August Gathering [Archive] - Warrior Cats Online

TheNyanCatMinecart

August 16th, 2021, 06:46 PM

~ WOLFFANG ~

Wolffang was just behind Twilightstar. Despite the previous horrendous events, he had to make sure that no one knew the deep emotions that ran within WindClan. He kept his head and tail held high, but his bright yellow gaze showed a grim state of suppressed anger. He watched as they padded up to the Seastones, pausing along with her. There was nobody here yet. WindClan felt like they were always the last to arrive, but now it seemed as though they were the first. Based on how Twilightstar stopped and tensed her muscles, he could tell that the lilac-colored leader was wary. Which made sense. Who knew what ShadowClan could be planning to do, even if the other Clans were supposed to arrive?

No matter. Everything was clear; it was only them in this place right now. Wolffang made his way over to the place where the deputies sat. It was almost disconcerting not to see someone else sitting there, like Finchwhisker or Splashleap. The tom sat down, curling his thick-furred gray tail neatly over his paws, and waited. It was greenleaf, so although the night was cool, it wasn't freezing. His fur was thick enough, so it would do him just fine. He waited for the other deputies to arrive.

Wolffang couldn't believe that he'd be forced to meet with ShadowClan here, pretending that they weren't enemies - at least for the night. How he'd love to jump up onto the rock, pin Dawnstar, and snap her neck. Or, no, he could do much worse. Make sure that she lost every single life. But then Finchwhisker would become the leader. Even that sorry excuse for a cat would be better than that tyrant. But oh, well. This was a Gathering, and even Wolffang knew he had to play nice. He wasn't going to pretend to be friendly toward ShadowClan, though. He just wouldn't show his claws or say anything that might get him pounced on.

There was also the fact of his sister, Rosebriar. Wolffang had managed to visit her after that gruesome sight, and it hadn't helped in the slightest. Seeing her like that... one side of her face mauled, one leg broken and never to heal again... had been shocking. He'd always imagined her as a sleek, perfect she-cat. She hated ugly scars - and disabilities. But now she fit into both of those qualities. Uncertainty tingled through the tom's paws. It felt like a huge weight had fallen onto his back. There were outside threats from ShadowClan, Outsiders, and dogs. Then there were the inside threats, the pressure of trying to make sure he stayed on his Clan's good side, the new task of trying to stay in contact with Rosebriar and Snowypaw. And there was also his morales, which he'd been forced to constantly question.

Nevermind all that now. Wolffang, shockingly, felt like his back would break from the pressure, but there was one thing he knew for sure: he'd do anything for WindClan. He'd fight for them, die for them, make sure that they were seen as strong and formidable instead of overlooked. Grief and rage flashed through him once more as he thought of the five skinned, scattered cats. Yes, WindClan had to be strong... and prove to their enemies that they weren't weak. Or pathetic.

Wolffang lifted his head, no specific expression on his face, although his eyes held a grimness to them that showed the weight, the seriousness, of what ShadowClan had done. His large, sturdy figure was sitting up to its full height, dappled gray pelt turned silver in the moonlight. Wolffang knew that his prominent muscles and broad figure made an impressive figure; at least, he thought so. When ShadowClan came, they wouldn't have the satisfaction of seeing him appear to be worn or beaten-down. They'd see a strong cat, one who knew exactly what they had done... and who wasn't going to stand for anything as soon as the night was over.

Kunaisoul

August 16th, 2021, 06:55 PM

Lioncloud walked behind her clanmates, she padded up to wolffang. "What do you think will happen this gathering?" she asked with curiousity.
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spade

August 16th, 2021, 06:57 PM

Strength and color was beginning to flow back into Kestrelstar's pelt, and while the RiverClan leader still looked a bit on the skinny and worn down side, he wasn't as sick as he had appeared at the last Gathering. Leading RiverClan to Seastones he was mostly silent, aside from a few glances to his side at the warriors that followed him. There was much to discuss he figured at this Gathering, and though his pelt bristled slightly with unease at facing ThunderClan - by now they surely had new leadership - the gray tabby forced it to the back burner of his mind.

Marshy soil gave way to sand under paw, and for a moment the leader hesitated, Glancing over his shoulder for Splashleap, he signaled her over with his tail. "Make sure there is no fighting between us and ThunderClan, specifically. Verbally or physically." With a nod in her direction, Kestrelstar broke away and headed towards where Twilightstar was already perched.

His claws scrapped against the stones as he hauled himself up, giving a respectful dip of his head to the WindClan leader. There was no time to worry what her opinion on him was from the last Gathering, and no use bringing it up. "Twilightstar. Everything alright?" Usually Kestrelstar made it a point to not get himself too involved, but anything to distract from his disastrous public appearance last Gathering. Slight concern and a furrowed brow marked his face as he watched the WindClan leader, settling down into a seated position.

// Moonraven gs29513

RIVERCLAN HAS ARRIVED!

Kunaisoul

August 16th, 2021, 06:58 PM

Nightleap looked at kestrelstar before he leaped onto the rock. "I'll try my best not to get into any debacles." she said.
spade

spade

August 16th, 2021, 07:03 PM

Willowfern

August 16th, 2021, 07:06 PM

Emerging into the Gathering, Snowypaw halted for a moment when it was empty. It had never been empty before; WindClan had always arrived once the other Clans were here - at least one of them. The wide expanse of sand with no paw marks having creased it yet baffled the young apprentice, but only for a moment they continued into the clearing. Moonlight washed out their white fur, causing it to glow as they took a seat near the back of the crowd. Every muscle twitched with unease as their blue eyes worked their way around the clearing, paws shuffling beneath them.

// [ open! ]

Hawthornmist
___________

Normally, the Warrior avoided interaction at the Gathering, but this young apprentice interested him,
"Hello," He smiled, padding over, "You're from WindClan I presume?"
Hopefully this cat wouldn't be as argumentative as some cats he'd spoken to at past Gatherings, ugh, he had a bucketload of bad memories.

WinterMara

August 16th, 2021, 07:08 PM

| Whitepaw, The Ambitious Actress In Training of Riverclan |

It was once again, time for a gathering, and Whitepaw could not care. Why did she come then? To get the latest scoop on what was going on, of course! Deep down, she was still herself all those moons ago, stupidly self-centered and not caring for others, add on some edge and self restraint, you've got current Whitepaw.

Would it hurt to talk to others? No, not really, as long as it wasn't someone annoying, she could work with some chatting, it'd be nice actually, mostly for gossip matierial, but maybe she could make useful connections.

| Open!

[Stonemask of Windclan will not come to this gathering, I think he just...needs a break, and disclaimer for Whitepaw, she's not the greatest cat around is 90% edgy teenage satire

Akira

August 16th, 2021, 07:10 PM

Egasl

August 16th, 2021, 07:13 PM

beau

August 16th, 2021, 07:17 PM

MooingPanda

August 16th, 2021, 09:35 PM

Owltalon stalked behind Twilightstar, a dark cloud hanging over him. There had been one since Fernpaw's death. It was funny how you didn't know how much you liked a cat until they were gone. He desperately missed the training sessions they had done together and felt they had actually been growing a bond together. ShadowClan had taken that all away.

He was genuinely scared of what would happen when he came face to face with a ShadowClan warrior. He nothing drastic would happen and this would be a relatively uneventful Gathering. No. That was not what he was hoping for. Twilightstar needed to confront Dawnstar as soon as possible and as aggressively as possible. If they fought, so be it. He was shocked at his dangerous thoughts. That wasn't his usual nature and he was surprised at how much he had changed. The last attack had truly been the last straw.

Owltalon sat down by himself, deliberately keeping his distance from other cats. This was a Gathering in which he did not want to interact with other Clans.

North

August 17th, 2021, 04:45 AM

[[Both open!!]]
//Windclan\\
Littleflower strode in amongst the Windclan ranks gracefully, her head held high in an attempt to stand taller. She meant not to intimidate, but show off - she was proud to be a member of Windclan, and she wished for all the other clan's cats to see that. She watched Twilightstar ascend, her green eyes trailing off from her leader and onto the clearing of cats around her. As she looked at familiar faces, Riverclan arrived; Kestrelstar looking less disastrous than last time, but Littleflower cared little for that fact. She cared little for gatherings at all, really, and only attended to ensure she didn't miss anything interesting. She sat, watching as the two leaders interacted, her own heart set on avoiding conversation with a Riverclanner. She had nothing personally against them, of course, but she just didn't care. Her black and white pelt shone in the moonlight, and green eyes seemed a deeper, more vibrant shade.
//Riverclan\\
Mintflower quite liked gatherings, all things considered; she feared some of the looks of judgement she received from other cats, but for the most part she enjoyed having the chance to make friends who she didn't have to see every single day. This time would be different though, with tensions between Thunderclan and Riverclan so high, who knew what could happen? It would be a sin for a fight to break out during a gathering, but it wasn't unheard of. Starclan would surely punish them all in the event of one, and Mintflower made a silent promise to have no part in any violence - unless it was absolutely necessary to protect her clan. The small she-cat walked alongside her fellow warriors, hoping to find a friendly face in the crowd. Only Windclam had arrived, and Mintflower liked Windclan - Twilightstar wasn't crazy and that was a huge plus. Blue eyes gazed out over seastones, almost glowing in the moonlight. Who could she sit next to?

Silverfur & Co

August 17th, 2021, 07:45 AM

Leopardfire padded in with windclan and looked around as they was the first ones here. This was rather unusual for them but that was okay. She was glad to be here for a change.

Featherpaw followed this would be her very first gathering as she followed kestrelstar in. She looks at him and smiles. She was glad to be a river clan cat.

Snowstripe however could care less about the gathering anymore as she sat and watched the leaders and clans gather she did not like the fact that windclan was first but that was okay. She was getting more cold and colder since ripplepaw disappeared and the fasco within the past few moons.

{All are open to rps}

iliri

August 17th, 2021, 07:59 AM

{Cloverpaw}

Another gathering? Yes! The small molly padded through the way of the trees, the moonlight reflecting her milky creamy colored pelt. Her aqua gaze glanced around at the other cats around her. She surely missed this! Jumping around, the eight moon old molly pranced around the sea shore, her bright eyes wide and her tail lashing happily. "I wonder what the leaders will talk about." She happily chirped, Her tail raised as she looked around at the cats in the clearing, forcing herself to sit down on the sandy ground, the tip of her tail twitching greatfully. Looking around, the molly didn't see any RiverClan cat she recongized, probably they have grown in size! Oh well. The WindClan apprentice was gladly able to talk to anyone, even if they are from a different clan!

(OPEN!)

Raven~

August 17th, 2021, 08:10 AM

Leopardfire padded in with windclan and looked around as they was the first ones here. This was rather unusual for them but that was okay. She was glad to be here for a change.

Palebrook of RiverClan

Palebrook padded into Seastones, looking for ThunderClan, but she could see no sign of them. They must have decided to skip, or maybe they were just late. She couldn't see ShadowClan either, which was more of a surprise. ShadowClan wasn't usually late.
She saw a WindClan cat looking around as well. Maybe the same thoughts were going through her head. Palebrook went up to her. "Hi, I'm Palebrook."

Mango

August 17th, 2021, 10:13 AM

~ Sunpaw ~

Sunpaw padded carefully into the clearing. She hadn't expected the journey to Sea Stones to be so difficult, but she made it safe and sound.

She was so excited because this was her first gathering! She immediately took in the scent of the gathering place and smiled on command. It was everything she had expected, well almost everything. When she was young she had expected to be able to actually see the big rocks, but due to her blindness, she was never going to gaze upon the beauty of the clearing. She had come to terms with that long ago though, so it wasn't making her sad or anything. She was just glad to be there, and as an apprentice nonetheless.

Sunpaw stalked closer to the front of the clearing, trying to find a good spot so she could actually hear her leader and the others. She of course wanted to make some new friends, but she wasn't sure who would want to talk to a blind she-cat.

//Open\\
Bunnypaw had been to a few gatherings, this one was the one where she’d finally speak to someone not from Windclan, gathering up what little courage she had she padded over to a Riverclanner. Windclan was friendly with Riverclan right? She gulped some,” I’m Bunnypaw. I’m from Windclan.” she meowed speaking to the Riverclan apprentice, she had picked one who she didn’t think was dangerous. She felt safe going near this one.

Silverfur & Co

August 17th, 2021, 10:16 AM

Palebrook of RiverClan

Palebrook padded into Seastones, looking for ThunderClan, but she could see no sign of them. They must have decided to skip, or maybe they were just late. She couldn't see ShadowClan either, which was more of a surprise. ShadowClan wasn't usually late.
She saw a WindClan cat looking around as well. Maybe the same thoughts were going through her head. Palebrook went up to her. "Hi, I'm Palebrook."

Leopardfire looked at Palebrook & nodded "Hello my name is Leopardfire." She mews looking at her and wandering where the two clans were.

Singing Jay

August 17th, 2021, 11:44 AM

: spade, for Snwoypaw :
[You can ignore me if you don't feel like interacting ^^]

~ Goldenpaw of Riverclan [she, her]

Goldenpaw slowly padded after her leader, an odd feeling bubbling
up in her stomach, it was her third gathering but she was still a little
nerves. "I could be on a hundred gatherings and it wouldn't
help..." she mumbled to her self. She wished she could have had her
mentor with her but her first mentor had never even talked to her before
dispersing and she hadn't seen her new one... yet...

She sighed and looked around, her blue-green eyes scanning the clearing
for someone to talk to, she didn't like to have to be the one to go up to them
but from her experience from her two last gatherings she had to make the first
move if there would be any conversation at all.
She spotted a white and fluffy cat, from Windclan no doubt since only two clans had
arrived yet, they had been nice so far so might as well give it a try...
"Deep breaths, in and out" she mumbled while doing as she said.

Goldenpaw came up to the Windclan cat and, after quietly clearing her throat, mewed
with a calm voice. "Greetings. I am Goldenpaw of Riverclan" She knew she didn't
have to disclose her clan, if this cat had more brain then a mouse they'd would figure it out.
That was rude... she thought, they cat could hear her thoughts ,she hoped they couldn't
but it still wasn't very polite...

jimothy

August 17th, 2021, 12:16 PM

Wavebreak moved along the edge of the group as Riverclan neared the Seastones, eager to get an early look at what energy awaited them. Breathing in they knew Windclan was first and that in itself was enough to pique an ear-flick. From there it's methodical for her, as with every Gathering; in the corner of her eye, a flash of Kestrelstar leaping up signals her gaze toward the deputy, receptive of any particular instruction. Some look weary, but tonight her demeanor is a bit bored. Wavebreak can't help her impatience for constructive change.

The blue tabby decides to sit at a denser spot within earshot of both apprentices and veteran warriors. She enjoyed observing those who were open and those reserved with discussing the troubles and highlights of the past moon. Both age groups could be notably honest even with their differences.

Wavebreak takes a moment to stretch--then sits with her chin a bit high. Attentive yet calm with the slightest lean back of her head.

[open]

Wings

August 17th, 2021, 01:46 PM

[ OPEN ]
-Creekdash-

Creekdash's heart beated quicker than usual, anticipating a fight with ShadowClan. It could easily happen even with the truce going on. And if it did, he hoped some ShadowClan murders died with it.
Padding out onto the deep sand, he took a spot more less in the center, unusual for him but, he wanted to get the spill on what cats where talking about tonight and potentially finally have someone come up to him to chat. He had never been the type of cat to initiate a conversation at the gathering.
And as RiverClan poured in, he only waited for ShadowClan to arrive, what that rat of a leader had to say about his dead clanmates.

~Sayonara~

August 17th, 2021, 01:51 PM

[ALL OPEN]

Softleaf makes his way around, sniffing the air. He was excited to meet new cats and hear some (hopefully) good news from each of them. He needed to get his mind off of everything that's gone on in his own life.

---------

Honeypaw smiles and runs straight to the gathering place, his pelt pricked with excitement as he looks around. So many new cats! He looks around to find some new friends.

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Silvercloud tastes the air and hums softly. Only WindClan so far. Sitting down, he watches the apprentices and warriors frolic and converse amongst each other.

Madelaine

August 17th, 2021, 01:59 PM

Antbite followed behind his clanmates. He hoped no Shadowclan came up to talk to him or he would shred their fur. He couldn't stand those stupid mutts called Shadowclan cats. They were no better than rogues. The tom padded in the middle of the clearing and sat down.

spade

August 17th, 2021, 03:25 PM

Hawthornmist
___________

Normally, the Warrior avoided interaction at the Gathering, but this young apprentice interested him,
"Hello," He smiled, padding over, "You're from WindClan I presume?"
Hopefully this cat wouldn't be as argumentative as some cats he'd spoken to at past Gatherings, ugh, he had a bucketload of bad memories.

: spade, for Snwoypaw :
[You can ignore me if you don't feel like interacting ^^]

~ Goldenpaw of Riverclan [she, her]

Goldenpaw slowly padded after her leader, an odd feeling bubbling
up in her stomach, it was her third gathering but she was still a little
nerves. "I could be on a hundred gatherings and it wouldn't
help..." she mumbled to her self. She wished she could have had her
mentor with her but her first mentor had never even talked to her before
dispersing and she hadn't seen her new one... yet...

She sighed and looked around, her blue-green eyes scanning the clearing
for someone to talk to, she didn't like to have to be the one to go up to them
but from her experience from her two last gatherings she had to make the first
move if there would be any conversation at all.
She spotted a white and fluffy cat, from Windclan no doubt since only two clans had
arrived yet, they had been nice so far so might as well give it a try...
"Deep breaths, in and out" she mumbled while doing as she said.

Goldenpaw came up to the Windclan cat and, after quietly clearing her throat, mewed
with a calm voice. "Greetings. I am Goldenpaw of Riverclan" She knew she didn't
have to disclose her clan, if this cat had more brain then a mouse they'd would figure it out.
That was rude... she thought, they cat could hear her thoughts ,she hoped they couldn't
but it still wasn't very polite...

With this being only the apprentices second Gathering, there was still an underwritten statement of shock blatant on their face, eyes round with wonder despite the pounding of their heart in their chest. All the Clans would be here - ShadowClan, ThunderClan, and RiverClan. Well, RiverClan was already here. Their gaze fluttered up to who she presumed the leader was, watching as he spoke to Twilightstar in words they couldn't quite make out, despite focusing all their. Their voices were too quiet to hear, so instead the apprentice glanced around the sandy clearing.

A fishy scent approached from their side and Snowypaw blinked, glancing over at Hawthornmist. A soft smile appeared on their face and they dipped their head, remembering their mother's advice of how to be polite. "Yes. My name is Snowypaw. Apprentice of WindClan. Nice to meet you," they introduced themselves with a flick of their tail.

They opened their mouth to ask him of his name when another RiverClan cat approached. Two was okay, they guessed... Once again smiling, Snowypaw dipped their head as well, blue eyes blinking at Goldenpaw. "Greetings. I'm Snowypaw. Of WindClan." Oh, shoot, they forgot. "...And I'm an apprentice." There we go.

Smiling at both RiverClan cats, they turned to look between Hawthornmist and Goldenpaw. "How have things been with you all?"

// Willowfern Singing Jay

Ziera

August 17th, 2021, 04:22 PM

// RiverClan (open)

Eerie silence blanketed the air. Stormtalon kept off to the side, distanced but not too far from Kestrelstar as he led them to seastones, ears perked and emerald eyes sharp. Grimly observing. He knew what waited for them at this gathering were accounts of blood and bile. Despite Kestrel's orders to stand down, Storm couldn't help but factor in the impetuous characters on both sides; respect for anything warrior code-related fizzled out long ago, laughable in the aftermath of apprentice murders and poison claws. An uneventful evening might (most definitely) be wishful thinking. But who knew? Expect the worst and be right or pleasantly surprised. Words to live by.

Sand absorbed the sound of his paws when Storm broke away from the front. He scented only WindClan on the light breeze and was distantly thankful for it, although Twilightstar looked...cagey on her perch, disquiet made obvious by each twitch of her tail. Interesting. Stormtalon had been too absorbed in his clan's struggles this past moon to grasp what ate at the WindClan leader. What did ShadowClan do this time? They were the usual perpetrators when it came to bunny trauma. No doubt anything worth knowing would come to light soon enough. When settling, Stormtalon chose a vantage point that would best suit watchful eyes.

It felt good to stop and sit a moment. The cool air was heaven against his striped shoulders, which had begun to stitch together despite his repeated attempts to strain them. (Storm had no concept of what they looked like and didn't care to know; it was a part of him now, carved like righteous judgement and that was that.) He listened to the hum of fish mingling with windcats a while. Ever so often those green eyes would drift, lingering on the empty space where ThunderClan might still enter.

carmen

August 17th, 2021, 04:29 PM

WinterRabbit5350

Bristletail padded in the clearing quickly, her cream tail flicking nervously across the ground. This should be a better gathering than normal, but there was always the chance that someone would cause some trouble. Her ice blue gaze roamed over the Seastones, only to stop on Whitepaw. She wasn't her apprentice, but she caused enough trouble for it to be a good idea for Bristletail to trail along. Slipping silently next to her, she smiled. "Hey Whitepaw, you looking for someone to talk to?"

Nixey

August 17th, 2021, 07:52 PM

Riverclan
~Dawnwhisper~
Etching their way carefully behind Kestrelstar and the other Riverclan cats, Dawnwhisper cast a glance around. It seemed only Windclan had arrived, which made the silver furred cat a little sad as they puffed out a sigh. They had wanted to see their friend here, hopefully Shadowclan would arrive soon.
~Reedpaw~
Bouncing along down the hill, Reedpaw cast a glance around. Even with only two clans here there seemed to be a lot of cats. Anxiety washed over her as she searched for a friend to cling onto.
Windclan
~Swiftwind~
The small brown molly followed her clan down to the gathering. She felt quite anxious here to be honest but of curious she would admit that. Casting a glance around, she seated herself near the back of the crowd with a huff.
~Flickerpaw~
The blind apprentice cautiously made his way down the hill. Putting on paw in front of the other as he followed the scents of his clan mates. Letting out a content sigh, he attempted to seat himself away from all the scents mixing together.
//All are open! :heartbounce:\\

Egasl

August 17th, 2021, 08:01 PM

Tidepaw looked with wide eyes at the cats around her. The clans were so big! She was amazed at how many cats there were in one place. Her thoughts that had scattered in all the stimulation finally focused and she decided to find someone to talk to. Tidepaw searched through the crowd, trying to glimpse any other apprentices that she could talk with.

(Open)
Bunnypaw had been to a few gatherings, this one was the one where she’d finally speak to someone not from Windclan, gathering up what little courage she had she padded over to a Riverclanner. Windclan was friendly with Riverclan right? She gulped some,” I’m Bunnypaw. I’m from Windclan.” she meowed speaking to the Riverclan apprentice, she had picked one who she didn’t think was dangerous. She felt safe going near this one.

// imma act like you both walked up to Sunpaw at relatively the same time… hope that’s fine. \\

~ Sunpaw ~

Sunpaw jumped as she heard two voices directed at her. She had not expected anyone to walk up to her. Sunpaw was sitting at the very front of the crowd of cats, the closest you could get to the Seastones.

Her turned her head to the two apprentices and smiled.

“Hi there! I’m Sunpaw. And yes, this is my first gathering.” Her milky blind eyes gazed upon the two of them.

Jade13

August 17th, 2021, 08:10 PM

foxpaw padded silently behind twilightstar and wolffang. She wasn’t sure why she was there. She was still morning and was now mad at shadowclan. They had killed her mentor her mother figure. Just the thought of it made her mad and want to cry.

Ravenpaw followed the rest of her clan. She wasn’t sure how this gathering would go. And was a bit worried but hopefully things would stay ok and there wouldn’t be much fighting.

Leafpaw followed. Looking around, there was no sight of shadowclan yet and hopefully when they came things would stay calm. He wondered what the other clans would say.

beau

August 17th, 2021, 08:12 PM

Tidepaw smiled at the apprentice, "I'm Tidepaw, you're from Riverclan, right?" She had never met a Riverclan cat, "Is it true you swim in Riverclan?" She shuddered, she couldn't imagine swimming. She absolutely hated being wet, even though she loved rain she would always watch from in a den.

Egasl

Little Timmy

August 17th, 2021, 11:00 PM

- Creamcloud -

Creamcloud slouched down, sitting on cold ground wasn't something she liked, but all ground was cold nowadays. She rolled her eyes, why did they have to go to these useless, like keep your clans news to yourself. A sigh escaped her and the wind ruffed and cream colored pelt.

(Open for any interactions!)

Rani

August 17th, 2021, 11:33 PM

Sometimes the longing to be just a normal warrior was overwhelming. Generally that longing coincided with the gathering funnily enough, it was just something about being forced to interact with a bunch of cats he generally only got along with under usually high stress situations just wasnt fun. If he was a warrior like he'd dreamed about and wanted as a kit he could skip these pointless meeting, stay back home and sleep and not have to think about clan politics. But he was a medicine cat and it was his duty to be here and deal with any potential conflicts that arose. It was likely something would occur tonight as well, thunderclan couldnt keep avoiding gatherings and though Icicleripple didnt give off any indication a cat was chosen it was only a matter of time before there was a leader. At least he could be confident there'd be no issue from the thunderclan medicine cat, that little show at the starcave shouldve settled things into a cold quiet conflict if there was one. Snakeheart made it clear it'd be a poor idea for thunderclan to point accusing paws about poison or even so much as bring it up, now the matter was simply up to Icicleripple passing that on to the new leader if they even knew at all.

It didnt matter though in a way. Snakeheart would do anything for his clan and had prepared to do just that if it became necessary. Oh Snakeheart despised gatherings and really just wanted to stay home but he had a task to accomplish if things went sour.

The tom settled in to his usual spot in the unofficial medicine cat around and though his head rested on the ground and he put out the general air that he was asleep those that came close could see poisonous narrowed green eyes watching everything.

@Rockfall (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=13509) @Fletcher (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=13182) @Panda1440 (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=13257)

(gathering came at a bad time lol time to try and dual rp both meetings at once rip)

Rani

August 18th, 2021, 12:10 AM

Jayden (for Softleaf)

Sunsetbloom truly enjoyed meeting other cats with the assurance of peace almost as much as she loved the soft rush and pleasant grains of sand of the beach that made every trip here a unique delight. The giant molly would of course fight to protect her clan against any threats however through speech you could know a cats soul in a way fighting only let you know their will and determination, both had merits but the ever kindly molly had her preference. A part of that preference was an avid refusal to tame herself or weigh down her strange and often airy personality even if it made those in other clans view the riverclan molly as strange. So completely uncaring of her giant stature and warrior status Sunsetbloom bounded into the seastones sending a spray of sand out in front of her she promptly happily murred at and rubbed her face in before she stood to look over the gathered cats. No shadowclan or thunderclan yet and while the white and brown molly didnt have anything personally against the clans she couldnt help but be happy for that. They just seemed to bring down the mood when they were here....

That didnt matter though Sunsetbloom had spotted a potential new friend and happily padding over to Softleaf she let out a soft smile paired with an almost song like greeting.
"Good tidings and blessings from the stars upon your clan and loved ones! Though I doubt I'd manage as gracefully on the open moor as you and your kin do I must say its a joy to watch you all when I have a patrol along the border. I thank you for that for its a gift to watch~ I am Sunsetbloom and if it wouldnt be a burden I'd love to be in your company tonight?"

Singing Jay

August 18th, 2021, 07:12 AM

spade Willowfern

Starclan what have I done... Goldenpaw hadn't realized Hawthornmist had been
talking to Snowypaw. Snowpaw...? How could she have forgotten that?! This
would have been Snowkit's first gathering... if her little sister was still a live she'd be
here now... with Goldnepaw... She quickly glanced up at the stars. Now you can
watch me make a fool of my self instead of doing it your self...

I'm sorry, was I interrupting something? she mewed as calmly as she could,
looking back to her clan-mate and the other apprentice. She didn't want to just run
away, even though she felt like that would have been the easier option.

flat._.chair

August 18th, 2021, 09:05 AM

|!|BravePaw|!|

Bravepaw stumbled in; xe glanced around the clearing, anxiousness suddenly striking xem. there’s so many cats.. he shuddered, before looking for the familiar apprentice, reedpaw. as xe noticed the she-cat, xe sprinted to her side.

Nixey

//i just woke up so this isn’t my best work\\

~Sayonara~

August 18th, 2021, 09:43 AM

Willie Warf

August 18th, 2021, 10:21 AM

Snowstripe however could care less about the gathering anymore as she sat and watched the leaders and clans gather she did not like the fact that windclan was first but that was okay. She was getting more cold and colder since ripplepaw disappeared and the fasco within the past few moons.[/COLOR][/COLOR][/B]

{All are open to rps}

Stonefoot slunk behind his clan, scared to show his face. What would his friends in other clans think? He walked up to Snowstripe and walked alongside them, hoping they'd help hide his hideous scars. "Hey. I hope you don't mind me hiding behind you. Im.............nowhere near as handsome as I was before........"

Silverfur & Co

August 18th, 2021, 10:42 AM

Stonefoot slunk behind his clan, scared to show his face. What would his friends in other clans think? He walked up to Snowstripe and walked alongside them, hoping they'd help hide his hideous scars. "Hey. I hope you don't mind me hiding behind you. Im.............nowhere near as handsome as I was before........"

"hey stonefoot." snowstripe mews softly. Neither am i." she had afew claw marks threwout her white tiger pelt. "there should be no reason to hide stand tall n proud you did amazing kicking some squirrel brained rear." she whisped and then looked back at the ground.

Raven~

August 18th, 2021, 11:51 AM

Leopardfire looked at Palebrook & nodded "Hello my name is Leopardfire." She mews looking at her and wandering where the two clans were.

Palebrook nodded. "Nice to meet you." She sat for a few uncomfortable moments of silence, then said, "You know where ShadowClan and ThunderClan are? I don't remember ShadowClan being this late before.

