I woke up next to Oakpaw and Ravenpaw. I yawned and walked out of the den, it's been a moon since I left Nightclan territory. I told the clan that they didn't have to worry about telling Sparrowstar that warriors went behind his back and didn't follow his orders, he was already leading the clan he didn't need more trouble. The sun was just coming up and the dawn patrol was just leaving. I looked over at the fresh kill pile, it was only a few small mice. "Hey Ivypaw." Blendstar said walking over. "Riversplash and Greystrike are going hunting, since I'm going to be busy today I want you to go with them." My mentor told me. I nodded. "They're waiting at the entrance." She said then walked off. I walked over to the two warriors. "Hello Ivypaw, Blendstar said your hunting with us today." Riversplash said. I nodded and followed them out. We walked for a while and on the way to the sunplain I caught a mouse. "Maybe you should try and find something on your own Ivypaw. Me and Riversplash will hunt over at the sunplain." Greystrike told me. "Sure." I said and walked away from them. I walked over to the hazel tree not far from the sunplain and started catching squirrels and other prey. I caught three mice, two thrushes, a sparrow, and a squirrel. I was about to pounce on another squirrel when I heard an ar splitting shriek. I glanced up and saw a hawk starting to dive down.

The squirrel started to dart away but the hawk had it in its talons. "Hey! That's my catch!" I hissed and without thinking I leaped at the hawk tearing at its wing. It shrieked and flailed around. I let go and tried to get to the neck of the giant bird. It tried flying away but its wing was too damaged. I sunk my teeth into its neck and waited until it stopped moving. I dropped the still hawk and panted. 'Wait till Shadepaw sees this.' I snickered. "Nice catch." I jumped at the voice. I looked up at the hazel tree were the voice was coming from. "Pinepaw! What are you doing here?" I hissed. "Follow me. Skyepaw and Forestpaw found something. I think Mintpaw and Oak paw are already over there." He said jumping down. "What about my prey?" I said looking at the large pile I have. "Cover it in leaves, it is leaf-fall." He said.

I took the fallen leafs and covered the hawk with all my prey. I quickly ran after Pinepaw. We ran until I couldn't run anymore. We walked the rest of the way to where ever this place he was talking about was. The scent of Dayclan grew fainter and the smell a other cats grew stronger. I soon spotted Oakpaw, Mintpaw, Forestpaw, Skyepaw and another strange white cat I never seen before. "Pinepaw! I told you to keep it a secret!" Forestpaw hissed at his brother. "We need the help. We don't know herbs like Mintpaw, or hunt much without Oakpaw and Ivypaw's help." Pinepaw said not even flinching from hissing Forestpaw. "Ugh, fine. You three have to keep this a secret." Forestpaw looked at me and my litter mates.

"What is it?" I asked flicking my tail curiously. "It's a friend of Skyepaw's. Her name is Blizzard." I looked over at the small white she-cat with the bloody leg. "How old is she?" Oakpaw asked. "Seven moons old. She said that she been chased by a fox and managed to get away with her leg still attached to her." Skyepaw told us. "I'm glad you're okay Skye, I tried to head over to your den but that stupid fox chased after me." Blizzard said weakly. "It's okay now. You'll never believe what I found." Skyepaw whispered excitedly. "Or, more like they found me. I joined a clan!" Skyepaw said with joy. "A Clan! But I was supposed to join one before you." Blizzard said playfully. I was a little confused. "You know that there were Clans in the forest?" I asked. "Well, once you live here for a few days a loner will find you and tell you about the dangers of Clan cats." Skyepaw said. "I was the loner that told you about the clans." Blizzard said.

"We only heard the names of Dayclan and Nightclan but nothing else." Blizzard told us. "They are from Dayclan." Skyepaw told her. "And my name is Skyepaw now." I slightly smiled. "I'm Ivypaw, this is my brother and sister Oakpaw and Mintpaw." I told her. "I'm going to go find some more cobwebs to cover your leg." Mintpaw said walking away. "I'll help her." Oakpaw said walking after his sister. "It's a gathering tonight, and I was in the middle of hunting so I should head back." I said. "Nice to meet you Blizzard, I hope one day you can join Dayclan." I sprinted back over to my prey covered with leaves. I finally made it to the large pile of prey. "How am I going to carry it all back?" I asked myself. I took all my prey and placed it on the hawk. I grabbed the hawk by its neck and started to drag it to the sunplain. I stopped when I realized that no one is here. "They must have headed back without me." I said and dragged the hawk covered with prey back to camp. "Dead! What do you mean she's dead?" I heard some yell from inside of camp. "We told her to see if she can hunt by herself, after a while we heard a hawk screech and then we couldn't find Ivypaw." Greystrike said. "What do you mean?" I asked dragging all my prey into camp. Almost every one gasped. "I caught the hawk, but I left it covered with leaves and left to see if I can find more prey." I lied.

"Well it's a good thing you're okay." Blendstar said, relief flashed in her eyes. "And you caught a hawk!" Rabbitpaw said in awe. "It tried to steal my squirrel." I said laughing a little. "Amazing. Take some of your prey to the elders then you can rest for the gathering." Blendstar said. I nodded and grabbed a few squirrel, mice, and thrushes and ran over the elders den. "Hello Ivypaw. What was all that yelling coming from outside?" Dripleaf asked. "Oh, noting. I just went hunting by myself and I manage to catch a hawk." I said like it was no big deal. "A hawk? That's amazing, how did a small apprentice like you catch such an awful, kit stealing creature?" Sunspot asked. "Well, I thought I was coming for me but it turns out it was trying to catch the squirrel I was stalking." I told them. "I wasn't going to let that hawk steal food for the elders so when it grabbed the squirrel I attacked it." I finished.

