.

Rc~Splashfury~
[Open]

Splashfury gave a tiny huff of annoyance. It was a bit more cramped at camp than she had liked it to be because of the fire.

[~RooRoo~]

Ya. she meowed. I really need to tell mom but I’ll tell you too. I started having panic attacks. she meowed. Sugarglider

[stag]

*Redspot would wonder where Thunderclan was.* Ive heard that there was a great fire I hope they are ok. *He said to RainPuddle*

[Willowfern]

Elementals
Smokeflight spotted another cat who seemed to be alone, padding over she meowed,
“Hello, I’m Smokeflight of Windclan, nice to meet you!”
(You can pick who Smokey talks to)

[-Ash-]

WindClan
Echowind looked around for her apprentice. "Gullpaw?" she called. Zesty Mango

ShadowClan
Ashkit had snuck to the Gathering behind her Clanmates. All of the sudden she tripped over a rock and bumped into a brown and white tom. "You're not from ShadowClan..." Moonraven

[That Key in the Tree]

Wolfwhisper lied down somewhat away from the crowd but close enough to where she could hear what was being said, there were a lot of cats there. She never really liked going to these things because of how crowded it usually was.

[Open]

Kestrelpaw skipped, he was so excited! This was his first gathering and he was so happy to be here! There were so many cats here! A huge grinned crossed his face.

[Open]

Hollywatcher sat down with a small smile, flicking her tail. She was in a pretty good mood, it hadn’t been a bad day for her. Everything seemed to be calm so far which made her more relaxed.

[Open]

[duckie]

Yewpaw
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Yewpaw hesitantly padded along the beach beside her clanmates. She used to be eager to attend these things - lots of new faces to see and introduce herself to - but now things were different. Too many things gone wrong between then and now. She spotted her new mentor (whose name still alluded her) and debated going to sit with him before remembering how weirdly he talked and decided against it. Stars, why couldn't she just have stayed at home? That would've been so much easier. Eventually, she settled down off to the side, as secluded as she could manage with three clans present in the same place at once. Maybe she could just ride this out alone.


[ Slushie ]

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Frogpaw
__________

Frogpaw strolled toward the Seastones, laughing and joking alongside her clanmates as they traveled. She expected this gathering wasn't going to be anything spectacular but still enjoyed the company it offered. Not to mention all the opportunity for mischief! Hopefully she would be able to find a cat from another clan she could talk to.


[ TAKEN ]

[Cobra]

[ Wings ]

~~Meadowsong~~

Meadowsong walked over. "Hello, Echopaw! This must be exciting, right? I love Gatherings!" she chirped. "Yeah, I know we don't know each other, but you seem cool!" Better not to mention Dewpaw. Ugh, her stupid nephew loved to burst in and give young she-cats a bit of a...shock. She shook her head. NO DEWPAW. "What are some of your favorite names?" she asked suddenly. "I always wanted to be Meadowlight!"

Wings

[Puddle~]

TeamMilkBot

At the sound of someone loudly calling out her name, Berryscorch turned, and to her dismay, she found it was a clanmate, and an apprentice at that. Gah. She'd been hoping to maybe meet some more warriors this time around. Maybe she could just ditch this apprentice in favor of someone else... but... she decided to stick around and see how this went. Rolling her eyes at the tom's remark, she shifted around to fully face him. "No, Almondpaw. What do you think? I'm a warrior. I've obviously been to some as an apprentice." There was a sarcastic edge to her voice, and she narrowed her eyes to try and get across the idea that she didn't want him to do anything annoying, or she'd simply get up and leave him.

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Zesty Mango

Did he want to be here? Not exactly. This was his second gathering. Last time, he'd done basically nothing but sit and watch for the entire duration. Would he like to keep it the same and avoid interactions tonight? Ideally, yes. But, had his talk Doepaw led to the realization that he needed to put himself out there? Also yes. So tonight, he'd be trying just that. Walking up to the Seastones with the rest of ShadowClan, he'd already caught sight of a fair share of blabbering, obnoxious apprentices screaming their heads off and jumping all around. Bleh. He'd steer clear of that type. But scanning the sandy area, he spotted another apprentice sitting casually and quietly by herself among the WindClan cats. Perhaps he'd give this one a go. Trotting over, he stopped just in front of the other apprentice to introduce himself. "Hello. I'm Ribbitpaw. And you? He studied her carefully, silently hoping that this was a more mature cat he'd picked out, and not another one of those blabbermouth apprentices.

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Elementals

Puddlepaw followed the rest of his clan up to the Seastones, both eager and apprehensive to be back here. Who knew what sort of crazy things might happen this time around? But first, he pushed aside that thought and began searching for someone to talk to. Immediately, he caught sight of another apprentice sitting among the ShadowClan cats, and decided to just go strike up a conversation. Padding up to the other feline, he gave a warm smile in greeting. "Hello there! I'm Puddlepaw. Who are you?"

[Mango]

Puddle~
Gullpaw glanced up at the Shadowclan tom and dipped her head, hopefully he wouldn’t be as strange as that Frigidpaw she met the last time,” I’m Gullpaw.” she meowed unsure of what to talk about,” How’s Shadowclan fairing?” she asked unsure of what to say, so she figured smalltalk would work.

[Elementals]

~Foggypaw~

Foggypaw was so into looking cats to talk to that one actually came over. Smiling with joy, Foggypaw gave a quick thanks in her head to Starclan for letting someone come over to talk to her.

“Why hello there, Puddlepaw! I’m Foggypaw of Shadowclan! How is it going?” Foggypaw exclaimed excitedly to the other apprentice. Ooh, would she make another friend? That would be awesome to make another friend. Even better, from Windclan!

{ Puddle~ }

[stag]

*Redspot noticed Shadowclan and went up one of the apps.* Hello Im Redspot! *Said the scared male calico* wnder

[teddy.]

Coralpaw was reluctantly at the gathering, fiery red tail swaying behind the Riverclan apprentice. The sand under their paws felt nice, comforting almost. Dark blue eyes searched the beach, maybe someone with brains could offer a decent conversation?

{Open to non Riverclan cats! Coral uses they/them.}

[skreelyshark]

Sugarglider

Harefoot rubbed his head against Marshstep's pelt.

"Hey Marshstep good luck with the deputy position!" he purred before skipping off into the crowd of bustling cats.

He looked around for a cat to talk to (open).

[Rani]

Snowfern followed closely behind her apprentice, her eyes fixed on the open clearing that would soon be full of cats. She gave a smile to her apprentice before padding to be slightly in front of her. "Are you excited? I remember I sure was" she laughed, pushing into the clearing subconsciously. It was all just muscle memory to her now. Looking around, she noticed that Shadowclan was the only other clan that had arrived so far. Looking back down at Willowpaw, she realized how nervous the new apprentice looked. Running her tail gently down her spine in what she hoped was a comforting way, she mewed, "It's okay to be nervous, y'know"

Willowpaw leaned into her mentors touch for strength before finally collecting her normal blustering courage "I'm not scared! I'm just... getting happy jitters." Willowpaw looked over the clearing as the other clans arrived looking in awe at Beastspark, that was a big and scarred cat! Now he was someone scary! She cautiously took a few steps from Snowfern to join the talking clans before turning back to Snowfern "I can come back to you if someones mean, right?" Willowpaw just needed a little reassurance that she had support before she would go bounding off to meet new cats.

[dionysus]

[ open ]

Rainydawn made her way through the crowd with a smile despite the crowd. Usually, she hated crowds and any place where she might be set upon by a stranger who wants to get to know her but she felt more confident at this gathering. As usual, though, she couldn’t keep her mind from straying to a certain one eyed grey tom and she blushed beneath her fur despite no one being able to tell the course of her thoughts. Would it be weird to try to find him at a gathering? It was technically a time to meet cats from other clans but she only really wanted to spend time with Goosefury.

The bengal mix shrugged to herself and sat down, patiently waiting for the announcements to start or for someone to come up to her. She actually was looking for conversation tonight, strangely enough.

[Rani]

Willowpaw lept through the clearing looking for someone friendly looking before her eyes landed on Frogpaw. The young tabby she cat altered course and made a final bound to a stop in front of the other apprentice and chirped out a greeting with a wide grin "Hello! You seem really fun! Im Willowpaw, from riverclan! You're from shadowclan right? Whats that like, do you guys even have any water over there?" She never was the best at first impressions but let it never be said that she wasn't enthusiastic about them. If this cat turned out mean she'd leave but for now she grinned up at the other apprentice, whiskers twitching in the place of where in most cats would be twitching their tail.
wnder

[skreelyshark]

Elementals

Reedwhisker saw a flash of ginger fur amongst the other cats. He recognized Splashfury and padded up to her.

"Hi Splashfury." He already felt awkward, regretting trying to socialize. "Uh the weather is perfect for um a gathering." He offered, looking down at his paws.

[The Kitty.]

Leopardpaw
__________

Leopardpaw grinded her protruding upper canines as she continued to scan the crush of cats from her secluded place at the back. Good god, there were a lot of cats. Eh. Might as well begin some random chit-chatting. Who knew - maybe the cashmere would have a chance at discovering a cat who happened to share Leopardpaw's same ambitions.

Picking out an absolutely random cat among the mingling horde, the apprentice padded leisurely toward them, muzzle curling in that usual smirk. "Splashfury, right?" she wondered aloud, bushy tail sweeping the mulch. "Name's Leopardbit-er, paw."

[ Elementals ]

[duckie]

Frogpaw
__________

Frogpaw wrinkled her nose as an overeager apprentice bounded up and immediately launched into word vomit. Willowpaw, huh? Already annoying but maybe she could... "Slow it down, smallfry." she replied, raising a questioning brow, "Yeah, I'm from ShadowClan and yes we do have water. Marshes, actually. I bet you'd sink in and get stuck." The apprentice smirked, "What do you Fishbrains not ask for names over in RiverClan? I'm Frogpaw."


[ Rani ]

[dino.]

[ Corruptx ]

----Goosefury----

Originally he had thought going to tonight's Gathering to be a good idea, but now that he had the chance to take a look around the gathered cats... he realized it might have been a giant mistake. He stared across the Seastones, panic rising in his chest, at the cat he couldn't help but recognize as Sparrowpaw. The one who had helped her mentor brutally tear him to pieces, the one who had held no remorse for her actions, the one who had maimed him for life.
He didn't want to walk past her, but she was standing in the way of where he wanted to go. So, gathering the remaining bits of his shattered courage, he squared his shoulders and began to move, determined to keep his gaze straight ahead and unwavering. He didn't want to know what would happen if he so much as glanced at her.

[ wnder ]

----Asterpaw----

The fact that this would be his first Gathering ever was exhilarating to Asterpaw. He swept his gaze across the crowd of cats, wanting to mingle and talk and get to know everyone, but for some reason he felt as if he couldn't. He was still a new addition to WindClan, and some cats still didn't trust him, which was probably for good reason.
Instead, his eyes settled on Yewpaw, one of his fellow apprentices, and he made his way over with a smile. Some friendly jokes about her name were already bubbling up in his throat, but he pushed them down. Maybe if he got to know her better he could reveal some of them, but for now he settled for a polite, "Good evening," as he paused in front of her.

[ Beau Arie ]

----Curlpaw----

Curlpaw practically hurled himself into the clearing, squealing giddily at the sight before him. The leaders were on the rock again; exciting! There were crowds of cats everywhere; exciting! And if he looked hard enough, he could see Stagpaw; triple exciting!!! He put on a burst of speed and skidded to a halt in front of Rushingmoor and Stagpaw, a goofy grin on his face.
He gave Rushingmoor a polite nod, accompanied by a polite, "Evening, sir." But as soon as he turned his gaze to Stagpaw, all normal courteousness left him. "It's the beetle dude!" he yelped, partly because he liked the nickname and mostly because he had forgotten the other apprentice's name. Whoops. "Who's this? Is he your mentor? Or is he here to find some beetles, too?"

[Elementals]

Elementals

Reedwhisker saw a flash of ginger fur amongst the other cats. He recognized Splashfury and padded up to her.

"Hi Splashfury." He already felt awkward, regretting trying to socialize. "Uh the weather is perfect for um a gathering." He offered, looking down at his paws.
~Splashfury~

Feeling a twinge of pleasure that Coastpaw was done with training as an apprentice, Splashfury was proud to be a mentor. She perked her ears up at the sound of a cat. If it wasn’t a clanmate then she would have been more cautious. It turned out to be Reedwhisker who she didn’t know that well.

”Hello Reedwhisker, we must be on our guards for uhm.. some cats..” Splashfury murmured as she looked warily at Shadowclan.

[Elementals]

Leopardpaw
__________

Leopardpaw grinded her protruding upper canines as she continued to scan the crush of cats from her secluded place at the back. Good god, there were a lot of cats. Eh. Might as well begin some random chit-chatting. Who knew - maybe the cashmere would have a chance at discovering a cat who happened to share Leopardpaw's same ambitions.

Picking out an absolutely random cat among the mingling horde, the apprentice padded leisurely toward them, muzzle curling in that usual smirk. "Splashfury, right?" she wondered aloud, bushy tail sweeping the mulch. "Name's Leopardbit-er, paw."

[ Elementals ]
~Splashfury~

Giving a cautious look at the Windclan cat who had approached her, Splashfury gave them a quick scan. She was overprotective of her clan so it was better safe than sorry. Wary of that smirk Splashfury saw, this cat was a bit suspicious. “Yes.. I am Splashfury..hello Leopardpaw.” she replied wondering if they got demoted or something.

[Elementals]

Elementals
Smokeflight spotted another cat who seemed to be alone, padding over she meowed,
“Hello, I’m Smokeflight of Windclan, nice to meet you!”
(You can pick who Smokey talks to)
~Silentpaw~

Giving a shy smile to the approaching warrior, Silentpaw was glad that he didn’t need to go up to a cat to talk. They seemed to be polite and all. “Oh. I amm Ssilentpaw.” Silentpaw stuttered nervous time meet a new cat.

[Willowfern]

~Silentpaw~

Giving a shy smile to the approaching warrior, Silentpaw was glad that he didn’t need to go up to a cat to talk. They seemed to be polite and all. “Oh. I amm Ssilentpaw.” Silentpaw stuttered nervous time meet a new cat.
Seeing how Silentpaw was a bit nervous Smokeflight got down to his level,
“That’s a nice name, Is this your first Gathering?” Smokeflight asked kindly.

[Rani]

Willowpaw gave a small giggle and calmed slightly sitting down "Why ask when I knew you were gonna give it to me anyway once I gave you mine? Seems like it's unnecessary." Maybe the elders and older cats would say something like 'its about manners!' but that just seems to slow everyone down really. "And if marshes are so difficult how do you not get stuck in them? If you live in a territory with a lot of them it'd be horrible if you just got stuck every time you went anywhere." She shuddered and frowned at a stray thought. Could you drown in marsh? If you got stuck in it it normally would just be annoying but if you could drown that made a portion of shadowclans territory an awful death trap. "Marshes just sound annoying, rivers seem better." She mused out loud. Willowpaw wasn't sure if she liked the semi insulting nicknames but she also wasn't sure she cared either. She'd ignore it for now.
wnder

[TheNyanCatMinecart]

gs29513

Rosepaw was sitting closer to the WindClan side of the Gathering, the bright moonlight giving her dark pelt a silvery sheen. Balancing on her hindquarters, she lifted a paw, her fluffy white chest fur glowing brightly in the light. A creamy stripe running down her back turned pale, and her leaf-green eyes gave off a glow. Licking her paw, she bent her head a bit, swiping it over her ears. Something faint and concealed flashed for a moment on her stomach, almost invisible. She was too focused on looking elegant to spot the eager Maplepaw trying to look for her. (You can have Maplepaw find her.)

