Gathering Three

[.Wish.xX♥]

Hazelstar padded forward she was the first clan to arrive, she was surprised Riverclan hadn't beat them for they were so close? But she shrugged it wasn't something for her to worry about. Singling for her clan to go across she will wait until she will be the last one to cross.

ooc:Post away!

[X.Faith.X]

Dreampaw padded after her leader. This was her first gathering in what seemed like forever.

[Earth]

Shortstar led his clan towards the gathering. He was extremely excited, this being the first ever gathering he would attend to as a leader. He recited the words he was going to speak in his head as he traveled, fixing whatever he thought should be fixed to make sure it was as best as it could be. Good, good. It was good. He smiled, proud of himself.

His head raised, making himself look powerful, he came across WindClan making their way across to the gathering. Motioning to ShadowClan to stop with his tail, he decided it best to let WindClan finish crossing. After all, they had already begun.

Furrypaw had followed Shortstar, stopping when he motioned them to. She jumped up and down, as excited as ever. This was her first ever clan gathering. What would it be like? She had no idea, but knew one thing: it was going to be AWESOME!!!

[*Snow*]

Snowstar padded along the small river that led toward the island where the gathering was just about to take place. She padded on with her clan behind her until she reached the fallen tree that led to the clearing on the island. She stopped and flicked her tail for her deputy, Miststorm to take the lead, as she waited for all of her clan mates to pass her. when the last of the Riverclan cats she jumped up and padded calmly across the tree.

When she padded to the end of the tree she silently jumped off and signal for her clan to move toward the other clan giving them freedom to do what they please. When the all of the cats had left she padded toward the Windclan and the Shadowclan leaders, Hazelstar and Shortstar. Snowstar dipped her head in greeting with the leaders, showing respect. But instead grief showed in her eyes as the familir leader, Silverstar did not take place where he usually did instead Shorttail now Shortstar took his place as leader.

[~*Rain*~]

Riverstar raced towards the already gathering Clans. Slowing her pace as RiverClan made their way, crossing the log that lead to the island, she stood back to let her Clan pass, helping them with leaping onto the slippery surface, and watching carefully as they crossed. When each one had made their way, she helped herself by crossing herself, only to meet up with the other leaders along the way.

( Shortness, trying to hurry and keep up DX )

[.Wish.xX♥]

As the last of her cats had crossed the tree she had mde it over in a couple bounds she had done this for moons and it almost seemed natural to clear the tree easily. As she graced the other side she nodded to the younger leader Snowstar. Her eyes followed the slim shape of Shortstar, she was sad to see Silverstar off but he seemed he would be a worthy successor.

Padding through the mass of cats she finally reached the Great Tree and bounded onto her usual branch, as she gazed down at all of the cats she smiled. This gathering would be rather interesting.

Crimsonclaw sat down in the center of the clearing he wasn't up her small talk and decided he would rather sit proud and listen then chatter like a bunch of apprentices.

Mothpaw came up behind Furrypaw her eyes glittering with excitement,
"Are you excited!" she meowed loudly, she was completely being ignorant of her leader and the cat's around,
"I can't wait for the gathering to start!" She was practically jumping out her fur, suddenly she remembered Hawkpaw, oh this will be good.

Seabird followed Hawkeyes into the clearing nudging his shoulder she meowed,
"Hey look it's Shorttail!" she meowed excitedly, "He must be the new leader of Shadowclan." She herself never dreamed of being leader, but she could tell Shadowclan must be growing stronger.

[*Snow*]

Hawkeyes turned his gaze toward the Shadowclan cats picking out the small tabby tom that he had met long ago when he was barely an apprentice. When he saw that Shorttail was in front of Shadowclan and Silverstar was no where in sight, he thought silently to himself, he must be leader. He nodded in agreement with Seabird, but before he could reply he heard and saw a familiar shape not far from where he stood.

A silver she-cat not much smaller than he was standing by another she-cat. He graoned and moved to Seabird's other side hoping that Mothpaw wouldn't see or smell him from here.

[~*Rain*~]

Stargaze slipped from the crowd of cats, finding it impossible to get away, like a lost kit in a forest, but soon found an opening, squeezing herself out of the mass. She wanted to at least be with a small group of apprentices, like last time, where each one of them were friendly. But it was going to be hard to find one in this mess. Then she suddenly realized she was a warrior.
Shaking her head, she'd rather be with apprentices anyway, at least for the first gathering as a warrior. Besides, her small size still looked as if she was fit to be an apprentice. Moving along the border of the big crowd of cats, she wondered if she should be doing this at all.

