Moonlit Meeting

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((I'm so busy on the weekdays, with homework and tests, but I'm going to make this thread, just for you guys. Yay! Anyway, since Puddle isn't on much, I'll be playing Cloverpaw for her on a part time basis. Then when she does go on she'll just play him))


Cloverpaw padded through the forest, until he saw the clearing of the Grassfield. He had recieved a dream the night before, of strange starry cats, some he reconized, and some he didn't. He could barely remember it, but he knew he had to go here, at this precise time. Why? He had no idea. "I must have bees in my brain" he muttered, as he shook snow from an ear. It was freezing out, and shining snow lay on the ground. With his fur fluffed out, Cloverpaw couldn't wait to get back to his nice, warm den. Finally sitting on his haunches in the Grassfield, he spotted the placed where the leaders would sit if it were a Gathering. It was quiet, even the crickets were silent. I don't blame them he thought. Great StarClan, It's cold out!
After a few moments of waiting, his paws felt like rocks. Suddenly he heard the slight creak of a twig underpaw. He sniffed the air, but he only smelled the sharp, pure smell of snow and ice. Was he imagining things? "Hello?" he called out softly. There better be someone there he thought again. Or else this awful weather is getting to my head.


Edit: All Chosen Apprentices post here!

[*~Blazeheart~*]

((Um, for the chosen apprentice from Moonclan, Pandapaw. My friend Lotuspaw made it and she rarely goes on now. I think we should give Pandapaw to someone else or have another chosen apprentice for Moonclan))

Only a mouse-brained would go out in a night like this, Lyxnpaw thought bitterly as she trekked her way towards Grassfield. The eerie night sky was swathed with stars from Silverpelt, while dark clouds threatened to cover the bright shining lights.

The dream was still fresh in her mind. Cats with the scent of ice and fire came to visit her. Their pelts were swathed with stars and made them seem magnificant and intimidating.
Their words echoed in her ears: Come to the place where truce holds on the night of no moon.

Lynxpaw tried to ignore the dream and thought it was from a tough piece of fresh-kill. But it had continued to bother her for days until the new moon night came and she finally gave in.

I shouldn't have come. What am I supposed to do there anyways?"she thought furiously, her fur puffed out against the cold.

She pushed her way past the ferns and, with a jolt of surprise, saw a young cat sitting at the clearing.

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((Aw, I miss Lotus. I'll see if someone wants Pandapaw or if Darky or someone will play him or someone else.
Ears pricked, Cloverpaw noticed it was another cat. She seemed familiar, maybe he had seen her at a Gathering? He hesitated. Should he say hi? Or act defensive? The smell of DawnClan went through his scent glands, as he finally remembered her name. Lynxpaw! That's it, her names Lynxpaw. But what in the name of StarClan is she doing out here, like me?
Sitting there with his tail wrapped around his paws, his fur prickled slightly. Cloverpaw waited for her to pad up to him, while he meowed, "What are you doing here?"
He cursed slightly, his voice cracked at the end. It must have been because of the cold.

[@pple]

An apprentice entered the clearing. She wore the pelt of night and eyes as a silver comet. It is a kind of comet that everyone rarely get to see. Silver and smooth as gray metal, her pupils dilated at the wonders of her dream and how she got chosen to be a part of an important prophecy. She expected to see some warriors and ghosty cats as they were in her dream. She was smiling broadly as she entered, but frowned instantly when she saw apprentices. "What the-?"

[*~Blazeheart~*]

"What are you doing here?"[/b]

Lyxnpaw ear's twitched and her eyes narrowed. The smell of Fireclan clung onto his pelt and she wrinkled her nose in disgust. Fireclan scent made her inside squeamish.

"I'd ask you the same thing,"she answered coldly.
Just then, another scent wafted throught he cold air and she recognized another hostile Clan scent. She turned her head and her jade green slits made out another young she-cat through the darkness.

"Great, now Mistclan,"she muttered.

[@pple]

Everpaw saw Lynxpaw, but when she looked at the tom besides her, her back ached to a 'u', her teeth bore, hissing at him while her claws came out.

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Cloverpaw's lips pulled back and he gave a sharp growl. MistClan. Accusing them of a murder they didn't do! He stamped a paw and his tail lashed while his eyes narrowed to slits.
"I'm here because I had a dream from StarClan." He boasted as a response to Lynxpaw's question. "Don't tell me you all did too? Because don't you think for a moment I'll be doing anything with this lying MistClanner!" he hissed.

[*~Blazeheart~*]

Lynxpaw looked from Everpaw to Cloverpaw, noticing their instand hostility.
What's their problem?she thougt with a snort. Then again, maybe she should've acted that way when she saw those two enemy Clan cats.

