March Gathering [Archive] - Warrior Cats Online

Undertaker

March 7th, 2022, 08:27 PM

The sky was clear, the stars twinkling and the moon shining onto the ground below. It was beyond confusing, it seemed that no matter what she did, StarClan refused to intervene. This further proved Dawnstar's assumption that the dead just didn't give a ratass about the living. She had thought between the pure hell she's caused WindClan, and all the leader RiverClan has stolen from ThunderClan, the dead might show their disapproval with a few clouds. Yet there was nothing, she could always use this to spin on ThunderClan when they proved to continue being aggravating kits.

The powerful she-cat strolled down the slope that led to the beach, she shook out her dark brown pelt and although she had made sure to taste the air before she dropped in, she was heavily disappointed to see that she was first. Seriously? How was this even possible. Dawnstar felt she had been late enough, she literally had to gather both ThunderClan and ShadowClan and lead them to the gathering. ThunderClan already complained about Dawnstar running the Clan, even though no one has stepped up still, and they proved to be equally annoying having to walk to gathering with ShadowClan. Only, it was worse considering Dawnstar had to listen to both ShadowClan and ThunderClan whine about coming together.

Now, Dawnstar knew she was petty, but some of these cats just blew her away without immature they were. That was saying a lot coming from the she-cat who threw a fit and pouted cause she couldn't show up last at a Gathering. The dual leader stomped her way across the beach and leaped up onto the cold stones with her ears flattened against her head. Her injuries from a moon ago had pretty much healed, aside from the one nasty one on her back leg. That one still liked to act up here and there, but at least the bone wasn't showing anymore.

"You lot can sit on opposite sides of the beach if you'd like, but if I have to get off this rock cause you can't play nice, you'll regret it." Dawnstar hissed from her place atop the Seastone. Yawning, the she-cat began to itch at the old scars that ringed her neck before rolling her broad shoulders. She cast her gleaming amber eyes to the outskirts of the beach, watching where RiverClan usually entered. They had a home advantage to being the closest clan to the Seastones, they were usually first if not second.
[ShadowClan & ThunderClan have Arrived]

stardust.

March 7th, 2022, 08:29 PM

Whiteclaw followed behind Dawnstar, hoping to interact with some non-shadow clan cats, he hoped this gathering wouldn't be ones with fighting like what happened with the ones lately,

(Open for non-sc cats)

Ian

March 7th, 2022, 08:36 PM

bubble[error].

March 7th, 2022, 08:48 PM

~Skyclaw of ShadowClan~~

{OPEN}

Skyclaw smiled. Finally. A Gathering. He looked around.

~~Tigerpaw of WindClan~~

{OPEN}

Tigerpaw jumped up and down. Another Gathering! FINALLY!!! Her energy was showing.

~~Mothflight of ThunderClan~~

{OPEN}

Mothflight had her head in the clouds again. She wasn't paying any attention to her surroundings.

Madelaine

March 7th, 2022, 08:51 PM

-->Ebonyfang<--

The shadowclan warrior walked right behind his cousin, glaring at the Thunderclan cats. They better not do anything stupid. If they did he hoped he could be the one to do something to then. He liked hurting cats more than he evee did in these past coupld moons. It was like the old medicine cat he once was was gone. He was a warrior for a while now and he was loving all the freedom he now had. Sitting down where he can still see the Thunderclan cats he waited for the resy of the clans to arrive.

-->Possumpaw<--

The thunderclan apprentice moved behind the Thunderclan warriors, wanting to stay as far away from them as he possibly could. They made him feel uneasy and he wasn't afraid to talk back to them. He wasn't afraid of anything. Possumpaw say down near the back his furless rat style tail swished from side to side. His eyes showed he was alert.

// both open \\

pxxylo

March 7th, 2022, 09:12 PM

beau

March 7th, 2022, 09:16 PM

Sundust inhaled deeply as he followed the clan into the clearing. He had allowed himself to fall back to the rear of the group, much preferring to watch everyone rather than walk beside Dawnstar at the head of the crowd. It seemed the amalgamation of Thunderclan and Shadowclan had arrived first. What would the other clans make of this? What would they say? Whatever they did, it was Dawnstar's problem, not his. If she wanted the responsibility of two clans, then by all means she could have the full load of it. His gaze flicked to the sky, taking note of it's clarity. He.. didn't quite know what to make of it. Geez, wasn't he supposed to be some super wise shaman or something? Obviously, it seemed like their ancestors had no qualms about what was going on, but he couldn't understand how that could be. They weren't that stupid, were they?

His eyes found Rosepaw, and padded over next to her, continuing his path to the Seastones. "You ready?" he whispered. This wasn't necessarily as nerve-wracking as their initial assumption of their role - he couldn't see the other clans trying to harass them - but it was still something new. It was so strange standing in front of crowds, feeling like everyone had their eyes on you. Despite his anxiety, he still moved to sit where the medicine cats usually gathered. He was a bit excited to meet them, and perhaps get a bit of advice. He had felt almost fraudulent, bumbling through healings with the vague knowledge he had. Of course, he was grateful for Cricketpaw's visit, and he had definitely picked up a thing or two from Ebonyfang, but the more herbs he could learn, the better he would feel.

He curled his tail tightly over his paws as he waited for the rest of the clans to arrive. Thankfully, his fur looked mostly presentable today. In a stroke of luck, it had been somewhat cooperative when he had groomed himself before the gathering, and he - for once - did not look like a chick struck by lightning. Of course, it was still not neat but it was better than usual.

He wondered if his mother was watching this gathering. He was positive she would at least appreciate his semi-neat fur, seeing as she had spent so much of her time trying to get it to lie flat. He remembered his apprentice ceremony, especially, and about she had spent so long grooming him that he was nearly late, and eventually throwing the towel in, and sending him out with a loving nudge. Well, at the very least he was confident she would be proud of him.

Shade.

spade

March 7th, 2022, 11:30 PM

With the sky clear above him, all the stars glittering like little tiny lights, Kestrelstar made his way from RiverClan territory down towards Seastones. Despite the dull ache he felt hanging heavy in his chest after what had been a rather difficult last few days, the RiverClan leader knew that he couldn't let yet another failed relationship get in the way. The grief, the sorrow... it would all be there waiting for him when he returned to his den later that night, and inside would be a nest that was now alone and empty, only the faint scent still lingering to prove it hadn't all been in his head.

[ masquerade - for Cloudpaw ]
But he fought back against the dark shadows that clawed at his mind, and instead forced a smile onto his face as he lead RiverClan closer towards the Gathering. "You will be meeting quite a bit of cats tonight," he informed Cloudpaw, who he'd requested to walk at his side towards the Gathering. It was the young she-cats first introduction to all of their neighbors. Hopefully it would go over smoothly, but he would keep an eye out in the crowd on her just in case there were any situations he would need to intervene in.

"Don't be afraid to introduce yourself. Remeber, you are RiverClan and that is something to be proud of. A Gathering is a time of truce, you shouldn't experience any hostility tonight." Kestrelstar shifted his yellow gaze down to her as he spoke, his paws subconciously leading the way since they had walked this path many times before. He had faith in the young black and white spotted she-cat that she would make plenty of friends, and hopefully those in RiverClan would watch out for her.

Emerging onto the sand, Kestrelstar halted momentarily and lifted his tail for RiverClan to do the same. ShadowClan and ThunderClan were here.... interesting. Part of him was hopeful that tonight they would maybe get an explanation of what had happened, seeing as ThunderClan and Dogbark had not given any announcement the previous Gathering. With that thought pushed to the back of his mind the RiverClan leader moved forward and allowed RiverClan to fan out onto the beach.

It was clear that both ThunderClan and ShadowClan were here - and, maybe a hint of WindClan? Was that a... WindClan apprentice here, minus the rest of WindClan? Interesting. Nonetheless, atop Seastones sat... only Dawnstar. She was the only leader present, and the way she was watching where he and RiverClan had just arrived made his jaw harden. Kestrelstar made quick work of crossing the sand, but not before brushing Cloudpaw over the head with the tip of his tail. After a few bounds he placed himself in his normal positon on the rocks and cast a sideways glance towards the ShadowClan leader. "Well, this should be interesting," he mused, though his tone gave away no indication of anything other then genuine curiosity. His whiskers did twitch in amusement however. Where was Dogbark? Better yet, where was Aspenstar? Questions that had not been answered at the last Gathering, would hopefully get some light tonight.

Regardless, the gray tabby tom returned his attention forward as he took a seat, wrapping his tail around his paws and fluffing out his fur against the small breeze that made its way around him. All that remained to join them was Twilightstar and WindClan.

Undertaker Rani marshall

RIVERCLAN HAS ARRIVED

pxxylo

March 7th, 2022, 11:45 PM

➽ Raccoonear | RiverClan | OPEN

Tracing the pawprints of other in front of her, Raccoonear
was half a ways in the RiverClan crowd, more so lost in
her own ponderings than being presently alert and worrying
about bad outcomes, which is normally what she's doing on a...
daily basis for the most part. Force of habit. either way, she
eventually will snap out of it and focus on the task at paw- meet
cats from other clans. Or from our clan. The thing that stole the
gray molly from her thoughts was of the most unexpected things.
ThunderClan is here, but not Dogbark or Aspenstar? A wave
of confusion washed over her face as her gaze skimmed over the
uneasy expressions of all the ThunderClan cats. Did something
happen? Squinting, she proceeded into the sand with a look of pure
curiosity enclosing her face. Did they simply stay behind, or is there
more to this than just the surface looks?

She quickly scurried over to her usual spot in hopes it
hadn't been taken. Luckily, it wasn't. Smiling, the fluffy
molly sat down with a small sigh of relief, relief that was
quickly diminished by her mind speeding back over to her
questions about ThunderClan. They all look so worried.
Casting a quick glance up at Dawnstar as the large tabby
finished speaking, she allowed her gaze to part from her.
Best not even let my glance be caught by that monster.

Shade.

March 8th, 2022, 12:15 AM

Er...this was it. Oh, Rosepaw had been to gatherings before. Admittedly, she got bullied by a RiverClan that she was a medicine caapprentice and got threatened by a ShadowClan cat but, um...she didn't die, haha? So maybe, just maybe, the fact that she'd be sitting away from most cats meant she'd have even less chances to mess up. Yeah! Maybe now that she was a medicine cat apprentice StarClan would stop bringing accidents upon her.

Sundust asked her if she was ready and she thought for a while. She didn't want to worry him but also didn't want to lie.
"Um, no." she replied, giving him an awkward smile. She wasn't really prepared for this but she didn't think she could be anyway. The young cat followed her mentor to their new spot, trying not to trip on anything. Naiad

alaskaa

March 8th, 2022, 12:30 AM

Hazelstorm arrived at the Gathering and sat.

[ closed ,, just so she's at the gathering ]

Captain

March 8th, 2022, 12:50 AM

☁ Cloudpaw (she/her) ☁ [ spade | closed for any other interaction... for now ]

➢ Mixed with both excitement and nervousness, the young black-and-white shecat walked alongside Kestrelstar as he lead Riverclan to the gathering. Obviously, this was a huge deal for Cloudpaw, seeing that she had never been to such a special event like this before. There were going to be so many cats here! From all four clans! How hecking cool was that? She raised her head to look up at the little bright lights that made up the stars in the sky above them and the young molly couldn’t help but smile as her blue-hued eyes shined with sheer amazement. It wasn’t the first time she had seen stars, but it all seemed so much different now that she was seeing them like this. Did they always appear so clear and beautiful like this on nights of gatherings? Was it Starclan watching over all of them? Cloudpaw was unsure, but loved the view despite all the questions. She wanted to keep seeing them.

Hearing her mentor speaking, the pocket-sized apprentice looked over at him with a bright smile. She nodded eagerly to all of his words, her small paws seeming weightless as she bounded along beside the larger gray-furred tomcat. Cloudpaw hoped to make a rather good impression for her first ever gathering and sharply reminded herself that she needed to act polite and respectful to everyone that she met. However, she couldn’t help but still act like her innocent and childish self. Kestrelstar would surely protect her if any nasty bullies showed up, but Cloudpaw would then show them all that she could handle herself just fine (don’t believe that, she’s an absolute crybaby). The newly-named apprentice was going into this, hoping she would make friends and have a lovely time. Were apprentices from other clans like her? Would they talk to her like Spiderpaw did? So many questions.

“Okay!” Cloudpaw mewed, blinking at Kestrelstar, “I’ll d-do my b-best to m-make sure I make a g-good impression for R-Riverclan!” Like mentioned before, that was her plan all along and was hoping to stick to it. She listened to what the wise clan leader said: the gathering was a truce, so there would be no hostility. Good. Maybe Cloudpaw wouldn’t have to worry about any other cats bullying her after all. The young fluffy molly continued to follow her mentor closely, glancing back at the various other Riverclan cats that were behind them. She wondered if Spiderpaw was among her clanmates, him being the only other apprentice she had talked to since she had been named one after all. Oh well, there was plenty of time to make brand new buddies to chat with - hopefully they wouldn’t mind her stuttery voice. Otherwise, Cloudpaw would probably end up crying.

Feeling sand under her paws, the small Riverclan molly giggled slightly at the strange, funky feeling between her toes. She didn’t go any further though, as her mentor stopped, and waited beside him with that same innocent smile that she almost always had on her maw. Cloudpaw peered out across the unfamiliar beach at the place known as the Seastones. Wow! Thunderclan and Shadowclan cats have appeared to already arrive, leaving just Windclan to appear now that Riverclan was here. The small fluffy shecat gave a soft affectionate purr and brushed against Kestrelstar’s hind leg quickly as he brushed her head with his tail before heading off to sit with Dawnstar atop the stones. Huh, cool. Cloudpaw blinked, wondering what to do now. Hm. Scampering forward, the young black-and-white apprentice took a seat among other Riverclan cats, waiting to see if anyone caught her interest to talk to before making a move. She was excited, but still had that anxiety from her kitten days.

wolfie

March 8th, 2022, 01:16 AM

==> Lotuspaw | Thunderclan Apprentice | Open
The bobtail entered into the clearing, stub tail flickering back and forth. Thunderclan and Shadowclan were entwined, scents mixing together - maybe the other clans wouldn't even realize. Brush it off as Shadowclan growing larger day by day, oh no, Thunderclan was missing a gathering? Boohoo, must just be their typical angst. Useless to think about that clan, something along those lines, and Lotuspaw glared suspiciously at the fishy-scent cats. Right. They knew that was what they had to be thinking and they DARED any OF THEM TO SAY IT TO THEIR FACE!

With their chin held high, they strutted closer to the crowd. Forged confidence rolling off their shoulders when they approached a stranger Big Cat. Thoughts nagged at them to maybe not go this route, but they had, some, morbid curiosities at the moment inspired by Dawnstar and Sleethound. Leercry, too, of course. They take a moment to pause, kneading the sand with a fascination. Woah. Woah? Hehe. Wait, oh!! Focus, focus.

Lotuspaw reaches out to jab this stranger's shoulder, tilting their head curiously at them. "Yo, Aster is the name. Have you ever.. killed someone?" They inquire, squinting their eyes suspiciously at the Big Cat. "I can like, senses lies, by the way, I'll knooww, better answer truthfully. You have ten seconds. One, two, thr-..." and the counting began while they awaited a response.

Madelaine

March 8th, 2022, 01:21 AM

-->Petuniafire<--

The newly made warrior moved towards seastones, excited for her first ever gathering as a warrior. Every inch of her was excited to finally be able to be at a gathering not as an apprentice but a loyal warrior of her home. Petuniafire looked around before spotting her mother among the crowd. She wanted to be next to her, but something was urging her to talk to someone not her clan. It was always fun to talk to others from the ither clans. Well all but Thunderclan. She had a huge grudge against them even if her clan didn't no more.

They were the cause for her not being able to meet her aunt. Oh how much she wished she had lived. She would have went to them for everything, but that stupid clan took her from her. It was many moons ago, but she wanted to be so much like her. She was respected and loved by many. She wanted that too. Petuniafire sat down, keeping away from the Thunderclan cats even though they would still be able to talk to her.

// open \\

Rizo

March 8th, 2022, 04:45 AM

~Emberpaw | Closed~

Trailing carefully behind Shadowclan and Thunderclan as they arrived, the orange apprentice took a look around. Her nerves were getting to her, but this at least wasn't her first gathering. She moved to the edge of the sand where the Seastones gathering place ended, and sat, watching as other cats moved about.

~Wolfsong | Closed except Pebblepaw~

As she padded after her leader to the gathering place, she noticed familiar faces taking their seats. She spotted a familiar brown tabby pelt and fought the urge to join her.
I'm sure she has... better things to do than listen to me.
The familiar darkness that liked to swallow her heart had been edging its way back in, but she fought to hide it. She looked at her sister, Moonfrost, and gave her a nod before padding away to a clear area. She took a look around to see if Pebblepaw had come to the gathering as well, she wanted to use this as a teaching moment if she could.

~Moonfrost | Open~

The black tabby returned her sister's nod, a small sadness growing in her eyes, but understanding as well.
She'll talk when she's ready...
Making her way through the crowd, Moonfrost took a seat closer to the front of the group, not too far from the Seastones.
I still have to do my job and listen to as much as I can.

Dizerel

March 8th, 2022, 06:27 AM

Junipersong trots right along, center of the pack of Riverclan cats following along behind Kestrelstar. Though her size and fluffy fur does make her poke out a fair bit as opposed to the more typical cat of Riverclan being a tad smaller, more graceful and sleek looking.

She breaks off from the clump of Riverclan cats once the main group starts filtering in. Never being one to shy away from meeting anyone new! Although her large frame might make her initially intimidating to approach, her softer features and happy attitude gives her an aura of warmth and friendliness, very unlike what one would expect of most other wild cats. Looking around for someone new to meet and converse with! She does take a few moments to wait to see if anyone else has any interest in approaching her and striking up a conversation, but if not, she might just hunt down someone shy hanging about the edges and bring surprise them with some cheer and social interaction.

While tensions slide off of her like hot butter as usual, she does seem a tad confused about the current state of things with the other clans. This would likely be a rather unusual gathering.

(Open!)

stardust.

March 8th, 2022, 07:37 AM

Oaksong followed Kestrelstar to the Seastones, she wasn't too happy about a gathering, but at least things would be well. She spotted a ThunderClan apprentice close to the edge of the stones, "My name is Oaksong, i'm from RiverClan, what is yours?" She asked

x ghostie(for Lotuspaw)

poppy

March 8th, 2022, 07:43 AM

|| both open ^^ ||

Birdpaw scampered in behind Kestrelbuddy. Her first Gathering. WOWza, this was huge. Like hugeity huge, she couldn't contain herself!!!

Brackenfire stalked into the Gatheringplace, trying to look as scary as possible so she wouldn't be approached.

stardust.

March 8th, 2022, 07:46 AM

Whiteclaw padded over to the apprentice that just came in, "Hello, my name is Whiteclaw, I'm from ShadowClan" He mewed, "You may be wondering what is wrong with ThunderClan, they are leaderless, so they have merged with our clan until they can have a leader again" He mewed, "What is your name, and how is the prey running in RiverClan?"
poppy.

WhitesilverQueen

March 8th, 2022, 08:21 AM

marshy

March 8th, 2022, 08:35 AM

Sparrowskip padded alongside Kestrelstar as he made it to his first gathering as deputy. It was a bit nerve racking but mostly he was wondering how the other high ranks would react. He knew Dawnstar and Twilightstar were around for his time as Medicine cat, so he was interested to see how they'd take it. As the stars glittered above him, he noticed something a bit.. strange. ThunderClan and ShadowClan had both made it but Sparrowskip saw no signs of ThunderClan's leadership. Dogbark and Aspenstar were just.. gone. That certainly weirded Sparrowskip out, and he sighed. "First gathering as deputy and it seem's it going to be a weird one." He mumbled as he sat down near Kestrelstar.
The thoughts running through his mind about what could be happening were.. interesting to say the least, yet the one he thought that was the most plausible was that ThunderClan had simply gone ahead which, still didn't quite help.. at all. He felt the breeze and shook his head lightly as he waited for Twilightstar's [and hopefully Aspenstar or Dogbarks] arrival.

// Undertaker Rani spade

wolfie

March 8th, 2022, 08:38 AM

Lotuspaw | Thunderclan Apprentice | SourCream
They flinch back as a molly suddenly came into view, talking to them - somethin' somethin', Riverclan. This sparks the apprentice's interest as they glance Oaksong up and down, a curiosity sparked in their copper eyes. Well. It was rude for her to interrupt Lotuspaw when they were clearly talking to someone! (Who was ignoring them, they guessed. ) "Sup, " They mew, lips twitching upwards with interest. This gave them an idea.

Shuffling with their paws, lowering their self slightly to appear smaller. More innocent, "it's, uhm, Asterpaw! You have a very pretty name, have you ever killed someone? Hmm? " They respond softly, trying to resist the shudder that was sent down their spine. Riiight. Lotuspaw knew exactly how uh, shy cats like, acted and talked. They were so good at this. "Aaaa, pardon me asking, but do you think you could help me? It's... a bit kittish, if I have to admit, but I promised my younger brother that I would bring him back a souvenir! I was thinking about looking over there, " They gestures towards the more sandy parts, near the sea.

stardust.

March 8th, 2022, 08:44 AM

Oaksong was happy to help, "I think the best place to look would be the area by the beach, how is ThunderClan doing?" She asked, "If you are wondering, RiverClan is doing quite well at the moment" She responded, then she heard the question about killing someone, "No, I would never kill a cat, even if they were from another clan" She mewed, "It's nice meeting you Asterpaw!" She excitedly yelped, "Goodbye"
x ghostie

Ian

March 8th, 2022, 09:16 AM

➽ Goldfish | ShadowClan | NinjaBloss

Trailing behind in the middle of the crowd, the dark-furred
warrior observed the ThunderClan cats who bothered to even
show up. While he did want to just think of others, analyze their
words and such, and just observe the cats gathered, all he could
think of is the odd cat who just can't bat his eye from his own,
Pineclaw. How odd. Shaking his head, the tom's bi-colored eyes
drifted over the few cats who had arrived early. Not much of a
crowd, none of these cats seem to look froward to speaking, especially
with a ShadowClan cat like me. Oh, how I hate the stereotype that all
cats of my clan are heartless savages, cats to be avoided at all costs.
I want to talk to someone from another clan, but it's not like someone's
going to approach me themselves. I may as well take my best shot at it
and just walk up to someone myself. Goldfish noticed an orange molly,
sitting rather far away from the crowd.

Rather than going to his usual place, the dark-furred tom
padded over to this orange molly, wearing his least threatening,
welcoming face, which was honestly genuine, and convincing. In
a quiet yet easily heard voice, he says, "Hello," Sitting a
safe distance from the orange-pelted molly, he cast her a quick
smile, his tail curling around his fluffy paws in a quick and neat
fashion. What if they just- scramble away to another ThunderClan
cat without a word? What if they just ignore me? Stars, if only cats
understood that not all ShadowClan cats are jerks...
--Shiningskies (TC)--
The molly's fur spiked slightly as a ShadowClan cat came over and sat beside her, but she forced it to lie flat. She would not be the one to cause the drama, if the toad wanted it he would have to make a fool of himself. She was not going to be the one to blame. She stared and waited for the tom to talk, and when he eventually did it was a simple "Hello". Huh. "Hello," she mewed back flatly as she continued to stare at him. If he wanted to have a conversation he was going to have to start it, the ginger molly certain wasn't.

--Shimmerbird--
The Shield nervously padded to the Gathering along with RiverClan, her tail flicking behind her. Kestrelstar doesn't announce the appointment of new Shields, does he? I can't remember if he did or not when the rank was first created, but I hope he doesn't. I don't want everyone staring at me again... The molly's thoughts trailed off as she glanced around anxiously for the other Shields, wondering if they were all supposed to sit together or if it didn't matter.

[OPEN]

Glitch_Candle

March 8th, 2022, 09:23 AM

[Rogue, Ex-ShadowClan cat]
Sprucefall lurked in the shadows, barely hearing the gathering in the distance. She couldn't walk-Dawnstars cats had broken her leg. She had sharp wounds in her thigh, althogh they had since healed in the past few moons. What is this? Dawnstar was in control of ThunderClan now? what was happening? She felt terrible. She wished she had planned her rebellion better. Nothing for it now. She had blood on her paws, and blood of young warriors and apprentices. All she could do is wait, and try to eavesdrop.

poppy

March 8th, 2022, 09:27 AM

|| SourCream Rippleshade ||

Birdpaw looked up as someone approached her, and as she offered a bright smile in greeting, he began to talk to her. Ears pricked up as the tomcat started talking, he began to explain everything to her. Oh. Okay... she hadn't really noticed that ThunderClan was here, let alone leaderless. Her clear blue eyes were blinked as the small cat shrugged in response.

As he questioned her about her name and how RiverClan was doing, she blinked slowly. "I'm Birdpaw!" The ragdoll was proud of her name. Kestrelbuddy gave it to her, after all.

Her blue-gray fur ruffled a bit, and as he inquired about the prey, she responded with a lilting tone. "We're doing great! Lot's of food. Look how FAT we all are!!" Pausing, so looked at him. "What about you?" But then as she looked at Whiteclaw, she spotted some cat she had never seen before. A weird looking one. She narrowed her blue eyes at Sprucefall and opened her mouth to bring it up, but then hesitated.

Glitch_Candle

March 8th, 2022, 09:33 AM

poppy. Sprucefall pretended not to notice, as she didn't want to be noticed by any other cat. At least she wasn't noticed by a ShadowClan cat. She slinked back a little bit, back into a bush, so that only her eyes could be seen.

stardust.

March 8th, 2022, 09:36 AM

Stormpel-er-Storm looked over to the Seastones, even without Stem, he could finally rejoin RiverClan, he was about to cause a big problem. So WHY NOT? He tried to make sure that Kestrelstar didn't see him. He trotted along the Seastones, and then...

He started running around the Seastones, trying to make sure Kestrelstar notices him, "LETS GO BOYSSSSS!!!" He mewed brightly, "KESTRELSTAR!! IT'S ME!!! STORMPELT!! REMEMBER I GOT EXILED WITH STEM!! BUT I WANTED TO REJOIN RIVERCLAN!! SO I DECIDED TO COME TO SEASTONES!!!" He yelled,

Whiteclaw responded with, "Things have been going good here in ShadowClan, prey is plentiful, even in leaf bare" He mewed "I wonder what's keeping WindClan?"
poppy.

Ian

March 8th, 2022, 09:38 AM

Badgerscar had been sitting in the shadows as he didn't want to interact with any other cats, and it was the only reason he spotted the eyes gleaming from the bush. Frowning, he carefully stalked behind the cat before his ears pinned in recognition. He may have never met her himself, but he'd heard stories of the traitor and how she had tried to assassinate his mother. And now she had the guts to show her face here? Screw the truce, she would not be getting out of here, and with her broken leg it would only be that much easier for the large tom.

"TRAITOR!" With a loud yowl, uncaring of who heard, he flung himself at the molly with his claws unsheathed in an attempt to slam her into the ground and pin her there. He may have already gotten back in good graces with his mother, but catching this traitor would be sure to impress her even more.

Rippleshade Undertaker

poppy

March 8th, 2022, 09:46 AM

|| SourCream ||

The little cat watched as her former clanmate burst into the clearing and started running around. The little she-cat looked perplexed. This did seem like the right time to do this. "Stone.. don't do it like this." She blinked rapidly, then glanced at Whiteclaw. "Maybe they fell in their rabbit hole. They don't have to be early, the Gathering hasn't even started yet." It wasn't a joke. If she had lived on the moor with a bunch of tunnels, she would fall in a LOT. Then, she looked back up at Kestrelstar. She was worried he was gonna get mad.

Glitch_Candle

March 8th, 2022, 09:46 AM

NinjaBloss in the night heat, she limped and hid behind another bush, not being able to be seen in the night with her pitch black fur. She tried to stay as quiet as possible, and was scared. She was spotted. Even with a broken leg, She was still quite stealthy though, and She blended right in to the night landscape.

stardust.

March 8th, 2022, 09:49 AM

Whiteclaw agreed at Birdpaw's response, "That Storm guy is kinda weird" He mewed. Meanwhile, Storm kept on running around the clearing, "HEY!!! KESTRELSTAR!!! CAN I REJOIN RIVERCLAN!!!"
poppy.

Ian

March 8th, 2022, 09:49 AM

--Shimmerbird (RC Shield)--
The molly had just about been ready to settle down when a cat came yowling into the Gathering. Her ears pinned flat against her head when she recognized them as the exiled Stormpelt. How dare they come in here acting like they could just rejoin by making such a commotion? As much as she didn't want to draw attention to herslef, it was her duty as a Shield to get rid of this problem so Kestrelstar wouldn't have to.

Stalking over to the disgraced tom with her fur fluffed out, she glared deeply at with her teeth bared. "Out. You do not belong here. I'm giving you one chance to leave peacefully, or I will make you."

SourCream [Shimmerbird as HR permission to forcefully remove Stormpelt if he does not leave peacefully]

poppy

March 8th, 2022, 09:52 AM

|| NinjaBloss SourCream ||

The little cat nodded shallowly at Whiteclaw, agreeing with him a bit but not wanting to betray a former RiverClanner.Slipping away from the ShadowClan cat, she padded over to where Stormy was. "Storm, you aren't supposed to be here... Kestrel is gonna be mad at you so you need to leave. Like... like right now." As Shimmerbird came over, though, Birdpaw backed away, not wanting to get in the way.

starry

March 8th, 2022, 10:00 AM

[ poppy. SourCream NinjaBloss ]

Mistypaw dragged herself after the other RiverClan cats, eyes watchfully settled on the other cats. Oh my gosh commotion! Her expression pulled into a frown. Stormpelt was back? She made her way over, dark amber eyes narrowed. "It takes more than a few words to get back into RiverClan when you were exiled," she commented. "Shimmerbird is a shield now. She can make you get out. Or you wait out until Kestrelstar removes you from this gathering brutally. Go on. You don't belong here anyways." It felt good to be angry again. Rage surged through her veins. Rage at everything that had happened in the past moons, not just at Stormpelt.

stardust.

March 8th, 2022, 10:01 AM

[FONT="Microsoft Sans Serif"][SIZE="2"]Whiteclaw decided to speak up as well, "I will help" he declared, he helped get Storm away. Meanwhile, in Storm's perspective, "No... No.. please.. I will make up for what I did" He meowed, he eventually gave up and ran away, "I will be back" He mewed
poppy. NinjaBloss

Glitch_Candle

March 8th, 2022, 10:05 AM

NinjaBloss
Sprucefall was barely breathing. She couldn't get up, too much pain on her legs. She hoped that this was not the end. "This was moons ago." She said to the angry cat. "I didn't understand Dawnstar. But I have paid the price. You see my scars, but not just physical ones. A kit and two apprentices died because of my actions. I wanted to make it up today. I wanted to. Sincerely."

spade

March 8th, 2022, 10:17 AM

Grimhound had followed Dawnstar to the Gathering, having made the last minute decision to tag along. Amber eyes flickered with though as the massive tabby's paws sunk deep into the sand. His claws, which were always out and curved, scraped by as his tail brushed the grains behind him. There was already a commotion it seemed - was that Sprucefall? A dark chuckle escaped him as he padded up to stand behind his former apprentice. "Aren't you pathetic for coming back," he snorted towards the injured ex ShadowClanner, a smirk growing on his face.

