2# Gathering~deadline!

[Loki]

OOC: please get your clans sorted before attending *rolls eyes*

[Loki]

Lokistar led the warriors she brought into the redstone gathering. The Snow was deep and weak here but easy enough for a cat to walk upon. The tree's seemed to scream and the moon was bright and blazing. "Somethings wrong... terrabily wrong," Lokistar looked around at Solarstorms words and shook her head...

[Ezziestar]

Stormpaw looked around, he flicked his ears. Ezziesong began to feel a little uneasy, "It's ok." She meowed to Stormpaw, hoping her words will calm him and herself.
Stormpaw still didn't feel right.

[Loki]

Lokistar after padding up to the high ledge looked around her.

OOC: oh yeah tawnyclan get there fwirst we B best

[Ezziestar]

((lol.))

Stormpaw meowed out, "Isn't the other clans supposed to be here by now?"
Ezziesong meowed, "Stormpaw, something could have interrupted them, just be patient."

[Guest]

Daystar led his cats to the gathering.He scented the fresh scent of snow and something else.He scented foxdung!But a fox wouldn't be caught dead out here,and Daystar knew there was only one reason a cat would rub themselves in it....


Screecher sat down on her branch on one of the unseen strees.She had rubbed herself in foxdung to hide her scent.She patiently waited for the deputy,Redfall, to get on the bloodstone before he was to be killed.She would launch herself onto his neck,killing him instantly,before running deeper in the forest.The clan cats would never know it was the Leage who sent her.But she had to be patient,and she silently waited for the clan cats to get ready.

[Loki]

Lokistars icy blue eyes glinted and she turned to her warriors.
"Clean yourselves up we all look like rogues." Solarstorm uttered
a cry of laughter and began to wash his golden pelt.

[Ezziestar]

Stormpaw meowed quietly into Ezziesong's ear, "Finally, what took them so long?"
Ezziesong hissed, "Quiet!"
Stormpaw flinched but said nothing.

Ezziesong and Stormpaw began to clean their pelts.

[Guest]

Daystar took a deep sigh.Remember,Eclipse!he thought,Don't provoke,or you'll make it worse....

[Loki]

Lokistar lolled back onto her back and lazily licked her belly fur.

[Guest]

Jayleaf padded after Daystar, beckoning Mistpaw over.

OOC: ezzisong? Your cue.

[Longstorm]

OOC: Btw, he's not for the killing, Thornstar. His fate is to be decided at a later time.

Most thought that Thornstar would never show his face at a Gathering again, considering the things that he had said many Gatherings ago...
Yet, here he was, his mate Blueblossom (a rather attractive she-cat) at his side, and some of his warriors and his med-cat trailing him.
He jumped to the top of the Bloodstone, looking over at Loki with a cool look, though he reeked of death.

From below, Blueblossom watched her mate, then looked around for a familiar red-pelted tom. He wasn't here! Where was Redfall?

[Runfast]

From an odd place outside of the clearing, Redfall was in shock.

Mistpaw was right there with him (emotionally).
"Thornstar is at the Gathering?!?" she hissed.

Redfall nodded, dumbfounded.
"I... He is! But.."

Mistpaw finished for him.
"He said he'd never come back..."

Redfall, after a minute, mewed,
"I guess he lied... Great Starclan..."

Mistpaw nodded - then crouched, as a vision overtook her...

Darkness... A great, swirling twister surrounded a light... A great dark cloud strayed to close to the dark twister and covered the light on it's way in - somehow, Mistpaw knew that the light was hope.
"No!"
The dark cloud wrapped around the light, but the light grew even stronger! The light was so bright that Mistpaw could see it with her eyes shut. She heard a noise, like many angry cats.
She turned and saw a great cat made of shadows and thorns, smelling of death. Again, Mistpaw somehow knew that this cat was Death itself.
This great cat unsheathed it's thorn-claws and tried to defeat the dark-hope-twister, but the twister surged forward and devoured the shadow-thorn-cat, the cat screaming as it went.
When the Death Cat was gone, the twister began to separate from the cloud, but suddenly a cry of help came up from the South - it sounded like a kit, but when Mistpaw strained to hear, it sounded like a snarling tom.
The twister surged towards the sound, Mistpaw cried for it to stop, for behold!
Another shadow, greater then the Death Cat, surged forward in the shape of countless cats. The cats covered the light, dug their claws into it and liquid light came out as blood.
From the West a far voice called,
"For they who are faint lights among the shadow unseen can bring down such a League. For the weak shall be saviors for the great, and their rightful home and throne they shall take,"
and from the North came another cry, weaker then the first,
"But without they who would reflect the sun, the battle will be lost for everyone."
From both directions, a great black cloud came, the heavens crashing down as poison for rain began to fall, cries of mothers searching for their lost kits making up the thunder, and the squeals of unknown horrors making the wind.
Mistpaw, in the middle of all this, could only close her eyes and hope that it would end soon.
As the roar of the storm faded, a slow, soft voice whispered into her ear,
"He who has the face of a sinner may see this world anew... The rain of blood will see the world shine true... The abandoned will no longer be alone... And the wandering Moon will again find its home..."