"I'm here because I had a dream from StarClan"

Lynxpaw sank her claws into the earth. So Starclan did talk to her!
"So what are we supposed to do?"she asked, ignoring their hostility towards each other.

[@pple]

"I am not doing this with this flithly, lying traitor," spat Everpaw as she glared at Cloverpaw coldly. She returned to her normal posture, but her claws remained dangerous and offensive. Looking at Lynxpaw, "Cloverpaw and his clan killed my leader, Duskstar."

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Cloverpaw tried to relax like Everpaw did, but his fur fluffed out at her sharp retort. "We didn't do anything!" He growled. "Accusing us of a murder we didn't do! All the Clans respected Duskstar, and FireClan for one doesn't even have a reason to do something horrible like that. Tell me, did you find fur in Duskstar's claws? Did you suddenly accuse FireClan because it has been trying to stay peaceful this past leafbare?"
He shook his head, almost sadly. "There's nothing we can do about it now" he said, looking up again with hard eyes.
"I'm freezing my tail off, so I think we better make this quick." Cloverpaw looked at Lynxpaw, ignoring Everpaw. "I..I think it has to mean something" He started. "The reason we all met here, only us. I'm just trying to figure out...why."
A small voice echoed in the back of his head, but he didn't speak of it. Was Duskstar's death related to some prophecy, the reason they were gathered here now?

[*~Blazeheart~*]

Lynxpaw glanced from Everpaw to Cloverpaw, noticing their continued hostility. The thought of Fireclan killing the Mistclan leader was shocking news and quite absurd. Sure Fireclan could be mouse-brained sometimes but not stupid enough to kill a leader.

Besides, they were gathered in the cold part of the night and they didn't really have time to bicker over the past.

"The reason we all met here, only us. I'm just trying to figure out...why."[/b]

Lynxpaw rolled her eyes. "We're going to be here all night just to figure it out,"she pointed out, her tail flicking back and forth in annoyance.

"Besides, why us? It doesn't even make sense,"she added.

[@pple]

"It does not make sense with you being here," Everpaw snorted, butting her way in.

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Cloverpaw bit back a sharp retort. He felt the urge to just walk back to camp without another word. But he didn't. "Let's see" he started. "In my dream, there was a cat. I think his pelt was black, but he was really...evil. But then he was gone, and in his place was a wolf howling. Then that picture swirled like somekind of fog. Next there was a tiny kit, but then I blinked and it was a warrior. It then changed into something older, like a deputy or something. It's claws were red... and.. and there were cats lying still by him. He then started to look up at me..." his voice trailed off. He took a breath before continuing again. "Then I was a forest. It was somewere I've never been, it was silver as the moon. There were cats, like I said, I think they were StarClan. They showed me this place, and told me to go here. That prophecy..I remember now. They recided that prophecy. I don't remember how it went though"
Cloverpaw looked up at the she-cats. "Did you get that dream too? Or was yours different?"

[@pple]

Everpaw snorted. She would not admit to this tom that she got the same dream as well. Rolling her eyes at him, "I have the dream too, same as yours, furball!" She just had to say furball, just to make herself feel better.

[*~Blazeheart~*]

"Yeah me too, but that doesn't really help unless Starclan themselves just tell us what it means,"Lynxpaw replied, her tail swishing back and forth with annoyance.
Her eyes scanned the dense forest, shivering as another cold blast of wind ruffled her short fur. She realized that something seemed to be missing.

"Is there supposed to be another cat here?"she voiced her thoughts aloud to the other two, her eyes watching the Moonclan side of the forest.

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Cloverpaw flicked an ear. He hadn't noticed it until now, but Lynxpaw was right. "It looks like the cat from MoonClan didn't come" he murmured. Maybe something happened? "W-What do you think happened to him..or her?" he added almost as an afterthought
He watched as the wind ruffled the DawnClan apprentice's fur. Suddenly he remembered something. Thoughtfully, he looked to Everpaw. "You know that battle our Clans had? Who was that queen who had her kits?" He asked quietly. The clear pictures of his dream seemed to reply in him mind over and over again. One of the cats seemed familiar in a strange, distant way.

[@pple]

The apprentice's fur ruffled with unease. Lynxpaw was right, something was wrong. MoonClan cat still did not come. Trying to ignore the chilling thought, the FireClan tom's question caught her attention. She snorted lightly, "You do not even care."

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His ears flicked but he bit back a sharp retort. Ignoring her comment, he continued. "That she-cat, she had three kits. Did you see the darker one she had? Anything...strange about him...?"
He wondered what the apprentice would say, seeing he just asked if there looked like any resemblence between the cat of their dream and the little kit the blue-gray MistClan queen had.
"Lynxpaw," he asked looking at her. "Did you hear anything from MoonClan? You share a border with them..did you see anything out of the ordinary?"