Silverfur & Co

August 18th, 2021, 11:55 AM

Palebrook nodded. "Nice to meet you." She sat for a few uncomfortable moments of silence, then said, "You know where ShadowClan and ThunderClan are? I don't remember ShadowClan being this late before.

Leopardfire looked at Palebrook " Nice to meet u too. No I do not." she mews looking at them.

Raven~

August 18th, 2021, 12:02 PM

Leopardfire looked at Palebrook " Nice to meet u too. No I do not." she mews looking at them.
Palebrook frowned. "Hm. You think something's wrong?" Her eyes widened. "Do you think ThunderClan might attack our camp?"

Silverfur & Co

August 18th, 2021, 12:04 PM

Palebrook frowned. "Hm. You think something's wrong?" Her eyes widened. "Do you think ThunderClan might attack our camp?"

Leopardfire had no knowledge of the river thunder battle but mews "They wouldnt do that i dont think." she mews looking at her.

duCky

August 18th, 2021, 01:12 PM

ALL OPEN!!

- Finchbreeze -
Following behind Twilightstar, Finchbreeze cast a glare at Wolfgang before stepping out of the group to find Ashfeather. She couldn't really leave the camp without her, so she really hoped she had come. She knew she had kts to look after, so she knew she had probably stayed behind, but it was worth a try. Heading back on her own, especially with Shadowclan around, was not something she wanted to do.
TheNyanCatMinecart (If Ashfeather isn't planning on coming, feel free to have Wolf yell at her if u want)

- Sparrowpool -
Finally, a gathering, he thought to himself, taking a seat near the back and glancing around the massive clearing. He wasn't really in the mood to chat, but with everything that had been going on, the leaders would probably say something they'd said a million times already, so he didn't really have a choice.

- Duckspirit -
Duckspirit was definitely worried about fights breaking out, but otherwise, he was in a joyful mood. Yes, all the potential apprentices he could meet were back at camp, but he would get to meet so many cats here!! Just the thought of it made him excited.

gs29513

August 18th, 2021, 01:18 PM

Time for another gathering, that supposedly peaceful night filled with sharp glances and bristling pelts, claws barely kept sheathed. If Splashleap was a bit more cynical she would call it a farce, something to pretend that each clan wouldn’t end the others to preserve their own, but she told herself that it would return to its former calmness in time. And peace with Thunderclan was a start, although whether some of the warriors would agree was up for debate.

It seemed Kestrelstar had similar thoughts, instructing her to make sure no one caused trouble. From their side at least. Hopefully Thunderclan would have a leader to make sure they too stayed in line. Or maybe they wouldn't come at all, although that raised some questions. I’ll keep an eye on our cats. Splashleap affirmed, before making her way to the ledge where the deputies sat. So far there was only one other cat there, Wolffang, and the molly dipped her head to him quickly as she sat.

Greetings. How’s the prey running in Windclan? She inquired, wrapping her tail around her haunches and looking up towards the toms face. Gah, she wished she was bigger. Of course, the Windclan deputy was large, but she was still smaller than average. It annoyed her to no end, although she didn’t show it most of the time. Her sister…..was of similar size, ugh, her sister. She’d probably be here, if Thunderclan did come at all. Splashleap was really hoping they didn’t show. spade TheNyanCatMinecart

furrensic

August 18th, 2021, 01:19 PM

both open for interaction //

➸ cliffcrash 🌊

cliffcrash shoved her way through her moving clan as they neared the seastones, opting to get there faster instead of lagging behind like some cats. she looked at the windclanners who had arrived before riverclan and almost let out a disappointed groan. those darn windclanners and their swiftness!! she glances at kestrelstar who's leaping up on the rock to be seated near twilightstar, casting a short look towards the windclan deputy and splashleap. she doesn't bother to look at the singular medicine cat that arrived before lightly grumbling something under her breath.

splitting off from the dispersing group, the dark tabby looks at the two clans - some already chatting together. compared to the other clans and their..unique members, she wasn't so sure any of these windclanners would be exciting to talk to. she'd much prefer to talk to a shadowclanner or even thunderclanner despite the recent battle, maybe she could knock some sense into those damn treehuggers.

with her chin high, and sitting up as tall as she can manage, the warrior takes a seat in a spot that's between a mixture of riverclanners and windclanners - tattered ears perked in case anyone has anything interesting to say in their conversations.

--

➸ beeblaze
following behind his own clan, beeblaze had realized that he did not want to be here - he also realized that it was probably too late to turn back and make his way back to camp. he felt growing exhaustion tugging at his mind despite having slept the whole day, eyes drooping slightly.

with uneven steps (he still wasn't used to missing a leg, it felt terrible), he took a seat in a generally empty area, away from the arriving riverclanners and his own clanmates.

Undertaker

August 18th, 2021, 01:52 PM

Amber eyes glowed with an eerie ferociousness that would even make their great ancestors pause to take notice. The massive, battle-scarred, dark tabby strolled into the gathering with claws out and her fangs on display. Dawnstar was relishing in the absolute anarchy her clanmates had caused just to impress her. Well, some seemed to want to impress her, but others just appeared to enjoy getting their paws dirty for the smallest of reasons. The leader slides her claws back when they touched the sand, the small grains irritated her toes immediately.

Dawnstar stopped to survey what she was walking ShadowClan into, there was good old guppy and his clan of smelly catfish. He didn't look as haggard and rundown as the last moon. Dawnstar and ShadowClan would have to fix that soon. Bunnystar, however, looked edgy and Dawnstar knew exactly why. It took the bunnies long enough to find them, but in all fairness, Dawnstar had warned the rabbits last moon about what would happen to anyone who set paw past the border. It was their fault for being idiots.

She still caught no whiff of ThunderClan, were they were really going to sit out yet another gathering? They had to have new leadership by now. Dawnstar hadn't a single clue on what was going with the squirrels, but sheer logic and deduction could bring in a lot of answers. Done with her glance around, Dawnstar continued leading her clan onto the beach. She leaped up onto the stone with the other two leaders. Oddly enough, she took to ignoring Twilightstar purely out of amusement. Dawnstar's work was nearly done with WindClan. So rather than instigating, she was going to see how things play out from here. Tension was already high, it wouldn't take much to set it off. ShadowClan already knew her stance on brawling at the gathering, she could care less if they started something, the truce meant nothing to her.

It was would be more fun to see if she could trigger WindClan though or better yet those vermin in the sky. StarClan lost all of Dawnstar's faith the moment they approved WindClan running her clan out. She wondered how they'd feel once Dawnstar did the same? Hypocrites. Flexing her powerful muscles, the dark tabby lowered herself into a more comfortable position while sweeping her gaze through the cats below her, daringly, challenging any cat to meet her eye. The gatherings have been far too peaceful these past moons, they could do with a little red.

[ShadowClan Has Arrived]

Willie Warf

August 18th, 2021, 01:53 PM

"hey stonefoot." snowstripe mews softly. Neither am i." she had afew claw marks threwout her white tiger pelt. "there should be no reason to hide stand tall n proud you did amazing kicking some squirrel brained rear." she whisped and then looked back at the ground.
"Heh. Your joking right? I ran like a coward. Bit you look fantastic! You look like the Fircrest she cat ever. I wouldn't want to see you coming at me in battle." Stonefoot chukled

Silverfur & Co

August 18th, 2021, 01:57 PM

"Heh. Your joking right? I ran like a coward. Bit you look fantastic! You look like the Fircrest she cat ever. I wouldn't want to see you coming at me in battle." Stonefoot chukled

"you think so hm?" She mews looking at him nodding. "no im not joking. Sometimes you have to retreat though. Really now?" she looked at him confused. She did not think so her right ear was bitten she had a hole in it

Silverfur & Co

August 18th, 2021, 02:08 PM

DArktiger walked in behind dawnstar.... the rabbits n fish were here but where are the squirrels? she thought n sighes

flat._.chair

August 18th, 2021, 03:06 PM

[|]LongShadow[|]

longshadow followed just behind a layer of cats who had entered first, her eyes scanning the area. warriors, apprentices, clans- and then there was the squirrel loving clan. where were they? hadn’t river clan messed up there clan? she shook her head, finding a spot near the back, looking around for someone to interact with.

//OPEN\\

Mango

August 18th, 2021, 03:53 PM

Egasl Bearheart

Bunnypaw glanced at her clanmate asking weird questions,” It’s my third gathering. First time interacting with someone.” she meowed she always stayed by herself at those gatherings.

ChillCat

August 18th, 2021, 04:26 PM

Ravenpaw followed their leader down to the gathering. Their recent murder of the windclan warrior Deadpool might prove to be a problem, depending on how popular she was with her clan. Ravenpaw would not instigate any fights, but if someone wanted to start something...Well, Ravenpaw didn't start fights, but they did finish them.

(OPEN TO ANYONE EXCEPT WINDCLAN)

Raven~

August 18th, 2021, 04:38 PM

Leopardfire had no knowledge of the river thunder battle but mews "They wouldnt do that i dont think." she mews looking at her.

Palebrook sighed. "Oh, good. I would hate for that to happen." She flicked her ears. "Oh, look, ShadowClan. Now we're just waiting for ThunderClan."

Silverfur & Co

August 18th, 2021, 04:41 PM

Palebrook sighed. "Oh, good. I would hate for that to happen." She flicked her ears. "Oh, look, ShadowClan. Now we're just waiting for ThunderClan."

Leopardfire wondered what brought that question on but she also thought it was best not to ask. She did not want to upset Palebrook. "Took the frog brains long enough didnt it?" She whispered to Pale. And she felt a glance at her.

tomatosoup

August 18th, 2021, 06:14 PM

Eldershade leapt after the rest of ShadowClan, following the flow of cats into the Gathering place. It made her twitchy to be away from Nightfoot, even for a night- he wasn't exactly a fighter, and she could name several other ShadowClan cats who would have no scruples about biting his head off if the mood struck them- but she had to trust that he could stay out of trouble. If there was anything he was good at, it was staying out of trouble.

She glanced up at the leaders, taking stock. WindClan, ha, looking nervous and angry, as usual. RiverClan, looking pleased with themselves. No ThunderClan... that would be the second night in a row. Weird. They sure were running late, even for all the trouble they'd had with the fishes lately.

((open c:))

Nixey

August 18th, 2021, 08:09 PM

spade

August 18th, 2021, 08:22 PM

He had determined when he'd first joined ShadowClan moons ago that Gatherings were definitely not his thing, however Grimhound was lacking in recent entertainment. So bringing up the rear of ShadowClan, the large brown tabby stalked into onto the sand, amber eyes glowing against the night backdrop of shadows behind him. Tail swung low behind him as he surveyed who was already there; guppies and bunnies. A snort, and then he veered off towards a familiar young cat.

[ ChillCat - quick interaction with Raven! ]

"Keep your head up and claws sharp. I don't want you to embarrass me," he snapped at Ravenpaw, for once not leaning on a snarky greeting. The killing of Deadpool had impressed him in the moment, but had now warn off. They would have to do much more if they truly wanted to earn any attention from the hound.

Without another word, the ShadowClan warrior took to the back of the crowd, settling into a half seated position and running his tongue down his flank. Grimhound didn't really give any care to the leaders who sat atop the rocks - his loyalties didn't really lie with any of them, even Dawnstar. They just happened to have the same pecuilar... interests.

// [ open, if anyone is brave enough to approach The Hound of ShadowClan ^^ ]

WinterMara

August 18th, 2021, 08:30 PM

| Whitepaw, The Ambitious Actress In Training of Riverclan |

She scanned around the area for apprentices from either Windclan or, oh, Shadowclan arrived, great, the chaos clan, surely something good had to come from there. Well, any hope of that got crushed and ruined when one of her fellow Riverclan clanmates, a warrior, approached her.

' 'Yes I am, and preferably not only an apprentice, but someone from a different clan, isn't part of the point to interact with cats from other places anyway? ' '

Surprisingly she was, kind of correct there, whether it was for good use or not...it was a time of peaceful interaction, and she knew what this warrior was up too. Whitepaw was honestly not up for being babysat by a warrior, although she couldn't just go and tell them to shut up and leave her alone, after all, PEACEFUL interaction.

| Pheasantflight

| Sandpaw, the Naïve Follower of Shadowclan |

HIS FIRST GATHERING!

Sandpaw was so excited and so giddy, he just couldn't wait to meet all the fishies and the bunnies and the squirrel...ies? Okay that last one made no sense, speaking of which, were where they? Should he insult them or become friends with them? Hm, maybe it depended on the clan, or, wait, he could be friendly and sneak information out of them, like a snake! Ooooh that actually sounded cool! But who did he talk too first, oh, a cat over there!

' 'HELLO WARRIOR FROM ANOTHER CLAN, I'M GOING TO TALK TO YOU NOW!' '

Welp, any hope he'd be quiet or behave accordingly during apprenticeship was destroyed into a million pieces when he literally yelled at a cat to greet them, oh, and was it one of the fishes? He couldn't tell but, this'd be a good interaction, Sandpaw just knew it!

| finnzel - for Cliffdash

Kunaisoul

August 18th, 2021, 08:32 PM

ChillCat

August 18th, 2021, 08:42 PM

Little Timmy

August 18th, 2021, 08:49 PM

spade

Ravenpaw was startled by their mentor's sudden appearance but tried not to show it. "Y-yeah, okay," they said, trying to affirm themselves, but Grimhound was already walking away.
Ravenpaw didn't like gatherings very much. There were just too many cats, all talking over each other, trying to be heard. If it wasn't for Ravenpaw's love of being on top of news, they wouldn't go at all. And the tension of the leaders on the rock seemed to infect everyone else too.
However, there was another reason Ravenpaw was here. They needed more...material... for experimentation. And there was no place better to talk business than a gathering.

(OPEN. Here's what Ravenpaw is referring to (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=43036))

(I have a Windclan cat that doesn’t give a rats tail about what happens between that clans, I would like to see how this would play out)

Creamcloud watched as ShadowClan finally arrived. She took a deep breath in and stood up, than let a sigh out. She glanced around for cats to bother, she didn’t care if they were angry or not. Shadowclan was just a bunch of cats with they’re tails up they’re butts and bees in they’re brain. She walked over to a ShadowClan apprentice? Looked like they were just scolded by they’re mentor or something. She bounded over to them, with her tail and head held high. She didn’t care what happened here she just knew she wouldn’t have to deal with fighting.
“Hey you kid!” she mewed half hissing. “What just happened you look scared!?” she asked. She wasn’t the one to be nosy, but she HADDDD to know.

ChillCat

August 18th, 2021, 09:00 PM

Little Timmy
Business, business. You can't just walk up to any cat and ask if they want someone dead, that's a surefire way to get in trouble. So how am I supposed to do this? The first hurdle to the operation was here. How was Ravenpaw supposed to get the word out?

Ravenpaw was too lost in thought to notice the Windclan cat asking them a question, but thankfully wasn't noticeably startled. Oh boy. Windclan. Hope they don't know about Deadpool. Guess I should make conversation to not look weird.

"I'm not scared. My mentor just startled me is all. It's not your business." Wait. Shouldn't I be friendlier? Ravenpaw didn't really care about how they sounded to others, but a good businessman should be at least superficially friendly. "Never mind. What's your name? I'm Ravenpaw."
If Grimhound's gonna whine about me talking to a Windclan cat, then he can shove it. I know what I'm doing.

furrensic

August 18th, 2021, 09:02 PM

WinterRabbit5350 //

➸ cliffcrash 🌊

good stars, after what seemed like hours of boredom, shadowclan had finally arrived - but still no thunderclan, much to her disappointment. luckily, her boredom wouldn't be a thing any longer, a loud shriek of a greeting making her head snap down just to spot...a tiny apprentice. she figured that this little guy was a new apprentice, a shadowclan one for sure, either that or he was a slow growing cat. either way, that didn't stop the excitement bubbling up in her. no boring windclanners!

"another clan? 'tis riverclan, little lad! ye can't tell by the scent?" cliffcrash asked with a small raise of her brow. he seemed like a jolly little fellow, so she didn't plan on being too mean if she could help it. "ye need to learn those, otherwise, ye'll be confusin' clans with others!" she exclaimed loudly, raising a paw and trying to plant it right on the shadowclanners head. he looked pretty harmless, so she wasn't worried about any potential fights.

she shakes her head, as if to dismiss her previous words and change the topic. "anyways, anyways..ye want to talk to me, eh? go ahead, lad, talk!" she urged, waving her paw slightly.

Jay.

August 18th, 2021, 09:13 PM

All open for interactions!!

Looncry || RiverClan Warrior :heartbounce:

He didn't want to be here.

Camp was perfectly fine.

Even the sight of this place made images
flash of ThunderClan. How he had attacked
Whitewolf, and how Ottersplash had died.

He shouldn't have been so caught up on
himself. He could have saved him.

Ryecloud || WindClan Warrior

Ryecloud settled in a area along the
edge of the cats. She hoped the tension
between ShadowClan and WindClan woudln't be too high tonight.

Why couldn't the clans just get along instead of fight?

Rani

August 19th, 2021, 02:09 AM

Softleaf looks over. He was surprised that someone had come to talk to him, but it was certainly welcomed.
"Of course I don't mind. Besides, while we're graceful on the moor, you and your kin are graceful in the water. WindClan could never keep up with that. Any news on your end?"
Hopefully RiverClan is doing better than us!
He wraps his tail neatly around his paws as he tilts his head.

"Ah kind words kind words warm the heart as surely as the sun does I thank you for them! In the wake of hardship that Im sure Kestrelstar will explain we are doing well! It is a sad thing that things with thunderclan had to go so far but hurt hearts and spiked pelts in riverclan seem to have been settled! The raging river is calm and unless another storm comes to disturb it it is safe once more for all to flourish at the waters edge~ I hope the same comes to you and windclan too the air of tragedy and an oncoming tornado of fury wreaths you unjustly. Maybe once things are right once more our clans can celebrate together? We used to train and enjoy good company at the beach when life was simpler and sweeter, it'd be nice for that to return like the sun does."

Sunsetbloom let out a short hum as she thought of the kind little concept a soft grin curling around her muzzle the warriors fluffy tail waving behind her and brushing the sand smooth. The riverclan molly snapped herself back into focus after a few seconds and laughed softly like chiming bells or the clinking of shells pushed by the waves.

"Look at me being silly and thinking of happy hypotheticals and not happy nows. Ive good company in you and the stars are bright, joy can be made here my friend! An example and a gift for you my moor homed companion, a shell of unique shaping smoothness and hue! Something to bring contentment when experienced from riverclan for you to have."
As the riverclan molly had spoken she'd started digging in the sand with purpose having felt the hard lump hidden beneath the grains under her paws. Correct in her guess the warrior was rewarded with a ridged spiral of golden brown and white bands (https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2Fc4%2Fe b%2F7b%2Fc4eb7b1d816a77837a777f3cbed996c6.jpg&f=1&nofb=1) which she brushed off and offered to Softleaf happily. It was a good pretty shell overall and for a windclan cat who did not walk along the beach as often it had to be a new experience.

Madelaine

August 19th, 2021, 02:18 AM

North

August 19th, 2021, 06:54 AM

| jimothy |
~Mothflight~
The large pale-coated tom padded into seastones, the air crisp and the moonlight casting a soft glow over the sandy clearing. Mothflight had always enjoyed gatherings, as they allowed him the opportunity to make friends without it feeling so illegal. Despite his open mindset, he knew he would be avoiding Shadowclan tonight - Windclan were planning to go to war, now was not the time to be making friends. Another time, he reasoned. His giant form moved somewhat elegantly despite his large size, and he manoeuvred through the crowd of clan-mates effortlessly. He mingled, sparking up small talk here and there with the familiar mollies and toms, opting to remain standing as he awaited the arrival of the next clan. He hoped it wasn't Shadowclan, as the thought of Twlightstar and Dawnstar being alone together at Seastones sent shivers down his spine, and luckily enough it wasn't; Riverclan rolled up next, Kestrelstar looking better than he did at the last gathering.
Mothflight moved once more, greeting a couple of Riverclan cats he met at previous gatherings before moving along, pale gaze looking for someone to sit besides. Small talk was nice, but his feet were tired from the journey here and he wanted to find a seat before the meeting started. They landed upon a she-cat, notably from Riverclan based on whom she sat amongst, and whom appeared a little bored. Mothflight liked to entertain, and so he made his way over politely. "Evening, the names Mothflight it's nice to meet you," He offered, remaining standing just in case the she-cat before him wasn't interested in his needless chit-chat.

flat._.chair

August 19th, 2021, 08:33 AM

Nixey

||>||BravePaw||<||

BrightPaw Nodded in agreement, xyr anxiety rising even more as The shadow Clan Warriors arrived. how do warriors come here every moon?this place is almost like they want to give the warriors panic attacks!
the young apprentice gave xyr friend an comforting nudge. “we can find a less crowded area, if there is one i mean-“

Earthworm

August 19th, 2021, 08:53 AM

RiverClan

+RabbitSprint+

RabbitSprint glanced at all the cats, then back at there younger sibling. unlike them, Rabbitsprint had been to a gathering when they were younger. giving them a comforting look, they smiled. as BrightSky moved to the back of the crowd, Rabbit sat quietly beside them. i wonder what will happen- the tension with windclan and shadow clan is bad, and river clan almost wiped out thunderclan! star clan will be disappointed.

+BrightSky+

BrightSky walked in beside RabbitSprint, There eyes scanned the crowd of cats, stepping back. so many cats. BrightSky was a younger warrior, and was never brought to a gathering when they were an apprentice. pressing against there sibling, they gulped, and as RabbitSprint Gave them a comforting look, they sighed, sitting at the back of the crowd, a bit farther back.

[[both are open to Interactions! BrightSky is a more anxious and introverted cat, so you won’t get a lot from them. both use they/them pronouns]]

plum

August 19th, 2021, 09:09 AM

[ tomatosoup ]

She needed a change of pace from everything that had really just recently happened. A sleek silvery gray she-cat slides towards the Seastones, in tow of RiverClan. Icy eyes sweep the sandy clearing to assess who'd come. WindClan, and soon ShadowClan as well. Perhaps ThunderClan was licking their wounds still.

She would hardly blame them for it.

Plumstorm glances after her leader and deputy for a moment before considering taking up her usual position closer to the sea. Maybe quiet time while listening to the latest was what she needed. She'd felt lacking, lately, after that first meeting that followed the raid. No one seemed too fussed about their leader's malicious ways. And she wasn't too fussed about taking a stand for it anymore, not right now at least. She was tired.

However, instead of heading to the shoreline, she spots a rather anxious looking cat inspecting the crowd. Plumstorm wasn't too sure of where they were from, but if they weren't ThunderClan, she didn't feel too stressed about stopping by. A change of pace- Not sulking. That's what she needed right now. With a sigh hitting heavier than intended, the warrior slips closer towards Eldershade. Flicking her tail in greeting, the cat nods.

"Good evening," she meows crisply in spite of her previous inhibitions. "You seem like you're trying to read everybody here. Well, fine, I did too." Breaking eye-contact to look around once more, Plumstorm shrugs. "Nothing interesting happening yet, no one looks any different than they ever do. ShadowClan, WindClan, even my own. We sure fit our stereotypes, don't we?"

marshy

August 19th, 2021, 09:49 AM

// Jay.

Puffinpaw
____________

Today would mark the day of Puffinpaw's first gathering!! He was PUMPED to finally experience it! He had absolutely no idea what was going on with any of the clans (mainly because he never paid attention in meetings.. or even attended them) but this would surely catch him up. As he padded to Seastones he saw a cat at the edge of all the different cats and he decided to approach them as who would want to be alone?? "HEY! Why're you sitting here all alone?? All the action is happening over there." He said to Ryecloud, gesturing to the clan cats that were further away.

~Sayonara~

August 19th, 2021, 09:59 AM

"Ah kind words kind words warm the heart as surely as the sun does I thank you for them! In the wake of hardship that Im sure Kestrelstar will explain we are doing well! It is a sad thing that things with thunderclan had to go so far but hurt hearts and spiked pelts in riverclan seem to have been settled! The raging river is calm and unless another storm comes to disturb it it is safe once more for all to flourish at the waters edge~ I hope the same comes to you and windclan too the air of tragedy and an oncoming tornado of fury wreaths you unjustly. Maybe once things are right once more our clans can celebrate together? We used to train and enjoy good company at the beach when life was simpler and sweeter, it'd be nice for that to return like the sun does."

Sunsetbloom let out a short hum as she thought of the kind little concept a soft grin curling around her muzzle the warriors fluffy tail waving behind her and brushing the sand smooth. The riverclan molly snapped herself back into focus after a few seconds and laughed softly like chiming bells or the clinking of shells pushed by the waves.

"Look at me being silly and thinking of happy hypotheticals and not happy nows. Ive good company in you and the stars are bright, joy can be made here my friend! An example and a gift for you my moor homed companion, a shell of unique shaping smoothness and hue! Something to bring contentment when experienced from riverclan for you to have."
As the riverclan molly had spoken she'd started digging in the sand with purpose having felt the hard lump hidden beneath the grains under her paws. Correct in her guess the warrior was rewarded with a ridged spiral of golden brown and white bands (https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2Fc4%2Fe b%2F7b%2Fc4eb7b1d816a77837a777f3cbed996c6.jpg&f=1&nofb=1) which she brushed off and offered to Softleaf happily. It was a good pretty shell overall and for a windclan cat who did not walk along the beach as often it had to be a new experience.

Softleaf blinks before taking it. It was beautiful. Surely he'd have to find a way to keep it to himself. Maybe he can give it to one of his kits once they're born.
"Thank you for this gift. WindClan may not have too many good news. We're preparing for battle against ShadowClan as we speak but I've some decent news."
Looking up from the shell, he smiles at his new friend.
"I'm to be expecting kits. It's bad timing, I understand and there are so many things that may go wrong... But I have faith in StarClan's ability to keep me safe. I hope once all is said and done, my kits will be born into a safer life."

Levi 99

August 19th, 2021, 10:09 AM

As Shadefrost padded into the clearing, his electric blue eyes shining magnificently in the moonlight, he couldn't help but feel that something between Shadowclan and Windclan transpired without him knowing. It didn't really matter to him, but he would've liked to have known what was going on in the forest.

Silverfur & Co

August 19th, 2021, 10:36 AM

"Heh. Your joking right? I ran like a coward. Bit you look fantastic! You look like the Fircrest she cat ever. I wouldn't want to see you coming at me in battle." Stonefoot chukled
"you think so hm?" She mews looking at him nodding. "no im not joking. Sometimes you have to retreat though. Really now?" she looked at him confused. She did not think so her right ear was bitten she had a hole in it

{bump} Snowstripe was confused but felt awe

tomatosoup

August 19th, 2021, 10:41 AM

[ @tomatosoup (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=14614) ]

She needed a change of pace from everything that had really just recently happened. A sleek silvery gray she-cat slides towards the Seastones, in tow of RiverClan. Icy eyes sweep the sandy clearing to assess who'd come. WindClan, and soon ShadowClan as well. Perhaps ThunderClan was licking their wounds still.

She would hardly blame them for it.

Plumstorm glances after her leader and deputy for a moment before considering taking up her usual position closer to the sea. Maybe quiet time while listening to the latest was what she needed. She'd felt lacking, lately, after that first meeting that followed the raid. No one seemed too fussed about their leader's malicious ways. And she wasn't too fussed about taking a stand for it anymore, not right now at least. She was tired.

However, instead of heading to the shoreline, she spots a rather anxious looking cat inspecting the crowd. Plumstorm wasn't too sure of where they were from, but if they weren't ThunderClan, she didn't feel too stressed about stopping by. A change of pace- Not sulking. That's what she needed right now. With a sigh hitting heavier than intended, the warrior slips closer towards Eldershade. Flicking her tail in greeting, the cat nods.

"Good evening," she meows crisply in spite of her previous inhibitions. "You seem like you're trying to read everybody here. Well, fine, I did too." Breaking eye-contact to look around once more, Plumstorm shrugs. "Nothing interesting happening yet, no one looks any different than they ever do. ShadowClan, WindClan, even my own. We sure fit our stereotypes, don't we?"

Eldershade blinked at the warrior coming to talk with her- at her, it felt like- in amused bewilderment as she spoke crisply and cleanly. Well, she clearly had a lot on her mind.

"Ah, river cat, you're talking too fast for-" what was a good ShadowClan stereotype? Right, right. "-a bloodthirsty savage like me." She grinned, amused at her own joke. "I'm Eldershade. You?"

IcedTea

August 19th, 2021, 10:55 AM

plum

August 19th, 2021, 11:09 AM

Eldershade blinked at the warrior coming to talk with her- at her, it felt like- in amused bewilderment as she spoke crisply and cleanly. Well, she clearly had a lot on her mind.

"Ah, river cat, you're talking too fast for-" what was a good ShadowClan stereotype? Right, right. "-a bloodthirsty savage like me." She grinned, amused at her own joke. "I'm Eldershade. You?"

Ah, an amicable one. Well, it was better than most, probably. Plumstorm sits down and curls her tail over her paws, sitting with her back straight and ears perked- Just the definition of Prim, now. No one would ever know she was a killer, or a cheater.

"Indeed," she mews with a wry smile, pleased to have a conversation partner who apparently shared similar humor. "Plumstorm." Completing her introduction with a curt nod, the molly flicks an ear.

"So, place your bet. Who's going to start this Gathering's squabble? Your best friends over there seem pretty puffy. But ThunderClan isn't even here yet. And don't go on about how maybe this one will be peaceful- We haven't had a decent Gathering in what feels like forever."

tomatosoup

August 19th, 2021, 11:15 AM

Ah, an amicable one. Well, it was better than most, probably. Plumstorm sits down and curls her tail over her paws, sitting with her back straight and ears perked- Just the definition of Prim, now. No one would ever know she was a killer, or a cheater.

