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OoC: I'll make a few Dark Forest cats, too! ^.^

Cloverpaw's eyes bugged out at the sight of the Clan leader approaching them. "O-okay, Shadowstar!" She flicked her tail and whirled around, trotting after Rubystone. Out of habit, she opened her mouth to scent for prey.

Shadeflight lifted her head and gazed around, welcoming the musky scent of the pine forest. "Be alert," she meowed.

((lol you wrote Female for the age ))

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((lol you wrote Female for the age ))

Wait, did I?

Cloverpaw shrugged, eager to do whatever her mentor asked of her perfectly. "Okay! I see." She smiled as the scent of a rabbit entered the roof of her mouth, and she hoped she'd be able to manage such a catch. Cloverpaw stalked in the direction of her prey.

Graystrike growled. He was not about to let any Clan cat get food. He concentrated and stepped out of the Dark Forest and into the Clan territories. They won't be Clan territories much longer. he thought. We'll kill them all!

Froststar called cats for a hunting patrol. "Shadeflight, come with me for a hunting patrol." she announced. "We will be hunting by the TwoLeg Path."

OoC: But Shadeflight's already on a patrol! :0

Cloverpaw flicked an ear in acknowledgement, and dipped down low. Her belly skimmed the ground, senses alert, as the rabbit came into view. She whisked her tongue over her muzzle before preparing to spring.

(( @Storm You did lol))

Shadowstar walked back under the tree she was previously sitting under.
"Everyone's going to be fine," Iceheart said from beside her.
"I know, and I do trust my warriors, it's just that, i don't want anything bad to happen to them. You see how ShadowClan is still as independent as ever, and the Dark Forest cats still have control over us." she replied sadly, "why won't those fuzzbrains accept the alliance? We'll all die soon if they continue like this, as much as i hate to admit it." Iceheart nodded silently.
"what i don't understand is, the Dark Forest cats could kill us all right now if they wanted to, but they haven't."
"What are you talking about?" Shadowstar questioned.
"Those dark cats are planning something for us all. If we are still alive then they're toying with us..."
That's... possible... Shadowstar thought.

Quote: ShadowMewX

OoC: But Shadeflight's already on a patrol! :0

Cloverpaw flicked an ear in acknowledgement, and dipped down low. Her belly skimmed the ground, senses alert, as the rabbit came into view. She whisked her tongue over her muzzle before preparing to spring.

((Is Nightdapple on patrol as well?))

Moonfate went searching for herbs.

Sighing, Shadowstar and Iceheart walked over to the warriors den to find Eaglefeather.
"Hey, fuzzles, you in here?" she asked the dark. Eaglefeather sleepily walked out of the den infront of Shadowstar and Iceheart.
"Something wrong?" he asked warily. Shadowstar shook her head.
"No, but I would like you to get Breezestep and __________. We have some important matters to discuss."
Eaglefeather nodded and a dark grey tabby tom ran out from behind.
"Hey, can I come too!" Lightningclaw begged. Shadowstar sighed and shook her head again.
"Lightningclaw, you're not experienced enough yet for a experienced clan members only meeting." she told him. Lightningclaw's tail drooped and he gave up.
"Yes Shadowstar..."


*Who is the deputy for ThunderClan? Is that me?*

*I dunno same confusion here.*

Moonfate went slowly back to the camp. She had no luck finding herbs.

OoC: @StormDragon I didn't name any cats, really. If you want him on your patrol, he's open! :3

Cloverpaw sprang forward as soon as she noticed the rabbit distracted by a few blades of grass. The rabbit leapt up in surprise, but Cloverpaw's claws had dug into its sides. Her prey's paws scrambled to get a grip but Cloverpaw flipped it over, riskily, and bit its neck. Thankfully, the claws of the rabbit missed her face and it died quickly. Cloverpaw breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly stood up. Her ears burned in embarrassment from the sloppiness of the catch, but at least she had it.

((Someone should make more ShadowClan cats. There isn't a limit to how many cats you can make, so anyone can make more ShadowClan and Dark Forest cats!))

Blazefoot looked out at the WindClan border, at the giant cliffs of stone that engulfed the once-flat moor. She knew this was the work of the Dark Forest.

"The Gathering is tonight." Froststar announced. "Shadeflight, Moonfate and Nightdapple will come. The rest will stay."

OoC: Added a ShadowClan cat and a Dark Forest deputy.
And if my apprentice is accepted, can he come to the Gathering?

Nightdapple dipped his head to Froststar. "It is good we still have Gatherings. That proves to the Dark Forest that we will not bow down to them, and stay strong in the name of StarClan. I wonder what news ThunderClan has tonight."

Quote: ShadowMewX

OoC: Added a ShadowClan cat and a Dark Forest deputy.
And if my apprentice is accepted, can he come to the Gathering?

Nightdapple dipped his head to Froststar. "It is good we still have Gatherings. That proves to the Dark Forest that we will not bow down to them, and stay strong in the name of StarClan. I wonder what news ThunderClan has tonight."

((Both accepted!))

Froststar nodded. "StarClan is always with us, even if the Moonpool is frozen over and the stars can't be seen in the sky."