// NinjaBloss Rippleshade

Undertaker

March 8th, 2022, 10:25 AM

Dawnstar gave a lazy twitch of her tail as RiverClan arrived, Kestrelstar took his place quietly, nothing but slight curiosity radiated from him at the sight of ThunderClan without their leader or deputy. That she could handle, her own curiosity grew when she noticed the tom beneath the stones where the deputies sat. Wasn't that Sparrowskip? The medicine cat before RiverClan mouthy Snake? Hmm, well that was nothing new. She had been more shocked when Twilightstar had named Mangledface for deputy after once cat had done the whole medicine cat/deputy thing it was expected for it to happen again.

Dawnstar was ready to focus on where WindClan usually arrived but was stopped as a few exiles showed up. One from RiverClan and a rat from ShadowClan. A rat that she was pretty sure that she had killed... no worries, time to fix that now. Wordlessly and swiftly, she left the Seastones and padded past her yowling son who funnily enough seemed to be getting ignored. Her claws were unsheathed as she bypassed whatever was going on with RiverClan's issues and stopped in front of the crippled molly. Dawnstar glanced over at her mate at his arrival but got rid of the problem without wasting time.

Rippleshade
[HR killing Sprucefall for treason: DO NOT IGNORE]
Quick as a lunging snake and as silent as a shadow, Dawnstar grabbed Spurcefall by the neck and settled with her usual method of death, sinking her fangs into the neck and wrapping this mess up with a killing bite. Once she was certain the rogue was dead, she tossed the body over to the hound. "Toss it into the ocean, if you need help dragging it, pester Badgerscar." Dawnstar meowed lightly, making her way back over to the Seastones and atop of them. Dawnstar began grooming her pelt while idly watching RiverClan deal with their exile. This is why Dawnstar just killed everything that irked her with no remorse or guilt, if it was up to her she would have added an execution rule to the code.
spade NinjaBloss

poppy

March 8th, 2022, 10:31 AM

|| SourCream luminous ||

The small apprentice watched with horror as Whiteclaw was attacked in front of her. "Stormpelt-" She started to choke out, but he was already leaving. She blinked rapidly, not knowing what the heck she was doing. Her eyes wandered from the cats in front of her to Dawnstar jumping down. With a squeak, she scrambled out of the leader's vicinity, and watched as the big cat killed the black molly she had seen earlier. Mouth agape, she stumbled away blindly. This was a very bad place for her to be. There was blood and death and she didn't want to be here a second longer. She could find her own way back to camp, but she felt nauseous. Maybe Gatherings just weren't for her.

Stumbling out of the Gatheringplace, Birdpaw shuddered. She wanted to go home right now. So she did, following the path that she had taken not long before, trying to swallow the bile in her throat. She didn't get to far along before she keeled over and vomited. There was a dead cat. A cat died right in front of her, and she did nothing. A cat got attacked right in front of her, and she didn't try to help. She vomited, tears springing in her eyes, then once her belly was just about empty, she raised her head, and padded shakily back to camp. This was a very, very bad night.

| birdpaw has left the gathering |

spade

March 8th, 2022, 10:32 AM

Glitch_Candle

March 8th, 2022, 10:34 AM

Undertaker. Sprucefal was bleeding out. Nearly dead, she said some words. "I didn't understand you, Dawnstar. But I have paid the price. You see my scars, but not just physical ones. A kit and two apprentices died because of my actions. I wanted to make it up today. I wanted to. Sincerely." She then died as Dawn tossed the body away.

plum

March 8th, 2022, 10:36 AM

starry

March 8th, 2022, 10:38 AM

[ poppy. ]

Mistypaw watched with wide eyes as the events shot by vastly. First Stormpelt left, and then Sprucefall died. A sigh escaped from her maw. Why was this happening? Her eyes landed on Birdpaw, who seemed shocked. "Birdpaw, are you alri-" But it seemed that the molly was already making her way back to camp. Misty understood why she would do that after witnessing all of this.

spade

March 8th, 2022, 10:41 AM

Kestrelstar was determined to perhaps have one Gathering where no drama outside of normal announcements and Dawnstar being her normal self occurred, but that would not be the case. Watching the events unfold, he felt his fur bristle as Storm charged into the Gathering demanding to rejoin. He remained silent, instead simply glaring at the tom. Whatever chances he might have had to rejoin in the future were gone now. Thankfully Shimmerbird and Birdpaw stepping in to handle it took care of the issue, as well as... was that a ShadowClan cat helping?

[ NinjaBloss x ghostie luminous ]
Regardless, Kestrelstar slipped off the rock and padded forward. Storm had disappeared to stars know where, and so had Birdpaw after that... killing. Not that he disagreed - he was about two seconds away from finding Storm and doing the same to him. "Thank you, Shimmerbird," he mewed as he passed, casting a questioning glance to Whiteclaw. He noticed the tom was injured, but it wasn't his Clan so it wasn't his problem. "Wormbite," he called, noticing that the Shield had arrived to the Gathering, "can you go make sure Birdpaw gets back to camp safely? I'm not sure how much of the territory she knows at this point." Shifting his gaze to Mistypaw, he sighed. "You are welcome to go back to camp with him if you wish." He could see how rattled the she-cat was

With a nod of his head, he glanced to Shimmerbird. "If Storm shows his face here again, I want you to pin him, and I'll deal with him." Kestrelstar didn't elaborate on what he meant by that, though the fur on the back of his neck rising could indicate towards it. Turning around he stalked back over to the Seastone and returned to his place, giving his chest fur a few quick licks. "What a way to start," he muttered to himself, frustration lapping at his paws like ocean waves.

Fang

March 8th, 2022, 10:45 AM

[Open]

Shadehawk stood awkwardly in the Crowd, listening to conversations inadvertently. He was vaguely aware that thunderclan didn’t come with a leader or deputy, but he had more important things on his mind, like making friends and figuring out what in starclan just went on there. But making friends was his priority

WinterMara

March 8th, 2022, 10:46 AM

| Softpaw of Thunderclan |

She was tired, exhausted, not physically but mentally. Of course, she put on a calm facade so she could take action when it was needed, if you just sit like a lump, well, that lead's to nothing getting done. To be honest, that mental exhaustion almost made her not notice the scenes that had just happened. . .but she noticed it, and her stomach churned.

There was fighting happening, a corpse was on the ground, this wasn't real, this had to be some sick, twisted, disturbing nightmare. She hit her head on the ground to test and. . .nope, this was, reality, now her head hurt more, fun, yeah. . .

Please let this night end already.

| OPEN, but not for THUNDERCLAN, I want her to talk to others outside of her clan for once, RIVERCLAN is prefered!

Clock Dragonshifter

March 8th, 2022, 10:54 AM

~Lostfire Of Shadowclan~ (OPEN)
The large she-cat had padded into the gathering place along with the rest of Shadow Clan and Thunder Clan her large paws silent on the ground below as she turned and watched Dawnstar kill another cat her eyes narrowing at the now still body as her leader told Hound to get rid of It. The she-cat had no care for the Chaos that had already begun before Wind Clan had even arrived and it showed in the expression on her face and movement of her body.

littlelove

March 8th, 2022, 11:00 AM

MORNINGLILY OF RIVERCLAN
(open, but good luck talking to her)

Oh. Oh dear Starclan. They really couldn't go a single meeting in any clan without some kind of catastrophe, could they? Morninglily huddled down nervously amongst the buzzing Gathering, her eyes on the duel between a Shadowclan warrior and his target. She could feel bile rising in her throat, watching the two warriors fight and - was that another fight? Against cats of her own clan this time. Oh no. Oh no no no no no no no no no no no.

She scrunched herself down further, shutting her eyes tight and wishing she could put the world on mute. Putting her paws to her ears didn't help thanks to the absolute size of them. Chatter rung in her ears and kept on ringing, ringing, ringing. Dawnstar's call kept on ringing, ringing, ringing.

The crackle of bones in jaws kept stayed in her head the longest. It reminded her of the sound of Quietclaw and Pebblesong's necks being torn open. Even if she couldn't bear to look, she knew it marked death for whoever had been on the receiving end. She hardly noticed the pile of vomit on the ground in front of her and the stinging, acrid taste in her mouth from it. All she could hone in on was the crack-crack-cracking of bones and the spurting of blood playing over and over in her head long after someone had tossed the corpse into the roaring ocean.

Morninglily wanted to rip her ears and eyes out with her claws. To become completely inert. Much better her a gory mess than anyone else. She couldn't help but wonder if it was her presence that had caused it - her rational side cried magical thinking, but the thought pervaded her mind. She stayed hunched over and frozen stiff, wishing she could blot out the moonlight that pierced her eyelids.

Buddy

March 8th, 2022, 11:03 AM

< Voltureshadow - ThC - Open >

The muscular tom followed slightly behind his clanmates, tired but still caring his head high. Thunderclan had been a scattered clan to many cats, a bird with broken wings, but he would remain standing tall through all this, through Dawnstar leading their clan. There was no point in being defeated by all that had happened, better look forward to a new sunrise for Thunderclan.

His thoughts were interrupted by the cacophony of noise coming from the edge of the gathering space, and when he turned to watch his eyes could pick a few cats... arguing over something. His ears were slightly notched, but his hearing had not yet worsened despite his age, and he could still pick up the word 'traitor' before Dawnstar leaped down, and seemed to kill the cat who had been the main issue. Usually he was pretty against killing someone just like that, but if it was a traitorous cat who had lost their life, he supposed they should have been it coming.

After the mess was over (at least he hoped), the large tom continued moving slowly until he brought himself to a good spot, a slightly elevated spot near the very edge of the gathering space, where he could see and hear the leaders, but was still rather in peace.

furrensic

March 8th, 2022, 11:12 AM

open //
➵ dustypaw | he/him

as soon as they arrived, dustypaw had hopped off in his own direction and sat down beside a cat. to be honest, he wasn’t paying attention to who the cat was, mostly because there was a FIGHT GOING ON?! curled ears swiveled as the apprentice whipped sound, watching some big cat yowl at a smaller cat. in the background, there was some weirdo shrieking at kestrelstar and promptly getting kicked out of the gathering.

yellow eyes widened once dawnstar jumped down from the seastones and – he turned away before he could see anything, but he had a feeling he knew what happened and horror settled in his stomach. he squeezed his eyes shut

____
Angelique //
➵ sagepaw | they/he/she

could they not have one good, normal day? watching the brawl between a shadowclan warrior and his target being killed right after by dawnstar, sagepaw felt his stomach churn. he inhaled deeply, slowly breathing out, then looked at the cat he had sat beside. oh, it was one of the dreaded minions. ”and i thought there was no violence at gatherings.” she remarked under her breath.

wolfie

March 8th, 2022, 11:22 AM

Wormbite | Riverclan Shield | poppy.
When the Dark Lord arrived he was met with the stench of death and shivers was sent down his spine. It was all too common these days for him to really blink an eye at it - instead he wondered how the cat was killed. Was it justified? Quick, slow, sudden, did they bleed out -? These thoughts were disturbing but Wormbite brushed them off without another thought. He approached the crowd, sleek tail flickering in frustration. He would offer a limb that it was Shadowclan's doing, even at a gathering, he supposed. Thoughts swirling, mind too hazy to focus - fixate - react to what was going on, he was brought to attention as Kestrelstar sounded his name.

His tongue clicked against the roof of his mouth. Fur bristling, was Birdpaw hurt? Wormbite gave a nod, not entirely obviously directed to him, his voice was too hoarse to offer confirmation but his nose twitched while he tried to pick up the apprentice's scent. Picking up his pace, he follows after the trail Birdpaw left. Despite how his body protested, it was easy enough to catch up to her.
// wormbite has left the gathering. //

marshy

March 8th, 2022, 11:29 AM

Cactuspaw
_____________

As Cactuspaw arrived late she noticed that there was.. a lot going on. "Di-did Dawnstar just kill someone?" She said to herself as she watched the leader. Well, that just further fueled her fear in the ShadowClan leader. She didn't really care all too much about the cat themselves, more about the fact that she'd kill at a gathering of all places. "Sheesh.." She said as she took a seat. She didn't like how close everybody was but she decided to put up with it.
She also noticed the cat yelling at Kestrelstar asking if he could rejoin. It seemed he had been exiled along with someone else. Were all gatherings this.. much? They didn't seem like somewhere Cactuspaw wanted to be, at least her father wasn't here. She took a deep breath and just hoped nothing would end up targeting her.

starry

March 8th, 2022, 11:31 AM

Mistypaw wanted to leave. But she didn't. Maybe there was going to be some sort of important announcement, plus she wanted to learn how to fight through these things. "Thank you for the offer, Kestrelstar, but n-" she started, but cut herself off at how hesitant she sounded. "No. I don't want to miss anything. Plus these things don't rattle me so much anymore, worse has happened in my life." With that, she sat in the front of the crowd, wondering what the gathering was going to bring.

Shade.

March 8th, 2022, 11:35 AM

Rookscreech was...sued to this. She was pretty sure most ShadowClan cats were. It was a different topic whether they disapproved of it or enjoyed it. Dawnstar was a psychopath but she worked and she made cats fear her so nobody cared. Well, Sprucefall cared. Unfortuanely, only the weak ones rose up to be squashed and to reinforce her power. She supposed the price of power was being a sociopathic little jerk.

What unnerved her was the memories. Sprucefall had been part of that rebellion. That day she decided that maybe, just maybe, she needed to put effort into being there for someone, for her friend. And that they'd stay friends forever. Just as usual, Rookscreech was being reminded of old mistakes.

Shade.

March 8th, 2022, 11:46 AM

Lizardfrost felt nothing as she saw the ShadowClan leader execute a cat. Whoever they were, they were apparently a foe of ShadowClan so she felt it wasn't her place to meddle. \So she just focused on what Kestrelstar had to say. Thankfully Stormpelt was also shooed away.

Shade.

March 8th, 2022, 11:57 AM

spade

Oh stars was this an invasion? Yes! It was her chance now. She dashed towards where kestrelstar was standing. She could convince him now.
"Ohmiogosh Kestrely star that's the evil I was telling you about. I saw a prophecy that Stormpelt was going to return and also Dawnstar is going to kill someone I thought she was going to kill Wormbite because she hates him!!!!!!" she exclaimed, almost about to jump on the seastones. Was thsi all mad eup? Er...mostly?

Captain

March 8th, 2022, 12:12 PM

[ open? maybe? is plum feeling too lazy to reply to these things? probably? beware engaging ]

Nectarflame had followed the comically large battalion to the seastones in silence. The Bengal was feeling rather relaxed this evening, and watches Dawnstar end the life of some insignificant soul, feeling... Distant. Contrary to the popular belief that followed the leader around day and night, it was becoming apparent that instant slaughter was not something that she did frequently (though indeed moreso than others, perhaps) or lightly. So what had that Sprucefall done? Certainly enough to warrant the final blow from the forest cat.☼ Brightpaw (she/her) ☼

➢ Close behind her mentor, the young tortoiseshell molly had walked along with the other clan cats in silence. This was the first Gathering to happen after she was named an apprentice, so she kinda had to go along with everyone else, right? It was an unofficial tradition or something like that. Brightpaw did not know to be certain. Regardless, the Thunderclan youth followed Nectarflame, assuming that it was a safe choice to stick close to the bengal shecat. Watching the chaos ensue around them, Brightpaw didn’t know really how to react, her green-hued eyes just widening as Dawnstar ended the life of some dummy that attacked another cat - or something like that. It was all happening way too fast for the lean shecat to follow what was all happening. “Are all gatherings like this?” She meowed quietly to Nectarflame. Brightpaw genuinely did not know, considering this was her first time at a gathering. She was not aware that being so unbothered by the slaughter of Sprucefall was not normal, but her mentor was calm, so she would be too. Though some cats, she noticed, were leaving the gathering after witnessing what just happened. Huh. Oh well, Brightpaw wasn't gonna be a coward. She was braver than them.

Ian

March 8th, 2022, 12:24 PM

Ah, cleaning crew. What a pleasant surprise. Not really, considering he had already disposed of Lionpaw's body in ShadowClan. "As you wish," he purred sweetly to Dawnstar before lowering his head and hauling the limp body of Sprucefall onto his back with his jaws. She was incredibly light, some blood still leaking from her wounds and staining his pelt but Grimhound didn't care. With a swift motion, he turned to pad close to the shoreline. A traitor like this didn't deserve a proper burial. "Badgerscar, get over here," the tabby called. He didn't need help but it might be nice to catch up with his former apprentice.

Dropping the body off Grimhound took one latch of his teeth into the scruff and used his entire body to fling the deceased cat in towards the lapping waves. Soon enough they would rise to take the body out, good riddance.

// NinjaBloss
--Badgerscar (ShC)--
Damn it. After his mother had ruthlessly killed the traitor (which was obviously the right decision, why some other cats seemed so upset he would never understand) he had been hoping to slip back into the shadows before Grimhound could talk to him. Oh well, at least it looked like his former mentor wasn't about to make him touch that scum and help dump the body in the ocean as the Hound was already doing it himself. Padded after him as the warrior threw the body into the ocean and made a slightly disgusted face. Ew, he always hated being around traitors.

"What?" was the bland reply that Grimhound received at his demand for Badgerscar to come along.

Kestrelstar was determined to perhaps have one Gathering where no drama outside of normal announcements and Dawnstar being her normal self occurred, but that would not be the case. Watching the events unfold, he felt his fur bristle as Storm charged into the Gathering demanding to rejoin. He remained silent, instead simply glaring at the tom. Whatever chances he might have had to rejoin in the future were gone now. Thankfully Shimmerbird and Birdpaw stepping in to handle it took care of the issue, as well as... was that a ShadowClan cat helping?

[ NinjaBloss x ghostie luminous ]
Regardless, Kestrelstar slipped off the rock and padded forward. Storm had disappeared to stars know where, and so had Birdpaw after that... killing. Not that he disagreed - he was about two seconds away from finding Storm and doing the same to him. "Thank you, Shimmerbird," he mewed as he passed, casting a questioning glance to Whiteclaw. He noticed the tom was injured, but it wasn't his Clan so it wasn't his problem. "Wormbite," he called, noticing that the Shield had arrived to the Gathering, "can you go make sure Birdpaw gets back to camp safely? I'm not sure how much of the territory she knows at this point." Shifting his gaze to Mistypaw, he sighed. "You are welcome to go back to camp with him if you wish." He could see how rattled the she-cat was

With a nod of his head, he glanced to Shimmerbird. "If Storm shows his face here again, I want you to pin him, and I'll deal with him." Kestrelstar didn't elaborate on what he meant by that, though the fur on the back of his neck rising could indicate towards it. Turning around he stalked back over to the Seastone and returned to his place, giving his chest fur a few quick licks. "What a way to start," he muttered to himself, frustration lapping at his paws like ocean waves.
--Shimmerbird (RC)--
The Shield frowned as a ShadowClan warrior interfered, and then Storm proceeded to attack them before darting out faster than anyone could react. Glancing down at the heavily injured Whiteclaw she slowly inched away from the fallen warrior. That wasn't her problem, he was the one who had decided to get involved and he wasn't a part of RiverClan.

She couldn't help but tense as another commotion occurred and the molly turned just in time to see Dawnstar murder a cat at the Gathering. What in StarClan's name?! Couldn't she have taken them back to camp or something and then killed them? This was a Gathering, a time for peace, not violence! And poor Birdpaw had ran off because of that, not that Shimmerbird blamed her. A part of the Shield wanted to follow, but she could not weak, especially not with her new status.

She turned away from the sight only to practically jump out of her skin when Kestrelstar seemed to materialize next to her because she hadn't been paying attention. The white flecked warrior gave a quick dip of her head at the thanks and a murmur of agreement at his words. Hopefully Kestrelstar wouldn't be like Dawnstar and would at least wait until afterwards...

[Sorry for the double quote lmao :heartbounce:]

taillow

March 8th, 2022, 12:25 PM

Cindersky
With her shoulders rolled back, chin up, and eyes bright and clear, Cindersky stepped onto the sandy expanse that lay below the Seastones. Her jaws was set in a hard line, though no expression was present in her gaze. She walked alongside her apprentice, making sure that they each took their time in arriving. Naturally they had fallen behind a little bit, and as the silver she-cat emerged into the rest of the gathered cats it was quite obvious a scene of sorts had occurred.

Blood scent hung in the air, but it did not phase Cindersky like it normally would. Her ear twitched as she caught the last bit of Dawnstar leaping back onto the Streamstone - no doubt the one behind whatever had just occurred.

"It looks like only RiverClan has arrived for now," she informed Cloudypaw, wondering if her apprentice was able to detect the distinctly different scents that lingered in the air. There was one that belonged to ThunderClan, one to ShadowClan, and one to RiverClan. The moorland scent that usually lingered on the fur of WindClan cats was missing however, but hopefully would be arriving soon.

Resting her blue gaze on her apprentice, she gave her a soft smile. "Would you like to meet some of the apprentices from the other Clans?" It would be a good chance for Cloudypaw to learn about the different cats out there. Not make friends, per say, since one day she ran the possibility of having to meet them on the battlefield. But making small conversations and building connections here and there was never a bad idea.

[ poppy. ]

Apollo.

March 8th, 2022, 12:40 PM

~WhiteRose of Shadowclan~

The white cat yawned as they padded into the moonlight gathering, the evening before they didn't sleep well, some cat decided to stay up meowing to themself all night. Yet again the moonlight washed away the red tint to their white pelt, replacing it with a pretty blue-grey glow.

"MarshFeather,-!" The apprentice called out to a pale cream and brown tabby, "My beautiful pelt! It's- it's blue!" They sobbed to their mentor as she padded over to them, MarshFeather gently laid her tail across the white apprentice's back sympatheticly. "Hey, don't worry, it'll turn back to normal when we get back under the pine trees. It's just the light Whitepaw" but this kind gesture didn't seem to bring Whitepaw any comfort and the white apprentice kept sobbing. "I want it normal now! MarshFeather I look ugly! I can't show my face to the other clans looking like this!" MarshFeather let out a small puff of amusement at the sobbing 6 moon old cat. "Whitepaw, look at me." Whitepaw's amber eyes darted up to their mentor with a pout. "You look pretty, you look nicer than most of the apprentices at gatherings, okay?" The white apprentice nodded and followed their mentor into their first gathering.

WhiteRose blinked as the memory faded, and they padded towards the shore, sitting down right at the edge of the lapping waves, waiting for the gathering to begin. They noticed a few shadowclan cats mingling with the other clans, which WhiteRose saw no point in. Why make friends with cats who are your enemies? But then again no cat from other clans actually talked to them at gatherings, perhaps the tall white cat was intimating?

(Open to all :] )

plum

March 8th, 2022, 01:07 PM

☼ Brightpaw (she/her) ☼

➢ Close behind her mentor, the young tortoiseshell molly had walked along with the other clan cats in silence. This was the first Gathering to happen after she was named an apprentice, so she kinda had to go along with everyone else, right? It was an unofficial tradition or something like that. Brightpaw did not know to be certain. Regardless, the Thunderclan youth followed Nectarflame, assuming that it was a safe choice to stick close to the bengal shecat. Watching the chaos ensue around them, Brightpaw didn’t know really how to react, her green-hued eyes just widening as Dawnstar ended the life of some dummy that attacked another cat - or something like that. It was all happening way too fast for the lean shecat to follow what was all happening. “Are all gatherings like this?” She meowed quietly to Nectarflame. Brightpaw genuinely did not know, considering this was her first time at a gathering. She was not aware that being so unbothered by the slaughter of Sprucefall was not normal, but her mentor was calm, so she would be too. Though some cats, she noticed, were leaving the gathering after witnessing what just happened. Huh. Oh well, Brightpaw wasn't gonna be a coward. She was braver than them.

"No," Nectarflame replies plainly. Her gaze lingers on the massive leader for a few heartbeats before she swivels her head to peer at the apprentice. "Many are bland and tasteless, you would accomplish little outside of finding some acquaintances to talk to while your leaders squabble." The golden she-cat shakes her head in a dismissive manner. "They are rarely in my taste, but as your first Gathering it would be appropriate to chaperone you. And it is a good thing, it seems."

After another moment or two, the cat lets her gaze wander. "You are already acquainted with ShadowClan and their scent. The other Clan present right now is RiverClan- Notice their distinctive smell. Sure, you could fall in line with everyone else and call it fishy, but there is more than that, just as we do not only smell of dirt and ShadowClan, much to the incredulity of anyone who may hear it, do not reek of mud or sludge. Our scents are a part of our identities. And when we travel to and across borders, they will help guide you to know where exactly you are at all times. Eventually you may even be such a sharp nose that you could recall which scent belongs to which cat. For now, though, we will begin with memorizing RiverClan." The she-cat concludes with a hint of a smile, clearly under the impression that she had somehow been funny at some point.

Clock Dragonshifter

March 8th, 2022, 01:07 PM

(Open to All! I need more interactions with her so I'm open to anything and Anyone!)

~Quietpaw Of Riverclan~
The long legged apprentice wasn't about to leave the gathering with all the chaos but she disliked what was happening, for crying out loud Dawnstar had just killed a cat! Shaking her head she averted her blue gaze and searched for a place to seat herself, making her way to the far edge where the water lapped at the shore the pretty silvery-white she-cat sat near the water her pelt glowing in the light of the moon as she let the waves lapping at the shore calm her nerves as waited for the gathering to begin.

Madelaine

March 8th, 2022, 01:09 PM

Angelique //
➵ sagepaw | they/he/she

could they not have one good, normal day? watching the brawl between a shadowclan warrior and his target being killed right after by dawnstar, sagepaw felt his stomach churn. he inhaled deeply, slowly breathing out, then looked at the cat he had sat beside. oh, it was one of the dreaded minions. ”and i thought there was no violence at gatherings.” she remarked under her breath.

-->Ebonyfang<--

Seeing everything going on the warrior got up to try and see if he could help, but Dawnstar called Grimhound to take care of it. Awe he always missed all the fun. Hearing a small voice the large tom looked down at this apprentice. They stenches of the clan he was residing in alongside some of his own clanmates. Great two cats get to get rid of a traitor and he was stuck here with an apprentice. "All cats are just chaotic. It's their fault the peace is gone.", he meowed, talking about the cats that were being disrupting.

Spottedpaw walked up to Petuniafire nervously. "What do I do at a gathering? Why are there so many different scents?" She paused. Featherspirit hadn't given her any training yet. She knew every clan had different scents, but there were so many? Which ones were which clan? She knew Riverclan, but that was it.

-->Petuniafire<--

Wow this was a great start to a gathering, but she had to be honest this one was the best one she ever went to. It had a lot of drama. Sure she wasn't one for any at clan meetings, but this was a gathering. Looking over at the cat that spoke to her she saw it was one of her own clanmates. "Well Shadowclan smells kind of bitter. Well at least to me it does. Windclan smells like the wind and Thunderclan kind of smells very odd.", she meowed. She didn't like Thunderclan, so she tried not to memorize their nasty stench.

WhitesilverQueen

March 8th, 2022, 01:37 PM

-->Ebonyfang<--

Seeing everything going on the warrior got up to try and see if he could help, but Dawnstar called Grimhound to take care of it. Awe he always missed all the fun. Hearing a small voice the large tom looked down at this apprentice. They stenches of the clan he was residing in alongside some of his own clanmates. Great two cats get to get rid of a traitor and he was stuck here with an apprentice. "All cats are just chaotic. It's their fault the peace is gone.", he meowed, talking about the cats that were being disrupting.

-->Petuniafire<--

Wow this was a great start to a gathering, but she had to be honest this one was the best one she ever went to. It had a lot of drama. Sure she wasn't one for any at clan meetings, but this was a gathering. Looking over at the cat that spoke to her she saw it was one of her own clanmates. "Well Shadowclan smells kind of bitter. Well at least to me it does. Windclan smells like the wind and Thunderclan kind of smells very odd.", she meowed. She didn't like Thunderclan, so she tried not to memorize their nasty stench.
Spottedpaw nodded, trying to memorize them all. She looked at Petuniafire admiringly. "You're a really good warrior. I wish you were my mentor. Featherspirit really hasn't taught me anything yet"

(I do not share these thoughts. Well, not the mean thoughts. Thats just Spottedpaw)

Madelaine

March 8th, 2022, 01:49 PM

Spottedpaw nodded, trying to memorize them all. She looked at Petuniafire admiringly. "You're a really good warrior. I wish you were my mentor. Featherspirit really hasn't taught me anything yet"

(I do not share these thoughts. Well, not the mean thoughts. Thats just Spottedpaw)

-->Petuniafire<--

The warrior listened. Mentor? She had just become a warrior. She wasn't sure if she would be ready for a while. Plus she knew Featherspirit. Well sort of, but she was pretty sure there must be a reason why. "I'm sure she'll teach you in no time. Until then tomorrow I could take you out. It'll be late by the time we get home today.", she meowed. Petuniafire could at least help this apprentice. Especially since she hadn't of had a mentor up until she became a warrior. The difference was Spottedpaw had a mentor. Any warrior though could help teach.

WhitesilverQueen

March 8th, 2022, 02:21 PM

-->Petuniafire<--

The warrior listened. Mentor? She had just become a warrior. She wasn't sure if she would be ready for a while. Plus she knew Featherspirit. Well sort of, but she was pretty sure there must be a reason why. "I'm sure she'll teach you in no time. Until then tomorrow I could take you out. It'll be late by the time we get home today.", she meowed. Petuniafire could at least help this apprentice. Especially since she hadn't of had a mentor up until she became a warrior. The difference was Spottedpaw had a mentor. Any warrior though could help teach.
Spottedpaw nodded happily. "Thanks! Maybe-" Spottedpaw stopped herself and stared at her paws. She wanted to cry. But she couldn't tell anyone that she cried herself to sleep at night. Except maybe her half-brother. Then everyone would think she was a weak, pathetic, traitor.

Madelaine

March 8th, 2022, 02:25 PM

Spottedpaw nodded happily. "Thanks! Maybe-" Spottedpaw stopped herself and stared at her paws. She wanted to cry. But she couldn't tell anyone that she cried herself to sleep at night. Except maybe her half-brother. Then everyone would think she was a weak, pathetic, traitor.

-->Petuniafire<--

The warrior loved the joy of younger cats even though she was young herself. It was when the apprentice seemed less out of it she got a bit concerned. "Hey you alright? You seem a little off now.", she whispered where only she could hear. Petuniafire didn't want to embarrass them, but if they didn't want to talk about it she'd drop it and talk about something else.