"Indeed," she mews with a wry smile, pleased to have a conversation partner who apparently shared similar humor. "Plumstorm." Completing her introduction with a curt nod, the molly flicks an ear.

"So, place your bet. Who's going to start this Gathering's squabble? Your best friends over there seem pretty puffy. But ThunderClan isn't even here yet. And don't go on about how maybe this one will be peaceful- We haven't had a decent Gathering in what feels like forever."

"Oh, WindClan, definitely," Eldershade replied, casually, as though her Clan hadn't been the one riling them up for the past several moons. She scratched behind her ear and grinned. "Although maybe ThunderClan, if they bother to show up. What have you been doing to them?"

jimothy

August 19th, 2021, 01:41 PM

Wavebreak's ears perked slightly with the arrival of Dawnstar, the notorious leader taking her seat atop the rock with declarative, unsheathed claws in place of words. Thus began the bloom of resentment amongst part of the crowd. Wavebreak surveyed the mingling of river, wind and shadow with a plain expression. Her attention drifted idly until a big cloud of white approached her.

Friendly, smells of grass. Almost floral. She'd imagine that his incredible fur would catch scents rather easily.

"Hello Mothflight. I'm Wavebreak."

Noting his mindful distance (who could blame anyone for showing a pinch of caution getting close to non-affiliates this moon?), the color-point tabby welcomes him to sit by flicking her tail, brushing off the cold ground next to her. Big guy for a Windclanner. She withholds a snort but yields to an amused smirk. "How do you keep that pelt so clean?"

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North
hiiiiiiiii hehe

Nixey

August 19th, 2021, 03:53 PM

Little Timmy

August 19th, 2021, 04:38 PM

Creamcloud blinked, “startled” how could she believe this apprentice? Especially a ShadowClan one! Everyone knows that ShadowClan cats are sneaking and big liars, so that must mean the cat had lied to not show fear to another clan cat. She was from Windclan, and Windclan and ShadowClan didn’t have uhh, good terms with each other right now. There was most likely gonna be a battle and Creamcloud disagreed to participate in it. If her clan take care of there own needs without battles then she doesn’t feel they deserve her help.

Like other cats told her, she was a huge polar opposite of her sister, Peachfrost. The “goody” two shoes medicine cat. She rolled her eyes in disgust, she was ashamed to be related to her.

She listened too the apprentices’ dumb excuse. uh-huh. she thought sarcastically. She continued to listen, this cats name was ravenpaw so she was right, he was an apprentice. She gazed at all the cats infront if her before answering his question. “My name is Creamcloud.’ she mewed. This cat seemed to be changing the subject, she let it slide. She didn’t care if an apprentice was scared or not, she just knew the apprentice couldn’t take her in a battle and that’s that.

// ChillCat

flat._.chair

August 19th, 2021, 06:02 PM

~Reedpaw~
The cream and brown brindled colored apprentice cast her gaze around the clearing, searching for a spot her and Bravepaw could take refuge. Honestly, Reedpaw silently wondered if she should’ve just stuck with her mentor rather than padding off to find Bravepaw. Taking a soft breath, she had finally found a relatively empty spot for the two.
Tapping Bravepaw on xer back with her tail, Reedpaw pointed towards the spot with a paw. Blinking towards xem, the little she seemed to be silently asking the question “what about over there?”.
distant cry in the woods

||BravePaw||

xe flicked xyr gaze back to the other apprentice, then to the place that reed paw decided on. “that’ll have to work.” padding to the small area, they gave a small glance at the entrance. “where’s thunder clan? all the other clans are here, the gathering should be starting by now.” sitting down and wrapping xyr tail around xyr paw, they flicked xyr gaze to the leaders. shadow clan arrived at last, many late cats arrived. and then thunder clan is gone

Earthworm

August 19th, 2021, 07:43 PM

BlueSea{!}WindClan

the warrior had been a bit later then the rest of the cats, his tail lashing as he arrived, walking quietly to spot, far away from the shadow clan warriors.

[B]{TinyFlame}{riverClan}

the tiny warrior raced in, almost hitting a wind clan cat. he perked his ears, looking for two warriors pacifically. noticing the Tall While Cats that sat side by side, Tiny Flame raced up to them. “hi Rabbit sprint! Hi BrightSky!” the younger warrior flicked his tail, pausing to speak again. “haven’t talked to you guys in awhile— even though we’re in the same clan i mean —how are you guys?” {Lxnx heart}

BrightSky

Brightsky turned to the smaller cat, smiling. “hello Tiny Flame! i’m good, how are you?” the young warrior glanced at their sibling, letting them continue the sentence.

RabbitSprint

the older warrior nodded in welcome, there [stub] tail flicked. “i’m good, just trying to ignore i have a cat following me everywhere.” they laughed quietly, nudging there sibling carefully. “it has been awhile, hasn’t it?”

MooingPanda

August 19th, 2021, 07:49 PM

Embershadow
Embershadow hurried to catch up with his Clanmates as they arrived at the Gathering. He had been eating late dinner when they left and he didn't feel like abandoning his meal. As he stepped across the stones, he noticed the absence of ThunderClan. Were they really not going to attend for the second moon in a row? Surely, they had to know the risk with that. Doing that was a disaster waiting to happen, with two unpredictable leaders now. As usual, he sat at the edge, far away from the main group of cats.

Frostpaw
Frostpaw smiled as he padded alongside his Clanmates. It was always a proud moment for him when ShadowClan showed up at the Gathering with this many cats. As soon as they were at the Seastones, he broke away, bounding across the ground toward the center of the mass, looking for someone to talk to.
(both open)

IcedTea

August 19th, 2021, 07:54 PM

BrightSky

Brightsky turned to the smaller cat, smiling. “hello Tiny Flame! i’m good, how are you?” the young warrior glanced at their sibling, letting them continue the sentence.

RabbitSprint

the older warrior nodded in welcome, there [stub] tail flicked. “i’m good, just trying to ignore i have a cat following me everywhere.” they laughed quietly, nudging there sibling carefully. “it has been awhile, hasn’t it?”

{TinyFlame}

he smiled, glancing at BrigtSky. “i’m quite good! thanks for asking.” changing his gaze to rabbit sprint, quietly laughing. “BrightSky is just a anxious cat, you can’t blame them. it’s nice to talk to you guys again”

Nixey

August 19th, 2021, 07:55 PM

Riverclan
~Reedpaw~
The apprentice shuffled on behind her friend. Plopping down beside xem, Reedpaw had cast a glance around with a shake of her head “I—I’m not sure, maybe they won’t be here? I heard from the older cats they weren’t here last time—“ cream colored ears lowered slightly. Why would Thunderclan miss two gatherings?
distant cry in the woods
~Dawnwhisper~
Dawnwhisper had watched as Shadowclan arrived, trying to pick their friend out of the crowd of cats. Letting out a soft sigh when they didn’t notice Wolfwhisper, Dawnwhisper shook their head softly before casting a gaze around. They hated being alone and right about now that’s how they felt.
However, they noticed a cat that was sitting off to the edge, away from the group of cats gathering. That would be easy enough for Dawnwhisper to deal with. Standing up, Dawnwhispers silver pelt with black etchings seemed to shimmer against the moonlight while they made their way to Embershadow, giving a wave of their tail “hello, do you mind if I sit with you?”.
MooingPanda
Shadowclan
~Sheepglow~
The white, thick curly furred molly been hiding in the shade for awhile now, peering softly down at the clearing. Had it not been for her scent she probably wouldn’t have been called a Shadowclan warrior, it was difficult for her to hide in the shadows, she was small and she wasn’t very strong. Plus she was separate from a lot of Shadowclan warriors and apprentices.
However, when a cat seemed to storm up beside her, the scent that hit her soft pink nose made her freeze. There was no mistaking it, that was definitely a Windclan cat. Taking in a soft breath, she turned her gaze onto the tom, white curls covering her eyes as she tilted her head and let out a soft “hello,” accompanied by waving her tail. Shyness seemed to come out in waves from her.
IcedTea

flat._.chair

August 19th, 2021, 08:18 PM

Nixey

||BravePaw||

BravePaw sighed. “we shouldn’t worry about other clans, sorry to bring it up-“ pausing to forget the conversation, bravepaw continued. “are you happy with your mentor?”

Nixey

August 19th, 2021, 08:26 PM

~Reedpaw~
The cat thought this question over, her blue-grey gaze taking the clearing, searching for Hawthornmist. Turning her attention back onto Bravepaw, a soft smile spread along her muzzle “I like him!” purring, she continued on ”I actually met him when I was still a kit,” after sneaking into the Warriors den. Maybe not her smartest move. Pausing, she tilted her head towards xem “and you?”.
distant cry in the woods

Pitou

August 19th, 2021, 09:06 PM

Beetlenose

August 19th, 2021, 09:21 PM

Featherflight wandered over, his long, feathery tail trailing behind him as he followed Twilightstar. It had been some time since he went to a Gathering: He didn't want to get caught up in all the tension, after all. But, he wanted to learn news himself than from others. So, Featherflight sat, his tail curled around his paws and waiting for anyone who seemed willing to talk.

(Open!)

-Shyfire-
ShyFire sat down, the journey it the gathering was always… hard. Sitting down she placed her paws and tail into a more comfortable position. She tilted her head to the cat next to her “hi, I’m ShyFire.” she started turning back to the front “Featherflight… right?”

Beetlenose

August 19th, 2021, 09:35 PM

Daisypaw sat down hostility burning in her eyes. She had chose a place near the front, a place where she was close to the leaders. She flicked her tail gently back and forth, prepared for anything. Even though it’s a full moon who knows what could happen.
(Open for interaction!)

Willie Warf

August 19th, 2021, 09:57 PM

"you think so hm?" She mews looking at him nodding. "no I'm not joking. Sometimes you have to retreat though. Really now?" she looked at him confused. She did not think so her right ear was bitten she had a hole in it
"Trust me, you look fierce! And maybe it is good to retreat, but I......I had the chance to defend riverclan but I didn't take it............. I sat around doing nothing while my clan fought a battle! And I've possibly interested rouges in our clan. I'm........I'm a traitor and your a hero! Gosh, I'm such a disappointment." Stonefoot bowed his head in shame as sobs raked his body as he remembered those, horrible, awful memories that plagued his dreams and reality.

starry

August 20th, 2021, 02:42 AM

WinterMara

August 20th, 2021, 07:04 AM

| Sandpaw, the Naïve Follower of Shadowclan |

' 'Whoops, guess I do have to learn those.' '

He laughed a bit, any serious thoughts in his mind vanished which, shouldn't surprising for the little 'lad' as Cliffcrash put it. He didn't know the scent of the fish but he'd learn eventually, like how he'd learn what, rabbits and squirrels actually smell like, especially that latter one.

' 'Oh yeah! I'm Sandpaw of Shadowclan, one of the newest apprentices! And, you're, who of Riverclan?' '

Couldn't hurt to learn names, right? Besides, he'd have to get to know everyone if he was going to be one of the best warriors in the clans, so good place to start, besides, maybe the other cats in his generation from other clans weren't so...rude, and very unapproachable.

Heh.

He had yet to talk to most of the apprentices in his own clan but, most seemed like how the kits were so, it was hard to approach them, which sucked cause, he wanted to know them. But that didn't matter, he'd eventually find a way to talk to them and, again, good to know cats from other clans.

| finnzel

Beetlenose

August 20th, 2021, 07:36 AM

So. This seemed to be a gathering, huh? Mistypaw's amber eyes scanned the seastones. Oh, she really wanted someone to talk to. This was so exciting, even though that was a feeling she didn't have too often. She looked around. Was Stormtalon here? She couldn't be sure, by how many cats there were. It was hard to even find one in particular. Giving up in her search for her mentor, Mistypaw skipped through the crowd, eyes landing on a ShadowClan apprentice who seemed to be alone. The RiverClan she-cat approached cautiously. Now what was she supposed to do? Say hello? And how was the ShadowClan apprentice going to react if she said that?

Seriously, Mistypaw, just do it. You aren't a coward, you are a RiverClan cat!, she told herself. Then, she gathered all her bravery, and took a deep breath. Mistypaw stepped in front of the apprentice, hopefully directing the apprentices attention towards herself. She didn't want to be ignored or anything. "Hello. I'm Mistypaw of RiverClan. How about you? You seem to have ShadowClan scent."

Beetlenose

Daisypaw, sideways glanced at the new cat, Mistypaw was it? “I’m Daisypaw, of ShadowClan.” she returned the greeting, inwardly she groaned, cats where so… nice. Her cream stripes almost seemed to glow in the full moons light. No, Daisypaw liked her more black pelt. Usually, cats where more wary when they approached her. Her dark black pelt and cream tabby stripes… her one green and brown eye and the other amber and blue… she was different.

starry

August 20th, 2021, 07:50 AM

Mistypaw nodded. She had a rather concerned look on her face. She didn't really believe in StarClan, so was the truce even true? It couldn't be, because fights had happened at gatherings before. The young RiverClan she-cat decided to be cautios while talking to Daisypaw. From what she had heard, something of hostility had grown between ShadowClan and her own clan the last gathering. Was it true? Mistypaw couldn't be sure, because rumors spread around camp so fastly, and not all of them were true. She wasn't sure how she was supposed to respond to Daisypaw. For a moment, her amber and copper eyes looked at the ShadowClan apprentices eyes. They were... beautiful, mixed of so many colours.

Forcing herself to look away from the wide variety of colours, Mistypaw's eyes landed on Daisypaw's cream stripes as she made up something to say. "Do... You like gatherings?," she asked akwardly. Ugh, this was so embarassing!

Beetlenose

~Mothman~

August 20th, 2021, 07:50 AM

Darkpaw

Darkpaw followed Flametail once again, still a little nervous from his last gathering. @Nixey (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=14359)

Ashnose

Ashnose made sure her apprentice was following her, staying far away from ShadowClan. She wondered if Twigpaw could sense how nervous she was. Somethings going to happen tonight. I can feel it.
FrostCat

flat._.chair

August 20th, 2021, 08:14 AM

Nixey

||BravePaw||

brave paw paused, thinking before talking. “i got kestrelstars old apprentice” bravepaw muttered. ”they’re going to show me a secret move kestrelstar showed them” xe whispered, still excited for xyr first training. “it’s nice that you know your mentor”

Singing Jay

August 20th, 2021, 08:49 AM

plum

August 20th, 2021, 10:15 AM

"Oh, WindClan, definitely," Eldershade replied, casually, as though her Clan hadn't been the one riling them up for the past several moons. She scratched behind her ear and grinned. "Although maybe ThunderClan, if they bother to show up. What have you been doing to them?"

"There's always so much drama, over the same thing, moon after moon," the she-cat gives a distasteful click of the tongue. At Eldershade's question though, Plumstorm hesitates. It would be better to continue this nonchalant, airy attitude.

She chuckles, shrugging. "We lend a paw a few times and they think we're there for them whenever, for whatever. Well, we just reminded them that our generosity was never free. We took a bit of their territory and gave 'em a stern reminder with our claws, rather than anything gentler with our words."

TheNyanCatMinecart

August 20th, 2021, 10:49 AM

~WOLFFANG ~

RiverClan scent rolled over him and his nose twitched. Honestly, fish smelled disgusting. It was hard to imagine them having to live like that. Swimming in water, getting their fur wet, always eating fish... the thought would've made him nearly gag. But now he couldn't. His mind was still dark with rage for what he had witnessed and his mind swirled with thoughts and worry about his mauled sister. Twilightstar seemed stressed enough, and even though Wolffang deeply respected her and thought that her guidance was helpful, she also wasn't perfect. She was too easily pushed around. So they needed a strong deputy who could help them.

He thought back to himself as a younger warrior. How arrogant and self-absorbed he'd been, dedicated to his Clan but also snarky and wanting to have some... what was it? Fun? That didn't seem right. His open scorn, how he either took things too seriously or not seriously at all. It was weird to think of his old self, but he couldn't stop himself. How would his old self have acted as deputy? But I had been my old self until Twilightstar made the announcement. If only things could go back to how they once were, where he could be true to himself and focus all his attention on hatred for ShadowClan.

But now he knew the weight of responsibility, what it was like to at least form some bonds with other cats, and he was still struggling with his own morals. But at this Gathering, with his enemies around him, this was no time to dwell on that. Wolffang shoved it all aside and instead focused on what was going on around him. RiverClan was here. Where was Splashleap? She wasn't too bad, he had to admit. It was hard for him to make friends in other Clans, but at least she showed some respect. And wasn't a complete featherbrain.

As if answering his unspoken question, he saw the brown-and-white she-cat approaching. She seemed to treat him with respect, and by the way she glanced at him, Wolffang had a feeling that he might at least look powerful, or intimidating, whatever to her. Splashleap was good at keeping a calm face. Wolffang used to flaunt his good looks, but he didn't as much. Instead, he was proud of them for making him look fierce and giving him an edge in battle. Unlike most WindClan cats, who were small and skinny, Wolffang was large and well-muscled. Sure, he was lean around the stomach, but otherwise he was broad and sturdy.

He dipped his head in return at the simple greeting. "Hello, Splashleap. The prey's running just fine." One large, notched ear twitched as he vaguely remembered that joke she had made in the past. "How are the fish in RiverClan?" Wolffang refrained from making some comments about how disgusting fish were and that RiverClan must be mad to actually swim to catch their prey. He still hated the thought of water closing over his head.

Suddenly, a foul smell encased him, even worse than the fish of RiverClan. Wolffang recognized it instantly, and despite the peace he knew must be kept at the Gathering, his thick gray fur began to bristle. ShadowClan. The five maimed bodies flashed in his mind and he knew that once again there would be tension and hostility, especially between him and Finchwhisker. ThunderClan was the last thing on his mind as he glared at Dawnstar, his tail-tip twitching furiously and a haze of vengeance in his mind.

I can't do anything now. Not at this Gathering. Even I know when to keep the peace, he thought. However, if Dawnstar tries to ward off any accusations... settle the other Clans... I'm not going to hesitate to step up and tell them exactly what she did. As much as Wolffang respected Twilightstar, she had a tendency to bend down at times to cats from other Clans and not fully take charge. At least, that's what it looked like to him.

But where was Finchwhisker? The brown-and-white tabby wasn't anywhere to be seen. A flash of hope rose within Wolffang. Was he dead? Had the patrol killed him? That would be lucky for him. He could only hope that Dawnstar wouldn't choose someone worse, although that was likely.

"Looks like Finchwhisker isn't here," he commented, his voice still lowered and underlaid with rage. "It'll just be us until ThunderClan comes. If they even have a deputy." They hadn't had one before, but surely they should now. It had been plenty of time.

gs29513

Toodle

August 20th, 2021, 11:03 AM

Elmshadow padded among his clanmates behind Dawnstar. He held his chin high, looking down at the Windclan and Riverclan cats spotted around the beach. They were mingled amongst one another, socializing. Filthy fish and bunnies, it only makes sense that they would fraternize. What sort of clan loyalty could they hold anyway toward their pathetic clans?

He looked to Dawnstar, sensing for any hints as to her desires for this gathering. He craved a war. Would she allow one to start tonight? If a filthy bunny made a wrong move he wouldn't hold back. He kept his eyes tracking from side to side, waiting for a cat to make a move.

Goldenstep padded through the crowds of cats. Her eyes fell on Elmshadow looking on edge. She picked up her pace and padded up beside him. She let her fur brush against his and nudged his cheek. "If something were to happen, you'd be the first to know," she purred. "Why don't you relax a bit?"

She found a spot among the Shadowclan cats and sat with Elmshadow, twisting her bushy tail around him and over his stubbed tail.

Silverfur & Co

August 20th, 2021, 02:16 PM

"Trust me, you look fierce! And maybe it is good to retreat, but I......I had the chance to defend riverclan but I didn't take it............. I sat around doing nothing while my clan fought a battle! And I've possibly interested rouges in our clan. I'm........I'm a traitor and your a hero! Gosh, I'm such a disappointment." Stonefoot bowed his head in shame as sobs raked his body as he remembered those, horrible, awful memories that plagued his dreams and reality.

Snowstripe mews "You did what you had to do Stonefoot." She mews looking at him and places her tail on his flank. "everything will be fine." "I promise your no traitor." She mews looking at him. She did not think less then anybody. She looked at him and mews "if anything that was me that was a traitor not you but your sweet and kind just the way you are." She kept her tail on his flank for the moment then moves it to the side a little

JackHunt_17

August 20th, 2021, 02:23 PM

Fiercefire padded up, a little late, to the gathering. He hoped no one had noticed. He had missed Dawnstars call and had tried to catch up with the group (open)

Wings

August 20th, 2021, 02:47 PM

Shadestorm followed after Dawnstar, his narrow eyes
glowing like icy blue crystals in the dim night, searching
for any Windclanners that would dare to-
Oh, don't be so dramatic
The voice mewed inside his mind, bugging him as usual.
Im not, I just don't trust them to keep the peace...
he responded, not out loud ofc, he wasn't about to revil his deepest
secret to anyone, especially someone mouse-brain from another clan.
[Open to anyone but her might be a little cold towards WC cats ^^]

-Creekdash - WC -

Creekdash was getting bored with this gathering, tensions were a bit high that was for sure with ShadowClan but he was bored. Sighing, he gazed around the grounds spotting another tom. He seemed older but whatever.
Padding over Creekdash was a clear WindClan cat. His sleek body was perfect for running the moors. He hadn't been paying much attention to scents, he had kept to himself the last few gathers so Creekdash was mostly thinking about what to say. "Hey there, I'm Creekdash, mind if I sit?" The tom's voice was welcoming at the moment but it might not be that way soon...

tomatosoup

August 20th, 2021, 03:35 PM

"There's always so much drama, over the same thing, moon after moon," the she-cat gives a distasteful click of the tongue. At Eldershade's question though, Plumstorm hesitates. It would be better to continue this nonchalant, airy attitude.

She chuckles, shrugging. "We lend a paw a few times and they think we're there for them whenever, for whatever. Well, we just reminded them that our generosity was never free. We took a bit of their territory and gave 'em a stern reminder with our claws, rather than anything gentler with our words."

Eldershade laughed low in her throat. "Stern reminder," she meowed, almost admiringly. "I'll be sure to remember the kind of treatment to expect if we end up in RiverClan's debt. Or you in ShadowClan's."

She stretched, flicking her stub of a tail. "Are you upset that we're falling into our Clan stereotypes?" she meowed, referring to Plumstorm's earlier comment. "It sounds like our Clans are more alike than different... although I'm a little surprised." She grinned, casually insulting. "I didn't think your leader had the guts for that."

Singing Jay

August 20th, 2021, 04:06 PM

WarriorzFan

August 20th, 2021, 04:26 PM

(OK maybe one rp because I already miss this place)

Elderflare wandered along with the rest of Windclan. He had no real reason to come to the gathering, but wanted to support his leader against Shadowclan. The recent reveal of the four dead left him slightly steamed that Shadowclan got off scot free, but what can you do when you are not built for that fighting. If Elder was rude, he would say it openly, but since he wasn't he kept it to himself that Windclan was almost too merciful. Shadowclan was unafraid of Consequences, mainly because they and all the rest knew, the only one that could give them their chops and listen to them would be Windclan, and Starclan knows, they are not strong enough to do so. He was lost in his own thought after a while.

(Open for a cat to break him out of his stupor!)

(YESS!! So much longer than usual!)

Beetlenose

August 20th, 2021, 04:41 PM

Nixey

August 20th, 2021, 08:07 PM

Riverclan
~Reedpaw~
A soft purr rumbled in her chest as she nodded at xem. However a bit of curiosity shimmered in her gaze as she leaned over ”really? You’ll have to show me at some point!” maybe xer mentor didn’t want xem doing that, but Reedpaw was definitely interested. “Yeah, it is nice, not many apprentices get that,” Hawthornmist had been quite nice to her when they first met.
distant cry in the woods
Shadowclan
~Flametail~
Snapping their gaze towards Darkpaw, a soft smile spread along their muzzle. He blinked his gaze around before motioning towards the apprentice to sit beside him.
Ashnose

flat._.chair

August 20th, 2021, 08:51 PM

Nixey

||BravePaw||

Bravepaw Nodded. “your my friend, let alone my only one- of course i’ll show you! but keep it top secret! i just need to learn it first-“ xe paused, almost laughing at xemself. “have you had any training yet? then gathering disrupted my first training- a warrior i knew gave me some more to do afterwards.” xe paused, figuring xe would be getting annoying by now.

Kunaisoul

August 20th, 2021, 09:29 PM

MooingPanda

August 20th, 2021, 10:41 PM

Embershadow
Embershadow glanced up slowly, meeting Dawnwhisper's eyes. Why were cats always wanting to sit by him? There was so much space around him for the cat to sit. He obviously didn't want to interact and they didn't even know each other. "I suppose, if there aren't any other places for you to sit," he grunted. There were plenty of other spots. Nixey

Nixey

August 20th, 2021, 10:59 PM

~Dawnwhisper~
A pair of grey-blue eyes peered back at Embershadow when he looked towards the silvery cat. Though Dawnwhisper had furrowed their brows at Embershadows words, Dawnwhisper merely slipped into the shadows while sitting a bit apart from the tom before plopping down on their haunches. Curling their fluffy tail around their paws, Dawnwhisper peered down towards the gathering, ears perked and listening.
They hadn’t sat down to defy Embershadow, Dawnwhisper merely wanted to get away from the crowd but didn’t want to be alone. They were a odd jumble, reserved around new days but not wanting to be left by any cat. When had they began to hate being off to themself? Peering ahead, Dawnwhisper seemed to have spaced out.
MooingPanda

Rani

August 20th, 2021, 11:40 PM

Softleaf blinks before taking it. It was beautiful. Surely he'd have to find a way to keep it to himself. Maybe he can give it to one of his kits once they're born.
"Thank you for this gift. WindClan may not have too many good news. We're preparing for battle against ShadowClan as we speak but I've some decent news."
Looking up from the shell, he smiles at his new friend.
"I'm to be expecting kits. It's bad timing, I understand and there are so many things that may go wrong... But I have faith in StarClan's ability to keep me safe. I hope once all is said and done, my kits will be born into a safer life."

At the news that Windclan too would face war for the first time with gathering Sunsetblooms radiant smile slipped into a solumn face of sympathy, of a cat who's clan had been beset too by their own foe and was forced to strike when they just wanted peace as she said a small prayer.
"May starclan and all that governs the world light your path and give your warriors strength as they give those you protect peace. Your clan is among the just and good and it shines from all your souls even if they are worn from tragedy and threat. I understand though, it can be hard to hold hope and stand tall with such weight if you wish or need to talk to someone who knows then I am here."

Reassurance done the large mollys muzzle twisted up in a soft smile at the reveal of some light in the darkness (though she was not surprised there was always light) which morphed into an ecstatic and excited grin at the news of kits. Sunsetbloom truly loved kits.

"OOOOOOOH!! Congratulations on your little blessings to come! Your kind nature and right soul show you will be an amazing father and Im sure your kits will love and reflect this as kits tend to! Little spots of life we are gifted with is truly something special and Im glad you will get to have that joy in your life!
Its true perhaps the time is hard for new sprouts to grow on the moor but with a parent like you that cares Im sure they will prosper. Your clan will no doubt help too, every good cat knows kits are a precious thing and the future of all. Besides if things get rough, and I will pray and know they wont both, Ive not known riverclan to turn down a queen or kits in need of help from any clan. Should you need my help in any way claw a mark in that tree overhanging the river on your side of our shared border and I will meet to help next sunset too. I do like to help those that need it in any way I can."

The molly hoped that reassured the soon to be parent, this time and gift should be joy filled and it was saddening to see it be full of stress instead.

starry

August 21st, 2021, 04:57 AM

Daisypaw shrugged, ”there okay… I guess I just don’t believe in truces.”
(Sorry for the short reply! I’m busy!)
(It's alright! :heartbounce: )
Mistypaw's eyes slightly widened. This cat... Daisypaw, seemed to have the same views as she did. "Y... You don't? I don't either. There have already been a lot of fights at gatherings, so it can't be true," she meowed quietly. She obvuously disn't want to be overheard in saying this. What if some cat would scold her? What if she had done something wrong by saying this? Mistypaw really hoped Daisypaw wouldn't tell this to anyone, either. This was her first gathering, and she didn't want it to be her last.

flat._.chair

August 21st, 2021, 08:24 AM

Nightleap walked up to her apprentice. "Who is this?" She asked, looking at bravepaw.
Nixey Nixey

||BravePaw||

bravePaw glanced up at the warrior, carefully dipping xyr head in welcome. “hello NightLeap! this is ReedPaw, one of the other new apprentices, we’ve been friends for a bit- we were just talking about our training and mentors actually-“

Beetlenose

August 21st, 2021, 09:29 AM

(It's alright! :heartbounce: )
Mistypaw's eyes slightly widened. This cat... Daisypaw, seemed to have the same views as she did. "Y... You don't? I don't either. There have already been a lot of fights at gatherings, so it can't be true," she meowed quietly. She obvuously disn't want to be overheard in saying this. What if some cat would scold her? What if she had done something wrong by saying this? Mistypaw really hoped Daisypaw wouldn't tell this to anyone, either. This was her first gathering, and she didn't want it to be her last.

“A truce could be broken at any moment. It’s to easily broken to rely on. But, if the leaders hold the truce.” she looked up at Dawnstar, her leader was powerful, which made the Clan powerful. “So will I.” she glanced at Mistypaw “why don’t you believe in a truce?”

starry

August 21st, 2021, 09:39 AM

“A truce could be broken at any moment. It’s to easily broken to rely on. But, if the leaders hold the truce.” she looked up at Dawnstar, her leader was powerful, which made the Clan powerful. “So will I.” she glanced at Mistypaw “why don’t you believe in a truce?”
Mistypaw sighed. That was hard to explain, and she wasn't going to give her secret away. It isn't a safe thing to rely on. There have been many fights, I've heard. Any cat could just start attacking another one, and then the truce would be broken. It was already broken many times, so I simply don't think it works, she explained. Hopefully that hadn't been too much information to give to Daisypaw. Maybe she was spreading some bad rumors about RiverClan; but Daisypaw said she didn't believe in the truce either, so this couldn't be too bad.

