October Gathering

[Undertaker]

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[ Moonraven NinjaBloss Jayvines MaryTheCrow canineantics celeste ]

[Undertaker]

Not particularly interested in being here, but having every intention of keeping her clan up to date and reviving a more regular gathering schedule, the colossal clan leader forced her butt out of camp and to the front of the group that had gathered for the gathering. Dawnstar lead them on the traditional path through the territories to the beach where the seastones sat. Over the moons, it seemed that she had grown less disgruntled with her inability to arrive late enough to be last. Something she started striving to for since the other clans were so touchy about who arrived first and last. It used to bother her but not she just found it funny.

Tonight, despite her slow progress, ShadowClan arrived at an empty beach. Dawnstar gave a sharp jerk of her tail, ordering her cats to follow her as she lead them out of the shadows and onto the beach. A full moon drifted above their heads, shedding a chilly light on the gathering. The powerhouse padded straight over to the stones and leaped up, taking her rightful place above them, like the queen she was taught to be. The large feline ignored the stinging cold that nipped at the pads of her paws as she sat down. Dawnstar curled her tail over her paws and began dragging her tongue along an old scar that was not taking the cold well.

To take her mind off her desire to itch at the scars lining her neck, she had her gleaming amber eyes racking her clan for any potential embarrassments while waiting for the rest of the clans to gather. It was rare that Dawnstar had to deal with any ShadowClan outbursts, the ShadowClan leader was an unforgiving feline, swifter to give out deaths and exiles when it came to misbehavior. As of late, it is usually someone from ThunderClan or RiverClan who choose to act up. Despite their inexperience, the newest clan leaders seemed sterner than the last.

Dare she call the pair amiable, it disgusts the battle harden she-cat immensely, but Dawnstar would tolerate them for the time being. She missed the bickering, naturally, if this peaceful dung kept going on she was going to do something about it. If the issues with her clan continued she'd have the perfect reason to start something with the other clans. She'd have to be careful since she'd be fighting against more than just the clans. Huffing quietly, the dark she-cat returned her attention back to the beach this time searching for any cats that did not belong. A nice fight would get her blood flowing warming her up.

[ShadowClan's Here]

[taillow]

Roanpaw
After having not gone to the last Gathering - purely because of the fact that he was already curled up in his nest by the time it had arrived - Roanpaw stalked quietly behind his grandmother. At already seven moons old he was growing bigger by the day, his stocky frame filling out and green eyes vibrant as ever. Large paws left imprints in the sand as the soil changed, leaving behind the shadows of the pine trees and entering into the open sandy clearing of Seastones.

Gaze flickering over to watch his mentor ascend to her place among the stones, Roanpaw held no interest in socializing with any of his Clanmates (save for maybe his sister, or the rather interesting Ruepaw) and would await the other Clans to arrive. For now he took a seat in the desolate area and turned his attention up to Dawnstar, watching her with a classic masked Roan-expression.

[ open, preferably for non-ShadowClan when they arrive as he'll likely ignore any of his own Clanmates ]

[Ember Paw]

Ginger'Step followed her leader, sitting down near one of the bushes near the entrance. She began grooming one of her white paws, secretly casting dark glances at a black windclan tom who had been in a battle with her a moon ago. She licked the fur on her chest briefly and then began whispering to a cat from thunderclan. " So how are things going in Thunderclan? " she mewed. Silk'Fur rolled her eyes. " Thunderclan is doing well. I saw Quiet'Tide the other day during squabble at our border, gave her a few scratches on the muzzle. It ought to teach her NOT to hunt on our territory! " Silk'Fur hissed smugly. Ginger'Step flinched at the name of her half sister, but then tried to fix her face before Silk'Fur connected the dots. Ginger'Step's mother, Trout'Claw, was a riverclan cat. Spider'Claw was Ginger'Step's father. Cats who know about their awkward family, think that it is a same mother different father situation. Ginger'Step cleared away her worrying thoughts, and fixed her gaze on the entrance.

(QuietTide aka Twilight Moon asked me to include her and she would join later. Also I wasn't sure whether or not to go ahead and put in a response, if not, then just ignore me! XD )

[occultation]

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Shadowfur padded beside his Clanmates as they made the trek out of their thick forest and up to the Seastones. The waves slamming against the stones created enough noise to cover the empty silence. ShadowClan was the first to arrive, it seemed.

The black tom wandered around the area before the stones, waiting for the other Clans to show up. He’d skipped the last Gathering to punish himself for losing Hailpaw. But, it was time to allow himself to move forward from that mistake. Vulturefang was his focus now. He didn’t know if the new ShadowClan cat would be at tonight’s Gathering, but he hoped so. It would be a good learning opportunity for him.

Shadowfur himself wanted to mingle with the other Clans. Find out if there were any weaknesses that had cropped up since the last Gathering. He’d heard that ThunderClan and RiverClan had new leaders. He was eager to see how they shaped up.

( Leafí for the Vulture mention )

{open!}

[perseus.]

Sorrelflare stalked into the gathering area, his intense sight looked around. He hoped that the other clans would hurry up, he never truly cared for the other clans as he found them all weak in their own ways. He settled down, wrapping his tail around his paws as he started to think of different ways to train his apprentice.


[ open ]

[Pitou]

**Elmshadow**
Medicine Cat of Shadowclan

The dark tom followed his leader out of camp and easily through the shadows of the forest until the trees' canopy broke and the light of the full moon washed over his gray and black pelt. He didn't break stride as his broad paws sloshed through the deepening sand. He slowed even as Dawnstar continued on to leap atop the Seastone. Being the first clan to arrive had its appeal. The beach was never a location Elmshadow associated with anything positive but in this new light, maybe it wasn't all that bad. All the same, he was as eager as always to return to the shadows and tangy scent of his pine forest. He took a seat near the base of the Seastones to await the other medicine cats. He wasn't particularly fond of any of the other medicine cats and, while Ivysnake seemed to be opening up to the idea of sharing knowledge, Elmshadow couldn't shake the long-instilled ideals of his warrior training, always seeking the lies and cunning of the other clans to try to bring Shadowclan down. All the same, he understood the benefit for himself to sit near and mingle to whatever degree the others wanted to overshare.

[Ember Paw]

Ginger'Step got up and passed by ShadowFur. " Thunderclan is so arrogant... " she muttered under her breath, she moved to sit near SorrelFlare. " Mind if I sit with you? SilkFur is being as smug as always.... " she said to him. While she waited for his answer, she could feel SilkFur's amber eyes glaring at her. She turned her head slightly and gave the gray she-cat a frosty glare of her own.



:bloomingrose:

[Ian]

--Vixensnarl--
The Enforcer padded onto the sandy beach ahead of most other ShadowClan cats. She glanced around and immediately noticed a ThunderClan cat who was here before Sparrowstar. Well, why not have some fun?

The brown tabby padded over to the warrior and raised an eyebrow condescendingly. "What will Sparrowstar think that you decided to arrive here before the rest of ThunderClan? Or wait... did she die already like her predecessors?"

Ember Paw

--Slytiger--
The Toyger quietly made his way onto the beach and took a spot in the shadows cast by the Seastones. Hopefully no one would bother him. He didn't like being around so many cats, but he enjoyed the gossip and drama at the Gatherings.

[Open]

[Dark]

Darkpaw
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[36/100]


Darkpaw padded into the sandy clearing and briefly looked around. They were the first ones here, which he hadn't expected. From what he had heard, when they actually showed up, ShadowClan was generally the last ones to come. However, this gave him time to check out the surroundings before the area was full of bustling bodies and lots of noise. Inhaling a deep breath, he allowed the unfamiliar scents to wash over him, smelling the stale scents of the other clans and the scent of the sea. Not wanting to get into any trouble for wandering around the Seastones, the young tom found himself a semi-secluded spot and sat down while he waited for the other clans to show up.


[OPEN]
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[Pitou]

**Cougarivy of Shadowclan**
[OPEN]

The small commander enforcer bounced into the clearing. Elmshadow had moved to the front of the group quickly. She didn’t doubt that he did so because of her. She seemed to be on his mind lately, though reluctantly, it only made sense to her that he got going quickly in an attempt to avoid her, hide from his true feelings. That was okay by Cougarivy, he’d come around. A persistent smile clung to her face the whole journey, even as they slipped out onto the sandy beaches that housed the Seastones. She weaves her way through the other Shadowclanners who were already finding their places to put herself along the outside where she could watch most of the gathering but still had a clear view of both Dawnstar and Elmshadow. She sat down but her tail twitched restlessly from trying to keep herself still.

[Ember Paw]

--Vixensnarl--
The Enforcer padded onto the sandy beach ahead of most other ShadowClan cats. She glanced around and immediately noticed a ThunderClan cat who was here before Sparrowstar. Well, why not have some fun?

The brown tabby padded over to the warrior and raised an eyebrow condescendingly. "What will Sparrowstar think that you decided to arrive here before the rest of ThunderClan? Or wait... did she die already like her predecessors?"

Ember Paw

--Slytiger--
The Toyger quietly made his way onto the beach and took a spot in the shadows cast by the Seastones. Hopefully no one would bother him. He didn't like being around so many cats, but he enjoyed the gossip and drama at the Gatherings.

[Open]
" Hold your tongue furball.... " SilkFur hissed, her fur puffing out slightly. They gray she-cat had ran ahead of her leader and clan, so she could try and find someone. But that someone wasn't here. SilkFur's neck fur bristled as she dug her claws into the soil.
GingerStep gave up in trying to talk to SorrelFlare and padded over to stand beside VixenSnarl. " As much as I want to claw this smug worm's face off, we can't do anything to her. There must be peace at the gathering. " she mewed. SilkFur nodded smugly and GingerStep hissed at her. " That also means you need to stop asking for a fight! " she hissed.

[RavensCall]

Darkpaw
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[36/100]


Darkpaw padded into the sandy clearing and briefly looked around. They were the first ones here, which he hadn't expected. From what he had heard, when they actually showed up, ShadowClan was generally the last ones to come. However, this gave him time to check out the surroundings before the area was full of bustling bodies and lots of noise. Inhaling a deep breath, he allowed the unfamiliar scents to wash over him, smelling the stale scents of the other clans and the scent of the sea. Not wanting to get into any trouble for wandering around the Seastones, the young tom found himself a semi-secluded spot and sat down while he waited for the other clans to show up.


[OPEN]
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Ashpaw gazed around Seastones. My first gathering! she thought excitedly. I wonder what the other clans are like. Oh StarClan that sounds like I might be into some random dingus from another clan! That would not end well! Ashpaw was not planning to end up as an idiot deserter because she was loyal and cared that WindClan had saved her and gave her a home, and friends, and family. Great. Now I’m getting sentimental, she thought, but she was fine with it because it was a good feeling. “Ohkay, Ashpaw,” the albino muttered,”Time to interact with some cats from other clans.” Oh! There was one! A very large, muscular looking one. His face definetely gave away that he was apprentice, which was weird, because NO APPRENTICE SHOULD BE THAT BUFF!! He had black fur and blue eyes. He smelt weird. “Hello cat from another clan,” Ashpaw meowed,”I’m Ashpaw. I’m a WindClan apprentice. I’ve only just become an apprentice, how bout you?”

Darkclaws

[Ian]

Vixensnarl chuckled as Silkfur puffed herself up in anger. "My my, so easy to rile up. No wonder the Clans don't take you seriously," she purred out, smirking at Silkfur, though it turned to a frown as Gingerstep came over. "Gingerstep, when has ShadowClan ever cared about the peace at Gatherings? Dawnstar has killed Outsiders before, and there have been fights, yet StarClan never did anything about it. I really don't care what you think. Besides, I'm not going to be the one to start the fight."

Ember Paw

[Dark]

Darkpaw
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[37/100]


Darkpaw’s nose twitched as the scent of WindClan washed towards him from someone approaching him, but he chose to ignore them at first. However, he didn’t really have a choice after they had decided to speak to him. He turned towards the apprentice who disturbed him and gave them a quick lookover. Turned out, the young cat was an albino she-cat with blue eyes. Unimpressed, Darkpaw glanced towards Dawnstar for a moment, unsure if he should be interacting with them or not, and then turned his attention back to Ashpaw. Narrowing his eyes slightly he addressed them “I’m Darkpaw, of ShadowClan,” he mewed “I’ve been an apprentice for a few moons now.” “I don’t think your leader would be too happy about you arriving before her,” The young tom said in a low whisper. Though he didn’t know this cat, he couldn’t help but try not to draw attention to them, he was acutely aware of how brutal his clanmates could be when it came to those who didn’t do what they were supposed to and wanted to spare her from that.

[ SpookyCloud the Pumpkin ]

[RavensCall]

Ashpaw chuckled awkwardly. “I guess I was that excited to see the other clans,” she admitted.
Darkclaws

[Rose]

Larkpaw
Post Count: 12/100
(Open :heartbounce:)

Larkpaw slunk onto the beach behind her Clanmates like a living shadow, barely distinguishable from her dark surroundings despite the rather obvious markings on her fur. When the grey-ish brown apprentice considered it safe to slip out of the shadows, she ducked into view, fiery amber eyes raking over the gathered cats. Moonlight filtered over the young she-cat’s pelt, making her entirely visible, but she merely stood there, watching. Huh, no Clan other than ShadowClan seemed to be out here today. For her first Gathering, that fact was oddly disappointing.

Another quick once-over of the clearing had Lark reconsidering her earlier disappointment. Hmm. Perhaps she had overlooked some cats after all. Like that singular apprentice who smelled of WindClan. Larkpaw would know that scent anywhere, since Dawnstar had taken her to WindClan’s border and specifically told her to be able to brand it into memory. Watching the WindClanner interact with Darkpaw-, one of Larkpaw’s denmates-, the former loner couldn’t help but tilt her head in question. She wanted to march over and bombard the other apprentice with logical questions, like why the WindClan apprentice was here alone when her Clan was evidently not. Or why she was bothering one of ShadowClan’s apprentices when he so definitely did not want to speak with her. Instead, Larkpaw merely grinned to herself, white fangs flashing in the dim light. Oh, yes, she was amused. But she wouldn’t bother the pair for now, she’d just watch from afar until she deemed that approaching could no longer be resistible.

Speaking of resistible… Well, her thought process was not necessarily related in the least but Lark’s gaze swamped the cluster of cats once again, picking out each and every one of them, and taking note of whichever she deemed worthy of attention or impotence. Such as Vixensnarl, who was dealing with a… ThunderClan cat who was making a fuss? Well, eager, were they? Larkpaw’s grin only grew wider with heightened mirth. These cats had just waltzed past their leaders and into the Gathering without properly waiting for orders. Wow, what a Clan. As far as Larkpaw knew, no one from ShadowClan had dared walk before Dawnstar, and the young, mostly inexperienced apprentice couldn’t help but puff out her chest with pride as she relished the fact that ShadowClan was probably the most disciplined between the four.

[ Won’t mention everyone that I mentioned in my post, but going to ping Darkclaws & SpookyCloud the Pumpkin because Darkpaw and Ashpaw were mentioned more than once- ]

[sock]

Darkray yawned, rolling his eyes at the cats that passed him. Yes, they were his clan, but the black tom didn't care. They were still annoying.

[OPEN]

[Dark]

Ashpaw chuckled awkwardly. “I guess I was that excited to see the other clans,” she admitted.
Darkclaws

Larkpaw
Post Count: 12/100
(Open :heartbounce:)

Larkpaw slunk onto the beach behind her Clanmates like a living shadow, barely distinguishable from her dark surroundings despite the rather obvious markings on her fur. When the grey-ish brown apprentice considered it safe to slip out of the shadows, she ducked into view, fiery amber eyes raking over the gathered cats. Moonlight filtered over the young she-cat’s pelt, making her entirely visible, but she merely stood there, watching. Huh, no Clan other than ShadowClan seemed to be out here today. For her first Gathering, that fact was oddly disappointing.

Another quick once-over of the clearing had Lark reconsidering her earlier disappointment. Hmm. Perhaps she had overlooked some cats after all. Like that singular apprentice who smelled of WindClan. Larkpaw would know that scent anywhere, since Dawnstar had taken her to WindClan’s border and specifically told her to be able to brand it into memory. Watching the WindClanner interact with Darkpaw-, one of Larkpaw’s denmates-, the former loner couldn’t help but tilt her head in question. She wanted to march over and bombard the other apprentice with logical questions, like why the WindClan apprentice was here alone when her Clan was evidently not. Or why she was bothering one of ShadowClan’s apprentices when he so definitely did not want to speak with her. Instead, Larkpaw merely grinned to herself, white fangs flashing in the dim light. Oh, yes, she was amused. But she wouldn’t bother the pair for now, she’d just watch from afar until she deemed that approaching could no longer be resistible.

Speaking of resistible… Well, her thought process was not necessarily related in the least but Lark’s gaze swamped the cluster of cats once again, picking out each and every one of them, and taking note of whichever she deemed worthy of attention or impotence. Such as Vixensnarl, who was dealing with a… ThunderClan cat who was making a fuss? Well, eager, were they? Larkpaw’s grin only grew wider with heightened mirth. These cats had just waltzed past their leaders and into the Gathering without properly waiting for orders. Wow, what a Clan. As far as Larkpaw knew, no one from ShadowClan had dared walk before Dawnstar, and the young, mostly inexperienced apprentice couldn’t help but puff out her chest with pride as she relished the fact that ShadowClan was probably the most disciplined between the four.

[ Won’t mention everyone that I mentioned in my post, but going to ping Darkclaws & SpookyCloud the Pumpkin because Darkpaw and Ashpaw were mentioned more than once- ]


Darkpaw
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[38/100]


Darkpaw nodded in understanding, of course it could be expected that a young cat such as the one before him would be excited to see the other clans, but they couldn’t allow that ot get the better of them. “Well, just a fair warning for next time, I’d avoid doing that,” the dark tom mewed “Also try not to talk to any of the other ShadowClan cats until Twilightstar arrives, they’re not nearly as nice or understanding as I am,” he warned. He didn't know why he was trying to help Ashpaw out, but he just didn't want the poor she-cat to be ridiculed by the clan with no one to defend her. Of course, if it did come to that, he wouldn't dare defend her, lest he become a target himself and lose favor in the eyes of the cats in positions of power though he wouldn't ridicule her either. 'I'll just remain neutral' he decided, nodding to himself a bit 'Well unless of course Dawnstar or Cougarivy or even Cinderblaze get involved' he shuddered to think about trying to defy one of these cats. His comfortable position in the clan would be in jeopardy!

Scanning the clearing they were in to see if any of his clanmates were watching the awkward interaction he was having with Ashpaw, he saw Larkpaw looking over in his direction. ‘She seems to be enjoying this’ he thought with a hint of bitterness, flicking his tail towards her in an attempt to try to get her attention. The large apprentice hoped that she'd notice and maybe she’d be able to help him out with this situation, as he wasn’t particularly great when it came to dealing with other cats.

[RavensCall]

Darkpaw
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[38/100]


Darkpaw nodded in understanding, of course it could be expected that a young cat such as the one before him would be excited to see the other clans, but they couldn’t allow that ot get the better of them. “Well, just a fair warning for next time, I’d avoid doing that,” the dark tom mewed “Also try not to talk to any of the other ShadowClan cats until Twilightstar arrives, they’re not nearly as nice or understanding as I am,” he warned. He didn't know why he was trying to help Ashpaw out, but he just didn't want the poor she-cat to be ridiculed by the clan with no one to defend her. Of course, if it did come to that, he wouldn't dare defend her, lest he become a target himself and lose favor in the eyes of the cats in positions of power though he wouldn't ridicule her either. 'I'll just remain neutral' he decided, nodding to himself a bit 'Well unless of course Dawnstar or Cougarivy or even Cinderblaze get involved' he shuddered to think about trying to defy one of these cats. His comfortable position in the clan would be in jeopardy!

Scanning the clearing they were in to see if any of his clanmates were watching the awkward interaction he was having with Ashpaw, he saw Larkpaw looking over in his direction. ‘She seems to be enjoying this’ he thought with a hint of bitterness, flicking his tail towards her in an attempt to try to get her attention. The large apprentice hoped that she'd notice and maybe she’d be able to help him out with this situation, as he wasn’t particularly great when it came to dealing with other cats.


Ashpaw sighed. “Guess I’ll wait for everyone else in my clan to come first,” she meowed.

[MockingRabbit]

Cloversun followed in the throng of her clan. She was interested in the events of the other clans.
{Open}

[Rose]

Larkpaw
Post Count: 13/100

Larkpaw had still been watching Vixensnarl and the ThunderClan warrior with rapt attention(and amusement) when a movement at the corner of her vision called for her attention. Her gaze immediately flicked in that direction, and then Lark arched an eyebrow in question. Upon realizing why she was being called, the young apprentice bit back an amused laugh at Darkpaw's predicament.

Without needing any further invitation, Larkpaw sidled over, her lean, lithe frame barely anything in comparison to Darkpaw’s broader one. Once by her fellow denmate’s side, Larkpaw offered Ashpaw a small, close-lipped smile and sat down right there as if entirely comfortable in this new setting, wrapping her tail around her paws.

“And who may you be?” She asked Ashpaw, then directed her next words over at Darkpaw to establish her acknowledgment of his presence, since perhaps it’d seem like she was ignoring the other apprentice. “Got your paws full already, have you?” Lark stated, as it was more of a rhetorical question than an actual one. “Gathering hasn’t even barely started yet.” The Korat cat jested, and then intently tipped her head to the side, amber eyes flitting back to rest on the WindClan apprentice standing before her.

“But in all seriousness, I heard what Darkpaw had to say to you. You should not have come here alone, albeit arriving before your leader is worse. Without the protection of your Clanmates, your hide rests in the paws of ShadowClan if they want to interfere and teach you some mannerisms.” Larkpaw said with a questioning frown. The tip of her grey tail flicked back and forth with suppressed curiosity. “So then, why are you here? I mean, unless it’s really only for seeing your first Gathering, as I’m sure that’s very exciting…” Larkpaw trailed off for a moment, dearly hoping neither realized that this was also her very first Gathering, and that she’d been very very excited about it back in camp, though that excitement hadn’t been put on display. The apprentice inwardly cringed at the awkward situation she’d just put herself in. Hopefully no one would notice. Hopefully…

Locking gazes with Ashpaw once again, Lark cleared her throat. “Nevermind, I entirely suspect that it was just the excitement that preceded your thought to arrive here before WindClan’s Twilightstar.”

[ Darkclaws - Darkpaw / SpookyCloud the Pumpkin - Ashpaw ]

[Madelaine]

Ratpaw
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Male[he/him] - Post 19

His first gathering? Yes sir. He was pretty darn excited. Well and a little bit nervous, but he was going to try his best to hide it. He didn't want to shame Shadowclan. It was the last thing he would do. Ratpaw moved over to try and find another apprentice. He didn't care if it was someone from a different clan or his own. He'd probably prefer his own, but Bliss is going to try and get him to talk to someone.

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[Jayvines]

Brown paws swiftly padded through the forest, not bothering to avoid the crunch of fallen leaves as they moved. Tonight was another Gathering, and while Sparrowstar hadn't had too many issues last moon she was still wary of unruly cats that may have followed her tonight. Pausing as she reached the edge of the sandy expanse leading up to the Seastones, the young leader turned to address the cats that accompanied her.

"Behave tonight," she stated, tone firm as she glanced over her peers. "I want no interruptions from any of you. Mingle as you wish, but control yourselves. If you cause a scene expect a swift dismissal from this gathering, and a re-evaluation of whether you are welcome to come to the next."

She was not going to tolerate having cats who couldn't handle that responsibility come to simply cause trouble. She had enough on her plate as it was.

Turning back towards her destination, the smaller she-cat swiftly restarted her paws. It seemed that Shadowclan had already made themselves comfortable, so one swift leap brought the thin molly up to join the large maine coon that currently rested atop the Seastones. It looked as if she was searching the beach (most likely for the inevitable outsider that meandered their way before getting a swift pawstrike for their sins), so Sparrowstar simply settled into a comfortable sitting position next to the imposing leader and scanned the beach as well.

"Evening Dawnstar," she hummed, tone smooth as she made sure her peers settled in without issue. "Any trespassers occupying our stones tonight? Hopefully they've gained enough sense to avoid them after the last few were chased off or disposed of."

Was she really going to attempt a casual conversation with the mountain of a cat beside her? Unfortunately. Was she expecting much to come out of it? Not at all. However, it wouldn't do any harm to attempt to build at least a cordial relationship with the formidable she-cat that led Shadowclan. Hopefully her attempts wouldn't blow back into her face like the uncomfortably chilly gusts of wind that whirled off the sea.
*THUNDERCLAN HAS ARRIVED*

[ Moonraven NinjaBloss canineantics Undertaker wicked celeste MaryTheCrow ]

[perseus.]

Roanpaw
After having not gone to the last Gathering - purely because of the fact that he was already curled up in his nest by the time it had arrived - Roanpaw stalked quietly behind his grandmother. At already seven moons old he was growing bigger by the day, his stocky frame filling out and green eyes vibrant as ever. Large paws left imprints in the sand as the soil changed, leaving behind the shadows of the pine trees and entering into the open sandy clearing of Seastones.

Gaze flickering over to watch his mentor ascend to her place among the stones, Roanpaw held no interest in socializing with any of his Clanmates (save for maybe his sister, or the rather interesting Ruepaw) and would await the other Clans to arrive. For now he took a seat in the desolate area and turned his attention up to Dawnstar, watching her with a classic masked Roan-expression.

[ open, preferably for non-ShadowClan when they arrive as he'll likely ignore any of his own Clanmates ]

☄. *. ⋆ Ospreypaw
Ospreypaw sprinted in after Sparrowstar, energy buzzing thorough his paws as he looked around. There weren't many other cats yet but he smelt the strong scent of ShadowClan, Maybe those other apprentices will be here! His tail flicked back and forth as he looked around for another apprentice to talk with, and his gaze landed on a rather quiet looking apprentice who smelt like ShadowClan. He bounded over to the apprentice and stood in front of him, still buzzing with energy, "Hello!! My name is Ospreypaw! What's your name" Ospreypaw chirped with a small tilt of his head as he studied the tom.

[Zei]

Cloversun followed in the throng of her clan. She was interested in the events of the other clans.
{Open}
Toadclaw worked his way over "good Morning there, i'm Toadclaw, who just mgiht you be?" he rumbled in his emotionless way

[SplashyLumi]

Ratpaw
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Male[he/him] - Post 19

His first gathering? Yes sir. He was pretty darn excited. Well and a little bit nervous, but he was going to try his best to hide it. He didn't want to shame Shadowclan. It was the last thing he would do. Ratpaw moved over to try and find another apprentice. He didn't care if it was someone from a different clan or his own. He'd probably prefer his own, but Bliss is going to try and get him to talk to someone.

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Beartooth approached the young cat. “Hey, Kiddo. Just plannin'on wrecking one of other clans for Dawnstars legacy?” He didn't know how to start conversations but neither did his roleplayer so everything was fair.

[carmen]

Foxpaw was one of the first to make her way into the clearing. She jumped to the side as Ospreypaw raced past her, but other than that, it was fairly anticlimactic. The scent of Shadowclan tinted the air, but that wasn't too big of a problem. The lithe molly wasn't feeling like picking a fight, so she wouldn't be looking for one. Tonight would go splendid. She sat down next to another apprentice, nonchalant as she faced towards the Seastones. "Hello, there. I'm Foxpaw. Who might you be?" She turned her head to face towards the younger tom. She hadn't seen him at a gathering before, but she had missed a few.

Witchy Angelique
[Didn't see the previous mention! Feel free to ignore this]

[Madelaine]

Ratpaw
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Male[he/him] - Post 20

The apprentice heard a cat and tried his best to hide the missing flesh on parts of his body. It was kind of hard since they were everywhere. He focused his only eye on the warrior. What did he just ask him? "Huh?", he meowed. Ratpaw was kind of uncomfortable. He looked over as another cat came over. It was an apprentice. He dipped his head. "Oh hi! I'm Ratpaw.", he replied. He looked back at the warrior.

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SplashyLumi; Pheasantflight;
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[MockingRabbit]

Toadclaw worked his way over "good Morning there, i'm Toadclaw, who just mgiht you be?" he rumbled in his emotionless way
Cloversun smiled as Toadclaw came up to her. She sniffed the air quietly. Toadclaw of ThunderClan. "Hi Toadclaw. My name is Cloversun,"

[Zei]

Cloversun smiled as Toadclaw came up to her. She sniffed the air quietly. Toadclaw of ThunderClan. "Hi Toadclaw. My name is Cloversun,"
"nice to mett you" he said rather bluntly

[SplashyLumi]

Ratpaw
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Male[he/him] - Post 20

The apprentice heard a cat and tried his best to hide the missing flesh on parts of his body. It was kind of hard since they were everywhere. He focused his only eye on the warrior. What did he just ask him? "Huh?", he meowed. Ratpaw was kind of uncomfortable. He looked over as another cat came over. It was an apprentice. He dipped his head. "Oh hi! I'm Ratpaw.", he replied. He looked back at the warrior.

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SplashyLumi; Pheasantflight;
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Okay, he was being ignored. That was fine. [B]“Planning on wreckin' any other clans yet?””
He asked, again. A slight huff of annoying releasing from his throat.

[Moonraven]

Despite her age, the willowy WindClan leader cut through the moor on swift and sure paws, leading her clan to the gathering once again as she did every gathering before. As she reached the beach, ThunderClan and ShadowClan's scents mixed with the salty tang of the ocean touched her nose before her paws touched the sand, giving her some idea of what she was walking into. Twilightstar noticed ThunderClan cats still pouring in which meant she hadn't been too far behind the forest dwellers.

Twilightstar offered no words of warning, finding no need at the moment, as she let her cats mingle while she began to make her way up the stones where she found the ever-towering Dawnstar and slighter Sparrowstar already seated. It seemed like Sparrowstar was attempting to converse with the tyrant, and even though Twilightstar was somewhat interested in seeing how that went, another called for her attention.

Veering off her original path, the lilac she-cat made her way over to the group of apprentices, green eye locked on one in particular. The WindClan leader twitched her ear in a brief but wordless greeting to the two ShadowClan apprentices but gave the majority of her attention to the actual one in trouble. "Ashpaw, I expect you have a very good reason for arriving ahead of me and the rest of WindClan." Besides the fact that it was just disrespectful and disobedient, it could be very dangerous to show up at a gathering without the support of a clan. ThunderClan Twilightstar had nothing to worry about, ShadowClan however was different.

The leader's single eye roamed over the apprentice's form noting a lack of one hair out of place and it seemed that Ashpaw had been lucky enough to find a pair of less violent Shadowclan cats. The scarred she-cat knew very well that not all ShadowClan cats were like their leader, but considering that Twilightstar held multiple scars and a missing eye thanks to Dawnstar, alongside Dawnstar's obvious lack of care for the truce, no one could blame her for being wary of all the cats who lurk in the Shadowmenace's neck of the woods. The WindClan leader waited patiently for a response from the apprentice, who'd be getting a punishment regardless of the excuse since there was no excuse for such behavior.
Darkclaws SpookyCloud the Pumpkin Katulaura
[WindClan's Arrived]

[Akira]

Bumbleflight followed along with his Clan, making sure he didn't bump into anyone but, whenever he did, he muttered a quick apology and moved on. The dark brown tabby grunted at Sparrowstar's words to them: he didn't need to be told twice. He'd much rather have a normal Gathering for once rather than a chaotic one. Granted, some morons are bound to still do the contrary, but whatever. So long as he wasn't dragged into it.

Pulling himself out of his negative thoughts, Bumbleflight a seat and looked around, wondering where his apprentices were. Had they followed along, or did one or both stay behind? Perhaps... Or perhaps they were avoiding him, which he wouldn't be surprised, but still... Shaking his head, the tabby scanned the area, hoping the Gathering would go smoothly.
SpiritedWarrior (and open to anyone else!)

[occultation]

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Oriolepaw bounced excitedly after his Clanmates. His very first Gathering! He couldn’t wait to actually see the other Clans. What would they be like? Would ShadowClan cats have real blood in their fur? Would RiverClan smell like rotten fish? Would WindClan really be so skinny that a breeze could blow them away?

He couldn’t get through the forest fast enough. A sharp rebuke from a warrior had kept him at the back of the crowd. He’d gotten so excited that he’d found his way up to almost the front of ThunderClan’s Gathering group. Apparently, that was no place for a young apprentice to be.

Finally, there they were. The Seastones. They were awe-inspiring, almost causing Oriolepaw to freeze in his tracks. The fresh scent of something salty hit his scent glands. The ocean! He fought the urge to run past the Seastones and see the beautiful expanse of water he had yet to see.

An overwhelming scent of so many cats soon overwhelmed him, blocking the smell of what he assumed to be ocean. He stumbled at the sudden onslaught of scents, not quite knowing what to do about it. The area was already packed full of so many cats!

As ThunderClan began to disperse, he looked around. Where should he go? Who should he talk to?

(Open!)

[carmen]

SplashyLumi Witchy Angelique

"Ratpaw. Got it." Hey, maybe this would go well. He wasn't as stuffy as she had heard some of the other Shadowclan cats were. But oh, who was this? Green eyes narrowed onto the figure of a warrior she hadn't previously noted. Maybe that was part of the discomfort she had noticed in the apprentice when she first arrived. Planning on wrecking any other clans yet? What? Her eyes narrowed further, this time with slight disgust. This was the Shadowclan she was used to hearing about. "Who are you." It was less of a question and more of an accusation. She didn't like the sound of someone asking if they were planning to destroy a clan. Not when said clan could be hers.

[SplashyLumi]

SplashyLumi Witchy Angelique

"Ratpaw. Got it." Hey, maybe this would go well. He wasn't as stuffy as she had heard some of the other Shadowclan cats were. But oh, who was this? Green eyes narrowed onto the figure of a warrior she hadn't previously noted. Maybe that was part of the discomfort she had noticed in the apprentice when she first arrived. Planning on wrecking any other clans yet? What? Her eyes narrowed further, this time with slight disgust. This was the Shadowclan she was used to hearing about. "Who are you." It was less of a question and more of an accusation. She didn't like the sound of someone asking if they were planning to destroy a clan. Not when said clan could be hers.
“Names Beartooth. Nice to meet ya.” He nodded his head. {Poor Bear is in his 40's and wants to look cool infront of th apprentices}

[xavier.]

| Leafpaw |
| She/Her |
| A long-haired fawn tabby with a white underbelly; Blue eyes |

~ Leafpaw stumbled and fell onto the beach that surrounded the seastones. The Fawn tabby looked around with clear excitement in her eyes as she looked around so a cat to sit next to, it was her first gathering and so soon after she became a apprentice.

'Looks like papa's apprentice got here first."

Leafpaw said to herself watching as Twilightstar basically scolded the other apprentice. Leafpaw then turned her head away from what was going on between the leader and Ashpaw to take a good look around the place of the gathering. Leafpaw would have happily went up to others to greet herself but everyone was talking to someone and her Mama taught her better and not to interrupt conversations! Leafpaw spotted a empty seat and sat down hoping someone would come and speak to her hopefully. ~

| [OPEN]; SpookyCloud the Pumpkin - For Ashpaw Mention and possibly have her and Leafpaw interact |

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| Sunpaw |
| She/Her |
| A long-furred light golden she-cat with classic tabby stripes, white paws, underbelly and tip of tail; Cold blue eyes |

~ Unlike Leafpaw, Sunpaw slowly made her way onto the beach and had watched Leafpaw fall into the sand only for her to get up and run off like nothing ever happened. Sunpaw shook her head as she surveyed the area for a place to sit. Hopefully a place that didn't have too many cats who would attempt to speak to her. Sunpaw saw a spot and made her way to it and sat down not paying any attention to Twilightstar and Ashpaw. Sunpaw glanced at the windclan cats that poured in hoping to see if her twin sister had decided to come along, I Mean Firepaw was the reason Sunpaw came this night. ~

| [OPEN; THOUGH UNLIKE LEAFPAW SHES NOT THAT KEEN TO START CONVERSION. JUST A FAIR WARNING]; Darkclaws - For Firepaw mention :heartbounce: |

[Madelaine]

Ratpaw
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Male[he/him] - Post 22

He was getting really uncomfortable with this warrior. He asked the same question twice. Didn't he get the hint? "No I wasn't planning on that at all. I'm only an apprentice.", he meowed, his ears went flat against his head. He scooted a little bit closer to the apprentice, but not too close. He wanted to space himself from the warrior a bit. Ratpaw looked at them. "It's fine.", he meowed in a hushed voice. He tried to be brave, but he couldn't. He looked towards Dawnstar. Could she see him?