(Open!)

Twistedpaw sat alone in the crowd, on the edge of the gathering of cats. She had been here before, but she still felt nervous. A whole bunch of cats, all judging her by how she acted here. The deformed apprentice shifted, her black pelt making her almost invisible. Her bulging tail-tip, dangling over her head and the faintest shade lighter than light gray, gave off a glow in the moonlight. So did her stomach, which was the same color, and her pale blind eye. She surveyed the group, staying quiet.

[Elementals]

Seeing how Silentpaw was a bit nervous Smokeflight got down to his level,
“That’s a nice name, Is this your first Gathering?” Smokeflight asked kindly.
~Silentpaw~

The air got slightly warmer when Smokedflight complimented his prefix. To her question, Silentpaw shook his head in a ‘no’. “It’s actually my ssecond ggatheringg. Sstill not used to bbeing around eevery ccllan.” he stuttered a reply and wanted to bonk his head on the floor to stop stuttering.

[skreelyshark]

~Splashfury~

Feeling a twinge of pleasure that Coastpaw was done with training as an apprentice, Splashfury was proud to be a mentor. She perked her ears up at the sound of a cat. If it wasn’t a clanmate then she would have been more cautious. It turned out to be Reedwhisker who she didn’t know that well.

”Hello Reedwhisker, we must be on our guards for uhm.. some cats..” Splashfury murmured as she looked warily at Shadowclan.

He followed her gaze and felt his fur stand up.

"Yeah they better not try anything tonight." He turned to look into her eyes. "Congratulations for finishing your mentorship with Coastpaw. He'll make a great warrior! I can only hope that I teach Stealthpaw enough."

[Arie]

-- Beau Slushie --

"Mushy knows more than I do!" Was his only reply as Stagpaw's blue eye scanned the clearing for his friend. "CURLPAW!" he yelled as the other apprentice arrived in front of them and without even thinking he went forward and pulled the other apprentice into a hug. A real proper hug! Stagpaw didn't exactly have any other friends than like... worrywart. Oh and Mushy. The beetle dude? Wait. That was him! He was the beetle dude! "I brought the beetles yes!" he exclaimed with a loud laugh. And then he drew forth a beetle - from where who knows - and then proceeded to prob it into Curlpaw's mouth. "Curlpaw got beetle now!" Yet when Curlpaw started talking about Mushy, Stagpaw turned around and looked at the warrior. "This is my dad! Mushdad!" His smile was bright and shining and he let out a giggle. "And Twiglight is my ma!" He was going to die... he was completely going to die but hey, at least he would die happy! and maybe the rabbits would get Twiglight!

[Willowfern]

~Silentpaw~

The air got slightly warmer when Smokedflight complimented his prefix. To her question, Silentpaw shook his head in a ‘no’. “It’s actually my ssecond ggatheringg. Sstill not used to bbeing around eevery ccllan.” he stuttered a reply and wanted to bonk his head on the floor to stop stuttering.
“Ah, well, the first two Gatherings are the scary- no not scary, I’ll say, intimidating, I know the other clans can seem different, but we’re all cats! We just smell different at come from different places. Speaking of clans, what clan do you come from?” Smokeflight meowed.

[BEAR.]

Whenever Icestar showed up acting like a confident fatso, it took all of Lionstar's resolve to not snicker at her.

She was a loser.. plain and simple, incapable of recognizing her Clan's weaknesses and he loved exploiting that. It was easy when she was dumber than a pile of rocks. No wonder her and Flinthead got along so well.

He perked up upon Twilightstar's arrival, pleased to see the leader of WindClan despite not seeing her too long before. "Twilightstar!" he chirped her name at her in greeting, ignoring the oversized bison that was now separated from him. He made a note she didn't have that unfortunate looking deputy of hers with her. Did something happen? It was rare for a deputy to not make an appearance at a Gathering.. but he figured if it was important, Twilightstar would announce it.

ThunderClan wasn't going to arrive. Lionstar hadn't jumped to the assumption in case Duskstar wanted to keep up appearances, but he was glad because he'd rather them focus on getting out of his territory. He had previously mentioned he didn't like squatters.. and he could vividly recall when the stink toads of the forest had set up camp in RiverClan while their territory was damaged by a flood. For over a moon.

He didn't want a repeat of that. Ick.

Since it seemed most cats had gathered below them, he saw no reason to waste time on a Clan that would never come. "Since ThunderClan is held up, I'll start." If Icebrains wasn't aware of the fire that recently ravaged the other Clan, she might want to get her eyes and nose checked. He didn't plan on talking about ThunderClan further. It wasn't his place.. and he didn't care.

"As usual, RiverClan has been prospering this last moon. Our territory has been plentiful in resources.

"One of our queens, Thrushvine, has given birth to a litter of healthy kits: Milkykit, Rushkit, and Splashkit. In addition, our Clan also welcomes Tinykit into our ranks.

"RiverClan also celebrates many promotions among our cats! Blizzardpaw, Stingpaw, Sleepypaw, Shadedpaw, Mosspaw, Claypaw, Skunkpaw, Fenpaw, Sugarpaw, Sorrelpaw, Brightpaw, Shinepaw, Bluepaw, Willowpaw, Sootpaw, Coralpaw, Frostpaw, Floodpaw, Wavepaw, Splashpaw, Stealthpaw, Lizardpaw, and Icepaw have all become apprentices!

"Warblercry, Berryscorch, Foxblaze, Lotusheart, Snowfern, Sparrowskip, Coastbreeze, Greenheart, and Duckbounce have all completed their training and have been made warriors! Send some congratulations their way: they've worked hard for their new roles within the Clan.

"With all these happy tidings, I do carry some less joyful news. Three of our Clan-mates have been stricken from the ranks of our Clan.

"Waterwave was exiled for reckless and careless behavior. Disrespecting boundaries and crossing over the border lines, refusing to complete her duties or acknowledge her wrongdoings and trying to pin the blame on other cats.. generally being an unsavory Clan-mate overall. The only punishment that seemed to affect her was casting her out of the Clan.. and I hope that if you come across her trying to Clan hop, you keep her behavioral issues in mind.

"There were two kits I additionally exiled from the Clan.. Riverkit and Sorrelkit. Riverkit had shown a history of aggression before I banished him: he was involved in attacking some of his den-mates with the intent to harm them during some games.. and Sorrelkit appeared to be a typical kit who was up to mischief.

"But I discovered they had pinned down another kit together and savagely ripped him apart. A queen intervened to break them apart and save the injured kit, but Riverkit and Sorrelkit were remorseless in their actions and refused to see they had done anything wrong. Despite their kit position, they seem volatile and overly hostile for a Clan setting.. and probably aren't the best choice in Clan-mates if you want cats who don't randomly assault others and try to kill them." They could be accepted into another Clan at their own risk-- he didn't really care, but figured these red flags would be enough to put even the non-picky leaders off.

Lionstar pressed his mouth together in a thin line. Most of the important stuff had been announced. Now all that was left was Otterstone.

"On a final note, Otterstone has resigned from her position as RiverClan medicine cat. Fawnsqueak has taken her place, and I know he will flourish in his new position." A lie, to some degree, considering he had fired her. Lionstar did know Fawnsqueak would do fantastic-- it would hardly be different from what he'd been doing since he became the apprentice.

"That's all RiverClan has to report." He looked expectantly over at the other leaders, curious to see who'd jump to announcements next.
[ Cas, Moonraven, Undertaker, wnder ]

[skreelyshark]

Reedwhisker felt proud of his leader's confident announcement. He opened his mouth to join the chant:

"Warblercry, Berryscorch, Foxblaze, Lotusheart, Snowfern, Sparrowskip, Coastbreeze, Greenheart, Duckbounce!"

There were many warriors this moon and he recognized Splashfury's ex-apprentice with delight. Hopefully Stealthpaw would join them soon!

[sootsplashed]

Ya. she meowed. I really need to tell mom but I’ll tell you too. I started having panic attacks. she meowed. Sugarglider
"Oh no! That's terrible! I want to help! Is there a way to make them stop or do you just have to wait it out?" Sootpaw was really worried for her sister.

[Rani]

Sorrelkit had done what! Willowpaw wasn't aware of this! Was she really so unknowing of her ex denmates actions! Willowpaw shivered thinking of her own scrap with him who knows how close he was to snapping and hurting her, how scary. At least he was gone now...

[Elementals]

He followed her gaze and felt his fur stand up.

"Yeah they better not try anything tonight." He turned to look into her eyes. "Congratulations for finishing your mentorship with Coastpaw. He'll make a great warrior! I can only hope that I teach Stealthpaw enough."
~Splashfury~

Snapping her attention back to her clanmate, Splashfury didn’t want to seem rude to someone who she shared dens with.

“Thank you, if you need any help with Stealthpaw.. feel free to call me.” Splashfury offered. Splashfury was the one to be that cat who loves her clan with ever inch of her. To help another clanmate was like knowing that the clan is growing strong.

[Banneret]

Thistlepaw watched the Gathering with interest. This was his first one, and he was wary of the unfamiliar cats.

(OPEN)


.... .. - .... . .-. .

Lilytail frowned slightly as she watched the Gathering proceed. She was worried about Thunderclan. They had been hit hard by the fire. She began to wonder if they would even come to this Gathering.

(OPEN)

[sootsplashed]

Sugarglider

Harefoot rubbed his head against Marshstep's pelt.

"Hey Marshstep good luck with the deputy position!" he purred before skipping off into the crowd of bustling cats.

He looked around for a cat to talk to (open).
"Thanks, Harefoot!" Marshstep mewed, nuzzling her little brother. "Don't get hurt!" She called as Harefoot skipped away. It was ridiculous to think a cat would get hurt at a gathering, but she didn't want to take chances.
(open)

[Willowfern]

Thistlepaw watched the Gathering with interest. This was his first one, and he was wary of the unfamiliar cats.

(OPEN)


.... .. - .... . .-. .

Lilytail frowned slightly as she watched the Gathering proceed. She was worried about Thunderclan. They had been hit hard by the fire. She began to wonder if they would even come to this Gathering.

(OPEN)
Doveheart padded up to Thistlepaw, she wanted to make sure that he was comfortable with mingling with the other clans before she herself went off to mingle,
“Thistlepaw, since this is your first Gathering I just want to make sure you’re going to be okay, is your throat acting up or anything?” Doveheart asked.

[Elementals]

“Ah, well, the first two Gatherings are the scary- no not scary, I’ll say, intimidating, I know the other clans can seem different, but we’re all cats! We just smell different at come from different places. Speaking of clans, what clan do you come from?” Smokeflight meowed.
~Silentpaw~

Silentpaw took account of Smokeflight’s advice. It seemed to him that Riverclan was the stinker of the 4 clans. He fumbled with a rock while gathering courage to answer the next question.

“Rriverclan..” Silentpaw replied flipping the rock. He thought it was quite obvious from his fish scent though he did eat a bird this morning.

[Banneret]

Willowfern

"I'm fine," He said, looking up at her. "Probably just going to watch instead of talk with other cats." He made sure she could tell he was fine with this. He didn't honestly care much for interacting with other cats.

[dionysus]

[ Arie Slushie ]

Ugh, two beetle munchers? Why was he even doing this? Surely Stagpaw couldn’t get into too much trouble during a gathering. Was he overbearing? Stars what would he be like if he ever actually had his own kits? Question after question slapped Rushingmoor across the muzzle and he couldn’t hold in a long suffering sigh as an excited apprentice careened into Stagpaw- the infamous Curlpaw, he assumed.

At least the kid knew manners- Rushingmoor nodded in response to his greeting and began to look around, hoping none of these eligible single ladies assumed these were his kids. The warrior code said no outside mates but it didn’t say anything about a little fling by the border. No matter, though, as any chances of that were quickly dashed by Stagpaw saying... what???

Rushingmoor blinked and froze, staring wide eyed at the little bug as his mouth hung open. Did he just call him his dad? What. The. Hell. He wasn’t anyone’s dad! He was too young to be a dad. Well, that wasn’t true but whatever. The shock subsided a bit as Twilightstar was referred to as his mom since the lilac she-cat obviously wasn’t but he was still surprised.

Clearing his throat, Rushingmoor shuffled his paws and looked away, pretending he hadn’t heard. He still didn’t know what to do or say but he didn’t want to disagree and hurt Stagpaw’s feelings. But, why was he going along with this? Why did he even feel a little bit like he wanted to smile? What was happening to him!

[Willowfern]

Willowfern

"I'm fine," He said, looking up at her. "Probably just going to watch instead of talk with other cats." He made sure she could tell he was fine with this. He didn't honestly care much for interacting with other cats.
”Okay, if you need me I’ll be near the Great Rock listening to the announcements, be careful not to trip over any roots like you did during our first excursion!” She added teasingly as she padded off, “Have fun Thistlepaw!”

[Willowfern]

~Silentpaw~

Silentpaw took account of Smokeflight’s advice. It seemed to him that Riverclan was the stinker of the 4 clans. He fumbled with a rock while gathering courage to answer the next question.

“Rriverclan..” Silentpaw replied flipping the rock. He thought it was quite obvious from his fish scent though he did eat a bird this morning.
”Ah, should have noticed from the fish smell- not that I dislike the fish smell! I’ve tried a fish once, it was alright, not much to my taste but I see why your clan likes them. Who’s your mentor?” Smokeflight meowed.

[CheetahPelt]

(OPEN)
Dust Wings Moon Lily NIGHTOWL wren Dipper
(If anyone wants to interact, with her. Ignore if you don't)


Otterstone padded into the gathering, and it felt strangely freeing that she didn't need to go up to the front in the spot with the rest of the medicine cats. Though she still had a relationship with most of the other medicine cats, be it good or bad.



She wouldn't force herself up there, but meandered around the edge of the crowd.


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(OPEN) Shimm Sparkling Flower (If either of you would like, ignore if not)

Mirepaw padded into the clearing, grin on his face. This was his third gathering, and they just seemed to be getting bigger each time! He padded through the ranks of cats, open for anyone to speak too.


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(OPEN)


Whitesong padded in, shooting right towards his normal spot in the back corner of the gathering, he was a friendly tom, but socialisation wasn't really the name of his game.

[Banneret]

Willowfern

Thistlepaw laughed slightly at the memory. "Don't worry, I won't." He smiled up at the huge rock in the middle of the clearing. He had no idea there were this many cats in the four clans. It amazed him.

[Puddle~]

Zesty Mango

So far, so good. She wasn't jumping around and screaming. Hopefully it would stay that way. "Pleasure to make your acquaintance, Gullpaw. ShadowClan is faring well... I suppose. Nothing out of the ordinary has happened." Ribbitpaw paused to think for a moment. What else was there to talk about? Small talk was never his strong suit. Well, truth be told, he wasn't skilled in any situation that required extended interaction, but at least the more unique and deeper conversations were easier to grasp on. "How is WindClan doing? I presume you're all fine and dandy as well?" A rather monotonous conversation topic, but the tom couldn't conjure up anything else at the moment, so this would have to suffice, and they could see where it went from there.