Egasl

August 21st, 2021, 11:58 AM

Riverclan
~Reedpaw~
Turning her attention onto Bravepaw, who was running up to her, a soft purr rumbled in her chest. Reedpaw met the cat halfway, mumbling softly to xem ”there’s so many cats here..” as she cast a glance around. Silently seeming to press into Bravepaws fur, feeling more comfortable with her friend.
distant cry in the woods
Shadowclan
~Splotchleaf~
The tom strolled in behind Dawnstar and the other Shadowclan cats, blue-grey and silver splotched pelt shimmering in the soft moonlight. Though he knew tensions were high between Shadowclan and Windclan, Splotchleaf didn’t seem to have a true care in the world on his mind.
Well, maybe expect for one.
Casting his glance around, he silently searched for one specific cat who was constantly on his mind lately. Hopefully, he’d have come to the gathering as well.
Egasl
(In case you want Clover & Splotch to interact :heartbounce:
If not, just ignore this message)
~Flametail~
The excitable tom bounced down the hill, gaze searching silently as he saw so many cats to make friends with. A purr, sounding a bit rough, rumbled in his throat before he forged onward behind Dawnstar. Excitement tingled in his pelt as his gaze searched for someone to speak with.
//open\\
~Sheepglow~
Stepping cautiously behind her leader and the rest of Shadowclan, Sheepglow had stuck relatively in the back of the crowd. The moonlight seemed to bounce off her white, curly fur as her blue gaze swept around her. There were a lot of cats around, causing Sheepglow to head for the sides and hide in the shade. It didn’t work too well for the molly due to her fur.
//open\\

==> Clovernose <==

Clovernose hurried after his leader. He hoped this gathering wasn’t terrible. He almost wish there was fighting at this point. Just something to make it a bit more interesting.

Clovernose hurried after Splotchleaf. He had recently admitted his feeling to the tom and was quite intent with either relationship. The blue-grey tom was just ahead of him. Splotchleaf had quite longer legs than Clovernose, so he was very quick. Clovernose really didn’t have a body type suited to fighting or hunting, but he still tried his best.

Clovernose finally caught up to Splotchleaf and flicked his tail in greeting.

// Sorry schools been crazy busy. Literally slept on the football field last night lol \\

North

August 21st, 2021, 12:35 PM

| jimothy |
[hi <3]
Mothflight purred softly at her invitation to sit, the large tom taking his place next to the much sleeker-furred molly. He gave a small chuckle at her question, his laugh, a deep rumble from within his chest, pale gaze lit up and clearly amused. "Well, a whole lot of miracles I'll tell you that," He joked, absentmindedly looking back at his pale fur - it was indeed pretty clean for a white pelt, "I must admit it's not my work that keeps it clean, I let a lot of the kits practice on my pelt so they can learn to stay clean - it's a win-win really, at least when the kit in question is any good!" He explained, another deep rumble of a laugh escaping him. He was certainly a big softie, and his soft spot for kits was certainly well-known in Windclan. "Say, how do you get your pelt so sleek? It almost looks shiny. Is it all that swimming you riverclanners do? Is there some big secret that water is actually good for the pelt that you guys aren't telling the rest of us?" He peered down at the she-cat next to him, pale features lit up by the moonlight and clearly full of amusement. He'd hardly even noticed the arrival of Shadowclan, and that was probably for the best - the loving cat he was, Mothflight had a certain detest for Dawnstar. She was evil. Starclan had cursed Shadowclan with a leader so cruel as she.

spade

August 21st, 2021, 02:32 PM

While waiting for a response from Twilightstar, the overwhelming stench of ShadowClan washed over him and Kestrelstar swung his head over to see Dawnstar. Managing to keep his fur flat and lip not curled back, the RiverClan leader watched her through slightly narrowed yellow eyes. While he still had the same small ounce of respect for the leader, what with how she managed to control her Clan so well, the leader now saw that it wasn't the way for RiverClan.

"Whatever is going on," Kestrelstar added in a low voice as he redirected his attention back to Twilightstar, "RiverClan is ready to assist with whatever you may need." i After all, WindClan we’re still allies in Kestrelstar’s mind, and whatever help he could offer he would.

Noticing that ThunderClan still hadn't arrived, the gray tabby gave a snort. "Another Gathering missed..." he mused, but didn't dwell on it any longer. "Well we don't have all night." With that, the RiverClan leader got to his paws and padded forward, letting out a call to garner the attention of the cats gathered below. "It appears that ThunderClan is not coming, and I don't want to freeze my tail off out here waiting for them."

Yellow gaze swept over the crowd. "RiverClan continues to thrive. We have a bundle of apprentices starting their training; Sunpaw, Milkpaw, Reedpaw, Bravepaw, Petuniapaw, Finpaw, and Featherpaw. Pass on your congratulations to them if you see them." He allowed a moment of praise to pass through the crowd, trying to spot if some of the apprentices had come tonight.

"Two apprentices have also proved themselves to be quality RiverClan warriors," Kestrelstar continued, the tip of his tail twitching as pride swelled within him. "Palehound and Brightdream have more than earned their place among RiverClan's warriors." He hoped that both of the warriors had made their way to the Gathering, though with how many cats mingled below the RiverClan leader couldn't quite tell.

Switching gears a bit, Kestrelstar cleared his throat again. "Tensions with ThunderClan spilled over, and we were no longer able to sit idly by while they attempted to destroy us," he started, struggling to keep the disdain out of his voice. Yes, the raid was wrong, but that didn't diminish the base hatred the RiverClan leader still felt towards them. "We secured Firefly Cove as repayment for everything ThunderClan has taken from us, and in retaliation I was attacked by a ThunderClan warrior. A battle... broke out, and we lost three loyal warriors in that fight. Olivenose, Shadowfire, and Ottersplash..." Briefly, the Clan leader hung his head in silence, grief overcoming his throat as he remembered the deceased.

”We never wanted a battle with ThunderClan, but after so many times of being ignored and disrespected, the attack on our Clan could not continue. They forced our paw on this issue, and a message had to be sent about those wishing to challenge RiverClan.” A beat passed as Kestrelstar let those words sink in, loud enough so everyone could hear them. ”With the cove, I believe ThunderClans debt is paid.”

ThunderClan was lucky they hadn't arrived. He may have ordered his Clan to back off, but Kestrelstar wasn't sure what he'd do if the squirrels showed face, despite his speech.

After a bit, the RiverClan leader lifted his head, shaking his fur out a bit. "I've also been getting increased reports of Twolegs near the borders. I'm unsure of their activity, but let this be a warning for all," he called, yellow gaze moving from the crowd to the leaders beside him. "They're getting bolder. Braver. Already they've taken at least three of my warriors. Make sure your cats keep an eye out." Glancing back out towards the crowd, Kestrelstar dipped his head. "That's all for RiverClan."

Stepping back, the gray tabby gave a nod of his head and took a seat to allow the next leader to step forward with their announcements.

// Moonraven Undertaker

Kunaisoul

August 21st, 2021, 08:01 PM

Nixey

||BravePaw||

bravePaw glanced up at the warrior, carefully dipping xyr head in welcome. “hello NightLeap! this is ReedPaw, one of the other new apprentices, we’ve been friends for a bit- we were just talking about our training and mentors actually-“
"That's nice." She smiled, looking at reedpaw.

(want to start a training session?))

flat._.chair

August 21st, 2021, 08:19 PM

"That's nice." She smiled, looking at reedpaw.

(want to start a training session?))

//alright, sounds good! tomorrow i’ll respond though-\\

Nixey

August 21st, 2021, 08:19 PM

Riverclan
~Reedpaw~
A soft frown appeared along her muzzle as she stared up towards Nightleap. She had no clue who this cat was, but they seemed nice enough, and if this was Bravepaws mentor..”hello,” her voice had just a bit of a squeak to it.
distant cry in the woods Kunaiskrill
Shadowclan
~Splotchleaf~
Seeing Clovernose, Splotchleaf had slowed down to allow the tom to get to his side. Once Clovernose was beside Splotchleaf, he had let out a soft purr in greeting as he nodded his head. Splotchleaf was quite content with the other tom in all honestly.
Stepping towards the crowd, Splotchleaf plopped down in the back. Casting a glance, her motioned for Clovernose to join him before he tilted his head “how’s everything going?” he mumbled.
Egasl

Kunaisoul

August 21st, 2021, 08:24 PM

//alright, sounds good! tomorrow i’ll respond though-\\
Alr))

~Mothman~

August 21st, 2021, 08:38 PM

Riverclan
~Reedpaw~
A soft purr rumbled in her chest as she nodded at xem. However a bit of curiosity shimmered in her gaze as she leaned over ”really? You’ll have to show me at some point!” maybe xer mentor didn’t want xem doing that, but Reedpaw was definitely interested. “Yeah, it is nice, not many apprentices get that,” Hawthornmist had been quite nice to her when they first met.
@distant cry in the woods (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=14200)
Shadowclan
~Flametail~
Snapping their gaze towards Darkpaw, a soft smile spread along their muzzle. He blinked his gaze around before motioning towards the apprentice to sit beside him.
@Ashnose (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=14218)
Darkpaw moved to sit by him, immediately comforted by his presence.

Nixey

August 21st, 2021, 08:55 PM

-->Petuniapaw

Petuniapaw was excited about her first gathering. She bounced after her clanmates to try and get there faster. Maybe she'd meet a cat from another clan. Now that would be fun. The new apprentice bounced up to the first cat she saw. "Hi my name's Petuniapaw! Do you mind if I sit by you. Thanks!", she meowed. Petuniapaw didn't wait for them to answer. Instead, she just plopped down.

// open to any clan, but River \\
~Swiftwind~
(Had a whole thing written and then realized they were already in a interaction, anyway!)
Swiftwind sat closer to the back, enjoying the moonlit sky as her brothers were soft and light. Everything felt so calming to her, even with the bustling sounds around and all that, the open space was very welcomed. Her brown and pale brown splotched pelt seemed to almost shine softly in the moonlight.
However, she was snapped back to reality when she heard a voice speaking with her. Opening her eyes, she blinked towards the apprentice. Honestly, Swiftwind probably looked like a apprentice herself, being only seven and something inches paired with her weight around eight pounds “you’re quite energetic,” she purred out in amusement, tail flicking softly. “What’s your name?” was what followed up Swiftwinds last words.

Beetlenose

August 21st, 2021, 09:05 PM

Mistypaw sighed. That was hard to explain, and she wasn't going to give her secret away. It isn't a safe thing to rely on. There have been many fights, I've heard. Any cat could just start attacking another one, and then the truce would be broken. It was already broken many times, so I simply don't think it works, she explained. Hopefully that hadn't been too much information to give to Daisypaw. Maybe she was spreading some bad rumors about RiverClan; but Daisypaw said she didn't believe in the truce either, so this couldn't be too bad.
Daisypaw nodded, swooping her tail over her paws. ”do you know any battle moves?”

~Sayonara~

August 21st, 2021, 09:07 PM

At the news that Windclan too would face war for the first time with gathering Sunsetblooms radiant smile slipped into a solumn face of sympathy, of a cat who's clan had been beset too by their own foe and was forced to strike when they just wanted peace as she said a small prayer.
"May starclan and all that governs the world light your path and give your warriors strength as they give those you protect peace. Your clan is among the just and good and it shines from all your souls even if they are worn from tragedy and threat. I understand though, it can be hard to hold hope and stand tall with such weight if you wish or need to talk to someone who knows then I am here."

Reassurance done the large mollys muzzle twisted up in a soft smile at the reveal of some light in the darkness (though she was not surprised there was always light) which morphed into an ecstatic and excited grin at the news of kits. Sunsetbloom truly loved kits.

"OOOOOOOH!! Congratulations on your little blessings to come! Your kind nature and right soul show you will be an amazing father and Im sure your kits will love and reflect this as kits tend to! Little spots of life we are gifted with is truly something special and Im glad you will get to have that joy in your life!
Its true perhaps the time is hard for new sprouts to grow on the moor but with a parent like you that cares Im sure they will prosper. Your clan will no doubt help too, every good cat knows kits are a precious thing and the future of all. Besides if things get rough, and I will pray and know they wont both, Ive not known riverclan to turn down a queen or kits in need of help from any clan. Should you need my help in any way claw a mark in that tree overhanging the river on your side of our shared border and I will meet to help next sunset too. I do like to help those that need it in any way I can."

The molly hoped that reassured the soon to be parent, this time and gift should be joy filled and it was saddening to see it be full of stress instead.

Softleaf smiles warmly and nods, feeling grateful for this she-cat.
"Thank you. I will take your advice and do so if I need to. I hope things turn out well."

Serenewings

August 22nd, 2021, 06:02 AM

Kestrelpaw of WindClan

Kestrelpaw entered the clearing with WindClan, looking nervous. This was her first gathering and she didn't know what to expect. She sat down by her clanmates and let out a puff of breath. Hopefully, she would be safe from anyone's aggression.

// [open for interaction!]

plum

August 22nd, 2021, 10:57 AM

Eldershade laughed low in her throat. "Stern reminder," she meowed, almost admiringly. "I'll be sure to remember the kind of treatment to expect if we end up in RiverClan's debt. Or you in ShadowClan's."

She stretched, flicking her stub of a tail. "Are you upset that we're falling into our Clan stereotypes?" she meowed, referring to Plumstorm's earlier comment. "It sounds like our Clans are more alike than different... although I'm a little surprised." She grinned, casually insulting. "I didn't think your leader had the guts for that."

"Upset? No," the she-cat meows with a light shake of the head. "However, it is... Maybe a little bit of a let down? Just means you always know what to expect, doesn't it." Plumstorm couldn't imagine a time where ShadowClan surprised them all by being good in a situation, or a time where suddenly, WindClan was wicked. Her attention swings from Eldershade to her Clan leader as he decides to speak.

And she cringes at his slight lie.

"Well, Kestrelstar sure is... Different, than Lionstorm. He's young, but young toms tend to get bull-headed about their feelings. What's a young, bull-headed leader going to do, with resources like a whole Clan of warriors, at his disposal, when someone treads on his tail?"

Willie Warf

August 22nd, 2021, 12:34 PM

Snowstripe mews "You did what you had to do Stonefoot." She mews looking at him and places her tail on his flank. "everything will be fine." "I promise your no traitor." She mews looking at him. She did not think less than anybody. She looked at him and mews "if anything that was me that was a traitor, not you but your sweet and kind just the way you are." She kept her tail on his flank for the moment then moves it to the side a little

"Are.......Are you sure? I'm, not a disappointment? cause I sure feel like one." Stonefoot said scooching closer to the warrior. She felt calming to him, like a mother.

Silverfur & Co

August 22nd, 2021, 12:39 PM

"Are.......Are you sure? I'm, not a disappointment? cause I sure feel like one." Stonefoot said scooching closer to the warrior. She felt calming to him, like a mother.

"Yes I am sure. Your not at all. You are a amazing warrior. There is no reason for u to feel that was." Snowstripe mews looking at h and felt him scooch closer to her. She was not sure how to feel about this as the only other cat that had been this close was ripplepaw when she was an apprentice but she was calm and settle and closed her eyes for a moment as they sat there waiting for the announcements and stuff.

Willie Warf

August 22nd, 2021, 12:49 PM

"Yes I am sure. Your not at all. You are a amazing warrior. There is no reason for u to feel that was." Snowstripe mews looking at h and felt him scooch closer to her. She was not sure how to feel about this as the only other cat that had been this close was ripplepaw when she was an apprentice but she was calm and settle and closed her eyes for a moment as they sat there waiting for the announcements and stuff.
(I think we can end it now, gonna have someone bully him)

Silverfur & Co

August 22nd, 2021, 01:04 PM

(I think we can end it now, gonna have someone bully him)

(K)

tomatosoup

August 22nd, 2021, 04:12 PM

"Upset? No," the she-cat meows with a light shake of the head. "However, it is... Maybe a little bit of a let down? Just means you always know what to expect, doesn't it." Plumstorm couldn't imagine a time where ShadowClan surprised them all by being good in a situation, or a time where suddenly, WindClan was wicked. Her attention swings from Eldershade to her Clan leader as he decides to speak.

And she cringes at his slight lie.

"Well, Kestrelstar sure is... Different, than Lionstorm. He's young, but young toms tend to get bull-headed about their feelings. What's a young, bull-headed leader going to do, with resources like a whole Clan of warriors, at his disposal, when someone treads on his tail?"

Eldershade flicked her stub of a tail, grinning. "Wouldn't know about that!" she joked, cheerfully morbid. She watched Kestrelstar, absorbing his appearance.

"You do seem to be doing well, if you can drive a Clan away for two whole Gatherings," she commented, almost teasing, like they were friends talking about playing pranks on a littermate, instead of warriors talking about driving out a whole group of cats. "Bold of your bullheaded leader. Maybe a young head is what you needed."

MooingPanda

August 22nd, 2021, 08:44 PM

Embershadow darted a gaze toward Dawnwhisper as they sat at down near him and waited for the beginning of an attempt at a friendly conversation. He was a bit confused when none came. Why were they sitting by him if they weren't going to engage in a conversation? For some reason, that made him even more annoyed and he flicked his ears, turning his gaze to listen as Kestrelstar began to speak. Apparently, they weren't going to wait around for ThunderClan to show up. Not that he really cared. Eveningstar was clearly feeling overwhelmed with his new title. Or something had happened to him, maybe in the raid Kestrelstar was talking about.

Wow. Things were worse between the two Clans then Embershadow had thought. He couldn't remember the last time ThunderClan had lost territory. Nixey

plum

August 23rd, 2021, 01:33 PM

Eldershade flicked her stub of a tail, grinning. "Wouldn't know about that!" she joked, cheerfully morbid. She watched Kestrelstar, absorbing his appearance.

"You do seem to be doing well, if you can drive a Clan away for two whole Gatherings," she commented, almost teasing, like they were friends talking about playing pranks on a littermate, instead of warriors talking about driving out a whole group of cats. "Bold of your bullheaded leader. Maybe a young head is what you needed."

Plumstorm smiles, but it is a tight-lipped, rather forced expression. Her mind was on Kestrelstar, and his gesture to Twilightstar. If there was to be trouble with ShadowClan, did her leader plan on pushing them to assist? The cat beside her now seemed to get on quite fine , but truth be told... The silver molly had a hunch that RiverClan shared more in common with ShadowClan, than their moorland neighbors. Regardless of their history of amicable relations between the two, if war was bound for ShadowClan and WindClan, Plumstorm wanted to stay out of it.

"It never takes much to startle one's prey in a hunt, does it," she muses, finally looking at Eldershade again. Comparing the forest-dwellers to mice and rabbits was cruel, but her respect was given to those who stood on their four legs and did something about being provoked. So, depending on Twilightstar's reaction to her leader, respect was likely going to be given by the she-cat rather sparingly. "Mice, rabbits," Plumstorm shrugs.

"They'll bolt at the earliest sign of a predator. But a young hunter might make a foolish mistake of his over-confidence. Mice still have teeth to bite, rabbits still have claws to scratch. They might not win, or hurt much, but those wounds can get infected. And infections, unlike mice and bunnies, do kill."

poppy

August 23rd, 2021, 01:37 PM

Her heart was hammering, throbbing painfully against her ribcage, as the Gathering place came into view. The scent of RiverClan wafted away from the clearing, tickling her nostrils and boiling her blood. The monsters. They had their chance to share their side, which no doubt failed to admit their part in this whole mess. What had ThunderClan done to them to deserve this? Nothing at all. If it weren’t for RiverClan, Aspenstar would be following Eveningstar to the Gathering. She would be able to talk with the other Clans, without the eyes of everyone on her. But now everything had changed. Everything.

Casting a relieved glance back at Dogbark, she felt a surge of relief that he was here. Of course, her deputy certainly wasn’t the sweetest or most pleasant cat to be around, but he got the job done and was respected within the Clan, as far as she could tell. He was a senior warrior, so he had the experience and skill that ThunderClan needed right now. Aspenstar couldn’t say the same for herself.

The honey-colored she-cat took a long, deep breath and then shouldered the branches of the bushes aside, entering the Clearing from the side. Pausing to take it in, her senses were flooded with the scents and sounds that never registered so aggressively in the past. But now, everything was so different… She was different. No longer a warrior of ThunderClan, now she was the leader, the caretaker…. The face of ThunderClan that represented the strength she knew her Clan had.

No pressure, though.

Stalking forward, her head and tail raised high by force, as though the weight of the world was on her, the ever looming threat that it could crush her, didn’t exist and wasn’t stressing her to the point of extremities. She studied the Seastones, noticing how the other leaders weren’t particularly thrilled with being so close to one another. Bunching her muscles, she leaped up onto the stone, landing stiffly, and sitting down uncomfortably next to Twilightstar and shooting Kestrelstar a cold glare.

This Gathering in particular would be quite interesting.

THUNDERCLAN HAS ARRIVED

WinterMara

August 23rd, 2021, 01:42 PM

| Blacksun of Thunderclan |

If she heard ANYONE complain that they were late, she wouldn't be happy, it was for a time of peace at this location, not bickering and squabbling! Actually, they'd probably leave just minutes after they arrived, so there was no point in talking to anyone.

[Closed!]

Nixey

August 23rd, 2021, 02:46 PM

~Shadowheart~
Following along behind the cats of Thunderclan, Shadowheart seemed to blend with the shadows. She was quite tired, having not slept much, but there was one cat on her mind.
Swiveling her head as she slipped away and towards the Riverclan cats, Shadowheart searched for the grey pelt. Raising her voice to a gentle mew as she pushed through “Streampelt..?” silently, she prayed he had come tonight.
~Fierceclaw~
~Dewsplash~
The cat made its way with its clan as it moved through the crowd. Dewsplash had been quiet most of the way there, something had driven it to come to the gathering. Sighing, Dewsplash decided to look for a cat to speak with.
//open\\

tomatosoup

August 23rd, 2021, 03:04 PM

implimm

--Eldershade-- (Shc)

Eldershade grinned like a jackal, her stub of a tail flicking. "Are you afraid of mice?" she meowed, teasingly, then her ears perked. "Well. Maybe you should be! Look who it is."

ThunderClan poured through the bushes, following a golden she-cat as she stalked up to the leader's position. Eldershade watched with interest.

----

Juniperclaw (ThC)

Juniperclaw leapt out of the bushes after his new leader, stalking across the ground. His ears flicked, and his nose filled with the rough smell of intermingling Clans; there were far more cats here than he'd ever seen in one place in his life; barring maybe the feral gangs that roamed Twoleg cities.

He knew very little of the relations of his new Clan with the others, besides what RiverClan had done to them. He inhaled, and yes, there were the fish-heavy smell of RiverClan that he had been shown at the border... and other smells too; the swampy, earthy smell like the cat who had clawed his shoulder open, and a lighter, grassier smell. ShadowClan and WindClan.

He sat on his haunches, spine straight, and watched his leader. He felt an alien flare of pride. He didn't know how she would handle all of these cats, but caught up in the adrenaline of his first Gathering, he felt ready to back her when things went bad.

((Open to any))

spade

August 23rd, 2021, 06:56 PM

Sneaking out of camp had been rather difficult. Despite herself being rather big, Marshkit was still young and didn't quite have the hang of walking or running very fast. But she definitely knew how to be quiet. Her pelt worked in her favor, being all back, and concealed her quite easily. And with the abundance of ThunderClan scent already in the air, hers mingled in with what she believed to be an undetected trace.

After all, this was the fabled Gathering Marshkit had heard stories of. And it wasn't just any Gathering, noooo. Her sister was leading ThunderClan to this one! So of course she had to see! Aspenstar hadn't found her yet to play their game of moss ball like she promised, so perhaps they could do so before or after!

Tiny paws hit the sand and Marshkit recoiled a bit at the sensation. Nose winkling in disgust as ears went back, the large kit shook her head. "I don't like this," she spat, shaking the paw that had the sand particles on it. But all the other cats had already made their way down and... she would get left behind the longer she stayed up here.

So with a deep breath, Marshkit started to run as quick as she could, eyes going wide at all the scents that hit her at once. They were mingled together too tightly to distinguish any of them, and for a moment she paused in the middle of the sandy clearing, sides heaving with each breath. There were so. Many. Cats. Too many, and despite her being rather large for a kit, Marshkit shrank back into the sand.

Where was Aspenstar??

Oh! Up there! She was up there on those rocks! Excitement filled her chest again as Marshkit dashed forward, weaving her way in and out of the cats that were between her and the large stones. Wow, they were really big up close. There were two other cats sitting at the base of the rocks, to which Marshkit dipped her head as she had seen her Clanmates do rather often. Then, tilting her head to see waaaaay up to where Aspenstar was, Marshkit puffed out her fur. "Aspenstar!" she whispered as loudly as she could, bouncing from paw to paw. To the cats seated around the rock, the large black kit beamed. "That's my sister up there!"

// poppy. Willowfern [for Dogbark when he comes] gs29513 TheNyanCatMinecart [Splashleap and Wolffang won't know shes a kit since she's pretty big for her age, but may assume she's an apprentice!]

Willowfern

August 23rd, 2021, 07:15 PM

The Deputy's paws tingled with apprehension as they neared the Seastones, this would certainly be an... interesting Gathering, not preferably how he wanted to show the other clans that he was Deputy now, but it would have to do.
He nodded at Aspenstar, shooting her a look reminding her to remain civil, but still prove that ThunderClan was still strong.
Dogbark took a deep breath, and stepped into the Gathering, the scents were full of tension, hackles pleaded to be raised, claws begged to be freed from their sheathes, to maim, to kill their enemies.
Right now I'd love to kill Kestrelstar, He thought, shooting a swift glare at the RiverClan fool, I'd also like to give Splashleap a few scars to remember, but alas, I am a code-follower, and I am a StarClan fearer, at least I'm no lawless rogue.
He didn't hesitate to take a seat next to the other Deputies, shooting a nod at Wolffang, and a stiff nod to Splashleap, he was the Deputy of ThunderClan, this was his right.
He settled into his new seat, pride surging through him, he was ready for any jeers sent his way, he was impenetrable!

"That's my sister up there!"

Surprise raced through the tom as he saw Marshkit, Aspenstar's own little sister, beaming up at him,
"What are you doing here?" He gaped, it was definitely not the time for a kit to wander into a Gathering, what with high tensions between ThunderClan and RiverClan- not to mention WindClan and ShadowClan!- she might end up caught in the middle of a tidal wave of hate and battle if someone said something disagreeable, truce or not, these cats were murderous when it came to defending their clan!
He let out a submissive sigh, not wanting to send her home, as she would have to have an escort, he drew her close to him with his scarred tail,
"Marshkit, you shouldn't be here... but I guess I can make allowances seeing as that's your sister up there... don't do this again," Ugh, he must be turning soft, "Stick with me, I don't want you running off and getting in trouble."

Panda1440

August 23rd, 2021, 07:18 PM

Seeing all the gathered cats as she padded into the sandy clearing, the she-cat was whimpering from paw to tail on the inside at least. +Kestrelstar might have already gone wi-..th RiverClan's announcement.. Like her previous worries,,, h- he already could have told them something.. . Would the tabby tom do that though? seemed like it, after the poison claws. he was wearing them too.. Pinewatch had come in with some of it down her thought, plus wounds. and she was one of the cats who had attacked him, who could have died.

It was by pure chance that Icicleripple knew of yarrow. if she hadn't.. so many more cats could have died. although the death berry juice did seem to have different affects with different cats. and.. . wait. glancing up at the molly on the top stones, a thought jolted through her head. Aspenstar,, had personally dealt with the poison as well,.. maybe. . I didn't get time to bring it up to her yet..b- but she would still know about the strange amount of pain from those wounds. maybe some stars could be connected tonight.

she would have to wait and see how her clan took this forward. Quickly hurring over to where the Medicine cats had gathering, body shaking again from worries. the young cat didn't say anything.
[ Fletcher Rani Rockfall]

jimothy

August 23rd, 2021, 09:16 PM

He was an absolute surprise. Perhaps a different cat would have eyed him carefully, to hear a stranger's purr so early in the night of this highly anticipated gathering, but Wavebreak's eyes shined at his peaceful disposition. The she-cat's ears swiveled flat in amusement as she shook her head at the Windclan cat. She didn't doubt that the kits were big fans of this tom. He's probably one of the fluffiest cats there.

——Is there some big secret that water is actually good for the pelt that you guys aren't telling the rest of us?

Wavebreak leisurely looks down at her silvery-blue coat, supposing the moonlight was doing most the work right now. "Oily fish skin probably has something to do with it."

The banter pauses with the arrival of Thunderclan's leader and their cats. It seemed both of their gazes were trained on the stone, observing through a shared lens of criticism at the questionable figures of their respective scrutiny. Wavebreak actually studied her own leader as carefully as she watched the new face. Was it for the better that they shared their announcements of growth before Thunderclan's arrival?

"Don't know if you've reset my standards of size, or if Thunderclan cats are getting smaller," she meows quietly to Mothflight.

__
North

Jade13

August 23rd, 2021, 09:27 PM

Foxpaw looked up waiting for the rest of the leaders to go. She wondered what twilightstar would say about the cats shadowclan had killed. She was still mad, shadowclan and killed her mentor her mother figure and she was still getting over the fact. Is any shadowclan tried to talk to her she would make sure they knew what she was thinking. If not now then later

( open )

BEAR.

August 23rd, 2021, 09:30 PM

In the growing crowd of ThunderClan was Sweetsong, tail lashing as he broke off from the Clan to head toward the front of the mass of gathered cats.

