September 2012 Gathering

Snowpaw looked up at the leaders. "My mentor is Sagestar, leader of Shadowclan." she happily mewed. "Who's yours, Dawnpaw?"

Nightpaw frowned. She wasn't happy with sharing mentors in the first place, with another apprentice she had to share with, Nightpaw wasn't too exited.

"Fine." Flamestar replied calmly.

ooc: 3 pages already? Can we wait for Windclan and Riverclan please? X3

ooc: I will just go ahead and fill in for badge

Raccoonheart looked around the clearing. Good, She thought, we aren't the last ones to arrive. She sighed and then raced down to the clearing.

:bchplz: ooc;; The gatherings are meant for chatting it up. It's when the leaders are talking that everyone needs to shut up. bic;;

Sagestar flicked his gaze from Flamestar and watched WindClan pad into the clearing.

Feathersong looked around, seeing groups of apprentices and warriors. She looked up-no RiverClan.

"Sagestar?" Dewpaw cut into the conversation, not realizing that she was being rude. "My mentor is Lionstar! Look at how big he is! I've already done battle training, but I couldn't reach his chin!"

As other apprentices started to arrive, Gingerpaw gave them all a look of greeting, except Mosspelt and Dewpaw. The forest-y scent that rose from their fur only brought back the bad memories of when Gingerpaw had wrongfully kept hunting in their territory, and all it brought back was the irritation from the feud between Mosspelt, Nightpaw, and herself. She gave the Thunderclan warrior a silent glare before turning back around to the apprentice group. As she tuned in to them talking of their mentors, she just had to chime in with pride. "Well, my mentor is Feathersong the Deputy. She's the greatest warrior I've ever seen!" She mewed with exaggerated excitement. "She moves like the wind and I bet with her battle moves, she could take down a badger or two! Or even four! All at once without anyone's help! No one can beat her!"

Lionstar gave his apprentice a stern glare. "That was quite rude, Dewpaw." He huffed, though one ear was just barely tilted towards Gingerpaw, but not enough for anyone to really notice. Except Sagestar or maybe Flamestar, considering they were right next to him.

Froststar trotted into Fourtrees, flicking her tail back in forth as she led her clan. The young she-cat made her way to the Greatrock before leaping on to it and looking around, dipping her head at the other leaders. She was a bit later than everyone else, but she didn't mind.

Cedarpaw looked around at the cats. There were so many! He began to feel small. He sniffed, but with no avail. His sense of smell was gone. How useless.
No matter. The apprentice glanced up at the large forms of the leaders.

Greypaw was the second to bound into the gathering "Wow! theres alot of cats here!" she meowed happily immediatly pin pointed Cedarpaw and sat infront of him "Hello! this your first gathering?" she squeaked hardley able to hold her own excitement.

Reedpaw followed behind, looking around at all the cats with wide eyes. He'd never seen so many cats in his life, let alone such a diverse group. He looked at all of them chatting, a bit confused. From the tales of the nursery, these were cats to be cautious around. The river cut them off from the rest of the territories; ThunderClan cats couldn't even get to the river without a RiverClan patrol tearing their tails off and re-purposing them as den material. He hadn't gone on any patrols yet either.

He'd be lying if he said he wasn't a bit nervous.

But the Place of No Stars to that. This was a moment to look forward to. Reedpaw's first Gathering, his first time out of camp, and his first time out of territory. It was a bit much at that moment.

Reedpaw decided to not ruin his first contact with Clan cats by rushing ahead of the Clan and with Greypaw towards Cedarpaw.

But he was careful about one thing.

Reedpaw knew from his not-so-long-ago days in the nursery about ThunderClan. He identified them from the smell of trees and undergrowth, wafting and mixing with the scents of the other four Clans.

As he ventured towards the cat he dared a glance up at Lionstar. Reedpaw thought he looked intimidating up there, looking down on the Clans with the others. But he didn't let that get to him, looking around.

ThunderClan didn't seem that bad, really. They seemed rather... Normal, actually. Reedpaw pondered the difference between the Clans, but before he realized it he was already at his destination. He had only half-heard Greypaw's question for the ShadowClan apprentice and just stood nearby, not wanting to cut in.

Greypaw looked around while waiting for the apprentice, then she spotted Reedpaw "Hey! Reedpaw come on over we won't bite afterall this is a gathering!" she squealed.

Snowpaw looked at the Riverclan leader, and thought to herself, If only I were in Riverclan... but she quickly pushed the thought away. She wouldn't betray her clan. even if she did get distracted after reading Sleepy's GINORMOUS post She looked up, and waited for it to begin.