WhitesilverQueen

March 8th, 2022, 03:22 PM

-->Petuniafire<--

The warrior loved the joy of younger cats even though she was young herself. It was when the apprentice seemed less out of it she got a bit concerned. "Hey you alright? You seem a little off now.", she whispered where only she could hear. Petuniafire didn't want to embarrass them, but if they didn't want to talk about it she'd drop it and talk about something else.
Spottedpaw shook her head. "N-nothing's wr-wrong" Darnet, her stutter had slipped through. It was hard not to stutter, but Spottedpaw tried really hard not to.

TheNyanCatMinecart

March 8th, 2022, 03:37 PM

(I'm counting these as three separate posts, even though they sort of bleed into each other.)

~ IVYSNAKE OF SHADOWCLAN ~ (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49554)

Ivysnake followed her leader to the Seastones, where the Gatherings took place. It would be her first Gathering as a warrior. This was also the largest Gathering group she'd traveled with. After all, ShadowClan and ThunderClan were arriving together. The scent of the rodents mingled with the much better scent of Ivysnake's Clan, making her wrinkle her nose. She agreed with Dawnstar's logic of helping these pathetic furballs. However, she still found them insufferable and annoying. They were too weak to stand up for themselves and too frog-brained to understand that ShadowClan, a Clan full of powerful warriors led by the strongest leader anywhere, was trying to help them. Ivysnake flicked her black-striped tail at the thought.

Ivysnake heard her leader's announcement and gave a nod. She'd had enough of ThunderClan for now. When RiverClan or WindClan arrived, she'd talk with one of their cats instead. The she-cat found a spot some distance away from any ThunderClan cats and sat down, surveying the outskirts of the beach for any signs of life or movement. She also eyed the cats within the beach to see if anything interesting would happen with the cats among them. Nothing much of interest. Just ShadowClan and ThunderClan cats getting settled, although Ivysnake did notice that quite a few ThunderClan cats looked uneasy. I wonder if Shadestorm will show up. The thought crossed her mind. He was the deputy, after all, but he had been slacking lately. Ivysnake's lip curled at the thought. He had always been against slackers, but now he was becoming one. He'd better improve, and fast. ShadowClan is no place for those not willing to put forth their full effort to serve it.

There was RiverClan. The breeze brought the distasteful scent to Ivysnake's nose and she looked up, spotting the fluffy gray tabby tom leading his Clan to the Seastones. She watched as he paused to brush his tail over a black-and-white apprentice's head - maybe she was his apprentice or a friend or something, she wasn't sure - before he bounded up the rocks to sit with Dawnstar. More cats are here. I might as well have a look around. As Ivysnake stood up, a stray scent reached her nose and she frowned. Is WindClan here? She looked around and found a singular WindClan apprentice, an orange tortie, bouncing up and down with excitement. What in the name of the shadows is she doing here? Had she snuck out of camp or something? Ivysnake rolled her eyes. It wasn't her problem.

She looked around, seeing if there were any RiverClan cats worth talking to. Many of them were already settling in among the crowd, giving curious looks to the ThunderClan cats. They don't know about the help we're giving them yet. Ivysnake briefly wondered what the other Clans would think before brushing it aside. It's not their problem, and even so, they should be grateful that we're making sure there are four Clans in the forest. Even if they aren't... I can see the dislike they have for us. They think we're despicable, but we're much better than they'll ever be. We don't let weak things such as StarClan and the warrior code get in our way.

Ivysnake noticed a golden tabby tom with ginger swirls making his way over to the area where the deputies normally sat. That must be RiverClan's new deputy. Last she'd heard, the old one had resigned. Shadestorm still hadn't shown his face. I'll talk with him after this whole thing with ThunderClan is over. She continued to look around to see if anything else caught her eye. Ivysnake did notice something. One of the RiverClan apprentices was nearby, a blue mitten ragdoll, and she was talking loudly. Then she turned to something in the shadows. Ivysnake followed her gaze. She couldn't see the other cat, but when she sniffed the air, she tensed. It wasn't a cat from ShadowClan. Actually... the cat had faint ShadowClan scent, but it was mostly overlain with other scents. A former ShadowClan cat. An exile or a deserter. Ivysnake rose to her paws.

Before she could head in that direction, a loud yowl distracted her. Ivysnake's dark brown head whipped around and she saw a cat who quickly introduced himself as Stormpelt, or Storm, running around and asking to be let back in by Kestrelstar after being exiled. Her lip curled. Idiot. What is he even trying to accomplish? Ivysnake turned her head back around to deal with the ShadowClan exile or outcast, whatever she was. That was when Badgerscar came barreling out of nowhere and attempted to tackle the cat. Ivysnake rushed forward, hissing, her normally sleek pelt bristling in case the cat tried to cause any problems.

Then the cat disappeared. Ivysnake couldn't see her. A low growl escaped her and her claws, long and sharp, unsheathed. "Who was it?" she hissed at her former mentor, ears flattened against her head. She hadn't gotten a good chance to see the cat clearly. Wait. The cat hadn't left. Even though she couldn't see her, Ivysnake could definitely scent her. It's coming strongly from over there. She lowered into a crouch, strong muscles rippling under her short tabby fur. Meanwhile, behind her, she could hear RiverClan dealing with their exile Storm. All the exiled cats are coming back tonight. Based on Badgerscar's reaction, this cat must've been exiled by Dawnstar. Ivysnake wouldn't know her, though.

Then the furball revealed herself, blabbing on and on about "not understanding Dawnstar" and "paying the price", that stuff. As ready as Ivysnake was to leap on this cat and claw all that black fur off, she was intrigued as to what had happened with this cat. She had been called a traitor and was now talking about "paying a price". Most likely, she had been disloyal. "Make it up by leaving or by letting us shred you," she snarled at the black cat. Grimhound was there too, and then Dawnstar came, in all her glory. Ivysnake stepped back to let her leader through. Dawnstar made quick work of killing the she-cat.

NinjaBloss Rippleshade (for viewing purposes, since Sprucefall is dead)

Now that that was over, Ivysnake padded back into the crowd, unmoved by what had happened. She should still talk to a RiverClan cat, or a WindClan cat, if they arrived. She noticed, out of the corner of her eye, that same blue mitted ragdoll running away. Weakling. Other cats surrounding them looked shocked. Was death such a surprising thing? Sure, it was a Gathering and there was a truce, but it had been clear that that cat had been an exile. Kestrelstar approached some tall black cat to get him to follow the apprentice who had just run away. Drama, of course. Ivysnake hardly cared. She did notice another RiverClan cat vomit, though. Her nose wrinkled in distaste. These cats were warriors! How soft could they be?

Some other cat was jumping and yelling at Kestrelstar about a prophecy. Some of these cats are just unbearable. Ivysnake briefly wondered if she should even talk to anybody, then decided that she should. I may as well see what's going on in other Clans and get to know my enemies a bit better. Maybe they have personality traits other than 'pathetic'. Ivysnake scented blood and turned to find a ShadowClan warrior, Whiteclaw, lying on the ground. She had briefly heard of the commotion with Stormpelt/Storm, but hadn't paid much attention. Ivysnake slid over to the white-furred tom and looked down at him. Then she glanced at Dawnstar. "What should we do about him?" she called up, flicking her tail at the injured and bleeding cat.

Undertaker SourCream

Ivysnake was still determined to talk to someone. Her gaze fell on a RiverClan warrior she had seen briefly before, when she'd been looking around earlier. It was a fluffy she-cat with gray, black, and off-white markings. I could talk to her. Ivysnake padded up to the RiverClan cat, not bothering to dip her head. Why should she show any respect toward this cat? After all, she was from an enemy Clan, and she hadn't done anything to make Ivysnake respect her. Not like she'd have much respect for an enemy, enemy.

"Hello," she meowed, stopping to stand in front of the tri-colored RiverClan warrior. She surveyed the she-cat with sharp amber eyes. "I'm Ivysnake. And you are?" She paused, waiting for a response.

door~

Rani

March 8th, 2022, 04:19 PM

Ah gatherings they were always so...... god awful.

Snakeheart had barley arrived when the leaders that were here (no leaders for thunderclan, typical) were forced to step in and remove problem cats and murder even more problems cats and if that wasnt a sign of how the gathering would go the tom didnt know what was. However he was here, mainly because the riverclan tom wanted to talk to Cowpaw again poor apprentice needed all the help he could get, Reedpaw hopefully trailing behind him and there was no escaping now.

Padding up to the general meeting spot of the medicine cats the toms ears immediately pinned spotting two thunderclan cats (it was about time they replaced Icicleripple but Snakeheart wasnt looking forward to it) and he let out a large audible sigh before reluctantly padding over. This wasnt going to be fun.

"Greetings squirrels looks like someone finally got their tail in gear in your clan for once. Wheres Dogwhatever or any of your leaders, dont they know they need to get on the seastone?"

The tom sat long tail flowing across the sand behind him as he sniffed obviously scanning a judgemental eye over the newcomers and finding them lacking before shifting his gaze away to look at the wider gathering. "And why do you smell so... off this gathering? Your normal scent smells tainted this trip, are you sick or something?"

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Captain

March 8th, 2022, 04:52 PM

☁ Cloudpaw (she/her) ☁ [ spade | tldr baby cloud cries for her papa to hold her ]

➢ As the small fluffy apprentice sat down, it seemed like chaos ensued almost immediately. It all started with one cat yelling up at the Seastones and then another cat lunging at someone else. Everything happened in a frenzied blur where Cloudpaw couldn’t focus on one thing. Then… there was blood. Too much blood. Dawnstar, the Shadowclan leader, had leapt down and killed someone -- that violent cat from earlier. The young shecat’s paws began to tremble and she felt strangely light-headed all of a sudden. Several other Riverclan apprentices reacted with widened eyes or even throwing up. It was a miracle within itself that Cloudpaw didn’t vomit herself, but she managed to keep it all down. But she could not stop shaking. She wanted her mamas, she wanted Goosekit or Kestrelkit, she wanted someone to hold onto. That was when the tears started. Those thick crybaby tears that couldn’t be stopped once then started. This wasn’t how her first gathering was supposed to go! She was supposed to be having fun and talking with other apprentices, but how could Cloudpaw focus after all this had happened? She whimpered and looked up towards the Seastones to find Kestrelstar, her light-blue eyes full of innocence as tears continued to slip down her face. It seemed like a mocking call-back to her apprentice ceremony, but so much worse. She opened her mouth, but hesitated, wanting to call out for her mentor like a kitten would call out for their mother. Cloudpaw shut up and gulped, whimpering as she trembled severely. The small Riverclan laid down and curled into a ball, hiding her face underneath her tail as she shook with terror. She cried and cried and cried. Hiccups erupted and she felt herself struggling to be calm and breathe. Why? Why did this have to happen to her now? She wanted to be brave, she wanted to be strong. Kestrelstar would see that she was nothing more than a coward who could do nothing right. Dear Starclan, have mercy upon her. Cloudpaw wished everything could be okay. “M-M-Mama…” She whimpered pitifully, knowing that both Rosyfrost and Swansong were nowhere to be seen. That was when she couldn’t keep it back anymore, “Kestrelstar!” The young molly mewed out like a miserable newborn kit, trying so hard to muffle it with her paws as her entire body was curled into a tight ball. She felt even smaller than usual right now. How could she ever be a warrior when she acted like this so easily? Her nose smelled that awful coppery scent of blood mixed with the putrid odor of puke. She wanted this all to be an awful nightmare. Please wake up! Please please wake up and let it all be over.

dino.

March 8th, 2022, 05:20 PM

>Loonkit<
Woah-ho-ho. Were these things always so loud? A black-freckled face poked above the edge of the stones, small ears turning every which way, and amber-blue eyes blinking curiously at the rather rowdy display across the rocks. She'd gotten lucky following after RiverClan, she guessed, and she assumed this meant she'd pretty much lied to her dad when she'd told him she would never sneak out. And Swankit wasn't even with her! But this opportunity had been too perfect to pass up, and so she'd waited a short while for RiverClan to leave and then had trailed after them. Despite what the aching in her legs and the shortness of her breath told her, the long trek had paid off. Because this was way cool and totally worth it.

Though... wait a second. What were those two doing? She attention was dragged toward the sandy shore, where two pretty big cats were throwing what looked like another cat towards the sea. Now abandoning the larger part of the Gathering and, in turn, the consequences that would come with being seen, Loonkit trotted around the Seastones and right up to where the ocean met the sand. She barely tossed Grimhound or Badgerscar a second look, instead tilting her head curiously as the waves began to lap at what she could now identify as a very dead cat.

"Woah. Neat."

Most kits would probably be at the very least unnerved by this sight, and at the very most, deeply upset, but it was evident that Loonkit was not, and she was willing to wager that her sister wouldn't have been either. There was something almost hypnotizing about the way the briny waters began to turn a sickly shade of red, and Loonkit watched it for a moment, eyes slightly wide. She kind of wanted to reach out and poke it, but wasn't too keen on getting swept out to sea and lost forever. Definitely not on her list of things to do before she died.

stardust.

March 8th, 2022, 05:43 PM

Captain

March 8th, 2022, 06:23 PM

"No," Nectarflame replies plainly. Her gaze lingers on the massive leader for a few heartbeats before she swivels her head to peer at the apprentice. "Many are bland and tasteless, you would accomplish little outside of finding some acquaintances to talk to while your leaders squabble." The golden she-cat shakes her head in a dismissive manner. "They are rarely in my taste, but as your first Gathering it would be appropriate to chaperone you. And it is a good thing, it seems."

After another moment or two, the cat lets her gaze wander. "You are already acquainted with ShadowClan and their scent. The other Clan present right now is RiverClan- Notice their distinctive smell. Sure, you could fall in line with everyone else and call it fishy, but there is more than that, just as we do not only smell of dirt and ShadowClan, much to the incredulity of anyone who may hear it, do not reek of mud or sludge. Our scents are a part of our identities. And when we travel to and across borders, they will help guide you to know where exactly you are at all times. Eventually you may even be such a sharp nose that you could recall which scent belongs to which cat. For now, though, we will begin with memorizing RiverClan." The she-cat concludes with a hint of a smile, clearly under the impression that she had somehow been funny at some point.☼ Brightpaw (she/her) ☼

➢ “Huh. Interesting.” Brightpaw meowed nonchalantly, peering up towards where the two clan leaders were before turning her gaze back to Nectarflame. She listened now in a rather respectful silence as the bengal shecat explained how it was wise to find other cats to talk to while the gathering commenced. The Thunderclan shecat did not really like the idea of mingling much after all that had happened so far, it seemed like a messy situation to start up a casual conversation, but she wouldn’t dare dismiss a word of Nectarflame. Her green eyes wandered over to where Grimhound and Badgerscar were discarding the lifeless body of Sprucefall. Many apprentices were reacting to the sight in a horrified manner, but Brightpaw? She felt… nothing, which surprised her a little bit. After everything that happened, was the youth already numb to seeing a cat die? Well, maybe that would be useful for the future. Anything could happen and Brightpaw needed to be ready for anything. Even if that meant murder.

After getting lost in thought about it for a few moments, her small ears twitched with intrigue as the Thunderclan warrior continued talking. Everything that was said sounded important, almost poetic in a weird way to Brightpaw. Especially the ‘our scents are a part of our identities’ portion. “Riverclan. Got it.” The torishelle molly said quietly with a curt nod of understanding, a small evident smile coming to her expression as she turned to look out towards the crowd of cats. “Shall I go out there then and stick my nose into some Riverclan cat’s fur?” Brightpaw said this with a hiss of amusement slipping out, hopefully her mentor wouldn’t mind her own attempt at being funny. But more or less, she was trying to see what Nectarflame wanted her to do from this point on.

Nixey

March 8th, 2022, 06:31 PM

”Do gatherings have to happen -every- moon?” Murmuring beneath her breath, Reedpaw padded along behind her mentor towards the Seastones. She had wanted to tell him how it was too cold for her to attend, but knew that wouldn’t be met with the kindest response from the tom. So instead the apprentice had her fur puffed up against the cool night, wishing she had stayed back at camp and curled up in her nest to sleep off the nerve that stirred in her belly. She had only been Snakeheart’s apprentice for a little bit, and had joked that she certainly knew not to poke the snake, but that was easier said than done. Snakeheart was alright for the most part, albeit a little scary, but there had been a few times where she had been met with his annoyance at certain things. The cobweb fiasco was understandable, she needed to get better at doing them, but it still left a ache in her chest when she considered how it easily could’ve been avoided.

Snapping from her thoughts, Reedpaw realized she had fallen slightly behind and made an effort to catch up with Snakeheart, now trailing just a few mousesteps behind him as she tried to hold her head high. Hopefully tonight would go, at the very least, alright.

At first she was confused at her mentors pinned ears, Reedpaw putting a pep in her step to catch up to him as she parted her jaws before she realized cats she hadn’t seen before were already seated in the spot where the medicine cats normally gathered. Forcing herself to stay at Snakeheart’s side rather than padding up to greet the new cats, Reedpaw allowed a warm smile to appear along her maw as she took her seat, her gaze landing on the cat that looked about her age as she glanced towards Snakeheart before parting her jaws. “Hello,” speaking in a soft tone, Reedpaw’s eyes seemed to shimmer with excitement as she gave a little tilt of her head. “I’m Reedpaw, who are you?” Making sure to give her head a hurried dip in greeting towards the older cat, Reedpaw didn’t entirely see anything wrong with getting to know this newcomer, and Snakeheart confirmed her suspicions that these were Thunderclan’s new medicine cats.
Naiad | Shade. | Rani | x ghostie

Rizo

March 8th, 2022, 06:33 PM

~Emberpaw of Thunderclan | Open~

Slinking back as the events unfolded before her, Emberpaw cringed as the acrid, metal-laced scent of blood hit her nose.
There's supposed to be a truce! Does that not include outsiders?
She looked around frantically for someone to run to, but none of her close friends were here. Her mentor wasn't here. She had nowhere to turn. Pupils wide in distress, but not wanting to draw Dawnstar's ire, she moved to the very back of the gathering and sat, hunched, fear in her eyes.

~Moonfrost of Riverclan | masquerade ~

Watching the events unfold, the dark tabby shook her head.
A murder at a gathering, what next. What else could possibly go wrong.
She watched the cats from her clan as the apprentices attending the gathering began to react, some very much as expected upon seeing such cruelty for the first time. Then a voice rang out above the others.
Cloudpaw?
She looked at the young apprentice with realization. Cloudpaw was Kestrelstar's apprentice, and he had to attend to the gathering. Standing, she padded over to the young cat and licked her forehead, trying to calm her, before lifting a paw, inviting Cloudpaw to burrow into her fur for comfort.
You poor, sweet little thing. Let me help you.
Her blue eyes fixed on the little molly, full of concern and warmth for the fluffy little cat.

~Wolfsong of Riverclan | Open~

Shaking her head in disgust, the silver tabby looked around at the gathering.
Stormpelt? He's supposed to be exiled!
She squinted at the commotion occurring before Dawnstar's actions drew her attention. Seemed a traitor to her clan had also appeared. She didn't necessarily approve of the outright killing of the cat, but it wasn't her clan, so it wasn't her business. Instead, she kept her expression neutral and watched as her sister went to comfort Cloudpaw.
Good, she'll know what to do.

Moonraven

March 8th, 2022, 07:50 PM

This was perplexing, the lilac-gray WindClan leader gave a quick shake of her pelt as she led her clan to Seastones. She was immediately assaulted by confusion at the sight of two of the three leaders atop the stones yet there were three clans on the beach, four now that she's arrived. Where was Dogbark? And what was with the tension in the air and she could smell a tinge of blood in the air. Suddenly Twilightstar wasn't so sure she wanted to be here, she wondered if she'd be the first clan leader to turn their clan around and go home.

She pushed aside her uneasiness, lifting her head, and moved across the beach with her usual tired, limber grace, but didn't head straight to the Seastones as she usually did, no, she had to go growl at a wayward apprentice. "Tigerpaw," Twilightstar allowed her irritability to bleed in through her voice as she paused in front of the WindClan apprentice. "Mossnose has obviously been giving you far too much freedom if you think going ahead of me to the gathering, on your own, is acceptable. It might be a good idea to look into reassigning you a stricter mentor in the future." Twilightstar didn't give the apprentice a chance to respond, instead, she walked away and join Dawnstar and Kestrelstar atop the stone.
Leafspeaker

Usually, she'd find a reason to snap at the deranged shadow leader, especially considering the hell Dawnstar had put her clan through, but stirring up drama for the sake of drama would just cause her a headache in the end and more dead cats to bury. Besides, she had pretty much settled on aiding RiverClan should they wage war against the shadow dwellers, she could take out her frustrations with Dawnstar then.

With the height advantage, Twilightstar noticed a bleeding ShadowClan that everyone seemed to be ignoring, aside from that ShadowClan apprentice, Ivypaw. Which meant that something certainly had happened before they arrived, Twilightstar glanced over to Kesrelstar who didn't appear overly ruffled, and even though Dawnstar smelt of fresh blood, Twilightstar decided against asking about the happenings if they were important she'd heard of it. Was that a kit? Hmmm, okay, well it wasn't WindClan's kit so not her problem.

"Kestrelstar," Twilightstar greeted the RiverClan leader before locking her single eye on Dawnstar with a baffled expression. "Dawnstar, aside from you're usual stink, why do you carry ThunderClan's scent?" The mixed scent might have made the leader's nose run if she was sitting closer to the cat. Her curiosity outweighed her patience for once in her life, it was rare for Twilightstar to bother asking questions instead of waiting to receive an answer.
Undertaker spade
WindClan's Arrived

Captain

March 8th, 2022, 08:05 PM

☁ Cloudpaw (she/her) ☁ [ RiztheHuntress ]

➢ The small Riverclan apprentice didn’t know how long she lay there on the ground, crying and shivering uncontrollably without any sense of what was happening anymore. She wished that this was all just some sick and cruel dream. Any second now, Cloudpaw would awaken in her soft moss nest in the apprentice’s den. Unfortunately, that did not happen. Instead, something unexpected happened to the fluffy shecat. She felt another cat licking her forehead in a gentle and loving manner, reminding her of those times where her mama, Swansong, groomed her while she fell asleep. Without even thinking twice about it, Cloudpaw shuffled closer to Moonfrost, burying her face into the shecat’s fur and holding onto the Riverclan warrior like her life depended on it. She didn’t recognize anything regarding this cat’s scent other than that she was Riverclan, which was more than enough for the innocent little shecat to trust Moonfrost. She didn’t say anything, just clung to the bigger clanmate and sniffled, slowly but surely calming down. It felt like so long since someone had held her like this.

astrid.

March 8th, 2022, 08:13 PM

☁ Cloudjumper of WindClan -

With clear skies and cold breezes, Cloudjumper made sure that her fur was fluffed out as her heavy paws followed the slop that lead towards the gathering. Already the scents of many cats were hitting her, some of which she recognized while others remained a mystery. A faint trace of blood lingered in the air, and the source appeared to be a bleeding ShadowClan tom. "Of course," came the amused snort from the warrior which was shortly followed up by a dismissive roll of her eyes. ShadowClan and fighting at Gatherings, what else had she been expecting?

Taking note that WindClan appeared to be the last to arrive, Cloudjumper took her usual seat right up front and turned her attention to the leaders. Dawnstar, Kestrelstar, and... wait. ThunderClan was clearly here due to their dull dirty scent, but where was their leader? Confusion only lasted momentarily before the fluffy she-cat gave a shrug and figured it would be revealed as the announcements took place.

[open!]

wolfie

March 8th, 2022, 08:45 PM

The new medicine cat followed closely behind Twilightstar, eyes round with awe while his gaze flickered about the clearing with curiosities. This would be Cowpaw's first gathering in his new role - and his first gathering in general. Truly an amazing thing and an honor but, if he had to confess, his heart was racing at the speed of thousands of rabbits. Meetings at Windclan were simple, he knew most of his clanmates by their prominent features or, maybe scent, mannerisms, so many things and even that tended to be overwhelming for him. He pauses, mouth dry. It was simple enough, gatherings seemed to be... multiple meetings at once, if that made enough sense?

His eyebrows furrow lightly together, a Windclan apprentice already arrived before them? That was dangerous, but well, at least he would give Tigerpaw the benefit that she did make it before them. Speaking of that, were they late? He couldn't tell, all the scents mashed together in an unpleasant manner.

Cowpaw lets out a squeak as Twilightstar leaves his side, a spark of betrayal in his eyes but nothing serious. Stars, how did everyone know where to go? Clearly others just had.. more experience, right, well, hm, hm, hm! Gee, his tongue clicks softly against the roof of his mouth and without a second fault he dives into the crowd. Which was to be regretted because he could smell the stench of blood. His floppy ears flattened against his skull, too loud for him to pick out any context but, really, Cowpaw just wanted to make sure this didn't go too awful. To the tom's luck, his nose almost hits gently against the shoulder of someone. Sniff, sniff.

Rockwing!!! A purr erupts from him, and he lifts a paw, panickily tapping against his brother's shoulder. He did his best to slow it down, but his words were rough but simply was along the lines of, I need a small favor! Do you mind,, showing me where Snakeheart is and... the others? I'm not - not sure what they look like but, I think Snakeheart has ... reddish, orange fur, ? Cowpaw explained, dipping his head in gratefulness. He could only hope Rockwing was able to gauge what he was referring to, he must've gone to more gatherings than him..? (Eep, wait, wait, does this mean he's going to meet Shadowclan's medicine cat, too?) [ Naiad ]

Rani Nixey Shade. // cow doesn't directly interact with em yet, but just so yall know he has arrived :heartbounce: he's comin, he's comin

Captain

March 8th, 2022, 09:03 PM

wolfie

March 8th, 2022, 09:08 PM

xxx > Lotuspaw | Thunderclan Apprentice | SourCream // just their response to oaksong leaving!! // open to others, just be warned they are bein a menace "O, oh, thank you, " They mew in surprise to cover up the disappointment that Oaksong wouldn't be coming with them to this 'friendly adventure on the beach'. If they had bothered to make another move, tempt her further, it fell flat as they couldn't get another word in. Lotuspaw didn't want to tell some fish cat about Thunderclan's problems and didn't want to hear about Riverclan's wellbeing either. A huff escapes from them, squinting their eyes at Oaksong. They wanted to press but nah, "Kay, " it was a dismissive response while they watched her walk away. Seems like it was a waste of time but, nonetheless, they had... inspirations now.

Lotuspaw looked to the leaders, a smug smirk beginning to spread across their face. If they couldn't get another ... accidental voluteener, they would go for the BIG small CATS!!! This mischievous plan brought giggles from them but it was cut short as Dawnstar leapt from the Seastone. They died down, choking in their throat, stopping their breathing with a sudden gasp - jaw agape with shock.

Red flooded into their vision like wildfire, sparking each limb into tension - claws unsheathing like a second instinct. It was quick, if they blinked maybe they would miss it, but no, the apprentice could only be a witness. Their gaze slowly dropped to the ground where Sprucefall lay, limp, lifeless eyes. (Just like Mama. Just like Mama. Just like Aspen.) Lotuspaw whimpers, pinning their ears back, "what..,, what the ,, heck man,,, this,,, this is supposed to ..." it was supposed to be peaceful. wasn't that the whole jest? what even happened?

A trembling paw lifts to paw at their cheek, whatever, whatever. didn't matter. couldn't change it.

Lotuspaw turns away, moving closer towards the edge of the clearing to explore near the sea. Copper eyes looking out for a red, weird, funky, creature - one with two misshaped claws. Crabs. Crabs, yeah, that's what they wanted. Whatever just happened? It wasn't anyone important to them so, they were going to suck it up.

R0WAN

March 8th, 2022, 09:14 PM

Spiderpaw [ masquerade ]

Spiderpaw stood awkwardly, looking around at all of the cats around him. Dear Starclan... I never thought I'd see this many cats in my whole life. Before the Gathering he had done his best to groom his pelt, and he reminded himself to keep a low profile. At the moment, he didn't want a lot of attention on himself. His amber eyes scanned the clearing for his new friend, Cloudpaw, when his eyes landed on her. He then immediately thought about her mentor, Kestralstar, and looked up towards the leaders. He was curious if Cloudpaw still felt like she was like every other cat, but Spiderpaw knew very well that not all cats got the clan's leader to be their mentor. He twitched his tail, a small spark of jealousy coming over him. He took a deep breath and fixed his posture. Don't let your thoughts get ahead of you, Spiderpaw. Keep yourself under control.

He started to get more and more anxious just sitting there by himself, his thoughts often drifting back to the thoughts of the cats around him. Spiderpaw didn't feel like going to the Gathering; there were a lot of spots he'd rather be at. He did his best to think of the river and the sounds of splashing water, but Spiderpaw's breathing just seemed to quicken. Calm yourself... calm yourself... He'd shift his paws every so often, hoping that no other cat would notice him acting like this. He absolutely hated being alone like this in front of so many cats. What if they thought he was just some weird apprentice? Or even worse; an outcast in the clan? He glanced towards Cloudpaw again. Perhaps he should go sit by her? Would that change the thoughts the cats had of him? He stood, and awkwardly padded over to the other black and white apprentice.

'' U-uh... hey Cloudpaw! Do you mind if I sit with you? ''

[also sorry if this is a bad time! gatherings and clan meetings are really hard for me to pay attention to and I often miss things so forgive me if this is a bad time o-0]

Akira

March 8th, 2022, 09:16 PM

❀ Lotuswhisper of Windclan (he/him) ❀ [ Ritsuka (for Splotchpaw) ]

➢ Walking along with the rest of Windclan, the dark-furred maine coon raised his head to the clear sky above them, filled with tiny bright stars. He remembered when he was a small kitten, his mother had told him that Starclan was always watching over them. Were Silversky and Mousewhisper watching over him right now on this special night? He would like to think so. “Splotchpaw,” Lotuswhisper meowed to his young apprentice, “I expect you to be on your very best behavior tonight. This is your first gathering, making it a very special once-in-a-lifetime occasion.” The moment they entered the beach, the familiar (and haunting) stench of blood came to his senses. Huh? The hefty warrior soon caught sight of the dead body of another cat, close by being two Shadowclan warriors. How was he not surprised? Shaking his head, the dark-furred tomcat looked to Splotchpaw. “Stick close to me.” He said to the white-furred youth, his tone showing obvious concern towards the chaos that seemed to take over his gathering. The long-furred maine coon’s shoulder ached still from the adder bite that he had received several sunrises ago. There was no serious damage, but the damn thing hurt like a deep thorn in his flesh. As Lotuswhisper sat down among his clanmates, he gestured with his large bushy tail for Splotchpaw to sit beside him - though he prepared for the youth to not listen. This gathering’s aura didn’t sit well with him, but the Windclan warrior did his best to remain calm. His mate, Snowflower, would probably scold him the moment they knew Lotuswhisper was at the gathering and not in the med den resting after his unlucky injury, but he didn’t care. This was a special event and his apprentice’s first gathering. He wouldn’t miss such a moment, no matter what. Lotuswhisper could only hope that all the mindless violence had ended for the night.
Splotchpaw had tailed after his mentor, a paw covering his muzzle and looking absolutely disgusted. Initially, he was excited to attend his first Gathering-he'd get to meet the other Clans! And make new friends!-but now, he was regretting every life choice up until now. It stank! The RiverClan border was bad, ShadowClan was worse, but the combination of both was just awful! Probably enough to kill! How could the others stand this?! He could also smell some blood... Did someone get hurt? He couldn't tell: Lotuswhisper had sat in a spot where he couldn't see, and other cats were crowded in the commotion. Ew, socializing.