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SplashyLumi; Pheasantflight;
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[bubble[error].]

~~ Nightheart - She/Her - WindClan Warrior ~~

{OPEN}

Nightheart padded behind Twilightstar, keeping her mouth shut and walked to a spot open and sat down, waiting for the gathering to begin.

[bubble[error].]

++ Sharppaw = He/His/Him = ThunderClan Apprentice ++

[ open ]

Sharppaw smiled, smelling the sweet sweet smell of Fourtrees. His first Gathering in a long time. Boy, was the small black tom happy.

[Madelaine]

Tallshadow
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Female[she/her]

The young warrior padded after her Thunderclan clanmates, excited for the gathering. The molly looked around before spotting a cat. Of course she moved over to them. "Hello! My name's Tallshadow. What's yours?", she meowed with excitement. She was still young, so she got excited too easily.

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CreeperLover649;
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[Dirtfur]

Not only did he get a deputy mentor, but also that Blazingpaw gets to go to The Gathering! He heard lots of tales, both good and bad about The Gathering. He heard that each leader gives an announcement about their own clan. Oh, Blazingpaw couldn’t keep himself from purring and buzzing with energy as he imagined every cat's faces as they heard that he, Blazingpaw, is being trained by the Copperfire, deputy of ThunderClan.

The new apprentice groaned and rolled his eyes as Sparrowstar lectured him and his clanmates. “Keep on talking and we’ll all be as old as you,” he remarked quietly. As the leader finished her lecture and leapt onto the Seastones, Blazingpaw gave a relief sigh and padded away from his group to find any apprentices he could boast to.

[OPEN for interactions]

[Eaglet]

Stumpypoppy

His fluffy coat bounced like clouds as he skipped down. Seeing the sand under his paws - he couldn't help but fiddle around with the rocky particles as they got on his paws. He gave a small purr watching the fascinating structure of physics do what its meant to do. Arriving at the big boulders that created a looming shadow over him. His blue eyes startlingly sparkled, whipping his head around to catch a glimpse and view of all the different cats. Some were small like ants, or there were some that were all muscle. And some were lean like trees. Though he had experienced a gathering before, his childish nature couldn't help but make him have an absolute spasm of excitement.

He quivered as the corners of his mouth were wiggling into a gleeful smile. Heading somewhere to sit, but sitting far far away to make sure his eccentric behavior didn't make any cats think he was a fur-brain. Carefully settling down on his rump, tilting his head as he glanced over. Scanning the faces of each cat. But he couldn't remember them at all! So why have to bother with these sort of things. If I'm having fun, then everything I do has to be fun! He giggled quietly. Looking up to where Twilightstar was. He raised his hind leg to give quick slaps on his ear to scratch it.

He couldn't deal with the fact that you had to sit still for like 60 moons in order for the gathering to start. He wobbled in his seat, easing his mind to take time off as he blankly stared at one place. Spacing out - almost seemed like the tom was going to fall over and take a big nap. Eyes lazily were blinking at the speed of a snail.

[ open! ]

[puppeteer]

Nightsong

The inky she-cat padded through the shadows of the clearing after her leader. It was quite a sight tonight, with three of the four Clans having arrived already. She yawned wide and glared about. She hadn't been the same since her brother had disappeared.

Doepaw

This place. Was. HUGE. She had scampered after her sister, with a happy smile on her maw. The little tabby was oh so excited to be here. She watched Leafpaw pad off and looked around to see if she could make any friends. Off to one side, she saw her fathers apprentice, and her nose wrinkled slightly. She was still angry with her father, despite the conversation she had had with Mama. Mama understood her fears, but had still told her that Ashclaw was her father.

Moonpaw

Moonpaw had padded in languidly, a content look on his face. He knew he was the coolest cat here, alongside his best friend Sunpaw. They would take the four Clans by storm. The fever-coated tom was overly confident and seated himself where he could see Seastones.

{ ALL OPEN }

[Gay'Fluff]

Goldleaf padded into the gathering place with their clanmates, looking around at the clans. Only Riverclan was missing! Flicking their tail they sat, wondering if any cat would be up for a chat.
{Open}

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Wolffeather blinked as they found a spot to sit by theirself. Why should they bother with talking to cats not of Windclan? And of Windclan. Rolling her eyes, she got to grooming herself instead.

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Kinkcloud purred as he sat and watched more clan's join the gathering. Flicking his tail the warrior gazed around, really just cat-watching. If anyone wanted to chat, he'd be up to it!
{Open}

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Yarrowfang sat next to a bush, watching the other cat's with a frown. Obvisoly Shadowclan was the best, after all they got here first. No cat intrested him and in such he just wanted to nap until Riverclan got there. So he did just that.

[bubble[error].]

Tallshadow
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Female[she/her]

The young warrior padded after her Thunderclan clanmates, excited for the gathering. The molly looked around before spotting a cat. Of course she moved over to them. "Hello! My name's Tallshadow. What's yours?", she meowed with excitement. She was still young, so she got excited too easily.

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CreeperLover649;
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~~ Nightheart - She/Her - WindClan Warrior ~~

Nightheart lifted her head at a voice. She turned her head to see a young ThunderClan warrior, saying her name was Tallshadow. "Hello, Tallshadow. I'm Nightheart." Her black coat blew in the wind, her green-yellow eyes shining at Tallshadow, flicking her torn ear.

[azu-azulu]

Shadefur sighed, this was her first gathering as an elder

[Veinyard]

⊹ Leapingbranch & Lavendercry - Thunderclan & Windclan ⊹
The elder padded towards the Seastones, breathing in the salty scent. It brought her comfort. As she padded towards a much less crowded area. It was mainly apprentices! Lavendercry gave a small yet sorrowful smile as she looked towards the groups. Youthful life. Lets hope they change the future for the better. Managing to get herself to a unclaimed stone, the elder loafed quickly on the bottom of the rock. Lavendercry stared past everyone and looked towards Thunderclan, seemingly ignoring her birthclan. The sounds of the nearby ocean filling her ears as she stared to the tree-crawlers.

Suddenly a brown tabby was infront of her, flooding her vision. Slowly turning her gaze up, she saw a fellow elder (yet young for her age) sitting down by her. Leapingbranch just swept her tail around the older queen, humming softly. Lavendercry had a feeling the other cat knew about her want to be under the bramble and the leaves crunching under her paws. Before the hazel she could speak, Leapingbranch stole the spotlight from her.

"Another moon has passed! How has Windclan been this time around?" Leapingbranch mewled a little bit too loudly. Lavendercry just shuffled her paws uncomfortably at the bursting sound, but she breathed in the ocean-scent. "Indeed. Another moon has passed. Windclan is.. doing well.. How about Thunderclan and you?" It didn't seem like a second before the Thunderclanner loudly began to speak. "Oh! I have been doing so well! The apprentices actually know how to get ticks and flees out, and make proper nesting this time around. The newer warriors had NO idea what they were doing when they were on 'elder' duty. Anyhousee- Thunderclan is doing well!" Lavendercry grumbled a bit before streching her paws out from underherself. Flicking her ear, she looked towards Leapingbranch with her tearstained eyes. Using her backpaw she sighed.

"Come on Leapingbranch. I think there may be some cats coming our way.. And I would personally love to hear what they have to say.."


⊹ Leapingbranch And Lavendercry Are Open For Roleplay! ⊹

[xavier.]

| Sunpaw |
| She/Her |
| A long-furred light golden she-cat with classic tabby stripes, white paws, underbelly and tip of tail; Cold blue eyes |

~ While watching all the cats make their way onto the beach Sunpaw caught sight of a all too familiar pelt and let out a small happy purr. Good thing no one was near enough to Sunpaw to hear it directly, especially Firepaw. The golden she-cat flicked the tip of her tail hoping to catch Moonpaws attention.

"Moonpaw! Over here!"

Sunpaw called out to the tom, ~

| Cloudy sky :heartbounce: |

[azu-azulu]

The black she licked a paw, icepelt had stayed at camp again.

O P E N

[stardust.]

Wolfspirit
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Wolfspirit was finally back, it had felt like ages since he had been to a gathering. The familiar space of Seastones laid upon him, so calmly. Gatherings usually weren't very calm.. the last one he had been to was the one where Dawnstar murdered two cats. He hoped that Dawnstar wouldn't be as bad this time as she was last time he went to a gathering. He knew that with him being back, this moon would be full of responsibilities for him.

As he gazed around the clearing for any faces he could talk to, he didn't see anyone in particular that was very.. interesting to him.. He hated apprentices and all the warriors looked to be in a conversation. It was kinda bad luck for him since he just got back from a rather.. intimidating experience(He still hated Twolegs and forever will), but he had luck since a cat could still definitely approach him. But then again, he wasn't a very.. approachable tom.. Being one of the oldest warriors in ThunderClan he was a strict fellow.

Now he just waited for someone to talk to him..

(Open for warriors that are not from ThunderClan only!)

[Faith.]

Dappledpaw sat on the outside of the throng of cats before her. Erm... First gathering. Yay?she thought. Dappledpaw looked around to see if anything was approaching her. Louder than I hoped...
She wrapped her black and orange tail around her paws.

[Open]

[Zei]

Dappledpaw sat on the outside of the throng of cats before her. Erm... First gathering. Yay?she thought. Dappledpaw looked around to see if anything was approaching her. Louder than I hoped...
She wrapped her black and orange tail around her paws.

[Open]
"HIYA!!" called a very excited Cobwebpaw of Shadowclan
60/100

[Faith.]

"HIYA!!" called a very excited Cobwebpaw of Shadowclan
60/100
Dappledpaw nearly jumped out of her fur as a very bounce cat jumped up to her. She bristled her fur before realizing it was another apprentice. She inhaled deeply, and exhaled slowly with the word, "H-hi..." 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10. Dappledpaw thought slowly.

[Zei]

Dappledpaw nearly jumped out of her fur as a very bounce cat jumped up to her. She bristled her fur before realizing it was another apprentice. She inhaled deeply, and exhaled slowly with the word, "H-hi..." 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10. Dappledpaw thought slowly.
"i'm Cobwebpaw! of Shadowclan! who are you?" Cobwebpaw meowed
61/100

[occultation]

⊹ Leapingbranch & Lavendercry - Thunderclan & Windclan ⊹
The elder padded towards the Seastones, breathing in the salty scent. It brought her comfort. As she padded towards a much less crowded area. It was mainly apprentices! Lavendercry gave a small yet sorrowful smile as she looked towards the groups. Youthful life. Lets hope they change the future for the better. Managing to get herself to a unclaimed stone, the elder loafed quickly on the bottom of the rock. Lavendercry stared past everyone and looked towards Thunderclan, seemingly ignoring her birthclan. The sounds of the nearby ocean filling her ears as she stared to the tree-crawlers.

Suddenly a brown tabby was infront of her, flooding her vision. Slowly turning her gaze up, she saw a fellow elder (yet young for her age) sitting down by her. Leapingbranch just swept her tail around the older queen, humming softly. Lavendercry had a feeling the other cat knew about her want to be under the bramble and the leaves crunching under her paws. Before the hazel she could speak, Leapingbranch stole the spotlight from her.

"Another moon has passed! How has Windclan been this time around?" Leapingbranch mewled a little bit too loudly. Lavendercry just shuffled her paws uncomfortably at the bursting sound, but she breathed in the ocean-scent. "Indeed. Another moon has passed. Windclan is.. doing well.. How about Thunderclan and you?" It didn't seem like a second before the Thunderclanner loudly began to speak. "Oh! I have been doing so well! The apprentices actually know how to get ticks and flees out, and make proper nesting this time around. The newer warriors had NO idea what they were doing when they were on 'elder' duty. Anyhousee- Thunderclan is doing well!" Lavendercry grumbled a bit before streching her paws out from underherself. Flicking her ear, she looked towards Leapingbranch with her tearstained eyes. Using her backpaw she sighed.

"Come on Leapingbranch. I think there may be some cats coming our way.. And I would personally love to hear what they have to say.."


⊹ Leapingbranch And Lavendercry Are Open For Roleplay! ⊹

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After some time, Oriolepaw decided that it was up to him to find someone to talk to. The usually energetic and outgoing apprentice suddenly felt nervous. What if some cat clawed his fur off? He remembered Sparrowstar’s warning to her Clanmates to behave. He hoped he didn’t say anything wrong!

His eyes surveyed the huge swath of cats gathered. He caught sight of a ThunderClan elder speaking with someone he didn’t recognize. Maybe that could be a good way to meet someone from another Clan? Elders could be cranky, but they were usually safe, right?

Deciding that it was more appealing than approaching some of these massive, stern looking warriors, Oriolepaw headed over. He hesitated as he neared, wondering if he should ask permission to join their conversation. Deciding that would indeed be best, he finished his approach.

He waited for a lull in their conversation before speaking. “Hello! I’m Oriolepaw from ThunderClan.” He didn’t really know what else to say.

[Faith.]

"i'm Cobwebpaw! of Shadowclan! who are you?" Cobwebpaw meowed
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"I-I'm Dappledpaw..." She mewed nervously.

[Zei]

"I-I'm Dappledpaw..." She mewed nervously.
"cool! you smell kinda fishy! are you a riverclan cat?" Cobwebpaw meowed 62/100

[stag]

BurningFrost
⊱GENDERFLUID: SHE/THEY/HIM⊰
⊱BRANCH: SHADOWCLAN⊰
⊱A GOLDEN TORTIE WITH CREAM AND WHITES,ONE BLIND EYE AND A SCAR THAT EXTENDS FROM THE BACK OF THE NECK TO THE BLIND EYE⊰
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Burningfrost stepped onto the beaches. Knowing full well that his cousins would be here,They were all dumb anyways. Not being apart of the Shadowclan branch Automatically made them lower than her. The golden tortie hissed lowly at the scent of Windclan and Thunderclan. “So Their Branches Are Here. Disgraceful.” They Mewed to themself just below a whisper.
The cat weaved through the crowd,a burning hatred of his family members running through her blood. They had chosen to be in those Branches,Low life scum. “Disappointing,Majority Isn’t here just yet. Riverclan is later to a spot on their own territory. Hm..” They mumbled. She turned and saw Ospreypaw. What were they to Him again? A Cousin? Yeah,One of the thousands they had. A Disgusting child- how would even keep him- If it Was Her,Their Cousin would be at the bottom of a ditch.

{ Open To Anyone,But Mainly Branch Members And All Of Them. }

[Veinyard]

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After some time, Oriolepaw decided that it was up to him to find someone to talk to. The usually energetic and outgoing apprentice suddenly felt nervous. What if some cat clawed his fur off? He remembered Sparrowstar’s warning to her Clanmates to behave. He hoped he didn’t say anything wrong!

His eyes surveyed the huge swath of cats gathered. He caught sight of a ThunderClan elder speaking with someone he didn’t recognize. Maybe that could be a good way to meet someone from another Clan? Elders could be cranky, but they were usually safe, right?

Deciding that it was more appealing than approaching some of these massive, stern looking warriors, Oriolepaw headed over. He hesitated as he neared, wondering if he should ask permission to join their conversation. Deciding that would indeed be best, he finished his approach.

He waited for a lull in their conversation before speaking. “Hello! I’m Oriolepaw from ThunderClan.” He didn’t really know what else to say.

⊹ Leapingbranch & Lavendercry - Thunderclan & Windclan ⊹

Leapingbranch perked up, her light-yellow eyes shimmering. Putting her paw out to point at Oriolepaw, she turned her gaze to Lavendercry whose teary eyes soften at the black and ginger apprentice. The windclan she smiled as she purred out a mewl of welcome. Which shocked Leapingbranch a little.

"Hello there Oriolepaw. I am Lavendercry of Windclan. An elder who protected Windclan until my bone gave out." She gave a look of warmth as she began to slurry mew out. "Ah you look so well fed- I assume Thunderclan prey has been running well lately. I hope Leapingbranch hasn't asked you to do too much! She acts like you apprentices put adders in her nest!" Her last few words were a laugh. Leapingbranch flattened her ears. Flashing her tail, she prodded the Windclan elder. "That is untrue! Isn't that right, Oriolepaw?" Leapingbranch turned to the tom, pleading to him not to tell her friend of her foolish behavior.

The two old she cats look to the tom. Waiting for his reply

⊹ Leapingbranch and Lavendercry - anyone is welcomed to join! ⊹

[Ember Paw]

BurningFrost
⊱GENDERFLUID: SHE/THEY/HIM⊰
⊱BRANCH: SHADOWCLAN⊰
⊱A GOLDEN TORTIE WITH CREAM AND WHITES,ONE BLIND EYE AND A SCAR THAT EXTENDS FROM THE BACK OF THE NECK TO THE BLIND EYE⊰
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Burningfrost stepped onto the beaches. Knowing full well that his cousins would be here,They were all dumb anyways. Not being apart of the Shadowclan branch Automatically made them lower than her. The golden tortie hissed lowly at the scent of Windclan and Thunderclan. “So Their Branches Are Here. Disgraceful.” They Mewed to themself just below a whisper.
The cat weaved through the crowd,a burning hatred of his family members running through her blood. They had chosen to be in those Branches,Low life scum. “Disappointing,Majority Isn’t here just yet. Riverclan is later to a spot on their own territory. Hm..” They mumbled. She turned and saw Ospreypaw. What were they to Him again? A Cousin? Yeah,One of the thousands they had. A Disgusting child- how would even keep him- If it Was Her,Their Cousin would be at the bottom of a ditch.

{ Open To Anyone,But Mainly Branch Members And All Of Them. }

Ginger-Step finally sat down, curling her tail around herself. The only reason the queen had been able to come, was because she begged Dawn-Star to let her come. Ginger-Step yawned slightly, already feeling drowsy. She turned her head to look at Burning-Frost, who was only a tail length away from her. " Burning-Frost? Are you okay? You look upset.. " she mewed to her clanmate. Ginger-Step was surprised at how nervous she sounded. ' It's because I'm worried about everything nowadays... ' She thought bitterly.

[puppeteer]

Gingerheart had padded into the clearing, just slightly late and only a tad farther behind the other WindClan cats. She looked around, not quite as nervous as she used to be. She stood taller and actually had a smile on her face for once. She saw a distant ShadowClan cousin of hers- what was their name again? Fire-something? Spark-something? She couldn't remember nor did she really care, as he looked quite arrogant and, well, like a jerk. She looked around for Hawknight, as she had lost him in the bustle of the crowd. She scrunched her face in concentration. Had he come with her to the Gathering?

{ Open!! Ares H4WKKN1GHT - for Burningfrost and Hawknight mentions }

[perseus.]

BurningFrost
⊱GENDERFLUID: SHE/THEY/HIM⊰
⊱BRANCH: SHADOWCLAN⊰
⊱A GOLDEN TORTIE WITH CREAM AND WHITES,ONE BLIND EYE AND A SCAR THAT EXTENDS FROM THE BACK OF THE NECK TO THE BLIND EYE⊰
════ ⋆★⋆ ════

Burningfrost stepped onto the beaches. Knowing full well that his cousins would be here,They were all dumb anyways. Not being apart of the Shadowclan branch Automatically made them lower than her. The golden tortie hissed lowly at the scent of Windclan and Thunderclan. “So Their Branches Are Here. Disgraceful.” They Mewed to themself just below a whisper.
The cat weaved through the crowd,a burning hatred of his family members running through her blood. They had chosen to be in those Branches,Low life scum. “Disappointing,Majority Isn’t here just yet. Riverclan is later to a spot on their own territory. Hm..” They mumbled. She turned and saw Ospreypaw. What were they to Him again? A Cousin? Yeah,One of the thousands they had. A Disgusting child- how would even keep him- If it Was Her,Their Cousin would be at the bottom of a ditch.

{ Open To Anyone,But Mainly Branch Members And All Of Them. }

☄. *. ⋆ Coyotecrash
Coyotecrash bounded into the sandy clearing along with the rest of Windclan, their tail flicked slightly as they looked around, he saw that one of his cousins, Ospreypaw was it? talking to a ShadowClan cat and a few others, though their gaze landed on Burningfrost, another cousin. They hummed lightly before walking over to Burningfrost, waving their tail in greeting as they walked over. Though he had tons of energy, they didn't want to disappoint Twilightstar. "Hello Burningfrost! How have you been?"

[occultation]

⊹ Leapingbranch & Lavendercry - Thunderclan & Windclan ⊹

Leapingbranch perked up, her light-yellow eyes shimmering. Putting her paw out to point at Oriolepaw, she turned her gaze to Lavendercry whose teary eyes soften at the black and ginger apprentice. The windclan she smiled as she purred out a mewl of welcome. Which shocked Leapingbranch a little.

"Hello there Oriolepaw. I am Lavendercry of Windclan. An elder who protected Windclan until my bone gave out." She gave a look of warmth as she began to slurry mew out. "Ah you look so well fed- I assume Thunderclan prey has been running well lately. I hope Leapingbranch hasn't asked you to do too much! She acts like you apprentices put adders in her nest!" Her last few words were a laugh. Leapingbranch flattened her ears. Flashing her tail, she prodded the Windclan elder. "That is untrue! Isn't that right, Oriolepaw?" Leapingbranch turned to the tom, pleading to him not to tell her friend of her foolish behavior.

The two old she cats look to the tom. Waiting for his reply

⊹ Leapingbranch and Lavendercry - anyone is welcomed to join! ⊹

https://i.ibb.co/8z8QpMC/cooltext418839146961100.png

Oriolepaw’s gaze went back and forth between the two mollies. Lavendercry seemed like a nice cat, so far at least. So she was from WindClan? She certainly seemed skinny enough to be. Was that because she wasn’t eating well, or because that’s just how WindClan cats were? If it were the latter, Oriolepaw had no clue how they ever won a battle.

He felt his fur grow warm as Leapingbranch’s pleading gaze turned on him. He scratched at the dirt with his paw. “Um, well, I haven’t really been assigned to do chores in the elders’ den yet,” he admitted. Perkier, he added, “But I’m sure Leapingbranch will be just fine when I do!” He hoped that was a good enough answer. He’d been mostly assigned to help clean around camp and re-fortify defenses.

Hoping to shift the talk away from him, he asked, “So what’s it really like in WindClan? Are you all really as fast as the wind?”

[Faith.]

"cool! you smell kinda fishy! are you a riverclan cat?" Cobwebpaw meowed 62/100
Dappledpaw sighed. "Yes... But don't tell anyone! I'm not supposed to be here yet.. I came before my clan to avoid someone." She shuffled her paws.

[stag]

Gingerheart had padded into the clearing, just slightly late and only a tad farther behind the other WindClan cats. She looked around, not quite as nervous as she used to be. She stood taller and actually had a smile on her face for once. She saw a distant ShadowClan cousin of hers- what was their name again? Fire-something? Spark-something? She couldn't remember nor did she really care, as he looked quite arrogant and, well, like a jerk. She looked around for Hawknight, as she had lost him in the bustle of the crowd. She scrunched her face in concentration. Had he come with her to the Gathering?

{ Open!! Ares H4WKKN1GHT - for Burningfrost and Hawknight mentions }


☄. *. ⋆ Coyotecrash
Coyotecrash bounded into the sandy clearing along with the rest of Windclan, their tail flicked slightly as they looked around, he saw that one of his cousins, Ospreypaw was it? talking to a ShadowClan cat and a few others, though their gaze landed on Burningfrost, another cousin. They hummed lightly before walking over to Burningfrost, waving their tail in greeting as they walked over. Though he had tons of energy, they didn't want to disappoint Twilightstar. "Hello Burningfrost! How have you been?"

BurningFrost
⊱GENDERFLUID: SHE/THEY/HIM⊰
⊱BRANCH: SHADOWCLAN⊰
⊱A GOLDEN TORTIE WITH CREAM AND WHITES,ONE BLIND EYE AND A SCAR THAT EXTENDS FROM THE BACK OF THE NECK TO THE BLIND EYE⊰
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Damn it. Why were they coming over here- “Hello Coyotecrash- and Gingerheart. How’s the Windclan Branch Doing,Since you both are the only members remaining. Did My Branch kill all of you rabbits? The golden cat knew it was by far a low blow- did she care? Nah. Would they both care? Probably not. Their branch was weak anyways,They probably couldn’t even last in a battle against The Outsider branch. The cat snickered at the tease. “Sit,Sit. The Shadowclan branch is doing fine.Owlkit was born a while back,A Neice of me. I just wonder which of my siblings had a child,eh who cares- all that matters is that Owlkit is strong and fierce.”
Burningfrost spoke bitterly,they didn’t want to be here. This would only start a battle between the Branches. But perhaps that wasn’t the worst thing…The Windclan Branch was far too cowardly and So was The Thunderclan Branch;Regardless of Numbers. The Riverclan Branch was the only one that stood a chance,They could fight. They had the advantage in wet environments. Hm… “Riverclan has yet to arrive. Lilycreek will hopefully be here. It’s been far too long since we have seen Our Riverclan Cousins. Don’t You Think So Gingerheart and Coyotecrash?”

{ CLOSED TO EVERYONE BUT BRANCH/FAMILY MEMBERS (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1279454&postcount=1) }

[Zei]

Dappledpaw sighed. "Yes... But don't tell anyone! I'm not supposed to be here yet.. I came before my clan to avoid someone." She shuffled her paws.
"ah, i see! well your secrets safe with me! i ain't no tatletell!" Cobwebpaw said 63/100

[Ember Paw]

Ginger-Step flicked her tail at Cobweb-Paw, sighing. She glanced at the riverclan apprentice, but didn't make eye contact. She stood up and padded over to the shadowclan apprentice, smiling. " Cobweb-Paw? How is your training going? And who is this? " She purred kindly to her clanmate, her gaze resting on the riverclan apprentice. She sat down next to Cobweb-Paw, smiling and flicking her tail. RogueSkeleton
Littlepaw(leap)

[SpiritWolf_yt]

Ashclaw and lilyheart followed the clan

THunderblaze and stormpaw followed the clan then sat down

Meadowleap stayed silent and minded her buisness

[all open]

[perseus.]

BurningFrost
⊱GENDERFLUID: SHE/THEY/HIM⊰
⊱BRANCH: SHADOWCLAN⊰
⊱A GOLDEN TORTIE WITH CREAM AND WHITES,ONE BLIND EYE AND A SCAR THAT EXTENDS FROM THE BACK OF THE NECK TO THE BLIND EYE⊰
════ ⋆★⋆ ════

Damn it. Why were they coming over here- “Hello Coyotecrash- and Gingerheart. How’s the Windclan Branch Doing,Since you both are the only members remaining. Did My Branch kill all of you rabbits? The golden cat knew it was by far a low blow- did she care? Nah. Would they both care? Probably not. Their branch was weak anyways,They probably couldn’t even last in a battle against The Outsider branch. The cat snickered at the tease. “Sit,Sit. The Shadowclan branch is doing fine.Owlkit was born a while back,A Neice of me. I just wonder which of my siblings had a child,eh who cares- all that matters is that Owlkit is strong and fierce.”
Burningfrost spoke bitterly,they didn’t want to be here. This would only start a battle between the Branches. But perhaps that wasn’t the worst thing…The Windclan Branch was far too cowardly and So was The Thunderclan Branch;Regardless of Numbers. The Riverclan Branch was the only one that stood a chance,They could fight. They had the advantage in wet environments. Hm… “Riverclan has yet to arrive. Lilycreek will hopefully be here. It’s been far too long since we have seen Our Riverclan Cousins. Don’t You Think So Gingerheart and Coyotecrash?”

{ CLOSED TO EVERYONE BUT BRANCH/FAMILY MEMBERS (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1279454&postcount=1) }


☄. *. ⋆ Coyotecrash
Coyotecrash let a low growl rise from his chest as his clan was insulted, "Just because there is only two of us doesn't mean we are weak." His tail lashed as his pupils in his deep amber eyes narrowed into slits as he dug his claws into the sand. "Should I remind you that possibly members of our branch drove our your clan from your own territory!" He hadn't been born then so he didn't know personally but there very well could have been members that have now passed on.

[Zei]

Ginger-Step flicked her tail at Cobweb-Paw, sighing. She glanced at the riverclan apprentice, but didn't make eye contact. She stood up and padded over to the shadowclan apprentice, smiling. " Cobweb-Paw? How is your training going? And who is this? " She purred kindly to her clanmate, her gaze resting on the riverclan apprentice. She sat down next to Cobweb-Paw, smiling and flicking her tail. RogueSkeleton
Littlepaw(leap)
Littlepaw(leap)
"a friend!" Cobwebpaw said "training is fun!"

[puppeteer]

BurningFrost
⊱GENDERFLUID: SHE/THEY/HIM⊰
⊱BRANCH: SHADOWCLAN⊰
⊱A GOLDEN TORTIE WITH CREAM AND WHITES,ONE BLIND EYE AND A SCAR THAT EXTENDS FROM THE BACK OF THE NECK TO THE BLIND EYE⊰
════ ⋆★⋆ ════

Damn it. Why were they coming over here- “Hello Coyotecrash- and Gingerheart. How’s the Windclan Branch Doing,Since you both are the only members remaining. Did My Branch kill all of you rabbits? The golden cat knew it was by far a low blow- did she care? Nah. Would they both care? Probably not. Their branch was weak anyways,They probably couldn’t even last in a battle against The Outsider branch. The cat snickered at the tease. “Sit,Sit. The Shadowclan branch is doing fine.Owlkit was born a while back,A Neice of me. I just wonder which of my siblings had a child,eh who cares- all that matters is that Owlkit is strong and fierce.”
Burningfrost spoke bitterly,they didn’t want to be here. This would only start a battle between the Branches. But perhaps that wasn’t the worst thing…The Windclan Branch was far too cowardly and So was The Thunderclan Branch;Regardless of Numbers. The Riverclan Branch was the only one that stood a chance,They could fight. They had the advantage in wet environments. Hm… “Riverclan has yet to arrive. Lilycreek will hopefully be here. It’s been far too long since we have seen Our Riverclan Cousins. Don’t You Think So Gingerheart and Coyotecrash?”

{ CLOSED TO EVERYONE BUT BRANCH/FAMILY MEMBERS }

gingerheart of windclan

Gingerheart hadn't even noticed Flame-Smolder-whoever pad up to her until they spoke. The ginger she-cat turned fluidly, a cold look on her face. She raised a brow at their words, wrinkling her nose slightly in disgust. Gingerheart turned her head slightly towards Coyotecrash, with a look that says Are they serious right now? She had a slight laugh at the mention of a singular kit being born. "Awh, how sad. Only one? I just had a litter of four. Raykit, Lightningkit, Sorrelkit, and Whitekit. We aren't the only members, as my brother still lives, despite your wishes of his death." She had a slight smirk as she one-upped her cousin. The mouse-brained fool deserved it anyways. She yawned at the comment about their RiverClan family. Boring. Oh, here came Nightsong, her dear ThunderClan cousin. She wondered where Nightsong's brother was, Spiderleap was his name, she believed?

nightsong of thunderclan

She just wanted one Gathering, where nothing bad would happen. Just. One. She sighed as she heard her cousins speaking. She was just about to turn around to go talk with other cats, when she heard Gingerheart speak. Oh, great. She groaned inwardly. She had a forced smile on her face as she looked towards her family. "Hello, Gingerheart, Coyotecrash, Burningpaw." She mewed coolly to each cat in turn, a small disgruntled look in her eyes. "Gloating again, are we? Haven't we learned to stop doing that since WindClan ran ShadowClan out of their territory?" She had spoken quite pointedly towards Burningpaw - or were they a warrior now? She didn't care anyways.

{ oleander }

[Faith.]

"ah, i see! well your secrets safe with me! i ain't no tatletell!" Cobwebpaw said 63/100
"Thank you.." Dappledpaw said, relieved. She glanced around. When the warrior showed up, she felt like running. Dappledpaw didn't want to get into trouble... No. She would be fine. Right?

[Veinyard]

https://i.ibb.co/8z8QpMC/cooltext418839146961100.png

Oriolepaw’s gaze went back and forth between the two mollies. Lavendercry seemed like a nice cat, so far at least. So she was from WindClan? She certainly seemed skinny enough to be. Was that because she wasn’t eating well, or because that’s just how WindClan cats were? If it were the latter, Oriolepaw had no clue how they ever won a battle.

He felt his fur grow warm as Leapingbranch’s pleading gaze turned on him. He scratched at the dirt with his paw. “Um, well, I haven’t really been assigned to do chores in the elders’ den yet,” he admitted. Perkier, he added, “But I’m sure Leapingbranch will be just fine when I do!” He hoped that was a good enough answer. He’d been mostly assigned to help clean around camp and re-fortify defenses.

Hoping to shift the talk away from him, he asked, “So what’s it really like in WindClan? Are you all really as fast as the wind?”

⊹ Leapingbranch & Lavendercry - Thunderclan & Windclan ⊹
Lavendercry purred. Knowing that once he starts the elder task, he'll be complaining about it. After all, Lavendercry has been around to see that cycle over and over again. Looking over to Leapingbranch, she notice the she-cat let out a sigh of relief. Lavendercry chuckled lowly a little at her reaction, of course she would.The windclan elder stopped for a second. Hearing the question. Her eyes glanced over with a small shadow of sadness. Lavendercry looked away from the two, for a moment before speaking up. "Well Windclan is different. It may come as a surprise but.. not all Windclan cats are what some say 'fast as the wind'. Sure they may be faster than the other clans, but not as fast as others within our clan. They may be more bulker in appearance. They wouldn't be very good for hunting rabbits! So thus Windclan has tunnelers." Lavendercry paused before chuckling " However I shall not tell you what they are.. It might give away Windclan's secrets!"She seemed to shiver a little. Holding her own paws as she looked towards the direction of the ocean. " Ahem.. Windclan life is full of wonders and ideas the clans down the moor have never heard of. " Atleast no living Thunderclan knows about it. Keeping her gaze towards the sea. " Warriors and apprentices sleep under the stars as it makes us closer to our warrior ancestors whom have passed... We use the wind and stars to guide us .. Teamwork is a key of our- Ah.. Enough about Windclan.. Please do tell me how Thunderclan is.. please " Turning her head slowly towards them again, her eyes were full on interest about Thunderclan news.
⊹ Leapingbranch and Lavendercry - anyone is welcomed to join! ⊹

[occultation]

⊹ Leapingbranch & Lavendercry - Thunderclan & Windclan ⊹
Lavendercry purred. Knowing that once he starts the elder task, he'll be complaining about it. After all, Lavendercry has been around to see that cycle over and over again. Looking over to Leapingbranch, she notice the she-cat let out a sigh of relief. Lavendercry chuckled lowly a little at her reaction, of course she would.The windclan elder stopped for a second. Hearing the question. Her eyes glanced over with a small shadow of sadness. Lavendercry looked away from the two, for a moment before speaking up. "Well Windclan is different. It may come as a surprise but.. not all Windclan cats are what some say 'fast as the wind'. Sure they may be faster than the other clans, but not as fast as others within our clan. They may be more bulker in appearance. They wouldn't be very good for hunting rabbits! So thus Windclan has tunnelers." Lavendercry paused before chuckling " However I shall not tell you what they are.. It might give away Windclan's secrets!"She seemed to shiver a little. Holding her own paws as she looked towards the direction of the ocean. " Ahem.. Windclan life is full of wonders and ideas the clans down the moor have never heard of. " Atleast no living Thunderclan knows about it. Keeping her gaze towards the sea. " Warriors and apprentices sleep under the stars as it makes us closer to our warrior ancestors whom have passed... We use the wind and stars to guide us .. Teamwork is a key of our- Ah.. Enough about Windclan.. Please do tell me how Thunderclan is.. please " Turning her head slowly towards them again, her eyes were full on interest about Thunderclan news.
⊹ Leapingbranch and Lavendercry - anyone is welcomed to join! ⊹

https://i.ibb.co/8z8QpMC/cooltext418839146961100.png

Oriolepaw listened closely to Lavendercry talk about her Clan. So WindClan warriors and apprentices slept outside? How odd. Oriolepaw shivered as he thought about having to sleep out in the cold. He was suddenly grateful for the warmth of the apprentices’ den.

In a way, Oriolepaw thought that Lavendercry almost seemed disappointed that WindClan had these tunnelers. He figured they must be an important role, if she wouldn’t disclose any more information about them. He’d have to ask Larkstorm the next time he saw her… whenever that was.