Mistpaw came out of the vision, and only seconds had passed. She looked at Redfall, but he was looking out at the Gathering, so she said nothing.

OOC: This prophecy has been approved...

[Ezziestar]

((Sorry, I had chores all day so I had to leave.))

Mistpaw shook her head, the vision she recieved frightened her a little, her fur was rising but she trotted over to Jayleaf, her fur soon went flat.

Stormpaw spotted Mistpaw and Jayleaf with Daystar he flick his tail, "Who're those cats?"
Ezziesong rolled her eyes, "OK, Stormpaw, the tom there," She flicked her tail towards Daystar, "That's Daystar, Dewclan' leader, the next one," She flicked her tail at Jayleaf, "He's Jayleaf, Dewclan's medicine cat, and that she cat there must be his apprentice."

Stormpaw looked up at Ezziesong, "Really? Have you met the apprentice yet?"
Ezziesong shook her head, "No, if I did then I would have told you, maybe Glaciercloud knows."

Stormpaw nodded, "OK." He sat down.
Ezziesong meowed, "How about you go and have a chat to her?"
Stormpaw shook his head, "No... She probably wont talk to me."
"How about you try? I'm sure she won't bite."
Stormpaw purred, "How about later? I really don't want to now."
"Suit yourself, but still it's always great to see other cats where you don't have to fight them off all the time."

[Guest]

OOC: No problem.

IC: Jayleaf waited patiently for the leaders to start.

[Ezziestar]

Mistpaw stayed close to him, Stormpaw finally decided to go and talk to her.
He approached her, "Hello." he meowed.
Mistpaw remained quiet for a bit, she blinked at him, "Hello."

the two remained in an awkward silence.

[Guest]

Jayleaf left Mistpaw and went to talk with Ezziesong. "Hello Ezziesong."

[Longstorm]

Blueblossom scented the air... Still no Redfall... She sighed, wondering what she was feeling.

Thornstar looked around, growing angry.
"Where is Abyssclan," he growled.

[Longstorm]

OOC: Yes - please try to avoid making OOC Only posts.

IC: Blueblossom shuffled her paws nervously.

[Guest]

Swiftstrike sat. Her second gathering she thought and ezziesong is the new deputy so much had happened in one day.

[Guest]

Silverstream: I sat patiently awaiting the leaders to start, but were was Abbysclan? who was our new clan deputy? so many questions whirled in my head, and silently inside, although i would not have admitted it to anyone, i wanted to be a deputy. Ever since i was a kit i wanted to be leader. I went on to be a brave warrior, fearless and loyal. now i grew older i thought about more what being a leader is like. i wished i would find out one day.... my mind drifted to Dewkit and Fernkit, why was i thinking about them right now? i tired to focus, but to many things were whirling in my head.

[Guest]

Swiftstrike looked over at silverstream and gave her a look that said a lot has happened today.

[Guest]

Silverstream: I gave Swiftstrike a nod of agreement, a lot has happened today I thought inwardly

[Guest]

Silverstream: I padded over to Swiftstrike. "How are things?" I asked

[Ezziestar]

((Sorry, wont be on this weekend either))

Ezziesong dipped her head to Jayleaf, "Hello Jayleaf, How are things in Dewclan?" Ezziesong knew that some of her clanmates went missing earlier, she just wondered if it had to do with Dewclan. Wherever they went Ezziesong didn't go, she was busy trying to bring Stormpaw back to camp.

Stomrpaw couldn't speak, he hadn't really spoken to any other cat besides the Abyssclan cat earlier, Mistpaw spoke this time, "Are you an apprentice?"
Stormpaw nodded, he meowed, "I'm training to be the best warrior ever, then I can show my mentor Ezziesong how good I am."
Mistpaw tilted her head to the side, "Ezziesong?"
Stormpaw purred, he flicked his tail at the white and black she- cat who was talking with Jayleaf, "That's her there, she used to tell me all sorts of stories when I was a kit. She was an apprentice then."

Mistpaw nodded, "Jayleaf's my mentor."
Stormpaw quickly glanced at Jayleaf, "Your going to be a medicine cat?"
"What's wrong with a medicine cat?" Mistpaw meowed hotly, feeling rather hurt at the shock in his voice.
"Sorry, I just thought," Stormpaw hesitated, "You just look like you would be better off as a warrior."
"I rather be a cat that helps my clan then a cat who would rather harm others."
"But what's so good about a medicine cat?"

Stormpaw flinched under Mistpaw's stare, "When Jayleaf believes I am ready to be a medicine cat, then, the good thing about being a medicine cat is that we can walk closely with Starclan, we help other cats, but we can fight as good as any cat if we are trapped in a corner."

Stormpaw blinked, "That does sound cool."
Mistpaw licked her paw, "You wouldn't understand, you never will... Not unless you were a medicine cat."

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