When Aspenstar got to the announcements, he wanted to be ready to ensure RiverClan's crimes were covered.

MooingPanda

August 23rd, 2021, 09:57 PM

Stormfang stalked into the clearing, near the front of the ThunderClan party. As they reached Seastones, he noted that the Gathering appeared to already be underway. Typical of the other Clans. He was willing to bet his breakfast for the next half-moon that the Clans would wait for ShadowClan to show up if they were late.

He turned his brown gaze toward where Kestrelstar was in the middle of a report and bared his teeth. No doubt gloating over his 'victory' at Firefly Cove. If he was leader, they would already have that back. He would have sent the RiverClan scum running for their lives. Of course, Aspenstar would be much more civil with the fat furry fish. The last thing all the StarClan-fearing cats would want to do is start a fight at a Gathering. Oh, no. That had to be one of the worst things you could do. On the other paw, Stormfang would love to start a scuffle tonight.

He snorted. It wasn't that he didn't think StarClan existed, he just didn't respect them. For as much as they were idolized, he hadn't seen any of them do any bit of good in any of the Clans. All they did was appear in dreams and make decisions that they thought living cats couldn't make. Dying didn't give you any powers, or make you smarter. Some cats needed to get their heads out of their asses.

Taking long strides across the clearing, Stormfang picked out a RiverClan cat, making a point to sit right beside them. "Enjoy the Cove while you can," he hissed, trying to pick a fight. It was time some cat made an example of what happened when you messed with ThunderClan.
(Open for a RC cat he can start a fight with)

Madelaine

August 24th, 2021, 12:51 AM

-->Petuniapaw

Petuniapaw got bored real easily and stood up. She moved over to a random Windclan tom. It looked like they were missing a leg. That was kind of weird. She had no clue cats could be missing legs. She padded closer to Beeblaze. "Hey what happened to your leg? Did you lose it or did always have it. My mama, Heronflight was born with a face deformity. Is it anything like that?", she meowed. She was a talker. Wait til she knew who this cat was.

(couldn't pass this up)

// finnzel; \\

furrensic

August 24th, 2021, 01:44 AM

WinterMara //

➸ cliffcrash 🌊

"sandpaw!" cliffcrash repeated, letting out a loud and rough laugh. "not an intimidatin' name for a shadowclanner, here i thought yer named would be somethin' like deathpaw." she commented, sending a glance to dawnstar and any other group of shadowclanners around. yeah, lots of 'em had some edgy sounding names in her opinion. those dumb names didn't intimidate her though.

she shook her head, quickly speaking up again. "names cliffcrash! got a sister 'round here named wavebreak..wherever she is." she said with a roll of her eyes. she wasn't sure if dawnwhisper had come or not, hadn't seen them, so she assumed they didn't come unless her eyes skipped over them.

now onto the interesting stuff. "now - tell me, sandpaw, any interestin' news for shadowclan?" she asked with a small tilt of her head.

--

Angelique //

➸ beeblaze

the more time that went past, the slower the minutes seem to get. beeblaze almost felt..nervous? he could feel it in the back of his throat and deep in his stomach - guess this is what he got for locking himself up in the warriors den. he almost didn't notice the small apprentice walking up to him, instinctively covering his missing leg with his front one at her rude question
"didnt your mother teach you any manners at all? don't ask people about that stuff!" he snapped, narrowing his eyes at the riverclanner. he knew he should've stayed at camp.

hearing heronflights name, he froze, then frowned in slight confusion. "heronflight?" and then - dear starclan, it hit him. heronflight had kits?? he wasn't even sure when, but she had kits and this nosey thing was one of them! damnit. that meant that he was..

"I'm your uncle..?" the tom blurted out with a small groan, frown deepening. he was sure she'd start asking questions or stuff, and he suddenly felt even more exhausted. "uh, whatever..your name is," he began, tone a little less sharp than before, but eyes still narrowed. "is your mom here?" he asked, glancing around.

Shade.

August 24th, 2021, 04:03 AM

Yarrowshade was slightly on edge this gathering. After the whole new leader thing, and the disaster with RiverClan before that, she felt rather insignificant, almost overshadowed by the events. She was supposed to be the biggest problem, not some blood feud from 3908987 moons ago. The pretty tabby narrowed her eyes as they darted among the cats. All the clans were present now. She didn't have any particularly strong feelings towards any of them, she didn't generalize cats based on their clan.
She settled down and looked around once more. Her eyes caught something...

Ziera (awkward eye contact?? entirely optional btw)

Abyssopelagic

August 24th, 2021, 04:20 AM

Coldamber pads in behind her Clan, and gazes around the Gathering place. It wasn't like anything she'd experienced from within the territory and yet.... it felt familiar, demote it being her first Gathering since her memory loss, having never made it to them in the past.
It made sense, if she used to be a Medicine Cat. The idea was becoming stranger to her with each day she lived as a warrior. Her, having ever been anything else was.... an odd thought, especially given how marred her body was, but no one else beside herself and a small select other seemed to even remember who she ever was. She wasn't sure whether she should find comfort in being forgotten so quickly, that not everyone was reminding her of her past or if she should be unsettled that no one seemed to care, how easily they had moved on.
She trotted to whichever spot was empty, eyes casting around herself and caught sight of an apprentice. To be polite, she waved her half tail in greeting to her.

Zesty Mango
(So Web and Cold can finally meet <3)

Courage

August 24th, 2021, 06:08 AM

~Lightheart~
Lightheart sat down and glanced up at the sky, there wasno clounds it was going to be a great gathering.
~Frostpaw~
Frostpaw lookedaround. It was so huge! it was her first time here so she needed to explore as much of it as she could before the gathering started!

~Ravenheart~
Ravenheart sat down and looked around Thundercln was there this time she wondered what theier leader would say tonight.

JackHunt_17

August 24th, 2021, 07:12 AM

Hawkice padded in calmly after his leader. Unlike the majority of the clan, whom was tense and glaring at Riverclan, he just looked up at the Seastones waiting for Aspenstar to speak

iliri

August 24th, 2021, 07:33 AM

{Tawnypaw}

Her fur bristled beneath her pelt. She could easily smell the fishy smell of RiverClan. They killed their old leader and it made her extremely mad beneath her pelt. The molly's whiskers twitched as she sat down, her eyes turned to sinister slits as she made eye contact with one RiverClan apprentice. "We will get Firefly Cove back.." She growled, the back of her neck bristling as her blue-gray gaze looked up and watched as the leaders, deputies, and medicine cats made their way onto the ledge.

(OPEN TO ANY RIVERCLAN, WINDCLAN, AND SHADOWCLAN CAT)

Mango

August 24th, 2021, 11:48 AM

Singing Jay

August 24th, 2021, 11:59 AM

Poprock

August 24th, 2021, 01:53 PM

Fletcher Rani Panda1440

Peachfrost slunk up to the sea stones, her green eyes quickly scanning the crowd before meeting the other medicine cats. It seemed she was the last to arrive... again. With nothing more than a twitch of her fluffy tail she leapt up onto the cool stone, taking her usual spot next to Snakeheart.

"Did I miss anything good?" She whispered.

Kunaisoul

August 24th, 2021, 01:57 PM

sleepy

August 24th, 2021, 02:31 PM

MIDNIGHTLEAF

Midnightleaf strode into the gathering with a skip in her step and a small grin on her thin face. She knew it was gonna be a mess and she was eager to watch. There was no way she would cause anything but watching a little chaos was right up her alley. She eyed everyone around her and immediately could feel the overwhelming tension in the air. Perfect, she thought, it’s gonna be a fun night.

[ open to anyone ]

iliri

August 24th, 2021, 02:38 PM

Berd

Goldenpaw had early on dissuaded not to speak
with those squirrels but the apprentice, Thunderclan not
doubt judging by the stench, had pissed her of by her
comment that she had been close enough to hear.
"Unless you've somehow manged to double your clan-size
in the last moon, I highly doubt that'll be happening..."
She mewed in a calm but cold voice. She was usually above
sarcastic comments but not one insulted her or her clan like that!

{Tawnypaw}

The eight moons old molly hopped a little from the sudden sour complement. She looked over. Recognizing the scent as RiverClan, the molly immediately gave a sour look with her pale blue-gray eyes. "That might be what you think fishbreath. But it will happen, especially with a new leader and deputy who will BOTH lead us to a better future." She felt oddly pleased. But it was honestly kind of horrible for both of the clans to be..fighting like this. She oddly didn't feel like it was right. But she kept herself quiet, keeping herself tall(even though she was short).

Singing Jay

August 24th, 2021, 02:57 PM

iliri

August 24th, 2021, 06:17 PM

Berd

Goldenpaw snorted and gave her tail tip a twitch. Did
this cat really think Thunderclan, even with their new leader
and deputy had anything on Riverclan and especially Kestrelstar.
Well if she did she was just a dump as the rest of her clan with
squirreled-brained idiots. "Listen, Squirrel" She almost
hissed, saying the last word as if it was the Tunderclan-cats name
but also dragging out like an insult. "If you think any of you
can even have a chance at Riverclan, you better think again.
And Firefly cove is securely in our possession, so no need to worry
about that!" she mewed with a hard sapping tone in her voice.

{Tawnypaw}

The molly's lips curled into a snarl. Was this young apprentice seriously going to try to weigh her down? Not likely. "We will get it back. Just you wait..whoever you are." She didn't really care whom this apprentice was. Heck, she didn't even care about the rude remark she replied to her with! Her eyes remaining slits, she felt her tail lash slightly.(sorry its so short-)

vcrdant

August 24th, 2021, 08:35 PM

(( open to anyone from any clan!! <3 ))

Snakewhisker followed behind the rest of his clan, keeping his head held low and glancing uneasily at the other cats. As the ThunderClan tom padded into the clearing, he caught himself staring at the crowd of RiverClan cats as he quickly looked away. Inhaling a deep breath, he sat at an empty spot nearby as his gaze scanned the cats surrounding him. They all must think so badly of us, he thought, for being so late and for causing trouble. He attempted to push the thought out of his mind and instead turned his attention to the cats on the ledge.

Fletcher

August 24th, 2021, 09:46 PM

Panda1440 Rani Rockfall

It had been a long, drawn out moon. Bouncepaw was growing more despondent and disillusioned with his clanmates, and was barely hiding his distaste for Dawnstar. He found himself up with the other medicine cats, pawing at the rocks, cocking his head to the side. He scoffed, sneered, and rolled his eyes.

Y-you've missed nothing important." he chattered to Peachfrost, snidely. His long, whiplike tail lashed from side to side, "Thunderclan seems to be in pieces. Again. Dawnstar is pissy. Twilightstar exists. N-nothing new."

The young tom arched his back as he stretched, seeming pretty fiery. Though his stutter was still prominent, his tone was clearly not showing anxiety of any sort, A-at this point a war is going to go down. Nobody has pres-preservation in their minds, it-it's all a conglomeration of every leader being so s-stuck in their own head that they're refusing to work together. H-hopefully this new face will...change this." he ended the last sentence with a soft glance to Icicleripple.

His words were harsh, but not by choice- his clan had been failing him, his clan had been failing everyone.

jimothy

August 24th, 2021, 09:57 PM

Aspenstar.

He mulled over the name as he moved quietly with his clan - a fiery Thunderclan led by his daughter. It was a momentous turn of events: the premature death of young Eveningstar inflaming their community with resentment. Losing warriors, losing territory. Aspenstrike rising to the mantel, thereafter named Aspenstar. The pressure was unimaginable; the senior warrior was stormed with swelling pride and heavy, heavy anticipation. Grousewing would never admit that he sometimes averted his gaze from her, fearful of what worried expression would betray his nerves. However tonight he wouldn't waver, for this Gathering was a critical prelude for the next generation of Thunderclan.

The presence of the other clans hit them like a wave. Resolution pulsing through him, the large tom headed for the base of the rock without any other agenda. Grousewing was keen on properly witnessing their new leader's and deputy's first gathering as commanding bodies.

The last thing he expected to see was Dogbark hushing his kit.

"Stars..." The senior warrior growls in exasperation.

"Dogbark, please excuse her." Maintaining calm proved to be a mighty challenge when he couldn't ignore the faint scent of the queens. Marshkit was lucky to smell dominantly of the sea, as sandy as her dark pelt was. "Marshkit, there is a very fine line between bravery and insensibility."

"You will not speak above a whisper, and you will not leave my side." Merciful really, given the high-strung environment. Grousewing's tail swishes in disapproval, and his gaze is sharp with expectation ( of more foolishness or of respect? ). If Marshkit wants the best for her sister, the child will have to show maturity this minute in the light of Aspenstar's crucial debut.

__
spade
Willowfern
kids, amirite

spade

August 25th, 2021, 02:49 AM

This was so exciting! Her sister was actually really leading ThunderClan! She would certainly show those fish-breaths not to mess with them anymore! "Aspenstar!" Marshkit called again - it was imperative that she keep going, "Make sure fishy furs know not to -"

At least, it was until a familiar snapping voice cut her off. Swinging her head over, amber eyes landed on Dogbark, her sister's deputy. And... uh oh. He looked upset. Ears pressed back against her head as she was drawn in closer, her body quivering a bit. "I only wanted to see Aspenstar!" she wailed, not quite understanding why she couldn't be here. There were so many other ThunderClan cats here! Why was she different??

Oh rats! Another familiar voice lifted into the air, and this time Marshkit shrank back a bit. She already knew who it was without having seen them. "That's not fair," she shot back, anger now clouding her amber eyes. "Why does every other ThunderClan cat get to be here but I get in trouble?" None of it was fair! And what of the "bravery and insensibility"? She didn't know whatever the second one meant, but she was brave! She had followed every cat out of camp easily enough.

Now with a sulky expression, Marshkit got up and stalked over to sit by her father, grumbling along the way. "I just wanted to see Aspenstar at her first Gathering as our leader," she muttered, slamming her rump down with a thud and slouching.

What a misadventure this had turned out to be.

// Willowfern jimothy [hehehe she's just a big ol' bundle of fun! XD]

Madelaine

August 25th, 2021, 04:13 AM

-->Petuniapaw

Whoops! She knew she should never have said that. It did sound rude. That was her fault. If Heronflight hadn't gone insane she would have popped her on the head for being disrespectful. Petuniapaw's eats flattened. "Sorry I didn't mean to sound rude. My mama has taught me better than that.", she meowed. Hopefully her mother wouldn't find out. Luckily she wasn't here or she'd really be in trouble.

Uncle? She had no uncle. Just an aunt she was named after who died. Plus he was from another clan. Her mother had been a rogue hadn't she? At least that's what she was told. "My names Petuniapaw in honor of my dads sister.", Petuniapaw responded, sounding more polite than the first time. Inside she thought there were bees in this cats head.

"She kind of went insane after getting a concussion. She decided to stay behind. She's not sane enough to leave to come here yet. Now the real question is why did you say you were my uncle? Your from another clan aren't you and Heronflight was a rogue before she joined Riverclan.", she added. She didn't know anything about her mothers past. It was a secret shared by no one.

// finnzel; \\

Rani

August 25th, 2021, 05:21 AM

The others gathered eventually a tad late and for the most part Snakeheart did not care. His focus was deadlocked on the seastones and information that came off of it and the snippets of tone and conversation that came from the cats around him. Tensions were high war was about badadadadada same old at this point. The news about the freshly reigniting conflicts between windclan and shadowclan (apparently) was worrying but by now..... Snakeheart found it hard to get too involved. The fighting had seemed to have been going on since before he was born and while he was concerned about those he liked within the clan and was probably going to push for something to be done to help on his part it just felt normal. It felt like this occurred every time, Dawnstar had done something and windclan was rightfully mad a fight was going to occur with shadowclan having no morals and windclan would be mad again. The medicine cat even slightly wondered if Dawnstar would ever get bored of the same old tormenting of the same old cats over and over again with no change. Windclan was certainly done with it but that was their full right, that shadowclan hadnt just showed how.... Culty and single faceted the clan tended to be. Shadowclan was evil and despite Snakehearts knowledge that cats were always nuanced beings it was hard to find exceptions bar Bouncepaw.

Speaking of Bouncepaw when Icicleripple showed up she got a glance and Peachfrost a nod the other tom of the group actually got an involuntary bark of laughter at the snark and actually attention from the otherwise distracted Snakeheart. "You're right about that for sure but when have the clans ever been any different. Peace times and neutrality is rare and alliances that last longer then a single battle even more so, the only chance there is of two clans working together at this point is if Dawnstar drives riverclan to another battle and both us and windclan decide to take advantage of our shared general respect. I suppose that would be a worst case scenario for you though not a good one. I feel the same about the new thunderclan leader though I really hope whoever was chosen has the sense to realize continuing and prolonging any conflict or animosity is good for neither clans and that peace is a rare and fragile gift in general." This was said looking dead at Icicleripple with a slightly cocked head and narrowed eyes but it didnt hold the air of malice this expression contained in the past. This was a reminder and also a taste, be sensible and we can have a working relationship thunder-mouse, stars knows you could defiantly use that. And stars knows without your life could get very difficult.

His tone shifted back to harsh amusement he didnt normally show in the slightest but had affected his words here enough to be noticeable.
"However that'd require the leaders or anyone to have brains and from my knowledge the only cat I know up there that has any is Splashleap. Ive had both Birdbrain and Twilightstar refuse to rest after injury when they very much needed it, Ive seen Wolffang get into fights before and Dawnstar? She's Dawnstar. Enough said."
His piece said Snakeheart forcibly shifted his focus back to listening close and keeping a keen ear out for the new thunderclan leaders announcements. If Icicleripple hadnt understood his warning at the starcave or hadnt passed it on he'd need to implement plans fast and had no doubt it'd send the gathering into proper chaos. It would protect riverclan from any accusations of 'alleged' poisoning and cast even more of a negative light on thunderclan though. While he didnt wish to use it as weakening the clans position even more as this probably would could only spark another round of conflict anything for riverclan. Anything. Let thunderclan rave about the raid and stolen territory and their insisted false innocence but let the poison die from memory. Let the clans move on so he wouldnt have to bury any more dead.

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Silverfur & Co

August 25th, 2021, 09:00 AM

Silverdust looked and saw Snowstripe she hated that Molly for even leaping at her in the first place she was not going to let riverclan ruin her gathering.

Snowstripe however smelled silverdust and hissed softly to herself and then looked around tension between them all was high it was not good.

Featherpaw noted how all the tension felt and she did not like it one bit. It totally bothered her. She did not want any fighting to happen at all

Leopardfire saw shadowclan and thunder clan as well as riverclan she had been chatting with all tensions where high which was not good

North

August 25th, 2021, 01:18 PM

| jimothy |
Mothflight appreciated their banter, chuckling lightly at her response (probably to avoid gagging slightly). He hated fish, and not just because he couldn't swim and therefore could not catch it - but because of its texture. Slimy, wet, and it tasted so different to anything else he'd ever eaten, and the scales? He felt a shiver run up his spine at the mere thought. He could appreciate that hungry cats shouldn't be picky, but he could be starving and he wouldn't even think of resorting to fish. At Aspenstar's arrival, the tom's pale gaze watched expectantly. It wasn't surprising that Thunderclan had appointed a new leader, Starclan knew they'd been needing one for quite some time now, but still, Mothflight found himself intrigued. He had no qualms with Thunderclan; they could be arrogant sometimes, but he supposed some cats of all clans were. After Riverclan's announcement of their conflict, the large tom couldn't help but stare at the other clan's leader in the hopes of seeing through to his thoughts. He could not, and from where they were sat he couldn't see the looks exchanged by the two leaders.
Wavebreak's comment jostled him from his thoughts, and he had to stifle his chuckle in an attempt not to be heard - he would hate to think of embarrassing Windclan with his lack of good manners. "You know, I was just thinking about that," He whispered back, eyeing up the new thunderclan leader with amusement, "maybe they've gone for brains instead of brawn this time round?" His comment was by no means an insult, but more a comical suggestion. In fact, Mothflight had always valued intelligence over strength. "So you guys dislike Thunderclan, we dislike Shadowclan, do you think we'll ever just have peace and love," His tone was still playful, attempting to make light of a potentially explosive situation. There would be war, and Mothflight feared the consequences of such. But Dawnstar had ruined too much of Windclanners' lives, and something had to be done. Still, he wasn't entirely happy it had come to it.

furrensic

August 25th, 2021, 06:10 PM

Angelique //

➸ beeblaze

he stared down at petuniapaw, nose scrunching up slightly "that's what i thought." he grunted, not making it clear whether he forgave her or not. that was to be undecided. hearing her tone become much more polite after his remark, his expression stayed the same, brows furrowed and a frown on his maw. though, it did change when he'd heard why heronflight wasn't here - she went insane? from a concussion? how hard had she hit her head?

"how'd she get a concussion, do you know?" beeblaze asked, worry being thrown into the anxious pit inside of him. wow, such a great mix, huh. (he didn't recall kestrelstars announcement about the battle - spaced out during that.) maybe he'd just have to stomp on over to riverclans camp to see her.

and, he felt just ever so slightly offended. "well clearly, you don't know your mother!" he scoffed. (oh yes, his sister had a backstory, didnt she? how could he forget?) "if you knew anything about her, you'd know she also had a brother - me." he said.

carmen

August 25th, 2021, 06:25 PM

WinterMara

Such cheek. Her eyes narrowed at Whitepaws next words, but she didn't speak. It wasn't that the apprentice was wrong, but the way she phrased it was just so... aggravating. But Whitepaw hadn't done anything wrong yet, so she couldn't get mad. Bristletail looked around with her eyes narrowed. "Well, I suppose we could talk to another apprentice." She awnted to add anyone but Thunderclan, but that would probably make Whitepaw seek them out. When she was an apprentice, warriors didn't have to worry over her daily. Kits these days.

WinterMara

August 25th, 2021, 06:33 PM

| Whitepaw, The Ambitious Actress In Training of Riverclan |

' 'Alright, I don't need a kitsitter but, it'll do, let me guess, Thunderclan banned? Alright, I can work with Shadowclan or the, skinny fellows.' '

Did we expect anything else out of her? This is Whitepaw, the disrespectful apprentice, fun.

| Pheasantflight

| Sandpaw, the Naïve Follower of Shadowclan |

' 'Hey, my name can be intimidating, think of it as like, a storm of sand, scary!' '

Deathpaw? Pfft, he wished, Dawnstar would have to view him as what he wanted to be to get that name, but alas, he was just a newbie apprentice, starting off on a bit of a rough note, to be fair, who didn't.

' ' Oh, I'm not sure if I should say, Dawnstar's probably got it covered and I've, been pre-occupied with training instead of clan matters.' '

Yeah that one was an oopsie on his end, he should pay more attention. As for the sister comment, he wasn't sure how to react, he had a sibling but, never saw really saw them. Cliffcrash was a cool name though!

| finnzel

Abyssopelagic

August 26th, 2021, 11:24 AM

Webpaw was a warrior that she felt she recognized for some reason. So she padded over to the Windclanner,” Do I know you?” she asked unsure why she felt she knew some random Windclanner,” I’m Webpaw, from Riverclan.” she meowed unsure if that would be helpful in some way.
Coldamber hadn't expected the apprentice to come of to her and even less did she expect the apprentice to? Recognize her?
She took a moment to get a better look at her, rolling her name around in her brain.
Webpaw.... Webpaw....
It wouldn't be a stretch to imagine she might have known a few RiverClanners, given she'd seemi gly been close to their Medicine Cat Snakeheart, but nothing about the cat in front of her really called to her the way the presence of the others cats in her life had. Then again, those had been a presence undeniable and strong in her life. She didn't feel this for every one of her clanmates (she hadn't felt it for Shockholly, who had momentarily taken her place while she'd been away, so it wasn't something she felt about every cat she happened to pass by).
She ducks her head as a sort of shrug.
"I am Coldamber; I used to be WindClan's Medicine Cat, no doubt you once heard of me in passing."

Wings

August 26th, 2021, 11:31 AM

Wings
Yes, I do! I very mush mind it! Shadestorm grunted,
it was neither a welcome nor a denial. He didn't like the
idea the Windclanner sitting beside him but it was a gathering
and he wasn't gonna give Dawnstar any change to punish him,
every thing he did mattered.
"How are things in Windclan?" he mewed. He didn't
give two mouse-tails about how the cat was but he was trying
to be at least some what polite.

-Creekdash-

Creekdash began to realize that Shadestorm was a ShadowClan cat. Why in StarClan did he try and be social for once. "Not great as you know." The tom was skinny, he hadn't been eating much once he noticed prey getting harder to find and with leaf-fall on the way too he wanted the clan to be 'strong.' "How are things in ShadowClan?" There was a hint of bitterness but the thought crossed his mind he might find out what they did to his clanmates.

Singing Jay

August 26th, 2021, 11:43 AM

Wings

Shadestorm looked at the Windclan bunny from the
corner of his eyes as they narrowed. Who ever it was
they seemed rather... well, like skin and bones. Usually
Shadestorm wouldn't have cared about how prey was
running in another clan but it did bring a little small smile
to his other wise grim face but he tried to lay it of as if he
was simply pleased with his clan, which wasn't competently
false. "It's fine" he mewed with a casual tone and
looked calmly towards where the leader were gathering.
"Some new kits, some new apprentices, one for my self
actually"

Wings

August 26th, 2021, 11:56 AM

[ Singing Jay ]
-Creekdash-

"Might I ask what their name is. Getting an apprentice is always fun." He was curious but partly also wanting to know incase of a fight he could deal ShadowClan a small blow.

carmen

August 26th, 2021, 12:16 PM

Kunaisoul

August 26th, 2021, 12:28 PM

WinterMara
(Open for others to join)

Bristletail bristled with annoyance. If Whitepaw was trying to annoy her, she certainly was succeeding. "Well, you could talk to Thunderclan if you wanted, I guess. But I'll stay with you in that case." She'd stay with the apprentice no matter what, but that didn't really matter. It would hopefully deter the actress from causing more trouble, though that was unlikely. "Do you, uh, have any friends in other clans?" Preferably Windclan or Shadowclan, but she wouldn't say that outloud.
Swiftpounce -->

He walked over to bristletail. "Hello, fishy." He scoffed. "Talking to your apprentice i see?" He smiled. "Want to teach him how to chase fishes?" He teased. "I bet you're soo great at it!" He said sarcastically.

Singing Jay

August 26th, 2021, 12:45 PM

Wings

Shadestorm muttered something under is breath before
properly responding. "Meadowpaw" he grunted,
he wasn't particularly happy with his soft apprentice and
would have preferred braver, more strong cat as his apprentice
rather then what he got but in that matter he didn't have mush of
a choice. "A bit too soft... but that can change..." he mewed,
as mush to him self as to the one he was stuck taking with.

Wings

August 26th, 2021, 04:25 PM

[ Singing Jay ]
-Creekdash-

"Soft isn't all bad, it means she has a heart, and will grow up to be a honorable warrior. I'm sure of it. Besides, she sounds like a sweet cat with a lot of potential."

Ziera

August 26th, 2021, 05:07 PM

// Shade.

So they would not miss two gatherings in a row. ThunderClan arrived. Stormtalon watched them approach with an expression of veiled interest, green gaze bouncing between their different faces and stowing each one into his memory. Aside from who must be their new leader and deputy--cats Storm didn't recognize--he caught sight of two particular felines. Sweetsong and Yarrowshade.

Sweet lumbered to the front of the gathered cats. Watching him move sent phantom shivers down Storm's scarred shoulders - an odd sensation. Huh. Stormtalon turned away when disinterest set in, focused instead on... was she looking at him? Yes, she was. Irrefutable when the green of Yarrow's eyes linked with Storm's.

She fought well in the raid -- distracted Storm enough for Sweetsong to capitalize on his hesitation, at least. Stormtalon thought he had her figured out judging by the abundance of murder lust (and company of Sweetsong), but then something happened. Whitewolf died. An elderly warrior he met at the border with Junipersong, the one who emanated melancholy plucked from her personal experiences (of which there were many), who wandered all the way to Smallpines so she could memorize the scent of RiverClan. Her enemy.

Yarrowshade tore away from Storm for her. It was an image the charcoal tom kept tucked away in his mind along with all his other faint curiosities; perhaps something to use if the opportunity presented itself. Stormtalon doubted they'd seen the last of the ThunderClan feud, no matter what Kestrel claimed.

But - back to Yarrow. Storm dipped his head in a simple nod. It wasn't intended as some 'respectful greeting' among different clan cats under a full moon truce, but it was an acknowledgement. To him she was no longer a blank face in a crowd. This familiarity might not be the most positive thing for Yarrow's health in the future should their claws clash again.

Undertaker

August 26th, 2021, 05:33 PM

Moonraven
Dawnstar yawned, ears twitching with little interest in the guppy's announcement. His pitiful attempt to reassure WindClan that the fish had their back was incredibly funny and very sad. Outside of the golden guppy that used to lead, RiverClan's done very little to deter her and ShadowClan from shredding the bunnies. Honestly, she was surprised that they'd been keeping their noses out of it for this long. Not that it would matter, it's not like she'd stop, if anything it'd just make things more entertaining for her.

She almost laughed out loud when Kestrelstar jumped into a rather dramatic speech about how they 'had' to raid ThunderClan to keep them from "destroying" RiverClan. What the hell have those Squirrels been doing that required the leader to believe that his clan was going to be destroyed? Seriously? Dawnstar was bad, she knew she was bad, but she didn't make up stupid excuses for her attacks on WindClan so the other clans wouldn't look at them in the wrong light. She made up the smallest reasons to get into brawls with WindClan all the time, though.

The fact that Kestrelstar refused to own up to the fact that RiverClan raided ThunderClan simply because he hated RiverClan that much was intriguing. It was selfishness if you asked her, nothing more and nothing less. The fact that he decided to attack ThunderClan when it was clear they were struggling instead of waiting for them to recover from what she still surmised would be new leadership was cowardice, not that Dawnstar could judge. But the difference between her and that Seaweed was that Dawnstar didn't try to pretend that she was some great and honorable StarClan cat when she knew she was a cruel and nasty Darkforest cat.