"Great job. I guess Blendstar is going to take you to the gathering tonight?" Frozenwing asked. I nodded my head. "You know, I haven't gone to a gathering for moons. I don't think Blendstar would mind if I go instead of Sunspot and Bluerain." She said. "Why don't we all go? I haven't seen Turtleshell since last leaf-bare." Curvetail suggested. "That would be great." I said happily. I headed out of the willow den saying goodbye as I left. I walked over to the hawk I caught. I quickly took feathers from the wings, tail and some of the small feathers from its back. I carried the mouth full of feathers to my nest and spread them out on the soft moss. I curled up in the warm nest full of feathers and fell asleep. "Wake up Ivypaw. Blendstar picked cats for the gathering already." Ravenpaw called from the entrance of the den. "I'm up." I said following him out. Boneclaw, Nightbreeze, Grasspelt, Flameclaw, Willowcreek, Lilytail, Blackpelt, Hollowfern, Oakpaw, Skyepaw, Mintpaw, Snowstep and all the elders were waiting by the entrance. "Come on." Ravenpaw said running up to the now leaving group of cats. I trotted after him. The group of cats kept a steady paste as they ran to the gathering area. "Our first Gathering." I said excitedly to Oakpaw and Mintpaw. "I can't wait to see what Nightclan is like." Mintpaw said. "I already know what Nightclan is like." Oakpaw said and shivered. "Fox hearted shadows that aren't afraid to kill." He said looking ahead in fear. "Don't be like that. They're just a Clan like us." I told him.

"They stole you, how can you not be afraid of them?" Ravenpaw asked. "Because some of the cats I met there weren't that bad." I said. To ignore the subject I ran up to the front where my mentor is. "Blendstar, what is Nightclan really like?" I asked. "Didn't you hear the elders' story?" She asked. "Which one?" I asked. "The one on how the Clans were created. About how Starclan told us that we need day and night to keep us balanced. When we fought for witch one would be ruler Starclan warned us that if one of us lost the earth would become unbalanced and chaos would break lose. Near the end of the battle a black disc covered the sun, it was chaos. Everyone was scared about what would happen, the leaders agreed that we would each have a part of the territory. then the sun came back, Starclan told us of are destiny and we got our clan names. Dayclan and Nightclan. Nightclan was to be the enemy of dayclan, that is why there is only day and night one at a time." My leader told me. "Well, maybe Nightclan sees us the same way we do." I said looking ahead catching the sight of Four stones. "How did the the Four Stones get there?" I asked looking at the pointed flat stones sticking out of the ground. "That's where we had our war, they say that the eclipse caused so much chaos that the earth shook and the four stones came out of the ground gathering the cats in the middle of them. That's why every full moon we go over there to gather again in peace." She said. Nightclan was already there. I spotted Silverpaw immediately.

"Hey, let's go talk to that apprentice over there." I asked my friends as caught up to me. Without waiting for an answer I ran over to Silverpaw. "Hi, Um…" I was about to say his name but I realized that Oakpaw and the others would question me how I knew. "I'm silverpaw and these are my litter mates and friend." I said. "Hi, I'm Silverpaw." He said smiling. "Hey I remember you! You were the apprentice that attacked me when you were stealing are herbs." Oakpaw hissed. "Sorry about that. Just following the leader. But to be honest, you attacked me first." Silverpaw said. "That's because you were attacking my sister." Oakpaw growled. "Like I said, just following the leader." Silverpaw said apologetically. "Whatever. I'm going to go sit next to Nightbreeze." Oakpaw hissed and walked away. "Sorry about my brother, I never saw him so angry." I said watching him sit next to Nightbreeze. "Really? If Echopaw acts that way it means it's a good day." Silverpaw joked. We laughed at his joke. "Shush. The gathering is starting." A Nightclan warrior turned around to tell us.

"Prey in Dayclan is running well. we have four new apprentices, Ivypaw, Oakpaw, Mintpaw, and Skyepaw. Ivypaw has brought down the hawk that been taking our prey and Mintpaw has found goldenrod." Blendstar dipped her head and backed away allowing Sparrowstar to speak. "All is well in Nightclan as well. As you can see Softstar had been killed by a fox as well as one of our warriors named Moonstorm, we also have four new apprentices, Silverpaw, Echopaw, Pigeonpaw, and Woodpaw. " Sparrowstar said. "May Starclan light your path." Blendstar said dipping her head. The two leaders jumped down from the stump in the middle of the clearing. "Bye Silverpaw." I said following the group of cats walking to my territory. "Bye Ivypaw." He said walking to his group.


"How was your first gathering?" Stainfur asked I got up to the entrance. "Fun." I said and smiled. I walked in and headed to my den. "What was the gathering like?" Rabbitpaw asked. "It was okay. Sparrowstar is leader now, no one mentioned a warrior stealing me, Blendstar told everyone about me catching a hawk and Mintpaw finding that new goldenrod plant at sunplain." I said. "And there are new apprentices in Nightclan too, I think their names were Silverpaw, Echopaw, Pigeonpaw, and Woodpaw." I finished.

"That hawk was really good." Rabbitpaw said licking her lips. I giggled and curled up in my nest. My tail lightly brushed my pink nose making me sneeze. Shadepaw flicked his ears in annoyance and turned away from me. I moved my tail away and drifted into sleep.

A. note: Sorry again for the delayed update. You have to wait longer again too because i am going to be spending the night at my friends house for four nights, so i hope this was enough...