"Yeah, yeah, I got it..." he muttered, plopping down next to the dark tabby and looking at his still healing injury. "Hey, did you tell anyone about that? Should I tell them? Want me to ask Cowpaw, or your mate?"

Ian

March 8th, 2022, 09:38 PM

Whiteclaw got back up, "I'm fine" He mewed, "I hope Storm ran away forever, a cat trying to rejoin his own clan, especially considering it was during a gathering-" He paused, trying not to think of the times that he had been rude to his own clanmates, "Shimmerbird, thank you, and I saw that Birdpaw left, but big thanks to her as well" He let out a mrrow of amusement
NinjaBloss
--Shimmerbird (RC)--
The molly just awkwardly scooted away from the weird as hell tom when he thanked her. Why was a ShadowClan warrior offering thanks when she was chasing off an exiled RiverClan warrior. And he had seem severely injured, yet now he was walking just fine? Eh, it was probably some weird ShadowClan voodoo mouse-dung. Who knew what Dawnstar even did to her warriors to make them so freakishly strong.

--Fallownose (WC)--
The WindClan tom slipped into the crowd of cats with a slight frown on his face. The air was tense and was clear something, or multiple somethings, had happened before WindClan had arrived. There was the scent of blood, and a seemingly injured ShadowClan warrior. And then there was the fact that ThunderClan was here, yet their was no leader for them up on the Streamstone. Where the heck where Aspenstar and Dogbark? Better yet, what the heck was even going on?!

[OPEN]

Captain

March 8th, 2022, 09:48 PM

Splotchpaw had tailed after his mentor, a paw covering his muzzle and looking absolutely disgusted. Initially, he was excited to attend his first Gathering-he'd get to meet the other Clans! And make new friends!-but now, he was regretting every life choice up until now. It stank! The RiverClan border was bad, ShadowClan was worse, but the combination of both was just awful! Probably enough to kill! How could the others stand this?! He could also smell some blood... Did someone get hurt? He couldn't tell: Lotuswhisper had sat in a spot where he couldn't see, and other cats were crowded in the commotion. Ew, socializing.

"Yeah, yeah, I got it..." he muttered, plopping down next to the dark tabby and looking at his still healing injury. "Hey, did you tell anyone about that? Should I tell them? Want me to ask Cowpaw, or your mate?"❀ Lotuswhisper of Windclan (he/him) ❀

➢ The dark long-furred maine coon took note of his apprentice’s disgusted expression, remembering how much he hated the other clan’s scents. If it weren’t for the obviously morbid scene that had unfolded recently here, Lotuswhisper would’ve laughed, but instead focused on keeping Splotchpaw safe while they were here. Ugh. He swore that the gatherings that he had attended in the past were never this bad -- usually they were more slow and uneventful from his own personal experiences. As the Windclan warrior was comfortably seated with his tail resting over his large paws, Lotuswhisper had to admit that he was rather relieved when the young white-furred tomcat sat down beside him and didn’t run off on his own. Though he wouldn’t be able to stop him if he did, given that this shoulder injury made moving too quickly more difficult. “I got it looked at after we came home from your tour, don’t you remember? Snowflower then found out about it soon afterwards.” Lotuswhisper meowed, “Don’t worry. It just aches sometimes, that’s all. I ain't gonna die on you yet.”

Kunaisoul

March 8th, 2022, 10:04 PM

Akira

March 8th, 2022, 10:26 PM

❀ Lotuswhisper of Windclan (he/him) ❀

➢ The dark long-furred maine coon took note of his apprentice’s disgusted expression, remembering how much he hated the other clan’s scents. If it weren’t for the obviously morbid scene that had unfolded recently here, Lotuswhisper would’ve laughed, but instead focused on keeping Splotchpaw safe while they were here. Ugh. He swore that the gatherings that he had attended in the past were never this bad -- usually they were more slow and uneventful from his own personal experiences. As the Windclan warrior was comfortably seated with his tail resting over his large paws, Lotuswhisper had to admit that he was rather relieved when the young white-furred tomcat sat down beside him and didn’t run off on his own. Though he wouldn’t be able to stop him if he did, given that this shoulder injury made moving too quickly more difficult. “I got it looked at after we came home from your tour, don’t you remember? Snowflower then found out about it soon afterwards.” Lotuswhisper meowed, “Don’t worry. It just aches sometimes, that’s all. I ain't gonna die on you yet.”
"Shame..." Splotchpaw muttered sarcastically, his voice slightly muffled by his paw. He was admittedly a tad worried about his mentor-only a tad-but he seemed to be holding up just fine. Well, at least be seemed to be in a somewhat decent mood, even if he was still pretty much keeping to himself and not talking to others.

Speaking off, there were so many cats! Why?! Splotchpaw wasn't good at socializing with strangers: this was just torture, being surrounded by so many. The calico tom curled his tail around his paws, seemingly trying to shrink in an attempt to disappear and not have some stranger come up and want to talk to him.

(Somewhat open... Ish?)

Rizo

March 8th, 2022, 10:32 PM

pxxylo

March 8th, 2022, 10:48 PM

Ryepaw | RiverClan | x ghostie

Like a submarine, Ryepaw was struggling to hold his
breath as only two of the newly-named apprentice's
ears poked out from the shore's shallow waters. While
the water lapping at his ears did, for the most part,
drown out any words or sounds, he did hear some...
yelling. Poking his head up, the olive green-eyed
apprentice allowed now only his little nose to peek
out so he could get a whiff of whatever was going on.
WhAt the hell? Isn't that blood? I've only smelt blood
once, but we don't talk about that. We NEVER talk about
that, because nobody ever wants to. Too much of a touchy
topic. Bolting from the water, his whole body launched
up from the water, landing on the sand with one quick thump.
Ignoring the copper-eyed apprentice he was about to pass by in
his sprint to go see what was happening, he began to run, but was
quickly stopped right promptly after not even an inch of land ran
across by a red pinchy thing. "ow!" He
squeaked, his gaze darting to his front paw, which he, of course,
began to shake which only caused more pain. He was in his own
world, completely unaware that he was simply embarrassing himself.

However, his gaze quickly drifted upwards from his still
claw-clamped paw, up to the bobtail in front of him.
"Oh- hello." He quickly went back to his own paw.
Who gives half a care if this cat I'll never see again thinks
I'm weird? I don't care. I'll never see them again anyways.

astrid.

March 9th, 2022, 12:25 AM

༊ Falconfall of ShadowClan

The stars seemed to shine extra bright in the sky tonight as the clouds remained clear of the moon. Full and glimmering in the sky Falconfall cast one pointed look upwards as he made his way into the throng of cats. Many scents bombarded him, the most vile being that of WindClan. He made sure to scrunch his face in apparent disgust, his paws sliding in the sand to bring him to an empty spot good for viewing.

Chilly air swept through the open shoreline but it didn't bother him all that much. Falconfall was used to cold nights and frosty breezes that nipped hungrily at his paws. Having short fur was definitely not as much of a blessing during leaf-bare as it was during the warmer moons. Yellow eyes narrowed and piercing through any cat who dared look in his direction, though thoughts began to bubble up in his mind.

Thoughts that, if his Clanmates could read his mind, they would be applaud at. But he was good at keeping them off of his face and his eyes emotionless. In fact, he looked to be not thinking of anything at all with his face lifted in the direction of Dawnstar and the other leaders.

[Open!]

endlessskies

March 9th, 2022, 01:01 AM

cerberuscattos

March 9th, 2022, 01:31 AM

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JAYSTORM
Riverclan // Warrior // Tom

The gray tom pads along behind his clan, settling himself amidst his clanmates. He heard commotion up by the rocks, looking over just in time to see a cat slaughtered, He turned his gaze away, clenching his teeth together. He hadn't seen a cat die in a pretty long time, but it never got easier.

The large tom rose, slipping through the crowd of cats to the edge of the nearby water to get a drink, trying to keep his composure.

It was always a crapshoot on if the acrid tang of blood would bring up the horrid memories of his early apprentice years, and tonight was one of the times it unfortunately did. Jaystorm gazed into the water, zoning out to await for the Gathering to start properly so they could put this wretched night behind them all.

//open to anyone!

Shade.

March 9th, 2022, 03:37 AM

Rosepaw was very nervous now. Her nerves were becoming more stable, mind you, because trauma and stress either meant you were about to break down or it meant you were becoming resistant to it. Rosepaw survived the announcement of her new rank, survived Shiningskies doubting her, survived ShadowClan's entrance. She could survive meeting a few more cats.

Just as this thought comforted her she heard the commotion. She whipped around to see a fight breaking out and, to her absolute horror, Dawnstar leaped off the Seastones and Killed one of them in one bite. Her instinct was to panic and look around for a group to form (most cats would have looked up to a leader at that moment but not her generation of ThunderClan cats) but unfortunately she realized that Dawnstar was in charge of them now and she couldn't do anything. She almost had a hard time believing it. Nectarflame...really invited this cat to lead them, huh. She had some reservations about her from the start but surely she didn't approve of this, right? Her eyes searched for the bengal only to find her talking with someone looking bored as ever. Rosepaw was more diappointed than surprised.

The body was being disposed of and Rosepaw continued towards the medicine cats but her mind was still on the murder she'd witnessed so she wasn't paying particular attention. Just as she focused enough to catch some words she stepped forward and before she could catch herself found that her paw had landed right on the RiverClan medicine cat's tail. She didn't even have time to react.

Naiad
Rani
Nixey
x ghostie

beau

March 9th, 2022, 07:50 AM

Rockwing
Rockwing padded into the clearing, yellow eyes narrowed with suspicion as things already seemed weird. All the other clans were there, but where was Thunderclan's leaders? That was... a bit concerning. And was that just a touch of blood he smelled in the air? No, no. That was ridiculous. Windclan was surely only moments after the other clans - there was no way a cat had been killed or injured in the five minutes it had taken them to arrive. Right? Well, that was simply speculation, and what concerned him more was the fact that there were four clans and only three leaders. Perhaps Dogbark - or whoever was meant to be leading Thunderclan - was held up. Yes, that must be it. Some apprentice had misbehaved, or there was a warrior acting up, and they had to stay back for a moment to deal with them.

The tom was drawn out of his thoughts as Cowpaw came up next to him, gently tapping on his shoulder. A tiny thrill of excitement ran to his paws on behalf of his brother. He was so proud of him, it was simply perfect how things had worked out. "Oh, yes, of course!" Rockwing nodded as he answered Cowpaw's question. His gaze scanned the clearing as he searched for a cat of Cowpaw's description. Unfortunately, there seemed to be a lot of reddish-orange fur. Hmm.

Oh! There! Near the seastones there was not one, not two, but three ginger cats. Plus a brown-and-cream one. He stared at them for just a moment before deciding that yep that must be them. "Hey, I think they're over here." He nudged Cowpaw's shoulder and began leading the way to the group of presumed medicine cats, mumbling 'scuse me's and sorry's as he squeezed through the crowd.

He stopped about a tail-length away, turning back to Cowpaw. "They're just there. Would you prefer to go by yourself, or do you want me to sit with you?" It must be difficult, not having a mentor to introduce him to all of this. Rockwing could hardly imagine how medicine cats managed it, considering this seemed semi-frequent. I mean, they never expected kits to teach themselves how to be a warrior just because there weren't enough warriors to teach them. Though, he supposed having a medicine cat was more vital than keeping a handful of apprentice's training on track. Well, he had faith in his brother. He was certain the young tom could manage.

x ghostie

Sundust
Sundust straightened a bit as the Riverclan arrived, and he dipped his head in greeting as the two medicine cats came to join them. He had never spoken to them - or really any of the medicine cats - before, but they seemed friendly enough in their greetings. "Hello, I am Sundust, and this is my apprentice, Rosepaw." He flicked his tail to indicate the young molly. It was nice that there was another medicine cat apprentice for her to speak with - perhaps they could make friends. Oh, Starclan, he sounded like his mother thinking like that. Maybe you'll make some friends! You never speak with anyone anymore, never go out! You need to socialize! Of course, he still loved his mother, and appreciated the effort, but he would never vocalize those thoughts, seeing as he had firsthand experience with how annoying they could be.

His ear flicked as Snakeheart inquired about the state of Thunderclan. Geez, that was kind of a loaded question. "Ah, Dogbark is... well, frankly, we don't know where he is." He wished the deputy had not just up and vanished. If the workload was to high, he should have sought out support or ideas from the clan, rather than doing the same thing he had berated Aspenstar for. But, there was nothing to be done now except to clean up the mess that had been left behind.

"As for our scent, we've had some.. complicated relations with Shadowclan recently. I'm sure Dawnstar is dying to explain it all." His gaze flicked the huge molly perched on top of the Seastones, with nothing but contempt as he stared at her. Really, did she have to insist on sticking her nose in every cat's business? Well, he supposed she had been invited by Nectarflame. That was a real shame - he, along with most of the clan, had just begun to understand and tolerate her. But she insisted on being a constant irritation, consistently causing strife in her quest to do the right things in the wrong way. Just the theatrics of it all was unnecessary. As much as she claimed to be doing these things out of only love for her clan, she must revel in the drama at least a little bit, otherwise why would she refuse to try out any other options? She simply irked him.

Shade. Rani Nixey

stardust.

March 9th, 2022, 07:57 AM

Whiteclaw decided to pad over to a spot next to the leaders, if only he favored Dawnstar more, "Dawnstar!!" He yelled, "Why did you kill a cat instead of making them rejoin?" He asked, "If you didn't do that, then ShadowClan would be stronger" He mewed
Undertaker(You will probably see it anyway but just in case)

thegriff

March 9th, 2022, 08:15 AM

foeslayer watches from behind a boulder with intrest. his amber colored eyes watching the cats that are speaking, his torn ear twitching.

duckie

March 9th, 2022, 08:52 AM

SOOTFLARE
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The gray and white tom followed WindClan to the gathering quietly, trailing a ways off from the group. He had little time to settle between his talk with Twilightstar and the events of tonight and as such felt it best to keep himself separate. As the clan filed into the beach, Sootflare remained on the sidelines. He assumed the WindClan leader would give him some sort of... cue? when she wanted him to speak to Kestrelstar and RiverClan at large but to be quite frank, he had no idea how this night was going to go.

Hopefully if anyone in the crowd, familiar or unfamiliar, noticed his presence they would have the manners to keep their mouths shut for the time being.

[ CLOSED for direct interaction ]

Glitch_Candle

March 9th, 2022, 09:49 AM

[WC]Rippleshade followed into the clearing. Looks like this is already going to be a hectic gathering. There was a corpse on the ground. A CORPSE. at a GATHERING. Many other problems had arisen too, but none were comparable to fighting at a gathering. What have the clans become? Rouges with no warrior code? She wondered why the cat was murdered in the first place. She didn't care for what the leaders were going to say in spite of this, as someone was responisble for disturbing the peace at a gathering, and it was going to annoy her. Oh, what was she kidding. She needed to listen. With ThunderClan under "new management," it would be important. If ShadowClan and their psychopathic leader were to try and "manage" RiverClan, or worse, WindClan, She would rather just run. What a scary gathering this would be. For now, she just sits there. Waiting for the leaders to get into a big quarrel. It was going to happen. Some day now, the dam will burst and people will have to stop cowering in fear at the ShadowClan. Someday...

elswhere

March 9th, 2022, 03:19 PM

Lilypaw - ThunderClan
Lilypaw's nose twitched at the sight of the corpse that Dawnstar just killed. Eh, she was used to the stench of blood anyway, nothing new for her. Her blue hues flickered from her spot in the shadows near the back of the mingled ShadowClan and ThunderClanners. The chilly night air nipped at the siamese's face as she settled down on her haunches and faced the leaders. Maybe her friends would visit her, eh, she could care less.
[ OPEN for direct interaction ]

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Duskflare
He didn't want to leave his kits but, with Dawnstar having to tend to SquirrelClan tonight as well, the dark tabby figured she could do with some extra manpower. Duskflare was great at that. As he settled near the front of the crowd, Duskflare immediately felt a sharp jab to his scarred left shoulder. Oh great, what idiot decide to mess me with today? The splotches brown tabby inwardly groan and swivled an ear to listen to what the, oh wait a minute, the SquirrelClan apprentice was jabbering about. Some nonsense about "Yo, Aster is the name. Have you ever.. killed someone? I can like, senses lies, by the way, I'll knooww, better answer truthfully."

The large tom grinned, flexing his white claws in the packed earth of the ground. So the kit decided to mess with the big boys, eh? "Well, if you really want too know," His copper-colored eyes flashed. "I can show you how I killed 'em." His dark amber hues flitted over a wheat-colored apprentice and stumbled into the bobtail he was talking to and gave a small snort.
[ x ghostie door~ ]

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Snowhare
Well, uh okay. This was weird. Snowhare raked his gaze away from the corpse in the clearing to the leaders that made themselves comfy on top of a huge rock in the middle of the clearing. His snow-white pelt stood out uncomfortable against the dark shadows of the clearing, as he shuffled his paws. The snow helped a little to make him blend in the landscape. His dark green hues shined brightly as he looked around the clearing for somebody to interact with.
[ OPEN for any interaction ]

poppy

March 9th, 2022, 04:14 PM

|| tulle ||

Even at a young age, Cloudypaw could smell the blood. Her expression darkened, and she slunk alongside her mentor, dragging her leg behind with her. She needed to have something bite the thing off, it was utterly useless. Cool, stony eyes fixated forward, the apprentice only glanced at Cindersky a couple times to make sure the warrior wasn't looking at her. As determined as she was to not ever need Cindersky for anything outside of regular training, Cloudypaw needed her mentor tonight. She would never admit it, hell would freeze over first, but Cindersky was a lifeline.

This would be a nice way to spend her time if it didn't require socializing.

As they appeared on the edge of the clearing, blood scent hung in the air, but would hopefully dissipate or Cloudypaw would become nose-blind to it very soon. She didn't like the smell. She also didn't get a rat's ass about whatever went on... surely if it was a ThunderClan cat, her Clanmates would be more outraged? Right, those lazy asses loved complaining about how sucky their lives were, she doubted they would miss such a perfect opportunity to whine over something easily prevented. So none of her Clanmates were died. Or given a rude look, her fellow ThunderClanners could turn that into an offense, too.

Glancing around for the skinny cats of WindClan, she took a moment to register Cindersky's words. Oh. Ok. They weren't here yet. Great. Blinking slowly, Cloudypaw let out a puff of air. Whatever. The less cats she had to be around, the better. A soft smile was given to the young cat, and Cloudypaw took a moment to look at Cindersky, then give a dull, half smile (more like a tight, straight line) in an attempt to be... nice? Cordial? Polite? Either one.

Then the attempt at a smile faded as Cindersky asked her if she wanted to... to... to socialize. An incredulous look was given in response at first. 'I don't even talk to my Clanmates. I'm not talking to total strangers.' She was about to say back in a tart, icy retort, but then hesitated. Being buddy-buddy with cats from other Clans might turn out in her favor. After all, Starla HAD taught Cloudy how to get cats to like her, how to pretend. Some called that manipulating, but for Cloudy, it was instinct.

Shrugging her shoulders slightly, the silver white molly blinked up at Cindersky again, "Okay." She said, twitching her ear. "I guess it couldn't hurt. But they have to at least be competent, or I'm going to rip my ears off and eat them." She would rather eat her ears or swallow crowfood than talk to an idiotic cat and have to be nice to them.

flopsy

March 9th, 2022, 08:03 PM

Wrenpaw | open to all clans expect RC

She was more than scared the young apprentice was terrified. The smell of metallic blood flowed towards her nose, fighting could be heard, and just as she peeked her head out of the crowd a body hit the ground. Wrenpaw could still hear the noise echoing towards her large ears, her first gathering and it was chaos. Dawnstar seemed to be in control of both Thunderclan and Shadowclan, a fight broke out which ended with Dawnstar killing some cats, exiles came in and disturbed the gathering tho they were removed. She sat by herself now slightly trembling with bristled fur and hollowed eyes, taking in large breaths to calm herself much like her mother had taught her to do. Wrenpaw needed to distract herself she needed to talk to someone, hurryingly she surveyed who was close to her hoping to chat with another apprentice.

SuspiciousMindz

March 9th, 2022, 08:20 PM

--Vixensnarl (ShC)--
The molly slunk into the gathering along with the mass of ThunderClan and ShadowClan cats, although she stuck more towards the ShadowClan group. It made her anxious being away from her home for so long and she was eager to hear the details about what had been going on while Dawnstar and the patrols the leader had taken were in ThunderClan. Were Elmshadow and Owlfeather doing a good job? Had more outsiders been caught on the territory? Ugh, it was frustrating not knowing, but hopefully she would be able to find out soon enough.

SuspiciousMindz [For Pineclaw ^.^]

PineClaw had followed the clan to the gathering rather unenthusiastically. He wasn't excited the drama that would probably roll out of the Gathering. So much was happening and how would the other clans react to Dawnstar taking over ThunderClan? He couldn't blame them if they took it as an act of war, it meant she could waltz in anywhere to take over if she could!

Unfortunately, Pineclaw didn't know any other way to rule without assuming how the other clan leaders might be more friendly. He'd grown up with Dawnstar and Icestar in charge so he had nothing to relate them to. He was just getting wore out from the constant need to please the leader.

A sudden strange scent caught his attention. The warrior turned towards the edge of the ShadowClan group, starting to follow it. Before he knew it, he had come face to face with Vixensnarl, startled by the way she smelled. It was a mixture of ShadowClan and ThunderClan now, a strange scent that not even the borders really carried. "Oh, sorry, I just couldn't figure out what I was smelling. It was distracting me from the leaders," the tabby spoke, taking a couple steps back to study the she-cat. "What is ThunderClan like?" he couldn't help but ask.

Rani

March 9th, 2022, 10:50 PM

Snakeheart barley had a moment to sniff out a condescending "And your clan just let Dawnstar do what she wants with you? How far the mighty have fallen you all seemed so confident in yourselves when you attacked riverclan a few moons ago." at Sundust not even acknowledging the other cats claims to being the new medicine cat (he was probably untrained like the rest though that wasnt a concern of Snakehearts) before he was interrupted.

By what you may ask? Well by a sharp pain in his tail as it was stepped on by the mouse like apprentice who was apparently chosen to be a high rank (keep making those mistakes thunderclan see where it gets you). He snapped immediately.
"Watch where youre going you overgrown hairball you just stepped on my tail! Gods thunderclan is screwed arent you given theyve not only chose an obvious coward of a medicine cat apprentice but a complete clutz as well! That you havent 'accidentally' killed one of your own with your incompetence is a miracle but I guess I cant expect anything but that from your clan; its fitting isnt it. A good for nothing from a good for nothing clan. Get your filthy paws off of my person before I show you just why Icicleripple knew better then to cross me you mistake of a whelp!"
The worst part was that Snakeheart really meant all those things he said, viewing Rosepaw who he hadnt even met yet as nothing more then a mistake in process who he'd never respect, much less help. The thunderclan cats were doomed from the start by Snakehearts bias and this only cemented that in his mind. They were pinned in a way shadowclan on one side corrupting their morals and riverclans unending hatred for the deaths of those the medicine cat loved on the other windclan, who was struggling much the same as thunderclan, their only true friend.

The tom let out a scoff murmuring a biting "Reedpaw pay no mind to the rabid squirrels, if you want good company try Cowpaw once he arrives. Thunderclans kindness is worth less then dirt." before he let out one last vicious hiss and intentionally turned all focus away from thunderclan and snubbed them calling out a much kinder "Cowpaw! Over here!" waving his tail at the apprentice off in the distance.

@Shade. (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=11816) @Naiad (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=6890) @Nixey (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=14359) @x ghostie (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=4469)

wolfie

March 9th, 2022, 11:11 PM

===> Cowpaw | Windclan's Medicine Cat | Rani Naiad Nixey Shade.
The giant tom let out a pleased purr to show how grateful he was to his brother. His shoulders lowered, tension beginning to drift out in waves. He tilts his head curiously while he waits for Rockwing but nods once he gets nudged, bouncing after him while he led the way. The crowd was thick and to his own surprise, Starclan must've been looking out because not once did Cowpaw find himself getting drowned out. Though, one may try and reason it was his size. He would beg to differ.

He comes to a halt with Rockwing, squinting his mismatched hues at who he assumes is the.. medicine... cats... of the clans.. His heart is suddenly rushed with a sense of excitement but is overwhelmed because oh, Cowpaw sinks slightly, ears pulling back. He couldn't quite remember a lot of information about them but they must be very skilled, oh, gee, what if they don't think he's worthy? He tried not to fixate on others' opinions but... these opinions really, really mattered to him... he was caught up in his thoughts, almost missing what his brother said. Cowpaw looks back, eyes with a watery glint.

He,,, did not prefer to go by himself.

Taking a deep breath, he smiles softly at Rockwing before leading in to brush his cheek against his. A light tap of his paw against Rockwing's, he signals, it's alright! I'll go alone! Thank you! The statement offers more confidence to Cowpaw, not a lot, but enough, that he turns away and begins to approach the supposed group of medicine cats. He was supposed to represent Windclan and hm, it would not be pleasant to offer any chances for others to use this moment against them in anyway.

His tail waves in response, stopping in front of the .. four? (oh stars.) Cowpaw smiles, tilting his head curiously. Greetings!! How is everyone? He inquires, a good conversation starter... if he wasn't interrupting any. .. (was it just him or was the air awfully thick around here?)

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===> Lotuspaw | Thunderclan Apprentice | zeeno door~
Their eyes scanned Duskfire up and down with a blatantly unamused look. Huh. They didn't reply for a moment, staring at the claws that laced his body. His answer didn't surprise them - Lotuspaw,, they weren't exactly doubting he hadn't. (honestly. most of the big cats here had blood staining their paws. they refused to ever have that cover theirs.) "Reeallly now?" They mew, voice low. They did not appreciate how the heckity heck he phrased it, at least. "Was it at least brought on or were you just feeling funky, eh? Eh?" Lotuspaw pressed further, squinting their eyes at Duskfire harder. This only made him a perfect candidate. "... sure. Yeah. I know the... perfect spot so you can show me. Yep. Come along now."

It must be destiny, even if they weren't sure if they bought into that, it had to be. While the apprentice began to paddle away further from the crowd, leading this warrior to his own doom - a mouse-brained apprentice came rushing towards them at sudden speed; suddenly stops and starts,, jumping around. Taken aback, Lotuspaw watches Ryepaw struggle to their own curiosity. "Yo, " they mew, looking down at whatever he was struggling with. Oh. Oh! Their eyes immediately spark with joy, bounding to his side. "let me help, let me help, " they squeak, as if they didn't have other reasons. considering it was ANOTHER fish cat, they may of let him suffer but no.

plans.

they had plans.

"Sit STILL! Agrh, " Lotuspaw squealed, trying to reach and grab onto the small red creature with a paw. Ohoho, and if, if they succeeded in this, they were going to immediately fling it RIGHT AT DUSKFIRE'S FACE!! It was a WONDERFUL, UNSTOPPABLE, PLAN! Cornpaw would be proud.

Shade.

March 9th, 2022, 11:33 PM

Rosepaw's maw gaped for a second. She was trying to apologise but then she heard what was being said to her and her mouth closed. A lot of cats assumed that because she was nice she was naive as well. But Rosepaw was actually rather cynical most of the time. That didn't mean she wasn't kind, though.

Either way, she could tell Snakeheart was bring unreasonable. She was pretty sure she'd heard him be mean from before she stepped on his tail. And his reasoning wasn't much better. He was clearly being aggressive towards anyone from ThunderClan and for what? It was probably some shallow grudge left from moons ago, back when she was a kit. How long was this hoping to last? It was ridiculous! Rosepaw wanted to call Snakeheart out for his biases and stereotypes. He was a dumb, malicious bully, looking for the weak link among the 4 clans to bully. He was petty and vengeful and, Rosepaw didn't want to do the same thing he did but she almost couldn't help it, didn't deserve to be a medicine cat. Medicine cats should heal everyone. They're rare so they don't get to pick favourites. Now Rosepaw felt q little bad and the more logical part of her mind told her she should be hoping he redeems himself in the future qnd maybe just had a bad day.

"...Sorry." she mumbled blankly and monotonously, moving away to sit next to Sundust. She gave Reedpaw an apologetic smile (She wasn't clanist like Karenheart) and then turned her attention to the newcomer. This was probably Cowpaw. Oh, he spoke in signs! Well, rosepaw could probably understand. She waved a paw sadly, because, admittedly, her mood had soured.
"Um, I'm fine." she replied.
Rani x ghostie Nixey Naiad

Rizo

March 9th, 2022, 11:39 PM

~Pinestrike of Windclan | Open~

Following behind the Windclan delegation, the small tabby she-cat's nose scrunched at the metallic scent of blood that seemed to loom over the gathering.
Great, already someone has been causing trouble.
She looked to the sky and was... not surprised, but frustrated that there wasn't a cloud to be seen. Pinestrike shook her head and made her way to an open seat.
Of course, why should they send any sign at all of their ire, when they have abandoned us?

Pitou

March 10th, 2022, 01:15 AM

**Elmshadow of Shadowclan**
[OPEN]

The large dark tom walked out onto the beach behind Dawnstar, his green eyes scanning the empty sands. He settled in a spot close to the base of the Seastones, making note that Shadestorm, as expected, was not taking his place at the base. Shortly after they arrived, Riverclan walked in and filled the beach with their fishy scent.

Elmshadow glanced sideways as he overheard Whiteclaw getting into explaining the whole situation Dawnstar was dealing with Thunderclan currently. He scowled silently and made note that the warrior would need reminding that loyalty means not open your own clan up to potential vulnerabilities. Before he could address that, Badgerscar made a move on another cat lurking along the outside of the gathering cats. He recognized Sprucefall and kept his eye tracking her and Badgerscar's strife. At the sound of another cat yelling at Kestrelstar, Elmshadow sighed and rolled his eyes. Chaos was already striking the gathering. He felt himself ease slightly as Dawnstar leapt off the Seastones and made quick work of Sprucefall.

Gradually the gathering quieted and Windclan finally arrived. Elmshadow turned his attention back to the Seastones as Twilightstar made her way atop them.

**Cougarivy of Shadowclan**
[OPEN]

The lithe she-cat pranced in behind Dawnstar. It was nice being among the rest of Shadowclan once again. The mice were fun but they quickly grew tiresome. They were all so very much the same: whining and complaining, putting off airs as though they had any claw's worth of pride but hadn't a single claw to back it up with. She sidled over to Elmshadow, surprised at just how excited she was to see the tom. "How are our kits doing?" She tried to drink in his scent, hoping that she'd taste only Elmshadow's scent without the infuriating undertones of Goldenstep lingering on him. Her stomach flipped angrily as she picked up hints of her former mentor. It hadn't occurred to her until now that leaving Shadowclan meant also leaving Elmshadow to grow closer to Goldenstep. Something would have to be done about then when she returned. In the meantime, she was determined to make the most of this gathering.

