xx The Darkness Of No Moon {2/25/09}

[Rainy]

OOC: yeah, sorry smokey Xd

XXCherrypineXX

My attetion drew from the red eyed deputy to the beatiful figure of Nightwing. His heart fluttered a little bit, but he managed to try to ignore it. "Hey Nightwing." He smiled a friendly smile only cats from his clan had the privilage to see. His black fur tingled a little bit as it gazed upon Nightwing. He gulped, trying to keep his cool...

[+CinnamonPelt+]

CinnamonPelt let out a murr of amusement. 'Maybe she's an apprentice.'[/color] she turned to grasspaw. 'Hey...'[/color]

[krislind]

Soulpaw of frostclan

This is soulpaws first gathering. She looked around to see many cats of all different clans. She has never seen a sunclan cat nor earthclan or moonclan cats. She followed her leader into the clearing, she looked up at the stars,'wow their is alot of stars' she thought to her self. She quickly saw cinnamonpelt talking to another medicine cat. She walked up to her.

[xX_-Oceanstar-_Xx]

L - O - S - T - P - A - W

Lostpaw looked up as Smokepaw came over. No one ever talked to her during gatherings, and she liked it that way. But, she couldn't help if the young apprentice decided to talk to someone within her own clan, so she tried to put on a friendly face and grinned at Smokepaw. "Well hey there Smokepaw! How are you?" she meowed in the friendliest voice she could get.

O - C - E - A - N - S - T - A - R

Oceanstar grinned slightly when she noticed the light brown form of Muddypelt, but quickly turned away when she felt Dawnstar's eyes on her. She quickly moved her gaze to Angelpaw, her apprentice. She made a note to find time to take her out on her first training session.

F - I - R - E - W - I - N - G

A large, tiger-like warrior padded in after Dragonstar, and padded over to sit with the other warriors. His green eyes swept over the clearing, just seeing who was there.

[Ember]

Dragonstar nodded to Oceanstar, and calmly wrapped her tail around her paws. She was the eldest of the leaders, and was by far the most experienced. No one contradicted her judgment, but simply debated it. Her word was taken for wise, and even the other leaders, her equals, respected that. Once again the thought of retirement flickered through her mind, but she dismissed it again, for the same reason. She sighed deeply, her fur bristling and then lying flat as the sigh rippled throughout her body. It was a slow, sad sigh, and could not be mistaken for that of a content sigh. Every time she thought of Rockleafe, she resented becoming leader. She treated every cat's life like they were her responsibility, and more important than her own, which is true. But if one of them dies, it feels to her like they have taken another one of her nine lives with them...

Since she had nothing to say at the moment, Dragonstar simply stared ahead, not looking at anything in particular. Yes, Rockleafe had died valiantly, protecting her Clan, which was the most honorable death any cat could wish for, but it didn't make her death any easier.... The shroud of darkness that enclosed the cats in the clearing was starting to unnerve her. Death, silence, and darkness made her memory flash back to every time she lost a life. Leaders must really have 99 lives, she thought to herself, or they would never live to see more than three of their Clanmates die, no matter how. It was odd to her, then, that this death was so unsettling. She had seen at least a dozen of her warriors die at her side, and at least one or two deputies, but she never remembered the aftermath of such was this bad.

Sighing again, Dragonstar waited for Morningstar to show up, so she could just get this over with. If the ginger cat had to wait any longer to say for the last time that EarthClan had a new deputy, she might explode. It was not that she was looking forward, it was simply the fact that she did not want to dwell on such news any longer than she had to. The fact that her Clan had missed the last gathering would have annoyed the other Clans, but they would just have to get over it. A loyal Clanmate, deputy, and friend had died, saving her Clan from a vicious evil. If the other Clans had a problem with that, they could see how it felt themselves. Right now, she wanted to rake the ear off of any warrior that decided they wanted to know what happened.

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` n i g h t w i n g

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The she-cat looked around the clearing, and saw all the cats. ' Sometimes too many cats isn't good . . ' Nightwing meowed, as she gazed at all the cats. She saw the EarthClan had gotten a new deputy Hm, seems odd. Rockleafe was kind of young. She thought as darkness filled her thoughts. She looked at the MoonClan deputy again. He seemed to have the same look on his grave face that Nightwing had before. She sighed and laid herself down, feeling weak from lack of sleep. She looked back at Cherrypine, feeling a tingle go down her spine as she saw his beautiful red eyes.

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`dawnstar - moonclan -

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The young leader looked around the clearing, serching for a sign of SunClan. But there was nothing. Not even a faint scent lingered at the Star trees. She watched as Dragonstar looking extremely depressed. She felt the need to speak, but also held back. What if she didn't want to talk about it? Did it really matter that much? ' Hey Dragonstar, what's bringing you down? ' She asked, walking over to the elderly leader. She cared or this leader, and had even looked up to her a little. But she knew she was the leader and she had to take care f her clan with no help

She looked down at where her deputy was, but didn't see Rockleafe, but instead saw Brakenclaw. So that was what was getting at the EarthCLn leader. Rockleafe must have died. But she also saw a cat with red eyes like her deputy sitting by her daughter, Nightwing. What was he doing with her? She seemed to be enjoying his presents though. She still didn't feel that good. But then again, her daughter should be able to love. She doesn't even know I'm her mother She thought sadly, wishing her daughter knew. She was so beautiful. . .

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[+CinnamonPelt+]

((Soulpaw are you my apprentice now?))

[.xXMorningstarXx.]