When asked about ThunderClan, the young tom immediately began rattling on. “ThunderClan is great! We climb trees and do all sorts of things from high above! ‘Course, I don’t really know how to climb trees yet. But once I do, I’m gonna be one of the best sky hunters in the Clan! We’re also big and bulky, well most of us are, so we’re not pushovers! We eat mice and birds, and squirrels too! Not really rabbits, though, most of the time.”

[Ember Paw]

Ginger-Step nodded in approval, feeling a pang of sadness that she couldn't train Ferret-Paw since she was a queen now. She shifted on her paws, lightly touching Cobweb-Paw's shoulder with her tail. Suddenly, she started to wonder what this riverclan apprentice and her clanmate were talking about before she came over. Inquisitively, she turned to face the riverclan apprentice. " Aren't you a bit early? It's a little rude to arrive before your clanmates and your leader... " she said slowly. " Whatever. It doesn't matter. As long as you stay out of trouble. That means you too Cobweb-Paw. " she said playfully, pressing her nose to the fluff behind Cobweb-Paw's ear.

Littlepaw(leap)
RogueSkeleton

[Veinyard]

https://i.ibb.co/8z8QpMC/cooltext418839146961100.png

Oriolepaw listened closely to Lavendercry talk about her Clan. So WindClan warriors and apprentices slept outside? How odd. Oriolepaw shivered as he thought about having to sleep out in the cold. He was suddenly grateful for the warmth of the apprentices’ den.

In a way, Oriolepaw thought that Lavendercry almost seemed disappointed that WindClan had these tunnelers. He figured they must be an important role, if she wouldn’t disclose any more information about them. He’d have to ask Larkstorm the next time he saw her… whenever that was.

When asked about ThunderClan, the young tom immediately began rattling on. “ThunderClan is great! We climb trees and do all sorts of things from high above! ‘Course, I don’t really know how to climb trees yet. But once I do, I’m gonna be one of the best sky hunters in the Clan! We’re also big and bulky, well most of us are, so we’re not pushovers! We eat mice and birds, and squirrels too! Not really rabbits, though, most of the time.”



⊹ Leapingbranch & Lavendercry - Thunderclan & Windclan ⊹As the young tom rambled on about his clan, Lavendercry's eyes were glinting with pride and joy. It was a strange sight to see. Leapingbranch was mildly confused. Why would a Windclan elder be so interested in Thunderclan? The tabby just shuffled her paws, looking around towards the other cats. 'Where is Deadsight and Smallmouse? Did they not want to come..? C'mon man you can't stick me with Lavendercry alone!' Leapingbranch thought. Of course she liked Lavendercry but sometimes the she-cat got way too emotional or too deep into Thunderclan and Riverclan business. Looking towards the Windclan cat, Leapingbranch decided not to push her on why."I bet you'll be the best Thunderclan sky hunter, Oriolepaw , but you need to be careful. Leapingbranch used to be great until she got hurt from falling from a tree. Why do you think she needed to retire so early?" Lavendercry paused, looking up to the Thunderclan elder. Leapingbranch didn't react, she just sheepishly nodded. "Anyhow.. I know a thing or two about Thunderclan hunting. But not that much compared to a moon old apprentice. I used to have a friend in Thunderclan, yknow! Maybe if you find yourself a friend in Windclan around your age you might pick up a skill to help improve!" Lavendercry ended her ramble with a toothy smile. It was an uncommon sight but Leapingbranch nodded "You're right in someway, but Thunderclan doesn't need Windclan skills to prove we are strong! Isn't that right, Oriolepaw?"

⊹ Leapingbranch and Lavendercry - anyone is welcomed to join! ⊹

[occultation]

⊹ Leapingbranch & Lavendercry - Thunderclan & Windclan ⊹As the young tom rambled on about his clan, Lavendercry's eyes were glinting with pride and joy. It was a strange sight to see. Leapingbranch was mildly confused. Why would a Windclan elder be so interested in Thunderclan? The tabby just shuffled her paws, looking around towards the other cats. 'Where is Deadsight and Smallmouse? Did they not want to come..? C'mon man you can't stick me with Lavendercry alone!' Leapingbranch thought. Of course she liked Lavendercry but sometimes the she-cat got way too emotional or too deep into Thunderclan and Riverclan business. Looking towards the Windclan cat, Leapingbranch decided not to push her on why."I bet you'll be the best Thunderclan sky hunter, Oriolepaw , but you need to be careful. Leapingbranch used to be great until she got hurt from falling from a tree. Why do you think she needed to retire so early?" Lavendercry paused, looking up to the Thunderclan elder. Leapingbranch didn't react, she just sheepishly nodded. "Anyhow.. I know a thing or two about Thunderclan hunting. But not that much compared to a moon old apprentice. I used to have a friend in Thunderclan, yknow! Maybe if you find yourself a friend in Windclan around your age you might pick up a skill to help improve!" Lavendercry ended her ramble with a toothy smile. It was an uncommon sight but Leapingbranch nodded "You're right in someway, but Thunderclan doesn't need Windclan skills to prove we are strong! Isn't that right, Oriolepaw?"

⊹ Leapingbranch and Lavendercry - anyone is welcomed to join! ⊹

https://i.ibb.co/8z8QpMC/cooltext418839146961100.png

Oriolepaw beamed at Lavendercry’s prediction that he’d be a great sky hunter. He wanted nothing more; his daydreams were often filled with the grandeur of making amazing catches high in the trees. Given that Larkstorm hadn’t taught him anything except how to hunt, he didn’t really have any other goal to dream towards. Even so, he didn’t think anything could feel more exciting than the idea of sky hunting.

His glow died a little as Lavendercry revealed the reason Leapingbranch had been forced to retire. He glanced down at the elder’s legs, feeling pitiful for her. It must have been awful, going through that accident! He’d have to train all the harder to make sure it didn’t happen to him.

At Lavendercry’s suggestion that he get tips from WindClan cats, he was conflicted. Wasn’t he supposed to only learn from ThunderClan? Then again, what was the point of Gatherings if not to learn from one another? He was about to agree, when Leapingbranch piped up and said that ThunderClan didn’t need WindClan’s skills to flourish. Perhaps Leapingbranch was right…

[RavensCall]

| Leafpaw |
| She/Her |
| A long-haired fawn tabby with a white underbelly; Blue eyes |

~ Leafpaw stumbled and fell onto the beach that surrounded the seastones. The Fawn tabby looked around with clear excitement in her eyes as she looked around so a cat to sit next to, it was her first gathering and so soon after she became a apprentice.

'Looks like papa's apprentice got here first."

Leafpaw said to herself watching as Twilightstar basically scolded the other apprentice. Leafpaw then turned her head away from what was going on between the leader and Ashpaw to take a good look around the place of the gathering. Leafpaw would have happily went up to others to greet herself but everyone was talking to someone and her Mama taught her better and not to interrupt conversations! Leafpaw spotted a empty seat and sat down hoping someone would come and speak to her hopefully. ~

| [OPEN]; SpookyCloud the Pumpkin - For Ashpaw Mention and possibly have her and Leafpaw interact |

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| Sunpaw |
| She/Her |
| A long-furred light golden she-cat with classic tabby stripes, white paws, underbelly and tip of tail; Cold blue eyes |

~ Unlike Leafpaw, Sunpaw slowly made her way onto the beach and had watched Leafpaw fall into the sand only for her to get up and run off like nothing ever happened. Sunpaw shook her head as she surveyed the area for a place to sit. Hopefully a place that didn't have too many cats who would attempt to speak to her. Sunpaw saw a spot and made her way to it and sat down not paying any attention to Twilightstar and Ashpaw. Sunpaw glanced at the windclan cats that poured in hoping to see if her twin sister had decided to come along, I Mean Firepaw was the reason Sunpaw came this night. ~

| [OPEN; THOUGH UNLIKE LEAFPAW SHES NOT THAT KEEN TO START CONVERSION. JUST A FAIR WARNING]; Darkclaws - For Firepaw mention :heartbounce: |
Ashpaw shifted her paws uncomfortably. “Sorry Twilightstar,” she muttered. She noticed Leafpaw and went to say hello. “Hey sis,” Ashpaw chirruped, even though she knew that she wasn’t biologically her sister,”What’s up?”

[MockingRabbit]

"nice to mett you" he said rather bluntly
"A pleasure," she nodded her head to him. He sounded, at least to her ear, like he didn't want to be here. Maybe someone had made him come?

[Faith.]

Ginger-Step nodded in approval, feeling a pang of sadness that she couldn't train Ferret-Paw since she was a queen now. She shifted on her paws, lightly touching Cobweb-Paw's shoulder with her tail. Suddenly, she started to wonder what this riverclan apprentice and her clanmate were talking about before she came over. Inquisitively, she turned to face the riverclan apprentice. " Aren't you a bit early? It's a little rude to arrive before your clanmates and your leader... " she said slowly. " Whatever. It doesn't matter. As long as you stay out of trouble. That means you too Cobweb-Paw. " she said playfully, pressing her nose to the fluff behind Cobweb-Paw's ear.

Littlepaw(leap)
RogueSkeleton
At the other cat's words, Dappledpaw tried to look smaller. Was she being rude? I should have waited. I could have easily just came with my clan but... Ugh. she thought, her ear twitching. Dappledpaw then decided, yes. It should be pretty easy to stay out of trouble... Just stay outside of the crowd. No trouble there. Right?

[MockingRabbit]

Harefire breathed in the scents of the other clans. Then wrinkled his nose. He had forgotten how much he disliked the scent of ShadowClan. He said nothing, not wanting to start an argument, Sparrowstar said to behave.


Rabbiteye gazed into the large throng of cats that madeup the gathering. He did not like the idea of joining in. He sighed slightly. It would be expected of him, and would look strange if he just turned around and went back to camp.


{Open}

[Wingnettle]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes
https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5062&pictureid=32627

»»————-　☀︎︎　————-««

The gray tabby had been looking forward to the Gathering for a whole moon now. He was determined to make as many new friends as he could, tonight. Of course, he reflected, it's not like we can have friends from the other clans. But he was dying to have a good conversation with someone new, and hoped to hear something interesting in exchange.

A dark brown pelt caught his eye, and the scent of heather and wind reached his nostrils. Ashpaw padded up to the Windclan warrior and flicked his tail in greeting. "Hello! I'm Ashpaw from Thunderclan." And I'm almost ready to receive my warrior name. he thought excitedly. The next time he'll come here, he will have his full name.

[ Rabbiteye-ball ]

[Zei]

"A pleasure," she nodded her head to him. He sounded, at least to her ear, like he didn't want to be here. Maybe someone had made him come?
Taodclaw sat down to watch the gathering "wonder if this will be a intreasting gather..."

At the other cat's words, Dappledpaw tried to look smaller. Was she being rude? I should have waited. I could have easily just came with my clan but... Ugh. she thought, her ear twitching. Dappledpaw then decided, yes. It should be pretty easy to stay out of trouble... Just stay outside of the crowd. No trouble there. Right?
Cobwebpaw whispered "it's fine! come on! lets go find some other apprentices!"

[Ember Paw]

Taodclaw sat down to watch the gathering "wonder if this will be a intreasting gather..."


Cobwebpaw whispered "it's fine! come on! lets go find some other apprentices!"
Ginger-Step stretched, her fur puffing out. " Well. I'll leave you two alone. " She purred, getting up and padding across the clearing. She sat alone, flicking her tail. She let out a gentle sigh and began to clean the fur on her chest, licking the fur with quick swipes of her tongue. Her gaze flickered over to Toad-Claw briefly, but she sighed.

[X marks the spot]

Ginger-Step stretched, her fur puffing out. " Well. I'll leave you two alone. " She purred, getting up and padding across the clearing. She sat alone, flicking her tail. She let out a gentle sigh and began to clean the fur on her chest, licking the fur with quick swipes of her tongue. Her gaze flickered over to Toad-Claw briefly, but she sighed.
Shiver'Blaze walked into the gathering clearing, not knowing he was possibly late or early. He noticed a ginger and white queen, recognizing her scent as shadowclan scent. He wrinkled his nose, but kept his fur from bristling. He was about to turn to talk to a warrior, when an idea struck him. ' She's a queen right? Maybe I can squeeze some information out of her... ' he thought slyly. He padded over to her, holding his head high. He watched as she licked the fur on her chest. " Hello. You are Ginger'Step right? I don't believe we have met. I am Shiver'Blaze of Thunderclan. " he mewed.

[Shade.]

Frigidpaw arrived at the Seastones with the rest of ShadowClan. She watched her grandmother join the other leaders, bitter that she couldn't spend time with her. So she guessed she had to entertain herself by messing with someone. Maybe she could terrorise a few of the other apprentices here with one of her stories or start a fight.

[SpiritedWarrior]

Flamepaw followed behind Sparrowstar, her eyes keen with curiosity. She had already gone to a Gathering, but there was always a possibility to meet someone new. Once Sparrowstar had warned the Clan about behaving, the she-cat nodded and made the move to sit next to her best friend, the young she-cat was a little hurt to see he was already interacting with another cat. I guess that's okay... I can find someone else to talk to, I guess...

Although she knew loads of cats, including a couple of apprentices from ShadowClan, she didn't want to interact with them. They're all probably interacting with others or not even at the Gathering. But her eyes laid on a familiar pelt. She had seen the tom around camp but had never actually spoken to him. Well, better late than never, right? Flamepaw shrugged her shoulders and then sat next to the fellow apprentice.

"Hi! I'm Flamepaw, who are you?" she announced herself in a cheerful manner.

oleander (time for them to interact! :eyes: )

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This was the second Gathering Rainpaw would be attending, and it was already making his anxiety heighten. Last Gathering was more chaotic than the young tom had always imagined it, so he expected some chaos to spread at this one too. Bumbleflight wasn't really anywhere to be seen, nor were Thrushfur and Quailfur. Not even Lavenderpaw was visible in the crowd, so he had no clue if she was around. He wanted to run. He wanted to get out of Seastones, but he wanted to be the one to inform his family about what was going on, so he unsheathed his claws and dug them into the ground each time he took a step so as to not make himself run away.

"Take it easy Rainpaw, you've got this..." he muttered to himself as he eyed the looming figure of Dawnstar next to Sparrowstar and Twilightstar.

(OPEN FOR INTERACTION)

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Badgerpaw followed as close as he could to Twilightstar without crowding her. This was his second Gathering, and he already felt a bit more confident than the last time he had come to the Seastones. His tuxedo pelt was shining, and he was eager to meet another cat. His friends were warriors now, so he decided to leave them be for the night so they could interact with warriors of the other Clans. They had gone a bit of a different path than before, but that was fine. As long as Badgerpaw didn't get separated from WindClan. Not even a few minutes at Seastones and Twilightstar was reprimanding an apprentice for arriving before the rest of WindClan. Well, that's... embarrassing. Feeling a bit more confident he split himself from Twilightstar and went to sit closer to the crowd, though still a fair distance away so that he could still see what was going on on top of the Seastones.

(OPEN FOR INTERACTION)

[taillow]

☄. *. ⋆ Ospreypaw
Ospreypaw sprinted in after Sparrowstar, energy buzzing thorough his paws as he looked around. There weren't many other cats yet but he smelt the strong scent of ShadowClan, Maybe those other apprentices will be here! His tail flicked back and forth as he looked around for another apprentice to talk with, and his gaze landed on a rather quiet looking apprentice who smelt like ShadowClan. He bounded over to the apprentice and stood in front of him, still buzzing with energy, "Hello!! My name is Ospreypaw! What's your name" Ospreypaw chirped with a small tilt of his head as he studied the tom.
Flamepaw followed behind Sparrowstar, her eyes keen with curiosity. She had already gone to a Gathering, but there was always a possibility to meet someone new. Once Sparrowstar had warned the Clan about behaving, the she-cat nodded and made the move to sit next to her best friend, the young she-cat was a little hurt to see he was already interacting with another cat. I guess that's okay... I can find someone else to talk to, I guess...

Although she knew loads of cats, including a couple of apprentices from ShadowClan, she didn't want to interact with them. They're all probably interacting with others or not even at the Gathering. But her eyes laid on a familiar pelt. She had seen the tom around camp but had never actually spoken to him. Well, better late than never, right? Flamepaw shrugged her shoulders and then sat next to the fellow apprentice.

"Hi! I'm Flamepaw, who are you?" she announced herself in a cheerful manner.

oleander

Roanpaw
Lots of various conversations drifted around him, and as much as Roanpaw wished to lift his ears and listen he was much more focused on the other Clan's leadership. After them came ThunderClan, their foresty scent practically overwhelming. Their leader - a ginger-furred she-cat - leapt onto the tree beside his grandmother and settled in. Hmm. No deputy seemed to follow her which was disappointment. Shortly after came WindClan, and the apprentice turned his head to take note in Twilightstar punishing an apprentice who had decided to show up before the rest of their Clan. Typical bunny behavior.

Turning back around to look at Dawnstar, Roanpaw heard the voice of another cat approaching him. Squirrel scent protruded into his space and slowly his head turned to see a rather excited apprentice, probably about his age. Ospreypaw. First gathering probably, if the energy he displayed had anything to say about it. Green eyes locked onto the apprentices two different colored eyes. They were about the same size, and Roanpaw couldn't help wondering how he'd fare in a little... spar.

Suddenly another voice approached, this one belonging to an apprentice who seemed older than the two of them. Taller than Roanpaw - though he wasn't far behind - with green eyes like his own. She seemed to not know her own Clanmate, or maybe she was speaking to him. Which would be interesting considering Roanpaw had no words for either of them.

Instead, he simply stared back at the two of them, face emotionless and posture unmoving. He didn't appear tense or uncomfortable as he watched them, green eyes unblinking.

[Zei]

Someone that wasn't supposed to be there was... (open to all interactions)

a young kit, only 3 moons old hide under a bush watching the events with frightened eyes... they had never seen cats like these before, but then having been abandoned at such a young age, they knew not many cats... the tiny scrap of fur shivered and tried to stay out of sight, cringing when a twing snapped under them...

[taillow]

Laurelpaw
Padding in after Twilightstar and the rest of her Clan, Laurelpaw let out a huff. The black and white she-cat gazed around the clearing, noting a few interesting conversations here and there. Standing on the edge she was close enough to hear the snapping of a twig, and instantly her bi-colored eyes snapped over to see a kit trying to hide. They didn't seem to carry a Clan scent, and a smirk unfolded onto the WindClan apprentices face as she trotted over.

"If I were you, kit, I'd get outta here." Her voice was nonchalant as she took a seat next to them, eyes on the Seastones. "That big leader up there? She's not above killing kits. So unless you want to paint the sand red tonight I suggest you leave." Terrifying kits? That seemed like a fun thing to do tonight.

[ RogueSkeleton - Having Laurel give a warning now before they're potentially killed! ]

[Zei]

Laurelpaw
Padding in after Twilightstar and the rest of her Clan, Laurelpaw let out a huff. The black and white she-cat gazed around the clearing, noting a few interesting conversations here and there. Standing on the edge she was close enough to hear the snapping of a twig, and instantly her bi-colored eyes snapped over to see a kit trying to hide. They didn't seem to carry a Clan scent, and a smirk unfolded onto the WindClan apprentices face as she trotted over.

"If I were you, kit, I'd get outta here." Her voice was nonchalant as she took a seat next to them, eyes on the Seastones. "That big leader up there? She's not above killing kits. So unless you want to paint the sand red tonight I suggest you leave." Terrifying kits? That seemed like a fun thing to do tonight.

[ RogueSkeleton - Having Laurel give a warning now before they're potentially killed! ]
the orange bengal kit shivered and didn't reply... it was to scared to move farther then the bush... to terrified to reply to the apprentice... the kit seemed to be in shock, for the last few days had been way to much drama and fearful for them, and it call be told by the glazed way their eyes where....

[taillow]

Laurelpaw
Wow. This kit really did have a death wish didn't they. Getting to their paws, Laurelpaw turned to face them and unsheathed her claws. "I said, get going. Are you deaf? Get out of here." A sharp hiss and lash of their tail as they barred their fangs towards the kit, half-lunging towards them in an effort to get them to scram.

[ RogueSkeleton ]

[Zei]

Laurelpaw
Wow. This kit really did have a death wish didn't they. Getting to their paws, Laurelpaw turned to face them and unsheathed her claws. "I said, get going. Are you deaf? Get out of here." A sharp hiss and lash of their tail as they barred their fangs towards the kit, half-lunging towards them in an effort to get them to scram.

[ RogueSkeleton ]
the kit blinked and backed away but the kit couldn't and wouldn't leave... they were terrified and almost frozen with fear, to tense to move very far. he had no wish to die, but but all they could do was crouch down in a tiny bundle of fur... he wished this mean cat would leave, all they wanted to do was disappear into thin air....

[taillow]

Laurelpaw
For StarClan's sake. Effectively losing her patience, Laurelpaw lunged again, this time aiming to give the kit a nip to its ear. "Leave. Before I kill you myself." If that would save them from a dance with Dawnstar's claws, then so be it. Eyes narrowed she lunged again, this time to grab the scruff of the kit and fling them away from the beach. Hopefully that would get them running.

[ RogueSkeleton ]

[Zei]

Laurelpaw
For StarClan's sake. Effectively losing her patience, Laurelpaw lunged again, this time aiming to give the kit a nip to its ear. "Leave. Before I kill you myself." If that would save them from a dance with Dawnstar's claws, then so be it. Eyes narrowed she lashed out a paw, hoping the gleam of her claws in the moonlight would be enough to drive the kit away.

[ RogueSkeleton ]
the kit squealed and raced out of the bush into the clearing of cats as its ear stang from the claws of the strange new cat! yikes! they thought, why where there so many cats!? he just wanted to hide in his bush! he let out a terrified yelp as cats seemed to surround the whole place. he laid down and covered his face with his paws as he shivered in terror and fright.

[Captain]

It was time yet again for another gathering, but the dark-furred leader would’ve honestly preferred to just stay back at camp. Just yesterday, Slatewhisker had turned up up dead and they had to bury her in the thicket… At least it seemed like just yesterday. Who truly knew how much time had passed? Pikestar surely didn’t and his body felt sick, even weaker than before, but regardless of it all, he showed up. Sure, RiverClan was the last clan to show up to this moon’s Gathering, but it was better than not attending at all, right? In the back of his mind, the oriental tom was prepared for the ridicue of the other clans, the mocking, the teasing. “You lost your deputy already? So soon after Skystar?” They would cruely jeer at him, “Your own deputy couldn’t handle a few rogues? How pathetic.” The mocking voices in his head continued as he continued onwards towards the beach. He drew to a halt, looking out across the crowd of cats that awaited them. “Please… behave yourselves.” Pikestar said quietly, his voice still heavy with grieving for Slatewhisker. Usually, his deputy was his voice when he couldn’t form the right words, but now… he was alone and needed to handle things by himself. Another few seconds passed before the tall RiverClan leader walked forwards. He just wanted to get this over with. Quickly.

As he was weaved through the crowd, doing his best to keep his head high, Pikestar’s partial gaze swept over a familiar tortie pelt, which made him immediately pause. “Dappledpaw.” The RiverClan leader meowed lowly, spotting the young molly trying to hide herself amongst a few ShadowClan cats that she had been conversing with. Seriously? Was she really trying to hide from him? “You know better than to head off alone without a RiverClan warrior, let alone your show up to a Gathering before me, especially given the state of our clan.” His deep tone voiced disappointment and a harsh sternness, speaking of the rogues who were killing their clanmates, “Get over here. Now. You’re lucky I do not send you back to camp with an escort.” Without looking back, Pikestar decided to make extra sure the apprentice was aware of the wrong that she did. “Reedwhisker will be keeping an eye on you until we’re all back in camp after the Gathering.” And that was that. He didn’t want to deal with it anymore. Stars forbid they have another mess like the last one and he’d have to exile another cat. Please, none of that again.

Moving swiftly through the crowd without looking anywhere else than ahead, the tall oriental longhair made no hesitation to scale up the stones where Sparrowstar and Dawnstar were seated. Twilightstar was out dealing with one of her own cats, it seemed. He took a seat and wrapped his tail around his front paws, allowing his partial gaze to slide over to the ShadowClan and ThunderClan leaders. Pikestar silently dipped his head in greeting to them, but said nothing. What could he even say? He felt wrong for trying to fake any kind of happiness or genuine sincerity. Honestly, Pikestar only felt numbness. And he truly wondered why he even tried anymore. Oh well. Let’s just get through this and all go back home when it was all over. The RiverClan leader closed his single eye and exhaled a shaky breath. Deep breaths.

Jayvines Undertaker SpiritedWarrior Littlepaw(leap)
RIVERCLAN HAS ARRIVED.

[taillow]

Laurelpaw
Stars. As the kit whimpered and cried, Laurelpaw resisted the urge to draw her claw down the front of its face. "If you would've just left..." she muttered as she leaned forward in an attempt to grab the kits scruff. If successful, she would carry them to the edge of Seastones, away from the gathered cats, and toss them onto the sand. "Get. Out. Of Here. Now."

[ RogueSkeleton ]

[Zei]

Laurelpaw
Stars. As the kit whimpered and cried, Laurelpaw resisted the urge to draw her claw down the front of its face. "If you would've just left..." she muttered as she leaned forward in an attempt to grab the kits scruff. If successful, she would carry them to the edge of Seastones, away from the gathered cats, and toss them onto the sand. "Get. Out. Of Here. Now."

[ RogueSkeleton ]
the kit shrieked and ran from the scary cat and dived back into a bush to peer out at them, the kit wished they'd leave him alone! he just wanted to stay in his bush and wait for his mother or even father to come for him, even though he knew deep inside they wouldn't....

[Dirtfur]

This was the second Gathering Rainpaw would be attending, and it was already making his anxiety heighten. Last Gathering was more chaotic than the young tom had always imagined it, so he expected some chaos to spread at this one too. Bumbleflight wasn't really anywhere to be seen, nor were Thrushfur and Quailfur. Not even Lavenderpaw was visible in the crowd, so he had no clue if she was around. He wanted to run. He wanted to get out of Seastones, but he wanted to be the one to inform his family about what was going on, so he unsheathed his claws and dug them into the ground each time he took a step so as to not make himself run away.

"Take it easy Rainpaw, you've got this..." he muttered to himself as he eyed the looming figure of Dawnstar next to Sparrowstar and Twilightstar.

(OPEN FOR INTERACTION)

All the apprentices looked lame in this Gathering. Blazingpaw can already guess that whatever topics he and the other apprentices would have will be sooo boring. There’s one apprentice that caught his interest: a WindClan apprentice with black patches and weird looking eyes threatening a kit to go away. The light brown ‘paw thought about joining in to terrorize the kit for ruining Blazingpaw’s Gathering, but a voice in the wind caught his attention: “Take it easy Rainpaw, you’ve got this.”

Twisting his head, he noticed another apprentice a few mouse-tail lengths away from him. What a weirdo, Blazingpaw thought. But, this Rainpaw cat seems more interesting than the lame bully Blazingpaw saw earlier. Groaning, realizing that he really does not want to interact, Blazingpaw forced himself to pad up to the second apprentice. “Take what easy?” Blazingpaw asked.

[sol.]

-Lilycreek-

She watched as Pikestar dismissed the little apprentice, the rawness of his voice making her own heart ache a little. This was their first Gathering without Slatewhisker, and it showed plainly on the way the Riverclanners carried themselves. They stank of grief and despair, though none of them dared to show it on their faces.

The leader climbed up onto the stones with limber grace, and held himself high. She padded into after him, keeping one eye on the rest of the clan, before sinking onto a patch of grass in the clearing.

[taillow]

Laurelpaw
If doing this step by step was what it took, then so be it. With another snarl Laurelpaw lunged, hoping to spray sand in the kits face to disorient it. Then with her teeth, she aimed to grab their scruff again and pull them out from their hiding spot. "Alright. If you won't leave then you're coming with me." Turning around, she marched back into the gathering space, up in the middle of the gathered cats until she reached the front of the Seastones.

Dropping the bundle of fur at her paws, Laurelpaw stared up at the leaders - all of them had arrived, good - and gave a lash of her tail. "Excuse me! All powerful leaders? One of you want to tell this little runt that they don't belong here? They're not leaving. And frankly, they seem to have a deathwish. Dawnstar, do you want to handle this? I know no other leader will get their paws dirty like you love doing."

Bold? Absolutely. Getting her in trouble? Most definitely. But Laurelpaw didn't care as she sat down, aiming to place one paw on the kits tail so they didn't run.

[ Undertaker Moonraven canineantics Jayvines RogueSkeleton - Have a spicy Laurelpaw for your evening ]

[sol.]

-Bluebellpaw-

What should an apprentice's first gathering be like? Bluebellpaw thought it would be a happy, or eye opening experience, to be able to see all the cats of the other clans gathered together under a pact of peace for one night to relay news. But for her, the grief of her mother's death weighed heavy in her mind. Just a day or two ago, Beansprout had turned up in camp with Otterfluff, dragging Slatewhisker's body into the clearing. She cried for years, it seemed like, and in that time, it was like she'd aged a millennium. She had woken up, half expecting for it to be a dream, until reality hit her hard, and she sobbed quietly into her nest. Stars, she'd have to go and change the moss when she got home.

She walked into the clearing after her clan, feeling a sense of dread. Pikestar would have to announce the death of her mother, and she wasn't really sure if she could handle it. Maybe she should go find her friends....


[Open!]

[Zei]

Laurelpaw
If doing this step by step was what it took, then so be it. With another snarl Laurelpaw lunged, hoping to spray sand in the kits face to disorient it. Then with her teeth, she aimed to grab their scruff again and pull them out from their hiding spot. "Alright. If you won't leave then you're coming with me." Turning around, she marched back into the gathering space, up in the middle of the gathered cats until she reached the front of the Seastones.

Dropping the bundle of fur at her paws, Laurelpaw stared up at the leaders - all of them had arrived, good - and gave a lash of her tail. "Excuse me! All powerful leaders? One of you want to tell this little runt that they don't belong here? They're not leaving. And frankly, they seem to have a deathwish. Dawnstar, do you want to handle this? I know no other leader will get their paws dirty like you love doing."

Bold? Absolutely. Getting her in trouble? Most definitely. But Laurelpaw didn't care as she sat down, aiming to place one paw on the kits tail so they didn't run.

[ Undertaker Moonraven canineantics Jayvines RogueSkeleton - Have a spicy Laurelpaw for your evening ]
the kit yowled loudly in protest but shivered at the sight of the leaders, man they where scary

[MockingRabbit]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes
https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5062&pictureid=32627

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The gray tabby had been looking forward to the Gathering for a whole moon now. He was determined to make as many new friends as he could, tonight. Of course, he reflected, it's not like we can have friends from the other clans. But he was dying to have a good conversation with someone new, and hoped to hear something interesting in exchange.

A dark brown pelt caught his eye, and the scent of heather and wind reached his nostrils. Ashpaw padded up to the Windclan warrior and flicked his tail in greeting. "Hello! I'm Ashpaw from Thunderclan." And I'm almost ready to receive my warrior name. he thought excitedly. The next time he'll come here, he will have his full name.

[ @Rabbiteye-ball (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=16523) ]
As a grey ThunderClan apprentice padded over, Rabbiteye lessened his hard expression to a slightly more blank one, in an effort to seem less threatening. "Hello, Ashpaw, I am Rabbiteye of WindClan," he mewed.


Taodclaw sat down to watch the gathering "wonder if this will be a intreasting gather..."


Cobwebpaw whispered "it's fine! come on! lets go find some other apprentices!"
Cloversun nodded. "Not much has happened in ShadowClan... Although I have been known to let things slip me by," she chuckled.

[Zei]

Cloversun nodded. "Not much has happened in ShadowClan... Although I have been known to let things slip me by," she chuckled.
Toadclaw nodded then noticing the kit "whos annoying brat is that?!" he hissed

[shaae_26]

Hawknight padded up to the gathering

[SpiritedWarrior]

Laurelpaw
For StarClan's sake. Effectively losing her patience, Laurelpaw lunged again, this time aiming to give the kit a nip to its ear. "Leave. Before I kill you myself." If that would save them from a dance with Dawnstar's claws, then so be it. Eyes narrowed she lunged again, this time to grab the scruff of the kit and fling them away from the beach. Hopefully that would get them running.

[ RogueSkeleton ]
the kit squealed and raced out of the bush into the clearing of cats as its ear stang from the claws of the strange new cat! yikes! they thought, why where there so many cats!? he just wanted to hide in his bush! he let out a terrified yelp as cats seemed to surround the whole place. he laid down and covered his face with his paws as he shivered in terror and fright.

Although Badgerpaw would typically avoid Laurelpaw, he couldn't help but keep an eye on her as she interacted with a loner kit. Quite frankly, knowing the black and white she-cat, he was worried for the safety of the kit. And with a giant brute such as Dawnstar close by, his concern was growing. Looking from Twilightstar ( Moonraven ) to Laurelpaw, the young tuxedo started padding toward Laurelpaw to defend the kit. The tom's pace quickened into a run when he had heard his fellow apprentice threaten to kill the clearly terrified kit. Oh no you don't!

"Laurelpaw, stop! That's a kit you're threatening!" he yowled and moved to stand above the kit. "Don't you know this is a loner kit, without its parents around? You can't just attack a defenseless kit, it's wrong!"

The young tom firmly placed his claws into the soft sand beneath him and readied himself for an attack Laurelpaw might throw at him. I don't know how to fight, but Laurelpaw can't attack an innocent kit who is absolutely terrified!

It was time yet again for another gathering, but the dark-furred leader would’ve honestly preferred to just stay back at camp. Just yesterday, Slatewhisker had turned up up dead and they had to bury her in the thicket… At least it seemed like just yesterday. Who truly knew how much time had passed? Pikestar surely didn’t and his body felt sick, even weaker than before, but regardless of it all, he showed up. Sure, RiverClan was the last clan to show up to this moon’s Gathering, but it was better than not attending at all, right? In the back of his mind, the oriental tom was prepared for the ridicue of the other clans, the mocking, the teasing. “You lost your deputy already? So soon after Skystar?” They would cruely jeer at him, “Your own deputy couldn’t handle a few rogues? How pathetic.” The mocking voices in his head continued as he continued onwards towards the beach. He drew to a halt, looking out across the crowd of cats that awaited them. “Please… behave yourselves.” Pikestar said quietly, his voice still heavy with grieving for Slatewhisker. Usually, his deputy was his voice when he couldn’t form the right words, but now… he was alone and needed to handle things by himself. Another few seconds passed before the tall RiverClan leader walked forwards. He just wanted to get this over with. Quickly.

As he was weaved through the crowd, doing his best to keep his head high, Pikestar’s partial gaze swept over a familiar tortie pelt, which made him immediately pause. “Dappledpaw.” The RiverClan leader meowed lowly, spotting the young molly trying to hide herself amongst a few ShadowClan cats that she had been conversing with. Seriously? Was she really trying to hide from him? “You know better than to head off alone without a RiverClan warrior, let alone your show up to a Gathering before me, especially given the state of our clan.” His deep tone voiced disappointment and a harsh sternness, speaking of the rogues who were killing their clanmates, “Get over here. Now. You’re lucky I do not send you back to camp with an escort.” Without looking back, Pikestar decided to make extra sure the apprentice was aware of the wrong that she did. “Reedwhisker will be keeping an eye on you until we’re all back in camp after the Gathering.” And that was that. He didn’t want to deal with it anymore. Stars forbid they have another mess like the last one and he’d have to exile another cat. Please, none of that again.

Moving swiftly through the crowd without looking anywhere else than ahead, the tall oriental longhair made no hesitation to scale up the stones where Sparrowstar and Dawnstar were seated. Twilightstar was out dealing with one of her own cats, it seemed. He took a seat and wrapped his tail around his front paws, allowing his partial gaze to slide over to the ShadowClan and ThunderClan leaders. Pikestar silently dipped his head in greeting to them, but said nothing. What could he even say? He felt wrong for trying to fake any kind of happiness or genuine sincerity. Honestly, Pikestar only felt numbness. And he truly wondered why he even tried anymore. Oh well. Let’s just get through this and all go back home when it was all over. The RiverClan closed his single eye and exhaled a shaky breath. Deep breaths, Pikestar.

Jayvines Undertaker SpiritedWarrior Littlepaw(leap)
RIVERCLAN HAS ARRIVED.

RiverClan was going through rough times, Pikestar alone could convey that message without speaking due to how exhausted he looked. Reedwhisker was tired too, mainly trying to keep herself afloat for her two apprentices and now Pikestar. It appeared RiverClan was the last to arrive, but she didn't care. Better late than never. At the dark tom's quiet warning, the dark brown she-cat nodded then turned to the rest of RiverClan.