**Codwhisper of Riverclan**
[OPEN]

The spotted tabby tom trotted out onto the sand beach. Thunderclan and Shadowclan had apparently already arrived though he saw only Dawnstar on the Seastones. Curious. Codwhisper looked don't over the cats to see if he could spot Flamepaw, to no avail. He quickly turned his attention inward and kept his eye out for Honeypaw. Spending the gathering with his friend would hopefully help keep his kind from wandering over the other clans.

He was lost in thought until Dawnstar dropped from the Seastones and stalked through the gathered cats. Codwhisper rose to his paws to watch the massive she-cat. She stopped and swiftly killed an injured she-cat. Codwhisper was shocked silent. He hadn't paid enough attention to what had led to such an action but he tried to come up with something reasonable, there had to be some reason she would've just killed a cat a gathering, right? Suddenly his thoughts and worries went back to Flamepaw. It'd been so many moons since he'd seen the tom, Codwhisper hoped he was still safe.

**Doeheart of Riverclan**
[OPEN]

The lilac she-cat padded in behind her nephew. He seemed lost in his own thoughts and she suddenly realized it'd been a while since she'd gotten a real update on what Codwhisper had been up to recently. She'd make it a point after the gathering to try to spend some quality time with him. She glanced at a Shadowclan warrior heckling some uninvited rogue, as far as she could tell. She sighed and tried to turn away from it but her attention was pulled back to it as Dawnstar moved past her and killed the she-cat quickly, disposing of the body as though it was nothing more than inedible freshkill.

Her face twisted in disgust. Killing the she-cat was one thing, but the Shadowclan leader's blatant disregard for life was stomach-churning. She shifted her paws and watched as Dawnstar returned to the Seastones where she proceeded to groom herself as though nothing had happened. Her eye twitched as Windclan appeared and started filtering through the beach, taking their places. Good, the sooner they could get this gathering started, the sooner it could end and they could all go home.

**Toadpounce of Windclan**
[OPEN]

The skinny tom padded in behind Twilightstar, quickly picking up the scent of blood lingering in the air. They were the last to arrive but only Kestrelstar and Dawnstar sat atop the Seastones. He sighed, this would undoubtedly be a long gathering. He spread his toes into the sand and found an empty spot to settle in and turn his attention to the leaders atop the Seastones.

stardust.

March 10th, 2022, 07:47 AM

thegriff

March 10th, 2022, 08:34 AM

quickstrike sits quietly near the surf, knowing he can get away being one of the few cats who will go near the water watching quietly, and ready if a fight breaks out.

beau

March 10th, 2022, 09:05 AM

Sundust's eyes widened with first shock, the anger as Snakeheart actually had the audacity to berate them. What? Who gave him the right?! Now, he was not one to pick fights at gatherings - heck, the conflicts were why he hated them in the first place - but this was not something he could ignore, or placidly move on from, as much as he would rather do so. He had a feeling that would only lead to more derogation from the other medicine cat. Really, it baffled him. What had they done to invoke Snakeheart's wrath?

He opened his mouth to respond, but just then Rosepaw's foot landed on the tail of who had to be the most unpleasant cat Sundust had met in a lifetime. Suddenly profanities and harsh words were being spewed at them, leaving the tom gaping. "Listen. Do you think we aren't ashamed of what happened? I am as embarrassed for my clan as the rest of the cats in this forest are. Our warriors are soft, and our medicine cats are untrained. We did not ask for any of this." As usual, his tone was icy and monotonous, though he so wished he could muster an out of rage or intimidation to inflect on his voice. "We did not ask for incompetent leader after incompetent leader to run our clan into the ground. Rosepaw and I most certainly did not ask to be selected as medicine cats, but we are doing our best with what we have. Who are you to patronize us for having limited training? Surely at some point you were untrained yourself, unless you simply appeared in this world all-knowing. I'm fairly certain you had the privilege of someone to teach you as well. If our 'incompetence' bothers you so much, why don't you come teach us? If you have such wonderful knowledge, surely your apprentice - taught by none other than yourself - could handle the healings in your clan for a day." This was by no means a slight at the apprentice, though he felt a tiny twinge of guilt at bringing Reedpaw into the conversation.

"I will have you know that, by some miracle, none of our patients have died. In fact, in the wake of Dawnstar's invasion of Thunderclan, most of the injuries - many of which were rather severe - were handled by Rosepaw and myself, with a little assistance from Ebonyfang. If we are so incapable of performing this job which we have been assigned, then it must be by the grace of Starclan alone that these cats are still up and well to this day, hmm?" Sundust sighed, curling his tail over his paws, realizing that - as usual - he began rambling. Though, he thought it might have been warranted this time. "As for my apprentice, I pray you'll excuse her error, though I wish you had a bit more eloquence when addressing her. Frankly, I will not tolerate someone who feels the need to speak that way to any young cat, especially my own apprentice. I do hope you do not speak to your own like that. I understand you have worked yourself up into a hissy-fit because, ah, you've had your tail stepped on, but that is not an excuse for immature nor derogatory behavior." Ok, perhaps he had gone a bit too far, but Snakeheart needed to be knocked down a peg, and, regardless of how effective Sundust had been at doing so, he appreciated a chance to vent his frustrations.

"Rosepaw, feel free to converse with Reedpaw if you'd like - she seems perfectly pleasant - but I'd rather you avoid Snakeheart for now. It seems he has an aversion to us 'squirrels' and I'd hate to upset him any more." A tiny bit of amusement glinted in his gaze as he leaned over to whisper to his apprentice. He straightened back up as Snakeheart - he understood the name now - called to Cowpaw, who must be the black-and-white apprentice approaching them. So this was Windclan's new medicine cat? He wondered why Snakeheart was not salivating to scream at him for being untrained. Funny how those things worked. "Hello, Cowpaw." Sundust raised his tail to wave at the apprentice. "Everyone is doing.. alright." Amusement once again laced his gaze. At this point, he was perfectly fine. He wasn't sure about Rosepaw, or the two Riverclan cats.

Rani Nixey Shade. x ghostie

Glitch_Candle

March 10th, 2022, 09:14 AM

zeeno Rippleshade walked over to snowhare. "some leaders we got, eh?" She was still angry at the gathering having a murder, but less angry now that she knew that cat was a traitor to the clan they were in, even if that clan was ShadowClan. "It'll be fun to see how this gathering plays out," she said in a slightly sarcastic tone.

thegriff

March 10th, 2022, 09:38 AM

quickstrike is as tense as ever, there being a murder, though he couldn't intervene, because it was dawnstar who killed the cat.

Pitou

March 10th, 2022, 11:05 AM

Whiteclaw padded over to a cat who seemed to have just arrived, "Hello, the names Whiteclaw, if you are wondering about ThunderClan, they currently don't have a leader, so they have merged with ShadowClan" He mewed, "How's the prey running in RiverClan, and what is your name, by the way?"
Ravensong(For Codwhisper)

**Elmshadow of Shadowclan**

White movement in his peripherals caught Elmshadow's eye. He turned to look disinterestedly until he saw Whiteclaw walking up to a Riverclan tom. Elmshadow angled an ear to listen in on the conversation and sighed as he once again overheard the tom spilling the news about Thunderclan being taken over by Dawnstar. He sighed and pulled himself to his paws. In long, confident strides, Elmshadow walked over to the two toms and looked down his nose at the white Shadowclan warrior. "Have some tact and respect for your leader. There's a truce tonight but that truce does not extend to protect the information shared tonight from being used against us tomorrow. Dawnstar will share what [I]she feels is important for the other clans to know about our business."

**Codwhisper of Riverclan**

The spotted tabby looked up as a white warrior approached him; Shadowclan's scent wreathed around him. Even with everything that he'd witnessed, the young tom was still endlessly intrigued by Shadowclan. They were so hated by so much of the forest but Codwhisper simply couldn't come to terms with an entire clan of cats being simply evil. So he smiled invitingly at the Shadowclan warrior and cocked his head curiously as the tom got into what was going on with Thunderclan and Shadowclan. Two clans merging together? Is that okay? The explanation only left him more curious where, before, it'd only been a passing observation.

Before Codwhisper could respond, a large dark Shadowclan tom stalked up to them. Codwhisper turned his attention to the rather sour-looking tom, studying him. He looked like everything he'd expect from Shadowclan, which only served to make him even more curious about the tom. Was he really as stiff and menacing as he came off at first glance? His biting words were directed at his own clanmate and Codwhisper found himself intrigued to be able to watch the interaction. Stickler for the rules...What exactly am I going to do with the information that shadowclan and Thunderclan merged?

Clock Dragonshifter

March 10th, 2022, 11:40 AM

~Quietpaw of Riverclan~(OPEN)
The long-legged apprentice sat where th shore met the beach she'd just watched Dawnstar kill a cat and wished to be as far away from possible. Her pelt trimbled scared for what may happen as she crouched down trying to make herself look smaller in hopes of disappearing together.

marshy

March 10th, 2022, 12:01 PM

Ooookay, that was.. not expected. Dawnstar had already killed someone. It seemed for a.. at least somewhat good reason? Sparrowskip wasn't quite sure as he didn't completely hear what was said but, that further solidified how insane Dawnstar was considering this was a gathering. He changed his focus and looked over as WindClan arrived and wondered where Wolffang was. He was sincerely hoping he wouldn't be the only deputy at this gathering. Hopefully since every clan was here now they'd finally get a reason for ThunderClan's missing leadership.

// spade Rani

Glitch_Candle

March 10th, 2022, 12:03 PM

Mintleaf walked over to the apprentice. "That cat betrayed her clan, you know." Clock Dragonshifter

Clock Dragonshifter

March 10th, 2022, 12:47 PM

~Quietpaw of Riverclan~
Looking up at Mintleaf the long-legged apprentice was shocked, "They betrayed their clan yes! They were wrong to do so, but killing them! At gathering nonetheless! she mewed obviously distraught,

Rippleshade

Glitch_Candle

March 10th, 2022, 01:01 PM

Clock Dragonshifter yeah, it doesn't make that much sense, but maybe it had to be done.

Clock Dragonshifter

March 10th, 2022, 01:08 PM

~Quietpaw~
Furrowing her brows the apprentice shook her head, "If it had to be done then it could have been after the gathering! Rule 10 of the warrior code, A Gathering of all Clans is held at the full moon during a truce that lasts for the night.
There shall be no fighting at this time." she said quietly.

Rippleshade

Glitch_Candle

March 10th, 2022, 01:09 PM

Clock Dragonshifter "Yeah, thats true. Perhaps they just cant read."

Clock Dragonshifter

March 10th, 2022, 01:11 PM

~Quietpaw~
"It's common knowledge everyone is taught the warrior code!" she said her voice growing high er pitched the more upset she seemed to get

Rippleshade

Glitch_Candle

March 10th, 2022, 01:17 PM

"don't raise your voice at me, apprentice." the RiverClan Warrior said. (He has kind of a superiority complex) "They probably had a reason. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying they probably had a reason." Clock Dragonshifter

Clock Dragonshifter

March 10th, 2022, 01:21 PM

~Quietpaw~
Squeaking quietly the apprentice's eyes widened, "I- I didn't raise my voice.... did i?" she mumbled quietly her voice shaking slightly

Rippleshade

Glitch_Candle

March 10th, 2022, 01:43 PM

Clock Dragonshifter "you did, but it's ok. I am actually pretty nice. Just be careful. If you go to someone less nice, I couldn't tell you what they would do to you.''

Nixey

March 10th, 2022, 01:56 PM

Her gaze softening as Sundust explained how Thunderclan wasn't sure about where Dogbark was and there were.."complications" between Thunderclan and Shadowclan. As she parted her maw to offer her condolences to the cats, she was cut off before she could even speak by Snakeheart. Pressing her muzzle tightly together, Reedpaw gave her mentor an angry glance before huffing out a soft sigh. She understood he was still probably sour about all that happened between Riverclan and Thunderclan, but that didn't mean he couldn't play nice. Then again, when had she ever seen her mentor play nice with anyone? Offering the Thunderclanners an apologetic look, she decided against verbally stating an apology in hopes Snakeheart wouldn't notice as Reedpaw had very little want to get snapped at by him.

However she saw the snapping going a bit too far. The other cat her age was clearly nervous at the very least. Taking a moment, Reedpaw considered keeping her mouth shut before huffing out a soft breath. He had said she showed kindness and quite a bit of levelheadedness, so he surely wouldn't be upset for her sticking up for another apprentice, right? "Snakeheart," pausing and clearing her throat, Reedpaw tried to speak with a bit more confidence. "Snakeheart, it was clearly a simple accident, I know you're probably still upset about what happened, but that doesn't mean you have to treat them like mousedung stuck to your paw." Turning to Rosepaw, Reedpaw lowered her voice and said a soft "I was nervous too, don't let it get to you too much, and i'm sorry," casting a glance between mentor and apprentice, Reedpaw offered another apologetic smile before straightening up and turning towards the newcomer.

Raking her gaze along the black and white tom approaching, Reedpaw recollected herself and her expression with a small sigh before tilting her head slightly. She didn´t understand what he was asking at first, her gaze narrowing slightly before she breathed a small ¨oh,¨ beneath her breath. Turning to him, Reedpaw offered a gentle smile before saying a little ¨Hi, Cowpaw, i´m well, what about you?¨

Rani | x ghostie | Naiad | Shade.

Madelaine

March 10th, 2022, 01:58 PM

Spottedpaw shook her head. "N-nothing's wr-wrong" Darnet, her stutter had slipped through. It was hard not to stutter, but Spottedpaw tried really hard not to.

-->Petuniafire<--

The warrior heard the stutter and presses her fur next to the apprentices to try and comfort her. "Hey its okay. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to.", Petuniafire meowed softly, her voice sounding soothing.

Adderbite

March 10th, 2022, 02:06 PM

MUDDYROSE
open post

Scowl affixed upon her chocolate maw; Muddyrose stalked into the Clearing. She despised taking part in Gatherings since she preferred to keep to herself. She was only interested in taking part because she wanted to hear what the leaders had to say. She was particularly interested in hearing what Dawnstar herself was going to announce to the Clans. Her nose wrinkled as her gaze wandered to the ShadowClan cats. No-- she wouldn't take her frustrations out on them. It wasn't their fault that ThunderClan was without a leader and Dawnstar had to step in. Still, she didn't trust them. Fortunately, she had missed the ShadowClan leader killing one of her Clanmates. It wouldn't help her suspicions.

The molly didn't even sit near the ThunderClan cats. Instead, she found a spot toward the edge of the Clearing where she could sit, keeping a distance from the ShadowClan cats. She couldn't deal with their taunts and jeers. If they started anything, she might just snap. She settled down, hunching her shoulders, and glared at the ground. She dug her nails into the soil, her thoughts wandering to simpler times. She had been into Clan politics as a kit since she had familial issues. Her brother had attempted to murder her by drowning her in a stream. She had forgiven him for it, but she had never gotten the chance to talk with him about it. Much like their little sister Robinkit, he became ill and died. Afterward, her mother disappeared, and her father stepped in. She closed her eyes as she recalled her final words with him. She wished that she hadn't been so harsh while talking to him.

Thus, what was going on in ThunderClan currently was foreign to her. True, drama within the Clans wasn't new, but she'd never paid much attention. She'd only gotten interested recently because the Clan was all that she had left. All she wanted was for things to go back the way that they were. Or, at the very least, for ThunderClan to become stable. Obviously, ThunderClan was never going to be what it was when Aspenstar was alive.

Clock Dragonshifter

March 10th, 2022, 02:18 PM

~Quietpaw~
Fluffing up her fur the long legged apprentice mumblef a quiet sorry with her ears flat on her head. "I really didn't mean to raise my voice..." she added.

Rippleshade

falling

March 10th, 2022, 02:22 PM

♦ Sootwind of ThunderClan ♦

// Adderbite (Muddyrose)

Sootwind silently padded alongside her clan, not casting a glance towards Dawnstar or any of the ShadowClan mongrels. Just the word ShadowClan forming in her thoughts made her saliva taste like bile. A small sigh broke free from her throat, lifting some pressure. It felt like a lump was forming in her lungs. As much as the molly willed for it to go away, it did not. Her lustrous, pitch black fur reflected the moonlight as her deep blue eyes scanned across the wide horizon of the seastones. The impulse to run back to camp suddenly hit her. Wouldn't it be better? She probably could not bear the shame of Dawnstar announcing that she had taken over ThunderClan.

The she-cat watched carefully, willing for her thoughts to veer away from clan life for once. The sound of seemingly millions of voiced throbbed in her ears as her tail met the ground. She was about to sit down when she noticed Muddyrose, sitting at the edge of the clearing. Sootwind raised her eyebrows, making her way over on heavy paws. She tilted her head. "Hello, Muddyrose," she meowed cautiously. "Seems the commotion has already started. I don't know why we have to attend these gatherings over and over again. Wouldn't it be easier for the leaders to discuss things by themselves? I'm not saying that I have anything against StarClan's traditions. It's just... odd that we attend when there is a way to stop casualties. At least the most of them."

She thought over her words and they became more unreal bit by bit. Of course they had to attend. Who else would stop the leaders from bickering and tearing each others throats out?

Glitch_Candle

March 10th, 2022, 02:34 PM

Clock Dragonshifter "it's okay. I'm just telling you for the future."

Clock Dragonshifter

March 10th, 2022, 02:48 PM

~Quietpaw of Riverclan~
"U-understood..." the younger cat mumbled looking away disappointed in herself.

Rippleshade

Undertaker

March 10th, 2022, 03:06 PM

Look at them, squawking like headless seagulls. So many in an uproar about the traitor she just killed, Dawnstar wasn't going to comment on it. Cats who knew her well enough would understand that she didn't kill without some sort of reason behind it. She's grown a bit from the merciless killing she did when she had first stepped up as ShadowClan's leader. But those who simply like drenching her in black, needed a bad guy, a nightmare, they'd either fear her or be upset with her. Whatever they thought it didn't hurt her in the end. So she left them to their thoughts. A small smirked crept up onto her maw as someone mousebrain started stating the warrior code, a code that should be followed, however could also be ignored if one wished. Some rules the big bad she-cat followed, others she bent, but most of them she broke because she could.

As for the gathering truce, there was no rule against her killing a cat, just not fighting, that had not been a fight. Plus, that traitor hadn't been clan, exiles and outsiders were free game for her. She could slaughter and murder them without issues. They should fix the loopholes in the code if they wanted it followed to a certain point. Not to mention, she broke that truce rule seasons ago and there was still no scorn from StarClan, breaking rules became less enticing when there were no consequences for them. She'd still break them for entertainment purposes, though.

As Bunnystar and her clan of rabbits finally arrived, the molly seemed wary at first but her guard went right up as she crossed the beach. The lilac feline scolded some apprentice before taking her place on the stones with her and Kestrelstar. Dawnstar busied herself with grooming her pelt, however, she couldn't keep her ears from turning when Bunnystar actually spoke to her. Uh, that was weird and out of the norm. One gleaming golden eye lifted to spare the older cat a glance, but the glance didn't linger long. "Deal with it, Bunny, I'll explain it to you and everyone else in due time. I'm speaking last, so one of you, most likely Kestrelstar, can speak first." Her growl was gruff and deep as her attention was pulled from the leaders back to the gathered clans.
spade Moonraven

Whiteclaw was pushing his luck, Dawnstar didn't really care who spoke about the ThunderClan issue, she was going to tell the clans herself and they'd think what they want. She could hear Sundust blabbing away to Snakeheart from where she was sitting anyway. She hadn't told them not to say anything, but Elmshadow pointed out that just coming up to some random catfish and making it a topic of interest was aggravating. Whiteclaw had just butted into some RiverClan problem and had the audacity to question her judgment when everyone else stayed silent, not even Kestrelstar had started anything with her for killing the traitor. Whiteclaw seemed to be the only one lacking brain cells here.

"Elmshadow, at this point I wouldn't care if you chased him out of the clan, just get Whiteclaw out of here. He's giving me a headache." Dawnstar meowed to the only cat who seemed to find Whiteclaw as annoying as she did. "Whiteclaw, if you make a fuss about this and I have to personally remove you, you'll be swimming with fish like that traitor."
Ravensong SourCream

stardust.

March 10th, 2022, 03:43 PM

Whiteclaw spoke up, "Dawnstar shouldn't be leader" He spoke, "You want the clans to be feared. And you are trying to make ShadowClan evil, just because of it's name. I am joining WindClan after the gathering, as I cannot be with a bunch of evil cats trying to kill traitors" He revealed loudly, "Either make ShadowClan respected or I will join WindClan or RiverClan. I was only telling cats about the ThunderClan merge so that they get a notice, and I love helping cats who are good, not hurting good cats. We only need good in this clan, and I drove out that RiverClan traitor because he was bad" He mewed, "Elmshadow, if I said anything that bothered you. I am very sorry"
Undertaker Ravensong

(Can Whiteclaw attack Dawnstar? Even though it is against the wc?)

Kunaisoul

March 10th, 2022, 04:04 PM

Adderbite

March 10th, 2022, 04:11 PM

stardust.

March 10th, 2022, 04:14 PM

Oaksong wasn't shocked at Whiteclaw's words. Dawnstar was a cruel leader, and while she hadn't really interacted with Shadewhatsit, she knew that he also wasn't very... kind, "I agree with Whiteclaw" She mewed, "Any others wishing to do something to Dawnstar and make ShadowClan good?" She asked

WhitesilverQueen

March 10th, 2022, 04:33 PM

-->Petuniafire<--

The warrior heard the stutter and presses her fur next to the apprentices to try and comfort her. "Hey its okay. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to.", Petuniafire meowed softly, her voice sounding soothing.
Spottedpaw nodded. "O-ok. I-i'm n-not a-a ve-ery g-good c-cat, a-am I-i?" She felt horrible. And stupid. She couldn't figure out how to hide her stutter, which made her sound stupid.

spade

March 10th, 2022, 04:42 PM

The uproar of the cats gathered below was not a surprise to Kestrelstar. It was Dawnstar after all, and if any cat here was surprised by her actions he'd consider them to have bees in their brain. Long ago he had forsaken the idea of the ShadowClan leader acting in any way other than insane. Plus, from the sound of it, whoever had been killed had it coming. His ear did twitch though, for it definitely could've been handled back in the privacy of ShadowClan's own camp, but the leader was not about to go and rile Dawnstar up by saying that.

He did take notice of how some of the warriors grew sick from the sight - Morninglily appeared queasy and Cloudpaw... Oh, Cloudpaw. Guilt and pain struck him hard as Kestrelstar stiffened. His apprentice... she should not have had to witness that. It was irrational to think she would never have to, but he had wanted to delay the ugly truth of the world from her for as long as he could. Thankfully, Moonfrost seemed to pick up on the situation and was quietly comforting her.

A voice from below caught his attention, and Kestrelstar glanced down to take notice of Twilightshimmer. Stars. He would not give her the attention she seemed to be deperately seeking, instead jerking his head in a clear indication for her to go sit down and be quiet somewhere.

After that, Twilightstar appeared to have arrived, and Kestrelstar gave a nod of his head to the WindClan leader in return of her greeting. Her question to Dawnstar made his whiskers twitch in amusement, but he said nothing and decided to remain quiet. Right now, his yellow eyes had caught something that made him want to groan. Kestrelstar wanted to rake his claws across his face several times over. Was that a kit? Did the warriors whom he had left back at camp have no eyes on their head? "Raccoonear," he called, having noticed the she-cat earlier. "Please escort Loonkit back to camp."
[ door~ Papaya ]

With that handled and out of the way (he'd have to speak to Loonkit the next morning to make sure they understood the severity of their actions) Kestrelstar pushed his ears forward in time to hear a commotion concerning a ShadowClan warrior. It didn't really pique his interest until Oaksong stepped forward. Kestrelstar let out a low warning growl. "Oaksong, you will do nothing of the sort," he snapped towards the RiverClan she-cat. "Whatever is going on in ShadwoClan, that is Dawnstar's problem. Now sit down." It was ironic that Whiteclaw so boldly announced he'd planned on joining either RiverClan or WindClan - and the gray tabby hope it wasn't the former unless the tom wanted some new scars along his pelt.
[ SourCream ]

Settling back into a seated position once more, Kestrelstar was about to gesture for Twilightstar to perhaps speak first - he was still trying to gather his thoughts - when his yellow eyes caught sight of a rather familiar patched pelt. Was that... Rage suddenly engulfed him and his eyes narrowed into slits. What in the hell was that traitor doing here?? He stepped forward, eyes pointing like daggers towards Sootflare. He seemed to be trailing the group of WindClan cats that had come in, and confusion spread across the RiverClan leader's face. His lips twitched in the desire to say something, but instead he turned a bewildered look towards Twilightstar.
[ Moonraven ]

Rani

March 10th, 2022, 05:28 PM

Ok screw that he was going to remain civil in the presence of Cowpaw not wanting to disturb the soft seeming apprentice with the more jagged edges of his tongue Snakeheart was provoked. Letting out a bitter hiss at Sundust the medicine cat arched fur spiking before replying in a far too jaded tone bittered from years of emotional wounds.
"Didnt ask for this? No one asks for anything they occur to you weather you like it or not. The issue I have with you and yours constant errors is that is keeps happening far more then it should rationally occur. You keep having bad leaders that lead you further into the dark and yet you fail to do anything about it sitting on your own paws and acting like its all out of your control when you merely had to stand up and say 'no I wont stand for this' to make real tangible change. And yet you didnt time and time again and now youre just accepting a murderous tyrant taking you over and ruling you instead of standing up to that too! Youre so afraid of loss you let it occur time and time again!

This is an issue only you seem to have as not long ago riverclan was in a worse situation then you! We'd lost both out leader and deputy and I was abandoned as only an apprentice in a role I never even wanted with little knowledge, sound familiar? But you know what we did? We picked ourselves up even in the middle of ongoing attacks from your clan and we recovered. I fought for every scrap of knowledge I could get loosing clanmates left and right and treating an endless stream of injuries done by your claws. I had no one to teach me I experimented and begged and bartered for everything like you refuse to expecting the world to just bend to your benefit and give you what others have died for.

I refuse to teach you because I cannot be certain your clan wont just turn and for no reason once more harm mine turning the knowledge I might give against my clan. I can trust Bounceberry for he is truely neutral and I can trust Cowpaw, our clans are allies but I cant trust you even more now that youve allied with shadowclan no matter how distasteful you seem of such a dealing. I refuse to leave my clan with Reedpaw to teach you when I know nothing of you but the long history of you clan hurting mine.

And I have history dont you doubt it. You may think it odd that I a lifelong medicine cat have scars? Well this" And here he twisted to show the long cut up his back "was done by one of your own Frostpaw at a meeting. I hadnt done anything to her and yet she left me with this forever so forgive me if I dont trust anything you or your apprentice do to not do the same."

The toms sides were heaving at this point long fangs lisping his words into hisses fur spiked and a flash of old but still present fear in his eyes. Snakeheart hadnt forgotten never forgiven and that attack so long ago had left its mark in a scarred psyce that trusted no one to not harm him at any moment. And the rest of his scars were obviously self inflicted, another consequence of a mental breakdown thunderclan had contributed to gone wrong. Still though even panting he calmed eventually gazing Sundust in the eyes and though not friendly spoke far more evenly this time.

"But the one thing I hate the most about your clan is your refusal to play anything but the victim. You dont stand up for yourselves dont stand with pride as a clan should and dont see your own flaws.

However.
Today you broke the mould and as much as I doubt I will ever like you or be anything more then civil Ive long since learned you need to reward thunderclan for good deeds lest they never occur again. Ask me anything, herb knowledge, medicine cat history, starclan and I will answer. Just this once."

Shade. Naiad Nixey x ghostie

TheNyanCatMinecart

March 10th, 2022, 05:53 PM

(Open!)

~ WOLFFANG OF WINDCLAN ~

Wolffang padded with the other WindClan warriors, not at his leader's shoulder like he'd done as deputy, but instead among the general crowd. He glanced up at the Seastones and found two of the leaders seated there. Good, WindClan wasn't last. Dawnstar and Kestrelstar were here. Yet... a scent crossed Wolffang's nose. Wait, ThunderClan was here? He felt a brief flash of annoyance that WindClan was last again, but he also felt confused. Where was Dogbark? Or any other leader figure for ThunderClan? Wolffang didn't focus too much on the troubles of other Clans, but he could tell that ThunderClan was falling apart. They had gone through so many leaders and deputies, and their members seemed a bit... well, their Clan was suffering.

The large gray tom made his way through the crowd and sniffed the air. Was that... blood? Had something happened? There was also the stray scent of vomit. He wrinkled his nose. What happened here? Wolffang decided not to question it. He wove through the crowd for a moment before sitting down, wrapping his tail over his paws. He glanced toward the spot where deputies sat. Only a golden tabby with ginger swirls sat in that spot. Wolffang frowned, then remembered that Splashleap had resigned. Shadestorm didn't seem to be here. Had he died or something? Wolffang hoped so. He hadn't liked that tom very much. And ShadowClan was vile, anyway.

There was no ThunderClan deputy, as Wolffang somewhat expected. The blood scent was getting stronger, though. He looked around and found a bleeding ShadowClan cat. Is that where the blood is coming from? A dark brown tabby apprentice with black stripes who he remembered as Ivypaw was stooped over him, asking her leader what to do about it. Despite the blood, it seemed as though StarClan hadn't covered the moon. Well... they never did, so that wasn't anything new. Dawnstar didn't seem to care about Whiteclaw. Apparently, there had been a... traitor. Who was "swimming with the fish". Wolffang tensed. Had another cat died? Probably by Dawnstar's paws? A low growl rumbled in his throat, but he didn't say anything. That tyrant needs to be taken care of.

stardust.

March 10th, 2022, 06:02 PM

Whiteclaw padded over to Wolffang, "Hey, Wolffang, deputy of WindClan right?" He asked, "The names Whiteclaw" He explained, "If you are wondering about ThunderClan, they are leaderless, and Dawnstar is SUCH A TRAITOR!!!!!" He yelled angrily, "CAN WE PLEASE JUST STOP TALKIN ABOUT THUNDERCLAN WHITECLAW!!! IT.. WAS.. AN.. ENTIRE.. MOON.. AGO!!!" He said to himself, "DAWNSTAR YOU TRAITOR!!! GOODBYE!!! I AM JOINING WINDCLAN!!" His anger had subsided, and he left the gathering

(Whiteclaw has left the gathering)

Pitou

March 10th, 2022, 08:11 PM

**Elmshadow of Shadowclan**
SourCream [For the mention] Undertaker

Elmshadow turned away from the toms on front of him to look up at Dawnstar as she began to speak from the Seastones. He nodded his understanding and turned back to Whiteclaw with a low, nealry inaudible growl. He fell silent as the tom turned away, though his green eyes tracked his movements through the crowd. If he was smart he'd keep walking straight out of the gathering, but the frog-brain stopped at the Windclan deputy. The hackles along his spine rose as he readied to chase him out.