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Elementals

Puddlepaw was glad that this apprentice seemed friendly. Perhaps they could have a nice lighthearted chat. "Nice to meet ya, Foggypaw! I'm doing alright. How about you?" Giving the other apprentice a moment to respond, he quickly thought up something else he could say. A question which he'd always been curious of then popped into his head. "Oh, I've never gotten the chance to ask anyone this, but since you're a ShadowClan cat, I suppose I can ask you. What's life in the forest like? I can't imagine not being able to see the sky and feel the breeze in your fur at all times. Oh, and I heard you guys eat frogs and lizards. I'm curious. How do those taste? I've never had either one of those before." After that, he quickly shut his mouth, realizing that he might be bombarding the other feline with questions.

[Elementals]

”Ah, should have noticed from the fish smell- not that I dislike the fish smell! I’ve tried a fish once, it was alright, not much to my taste but I see why your clan likes them. Who’s your mentor?” Smokeflight meowed.
~Silentpaw~

Silentpaw breathed a sigh of relief hearing that the other cat didn’t hate his scent. Looking around for his mentor, he spotted Driftblaze (played by TeamMilkBot).

“My mmmentor is Driftblaze who is ooverr there.” Silentpaw meowed pointing his tail to his mentor.

[Willowfern]

~Silentpaw~

Silentpaw breathed a sigh of relief hearing that the other cat didn’t hate his scent. Looking around for his mentor, he spotted Driftblaze (played by TeamMilkBot).

“My mmmentor is Driftblaze who is ooverr there.” Silentpaw meowed pointing his tail to his mentor.
“Oh! Driftblaze, I’ve met him once! Anyway, how are you liking the Gathering so far?”

[wren]

Coyotesnarl arrived to the gathering, having missed the last one for his savage attack on what’s his face lady moon. His tail gave a gentle flick of irritation at the thought. He could have just barged his way in. Twilightstar didn’t hold much power over him, he refused to let her. Sure he could be demoted but what would she do than? No deputy. No medicine cat. Truly now she couldn’t lose him. While he padded through the crowd towards his regular spot near the front he couldn’t help but see Otterstone off to the side. He paused momentarily in his tracks.

He turned and moved his way through the crowd. Had a fight between her and Fawnsqueak erupted? Perhaps she was tired of it and decided she didn’t want to be a medicine cat. Mmm tricky tricky.

“Otterstone” if she was no longer medicine cat, which this seemed to imply he was almost excited to know. You could call him nosy, which wasn’t far from the truth. “Seems awful lonely over here. Why don’t you join us. Medicine cats don’t sit with the warriors” The glint in his eye showed his true intentions

CheetahPelt

[Elementals]

Elementals

Puddlepaw was glad that this apprentice seemed friendly. Perhaps they could have a nice lighthearted chat. "Nice to meet ya, Foggypaw! I'm doing alright. How about you?" Giving the other apprentice a moment to respond, he quickly thought up something else he could say. A question which he'd always been curious of then popped into his head. "Oh, I've never gotten the chance to ask anyone this, but since you're a ShadowClan cat, I suppose I can ask you. What's life in the forest like? I can't imagine not being able to see the sky and feel the breeze in your fur at all times. Oh, and I heard you guys eat frogs and lizards. I'm curious. How do those taste? I've never either one of those before." After that, he quickly shut his mouth, realizing that he might be bombarding the other feline with questions.
~Foggypaw~

Foggypaw was impressed by the amount of questions Puddlepaw could ask. She was more than happy to help him fill his thirst for knowledge.

“I’m pretty excited about the gathering. Life in the forest is cool and it doesn’t feel that hot in green-leaf. Oh we can still see the sky in the camp, the trees give us the nice breeze if we need. Frogs and lizards hmm.. I supposed frogs are okay-ish but they don’t have as much meat in them. Their outside is slippery but very wiggly. Lizards are kinda spiky on the outside and taste different each bite since they are cold blooded creatures. Temperature matters for taste in cold blooded creatures hehe.” Foggypaw babbled the responses.

[Elementals]

“Oh! Driftblaze, I’ve met him once! Anyway, how are you liking the Gathering so far?”
~Silentpaw~

Smokeflight had met his mentor before. Hopefully that she meant it in a good way. Silentpaw would feel awkward if his mentor and Smokeflight were in bad terms.

“The gathering is very packed I suppose, ddefinitely less packed without Tthunderclan around. Wwhat are yourr tthought?” Silentpaw asked after he answered her question about the gathering.

[gs29513]

gs29513

Rosepaw was sitting closer to the WindClan side of the Gathering, the bright moonlight giving her dark pelt a silvery sheen. Balancing on her hindquarters, she lifted a paw, her fluffy white chest fur glowing brightly in the light. A creamy stripe running down her back turned pale, and her leaf-green eyes gave off a glow. Licking her paw, she bent her head a bit, swiping it over her ears. Something faint and concealed flashed for a moment on her stomach, almost invisible. She was too focused on looking elegant to spot the eager Maplepaw trying to look for her. (You can have Maplepaw find her.)

Suddenly spotting the regal Rosepaw, Maplepaw bounded towards her. Hi Rosepaw! he called, bounding towards her eagerly. How are you?

[Willowfern]

~Silentpaw~

Smokeflight had met his mentor before. Hopefully that she meant it in a good way. Silentpaw would feel awkward if his mentor and Smokeflight were in bad terms.

“The gathering is very packed I suppose, ddefinitely less packed without Tthunderclan around. Wwhat are yourr tthought?” Silentpaw asked after he answered her question about the gathering.
”Yes, it is much less packed, Wonder what’s keeping Thunderclan...”

[skreelyshark]

~Splashfury~

Snapping her attention back to her clanmate, Splashfury didn’t want to seem rude to someone who she shared dens with.

“Thank you, if you need any help with Stealthpaw.. feel free to call me.” Splashfury offered. Splashfury was the one to be that cat who loves her clan with ever inch of her. To help another clanmate was like knowing that the clan is growing strong.

"Of course. Maybe you could accompany us during a training session. The more advice Stealthpaw gets, the better. She's an incredibly diligent apprentice so I want her to get the best training. He sat down and curled his tail over his paws."She hasn't been on a patrol or done any battle training. I've been focusing too much on hunting... I need to organize my training sessions." He became lost in his own thoughts.

[Elementals]

”Yes, it is much less packed, Wonder what’s keeping Thunderclan...”
~Silentpaw~

Silentpaw’s brain was slightly surprised that Smokeflight didn’t know. He assumed since Windclan had helped distribute the prey that the whole Windclan knew about the news. Apparently he was wrong.

“Oh? I-I tthought Twilightstar told Windclan bbut their home got burnt down by the sstorm.” Silentpaw informed.

[Wings]

[ Cobralily Moon Lily wren CheetahPelt Dipper - If any of the meddies wanna talk with Echo ]
-Echopaw-

Echopaw gave a smile as a Meadowsong came over, though it was replaced with anger. Why did all of Dewpaw's family just HAVE to talk to her. "Get away from me." She growled, getting up to walk away. She made haste in getting away from the Dew aunt and looking for Irisflame or any of the other medicine cats.

[Leucos]

( All Open!)

Sootclaw gulped, Hes been rather absent lately and that left a pit in his stomach ..so hopefully going to the gathering , would help him get back in the swing of things! The warrior took his seat and looked around .

....

( Assuming shadowclan has arrived )

Cherrymist grumbled, she's not been to medicine den yet and has wondered what was holding Irisflame up.. Her leg hurt! Bad!She managed to hobble her way over here . Maybe new faces will cheer her up.

[TheNyanCatMinecart]

gs29513

Rosepaw looked at him, almost instantly recognizing the lovesick, enthusiastic tom from the past Gathering. Yes, she thought that the other Clans were wretched, but it was still interesting to see how persistent this silly tom was.
“Why, hello there,” she purred in a tone that was as smooth as honey. She flashed him a grin from pure white teeth that glimmered in the bright moonlight. “And I am doing perfectly fine, thank you very much.”
Putting down her steady paw, she sat forward and allowed her elegantly bushy tail curl around her front paws. The stripe running down it shone brightly.

[Sorrow]

[Night,Shade, and Flame, are open to all except RiverClan interactions]
WHAT?! Nightclaw and Shadewing barked, baring their teeth. The sisters were very alike, by the fact they were sisters...
Flamepad stayed completely silent, staring up at Lionstar with quiet authority. He respected the RiverClan leader, but he was so...boring!

[Dovey]

Puddle~ “Oh, what’s it like at a gathering. Will starclan come?” He asked. Almondpaw looked up.


(Lol)

[The Kitty.]

[ Corruptx ]

----Goosefury----

Originally he had thought going to tonight's Gathering to be a good idea, but now that he had the chance to take a look around the gathered cats... he realized it might have been a giant mistake. He stared across the Seastones, panic rising in his chest, at the cat he couldn't help but recognize as Sparrowpaw. The one who had helped her mentor brutally tear him to pieces, the one who had held no remorse for her actions, the one who had maimed him for life.
He didn't want to walk past her, but she was standing in the way of where he wanted to go. So, gathering the remaining bits of his shattered courage, he squared his shoulders and began to move, determined to keep his gaze straight ahead and unwavering. He didn't want to know what would happen if he so much as glanced at her.

[ wnder ]

----Asterpaw----

The fact that this would be his first Gathering ever was exhilarating to Asterpaw. He swept his gaze across the crowd of cats, wanting to mingle and talk and get to know everyone, but for some reason he felt as if he couldn't. He was still a new addition to WindClan, and some cats still didn't trust him, which was probably for good reason.
Instead, his eyes settled on Yewpaw, one of his fellow apprentices, and he made his way over with a smile. Some friendly jokes about her name were already bubbling up in his throat, but he pushed them down. Maybe if he got to know her better he could reveal some of them, but for now he settled for a polite, "Good evening," as he paused in front of her.

[ Beau Arie ]

----Curlpaw----

Curlpaw practically hurled himself into the clearing, squealing giddily at the sight before him. The leaders were on the rock again; exciting! There were crowds of cats everywhere; exciting! And if he looked hard enough, he could see Stagpaw; triple exciting!!! He put on a burst of speed and skidded to a halt in front of Rushingmoor and Stagpaw, a goofy grin on his face.
He gave Rushingmoor a polite nod, accompanied by a polite, "Evening, sir." But as soon as he turned his gaze to Stagpaw, all normal courteousness left him. "It's the beetle dude!" he yelped, partly because he liked the nickname and mostly because he had forgotten the other apprentice's name. Whoops. "Who's this? Is he your mentor? Or is he here to find some beetles, too?"


Sparrowsnap
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Sparrowsnap's scarred yellow eyes stretched wide as an achingly, all-too-familiar tom trudged briskly past her. Instantly a bout of excitement began to form a lump in her stomach, and the kits that were beginning to grow inside her didn't at all help the bile-provoking nausea.

"G-Goosepaw?" was all she could manage to choke out as she stared wild-eyed after the dark gray tom.

[Moonraven]

She was still endlessly amused with how Lionstar greeted her and utterly ignored Icestar. She did so love their feud with each other. It made coming to these Gathering just a little more fun. As Lionstar stared off the Gathering as usual, her gaze was naturally searching for her Parasite. This was going to be bad if became a habit. That kit was so very distracting, she spotted her apprentice with, no surprise, Mushy. Well, at least she didn't need to be worried about what he was doing now.
If only she knew what he was saying, she would have completely jumped off the stones to go bury the apprentice's head in the sand and glare at Mushy with such heat he'd turn into a pile of mush. But StarClan seemed to be watching over the two since Twilightstar's attention went straight back to Lionstar as he went on about exiles he dealt with. That and Fawnsqueak's new rank, she didn't care nor know much about Otterstone so it wasn't like she had an opinion on it. She'd keep the names of the exiles in mind in cause they tried to join WindClan, she didn't need any more problems in her clan.
Once he had finished, Twilightstar stepped up more to get this out of the way over speaking before Icestar.
"WindClan has been faring well as usual. Our prey is flourishing and we've even found something new to hunt." She said, thinking back to the flock of sheep.
"We welcome Coyotepaw, Kestrelpaw, and Nightpaw to the rank of apprentices. Leopardbite, a former clan queen, had been causing some problems with her aggression in the clan. Due to the fact that I deemed her unfit for motherhood, she was demoted to an apprentice as Leopardpaw. I am hoping training and given a duty will curb her undesirable tendency." She wasn't going to bother with the numerous reassigned apprentices or the ones that had returned this moon, simple and sweet was her favorite motto.
"Lobster, Braveheart, and Maskpaw were all executed, the latter decided to prance around the camp after being exiled and then went on to attack one of the kits. With my permission, one of the older apprentices took it upon himself to deal with exile resulting in death." She didn't bother with names, that was Creekpaw's tale to tell if he wanted.
"I'm sure you've all noticed by now, but WindClan is currently without a deputy. Brindlejaw has chosen to resign and WindClan has respected his decision. I've had yet to pick his successor, but I assure you'll meet them next moon." Now as much as she'd like to wrap it up with that, there was still that itty bitty thing she had to deal with. It would be easier if she could let it go, yet it would do WindClan no justice and make it seem like she was just going to let everyone walk over her clan. If she could get through this without resorting to tooth and claw, that would be wonderful. Yet, Twilightstar never knew how Icestar took to a confrontation at a Gathering, but her clan was in the wrong so hopefully, she'd accept it graciously.
"Icestar," Twilightstar swung her head around to address the bulky molly.
"You never gave me your answer when I came to visit, so I guess we're doing this here." Such a drag, she hoped to get this done swiftly before it turns it into a large problem.
"That apprentice, Blackpaw, the one who deliberately jumped the border to attack one of my apprentices, Rosepaw. The one who left her with a very nice scar on her underbelly, you never told me what you were going to do about him." There's been no apology no assurance that it would be happening again. Nothing, Twilightstar would like something out of this.
Cas Undertaker BILL. wnder

[Estelle]

And so on, and so on. Just as he expected, it was simply the usual mass amount of new apprentices, some new warriors and this time, though not often still not interesting, some exiles. Then the next announcement wasn't much different, really. Just in less amounts- and the down step of a deputy he didn't know. Quite frankly the only interesting thing happening was that Thunderclan did not show up; yet the reason appeared more or less obvious to him. Alright, maybe the exile of the two kits did catch his ear, but being from said clan, he had of course already heard of it. Unfortunate, really, he knew some kits were more mouse brains than others, but to this point was unexpected. Further on everything seemed to be going smoothly until... One tiny thing caught a part of his attention. Something between Twilightstar and Icestar? About two apprentices? Gingerpaw didn't expect much of it, but decided on watching just in case anything.. Of interest would happen. Who knew, plus Icestar's reaction to this could be sort of interesting of anything.

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Hailpaw settled down among the other cats- her second gathering, again with noone to speak to. Unfortunate but.. It was fine. Yeah. Her attention was so kn caught anyway by the Riverclan leader speaking up: a lot of new apprentices, New warriors.. It appeared that they truly were doing wel-- aside from the exile of the two kits. Something she hadn't expected, but the reasoning sort of logical? She wasn't sure how to exactly feel about it, but violent clan mates were a threat to all- even if they were kits, specifically towards others of their age. Other than that, the WindClan announcements didn't surprise her to much.. Or at all. There wasn't anything truly new to her at least, except for the last question directed towards the leader of shadows. Thunderclan not coming wasn't all that surprising either, seen their current situation.

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As always, Nightpaw was seated somewhere to the sides of the group of cats, the only placement where it was a little less crowded. This was far from being her first gathering, yet she still could not get used to the amount of cats gathered. In all honesty though, she couldn't help but feel a little alone? Nearly everyone seemed to have someone to speak to but her-- sure she didn't really try herself, and she always became a stuttering mess, but she didn't dislike meeting other cats, even from other clans. In fact, it was only interesting to learn about other clans and their cats, specifically over a nice conversation-- One she struggled in having. But oh well, what did it matter? The moon was truly mesmerising this evening and she quickly found herself caught up by it's sight. And it's company. To the result of it, she didn't pay as much attention to the gathering as she should. Enough to catch any important information like the exiles and that Thunderclan did not join for.. She didn't know what reason, but the beautiful sight of the night sky still had her somewhat caught up nevertheless.