"You hear that everyone? Don't go acting like kits tonight!" she spoke louder to help the tired leader and then turned her attention back to the path ahead. "The more responsible we are, the less chaos will happen."

When she had turned back to pay attention to where she was walking, the dark she-cat noticed Pikestar's gaze on an apprentice who had apparently decided to show up at Seastones without the support of RiverClan. She wanted to reprimand the apprentice herself but kept quiet so she didn't overstep Pikestar. Luckily, the tom had already started chastising the young cat. Observing the conversation, she sat back and let her Clanmates pass her. It was clear Pikestar wasn't happy given the tone of his voice, and rightfully so, but Reedwhisker didn't dare add insult to injury since she didn't want to get reprimanded by the leader herself. Not after the fool Slatewhatshisname made himself turn out to be the last Gathering. It came to her as a bit of surprise when she was the one put in charge of watching Dappledpaw. I won't let him down, she promised herself, dipping her head to show she heard what duty she was given.

"Right then. Dappledpaw, I'll let you talk to whoever, but my eye will not leave your pelt, understand? If you attempt to get away from my watch, Pikestar will be sure to know about it."

The she-cat sat down close to the apprentice, but not too close so the apprentice didn't feel comfortable. Her goal was to just observe what was going on with the other Clans and keep her eye on Dappledpaw, "You truly are lucky Pikestar is letting you stay here tonight. Do not make him regret his decision."

Littlepaw(leap)
All the apprentices looked lame in this Gathering. Blazingpaw can already guess that whatever topics he and the other apprentices would have will be sooo boring. There’s one apprentice that caught his interest: a WindClan apprentice with black patches and weird looking eyes threatening a kit to go away. The light brown ‘paw thought about joining in to terrorize the kit for ruining Blazingpaw’s Gathering, but a voice in the wind caught his attention: “Take it easy Rainpaw, you’ve got this.”

Twisting his head, he noticed another apprentice a few mouse-tail lengths away from him. What a weirdo, Blazingpaw thought. But, this Rainpaw cat seems more interesting than the lame bully Blazingpaw saw earlier. Groaning, realizing that he really does not want to interact, Blazingpaw forced himself to pad up to the second apprentice. “Take what easy?” Blazingpaw asked.

Rainpaw could feel the tension in the air, but it wasn't anywhere close to what he felt at the last Gathering. Well, at least there was that. He took a few deep breaths and turned his attention to RiverClan as they began arriving. So far, so good. It was a little less peaceful than Rainpaw liked, but he knew he couldn't always get what he wanted. Turning his attention to Blazingkit- or, Blazingpaw, now... probably, he realized he was being addressed.

"The Gathering... this is my second one, the last Gathering was really tense, I didn't like it very much," he shrugged his shoulders, unsure of what else to say. "I didn't see your ceremony, you're a 'paw now, right? Congratulations. If you want, you can sit next to me, I don't mind. RiverClan just arrived so not many spots will be open anymore..."

[perseus.]

Roanpaw
Lots of various conversations drifted around him, and as much as Roanpaw wished to lift his ears and listen he was much more focused on the other Clan's leadership. After them came ThunderClan, their foresty scent practically overwhelming. Their leader - a ginger-furred she-cat - leapt onto the tree beside his grandmother and settled in. Hmm. No deputy seemed to follow her which was disappointment. Shortly after came WindClan, and the apprentice turned his head to take note in Twilightstar punishing an apprentice who had decided to show up before the rest of their Clan. Typical bunny behavior.

Turning back around to look at Dawnstar, Roanpaw heard the voice of another cat approaching him. Squirrel scent protruded into his space and slowly his head turned to see a rather excited apprentice, probably about his age. Ospreypaw. First gathering probably, if the energy he displayed had anything to say about it. Green eyes locked onto the apprentices two different colored eyes. They were about the same size, and Roanpaw couldn't help wondering how he'd fare in a little... spar.

Suddenly another voice approached, this one belonging to an apprentice who seemed older than the two of them. Taller than Roanpaw - though he wasn't far behind - with green eyes like his own. She seemed to not know her own Clanmate, or maybe she was speaking to him. Which would be interesting considering Roanpaw had no words for either of them.

Instead, he simply stared back at the two of them, face emotionless and posture unmoving. He didn't appear tense or uncomfortable as he watched them, green eyes unblinking.

Flamepaw followed behind Sparrowstar, her eyes keen with curiosity. She had already gone to a Gathering, but there was always a possibility to meet someone new. Once Sparrowstar had warned the Clan about behaving, the she-cat nodded and made the move to sit next to her best friend, the young she-cat was a little hurt to see he was already interacting with another cat. I guess that's okay... I can find someone else to talk to, I guess...

Although she knew loads of cats, including a couple of apprentices from ShadowClan, she didn't want to interact with them. They're all probably interacting with others or not even at the Gathering. But her eyes laid on a familiar pelt. She had seen the tom around camp but had never actually spoken to him. Well, better late than never, right? Flamepaw shrugged her shoulders and then sat next to the fellow apprentice.

"Hi! I'm Flamepaw, who are you?" she announced herself in a cheerful manner.

☄. *. ⋆ Ospreypaw
Ospreypaw head tilted more when he the apprentice didn't respond though he turned his head when he heard another voice, and they smelt like one of his clanmates, "Hello Flamepaw! I'm Ospreypaw, this is...actually well he hasn't said his name yet, but he's from ShadowClan, but are you from ThunderClan as well?" If she was than he felt bad! He could have became friends with them earlier but he had been so busy with training that he hasn't had time to talk to others yet.

[puppeteer]

Silverpaw padded gracefully through the throng of cats, a small roll of her eyes as she watched Pikestar reprimand Dappledpaw. Mousebrain. She gave the other apprentice a small, pointed look before sitting herself down.

{ OPEN }

[taillow]

Laurelpaw
As Badgerpaw came up and butted into her face, trying to stand over the kit, Laurelpaw barred her teeth and lunged her face forward, aiming to snap her jaws shut around his nose if he didn't pull back fast enough. "Get your loner-smelling pelt out of my face, fox-heart." Dangerous venom dripped from her words as she glared at him, ears pulled back. "It didn't want to run, so now the leaders get to deal with it. So butt. Out." The black and white apprentice gave a lash of her tail and a warning glare to the tom to back off.

[ SpiritedWarrior ]

[Zei]

Although Badgerpaw would typically avoid Laurelpaw, he couldn't help but keep an eye on her as she interacted with a loner kit. Quite frankly, knowing the black and white she-cat, he was worried for the safety of the kit. And with a giant brute such as Dawnstar close by, his concern was growing. Looking from Twilightstar ( Moonraven ) to Laurelpaw, the young tuxedo started padding toward Laurelpaw to defend the kit. The tom's pace quickened into a run when he had heard his fellow apprentice threaten to kill the clearly terrified kit. Oh no you don't!

"Laurelpaw, stop! That's a kit you're threatening!" he yowled and moved to stand above the kit. "Don't you know this is a loner kit, without its parents around? You can't just attack a defenseless kit, it's wrong!"

The young tom firmly placed his claws into the soft sand beneath him and readied himself for an attack Laurelpaw might throw at him. I don't know how to fight, but Laurelpaw can't attack an innocent kit who is absolutely terrified!



RiverClan was going through rough times, Pikestar alone could convey that message without speaking due to how exhausted he looked. Reedwhisker was tired too, mainly trying to keep herself afloat for her two apprentices and now Pikestar. It appeared RiverClan was the last to arrive, but she didn't care. Better late than never. At the dark tom's quiet warning, the dark brown she-cat nodded then turned to the rest of RiverClan.

"You hear that everyone? Don't go acting like kits tonight!" she spoke louder to help the tired leader and then turned her attention back to the path ahead. "The more responsible we are, the less chaos will happen."

When she had turned back to pay attention to where she was walking, the dark she-cat noticed Pikestar's gaze on an apprentice who had apparently decided to show up at Seastones without the support of RiverClan. She wanted to reprimand the apprentice herself but kept quiet so she didn't overstep Pikestar. Luckily, the tom had already started chastising the young cat. Observing the conversation, she sat back and let her Clanmates pass her. It was clear Pikestar wasn't happy given the tone of his voice, and rightfully so, but Reedwhisker didn't dare add insult to injury since she didn't want to get reprimanded by the leader herself. Not after the fool Slatewhatshisname made himself turn out to be the last Gathering. It came to her as a bit of surprise when she was the one put in charge of watching Dappledpaw. I won't let him down, she promised herself, dipping her head to show she heard what duty she was given.

"Right then. Dappledpaw, I'll let you talk to whoever, but my eye will not leave your pelt, understand? If you attempt to get away from my watch, Pikestar will be sure to know about it."

The she-cat sat down close to the apprentice, but not too close so the apprentice didn't feel comfortable. Her goal was to just observe what was going on with the other Clans and keep her eye on Dappledpaw, "You truly are lucky Pikestar is letting you stay here tonight. Do not make him regret his decision."

Littlepaw(leap)
Laurelpaw
As Badgerpaw came up and butted into her face, trying to stand over the kit, Laurelpaw barred her teeth and lunged her face forward, aiming to snap her jaws shut around his nose if he didn't pull back fast enough. "Get your loner-smelling pelt out of my face, fox-heart." Dangerous venom dripped from her words as she glared at him, ears pulled back. "It didn't want to run, so now the leaders get to deal with it. So butt. Out." The black and white apprentice gave a lash of her tail and a warning glare to the tom to back off.

[ SpiritedWarrior ]
the kit glanced between the two and tried to wiggle away from Laurelpaw. it squealed as it tried to pull it's tail away

[MockingRabbit]

Toadclaw nodded then noticing the kit "whos annoying brat is that?!" he hissed
"Not mine, thankfully," she mewed, glancing at the WindClan apprentice who was terrorizing it.

[Zei]

"Not mine, thankfully," she mewed, glancing at the WindClan apprentice who was terrorizing it.
Toadclaw nodded "idiot furball!" he hissed at the kit....

[MockingRabbit]

Troutstone followed his leader into the gathering. There seemed to be some commotion going on with a loner kit. He squeezed forward to get a better look.

[perseus.]

BurningFrost
⊱GENDERFLUID: SHE/THEY/HIM⊰
⊱BRANCH: SHADOWCLAN⊰
⊱A GOLDEN TORTIE WITH CREAM AND WHITES,ONE BLIND EYE AND A SCAR THAT EXTENDS FROM THE BACK OF THE NECK TO THE BLIND EYE⊰
════ ⋆★⋆ ════

Damn it. Why were they coming over here- “Hello Coyotecrash- and Gingerheart. How’s the Windclan Branch Doing,Since you both are the only members remaining. Did My Branch kill all of you rabbits? The golden cat knew it was by far a low blow- did she care? Nah. Would they both care? Probably not. Their branch was weak anyways,They probably couldn’t even last in a battle against The Outsider branch. The cat snickered at the tease. “Sit,Sit. The Shadowclan branch is doing fine.Owlkit was born a while back,A Neice of me. I just wonder which of my siblings had a child,eh who cares- all that matters is that Owlkit is strong and fierce.”
Burningfrost spoke bitterly,they didn’t want to be here. This would only start a battle between the Branches. But perhaps that wasn’t the worst thing…The Windclan Branch was far too cowardly and So was The Thunderclan Branch;Regardless of Numbers. The Riverclan Branch was the only one that stood a chance,They could fight. They had the advantage in wet environments. Hm… “Riverclan has yet to arrive. Lilycreek will hopefully be here. It’s been far too long since we have seen Our Riverclan Cousins. Don’t You Think So Gingerheart and Coyotecrash?”

{ CLOSED TO EVERYONE BUT BRANCH/FAMILY MEMBERS (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1279454&postcount=1) }

☄. *. ⋆ Fogcloud
Fogcloud walked in after Pikestar, a sadness was deep in their chest but also a burning anger. The recent rogues had ripped so much from the clan there was a spark of anger and of distrust that rolled through out the warrior. Though their eyes landed on the large amount of the branch members, though in particular on their half-sibling, Burningfrost.

The silver tabby saw he was piled on by the others and she slinked over to the group, coming to a spot next to Burningfrost, "While I usually agree with all of your statements, you all know how Burning is, blunt and vindictive. They are just trying to rile all of you up." She then took a seat, wrapping her tail around her paws glancing at the other members, "Hello, Gingerheart, Coyotecrash, and Nightsong. I hope all of you have been well."

Their gaze glanced around, seeing Ospreypaw, another cousin but they seemed busy so they turned their gaze back toward the others.


[ spooky sky - gingerheart and nightsong mention ]

[sol.]

BurningFrost
⊱GENDERFLUID: SHE/THEY/HIM⊰
⊱BRANCH: SHADOWCLAN⊰
⊱A GOLDEN TORTIE WITH CREAM AND WHITES,ONE BLIND EYE AND A SCAR THAT EXTENDS FROM THE BACK OF THE NECK TO THE BLIND EYE⊰
════ ⋆★⋆ ════

Damn it. Why were they coming over here- “Hello Coyotecrash- and Gingerheart. How’s the Windclan Branch Doing,Since you both are the only members remaining. Did My Branch kill all of you rabbits? The golden cat knew it was by far a low blow- did she care? Nah. Would they both care? Probably not. Their branch was weak anyways,They probably couldn’t even last in a battle against The Outsider branch. The cat snickered at the tease. “Sit,Sit. The Shadowclan branch is doing fine.Owlkit was born a while back,A Neice of me. I just wonder which of my siblings had a child,eh who cares- all that matters is that Owlkit is strong and fierce.”
Burningfrost spoke bitterly,they didn’t want to be here. This would only start a battle between the Branches. But perhaps that wasn’t the worst thing…The Windclan Branch was far too cowardly and So was The Thunderclan Branch;Regardless of Numbers. The Riverclan Branch was the only one that stood a chance,They could fight. They had the advantage in wet environments. Hm… “Riverclan has yet to arrive. Lilycreek will hopefully be here. It’s been far too long since we have seen Our Riverclan Cousins. Don’t You Think So Gingerheart and Coyotecrash?”

{ CLOSED TO EVERYONE BUT BRANCH/FAMILY MEMBERS (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1279454&postcount=1) }

Ospreypaw was in the crowd tonight, she saw. How many of her cousins were here?

She spotted a familiar face in the crowd. Burningfrost, her cousin. A note of affection slipped into her mind as she watched the tortie She was from ShadowClan, her father Thrushfur's original clan, and was part of the reason why she couldn't bring herself to hate the entirety of Dawnstar's forces. Brash and loud though he was, she was still family.

She padded over, deciding to say hello- why not? They hadn't seen each other in a while anyway.

"Going on about our lovely family's ShadowClan branch again, dearest cousin?" She teased in her sweet voice, sliding in the sarcasm. "I hope you intend on letting us pitch in with our shortcomings." A lively glimmer appeared in her eye. She meowed hello to the other two cats- Windclanners. Distant relations through Burningfrost, she recalled fondly, Gingerheart and Coyotecrash she believed. The other, she knew well. Fogcloud, another riverclanner.

Another cat appeared. Nightsong? She meowed her greetings.

--- oleander spooky sky

[SpiritedWarrior]

☄. *. ⋆ Ospreypaw
Ospreypaw head tilted more when he the apprentice didn't respond though he turned his head when he heard another voice, and they smelt like one of his clanmates, "Hello Flamepaw! I'm Ospreypaw, this is...actually well he hasn't said his name yet, but he's from ShadowClan, but are you from ThunderClan as well?" If she was than he felt bad! He could have became friends with them earlier but he had been so busy with training that he hasn't had time to talk to others yet.

Flamepaw dipped her head in greeting to the younger apprentices. The apprentice who was staring was from ShadowClan, huh? Well, that was certainly intriguing. She's yet to hear about a ShadowClanner who's silent. They were typically trying to start fights or antagonize, but this apprentice was clearly a little different.

"Nice to meet you," she spoke to Roanpaw then turned her attention back to the fellow ThunderClan apprentice. "Yep, I'm from ThunderClan too. Nice to finally meet you, Ospreypaw!"
birdie

Laurelpaw
As Badgerpaw came up and butted into her face, trying to stand over the kit, Laurelpaw barred her teeth and lunged her face forward, aiming to snap her jaws shut around his nose if he didn't pull back fast enough. "Get your loner-smelling pelt out of my face, fox-heart." Dangerous venom dripped from her words as she glared at him, ears pulled back. "It didn't want to run, so now the leaders get to deal with it. So butt. Out." The black and white apprentice gave a lash of her tail and a warning glare to the tom to back off.

[ SpiritedWarrior ]
the kit glanced between the two and tried to wiggle away from Laurelpaw. it squealed as it tried to pull it's tail away

The cats attending the Gathering were bringing their attention to the situation between Laurelpaw, Badgerpaw, and the loner kit. Well, that wasn't good. Any moment now, the leaders would be getting involved. I have to smooth this out... I don't want an innocent kit getting murdered just because it was without its parents! His mind was whirling with multiple ideas on how to straighten everything out, nervousness was threatening to make itself evident. In other words, Badgerpaw was slowly being crushed with anxiety. But he couldn't let that show. He couldn't make it look like WindClan was weak. He couldn't let their reputation get tarnished.

But he didn't want a fight to break out either. It was a fine balance, this moment was. Either a fight would happen or the situation would dissipate. While he was in thought, he kept his eyes trained on Laurelpaw. to make sure she didn't try any funny business. But that's exactly what she tried. He couldn't move. He couldn't expose the kit to Laurelpaw's harsh claws. So he just stood there, letting Laurelpaw snap her jaws onto his nose. He winced with the pain that surrounded it and fought back a yowl. He didn't unsheathe his claws to fight back, but he did raise his paw to push Laurelpaw backward.

"Stay away from this kit, I'll stay away from you," he hissed, spitting out the blood from his nose as it came into his mouth. "I will not hurt you, Laurelpaw, but I sure won't let you hurt this kit either."

Badgerpaw would probably end up a bloody mess if he wasn't careful, but he did hope Twilgihtstar interjected soon. He wanted nothing to do with Laurelpaw. Whatever feeling he had toward her in the beginning, was over now, he did not like her. Going against what he was taught so many moons ago was something he hardly ever did, but this kit was reminding him of his littermates he got separated from when he was close to four moons old. The tom didn't even break from his position to rub his nose, he just stared at Laurelpaw, crouching over the terrified kit, waiting for her next attack.

[Zei]

the kit, Fire squealed and hide behind Badgerpaw... why where big cats so scary?!
Moonraven Undertaker canineantics Jayvines

he looked up at the biggest cats, one looked quite sad, one looked very scary, the others seemed noble, but Fire was afraid they might hurt him...

[occultation]

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Slatestripe followed his Clan to the Seastones. Honestly, he’d been torn between whether he wanted them to go or skip this Gathering. On one paw, skipping would show weakness. On the other, it would save them from the jeering and mocking of the other Clans. He knew at least a few cats would have some snotty-ass remark to make about how RiverClan couldn’t keep its high ranks.

Truth be told, there was some truth in that. Knowing that worried Slatestripe greatly; he feared for the Clan’s future with this much instability. He just hoped the next deputy would stick around for some time, whoever it ended up being. RiverClan needed a break. He prayed to StarClan that every cat from his Clan would behave tonight. They didn’t need to give the other Clans a reason to mock them even more.

Alas, that was not meant to be. It seemed that Dappledpaw had decided to run ahead of the rest of her Clan and arrive at Seastones early. Slatestripe sighed, more in defeat than out of annoyance. Could they possibly go through one Gathering without some cat of theirs causing problems!?

Dappledpaw was lucky Slatestripe wasn’t her mentor, or he’d have her restricted to camp doing chores for the next moon. He was surprised that Pikestar was letting her stay, but he figured he was giving her a little leeway because she was just an apprentice.

As RiverClan dispersed, Slatestripe picked his way toward the front of the crowd. He settled in a relatively quiet spot, hoping it would stay that way. He wanted to be able to hear what the leaders had to say.

( open! )

[Dirtfur]

Rainpaw could feel the tension in the air, but it wasn't anywhere close to what he felt at the last Gathering. Well, at least there was that. He took a few deep breaths and turned his attention to RiverClan as they began arriving. So far, so good. It was a little less peaceful than Rainpaw liked, but he knew he couldn't always get what he wanted. Turning his attention to Blazingkit- or, Blazingpaw, now... probably, he realized he was being addressed.

"The Gathering... this is my second one, the last Gathering was really tense, I didn't like it very much," he shrugged his shoulders, unsure of what else to say. "I didn't see your ceremony, you're a 'paw now, right? Congratulations. If you want, you can sit next to me, I don't mind. RiverClan just arrived so not many spots will be open anymore..."

“Pfft, if you don’t like it, then why don’t you stay at camp?” Blazingpaw mumbled, turning his face away from Rainpaw. He snapped his head over his shoulder as he gasped. “You didn’t see my ceremony?” The light brown apprentice growled and rolled his eyes. “Of course I am a “‘paw”- oh please, I would rather sit down next to my mentor Copperfire. Oh yeah, did I forget to mention that my mentor is the deputy of ThunderClan?” Blazingpaw smirked and excitement glared in his blue eyes as he repeatedly bragged about getting a special mentor.

[Dark]

Larkpaw
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Larkpaw had still been watching Vixensnarl and the ThunderClan warrior with rapt attention(and amusement) when a movement at the corner of her vision called for her attention. Her gaze immediately flicked in that direction, and then Lark arched an eyebrow in question. Upon realizing why she was being called, the young apprentice bit back an amused laugh at Darkpaw's predicament.

Without needing any further invitation, Larkpaw sidled over, her lean, lithe frame barely anything in comparison to Darkpaw’s broader one. Once by her fellow denmate’s side, Larkpaw offered Ashpaw a small, close-lipped smile and sat down right there as if entirely comfortable in this new setting, wrapping her tail around her paws.

“And who may you be?” She asked Ashpaw, then directed her next words over at Darkpaw to establish her acknowledgment of his presence, since perhaps it’d seem like she was ignoring the other apprentice. “Got your paws full already, have you?” Lark stated, as it was more of a rhetorical question than an actual one. “Gathering hasn’t even barely started yet.” The Korat cat jested, and then intently tipped her head to the side, amber eyes flitting back to rest on the WindClan apprentice standing before her.

“But in all seriousness, I heard what Darkpaw had to say to you. You should not have come here alone, albeit arriving before your leader is worse. Without the protection of your Clanmates, your hide rests in the paws of ShadowClan if they want to interfere and teach you some mannerisms.” Larkpaw said with a questioning frown. The tip of her grey tail flicked back and forth with suppressed curiosity. “So then, why are you here? I mean, unless it’s really only for seeing your first Gathering, as I’m sure that’s very exciting…” Larkpaw trailed off for a moment, dearly hoping neither realized that this was also her very first Gathering, and that she’d been very very excited about it back in camp, though that excitement hadn’t been put on display. The apprentice inwardly cringed at the awkward situation she’d just put herself in. Hopefully no one would notice. Hopefully…

Locking gazes with Ashpaw once again, Lark cleared her throat. “Nevermind, I entirely suspect that it was just the excitement that preceded your thought to arrive here before WindClan’s Twilightstar.”

[ Darkclaws - Darkpaw / SpookyCloud the Pumpkin - Ashpaw ]

Despite her age, the willowy WindClan leader cut through the moor on swift and sure paws, leading her clan to the gathering once again as she did every gathering before. As she reached the beach, ThunderClan and ShadowClan's scents mixed with the salty tang of the ocean touched her nose before her paws touched the sand, giving her some idea of what she was walking into. Twilightstar noticed ThunderClan cats still pouring in which meant she hadn't been too far behind the forest dwellers.

Twilightstar offered no words of warning, finding no need at the moment, as she let her cats mingle while she began to make her way up the stones where she found the ever-towering Dawnstar and slighter Sparrowstar already seated. It seemed like Sparrowstar was attempting to converse with the tyrant, and even though Twilightstar was somewhat interested in seeing how that went, another called for her attention.

Veering off her original path, the lilac she-cat made her way over to the group of apprentices, green eye locked on one in particular. The WindClan leader twitched her ear in a brief but wordless greeting to the two ShadowClan apprentices but gave the majority of her attention to the actual one in trouble. "Ashpaw, I expect you have a very good reason for arriving ahead of me and the rest of WindClan." Besides the fact that it was just disrespectful and disobedient, it could be very dangerous to show up at a gathering without the support of a clan. ThunderClan Twilightstar had nothing to worry about, ShadowClan however was different.

The leader's single eye roamed over the apprentice's form noting a lack of one hair out of place and it seemed that Ashpaw had been lucky enough to find a pair of less violent Shadowclan cats. The scarred she-cat knew very well that not all ShadowClan cats were like their leader, but considering that Twilightstar held multiple scars and a missing eye thanks to Dawnstar, alongside Dawnstar's obvious lack of care for the truce, no one could blame her for being wary of all the cats who lurk in the Shadowmenace's neck of the woods. The WindClan leader waited patiently for a response from the apprentice, who'd be getting a punishment regardless of the excuse since there was no excuse for such behavior.
Darkclaws SpookyCloud the Pumpkin Katulaura
[WindClan's Arrived]

Darkpaw
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Darkpaw nodded appreciatively when Larkpaw came over to help him out. He was sure his denmate would never let him live down this predicament, but at the moment he couldn’t say he cared. He was just grateful to have been bailed out of the situation. As Larkpaw spoke, he made sure to nod when appropriate and added a few “mhmms” for added effect, to make sure their point got across. When Larkpaw mentioned that Ashpaw was likely excited about this being her first gathering, his eyebrow arched questioningly. He was fairly certain that this was also her first gathering and he began to open his mouth to point this out but held back. Perhaps he’d tease her about it another time without the other apprentice with them.

Smelling a strong scent of WindClan approaching them, Darkpaw turned towards the direction of the sudden intrusion, only to see Twilightstar approaching. Eyes widening a bit, when he realized who it was, he nodded respectfully to the WindClan leader. He had heard a bit about her from his mentor, Cinderblaze, but looking at the cat in front of him he was a little taken aback by her appearance. She looked a little rough he noted, likely had been in many battles and no doubt a strong cat he decided. He'd be sure to try to squeeze information about her out of Cinderblaze later.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you Twilightstar, my name is Darkpaw,” The black tabby greeted. He couldn’t allow this opportunity to speak to one of the clan leaders go to waste, so he decided he'd introduce himself and attempt to explain the situation without overstepping too much. “I don’t mean to interrupt here, so please forgive my rudeness,” he started, “But Larkpaw and I were just informing Ashpaw here that it is very dangerous to arrive before one’s leader and that she was lucky to have come across us, and not some of our… other clanmates,” Darkpaw mewed, gesturing towards Larkpaw with a flick of his tail. He knew all too well that the two clans didn't have a great relationship and how members of his own were known to be particularly violent, so he wanted to make sure that the WindClan leader knew that he and his denmate held no ill will towards either of them.

[ SpookyCloud the Pumpkin for Ashpaw mention]

[carmen]

SplashyLumi Witchy Angelique

Okay, so maybe she had judged the older cat a bit harshly. His response was also less... Shadowclan-y than she had expected. He just seemed kind of out of touch with the two younger cats. Oh well. She attempted to smile reassuringly at Ratpaw as he moved closer to her. It felt weird to smile at someone not in her clan, really it felt it weird to smile in general. How did anyone go around being friendly? It just felt so icky. Her attention was drawn away from the cats in front of her, eyes widening slightly as she noticed the issue with the other apprentices to the side. Was that a kit? Stars. She didn't feel like interrupting them, but it was better to be aware of them. She gestured lightly with her tail in the general direction of the commotion. "What's going on over there?"

[Faith.]

Dappledpaw froze. Pikestar! She did what he said and trailed behind the rest of her arriving clan. Mouse dung... I hope I'm not in too much trouble when we get back to camp! she thought, sighing. Dappledpaw found a spot close enough for her to hear and where Reedwhisker could see her, but also a bit away from other cats. She didn't really want to interact with all the other apprentices.

[Bean.]

Nightpaw followed pikestar, reedwhisker is guarding someone… hm, thats fine i guess. She walked for a bit then sat down.

(Open, probably someone who is sweet)
(Not a riverclan cat please)

[Zei]

Dappledpaw froze. Pikestar! She did what he said and trailed behind the rest of her arriving clan. Mouse dung... I hope I'm not in too much trouble when we get back to camp! she thought, sighing. Dappledpaw found a spot close enough for her to hear and where Reedwhisker could see her, but also a bit away from other cats. She didn't really want to interact with all the other apprentices.
"are you ok Dappledpaw?" Sourpatch meowed softly

[Faith.]

"are you ok Dappledpaw?" Sourpatch meowed softly
Dappledpaw internally sighed. "Yes..." She mewed, sullen.

[Zei]

Dappledpaw internally sighed. "Yes..." She mewed, sullen.
Sourpatch wrapped her tail around the apprentice "it's ok little one, we all make mistakes, but they make us stronger... "

[Robin feather]

Splashpaw

She padded around looking for someone to talk to, new cats to meet.

[Open to ANYONE]

[Faith.]

Sourpatch wrapped her tail around the apprentice "it's ok little one, we all make mistakes, but they make us stronger... "
Dappledpaw looked up at Sourpatch, grateful for the comfort. "Thanks. How are you?" She asked.

[Zei]

Dappledpaw looked up at Sourpatch, grateful for the comfort. "Thanks. How are you?" She asked.
"i'm doing well Dapplepaw, got my paws full, but doing great..." she said with a hint of doubt in her voice "and what about you Dappledpaw? learn aything new?"

[Faith.]

"i'm doing well Dapplepaw, got my paws full, but doing great..." she said with a hint of doubt in her voice "and what about you Dappledpaw? learn aything new?"
Dappledpaw nodded. "I learned from another apprentice how to catch a bunch of minnows! I haven't seen EchoBlue anywhere though... She's my mentor."

[Zei]

Dappledpaw nodded. "I learned from another apprentice how to catch a bunch of minnows! I haven't seen EchoBlue anywhere though... She's my mentor."
Sourpatch nodded "yes... she has seemed to disappear hasn't she? well if you'd like, come seek me out anytime and i'll givve you a few lessons!"

[Faith.]

Sourpatch nodded "yes... she has seemed to disappear hasn't she? well if you'd like, come seek me out anytime and i'll givve you a few lessons!"
"Oh, thanks!" Dappledpaw purred gratefully. Maybe she didn't want to talk to apprentices, but Sourpatch was awesome.

(#RoleModel))

[Zei]

"Oh, thanks!" Dappledpaw purred gratefully. Maybe she didn't want to talk to apprentices, but Sourpatch was awesome.

(#RoleModel))
Sourpatch purred "i might be a timid cat, but i like working with Apprentices, their the best cats to work with"

[Rose]

Larkpaw
Post Count: 16/100

After finishing her little speech with the support of Darkpaw’s nods of approval and little hums of acknowledgement, the grey-brown apprentice had been expectantly waiting for Ashpaw to respond when a shadow loomed over their little group, and Larkpaw turned her head to inspect the newcomer. A newcomer who smelled strongly of WindClan. Lark’s brows furrowed slightly as she took in the other she-cat’s appearance, from her lilac grey fur to the scars branding her pelt.

Only when the one-eyed, battle-scarred she-cat began speaking, scolding Ashpaw for arriving before her and the rest of her Clan, was the young feline hit with sudden understanding. Larkpaw found herself staring dumbly at Twilightstar for a few long, slow moments before her brain started working properly again. Oh. Oh. This was very obviously Twilightstar. The former loner couldn’t help but feel idiotic for not realizing it sooner, and she chided herself for it. She’d do better next time. Pushing away the momentary shame, Larkpaw’s mind began spinning into a multitude of possibilities. Dawnstar had mentioned something about WindClan and ShadowClan not getting along, right? It made Larkpaw wonder if all four leaders had so many scars to show off, as both Dawnstar and now Twilightstar were filled with them. Dash, she really should hunt down her mentor and demand him to train her, former loner or not. He couldn’t be that ashamed of training an outsider, right? Right?

Great, now Larkpaw’s thought process was spiraling into self-doubt. She should really stop throwing mock pity parties for herself, even if they were internal ones. Besides, an apprentice who moped around over their bad luck wasn’t an apprentice at all! Larkpaw would just have to see about bothering random warriors to take her out on training.

When her attention returned to the WindClanners, Larkpaw couldn’t help but cringe with second-hand embarrassment at Ashpaw’s response to Twilightstar. The other apprentice had merely apologized and scurried off to talk to another cat, completely turning her back on her leader. Ouch. Lark would never dare, not even dream, to pull a stunt like that on Dawnstar.

Turning back to the task at hand, Larkpaw exhaled, tipping her head to the side as Darkpaw began to speak. Oh, right. Twilightstar was a leader. Damnit, she should have thought to introduce herself first. Her frame visibly relaxed when Darkpaw went ahead and introduced her as well. That was new, because at least she was being included in something, despite the fact that she’d not thought to speak first and seize the opportunity. Huh, Darkpaw was rather smart, as he’d established that the both of them were zero threat in barely three sentences.

The lithe grey she-cat blinked, fiery amber eyes flitting back and forth between her denmate and the WindClan leader. It made her feel a bit envious of the skill, yet vaguely proud at the same time, because now she could boast about having a denmate who hadn’t lost his levelheadedness in the presence of a leader to the other Clan apprentices. That wasn’t quite something to boast about… Especially for her, but oh well. Lark would take anything she could get. Larkpaw hadn’t been a member of ShadowClan for long, only about two moons now, but still, surely she could still prove that her newfound Clan was the best of the four?

Shaking her head, Larkpaw nodded and flicked her tail when Darkpaw was done talking, gaze locking onto Twilightstar. She didn’t bother with pleasantries, though, and instead cut straight to the point. “Apologies for the added interruption, but Darkpaw and I know better than to get violent during a Gathering.” She said simply, and then sat back, wrapping her tail neatly around her paws.

[ @Darkclaws (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=162) - Darkpaw / @Moonraven (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=10662) - Twilightstar | Btw, Ashpaw’s response to Twilightstar is here (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1281583&postcount=81), but @/SpookyCloud the Pumpkin didn’t mention anyone. Either they forgot or just didn’t think that they should mention ]

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Berrypaw
Post Count: 27/100
(Open! :heartbounce: Berrypaw needs at least 3 posts here, so interactions are entirely welcome!)

Slowly, cautiously, Berrypaw inched onto the beach. Her each and every pawstep was placed with great care, following slowly after Twilightstar. When the lilac-furred feline veered off to go scold an apprentice, Berrypaw nearly followed suit, so determined in her goal not to be thrown off track that she didn’t notice where she was going until she almost ran into someones flank. She realized, rather belatedly, that most of her Clanmates had dispersed already, going off to speak or share tongues with cats from other Clans.

Here was where Berrypaw froze, standing alone in the center of Seastones without anything to do, and no one to talk to. The young, speckled apprentice’s fur swayed slightly in the breeze, and one of her rounded, tufted ears flicked. Her gaze flitted in the direction of Badgerpaw and Laurelpaw, denmates of hers, and Berrypaw visibly winced for the male apprentice when Laurelpaw’s jaws closed around his muzzle. Her eyes widened considerably, seeing the now bloody state Badgerpaw was in. Laurelpaw had just attacked her own Clanmate infront of an entire Gathering? There had to be something somewhere about that saying it was wrong. Probably… But Berrypaw wasn't going to involve herself in any violence. That was the last thing she wanted.

[Gay'Fluff]

Ferretpaw padded in with his clanmates, trembling in slight fear. It was his first gathering! And there were so many cats... all the clans must be here by now! Shaking his head the young Riverclan tom gazed around at the cats, eyes resting on what he assumed to be the leader of each clan. They all looked cool! And a little scary. Shaking his pelt he looked around some more, trying to spot one of friends. Although there were to many cats so instead he padded to a corner by himself, nerves on fire as he watched cats mingle. He should talk to others, right? That's what everyone else was doing! He didn't know anyone else though, the new apprentice just waited for someone to talk to him.

{Open to anyone}

[Faith.]

Sourpatch purred "i might be a timid cat, but i like working with Apprentices, their the best cats to work with"
She nodded, looking back up towards where the leaders usually stood to speak for their clan. One...two...three... Where was Twiglightstar? Pikestar, Dawnstar, and Sparrowstar were there... Shouldn't the gathering be starting soon? Dappledpaw didn't know. There were no clouds, the large, round moon shining brightly down from the sky.

