A/N: Sorry for the wait guys! I went on a short vacation with my family. ^^ I made this chapter extra long for the wait. It features all of the apps POV's. Oh and I re re re re read Bluestar's Prophecy and I put it the way the Erin's wrote.
Wolf Larka, and Savvy: Its fine that you can't update. :D I will wait patiently for your return.
CHAPTER NINE (All main's POV's)
"Tanglepaw hurry it up!" calls his mentor Tigerheart. Annoyance flashing in his eyes. He has been grumpy ever since Bramblestar announced Dovewing had Bumblestripe's kits. Tanglepaw looks around the thick woodland. I love it here. Then I see Leafpaw. She is so beautiful. Tigerheart cuffs my ear. "Pay attention!"
"Yes Tigerheart!" Tanglepaw replies quickly.
"You are practicing with Rainpaw." Scorchfur meows sternly. Rainpaw looks at right at him with sympathy.
"Okay. Rainpaw and Tanglepaw will start first. Ready set fight!" Tigerheart meows. I crouch down and tuck in my paws. I look at Rainpaw's left ear, and leap into the air. Rainpaw skirts to the right and I land right on top of her back. She flips over onto her back so quickly that I get squished beneath her.
"Get off me!" I huff. Rainpaw leaps up and spins on her heels.
"You basically showed me what you were going to do. So I countered easily." Rainpaw shrugs.
"Well I tried to trick you." I mumble.
"Stop bickering and try again!" demands Tigerheart. I look right into his eyes. Distant, but why? Rainpaw starts to object when Redpaw walks in. Tanglepaw wrinkles his nose. Ew she is mooning over him. A voice in Tanglpaw's head objects. That is how you look at Leafpaw. It sneers. Tanglepaw just pushes it away.
The sun starts to set. Tonight's the Gathering! Tanglepaw waits patiently and his name is called. Yes! I get to go to the Gathering! Rowanstar flicks his tail and the patrol bounds through the tunnel entrance.
(Transition to Sunpaw's POV)
Sunpaw looks up expectantly at Bramblestar. Please pick me please! He pleads silently. "Cloudtail, Brightheart, Sorreltail, Brackenfur, Stormbreeze, Streamfeather, Molewhisker, Cherryleaf, Falconpaw, Sunpaw, and Dewpaw." Bramblestar calls out the names. Yes! I'm on the list! Sunpaw thinks happily.
"Hey, Sunpaw. Lets go!" mews Cherryleaf.
"Huh? Oh yeah!" Sunpaw races to catch the patrol.
(Transition to Willowpaw's POV)
Willowpaw circles Oakpaw waiting to leave for the island. "Willowpaw aren't you dizzy?" chuckles Oakpaw. "Because I sure am!"
"Not at all!" Willowpaw giggles. When she was circling in front of Oakpaw, Hawkpaw decided to shove her into him. The two apprentices touch noses. Willowpaw gets really hot underneath her pelt.
"Oooooh look at Willowpaw and Oakpaw!" giggles Graypaw. Oakpaw rolls his eyes and pulls away.
"Ooooooh your self like you don't want to touch noses with Barkpaw!" he makes a cutting remark. Graypaw lunges at Oakpaw who just moves to the side. Willowpaw snickers.
"Apprentices knock it off!" growls Reedwhisker.
"Yes Reedwhisker sir!" Willowpaw replies and raises a paw and flicks it like a salute. That sends the apprentices back to laughing again.
"Oh Starclan help me." he sighs. Oakpaw whispers in Willowpaw's ear. She feels as light as feathers. Oakpaw likes me! He likes me back! Happily she sits beside him and presses her pelt against his.
(Transition to Leopardpaw)
"Leopardpaw and Lightpaw." Onestar finishes his long list. Leopardpaw sits down and looks at the stars. Are you proud of how good I have been training Tallstar? She asks the stars.
"Leopardpaw? Are you okay?" murmurs Lightpaw.
"Oh yes. I just love looking at the stars." she answers without looking at him.
"I do too. I think that star is one of your ancestors, the one that shines brightly."
"I think that one is one of mine actually." Leopardpaw points to the dull one that barely glows.