[dino.]

[ Corruptx ]

----Goosefury----

Yeah, okay, trying to walk past her had been a huge mistake.

He froze as his apprentice name was called, halting in his tracks with a grimace and his ears folding back against his skull. He turned warily to look at the other cat, his hackles standing up and the fur on his shoulders beginning to bristle. Fear and pure hatred gleamed in his remaining eye as he stared at her. "It's Goosefury now. No thanks to you." Although his voice dripped with pure venom, it also trembled when he spoke. He fought to still it, hating that he seemed so terrified in front of this... this brute.

[ Beau Arie ]

----Curlpaw----

The hug took Curlpaw by surprise and he let out a yelp as he was pulled forward. Then, after a second of hesitation, he returned the embrace with just as much enthusiasm. He accepted the beetle gratefully - even if it was still a little tasteless and even if he still didn't quite understand Stagpaw's utter excitement over them - and then he turned his head to blink at Rushingmoor. "Mush...dad? You're Stagpaw's dad?" he asked Rushingmoor. That was an odd name. He couldn't really judge, because he called Lionstar 'Liondad' all the time, but even so, this cat's prefix was strange. 'Mush'. Stagpaw's smile made him grin even wider, a giddy feeling bubbling in his chest. "Who's Twiglight?

[Puddle~]

Elementals

Ah, so maybe the forest wasn't as confined and enclosing as he'd originally thought. It sure seemed like it whenever he got a glimpse of it across the moor, but maybe it was more spacious on the inside than what the trees on the outer edges told. But, what Puddlepaw found even more interesting was the intriguing, albeit odd descriptions of the prey. Wiggly and slimy? He tried imagining what in the world that would feel like when biting into it. And spiky lizards? That probably didn't feel too good to chomp down on. He let out a small shudder, glad his diet consisted of rabbits and other meaty moor animals, rather than slimy forest dwellers. "So... is this your first gathering? This one's my third."

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TeamMilkBot

Oh please no. Berryscorch didn't want to deal with this sarcastic little baby right now. "No. StarClan will not come. Now shut up and stop being a tick in my side." She knew he probably wouldn't listen. This wasn't the first time a young apprentice had bugged her like this at some social event. Last time, it had been Blizzbutt bugging her at the meeting, and he hadn't left her alone when she'd asked him to, so she assumed the scene would play out the same with Almondpaw.

[The Kitty.]

[ @Corruptx (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=11691) ]

----Goosefury----

Yeah, okay, trying to walk past her had been a huge mistake.

He froze as his apprentice name was called, halting in his tracks with a grimace and his ears folding back against his skull. He turned warily to look at the other cat, his hackles standing up and the fur on his shoulders beginning to bristle. Fear and pure hatred gleamed in his remaining eye as he stared at her. "It's Goosefury now. No thanks to you." Although his voice dripped with pure venom, it also trembled when he spoke. He fought to still it, hating that he seemed so terrified in front of this... this brute.

[ @Beau (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=114) @Arie (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=4563) ]

----Curlpaw----

The hug took Curlpaw by surprise and he let out a yelp as he was pulled forward. Then, after a second of hesitation, he returned the embrace with just as much enthusiasm. He accepted the beetle gratefully - even if it was still a little tasteless and even if he still didn't quite understand Stagpaw's utter excitement over them - and then he turned his head to blink at Rushingmoor. "Mush...dad? You're Stagpaw's dad?" he asked Rushingmoor. That was an odd name. He couldn't really judge, because he called Lionstar 'Liondad' all the time, but even so, this cat's prefix was strange. 'Mush'. Stagpaw's smile made him grin even wider, a giddy feeling bubbling in his chest. "Who's Twiglight?



Sparrowsnap
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Yeah, okay... Now Sparrowsnap was certain this one-eyed tom despised her. And to be fair...she, in all honesty, didn't think she necessarily deserved the hate.

"Sparrowsnap," she gritted, an attempt to look as fierce as possible, but as soon as the words evaded her lips she instantly regretted them: fierceness, she at this point supposed, was the completely wrong route - ouch.

"You know, I'm sorry, alright? I'm honestly, truthfully sorry. But back there, in the raid? I was simply defending my torn-up Clan. Nevertheless I apologize - you won't have to face me for at least a good couple of moons, alright?" The mottled warrior cast a hinting glance at her rounded belly.

[Sorrow]

Hawkstride snarled furiously. Blackpaw had attacked Rosepaw? WHAT. THE. HELL.

[Willowfern]

~Silentpaw~

Silentpaw’s brain was slightly surprised that Smokeflight didn’t know. He assumed since Windclan had helped distribute the prey that the whole Windclan knew about the news. Apparently he was wrong.

“Oh? I-I tthought Twilightstar told Windclan bbut their home got burnt down by the sstorm.” Silentpaw informed.
“Oh really!? I must have been hunting when she made the announcement!” Smokeflight muttered.
Then louder she meowed,
“Well, I hope Thunderclan gets back on their paws soon.”

[Dovey]

Elementals

Ah, so maybe the forest wasn't as confined and enclosing as he'd originally thought. It sure seemed like it whenever he got a glimpse of it across the moor, but maybe it was more spacious on the inside than what the trees on the outer edges told. But, what Puddlepaw found even more interesting was the intriguing, albeit odd descriptions of the prey. Wiggly and slimy? He tried imagining what in the world that would feel like when biting into it. And spiky lizards? That probably didn't feel too good to chomp down on. He let out a small shudder, glad his diet consisted of rabbits and other meaty moor animals, rather than slimy forest dwellers. "So... is this your first gathering? This one's my third."

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TeamMilkBot

Oh please no. Berryscorch didn't want to deal with this sarcastic little baby right now. "No. StarClan will not come. Now shut up and stop being a tick in my side." She knew he probably wouldn't listen. This wasn't the first time a young apprentice had bugged her like this at some social event. Last time, it had been Blizzbutt bugging her at the meeting, and he hadn't left her alone when she'd asked him to, so she assumed the scene would play out the same with Almondpaw.
Almondpaw snorted “I thought this was peaceful even if we are CLANMATES.” He stormed off

[Moonraven]

Moonraven

Gross. That was the thought that every gathering was met with when Freezepaw had to go. She'd much rather stay in camp, away from having to socialize and away from having to.... be around all this. Sitting around and listening to politics and boring leaders talk and argue like old married couples wasn't the ideal time for the diluted feline.
Freezepaw was sitting with her tail curled around her paws, ears flattened against her head as she watched the goings on with narrowed eyes. But as Windclan walked in, Freezepaw noticed with growing interest a certain tomcat who didn't seem interested in talking to others either. He sat alone, near the back, much like her. Now well... that was a promising sign. Plus, he did seem to be on the more buff side of cats, and Freezepaw had to admit to herself that was also a plus, buff cats were nice to look at, and most seemed to be particularly reasonable and not as annoying and gross as other cats. Icestar was a good example. So, after a few more moments of careful decision making in her head, Freezepaw got to her paws and padded over, giving the Windclan tom a nod of greeting instead of a smile. Smiling was overrated. "You don't seem to be enjoying yourself, now do you?" She noted as she sat down near him, curling her tail around her paws to try and keep it off the sandy ground.


The thick muscles underneath his pelt shifted with unwanted tension that he couldn't do nothing to release other than flex his claws in and out. His glowing eyes stay stuck on the leaders as the meeting started, Lionstar, as usual, had quite a few cats. Batglare didn't pay any attention to the names or most of what was said. It wasn't relevant to WindClan so he lost interest in it quickly. Twilightstar announced everything he already knew...expect about the little dispute with the ShadowClan apprentice.
Thinking of apprentices, Batglare had to lower his head to glare at the she-cat that actually walked up to him. She must be from ShadowClan, it was the only way he could explain her lack of intimidation due to his size. A sneer plastered itself on his lips as he stabbed his claws as deeply into the sand as they'd go and kept them there.
"I'll enjoy it even less now that you are here." The deep rumble in his chest came out as a thunderous growl. "I'm not looking for company, Nuisance." Didn't she have friends she could go talk to that was anyone that wasn't him?

[dino.]

[ Corruptx ]

----Goosefury----

"You're sorry?" The snarl ripped itself from his throat, unable to be forced back. ShadowClan had had the audacity to attack ThunderClan unprovoked, RiverClan had defended them, he had been blinded for it, and now Sparrowsnap had the gall to say she was sorry?
His lips peeled back in a hateful sneer, all former fear having vanished. "So you're sorry. Sorry won't bring my sight back. Sorry won't heal my scars. Sorry won't give me back my courage and allow me to sleep without being plagued by nightmares of you and that other apprentice and that other mentor of yours coming after me to finish what you started. Sorry won't pick up the shattered pieces and fit them back together."
His ears were flat against his skull and his pupil had shrunk to a mere slit of utter fury as he stepped back with a lash of his tail. His gaze flickered briefly down to her belly and back up to her face again. "Honestly, I had hoped to never face you again for the rest of my life. And yet here we are, huh?"

[stag]

*Red-spot noticed the huge Tom from wind-clan* Hello im Red-spot of River-clan, id like to welcome you and your Clan! Moonraven

[pidgeon]

Icestar listened as the two leaders spoke before her, uneventful as anticipated. The one thing that was eventful, however, was the lack of ThunderClan's presence. Something had shifted in the air, and she hadn't been sure what it was. Perhaps she'd have to pay Duskstar a little visit soon. She stiffened her posture when Twilightstar brought attention to the little squabble with Blackpaw. Her eyes narrowed as she glared stubbornly at the WindClan leader.

"Blackpaw has never stepped out of line before. He's a smart apprentice. I am more than confident that if he attacked Rosepaw, it was for good reason, and I'll stand by that." She huffed. She would trust her own cats before she trusted some other clan's cats. Besides, Blackpaw was due to become a warrior very soon. But Icestar figured saying that aloud might only rile up Twilightstar. Without waiting on a response, the leader padded forward to begin her announcements.

"Moving on, ShadowClan has done well this moon. Our apprentices are working hard and taking advantage of the weather. We have many that are nearly ready to receive their warrior names. Prey is running well, and there is much new potential in our younger clanmates. We remain strong as ever.

Cottonpaw, Moonpaw, Foggypaw, Pinepaw, Stempaw, and Thistlepaw are ShadowClan's newest apprentices among us tonight. We also welcomed a few cats into our ranks. Doepaw, Mountainmist, Ryekit, and Cherrypaw--now called Lilypaw--have joined us this past moon." Icestar paused, allowing the crowd to cheer the names.

"Less fortunately, we had an incident with a former WindClanner among us. Foxbite, formerly Foxpudge, savaged three kits nearly to death. Whisperkit, Beechkit, and Snailkit came close to losing their lives. He was trying to eat them. I don't know what all those moons of starvation did to WindClan, but it would appear that it drove them to cannibalism. Foxbite was chased out, and died from his injuries on the border to WindClan. Thanks to the talents of Irisflame and Echopaw, the kits are alive and recovering. But we are no longer allowing WindClan cats to join our ranks for this reason. I'd prefer to keep the amount of cannibals in the forest to a minimum--best to leave them on the moor."

She snorted with irritation as she scanned the clearing, thinking about anything else that might be newsworthy. Coming to a conclusion, she flicked her tail dismissively and stepped back.
"That is all from ShadowClan."

BILL. Moonraven Undertaker wnder

[Leopardblaze]

Leopardblaze spotted the white tom sitting in the back of the gathering. She wanted to be friendly and thought it would be good to meet a new cat, much like she had told her apprentice. Wandering over the spotted she-cat dipped her head, politely meowing, "Hello."

CheetahPelt

[The Kitty.]

[ @Corruptx (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=11691) ]

----Goosefury----

"You're sorry?" The snarl ripped itself from his throat, unable to be forced back. ShadowClan had had the audacity to attack ThunderClan unprovoked, RiverClan had defended them, he had been blinded for it, and now Sparrowsnap had the gall to say she was sorry?
His lips peeled back in a hateful sneer, all former fear having vanished. "So you're sorry. Sorry won't bring my sight back. Sorry won't heal my scars. Sorry won't give me back my courage and allow me to sleep without being plagued by nightmares of you and that other apprentice and that other mentor of yours coming after me to finish what you started. Sorry won't pick up the shattered pieces and fit them back together."
His ears were flat against his skull and his pupil had shrunk to a mere slit of utter fury as he stepped back with a lash of his tail. His gaze flickered briefly down to her belly and back up to her face again. "Honestly, I had hoped to never face you again for the rest of my life. And yet here we are, huh?"


Sparrowsnap
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Sparrowsnap's eyes snapped wide with sheer and utter outrage. For once she had decided to try playing nice with Goosefury, and yet here the foolish tom was continuing to provoke her. How pathetic of the dude.

And so, quite inevitably, Sparrowsnap let the words spill from her maw, a speeded summary of all that had happened to her: "Look, you have absolutely no clue of what's gone down since my mentor ripped out that eyeball of yours, alright? To begin with, I had to kill this stupid Dark Forest she-cat who had invaded my dreams. Secondly, I accidentally murdered a ThunderClan apprentice in-front of my own friends. And if that wasn't already bad enough to utterly destroy my remaining happiness, some random former friend of mine has forced me into carrying his kits! Your scars are the least of my concern right now, got that?"

[Fawnhearted]

Wolfwhisper lied down somewhat away from the crowd but close enough to where she could hear what was being said, there were a lot of cats there. She never really liked going to these things because of how crowded it usually was.


Lynxstep happened to be walking by and saw the she-cat lying alone, they looked similar to their age so they approached them and said “It’s very crowded here” in a slightly over normal voice.

[pidgeon]

Thistlepaw watched the Gathering with interest. This was his first one, and he was wary of the unfamiliar cats.

(OPEN)



Coyotepaw hurtled into the clearing, late as usual. Her fur was ruffled and messy from the gusts on the moor, as she'd had her very first outing recently. She looked around owl-eyed at the amount of cats in the clearing, and saw all the leaders up on the rocks. Or, she assumed they were leaders. Twileader was up there after all.

Wandering clumsily through the crowd, she nearly stumbled as she came face to face with another apprentice. This one looks younger than me, too! She kept seeing apprentices that looked way younger than her, even though she'd been told she had to wait to get her ceremony. She didn't get it! I don't got anything wrong with me! she thought indignantly. She was then pulled back into reality when she remembered she was literally staring right at another cat. Oh, right.

She paused to mentally prepare herself for a greeting, which consisted of taking a huge and dramatic breath in, before belting at the top of her lungs: "Hi I'm Coyotepaw and I'm gonna be a warrior! Who are you? There's a lotta cats here! And they smell funny. Except the ones I know already. Like, you smell different! What Clan are you? I'm WindClan! I just became an apprentice." She rambled on and on without a filter, hardly aware of anyone around her.

[Quasar]

As the three present leaders started their announcements, Stagpaws ears twitched at the mention of Brindlejaw stepping down from his former position as deputy. As much as they wanted to know more about the situation, they knew it wouldn't be polite to stick their nose in other cats business. Heaving a sigh, they looked up at the leaders in disbelief. How were that many cats exiled in the span of a moon? They scanned the clearing to examine the other cats expressions before looking back up at the leaders, their paws excitedly shuffling.