[Zei]

She nodded, looking back up towards where the leaders usually stood to speak for their clan. One...two...three... Where was Twiglightstar? Pikestar, Dawnstar, and Sparrowstar were there... Shouldn't the gathering be starting soon? Dappledpaw didn't know. There were no clouds, the large, round moon shining brightly down from the sky.
Sourpatch followed her gaze "Twilightstar shook be up there by now... wonder what the problem is?"

[Undertaker]

[I got leader permission to powerplay the removal of Ashpaw, Laurelpaw, Badgerpaw, and Fire from the gathering if need be].

The big gray tom padded into the gathering much further behind than the rest of his clan mates as he had to debate whether he actually wanted to come here today. Ultimately, his concern for his mother outweighs his desire for isolation. Upon arrival, his green eyes found all four clans here, but only three leaders on the stones. Leechscar felt his fur bristle just slightly when he couldn't find his mother[ Moonraven ], but it relaxed just as quickly when he spotted the lilac feline standing in front of apprentices.

Quietly and quickly, Leechscar padded over to flank his mother's right discreetly, tail swaying back and forth as he caught the tail end of what was going. Of course, it was Ashpaw [ SpookyCloud the Pumpkin ]. It was clearly Ashpaw's fault Twilightstar wasn't already seated with the rest of the clan leaders. Irritation buzzed within, but outwardly he kept his face relatively neutral. He gave the large scars across his chest a calming lick, settling his emotions. He eyed the ShadowClan apprentices with open distrust before casting a glance at Twilightstar. "I can take her back to camp, she clearly needs some time to sit and think about her actions." Leechscar suggested, ears already swerving in the direction of another commotion.

His gaze found Laurelpaw [ birdie ] and Badgerpaw [ SpiritedWarrior ] bickering over some loner kit [ RogueSkeleton ] who had no right being here. Naturally, Laurelpaw being the brat she was, had to call everyone's attention to it. This was not the first time Leechscar saw this one act out and cause issues for Twilightstar, her mentor was never around to correct her. "I can take Laurelpaw and Badgerpaw as well, and that kit if you'd like it brought out to the outskirts before it loses its life." Leechscar swung his head in the direction of the leaders, eyes solely on the massive, scarred, feline who seemed to be amused with the trouble that was currently WindClan.

He ignored the smirk and refrained from hissing at Darkpaw [ Darkclaws ] and Larkpaw [ Katulaura ] cause he was irritated with their leader. Instead, he had to hurry over to Laurelpaw who suddenly lashed out at Badgerpaw over a freaking outsider's kit. He wasn't as quick as he had liked since Badgerpaw had a bleeding snout by the time he intervened. The large tom smoothly thrust himself in between the bickering apprentices, shooting an unperturbed glare at Laurelpaw. "Badgerpaw, see that black and gray tom over there, ask him to look at your wounds." He told the apprentice, noting that Elmshadow [ Ravensong ] seemed to be the only medicine cat at the gathering so he'd have to do. "If it's nothing too serious you can come with me and escort this kit back where he belongs. Then we're going back to camp." Leechscar's eyes flickered down to the loner kit, the cause of this issue.

"You have no place here, kit, and will be coming with me unless you want to die," Leechscar told Fire, twitching an ear in the ShadowClan's leader's direction. "Laurelpaw, you are coming back to camp with me." Clearly, he needed a word with her, that or a good sparring lesson, it didn't seem like anyone else was going to deal with her ignorant and repeated behavior. "You can walk or I can carry you out like an unruly kit." As he waited for the cats to round and clean themselves up, he did offer a slight apologetic bow of his head to Sparrowstar[ Jayvines ] and Pikestar [ canineantics ], but he was unable to do the same with the Dawnstar. Leechscar didn't care for any of their thoughts, but whatever made his mother less stressed.

[Faith.]

Sourpatch followed her gaze "Twilightstar shook be up there by now... wonder what the problem is?"
Dappledpaw shrugged. The WindClan leader was probably speaking to one of her own cats... Then she noticed.Yes, Twilightstar was seeming to be scolding another apprentice who, like her, decided to come early. "She's busy, over there. The gathering will probably start once she's done."

[Bean.]

Roanpaw
After having not gone to the last Gathering - purely because of the fact that he was already curled up in his nest by the time it had arrived - Roanpaw stalked quietly behind his grandmother. At already seven moons old he was growing bigger by the day, his stocky frame filling out and green eyes vibrant as ever. Large paws left imprints in the sand as the soil changed, leaving behind the shadows of the pine trees and entering into the open sandy clearing of Seastones.

Gaze flickering over to watch his mentor ascend to her place among the stones, Roanpaw held no interest in socializing with any of his Clanmates (save for maybe his sister, or the rather interesting Ruepaw) and would await the other Clans to arrive. For now he took a seat in the desolate area and turned his attention up to Dawnstar, watching her with a classic masked Roan-expression.

[ open, preferably for non-ShadowClan when they arrive as he'll likely ignore any of his own Clanmates ]




Nightpaw slowly walks to roanpaw "H-Hi um, your a shadowclan cat right" she asked "I-Im uh Nightpaw" she said

(sorry if it is short)

[stag]

{ Rizo & Wingnettle for The Mintpaw mention }

The Demigirl Stepped onto The Sand With A Kick In Her Step. Every Gathering Lit A Spark In Their Heart. So Did Wolfsong,The Grey Tabby Was Gorgeous;Especially In The Moonlight. Fawnleap Turned The Shecat,Her Blue Eyes Almost Forcing Her Pale Yellow Ones Into Trance.
The Warrior Waited on Her Girlfriend and Began To Pad Alongside The Other Shecat. Taking in Each Freckle and Marking On Wolfsongs Pelt.
Fawnleap knew what they needed now,She knew about Wolfsongs past,She knew about Hazelstorm Now.
Fawnleap stepped closer to the grey tabby. A Warm Welcome To The Colder Night. The Waves crashing offering no comfort but a bit of fear. The Shecat swiftly reminded herself she was safe. Their only worry now Was Hollowstorm,The Tom was out of public favor in Riverclan and Fawnleap wouldn’t be surprised if he just didn’t even attend the gathering for the sake of Everyone but He was Selfish so They didn’t put it past him.
Fawnleap clung to the Shecat,Her Girlfriend being here was a comfort,A Heavily Appreciated Presence.Wolfsong was someone who’d Fawnleap found one of the few clanmates as a happy person. Wolfsong though,Had her secrets. But Fawnleap refused to go digging into Wolfsong like that,It was disrespectful even if they were girlfriends.
“ Wolfy! ” The Shecat Giggled as they spoke. As they walked next to the Warrior. Fawnleap had to focus on her and Mintpaw. Hopefully her apprentice wouldn’t be a fussy little mess. But Mintpaw had reacted quite coldly towards her,had they done something when they met? Fawnleap had a spike of anxiety when they thought of that. The Shecat pushed it through her mind,leaving the thought behind.

[taillow]

Laurelpaw
Oh, would you like at that. One of her leaders very own kits was coming up to her. Turning around with surprise glinting in her eyes, Laurelpaw couldn't help but smirk. Leechscar, wasn't it? Laurelpaw only really knew him as Twilightstar's son, therefor immune to any punishment. What a joy that must be. She was certain that if his mother went missing, half the Clan would be on their paws looking for her. What a luxury, one that she would surely never understand considering hers had been gone for the last six moons and no one lifted a claw to find her.

Ears ignored Badgerpaw's comments as she stared Leechscar down. Muscles flexed underneath a ruffled black and white pelt, ears drawn back as if she was considering her next steps. Fighting with him would only earn her the ire of Twilightstar, and it wasn't like she needed to give the lilac leader or her trigger-happy deputy another reason to toss her out as they likely had with her mom. Speaking of, her gaze flickered over to where Twilightstar was currently dealing with Ashpaw, a denmate of hers; Fallownose was nowhere to be seen yet. From there it lifted to Dawnstar, the massive ShadowClan leader she had called out by name. She just looked amused, and Laurelpaw held her gaze to the brown tabby as if in a silent challenge for a beat or two.

After a moment it fell towards Leechscar. "...Touch me, and Badgerpaw won't be the only bleeding tonight," she spat in disgust towards the newly made warrior, eyes narrowed once more. For a moment, she simply stood there in defiance. Her claws were still in, though her muscles were tensed and ready to be deployed into action if need be. She could just as easily stay here, and let her Clanmate see if he could drag her out. But a gathering was a much different place than her own camp, so for now Laurelpaw simply jerked her body in the direction of the exit and strode swiftly out. She didn't bother to wait for Leechscar or the scrap of fur.

[ Undertaker SpiritedWarrior RogueSkeleton ]

[Zei]

[I got leader permission to powerplay the removal of Ashpaw, Laurelpaw, Badgerpaw, and Fire from the gathering if need be].

The big gray tom padded into the gathering much further behind than the rest of his clan mates as he had to debate whether he actually wanted to come here today. Ultimately, his concern for his mother outweighs his desire for isolation. Upon arrival, his green eyes found all four clans here, but only three leaders on the stones. Leechscar felt his fur bristle just slightly when he couldn't find his mother[ Moonraven ], but it relaxed just as quickly when he spotted the lilac feline standing in front of apprentices.

Quietly and quickly, Leechscar padded over to flank his mother's right discreetly, tail swaying back and forth as he caught the tail end of what was going. Of course, it was Ashpaw [ SpookyCloud the Pumpkin ]. It was clearly Ashpaw's fault Twilightstar wasn't already seated with the rest of the clan leaders. Irritation buzzed within, but outwardly he kept his face relatively neutral. He gave the large scars across his chest a calming lick, settling his emotions. He eyed the ShadowClan apprentices with open distrust before casting a glance at Twilightstar. "I can take her back to camp, she clearly needs some time to sit and think about her actions." Leechscar suggested, ears already swerving in the direction of another commotion.

His gaze found Laurelpaw [ birdie ] and Badgerpaw [ SpiritedWarrior ] bickering over some loner kit [ RogueSkeleton ] who had no right being here. Naturally, Laurelpaw being the brat she was, had to call everyone's attention to it. This was not the first time Leechscar saw this one act out and cause issues for Twilightstar, her mentor was never around to correct her. "I can take Laurelpaw and Badgerpaw as well, and that kit if you'd like it brought out to the outskirts before it loses its life." Leechscar swung his head in the direction of the leaders, eyes solely on the massive, scarred, feline who seemed to be amused with the trouble that was currently WindClan.

He ignored the smirk and refrained from hissing at Darkpaw [ Darkclaws ] and Larkpaw [ Katulaura ] cause he was irritated with their leader. Instead, he had to hurry over to Laurelpaw who suddenly lashed out at Badgerpaw over a freaking outsider's kit. He wasn't as quick as he had liked since Badgerpaw had a bleeding snout by the time he intervened. The large tom smoothly thrust himself in between the bickering apprentices, shooting an unperturbed glare at Laurelpaw. "Badgerpaw, see that black and gray tom over there, ask him to look at your wounds." He told the apprentice, noting that Elmshadow [ Ravensong ] seemed to be the only medicine cat at the gathering so he'd have to do. "If it's nothing too serious you can come with me and escort this kit back where he belongs. Then we're going back to camp." Leechscar's eyes flickered down to the loner kit, the cause of this issue.

"You have no place here, kit, and will be coming with me unless you want to die," Leechscar told Fire, twitching an ear in the ShadowClan's leader's direction. "Laurelpaw, you are coming back to camp with me." Clearly, he needed a word with her, that or a good sparring lesson, it didn't seem like anyone else was going to deal with her ignorant and repeated behavior. "You can walk or I can carry you out like an unruly kit." As he waited for the cats to round and clean themselves up, he did offer a slight apologetic bow of his head to Sparrowstar[ Jayvines ] and Pikestar [ canineantics ], but he was unable to do the same with the Dawnstar. Leechscar didn't care for any of their thoughts, but whatever made his mother less stressed.

Laurelpaw
Oh, would you like at that. One of her leaders very own kits was coming up to her. Turning around with surprise glinting in her eyes, Laurelpaw couldn't help but smirk. Leechscar, wasn't it? Laurelpaw only really knew him as Twilightstar's son, therefor immune to any punishment. What a joy that must be. She was certain that if his mother went missing, half the Clan would be on their paws looking for her. What a luxury, one that she would surely never understand considering hers had been gone for the last six moons and no one lifted a claw to find her.

Ears ignored Badgerpaw's comments as she stared Leechscar down. Muscles flexed underneath a ruffled black and white pelt, ears drawn back as if she was considering her next steps. Fighting with him would only earn her the ire of Twilightstar, and it wasn't like she needed to give the lilac leader or her trigger-happy deputy another reason to toss her out as they likely had with her mom. Speaking of, her gaze flickered over to where Twilightstar was currently dealing with Ashpaw, a denmate of hers; Fallownose was nowhere to be seen yet. From there it lifted to Dawnstar, the massive ShadowClan leader she had called out by name. She just looked amused, and Laurelpaw held her gaze to the brown tabby as if in a silent challenge for a beat or two.

After a moment it fell towards Leechscar. "...Touch me, and Badgerpaw won't be the only bleeding tonight," she spat in disgust towards the newly made warrior, eyes narrowed once more. For a moment, she simply stood there in defiance. Her claws were still in, though her muscles were tensed and ready to be deployed into action if need be. She could just as easily stay here, and let her Clanmate see if he could drag her out. But a gathering was a much different place than her own camp, so for now Laurelpaw simply jerked her body in the direction of the exit and strode swiftly out. She didn't bother to wait for Leechscar or the scrap of fur.

[ Undertaker SpiritedWarrior RogueSkeleton ]
Fire squealed and shook in terror at the sight of Leechscar... he whimpered and hide under Badgerpaw

[SpiritedWarrior]

Flamepaw flicked an ear toward the chaos that was unfolding between two WindClan apprentices and a loner kit, but it was already being handled, so she didn't make a move. Instead, she brought her attention back to the conversation she was participating in and smiled at both the ShadowClan and fellow ThunderClan apprentice.

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Badgerpaw looked from Laurelpaw to Leechscar as the newer warrior approached. If he was correct, then Leechscar was Twilightstar's son. Dipping his head in respect, the young tuxedo felt no shame. He had done nothing wrong, all he did was protect Fire from Laurelpaw's claws, so he gladly stepped back after Fire had moved to be under him yet again.

"Don't worry, that's Leechscar. He's actually a very responsible warrior, he won't hurt you," he murmured to the young kit. "You can trust him."

Laurelpaw was being rather disrespectful, but that was her usual so he just ignored her. Badgerpaw nodded, thanking Leechscar for pointing him in the direction of a medicine cat. It wasn't the medicine cat he's seen around camp, but did it really matter at a Gathering? Giving a reassuring glance to Fire, the young tom turned and headed toward Elmshadow. As he walked over, he made sure to lick away the small drops of blood that were coming down. He held his head high and didn't look at anyone as he strode over to the unfamiliar medicine cat, feeling proud to have defended yet another cat from Laurelpaw's wrath.

"I'm Badgerpaw. Leechscar told me you could check my wound?" he sat down and patiently waited for Elmshadow to introduce himself before continuing. "He just wants you to make sure my wound isn't too serious."

The young tom then lifted his chin slightly, showing the ShadowClanner the little bits of blood and a small bite mark. The pain was ebbing away now, so he didn't feel the need to wince. Now all I have to do is wait...

Ravensong Undertaker birdie RogueSkeleton

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Reedwhisker glanced at Dappledpaw and a warrior she did not recognize. But the dark-furred warrior did not see or sense any hostility coming from the said warrior, so she flicked an ear toward the chaos that was going on. Two apprentices fighting over a loner kit. Although she did feel bad for the kit, that problem was being handled by a warrior of WindClan, so she didn't worry about it.

[stardust.]

Wolfspirit
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Wolfspirit decided to pay attention to the chaos, so these cats were causing chaos, there was a kit involved, and a bunch of other things. Wow, so it turns out not only ThunderClan was having issues. Also, apparently Skystar was no longer leader and instead Snowleap was leader? A lot of things must have happened.. Twilightstar and Dawnstar were still the WindClan and ShadowClan leaders, of course. Wolfspirit tried to think of what Snowleap's new name was.. Snowstar? No, there was an old ThunderClan leader by that name back when he was a younger warrior. Riverstar? Nope.. There weren't any other options he could think of. Well..

He was just happy that things were calm in ThunderClan right now..

(open)

[Akira]

Hazelspring trudged slowly after Pikestar, his small stature almost leading to him getting crushed multiple times. Unfortunately, he survived, and weaseled his way to a more empty section of the Seastones. Too loud... Too crowded... Why did he join?

He hoped the Gathering would be calm but, of course, morons had to be morons. Hazelspring watched as some fool of an apprentice was reprimanded for going ahead of the Clan (was it not a general unspoken rule to be respectful and wait? Apparently not) for some reason and, not only that, some kit from who knows where tumbles into the clearing because it's smart to approach a large Gathering of cats who can be hostile to others, obviously. And now some apprentices were fighting about said brainless ball of fur. Yay. Hazelspring loved Gatherings. Hopefully he would be left alone for the most part.

(Open to anyone!)

[sock]

Rainglow laid in his usual forgotten corner of the seastones. He silently watched the commotion going on. Apprentices ahead of the clan... a rogue kit... What fun. Why did he even come?

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Berryspot sat in a spot near a ton of cats. She was a social butterfly, so seeing all these cats together was a lot of fun!

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[BOTH OPEN]

[occultation]

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Slatestripe’s attention was soon caught by two feuding apprentices. From his spot on the opposite side of the clearing, he couldn’t really distinguish what was going on. It must have been pretty serious, though, since it seemed to be occupying the attention of most of the attending cats. He just hoped whoever was causing the issue wasn’t RiverClan.

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Shadowfur glanced in the direction of the two WindClan apprentices as their feud picked up. He saw a flash of tiny fur and realized a kit was here. Had some queen been stupid enough to bring their young child to a Gathering?

The black warrior watched as one of the apprentices suddenly launched themselves toward the other, appearing to bite their nose. A large warrior suddenly thrust themselves in between, looking very angry. A rather unpleasant-looking interaction seemed to occur between the warrior and the apprentice who attacked the other. The kit cowered underneath the attacked apprentice.

Shadowfur snorted. What a wimp, he thought. Clearly this kit wasn’t ShadowClan. No ShadowClan mother would tolerate that level of cowardice, nor would they be dumb enough to let their kit come to a Gathering. Suddenly, the attacking apprentice spun around and headed out of Seastones. Good. Maybe now they could get on with this Gathering.

{both open!}

[perseus.]

Roanpaw
Lots of various conversations drifted around him, and as much as Roanpaw wished to lift his ears and listen he was much more focused on the other Clan's leadership. After them came ThunderClan, their foresty scent practically overwhelming. Their leader - a ginger-furred she-cat - leapt onto the tree beside his grandmother and settled in. Hmm. No deputy seemed to follow her which was disappointment. Shortly after came WindClan, and the apprentice turned his head to take note in Twilightstar punishing an apprentice who had decided to show up before the rest of their Clan. Typical bunny behavior.

Turning back around to look at Dawnstar, Roanpaw heard the voice of another cat approaching him. Squirrel scent protruded into his space and slowly his head turned to see a rather excited apprentice, probably about his age. Ospreypaw. First gathering probably, if the energy he displayed had anything to say about it. Green eyes locked onto the apprentices two different colored eyes. They were about the same size, and Roanpaw couldn't help wondering how he'd fare in a little... spar.

Suddenly another voice approached, this one belonging to an apprentice who seemed older than the two of them. Taller than Roanpaw - though he wasn't far behind - with green eyes like his own. She seemed to not know her own Clanmate, or maybe she was speaking to him. Which would be interesting considering Roanpaw had no words for either of them.

Instead, he simply stared back at the two of them, face emotionless and posture unmoving. He didn't appear tense or uncomfortable as he watched them, green eyes unblinking.

Flamepaw dipped her head in greeting to the younger apprentices. The apprentice who was staring was from ShadowClan, huh? Well, that was certainly intriguing. She's yet to hear about a ShadowClanner who's silent. They were typically trying to start fights or antagonize, but this apprentice was clearly a little different.

"Nice to meet you," she spoke to Roanpaw then turned her attention back to the fellow ThunderClan apprentice. "Yep, I'm from ThunderClan too. Nice to finally meet you, Ospreypaw!"

☄. *. ⋆ Ospreypaw
Ospreypaw tail flicked slightly slightly in nervousness, "I'm sorry I never introduced myself earlier Flamepaw! I hope you have been well lately!" He glanced back at the ShadowClan apprentice, tilting his head again, "I understand if you don't want to speak, though do you have any way to tell us your name? I don't want to have to keep calling you 'ShadowClan' apprentice in my head!" Ospreypaw ears swiveled slightly as he thought, "Maybe we could play like a game of questions?"

[RavensCall]

Ashpaw sighed annoyedly at Leechscar. “Fine,” she grumbled,”Might as well get rid of me now so I don’t cause more of a nuisance for everyone.” Her pale pinkish-blue eyes scanned the clearing. She was shortsighted, so the further cats were from her, the blurrier they were. This is my first gathering. I can’t let one little slip up ruin everything. she thought, Maybe I can talk to some other apprentices.
Undertaker

Hailwhisker gazed up into the moonlight. His icy blue eyes sparkled in the brilliance of the full moon that was the colour of his pale silvery fur. Hailwhisker awaited the announcements patiently, wondering what his own leader, Sparrowstar, as well as the other leaders would say.

[Wingnettle]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes
https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5062&pictureid=32627

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The tom's voice was friendly, and Ashpaw was relieved to have found someone who seemed glad to have a conversation with him. "Hello, Rabbiteye. How's the prey running on the moor? It's getting chilly now." He asked with a whirl of his tail, curious to see if the warrior would be willing to answer more of his questions. But he didn't want to annoy him from the start so he suppressed down his impatience, repeating in his mind everything that he'd always been curious about. Do you really catch rabbits down their burrows? Do you really dig tunnels in Windclan? And how can you not freeze to death in leaf-bare if you leave up so high?

As usual, there was some chaos somewhere around the clearing. Cats were chatting about a rogue, a kit who had been able to reach Streamstones and was now disturbing the clans' sacred meeting. As someone he did not know threatened to injure the intruder, Ashpaw's pelt bristled with indignation and he was ready to spring up toward the kit, lashing and swiping at whoever would dare touch a young kit without good reason. But a Windclan warrior, Leechscar, had offered himself to escort the kit out and Ashpaw wouldn't probably have any right to jump in now. Another cat in the escort, Badgerpaw, looked worried enough to make Ashpaw think that the young apprentice would make sure the kit left the clans territories uninjured, so he let his fur lie flat and observed the scene from afar with narrowed eyes. "Shadowclan.. they're so cruel." He spat out with disdain, more to himself than others. Poor thing, you look so pitiful.

[ Rabbiteye-ball ]





Mintpaw (she/her)
White fur with shades of grey and blue eyes (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=4801&pictureid=32165)

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First Gathering. So, these are Seastones.
The feeling of fine, soft sand under her pads was a welcoming one, even though the coldness of the night air made them icy. She felt self-conscious, following Fawnleap into the wide space already occupied by lots of cats, a mingle of scents. Her mentor seemed more interested in her girlfriend than in her apprentice, but Mintpaw didn't care.
She was staring blankly at the noisy mass of warriors, apprentices and elders in front of her, hoping she would find an empty spot behind where she could sit down and listen silently to the leaders' speech. Duty. That's why she was here.
Otherwise, she wouldn't be interested in other clans' businesses.

[ Ares ]

[MockingRabbit]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes
https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5062&pictureid=32627

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The tom's voice was friendly, and Ashpaw was relieved to have found someone who seemed glad to have a conversation with him. "Hello, Rabbiteye. How's the prey running on the moor? It's getting chilly now." He asked with a whirl of his tail, curious to see if the warrior would be willing to answer more of his questions. But he didn't want to annoy him from the start so he suppressed down his impatience, repeating in his mind everything that he'd always been curious about. Do you really catch rabbits down their burrows? Do you really dig tunnels in Windclan? And how can you not freeze to death in leaf-bare if you leave up so high?

As usual, there was some chaos somewhere around the clearing. Cats were chatting about a rogue, a kit who had been able to reach Streamstones and was now disturbing the clans' sacred meeting. As someone he did not know threatened to injure the intruder, Ashpaw's pelt bristled with indignation and he was ready to spring up toward the kit, lashing and swiping at whoever would dare touch a young kit without good reason. But a Shadowclan warrior, Leechscar, had offered himself to escort the kit out and Ashpaw wouldn't probably have any right to jump in now. Another cat in the escort, Badgerpaw, looked worried enough to make Ashpaw think that the young apprentice would make sure the kit left the clans territories uninjured, so he let his fur lie flat and observed the scene from afar with narrowed eyes. "Shadowclan.. they're so cruel." He spat out with disdain, more to himself than others. Poor thing, you look so pitiful.

[ @Rabbiteye-ball (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=16523) ]





Mintpaw (she/her)
White fur with shades of grey and blue eyes (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=4801&pictureid=32165)

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First Gathering. So, these are Seastones.
The feeling of fine, soft sand under her pads was a welcoming one, even though the coldness of the night air made them icy. She felt self-conscious, following Fawnleap into the wide space already occupied by lots of cats, a mingle of scents. Her mentor seemed more interested in her girlfriend than in her apprentice, but Mintpaw didn't care.
She was staring blankly at the noisy mass of warriors, apprentices and elders in front of her, hoping she would find an empty spot behind where she could sit down and listen silently to the leaders' speech. Duty. That's why she was here.
Otherwise, she wouldn't be interested in other clans' businesses.

[ @Ares (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=12350) ]
"Prey runs well. And in the forest?" He added, to be polite. He frowned and followed Ashpaw's gaze. He watched the scene. "The two apprentices are of mine own clan," he mewed.
//Forgive me if I was wrong about that. Badger, Laurel and Leech are all showing up in WindClan allegiance...

[Wingnettle]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Everything's fine, thanks." he replied friendly. It was true: now it was easy to find plump squirrels fattening themselves up for leaf-bare, but then? Would they find enough food?
Ashpaw understood that the party leaving with the kit were Windclan cats. "Well, I'm glad your clanmates offered themselves up to take that poor kit out. I don't want to imagine what would have happened otherwise!" he sighed in relief.
Rabbiteye-ball (sorry, forgot the mention)

[puppeteer]

[QUOTE=oleander;1281945]

☄. *. ⋆ Fogcloud
Fogcloud walked in after Pikestar, a sadness was deep in their chest but also a burning anger. The recent rogues had ripped so much from the clan there was a spark of anger and of distrust that rolled through out the warrior. Though their eyes landed on the large amount of the branch members, though in particular on their half-sibling, Burningfrost.

The silver tabby saw he was piled on by the others and she slinked over to the group, coming to a spot next to Burningfrost, "While I usually agree with all of your statements, you all know how Burning is, blunt and vindictive. They are just trying to rile all of you up." She then took a seat, wrapping her tail around her paws glancing at the other members, "Hello, Gingerheart, Coyotecrash, and Nightsong. I hope all of you have been well."

Their gaze glanced around, seeing Ospreypaw, another cousin but they seemed busy so they turned their gaze back toward the others.


Ospreypaw was in the crowd tonight, she saw. How many of her cousins were here?

She spotted a familiar face in the crowd. Burningfrost, her cousin. A note of affection slipped into her mind as she watched the tortie She was from ShadowClan, her father Thrushfur's original clan, and was part of the reason why she couldn't bring herself to hate the entirety of Dawnstar's forces. Brash and loud though he was, she was still family.

She padded over, deciding to say hello- why not? They hadn't seen each other in a while anyway.

"Going on about our lovely family's ShadowClan branch again, dearest cousin?" She teased in her sweet voice, sliding in the sarcasm. "I hope you intend on letting us pitch in with our shortcomings." A lively glimmer appeared in her eye. She meowed hello to the other two cats- Windclanners. Distant relations through Burningfrost, she recalled fondly, Gingerheart and Coyotecrash she believed. The other, she knew well. Fogcloud, another riverclanner.

Another cat appeared. Nightsong? She meowed her greetings.

--- oleander spooky sky

nightsong
The inky she-cat let out a grunt as Fogcloud padded up and spoke somewhat in defense of Burningpaw. The grumpy she-cat shook her head as another family member strode up and greeted her. Nightsong sniffed this molly - RiverClan. Such as Fogcloud. "Lilycreek, right?" She spoke towards the new cat, her voice a little gruff. She noticed a 'paw trailing behind her, a small silver molly. She spoke towards Lilycreek, eyes wide. Must be new.

With a yawn, Nightsong turned herself towards her family members. "How have your Clans been, dearest family." The last two words of her sentence dripped with sarcasm, as she really didn't enjoy any of them, except maybe the two RiverClan cats.

gingerheart
The ginger molly just shook her head at Smolder-whatever. She dipped her head to two RiverClan family members in greetings. Good evening, you two." She mewed happily. "How is RiverClan faring this leaf-fall?"

silverpaw
The small molly was a tad overwhelmed here. She saw so many cats, and smelled so many different scents. She took a few deep breathes before looking around for cats she knew. There! Ms. Lilycreek! She padded to the older molly, dodging other cats as she did. Before long, Silverpaw was standing close-ish to Lilycreek, and Fogcloud, who she hadn't noticed at first. "Uhm, excuse me, Ms. Lilycreek? May I join you?" She asked quietly. She was almost a warrior and was still acting like a new 'paw. She'd have to stop doing that soon.

[Pitou]

**Elmshadow of Shadowclan**
SpiritedWarrior Undertaker

Dark emerald eyes silently watched as small points of minor commotion broke out with warriors and apprentices alike confronting early members from all Riverclan, Windclan, and Thunderclan. He was repulsed but he couldn't say he was surprised, dysfunctional leadership naturally led to such insubordination. As the other clans filtered in things only seemed to escalate to whatever small isolated degrees they had been. Twilightstar wasted no time in confronting the wayward apprentice belonging to her clan. Then another outburst pulled Elmshadow's attention. His ear twitched as the Windclan apprentice began yelling out for the leaders, a kit trapped beneath her paw. He blinked disinterestedly. It was a disgrace that such a kit be allowed to intrude on a gathering but it was quite the display for a simple kit.

He nearly sighed as another Windclan apprentice intervened, jumping over the cowering kit and facing off against their fellow apprentice. His ears went back as the aggressive apprentice lunged for the newcomer. What an embarrassment. He didn't consider Windclan so dysfunctional as Riverclan or Thunderclan but such a display was pathetic, their own apprentices were fighting in the middle of a gathering over a hairball. He moved his eyes away as a Windclan warrior he didn't recognize seemed to come over and dissipate the situation, sending the aggressive apprentice out of the gathering. He let the commotion be mostly forgotten in his mind until an expectant voice piped up in front of him. His dark gaze switched down to the bleeding scrap, expression blank as this Badgerpaw claimed Leechscar offered up his services. He recognized the name though he hadn't been able to put the face to it and decided he must be a newer warrior. He narrowed his eyes at the young tom as he went quiet, almost expectantly. Letting the silence grow tense, he waited until Badgerpaw continued. "Does he now?" he growled lowly. "Unless you Windclanners are allergic to some blood on your pelt, you'll live. I expect they teach you in the nursery even over there how to clean yourself up." He could suggest something to prevent infection but he was not Cowpaw and such a basic bite wound would hardly concern him, even less so being it was a Windclan apprentice.

[Zei]

Sourpatch let out a little growl at Elmshadow, she did not like his tone or choice of words, but chose to say nothing "Badgerpaw! here i'll help you clea that up if you wish..." Sourpatch said softly
SpiritedWarrior
Ravensong for the Elmshadow mention

[taillow]

Fawnpaw
Okay. The trip here hadn't been too bad. Taking a deep breath, fur still flanking Cloudpaw's, Fawnpaw gazed into Seastones. All of the Clans were here, and nearby the base of the rocks it appeared... shoot. Only Elmshadow seemed present this time. He made her fur crawl, but at least with the black and white she-cat at her side preventing her from becoming too anxious it didn't bother here all that much at the moment.

"Okay, I think I should be good. I-" She had been in the middle of telling Cloudpaw that she would be alright from here when a familiar pelt was stalking her way. Fawnpaw couldn't help but squeak as she recognized Laurelpaw, the apprentice from her first gathering. The WindClan apprentice seemed to recognize her too and gave her a raised brow, eyes flickering between the two. Begging to the stars above, the young medicine cat hoped that nothing would be said. She just wanted to get to the gathering in peace...

And thankfully, it seemed like whatever had occurred - notable by the tension in the air - made Laurelpaw just snort and continue on her way. Fawnpaw relaxed, ducking her head to give her fur a few swift licks. From there she surveyed the scene and... oh no. There was what appeared to be a cat speaking to Elmshadow, bleeding - and if she knew the ShadowClan medicine cat at all, he didn't seem too keen on helping others from the other Clans. It was made clear by the way he growled.

With a single tail tip touching Cloudpaw's shoulder to indicate she was welcome to follow her, Fawnpaw bounded over as concern twisted her expression. "I can help you with that, if you need," she offered, not bothering to give a greeting to the ShadowClan medicine cat. Smiling softly at Badgerpaw, she took a seat before him to examine the bite. Maybe if she just didn't look at him she wouldn't get anxious - plus she had Cloudpaw here, too. Lifting herself onto her hind legs, Fawnpaw reached forward and gently started to clean the blood off of the bite where she could. After a moment or two she sat back down, examining it once again. "...It looks like you may just need some marigold to prevent any infection, and cobwebs. Perhaps even mixed with dandelion if it hurts too much. Is Mr. Cowpaw here yet?" Not that medicine cats brought herbs to the gathering, but this cat smelled of WindClan and likely the Clan's medicine cat would want to know about it.

[ canineantics Ravensong SpiritedWarrior ]

[sol.]

[QUOTE=oleander;1281945]

☄. *. ⋆ Fogcloud
Fogcloud walked in after Pikestar, a sadness was deep in their chest but also a burning anger. The recent rogues had ripped so much from the clan there was a spark of anger and of distrust that rolled through out the warrior. Though their eyes landed on the large amount of the branch members, though in particular on their half-sibling, Burningfrost.

The silver tabby saw he was piled on by the others and she slinked over to the group, coming to a spot next to Burningfrost, "While I usually agree with all of your statements, you all know how Burning is, blunt and vindictive. They are just trying to rile all of you up." She then took a seat, wrapping her tail around her paws glancing at the other members, "Hello, Gingerheart, Coyotecrash, and Nightsong. I hope all of you have been well."

Their gaze glanced around, seeing Ospreypaw, another cousin but they seemed busy so they turned their gaze back toward the others.




nightsong
The inky she-cat let out a grunt as Fogcloud padded up and spoke somewhat in defense of Burningpaw. The grumpy she-cat shook her head as another family member strode up and greeted her. Nightsong sniffed this molly - RiverClan. Such as Fogcloud. "Lilycreek, right?" She spoke towards the new cat, her voice a little gruff. She noticed a 'paw trailing behind her, a small silver molly. She spoke towards Lilycreek, eyes wide. Must be new.

With a yawn, Nightsong turned herself towards her family members. "How have your Clans been, dearest family." The last two words of her sentence dripped with sarcasm, as she really didn't enjoy any of them, except maybe the two RiverClan cats.

gingerheart
The ginger molly just shook her head at Smolder-whatever. She dipped her head to two RiverClan family members in greetings. Good evening, you two." She mewed happily. "How is RiverClan faring this leaf-fall?"

silverpaw
The small molly was a tad overwhelmed here. She saw so many cats, and smelled so many different scents. She took a few deep breathes before looking around for cats she knew. There! Ms. Lilycreek! She padded to the older molly, dodging other cats as she did. Before long, Silverpaw was standing close-ish to Lilycreek, and Fogcloud, who she hadn't noticed at first. "Uhm, excuse me, Ms. Lilycreek? May I join you?" She asked quietly. She was almost a warrior and was still acting like a new 'paw. She'd have to stop doing that soon.


-Lilycreek-

She nodded at Nightsong's words, before turning to address Nightsong and Gingerheart's question. She hesitated a little, but decided it was best not to leave out the details.

"Not so well, I'm afraid. Rogues. One killed two of our kittens- Weedkit, and my own, Sproutkit." Her voice hardened at the mention of her son. "Actions are being taken against them, whoever they are. And we've just had another loss." She didn't mention Slatewhisker's name. It wasn't her place after all. "It'll take some time to recover from this." She shot a small glance around, in case others decided it was good info to store.