[*~Blazeheart~*]

Lynxpaw's ear twitched in confusion at Cloverpaw's strange question. The news of a queen having kits was strange enough. Now this Fireclan furball was asking a kit. If that kit was the reason they met together, it was almost ridiculous to her.

"Did you hear anything from MoonClan? You share a border with them..did you see anything out of the ordinary?"

"No, it was pretty quiet. Nothing out of the ordinary," she replied.
Besides having some wierd dreams,she grumbled with an afterthought.

((Who is it?))

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((Fallowkit, since they all had a dream or something with him in it. We can notify the medicine cats too in the meeting they'll have tonight [?] ))

He thought for a long moment, thinking on how MoonClan wasn't here. "Probabaly didn't feel like trekking out in the cold" he said. "I would have too, if the warriors in their den wouldn't have been snoring so much!" The thought that nagged in his mind though was that the apprentice, whoever they were, got caught sneeking out, or worse, shared the dream with someone.
Cloverpaw couldn't think of anything else to say, as he waited for Everpaw's response.

[@pple]

Everpaw glanced at Cloverpaw, giving up being mean to him. She dislike to hold any grudges against other cats. It is too heavy, too depressing, but still, she like to be mean to Cloverpaw. "The queen is Pebblefoot. The three kits are Fallowkit, Ashenkit, and Rarekit." She asked other question, "What does the kits have with the prophecy? Are they connected, somehow?"

[*~Blazeheart~*]

((I meant who's the moonclan chosen apprentice?))
Lynxpaw shrugged.
"Maybe, but it doesn't really make sense. I mean, they're just kits. How can they symbolize the chaos and blood from our dreams," the brown tabby pointed out.

[@pple]

"Kits grow up into full grown cats, you know that," Everpaw whispered, her voice thick with sarcasm. "Do you ever know that Tigerstar was once a kit?" She spoke of the dark name, the cat that once threatened the ancient clans way, way long time ago.

[*~Blazeheart~*]

"But we're only apprentices! What can we do?"Lyxnpaw protested.

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"Psssh! Oh please!" Everpaw mimicked Lynxpaw's whining, "But we're only apprentices! What can we do?" She rolled her eyes at her, "So what? StarClan don't want us to worry about such nonsense!"

[*~Blazeheart~*]

Lyxnpaw lashed her tail back and forth in annoyance. The cold night didn't help her temper either.
"Well, I'm not going to stand here in the cold like a mouse-brain!" she retorted, her fur bristling.
((Maybe a starclan cat should visit them ?))

[@pple]

((I will send a StarClan cat to visit.))

While the apprentices were busy chattering to each other about the prophecy, a cat appeared by the corner of the dark clearing. The cat's eyes cast a blue shadow around her ghostly gray pelt. Stars were flying around with a dramatic gesture whenever she moved. When she lift her head in the moonlight, her midnight blue eyes were shining boldly.

Everpaw sensed something was not right. She looked up from Lynxpaw and saw a shadow in the darkness. As the shadow moved closer, Everpaw saw the color in the shadow's eyes. "Lilydawn?" Her voice was merest a whisper.

The pretty gray tabby cat beckoned the name with a nod. Then she stepped in the clearing with two other apprentices. She saw the amazement in other apprentices' eyes.

Everpaw acted on an impluse. She touched noses with the StarClan warrior. The touch was icy cold, but still, it felt warm, bittersweet. She looked up and met Lilydawn's eyes, "How...can you be here?"

The StarClan cat's eyes swell with tears that shone brightly like stars. She looked at the apprentice, "I am here. That is all it matters." Sighing, Lilydawn glanced at Lynxpaw and Cloverpaw. "You are all here, but where is the other one?"

[*~Blazeheart~*]

Lynxpaw's fur bristled in alarm as the apparation appeared in a form of a beautiful she-cat. Her claws dug into the earth as she bared her teeth.
"Who are you?"she hissed, suspicion and hostility glittering in her jade green eyes.

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The StarClan warrior turned her radiant head from Everpaw to Lynxpaw. Her dark blue eyes held hers. "I am Lilydawn, a former warrior of MistClan." She spoke the words with a hint of sorrow.

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((I'm sooo sorry, I've been neglecting this thread all week -.-' ))

Cloverpaw ignored the she-cat's fighting. Then when he saw the StarClan cat, his ears flicked in wonder. "I don't remember you dieing" he meowed bodly. He had remembered seeing Lilydawn at a Gathering or two before. But when did she die? And how? He decided to answer her question. "We don't know where the MoonClan apprentice is... Does that mean you don't know either?"
A billion and one question burned through Cloverpaw's mind. Like, why were they here? Who sent them? What was the meaning of their dream?
((Do you think Mist of Flint would mind playing the MoonClan apprentice?))