The First Gathering

[rainfacex3]

Rainface sat in the middle of the island, waiting for the Gathering to start. She looked around for any cats to talk to, but everyone seemed to already be talking to someone, and she didn't particularly want to interrupt any conversations.

[Spottedheart]

Spottedheart nodded to the gray loner, still not sure if he was being truthful about nothing being wrong. But she had to lie to everyone earlier, so she let it slide.
"Okay. I need to go find the other Medicine Cats... You're announcing the bad news durring the Gathering, right?" She asked, still curious about the previous topic.


Dewflower let her eyes drift away from her ThunderClan clanmates, noticing a lonely RiverClan warrior all by herself.
'It'll be my chance to show Brackenmask that I'm nice.' She selfishly thought, making a devious face before putting on a friendly smile. She padded over to the she-cat, then asked nicely, "Why sit here by yourself when there's cats on the island to talk to?"

[Swiftclaw]

"Hai, I am. As soon as every Clan is here. How long do you think it will take to... resolve their difficulties?" he asked. For some reason, he felt kind of guilty pointing out Spotted's obvious untruth. He had the sudden urge to tell her so. So he did.
"Look, Spottedheart, I'm sorry I had to ask. I know you're protecting someone," he whispered.

[rainfacex3]

Snapping suddenly out of her daydreaming thoughts, Rainface noticed Dewflower approaching her. The young warrior turned to face the ThunderClan she-cat, her nose and whiskers twitching as the scent invaded her nostrils. "Oh, hiya!" Rainface said cheerfully. A sudden thought jolted back into her mind; Maybe Oakshadow is here... Rainface looked around, and, to her surprise, saw a light brown shape trotting across the fallen tree to the island. Her eyes brightened as her ShadowClan friend Oakshadow approached her.

Oakshadow felt happier than any words could describe as he pushed his nose into Rainface's fur in greeting. "It's so good to see you, Rainface! I haven't seen you in moons..." the warrior felt his heart lift at the scent and sight combined of the RiverClan she-cat.

Rainface felt her amber eyes shining with joy at seeing her old friend again, but self-conscious as she was, she made no attempt to stifle the sparkles of affection that might as well be exploding from ever hair on her pelt. "I looked yesterday over the stream for you, but I think you had been in the dawn patrol or something, because your scent was slightly stale." She scuffled her paws uncomfortably.

Oakshadow felt every hair on his pelt grow hotter as the RiverClan cat pushed her nose into his fur in turn. "It's so great to see you after all this time... but when is the Gathering going to start? I'm dying to know what's going on!"

Rainface cast Oakshadow a sympathetic glance, as she knew she felt the same about the Gathering. " Not sure, but I'm with you on that one. So, what've you been up to lately?" she asked curiously, tilting her head to one side and sitting down in front of her ShadowClan friend, her tail wrapped around her paws.

Oakshadow scuffled his paws on the earth uncomfortably. He was not about to admit that he had spent the last two moons obsessing over his secret love for his friend, but at the same time, part of him urged him to spill the beans, so to speak. "Uhh... not much," he started, swallowing nervously. "Just the usual; being bored, hunting, patrolling, napping, being bored some more..." he joked.

[hawkstar]

Brackenmask stepped forward into this gathering. He loved going to them to meet new cats, and listen to the other clans news. Brackenmask loved listening to the news so he could use their weaknesses to help out his clan.

[Spottedheart]

Jan 30, 2009 0:29:43 GMT -5 Swiftclaw said:

"Hai, I am. As soon as every Clan is here. How long do you think it will take to... resolve their difficulties?" he asked. For some reason, he felt kind of guilty pointing out Spotted's obvious untruth. He had the sudden urge to tell her so. So he did.
"Look, Spottedheart, I'm sorry I had to ask. I know you're protecting someone," he whispered.

Spottedheart looked back at the tree-bridge, wondering when the two other clans would come. She also wondered how Swiftclaw could tell she was protecting someone. 'He's very wise. Of course he can tell.' She thought, looking back at him. "They really should be here any moment now." 'Unless the clan leaders had to lecture Brighteyes and Calicoclaw. I really hope they seperated in time. Brighteyes has more land to travel through though...' she added to in her thoughts.
"WindClan will get here last." She predicted.
Spottedheart avoided saying anything about the last thing Swiftclaw had said.
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Dewflower looked at the two warriors with a smile drawn on her face. She could tell they were interested in eachother.
"I'm Dewflower!" She interupted Oakshadow with the same smile.
She was a little annoyed that this cat interrupted her from talking to Rainface.
But she kept her cool, looking behind her to get a glimpse of where Brackenmask was sitting.

[Swiftclaw]

"All right." He turned to look at Spotted -
And froze. The light caught her fur at an angle, making it glow with silver. He couldn't breathe for some reason...
Until he thought about the danger. For some reason, the fact that she would also be in danger galvanized him. He tore his gaze away and called out to the leaders, "Oi, don't you think they're taking a little too long? I think we should send messengers!"

[Midnight[x]Warrior]

A black cat sat among the others. Though she was a Medicine Cat, she didn't feel like talking to the others. Pantherfang gazed around. She wasn't sure if she even did want to talk to anyone, but she would just wait to see if the other Med. cats spoke to her. Mostly, she just flickered her ears in their direction to listen to what they were talking about.

/./Sorry I was gone. I was grounded for awhile.\.\

[darkheart]

Darkheart, Deputy of shadowclan, and Bella pawed in slowly. they never go apart... ver....darkheart was holding Shaela (blackit) in her mouth and she put her down softly. "Sorry We are late..." Darkheart mutter softly feeling shameful. Bellas White fur reddened in embarrasment... She looked around aimlessly for Sorrelstar. Shaela purred curling herself perfectly between darkhearts paws and watched intently her ears fickering at all the outside conversation. Darkhearts ears flicked but bella remained searching slowly.

[Swiftclaw]

Swiftclaw dipped his head in acknowledgement of the newcomers. "Good. One more clan left!'

In the meantime, Whitestripe and Lightningfang had gotten bored. Whitestripe chose his usual pastime: eavesdropping on every conversation in earshot. Lite, however, walked up to Pantherfang.
"How's it going?" she asked, very obviously bored.