She startled a little as a voice spoke up behind her. Silverpaw, the apprentice who has helped her with Birdpaw' flowers. "Of course, dear," she said in a warmer tone. She stepped to the side in order to make room for the apprentice, flashing a look in her relatives with a quelling look. Specifically at Burningfrost. Be nice. "These are my cousins," she told the apprentice. "Burningfrost, Gingerheart, Coyotecrash, Nightsong, and well, I'm sure you already know Fogcloud."

She looked around at her cousins. "So? What about all of you- how are the other branches faring?"


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oleander
Ares

[CacklingMemester]

[QUOTE=oleander;1281945]

☄. *. ⋆ Fogcloud
Fogcloud walked in after Pikestar, a sadness was deep in their chest but also a burning anger. The recent rogues had ripped so much from the clan there was a spark of anger and of distrust that rolled through out the warrior. Though their eyes landed on the large amount of the branch members, though in particular on their half-sibling, Burningfrost.

The silver tabby saw he was piled on by the others and she slinked over to the group, coming to a spot next to Burningfrost, "While I usually agree with all of your statements, you all know how Burning is, blunt and vindictive. They are just trying to rile all of you up." She then took a seat, wrapping her tail around her paws glancing at the other members, "Hello, Gingerheart, Coyotecrash, and Nightsong. I hope all of you have been well."

Their gaze glanced around, seeing Ospreypaw, another cousin but they seemed busy so they turned their gaze back toward the others.




nightsong
The inky she-cat let out a grunt as Fogcloud padded up and spoke somewhat in defense of Burningpaw. The grumpy she-cat shook her head as another family member strode up and greeted her. Nightsong sniffed this molly - RiverClan. Such as Fogcloud. "Lilycreek, right?" She spoke towards the new cat, her voice a little gruff. She noticed a 'paw trailing behind her, a small silver molly. She spoke towards Lilycreek, eyes wide. Must be new.

With a yawn, Nightsong turned herself towards her family members. "How have your Clans been, dearest family." The last two words of her sentence dripped with sarcasm, as she really didn't enjoy any of them, except maybe the two RiverClan cats.

gingerheart
The ginger molly just shook her head at Smolder-whatever. She dipped her head to two RiverClan family members in greetings. Good evening, you two." She mewed happily. "How is RiverClan faring this leaf-fall?"

silverpaw
The small molly was a tad overwhelmed here. She saw so many cats, and smelled so many different scents. She took a few deep breathes before looking around for cats she knew. There! Ms. Lilycreek! She padded to the older molly, dodging other cats as she did. Before long, Silverpaw was standing close-ish to Lilycreek, and Fogcloud, who she hadn't noticed at first. "Uhm, excuse me, Ms. Lilycreek? May I join you?" She asked quietly. She was almost a warrior and was still acting like a new 'paw. She'd have to stop doing that soon.

Fogshadow was...nervous. This was the first time coming here without their mom. They sat down next to Fogcloud, fidgeting. They swiveled their head, looking for any excuse to leave, Kinkcloud or someone else? They took a deep breath and blurted out, "My mom couldn't come tonight". They coughed awkwardly, "She's um...with Redkit tonight". They just about wanted the earth to swallow them up.

[Moonraven]

What strangely polite apprentices from ShadowClan. As Darkpaw [ Darkclaws ] and Larkpaw [ Katulaura ] took to introducing themselves, making sure to explain that they meant no harm and seemingly chastising Ashpaw [ @ SpookyCloud the Pumpkin ] in her place. Did this interaction make Twilightstar think better of ShadowClan, nope not in the slightest. The Gatherings were a time for peace, and even though Dawnstar had shown a blatant disregard for the truce, it wasn't like ShadowClan's been going around ripping apart cats here because they felt like it. Twilightstar also knew that not all cats in ShadowClan had Dawnstar's ruthlessness, still, this civil interaction could change at the drop of a leaf with one order from Dawnstar. These two apprentices could easily have harmed Ashpaw even if they had no intention to because their leader willed it.

Dawnstar was the whole of ShadowClan and unless her clanmates made the decision to walk away or leave, they were an extension of Dawnstar's cruelty and violence, whether they wanted to be or not. So no matter how nice ShadowClan cats may come off as, they'd never be anything more than what their leader made them out to be. Twilightstar tried to not hold that against them, but she'd always be a bit nervous around ShadowClan, expecting some hell to break loose.

"I thank you for looking after my wayward apprentice," Twilightstar replied, graciously to Darkpaw and Larkpaw, frowning fiercely in Ashpaw's direction as the apprentice spoke a curt apology and then darted off. Twilightstar might have to reassign mentors at this rate. "If you'll excuse me." Twilightstar meowed to the ShadowClan pair, ready to go after Ashpaw to chastise her further but found a gray mass of muscles on her right. Leechscar [ Undertaker], Twilightstar hasn't seen her son in a bit besides from around camp. He's been keeping to himself as of late which hurt the leader a bit, but it wasn't like she could blame him. It wasn't like Twilightstar was mother of the year or anything like that.

He was quick to offer help with Ashpaw, and even quicker to leap into the confrontation between Badgerpaw [ SpiritedWarrior ] and of course Laurelpaw[ birdie ]. It took her a few seconds to gather what the problem was. Apparently, some loner kit [ RogueSkeleton ] showed up and Laurelpaw seemed pretty intent on offering its head to Dawnstar. Naturally, Badgerpaw was very much against that, and Laurelpaw took personal offense to that, and now Twilightstar's apprentice had a bloody nose for his efforts.

Well, this was the last Gathering Laurelpaw would be coming to for a while. It was time to find her a new mentor as well, she was sure Skyleaf was trying her hardest with this one, but she was never around to monitor Laurelpaw and the cat seemed to be spiraling out of control. The apprentice refused to talk about what was eating her, lashing out at everyone, and was getting worse and worse. At this rate, Twilightstar was going to have no choice to but exile her if she continued endangering her clanmates. She was giving Twilightstar very little choice, and Twilightstar hated it.

For serving as one of WindClan's newest warriors, Leechscar handled the situation rather well. It was handled well enough that Twilightstar felt it safe enough to join the other three leader's atop the Seastones, which she did in a few swift bounds and a leap. She greeted Pikestar [ canineantics ] and Sparrowstar [ Jayvines ] with a tired sigh and quiet, sarcastic words. "It's not a gathering if someone's cats aren't causing a commotion. It seems this gathering it's WindClan's turn." The leader wasn't going to make a public show of an apology, she didn't see the point in it. Twilightstar didn't bother looking at Dawnstar, instead busying herself with calling out to her son.

"Go ahead and take them all back to camp, Leechscar. I will give Laurelpaw her punishment once the gathering is over. I don't want the it in camp, so you can drop him back to the outskirts, if you find his caretakers, I would make sure to emphasize how extremely lucky he is to be returned to them without a scratch. If you can't... you may decide what to do with him." Twilightstar did not appreciate her own clanmates fighting over some outsider's kits, and it could be heard in the aggravated tone she took. She found the whole thing quite bothersome. The loners and rogues should mind their young better.

"Ashpaw, you'll be receiving punishment for your disrespect after the gathering as well. If I hear from Leechscar that you or Laurelpaw continued with your unfit behavior expect the punishment to be harsher." Definitely might be a good idea to find a new mentor for that one, Twilightstar was not looking for a second Laurelpaw or a potential Tigerpaw. Finished with her scolding, Twilightstar's tail swept out from behind her gesturing for one of the other three leaders to go ahead and start off the gathering.

[Ian]

Fallownose was late, but he had still arrived before the other deputies. He hurried to his spot below the leaders and was just in time to witness Twilightstar dishing out punishments. He wasn't surprised that Laurelpaw was being kicked out, but Ashpaw and Badgerpaw a little more so. He'd figure out why later, but it seemed to do with some loner kit that had made their way into the Gathering.

[SpiritWolf_yt]

Scalepaw had joined the meeting late he forgot it was happening till he remember of course it was little of the memory, he padded to a dark spot and blended in as he didn't want to interact to much

lilyheart watched

ashclaw listened

thunderblaze and stormpaw watched

meadowleap stayed Quiet

Echoblue peachpaw Cinderpaw and Swiftlight listened

[open] [ if your interacting with scalepaw please be kind to him he has gone through a lot]

[stag]

Charcoalpaw arrived Late,The tomcat ran up and into the large crowd.

[MaryTheCrow]

- Copperfire -
He/Him

Copperfire followed Sparrowstar to the Seastones. Sure, he'd... taken his time more than usual to get there, but he was still somehow the second deputy to show up.

Already cats were causing trouble, WindClan this time. As long as his own apprentice didn't do anything big, it'd be fine. Sparrowstar had warned the others, though he didn't doubt someone would find an issue with someone somewhere anyway.

He greeted Fallownose with a nod of his head. What else would he say? Start small talk just to waste his breath? He's never been talkative and he wouldn't start being talkative any time soon. Still, he looks around for the two missing deputies. After a little bit of scanning the crowd, the tom gives Fallownose a small questioning yet apathetic glance as if to ask "Have you seen them?"

[ NinjaBloss ]

[SpiritWolf_yt]

Scalepaw looked at the crowd seeing everyone enjoying themselvesall except for him not enjoying himself

[open]

[Undertaker]

Leechscar gave Laurelpaw( birdie ) an unimpressed glare as she attempted to threaten him and then stomped her way out of the gathering like the kit that she was. The tom really did wonder what her problem was, he shifted his weight while waiting for Badgerpaw ( SpiritedWarrior ) and his new kit friend, and glanced over at Twilightstar ( Moonraven ) when his mother finally took her place with the other leaders. He gave a slight nod of his head at her words, tail twitching uncomfortably as he was told to figure out what to do with the kit if they couldn't find his kin. Leechscar hoped that didn't mean bringing the kit back to WindClan.

He noticed Fallownose's late arrival and might have called the deputy out on the fact that Leechscar was stuck doing his job, but kept his comment to himself. It's not like Fallownose was Wolffang, but the young warrior wonders what kept the deputy for so long. If he was supposed to lead after Twilightstar, he should be a bit more punctual with gatherings, as in right on Leechscar's mother's tail when she arrived. Recalling he did have more important things to do that didn't involve scowling at the deputy, he swung his head in Badgerpaw's direction catching wind of Elmshadow's comment.

Leechscar rolled his eyes and shook his head, not sure why he even bothered with ShadowClan. It's like every cat in that clan had a stick shoved so far up their butts they couldn't be bothered to show common courtesy. They had to be complete fox-hearts about every little thing. Thankfully, RiverClan's medicine cat's arrived and actually offered some help. Wasn't that the molly who had been up with the deputies... what was her name, Doepaw? Deerpaw? Whatever. When did she become a medicine cat? He'd ask Twilightstar later. Badgerepaw would be alright so they leave. He'd glance around for the herbs that Fawnpaw mentioned while he was out, he wasn't wasting time taking Badgerpaw to Cowpaw, wherever he was if he was no need to.

"Badgerpaw, hurry up and thank her, and carry your new friend," Leechscar ordered, as he began to make his way out where Laurelpaw had disappeared. "Ashpaw ( SpookyCloud the Pumpkin ), let's go." The young warrior didn't wait for the other two apprentices and the kit, Leechscar was already heading out not wanting Laurelpaw to get too far in a territory that wasn't theirs.

[Ian]

Hazelpaw came barreling into the Gathering without a care about who she kicked sand on. She was late, and she wanted to hear the announcements! Luckily it seemed as if she had made it time, and nothing of interest had happened other than some WindClanners getting kicked out. Heh, and that's why ThunderClan is the best!

[Open if she kicked sand on anyone or just for interaction!]

[SpiritWolf_yt]

Stormpaw padded over to his sibling" hi!" he meowed
NinjaBloss

[Ian]

"Stormpaw!" Hazelpaw said excitedly, her paws kneading the ground. "I haven't talked to you in forever! How has your training been going? My mentor has barely trained me at all. Do you know any warriors willing to take me out on a training session? I need to learn how to battle, hunt, and where the borders are!"

~SilverShine~

[Zero]

Bumbleflight followed along with his Clan, making sure he didn't bump into anyone but, whenever he did, he muttered a quick apology and moved on. The dark brown tabby grunted at Sparrowstar's words to them: he didn't need to be told twice. He'd much rather have a normal Gathering for once rather than a chaotic one. Granted, some morons are bound to still do the contrary, but whatever. So long as he wasn't dragged into it.

Pulling himself out of his negative thoughts, Bumbleflight a seat and looked around, wondering where his apprentices were. Had they followed along, or did one or both stay behind? Perhaps... Or perhaps they were avoiding him, which he wouldn't be surprised, but still... Shaking his head, the tabby scanned the area, hoping the Gathering would go smoothly.
SpiritedWarrior (and open to anyone else!)

Brooksong padded into the seastones with the rest of her clanmates, taking a moment to look around before making her way into the swarm of cats surrounding the rocks upon which the leaders sat. She made wide turns around those of different clans to avoid bumping into them and perhaps causing a ruckus. Sparrowstar had said to behave, so she wasn't taking any chances tonight, especially when it seemed like the leader had had a short fuse with her lately. Blue eyes searched among those who had joined the gathering tonight, landing on Bumbleflight after a few moments: that would be a safe option.

She made her way to his side before anyone could steal her chosen spot, sliding into place beside him gracefully. "Hi brother," she purred. "How are you tonight?" It had been a while since they'd spent some time together. With him having two apprentices and such, he had been absent from her life more often than not lately - not that that was his fault since she could have made more of an effort as well.

"Hopefully all goes well for us tonight, am I right?" She sounded amused, not really too concerned after Sparrowstar's warning. Any ThunderClan cat would have to be stupid to disobey after that.

[Fawnhearted]

Haven't roleplayed in a bit and none of my responses are ready to be replied to but I need to get back into this and activity checks are going on so feel free to interact!

Seedheart of Riverclan
47 Moons
She/They

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Seedheart had lost sight of the Windclan apprentice she had been talking to, so glanced around curiously. Where had the young cat gone? Probably back to her clanmates, they guesses.

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Mushroompaw of Windclan
7 Moons
They/He

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The spotted-fur apprentice padded nimbly about the cats who gathered under the full moon. This was only his second Gathering and it was so weird to them!

Mushroompaw glanced around at all the cats, perhaps they could find someone to talk to? It would be nice if the younger cat could make a friend!

[SpiritWolf_yt]

"Stormpaw!" Hazelpaw said excitedly, her paws kneading the ground. "I haven't talked to you in forever! How has your training been going? My mentor has barely trained me at all. Do you know any warriors willing to take me out on a training session? I need to learn how to battle, hunt, and where the borders are!"

~SilverShine~


the tom smiled big at his sister" trainng is fine i got a new mentor but i haven't begin training again if you want when i go out for training i can see if my mentor wants to train you a little" he meowed

[Akira]

Brooksong padded into the seastones with the rest of her clanmates, taking a moment to look around before making her way into the swarm of cats surrounding the rocks upon which the leaders sat. She made wide turns around those of different clans to avoid bumping into them and perhaps causing a ruckus. Sparrowstar had said to behave, so she wasn't taking any chances tonight, especially when it seemed like the leader had had a short fuse with her lately. Blue eyes searched among those who had joined the gathering tonight, landing on Bumbleflight after a few moments: that would be a safe option.

She made her way to his side before anyone could steal her chosen spot, sliding into place beside him gracefully. "Hi brother," she purred. "How are you tonight?" It had been a while since they'd spent some time together. With him having two apprentices and such, he had been absent from her life more often than not lately - not that that was his fault since she could have made more of an effort as well.

"Hopefully all goes well for us tonight, am I right?" She sounded amused, not really too concerned after Sparrowstar's warning. Any ThunderClan cat would have to be stupid to disobey after that.
Bumbleflight blinked, recognizing the familiar voice, and turned to see his sister, Brooksong, approach him, and he gave her a small, warm smile. Ah, it'd been a while since he last interacted with her. He would've done so sooner but, with his apprentices and the thing that happened with Brightpath... Things have been a bit disorderly in his life, to be honest. But things could be better, he supposed (NOT an invitation, yuck: honestly, he's rather sick of trauma and drama now, and he'd much rather take a nap instead).

The dark brown tabby tilted his head slightly to his left and towards his sister, turning his tattered and mostly deaf ear away so he could hear better. "I'm doing fine, Brooksong. I'm sorry we haven't chatted as much lately, but how are you? You doing alright?" He asked, pointedly ignoring whatever chaos was happening with WindClan and ShadowClan to answer his sister's second question. "I hope so. As 'fun' as it is, it's rather annoying dealing with chaos and drama... Some of us just want to live peacefully for more than a few days..."

[SplashyLumi]

Otterpaw hid super scaredly


{Open}

[Rose]

Hazelpaw came barreling into the Gathering without a care about who she kicked sand on. She was late, and she wanted to hear the announcements! Luckily it seemed as if she had made it time, and nothing of interest had happened other than some WindClanners getting kicked out. Heh, and that's why ThunderClan is the best!

[Open if she kicked sand on anyone or just for interaction!]

Mushroompaw of Windclan
7 Moons
They/He

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The spotted-fur apprentice padded nimbly about the cats who gathered under the full moon. This was only his second Gathering and it was so weird to them!

Mushroompaw glanced around at all the cats, perhaps they could find someone to talk to? It would be nice if the younger cat could make a friend!

Berrypaw
Post Count: 35/100 Berrypaw had been standing, alone in the midst of the Gathering place when suddenly, rather abruptly, her face was filled with sand. Spluttering, Berrypaw started rubbing her eyes. She staggered a step, spitting out a few grains of sand. Thankfully, she hadn't swallowed any, but Berrypaw still felt entirely humiliated. Another step in a random direction was taken, and then the young, speckled apprentice felt her side bump into another feline. Her gaze snapped up from the ground and fixated itself onto Mushroompaw, a cat she recognized from her own Clan, WindClan. "I- I'm sorry." She stammered anxiously, apologizing to her denmate. "I didn't mean to bump into you, I w-wasn't looking where I was going."

[ @/NinjaBloss you don't need to respond to Berrypaw, I just quoted you to let you know that Berry is the one Hazelpaw kicked sand on :heartbounce: ]

[taillow]

☄. *. ⋆ Ospreypaw
Ospreypaw head tilted more when he the apprentice didn't respond though he turned his head when he heard another voice, and they smelt like one of his clanmates, "Hello Flamepaw! I'm Ospreypaw, this is...actually well he hasn't said his name yet, but he's from ShadowClan, but are you from ThunderClan as well?" If she was than he felt bad! He could have became friends with them earlier but he had been so busy with training that he hasn't had time to talk to others yet.

Flamepaw dipped her head in greeting to the younger apprentices. The apprentice who was staring was from ShadowClan, huh? Well, that was certainly intriguing. She's yet to hear about a ShadowClanner who's silent. They were typically trying to start fights or antagonize, but this apprentice was clearly a little different.

"Nice to meet you," she spoke to Roanpaw then turned her attention back to the fellow ThunderClan apprentice. "Yep, I'm from ThunderClan too. Nice to finally meet you, Ospreypaw!"
birdie



Nightpaw slowly walks to roanpaw "H-Hi um, your a shadowclan cat right" she asked "I-Im uh Nightpaw" she said

(sorry if it is short)





☄. *. ⋆ Ospreypaw
Ospreypaw tail flicked slightly slightly in nervousness, "I'm sorry I never introduced myself earlier Flamepaw! I hope you have been well lately!" He glanced back at the ShadowClan apprentice, tilting his head again, "I understand if you don't want to speak, though do you have any way to tell us your name? I don't want to have to keep calling you 'ShadowClan' apprentice in my head!" Ospreypaw ears swiveled slightly as he thought, "Maybe we could play like a game of questions?"


Roanpaw
Lots of talking. As the ThunderClan apprentices appeared to... introduce themselves to each other (odd that they didn't know their own Clanmates name) Roanpaw just watched. Observing their body language, seeing how they acted and reacted to the going ons around them. Chaos appeared to be unfolding and it stole away the attention of Flamepaw briefly before she brought it back to the current conversation. Ospreypaw flicked as if he were nervous, which was understandable. The ShadowClan tom wondered how these two would react if they knew he was the grandson and apprentice of Dawnstar.

Then Ospreypaw was speaking to him again and his green eyes traveled back over to the tom. More nervous twitching. He didn't want to call him 'ShadowClan apprentice'? "Then don't." Voice monotone without a single drop of emotion in it. Green eyes stared back at him, unblinking, for several moments until another voice turned his ears. This cat was new, and did not smell of the two before him. Nightpaw. Smelling distinctly of water and fish... RiverClan then, perhaps? He watched her, jaw remaining shut as he spoke no words to her.

[ next time if you guys could wait for me before posting again i would really appreciate it! it gets hard when there's overposting as it makes it seem that my character was just sitting there doing nothing. thank you! ]

[Fawnhearted]

Berrypaw
Post Count: 35/100 Berrypaw had been standing, alone in the midst of the Gathering place when suddenly, rather abruptly, her face was filled with sand. Spluttering, Berrypaw started rubbing her eyes. She staggered a step, spitting out a few grains of sand. Thankfully, she hadn't swallowed any, but Berrypaw still felt entirely humiliated. Another step in a random direction was taken, and then the young, speckled apprentice felt her side bump into another feline. Her gaze snapped up from the ground and fixated itself onto Mushroompaw, a cat she recognized from her own Clan, WindClan. "I- I'm sorry." She stammered anxiously, apologizing to her denmate. "I didn't mean to bump into you, I w-wasn't looking where I was going."

[ @/NinjaBloss you don't need to respond to Berrypaw, I just quoted you to let you know that Berry is the one Hazelpaw kicked sand on :heartbounce: ]


Mushroompaw of Windclan
They/He
7 Moons

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Mushroompaw nearly tripped over his own paws as another cat smacked into him. They felt so embarrassed for a few heartbeats and started preparing to ramble off an apology-

Oh! The other cat had beat him to it! It was his denmate Berrypaw. They had talked a few times but Mushroompaw still wasn't very close to any other cats in the clan other than his brother, Snakepaw, and the kits he had shared the nursery with.

The golden and white cat tilted his head to the side and purred, "Don't worry about it! Are you okay?", they said. Green eyes focused on the other cat, scanning her for injuries. You almost wouldn't have been able to tell that Mushroompaw was blind in one of his eyes unless you looked closely or he had a flare up. Thy hadn't had one in a bit but they slight scarring around his eye could still be visible under the moonlight.

[stardust.]

Wolfspirit
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Wolfspirit padded to what seemed like a kind cat, this cat seemed to be a little bit younger than him it looked like. But that didn't matter. It just seemed like this cat was a god cat to interact with. He padded up to the cat, "Greetings, my name is Wolfspirit of ThunderClan. I'm a senior warrior" He spoke to the other warrior, maybe this warrior would talk to him more? Maybe? He didn't really have a clue.

// Fawnhearted (For Seedheart)

[TheNyanCatMinecart]

~ IVYSNAKE OF SHADOWCLAN ~

Ivysnake was a bit late, but she hardly cared. She never cared much for Gatherings. However, she felt obligated to show up to them because of her position as a medicine cat. The tall dark brown tabby glided onto the island and glanced at the big rock where the leaders sat. All of the leaders were there - and they were still the same. Surprising, she thought sarcastically, turning toward the base of the rock. The deputies were gathered on one side and the medicine cats on the other. Were all the deputies the same? Fallownose and Copperfire were there. Cinderblaze hadn't shown up yet. Neither had Slatewhisker, apparently. Was she dead? Or was she just not here yet? Ivysnake hardly cared; she wouldn't be surprised if it was the former, though. As for medicine cats, Elmshadow and Fawnpaw had arrived, but she didn't see Rosepaw or Sundust yet. So I suppose I'm not too late. Ivysnake padded over to the other medicine cats, dipping her head slightly in greeting, but in a formal manner. She sat beside Elmshadow and waited silently for the Gathering to continue. She didn't care much about making small talk - she'd spoken enough with the other medicine cats already - but if they wanted to speak, then so be it. Ivysnake glanced at the leaders and waited to hear their announcements. She wondered if there would be anything actually interesting, but most of her doubted it.

[Ian]

Fallownose glanced at Copperfire as the other tom made his way onto the Seastones and returned the nod of greeting. It seemed both ThunderClan high ranks had survived the moon, which was refreshing to witness. Now to see if Slatewhisker showed up. Hopefully the molly was just late. Fallownose liked her even though their interaction had been brief at the previous Gathering.

The WindClan deputy shrugged at Copperfire's inquiring glance, assuming he was wondering about the other deputies. It was odd that Cinderblaze was late. Dawnstar didn't seem like the type to tolerate her deputy being late, and who knows what sorts of punishments she came up with.

MaryTheCrow

[Spotty]

Batblood

Gatherings weren't his thing, but he supposed it was a part of the job to attend them and at least make sure nothing became too messy. Last time had been his first gathering - if you didn't count that time a bunch of apprentices had stormed the gathering in Newleaf - and it had started right off by a rogue just deciding to sit down, and as much as Batblood enjoyed raking his well-sharpened claws across the muzzle of an idiot like that, he did hope he wouldn't have to deal with anything like that this time. He also hoped no one would try and start any sort of conversation with him, he was here because he was supposed to, not because he was looking to socialize.

[Batblood Has Arrived]

[Rose]

Mushroompaw of Windclan
They/He
7 Moons

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Mushroompaw nearly tripped over his own paws as another cat smacked into him. They felt so embarrassed for a few heartbeats and started preparing to ramble off an apology-

Oh! The other cat had beat him to it! It was his denmate Berrypaw. They had talked a few times but Mushroompaw still wasn't very close to any other cats in the clan other than his brother, Snakepaw, and the kits he had shared the nursery with.

The golden and white cat tilted his head to the side and purred, "Don't worry about it! Are you okay?", they said. Green eyes focused on the other cat, scanning her for injuries. You almost wouldn't have been able to tell that Mushroompaw was blind in one of his eyes unless you looked closely or he had a flare up. Thy hadn't had one in a bit but they slight scarring around his eye could still be visible under the moonlight.

Berrypaw

Post Count: 36/100
The speckled apprentice internally fumbled for words for a few seconds, and then stopped herself to take a deep breath. This was her first Gathering, and she didn't want to make a lasting impression as a fool to the other Clans, much less her own Clanmates. Worrying her bottom lip, Berrypaw looked apologetically up at Mushroompaw, as her shorter-than-average height called to do so. "Y-Yeah," She murmured quietly, and then proceeded to offer her denmate a grateful nod after ducking her head again. "I'm, uh, I'm okay. Sorry... about that."

Glancing up from the sandy floor, Berrypaw fixed Mushroompaw's solely green gaze with her own blue and green heterochromatic one. It was only then, staring straight at the tom's eyes, did she notice a slightly, barely palpable glassiness in one of his green depths. Her own pools widened with mortification as she thought of something, and the speckled apprentice couldn't not say anything. "I am so sorry," She blabbered, partially having zero idea as to why she was apologizing this time. "I didn't mean to come up on your b-blind side."

[Zero]

Bumbleflight blinked, recognizing the familiar voice, and turned to see his sister, Brooksong, approach him, and he gave her a small, warm smile. Ah, it'd been a while since he last interacted with her. He would've done so sooner but, with his apprentices and the thing that happened with Brightpath... Things have been a bit disorderly in his life, to be honest. But things could be better, he supposed (NOT an invitation, yuck: honestly, he's rather sick of trauma and drama now, and he'd much rather take a nap instead).

The dark brown tabby tilted his head slightly to his left and towards his sister, turning his tattered and mostly deaf ear away so he could hear better. "I'm doing fine, Brooksong. I'm sorry we haven't chatted as much lately, but how are you? You doing alright?" He asked, pointedly ignoring whatever chaos was happening with WindClan and ShadowClan to answer his sister's second question. "I hope so. As 'fun' as it is, it's rather annoying dealing with chaos and drama... Some of us just want to live peacefully for more than a few days..."

Brooksong offered a warm smile in response to Bumbleflight. She brushed off her brother's apology with a shrug, bumping her shoulder into his playfully before answering his reciprocal question. "Oh, I'm doing fantastic as always." And she wasn't lying: if ThunderClan was thriving, Brooksong was also doing just as well.

Blue eyes drifted briefly to the WindClan warrior and apprentices as they departed the gathering after being publicly scolded by their leader, letting out a soft sigh. That must've been embarrassing for them: Brook would've been mortified if in their shoes, especially at that age. But it wasn't as if they didn't deserve it for the short ruckus they'd caused. Hopefully, they'd take this as a life lesson. You live and you learn, after all.

Her attention turned back to her brother as he answered her second question. "I suppose that's true," She agreed. "I'm just hoping this one goes smoothly so we can get done with all this nonsense quicker." It was no surprise that Brooksong wasn't quite interested in what the other leaders were going to say - she had never been quite into the politics of clan life. Her gaze turned to the sky: clear and full of stars. "I'd like to visit mom's grave tonight on our way back. I feel like she can see and hear me better on these clear nights. Plus, this might be one of my last chances to bring fresh flowers for a while since leafbare is coming so soon."

[Akira]

Brooksong offered a warm smile in response to Bumbleflight. She brushed off her brother's apology with a shrug, bumping her shoulder into his playfully before answering his reciprocal question. "Oh, I'm doing fantastic as always." And she wasn't lying: if ThunderClan was thriving, Brooksong was also doing just as well.

Blue eyes drifted briefly to the WindClan warrior and apprentices as they departed the gathering after being publicly scolded by their leader, letting out a soft sigh. That must've been embarrassing for them: Brook would've been mortified if in their shoes, especially at that age. But it wasn't as if they didn't deserve it for the short ruckus they'd caused. Hopefully, they'd take this as a life lesson. You live and you learn, after all.

Her attention turned back to her brother as he answered her second question. "I suppose that's true," She agreed. "I'm just hoping this one goes smoothly so we can get done with all this nonsense quicker." It was no surprise that Brooksong wasn't quite interested in what the other leaders were going to say - she had never been quite into the politics of clan life. Her gaze turned to the sky: clear and full of stars. "I'd like to visit mom's grave tonight on our way back. I feel like she can see and hear me better on these clear nights. Plus, this might be one of my last chances to bring fresh flowers for a while since leafbare is coming so soon."
Bumbleflight huffed a laugh when Brooksong bumped his shoulder, and returned it with a headbutt to his sister's own shoulder. He sat idly as his sister answered his questions, his tattered ear flicking on occasion whilst he listened. While looking relaxed, he visibly perked up at Brooksong mentioning visiting their mother's grave. He'd visited it not long after he started his recovery for his injured paws, but perhaps he'd go again soon.

"Perhaps one day I'll join you. I visited there a few nights ago, but I'm sure Beesong would be happy to be visited by you, too..." he mused thoughtfully. Then, his voice suddenly became uncharacteristically tiny and soft, a strange look in his eyes. "Do you think what Heronflight and our foster mother said was true, about me looking like mom? Because if it was, wouldn't it have hurt them to see me so often, especially after she died? Yet they always seemed so happy..."

[wolfie]

The gentle giant had sworn on his life that this time around he would arrive in a timely manner to the Gathering. It was becoming one of his utmost worries! He could not be trailing behind, indeed so, he was always so lost in the waves of everyone. The chaos that came with the Gathering even more so. Ooh, Starclan, he did hope there was a lack of chaos ... it always shook him a bit so!

Nonetheless, Cowpaw still found himself waddling into the clearing not exactly on schedule... He did not get distracted on the travel there, but he did forget the existence of the Gathering in its whole. He had very interested in decorating for leaf-fall. Oh! Oh, right, his thoughts were beginning to cloud his goal. Cowpaw approached the typical spot the medicine cats met up, his eyebrows raising in surprise at the scent of blood. .. Please, not another rogue...

There was the mention of his name and golly, Fawnpaw? He came closer to the uh, three? Yes, three! He waved his tail in greeting, tilting his head to the side in puzzlement. He gazed to the wounded lad, his expression morphing into sympathy.

|| birdie Ravensong SpiritedWarrior || think i may have missed some details so let me know if i need to edit !!

[Estelle]

Gathering nights were always so painfully long, and lately, so annoyingly chaotic as well. It was something he'd much rather avoid if he could, just curl up in his nest and go to sleep instead, and yet he still found himself attending every gathering (so tiring). Only this time the shield had decided to take a nap beforehand, a nap that now resulted in him being among the last to join the gathering. His dark green gaze sweeping over all those who were already gathered, it seemed, unsurprisingly, that something was once again amiss. His nose scrunched a bit at that. What was it this time? Honestly, the tabby didn't want to know. He had to, but didn't want to.
Well, he couldn't stay staring at the side-lines forever. Fluffing his pelt, Gingerfrost began his short and crowded trek towards his usual spot. Along with his tardiness came the fact he couldn't just waltz up there and sit down... No, he actually had to wriggle past some cats to attain that familiar spot he had been sitting in and around for moons on end. He was careful not to actually push anyone, he didn't feel like it, but what a horrible night it would be if his spot was already taken. Lucky for him however, there appeared to still be a gap just about big enough for him to sit down between whoever the other two cats were. And so he did, making himself small and squeezing in before promptly sitting down and looking up to the leaders up above. Now, what was the trouble again - the warrior glanced around for a moment.


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Dandelionpaw was feeling a bit nervous per usual, but still managed to gather some excitement for the upcoming gathering. She eagerly hobbled up closer, finding a neat spot to sit down with extra leg room. Curiously, she looked up.

[SplashyLumi]

Otterpaw hid, in the corner avoiding interactions.

{Open!}

[Wingnettle]

Otterpaw hid, in the corner avoiding interactions.

{Open!}

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Another apprentice was all alone behind his clanmates, looking around as if trying to disappear magically. Ashpaw padded up to them trying to look friendly, and greeted them with a twitch of whiskers. "Hello! My name's Ashpaw. I'm from Thunderclan." He hoped not to have bothered this apprentice by coming here and approaching them, but maybe they just needed a fresh start. Maybe it's their first Gathering!

[SplashyLumi]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Another apprentice was all alone behind his clanmates, looking around as if trying to disappear magically. Ashpaw padded up to them trying to look friendly, and greeted them with a twitch of whiskers. "Hello! My name's Ashpaw. I'm from Thunderclan." He hoped not to have bothered this apprentice by coming here and approaching them, but maybe they just needed a fresh start. Maybe it's their first Gathering!
“Ah!” Otterpaw jumped, why did his have to happen to him? Oh no, it wasn't even a familiar face. “H-hello, I'm Otterpaw of RiverClan. N-nice to meet you. Was this how he held a conversation? He didn't really talk to other cats and he didn't want to be considered a traitor by his clanmates.

[Wingnettle]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Anyone could see how this poor apprentice felt lost and uncertain among all these cats. Ashpaw felt sorry for him, so he offered a warm smile and touched his shoulders with the tip of his tail. "How's prey running in Riverclan? Is there much fish?" He was determined to help him feel more comfortable here, even though there weren't probably many talking topics they could choose from.

[ SplashyLumi ]

[SplashyLumi]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Anyone could see how this poor apprentice felt lost and uncertain among all these cats. Ashpaw felt sorry for him, so he offered a warm smile and touched his shoulders with the tip of his tail. "How's prey running in Riverclan? Is there much fish?" He was determined to help him feel more comfortable here, even though there weren't probably many talking topics they could choose from.

[ SplashyLumi ]
“Yeah, it's um alright. We've been alright but there has been a lot of deaths. Two kittens and our deputy. Oops, sorry!” Otterpaw lightly nodded, baring a slight embarrassed/sad.frown.

[Wingnettle]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Ashpaw nodded gravely at the sorrowful news. Even if they were Riverclan, they were still cats. Especially the kits...
"I'm sorry, Otterpaw. It's terrible to lose your clanmates." he replied with a serious tone, watching his paws for a short moment. Then, Ashpaw wondered if Otterpaw was actually supposed to give such important news about their deputy's death. But then, it was something that would've eventually come out at the Gathering.

[ SplashyLumi ]

[SplashyLumi]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Ashpaw nodded gravely at the sorrowful news. Even if they were Riverclan, they were still cats. Especially the kits...
"I'm sorry, Otterpaw. It's terrible to lose your clanmates." he replied with a serious tone, watching his paws for a short moment. Then, Ashpaw wondered if Otterpaw was actually supposed to give such important news about their deputy's death. But then, it was something that would've eventually come out at the Gathering.

[ SplashyLumi ]
The brown apprentice slowly nodded “Yeah.. How about we change the topic? How's Thunderclan?...” Oh starclan, did the apprentice say he was from Thunderclan or Windclan?!