[~RooRoo~]

I don’t know. This is only the third time I’ve had it. she mewed walking out of the bush. gs29513 Sugarglider

[Wings]

[ Slushie Corruptx ]
-Russetstrike-

Russetstrike had been watching the crowd from the back, eyes swinging from group to group until they landed on Goosefury. And Sparrowsnap. He knew the she-cat, well, knew of her. And it seemed like Goosefury was getting some trouble or something like that from the interaction so, he decided to get up. The two were on neutral terms as far as he knew and he would do anything to protect any of his clan mates.
After weaving through the crowd, he came in earshot of the two. He heard all of what Sparrowsnap had said recently and anger flared in him. "Well you should understand that you helped partially blind Goosefury. You gave him a burden that he has to live with for the rest of his life. And you made the choice to carry those kits, you made the choice to kill an apprentice. And from what I can see, you made the choice to train in the Darkforest." The ex-Shadowclanner's voice was calm and level but, stern.
He also gave a nod with Goosefury to what the other tom had said.

[dino.]

[ Corruptx Wings ]

----Goosefury----

As she proceeded to go off on him, his eye brows arched and then furrowed, and his gaze burned with anger. He had no involvement in these events, so why was she complaining to him about them? He hadn't made her kill the Dark Forest cat. He hadn't made her murder a ThunderClan apprentice, although this fact certainly helped to solidify his opinion that this cat was an utter monster. And he had played no part in her unwanted kits. She had the gall to be angry at him for events he couldn't prevent, and yet she was the one who had ruined him. Speaking of those kits... he was done listening to her nonsense. Maybe this would shut her up.
"If you don't want them," he said, voice low and cold and full of hate, "then get rid of them. Medicine cats have herbs for these kinds of things. Just walk on up to Irisflame and ask, simple as that. Then there would be less of you to plague this forest, and you wouldn't have to deal with them. Everyone wins."
Although he saw Russetstrike pad up and heard him interrupt, he decided to ignore the other tom, though his eyes narrowed in irritation. He would address him later.

[tye]

In the shadows of other cats rested a spotted apprentice, Cowpaw, sitting down quietly as he listened to the reports. A word was not uttered, his green eyes immediately averted away at the mentioning of Foxbite and Windclan. He wasn't sure..why he even attended this stupid gathering. Ears flattened, huffing he shuffled his paws.

--
Warblercry laid back idly cleaning his claws from clung on dirt. He picked a place all the way in the back and hummed a sweet tune to himself.

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Greenfur sat down in silence listening to each leader's report. An apprentice scrapple? What did Twilightstar expect Icestar to do? Exile the kit? Ridiculous. He twitched his black nose, muttering under his breath.

--all open^

[BEAR.]

Ah, Lionstar had almost forgot about the baby killer. He was a little disappointed he never received the gift of his corpse.. maybe that would come in time; he'd very much enjoy adding another skull to his collection.

Some executions, and though he didn't know the story behind one he figured they were probably within reason. Twilightstar never seemed like the kind of cat to jump the gun on things.

Brindlejaw resigned.. Lionstar had to wonder if she was doing what he did to Otterstone. The ex-deputy never seemed like the brightest leaf in the pile..

OOOOOOOH. DRAMA. Lionstar wished he had some turtles for this to snack on as he huffed in laughter, entertained by Icestar's mess up. "Another case of ShadowClan's savagery. Have you failed to train your cats how to respect boundaries, Icebrains? It appears your Clan has a repeated history of trespassing to attack others." He raised his brow at her, curious to see what excuse she would have for this. It was uncommon for any of the other Clans to have issues with the borders.. ShadowClan just couldn't stay in their own land.

"I don't believe you should stand by border hopping when it's gotten your Clan in trouble in the past, honey." Honestly, even at a glance it looked like WindClan could take Icy down a few pegs with just a flick of their paw. The warmer seasons seemed to do the rabbit chasers well, and he knew that was mainly because of Twilightstar. Absentee leaders merely brought ruin to their Clans.

Though Twilightstar was highly unlikely to beat ShadowClan up over this, he had to hope.. WindClan seemed to outnumber ShadowClan as it stood, and Lionstar couldn't be the only leader tired of Licestar's serious attitude problem.

As for the rest-- he didn't really care. ShadowClan accepting the big old cannibal wasn't his issue.. and honestly he felt it was pretty justified. Icestar stole cats from WindClan when they were at their lowest-- what did she expect? Top of the line quality?How laughable.
[ Casper, Moonraven, wnder, Undertaker ]

[cmdR_Paige]

Oddear found himself perking up. Two cats, both wanted his attention?! Absolutely so! It made his heart warm when he had two besides him for company that evening. He flashed a smile, snaggletooth canine flashing in the moon light. "Pleasurable evening to both of you this fine full moon!"He hummed to both, a tilt to his head as he took in Wolftail. Had they talked before? Nope. Time to change that!

"The one and only Oddear if I do say so myself, indeed indeed! I hold many titles, nicknames, tags. But Oddear is the current one yet I suspect not the last!" Maybe he was rambling but he honestly didn't care.

His long feathery tail wrapped itself neatly around Heathernose, eager to make her feel included.

(Wolfy's voice ref is Nate Corddry, btw :) )

"Heh, well..." Wolftail continued. "Nice to meet you." He still felt a little dizzy from his fainting spell on the training moor, so he laid on his stomach to help his circulation.

[Puddle~]

Almondpaw snorted “I thought this was peaceful even if we are CLANMATES.” He stormed off
Berryscorch snorted. Peaceful? It was still peaceful. She hadn't laid a claw on him. But what was surprising to her, was that he actually listened and left her alone, unlike a certain fat pudge who'd been left back at camp. That is... unless he was just storming off temporarily and would come back to bug her again in a few heartbeats. She wouldn't put it past him. Shaking her head, she slowly turned up to look at the Seastones, trying to figure out what she'd missed during the squabble. A bit of leader drama? Oooh. This seemed like it could get interesting.

[duckie]

[ wnder ]

----Asterpaw----

The fact that this would be his first Gathering ever was exhilarating to Asterpaw. He swept his gaze across the crowd of cats, wanting to mingle and talk and get to know everyone, but for some reason he felt as if he couldn't. He was still a new addition to WindClan, and some cats still didn't trust him, which was probably for good reason.
Instead, his eyes settled on Yewpaw, one of his fellow apprentices, and he made his way over with a smile. Some friendly jokes about her name were already bubbling up in his throat, but he pushed them down. Maybe if he got to know her better he could reveal some of them, but for now he settled for a polite, "Good evening," as he paused in front of her.

Yewpaw
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The apprentice gave a start as Asterpaw addressed her, jumping to her paws and a mouse length away before realizing there was no threat and forcing herself to flatten her fur, “Ah, hi?” she replied shyly, entirely unsure of why he had picked her out of the crowd given all the options. Yewpaw wasn’t particularly familiar with the tom but she could pick up the WindClan scent on him and figured they just hadn’t crossed paths yet, “I’m sorry, do I know you?”




- - - - -
Willowpaw gave a small giggle and calmed slightly sitting down "Why ask when I knew you were gonna give it to me anyway once I gave you mine? Seems like it's unnecessary." Maybe the elders and older cats would say something like 'its about manners!' but that just seems to slow everyone down really. "And if marshes are so difficult how do you not get stuck in them? If you live in a territory with a lot of them it'd be horrible if you just got stuck every time you went anywhere." She shuddered and frowned at a stray thought. Could you drown in marsh? If you got stuck in it it normally would just be annoying but if you could drown that made a portion of shadowclans territory an awful death trap. "Marshes just sound annoying, rivers seem better." She mused out loud. Willowpaw wasn't sure if she liked the semi insulting nicknames but she also wasn't sure she cared either. She'd ignore it for now.
wnder


Frogpaw
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She snorted at that, ”I suppose you’re not wrong there.” Introductions were stupid anyway. Why did anyone need to know her name in the first place? “And marshes are only difficult,” she continued, “If you don’t know what you’re doing. Which I doubt you do, bouncing around like you do, smallfry. I navigate them like a pro.” Frogpaw flashed a cheeky grin. Willowpaw didn’t need to know about the times she had rolled around in the mud just to chase around her brother while he panicked about his ‘perfect’ pelt or all the times she had spent mimicking her namesake animal. Those weren’t very professional. “I have to disagree with you! Marshes are clearly superior because they have frogs and toads and me!”

[That Key in the Tree]

Wolfwhisper twitched her ear as the she heard someone talking to her. She looked over at Lynxstep and nodded, she didn’t exactly feel like talking. It seemed like being away from the crowd had no effect on cats walking up to her. She thought it’d make them leave her alone but that never seemed to be the case.

Fawnhearted

[Rani]

Willowpaw had puffed up from the tension between the shadowclan and windclan leaders but the good natured (at least to her perspective) teasing settled her ruffled fur. Besides she was small, Willowpaw is young and all, only being a new apprentice. "Well if I'm a fry and you're a frog then you might hop better in the mud but I got you beat in any swimming!" she chuckled at the other apprentice before sticking out her tongue playfully "And your wrong about marshes! Toads and frogs are nothing on the awesome prey in the rivers! Trout and carp and tons of other fish, then there are the cool birds that taste great! Then again we do have one of the worst animals of all in our territory..." Her expression soured and her ears lay flat in fear just thinking about it. "That awful evil creature that can take your toes off with ease, armoured so heavily that claws cant hurt it, so strange it looks like it doesn't belong in this world..." Willowpaw got lost in thought thinking about it. Her mentor may say its fine but if Willowpaw could get to be a warrior without ever touching one she'd be a happy cat because, quite frankly, she'd rather fight a badger.
wnder

[CheetahPelt]

Coyotesnarl arrived to the gathering, having missed the last one for his savage attack on what’s his face lady moon. His tail gave a gentle flick of irritation at the thought. He could have just barged his way in. Twilightstar didn’t hold much power over him, he refused to let her. Sure he could be demoted but what would she do than? No deputy. No medicine cat. Truly now she couldn’t lose him. While he padded through the crowd towards his regular spot near the front he couldn’t help but see Otterstone off to the side. He paused momentarily in his tracks.

He turned and moved his way through the crowd. Had a fight between her and Fawnsqueak erupted? Perhaps she was tired of it and decided she didn’t want to be a medicine cat. Mmm tricky tricky.

“Otterstone” if she was no longer medicine cat, which this seemed to imply he was almost excited to know. You could call him nosy, which wasn’t far from the truth. “Seems awful lonely over here. Why don’t you join us. Medicine cats don’t sit with the warriors” The glint in his eye showed his true intentions

CheetahPelt




Otterstone watched the leaders, ears flicking as Lionstar announced that she had... resigned? Interesting, that was nice of him to not slander her in front of every one.

She turned as someone called her name, and she swung around to face the cat with a smile before she realized who it was. Not just a someone, it was Coyotesnarl.

Her smile turned venomously sweet as she winked at the Tom, remembered exactly how angry it had made him when they first met. “Lonely? Ahh are you worried about me Coyotesnarl?” She shrugged, turning partially away.

Obviously Coyotesnarl wasn’t here, or listening when Lionstar had announced she had resigned. So... she would play with him some.

“Oh they don’t? Careful now Coyotesnarl, you’re starting to sound like you actually enjoy our company.”

[panchiko]

// Nightbound cool ;o robinpaws a huge complainer though so that's not going to stop him hehe
"watch my tail?? would you rather i babysit my tail awkwardly while i try to make conversation or actually make eye contact with a breathing being such as yourself?" he replied sarcastically, smirking as he began staring passive-aggressively at his tail. seeing the spider, robinpaw let out a shRIEK as she held up a spider. he thought he'd checked the floor for those ghastly creatures!!! quickly backing up a few tree-lengths away from leappaw, robinpaw felt a lump in his throat as his heart beat sped up. no, not spiderrs. never spiders. aw to the nah to the nO NO NO. "how DARE you!! that's so unfair!!! worms are beautiful interesting wonderful wormy darlings, how could you counter the gift i was going to give you with one of... one of THOSE!?" he said, gesturing to the icky despicable spider in leappaw's grasp.

[Nightbound]

Leappaw looked at the worm. "Let's make a deal. I drop and kill the spider and you ditch the worm." She said. hope

[Elementals]

"Of course. Maybe you could accompany us during a training session. The more advice Stealthpaw gets, the better. She's an incredibly diligent apprentice so I want her to get the best training. He sat down and curled his tail over his paws."She hasn't been on a patrol or done any battle training. I've been focusing too much on hunting... I need to organize my training sessions." He became lost in his own thoughts.
~Splashfury~
“Hey! We are Riverclan, we keep keep on swimming not sinking. Stealthpaw will get the best training, lets do this.” Splashfury tapped his head to get her words into his mind.

[Elementals]

“Oh really!? I must have been hunting when she made the announcement!” Smokeflight muttered.
Then louder she meowed,
“Well, I hope Thunderclan gets back on their paws soon.”
~Silentpaw~

Smiling to Smokeflight, Silentpaw was glad that he met someone who wasn’t quick to judge a clan based on their situation.

[Elementals]

Elementals

Ah, so maybe the forest wasn't as confined and enclosing as he'd originally thought. It sure seemed like it whenever he got a glimpse of it across the moor, but maybe it was more spacious on the inside than what the trees on the outer edges told. But, what Puddlepaw found even more interesting was the intriguing, albeit odd descriptions of the prey. Wiggly and slimy? He tried imagining what in the world that would feel like when biting into it. And spiky lizards? That probably didn't feel too good to chomp down on. He let out a small shudder, glad his diet consisted of rabbits and other meaty moor animals, rather than slimy forest dwellers. "So... is this your first gathering? This one's my third."

~Foggypaw~

Foggypaw didn’t want to be rude about her leader being too busy to remember about some of the cats’ ceremonies. It would make her miss her chance of trying to give every cat in Shadowclan a hug. Foggypaw wasn’t sure how Windclan lives in an open space easy to be ambushed. It was better to not ask such personal questions.

“Yup, this is my first gathering! What usually goes on here? I heard it’s usually the clans’ drama festival but I would like to see that not happen.” Foggypaw asked.

[panchiko]

// Nightbound
"drop, kill, destroy, throw it away, get riD OF IT!! DROWN IT! BURN IT! SUFFOCATE IT! DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO!!! ICK!!!! do all of that!!! i dont want that.. that foul thing anywhere near me!!" he replied. "what, wormy? i can't ditch him! his.. his friends were sacrificed in a.. an accident. that i was definitely not involved in and definitely did not cause. said accident did not include throwing worms at random things that move. absolutely none of the aforementioned happened. none. i can't let wormy go! i'll put him away, though," he responded, tucking the worm away into his thick fur and hoping he didn't fall off as he waited for leappaw to get the spider at least a 10-mile radius away from him. the apprentice kept his distance, hoping that menace would be rid of soon.

[Mango]

Puddle~

Gullpaw gave a nod dipping her head,” Windclan is fairing well, aside the executions Twilightstar mentioned.” she pointed out flicking her tail slightly glad to be talking to someone who actually responded with full sentences.

[Nightbound]

Leappaw nodded. "Ok." She said. Dropping the spider she quickly squashed is and flicked it away. "Happy? And as for the ' accident ' thanks for telling me the story." Leappaw said smiling. hope

[Puddle~]

Elementals

Puddlepaw thought back to his previous two gatherings, both of which had been negative experiences in his opinion. “Well... they can be fun for talking to other cats, but there’s also something else I’ve noticed. I’m not sure if it’s something that happens absolutely every time, but the last two times, there’s been some sort of big drama that happens. My first time, someone got exiled for killing a queen and unborn kits. Last time, a murderer was exposed, and the other exile came back and was chased off. And right now,” he paused and flicked his tail up to the arguing leaders on top of the Seastones. “...whatever’s going on up there.”