As Elmshadow moved his way through Whiteclaw's wake, the former Shadowclanner finally turned away and left the gathering. He sighed irritably as his last words still hung in the air. The thought of even Twilightstar wanting anything to do with the tom after that stunt was nearly laughable. Regardless, Elmshadow made a mental note to keep his eye out for the rat in the future; if he ever saw his face again, he wouldn't be so lucky to get away a second time. For the time being, Whiteclaw's choice to abandon Shadowclan seemed like a favor.

He glanced back at Dawnstar in case she had further instruction. If she wanted him to chase the tom down and drag him to her then he'd be more than willing, but he figured he'd be more use staying put and dealing with that nuisance later if it came to it.

stardust.

March 10th, 2022, 08:21 PM

He turned back after Elmshadow made another appearance, he wanted to make sure ShadowClan was well... ShadowClan.. a clan of good, but that changed when Elmshadow was looking at him, he decided to laugh it out, "Hehehehehe" He laughed, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!" It was just HILARIOUS, he did the exact same thing Dawnstar did when she became leader, he took one paw over his head and clawed one side of it, and he did the same with the other side, his laughing still continued as he continued on about ShadowClan, "REALLY SHADOWCLAN??? YOU DID THIS TO ME??? HAHAHAHAHA!!" He was now counting all the ShadowClan warriors at the gathering, "TRAITORS!!!!!" He yelled out to ShadowClan, "I AM STAYING HERE UNTIL SHADOWCLAN LEAVES!!!" He mewed, "HAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Oaksong was surprised at Whiteclaw's remarks, "Someone get that traitor out of here" She mewed, "I don't care what clan, but please, get that traitor out of here"
Undertaker Ravensong

Madelaine

March 10th, 2022, 09:33 PM

Spottedpaw nodded. "O-ok. I-i'm n-not a-a ve-ery g-good c-cat, a-am I-i?" She felt horrible. And stupid. She couldn't figure out how to hide her stutter, which made her sound stupid.

-->Petuniafire<--

Oh how her heart just broke! The molly shook her head. "No of course not. I've met some other cats in my life who had a stutter. Now I've never had one, but I can assure you your a great cat. Plus being unique is fun. I'm unique too and that makes me fun as well.", she whispered. She didn't know what else to do and it made her feel horrible.

Madelaine

March 10th, 2022, 09:37 PM

-->Rabbitpaw<--

She had arrived lat, but she was here on time to hear the commotion with the cat wanting to join her clan. Nuh huh. They didn't want him. She almost wanted to laugh, but she didn't. Rabbitpaw watched as they left, but that didn't last long. Was Windclan not going to say anything. Well yeah they were she was. "Hey come on leave in peace or something worse will happen to you. Your interrupting the gathering.", she growled.

// SourCream; \\

stardust.

March 10th, 2022, 09:41 PM

Whiteclaw was angry now, "WHO CARES!!!" He said to Rabbitpaw, he left the gathering in peace, hoping to join WindClan

(Whiteclaw has really left the gathering)

Madelaine

March 10th, 2022, 09:45 PM

-->Rabbitpaw<--

Oh what an idiot? Did he really think her and her clan wanted him. She would go over and do more, but he was already gone. Oh my starclan were some cats annoying. She looked over at Twilightstar to see what they were going to say about this cat joining their clan. Surely they'd be chased off even before having to say anything. Maybe she could help get rid of him. It sounded like fun. Rabbitpaw settled down ready for this to just get going.

// open, so she can get her requirement \\

Kunaisoul

March 10th, 2022, 09:56 PM

Madelaine

March 10th, 2022, 10:09 PM

[Softshadow of Thunderclan]

He scoffed, and then he spotted the apprentice. "hey. You're bunnypaw, right?" He asked. and then he shook his head. "Sorry, rabbitpaw. i'm not very fond of those of windclan.." He said.

-->Rabbitpaw<--

The apprentice looked over at a new cat who came over. She actually gets to talk to a real cat from another clan? Cool! This was her first cat ever from another clan she had met since joining Windclan and yet she had been here for a couple moons now. "Oh thats fine. To be honest I don't know who you are. This is my first time meeting a cat outside my clan. I was a loner just four moons ago.", she meowed.

Kunaisoul

March 10th, 2022, 10:12 PM

-->Rabbitpaw<--

The apprentice looked over at a new cat who came over. She actually gets to talk to a real cat from another clan? Cool! This was her first cat ever from another clan she had met since joining Windclan and yet she had been here for a couple moons now. "Oh thats fine. To be honest I don't know who you are. This is my first time meeting a cat outside my clan. I was a loner just four moons ago.", she meowed.
{Softshadow of ThunderClan}

he nodded. "Loner, eh?" he asked. "How is windclan these days..?" He asked. He fluffed out his fur. And he licked his paw and put it over his head. "And, who is mentoring you, may i ask?" He asked once again, pausing from grooming himself, and shifting his attention to Rabbitpaw.

Captain

March 10th, 2022, 10:33 PM

~Moonfrost of Riverclan~

As the apprentice burrowed into her belly fur, Moonfrost's hoarse, distorted purr started to rumble in her chest.
I'm sorry my purr is strange, but I will comfort you as best I can.
The black tabby smiled down softly at the apprentice and began to lick her forehead in comforting, smooth strokes. She wrapped her fluffy tail around Cloudpaw, pulling the apprentice close with a paw.
You'll be okay, little one. Riverclan will protect you.
☁ Cloudpaw (she/her) ☁

➢ Amongst all the fighting , the shouting, and the chaos that was going on, the small fluffy apprentice found solace within the mute shecat’s embrace. It made her miss her mama, Swansong, who would always hold her close and encourage her when things got scary. Cloudpaw didn’t want to think about it, knowing that both her parents were gone now. She could feel the Riverclan warrior’s purr rumbling against her. It was different from any other cat, but the young molly did not mind it in the slightest. It was like a unique, softened lullaby to soothe her anxieties and tell Cloudpaw that everything was gonna be okay. She smiled gently and seemed to slowly allow her body to relax as Moonfrost licked her head, pulling the small fragile shecat close. The black-and-white apprentice wondered if other cats in her clan, especially Kestrelstar, would see her as weak for this. Cuddling up to another cat like a newborn kitten and being terrified by the slightest bit of violence. It was a troubling thought, but cats had to remember: Cloudpaw was fresh out of the nursery, barely seven moons old and having no real experience of the outside world until now. It was overwhelming, terrifying to say the least, and she vowed that this childish behavior wouldn’t happen again. However, the small Riverclan molly stayed close to Moonfrost for now, not wanting to leave the older shecat’s side until they returned home. She reminded her too much of Swansong and after desperately missing her mother for the past few quarter-moons, the youth was already getting rather attached to the black-furred tabby. Who could blame her? She uttered a rather affectionate purr, making her whole body vibrate as she began to knead her tiny paws into Moonfrost's fur. Cloudpaw was gonna be okay.

Madelaine

March 10th, 2022, 11:19 PM

{Softshadow of ThunderClan}

he nodded. "Loner, eh?" he asked. "How is windclan these days..?" He asked. He fluffed out his fur. And he licked his paw and put it over his head. "And, who is mentoring you, may i ask?" He asked once again, pausing from grooming himself, and shifting his attention to Rabbitpaw.

-->Rabbitpaw<--

How was Windclan doing? Well she had to think about that. Nothing much had went on, so she would say windclan was windclan. "Well Windclan is like Windclan always is and I currently don't have a mentor. I've been finding my own cats to help teach me until I get a new one. Mine went missing.", she meowed.

Shade.

March 11th, 2022, 12:04 AM

Rani
Nixey
Naiad
x ghostie

Rosepaw was about to put this behind them but there was still fire burning in her belly. She was used to hiding her anger and resentment by now, but she rarely got this angry. She was silent but words were pouring I her mind.

Then Sundust spoke up. His voice was monotonous as usual but, in this entertaining, it seemed almost eerie. The medicine cat apprentice had not expected her mentor to say any more than a polite ask to act like an adult. But this whole conversation spiraled into a debate regarding the nature of their respective clans. She felt the rage, still burning inside her, felt an itch to speak up. But it was probably useless! Sundust had it covered, right? That was her mindset up until the end where Snakeheart expressed his "respect". Rosepaw's expression soured immediately.

"Just this one? Just this once!? Who do you think you are!? You tell us that we're pathetic and then decide to give us advice as "reward", like some sort of twoleg feeding kittypets! We're not here to impress you, we're here to be medicine cats. Literally a week or so after I joined ThunderClan, at three moons old, I remembered seeing you attack our camp and I saw cats die. And I didn't care which clan they were from. And I still don't care! I blame you, I blame Kestrelstar, I blame individuals! I don't condemn an entire group! So all I remember in my lifetime is our class hurting each other. Yet I didn't walk over here saying "What ho, smelly fish eaters, killed any of my friends today?" I'm fourteen moons old and I acted more maturely than you. You're embarrassing yourself." the apprentice's tone started out angry but in the end it seemed clipped and cold, like Sundust's, except laced with venom.

The small cinnamon tabby turned to her mentor and responded to his whisper.

"There's no point in using logical arguments against someone who's entirely driven by emotions. I do agree with you though, I honestly feel bad for Reedpaw, this is awkward"

She turned to Cowpaw as if nothing was happening now, she wasn't about to rope him into this. He seemed much younger than her, like, actual apprentice age, and probably didn't know about all these conflicts just yet.
"How's the prey running in WindClan, Cowpaw?"

stardust.

March 11th, 2022, 08:08 AM

Whiteclaw turned back, changing his mind, "I can't believe it!!" He mewed, "SHADOWCLAN!!!!"

Glitch_Candle

March 11th, 2022, 08:57 AM

{Softshadow of ThunderClan}

He quietly sat by himself. He hated shadowclan, and his kittens may as well be born into a shadowclan led thunderclan. He wouldn't let that happen. He huffed and looked around. So many cats.

(OPEN)
Mintleaf was already near the ThunderClan tom, and heard him sulking. "This is how it is. That giant furball of a leader of ShadowClan doesn't care about anything but herself."

duckie

March 11th, 2022, 09:14 AM

SOOTFLARE
__________
The grey and white tom was just beginning to feel comfortable in the shadows at the edge of the seastones (as comfortable as one could be with all the crazies it seemed had decided to show up at this gathering in particular) when he felt a gaze burning holes into his pelt. Although he was already certain of who it belonged to - the way it made his skin crawl meant it could only be one cat - a quick glance up to the stones themselves confirmed his suspicions. Kestrelstar, of course.

The Riverclan leader couldn't save him the trouble and not notice his presence until it was time for Sootflare to speak. No, that would be too simple.

Just being noticed made his heart race. Every muscle in his body screamed at him that it was time to blow this joint and get the hell out but Sootflare simply dug his claws into the sand, straightened himself up, and stood his ground. He would not be a coward tonight.

He would not run again.

[ @spade (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=269) , closed for direct interaction ]

stardust.

March 11th, 2022, 09:16 AM

Oaksong noticed that whatsisnameformerriverclanleaderstar was here also, and Oaksong wasn't very happy to see him, maybe if, well, he hadn't showed up randomly, things would have gone better, well...

furrensic

March 11th, 2022, 09:44 AM

Angelique //
➵ sagepaw | they/he/she

sagepaw could not believe the words coming out of this cat's mouth. chaotic was right, but did that even apply to what just happened? ”do you think it was that cat’s fault that she died?” he asked after a moment of hesitation. they didn’t know who that ‘traitor’ was, or what she’d done, but it hadn’t seemed like she was doing anything. besides, nobody deserved to die, right?

..right?

”couldn’t she have just been escorted away, like the other guy..?” she would’ve added on that dawnstar had just killed someone’s loved one - whether that feline was someone’s sister, mother, aunt, friend, crush, whatever. she couldn’t find it in her to care all that much, though, and that deeply disturbed her. she was sure dawnstar wouldn’t bother to find it in her to care, and neither would ebonyfang.

Ian

March 11th, 2022, 09:52 AM

PineClaw had followed the clan to the gathering rather unenthusiastically. He wasn't excited the drama that would probably roll out of the Gathering. So much was happening and how would the other clans react to Dawnstar taking over ThunderClan? He couldn't blame them if they took it as an act of war, it meant she could waltz in anywhere to take over if she could!

Unfortunately, Pineclaw didn't know any other way to rule without assuming how the other clan leaders might be more friendly. He'd grown up with Dawnstar and Icestar in charge so he had nothing to relate them to. He was just getting wore out from the constant need to please the leader.

A sudden strange scent caught his attention. The warrior turned towards the edge of the ShadowClan group, starting to follow it. Before he knew it, he had come face to face with Vixensnarl, startled by the way she smelled. It was a mixture of ShadowClan and ThunderClan now, a strange scent that not even the borders really carried. "Oh, sorry, I just couldn't figure out what I was smelling. It was distracting me from the leaders," the tabby spoke, taking a couple steps back to study the she-cat. "What is ThunderClan like?" he couldn't help but ask.

--Vixensnarl (ShC)--
The young warrior blinked in surprise as Pineclaw appeared in front of her and commented her strange scent. "Oh, it's alright. Don't worry about. ThunderClan is... much less interesting than I thought. There was a brief fight when we first got there, but the rodents are pathetically weak so it wasn't that interesting. Ever since then they've either been moping or yowling about how unfair their life is, but they don't do anything to change it. It's rather frustrating, actually. How have things in ShadowClan been? Is it less boring than ThunderClan?" The molly was curious as to what her home had been like while she was away, but was torn from her thoughts by the commotion that was occurring. It appears that some RiverClan traitor had been chased off, Dawnstar had killed a ShadowClan traitor, and Whiteclaw was now yowling stupidity like a headless chicken. Well, this Gathering would prove to be interesting.

--Badgerscar (ShC)--
As he was waiting for Grimhound to speak his attention was caught by Dawnstar getting mad at Whiteclaw, who appeared to leave, come back, leave, and then come back again. All while insulting his mother. There was something wrong with that tom. Not sparing his former mentor a glance the large tom stalked over to Whiteclaw with pinned ears and bared teeth. "Dawnstar told you to leave, so get out. Plus, I don't see why we would want a different leader when she's made ShadowClan the strongest in the forest? We've beaten WindClan into the ground, ThunderClan is so weak that we have to help them, and when Kestrelstar tried to challenge us we took his prey and attacked his cats. Since then he's sat with his tail tucked between his legs too afraid to challenge us or retaliate, but clearly you don't appreciate that, so feel free to join the weak bunnies. Although I doubt they'd want someone like you in their Clan. Now get out before I make sure you end up like Sprucefall did!"

SourCream

stardust.

March 11th, 2022, 10:00 AM

"BADGERSCAR!! YOUR A WEAK BUNNY!!!" Whiteclaw yelled, "MAKE SHADOWCLAN BETTER!!!"
NinjaBloss(Is it ok if White attacks Badgerscar?)

Ian

March 11th, 2022, 10:09 AM

Badgerscar pinned his ears as Whiteclaw dared to call him a weak bunny, but he wasn't going to strike first at the Gathering. Only so he could make a fool of the traitor, though. If Whiteclaw tried to attack and then lost, it would be pathetic, and then all the Clans would see exactly what happened to traitors to ShadowClan. "Out. Now."

SourCream

spade

March 11th, 2022, 10:19 AM

marshy

March 11th, 2022, 10:26 AM

Cactuspaw
__________

As Cactuspaw just wished for the announcements to start she noticed another fight breaking out. At this point she started to get anxious, multiple fights at 1 gathering? That seemed excessive. Cactuspaw just wanted to be as far away as possible from the ShadowClan brutes. Although she was trying her hardest to tune this whole altercation out, she caught some of what was going on. Whiteclaw calling Dawnstar a.. traitor? She had thought he left, yet he back. And insulting another warrior. "Is he.. encouraging this?" She said as she heard another warrior trying to convince Whiteclaw to fight. This was not her problem.. this was NOT her problem. God she wasn't going to deal with 2 different deaths at a gathering, at this point she had only ever seen 1.. and now she'd have to add 2 more? That wasn't going to fly with her, and she thought about just going back home.

thegriff

March 11th, 2022, 10:38 AM

Yelling, quickstrike jumps in and roars "YOU TWO ARE ACTING LIKE KITS ! ". then he hisses, "and in case you forgot, this is a gathering."
NinjaBloss (Badgerscar) SourCream. (Whiteclaw)

falling

March 11th, 2022, 12:26 PM

MUDDYROSE
falling

Having heard footsteps approach, Muddyrose's fur started to bristle. She was on edge, having sensed that something had happened, even if she didn't quite know what. She was hardly in the mood to speak to a cat outside of her Clan. She whipped her head around to snarl at the opposing cat, only to find Sootwind standing there. Her face relaxed, and her fur laid flat before she dipped her head awkwardly. Hopefully, Sootwind hadn't detected her moment of aggression. She had never spoken to the she-cat previously, she didn't speak to many, but she recognized her. She straightened her back to appear more welcoming.

"Hello. Sootwind, right?" It made her slightly embarrassed that the cats in her Clan knew her name and she struggled to remember theirs. Admittedly, it was her own fault. She was always sitting alone; watching but never interacting with her peers. It had gotten worse since ThunderClan had started falling apart. "When is life ever easy? It's what makes us Warriors." She pointed out, in her usual blunt fashion. Privately, however, she agreed with her. If only they didn't have to get involved, it would make Muddyrose more comfortable. "Besides, if we weren't present, the leaders would probably rip the fur off one another." Was she trying to make a joke or was she being serious? Her stony expression made it difficult to read her.

Her eyebrows furrowed as she examined her Clanmate closer. She could tell, much like her, that Sootwind didn't particularly want to be there. She motioned, with her bushy tabby tail, for the she-cat to sit beside her. "I don't think anyone will bother us all the way over here. If they do, I'll shred 'em." Again, it sounded like a joke, but her facial expression remained stern. Considering how she'd acted when Sootwind had first approached her, it was likely that she meant what she said. Regardless, the molly was serious about her offer for Sootwind to sit with her.

"What made you decide to come?" The question was direct and to-the-point. While she kept it veiled, she was curious. What were Sootwind's motives for attending the Gathering?Sootwind opened her maw, about to reply to Muddyrose's words, but instead she closed it again, tilting her head as she listened. Life is never easy. I know that. But why can't we live in peace? For what were clans formed? Those were questions she had asked herself very often, but never had she answered them. Nor had she seen any other cat with an answer to them, not even their all-wise StarClan anscestors. "Sootwind, yes," she meowed slowly, her thoughts still a wild tumble as she attempted to sort them out, thinking about each of Muddyrose's comments. "I'm sorry about randomly asking that question. It must have been sort of akward. I did not aim for that. The words that came out of my jaw are oftentimes unintentional, if that makes you understand somehow."

And what do I say now? Sootwind knew that she had placed herself in this situation, so she was going to have to continue this chit-chat. "That is very true. I guess as warriors, we have to be able to withstand pain and work through complicated situations. But sometimes others expect too much from us, not? It is oftentimes hard to hide feelings and emotions, especially anger. Anger is quite the beast." The words were sharp-toned and short, but they were the pure truth. The molly knew from experience that the truth could very much be painful, but hopefully not to Muddyrose in this case. The dialogue Sootwind had presented wasn't too harsh.

The warrior let out a slight chortle at Muddy's next words. "Yes. As responsible as leaders might seem, when they are alone with each other, the drama begins. I don't believe they would return unharmed everytime." She was glad at Muddyrose's topic change, intense royal blue eyes staring at the molly in front of her. "I came to the gathering because I wanted to see what Dawnstar would say about the overthrow, plus I do not like missing gatherings. I've got a record of attending almost every gathering, bad to destroy it by not attending one, y'know. Also, the news the other clan leaders have are sometimes interesting. I want to know what happens between the clans and if there's any new fights of threats to beware of."

"How 'bout you, hmm?"

stardust.

March 11th, 2022, 05:44 PM

Whiteclaw tried to jump onto Badgerscar, hoping to kill or at least severely injure him. If he succeeded, he would next try and attack the rest of ShadowClan, "Badgerscar, since your mother is Dawnstar. Well.. I am going to... OH, EVERYONE, HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF FROSTBREEZE OR FROSTPAW???????????"
NinjaBloss

Akira

March 11th, 2022, 08:01 PM

Splotchpaw eventually peeled away from his mentor, deciding that if he didn't, he wouldn't get to see all the juicy action for himself! So, he took some steps away and-Oh StarClan, there was a body. Splotchpaw grimaced: the smell and sight certainly didn't help his first impression of his first Gathering, but he knew it would definitely be... Memorable, so-oh, and cats were fighting. Ok. That was a thing happening. Hmmm... Perhaps it would be a good idea to stay away from the center of chaos... Yeah, that sounded good. As always, Splotchpaw's ideas were always great.

The calico tom moved away from the mess that was... That... And went to a somewhat shaded area of the Seastones, finding a comfortable area to sit, and let out a sigh. Oh, this was the worst... A corpse wasn't exactly what he was looking forward to in his first Gathering, nor the yelling and fighting. But the worst part about this was... The socializing! Imagine: him! SOCIALIZING?! Nah, no way. The tom shuddered at the thought and remained still, unwilling to draw attention to himself now.

(Open to anyone!)

Madelaine

March 11th, 2022, 08:06 PM

Akira

March 11th, 2022, 08:10 PM

-->Possumpaw<--

The blind apprentice smelled blood,but had no clue what was going on. Did someone get hurt? No its ounded like a leader did something. The tom moved from where he was standing, using his whiskers to feel if any cats were nearby. He was glad to have long whiskers it was a gift.

Possumpaw moved over towards an apprentice that smelled of Windclan. The Thunderclan tom sat close by. He leaned his head towards the sounds of the other apprentices breathing. "Hey can you help a blind apprentice out? What happened?", he whispered. Hearing a cat causing a ruckus he wanted to place his paw to his face. He swore some cats were complete idiots.

// Ritsuka; \\
Splotchpaw jolted in his spot with an embarrassing squeak, more so out of surprise of being approached than anything. Eh? Another apprentice? Hmmm... He smelled of the forest, so ThunderClan... Good, he wasn't one of the smelly Clans. And he was blind? Ah well, not like he could do much about it. All he could do was help, and what better helper than Splotchpaw? Huzzah! Yes... Yes, he answer that easily. Socializing was easy... Right?

"Oh, someone died," the calico answered bluntly, looking back at the corpse again before turning to the now blood-stained stinky ShadowClan leader. "Er, more like got killed... By the leader of one of the smelly Clans. Man, may they rest in peace or something... Is that what you say? I dunno, never honored a dead cat before."

Kunaisoul

March 11th, 2022, 08:10 PM

-->Rabbitpaw<--

How was Windclan doing? Well she had to think about that. Nothing much had went on, so she would say windclan was windclan. "Well Windclan is like Windclan always is and I currently don't have a mentor. I've been finding my own cats to help teach me until I get a new one. Mine went missing.", she meowed.
{Softshadow of ThunderClan}

He nodded. "I understand. All young cats deserve a good mentor. I suppose anyone who twilightstar chooses will be suitable for a sturdy apprentice like you."

taillow

March 11th, 2022, 08:21 PM

Cindersky
It was easy to detect a small shift in the energy that came from Cloudypaw. Not enough to place a paw on concretely, but Cindersky returned the gentle smile. Focusing on the blood would not be something she did, at least not right now. Whatever was going on, surely it would or already had been dealt with by one of the leaders who sat atop the stones looking down from the vantage point that oversaw everything.

Just as she was about to open her jaws to encourage Cloudypaw to socialize, the familiar moorland scent reached her nose. "Ah, WindClan has arrived as well." In came the skinny wind-blown pelts of the Clan, lead as usual by Twilightstar. Perhaps one of the most stable leaders outside of Dawnstar (and stable as in, had been around the longest, not mentally stable) she had bore witness to the many moons the aging she-cat had led WindClan for.

An amused chuckle left her, gently shaking her shoulders, as Cloudypaw responded to her inquiry to interact and socialize just how she had pictured. "It should not be all that bad. Perhaps for now... it would be best to avoid ShadowClan..." There was a distinct distaste tangible in her voice, but Cindersky kept it low and only directed to Cloudypaw. She did not like the idea of her apprentice hanging around those that slunk in the darkness for longer than she had to.

"WindClan apprentices are always well behaved, how about that young tom over there?" Perking her ears and looking at Cloudypaw to give her a nod, Cindersky made her way over towards a group of apprentices, one who carried the distinct smell of WindClan, when a commotion caught her attention. Somewhere across the way there was snarling, and Cindersky froze. Instinctively she kept herself between Cloudypaw and whatever was happening, lifting her head to examine. She did not recognize either cat, but from the scent alone she could tell it was ShadowClan - that, and the Whiteclaw named tom seemed to be yowling about it as loud as he could. And about their... former medicine cat?

It was all too confusing, and if ShadowClan cats wanted to fight amongst themselves - with one of them even encouraging it - Cindersky did not wish to get involved. "Let us head over this way," she decided, gently turning so that they could leave the scene. A bit away Cindersky took notice of a familiar RiverClan warrior and what looked to be a RiverClan apprentice. Though the fire of the Clans crimes still left a sour taste in her heart, she was never one to place blame on individual cats for their Clans wrongdoings.

"Greetings, hello," Cindersky purred as she nodded to both Petuniafire and Spottedpaw. "My name is Cindersky, from ThunderClan. This is my apprentice Cloudypaw. It is her first Gathering," she introduced, looking towards her apprentice. Hopefully Cloudypaw would have enough sense to play nice.

[ poppy. Angelique WhitesilverQueen i hope it's alright i had cindersky come introduce her apprentice! ]

dino.

March 11th, 2022, 08:31 PM

// open minus WC!

>Wispypaw<
Wispypaw lingered on the edge of the Seastones, unsure of where to insert themselves. There were so many cats here, and the chatter seemed to rise into a dull din that echoed across the stones and out to the waves. And, oh, StarClan, was that a body by the water? Swallowing, Wispypaw turned their gaze away and began to edge their way further onto the rocks. With the way their paws shook as they walked, it was obvious that they were nervous.

WhitesilverQueen

March 11th, 2022, 08:47 PM

Ian

March 11th, 2022, 08:52 PM

Oh my, what was happening now? Grimhound had essentially drowned out the cries around Sprucefall being killed - did these cats want traitors among them? Did their own Clans not do the same to cats who went against their leader so many times? Amber eyes were focused on the small kit that had decided to join him, and just as he was about to open his mouth the kits attention was called by one of the leaders. "You have a nice night," he purred and winked at the small kit before turning and heading up the beach.

Sliding up to Badgerscar's side, the hound grinned to Whiteclaw. "A very indecisive kit we have here, don't we?" A dark chuckle shook his shoulders as the massive brown tabby took a seat, flicking his ear. "Well, go on. If Badgerscar is, as you say, a "weak bunny", he should be an easy opponent, shouldn't he?" Was he egging this on? Absolutely. Amber eyes glowed as he watched what Whiteclaw would do next.

// NinjaBloss SourCream Papaya - for the brief loonkit mention
Yelling, quickstrike jumps in and roars "YOU TWO ARE ACTING LIKE KITS ! ". then he hisses, "and in case you forgot, this is a gathering."
NinjaBloss (Badgerscar) SourCream. (Whiteclaw)
Whiteclaw tried to jump onto Badgerscar, hoping to kill or at least severely injure him. If he succeeded, he would next try and attack the rest of ShadowClan, "Badgerscar, since your mother is Dawnstar. Well.. I am going to... OH, EVERYONE, HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF FROSTBREEZE OR FROSTPAW???????????"
NinjaBloss
Badgerscar couldn't help but snort as Grimhound came over to egg Whiteclaw on. Of course his former mentor would want to incite violence at the gathering, the Hound thrived of all of chaos. But then another warrior was trying to get in the way and stop the flight, so the huge tabby shot them a glare. "I literally do not care that it's a gathering, or what you have to say. Although if you want to join in, I wouldn't mind shredding you as well," he said to Quickstrike with a sneer on his face. Who did that tom think he was to boss Badgerscar around?

And then Whiteclaw was leaping at him in anger which he easily ducked out of the way of, yowling on in his anger before spouting off some nonsense about a Frostpaw or Frostbreeze. There was clearly something wrong with that. Badgerscar turned and aimed to grab Whiteclaw's flanks with unsheathed claws while his back was turned and drag him down to the ground. If it worked then he would have made deep clawmarks in the toms flanks and he would now be on top of the warrior.

stardust.

March 11th, 2022, 09:18 PM

Badgerscar couldn't help but snort as Grimhound came over to egg Whiteclaw on. Of course his former mentor would want to incite violence at the gathering, the Hound thrived of all of chaos. But then another warrior was trying to get in the way and stop the flight, so the huge tabby shot them a glare. "I literally do not care that it's a gathering, or what you have to say. Although if you want to join in, I wouldn't mind shredding you as well," he said to Quickstrike with a sneer on his face. Who did that tom think he was to boss Badgerscar around?

And then Whiteclaw was leaping at him in anger which he easily ducked out of the way of, yowling on in his anger before spouting off some nonsense about a Frostpaw or Frostbreeze. There was clearly something wrong with that. Badgerscar turned and aimed to grab Whiteclaw's flanks with unsheathed claws while his back was turned and drag him down to the ground. If it worked then he would have made deep clawmarks in the toms flanks and he would now be on top of the warrior.
However, Whiteclaw dodged the attack, his next attack was aiming for Badgerscar's neck, "So, you don't know who Frostbreeze is..., well, she was a former medicine cat" He mewed, Quickstrike and the hound came over and starting yelling stuff out at him, Well, he thought, and shot a quick glance at Grimhound and Quickstrike

NinjaBloss spade snekeyes4

astrid.

March 11th, 2022, 09:21 PM

astrid.

Snowflakesight glanced around. Who wanted to talk to her? She didn't want to talk to the scrawny WindClan kittypets, and she also wanted to stay away from RiverClan. Spotting Falconfall, she shuffled next to him. 'Want- want to talk...?' Snowflakesight asked nervously. She looked around for Dawnstar, their brave and powerful leader. Her white pelt shone in the moonlight, the moonlight casting beautiful sparkles where ever it hit. What would StarClan think of ThunderClan being ruled by ShadowClan? Who cares, Snowflakesight thought, StarClan doesn't control us proud ShadowClan cats.

Paw steps could be heard making their way over to him to which Falconfall turned to observe. Ah, Snowflakesight. Not one he had conversed with a lot but an interesting face to see amongst the crowd tonight nonetheless. "About?" the young warrior inquired, eyes flashing with growing curiosity underneath the full moon. Somewhere off to the side he was still faintly aware of the growing commotion, amusedly turning his head in the direction of the two snarling cats. "Perhaps our squabbling Clanmates? Oh dear, what Dawnstar will have to say about that?" It was a dumb question because of course Dawnstar, having already killed one ShadowClan traitor, would probably have no problems killing another.

alaskaa

March 11th, 2022, 09:27 PM

Hazelstorm watched the Gathering unfold, unperturbed by the murder of the random ShadowClan cat.