-- M O R N I N G S T A R - O F - S U N C L A N --

Morningstar prowled into the clearing with her clan comming up be hind her. She was determined NOT to talk ot even make eye contact with Dawnstar! "C'mon guys," Morningstar meowed to her clan, "and try NOT to talk to Moonclan, we want our attack to be a surprise!" Morningstar jumped onto the great rock.

[~Night~]

Darkpaw of Earthclan

~Darkpaw's eyes grew very wide, and very round. There were so many cats here! She had never been to a gathering before! She had gotten distracted on the way to the gathering, and had fallen behind. She had only just gotten to Star Trees. She could only manage to squeak out one word.~ Wow. ~Then, she saw Firepaw and hurried off to sit beside him. She was outgoing, yes, but there were so many cats, she would feel awkward just going up to sit beside a random apprentice that she didn't know.~

Nightpaw of Moonclan

~Nightpaw's first gathering. She looked around, searching for someone that she knew. Then, she changed her mind. Why search for someone she knew? Why not meet a possible future opponent. Her eyes wandered around Star Trees, searching for an apprentice or warrior who was alone, or in a small crowd. She saw a small black cat with pale blue eyes, and padded over to him. Small like me... Nightpaw thought as she sat down in the shadows, half a tail length away from Scourgepaw.~ Hi. I'm Nightpaw.

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` sunberry - sunclan -

Sunberry secretly rolled her eyes at her mother. So immature. We were better off with Sunstar than her She thought. She had been very angry with her mother lately. She wanted to go to war for some stupid kit. Big whoop. He wasn't even that loyal She thought, and looked around at all the cats. She saw a cat, barely recalling the name That's Firewing, right? Sunberry thought, padding over to the EarthClan warrior. She felt the need to talk to a non SunClan cat. ' Hey Firewing, what's up? ' She meowed kindly. She was tired of hate. She wanted something other than battle. But if her mother was going to drag her warriors into a stupid war over a kit, someone had pulled the wool over her eyes. But Sunberry wanted to remove the wool. Her mother needed to see how wrong this really was. If only she knew . . .

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[xX_-Oceanstar-_Xx]

F - I - R - E - W - I - N - G

Firewing looked up as a SunClan warrior came over. SunClan...Sun....Berry...That's it, this is Sunberry. he thought, quite sure of it. "Sunberry, right? And nothing really, I suppose everything's good in SunClan?" he replied.

((Garr....Brain deaD!))

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` sunberry - sunclan -

Sunberry so desperately wanted to tell him the truth but couldn't. She nodded her head. ' Yes, that's my name. Yes . . . everything has been okay. ' She meowed, and looked around. She caught sight of the MoonClan deputy. ' I'll be right back, ' She meowed, padding over to the MoonClan deputy. ' Okay, I know this may sound odd but before you go could you go behind that bush, ' She pointed t a bush on the far side of the clearing. ' Please don't ask me anything, just do it for the sake of your clan! ' She meowed before padding back over to Firewing. ' Sorry for that. '

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[Ember]

D R A G O N S T A R - EARTHCLAN

Dragonstar looked up, meeting Dawnstar's eyes. She didn't try to conceal her sorrow, it felt like the ginger leader just didn't have the energy to do much of anything right now... "You will find out soon enough," she meowed, reluctant to have to tell the story more than once. She nodded to Morningstar as SunClan's leader jumped onto Star Rock, then meowed, "May I go first?" it was rare for EarthClan to ever go first, so she had a feeling that they would accept her request.

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S I L V E R P O O L - SUNCLAN

(Hey mosaic, should this be Silverpool's last gathering because of Whiteflame? Or should it wait until Ivypw is a warrior?)

Silverpool padded into the clearing, about in the middle of the Clan. She had felt exhausted lately, and she hoped that she wasn't coming down with something. At least it would give her an excuse not to talk to MoonClan cats like Morningstar had asked. She didn't understand why everyone had to fight. Violence wasn't always a solution... she padded over to Cherrypine, a FrostClan warrior. "Hi, Cherrypine." she meowed softly. She had met the tom before, and she noticed that he seemed to be taking a fancy to Nightwing. She chuckled to herself, then said, "How is the prey running?"

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` dawnstar - moonclan -

Dawnstar nodded her head to Dragonstar. She died to know what was getting at this noble leader. She wrapped her silver tail around herself, waiting for the leader to speak.

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Spiritflare

The SunClan deputy bounded into the clearing after their leader. Morningstar really seems to want a battle with MoonClan. Is this really only about Leafkit vanishing?he wondered. The light ginger tom came to a stop at the foot of where all the leaders stood. The rest of his clan were catching up. Glancing over at the MoonClan cats, he peered closely at each cat's face. None of them showed any signs of anything they might have done. His observation only strengthened his doubts. Leafkit isn't with them, he decided.


Scarpaw

The light furred tom padded restly through his clans ranks. He didn't know any cat from the other clans. Bored, the apprentice licked a paw, looking at the whole crowd of cats, their scents mingling together. The EarthClan leader seemed burdened with something, but he didn't pay much attention. What went on in other clans couldn't affect Moon Clan that much, could it? I don't think so.


Firepaw

I wonder what Dragonstar must feel like right now. Who wants to announce a cat's death so publicly?Firepaw shot a glance at his mentor and deputy, Brackenclaw. He seemed alright, despite the fact that Rockleaf had died. Maybe being deputy helps. The flame colored cat stretched, and padded towards some cats from other clans. "Hi!" he meowed.