Sorrelpaw plundged herself into the crowd of cats, feeling as if she had the energy of a thousand cats. Her first gathering! This was going to be fun! Meeting different cats from other Clans, making friends and enemies, hearing news, yes! She couldn't wait to talk to other Clan cats! Suddenly, after racing through the mass of cats, she bumped into Crimsonclaw. "Oh, he-" She stopped herself. Him. At first, she thought it was a cat from another Clan, but it just had to be her mentor. Out of all cats! Not risking getting into trouble, she quickly meowed, "Sorry."

[Earth]

Shortstar nodded his head to the other leaders in a polite gesture. Then, he stood aside, leaving Thievingstreak to take the lead. He was going to wait until all of the ShadowClan cats had left before following them.

Furrypaw grinned as Mothpaw asked her whether or not she was excited. Excitement ruffled her fur and, when she spook, her loud voice betrayed her emotions. “AM I? THIS’LL BE MY…” Noticing the eyes that were glued on her, she lowered her voice. “My first ever gathering.” She shrieked with joy, “Bet I’ll cross the tree faster than you.” With that, she zipped passed the cats that were slowly making their way and ran across the tree, forgetting the fact that it was sloppy.

[.Wish.xX♥]

Mothpaw smirked,
"Oh your on!" racing after her she leaped onto the tree ignoring the fact that others cats had been before her. As she raced on by she knew Furrypaw was ahead of her but she tried her best to make it, suddenly she felt her paws slide from underneath her. With a yelp she slipped into the cold icy water. Shrieking she thrashed her paws wildly about, but suddenly she felt a strange calmness come over her. As she slipped under the water she felt her breathing slow everything moved as if she were in the dream.

Then she realized she was drowning, gasping for air she fought to the top with strong strokes of her paws. Bursting her head through she gulped in the cold air, before clambering back onto land. Her fur stuck out at all ends and she was dripping with icy water. Slowly she followed the others into the clearing. This wasn't how she planned her first gathering.

Seabird raised an eyebrow,
"What are you doing?" she asked as the tom darted behind her, who was he hiding from? Suddenly her snapped back at the sound of a shriek looking back towards the tree she saw the small but familiar apprentice, Mothpaw, dripping with icy cold water.
"Poor scrap it must be freezing." she murmured.

Crimsonclaw rolled his eyes,
"Just be careful next time." he meowed to his energetic apprentice, as he continued on watching he awaited for the meeting to start.

[*Snow*]

Hawkeyes couldn't help but roll his eyes at his clan mates feelings for the apprentice, but he forced himself to show sadness but deep down she deserved it.
"Yeah poor Mothpaw," He hissed padding to the far side of the clearing trying to hold back a smile that was trying to fight it's way to his face, but he kept it well hidden as the edge of the clearing blocked the moon so that the darkness hid his face.

[Earth]

Right after Mothpaw fell, so did Furrypaw. She had been running too fast across the tree. She guessed that turning around as she heard the splash caused by Mothpaw while she was running so fast wasn’t the brightest move she ever made. But, she couldn’t help it. It was instinct.

Anyways, point being: she fell. Seeing as the biggest pool of water she had ever ‘fell’ in was a puddle the size of her paw, she never actually experienced swimming much. So, this was new and, obviously, not something she knew how to do. After splashing like a dog gone mad, nobody was more surprised and happy than her when her paws suddenly touched land. She pulled herself up with the last bit of energy she had, choking up water as she did it.

She saw Mothpaw: already on land.

“Doesn’t count,” She said while smiling.

[.Wish.xX♥]

Mothpaw let out a smirk,
"Of course not, you surely should have won." she meowed sarcastically, shaking her water dripping pelt she added,
"We'll have a different compition later."

Hazelstar awaited until all four leader before she yowled out,
"Let the gathering begin!" As the cats quieted she meowed out,
"You may speak first, Shortstar since you are new."

Seabird rolled her eyes at Hawkeyes reaction, he seemed more then thrilled to see the apprentice fall in the water. But the poor scraps will probably catch a nasty cold because of this.

ooc: The gathering may continue until tomorrow =P

[~~Firestar1313~~]

ooc; So sorrythat I wasn't on. Mom was on the computer. Am I able to post for my cats, even though it is a day after the Gathering?

[*Snow*]

ooc: Yeah you can, we are still having the gathering today.