"Shadowstar, I thought I should remind you that the Gathering is tonight." Wolfscar meowed. "Who will come?"
"I bet that ShadowClan won't!" Blazefoot teased.

OoC: Whoopsies! Thought I was missing something. Sorry, Spyro-Gamer! X3

Cloverpaw smiled under Rubystone's catch. Her mentor was right, after all- and she'd only caught a few rabbits compared to mice, shrews and other small rodents.
"I'll keep trying," she decided. "The Clan needs all the prey it can get!"

Whisperstreak padded up to Graystrike. "Graystrike, the Gathering is tonight," she purred. "The Clans are still going. Mouse-brains. What shall we do to...stir up trouble?" At that she grinned.

"Yes," Nightdapple agreed. "The Dark Forest cannot control us. We've defeated them before, and we will do it again."
Claypaw poked his head out of the apprentice den. "Did someone say Gathering?"

"Don't worry, you can come!" Froststar smiled. Shrewkit bounded out of the nursery. "Can I come?" she asked.

"Of course." Graystrike snarled. "What should we do? Should we make the tree fall? No, too simple. Should we make the lake rise and drown them? No, we don't want to kill them. We want to only kill them if they will go to the Dark Forest and make our ranks stronger."

Claypaw beamed and emerged completely from the den, rushing up to his mentor and nearly bowling him over. "Easy, Claypaw," Nightdapple laughed. "You've grown quite a bit. You're almost a warrior."
Claypaw's eyes shone. "Oh, yeah! You're right." He stood up straight and flicked his tail. "I can't wait!"

Whisperstreak tapped her claws against a rock as she thought. "The moon will be hidden, and so will the stars. If that isn't enough to set them on edge, we should manipulate the cats to have a small spar. StarClan won't be able to cover the moon, and the tension from their hatred of each other should be enough."

Breezestep lumbered over to Shadowstar. "Hey there! Wolfscar's right- there is a Gathering tonight." She frowned as she looked up at the sky, but then her bright look returned.

((I'm putting blood and gore in spoilers))

"Like always, you are clever. But remember, I am the strongest one." Graystrike warned. "I can read minds, manipulate nature and cats, and see into dreams. If you even think of overthrowing me, I will Remember, I was the one who destroyed two of those pitiful Clans."

Froststar jumped down from her perch on the tree. "It's almost sunset." she meowed. "Nightdapple, Shadeflight, Molefur, Claypaw and Moonfate will come to the Gathering."

Not without a pointer here and there. I helped you destroy WindClan and RiverClan. Whisperstreak casually got up and ran her tail down Graystrike's shoulder. "Of course," she purred instead. "Who said anything about overthrowing you? Nobody else is more fit to lead but you…"

Cloverpaw nodded eagerly and raised her head, sniffing the air for the birds.

Shadeflight returned from her patrol just in time to hear Froststar's announcement. She dropped a shrew and a mouse on the fresh-kill pile. "Excellent," she meowed. Claypaw's ears flicked eagerly, and Nightdapple looked proud.

*Whew... soz for being absent *

Shadowstar thought for a second before replying.
"We won't be able to bring many cats as we need to keep the camp guarded, so I will bring... Wolfscar, Blazefoot,, Cloverpaw, Eaglefeather and Lightningclaw. The others will have to stay and keep the camp safe. Iceheart and Rubystone will patrol close to camp when she gets back with prey. Sorry Eaglefeather, but the meeting will have to wait."
He nodded and headed towards the camp entrance.

(So who is the deputy? I'll just make it Iceheart otherwise.)

((Wolfscar))

Froststar led her cats to the tree-bridge. "We're almost there." She jumped on the fallen tree. "The Dark Forest hasn't destroyed it yet, so we're in luck."

(( K so Wolfscar is the deputy?))

Shadowstar signaled to the other cats that they were leaving.
"Come, we are headed for the gathering island!" she called before disappearing through the entrance with Eaglefeather and Lightningclaw close behind.

"Hello, Shadowstar." Froststar said to the black she-cat. "Your turn to start the Gathering." She leaped on the galled tree and crossed it easily.

"I will be happy to, Froststar" she replied before following the ShadowClan leader across the tree bridge.

Breezefoot burst into the forest where Cloverpaw and Rubystone were. "You've been called to the Gathering!" she panted to Cloverpaw, tired to have run all the way. The apprentice's eyes widened in excitement. "Sorry, Rubystone, but I've gotta go!" Cloverpaw meowed hastily. She turned and vanished into the undergrowth. The medicine cat sighed and looked around, trying to figure out what had happened before. "I should...probably make sure...gets there safely...phew, running late..."

Nightdapple looked over ThunderClan's cats as he followed his Clan leader across the fallen tree bridge. Claypaw's claws slipped and Nightdapple grabbed his scruff, grunting with the effort. As soon as they were across Claypaw shook himself off. Shadeflight watched them, her cold eyes gleaming, then she turned tail and leapt away. The black and white tom shook his head.

"Sorry," Breezefoot replied, whisking a tongue around her muzzle. She was beginning to get her breath back. "I should go. Good luck with those pheasants! I'll tell Marinefur to keep an eye out for you." She turned and walked back to the camp, poking her head into the medicine cat den. "Marinefur! You in there?"