[Zero]

Bumbleflight huffed a laugh when Brooksong bumped his shoulder, and returned it with a headbutt to his sister's own shoulder. He sat idly as his sister answered his questions, his tattered ear flicking on occasion whilst he listened. While looking relaxed, he visibly perked up at Brooksong mentioning visiting their mother's grave. He'd visited it not long after he started his recovery for his injured paws, but perhaps he'd go again soon.

"Perhaps one day I'll join you. I visited there a few nights ago, but I'm sure Beesong would be happy to be visited by you, too..." he mused thoughtfully. Then, his voice suddenly became uncharacteristically tiny and soft, a strange look in his eyes. "Do you think what Heronflight and our foster mother said was true, about me looking like mom? Because if it was, wouldn't it have hurt them to see me so often, especially after she died? Yet they always seemed so happy..."

Brooksong smiled softly at Bumbleflight. "I'd like that..." she meowed, nodding her head thoughtfully. "Perhaps we can round up Berryspot, dad, and our foster mom and all visit her on our birthday like we did last year. I'm sure she'd love to see all of us together again..." It was hard, growing up and finding your own way. Brooksong, her littermates, and their parents used to talk to each other just about every day when they were kits, but things changed quite a lot once they grew up, became warriors, and had to tend to their own clan duties. Hunting, border patrols, apprentices - they all had less time on their hands now. But perhaps Beesong could bring them all together for one day.

The she-cat paled a bit as Bumbleflight's voice dropped to a wisp of what it usually was, concern wrinkling her usually carefree features. She listened carefully to what her brother meowed, her heart aching for him. She hadn't known that that had been a burden to him all this time. It was indeed true, their parents wouldn't lie about Bumbleflight looking like their deceased mother, but knew that wasn't what her brother needed after asking that question.

"Well..." She meowed, trying to find the words. "I can't tell you exactly what their thoughts on that matter are... but, to me, I feel like you looking like her was a gift she left behind for everyone who loved her." Brook sought her brother's gaze with her own, wanting him to know she meant this. "For us, who never got to see her, we get to see her through you. And I'm so thankful for that." She smiled gratefully at her brother. "And, perhaps for Heronflight and our foster mother, you are a reminder of her and of her love. Of what she left behind for them to love in her stead." She hoped that made at least a tiny bit of sense or gave him a shred of comfort.

[Wingnettle]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Ashpaw was happy to have the chance to talk about his clan. Puffing out his chest proudly, he replied cheerfully: "We're fine! We are stocking up our freshkill pile everyday, but it's getting chillier and chillier now. Luckily, we have the trees to cover us from the wind!" It was true. Their camp was protected enough from the icy breeze of leaf-fall, but rain still managed to go through the leaves and reach their paws. "I wonder how Windclan survives out there without any repair? It must be freezing during leafbare." He added with a glance at the mentioned clan.

[ SplashyLumi ]

[SplashyLumi]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Ashpaw was happy to have the chance to talk about his clan. Puffing out his chest proudly, he replied cheerfully: "We're fine! We are stocking up our freshkill pile everyday, but it's getting chillier and chillier now. Luckily, we have the trees to cover us from the wind!" It was true. Their camp was protected enough from the icy breeze of leaf-fall, but rain still managed to go through the leaves and reach their paws. "I wonder how Windclan survives out there without any repair? It must be freezing during leafbare." He added with a glance at the mentioned clan.

[ SplashyLumi ]
“Cool..” Otterpaw replied, looking back at the massive crowds nervously.

[SpiritedWarrior]

**Elmshadow of Shadowclan**
SpiritedWarrior Undertaker

Dark emerald eyes silently watched as small points of minor commotion broke out with warriors and apprentices alike confronting early members from all Riverclan, Windclan, and Thunderclan. He was repulsed but he couldn't say he was surprised, dysfunctional leadership naturally led to such insubordination. As the other clans filtered in things only seemed to escalate to whatever small isolated degrees they had been. Twilightstar wasted no time in confronting the wayward apprentice belonging to her clan. Then another outburst pulled Elmshadow's attention. His ear twitched as the Windclan apprentice began yelling out for the leaders, a kit trapped beneath her paw. He blinked disinterestedly. It was a disgrace that such a kit be allowed to intrude on a gathering but it was quite the display for a simple kit.

He nearly sighed as another Windclan apprentice intervened, jumping over the cowering kit and facing off against their fellow apprentice. His ears went back as the aggressive apprentice lunged for the newcomer. What an embarrassment. He didn't consider Windclan so dysfunctional as Riverclan or Thunderclan but such a display was pathetic, their own apprentices were fighting in the middle of a gathering over a hairball. He moved his eyes away as a Windclan warrior he didn't recognize seemed to come over and dissipate the situation, sending the aggressive apprentice out of the gathering. He let the commotion be mostly forgotten in his mind until an expectant voice piped up in front of him. His dark gaze switched down to the bleeding scrap, expression blank as this Badgerpaw claimed Leechscar offered up his services. He recognized the name though he hadn't been able to put the face to it and decided he must be a newer warrior. He narrowed his eyes at the young tom as he went quiet, almost expectantly. Letting the silence grow tense, he waited until Badgerpaw continued. "Does he now?" he growled lowly. "Unless you Windclanners are allergic to some blood on your pelt, you'll live. I expect they teach you in the nursery even over there how to clean yourself up." He could suggest something to prevent infection but he was not Cowpaw and such a basic bite wound would hardly concern him, even less so being it was a Windclan apprentice.

Sourpatch let out a little growl at Elmshadow, she did not like his tone or choice of words, but chose to say nothing "Badgerpaw! here i'll help you clea that up if you wish..." Sourpatch said softly
SpiritedWarrior
Ravensong for the Elmshadow mention

Fawnpaw
Okay. The trip here hadn't been too bad. Taking a deep breath, fur still flanking Cloudpaw's, Fawnpaw gazed into Seastones. All of the Clans were here, and nearby the base of the rocks it appeared... shoot. Only Elmshadow seemed present this time. He made her fur crawl, but at least with the black and white she-cat at her side preventing her from becoming too anxious it didn't bother here all that much at the moment.

"Okay, I think I should be good. I-" She had been in the middle of telling Cloudpaw that she would be alright from here when a familiar pelt was stalking her way. Fawnpaw couldn't help but squeak as she recognized Laurelpaw, the apprentice from her first gathering. The WindClan apprentice seemed to recognize her too and gave her a raised brow, eyes flickering between the two. Begging to the stars above, the young medicine cat hoped that nothing would be said. She just wanted to get to the gathering in peace...

And thankfully, it seemed like whatever had occurred - notable by the tension in the air - made Laurelpaw just snort and continue on her way. Fawnpaw relaxed, ducking her head to give her fur a few swift licks. From there she surveyed the scene and... oh no. There was what appeared to be a cat speaking to Elmshadow, bleeding - and if she knew the ShadowClan medicine cat at all, he didn't seem too keen on helping others from the other Clans. It was made clear by the way he growled.

With a single tail tip touching Cloudpaw's shoulder to indicate she was welcome to follow her, Fawnpaw bounded over as concern twisted her expression. "I can help you with that, if you need," she offered, not bothering to give a greeting to the ShadowClan medicine cat. Smiling softly at Badgerpaw, she took a seat before him to examine the bite. Maybe if she just didn't look at him she wouldn't get anxious - plus she had Cloudpaw here, too. Lifting herself onto her hind legs, Fawnpaw reached forward and gently started to clean the blood off of the bite where she could. After a moment or two she sat back down, examining it once again. "...It looks like you may just need some marigold to prevent any infection, and cobwebs. Perhaps even mixed with dandelion if it hurts too much. Is Mr. Cowpaw here yet?" Not that medicine cats brought herbs to the gathering, but this cat smelled of WindClan and likely the Clan's medicine cat would want to know about it.

[ canineantics Ravensong SpiritedWarrior ]


The gentle giant had sworn on his life that this time around he would arrive in a timely manner to the Gathering. It was becoming one of his utmost worries! He could not be trailing behind, indeed so, he was always so lost in the waves of everyone. The chaos that came with the Gathering even more so. Ooh, Starclan, he did hope there was a lack of chaos ... it always shook him a bit so!

Nonetheless, Cowpaw still found himself waddling into the clearing not exactly on schedule... He did not get distracted on the travel there, but he did forget the existence of the Gathering in its whole. He had very interested in decorating for leaf-fall. Oh! Oh, right, his thoughts were beginning to cloud his goal. Cowpaw approached the typical spot the medicine cats met up, his eyebrows raising in surprise at the scent of blood. .. Please, not another rogue...

There was the mention of his name and golly, Fawnpaw? He came closer to the uh, three? Yes, three! He waved his tail in greeting, tilting his head to the side in puzzlement. He gazed to the wounded lad, his expression morphing into sympathy.

|| birdie Ravensong SpiritedWarrior || think i may have missed some details so let me know if i need to edit !!

Elmshadow seemed to be a little more hostile than Badgerpaw had expected, but the young tuxedo showed no sign of fear. Rather... curiosity. Clearly, Elmshadow had some sort of temper, so what could have caused it? But his curiosity didn't last long. Instead, he had to fight back a small growl after hearing the ShadowClanner attempt to insult WindClan.

"They do," he replied, then he heard an unfamiliar voice of a cat who smelled of water and fish. A RiverClanner? Well... okay, I think... "Thanks, but I'm alright. I don't wish to trouble anyone."

As he spoke, he heard the voice of what seemed to be yet another RiverClanner. Where's Cowpaw? I don't want a rival Clan to be the one to fret over me! Gosh, he sounded like a kit right now. But he was still glad to have the attention of a few cats who actually cared for his wound, unlike Elmshadow. Badgerpaw made sure to remember to avoid the older grumpy cat.

The young tuxedo had expected to see an adult medicine cat but was surprised to see that his thoughts were proven wrong. The RiverClan medicine cat was... an apprentice. Like him. Where was her mentor? He stayed quiet, only offering a smile in return as thanks for her cleaning his wound. Mr. Cowpaw? Is that how she addresses cats? Well... okay then.

"No, he's not... you're the-" as he spoke, Cowpaw came up beside him. "Oh, he's here." Finally. "Thanks for your concern everyone, but I'm fine. Really."

What strangely polite apprentices from ShadowClan. As Darkpaw [ Darkclaws ] and Larkpaw [ Katulaura ] took to introducing themselves, making sure to explain that they meant no harm and seemingly chastising Ashpaw [ @ SpookyCloud the Pumpkin ] in her place. Did this interaction make Twilightstar think better of ShadowClan, nope not in the slightest. The Gatherings were a time for peace, and even though Dawnstar had shown a blatant disregard for the truce, it wasn't like ShadowClan's been going around ripping apart cats here because they felt like it. Twilightstar also knew that not all cats in ShadowClan had Dawnstar's ruthlessness, still, this civil interaction could change at the drop of a leaf with one order from Dawnstar. These two apprentices could easily have harmed Ashpaw even if they had no intention to because their leader willed it.

Dawnstar was the whole of ShadowClan and unless her clanmates made the decision to walk away or leave, they were an extension of Dawnstar's cruelty and violence, whether they wanted to be or not. So no matter how nice ShadowClan cats may come off as, they'd never be anything more than what their leader made them out to be. Twilightstar tried to not hold that against them, but she'd always be a bit nervous around ShadowClan, expecting some hell to break loose.

"I thank you for looking after my wayward apprentice," Twilightstar replied, graciously to Darkpaw and Larkpaw, frowning fiercely in Ashpaw's direction as the apprentice spoke a curt apology and then darted off. Twilightstar might have to reassign mentors at this rate. "If you'll excuse me." Twilightstar meowed to the ShadowClan pair, ready to go after Ashpaw to chastise her further but found a gray mass of muscles on her right. Leechscar [ Undertaker], Twilightstar hasn't seen her son in a bit besides from around camp. He's been keeping to himself as of late which hurt the leader a bit, but it wasn't like she could blame him. It wasn't like Twilightstar was mother of the year or anything like that.

He was quick to offer help with Ashpaw, and even quicker to leap into the confrontation between Badgerpaw [ SpiritedWarrior ] and of course Laurelpaw[ birdie ]. It took her a few seconds to gather what the problem was. Apparently, some loner kit [ RogueSkeleton ] showed up and Laurelpaw seemed pretty intent on offering its head to Dawnstar. Naturally, Badgerpaw was very much against that, and Laurelpaw took personal offense to that, and now Twilightstar's apprentice had a bloody nose for his efforts.

Well, this was the last Gathering Laurelpaw would be coming to for a while. It was time to find her a new mentor as well, she was sure Skyleaf was trying her hardest with this one, but she was never around to monitor Laurelpaw and the cat seemed to be spiraling out of control. The apprentice refused to talk about what was eating her, lashing out at everyone, and was getting worse and worse. At this rate, Twilightstar was going to have no choice to but exile her if she continued endangering her clanmates. She was giving Twilightstar very little choice, and Twilightstar hated it.

For serving as one of WindClan's newest warriors, Leechscar handled the situation rather well. It was handled well enough that Twilightstar felt it safe enough to join the other three leader's atop the Seastones, which she did in a few swift bounds and a leap. She greeted Pikestar [ canineantics ] and Sparrowstar [ Jayvines ] with a tired sigh and quiet, sarcastic words. "It's not a gathering if someone's cats aren't causing a commotion. It seems this gathering it's WindClan's turn." The leader wasn't going to make a public show of an apology, she didn't see the point in it. Twilightstar didn't bother looking at Dawnstar, instead busying herself with calling out to her son.

"Go ahead and take them all back to camp, Leechscar. I will give Laurelpaw her punishment once the gathering is over. I don't want the it in camp, so you can drop him back to the outskirts, if you find his caretakers, I would make sure to emphasize how extremely lucky he is to be returned to them without a scratch. If you can't... you may decide what to do with him." Twilightstar did not appreciate her own clanmates fighting over some outsider's kits, and it could be heard in the aggravated tone she took. She found the whole thing quite bothersome. The loners and rogues should mind their young better.

"Ashpaw, you'll be receiving punishment for your disrespect after the gathering as well. If I hear from Leechscar that you or Laurelpaw continued with your unfit behavior expect the punishment to be harsher." Definitely might be a good idea to find a new mentor for that one, Twilightstar was not looking for a second Laurelpaw or a potential Tigerpaw. Finished with her scolding, Twilightstar's tail swept out from behind her gesturing for one of the other three leaders to go ahead and start off the gathering.

Badgerpaw looked from the three medicine cats to his mentor and watched as she spoke directly to her son, Leechscar ( Undertaker ), about taking them all back. Even the kit- well, they'd be taking the kit to its rightful home, not back to WindClan, where Laurelpaw would certainly terrorize the small cat. And for once in his life, he disagreed with Twilgightstar. Sure, she was right in telling Leechscar what to do with the kit, but she was not only his mother, but his leader as well, so she should have told him what to do if the kit ended up without its family.

But as said previously, Twilightstar was his leader, so he guessed he could understand where she was coming from. After all, its not every Gathering chaos such as apprentices fighting over a kit that belongs to no Clan breaks out. At Leechscar's call, Badgerpaw padded over to him and then followed the warrior out of the Gathering, grabbing the kit by its scruff, to take the kit where it belonged.

//Badgerpaw has left the Gathering!\\





☄. *. ⋆ Ospreypaw
Ospreypaw tail flicked slightly slightly in nervousness, "I'm sorry I never introduced myself earlier Flamepaw! I hope you have been well lately!" He glanced back at the ShadowClan apprentice, tilting his head again, "I understand if you don't want to speak, though do you have any way to tell us your name? I don't want to have to keep calling you 'ShadowClan' apprentice in my head!" Ospreypaw ears swiveled slightly as he thought, "Maybe we could play like a game of questions?"








Roanpaw
Lots of talking. As the ThunderClan apprentices appeared to... introduce themselves to each other (odd that they didn't know their own Clanmates name) Roanpaw just watched. Observing their body language, seeing how they acted and reacted to the going ons around them. Chaos appeared to be unfolding and it stole away the attention of Flamepaw briefly before she brought it back to the current conversation. Ospreypaw flicked as if he were nervous, which was understandable. The ShadowClan tom wondered how these two would react if they knew he was the grandson and apprentice of Dawnstar.

Then Ospreypaw was speaking to him again and his green eyes traveled back over to the tom. More nervous twitching. He didn't want to call him 'ShadowClan apprentice'? "Then don't." Voice monotone without a single drop of emotion in it. Green eyes stared back at him, unblinking, for several moments until another voice turned his ears. This cat was new, and did not smell of the two before him. Nightpaw. Smelling distinctly of water and fish... RiverClan then, perhaps? He watched her, jaw remaining shut as he spoke no words to her.

[ next time if you guys could wait for me before posting again i would really appreciate it! it gets hard when there's overposting as it makes it seem that my character was just sitting there doing nothing. thank you! ]

Flamepaw let out a small chuckle, accepting Ospreypaw's apology, "It's alright! I have been, just getting my training and assessment done. Following her new friend's gaze, she found herself watching as both ThunderClanner and ShadowClanner spoke- well... sort of. This ShadowClanner didn't seem to be one for much talking. And, although she was surprised to hear the younger tom finally speak, Flamepaw smelled a RiverClanner approaching the small group. Her name was... Nightpaw. Well, that would be easy to remember.

"Nice to meet you, Nightpaw ( Ravenss ), I'm Flamepaw. This here's Ospreypaw. We... don't quite know his name yet," she shrugged but completely understood if the tom didn't want to reveal his name. He was from rival Clan, and with it being ShadowClan... well, his reasoning is self-explanatory. RiverClan had stolen Cinderpaw from ThunderClan during the battle of Firefly Cove. It had been an apprentice to speak up about it, but this apprentice wasn't the one.

“Pfft, if you don’t like it, then why don’t you stay at camp?” Blazingpaw mumbled, turning his face away from Rainpaw. He snapped his head over his shoulder as he gasped. “You didn’t see my ceremony?” The light brown apprentice growled and rolled his eyes. “Of course I am a “‘paw”- oh please, I would rather sit down next to my mentor Copperfire. Oh yeah, did I forget to mention that my mentor is the deputy of ThunderClan?” Blazingpaw smirked and excitement glared in his blue eyes as he repeatedly bragged about getting a special mentor.

Blazingpaw did have a point, but apprentices required two Gatherings. If he only went to one, he'd never become a warrior. But what the younger apprentice did seemed a little... unsettling. He didn't like it when others growled at him when he was just trying to be nice.

"Well, sorry, Blazingpaw, but I was just trying to make conversation," he sighed. "And you can get closer to your mentor, I've seen a WindClan apprentice do that with Twilightstar at last moon's Gathering. If I had to guess, they are her apprentice."

[Spartan-117]

Wolfpaw settles down in the back corner of the area, keeping his eyes on the leader. He is bored out of his mind to say the least, but he is very thankful that he was able to go to the Gathering for his first time. Best to get it done and over with, correct?

(open)

[Akira]

Brooksong smiled softly at Bumbleflight. "I'd like that..." she meowed, nodding her head thoughtfully. "Perhaps we can round up Berryspot, dad, and our foster mom and all visit her on our birthday like we did last year. I'm sure she'd love to see all of us together again..." It was hard, growing up and finding your own way. Brooksong, her littermates, and their parents used to talk to each other just about every day when they were kits, but things changed quite a lot once they grew up, became warriors, and had to tend to their own clan duties. Hunting, border patrols, apprentices - they all had less time on their hands now. But perhaps Beesong could bring them all together for one day.

The she-cat paled a bit as Bumbleflight's voice dropped to a wisp of what it usually was, concern wrinkling her usually carefree features. She listened carefully to what her brother meowed, her heart aching for him. She hadn't known that that had been a burden to him all this time. It was indeed true, their parents wouldn't lie about Bumbleflight looking like their deceased mother, but knew that wasn't what her brother needed after asking that question.

"Well..." She meowed, trying to find the words. "I can't tell you exactly what their thoughts on that matter are... but, to me, I feel like you looking like her was a gift she left behind for everyone who loved her." Brook sought her brother's gaze with her own, wanting him to know she meant this. "For us, who never got to see her, we get to see her through you. And I'm so thankful for that." She smiled gratefully at her brother. "And, perhaps for Heronflight and our foster mother, you are a reminder of her and of her love. Of what she left behind for them to love in her stead." She hoped that made at least a tiny bit of sense or gave him a shred of comfort.
Bumbleflight grunted softly, not really believing her, but not downplaying his sister's attempt at comforting him. It was stupid to ask, wasn't it? There were so many cats who's parents left them for less than looking like their deceased parents, so he really should've expected that response. Still...

"I guess... But, uh, have you talked to Heronflight or Berryspot recently? I haven't had time to catch up with them so far," the dark brown tabby said, eager to steer the conversation elsewhere. "I don't know about our foster mother, but I believe Berryspot got her first apprentice recently as well. I still need to talk to her about that."

[Undertaker]

What was with the strays? ShadowClan's scent overwhelmed the few stragglers without clans, but the glance from Darkpaw drew Dawnstar's attention to one of the few cats that did not belong. The one with Darkpaw seemed to be a freshly made apprentice. The leader remained seated on her perch, waiting before taking any action just yet.

Dawnstar looked a bit livelier as ThunderClan made their entrance, surprisingly enough they still had Sparrowstar as a leader. Dawnstar wondered how much longer the molly would last with ThunderClan's notorious reputation for losing leaders as fast as the leaves fell from trees during leaffall. Almost directly on her heel, Twilightstar and WindClan showed up, which left RiverClan to arrive last. Dawnstar wondered if the guppies were having trouble or had lost one of their high ranks.

The giant she-cat cast a curious glance at Sparrowstar as she joins her atop the stones. Sparrowstar spoke clearly attempting to be civil. Dawnstar had left ThunderClan alone since she felt them beneath her attention, and she continued to see them as worthless to this day, but that didn't save them from her aggravating them at any chance she got. Sparrowstar didn't seem as much fun or as easy to antagonize as Cinderstar had been, sadly. She hoped Fallowface wasn't the same when Twilightstar's passed. Granted, Twilightstar wasn't easy to upset, she did put up a fight and was fun to play with though.

"Sparrowstar," Dawnstar's purr of amusement sounded more like rocks tumbling down a cliffside. "No one overly concerning aside from the few mousebrains." Dawnstar's eyes were drawn to Twilightstar and Pikestar as RiverClan finally arrived, both took to scolding the strays from their clan for arriving before them. Twilightstar appeared to have more troubles with her since Pikestar arrived on the stones before the eldest leader. She narrowed her eyes as both Larkpaw and Darkpaw took to briefly speak to Twilightstar. She had no time to worry about them as that one loud-mouth attention-seeker from last time, the one from WindClan, not ThunderClan, was calling for their attention.

The massive, scarred, she-cat slowly looked in Laurelpaw's direction and her interest was piqued as the cat brought the young loner kit to attention, apparently wishing it a swift death. Ohhhhh, that was rather ruthless for a bunny apprentice. Dawnstar kept silent, amber orbs glimmering with unrestrained amusement as another WindClan apprentice arrived and tried to defend the kit, getting into a small spat with the other apprentice. It was broken up rather quickly, but not by who Dawnstar was expecting. Dawnstar had a faint memory of the horror in the dark gray tom's green eyes as ripped apart his foster mother in front of him.

He was one of Twilightstar's spawns, a full warrior from the sounds of it, Leechscar, one to remember alongside the defiant, angry she-cat who dared to look at her. Laurelpaw stomped off before Dawnstar could offer to take one of her eyes. Pity, maybe next time. "Well, that was anti-climactic. It seemed that I had thought wrong of WindClan." Dawnstar muttered softly to herself. Now, she was completely in the mood to harass Twilightstar as she attempted to shake off her problematic apprentices, and her clear lack of control over her cats. However, as ThunderClan's deputy and WindClan's deputy arrived, late if you asked Dawnstar, her thoughts went elsewhere.

Where the hell was her deputy?!!! Cinderblaze should be by now. Ivysnake and Elmshadow were both here now, actually, all of the medicine cats were. Dawnstar paid no mind to how Elmshadow treated the WindClan brat pestering for medical attention. Dawnstar began to call attention to both her medicine cats with a lash of her tail, but then thought better and still her tail. It wouldn't look great if she asked to know where her deputy was in front of all the other clans. Uggggghhhhhhhhh! How irksome. Dawnstar had plans to demote Cinderblaze anyway, not so soon, yet this was the last straw if he couldn't make it to gatherings on time.

With her temper suddenly foul, she no longer felt like pestering Twilightstar. Now she just wanted to get out of there so she could search for the wayward deputy and rip his ears off his head and make him eat them! When no leader stepped up after Twilightstar's invitation, Dawnstar shot to her paws and rolled her broad shoulders. This was becoming a normal occurrence, so why not. "Let the Gathering begin." The ShadowClan leader's snarl boomed like thunder over the clans, demanding attention and silence as she took charge of starting the announcements.

"Prey is running well in ShadowClan and the filth left in ShadowClan is gone." Dawnstar didn't bother going into how the twolegs had cost them a chunk of territory, it was no one else's business. "Three new apprentices have begun their training: Ratpaw, Larkpaw, and Frigidpaw. All are learning and I'm sure will make excellent warriors." Dawnstar meowed with a satisfying swish of her tail. There were four but one went missing, so there was that.

"We have some new kits in ShadowClan, Robinscratch had Moonkit, and Pinekit." There was a third kit, but considering Cloudkit hasn't been seen in a bit Dawnstar didn't bother adding them. "Gingerstep had Cricketkit, Beetlekit, Blazingkit, Meadowkit, and Ashkit. Snailpounce had Strawberrykit, Smokekit, Smoulderingkit, and Vulturekit." Dawnstar didn't normally bother announcing kits, but whatever kept the cats silent on Dawnstar's lack of a deputy.

The light of the moon highlights the feline's muscles swelling underneath her thick pelt, she was wound up so tight one wrong word would result in the leader snapping. There was a glimpse of sharp claws peeking out near her paws as the she-cat's entire body screamed a noiseless, yet lethal and threatening challenge for any cat to say one word about her missing deputy. Dawnstar's broken the truce for less, and she'd continue to spill as much blood as it took to sedate her burning rage. Normally such a thing like this, not having a deputy that was, did not bother her in the slightest. But that was when it was by her will, and on her terms, that ShadowClan didn't have one. This was out of her control so when she didn't know where the one she had was, well that proved to be a different, sensitive, matter altogether that would result in carnage if spoken about.

"I've also acquired a few new clanmates, Vulturefang and Lionfang. They have yet to prove themselves as fitting clanmates and so are being trained by mentors." Sadly, Frostpaw had gone missing which quite frankly was extremely annoying. The former outsider would have a much harder time returning to ShadowClan if she came back. Dawnstar didn't normally give multiple chances, one was more than enough. She finished her announcement with that and took a step back, sitting down and letting the next leader speak as she brooded and stewed.

Moonraven canineantics Jayvines

[Zero]

Bumbleflight grunted softly, not really believing her, but not downplaying his sister's attempt at comforting him. It was stupid to ask, wasn't it? There were so many cats who's parents left them for less than looking like their deceased parents, so he really should've expected that response. Still...

"I guess... But, uh, have you talked to Heronflight or Berryspot recently? I haven't had time to catch up with them so far," the dark brown tabby said, eager to steer the conversation elsewhere. "I don't know about our foster mother, but I believe Berryspot got her first apprentice recently as well. I still need to talk to her about that."

Brooksong sighed as her brother grunted in response to her attempt at comforting him, accepting defeat and the quick change in conversation. "No, I haven't been able to catch them while they weren't busy doing something," she answered, looking around to see if they were here at this gathering.

She somehow was able to spot Berryspot among the crowd, but Heronflight was nowhere to be seen - liking part of the clan left back at camp to guard. She pointed to their sister with her paw, trying to catch her eye in doing so. It didn't look like she was engaged in conversation with anybody yet. "Berryspot is over there if you wanna call her over?"

The warrior turned back to Bumbleflight. "Ya know, I wish Sparrowstar would give me an apprentice," she commented. "I feel like I could handle it." Plus, it would be a great excuse to get out of camp more often and a nice change of pace. Things were getting kind of routine lately and Brooksong could barely stand it.

[Akira]

Brooksong sighed as her brother grunted in response to her attempt at comforting him, accepting defeat and the quick change in conversation. "No, I haven't been able to catch them while they weren't busy doing something," she answered, looking around to see if they were here at this gathering.

She somehow was able to spot Berryspot among the crowd, but Heronflight was nowhere to be seen - liking part of the clan left back at camp to guard. She pointed to their sister with her paw, trying to catch her eye in doing so. It didn't look like she was engaged in conversation with anybody yet. "Berryspot is over there if you wanna call her over?"

The warrior turned back to Bumbleflight. "Ya know, I wish Sparrowstar would give me an apprentice," she commented. "I feel like I could handle it." Plus, it would be a great excuse to get out of camp more often and a nice change of pace. Things were getting kind of routine lately and Brooksong could barely stand it.
"Think she'd be able to hear me over all this noise?" Bumbleflight asked doubtfully, following Brooksong's paw to where his other sister sat. She wasn't talking to anyone, but it wasn't like the Gathering was the quietest, either. "What if she doesn't? I'd make a fool of myself!"

At his sister's following words, the dark brown tabby gave his sister a teasing smirk. He normally wouldn't be so teasing, but he was feeling like his apprentice self again with his sister around. "Ah, right, you're the only one of the trio to not have an apprentice. Perhaps when you get your own, one or both of my apprentices can train with them. Well, if you get one before they become warriors, that is."

[Madelaine]

Ratpaw
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Feeling a little more comfortable now that the apprentice was here Ratpaw nodded to the both of them. He would have said something, but then he heard his name get called by Dawnstar. Oh yeah he just became an apprentice not that long ago. Ratpaw was pround of himself and it showed. Yet there was still that nervousness under his fur. One day this would pass and he'd be the bravest of them all. Or at least he hoped.

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[MockingRabbit]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Everything's fine, thanks." he replied friendly. It was true: now it was easy to find plump squirrels fattening themselves up for leaf-bare, but then? Would they find enough food?
Ashpaw understood that the party leaving with the kit were Windclan cats. "Well, I'm glad your clanmates offered themselves up to take that poor kit out. I don't want to imagine what would have happened otherwise!" he sighed in relief.
@Rabbiteye-ball (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=16523) (sorry, forgot the mention)
Rabbiteye grunted as he watched the procession leave. Once they were out of site, he turned his gaze up to the leaders to listen to the reports of the clans.

[sol.]

-Lilycreek-

She looked up at the Seastons as Dawnstar made the announcement. Shadowclan has healthy, it seemed. Unlike Riverclan. She prickled a little as Dawnstar's gaze fell over the crowd.


-Bluebellpaw-

Oh dear. As Dawnstar began the announcements, Bluebellpaw shivered. The Shadowclan leader never failed to make her nervous- whether it be now, or even just the mention of her. Still, not knowing what she really looked like seemed like a bliss; she'd never to able to forget that face.

She shivered again, before squashing it away.

[puppeteer]

Silverpaw dipped her head respectfully to each cat Ms. Lilycreek spoke of. She gave a soft smile to Mr. Fogcloud as well. They were highly respected cats in her Clan, whom everyone loved. She turned as the ShadowClan leader - Dawnstar - spoke. She was intimidating as all get out. Goodness. She wondered how ShadowClan apprentices functioned being overlooked by her.

[perseus.]

Sorrelflare was annoyed with all the noises and just wanted to go home already, to much drama with the other clans and they just wanted to shred the ears of all of them. Xir tail lashed as he listened to Dawnstar, frowning when he heard his apprentice was not called and knew the apprentice had gone missing. They growled lowly, claws digging into the sand. Also the disappointment that was Cinderblaze as he didn't even show to the gathering. When did ShadowClan get filled with weaklings.


[open]

[beau]

sugarbee // she/her // wc

The molly hummed under her breath as she wove her way through the crowd. She wasn’t searching for anyone in particular, just someone who looked like they might need a gathering buddy. Her ears twitched as she walked, catching the sound of a small kerfuffle which intrigued her enough to turn her gaze upon the offending cats. It was disappointing but not surprising, and Sugarbee huffed a quiet ‘Tsk’ as she watched Laurelpaw and Leechscar, soon joined by Twilightstar, and there at the center of it was a small kit. Really, was there even a point of having a warrior code anymore? Clearly no one bothered following.

She wished to step in and assist the kit, perhaps offer some kindness and gentle redirection. Obviously the poor thing had no clue was they stumbled upon, or that they were breaking any rules. But alas, the moment had passed and Sugarbee simply had to move on.

Continuing her hunt for a gathering buddy, her eyes finally landed upon the perfect candidate: A rather growly ShadowClan warrior, who looked like they needed a little bit of sunshine. Either she would cheer them up or annoy them, and Sugarbee found both of those options to be perfectly entertaining. “Good evening!” She chirped, settling beside the warrior without so much as asking permission. “It seems like ShadowClan has had a good moon,” she remarked as she listened to Dawnstar’s announcement. She caught sight of their claws digging into the ground, sparking a sarcastic, ‘Wow, that sure is intimidating!’ Fortunately, she was sensible enough to keep thoughts like those in her head; she didn’t want to be the one responsible for making Grouchy break the truce.

oleander
[ testing out a new charrie! ]

[SpiritWolf_yt]

Meadowleap stayed silent


echoblue swiftflight and the rest watched

lilyheart and ashclaw listened

Scalepaw stayed in the very back

thunderblaze and stormpaw watched

[oen]

[perseus.]

Flamepaw let out a small chuckle, accepting Ospreypaw's apology, "It's alright! I have been, just getting my training and assessment done. Following her new friend's gaze, she found herself watching as both ThunderClanner and ShadowClanner spoke- well... sort of. This ShadowClanner didn't seem to be one for much talking. And, although she was surprised to hear the younger tom finally speak, Flamepaw smelled a RiverClanner approaching the small group. Her name was... Nightpaw. Well, that would be easy to remember.

"Nice to meet you, Nightpaw ( Ravenss ), I'm Flamepaw. This here's Ospreypaw. We... don't quite know his name yet," she shrugged but completely understood if the tom didn't want to reveal his name. He was from rival Clan, and with it being ShadowClan... well, his reasoning is self-explanatory. RiverClan had stolen Cinderpaw from ThunderClan during the battle of Firefly Cove. It had been an apprentice to speak up about it, but this apprentice wasn't the one.






Nightpaw slowly walks to roanpaw "H-Hi um, your a shadowclan cat right" she asked "I-Im uh Nightpaw" she said

(sorry if it is short)


Roanpaw
Lots of talking. As the ThunderClan apprentices appeared to... introduce themselves to each other (odd that they didn't know their own Clanmates name) Roanpaw just watched. Observing their body language, seeing how they acted and reacted to the going ons around them. Chaos appeared to be unfolding and it stole away the attention of Flamepaw briefly before she brought it back to the current conversation. Ospreypaw flicked as if he were nervous, which was understandable. The ShadowClan tom wondered how these two would react if they knew he was the grandson and apprentice of Dawnstar.

Then Ospreypaw was speaking to him again and his green eyes traveled back over to the tom. More nervous twitching. He didn't want to call him 'ShadowClan apprentice'? "Then don't." Voice monotone without a single drop of emotion in it. Green eyes stared back at him, unblinking, for several moments until another voice turned his ears. This cat was new, and did not smell of the two before him. Nightpaw. Smelling distinctly of water and fish... RiverClan then, perhaps? He watched her, jaw remaining shut as he spoke no words to her.

[ next time if you guys could wait for me before posting again i would really appreciate it! it gets hard when there's overposting as it makes it seem that my character was just sitting there doing nothing. thank you! ]


☄. *. ⋆ Ospreypaw
Ospreypaw frowned lightly at the response of Roanpaw, tail twitching slightly at the slightly rude response. "Hey, I just want to be your friend! There's no need to be so mean!" He said with a small pout on his face, ears flattening slightly in sadness though they perked up again when they heard a stuttering voice.

His eyes turned toward the new cat joining them, Nightpaw, "Hello Nightpaw! I'm happy to meet you!" he chirped and his tail waved in a greeting toward the RiverClan apprentice who came over.

[perseus.]

Fogcloud sighed lightly as the branch families calmed down slightly, nodding to Lilycreek and Silverpaw before turning their gaze toward Dawnstar, ear twitching, glad that that Shadowclan was doing good even if they were a bit much for them.