[Elementals]

Elementals

Puddlepaw thought back to his previous two gatherings, both of which had been negative experiences in his opinion. “Well... they can be fun for talking to other cats, but there’s also something else I’ve noticed. I’m not sure if it’s something that happens absolutely every time, but the last two times, there’s been some sort of big drama that happens. My first time, someone got exiled for killing a queen and unborn kits. Last time, a murderer was exposed, and the other exile came back and was chased off. And right now,” he paused and flicked his tail up to the arguing leaders on top of the Seastones. “...whatever’s going on up there.”
~Foggypaw~

So it did seem as if it was drama island. It looked like it was a whole other clan living in their heads. So maybe her mission might slightly hard with all the different personalities and all.

“Wow.. the world is definitely bigger than I had thought! More to exploree!” Foggypaw squealed looking at the bright side.

[dino.]

[ wnder ]

----Asterpaw----

He blinked, his greeting seeming to startle her, and he gave a light chuckle. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," he said. "Probably wasn't the wisest idea to sneak up on a cat I haven't spoken to yet. I'm Asterpaw, and you're... Yewpaw, right?" His eyes sparkled with slight amusement as he said her name. He hadn't made jokes with anyone in quite a while, and this opportunity was just staring him in the face.

[Mango]

Another gathering. Oh, no.

Beanpaw still felt majorly overwhelmed, though it seemed... quieter. Oh, only 2 Clans were there. Dear God, there was going to be a whole other Clan. Great. The siamese internally groaned and flattened his ears. He was ready for a long night and a long headache.

[open]

Stempaw saw a slightly nervous Riverclanner, so the Shadowclan she-cat stalked over deciding to subtly interrogate him about Riverclan’s strengths and weaknesses,” Names Stempaw.” she meowed flatly.

[Starfall]

Stempaw stalked into the gathering, her first gathering, she narrowed her eyes at the apprentices from Riverclan and Windclan, she had to learn what their weaknesses were, along with their strengths.
(OPEN—SHC)


The Riverclanner ducked into the sea of cats, inquiring hues flickered with excitement. So many different smells, so many new felines with completley different personalities and morals. He'd been excited about this day once he realized newly made Apprentices were allowed to go to this...did they call it a gathering? Either way, meeting cats from other clans who had different customs, it was exciting.

Sleepypaw spotted a feline who was giving a wonderful stink eye to the ever growing crowd of cats. Without any hesitation the tuxedo padded up to her, and greeted her with a bright smile. "Hello. My name's Sleepypaw, may I ask what clan you're from?" he hummed, tilting his head to the side. An air of naivete hung from him.

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Honeypaw || WC || OPEN

His second gathering, and it looked quite....hrm. The Apprentice couldn't think of the word. Less packed? Spacier? Either way, with Thunderclan choosing self care over appearances with the other clans, it was quite a bit quieter. Nervously babbling to himself the tan feline tucked himself away in one of the outermost areas of the Gathering place. His stomach began to gurgle, though for once in many moons, it wasn't hunger. It was the stress of trying to introduce himself and actually go out there and make friends. His stomach kinda hurt.

Honeypaw always managed to trick himself into throwing himself in situations that seemed great and cool at the time. Than they turn out not so great or cool. Not because of the situations themselves, it was more him. Going to a Gathering where there were a bunch of other felines his age to attempt to make friends? Seemed super cool in his mind a few nights ago. But he managed to forget that he doesn't actually know how to properly introduce himself to others. Does he right out give his name? If so, what does he do after that? Is he supposed to ask them if they have a favorite flower or pebble? All this made him feel queasy.

[Mango]

Starfall

Stempaw was disappointed to learn that this Riverclan apprentice couldn’t tell the difference between Shadowclan and Riverclan scents. Good to know, Sleepypaw has a bad sense of smell. She flicked her tail in slight annoyance,”Shadowclan. Name’s Stempaw.” she replied bluntly, keeping it short, after all she didn’t want to risk giving away and clan secrets, her name and clan wasn’t a secret right?

[Starfall]

Starfall

Stempaw was disappointed to learn that this Riverclan apprentice couldn’t tell the difference between Shadowclan and Riverclan scents. Good to know, Sleepypaw has a bad sense of smell. She flicked her tail in slight annoyance,”Shadowclan. Name’s Stempaw.” she replied bluntly, keeping it short, after all she didn’t want to risk giving away and clan secrets, her name and clan wasn’t a secret right?

The tom sat himself down, and wrapped his tail around his paws. He kept a soft smile on his face as he watched the molly react. "Nice to meet you! I hope you don't mind me asking. But why such a sour gaze?" Sleepypaw asked. "Did they just not want to talk to you?" he chuckled.

[Fawn]

Late again, Fawnsqueak arrived with a single cobweb glob tucked under his chin--it was a small side trip that he'd tacked on after noticing a tree's hollow part had become home to spiders. He regretted not just getting it on his way back to RiverClan but hadn't thought of it at the time, too excited by his surprise find. Now he had to carry it around.

He approached the crowd and scanned for a place to sit, that process halted when he caught sight of a bristly Goosefury and.. some cat that looked vaguely familiar, though he couldn't place from where or if it was a misremembering on his part. Curiosity guiding him, Fawnsqueak weaseled through the crowd, dipping behind pairs of cats and dodging suspicious glances, until he was within earshot. Also, within eyeshot. Kind of just standing there weirdly to see what the fuss was about.

Slushie Wings Corruptx

[Arie]

-- Wings RedHead --

Oh a cat had decided to approach her. Doepaw looked up in question but hearing no comment from the other cat she decided to remain quiet herself. That would be good. Quiet. Then... a voice and a scent hit her ears and as that voice voiced exactly what she was going to say she grumbled out. "You... again." She wasn't exactly in any interest to start a conflict, and would probably be in trouble if she did, so she tried to keep her tone at least somewhat cool. Steady. Not revealing anything, except her irritation. Despite her irritation being quite clear at the moment with the way her ears were pinned down her neck and her voice attempted indifference. But didn't exactly. succeed. Yet she couldn't resist but letting out a laugh since it seemed that small tiny - not - Ripple was hiding behind the other apprentice. "I have... yet to move. And you... won't drown me. Doubt... Beastspark.. would be all too... happy with loosing his... star pupil," using Irisflame's nickname for herself, well it might help Ripplepaw in shutting up at least a little bit, "so I would... not do any drowning." With that said she turned to the Windclan apprentice for once, paying no further head to little bitty Ripple. Ripple could throw a tantrum all she wanted. "Name's... Doepaw. Of... Shadowclan." Her Thunderclan scent had long since faded finally, despite it still being there if you scented close enough but it required an extremely well trained nose.

[Puddle~]

Zesty Mango

Ribbitpaw shifted uncomfortably on his paws, unsure of how to really respond. “Well... that’s good news, I suppose. The fact that you’re well, I mean. Not about the executions.” Well, this was even more awkward now. Small talk was already hard enough as is, but with someone from a different clan... it was difficult to bring up topics from within the clan without having to explain every single detail. “So, uh... is this your first gathering?” A rather cliche question, but he was willing to discuss anything to relieve the moments of awkward silence.

—————

Elementals

A smile of amusement was painted on Puddlepaw’s face at Foggypaw’s optimistic statement. “Haha, yes. Personally, I’m not a fan of all the drama or violence. I don’t see why cats feel the need to fight each other over small issues sometimes, y’know?” He paused for a moment to think. ”But, I guess it isn’t really avoidable sometimes. Still... I’d take a friendly game or competition over a fight any day.”

[Arie]

-- Beau Slushie Moonraven {If Twi wants to react lmao, feel free :heartbounce:} --

Stagpaw just kept on nodding enthusiastically as he looked over at Mushdad who seemed to let out a long sigh. "Not happy? Mushy you need to eat beetles too! They'll make you all happy!" Because they did! Stagpaw had been all sad and not happy when it came to his bad paws but the beetles distracted him from the useless of it. They were crunchy! and tasty! And Twiglight apparently wasn't a fan of them. Yet going back to embracing Curlpaw into a massive hug yet again, he let out a loud giggle once again. This was great! And with Mushdad here he wouldn't be left alone and left to be carried home by Twiglight again... that had not been good. But it wasn't his fault he was... confused. Maybe he could smuggle Curlpaw with him back home? Mushdad would surely allow him to take Curlpaw with him home. "Mushdad! Yes. Is Stag's dad!" And... then now it was time. "Twiglight? That's Twiglight!" He pointed with his tail up at the Windclan leader and then looked at Mushy. "Can I take Curlpaw with me home?" And then he turned directly to Twiglight and yelled up at the leader, "TWIGLIGHT! Mushy gave me permission to take Curlpaw with me home! Can we please? I promise, I won't feed you beetles if you let me take him home!"

[wren]

Otterstone watched the leaders, ears flicking as Lionstar announced that she had... resigned? Interesting, that was nice of him to not slander her in front of every one.

She turned as someone called her name, and she swung around to face the cat with a smile before she realized who it was. Not just a someone, it was Coyotesnarl.

Her smile turned venomously sweet as she winked at the Tom, remembered exactly how angry it had made him when they first met. “Lonely? Ahh are you worried about me Coyotesnarl?” She shrugged, turning partially away.

Obviously Coyotesnarl wasn’t here, or listening when Lionstar had announced she had resigned. So... she would play with him some.

“Oh they don’t? Careful now Coyotesnarl, you’re starting to sound like you actually enjoy our company.”



Coyotesnarl was in fact expecting her to shrink back away from him as she normally did, though he was met with something incredibly horrible. She actually made him uncomfortable. What was this? He almost wanted to retreat, he was used to the submissive babbling mess and here she was fighting back for once. No she was taking a jab right off the bat!

“As if. You’ve got enough ego to make a friend for yourself” which was kind of a lie, she was in her own way somewhat humble. But he was taken off guard so much so he had to make something up.

The tabby’s ears flattened oblivious to the leaders and the chatter back and fourth. ”I’d rather chew off my own leg, if it wasn’t for the fact I need colleagues to keep me from going insane I wouldn’t go out of my way to see any of you” he snorted

[skreelyshark]

~Splashfury~
“Hey! We are Riverclan, we keep keep on swimming not sinking. Stealthpaw will get the best training, lets do this.” Splashfury tapped his head to get her words into his mind.

Reedwhisker purred, pleased to hear Splashfury's encouraging words. "I have no doubt in your skills, Splashfury. Although Stealthpaw needs practice getting her paws wet!"
StealthWarrior

[gs29513]

gs29513

Rosepaw looked at him, almost instantly recognizing the lovesick, enthusiastic tom from the past Gathering. Yes, she thought that the other Clans were wretched, but it was still interesting to see how persistent this silly tom was.
“Why, hello there,” she purred in a tone that was as smooth as honey. She flashed him a grin from pure white teeth that glimmered in the bright moonlight. “And I am doing perfectly fine, thank you very much.”
Putting down her steady paw, she sat forward and allowed her elegantly bushy tail curl around her front paws. The stripe running down it shone brightly.
Once again, Maplepaw was struck dumb by Rosepaw's pure loveliness. Hello he purred back, trying and failing to disguise his happiness. And I'm very glad you're doing fine. I'm doing well too. When do you think you'll be a warrior? he asked, curious. Wouldn't it be awesome if they became warriors at the same time! Beholding her wonderfulness, he felt like he was the happiest cat in the world. Hearing Twilightstars announcement that Blackpaw had attacked Rosepaw, he turned to his crush. What? Blackpaw attacked you? You have a scar? he mewed, shocked. (Go on, corrupt him)

[gs29513]

I don’t know. This is only the third time I’ve had it. she mewed walking out of the bush. gs29513 Sugarglider
Oh, that's not totally horrible then, right? Splashpaw mewed, pressing closer to her sisters. Sugarglider

[~RooRoo~]

Ya. But mom really needs to know! she laughed. gs29513 Sugarglider

[gs29513]

Why don't we tell her afterwards? Splashpaw mewed, glad her sister would tell their mom. She might be busy now, and it would be hard to find her. ~RooRoo~

[~RooRoo~]

Ya. Let’s go talk to other cats. I wanna make some friends! she meowed happily. Her tail swishing as her blue gaze swept across the field. gs29513

[gs29513]

Alright! Splashpaw mewed, looking around with her sister. (I'm going to post and Open Rp) ~RooRoo~

[~RooRoo~]

Wavepaw dat down by her sister and thought, She is no sister, she is my best friend anyone could ask for. If I ever lost her I don’t know what I’d do! She unintentionally started purring. gs29513 (kk!)

[TheNyanCatMinecart]

Once again, Maplepaw was struck dumb by Rosepaw's pure loveliness. Hello he purred back, trying and failing to disguise his happiness. And I'm very glad you're doing fine. I'm doing well too. When do you think you'll be a warrior? he asked, curious. Wouldn't it be awesome if they became warriors at the same time! Beholding her wonderfulness, he felt like he was the happiest cat in the world. Hearing Twilightstars announcement that Blackpaw had attacked Rosepaw, he turned to his crush. What? Blackpaw attacked you? You have a scar? he mewed, shocked. (Go on, corrupt him)

Rosepaw’s ears twitched with amusement, a smile of the same caliber spreading across her face. It looked like a smirk. Oh, this silly lovesick apprentice. “Good to know,” she replied with a small, semi-dismissive shrug. “I should be a warrior soon, too. In maybe a moon, maybe less.”
He did have a point, though, about Blackpaw. He should be angry. Her eyes narrowing, she gave a nod. “That wretched ShadowClan apprentice,” she growled. “But luckily, it’s easy to hide.” Making up her mind, she spread her front legs, showing him part of the ugly pink thing that slightly parted her thick belly fur.

[gs29513]

Oh, thats horrible! Maplepaw breathed, spotting the scar, just barely visible. But why would he do that? He never seemed like a bad cat! He plays with the kits and stuff sometimes, and everything. TheNyanCatMinecart

[TheNyanCatMinecart]

gs29513

Rosepaw snorted, her pretty pink nose twitching as she moved her front legs, covering up the scar again. “He did it just because I’m a WindClan cat with my own opinions,” she sniffed. “And he’s too defensive about another cat in my Clan.” She let the words linger in the air, falling silent and waiting for Maplepaw’s response. (Yup, she may try to break you.)

[gs29513]

Who? Does he have a crush on a Windclanner? Maplepaw mewed, shocked until he remembered he had a crush on a Windclanner. Not that there's anything wrong with that I mean. he hastily amended. TheNyanCatMinecart

[TheNyanCatMinecart]

gs29513

Rosepaw suppressed a purr of amusement. Oh, this apprentice was so silly and naive, obviously crushing on her. But how could anybody have a crush on that wretched Twistedpaw? Lip curling, she shook her head.
“Of course not,” she replied, her voice sweet and sharp, like hardened honey. “And there is a Code,” she reminded him with a slight smirk. “However, he takes pity on a cat here just because we all think that she should be exterminated,”
(Rosepaw is so obsessed with making Twistedpaw‘a life worse.)

[gs29513]

EVERYONE thinks she should be extermininatored? Maplepaw asked, mispronouncing the word accidentally. What's wrong with her? TheNyanCatMinecart

[sootsplashed]

I don’t know. This is only the third time I’ve had it. she mewed walking out of the bush. gs29513 Sugarglider
"There must be some way! We will find it." Sootpaw's mew was determined, though it was still very kind.