Froststar leaped up on the branch of the tree. "The Gathering will start!" she yowled.

Graystrike beckoned to Whisperstreak. "It is time!" he growled. "We will play on the Clans' rivalries and make them fight!" He looked at Whisperstreak. "Do your thing."

"Rubystone's still out there, hunting something or other," Breezefoot told her apprentice. After a quick glance around the camp, she whispered "I'd recommend you keep an eye out. I don't know what the Dark Forest is up to, but hurting an innocent warrior isn't low for them." She straightened up and meowed in her normal voice, "I'm gonna try to catch up to Cloverpaw before she gets lost or falls in the lake or something."

Whisperstreak purred in anticipation and trotted to a dark pool. With a tap of her paw, it rippled and focused, soon homing in on the Gathering.
"ShadowClan," she whispered, knowing they were most likely to start the violence, "remember ThunderClan is your enemy. There is no moon to cover up. Show them that you are stronger than them. You cannot be punished." She continued whispering into the pool, making an aura of distrust and temper rise from the lake.

Shadeflight narrowed her eyes across the island at a ThunderClan cat, Whisperstreak's spell starting to affect her. Claypaw was also tense. So when a white tabby apprentice poked her head out from the ferns, Shadeflight chuckled darkly as Clawpaw lunged at her, knocking her into the lake with a yowl.

Shadowstar glanced to her side. "Knock it off furballs!" she somewhat growled. After noticing the apprentice in the lake, Shadowstar bolted over to the edge as Lightningclaw leaped into the lake.
"Lightningclaw!" Shadowstar yowled as she watched her kit paddle out to the young she-cat.
He grabbed her by the scruff of her neck with his mouth and started his way back to the shore.

Whisperstreak watched the disruption with an amused expression.

Claypaw had vanished into the bushes, hiding any evidence that it was him that knocked Cloverpaw into the lake. His mentor had a confused look on his face, as if he should be doing something, but wasn't working on it. Shadeflight, meanwhile, was swiping at acorns disinterestedly.

Froststar felt a tingling in her paws, like she was supposed to use them to shred Shadowstar's pelt. She could just barely resist it, but the urge was too strong. She tried to stop by climbing further up the tree, away from the ThunderClan cats she was supposed to destroy.

Molefur leaped at Lightningtail, and "Your cats are too scared to attack me!" Molefur growled.

That was the turning point. Shadeflight's eyes blazed as she leapt up the Gathering tree, crawling up to knock Shadowstar down. Her black pelt hid her from view.

"And it begins," Wisperstreak meowed happily. She lowered her head to the pool. "ThunderClan...you won't let ShadowClan get away with this, will you? Show them your claws. Remember...nobody will see the blood in this eternal darkness..."

Graystrike looked into another pool. His hackles raised as he saw that Froststar was high up in the tree, safe from all attacks. "Should've known." he growled. "Froststar is so close to the pathetic StarClan that she won't break the Warrior Code if her life depended on it." He looked into the pool again. Concentrating, he imagined the tree branch that Froststrar was on breaking and her falling to her doom.

Froststar climbed even further up the tree. She struggled to get there, and suddenly she felt a branch break. She was going to fall down into the battle!

Blazingfoot was angry at the ShadowClan cats. She wanted to She saw Wolfscar fighting Shadeflight, but Molefur was creeping up behind him. She snarled and She laughed at her easy victory.

Molefur was knocked unconscious from the blow. He didn't know what was happening before he blacked out.

Shadowstar fearfully ran to Lightningclaw and Cloverpaw who were lying on the ground in the midst of battle.
"Lightningclaw! Cloverpaw! Now's not the time! We have to get out of here before, Starclan forbid, we die!"
Lightningclaw slowly got to his feet and picked up the small apprentice in his jaw before leaping into one of the trees.
"Are you OK?" he asked the white she-cat with concern.
Shadowstar ran towards Froststar.
"Call your cats off now! If you don't they will die!" she yowled from beneath the tree. She felt Eaglefeather beside her.
"Shadowstar, you have to leave! Without you, the clan will be done for!" he said fearfully.
"Please Froststar... This isn't you, what would StarClan think if ShadowClan was to die right now of a stupid battle that shouldn't of happened! What did I do for my cats to deserve this!"

Froststar managed to grab onto a branch. She pulled herself up. "ShadowClan!" she yowled. "Stop attacking!"

Wolfscar climbed up the tree where Froststar was. Snarling, he lunged at her. Froststar grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and leaped down from the tree. "Your deputy tried to attack me!" she hissed.

"Wolfscar! What are you doing!" Shadowstar growled, "Froststar didn't do anything!"

"She is ShadowClan." Wolfscar growled. "That's enough."

Froststar looked at Shadowstar. "Everyone's acting fiercer than normal." she suggested. "Like there's something in the air."

"It's as if darkness is rising from the ground..." she said more to herself. Darkness everywhere... Dark Forest... Oh no! The Dark Forest cats!
"It's the dark forest cats!!" she growled.