Coyotecrash glared once more at Burningfrost before turning to listen to Dawnstar, tail twitching, she was a scary leader and they did not want to get onto the bad side of Dawnstar.

[Peachy Wolf27]

Honey’Freckle arrived a little late, and stayed off to the side as she listened.


(CLOSED, WAITING FOR PRE-PLANNED ROLEPLAY PARTNER)

[flowsie]

Newtlight
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Newtlight would be what she called right on time. Dawnstar had already started of on Shadowclan's announcements, she picked up little snippets as she weaved through the crowded floor looking for somewhere to be seated. The black molly finally sat by herself near the shore of the sandy beach, her eyes trailing along those in power noting that Shadowclans deputy had yet to arrive. Strange. They would probably never see him again either since Dawnstar had to be livid. Her voice intermingled with the others as they chanted the name of the Shadowclan's new kits and apprentices.

[ open ]

[occultation]

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Slatestripe’s attention turned from WindClan’s troublesome members back to the leaders as Dawnstar called for the Gathering to begin. Almost immediately, Slatestripe noticed that only two deputies were present. It made sense that RiverClan had no deputy representing them, since Slatewhisker was dead. But where was Cinderblaze? It was incredibly stupid of the ShadowClan deputy to not show up, unless he was dead. It didn’t seem like Dawnstar to wait to appoint a new deputy, so Slatestripe assumed he just hadn’t shown.

I bet we’ll never see him again, the RiverClan warrior thought. Dawnstar would surely rip him to shreds for skipping a Gathering.

The black and gray tom listened with interest to Dawnstar’s announcements, looking for anything that would hint as to why her deputy hadn’t shown. His curiosity was not satisfied; the ShadowClan leader only gave generic announcements about new kits and apprentices. As was custom for him, Slatestripe did not chant their names. He preferred if his enemies didn’t have more paws to feed them and fight for them.

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Shadowfur’s fur stood on end as the Gathering began without Cinderblaze. Where the hell was their deputy!? Was he truly so disgraceful that he’d leave their Clan underrepresented? What would the other Clans think of them!?

Then again, RiverClan’s deputy hadn’t shown, either. Under normal circumstances, Shadowfur would’ve laughed at that. Pathetic guppies not being able to keep their high ranks in order, as usual. But tonight, he didn’t have any ground to laugh on. Not when ShadowClan’s own deputy seemed to be missing.

He yowled the names of ShadowClan’s new apprentices, especially his own. He wanted the other Clans to see that ShadowClan still stood in solidarity with one another.

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Oriolepaw shrunk in on himself as Dawnstar called for the Gathering to begin. Even an inexperienced apprentice like him could tell that she meant bad business. The massive she-cat seemed viciously angry, looking as if she wanted to rip someone to shreds. The black and orange apprentice wondered what had happened to get her so incredibly angry. I guess all the nursery tales about her were true! She really is a monstrous cat.

When others called out the names of ShadowClan’s new apprentices, Oriolepaw realized that this must be a custom of some sort. In a shaky voice, he chanted their names. It felt odd, cheering for cats from another Clan. Weren’t they supposed to all be enemies?

{everyone is open}

[MaryTheCrow]

- Copperfire -
He/Him

As Dawnstar began the gathering, Copperfire quickly realized that this was it. Of the three deputies he'd met during the last gathering, only one had shown up. Did they both die? Did becoming a deputy suddenly put a marker on your back for every predator, twoleg, or future Dark Forest cat to see?

Unsettled by his conclusion, the tom hunched in on himself, watching the gathering with a guarded look. "Who's next?" He quietly asked the morbid question. He felt an odd sort of amusement at the situation. Maybe "next" would be whoever the two new deputies would be. Maybe it'd be Fallownose. Maybe it'd be himself, given ThunderClan's bad track record with high-rank longevity.

[ NinjaBloss ]

[Dark]

Larkpaw
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After finishing her little speech with the support of Darkpaw’s nods of approval and little hums of acknowledgement, the grey-brown apprentice had been expectantly waiting for Ashpaw to respond when a shadow loomed over their little group, and Larkpaw turned her head to inspect the newcomer. A newcomer who smelled strongly of WindClan. Lark’s brows furrowed slightly as she took in the other she-cat’s appearance, from her lilac grey fur to the scars branding her pelt.

Only when the one-eyed, battle-scarred she-cat began speaking, scolding Ashpaw for arriving before her and the rest of her Clan, was the young feline hit with sudden understanding. Larkpaw found herself staring dumbly at Twilightstar for a few long, slow moments before her brain started working properly again. Oh. Oh. This was very obviously Twilightstar. The former loner couldn’t help but feel idiotic for not realizing it sooner, and she chided herself for it. She’d do better next time. Pushing away the momentary shame, Larkpaw’s mind began spinning into a multitude of possibilities. Dawnstar had mentioned something about WindClan and ShadowClan not getting along, right? It made Larkpaw wonder if all four leaders had so many scars to show off, as both Dawnstar and now Twilightstar were filled with them. Dash, she really should hunt down her mentor and demand him to train her, former loner or not. He couldn’t be that ashamed of training an outsider, right? Right?

Great, now Larkpaw’s thought process was spiraling into self-doubt. She should really stop throwing mock pity parties for herself, even if they were internal ones. Besides, an apprentice who moped around over their bad luck wasn’t an apprentice at all! Larkpaw would just have to see about bothering random warriors to take her out on training.

When her attention returned to the WindClanners, Larkpaw couldn’t help but cringe with second-hand embarrassment at Ashpaw’s response to Twilightstar. The other apprentice had merely apologized and scurried off to talk to another cat, completely turning her back on her leader. Ouch. Lark would never dare, not even dream, to pull a stunt like that on Dawnstar.

Turning back to the task at hand, Larkpaw exhaled, tipping her head to the side as Darkpaw began to speak. Oh, right. Twilightstar was a leader. Damnit, she should have thought to introduce herself first. Her frame visibly relaxed when Darkpaw went ahead and introduced her as well. That was new, because at least she was being included in something, despite the fact that she’d not thought to speak first and seize the opportunity. Huh, Darkpaw was rather smart, as he’d established that the both of them were zero threat in barely three sentences.

The lithe grey she-cat blinked, fiery amber eyes flitting back and forth between her denmate and the WindClan leader. It made her feel a bit envious of the skill, yet vaguely proud at the same time, because now she could boast about having a denmate who hadn’t lost his levelheadedness in the presence of a leader to the other Clan apprentices. That wasn’t quite something to boast about… Especially for her, but oh well. Lark would take anything she could get. Larkpaw hadn’t been a member of ShadowClan for long, only about two moons now, but still, surely she could still prove that her newfound Clan was the best of the four?

Shaking her head, Larkpaw nodded and flicked her tail when Darkpaw was done talking, gaze locking onto Twilightstar. She didn’t bother with pleasantries, though, and instead cut straight to the point. “Apologies for the added interruption, but Darkpaw and I know better than to get violent during a Gathering.” She said simply, and then sat back, wrapping her tail neatly around her paws.

[ @Darkclaws (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=162) - Darkpaw / @Moonraven (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=10662) - Twilightstar | Btw, Ashpaw’s response to Twilightstar is here (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1281583&postcount=81), but @/SpookyCloud the Pumpkin didn’t mention anyone. Either they forgot or just didn’t think that they should mention ]

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Berrypaw
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(Open! :heartbounce: Berrypaw needs at least 3 posts here, so interactions are entirely welcome!)

Slowly, cautiously, Berrypaw inched onto the beach. Her each and every pawstep was placed with great care, following slowly after Twilightstar. When the lilac-furred feline veered off to go scold an apprentice, Berrypaw nearly followed suit, so determined in her goal not to be thrown off track that she didn’t notice where she was going until she almost ran into someones flank. She realized, rather belatedly, that most of her Clanmates had dispersed already, going off to speak or share tongues with cats from other Clans.

Here was where Berrypaw froze, standing alone in the center of Seastones without anything to do, and no one to talk to. The young, speckled apprentice’s fur swayed slightly in the breeze, and one of her rounded, tufted ears flicked. Her gaze flitted in the direction of Badgerpaw and Laurelpaw, denmates of hers, and Berrypaw visibly winced for the male apprentice when Laurelpaw’s jaws closed around his muzzle. Her eyes widened considerably, seeing the now bloody state Badgerpaw was in. Laurelpaw had just attacked her own Clanmate infront of an entire Gathering? There had to be something somewhere about that saying it was wrong. Probably… But Berrypaw wasn't going to involve herself in any violence. That was the last thing she wanted.



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Darkpaw turned back towards Larkpaw and offered the former loner a grin, “That was pretty intense, huh?” He asked “Meeting Twilightstar and that other cat of course,” he added. Truth be told, he had been pretty intimidated by the appearance of the WindClan leader and not so much the tom that had joined later, however, seeing her scar-riddled pelt only made him more pumped to have a taste of battle one day himself. This, of course, was just so that he’d be able to show off the training Cinderblaze had given him and prove himself a valuable asset to the clan. Speaking of Cinderblaze, the tom hadn’t seen his mentor at the gathering yet. ‘I wonder what that’s about’ he thought curiously before pushing the thought from his mind. If only he could tell Snailpounce about the encounter! His mother had died a few days before and he hoped to come to the gathering would be able to distract him from the pain a bit and with the way, things were going, he was sure they would. Things were already getting interesting.

Briefly turning towards the leaders as Dawnstar began to speak, he listened to her began to list the announcements of the happenings of the clan and nodded in approval when the leader mentioned the birth of his new siblings. Though he lost his mother in the process of their birth, he was overjoyed that Dawnstar had taken the time to actually announce the newest additions to the clan. It was almost as if they were being officially welcomed and as if his mother's sacrifice hadn't been in vain. 'I'll do everything for those kits' he promised himself, as faced Larkpaw once again after Dawnstar finished her report.

Now that it was just the two of them, Darkpaw actually got an opportunity to take in Larkpaw’s lithe grey form as the moonlight shone on her. She was actually kinda pretty he determined after taking note of how her pelt seemed to shimmer in the moonlight. He hadn’t really interacted with her much before as she hadn’t been with the clan long, but he was finally able to get a good look at her. Darkpaw suddenly got a new idea and a grin once again wormed it’s way onto his maw, he was going to have a little fun with her he decided. Inching his tail towards hers, he cleared his throat a little. “Larkpaw, you look absolutely ravishing tonight, would you mind keeping me company while we’re here at the gathering?” the black tabby purred in the invitation, giving the grey she-cat a flirtatious wink.

[ @/Katulaura so umm I couldn’t figure out if you had another response after this one so I’ll just use this as a reference ]

[Rose]

Larkpaw
Post Count: 22/100

As Twilightstar thanked her and Darkpaw before moving off, Larkpaw had remained where she was with a nod of acknowledgement towards the parting leader, seeing no point in moving elsewhere. Orange hues flitted in Darkpaw's direction as he spoke to her, and she silently arched an eyebrow. Intense? Perhaps, but Larkpaw was too proud to admit being spooked. ... Not that she'd been afraid... Shaking her head, Larkpaw glanced sidelong at her companion. "I suppose you could say that." She said simply, and then turned away when he did.

Her attention locked onto the Clan leader's, especially on Dawnstar when the colossal feline mentioned Larkpaw's name. Her ears perked at the mention, and Lark tipped her head to the side in question. Huh. She hadn't known leaders announced their current standing apprentices, or at least, the new ones. Taking headcount of the deputies once Dawnstar was done speaking, Lark noticed there were only two. One of WindClan and the other of ThunderClan. The damsels mouth pulled downward into a confused frown, but she said nothing. Where was Cinderblaze? She'd only just shrugged the matter of dwindling deputies away when a voice next to her suddenly started speaking, and Larkpaw turned in the direction of her denmate. She'd honestly forgotten he'd been sitting there.

Turning back in his direction, Lark was rightfully startled by the flirting note in his voice. Again, she raised an eyebrow at the other apprentice, suspiciously trying to figure out what the tom was getting at. But truly, after speaking, Darkpaw fell silent, evidently awaiting her response. Lark waited a beat or two before letting her muscles relax. She was being foolish to think that someone in ShadowClan would try to charm her into doing their bidding as her mother had once done. The grim line that had been her mouth moments before turned into an amiable grin. Ah, so he wanted to flirt? Two could play that game.

She leaned in without skipping a beat, tone hushed as if relating a conspiratorial whisper. "You're not too bad yourself, lovely Darkpaw." Larkpaw teased smoothly in a tone laced with mirth, amusement gleaming in her fiery amber gaze. "In fact, I'm surprised you and your handsomeness don't have more cats on your tail, seeing as you were occupied by a WindClan apprentice within moments of getting here." The corners of her mouth turned upward in a semblance of a smile, and Lark sat back again with satisfaction. Squaring her shoulders, puffing out her chest, and adopting a look of mock fierceness, Lark opened her mouth once more. "Maybe I've scared them all off." The slim, grey-ish brown apprentice joked.

[ @Darkclaws (https://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/member.php?u=162) - Darkpaw | Nope don't worry, that's the last response I had here ]

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Flustered, the tom felt his pelt heat up as Larkpaw spoke, he wasn’t sure how to react. Darkpaw hadn’t been expecting that response from the she-cat, his mouth agape as he stared at her as if he were a fish out of water. He had been sure that Larkpaw would brush him off and call him stupid or something, but now he found himself in an unfamiliar situation and quickly realized that he no longer had control of the situation. ‘What do I do, what do I do, what do I do!’ the large dark cat was inwardly panicking, but he couldn’t just show that! Larkpaw would know she had won! And if there was one thing Darkpaw absolutely hated, it was losing.

He had nothing. Darkpaw couldn’t think of a witty retort, couldn’t come up with anything to say in turn, and as such he worried he’d have to concede this round. Kneading the sand beneath his paws, he looked down for a moment in embarrassment ”Oh well you know me, the she-cats just can’t resist my charm and muscles,” he mewed, flexing his claws unconvincingly as he barely disguised how flustered he was. He turned his icy blue eyes back to Larkpaw’s green ones and decided he wasn’t quite ready to give up. Puffing out his chest in an effort to appear larger he gave her another smile, this one slightly less convincing than the one prior. Wanting to continue her joke, he leaned in to speak in a hushed tone ”They must have noticed you by my side and realized that they were no match for your beauty.” This was it. He had begun to settle into a grove and gain back his earlier confidence. ”But can you blame them? They don’t stand a chance when compared to you,” he said in a low rumble of a purr. He pulled back and awaited her response, a triumphant smile plastered on his maw. He was sure he’d get her this time, and if she hit him with some more? Well he’d have to concede this round.

[ Katulaura ]

[SpiritWolf_yt]

Scalepaw curled himself very close to himself as he didn't know what to expect his brain could barely work at the time but the apprentice kept trying... his grey pelt mostly covered himself

Lilyheart listened in closely

ashclaw watched he tried to stay a distance from fireflymeadow

[every character of mine is open]

[Bean.]

Nightpaw stood there worriedly "i... uh sorry." she said as she flicked her tail then her fur jumped when hearing her name *how do they know my name. I didnt tell them my name.* she thought in fear not having a response for them as she waited for a response from Roanpaw.


(let birdie reply next before replying to this :> )
birdie
SpiritedWarrior
oleander

[Wingnettle]

Newtlight
[ she/her ] | 1/250

Newtlight would be what she called right on time. Dawnstar had already started of on Shadowclan's announcements, she picked up little snippets as she weaved through the crowded floor looking for somewhere to be seated. The black molly finally sat by herself near the shore of the sandy beach, her eyes trailing along those in power noting that Shadowclans deputy had yet to arrive. Strange. They would probably never see him again either since Dawnstar had to be livid. Her voice intermingled with the others as they chanted the name of the Shadowclan's new kits and apprentices.

[ open ]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Since the cats Ashpaw was previously talking before, Rabbiteye and Otterpaw, seemed satisfied and had turned away from him, the gray tabby decided to try one last time and chose another lonely cat in the crowd. There!
A black she-cat was sitting just at the edges of the thick mass. Ashpaw couldn't even make out what she belonged to, but what made him hesitant was if she would be willing to talk to him. The other two hadn't seemed to pleased to meet him, but... Maybe I'm just imagining things. Come on, this is a chance!

The apprentice approached the black she-cat with a friendly flick of his tail after Dawnstar had made her announcements, since he wouldn't want to interrupt if she was listening.
"Hello! I'm Ashpaw from Thunderclan." He offered her a warm smile, hoping to finally have found someone chatty to spend the evening with. "Oh, but I'm becoming a warrior really soon! My assessment is just at the corner." He added proudly.

[Rose]

Larkpaw
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Bemused, the apprentice merely sat there without omitting a single sound as Darkpaw gaped at her. Her grin only widened with further amusement when the other apprentice looked trapped for a few moments. Had she really shocked him so? Stunned him into silence? Oh. The damsel's smile diminished when a sudden thought occurred to her. Had she been too forward to assume that Darkpaw would not mind her teasing? Worse yet, had she damaged his pride? Indeed, his actions were betraying his thoughts. She had gravely made a mistake, seeing that his paws were pressing imprints into the sandy ground below.

A grey ear flicked, and Larkpaw had been about to apologize for her forthrightness when the dark-furred feline opposite her began speaking again. His voice surprised her. It was not the angry or hurt tone she'd been expecting. In fact, it was no different from before that Lark momentarily thought her mind was fooling her. Had she not witnessed Darkpaw's uncomfortable actions only a few seconds before? Refocusing on his words, she found her smile growing wider by the minute.

'Oh well you know me, the she-cats just can’t resist my charm and muscles,' He'd said. Upon hearing this, Larkpaw emitted a very unladylike snort of amusement, suppressing a full-fledged laugh. Clouds above, send help. She shook her head, thoughts snapping back into reality as the tom continued flirting with her, of all cats.

The former loner's face began heating with mild mortification as her own joke was turned on her. That had not gone as planned. She had not meant that at all. Bleeding burning skies, she had just dug her own grave. Lark had meant that her presence at Darkpaw's side had ushered off all the other apprentices because she was scary, not beautiful. Clicking her tongue to fill the prolonged silence, the young apprentice shook her head. Dash, she was immensely embarrassed. Mostly because it wasn't every day one was called pretty. Clearing her throat to distract from the faint red hue on her face, Larkpaw aimed for nonchalance. Darkpaw would have to settle for being the winner this time, even if he'd just unknowingly started a contest of wills, as she was too rattled to formulate a witty response. At least he hadn’t had the audacity to wink this time around ... Not that she was complaining, exactly.

“Much as I hate to stop you from offering up these delightful compliments,” Larkpaw teased lightheartedly, although her expression remained slightly flustered. “Whatever you’re trying, flattery isn’t going to work.” She informed him semi-seriously, as this shift in topic was genuinely throwing her off-guard.

[ Darkclaws - Darkpaw ]

[flowsie]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Since the cats Ashpaw was previously talking before, Rabbiteye and Otterpaw, seemed satisfied and had turned away from him, the gray tabby decided to try one last time and chose another lonely cat in the crowd. There!
A black she-cat was sitting just at the edges of the thick mass. Ashpaw couldn't even make out what she belonged to, but what made him hesitant was if she would be willing to talk to him. The other two hadn't seemed to pleased to meet him, but... Maybe I'm just imagining things. Come on, this is a chance!

The apprentice approached the black she-cat with a friendly flick of his tail after Dawnstar had made her announcements, since he wouldn't want to interrupt if she was listening.
"Hello! I'm Ashpaw from Thunderclan." He offered her a warm smile, hoping to finally have found someone chatty to spend the evening with. "Oh, but I'm becoming a warrior really soon! My assessment is just at the corner." He added proudly.

Newtlight[ she/her ] | 2/250

Newtlight looked away from where she was looking to see an apprentice not much younger than her greeting her. Perhaps she didn't recognize her, she couldn't blame him her brother and sister had always been more memorable than the plain baby sister.

Whatever this would be her time to socialize with people other than elders and kits, this would do some good for her. She nodded welcomingly the newcomer sending a warm smile in the apprentice's direction, "I am Newtlight and I am also from Thunderclan." She hoped this wouldn't disappoint him and send him looking for a cat in another clan. "I hope you pass your assessment, I still remember mine!" Of course it had only been two moons ago not long enough for her to drop the mindset of an apprentice.

[Wingnettle]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Embarrassment flowed over Ashpaw as he realized he hadn't recognized his clanmate. But then, the warrior looked pleased to have a conversation with him, so he made himself more comfortable beside her and replied sympathetically: "Well, I'm glad we met even if you were maybe expecting to chat with other clan cats." His tail whirled slowly as he talked.

"Thank you! How was it, if I may ask?" This was the first time he had the chance of asking another warrior how they did in their assessment. It could prove very valuable for his experience, and it would be interesting nevertheless. Ashpaw was also curious about who her mentor was before she became warrior. She looked so young!

[ flowsie ]

[flowsie]

Newtlight[ she/her ] | 3/250

"Oh it wasn't anything special just the normal, we started at dawn, I was sent out to hunt knowing that my mentor would be watching and assigning my skills." That was probably the most nerve-racking of the whole test the process of knowing someone watching and nitpicking at every single thing you did. "Next was naming and explaining the Warrior Code, lucky for me it's much easier to recite something by heart." It wasn't anything big considering it was almost what every warrior went through.

[ Wingnettle ]

[Moonraven]

As Dawnstar started the gathering, something that was becoming a normal occurrence, Twilightstar brought her eye downwards towards the deputies as ThunderClan's and her own arrived, but no sign of ShadowClan's nor RiverClan's. She assumed there was some sort of explanation for that, but apparently not in ShadowClan's case. Dawnstar was riled up about something though, too riled up to comment on WindClan's mini-drama thankfully. Twilightstar was far too experienced and bright to poke at the hornet nest that sat beside her on the stones, so once Dawnstar finished her announcements, Twilightstar stepped forwards to start hers.

"WindClan has been doing well and we have seven new apprentices to add to our ranks. Moonpaw, Sunpaw, Leafpaw, Firepaw, Milkpaw, Doepaw, and Ashpaw." Twilightstar announced, tone slightly shifting to something more disappointed as she spoke Ashpaw's name. She wondered if she should make it mandatory to have apprentices join the gathering only if their mentors were present or a warrior chaperon. Even though she's never had this problem before, Laurelpaw and Ashpaw were making her rethink how to deal with it. But after a moment, Twilightstar scrapped the idea. Two bad apples should not make the whole tree rotten. Besides one was a brand new apprentice and the other one had problems she refused to talk about.

"Lilypaw has successfully finished her apprentice training and earned her warrior rank and name, Lilyheart." There was a more upbeat tone of pride with this announcement. She was sure WindClan would have a little bit longer before they get a new warrior but having to announce that at this gathering and the last that WindClan had any warriors was a step in the right direction and something she felt WindClan should be proud of regardless of what the other clans thought.

"WindClan is not without their losses, Ravencloud, Rosepaw, and Redspeckle have all passed on from WindClan and joined our ancestors in StarClan." Twilightstar would normally have said how they passed but considering that it had nothing to do with other clans nor threats that could endanger the clans as a whole, for the leader's sanity and pent-up grief she'd rather avoid going into great detail. Finished with her announcement, Twilightstar stepped back, giving Pikestar and Sparrowstar the moonlight.

Undertaker canineantics Jayvines

[Streamtail]

Honey’Freckle arrived a little late, and stayed off to the side as she listened.


(CLOSED, WAITING FOR PRE-PLANNED ROLEPLAY PARTNER)
"Hello, nice night isn't it?" Streamtail asks with a sigh. She had been resting on the ground when she noticed the queen.

[SpiritWolf_yt]

lilyheart smiled big as she heard her name then hearing the losses involving ravencloud Lilypaw lowered her head she could remember the fun times training with her mentor

Ashclaw smiled

" lilyheart! Doepaw! Moonpaw! sunpaw! leafpaw! firepaw! milkpaw! Ashpaw!" the thunderclan warrior shouted including stormpaw shouting along

CInderpaw peachpaw Swiftflight Echoblue shouted" lilyheart! Doepaw! Moonpaw! sunpaw! leafpaw! firepaw! milkpaw! Ashpaw!" they shouted all the more

[Peachy Wolf27]

"Hello, nice night isn't it?" Streamtail asks with a sigh. She had been resting on the ground when she noticed the queen.




She jumped, then looked over at the white She-Cat. “Oh, uh, hi… Yeah, it is, I guess. What’s your name? I’m Honey’Freckle of WindClan.”

[Zei]

Sourpatch, Deadflame and Stonecrackle sat together

[Streamtail]

She jumped, then looked over at the white She-Cat. “Oh, uh, hi… Yeah, it is, I guess. What’s your name? I’m Honey’Freckle of WindClan.”
"I'm Streamtail of Thunderclan, nice to meet you Honey'freckle." Streamtail replies with a smile.

[Zero]

"Think she'd be able to hear me over all this noise?" Bumbleflight asked doubtfully, following Brooksong's paw to where his other sister sat. She wasn't talking to anyone, but it wasn't like the Gathering was the quietest, either. "What if she doesn't? I'd make a fool of myself!"

At his sister's following words, the dark brown tabby gave his sister a teasing smirk. He normally wouldn't be so teasing, but he was feeling like his apprentice self again with his sister around. "Ah, right, you're the only one of the trio to not have an apprentice. Perhaps when you get your own, one or both of my apprentices can train with them. Well, if you get one before they become warriors, that is."

"Probably not," Brooksong mused, turning back to look at her sister once more. "We could always go to her if you want to ask about her apprentice."

She took a moment to look at the four leaders atop the largest stone at the front of the gathered crowd of cats from all clans, noting that Dawnstar had begun the announcements. It seems Shadowclan had quite the batch of new kits, as well as some new apprentices. Poor things... Brook was silently grateful she'd been born and raised in ThunderClan.

WindClan announced next, Twilightstar introducing quite the batch of new apprentices as well as one new warrior. However, at the last announcement from the older she-cat, she bent her head momentarily in silence for those passed cats. Hopefully, they had found peace in StarClan.

That was it for announcements at that moment, so she turned back to her brother and let out a short burst of dry laughter at her brother's remark, the more competitive side of her instantly rearing its head. "Watch me get an apprentice and make them a warrior before both of yours are!" She countered, grinning at her brother.

[Peachy Wolf27]

"I'm Streamtail of Thunderclan, nice to meet you Honey'freckle." Streamtail replies with a smile.



“Nice to meet you too.. So uh… Want to talk until the gathering ends?”

[Akira]

"Probably not," Brooksong mused, turning back to look at her sister once more. "We could always go to her if you want to ask about her apprentice."

She took a moment to look at the four leaders atop the largest stone at the front of the gathered crowd of cats from all clans, noting that Dawnstar had begun the announcements. It seems Shadowclan had quite the batch of new kits, as well as some new apprentices. Poor things... Brook was silently grateful she'd been born and raised in ThunderClan.

WindClan announced next, Twilightstar introducing quite the batch of new apprentices as well as one new warrior. However, at the last announcement from the older she-cat, she bent her head momentarily in silence for those passed cats. Hopefully, they had found peace in StarClan.

That was it for announcements at that moment, so she turned back to her brother and let out a short burst of dry laughter at her brother's remark, the more competitive side of her instantly rearing its head. "Watch me get an apprentice and make them a warrior before both of yours are!" She countered, grinning at her brother.
Bumbleflight had only been partially listening to the announcements-they were usually only new kits, apprentices, warriors, and deaths-yet still remained quiet... Until his sister's remark had him smirk. He sent her a playful roll of his eyes and shook his head resisting the urge to snicker.

"Is that true? Let's make a bet, then," the dark brown tabby declared, his own competitive side making a grand entrance. "If one of my apprentices becomes a warrior before you get an apprentice of your own, you're getting me some new feathers for my nest. It's getting cold now after all."

[Dirtfur]

Blazingpaw did have a point, but apprentices required two Gatherings. If he only went to one, he'd never become a warrior. But what the younger apprentice did seemed a little... unsettling. He didn't like it when others growled at him when he was just trying to be nice.

"Well, sorry, Blazingpaw, but I was just trying to make conversation," he sighed. "And you can get closer to your mentor, I've seen a WindClan apprentice do that with Twilightstar at last moon's Gathering. If I had to guess, they are her apprentice."

“Yeah, well, do it right next time.” The new apprentice rolled his blue fiery eyes. “And I don’t need you to tell me what I can do. I’m already regretting talking to you,” he whispered as he took only two tiny paw steps away from the older apprentice. Blazingpaw searched for his mentor in the sea of many warriors and apprentices. “Where is he?” said Blazingpaw out loud, confused to see no familiar pelt of the ThunderClan deputy.

[Wingnettle]

Newtlight[ she/her ] | 3/250

"Oh it wasn't anything special just the normal, we started at dawn, I was sent out to hunt knowing that my mentor would be watching and assigning my skills." That was probably the most nerve-racking of the whole test the process of knowing someone watching and nitpicking at every single thing you did. "Next was naming and explaining the Warrior Code, lucky for me it's much easier to recite something by heart." It wasn't anything big considering it was almost what every warrior went through.

[ Wingnettle ]

Ashpaw (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes

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Ashpaw listened with interest, comforted by the fact that Newtlight wasn't mentioning anything weird until...
"Wait- You had to recite the Warrior Code?! I didn't know that!" The tabby's face was a mask of shock as he realized that he had never been taught about all those details, taking everything for granted until now. "Oh, crap... I hope I'll be ready for that. I'd better prepare myself a bit better on that, but I don't know if I'll have enough time." And why hadn't his mentor mentioned this before?! Oh, he'll hear me when I come back from the Gathering...

But his problem would wait; Twilightstar had began speaking, and even if there were no interesting news from her, something caught Ashpaw's attention...
"Wait, another Ashpaw in Windclan? This is... urgh." He frowned at the apprentice who had taken his same name, noticing now that he was missing because of his initial stupid way in without his clan. It felt like someone else was trying to steal his image. They had already stolen their name! The gray apprentice sheathed his claws repeatedly in the cold sand, indignation making his scruff bristle.

[Streamtail]

“Nice to meet you too.. So uh… Want to talk until the gathering ends?”
"Sure, I am pretty lonely myself during gatherings. I have a kit at camp, what about you?" She asks.

[Peachy Wolf27]

"Sure, I am pretty lonely myself during gatherings. I have a kit at camp, what about you?" She asks.




“Oh, that’s wonderful! I don’t really have any friends yet, and I certainly don’t have Kits; I’ve never had a mate. But… I do want to make some friends.” She looked at Stream’Tail. “Maybe we could be friends?”

[Streamtail]

“Oh, that’s wonderful! I don’t really have any friends yet, and I certainly don’t have Kits; I’ve never had a mate. But… I do want to make some friends.” She looked at Stream’Tail. “Maybe we could be friends?”
"That would be great!" She purred, "I have a couple friends, and to tell the truth I have a mate but adopted my kit."

[Caspian]

Whiteshine sat in the clearing and flicked her ear, Where was Batpaw?

[Caspian]

Raypaw looked around, all the other cats were interacting!

Smallvine lounged back and waited for an announcement

[Dakotaa]

Sleekrunner

Sleekrunner looks around for a familiar cat from another clan... she hadn't been to a gathering for many MANY moons and wanted to see her old friends.

(OPEN! ANYONE CAN BE OLD FRIEND, SLEEK IS THUNDERCLAN BTW)

[Peachy Wolf27]

"That would be great!" She purred, "I have a couple friends, and to tell the truth I have a mate but adopted my kit."




“Aww, it’s great that you adopted them. Hm… What do you want to talk about?”

[Captain]

From atop the Seastones, Pikestar remained completely still and silent, with his one good eye firmly closed. The buzz of relentless chatter below him did little to pull the RiverClan leader from his inner train of thought. He didn’t try to strike up conversation with the other clan leaders, or even attempt to force a face of happiness. Last moon, the tall oriental tomcat had tried to be positive, and cling to the thin shred of hope for a better future. But alas, things hadn’t gotten better since that time. No, they had only gotten worse, much much worse, and frankly, Pikestar was tired of trying. He was done trying to chase after a dream that was obviously far lost since Skystar had died. Honestly, the tired RiverClan leader just wanted to get this Gathering over with as soon as possible and then go home. Was that a pathetic, lazy way of thinking? Maybe. But did Pikestar care? No. His head was filled with a mind-numbing static.

Once the booming snarl of Dawnstar sounded, the dark-furred tomcat’s eye opened. Finally, the Gathering was beginning. He silently turned his head to watch the massive brown-furred molly as she began stating ShadowClan’s announcements. Their trouble with twolegs had finally ended, and Dawnstar’s clan was thriving, with both new apprentices and many, many new kittens to welcome into their ranks. Pikestar simply listened, his expression neutral, blank, numb. Two new clanmates as well in ShadowClan, Vulturefang and Lionfang, who had yet to prove their worth. Okay. And with that, Dawnstar stepped back and sat down, awaiting for another clan leader to step forward. Twilightstar didn’t hesitate for a single second to step forward and speak.

Still ever so silent and observant, Pikestar made note of WindClan’s spoken announcements. Many new apprentices, and even a new warrior was named in their ranks, but like the WindClan leader said, with gain there was loss, and three new cats from their clan had joined the stars. The RiverClan leader still held a neutral, unyielding expression, but did offer a small dip of his head for a few seconds, allowing his eye to shut as he sent a short, but sweet prayer to their ancestors, wishing well hunting in the afterlife. It seemed this Gathering’s announcements lacked detail, which would get no complaints from Pikestar. He watched with his partial gaze as Twilightstar returned to where she was sat moments before. The tall dark-furred tomcat waited for a few short seconds before rising to his paws, glancing at the other three leaders before stepping forward. For some reason, he didn’t really want to be the last cat to give out clan announcements tonight. Something about that made his stomach churn.

“Our rivers are full of fish, and hunting has been good in RiverClan.” The tall leader began, his partial gaze sweeping across the large sea of cats below him, “We’ve welcomed many new eager apprentices into our ranks: Robinpaw, Spiderpaw, Bouncepaw, Minnowpaw, Bluebellpaw, Ferretpaw, Autumnpaw and Mintpaw.” Pikestar spotted a few of them within the crowd. Some of the mentors that he had chosen for some of these youths had already fallen behind on their responsibilities, so of course, he’d have to assign new ones at the next clan-wide meeting, but that would be for another day. There were even more kittens that would be of age to become apprentices soon too. Nonetheless, the RiverClan tomcat refused to think too far ahead and would rather just focus on the now, as morbid as it was. He was tempted to mention how close some of RiverClan’s apprentices were to their warrior ceremony, but Pikestar decided against it last minute. The large oriental longhair was obviously avoiding bringing up something specific, but he knew that it would be better for him to just say it and be done with it. “...I’m sure many of you are aware by now of the absence of my deputy, Slatewhisker. It is with a heavy heart that I announce that she now hunts among the stars with our ancestors…” A moment of silence occurred where Pikestar wondered if he should disclose the cause of her death, but again, he decided not to out of respect. The mournful leader also didn’t want to suffer the backlash.

Stars have mercy upon him, because he didn’t know if he could get through this next part. “...But she is not the only one that RiverClan has had to say goodbye to recently. Lynxfall…” His own mate. “...Shadepaw…” His own daughter. “...and Mousekit have all joined StarClan…” Another young kitten to add to the growing list. Something about saying this, outloud, to the four clans, made Pikestar’s paws shake. The love of his life was gone forever, as well as his daughter, who didn’t even get a chance to be named a RiverClan warrior. Fawnpaw and him had buried them together the night he had found them, both drowned in the river. So this terrible news would be given out to his own clanmates too for the first time. But maybe they all already knew.

Refusing to cry, or allow himself to break at a Gathering, Pikestar shut his eye and dipped his head, backing up. He sat back down, reverting back into his silent train of thought as his bushy tail wrapped tightly around his front paws. The RiverClan leader didn’t want to talk anymore, or do anything else except just go home now. He wanted to go back into his den and sleep off the grief and pain that swirled around in his head. His deputy was dead. His mate and children were dead. RiverClan kits were dying left and right. Stars above, he felt pathetic. Weak. Cowardly. Alone. Hopefully, Sparrowstar would be quick.

[ Undertaker Moonraven Jayvines ]

[puppeteer]

Silverpaw felt a pang of grief as a WindClan warriors name was announced... Lilyheart. That name will forever haunt her.

[Zei]

Sourpatch noticed the leaders sadness and felt sorry for his losses

[Dakotaa]

PebbleSplash

The beautiful pale tortoiseshell she-cat looks at her paws, feeling grief for her fallen clanmates... she sighs...