[vellichor]

Beanpaw had been looking ahead, trying to calm his nerves. It was just a Gathering.... nothing to worry about.... he’d be home in— oof! He toppled over from an impact at his side. Suddenly, he was on the ground, and surprise froze him for a few moments. Until he scrambled back up to see... oh. It was a cat. Uh, wait. He couldn’t tell their scent. Rats. "Uh, sorry," he apologized right as they did. The siamese felt his face heat up with embarrassment.

Then, another cat approached. They didn’t bump into him, but the newly introduced Stempaw seemed a lot less nervous than himself and the one who bumped into him. "I-uhm, Beanpaw." he said, aware of his stuttering and blubbering. He had already made two terrible first impressions.

Beau Zesty Mango

[duckie]

[ wnder ]

----Asterpaw----

He blinked, his greeting seeming to startle her, and he gave a light chuckle. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," he said. "Probably wasn't the wisest idea to sneak up on a cat I haven't spoken to yet. I'm Asterpaw, and you're... Yewpaw, right?" His eyes sparkled with slight amusement as he said her name. He hadn't made jokes with anyone in quite a while, and this opportunity was just staring him in the face.



Yewpaw
__________

She gave a small nod, not returning the lighthearted laugh, "I'm just... kind of jumpy. I wasn't expecting anyone to want to talk to me." Yewpaw shrugged. Not that she wanted to talk to someone, anyway. Everything just seemed to go smoother when she kept to herself, "But yeah, Yewpaw." There seemed to be something just on the tip of his tongue and it made her nervous wondering what he was going to say, "Did you... want something, or...?"


- - - - - - - - - -
Willowpaw had puffed up from the tension between the shadowclan and windclan leaders but the good-natured (at least to her perspective) teasing settled her ruffled fur. Besides she was small, Willowpaw is young and all, only being a new apprentice. "Well if I'm a fry and you're a frog then you might hop better in the mud but I got you beat in any swimming!" she chuckled at the other apprentice before sticking out her tongue playfully "And you're wrong about marshes! Toads and frogs are nothing on the awesome prey in the rivers! Trout and carp and tons of other fish, then there are the cool birds that taste great! Then again we do have one of the worst animals of all in our territory..." Her expression soured and her ears lay flat in fear just thinking about it. "That awful evil creature that can take your toes off with ease, armored so heavily that claws can't hurt it, so strange it looks like it doesn't belong in this world..." Willowpaw got lost in thought thinking about it. Her mentor may say its fine but if Willowpaw could get to be a warrior without ever touching one she'd be a happy cat because, quite frankly, she'd rather fight a badger.
wnder


Frogpaw
__________

Frogpaw faked a wounded gasp, dramatically placing a paw on her chest, "Are you implying... I'm not awesome? How dare you!" She teased before letting out a laugh. Going into this, she had intended to try and trick Willowpaw into pulling a prank or doing something that would get her in trouble but talking to the RiverClanner was actually quite enjoyable - not that she would admit it. As Willowpaw continued, however, she began to look more and more perplexed as to what she could possibly be describing. Armored...? "Do you mean turtles?" she broke in, "We get those in the marshes sometimes. There's some that have like, bright underbellies but sometimes we get bigger ones! Those ones are all snappy. Bet they could bite your paw off if they wanted to."

[dionysus]

[ Arie Slushie Moonraven ]

“So help me, little bug, if you put beetles in my mouth I will bring you up to Twiggy and then kick you off the rock.”

Rushingmoor glared sternly down at the apprentice- he was not playing around with this. No bugs. He needed to talk to Twig about getting some kind of compensation for the emotional trauma of being threatened with bugs. And then Stag went on about him being his dad again! What was that about? It was cute sure but he did know that Rushingmoor wasn’t his dad, right?

Before Rushingmoor could say or do anything, Stagpaw was onto the next topic and Mushy had to roll his eyes a little at the question of kidnapping Curlpaw. Kidnapping Twi and snatching a Riverclan apprentice were two very different things and he opened his mouth to gently tell Stag to enjoy the gathering and then let Curlpaw go home when Stag... Yelled to Twilight!!

Quickly, Rushingmoor slapped his tail over Stagpaw’s mouth and glared at him.

“What the hell is wrong with you?”

Throwing his eyes up to Twilight on the rock, he called out without thinking,

“I did no such thing!”

Rushingmoor then directed his attention back down to Stagpaw with a glare. This cat was cruising to get yeeted off the stone.

-

[ elysian Zesty Mango ]

Great, now there was a witness to her clumsiness too! Iciclepaw was about ready to start shaking and she stutterer out a quiet apology again after her first one, which had been at the same time as the other cat’s. Why was he apologizing? She was the one who’d walked into him.

So the two cats were Stempaw and Beanpaw. Iciclepaw guessed that she should introduce herself too and murmured,

“I-I’m Iciclepaw.”

[Wings]

[ Arie RedHead ]
-Creekpaw-

Sadly, before Creekpaw could even get a greeting in, another cat who smelled like she was from RiverClan, came over. Hiding behind him? The older apprentice could only help but look annoyed with pinned back ears. If she wanted to ignore him, he'd ignore her.
Ignoring Ripplepaw, he gave Doepaw a smile, even though he knew she couldn't see it. "I'm Creekpaw." He face though scowled as Icestar continued the announcements. Mountainmist had joined ShadowClan. Yep, he knew that but, he still felt betrayed. Though, he did recognize that Doepaw had joined ShadowClan. "I hope ShadowClan is working well for you?" And Mountainmist. He scowled at the thought that Mountainmist was perfectly happy in ShadowClan... without him.

[StealthWarrior]

Reedwhisker purred, pleased to hear Splashfury's encouraging words. "I have no doubt in your skills, Splashfury. Although Stealthpaw needs practice getting her paws wet!"
StealthWarrior

"I heard that!" Stealthpaw called, half annoyed half amused

[skreelyshark]

"Oh hi Stealthpaw." He glanced at Splashfury before turning to his apprentice "Do you mind if Splashfury accompanies our training sessions? She can help out so you can speed up your progress!"
StealthWarrior Elementals

[StealthWarrior]

"Yes! I want to be the best warrior in Riverclan!" Stealthpaw yowled, "And I will work for it." she added under her breath esa Elementals

[The Kitty.]

Sparrowsnap
__________

The mottled warrior's body snapped back in a grimace of disgust. "Strange. I would have expected for you two out of all toms to know that cats can change. But no. Instead you two sickening ratheads decided to recommend the idea of absolute abortion solely because of something I did moons ago back as a snobby apprentice." Sparrowsnap drew herself upright before she proceeded on. "I apologized with truth for your pleasure, Goosefury. In fact, I could make the choice to actually emphasize your butthurt words and rid myself of my own babies simply for something that happened to you that cannot be reversed."
[ Wings Slushie Dipper ]

[TheNyanCatMinecart]

EVERYONE thinks she should be extermininatored? Maplepaw asked, mispronouncing the word accidentally. What's wrong with her? TheNyanCatMinecart

Rosepaw’s ears twitched at the silly mispronunciation. “If only,” she sighed. “She’s so awful and ugly and deformed, you’d get sick.” She scanned the clearing, searching for her, until at last she saw the deformed shape.
“She’s there,” Rosepaw hissed.

[skreelyshark]

StealthWarrior

"I know." he purred. "We'll work on some battle techniques tomorrow."

[Elementals]

~Splashfury~
Hiding a giggle as Stealthpaw had overheard their conversation and picked out the part about what they needed to improve upon. Splashfury wasn’t sure about how Reedwhisker trained Stealthpaw but one thing she knew for sure was that her methods were definitely different.

“Sounds like we got a good plan. I believe I am free tomorrow so I can help supervise your training. Though I might wanna warn you that I am pretty strict during training.” Splashfury warned.

{ esa StealthWarrior }

[Elementals]

Elementals

A smile of amusement was painted on Puddlepaw’s face at Foggypaw’s optimistic statement. “Haha, yes. Personally, I’m not a fan of all the drama or violence. I don’t see why cats feel the need to fight each other over small issues sometimes, y’know?” He paused for a moment to think. ”But, I guess it isn’t really avoidable sometimes. Still... I’d take a friendly game or competition over a fight any day.”
~Foggypaw~
“Even though Shadowclan is the clan of battles, I agree that small issues can be settled with polite agreement and all. Friendly games are fun of course though I have never been in an actual battle. The way my brother describes it probably doesn’t seem all that fun.” Foggypaw agreed to Puddlepaw. The closest to a battle that she had been through is when Riverclan raised Shadowclan. She really thought they were just having a talk but apparently no.

[Dovey]

Alright! Splashpaw mewed, looking around with her sister. (I'm going to post and Open Rp) ~RooRoo~

'Hey!" Almondpaw said, "I'm Almondpaw!" ~ ~RooRoo~ ~

[StealthWarrior]

"YAAAY! Woot!" Stealthpaw did a funny little dance. "Imma be the best! And don't worry," she meowed, suddenly calm again, "I can handle anything." esa Elementals

[Dawneye]

Moonpaw ran around excitedly, her very first gathering! She hunted around for someone around her age to talk to, hopefully from a different clan.

{OPEN}

[skreelyshark]

~Splashfury~
Hiding a giggle as Stealthpaw had overheard their conversation and picked out the part about what they needed to improve upon. Splashfury wasn’t sure about how Reedwhisker trained Stealthpaw but one thing she knew for sure was that her methods were definitely different.

“Sounds like we got a good plan. I believe I am free tomorrow so I can help supervise your training. Though I might wanna warn you that I am pretty strict during training.” Splashfury warned.

{ esa StealthWarrior }

"Sounds like a plan." He nodded gratefully. "We'll be practising battle moves on the moor."

@Stealthpaw

[Mango]

The tom sat himself down, and wrapped his tail around his paws. He kept a soft smile on his face as he watched the molly react. "Nice to meet you! I hope you don't mind me asking. But why such a sour gaze?" Sleepypaw asked. "Did they just not want to talk to you?" he chuckled.

Stempaw realized she wouldn’t get more information out of the tom if she scared him off,” I didn’t realize I had a sour face.“ she meowed sounding rather distant and not very aware of her surroundings or very engaged in the conversation,” Is Riverclan cool?“ she asked.

Puddle~
Gullpaw gave a shake to her head,” It’s my second gathering.” she meowed unsure of what to say really, this was such an awkward interaction why did it have to be so awkward for her? She didn’t know.

Beau elysian
Stempaw glanced at her clanmate Iciclepaw. He is such a clutz she taught flicking her tail,” Glad to meet you.” she forced out annoyed with the stuttering Riverclanner and stuttering clanmate. Sheesh how’d I end up with the wimpiest cats at the gathering? she thought

[Elementals]

~Splashfury~

Giving a toothy grin to the pair, Splashfury was happy that they got a plan down for Stealthpaw’s training. She was glad that Stealthpaw wasn’t lazy as an apprentice she saw hogging all the fresh kill.

“Oh actually, we have a training island. I can show you the way if you would like to.” Splashfury replied to Reedwhisker.

{ esa StealthWarrior }

[skreelyshark]

~Splashfury~

Giving a toothy grin to the pair, Splashfury was happy that they got a plan down for Stealthpaw’s training. She was glad that Stealthpaw wasn’t lazy as an apprentice she saw hogging all the fresh kill.

“Oh actually, we have a training island. I can show you the way if you would like to.” Splashfury replied to Reedwhisker.

{ esa StealthWarrior }

"Oh yes that would be nice!" He licked his chest self-consciously. How could he have forgotten! He looked away, embarrassed.

[vellichor]

Ookay. Iciclepaw didn’t seem awful. If anything, she seemed just as nervous as himself. He could finally identify the scent — ShadowClan! They both smelled of ShadowClan, and it seemed Stempaw was kind of grouchy. She sounded annoyed.

Beanpaw flattened his ears, glancing at his paws. They couldn’t tell, could they? No, no. Most of RiverClan didn’t even know about his... issue. And he lived there. No. Wait. It had been awhile since he spoke. Oh no. Uhh... "Nice to meet you guys, uh, too." Wow.

Beau Zesty Mango

[Rani]

Willowpaw gave an amused snort at the dramatics. "Wait turtles can bite too? I didnt actually know that!" Willowpaw internally resolved to be more cautious around turtles in the future but she really couldn't muster up the fear with them like she could with her strange mortal terror. "I meant crabs! Evil awful little creatures! They are horrible! I don't know if you have any in shadowclan but count yourself lucky that you don't have as much as riverclan!" Her clan didn't seem to regard these creatures with the terror they deserved but maybe this cat would have the sense to "They don't even taste good when they're dead either... And smell worse than fish when left out too long." Well at least that was Willowpaws opinion but some might disagree on the fishy smell being worse then crab smell. "You seem like a strong warrior Frogpaw but never let your guard down around a crab." It may be silly but Willowpaw was serious, everyone has a weird fear and hers were crabs.

wnder

[gs29513]

Rosepaw’s ears twitched at the silly mispronunciation. “If only,” she sighed. “She’s so awful and ugly and deformed, you’d get sick.” She scanned the clearing, searching for her, until at last she saw the deformed shape.
“She’s there,” Rosepaw hissed.
Spotting the deformed apprentice, Maplepaw bit back a hiss of terror. She's hideous! he breathed. And she made Blackpaw give you that scar? How could a cat be so evil?

[gs29513]

'Hey!" Almondpaw said, "I'm Almondpaw!" ~ ~RooRoo~ ~
Cool! I'm Splashpaw, and this is my sister Wavepaw. Splashpaw squeaked happily, introducing her and her sister to the strange apprentice. What clan are you from? she asked curiously. Her guess was Windclan, since Thunderclan weren't here, and Shadowclan were all grumpy. ~RooRoo~

[TheNyanCatMinecart]

Spotting the deformed apprentice, Maplepaw bit back a hiss of terror. She's hideous! he breathed. And she made Blackpaw give you that scar? How could a cat be so evil?

A smile spread across Rosepaw’s face. “Well, not entirely,” she admitted. “Twistedpaw could never stand up for herself. However, Blackpaw got angry just because I didn’t like a deformed creature like her. But she was pretty okay with my looks being spoiled.” Her nose wrinkled, her voice full of spite. Then she blinked at Maplepaw. “Would you do something for me?” she asked sweetly.

[gs29513]

A smile spread across Rosepaw’s face. “Well, not entirely,” she admitted. “Twistedpaw could never stand up for herself. However, Blackpaw got angry just because I didn’t like a deformed creature like her. But she was pretty okay with my looks being spoiled.” Her nose wrinkled, her voice full of spite. Then she blinked at Maplepaw. “Would you do something for me?” she asked sweetly.
This beautiful creature wanted his help. I would do something for you! he mewed, looking up at her. What do you want me to do?

[TheNyanCatMinecart]

gs29513 (You can reject if you want to.)

Rosepaw grinned. “Do you know how to be mean?” she asked. “Well, because maybe you could go up to Twistedpaw and tell her how awful she is for existing. Did I tell you that her father was a rogue?” She giggled. This would be fun. “Maybe aim a couple swipes, too. It’s not like she can fight back!”

[Puddle~]

Elementals

Puddlepaw nodded in agreement. "I've never been in a battle either. But I've seen plenty of... violent things in my life. Let's just say... battle training is probably my least favorite thing to learn because I'd just rather not use those skills." It would be sad if he ever had to face a nice cat like Foggypaw in battle some day. Fights really did bring out the worst in cats, as it was plain to see through all the crazy things he'd experienced so far.