Ivypaw sat, hiding her face.

[closed!]

Undertaker

March 11th, 2022, 09:28 PM

What the hell was this nonsense? Dawnstar watched Whiteclaw make a fool out of himself wordlessly, already well aware that there would be no clan who'd take him in with the way he was acting. She remained unphased and unmoving as the crazy foxheart attacked her son. It did not help that her mate was egging this all on, but it's not like she could expect much from the mangy mutt. The massive ShadowClan cat let out a loud groan of irritation, it seemed like it was ShadowClan's turn to have that one imbecile act out.

"Badgerscar, stop playing around and kill the moron, I'm not wasting any more time on this. He's not in a clan anymore, so the truce doesn't protect him. Not to mention he attacked you for no reason." Dawnstar growled without raising her voice. "Make it quick otherwise I'll have Grimhound deal with it." Now Dawnstar could come down there and do it herself, but she just got back up here and felt rather lazy. Plus, she had how many warriors down there with the same claws and fangs as she had.

Dawnstar didn't really care who nor how many she made uncomfortable or upset with her orders. These cats were supposed to be trained fighters or at least training to be fighters. If they got squirmy or queasy over a little blood and a dead body, then they had a bleak future as a warrior and should go become a kittypet. A soft life befitting of softhearts.
NinjaBloss [You have HR permission to execute a kill order] SourCream spade

Ian

March 11th, 2022, 09:40 PM

[Done with HR permission]
Badgerscar grinned as he heard his mother's order while Whiteclaw was leaping at him. The tom leaned back so as to avoid a fatal blow, although the traitor's claws did manage to rip out a tuft of fur, not that he really felt it or cared. As soon as the attack was past he lunged forward and clamped his jaws around Whiteclaw's throat, ending the tom's life with a sickening crack. Dropping the body he took a moment to lick the blood off his muzzle before shooting a smirk at Grimhound. "Since I got the kill I think that means you're on cleanup duty again."

spade SourCream Undertaker

stardust.

March 11th, 2022, 09:44 PM

Whiteclaw's body dropped on the ground,

(Someone clean up blood)

spade

March 11th, 2022, 09:48 PM

Grimhound was grinning, practically foaming at the mouth from excitement, as the fight finally happened. Then Dawnstars loud call rang through Seastones, and the hound chuckled. ”Lights out, rat.” Just as he spoke, his former apprentice delivered the killing bite, the bones of Whiteclaw giving a satisfying snap.

The humor drained from his face at Badgerscars remark, and quick as lightning Grimhoubd struck a paw out to rake it across his ear. ”Watch it.” There was an eerie darkness to his tone as fierce amber eyes bore down onto Badgerscar, one ear twitching, before the hound scooped up yet another body. He made the short trip to the ocean and unceremoniously tossed the body to the waves. Another traitor gone, and the announcements hadn’t even started. This was definitely a worthwhile gathering.

// NinjaBloss

Pitou

March 11th, 2022, 10:10 PM

**Elmshadow of Shadowclan**
[OPEN]

Watching Whiteclaw's exit then arrival was giving Elmshadow a headache. His final reentry to the gathering left him near Badgerscar. Elmshadow sag back but kept his eyes watching the events unfolding. The obnoxious tom wouldn't have long with Badgerscar and Grimhound now intervening. He rose to his paws as Whiteclaw attacked Badgerscar. He had no doubt the tom could handle himself more than well enough, especially against a traitorous former warrior who had it in his kind to want to become a bunny.

Elmshadow looked back idly as Dawnstar interjected with her orders. His eyes met the chaos as Badgerscar gave the quick killing bite, wasting no time in carrying out their leader's order. He sighed, glad that they could finally move on. He looked up to the leaders, hoping Kestrelstar or Twilightstar would hurry up and get to their announcements.

**Cougarivy of Shadowclan**
[OPEN]

The mottled she-cat watched Elmshadow move away from her, momentarily hurt that he had completely ignored her. Her frustration was short-lived as she noticed where he was going. She rose to her paws and followed behind him, flexing her claws into the dirt as he dealt with the irritating Whiteclaw, yowling his fool head off.

When it came down to Badgerscar confronting Whiteclaw, Cougarivy moved up to Elmshadow's side, brushing her fur against his flank but keeping her eyes hungrily on the battle ensuing. As Badgerscar landed the killing bite and Whiteclaw's blood spilled over the sand, an excited tingle vibrated over her spine. She flexed her claws through the sand, nearly tasting the blood herself. It had been a fairly pathetic fight but it sparked her thirst regardless.

endlessskies

March 11th, 2022, 10:12 PM

Paw steps could be heard making their way over to him to which Falconfall turned to observe. Ah, Snowflakesight. Not one he had conversed with a lot but an interesting face to see amongst the crowd tonight nonetheless. "About?" the young warrior inquired, eyes flashing with growing curiosity underneath the full moon. Somewhere off to the side he was still faintly aware of the growing commotion, amusedly turning his head in the direction of the two snarling cats. "Perhaps our squabbling Clanmates? Oh dear, what Dawnstar will have to say about that?" It was a dumb question because of course Dawnstar, having already killed one ShadowClan traitor, would probably have no problems killing another.
'You mean those two?' Snowflakesight questioned, tipping her head in the direction of the two ShadowClan cats. 'Does it matter if they are arguing? If they get killed, it's their fault, after all.' She sniffed. 'Some cats don't have ANY sense. Like RiverClan, or WindClan. Oh, and maybe ThunderClan.' Glancing at Falconfall, Snowflakesight sighed. ShadowClan should not bicker, she thought, after all, we, WE, are the best clan. 'Don't you think WindClan cats are weak like kittypets? RiverClan, pfft! They stink of their stupid fishies, and they're also brainless. ThunderClan is the bossiest, and the rudest. They should all show respect to Dawnstar and us ShadowClan!'

Kunaisoul

March 11th, 2022, 10:50 PM

{Jaypaw of ShadowClan}

He walked around, He needed someone to talk to.

QueenOtter (could one of your shadowclan cats interact with him for his requirement?)

endlessskies

March 11th, 2022, 10:55 PM

{Jaypaw of ShadowClan}

He walked around, He needed someone to talk to.

QueenOtter (could one of your shadowclan cats interact with him for his requirement?)
Echosky was staring at the night sky. The sky. What she was named after. The last bit of her name, it was 'sky'. She tried counting the stars.

[maybe have Jaypaw bump into her?]

Adderbite

March 12th, 2022, 12:24 AM

MUDDYROSE
falling

Quietly, Muddyrose listened to Sootwind's response, her eyes sliding closed. Oh yes, she understood what it felt like to be awkward. She experienced that every day of her life. "There's no need to apologize." She replied, "I'm merely grateful to have some company that isn't from another Clan. I wasn't looking forward to cats jeering at me about ShadowClan." There was no reason to keep secret her misgivings about ShadowClan. It wasn't like she was being disruptive about it. In fact, having Sootwind around made Muddyrose more likely to keep her cool. She didn't like acting out when her Clanmates were present. They didn't deserve to get roped into her disputes.

She rolled her shoulders in a shrug before continuing, "They must have a reason for putting us through such challenging situations. Personally, I'm not all that concerned. ThunderClan will have a new leader soon enough. Things will straighten out after that." Was that really true? She wasn't so sure. Would Dawnstar become so content leading two Clans that she wouldn't allow a new leader to fill the role? She lowered her head, her expression darkening. Would she make one of her own cats ThunderClans' leader? She shuddered at the thought. What was that foolish cat who asked for ShadowClans' help thinking? She knew that ThunderClan had been falling apart, and there was no denying that Dawnstar had fixed that, but Muddyrose struggled to trust her. "Anger can be a beast." She agreed, "If it isn't utilized correctly. Sometimes anger can give us passion."

Her eyes opened when Sootwind informed her why she'd been interested in attending the Gathering. A solid reason. "The same. I was curious to see how the other leaders would respond." She was slightly disappointed. She was anticipating the other leaders to at least be inquisitive and ask questions. But they hadn't even batted an eye. Boring. The other leaders might still have something interesting to report.

Besides, her time at the Gathering wasn't entirely wasted. She did get some enjoyment watching Whiteclaw cause trouble. She was intrigued to see whether Dawnstar would do anything and how she would go about it. She was moderately disgusted when Whiteclaw was killed, but she had to admit, he was being disruptive and he was no longer a Clan cat. Not only that; he had technically attacked Badgerscar first. He'd been asking for it and Badgerscar had every right to defend himself. "Well, say what you want, but this gathering has been interesting." While she'd rather stay away from the chaos herself, she found herself fascinated by the tenacity of some cats.

Moonraven

March 12th, 2022, 01:09 AM

The eldest leader gave an untroubled swish of her tail as Dawnstar swiftly dismissed her question. Whatever the reason for the mixed scents it obviously meant nothing good, but considering that Dawnstar has honestly left WindClan alone for the past few moons perhaps it was better for her to leave it alone. Twilightstar was certain she heard the word invasion or takeover passed around more than once and could come up with some idea of what was going with ThunderClan.

Before her mind could drift off too deeply, the flash of anger from Kestrelstar caught her attention. She cast her single green eye to the crowd spotting who he was staring at with such rage. Sootflare, she hadn't been planning about talking about him so soon, but considering the bewildered look Kestrelstar was throwing at her, Twilightstar didn't think she'd get a choice.

As Dawnstar dealt with an irksome former ShadowClanner, Twilightstar was unbothered by it. By now she was certain that death clung to Dawnstar like a second pelt, it was a part of her. Whitelaw's announcement about joining her clan was never going to happen, not with the way he was acting, it saved her from another headache. Now she had to deal with this one. "Hear him out," Twilightstar advised calmly to the RiverClan leader. "Sootflare," The lilac feline kneaded her tail over her back calling the tom forward. "Go ahead and speak."
spade wnder

Rizo

March 12th, 2022, 01:45 AM

☁ Cloudpaw (she/her) ☁

➢ Amongst all the fighting , the shouting, and the chaos that was going on, the small fluffy apprentice found solace within the mute shecat’s embrace. It made her miss her mama, Swansong, who would always hold her close and encourage her when things got scary. Cloudpaw didn’t want to think about it, knowing that both her parents were gone now. She could feel the Riverclan warrior’s purr rumbling against her. It was different from any other cat, but the young molly did not mind it in the slightest. It was like a unique, softened lullaby to soothe her anxieties and tell Cloudpaw that everything was gonna be okay. She smiled gently and seemed to slowly allow her body to relax as Moonfrost licked her head, pulling the small fragile shecat close. The black-and-white apprentice wondered if other cats in her clan, especially Kestrelstar, would see her as weak for this. Cuddling up to another cat like a newborn kitten and being terrified by the slightest bit of violence. It was a troubling thought, but cats had to remember: Cloudpaw was fresh out of the nursery, barely seven moons old and having no real experience of the outside world until now. It was overwhelming, terrifying to say the least, and she vowed that this childish behavior wouldn’t happen again. However, the small Riverclan molly stayed close to Moonfrost for now, not wanting to leave the older shecat’s side until they returned home. She reminded her too much of Swansong and after desperately missing her mother for the past few quarter-moons, the youth was already getting rather attached to the black-furred tabby. Who could blame her? She uttered a rather affectionate purr, making her whole body vibrate as she began to knead her tiny paws into Moonfrost's fur. Cloudpaw was gonna be okay.

~Moonfrost of Riverclan~

Smiling softly, Moonfrost's heart filled with warmth when the apprentice began to calm down and started kneading at her fur.
Oh little one. Don't worry, I'll be here for you.
The she-cat remembered seeing Cloudpaw's mother once long ago, but if she recalled correctly, the warrior had gone missing.
I understand how you feel.
She may not be the biological mother of the young black and white she-cat, but that didn't matter. This young cat needed her. So she made a decision.
In Starclan's name, I will take care of you if you need me.
She turned her blue gaze back towards the Seastones to continue to listen to the announcements, but not before fixing her gaze on Kestrelstar and giving him a nod and a warm blink.
I've got this.

bubble[error].

March 13th, 2022, 04:49 PM

~~Tigerpaw~~

{OPEN}

Tigerpaw watched the other cats, daydreaming of the day when her name might be called during a meeting.

~~Skyclaw~~

{OPEN}

Skyclaw watched the other cats with a sly smile.

~~Opalstone~~

{OPEN}

Opalstone smiled, looking around.

~~Mothflight~~

{OPEN}

Mothflight hated being so close to so many other cats. She wished for Lightningpelt to be by her side.

wolfie

March 13th, 2022, 05:50 PM

Cowpaw | Windclan's Medicine Cat | Nixey Rani Shade. Naiad
Oh, oh, the oversized tom was sure what he had been suspecting when he approached the tense group. A part of him hoped when he arrived it would cause a sudden irruption, putting a pause to said tension - it did in a way, as all of the medicine cats turned to greet Cowpaw. A quick shift in attitude that it almost gave him whiplash. Wincing back as Snakeheart hissed after Sundust went ,, well, as he often heard fellow apprentices say, he went completely off. (wait, did snakeheart ,, just be born with the knowledge?? oh wow..) Goodness gracious, he did not want to seem preposterous because this simply was not his business but he could not wrap his head around either sides! Sundust was correct, Cowpaw wasn't educated on the situation but it was unfair to,, condemn Thunderclan. Unfair to compare experiences, but, Snakeheart had been greatly hurt by the clan... He was right to at least be worried but, was this too harsh?

His shoulders slump, tail wrapping around himself as he was put as a bystander to listen. Guilt prickled at his heart as Rosepaw explained the hardships she had went through due to Riverclan. Cowpaw - he felt out of place. Did he belong here? Honestly, his face softens with a frown, perhaps he was mistaken to ask Twilightstar for this position despite his own better judgement. The attention is pointed towards him as the others ask questions toward him. He jerked his head up in surprise, blinking. Uhm. Okay, he guessed they knew his name by... Snakeheart, perhaps, which meant he couldn't grab the keypoint for introductions. .. he knew the names now by listening but none to attach to a body.

Cowpaw looks to.. Sundust, right, Snakeheart had a much distinct voice with his hisses. He smiles, the brightest smile he could manage with his worry, if only to lighten the situation, Wonderful! Then he looks to,, Rosepaw. He was convinced this was Rosepaw. Had to be, right? (It was in fact, Reedpaw.) She seemed nice! I am well! A little anxious to be confessed, there are... very much a lot of cats. He replies, dipping his head nervously. Was that too much? Cowpaw didn't enjoy being closed off but maybe this was too open,, of him,, hnn...

Eyes shift to,, Reedpaw,, (Rosepaw) Oh! Windclan has been well. Patrols have been a consistent difficulty but we no longer are dealing with a prey shortage! Which is, wonderful, of course. I truly cannot wait when leaf-bare is over with. How is... he pauses in his gestures, eyebrows furrowing. Was Reedpaw Riverclan or Thunderclan, maybe even, Shadowclan? No, no, wait, was there even a Shadowclan medicine cat here? .. How is the prey with you? Cowpaw questions and mentally gives himself a pat on the back for that wonderful cover-up!

SuspiciousMindz

March 13th, 2022, 06:42 PM

--Vixensnarl (ShC)--
The young warrior blinked in surprise as Pineclaw appeared in front of her and commented her strange scent. "Oh, it's alright. Don't worry about. ThunderClan is... much less interesting than I thought. There was a brief fight when we first got there, but the rodents are pathetically weak so it wasn't that interesting. Ever since then they've either been moping or yowling about how unfair their life is, but they don't do anything to change it. It's rather frustrating, actually. How have things in ShadowClan been? Is it less boring than ThunderClan?" The molly was curious as to what her home had been like while she was away, but was torn from her thoughts by the commotion that was occurring. It appears that some RiverClan traitor had been chased off, Dawnstar had killed a ShadowClan traitor, and Whiteclaw was now yowling stupidity like a headless chicken. Well, this Gathering would prove to be interesting.

Chaos quickly ensued around them between Dawnstar killing off a cat and the drama between clans catching up to the Gathering. Pineclaw's tail tip twitched with slight unease as anything could happen at this point, but he focused back in on the conversation at hand between the leaders talking. "Oh, it's been a little hectic with the roles switching up, but patrols are getting done and everything's going as it should. I would assume things in ThunderClan are much less under control than ShadowClan, per usual," the tabby spoke. "Dawnstar will fill everyone in anyway," the warrior spoke with a small chuckle. He'd wondered how the large leader would do here.

astrid.

March 13th, 2022, 08:28 PM

'You mean those two?' Snowflakesight questioned, tipping her head in the direction of the two ShadowClan cats. 'Does it matter if they are arguing? If they get killed, it's their fault, after all.' She sniffed. 'Some cats don't have ANY sense. Like RiverClan, or WindClan. Oh, and maybe ThunderClan.' Glancing at Falconfall, Snowflakesight sighed. ShadowClan should not bicker, she thought, after all, we, WE, are the best clan. 'Don't you think WindClan cats are weak like kittypets? RiverClan, pfft! They stink of their stupid fishies, and they're also brainless. ThunderClan is the bossiest, and the rudest. They should all show respect to Dawnstar and us ShadowClan!'

Bemused was the expression that Falconfall wore as the situation appears to rile up the Clanmate beside him. He wonders what her reaction would be if he were to reveal his true thoughts on the commotion, but that would not be appropriate at a gathering of all places. Somewhere Dawnstar could overhear him... he much preferred to keep his ears on his head and all limbs in tact. "All cats have their strengths and weaknessess," was all the young tom spoke, bobbing his head up and down. ShadowClan was strong, yes, but he was not blind to the tenacity of their opponents like the rest of his Clan.

As Dawnstar ordered the death of one of the fighting cats Falconfall felt no shock or surprise. It ripples through the crowd like stone breaking the surface of a still lake, the after effects still visible long after the duty has been done. Still, Falconfall did not speak on it and turned to shrug towards Snowflakesight. His gaze rests on her briefly before it moves to the leaders. "Hopefully one of them starts the gathering soon, or else there might not be any cats left alive to hear it." A sour joke, but the smile that lifts his face gives it the lighthearted context he intends.

endlessskies

March 13th, 2022, 09:14 PM

Bemused was the expression that Falconfall wore as the situation appears to rile up the Clanmate beside him. He wonders what her reaction would be if he were to reveal his true thoughts on the commotion, but that would not be appropriate at a gathering of all places. Somewhere Dawnstar could overhear him... he much preferred to keep his ears on his head and all limbs in tact. "All cats have their strengths and weaknessess," was all the young tom spoke, bobbing his head up and down. ShadowClan was strong, yes, but he was not blind to the tenacity of their opponents like the rest of his Clan.

As Dawnstar ordered the death of one of the fighting cats Falconfall felt no shock or surprise. It ripples through the crowd like stone breaking the surface of a still lake, the after effects still visible long after the duty has been done. Still, Falconfall did not speak on it and turned to shrug towards Snowflakesight. His gaze rests on her briefly before it moves to the leaders. "Hopefully one of them starts the gathering soon, or else there might not be any cats left alive to hear it." A sour joke, but the smile that lifts his face gives it the lighthearted context he intends.
'All those ShadowClan cats over there, fighting, are mouse-brains,' Snowflakesight replied. She licked her paw. 'Honestly, those cats are dumber than deaf rabbits.' She didn't care Whiteclaw had been killed; an order from Dawnstar was more important. If StarClan didn't see it that way, they were mouse-brains, too.

BirdieChirp

March 13th, 2022, 10:15 PM

(What my OCs are doing! Feel free to interact with them!)

~BirdPaw(TC)~
BirdPaw was walking around excitedly and talking to other apprentices

~DarkSpot(SC)~
DarkSpot as siting in a corner to herself. She was nervous for some reason!

~SharkHeart(RC)~
SharkHeart was walking around.Gossiping with other she-cats!

~FoxPaw(WC)~
FoxPaw was keeping to herself.She never really like gatherings

Karlos

March 13th, 2022, 10:16 PM

|| Heather’Tail walked in with her clan, admiring the Seastone and the area around her. She flicked her tail from side to side, delighted and distracted by her beautiful surroundings.

Heather’Tail was a world away, bumping in to a cat in front of her with a yelp.

“Oh! I’m so sorry, I didn’t- I was distracted-“

She apologised hastily, attempting to quickly patch over any wound between the two cats ||

(anyone can respond and be the cat Heather’Tail bumped it to, and sorry for being kinda late)

BirdieChirp

March 13th, 2022, 10:20 PM

ThatGayCat

"Your fine!" DarkSpot replied with a warm smile

Karlos

March 13th, 2022, 10:24 PM

BirdieChirp

|| Heather’Tail blinked hastily, shaking her head fur.

“No, no, I’m sorry. I was distracted, which isn’t good for a warrior to be. Would you like me to groom your fur?”

For a second she thought it sounded odd to ask such a thing, but she had the mind of an apprentice, and she was awfully apologetic.

“Y’know, as a way of apologising?”

Heather’Tail quickly amended. She was making herself sound worse. ||

BirdieChirp

March 13th, 2022, 10:27 PM

"Don't worry about it!" DarkSpot replied "And its ok! Everyone gets lost in their own world sometimes!"
ThatGayCat

Karlos

March 13th, 2022, 10:32 PM

BirdieChip

|| Heather’Tail looked down at her paws in embarrassment. She didn’t want to argue with the She-Cat, but she wanted to make things right.

“Here, let me sit with you.”

She stammered, sitting down awkwardly.

“J-just, let me groom your fur until I don’t feel guilty anymore, okay?”

Heather’Tail swiped her tongue around her paw, washing her ears and licking her own shoulder in an attempt to calm herself down ||

BirdieChirp

March 13th, 2022, 10:35 PM

DarkSpot smiled and nodded "Whatever makes you feel better!"
ThatGayCat

Karlos

March 13th, 2022, 10:40 PM

BirdieChirp

|| Heather’Tail nodded awkwardly, softly dragging her tongue across the She-Cats fur. Shadowclan scent came off of her in waves, and Heather’Tail wondered how she hadn’t noticed earlier.

“Thank you,”

Heather’Tail said between licks, looking away and hunching her shoulders. She was embarrassed to be so apologetic. Real warriors didn’t feel so bad all the time, did they?

“Sorry if I’m being strange”

She said quickly as she got back to grooming the She-Cats fur. Hopefully she wasn’t making a fool of herself ||

ThePiffle

March 13th, 2022, 10:48 PM

-Wrenpaw- *OPEN* Please interact with her.

She shifted her weight from side to side struggling to feel comfortable. The Gathering was not as fun as portrayed by the others. The constant tension between the cats of other clans was nerve racking. It felt as though each cat was about to unsheathe their claws and rake them down her back. The light brown she-cat looked at the rest of the clans. Her eyes immeadialty locked onto the battle scarred pelts of the Shadowclan cats. Lousy no good territory thieves is what they were. Consciously keeping her eyes just low enough as not to look at the Shadowclanners eyes Wrenpaw silently judged them. Of course not all of them were bad, right? There must be a few who don't automatically break their backs to please Dawnstar. Shifting her gaze to Dawnstar she flinched at the mere sight of her massive paws, storing sharp, painful claws. Deciding not to look any further Wrenpaw gazed at the Riverclan cats. They seemed...nice? The light brown she knew they weren't the kindest cats in the forest, but it seemed as though they would follow the warrior code faithfully.

Her eyes drifting to the last clan, Thunderclan, she sized them up. No, they seemed like they weren't a threat. Although with the rumors of Dawnstar now ruling their clan, their peaceful demeanor might not last long. Flicking her tail nervously her eyes darted between these clans, her muscles tensed, not listening to the announcements. Even with this internal panic, the cat tried to look care free in an effort to make Windclan look tough.

GoldenDays

March 14th, 2022, 08:16 AM

~Red’paw~

Red’paw soaked in the scents of the clearing as he looked around, would Needle’paw be here? He wondered, tail swaying behind him. Needle’paw was his only real friend and he has promised to tell her all about his time in thunderclan as soon as he could, not just to find her

thegriff

March 14th, 2022, 08:31 AM

quickstrike plods over to a cat that looked uncomfortable. "not much of a gathering eh?" he mewed as he sat down "at no gathering has there even been one death. now theres been 2. soon to be 3."
"names quickstrike. whats yours?"
InsertCoolNameHere

JackHunt_17

March 14th, 2022, 08:32 AM

Fiercefire sat with his son Lynxpaw at the gathering

poppy

March 14th, 2022, 08:32 AM

| tulle WhitesilverQueen Angelique @SourCream - for mention of Whiteclaw ^^ |

Cloudypaw's face stayed fixed in the direction of the corpse. It wasn't like she hadn't seen a dead body before. She hated being babied... but maybe not looking at the body would be a good idea. But it was because she didn't care. Not because she didn't like the blood. Not because she thought again of Starla and- Yeah. No. She wasn't thinking about that at all. Sighing heavily, the apprentice side eyed her mentor as she spoke. Ha. Yeah, steer clear of ShadowClan. It wasn't like they lived together and had to see those slugs every waking moment of the day.

Glancing at the lithe cats of WindClan, she arched a catbrow. No. They looked boring. She did NOT want to talk to them. She also didn't want to talk to ShadowClan because they sucked, nor ThunderClan because she saw her Clanmates enough as it was.

Well behaved tom. Pfft. Cloudypaw made a face, not wanting to listen to some suck up drone on about useless crap she didn't care about. But before they could make their way over, Cindersky stepped between her and the group of suck ups they had just been eyeing, and naturally the silver apprentice peered around Cindersky. Oh. ShadowClan. A soft, breathy chuckle came from Cloudypaw as she watched the infight. They were hypocrites, pure and golden. Oh, you have no order, you're fighting each other- shut the hell up, look at your clan right now. Fighting publicly.

Her eyes fell to Whiteclaw, and she eyed him with an unimpressed glower. Dumbass. "Slugstar is going to kill him too." She whispered, not even to Cindersky, just because it was a fact and facts needed to be spoken. Even if they weren't needed. Then, when Cindersky turned away, her glare sharpened. SHUT THE HELL UP, crowfood eater. She mouthed that at him, knowing he wouldn't see it because he was busy attacking his clanmate. Such a genius.

Then she turned away, tail whipping about as she stalked quickly after her mentor. When Slugstar jumped down to kill the idiot, she didn't want to watch. She had enough for tonight. Cloudypaw's social battery was about empty, and she suppressed a groan. Gatherings, albeit interesting, were disgusting wastes of time and from what she saw, resulted in infights and someone dying. Not her problem. At least, it wouldn't be if the dumbasses didn't have to get themselves killed right in front of her. Giving her nightmares.

Ha. That was funny. When did she NOT have nightmares? Whether it was Cougarivy's torturing, Lionpaw's dying, her abusive mess of a childhood or her mother leaving and not coming back (which she was still pissed about) when did Cloudypaw NOT have a horrible dream?

But she couldn't think about that right now. Because of course, Cindersky was introducing her sullen, anti-social apprentice. To some RiverClan cats. Eyeing them both up and down, she bit back a sharp quip about how weird they smelled. She would choose fox-dung over smelling like a fish, gah. But no, she had to be polite. Fixing a tight smile on her face, she nodded in greeting.

"Hi." A flash of resentment at Cindersky already giving these cats the exact information that she didn't want them to know, that she was 9 moons old and it was her first Gathering, her NAME, so now these cats had a way to identify her in the future. "Nice to meet you." Her voice was almost robotic as she looked at the younger RiverClan apprentice. She would go jump into the water with the corpse right about now if she knew no one would pull her out, but she had the inkling that Cindersky wouldn't let her.
No fun.

thegriff

March 14th, 2022, 10:08 AM

hurricane plods over to where quickstrike is talking to a cat and sits down

poppy

March 14th, 2022, 10:11 AM

hurricane plods over to where quickstrike is talking to a cat and sits down
Brackenfire was being anti social as usual, sitting in the shadows, when an outsider seemed to think that coming here was a good idea. Stalking over, piercing yellow glare fixed on him, she hissed, aiming to give him a warning strike. "Get out rogue, you aren't allowed to be here. Leave now or I'll make you. "

thegriff

March 14th, 2022, 10:16 AM

Brackenfire was being anti social as usual, sitting in the shadows, when an outsider seemed to think that coming here was a good idea. Stalking over, piercing yellow glare fixed on him, she hissed, aiming to give him a warning hiss. "Get out rogue, you aren't allowed to be here. Leave now or I'll make you. "

hurricane turns around and mews, "oh, i don't think 2 on one is a fair fight, do you?" as quickstrike turns around to assist hurricane.

poppy

March 14th, 2022, 10:20 AM

hurricane turns around and mews, "oh, i don't think 2 on one is a fair fight, do you" as quickstrike turns around to assist hurricane.
A snicker came from Brackenfire as he seemed to think that she would be scared. "It's me against you two mice, I could handle it. But I'll be nice. Last chance. Leave and take your traitor of a friend with you. You aren't supposed to be here. " She still crouched into a ready position, because knowing idiots, they would probably attack. Cool. She wanted to kill some traitors, Badgerscar got all the fun with the last one.

Ian

March 14th, 2022, 10:22 AM

--Badgerscar (ShC)--
Wow. Badgerscar had just killed another traitor by the order of Dawnstar when there was another commotion. It consisted of Brackenfire facing off against a rogue, and Quickstrike who appeared to also be a traitor (albeit one from ThunderClan) because he was helping the rogue. What the hell. Padding back over after shooting Grimhound a glare when he smacked his ear, he stood beside Brackenfire with his hackles raised. "Why are there so many traitors this Gathering?! Get out, or I'll kill you like I did to Whiteclaw. And now it's two on two, not that Brackenfire couldn't easily handle you both."

poppy. snekeyes4 Undertaker

dino.

March 14th, 2022, 10:24 AM

thegriff

March 14th, 2022, 10:27 AM

A snicker came from Brackenfire as he seemed to think that she would be scared. "It's me against you two mice, I could handle it. But I'll be nice. Last chance. Leave and take your traitor of a friend with you. You aren't supposed to be here. " She still crouched into a ready position, because knowing idiots, they would probably attack. Cool. She wanted to kill some traitors, Badgerscar got all the fun with the last one.

"yes, because a cat you met on patrol is a traitor." mews hurricane in that intelligent voice of his."i have never gone near a clan, and i was simply thinking about joining one. so far riverclan seems like a great choice."
NinjaBloss Poppy

poppy

March 14th, 2022, 10:34 AM

| @snekeeyes4 NinjaBloss Undertaker |

What the hell. Brackenfire glanced beside her incredulously as the dumb loner started yapping. She curled her lip, but shot a nod to Badgerscar as he joined her. "Damn right I could. " She muttered. Of course she could, it was a pair of egotistical idiots. She loved those. But she appreciated the double in intimidation. She blinked rapidly at the tomcat that was chattering about, and rolled her eyes. " Did I ask? Get out of here." He had lost his chance. She unsheathed her claws and let out a guttural snarl.