She wondered what was going through Bunnystar's head as the Weed announced what he had done to ThunderClan. After all the negligence and death without Kestrelstar and RiverClan thinking to step a single paw in to aid them against Dawnstar and her clan, would Bunnystar still call them allies? A side-eye loo made Dawnstar think that Bunnystar would excuse the catfish. Could Bunnystar really afford to turn away assistance especially now? WindClan seemed weaker than ever these days, Dawnstar wasn't certain as to why, but she didn't think it'd take much to completely dismantle the clan. Depends on how much entertainment the catfish gave her in the upcoming moon. If they were too dull for her tastes, Bunnystar and WindClan wouldn't be getting any time to recover.

Dawnstar paid no heed to the bit about twolegs, they've been a problem ShadowClan's dealt with in the past. She was more interested in the sudden arrival of the fourth and final clan, it looked like ThunderClan was here very late, but here. Who was that? Her gaze followed some molly as she joined the leaders up upon the seastones. So they had had a change in leadership? What had Kestrelstar done that resulted in Eveningstar only making it to one gathering?

Dawnstar was horrible, but again, not even she had been mean enough to strip Bunnystar of all her lives... yet. She thought about it a lot, was still thinking about it, but Kestrelstar was still pretty bad for just up and killing a formally new leader. Perhaps challenging this Jerkass would be far more exciting over Bunnystar. Dawnstar stared at the newest additions to the leader and deputies for a second longer and then turned her head away. ThunderClan was the only clan that wasn't currently on Dawnstar's list. The new ThunderClan leader looked like a ball of nerves, so boring.

"ShadowClan has some new apprentices, Mosspaw, Meadowpaw, Cottonpaw, and Sandpaw." Dawnstar jumped into her announcement noting Twilightstar wasn't stepping up yet. "Due to Finchwhisker's inability to do his actual job as well as his disappearance, ShadowClan is currently without a deputy until I appoint his replacement." She spoke this without a nonchalant air of utter disinterest. If the clans thought they were weaker because they were down a mere deputy, ShadowClan would prove them otherwise.

"Ebonyfang has gifted ShadowClan with four new kits, Lynxkit, Ebonykit, Crowkit, and Beetlekit. But with life comes death," Dawnstar hissed, " One of my warriors, Mistheart, was found dead nearby the WindClan border. Considering the prey scent that clung to her pelt, it was clear that she was murder by one of your bunnies." The massive molly locked her eyes with Twilightstar's single one, speaking directly to her instead of the gathered.

"I won't retaliate, neither will ShadowClan, considering we already spilled a lot of blood and slaughtered...five... no six WindClan bunnies to my knowledge," Dawnstar wasn't sure if she was missing any bunnies that were hunted? It's not like her clanmates came and reported every bunny they murdered. "I gave you a warning the last time I saw you, if your cats stepped paw on ShadowClan territory, they'd died. You didn't listen. That patrol crossed into ShadowClan territory, and so my warriors carried out their orders." It wasn't an excuse--well maybe it was, but it wasn't, not really.

"I gave you and your clan a chance to regain your territory, and you failed. I was sorely disappointed in you, Bunnystar. Well, I'm more disappointed in your clan. You shouldn't blame yourself for your warriors' loss, I'd feel terrible if I had warriors like yours. Weak, fearful, easy to kill. This is the second battle we had over that border and the second time your cats weren't strong enough to defend their former territory let alone their clanmates. You can screech and whine about Yellowpaw's death if you'd like, but if she were better trained she wouldn't have died like that. Though you should be pleased that she had the honor of dying in battle, there is no better way to die." Dawnstar was taunting, Bunnystar and perhaps all of WindClan were so touchy about their bunnies dying. It was so easy to tick them off with it.

"Your clan is a complete joke, Bunnystar. But I'm done laughing at it, that chunk of moorland is and always will be ShadowClan's territory. You had your chance, when push came to shove, when it came to proving you and WindClan had the strength to defend what was yours, your warriors utterly and humiliatingly lost. Now, you've lost prime hunting grounds for leafbare. Any prey that crosses over ShadowClan's border belongs to ShadowClan. Any WindClan bunny that sets paw into our territory will suffer the same fate as the last Bunny patrol. If you'd like to continue testing me, go right ahead and fight, but the blood and lives lost hurt you far more than they'll ever hurt me. So you better think long and hard if it's worth it."

Dawnstar took a seat after that, grin morbid and bright amber eyes daring Bunnystar to speak against her.

Little Timmy

August 26th, 2021, 05:43 PM

(my 1000 post :heartbounce: )Spottedpaw sat there, head and tail held high proudly. She had helped daisypaw kill that stupid Bunnyclan apprentice. She had fought alongside daisypaw to fight that Bunnyclan warrior, and it seemed the only cat killed was the mouse brained yellowpaw.

spade

August 26th, 2021, 08:04 PM

From where they were seated, anger warmed their pelt to a fever pitch. Blue eyes were ablaze - despite their injuries Snowypaw had made it so that they were there at the Gathering. Hearing Dawnstar up on that rock talk about WindClan with such... such... utter disgrace.

The young apprentice flattened her ears, rising to their paws next to the two cats they’d sat with. ”You’re nothing more than filthy rats!” There was a challenge in their voice, bold for an apprentice of WindClan but Snowypaw was done standing idly by watching the home they loved get torn to shreds. ”What if it was your Clan getting slaughtered? Your family getting killed?” Their voice was loud enough so that they were sure all the leaders atop the rock could hear. Snowypaw didn’t care.

Rage danced in the depths of their blue eyes, narrowed and locked dead on Dawnstar. They’d shred her for putting their brother in danger. For killing so many of their Clanmates. Nettlespark, Deadpool, Fernfrost, Fernpaw, Yellowpaw... it was too many.

Logic told them to stop there, but the heat made their pelt itch as the white tufts of fur began to bristle. ”I bet your deputy didn’t get demoted; I bet he left because you’re a fox-heart of a leader!” Their sides were heaving at this point, not having realized their paws had taken them towards the front of the crowd. There were a few other cats up here they didn’t recognize; one smelled of ThunderClan and had the same anger rolling off him in waves that they were currently experiencing.

With one last indignant snort, Snowypaw simply shook their head and stalked over to Wolffang - they didn’t care if it was only deputies. ”I’m sorry for speaking out, I know it wasn’t my place. But she can’t keep doing this...” A crestfallen look fell onto the apprentices face as they sunk into a seated position next to their half-brother.

// Undertaker TheNyanCatMinecart [we got a brave little bunny here oooo]

Moonraven

August 26th, 2021, 09:30 PM

Twilightstar curled her lips with ShadowClan's arrival. It was hard to swallow her anger; it left a hot lump of pure pain in her throat. It worsened when the large, dark tabby took her place atop the Seastones. Dawnstar shouldn't be here up; StarClan should have never approved her leadership, ever. That or at least had given WindClan some warning. Twilightstar would never regret chasing ShadowClan out of their territory; she did regret not leaving them out there. She might of-- no, Twilightstar certainly would have been far more cautious about the attack if she had known the repercussions she'd face with WindClan.

So many lives were lost, battle after battle, and it didn't seem like WindClan wasn't getting anywhere, however, believing they were stuck would be an insult to their memories. Twilightstar didn't like using violence as a means to anything if she could avoid it. The leader was sure more than enough cats thought her a pushover, passive, weak, considering how much she valued the lives of her clanmates, she hated seeing them lose them. She'd preferred coming up with a diplomatic solution over a violent one, if that made her weak and soft, so be it. The only problem was with Dawnstar, she didn't listen. She heard but never listened. Dawnstar was so set on this one path that Twilightstar doubted she'd ever be able to come up with a reasonable solution that involved both of them coming out of it alive... perhaps that was fate?

Pushing the thought from her mind, she focused on Kestrelstar and gave a small nod of gratitude as he reminded her of their alliance. She kept a thoughtful neutral expression as he went into what had been going on with ThunderClan. Not that it was her place to say anything, but wasn't the word destroy a little extreme. If ThunderClan was doing what ShadowClan was doing to WindClan, then that would be a more acceptable word. However, Twilightstar didn't think that any clan was being as destructive as Dawnstar. Without the other clan here to give them the other side of the story, Twilightstar decided against trying to pick sides, she had bigger issues at paw.

The molly glanced down at her deputy at the mention of twolegs. Wolffang hasn't given her any reports on twolegs pestering them or any of patrols as far as she knew. Twolegs trampling through their moor was the last thing they needed. Twilightstar's eye caught sight of silhouettes approaching figures as they arrived on the beach. ThunderClan was here, and with a new leader. The slender leader gave the smallest nod of greeting as the cat leaped up and took a seat beside her, obviously uncomfortable. Having utterly no clue what to call'em, Twilightstar left it at that. Dawnstar began talking and it was torture having to sit that and listened to her spew such filth, Twilightstar was surprised that her ears weren't bleeding.

The older cat was surprised to hear about the death of one of Dawnstar's cats. The way Dawnstar spoke, she made it sound like Mistheart was killed before the second fight for their territory started, which was problematic for her. Unlike Dawnstar, Twilightstar hadn't given any order for her cats to go out and start killing ShadowClan. Twilightstar didn't want to sink to Dawnstar's level of ruthlessness, if it had been done in defense Twilightstar could understand, beyond that would be a bit of a struggle for her to empathize. But what bugged her the most was that whoever killed the warrior didn't think of informing her so she wasn't completely blindsided by it at the gathering. Straight up killing clan cats is not how WindClan's fights.

Her ears flattened briefly when Snowypaw spoke up against Dawnstar. It was unlikely that Dawnstar would pay much attention to the young one, and Twilightstar could appreciate the courage. But it was unwise picking a fight that you couldn't even start. Twilightstar hoped it didn't place a target on their back. Suddenly very interested in keeping Dawnstar's attention on her, Twilightstar quickly meowed,

"ShadowClan, the fox-hearts murdered Nettlespark, Fernfrost, Skyleaf, Deadpool, Fernpaw, and Yellowpaw-- May they find good hunting, swift-running, and shelter when they sleep. Four of my warriors and two apprentices, who had their whole lives ahead of them." Twilightstar announced as coldly as she could after she took Dawnstar's place as speaker. Arguing that the territory belongs to WindClan was not going to get her anywhere. "I doubt you care the in the slightest, Dawnstar, about the single cat you lost." She was trying to avoid getting too heated, but could any cat really remain completely calm after hearing such a tyrant belittle their clan.

"My clan is noble and honorable, and I couldn't ask for a better clan to lead. You can think of us as weak and incompetent all you want, but all ShadowClan knows is death and violence. You think you can brute force your way through everything, just because it worked this time doesn't mean it will in the future. Your cats are reckless and one day you'll lead them to their doom. You just won't know it until it's looking you in the face." Twilightstar felt that Dawnstar was just too prideful and too arrogant. If ShadowClan didn't abandon her one day, it wasn't hard for Twilightstar to picture Dawnstar leading that clan to its end one day.

"We fought for our territory, and yes we did lose, but it seems you haven't learned that despite all the hardships we go through, we grit our teeth and keep on going. What's yours today could be ours tomorrow. It's painful to watch my clanmates get hurt and die, as it should be any leader who truly cares for their clan. But I know they go to StarClan where they can rest easy and see love ones they've missed. They watch us from above, and I know that I'd have no place beside them if I let their deaths go in vain. So make all the threats that you like, just know that WindClan will never bend, or bow, or break due to your tyranny."

"We are warriors and I'd be a disgrace of a leader if I made my clan back down due to my personal feelings. You and ShadowClan can do your worse, Dawnstar, we'll endure this loss and any loss that comes after, but we'll never stop fighting. No matter the trial, WindClan will last forever." Twilightstar took her seat, twitching her ear for the unnamed leader to go ahead and speak when she was ready.

Undertaker

spade

August 26th, 2021, 11:26 PM

Sitting perched on the Seastones with a clear view of everything, it was hard to miss the entrance that ThunderClan made. Right as he stepped back from the ledge, yellow eyes caught the sight of movement, and almost immediately after the scent of ThunderClan filled his nose. Fur bristling and claws out, a knee-jerk reaction for the leader, one that he stifled before it got out of paw.

Not here. Not again.

Eyes followed a russet-furred molly who leaped up onto the stones beside them, shooting him the cold glare he'd been expecting. Kestrelstar had no idea who this was, and in turn just stared back, not glaring nor offering a dip of his head in greeting. Instead, his face was still as he studied her. She was older than him - once again he was still the youngest leader upon these stones - and seemed to have a thick mixture of anxiety and anger rolling off her. At least ThunderClan had actually made the Gathering; Kestrelstar had been certain they would miss it like they had the last one.

Attention snapped up now by Dawnstar, the gray tabby turned to listen to the ShadowClan leader's announcements. Brief anger clouded his gaze, knowing full well that whatever story the tyrant was trying to spin was not the whole truth. He had experience with how her warriors fought - hell, one of them had attacked his apprentice. It was only there a moment before Kestrelstar composed himself once more. Now was not the time to display personal vendettas he held.

Ouch. The words spat about WindClan, they could cut him if they'd been spoken of RiverClan. Calling a Clan a "joke" warranted claws to the fact, at least in his opinion. From what he'd seen when he'd been there, WindClan was more on the docile side. Going up against a mountain like ShadowClan... was not going to end well - that is, if they kept attempting it alone.

On his other side he heard Twilightstar shift before taking Dawnstar's place. Most of what she reported was just in response to Dawnstar. Deaths of - wait. Suddenly feeling light-headed, Kestrelstar let his claws come out and scrape against the rock. Fernpaw. Fernpaw. An image of the bright eyed and bushy tailed young tom came to mind, green eyes dazzling like late-greenleaf pools of water. The ever excited apprentice, who had accompanied him atop the Seastones during his first Gathering.

A rage he hadn't known before burned in his chest, and briefly the leader considered turning on Dawnstar right then and there, ripping her apart from her ears to her paws. The losses that WindClan had faced... Kestrelstar couldn't even begin to imagine. Finally coming to light was the tragedy they were faced with, and it was hard for the leader to remain with a neutral expression in this situation.

Swallowing his anger, Kestrelstar shifted in his seated position, fighting down the urge to scowl in Dawnstar's direction. Despite his rage he wasn't stupid - he didn't need her on his back, not at least until he could perhaps speak to Twilightstar and get the full story of what had happened.

For now, the gray tabby sat upright, jaw locked, and yellow eyes focusing themselves onto the newcomer; ThunderClan's leader. What would be in her report, he wondered?

[just a reaction post!]

Singing Jay

August 26th, 2021, 11:34 PM

Wings

Shadestorm snorted. He began to understand
why defeating Windclan was so easy.
"Hearts only mater if they're brave"
or if you rip them out... And honor was only
important sometimes He opened his mouth to
continue but stopped when he heard BunnyStar
speak and smiled at the long list of dead cats.
He wasn't sure who of them was the one he'd
killed a while back but he was glad none the less.

Shade.

August 27th, 2021, 02:58 AM

Ziera

Yarrowshade locked eyes with Stormtalon. The tom had fought her in the raid. He has fought rather well, and almost seemed to have the upper hand, up until Sweetsong had showed up. Ugh, she got mad just thinking about it. He'd taken her spotlight. And, as much as she liked what he did to Storm's shoulders, she would've preferred to kill or at least maim her opponent herself. She could've, but something had distracted her. Not anymore, though. Whitewolf was back and Yarrowshade was seeping with fury.
As he nodded at her, she raised her chin a little, looking down at him as her eyes narrowed. Her expression radiated smug judgement.

TheNyanCatMinecart

August 27th, 2021, 06:33 AM

~ WOLFFANG ~

There had been... stuff going on. A RiverClan kit sneaking to the Gathering, something Splashleap might've said, and ThunderClan's arrival. It looked as though a new leader and deputy had been chosen. Dogbark? Wolffang turned to look at the small gray tom, noting the scarred muzzle, and dipped his head toward him as a means of greeting. ShadowClan was here, but they had no deputy. Good. He wouldn't be able to keep up with them. Pure fury pulsed beneath his pelt. Everything was fine and dandy... until Dawnstar stepped forward to talk.

If he'd felt angry before, now he felt absolutely furious. Wolffang jumped to his paws, every hair on his pelt standing on end, as he glared up at Dawnstar. She was insulting WindClan in front of them, calling them pathetic and fearful. No cat did that to WindClan! Some of his old mindset leached back to him as he thought of how they needed the strongest cats facing at the front lines, snarling and proving ShadowClan wrong. Then he quickly shook his head. No, they had to prove that every member of WindClan was strong, no matter how ShadowClan looked down on them.

He heard Snowypaw yowling, and felt a flash of pride that his half-sibling was standing up. However, he knew that Dawnstar wouldn't take that too well. She wasn't beyond attacking someone at a Gathering after what she'd done. Quickly, the deputy got up from his spot and stepped in front of his half-sibling, hoping to take some of the attention off of him. Twilightstar had spoken well, but now it was his turn. Fixing his bright yellow gaze on Dawnstar, he snarled, "And that's not all. Those six corpses you killed? You didn't respectfully leave us their bodies. You maimed them. We found them all inside our own territory, stripped of their pelts, barely recognizable because of what you and your warriors did to them. You have no respect or honor, Dawnstar, and you never will. And how dare you insult WindClan? Just because you fight with brutality and fear and love to see blood doesn't mean that every cat does the same. We are strong, loyal, and honorable, while you're just pathetic. Every cat could do without you as a leader." His tail was lashing, he was so livid.

Undertaker Willowfern (since he dipped his head to Dogbark) spade

gs29513

August 27th, 2021, 06:56 AM

Deadpaw didn't want to find Rookpaw. Or did she? She wasn't sure. Did she want to speak to her after her brother had tried to kill her? Would Rookpaw even want anything to do with her? But it was hard to be angry at Wolffang either, to apologize and call his actions wrong. He didn't know her, her sarcastic wit and lithe grace. He only knew her as a Shadowclan cat, one of the cats who had slaughtered so many of their own. He would have attacked anyone that way, Shadowclan DESERVED to be hurt! They had hurt Windclan too much to NOT deserve it.

And her siblings(half siblings) certainly felt the same. First Snowypaw and then Wolffang yowled up at Dawnstar, and Deadpaw's fur bristled immediately. It was true, Shadowclan was horrible, and did mangle the bodies, but yelling it right into Dawnstar's face? That was probably NOT the most intelligent decision. After all, fights had happened at the gathering before, and the leader certainly wasn't above starting one again. She had long proved that. Shifting through the crowd as subtly as she could, Deadpaw slid in behind her siblings. If Dawnstar DID decide to attack, she wanted a chance to try and smack her around. Rookpaw was, at least temporarily, forgotten.
TheNyanCatMinecart spade

carmen

August 27th, 2021, 08:53 AM

Naiad

Silentstorm sat down at the Seastones, her ice-blue eyes roaming over the beach. Kestrelstar looked less... distressed. As though something had happened between him and Thunderclan and he had stopped being so messed up. Thunderclan was back and a new cat sat on the high rock. Was that Aspenstrike? Was she the new leader of Thunderclan? Huh. That was interesting. Shadowclan arrived moments later and she bared her teeth. The villainous savages had destroyed them at their recent battle, but the truce of the gathering might not even be enough to hold them back.

MooingPanda

August 27th, 2021, 09:56 AM

Owltalon stared daggers at Dawnstar as the tyrannical ShadowClan leader as she stood on the Seastones. With a disgrace of a cat. How StarClan had even allowed her to become a leader in the first place was beyond him. Did they not care about the destruction she was causing? How could they sit up there and let this happen? He was progressively losing faith in StarClan's ability. He had not seen them do a lick of good at all. Ever.

Owltalon somehow grew even more angry as she began to speak. "What do you mean, you're disappointed in us?" he yowled, standing up with his pelt bristling. "That's not your job. You don't own us. And you were the one that withdrew your cats in the battle first. That sounds like a retreat to me." Suddenly realizing he was trembling, Owltalon sat down again as Twilightstar began to speak.

What she said was absolutely right. WindClan never stopped fighting. Dawnstar could attack us as much as she liked, but WindClan would still be there. One day, Dawnstar would get what was coming to her.
Undertaker

jimothy

August 27th, 2021, 04:52 PM

Rowdy evening.

Wavebreak felt her expression flatten as she listened carefully to each speaker, every word. Dawnstar certainly had her way with a crowd; it was too impressive. Her pedestal was clearly upheld by intimidation and fearlessness, but at least she had the sheer power to show for it. Too bad she's vicious. Wavebreak's back twitched at Wolffang's news of mangled bodies. Was holy Starclan listening? To these apprentices and warriors alike express their hostility and pain.

The Riverclanner dipped her head slightly and peered over at Mothflight. Ironic, where the lighthearted conversation about their pelts has ended up. She wondered briefly what this fatherly figure was like in combat, but having been graced his outward warmth during times like this, she told herself to think of what peace they had.

So, what will come to be with this new cat in the ring?

"Maybe when my kits have kits," Wavebreak replies. "I suppose maybe this new leader could make some changes. If they've got a right mind, it's only up from here."

__ North

Silverfur & Co

August 27th, 2021, 05:04 PM

Leopardfire was not one to normally speak out of turn at a gathering but she about had it with dawnstar "First of all we was patrolling our border and things of that nature when you attacked us for starters." She fluffed and as soon as Twilightstar started speaking she went quiet but she was not going to put up with shadow clan in the slightest first the take over and then taking land and then attacking when they was getting their land back. That was a bit much but Leopardfire was going to stand her ground. Kunaiskrill

Snowstripe heard the molly from windclan speak that was only the beginning from the guess of it. She saw the molly fur rise from a few fish swims away.

Silverdust had padded in with thunderclan and seen this and then seen snowstripe and turned her head away from the molly that she had seen only afew moons ago. She was not happy to be in the same area but would live none the less.

Darktiger could really care less about what the bunnies said about them but she spat at Leopardfire "Well you deserved it for terespassing on shadow clan land." She mews and then goes silent as the other leader speaks.

Featherpaw of Riverclan however was not going to have any of this from any cat and she decided to say something she may have been new to the whole clan life thing but she was gonna stand proud. "This is a gathering no fighting words should be used here this is a night of peace not a night for this. Now shut your mowls and listen to the announcements. Our ancestors would not want us to be fighting like this." She mews looking at all the clans that was gathered from her spot she was sure Kestrelstar was gonna be mad at her for speaking out of turn but she could not help herself she felt like something had to be said.

gs29513

August 27th, 2021, 06:07 PM

Ok, so Wolffang hadn't picked up on how dumb she had been literally.....every time she came to a gathering. That was good, Splashleap would take a neutral conversation. Better than a hostile one, or one where he and Finchwhisker were studying her trying to figure out what the HECK was going on in her head. Which, at the moment, wasn't much intelligent. Mostly worries about when if how would Thunderclan show up at the Gathering. Wolffang was a nice distraction, at least for the time being.

The fish are plentiful as ever. she responded, looking around again. It seemed that Finchwhisker, was in fact absent, which she certainly wouldn't complain about. A more roomy, less smelly spot for everyone. Well, I can't say I particularly miss him. she quipped, a hint of annoyance at the recent aggression of Shadowclan entering her tone. They had always been a bit overactive, always looking for someone to get into a fight with. It had been Riverclan for a while, but it seemed their attention had shifted to Windclan with the rise of Dawnstar. That certainly would explain the anger in Wolffang's voice, there might have been another skirmish.

And then Thunderclan arrived, their woody scent filling the air as they filed in. Splashleap kept a vigilant eye on some of the more excitable of Riverclan for a few moments, before relaxing when nothing more than a few bristled pelts passed between the two clans. While Kestrelstar recognized his mistake, tensions were still high and a single slip could alight the whole situation. The question was, when? Hopefully not tonight.

Greetings. she mewed, a bit of frost joining the typically fairly warm tone of Splashleap. She dipped her head to the new deputy nonetheless, making peace required some effort, and being polite was something she could do. If nothing else it set a good example for the rest of the clan. She wasn't going to be overly friendly, but a lack of hostility was certainly in order.

As the Gathering went on, the relatively peaceful start seemed destined not to last. Twilightstar and then Dawnstar gave their announcements, a fairly coherent story being pieced together between them. Dawnstar's lack of remorse was in a twisted way comforting, at least she wouldn't try and change the truth to reflect her in a better light. She could care less, and would tell it like it was.

Wolffang rose beside her, yowling at the leader as he shielded a smaller cat she expected was an apprentice from the leader, who had spoken up first. Another molly joined them, Splashleap imagined in case Dawnstar attacked. At first blush it seemed paranoid, threatening, but when she considered what had been reported........it seemed more reasonable. After stripping cats of their pelts, would a little violence during a gathering REALLY trouble the Shadowclan leader?

She doubted it somehow, and while she didn't unsheath her claws, Splashleap did become more tense. Windclan were their allies, even if less tightly knit in recent moons, and it would hardly do to allow their allies to be slaughtered. She considered for a moment before making up her mind. While she wouldn't say anything(HOW did cats speak so freely in gatherings, it was simply beyond her) but if Dawnstar did cause any problems she would try to defend their allies, especially if the rest of the pinewoods clan followed suit in attacking. She just hoped it wouldn't come to that and the gathering would come to an end. So much tension was bubbling everywhere it was a wonder things hadn't exploded already! TheNyanCatMinecart Willowfern

beau

August 27th, 2021, 09:18 PM

Pheasantflight

Tidepaw's ears pricked as she noticed her mentor sitting in the crowd. She began making her way through the crowd of cats muttering excuse me's and sorry's as she went. She smiled as she reached Silentstorm then sat down next to her. She curled her tail over her paws, the feather she had stuck in her tail swishing slightly. It was a blue jay feather, one of her favorites in her collections. It was deep blue with dark stripes and a white tip, and stuck somewhat haphazardly to her tail with a bit of cobweb. She had brought it specially for the gathering. She looked up at where the leaders sat as she listened to the announcements, taking in their appearances. It was her first gathering and she was excited to see what all the leaders looked like, learn about their clans, and talk with other cats.

Tidepaw frowned slightly and tipped her head to the side as Dawnstar spoke, then turned to Twilightstar listening to her response. She knew things weren't well between her clan and Shadowclan, but weren't gatherings supposed to be peaceful? It seemed plenty calm at the start, but now she could feel the tension in the air. She flicked her tail to the side then glanced at Silentstorm, "Is this normal?" She asked, slightly concerned. Tidepaw hoped so, or maybe she didn't. Part of her interest in the gathering was the ability to intermingle with the other clans, but she didn't want to feel tense every time she went to one.

poppy

August 28th, 2021, 08:42 AM

As Kestrelstar returned her glare passively, Aspenstar let out a small puff of air, calming her nerves- well, tried to. There were certainly lots of them... Her sharp yellow eyes studied Dawnstar and Twilightstar, studying them both in turn. She hadn't seen them so close up before, as well as she hadn't seen the Clans from this far up before, either. Peering down at them, she looking across the sea of faces, hoping to see a familiar face, a gaze she could lock eyes with and gather strength from. But here was no one, no one who she trusted enough to do that with. Ther was her enormous family, which had randomly popped up out of the blue, declaring themselves as her family, and thought the were related by blood, she hadn't talked or interacted with them for seasons. Hm... why would they want to be know as her relatives now? It was such a mystery. It felt like her family only liked being associated with her because of her role in the Clan. Except for Marshkit and Beekit, yes, but they weren't here-

Her eyes widened as her gaze had traveled to the deputies. sitting by Dogbark, was her little sister, Marshkit. How had she came? Panic brightened her gaze. Her baby sister, with RiverClan all around her... Clenching her jaw it wouldn't drop at her paws, she nodded gratefully to Dogbark, who seemed to have the situation under control. What was her mother doing these days? Obviously she never watched her kits, because one of them had somehow made it to the Gathering?!

Smiling a little, despite herself, at Marshkit's courage and persistence, she had to forced her lips to curve back down as Twilightstar and Dawnstar made their reports. Ears pricking with interest at Dawnstar's report, and then hackles raising with Twilightstar's news- which mostly consisted of ShadowClan involved issues, seems as though Dawnstar was being as consistent with the persecution of WindClan as ever. And RiverClan and ShadowClan didn't seemed thrilled with each other... so it seemed as though ThunderClan had the luxury of two possible alliances, but if she was to go for either Clan, it wouldn't be ShadowClan... because of obvious reasons. Kestrelstar was practically smothering Twilightstar with his pity, and to the old leader's credit, Aspenstar couldn't get a read on how she was taking it. Once the commotion was dying down, she remained seated, through the awkward silence that ensued.

Wait... was it her turn? Fur growing warm, she stood up and swept her gaze across the gathered Clans. Hopefully they weren't judging her... well, they probably were, but the opinions of total strangers meant nothing to her. Taking a shallow breath of air, the russet she-cat shot a small pray up to StarClan that this would go as smoothly as possible.

"I suppose you're wondering why I'm up here instead of Eveningstar." She began with the most obvious, cats were bound to notice the change in leadership. "Well, Eveningstar is... is dead. Murdered by Kestrelstar, on ThunderClan territory. He would have been a wonderful leader, but unfortunately, he was ripped away from us before having the chance. I have received my nine lives, and my new deputy, selected by StarClan, is a senior warrior, Dogbark. I am proud to be working to help ThunderClan alongside him." Mentally, she listed all of the thing that had to be announced. She hadn't been at the alst Gathering, none of ThunderClan had, because they were having some... issues with leadership. So ThunderClan had to look strong, because they hadn't been at the laast gathering to hear the lies KEstrelstar had spun, or this Gathering, where they had joined the Clans after Kestrelstar's report.

