And we're back! :D Also, thanks to 'Cassie' to my fiftieth review. :3

To the not-awkward review reply corner! :D

DaughterofZeusRules: It's okay. :) It was fun to write the arguments; I love those StarClan kitties.

Cassie: Thanks. :D

dragonFELL: Yeah, Daypaw's been… busy. :3 He'll be back, though, no doubt about that. Ahh! A typo! I hate it when that happens. :P Maybe I should think about going over these before I publish them, yes?

Frostbreeze of RiverClan: Um, thanks? x3 I hope that was a wow like 'oh my god this is awesome' rather than a 'I can't believe she wrote that *facepalm*'

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Guess who's baaaaaaack!

Oh great. Apparently Nightpaw only had a morning of peace. He was honestly hoping for the entire day, but he should have known not to be so optimistic.

Ah! Who's in here? A new voice said.

Wait a minute, that sounded oddly like Stormylight. Great. Now his mind was being inhabited by another annoying cat. Great.

Th' name's Daypaw.

Oh, so you're his imaginary tormentor.

Yep!

Nice to meet you! I'm Stormylight.

Nice ta meet you too. So, watcha doin' here?

I'm going to give him a message because we're too incompetent to send them in dreams, so we end up dropping into their minds and scaring them! Course, Nightpaw's got you, so he's probably not as scared.

No, prolly not.

So, how have you been doing?

Okay, enough, Nightpaw thought. StarClan, this was giving him a headache. It may not have terrified him, but it was annoying enough.

Nighty! Nice of ya to join us!

This is my head, idiot.

Oh yeah. Well, Stormy, watcha gonna tell our dear Nighty?

Um... I forgot. Let me think about this for a few minutes. All of the voices inside his head were silent. After a few more moments, Stormylight spoke again. Another meeting! That's right! Another meeting, right now. Better hurry, or they'll leave without you!

It was so nice of you to tell me right when I was about to begin afternoon training. Nightpaw thought. It wasn't missing training that annoyed him, it was-

Blizz's trainin' with him today.

Shut up Daypaw.

Ooh, future mate?

No.

She don't like 'im.

But he likes her?

Yep.

Stop talking about me! So I have to go to the gathering place? Hey, why isn't there a more clever name for our gathering place, like Fourtrees?

Two reasons – 'Fourtrees' has been copyrighted and there's way more than four trees at the gathering place. As a result, we're stuck with calling it 'the gathering place.' I think the originlas-

Th' originals?

Original leaders. Duh. Anyway, I think they were too lazy to name it. So, we should probably get going. I was supposed to have the day off today…

"All cats gather… over here… for a clan meeting!" Lightstar called. Couragekit squirmed away from his mother and sprinted across the clearing, skidding to a stop before Lightstar. "That was fast. Um, this kit and his brother are going to be apprentices today."

Shadekit was soon right beside Couragekit, staring up at Lightstar with his huge blue eyes. "Couragekit's Couragepaw and Shadekit's Shadepaw. I dunno who has an apprentice and who doesn't, so go do whatever. Find someone. But not Swiftclaw. I'm saving him."

"For me!" a tiny kit squeaked from the elder's den. Ah. Icekit, Lightstar's son. He was only a moon old, and already bothering the elders. Couragekit was pretty sure Stormylight enjoyed the attention, though.

Swiftclaw sighed. "Couragepaw, your mentor will be… Lightfoot. And Shadepaw, you will be mentored by Treewhisker. Don't mess them up too badly."

Nightpaw was the last one there, as usual. Featherpaw looked anxious, pacing back and forth, and Ivypaw just looked bored. "Okay, let's go – wait a minute, where are we supposed to go, anyway?"

Stormylight jumped out of his head – literally, he jumped out of Nightpaw's head – and landed on the ground with a thump.

"Hey, if you could do that, why were you in there in the first place?" Nightpaw complained.

"Kits sometimes see spirits. Nobody knows why," Stormylight shrugged. "Plus, I wanted to meet Daypaw. He's awesome!"

Thanks!

Shut up, Daypaw.

Spinechill and Hypnos appeared. "I am sorry for my lack of punctuality," Spinechill meowed.

"Thought we had the day off," Hypnos grumbled.

"I thought we did too! What's up with Foxstar? We could have done this at night!" Stormylight meowed, and soon the three of them were in an overly animated conversation about how Foxstar should be killed – again – and roasted slowly over a fire. That was Hypnos's idea.

"Shut up!" Ivypaw shouted. The three toms looked startled.

"Later please. We're busy," Hypnos meowed, yawning. "Hey, why am I the NightClan kid's guide? I was in FoxClan!"

"Lightstar's stupid," Stormylight muttered.

The other two murmured their agreement. "Can we just leave?" Featherpaw asked, glancing around the gathering place.

Aw, th' kit's scared!

So?

It's cute.

Nightpaw blinked. That was certainly odd. Tom's didn't generally think scared apprentices were cute at all. If you thought about it, why would anybody think that scared apprentices were cute? It just didn't

make sense! Ah, who cared.

"Nightpaw? Nightpaw, are you okay?" Featherpaw asked, waving a paw in front of the black tom's face.

"He was talking to Daypaw!" Stormylight informed him. Featherpaw nodded, then tilted his head to the side.

"Who's Daypaw?"

"Nightpaw hears voices," Stormylight meowed, nodding. Hypnos rolled his eyes.

"And he's supposed to be the one to lead these cats?"

"Yep!" Stormylight meowed cheerfully. Yeah, there was nothing wrong with a completely insane cat leading three apprentices to their doom. Nothing wrong with that!

"Let's just go to sleep!" Hypnos decided, curling up and disappearing. Spinechill rolled his eyes, and with a puff of oddly colored smoke, him and Stormylight disappeared.

"I guess we're staying here tonight…" Featherpaw meowed, shifting from paw to paw awkwardly. That word seemed to explain Featherpaw perfectly – awkward.

"Yeah. Whatever," Nightpaw meowed, glancing up at the sky. He would have had time to train with Blizzardpaw.

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