Ian

March 14th, 2022, 10:35 AM

>Loonkit<
Loonkit blinked up at Grimhound as the massive tom slid past her to deal with some other idiot, and she turned to watch, seeming oddly entranced with the amount of violence on display. Huh. Another dead cat. Did this always happened at Gatherings?

She lifted her eyes to look at Kestrelstar as he called her name and fought the urge to roll them and huff. Couldn't he see how cool she was? She'd followed the whole Clan out here without being caught? Couldn't she stay? She didn't even see the warrior he'd called up to bring her home, so with a shrug and a flick of her thin tail, Loonkit began to wander off somewhere else. Maybe those other two that were getting yelled at. "Haha, yeah, get em," she called out, eyes half-lidded in veiled interest.

Shimmerbird frowned slightly when Raccoonear didn't scoop up Loonkit, who now had to watch another death, something a kit should never have to witness. The Shield moved quickly and scooped up Loonkit by the scruff before they could disappear into the crowd and potentially get injured, or worse. She glanced over towards the Seastone and waved her tail at Kestrelstar to indicate that she had the kit and was taking them back to RiverClan camp before slipping out of the crowd and heading away from the Gathering.

[Powerplay done with HR permission] spade

marshy

March 14th, 2022, 10:40 AM

God, how many damn traitors would be at this gathering?? "You have no place in RiverClan, now can you just leave the gathering along with your little friend?" Sparrowskip hissed as he walked over. What did these outsiders even WANT with a gathering? they weren't even part of a damn clan! "Leave, before we make you. Or considering the other cats at this gathering, kill you." Sparrowskip wasn't really looking to murder anyone considering there had been two deaths already at this one gathering, but ShadowClan probably wouldn't be as merciful considering the murders were done.. by them. Brakenfire and Badgerscar were already seeming to get angry so, Sparrowskip was betting slightly on another death.

// snekeyes4 poppy. NinjaBloss

thegriff

March 14th, 2022, 10:45 AM

hurricane sighs and says "well, since i am not welcome, i guess i should leave." and plods back into the forest

quickstrike gives a look of hatred as he walks to his spot by the sea spray, knowing that most cats other than him wont go near the water.
Poppy NinjaBloss

Fawnhearted

March 14th, 2022, 10:47 AM

Pinewish | He/Him | Windclan

"What in Starclans name-", the tom dropped off as he looked at the events surrounding him. Pinewish honestly had no idea what was going on, and resisted sighing loudly. There was way to much to take in, like the fact that a kit had snuck in to the gathering??

He gave a chuckle at that one, the little baby seemed very proud at herself for sneaking in, and Piney couldn't help but smile at he wide eyes. Following her gaze, he glanced at a.. was that a loner?

Pinewish wasn't even gonna begin to question why Badgerscar was surrounded in a questionable pool of blood,, that could wait. He made an integral reminder to never be late to a Gathering.. like ever again-

He could see a tom, (Brackenfire was it?) glaring daggers at the strange cat, and he he to agree with what the other cat was saying. " Rouge, I suggest you go before you end up with a clawed face!", he said with a hiss as the cat ran off.

Honestly Pinewish was just so confused, how did a kit AND a rouge manage to sneak in? Maybe he'd propose the idea of a guard from each clan to Twilightstar..

snekeyes4

Shade.

March 14th, 2022, 10:47 AM

Rookscreech was in a corner missing Deadmoon. People were dying but she was used to it it's always her clan doing the murders of course it is.

thegriff

March 14th, 2022, 10:57 AM

he did not RUN he walked.
Departed Fawnhearted

plum

March 14th, 2022, 11:09 AM

[ snekeyes4, masquerade ]

The proposal from Brightpaw sounded solid. Nectarflame hums thoughtfully before nodding. "Indeed, perhaps that would be wise." Her tone is serious. "If you can return to me unscathed after doing so, you should be entitled to a large supper." Curling her tail, the Bengal smiles wryly at her apprentice before nodding her on. "So, by all means, if you wish to eat well. I shall watch and make notes." Joking around with Brightpaw felt... Strange, yet not unpleasant. To have another cat at her side who did not feel repelled or afraid, or bitter and upset, was a welcome change for the warrior.

As they conversed, it was easier to lose track of so much happening around them. At least until it came to their own Clanmates causing trouble- There was always trouble, but the golden she-cat mostly felt concern when it came to their own. With a tut tut of her tongue, she turns her sharp green gaze on Quickstrike as the tom slithers away in an attempt to dip out of the limelight. "This, perhaps, is a part of the reason why other Clans frown upon us so," Nectarflame meows under her breath. "Brightpaw, if you wish to mingle with others, you have my permission. I shall return, or at least keep my eye on you. However I do believe I must see to this."

Nodding a farewell at her apprentice, the cat peels away and traverses the gathering after their Clanmate, who seemed to glower at the others like a kit who knew they had misbehaved as they were put in time-out.

"Quickstrike, it is my understanding that you know that rogue, who came upon our gathering place. But you seem confused as to why you have received so much negativity from your peers. May I help you to understand anything? Or do you know how utterly foolish you have made yourself, and by extension, your Clan seem?"

thegriff

March 14th, 2022, 11:26 AM

[quickstrike is sitting near the ocean spray]

quickstrike sighs and says "that" he says nodding in the direction that hurricane had left "was hurricane. he came here to see the clans and to decide which one to join. i had met him one day after patrol not that far in the forest. he was eating a rat and introduced himself, and i introduced myself. we chatted after I finished patrol, and he helped me hunt. after a while he decided to join a clan, and that led us here."
implimm

Undertaker

March 14th, 2022, 01:15 PM

ThePiffle

March 14th, 2022, 03:36 PM

GoldenDays

March 14th, 2022, 04:12 PM

[open]
This gathering was disappointing, or at least that's how it felt to him. The young, large, dark gray apprentice was keeping far away from the commotion, more interested in observing the chaos over taking part in it. The green eyes that casually roamed over the form of many cats were the spitting image of the slender lilac leader atop the rocks. Leechpaw's never been to a gathering, never felt the need to come to one. He could barely withstand the cats in his own clan and now he was going to have to play nice as if he care about anything to do with these damn clans.

His interest in Dawnstar came and went like a current, he had already met the dark brown tabby. The gray tabby with yellow eyes and black markings must be Kestrelstar. Leechpaw could make out the RiverClan cats without using his nose. Their pelts were different, a bit glossier than the other clans. ThunderClan cats and ShadowClan cats were a bit harder to tell apart at mere glances, all clans had big or small cats, but ShadowClan seemed to dominate in terms of having large cats. ThunderClan cats, Leechpaw couldn't quite place their characteristics. ThunderClan was a strange clan that Leechpaw didn't understand why they were a part of the clans.

The young tom was tempted to start a conversation with an older ThunderClan warrior, if he could find one, and direct his questions to them. But it seemed to him that ThunderClan was preoccupied with one of their own making a fuss. The WindClan apprentice would wait and see if he could find an opening once the commotion died down.

~Frozen’paw~

Frozen’paw padded around, wondering what to do. He noticed a cat sitting away from the other cats and made his way over to them, nodding his greeting as he sat down, ears pinned as he tried to block out all the stimuli.
The blue apprentice wondered why he bothered with gatherings, his own clan was loud enough as it was and he could hardly handle it there! Now he was with like, 50x the cats and on the brink of a sensory overload.

He half wanted to go back to camp but knew he probably shouldn'tleave in the middle of a gathering. He half hoped the other apprentice wouldn’t talk to him, hoped nobody would talk to him. But the other half was interested in the seemingly mysterious apprentice.

He wrapped his tail around his paws and tried his best to block out any outward sounds like any other cat could, it definitely helped that he was at the edge of the crowd now and not in the middle of it.

corgigirl

March 14th, 2022, 04:20 PM

-Wrenpaw-

The she-cat jumped whipping around to see the cat. He wasn't from Windclan. Narrowing her eyes she meowed, "Hello?" Thinking for a moment she tried to calm herself, "Sorry, that was rude, I'm Wrenpaw, what's your name?" Even when talking to the cat she refused to make to much eye contact, or seem odd. Impulsively flicking her tail back and forth the light brown she awaited the cats response. “Hello, young apprentice, who are you?”

snekeyes4
Ravensong saw a small Windclan apprentice sitting. He wanted to talk to her. He loved to watch the other clan’s apprentice’s squirm as a Shadowclan warrior such as himself talked to them. And that says something about the stereotypes of Shadowclan cats. He was a nice, funny and flirty guy but cats from other clans assumed that because he was a Shadowclan cat he was mean.

Rizo

March 14th, 2022, 04:51 PM

~Wolfsong of Riverclan~

Wolfsong watched the chaos around her as stranger after stranger infiltrated the gathering.
What is this world coming to?
She turned to watch as the deputy of her clan, Sparrowskip, called out to yet another interloper who had arrived unannounced and uninvited.

corgigirl

March 14th, 2022, 04:59 PM

Rizo

March 14th, 2022, 05:13 PM

Pebblepaw ran to her mentor, having no idea what to do or what was happening. “Wolfsong! What going on!?” She mewed, worry filling every inch of her body. A rouge in the Gathering! Pebblepaw tried to breath, them only coming in short shallow spurts.
RiztheHuntress

~Wolfsong of Riverclan~

Turning in mild surprise, Wolfsong fixed her blue gaze on her apprentice.
She doesn't deserve to see this...
Taking a breath, the silver tabby reached out with a paw to Pebblepaw, wanting to pull the little she-cat closer to her.
"Well, there's a lot happening right now, Pebblepaw. Some cats who weren't invited to the gathering have shown up, but the senior warriors of the clans are dealing with them. Right now, we're just waiting on the announcements from the leaders," she said, thinking. This could be an important lesson for the apprentice.
"You know our high ranks, but what do you know of the other clans?"
A good opportunity to see what gaps in training I have to fill.

corgigirl

March 14th, 2022, 05:59 PM

“You don’t have to dumb it down for me. Rouges are invaded in the Gathering, got it,” Pebblepaw mewed slightly annoyed. She pawed closed to her mentor and sat beside her. “Well, Dawnstar is the leader of Shadowclan, and I guess Thunderclan now,” she answered, shuddering at the thought of the hulking, veil she cat. “But I don’t know the rest of their ranks. Windclan’s leader is Twlightstar and for some reason they don’t have a deputy.”

RiztheHuntress

duckie

March 14th, 2022, 06:01 PM

SOOTFLARE
__________
Twilightstar's voice rang out across the beach, calling out his name, reverberating in his bones. The world stopped in that instant - a stutter-step in his perception - as his heart skipped a beat.

He knew it was going to happen eventually, that he would be called forward to make his case and stand for judgement. Still, it seemed a part of him still wished this to be a fantasy. It was the same part of him urging his paws to move in the opposite direction. Far, far away from this place and away from the eyes that stared directly into his soul. Urged him to run and never look back.

And he did run. The moment Twilightstar called his name and attention shifted, he ran.

Just not here. Not now. In some other universe he was still a coward, paws beating against the sand and heart beating till failure as he fled. Not here. Here, now, Sootflare climbed to his paws and stepped forward. Towards the seastones, not away. Despite the feeling of jelly in his legs and his heart pounding in his chest, he shouldered his way through the crowd and ignored any eyes pointed his direction.

The crowd thinned as he moved forward and before long only he and Kestrelstar existed in his perception. It was as if the rest of the world fell away and all that remained were the pair and the sound of distant ocean waves lapping at the shore.

Sootflare bowed to the RiverClan leader with as much grace as he could muster, "Kestrelstar," he greeted, his attention remaining locked for a moment more before shifting to the larger crowd and raising his voice to be heard.

"Riverclan!"

"Some of you know me - some of will have never seen my face before tonight. My name is Sootflare."

"Nearly 12 moons ago I fled Riverclan in the dead of night because I could no longer handle the duties of leadership. I have returned with the intention of joining WindClan and I have been temporarily been able to reside there - tonight, however, the final decision of whether I am allowed to stay is up to you." With the final word, Sootflare turned his back on the crowd again. Although his voice remained raised for the gathering to hear, these words were for Kestrelstar alone.

"I was a coward. Instead of sticking around and supporting my clan when they needed me most - properly passing the mantle off to someone who could handle it - I fled."

"Every day it seemed the list of tasks to be completed grew longer and I could not keep up. I was all too aware that I was not good enough and yet did not want to face that reality all the same. Instead of asking for help I spiraled further and further into my stubbornness. I could not accept the help I so desperately needed. I should have stayed, I should have helped, I should have done anything aside from what I did do, but I cannot change that now."

"I am well aware of your wishes, Kestrelstar, and I have no intention of violating them which is why I have chosen WindClan for my return and why I stand in front of you tonight. It would be foolish of me to say I am not afraid of your answer. Truly, I am terrified. The life of an outsider is a lonely one and one I don't believe I can uphold any longer. I wish to return to life of a warrior, with a clan to support, if I am allowed."

"However, if my presence will draw your ire, I will leave this gathering tonight and never return so long as you wish. I do not ever want to cause problems for you or RiverClan again and I will not have WindClan caught in between. My life is not worth theirs."

With a deep breath, Sootflare rested his case. Spilling all of that out felt like a weight off of his shoulders and yet still a pressure weighed heavy on his heart. There was still the answer of whether he would be allowed to stay. And so he sat, patiently staring up at Kestrelstar as he awaited his verdict.

[ @spade (http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=269) ]

stardust.

March 14th, 2022, 07:50 PM

Oaksong sighed, "Sootsta-flare" the star part almost coming off, "I agree that you should stay" She mewed, "I do think you are a coward and a traitor, but you should go back to RiverClan" She mewed
wnder

Madelaine

March 14th, 2022, 11:55 PM

Splotchpaw jolted in his spot with an embarrassing squeak, more so out of surprise of being approached than anything. Eh? Another apprentice? Hmmm... He smelled of the forest, so ThunderClan... Good, he wasn't one of the smelly Clans. And he was blind? Ah well, not like he could do much about it. All he could do was help, and what better helper than Splotchpaw? Huzzah! Yes... Yes, he answer that easily. Socializing was easy... Right?

"Oh, someone died," the calico answered bluntly, looking back at the corpse again before turning to the now blood-stained stinky ShadowClan leader. "Er, more like got killed... By the leader of one of the smelly Clans. Man, may they rest in peace or something... Is that what you say? I dunno, never honored a dead cat before."

-->Possumpaw<--

Someone died? At a gathering too? What was wrong with any of these clans?! They were just as chaotic as his own. Sniffing he scented the blood and wrinkled his nose. It was such a horrible smell. He glanced over to look at nothing even though to him it was something. Stupid Thing never left him alone. It was part of the reason cats thought he was weird.

"Well that sucks. Or maybe it doesn't? I don't know. Must of been a real problem to be killed at a gathering.", he meowed. Possumpaw ears flattened at the sound of Dawnstars voice. He swore it was now stuck in his head. It sounded like she ordered a cat to kill another cat. He was going to say something when the Windclan leader began to speak. He shut his jaw at the subject. "Wow this is the worst gathering I've ever been too. Well the first one I ever went to. Is it your first time?", he asked, his blind gaze looking directly at the other apprentice.

Madelaine

March 15th, 2022, 12:11 AM

-->Petuniafire<--

The warrior continued trying to comfort the apprentice. She didn’t know what it was like to be nervous. She never had to deal with that and knew nobody like that. Well actually Hailpaw was like that at times. She missed him a lot. He was her best friend and her mothers former apprentice and he was gone again. Now she wanted to keep this apprentice close to her. Spottedpaw might be the cat to replace that hole.

Petuniafire wrinkled her nose at the scent of Thunderclan. She hated their smell, but she also wasn’t a fan of them in general. They were the reason why she never got a chance to meet her aunt. They caused all the pain of not knowing who a great cat was. She wanted to growl. She wanted to snarl for them to go away, but just because she didn’t like them doesn’t mean Spottedpaw had to not like them.

”It’s alright Spottedpaw. It is kind of nerve wreckoning meeting a cat from another clan.”, she meowed. ”Or from the clan that killed Petuniaflame!, she thought, but didn’t say.

She wanted to try so hard to get along with these cats, but part of her refused to believe any of them were innocent. They let the cat that killed her aunt just walk around. He had been aggressive yet they had let him stay. He was gone now, but she still had that fire in her heart for Thunderclan.

// tulle; WhitesilverQueen; poppy.; \\

Karlos

March 15th, 2022, 01:35 AM

|| Heather’Tail had finished grooming the she-cat whom she had bumped in to. She no longer felt guilty, and was realising that from afar, she may look like her loyalties lie with another clan.
Quickly, she stood up and went to go sit with the rest of her clan mates.

She looked around anxiously, sitting nearby Beetle’Raven.
Heather’Tail wanted to interact with them, but she didn’t know where to start, and she would probably stumble on her words and make a fool out of herself… ||

(Meant for QueenOtter)

endlessskies

March 15th, 2022, 03:09 AM

thegriff

March 15th, 2022, 08:32 AM

plum

March 15th, 2022, 09:49 AM

[ snekeyes4 ]

The absolute gall of this tom to stand there, behaving as he was and saying what he was, right in front of Nectarflame, his own Clan, and Dawnstar (not to mention the other Clans beyond that) was astounding. She stares at the cat as he fumbles around like nothing more than a fool (a very large and hard to pass fool). "Excuse me," the Bengal finally manages to utter. "Do not make more of a pathetic show of yourself than you already have, cat. I would suggest you sit in one place and say not a word. I would suggest that when we return home, you do not leave your posting. You are revolting to me, and quite honestly you likely come off similarly to others who call you a Clanmate."

Her voice had dropped to a low growl by now- The she-cat was furious. "If you do not wish to be killed for your behavior you will do as I say, is that clear. I do not care to hear about why you know which cat and what they said to you and what you did with them in your free time, all of which by the way entitles anyone to call you a traitor and rightfully so."

Akira

March 15th, 2022, 09:54 AM

-->Possumpaw<--

Someone died? At a gathering too? What was wrong with any of these clans?! They were just as chaotic as his own. Sniffing he scented the blood and wrinkled his nose. It was such a horrible smell. He glanced over to look at nothing even though to him it was something. Stupid Thing never left him alone. It was part of the reason cats thought he was weird.

"Well that sucks. Or maybe it doesn't? I don't know. Must of been a real problem to be killed at a gathering.", he meowed. Possumpaw ears flattened at the sound of Dawnstars voice. He swore it was now stuck in his head. It sounded like she ordered a cat to kill another cat. He was going to say something when the Windclan leader began to speak. He shut his jaw at the subject. "Wow this is the worst gathering I've ever been too. Well the first one I ever went to. Is it your first time?", he asked, his blind gaze looking directly at the other apprentice.
"Yeah, it is, and it's awful. Worse than the rumors," Splotchpaw responded, sounding annoyed. He pointedly ignored whatever everyone else was saying and turned to the blind apprentice next to him, already exhausted from the Gathering, which he didn't even think was possible!

"It always looks like whenever things might go nice, others want to cause drama and trauma! I like spicing things up, too, but they're way out of control! Seriously! Can't we have one normal day here?" He huffed. Ugh, warriors...

Red'fur

March 15th, 2022, 09:55 AM

(( Stoneclaw ))

* He sat on the edge of the clearing. He wanted nothing of any arguments or rivals. As far as he knew everybody was okay with him and he wanted to keep it that way. As he sat on the edge of the clearing he heard a mew from behind him. He turned to see his brother and loner Percy. He hissed lightly and cried out. *
" What are you doing here rogue! OUT!! "
* He nipped at his brothers legs and chased them off. He hated his family or at least the ones that were loners. He chased his brother off many of times and he wanted nothing of them. *
_____________________

(( OPEN ))

stardust.

March 15th, 2022, 09:59 AM

(OAKSONG/SHE/THEY/RIVERCLAN)

Oaksong let out a yowl of anger, "ROGUE!!! ROGUE!!!" She screamed, "Someone fight off that rogue!!" She yelled, "Hey, you, Stoneclaw right, get that rogue out of here, seriously, we don't need trespassers"

Ghost of Red

Red'fur

March 15th, 2022, 10:01 AM

(( Stoneclaw ))

* He sighed and turned to see Oaksong. *
" Oaksong keep it down their gone I chased them off. Though I do feel bad about seeing as they were my brother. "
* He straightened up. *
" Though their no family of mine. Riverclan is my family. "
________________________________________________
~Oak~

poppy

March 15th, 2022, 10:10 AM

| NinjaBloss snekeyes4 marshall implimm - for mention of Nectar and Sparrow ^^|

Brackenfires fur was still bristling from that little incident. A pair of two moronic idiots. What else could make her blood boil so? Her claws itched with disappointment, but she knew that ShadowClan would not get a good rap for striking the first blow at a Gathering, even if it was totally called for, some cats just insisted on making her Clan the bad guy.

If the almighty deputy of RiverClan struck the blow when coming to "help", no one would get pissed with him. If Nectarflame had struck the blow, no one would-actually... Her clan would probably get mad at her, she didn't seem to be a popular cat as of now. Because cats hated when someone made the tough decision for them. The smartest cat in the den was always the one the incompetents came for. The easiest one to blame in a tough situation was the intelligent one. Not that anyone would ever hear her called this squirrel smart. Just... Practical.

Her ears flattened as that tomcat she was arguing with earlier approached. A golden example of a stupid squirrel. They were frequent in numbers as of- her eyes narrowed as he seemed to challenge her and Badgerscar to... A fight?? She didn't really know why he would sign a death warrant like that. She offered a small scoff of a response as he frolicked away, and then glanced at Badgerscar incredulously. Her eyes sparkled with amusement as she made her way over to her dear brother, and sat beside him. "Egotistical little thing. I'd hate to miss a chance to shred him but I feel like it would be a waste of time, honestly."

Ian

March 15th, 2022, 10:17 AM

quickstrike stands up off his stone and walks to badgerscar and says "meet me at the battlegrounds. tomorrow at dawn, if you're late then you forfeit." then he walks to brakenfire and repeats the message. then he walks back to his stone, next to the water.

poppy. NinjaBloss

Badgerscar blinked as the rodent padded over and ignored Nectarflame to tell him to meet him at... the battlegrounds? "The hell? Do you have brain damage or something? What are the battlegrounds? There's nothing like that on Clan lands. Plus, I don't fight weaklings who I could kill with one blow. Go squeak somewhere else, you're pathetic."

WinterMara

March 15th, 2022, 10:41 AM

| Softpaw of Thunderclan |

Okay so, any plans of a peaceful night full of stars and a full moon was replaced with screaming, claws, chaos, and the urge to vomit all of her guts out, great, just great! As rogues were coming and leaving, or, dying, her stomach curled up into what felt like a rotting corpse. Softpaw’s vision began to blur, and to be honest, it was hard to sit. . .she tried to get up, but it was even harder to stand, so she just sat back down again as her legs were uncontrolably shaking. While some may just think ‘block out the noise, it’s easy!’ it was impossible for her to do, ironically enough, trying to block it out just made all of the chaos more. . .potent.

[I]Softkit watched as cats were yelling, she couldn’t. . .understand it. Slatekit, Rainykit, and even warriors like Sweetsong and Yarrowshade were being so unreasonable, wasn’t this supposed to be an important, happy memory for her? As she looked to the willow, then around her, her word felt a bit, weird, and fuzzy, and scary, so what better to do than shout out her greviances?

The molly’s jaw began to tremble, as she looked more and more around, yet to be honest, it was all just a. . .blur

As Softpaw looked to Aspenstar, there was yelling. . .again, and it was directed to their leader. As everyone screamed their greviances, her brain was scattered, what was she supposed to think, do? Spiderthroat and Buckbranch were against her, and even the kind cat from the event was stating greviances, so, should she agree with them? Well. . .may as well speak her mind.

' 'EVERYBODY SHUT UP!' ' Came out of her muzzle before she had a second to think about the impact it would have, and she shrunk back. Everything seemed like it was spinning now, and. . .great, the breathing issues were back, just, calm down, do what Cindersky always tells you to do. . .how do you do that in this situation?

| OPEN FOR PREFERABLY NON-THC/SHC, BUT BE WARNED, SOFTPAW MAY NOT REACT POSITVELY

thegriff

March 15th, 2022, 10:42 AM

Badgerscar blinked as the rodent padded over and ignored Nectarflame to tell him to meet him at... the battlegrounds? "The hell? Do you have brain damage or something? What are the battlegrounds? There's nothing like that on Clan lands. Plus, I don't fight weaklings who I could kill with one blow. Go squeak somewhere else, you're pathetic."

"well, meet me at the land between thunderclan and shadowclan. be there at dawn." quickstrike growls

implimm poppy.

spade

March 15th, 2022, 11:29 AM

Okay, so Kestrelstar had absolutely no idea what the hell was going on. There was so much yowling, another crazed ShadowClan cat. He had half a mind to quirk a brow and toss Dawnstar a sidelong glance, but he much preferred to keep his pelt on his back. As the cat left and came back and left again, and then argued with two of his Clanmates? At least that's what it looked like. Then another warrior jumped in - ThunderClan?

Alright, this was an absolute mess and the gray tabby could feel his patience running thin trying to follow it. From next to him on the rocks Dawnstar called for the cats death, and while Kestrelstar understood it, stars did he wish it could be done somewhere other than a Gathering. He could detect the scent of blood from here, though he only gave a flick of his ear. A cat acting that crazy, no wonder they got a kill order placed on them.

His attention was drawn back to Twilightstar, and he stifled any anger that had arisen. Hear him out. Part of him wanted to snap back, that he didn't want to hear any of the crow-food the traitor would spit out in an attempt at an excuse, but he refrained. Kestrelstar simply nodded and shifted his gaze to where Sootflare sat, though a fire still burned in his eyes.

Distractions... distractions... A warm glance from Moonfrost in regards to Cloudpaw (he was so thankful for the kind she-cat), Snakeheart arguing about something though the words were too dull to make out from where he sat. Was that... another rogue... oh great stars above was there a whole other Clan of rogues and outsiders out there just slinking around the Gathering? Sparrowskip seemed to be walking over to handle it, voicing his thoughts on whoever the outsider was not being able to join RiverClan. Not that there was necessarily a correct way to join a Clan, but barging into a Gathering and demanding it? That was a surefire way to earn some new scars.

All of that faded away as Sootflare began to speak. He held his voice for all of RiverClan to hear, and Kestrelstar bit back the beginnings of a snarl. Part of him wondered if he would reveal what the leader, Lionstorm, and Snakeheart had known of his "disappearance". He recalled the night he'd come across him, kicking dirt over his face as a final goodbye. It hadn't been the last time he'd seen the leader, though if he thought he'd get any thanks for saving his life he was sourly mistaken.

Most of what Sootflare said enraged Kestrelstar. Yet another reminder of a cat who had turned their back on RiverClan when the Clan had needed them most. Should've's, could've's, and would've's meant nothing because he had ran. Stealing away into the night like a kitty-pet with its tail tucked between its legs. "I can recognize the burdens of leader, I am one." His tone was sharp, cutting like chips of jagged ice. The duties and responsibilities of a leader never ended - they were like heavy stones dragging moral down every day. It was a choice that needed to be made, over and over. The leader needed to choose the Clan over everything else.

Straightening up, Kestrelstar kept his gaze locked onto Sootflare. "You left RiverClan, the Clan you swore to protect and lead, with a dead deputy and a missing medicine cat in the midst of a coyote attack. You left Snakeheart, an apprentice at the time, alone with only Lionstorm for support. Lionstorm, who was supposed to be left to rest after a long span of leadership. Lionstorm, who died not too long after." Though his volume was only loud enough to carry to Sootflare, there was an unusual amount of control to it. Kestrelstar, despite the claws of fury that ripped at his heart, would not give Sootflare the satisfaction of knowing he was getting under his pelt.

"If you wish to seek shelter with WindClan, that is yet another choice of a coward. A true warrior, a true leader, would have come home to face his Clan, to face his mistakes. You, Sootflare, are not a warrior in my eyes." Kestrelstar could feel his heart thump against his chest, feel the heat in his ears as he glanced over to Twilightstar. "If you want to keep a former leader in your Clan who left during all of that, you will get no pushback from me. I only advise caution; if he left RiverClan while they were at their lowest, what's to say he won't do the same to WindClan once things get tough?"

There was no anger or malice in his voice as he nodded to the WindClan leader. If Sootflare wanted to run from his problems, fine. Let it be WindClan's problem then, and RiverClan could wash their paws of it.

Stepping forward now, Kestrelstar raised his tail to call for attention. This Gathering was already wearing down his sanity and he only desired to get his announcement out and then wait for it to be over. "RiverClan has been thriving come out of leaf-bare. Fish are returning to the streams and the rivers are thawing," he began, pride showing briefly in his eyes for how stable RiverClan continued to be (well, despite the constant threat of outsiders).

His eyes momentarily traveled down to where Sparrowskip was. "Last moon, Splashleap stepped down at deputy. In her place, I have appointed Sparrowskip as RiverClan's new deputy. I know he will serve our Clan well." And he already was, what with stepping forward to contain yet another outsider intrusion.

Bringing his gaze back up to the rest of the crowd, Kestrelstar continued. "RiverClan has also been blessed with the addition of three new kits; Nightleap gave birth to Echokit and Bugkit, and took in another young kit without a mother, Salmonkit." It was always a good day when kits were born, especially towards the end of leaf-bare which would mean new apprentices come greenleaf.

"Ryepaw, Cherrypaw, Spicepaw, Pondpaw, Spottedpaw, Saltpaw, Russetpaw, Mountainpaw, Wrenpaw, and Cloudpaw have all begun their warrior training." Kestrelstar took a moment to allow his gaze to find the young she-cat, who still sat beside Moonfrost. He knew she would need comforting after this whole ordeal was over, but for now he was glad Moonfrost continued to comfort her.

"We have also welcomed three warriors to our ranks; Morningpaw has become Morninglily; Featherpaw has become Featherspirit; and Petuniapaw has been named as Petuniafire." In honor of her aunt Petuniaflame, who was killed at the claws of an unstable ThunderClan warrior, but Kestrelstar held that part out. No need to dig up that grave again. ThunderClan seemed to have enough of their own issues by the looks of it.

Now it was time for the sad news. "Unfortunately, leaf-bare has not left us yet, and Talonkit was found outside of camp covered under snow." Kestrelstar forced his jaw into a hard line, keeping the deeper emotions from his gaze. "He was buried and given a vigil, and his spirit rests with StarClan." Not that he genuinely believed in Talonkit being in a better place; he would be better if he was still back in his nest in the nursery.

Swallowing the rising anxiety, Kestrelstar decided to close his announcements out. "Lastly, I've noticed an increase in outsider activity on RiverClan land. We have had no issues in chasing them out, but take this as a warning; they are getting braver and bolder - clearly, as we've seen here tonight. I would keep a sharp eye out on your territories," he finished, directing the last part towards both of the leaders who joined him. "That is all from RiverClan." And with that, Kestrelstar stepped back and took a seat, letting out a puff of air in a sigh.

// Moonraven Undertaker wnder