"No, I don't think so. Oh come on with got to go to the Gathering! Lets hurry." The two apprentices sprint across the moorland. This is nice, sprinting beside Lightpaw. Like friends.
Once at the Gathering Leopardpaw looks for any apprentices. Aha there they are. She trots over to the cluster. "Oh hi there!" calls a silver apprentice. "I'm Willowpaw! Whats your name?"
"I'm Leopardpaw." she answers smiling sweetly.
"This is Tanglepaw, Sunpaw, Dewpaw, Oakpaw, Graypaw, Rainpaw, Falconpaw, Hawkpaw, and Redpaw." she recites the names and gasps for air at the end.
"Nice to meet you all, this is Lightpaw. Another Windclan apprentice." she introduces Lightpaw to them. He grunts his hello, obviously uncomfortable with the other apprentices.
"Let the Gathering begin!" yowls Rowanstar. Leopardpaw sits next to Willowpaw and Sunpaw. Tanglepaw sits on the other side of Sunpaw. Leopardpaw notices a black she-cat narrows her eyes at the four. She whispers to a ginger tom who turns around and peers at them also. (Hehe guess who notices... ;) ) Leopardpaw ignores them and stares up at Bramblestar. "Thunderclan is doing well in this Greenleaf weather! We made several kits apprentices! Sunpaw, Dewpaw, Amberpaw, and Snowpaw! Squirrelflight also had my kits; Flarekit, Ashkit, Mousekit, and Fernkit!" The clans congratulate him warmly.
"Rabbits have been running well this season! Windclan is thriving in this blessing from Starclan! We also made three apprentices. Foxpaw, Skypaw, and Leopardpaw!" Leopardpaw ducks her head respectfully to the cheering clans.
"The river is filled with fish, and we have made Willowpaw an apprentice!" Mistystar announces. The three apprentices find them selves cheering loudly for Willowpaw just like they did for the other two. Why do I feel so happy? Leopardpaw wonders with curiosity.
"Prey has been running well in Shadowclan. We have made many apprentices. Tanglepaw, Nightpaw, Duskpaw, Leafpaw, Loudpaw, Rainpaw, and Eaglepaw!" he yowls to the cheering clans.
"This is a wonderful time for the clans!" calls out Rushtail a Riverclan warrior.
"I agree!" calls Oakpaw. Leopardpaw nods. The clans share tongues, sometime passed moon-high the clans head back to their camps. Leopardpaw collaspes in her makeshift nest underneath the stars.
"Leopardpaw." nudges a nose. "Get up we need to talk!" hisses the voice.
"Huh what?" she yawns, then looks around. Starclan? Why? I'm not dead am I?
"No your not dead." snorts the brown tabby with a short stubby tail.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Barkface now hush!" he leads her to a place and she sees the four apprentices from the Gathering. Sunpaw, Tanglepaw, and. . . Willowpaw! "We need to tell you four something very important." Barkface murmurs to the group.
"Why is the old medicine cats here?" whispers Willowpaw to Tanglepaw.
Barkface, Mudfur, Runningnose, and Yellowfang all speak at once in an ominous voice. "The leopard with a gentle heart must follow the leaf of a willow towards the blazing sun, but all will rest on one tangled fate." The four medicine cats fade away. Something nudges Leopardpaw gently awake. She wakes up to troubled golden eyes.
"Are you okay you were talking in your sleep." he whispers careful not to wake the others.
"Yes I'm fine. I just need some time alone right now." she murmurs padding out of camp, nodding to Whiskernose and Sedgewhisker on her way out.
Leopardpaw just trots on and on then tumbles into a hole. "Whoa!" she yowls in surprise as she hits the tunnel floor. Treading lightly she follows the tunnels to where ever they take her. Trotting on and on she finally reaches a cave with a river in the middle. "Wow! This is to cool!" she mews in amazement.
She nips at minnows in the, Icy River, as she calls it. She hears an echo in the tunnels. She races away through the tunnel she came and retraces her way back. Leopardpaw had an idea. Maybe those tunnels go to every clan! Leopardpaw knew she had to figure out the prophecy, along with the others. That will be our meeting place! And with that she raced home catching a rabbit on the way.
A/N: I thought hard on that prophecy. :P If it is terrible tell me please. Like I said before my very first story. Please review! :)