"One of our warriors, Albatrossflare, has been demoted to Albatrosspaw, following him killing a RiverClan warrior at the border. He was incredibly stupid to do so, and he is being punished fairly. But his moronic actions do not represent ThunderClan as a whole."

Okay, so. Now that the regular Clan announcements- or, mildly normal Clan announcements- had been said, now she had to announce RivrClan's raid. "Not long ago, a little bit after Eveningstar was killed, RiverClan stole Firefly Cove, our graveyard, and a place where we go to connect with our lost loved ones, by stinking it up and disrespecting it, claiming that there was somedebt to be paid, even though they have cost us more than anything. Then, they came into out camp, and attacked us, in our home. Robinwhisker, Whitewolf, Geckosprout and Runningwater were killed, and a kit was attacked and injured during the battle, as well." The image of Cinderkit's bloody face made Aspenstar grimace, but she hid the grimace with an expression of disgust. "StarClan clearly did not approve of RiverClan's actions, so they sent proof of their disapproval. They sent one of out dead warriors, Whitewolf, back to us. Whitewolf is a senior warrior and a respected and loved member of the Clan, and StarClan sent her back." Even though her wounds had been healed by StarClan when receiving the lives, she still remembered the sting of the wounds. And Icicleripples declaration in the medicine den. "Icicleripple had also come to the conclusion, that, during the battle, some RiverClan cat had fought with poisoned claws! Are they really that pathetic, they need poison to help fight battles?"

This had to end soon, or she was going to vomit off the rock. She wasn't used to this, this was torture, but it needed to be said. The pain from the poison stung worse now that she was reliving it, she was running off adrenaline, but sometimes it wasn't enough. It would hurt no matter what, talking about her cat's deaths, the raid, the loss of Firefly Cove... all of it. "But... regardless of all the cowardice and aggressive actions by RiverClan, ThunderClan is, and will forever be strong." Pride swelled in her chest, a sudden burst of burning passion for her Clan, patriotism for her home and hate for RiverClan.

Stepping back, Aspenstar sighed internally with relief that it was over. She had probably rambled, but it was her first time. It would get better with experience. Hopefully. Or she was just a horrible leader and would destroy the whole Clan and be the worst leader ThunderClan had ever seen.... No. If StarClan believed in her, then she was the right one for the job. Hopefully StarClan was right about this, though, because she wasn't sure.

//: spade Moonraven Undertaker

Shade.

August 28th, 2021, 11:21 AM

implimm

Yarrowshade was only slightly amused by the current drama between WindClan and ShadowClan. She also didn't care much about RiverClan, but if she had the opportunity to kill dome of them then why not. She was actually in a very bad mood, as the new high ranks not being her was enough to upset her. She'd worked so hard, who even was Aspenstrike aaaaa!? So this gathering was unpleasant to day the least, only eventful by the eye contact She'd made with Stormtalon, aggressive due to the battle where they fought each other.

Rani

August 28th, 2021, 12:33 PM

Ah so it seemed that foolish children couldn't understand a warning, thunderclan had elected a sanctimonious blind figurehead, and no one ever learned to let sleeping dogs lay. Shame, Snakeheart had hoped that this would pass by without him having to get….. Dirty and make the conversation a lot more brutal. If anything but the poison was brought up the riverclan medicine cat might’ve even been content to let Kestrelstar handle it solo but it seemed Icicleripple either hadnt taken him seriously in his veiled threats or she’d vastly overestimated this Aspenstars intelligence when passing over the information. This would cost her but Snakeheart was fairly certain she already knew this.

The tom had let his fur ruffle and spike ears pinning down as this downright moronic speech progressed not bothering to hide it as rage reasonable here. At the end he let out a low and vicious hiss that promised a swift strike and venom and stood as his anger radiated into the air around him. He looked back only enough to lock one poisonous green eye dead on Icicleripple before he was off smoothly but forcefully making his way dead over to the Seastone. His single look had said all he needed to say in a glance. You didnt listen Icicleripple, I gave you a peaceful option, it was simple too and you couldnt even do that right, cats will probably get hurt now cats may die now, and it will be all on you.

Snakehearts leaps were smooth as he stormed unhesitatingly past the deputies and with one, two, three firm leaps he was nose to nose with Aspenstar and side by side with Kestrelstar. He didn't even need to communicate his intent to his bond brother to know they were on the same page and how this’d work gelling together as smoothly as they’d always had, a united perfect team.

“You bald faced fox-hearted lying piece of scum! I'd ask if your mother ever taught you to act like a decent cat and not a bloodthirsty rock but considering the moral fiber thunderclan has been showing of late perhaps she even showed you how personally! Tell me is this kind of behavior taught to you as part of becoming a warrior or do you and the rest of whatever tainted bloodline you belong too learn it at your parents side! I’ve sat here biting my tongue for the sake of good relations, doing my duty as a high rank (something you obviously wouldnt have the first idea of) by doing whats best for my clan! And because its not clear to you peace is the best thing for any clan and what you should strive for! I can no longer hold my tongue nor do I care too! If I must inform all of you and your clans faults and lies to make you see the obvious I will!”

Snakehearts words were vicious, furious, and hissing yet they rung. The medicine cat was long known for his volume in fury among his own and now everyone was seeing this in example as the skinny tom made his voice impossible to not hear from everywhere and overwhelming to those on the stone.

“You DARE accuse us of using poison?! Like Riverclan has not proven themselves capable alone?! Does your empty skull even comprehend the magnitude of what you accuse us of? I sincerely doubt it so I’ll lay it out for you. Poisoning one’s claws is unheard of, you could not even come up with a believable lie here! Every poison I know of (and as medicine cat this is my job) would be impossible to dose ones claws with without death, the idea itself is moronic! Even if it was possible if anyone normalizes such a tool in combat war will never be the same! You’d risk inviting such a future just to slander riverclan?! You have to be the most dense cat to climb this rock because to add to such malicious and insane accusations that arent even true you still somehow expect anyone to believe you! After your lies?! The only cats who’d ever give this thought without clear proof would have to be blind newborn kits! Your clan comes up here and lies constantly yet this is the worst Ive seen of you yet. And I say yet because at this point I have no trouble believing you can go lower.

Stars even if you actually believe this mousedung yourself so think you’re telling the truth I cannot believe you wouldnt think critically about source with how big this is! Icicleripple? ICICLERIPPLE CONCLUDED?! AND THAT RAISED NO ALARMS FOR YOU?! Icicleripple is the youngest and least experienced medicine cat in the clans and for all my time interacting with her Ive not heard her say one thing with confidence! Not even about herbs! I wouldnt find it unbelievable to discover that she had poisoned her patients with gross incompetence and then concluded the most bizarre cause given how little she must know! Who even trained her at all!? Sunhowl?! For the two moons he was medicine cat who even trained him?! Rainywhisker?! Dont make me laugh he knew nothing too, Frostpaw refused to train him beyond the bare minimum when she was demoted and I know because she bragged about it! Every single thunderclan medicine cat since Frostpaw has asked me for help and knowledge and yet you’d take Icicleripple as the ultimate authority?! I am the senior medicine cat of the clans, I learned from Coldamber, Sparrowskip and Ebonyfang to have the skills I do, I trained Peachfrost in what she knows now! Yet I doubt you’re going to believe me here because you are either lying and aware Im right or you are so blind you’d believe the cat who’s only not killed you by chance!

If there is anyone here from any clan that still believes this, who has doubts, who has reason to object to my words I beseech you to be better than thunderclan and address it with me or anyone first personally! The only reason to not do so and instead fling accusations is if you want to start conflict!

Honestly I wouldnt even stop with herb knowledge, your baseless false claims starclan supports you is no doubt backed up by the word for that lost child! You say they brought Whitewolf from the dead then where is she to speak on her own behalf and support your claims? I dont see her here. Let her be the proof to thus but oh wait again as is consistent for your clan you have no proof! None! A little trick to lying Aspenstar, is that even kits know that to be believed without proof you have to be trustworthy, otherwise your lies are plainly obvious! At this point I wouldnt be surprised that the reason ‘Eveningstar’ passed so suddenly was he too lied about his legitimacy and had no nine lives at all!

In fact theres reason to believe starclan would condemn you that I cannot believe you are blind to! Its the same stars damned reason your claim to the cove is null and void! Firefly Cove was ours! It was Riverclan’s land originally your clan under Brokenstar stole it by force! We were kind in letting this go for a time because it was clear Thunderclan was in shambles and needed all the pity they could get and we were allies but it was never yours! How dare you disrespect Riverclan by burying your dead there and how dare you disrespect your ‘lost loved ones’ by laying them to rest in anything but land that belonged solely and unquestionably to Thunderclan! Any cat with a sliver of sense would make an effort for their lost and bury them somewhere in the heart of the territory in thunderclan and not near the border in a stolen cove! You dont deserve the land we stayed our claws for out of allyship! You turned your claws on us! This is paying debt and this is righting a wrong, your actions have consequences!

You consistently refuse to pay your debts to your allies and take advantage of Riverclan! We got nothing in return! Nothing but death and coyotes driven onto our land with no warning and now this! Let this be a clear example and warning to anyone that’d have the bad sense to ally with you, this is what Thunderclans ‘friends’ get!

An incompetent clan that cant even keep spoiled kits in their camp as we have all seen tonight and a continued endless refusal to accept the consequences of their actions or even acknowledge their own faults! Stop acting like you are innocent and did nothing wrong, glossing over your own faults like you are the victim here, at least Riverclan has the courage to admit we are not blameless! It’s increasingly obvious that you are far more responsible and are now trying to lie to cover it up!”

Snakehearts enraged howl ended with an audible snap as his unusually long fangs clicked against eachother as he finished, muzzle curling up in a snarl at Aspenstar with no fear. A good portion of that lecture (like she was a child and not his senior at least doubly so) was true and what wasnt was undetectable, a lifelong liar with time to prepare was near impossible to beat and he’d warned Icicleripple he was prepared. Guess she didnt take him seriously. Riverclan wasnt about to let the new leader or anyone get their bearing to even try and counter or think either as wordlessly Snakehearts speech transferred to Kestrelstars the two swapping their roles in an instant.

(Sorry for the long post all! Cut it down but there was just a lot to say)
spade Moonraven Undertaker poppy. Panda1440

spade

August 28th, 2021, 12:34 PM

All it took was a spark... a dry field of grass stretched before them, and at the first sign of friction caused smoke, suddenly a blaze of anger reared it's ugly head. Kestrelstar's features twisted into pure shock and horror as yellow eyes watched Aspenstar. The blatant lies... the fabrication... It made his toes curl. Bile threatened to rise in his throat as he listened to the punishment for the cat responsible for killing a young warrior in her prime for defending her territory. Her Clan. Her brother.

Memories flooded back, one by one. The coyotes that had started this all, chased into RiverClan territory without so much as a warning. They'd almost killed Kestrelstar, injured several others, and killed a long list of cats the leader couldn't think about right now - not if he wanted to remain upright on the rock.

The rest of the crow-food that tumbled out of this new leader's mouth made his claws scrape against the rock. Eyes were narrowed, but not in a way that suggested he had been caught lying, no. Kestrelstar briefly glanced up to the moon, a look of a silent wail on his face. It was no wonder why he had no faith in the stars above - they had given a cat this inadequate lives? A cat that still would not own up for their part in this?

All he wanted, really, was a damn apology.

For a moment, the gray tabby closed his eyes and wished that Duskfall were here. His mother would've known how to handle this, how to de-escalate when emotions ran this high.

Perhaps the stars were real though, because it wasn't Duskfall that he felt beside him. No, it was a cat who'd proven himself to be there for Kestrelstar hundred of times over; Snakeheart. His brother in bonds, the cat he trusted most in the entire forest. He didn't need to speak to him - one look and he knew that they would tackle this as they had all of RiverClan's issues; as a team.

What followed made pride swell in the leader's chest. Snakeheart was right; peace, after debt had been paid, was the best option. Kestrelstar was ready to leave it at that - a clear statement that RiverClan should not be messed with - but Aspenstar... was ThunderClan doomed to follow leaders who were too egotistical to recognize their own mistakes?? "I gave Eveningstar two warnings," Kestrelstar began, a sharp edge to his words as he directed them at Aspenstar, but spoke loudly enough for the entire Gathering to hear, "the first at a Gathering two moons ago, and then again at the border. I asked him to call his warriors off - the warriors who had stolen prey and attacked my deputy, Splashleap. If he was this great leader you speak of, why did he not pass these along to you?? Why did he not warn the Clan you state he cared so much for???" There was a bitterness to his tone, ice chipped as his gaze did not waver from the she-cat's face.

He wasn't going to stop there. This had been a long time coming - and finally there was a cat at the head of ThunderClan to direct it to. "Albatrossflare... the warrior of yours who crossed onto our territory with intent to kill Blizzardsky. Had his sister not intervened, he would be dead as well; instead, Petuniaflame gave up her own life to defend her Clan, her family. A new, young warrior, slaughtered, and you believe a simple demotion is the best coarse of punishment?! That honorable Whitewolf you speak of was there; if she's as "perfect" as you claim, why did she not stop the blatant break of the warrior code??" The last part came out in a hiss through gritted teeth.

"The taking back of the cove was warranted, ours for the taking as Snakeheart said. After all you seem to forget that Firefly Cove belonged to RiverClan first. Are we not justified in taking back what was rightfully ours to begin with?" By now Kestrelstar's voice boomed; he stood rigid with fur bristling a bit, facing Aspenstar but still direction his speech to her and all of the Gathering attendees.

Lifting his head just a bit, Kestrelstar continued. "You stand here, claiming to be chosen by StarClan, yet the words you speak risk another war. Is that the path you want to lead your Clan down? A war with the Clan who has provided you so much already? Are you that quick to forget all that Lionstorm did for ThunderClan? If it wasn't for him, ThunderClan would still be ruled by Flintstar! The fire would've consumed your Clan and destroyed you. We allowed you sanctuary on our land for a moon, with access to our prey and our herbs. And yet still, you stand here, unaware of the debt owed to us. Unaware of the apology you owe us and every RiverClan cat that has lost their lives because of your warriors. Unaware of your own stars damned mistakes. Pathetic."

Another snort. "A kit? That was a kit? You mean the cat who appeared to be at least seven moons old? I guess that falls back on Eveningstar being such a great leader, huh? ThunderClan is strong - what a load of fox-dung. You can't even complete your ceremonies on time! If ThunderClan was strong, your kits would've remained in the nursery and not left abandoned in the clearing in a battle that was started by your cats rushing to attack first when I simply came to give a final warning, for you to back off." The shadow tendrils that had encapsulated the leader for so long were dancing on the edge of his vision, threatening to take over.

He wouldn't let them. It was tempting, the sweet song they sang, anything to garner his attention. No, not that path again.

Squaring himself now against Aspenstar, standing side by side with Snakeheart, Kestrelstar gave one last snort. "Our cowardice and aggression... simply because I and RiverClan were defending ourselves. Snakeheart laid it out for you, but let me drive it home; You drove coyotes into our territory with no warning other than a half-hearted attempt at a Gathering after the damages had already been done. These beasts murdered Sootstar. Stormcall - our leader and deputy. Firehawk, one of our most respected elders. Peonypaw, my apprentice who hadn't even seen the end of her sixth moon. After them was Fawnsqueak, a former medicine cat was slaughtered by ThunderClan warriors at the border, and when Lionstorm went to hold you accountable you killed him as well. A warrior crossed into our territory and left evidence of prey-stealing. Albatrosspaw crossed the border to kill Petuniaflame, a young warrior who had just been named. They attacked a peaceful border patrol, with intent to kill Splashleap, my deputy. All of this, after I personally met with Eveningstar, Thunderchaser, and Ravenstorm. After I warned them. Again. To back off." Claws scraped the stone as the RiverClan leader stepped closer, standing face to face with Aspenstar.

Kestrelstar didn't want to drag his Clan through anymore unnecessary bloodshed. He didn't want his own personal vendettas to harm them any longer. But Aspenstar was pushing him, poking and prodding him until he had no choice but to defend himself. Defend RiverClan.

"I'm going to give you the same warning I gave Eveningstar. ThunderClan's debt for all the crimes committed has been paid - take it as the generosity that it is. Back off. RiverClan no longer has a quarrel with you, but if the senseless border slaughters of my Clan continues, you will start a war. Careful the path you tread."

With that, the leader turned away to face the gathered crowd. "This Gathering is over! RiverClan, head home." He barked the order out, but he himself would stay, watch as all the Clans left. This may not be RiverClan territory, per say, but it was close enough to camp to warrant him hanging back and watching it break up. Glancing down at Splashleap, he gave his deputy a nod to have her lead the Clan back.

// poppy. Rani gs29513 Undertaker Moonraven

ChillCat

August 28th, 2021, 01:05 PM

Holy cow! This was why gatherings were so great! The drama! The pathos! The tears! Ravenpaw was grinning at the shameless display of anger. But something interesting popped up. Poisoned claws? Was that possible? How would it work? Deathberries? But would getting those into the bloodstream work, or did they have to be ingested? Hmmmm...
Ravenpaw didn’t particularly care about Thunderclan and Riverclans issues. But if any warrior crossed over the border without reason, they would have a problem.

plum

August 28th, 2021, 01:32 PM

Eldershade's conversation faded into the background as the leaders began to speak quickly amongst each other. Plumstorm stares up, captivated by a Gathering for the first time. She hangs onto every word this new ThunderClan leader says, followed by the rebuttals from Snakeheart and Kestrelstar.

They were lying!

The silver molly stands abruptly and looks at her conversational partner. "I'm going to get going," she mutters to the other she-cat before whisking away before the Gathering was called to a close.

She steps right into Yarrowshade. Jumping back, her ears flatten and she draws an unhappy scowl. "Watch it," she snaps at the cat who clearly wasn't at fault. "Do you get something out of sitting in the way like that?" Narrowing her eyes, she takes a closer look at the ThunderClanner.

"You're from ThunderClan," she notices condescendingly. "How does it feel, constantly being our baggage? Relying on RiverClan, being unable to do anything for yourself because you don't know how- You're so damn weak, all any of you can do is mewl and cry and moan and swat weakly at anyone who tells you that you're on your own!" Her fur prickles angrily, but the words spilling from her tongue were emotional, not rational. "You can claim to change and be stronger and full of strength and desire to fight back but face it- You, your Clan, and every single new leader you guys appoint from one moon to the next, you all amount to nothing to the rest of us."
[ tomatosoup, Shade. ]

North

August 28th, 2021, 01:43 PM

| jimothy |
[shame to have to wrap this up soon, as Kestralstar is sending Riverclan back : C ]
Mothflight found it hard to tear his eyes away from the tense situations occurring between the leaders; war could break out at any moment. He knew there would be tension between Windclan and Shadowclan - his disgust evident the entire time their pathetic excuse for a leader spoke - but he had not expected the potential for violence between Riverclan and Thunderclan. He didn't even turn to look at the molly as she responded, but hummed to ensure she knew he'd heard her, "Not a very good start, though," He commented, eyeing up the newly appointed Thunderclan leader, "And certainly not making the best of friends with your leader..." He further spoke, finally turning to look at her. He was sick of the leader's acting like peace as an impossibility, and he prayed to Starclan his adopted kits wouldn't grow up surrounded by so much violence. Unlikely He thought to himself, pale gaze drifting to observe the reactions of the crowd. He caught the eye of a Shadowclan cat, their expression that of glee and smugness - he gave nothing but a cold stare in return before turning back to Wavebreak. The accusation of poison was extreme, and Snakeheart's incredibly aggressive reaction made the tom suspicious. Perhaps he'd gotten a little used to Peachfrost's different nature, but still; poison? Surely medicine cats aren't supposed to do that? He dared not say anything to his new companion - friendly or not, a question about such a huge accusation could turn her against him in an instant. It would be a despicable act, one hard to justify in any case - were Riverclan that evil? He eyed up Wavebreak for a moment, seeing no reason to believe she came from a clan capable of such acts. Though, he wasn't a very good judge of character.
Kestrelstar's rebuttal brought his attention back to the stones, the clearing tense and filled with uneasiness. He prayed there wouldn't be a fight, and was thankful when Kestrelstar announced Riverclan would be leaving; it was better than war, that was for sure! "Ah, a shame you've got to go so soon, I was enjoying our little chat," He announced, genuine disappointment in his voice, "Perhaps we'll see each other again," He hoped, smiling softly at the molly. He watched Riverclanners begin to shuffle and exchange their own goodbyes, and also the silent glares they received from what he assumed were Thunderclan warriors. He didn't look forward to if Windclan and Shadowclan were the last to remain. He swallowed nervously, but managed to cast one final smile in Wavebreak's direction. "All the best, Wavebreak!"

Shade.

August 28th, 2021, 01:46 PM

implimm

As someone collided with Yarrowshade, her head snapped to look at them with narrowed eyes of venom.
"What are you doing?! Do you think you can just run into people like that!" she hissed as the other cat also snapped at her.
"I'm sitting normally, you're walking around and running into cats!"
She glared at the she-cat, claws firmly planted in the dirt. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. She rise to her paws, a complex expression on her face. It was a mixture of cruel amusement, pity and visceral anger. Even Yarrowshade didn't usually stoop as low as to blame an entire clan for something. But calling her weak, fir whatever reason, was unacceptable and Yarrowshade wanted to spit fire.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I must've missed when we asked you to attack us or get upset over a few coyotes. Yes, you did us great help by sending Lionloser to attack us because his poor boyfriend was dead or whatever. And, last time I checked, your clan isn't doing too hot, even with a leader. Just ask Ottersplash or Stormtalon's shoulders. Whoops, you can't! You're just following orders from Kestrelstar, and we held our own with no authority. I wonder what would happen if someone killed him a good couple of times, RiverClan will probably fall apart! And you can say whatever you want about anyone else, but not me personally. I fought my battle. You, on the other hand, look like you could use a few more scars. I can certainly give you some!" Yarrowshade growled and took a defensive stance. She'd used a lot of accomplishments that weren't hers and she hated it, but she really really wanted to hurt this cat as much as possible.

Panda1440

August 28th, 2021, 02:08 PM

This couldn’t be happening. She hadn’t forgotten about the easily noticeable warning Snakeheart’s words gave at the half-moon meeting. He might have seemed calm to the other medicine cats. But now,, stars.

‘You DARE accuse us of using poison?! Like Riverclan has not proven themselves capable alone?! Does your empty skull even comprehend the magnitude of what you accuse us of’

Icicleripple couldn’t believe it. Except she could. No way would they admit to it at a Gathering. Now though, her mind was back in shambles, rocks slipping, a ravine growing wider and wider at every cursed stupid word that came out of his mouth. She could hear her breathing intensify.

Screams were tugging at her mouth, words urging to scream at the RiverClan medicine cat. It is true!! He.. knew about this. And,, no,, no no no no NO NO NO!. NO! It hadn’t been enough for him - now, she was getting accused of making this up,- of poisoning her own clanmates! For a few heartbeats, she could barely breathe. Ears didn’t pick up the rest, besides a few quiet comments about Whitewolf,, how the senior warrior’s coming back wasn’t true. The young cat did know that she hadn’t seen the older She-cat around camp that much anymore,, maybe he had a point.

By this time, she was shaking, hyperventilating. And yet, Kestrelstar hadn’t even gotten started. damm damm damm. She had calmed down enough to hear what he had to say. As he listed the deaths on their part, feelings of guilt drowned her out- she knew they had stuff to be ashamed of. Now, all she wanted to do was go up to Aspenstar, to plead that they step back. She didn’t want more deaths, she didn’t want this conflict.

Most of all, (hopefully this wasn’t selfish) - Icicleripple wanted cats to believe her. If more cats died of poisoning in another raid, in another attack- she was certain Snakeheart would once more point it on her. I- I need to say.. say something..

In her weakened voice, in the impaired state of mind; she started speaking. Maybe RiverClan would stay to listen. But, at the moment, she couldn’t bare if cats thought she was the murder of those poisioned cats. “f- for sta..rters. While I may not be the most experienced of cats, as Snakeheart.. Has so,, so ki-..nd- put. I kno,,w death berries when I.. smell - one. Or in .. this case, multiplied wounds. Geckosprout.. Collapsed almost immediately after being not even fatally wounded by.. The R- riverClan warrior..”

“Y- yes.. We have made…. many mistakes. I - I don’t know what to .. say at the amount of death that seems to be at.. O- our paws.. But .. that doesn’t mean you - didn’t just lie right here, right now. In fro..front of us all..- I guess; you may not- believe me.. That- that’s your choice” she was on the verge of breaking down ,, in front of a lot of cats.. So many. Maybe she already broke down though? Icicleripple couldn’t remember.

[ Rani spade poppy. Willowfern ]

error

August 28th, 2021, 06:16 PM

`~Silverflight~`

Stormfang stalked into the clearing, near the front of the ThunderClan party. As they reached Seastones, he noted that the Gathering appeared to already be underway. Typical of the other Clans. He was willing to bet his breakfast for the next half-moon that the Clans would wait for ShadowClan to show up if they were late.

He turned his brown gaze toward where Kestrelstar was in the middle of a report and bared his teeth. No doubt gloating over his 'victory' at Firefly Cove. If he was leader, they would already have that back. He would have sent the RiverClan scum running for their lives. Of course, Aspenstar would be much more civil with the fat furry fish. The last thing all the StarClan-fearing cats would want to do is start a fight at a Gathering. Oh, no. That had to be one of the worst things you could do. On the other paw, Stormfang would love to start a scuffle tonight.

He snorted. It wasn't that he didn't think StarClan existed, he just didn't respect them. For as much as they were idolized, he hadn't seen any of them do any bit of good in any of the Clans. All they did was appear in dreams and make decisions that they thought living cats couldn't make. Dying didn't give you any powers, or make you smarter. Some cats needed to get their heads out of their asses.

Taking long strides across the clearing, Stormfang picked out a RiverClan cat, making a point to sit right beside them. "Enjoy the Cove while you can," he hissed, trying to pick a fight. It was time some cat made an example of what happened when you messed with ThunderClan.

The silver she-cat flicked her tail in annoyance at the Thunderclan tom's rude remark. "I doubt we'll lose it. I hope you remember that you have inexperienced leader who can barely pay attention to a gathering. She sneered. She felt horrible for the fact that her own leader, Kestrelstar, killed the previous Thunderclan leader, but she wanted to make sure that Riverclan was just as strong, maybe more, as Thunderclan. She also wanted to see how Stormfang would react.

Abyssopelagic

August 28th, 2021, 06:59 PM

Palehound listens to Aspenstar continue and how they refused to acknowledge any of the events that happened could have possibly been started by them, that they were somehow not partially to blame for the reaction.
She flinched at the mention of the poison and the mention of a kit having been attacked, remembering the way the other kit had called for a Cinderkit. But she wasn't a kit, in anything more than rank. She'd been more than old enough to have started her training and she had attacked her first.

Willowfern

August 28th, 2021, 09:49 PM

Rage.
Rage hot and burning flooded through the Deputy as Snakeheart- his name matched who he was perfectly, it seemed- leapt on to the Seastone and practically threatened Aspenstar.
That cat must be an idiot.
The heavily built yet smaller tom hauled himself onto the Seastone, snarling,
"You stay away from her you fox-heart, unless you want that face of yours to look even worse than mine!" He didn't unsheathe his claws, he knew that he couldn't break the Warrior Code, not for this scum anyway.
"You, are the liar, Snakeheart! One of our Warriors was killed by that poison, another was almost killed by none other than Kestrelstar himself! If she was here, she would tell you just the same! How do you think your blithering idiot of a Leader damaged that paw of his??"
He was so worked up now, he had to keep thinking of what would happen if he leapt at that traitor to the Code,
"And to think a Medicine Cat of all cats did this! It is despicable, and cruel, you should be exiled for what you've caused!"
Hate boiled under his fur, it was as if you could see the steam rising from his pelt.
"And you-" He snarled, eyes wild with fury, at Kestrelstar, "Giving that StarClan forsaken murder order?? You're insane! Albatrosspaw is going to be dealt with accordingly! Icicleripple wouldn't order the death of a cat! She's a Medicine Cat, chosen by StarClan to be who she is, and it wasn't her place to make a decision like that! Aspenstar and I will deal with that murderer how we see fit, and you have no right to boss ThunderClan around like we're some extension of some kind of Kingdom, your Highness!"
He wanted to shred Kestrelstar, he wanted to hear that fleabag's screams as he died, and Dogbark would kill him again, and again, and again-
All he could see was red.
His claws inched out of their sheathes-
"The Gathering is over! RiverClan, head home!"
Dogbark rocketed back to reality, his fury dissipating and being replaced with contempt,
That liar can't even back up his lie, so he tells his clan to flee... ah, so old idiot fleabag is staying now? Worried to death about what the other leaders will do if he admits to all of this, so waiting until they're gone? Staying to attack Aspenstar?
If the latter was the case, Dogbark remained ready, not going to let Kestrelstar get any closer to the Leader of ThunderClan than necessary.

// poppy. spade Rani Panda1440

tomatosoup

August 28th, 2021, 10:55 PM

Eldershade (Shc)

Eldershade watched as the shouting escalated. Plumstorm had left, snapping at another cat, and RiverClan was apparently headed back home.

Huh. ThunderClan and RiverClan were clearly ready to tear each other apart. She was glad, for a minute, that Nightfoot hadn't come tonight. He would hate this. She watched the new ThunderClan leader face off against the RiverClan leader, her deputy coming up between them.

This might turn ugly. Eldershade stood, eager, in case a fight broke out.

Juniperclaw (Th)

The air hummed with tension like high wind. Juniperclaw sat, his face like stone. Long practice of intimidating other rogues had given him a look like a hammer, that said, I will hurt you if I have to. I would rather not. But I can, and if I do, I will never have to hurt you again, because there won't be enough of you left. I finish the job the first time.

