Springfoot ^^^

That day went from good... to bad...

"Dead?" Hazelpaw wailed, "no! She can't be! NO!" 

"I'm sorry Hazelpaw," Feathercloud sighed, "but she's with Starclan now,"

I was sitting, staring at Heatherfall's body, the only dead cat I had seen was Hazelpaws dead brother, who was a tortoiseshell but died at birth, he was never named. But I could hardly remember that. The bushes rustled and four cats burst through, Twirlingleaf led a patrol of four cats, including herself, Deadpelt, Quaildash and Leafglare followed. Prey was held in their jaws.

"We heard fighting, so we came to help, what hap-" Twirlingleaf broke off when she saw Heatherfall's mangled body. 

"No!' Leafglare wailed, scenting his sister's blood, "Heatherfall no!"

After that, we had silently walked back to camp, Leafglare and Deadpelt held Heatherfall. It had started to rain, which was fitting. But the rain had washed Heatherfall's wounds and blood and water mixed, making a bloody trail. Hazelpaw had stayed at my side the whole time, leaning against me. Her tail was down and her ears laid back. Feathercloud was next to us, Twirlingleaf was up the front and Quaildash guarded us from behind.

When we had entered camp, gasps and shocked murmurs came from surprised warriors, queens, elders and medicine cats. Bramblestar and Springfoot came out of Bramblestars den and the two she-cats rushed over. 

"What happened?!" Bramblestar demanded, sniffing Heatherfalls body. Littlewind and Jaggedbone started to rub lavender and mint on Heatherfall's body to hide the death scent. Then Jaggedbone started to treat the scratches me, Feathercloud and Hazelpaw had. When the sting of horsetail seeping into my wounds jolted me out of thought and I remembered that the Gathering was tonight. I sighed and glanced at Hazelpaw, who was still sobbing next to Heatherfall. When Jaggedbone started working on Feathercloud and Littlewind finished rubbing Heatherfall's body and turned to Hazelpaw, I went and curled up in my nest, in the apprentice den.

At dusk Bramblestar had called a clan meeting.

"The cats who will be going to the gathering tonight are Springfoot, Littlewind, Jaggedbone, Twirlingleaf, Quaildash, Feathercloud, Rodentpaw, Mintpetal, Aquapaw, Gentlesong, Stripedheart, Seedmuzzle, Clawedrodent, Breezesong, Muddawn, Foxstream, Daisydust and Silvergaze," Bramblestar yowled to the clan.

Then Bramblestar had leaped off Lightrock and yowled to the cats to follow her. I followed Feathercloud through the bracken barrier and out into the darkening forest. We walked down past training hill and towards a large towering tree. As we neared, I saw Flowerclan coming down the hill near our side of the border. They crossed over to us and a black and tawny she-cat started talking to Bramblestar.

"Is that Willowstar?" I whispered to Feathercloud, she nodded.

"Yes, I hear she's only got two lives left," Feathercloud told me.

"But she looks even younger than Bramblestar!" I exclaimed.

"She is actually twenty-two moons older than her!" Feathercloud meowed.

"Really? Wow..." I mewed. We walked the rest of the way in silence.

My eyes widened when we reached Hollow Tree, I didn't expect it to be so big. As I looked around I noticed that the tree in the clearing was hollow down the bottom, with five hollows in the trunk. When Lightclan entered the clearing, Darkclan and Abyssclan were already there. A very light ginger she-cat with glimmering yellow eyes sat in one of the hollows. While a tortoiseshell she-cat who looked a lot like Springfoot sat in another one. 

"Nettlestar," Feathercloud hissed under her breath, "how dare she attack Lightclan!"

Darkclan received many hisses from Lightclan, while the other two clans had confusion plastered on their faces. Willowstar and Bramblestar leaped into one of the hollows on Hollow Tree each and Willowstar let out a yowl signally the beginning of the Gathering.

"Flowerclan has been well," Willowstar began, "prey has been plentiful and water is well, Lostkit and Boulderkit are just a few moons away from becoming apprentices,"

"Is that all?" Palestar asked, Willowstar nodded.

"Abyssclan is strong!" Palestar yowled. "Ravensky has gone to the nurse expecting Darkflights kits." The ginger she-cat finished.

Nettlestar began, "Darkclan is strong and will attack anyone who enters our territory, especially Lightclan," she hissed.

"You say after your clan attacked ours!" Bramblestar hissed angrily at the blue-eyed tortoiseshell. Gasps came from the other two clans.

"I wondered why Darkclan and Lightclan all had scratches!" a slate-colored she-cat whispered to a lavender-colored one. 

"Shhh!" a white tom with blazing green eyes hushed them.

"Sorry, Adderbrook!" the slate-colored she-cat mewed.

"Is that true Nettlestar?" Willowstar hissed at Nettlestar.

"Yes," Nettlestar meowed like they did this every day. Palestar hissed at Nettlestar.

"Why would you feel the need to attack Lightclan?" Palestar questioned. 

"Because they are weak!" A cat from the crowd yowled. I turned and saw Snowpaw standing, his ear was still plastered with cobwebs.

"Silence Snowstorm!" Nettlestar hissed at him. Snowstorm fell silent. 

"She's a pathetic excuse for a leader isn't she Cherryclaw?" Snowstorm sneered, nodding his head towards Bramblestar. 

"Well, we are the clan that kicked your tails!" I hissed at the two Darkclan warriors.

"Oh look! It's the kit!" Cherryclaw sneered, the pretty she-cat's amber eyes had glittered with evil, no not evil, that's over-reactive, more like mischief. That made Feathercloud and Aquapaw take a protective step forward. From behind them Cloudshade and a black she-cat with a brown underbelly, who I guessed was Hollyblossom, stepped forward. I could hear other cats hissing at each other, it was very close until a fight would break out. It looked like Snowstorm was about to attack, but just before he leaped, the clearing darkened. Everyone looked at the sky, clouds hid the full moon.

"Starclan is unhappy!" Palestar yowled, "settle down everyone!" 

The cats obeyed, even Darkclan.

"Now as I was saying," Nettlestar continued, "we have three new warriors, Snowstorm, Cherryclaw and Rubbledapple!" Darkclan yowled with happiness.

"Today, in Lightclan," Bramblestar started, "while on patrol Feathercloud, Rodentpaw, Hazelpaw and Heatherfall run into a fox, Feathercloud, Rodentpaw and Hazelpaw were unharmed but Heatherfall was killed," 

"We are sorry for your loss," Willowstar mewed.

"But Lionfeather and Dovespirit has moved into the nursery," Bramblestar finished, "THE GATHERING IS OVER!"