----------

Zesty Mango

Ribbitpaw let his gaze flicker around as he spoke. Keeping eye contact under such awkward pauses felt rather uncomfortable. "Same here. So... uhh... how's training in WindClan? Anything worth mentioning?" Another monotonous subject, but his mind was practically blank of anything really deep or intriguing. Judging off how things were going here, he supposed he'd thrown himself at a cat just as socially incompetent as he. Great. Was it too early to call this attempt at interaction a flop? Most likely not.

[gs29513]

gs29513 (You can reject if you want to.)

Rosepaw grinned. “Do you know how to be mean?” she asked. “Well, because maybe you could go up to Twistedpaw and tell her how awful she is for existing. Did I tell you that her father was a rogue?” She giggled. This would be fun. “Maybe aim a couple swipes, too. It’s not like she can fight back!”
But I can't attack someone at a Gathering! Maplepaw mewed, surprised. I can maybe insult her a bit, but I can't hurt her! I'll be kicked out!

[dino.]

[ Dipper Wings Corruptx ]

----Goosefury----

From the corner of his eye, he could see Fawnsqueak edge his way over to the sidelines of the argument. His hackles lifted as she continued to go on and on about her worthless apology and those unwanted kits, those plagues of the earth that would do more harm than good because they'd turn out just like their brute of a mother who most likely wouldn't lift a claw to care for them. "You call me the 'sick rathead'," he spat, "when you're the one who tore my eye from my face and enjoyed it. I had NOTHING to do with those rats inside you, I had NO PART in the decisions you decided to make, and yet you go on and on about it as if I'm supposed to CARE!" He was at his boiling point, the blood roaring in his ears as his claws tore at the ground beneath him, the sensation of the rock the only thing stopping him from ripping open Sparrowsnap's face and giving her the same treatment she had given him.
"Yeah? You say you can make that choice?" The snarl ripped itself from his throat, menacing and cruel. "Then make it. Right now." He turned to face Fawnsqueak, motioning the medicine cat over with a jerk of his head.

[Wings]

[ Slushie Corruptx Dipper ]
-Russetstrike-

Oh stars this was not going well. He had stayed silent while Sparrowsnap spoke. Her 'appology' was terrible and it gave him anger also but, while Goosefury's reply was fair. This was not the time or place for that.
Stepping in between Sparrowsnap and Goosefury, his voice was soft, trying to calm the angered warrior down. "Goosefury, this isn't the time or place. We're at the gathering, there's a truce."

[~RooRoo~]

Yep! I’m Wavepaw! she meowed purring looking at her sister eyes gleaming. TeamMilkBot gs29513

[Fawn]

Fawnsqueak was quickly realizing he was in over his head, and did not have enough context to piece more together than the minimum: this.. embittered ShadowClanner made some mistake as an apprentice, was pregnant, and somehow this involved Goosefury, who'd suggested aborting her kits. Maybe involved Russetstrike too, not that he could guess how. Goosefury's heated reply answered a pawful of those questions, but more took their place, so all he could do was watch in owlish curiosity on the sidelines, wondering how far this was going to go.

Or, that'd been his plan until Goosefury brought attention to him and Fawnsqueak flushed, pupils darting. Yeah, okay, maybe he hadn't been that subtle. Stiffly, he padded over with a sheepish smile and a classic "..uh, hey" to commemorate his awkward entrance. He settled on Sparrowsnap, briefly peering at her rounded stomach before raising an eyebrow to await some sort of explanation of why debating a miscarriage had been exchanged in the argument. "So..." he coughed, scuffed a paw at the ground. "You don't.. want to be pregnant, or something..?" It was a guess in the dark.


Slushie Corruptx Wings

[TheNyanCatMinecart]

But I can't attack someone at a Gathering! Maplepaw mewed, surprised. I can maybe insult her a bit, but I can't hurt her! I'll be kicked out!

Rosepaw’s ears twitched. Maybe she was asking too much of this petty ShadowClan cat. She gave a small nod. “Alright then,” she meowed. “Before you do anything, why don’t you tell me what you think of her?” She wanted to know before anything else.

[ChillCat]

Brightpaw hopped down to the clearing, hoping someone would talk to her. (Open)

[Starfall]

Stempaw realized she wouldn’t get more information out of the tom if she scared him off,” I didn’t realize I had a sour face.“ she meowed sounding rather distant and not very aware of her surroundings or very engaged in the conversation,” Is Riverclan cool?“ she asked.

His ears quivered as she spoke up once more. "Oh sorry. Maybe it's just your normal face." he laughed lightheartedly. Sleepypaw wiggled a little bit in his spot to get more comfortable, making sure his posture was presentable. "Cool? That's a weird way to describe a clan...I honestly have no clue." he responded after thinking about it for a second. "Never been to any of the other clans so I couldn't really tell you if it's considered cool or not." he hummed.

[gs29513]

Rosepaw’s ears twitched. Maybe she was asking too much of this petty ShadowClan cat. She gave a small nod. “Alright then,” she meowed. “Before you do anything, why don’t you tell me what you think of her?” She wanted to know before anything else.
I think she’s gross Maplepaw mewed without hesitation. Pretty useless to Winclan too.

[stag]

*Redspot was kinda the keeper of peace kinda, he walked up to the apps* How about everybody calm down, maybe enjoy the peace between clans right now? TheNyanCatMinecart gs29513

[gs29513]

We aren't fighting! Maplepaw mewed indignantly. We're from different clans, ENJOYING the peace! Cougar TheNyanCatMinecart

[TheNyanCatMinecart]

gs29513 Cougar

Rosepaw grinned and nodded. “So, go up to her!” she purred slyly, looking up at Twistedpaw’s bent-over form. Annoyed, she turned to the newcomer. “We aren’t fighting,” she meowed.

[gs29513]

Alright. Maplepaw mewed, padding towards Twistedpaw. He wasn't sure this was a good idea, so he decided to be a bit stealthy about it. Sitting down beside her, and pretending not to notice her deformities, he mewed Hi! I'm Maplepaw! What's your name. managing to sound happy, and not like he wanted to throw up. She was even more repulsive up close! TheNyanCatMinecart

[dionysus]

[ elysian Zesty Mango ]

Oof she’d been so nervous she literally had forgotten that Stempaw was in her clan. Iciclepaw hoped the other apprentice hadn’t noticed and she focused her attention on what they were both saying in order to try not to think about it. The conversation seemed a bit awkward and Iciclepaw worried that it was her fault so she tried to start a new topic.

“So, you’re in Riverclan, right?”

[Greenleap]

Greenheart watched on with interest. It wasn't every gathering that the leaders had some drama between the clans! She didn't say anything, though.
[Open!]

Swiftpaw did not want to attack or be attacked again! Well... maybe he kinda did, but he didn't want another fight!
[Open!]

[Moonraven]

A loud sigh could be hard from the WindClan leader at Icestar's response. Seriously, everyone's cats were smart and confident and never stepped out of line until they did! It was like she was saying that ShadowClan could do no wrong. She couldn't just say my bad, she could have even played it off as apprentices being apprentices, Twilightstar didn't even need an apology at all, she just wanted some reassurance that Icestar could keep her cats in line. But no, the damn airhead just had to be a pain about everything. This pride of hers was going to be her downfall.
The news about Foxpu- Foxbite was nothing new to her. This is what Icestar got for poaching her cats like that. It might have been nice if Twilightstar warned Icestar about Foxbite's eating habits, but at that time she had been a little busy keeping her clan together so the thought hadn't come to mind. She also absolutely enjoyed how Icestar made sure to remind everyone that he had been a former WindClan cat. Iceidiot had been more than happy to take in WindClan cats when they were down in the dumps, now she didn't want anymore because some of her kits lost a little flesh... typical.
As expected, Lionstar added his own two cents, amusingly so.
"So basically you're saying that's it alright for ShadowClan cats to ignore the borders and attack whoever they want because apparently none of your cats can do no wrong? So Rosepaw deserved whatever she had coming to her. That's nice." Icestar wasn't denying it that it happened just saying that somehow the fault was WindClan's.
"Did you even bother talking to the cat about it? Maybe asking why he did it? Or has ShadowClan become a clan so great and perfect that you can just say everyone else in the wrong and leave it at that?" Twilightstar's tail lashed behind beyond aggravated with how quickly Icestar dismissed the whole thing.
"Pretty soon you're going to start saying we should pray to ShadowClan instead of StarClan, because ShadowClan is just that excellent and pure of any an all misdeeds." Icestar was probably the only leader who could ruffle her fur like this. Despite her harsh words, Twilightstar demeanor and tone changed very little. No spatting no hissing, just a sharp glare, and a cold tone. She couldn't go about getting all huffy and puffy as she did at home, stupid truce.
"What in the name of StarClan would you deem as a valid reason to just jump the border and attack another cat? Please, enlighten me. That way when my cats start bouncing over the border and leaving your cats with scars for no apparent reason, I'll know what to say to you about it." It didn't sound like Icestar was even going to talk to this cat about his behavior. Unfortunately, as much as she didn't enjoy resorting to tooth and claw over such matters, it didn't seem like talking was going to get anything through to this arrogant dolt's head. She could just let this go, she really could if Icestar at least made sure to punish that apprentice in someway. However, since this matter pertained to Twilightstar's ability to keep her clanmates safe, they might actually have to do it the old fashion away...which she really dreaded. She'd find some of her less stupid cats in the clan and see what they thought about it.
Cas

Her attention is diverted from the clan leader over to her yowling apprentice? If he was going to do this every time she really was going to ban him from the Gatherings. Twilightstar placed a paw on her face and shook her head as he continued yowling about taking some Curlpaw home. She highly doubted her warrior allowed such a thing, but it wasn't completely impossible. It was hard to remain in a bad mood with mousebrains yowling about irrelevant things. As she set her paw down, she didn't bother responding to him, clearly expecting Mushy to deal with it. She was handling clan matters which meant Mushy had custody of their dumbass for the night.
Arie Beau

[Sorrow]

Kiki waved her tail. What the hell? ThunderClan? What was that? What was WindClan, ShadowClan, and RiverClan? She looked from left to right, trying to distinguish the scents. This sent the bell on her collar ringing.
[Open]

[RedHead]

The thick muscles underneath his pelt shifted with unwanted tension that he couldn't do nothing to release other than flex his claws in and out. His glowing eyes stay stuck on the leaders as the meeting started, Lionstar, as usual, had quite a few cats. Batglare didn't pay any attention to the names or most of what was said. It wasn't relevant to WindClan so he lost interest in it quickly. Twilightstar announced everything he already knew...expect about the little dispute with the ShadowClan apprentice.
Thinking of apprentices, Batglare had to lower his head to glare at the she-cat that actually walked up to him. She must be from ShadowClan, it was the only way he could explain her lack of intimidation due to his size. A sneer plastered itself on his lips as he stabbed his claws as deeply into the sand as they'd go and kept them there.
"I'll enjoy it even less now that you are here." The deep rumble in his chest came out as a thunderous growl. "I'm not looking for company, Nuisance." Didn't she have friends she could go talk to that was anyone that wasn't him?


Freezepaw was met with hostility, her ears flicking as she tilted her head. Hmm... She honestly didn't want to talk to anyone either but... This tomcat had already sparked her interest enough and she was now determined to get something out of this conversation. Maybe find some solid ground or something, or get a rile out of him. Either one would be pleasurable, in her eyes. "Well, good for me then. Glad to know I've impacted you in that way." The she-cat meowed with a nod, her face remaining serious as usual. Freezepaw turned her head with a flick of her ears as she listened to the goings on of the leaders for a moment, instantly tuning them out again as she heard what they were talking about. Petty border skirmishes. Who cared? Cats were dumb and they were gonna get bored of borders soon enough. Some cats just went and looked for fights to spark attention because they're that stupid. It made Freezepaw want to roll her eyes, but she wouldn't as of right now. Eye rolling could come after an attempt to converse with this difficult tom. "Well normally, I wouldn't be either. But can a cat not come up and talk to someone whom she finds interesting? And please note, I don't use that phrase lightly."



Arie Wings

Ripplepaw narrowed her eyes as the she-cat spoke. "Beastspark?" Oh yeah. The Shadowclan deputy. Ripplepaw glanced over to him, eyeing him with narrowed silver eyes before she turned her gaze back to Doepaw. "I can take him." She meowed confidently, poking her head out a little further from behind the tomcat. Though upon the cat mentioning she was from Shadowclan, Ripplepaw had to do a double-take. Oh wait.... Mentored by the Shadowclan deputy... from Shadowclan... That didn't add up. She was from Thunderclan, if Ripplepaw was remembering their last interaction correctly. Which she totally was.
Not one to be ignored, Ripplepaw gave a glare to the tomcat as she padded out from behind him, Creekpaw, whom she now knew the name of, and plopped herself right in between the two cats, so she could look at both of them. Though she kept a "respectful" distance between herself and Doepaw. That she-cat had the evil look in her eyes. Blank and... yeah just blank. Ripplepaw wondered what kind of evil schemes she was thinking up to make her eyes look like that. "Wait now you're in Shadowclan?!" She meowed with a glance of disbelief towards Creekpaw, before turning back to the other cat. "Honestly I think it fits you better, being evil and all that." Stereotypical, if I must say." Ripplepaw smiled a bit, hoping Creekpaw was following her line of thought as she glanced back over at him.

[vellichor]

Beanpaw felt a little more at ease, seeing as he and Iciclepaw seemed nervous. They could probably reassure each other, though Stempaw seemed... colder. It gave the siamese a shiver. Something about Stempaw made him more nervous. "Uh, yeah. It’s nice..." way to carry the conversation. Oh, wait. "You two are ...ShadowClan?" he asked hesitantly, still not 100% sure he was identifying the scent correctly. He was curious as to what life was like in the other clans.

Zesty Mango Beau

[Willowfern]

Kiki waved her tail. What the hell? ThunderClan? What was that? What was WindClan, ShadowClan, and RiverClan? She looked from left to right, trying to distinguish the scents. This sent the bell on her collar ringing.
[Open]
Quietly, the Windclan she-cat snuck up behind the Kittypet and pinned her to the ground, It wasn’t breaking the truce since it was in fact a kittypet, but just to be sure Smokeflight kept her claws sheathed and didn’t force all her weight onto her, she was just keeping the cat in one place.
“Who are you?” Smokeflight hissed,”Why are you at the Gathering?”

[Sorrow]

Quietly, the Windclan she-cat snuck up behind the Kittypet and pinned her to the ground, It wasn’t breaking the truce since it was in fact a kittypet, but just to be sure Smokeflight kept her claws sheathed and didn’t force all her weight onto her, she was just keeping the cat in one place.
“Who are you?” Smokeflight hissed,”Why are you at the Gathering?”
Hey! Kiki barked, as she was pinned to the ground by Smokeflight, Question is, who are you, and what IS a Gathering? Her gaze menacing, she unsheathed her claws, paws flailing.

[Ivyheart3]

My first gathering since I joined RiverClan! Oh boy! Mooncloud thought. She gave a swift lick to her shoulder and waited for Lionstar to announce her arrival to RiverClan.

[Ivyheart3]

Splashpaw was at her first gathering! She was an apprentice, and got to go to the gathering, like really soon after. This was AWESOME. Spotting her sister, she bounced across the clearing towards her, glad no other clans were there yet. ~RooRoo~
Same, me too! Mooncloud needs an apprentice, so if there is an available kit who is turning into an apprentice, please let me know!