He listened, quietly, to the roaring, and waited for the violence.

poppy

August 29th, 2021, 09:36 AM

Lip curled in absolute disgust as the puny medicine cat hopped up onto the rock and aggressively began spouting off insults and reflecting all her accusations back at ThunderClan. Trying to order her around. Saying that Icicleripple was the poisoner of her own Clanmates. How stupid could this cat be? "At least Icicleripple isn't an emotionally unstable, lying piece of dung." She spat back, curling her claws out, then pulling them back in by some force of self-control. Attacking a medicine cat at a Gathering, (even knocking him off the Seastones, which had certainly crossed her mind as well), wouldn't fare well with anyone. "And she may be a newer medicine cat, but at least she has control over her anger management! You think you've lost cats, so has she! We all have lost cats, but only RiverClan uses that as an excuse to take things and be nasty."

Turning to Kestrelstar, she looked him up and down. Revolting creature. "Yes, how kind of you. Warning a leader to betray his Clan and disrespect his responsibilities, then when he rightfully refuses, you murder him. How spectacularly fabulous of you, Kestrelstar." How was it that he needed his medicine cat to come up and defend him, she would point that out, but he might get so outraged at another exposure he might fall off the rock. "Typical RiverClan, it's never your fault, isn't it? You all are StarClan-sent, aren't you? Guess what? No one is going to fall down at your feet and praise you for what you've done. Yes, we've done wrong, your cats didn't deserve to die like that, but neither did any of mine. You want peace? Stop killing my cats and we'll stop killing yours." She swept a stern glance over her Clan. If any of her cats killed a RiverClan apprentice again, she would shred them personally. But if any of her cats were attacked again by RiverClan, she would bust into the RiverClan camp and slaughter the murderer.

A dry spurt of laughter escaped her at his next claim. "Yes, thank Lionstorm for all he has done for us. He murdered our leader, former medicine cat, a queen, and an apprentice. Thank the stars for him. If you haven't already figured it out, Lionstorm deserved to die! If I busted into your camp, killed a queen, apprentice, medicine cat and you or your deputy, I doubt any of you would have a peaceful reaction to that." He was being ridiculous. As he scoffed, dismissing Cinderkit's injuries, she wanted to claw his eyes out, rip the life from him and teach him to never cross ThunderClan again. Ever, again. "She would have started her training if you hadn't killed Eveningstar, I think you forgot that little detail." Dogbark had jumped up beside her, and she stood next to him. He was a good deputy, and he seemed to want to shred the RiverClan toms as much as she did. 'Wait for battle, Dogbark.' She prayed, hoping he would have the restraint to stop.... to wait.

"Don't you dare tell me how to punish the murderer in my Clan when your Clan is made exclusively of killers. You, are a killer. So the way I see it, I'll punish Albatrosspaw more severely if you punish yourself. But you won't, of course. Because you RiverClan cats are perfect in every way, always the victim, aren't you?"

Now, he didn't have any argument left. As if he had provided a great service to her Clan, and deserved to be praised. It was infuriating. Now he was ordering his cats to leave, when he himself stayed. Because why? Because maybe he wanted to discuss alliance with Twilightstar or Dawnstar. That wouldn't happen, over her dead body.

"No, here is your warning." She hissed through gritted teeth, leaning closer, so that only the cats around the rock could hear. "Stay away from ThunderClan. There is no debt to be paid, and Firefly Cove will be ours again. Unless you want to send more of your cats to die in a worthless fight, I suggest you don't resist it."

Turning to face the corner where ThunderClan had squeezed in, she then looked to Dogbark. "Lead the Clan home. I'll be back shortly."

| spade Rani Willowfern Panda1440 Undertaker Moonraven |

Willowfern

August 29th, 2021, 09:54 AM

Dogbark nodded silently, and with one last look at the pond scum of a Leader, he leapt from the rock,
"ThunderClan!" He barked, blood boiling, fuse short, "Come on, we're going home!"
He shouldered his way through the crowd to Marshkit,
"Alright, come on now, we're heading home, It's not too safe for you to lag behind, come up front with me."
Checking to see if the clan was following, Dogbark stormed out of the Gathering, head held high, tail snapping with anger.
Aspenstar can hold her own... though if that skunk's ass of a Leader lays a claw on her, he'll have to answer to me, ThunderClan needs our Leader, we can't have another Eveningstar... He gritted his teeth.

// poppy. Panda1440 spade

WinterMara

August 29th, 2021, 09:58 AM

| Blacksun of Thunderclan |

Well this gathering sucked, whatever, if Kestralstar or, starclan please teach Dawnstar a lesson, maybe the next one would go well. Although, even Blacksun knew Dawnstar was a lost cause so, just wishful thinking there. Maybe the riverclan tom could be saved though, she'd antagonize his clan until he shapened up though

Nixey

August 29th, 2021, 10:01 AM

~Shadowheart~
Raising her head at Dogbarks call, the black and white molly let out a soft sigh before she followed along with the other Thunderclan cats.
~Dewsplash~
Turning its gaze onto Dogbark, Dewsplash was quick to follow along to go home.

vcrdant

August 29th, 2021, 10:08 AM

Unable to move for a split
second, Snakewhisker glanced uneasily at the other cats. Lowering his
head, he slowly stood and padded away from the Gathering. The
ThunderClan tom followed after the rest of his clan, occasionally looking
over his shoulder. Although a small part of him was curious to see what
would unravel, he was mostly relieved to be away from all of the conflict.

spade

August 29th, 2021, 10:19 AM

Terrified.

Marshkit was terrified. All the yelling, the anger, the blazing look of fury in Dogbark's eyes... she wished she had never snuck out of camp in the first place.

Why couldn't everyone just get along? Both sides, from what she had heard, seemed to be in the wrong, why couldn't both sides just apologize? It went over the young kit's head as she shrunk back against the sand, closer to Grousewing's side. He was safety, protection. She didn't want to leave his side.

When Dogbark landed next to her, barking for ThunderClan to head home, she flinched away from him. "N-No," she murmured, unable to keep the shakiness out of her voice. Once more, she pressed closer into Grousewing's side, eyes round and scared as her ears were flat against her head. "I want to stay with my dad." Around her, cats were beginning to leave but Marshkit couldn't find the strength to move a single paw. Hopefully she wasn't too old for Grousewing to carry her back to camp.

// Willowfern jimothy

Willowfern

August 29th, 2021, 10:27 AM

Jeez Dogbark, you scared the kid!
"Alright, Marshkit, I'm sorry I scared you, you can stay with your dad," He offered her a slight smile before moving on, continuing on, leading his clan home.

Undertaker

August 29th, 2021, 12:35 PM

Cute speech, if they could put their prey where their mouth was, then Dawnstar might actually find them a little threatening. Who knew it took a little insult to the whole clan that got so many bunnies to want to jump down her throat. It wasn't much, but it was more than last time, so the reaction was rather glorious. The mighty ShadowClan leader cast her eyes at one bunny and then the next, semi amused about the lack of ShadowClanners participate in this little verbal battle of strength. But as expected, Dawnstar wasn't really interested in indulging them with a retort, although she could think of several, if it didn't have anything to do with shaming Bunnystar. Now if the bunnies wanted to use their claws and fangs, that would be more Dawnstar's langue.

Like flies buzzing around a tiger, Dawnstar gave a sharp lash of her tail flicking their words away and decided to listen in on Aspenstar's and Kestrelstar's little back and forth. The poisonous claws were intriguing, not something Dawnstar would ever do since she felt that if you lacked the ability to bring down your enemy with tooth and claw alone then you had no right to call yourself a warrior. But to say that one couldn't poison their claws...hmm that might be a lie. One could eat death berries without dying. If they were talking about yew berries. Surely the symptoms would be lessened if the poison was taken into the bloodstream over ingesting, but shouldn't the symptoms still be similar? Either way, it wasn't that far-fetched to think one could coat their claws with poison. If that mouse of a ThunderClan medicine cat really wanted to prove the 'great senior medicine cat wrong' it wouldn't be hard to test such a claim. Although Dawnstar was no medicine cat and it wasn't her problem. Though she almost wanted to do it herself just to see if that Sharptongue fishbrain would get in her face, whether she was wrong or right, Dawnstar just genuinely wanted to tear out his tongue and she'd take the smallest reason to do it. Snake could still be a medicine cat, just a mute one.

The fact that Sharptongue seemed pretty defense about the whole thing had piqued her curiosity. The Snake went as far as bringing his rank as a senior into it and belittling the ThunderClan medicine cat. Just because one was older didn't make them automatically right about everything. Dawnstar knew that from experiences. Have more mentors didn't make you right either, nor does a lack of confidence make one wrong, but again not her argument. Dawnstar hissed softly after medicine cat had to jump in and on the seastones to get in the ThunderClan leader's face. That Snake was always so loud, it's like Kestrelstar couldn't stand up for his clan without him. If you asked her, he relied far too much on that's one tongue. It was honestly getting annoying to hear him these days. The fact that Kestrelstar allowed his medicine cat the right to stand on the Seastones, a place for leaders, was somewhat insulting. Just like warriors and apprentices weren't allowed up here, medicine cats weren't either.

The newest leader appeared to be a bit of a push-over, but had more backbone than her stuttering medicine cat. Even so, clearly she didn't have nearly as much gull as her considering Dawnstar would have already clawed at the Snake's face by now. Medicine cat or not, if he wanted to act all ballsy and warrior-like he better have more than his tongue to back him up. The lack of scolding the Snake receive for bouncing up there was irritating Dawnstar, the other cats would think they can just jump up here as well when they got all heated, like Dogbark. How pathetic. As much as Dawnstar wanted to growl about it, should the Snappysnake set a toe-up here again with that temper of his, Dawnstar would have to take matters into her own paws. If Kestrelstar couldn't control his cats, as he so enjoyed reminding her, Dawnstar would take joy in disciplining Snappysnake herself. He needed to set better examples for the clans.

The kit thing was stupid, if a clan couldn't keep track of its kits, why is it the there clan's fault if they die? It wasn't like the kit was RiverClan's responsibility. But anyway, the murdering thing she didn't bother diving into, the Firefly Cove belonging to RiverClan was. They gave that territory to ThunderClan if what Kestrelstar said was true, Dawnstar wasn't sure because Dawnstar didn't usually listen as intently as she was now. But the point being, if they gave it to them, and it held their dead, was it a little petty to just up and take it back like that? It was established long ago that Dawnstar is a large hypocrite, but obviously, she didn't care. She should see about following in the Catfish's pawsteps and stealing WindClan's graveyard. That might actually set Bunnystar over the edge!

But anyway, considering Kestreltstar led his cats to the ThunderClan camp after taking their Cove, and expected them not to attack first, well that was pure manipulation on his part. He didn't have his cats attack first purely so he could use the whole "they attacked first" defense. Dawnstar did that a lot with WindClan. Kestrelstar was more like her than she originally thought, but he was severally lacking in some areas. It was already established that the coyote thing was an accident, again, they'd never let that go. If her clan couldn't defend themselves against a pack of mutts, or she lost a few of her cats because WindClan drove them into her clan, well she wouldn't cry over it forever.

She'd blame her weakass warriors for not being strong enough to defend themselves, and then make them stronger. Giving the bunnies a win for an attack they didn't directly cause with their fangs and claws wouldn't be something Dawnstar would allow, let alone let it rattle her. Lionstorm was a hot-headed fool who stuck his nose in every cats business, did he not offer his and RiverClan's paw to aid ThunderClan first? Perhaps he didn't, but he was always sticking his nose in WindClan's business, so it wasn't hard to think he acted without ThunderClan's verbally begging for aid. If that was so, ThunderClan didn't really have a debt, RiverClan offered and ThunderClan took, which was smart. The fact they'd offer and demand something out it later was sneaky. She doubted ThunderClan would have taken the help if they knew it would bit them in the ass later.

But anyway, back to Lionfart, didn't he attack ThunderClan first? As if to confirm her thoughts, Aspenstar pointed that out herself. See! That imbecile deserved to die, just because your mate or whatever that tom had been to Lionfart, had died didn't give you the right to go and on a rage trip to kill everyone. Again, it wasn't even ThunderClan who had done the actually killing, it had been a coyote. It was RiverClan's fault for not making sure all those mongerals were out of their territory. There was also something called self-control, Lionfart was a complete failcat when it came to that. Yeah, some cats die, precious cats, you don't see clan cats going on a solo ragetrip and killing multiple cats in their camp. Lionfart had been wrong there, not even Dawnstar would condone such actions. If Dawnstar thought something was wrong, well it was saying something. RiverClan really couldn't do any bad.

Cats use the words murder and murderer too loosely these days. Killed and killing, everyone always to justify someone's or their own actions, it was so tedious. It was better for Dawnstar to justify her actions as they blatantly were. More importantly, why was Dawnstar actually paying attention to all of this, today? Simple, she knew some sort of war was coming. Kestrelstar and RiverClan would be worming their way back onto Twilightstar's and WindClan's side. It was clever, reestablishing that alliance after stealing ThunderClan's Cove. If that Aspenstar wasn't a complete kittypet, she'd want retribution. Whether it was to return their Cove or steal some RiverClan territory, it was clear she was not going to let old dogs lie with her announcement and her retort to RiverClan. ThunderClan was like WindClan, weak alone. Even if they didn't want to admit it, RiverClan was like ShadowClan, ripping apart ThunderClan while they were down. If ThunderClan wanted to win a battle against them they needed an ally.

No clan wanted to side with ShadowClan, for obvious reasons, which left Bunnystar and WindClan stuck in the middle. Dawnstar was sure that at some point in time, ThunderClan would try and set up something with WindClan in return for help dealing with ShadowClan. Anyone with a brain could conclude that. Dawnstar wasn't sure who's side Bunnystar would be taking, WindClan should be loyal to their clan alone, and Dawnstar would side with whoever was stronger, but as of late Twilightstar's been playing right into her paw, so two things could happen. The Bunny could surprise her and side with ThunderClan, putting her alliance and her clan in jeopardy should future problems arise in WindClan with RiverClan. If that happened, Dawnstar would have to show up, purely for the fun of tearing apart the fishes. Unfortunately, the fish were getting a little high and mighty and Dawnstar was more or less a free agent, she didn't do side or alliances whatever got her, and ShadowClan, causing the destruction and death, would worked for her.

On the other, the most logical paw, Bunnystar would side with RiverClan, keep their little union going, and ThunderClan would either have to go at it alone or turn to ShadowClan. Again, Dawnstar literally just wants some serious anarchy, so she'd help them out. Unlike RiverClan, so long as Dawnstar got her claws dirty, first-time aid would be free of charge. Either way, Dawnstar should be having a lot of fun in the future. She should also make sure ShadowClan was well prepared and getting them a new deputy would be first priority. None of her cats have really done much to impress her, so she could probably just pick someone and demote them later if she found someone better. Yeah, that was a good idea.

"Bunnystar, I'd watch your back with that one and his catfish. Sooner or later, maybe not you but one of your cats will screw up and that alliance will break. Mistake or not, apology or not, they'll be demanding you pay back your debt to them."Dawnstar tossed her words at the smaller she-cat before leaping off the Seastones. RiverClan and ThunderClan were already leaving, but for whatever reason, both their leaders were staying behind? Dawnstar couldn't bring herself to puzzle the reason why, so she wasn't going to bother sticking around.

"When you bunnies have the strength to back up your sassy, I might bother dignifying you with a response." Dawnstar gave Wolffang, Snowypaw, and Owltalon a tooth grin full of malice as she walked past them. Dawnstar had better things to do than toy with some prey.

"ShadowClan we're out." She yowled, leading her clan home.

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Mango

August 29th, 2021, 12:54 PM

Coldamber hadn't expected the apprentice to come of to her and even less did she expect the apprentice to? Recognize her?
She took a moment to get a better look at her, rolling her name around in her brain.
Webpaw.... Webpaw....
It wouldn't be a stretch to imagine she might have known a few RiverClanners, given she'd seemi gly been close to their Medicine Cat Snakeheart, but nothing about the cat in front of her really called to her the way the presence of the others cats in her life had. Then again, those had been a presence undeniable and strong in her life. She didn't feel this for every one of her clanmates (she hadn't felt it for Shockholly, who had momentarily taken her place while she'd been away, so it wasn't something she felt about every cat she happened to pass by).
She ducks her head as a sort of shrug.
"I am Coldamber; I used to be WindClan's Medicine Cat, no doubt you once heard of me in passing."
Webpaw found it interesting,” Maybe that’s why I know you, not sure why I recognized you from sight though…weren’t you in Thunderclan’s camp at one point, like temporarily living there?” she asked not sure why that even crossed her mind,” ooo did you ever meet Frostbreeze or Frostpaw, not sure which name you know her as. The crazy lady medicine cat from Thunderclan” she meowed, obviously Webpaw knew nothing of Coldamber losing her memory.

tomatosoup

August 29th, 2021, 05:42 PM

Eldershade (Shc)

Eldershade sheathed her claws, disappointed, and glanced at the crowd of cats around her before turning to follow her leader. Nightfoot would find the news interesting, at least.

Juniperclaw (Th)

Juniperclaw's eyes stayed on Aspenstar for a beat or two long, before slowly rising to his feet. He glanced back at Dogbark, who was leaving, and then up at the other leaders.

This was stupid. A leader alone up on the rocks was asking for trouble. Then again, if RiverClan killed another ThunderClan leader, they wouldn't be able to deny it... they might not want to risk angering the Clan further, especially if their plan was denial.

Or they'd kill again. There was no telling.

Juniperclaw hesitated, and then turned to catch up to Dogbark.

"... Is this wise?" he meowed, quietly. "I can stay behind, at the edge. See what they do without interrupting them."

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gs29513

August 29th, 2021, 09:16 PM

SHE JINXED IT! THIS WAS EXPLODED! For all Kestrelstar's words about keeping their cats under control, he didn't seem to be doing much to help. In case he hadn't noticed it was him and Snakeheart yowling their heads off at the Thunderclan leadership, not any warriors! And how did that reflect on the whole clan, that they were so...........unstable? Splashleap knew it wasn't REALLY her place to question the leader and longtime medicine cat, she certainly wasn't going to contradict them publicly, but REALLY! A disaster, both of them sometimes!

Then again, at least they had the courage to SAY something. At even the THOUGHT of speaking for the whole assembly to hear her eyes closed as she quivered slightly. How were they all so CONFIDENT? Nope, certainly not her thing, she did NOT want to get up there and say the wrong thing, two clans hated her on principle anyway, she certainly didn't want to add some of their allies or clanmates to that list. Kestrelstar clearly had no such issues, as soon as a nasty word was said it was a full out screaming match on the Highrock, with Snakeheart and Dogbark joining in. Were there only five sane cats up here, Twilightstar, Wolffang, Peachfrost, Bouncepaw and MAYBE herself? Well, and Icicleripple. She could sympathize with her, and while her fear wasn't QUITE as bad as the medicine cat's, she certainly understood where they molly was coming from.

As the yowling continued Splashleap snuck a glance at Dawnstar who looked entirely too smug for her own good. ENTIRELY too smug for her own good. If Splashleap knew anything she was guessing she was trying to figure out a way to insert Shadowclan into the chaos, perhaps side with Thunderclan? Which would mean trying to improve the alliance with Windclan was certainly in order. Perhaps she could talk to Kestrelstar about trying to improve relations with them. Making sure they don't need help while recovering from Shadowclan. Although.......he seemed more concerned with making enemies at this point than making friends.

Dipping her head quickly to Wolffang(and casting a worried glance at Kestrelstar, what the HECK did he have planned?) Splashleap mewed softly Alright, Riverclan, let's go! before working up a bit of nerve and calling out relatively clearly Alright Riverclan, let's head home! before trotting through the gathered cats to the fore of what would be a bit of a mob heading back towards their camp. Probably best to get out before things got even nastier than they already had. spade

jimothy

August 29th, 2021, 10:07 PM

A damn shame.

Grousewing beheld the stand-off with a stony presence. It was unfortunate to feel his large frame braced for a spring, suspense and pressing fury testing his control. Aspenstar was his leader, his adoptive daughter, the governor of his family and friends. She put defending her clan before a proper introduction of her bestowed name, though perhaps this explosive confrontation was declarative enough of her agency.

One thing was made clear: Thunderclan had enough of Riverclan’s turbulent and dishonorable leadership. Whatever Kestrelstar and Snakeheart and their puppets said to themselves at moon-high to be able to face their clan mates the waking morning—it had to be convincing...and terribly damaging. Would they have had the dignity to shoulder the truths Aspenstar had spilled, maybe Grousewing would have exhibited some pity.

He’d kept his eyes on the Abyssinian a moment longer, his long-haired tail wrapping around his youngest child when Dogbark hopped down.

“Thank you, Dogbark. You’ve done plenty. I’ll join the group with Marshkit shortly,” he meowed, his response low and firm. Standing up, the senior warrior dipped his head to give Marshkit a hearty lick atop her head. “We’ll stay together the whole way back. Just one moment.”

Why did he feel so heavy?

“Icicleripple,” he calls to the medicine cat with one step toward the base of the Seastone, his flank still pressed to his trembling kit. ”Will you walk with us?” Paternal feelings or not, her condition deeply troubled him. It was clear that their medicine cat was disturbed by the targeted, verbal assault. To think their neighbors would top all their venomous spouting off with a pathetic bounce of accusations onto their blind-sided healer.

This Gathering was unsettling. So many cats gripped by such forcible paws.

He felt his age more than ever tonight.
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Rani

August 30th, 2021, 01:09 AM

Snakeheart didnt so much as flinch even as the more powerful and far far more battle experienced tom got up in his face in some sort of sad attempt to win this mess of a situation with intimidation. It was so fitting that thunderclan had to resort to this, this brutish way of trying to get the upper paw and nothing but shouted insistence that they were telling the truth with no proof still, just more words. Learn oh mousehearts, no one will care if it's the truth if there's any doubt it's not and you have no proof. And you have no proof, Snakeheart knew full well how fast the scent of the poison faded and how easy the symptoms could be taken as something else. Your entire clan could scream support of your claims but questions of your validity were flying.
“Are you both so enraged by someone refuting your lies you’d threaten a medicine cat at the gathering?! Amazing how you all continue to meet my expectations for you time and time again from Frostpaw to you. It must be a special skill of Thunderclans. I will not take your childish yelling at me insisting Im a liar when I’ve laid out ample evidence of the falseness of your own words. There was no poison, cats die and get injured in battle, it's how it works. This is why any reasonable cat would strive for peace like we’ve offered you but you seem intent on charging headfirst into war like you want more death.

I will not acknowledge your vile slander against me it isnt worth the time and air. All I will say is we make no claims of being faultless only you do, we can fully admit the raid was regrettable and too far so we are giving the chance to cease hostilities in light of such a lesson.

Moving on I must ask are you both deaf or just dumb? We said nothing about killing Albatrosspaw or demanding you punish him in a specific way. We simply highlighted how easily you let a murderer off for the crimes he unquestionably committed and does not regret. Demotion is a punishment for when cats refuse to act their age, like Vinepaw climbing the seastone, not for vile acts like his. We demand nothing, just show how by letting him off so lightly you display quiet support for his actions and that your punishment is for nothing but show. We do not order you to do anything, we only lay out where things stand clearly with the truth.

It’s just mind boggling how you manage to accuse us of so much with consistently so little evidence or self reflection yet still believe youre in the right. You did not even so much as process anything we said and you ignored it to try and defend your refuted claims by just saying them louder. Even I'm not stubborn enough to argue with a rock, Ive stated our case, unless you’ve an actual rebuttal this conversation is over. If you attack it will be you who reignites this conflict and who’s paws the responsibility any death will lay on.”

Snakehearts scorn was burning and clearly visible as the tom looked down his nose at cats who where technically above him. Riverclan had cleaned themselves of this conflict but marching paws seemed intent on kicking the dirt back up again. They’d said all they wished to say and with a cool calm and cold expression Snakeheart turned his back on the thunderclan cats, dismissing them as a threat or thing to pay attention to as he turned to jump off the stone with one last backwards glance. “Oh and Dawnstar you overgrown dog? Eat your false words, we do not turn on our allies they’ve turned on us and windclan owes us no debt. What we give to them are gifts given because they are friends and they dont have a history of leaching forcing us to be wary. No one would asking a morally deprived badger how to make friends and neither are we.” Then with a few smooth bounds head held high the tom left passing by the medicine cats with a nod to those he actually liked before he was gone. The gathering was over and even if Kestrelstar lingered to make sure no one had the bad idea to stay the argument was closed.

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WinterMara

August 30th, 2021, 03:58 PM

| Sandpaw of Shadowclan |

The apprentice was, confused, this seemed troublesome, but everyone was leaving so, he should go too.

' 'Um, bye Cliffcrash!' '

Great, this was now awkward...he didn't know what to think of all that had transpired

[I'm not even gonna bother posting Whitepaw leaving, lack of motivation]

Nixey

August 30th, 2021, 04:08 PM

Riverclan
~Dawnwhisper~
Hearing Splashleap calling for them to leave, Dawnwhisper raised themself onto their paws before quickly following the deputy. Not uttering another word.
~Reedpaw~
Head spinning, her heart silently pounded at her chest. What was happening? Everyone was yelling, Splashleap, that was the deputy’s voice, right? Head spinning, Reedpaw hurriedly followed with the other Riverclan cats.
Shadowclan
~Splotchleaf~
Taking in a soft breath as everything seemed to be dissolving around him, Splotchleaf quickly brought himself to his paws and hurriedly followed the Shadowclan lead.
~Sheepglow~
Heart beating wildly in her chest out of fear, Sheepglow quickly followed along with the other cats. She had no want to be here if a fought broke out.
~Flametail~
So much was happening, everyone seemed to be yelling at this point. In the distant part of his brain, Flametail registered Dawnstars voice. Quickly getting onto his paws, he hurriedly followed the other Shadowclan cats.

spade

August 30th, 2021, 09:20 PM

This time, Kestrelstar didn't flinch. He didn't move. Instead, he moved his yellow gaze calmly to Dogbark, then to Aspenstar. No fur rose from his pelt, no claws scraped the stone. He was still as leaf-bare water, taking a moment or two of silence as he watched them.

It was clear to him that ThunderClan would never see the error of their ways. The pain they had caused. Had Lionstorm been right to react the way he did? No. But what had happened after? Not a single RiverClan cat had retaliated. Not one. But ThunderClan had kept poking, poking... Pushing and prodding until finally Kestrelstar had to do something.

Ears perked to hear Snakeheart leap to the defense as expected, but honestly at this point... Kestrelstar was just numb. Numb to the excuses that were being made. Numb to the glaring fact that no matter what was said or done, ThunderClan would never admit to their wrong doings.

Taking a moment, Kestrelstar glanced at Aspenstar. It was faint, almost undetectable, but a flash of disappointment was there. How far had ThunderClan fallen? How far had they let themselves fall away from the warrior code that they could not own up to their brutal killings?

Firehawk.
Fawnsqueak.
Lionstorm.
Peonypaw.
Petuniaflame.
Olivenose.
Ottersplash.
Shadowfire.

The names rang clear in his head, and misted over were his eyes. But Kestrelstar was even too numb to cry. He just wanted to go home.

Betray his Clan? How was asking cats who have been slaughtering RiverClan at the border to be called off making Eveningstar to betray his Clan? None of that made sense, but the RiverClan leader didn't push the issue. There were many errors in what Aspenstar said, and for once the puzzle pieces clicked. Had Eveningstar even been a leader to this Clan? He had given him a definite warning - warriors on both sides had bared witness to it. Had the tom just left his Clan?

Recalling the fateful night in the forest when he had come across the ThunderClan leader, the tom had looked exhausted. Thin. And the scent that clung to him was far from ThunderClan.

"We only killed when we were pushed. After ThunderClan had sent the coyotes, after you had murdered Fawnsqueak and Lionstorm, after you had attacked Splashleap and stolen prey. After, after, after!" Now his voice rose again, Kestrelstar unable to control the volume. Sinking back down to a whisper, the same disappointed look crossed his face. "Like you said... not a peaceful reaction at all."

His muscles ached as he continued to stand there, thinking briefly how remarkable it was that he had not once shown his claws, raised his fur, or glared. Kestrelstar had kept control of himself, just like Duskfall would've taught him - had she still been alive. "I didn't kill Eveningstar until a few days before we took back the cove, when he was very near the border I might add. Tell me, that was two moons since the Gathering where I gave him a warning. What had he been doing? Had he even been in camp? From the smell of him, ThunderClan scent was long gone from his pelt by the time we crossed paths at the border." Had he even been a leader for his Clan? Had he been there for them, like Kestrelstar had for RiverClan?

Yellow gaze moved from Aspenstar to the ThunderClan deputy. It was getting crowded up on the rocks, but Kestrelstar forced his fur to continue to lie flat. "You speak highly of StarClan," he continued, looking back at Aspenstar, "to be threatening a leader and medicine cat at a Gathering like this, with violence." A nod of his head to the claws he could see at Dogbark's unsheathed claws. Her own that had flashed out were not lost on him either.

The same disappointed looked remained as he watched Aspenstar. How could she not see past her own anger at the history of her Clan? The trail of bodies they had left - how not once RiverClan had retaliated until they were forced to? Verbal warnings hadn’t worked - so perhaps taking back a piece of territory that had belonged to RiverClan in the first place would do the trick.

Was the warrior code even alive in ThunderClan anymore?

With one last disgusted look, Kestrelstar turned to follow Snakeheart off the rock. He passed an apologetic look to Twilightstar, giving her a nod before leaping down and following behind the rest of his exiting Clan. He'd speak to Twilightstar another time - perhaps another herb and prey patrol was in order to strengthen that allyship. Apart from ThunderClan, RiverClan had a mutual issue with Dawnstar and ShadowClan as a whole that could be best tackled if they utilized their neighbors across the border. A common enemy was beneficial to have.

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