Tawnypaw and Crowstorm soon got back to the camp after a long day of training, Tawnypaw was exhausted from practicing her skills against her mentor but she was slowly gathering the skills to learn how to fight. Soon Rowanstar greeted them.
"I'm impressed with your skills that you trained for the past few days Tawnypaw. I think you would make a fine warrior with me and my clan but I wouldn't want to make you a warrior until you could master your skills. But for now I'm pleased, as for your reward, you and Crowstorm will be going to the gathering with me." Rowanstar mewed. His eyes glimmered as he was happy to let the apprentice out of the camp for something special. Crowstorm padded up to Rowanstar, his head dipped in submission.
"We're glad to accept the offer." Crowstorm mewed.
"Good, you will be heading out with me, Featherfur, Daisyflower and Yewberry." Rowanstar mewed making the offer. He soon turned away to deal with some business he needed to address. Tawnypaw looked confused.
"What's a gathering?" Tawnypaw mewed. "I've heard Rowanstar speak about it but I've never seen one." Her word asked with curiosity as the young apprentice demanded for answers.
"A gathering is where the clans gather together for a full moon of peace, we share news and get info about each other; it is where we also get to decide on important issues." Crowstorm mewed. "The gathering is something the clans are always excited for." He soon padded away with Tawnypaw in tow as she was happy to be heading to a special event.
"How come Tawnypaw gets to go but not me and Jaypaw." Berrypaw whined. "It's not fair that she is the only one that deserved it; you'll get your turn eventually, you need to prove yourself first." Rowanstar mewed talking to the two apprentices.
"All right." Jaypaw shrugged, she was deeply upset about not attending the first gathering of the season.
The seven cats set off to the only tree that was in the middle of the territory as it stood across for many moons. Soon all the cats gathered as there was many faces staring at them from afar seeing Rowanstar and his clan stride down the slope of the rolling mountain. Ravenstar looked up seeing Rowanstar ever since the battle. Her warriors looked on with relief seeing the cats that have saved them before come returning to them. Pebblestar looked with Shadowclan with an impatient look since they were the first clan to arrive. It was clear that Windclan was running late as usual. This gave the apprentices ample time to talk. Robinpaw was sitting down with a couple of Riverclan apprentices as they chatted about the battle with Briarstar and Windclan from before. Tawnypaw padded up to the chatting apprentices.
"The hero of Riverclan has arrived, I was catching up with some of the news with a couple of Riverclan apprentices that have fought in the most disjointed battle I have ever heard." Robinpaw mewed as he smiled. His dark reddish-brown pelt seemed to glow up under the moonlight.
"Yeah lots of cats participated in it, me included. If Featherfur didn't arrive with the patrol, we would be completely decimated." Tawnypaw mewed as she sensed it. Her thoughts continued to flash before her. Before she could continue, Yewberry bounced up to her seeing Tawnypaw socializing with Robinpaw.
"We were just chatting Yewberry." Tawnypaw mewed. Yewberry brushed his face up against her fur. Tawnypaw shivered a bit feeling the tom against her fur. Yewberry was purring fiercely as he had claim over Tawnypaw. Robinpaw watched over as he looked with an embarrassed look on his muzzle.
"Bumblestripe much…?" Robinpaw mewed as his voice trailed off. Soon Briarstar arrived with several Windclan warriors arriving as they were mad that Briarstar got out of the camp late. Soon they arrived.
"All cats of the gathering we shall begin the gathering since some major stuff went down in the clans ever since we woke up from hibernation except for Skyclan since Skyclan is boring." Pebblestar mewed. The Skyclan leader looked as it went first with the most basic news. Briarstar went next.
"All cats of the clans, Windclan is desperate for more territory, the leafbare has claimed many lives as we weren't able to hunker down. The territory will constantly be running with prey so there is no need to hibernate. We have many mouths to feed but not enough prey to feed them so our request is simple, in order to feed our clan, you have to give us more territory. If you want to end up like Riverclan, we will show up as a friendly invasion." Briarstar mewed.
"That wasn't a friendly invasion; you tried to annex all of our territory!" Ravenstar hissed. "We will never give you a single mouse length of our territory. If you want to become bigger, then why not expand along those mountains of yours, they are not occupied."
"We all know that Riverclan has the best territory of the entire mountains, plus Skyclan wishes it was bigger and we promised them some access to the river if we got rid of Riverclan." Briarstar mewed.
"If you annex Riverclan we will automatically declare war!" Pebblestar threatened, his eyes blazing as he was itching for a fight.
"Pebblestar calm down, we will try to work something out to make sure Briarstar doesn't annex any of Riverclan territory, we would want to avoid another war." Ravenstar mewed as she knew war wasn't the answer for everything.
"It's true, the danger of having huge territories (Empires) is that you have something that someone else wants and in this case we all wanted Riverclan's river since it supplies us the most food. No wonder they are always well fed and plump, they are relying on the river for their food while we waste our energy looking for food." Rowanstar mewed.
"Well does it mean you want to declare war against us?" Pebblestar mewed.
"Well no, after all we're all in a situation that we want more." Rowanstar mewed. "In fact, we want you and Ravenstar to form a pact with us to automatically attack Windclan if Windclan decides that it wants to annex Riverclan territory. Briarstar has been getting chummy with Skyclan recently and we don't like that one bit."
"All clans will be united as one and we will have the days of Tigerclan back! I will make the clans great again!" Briarstar shouted.
"The clans won't be great again if you take Riverclan, it's automatically war." Rowanstar mewed.
"Yeah and we'll launch a full scale invasion of Windclan and party like its 1066!" Pebblestar shouted as he was super eager to destroy Windclan.
"First off Pebblestar, you're insane, second, you're fired. Sorry Briarstar, none of us are ready for war." Ravenstar mewed.
"So you're not including Shadowclan in this alliance? That seems a bit unfair." Rowanstar mewed.
"We're not but we're not putting Pebblestar in charge." Ravenstar mewed. Briarstar knew she had to get their attention to prevent the three clans from coming up with a cohesive plan to knocking them out early.
"Let's play: Spot the French soldier!" Briarstar shouted. Rowanstar slapped his muzzle with his paw in frustration.
"That's not how warriors work Briarstar, have you read the books?" Rowanstar mewed.
"Uhh… Maybe." Briarstar mewed.
"We should be getting home since the sun is rising and we have discussed nothing but beating each other up." Ravenstar mewed. "All clans go home and think before we act so we can make the fanfic longer."
"All right fine, because the plot says so." Briarstar mewed frustrated so she left.
"So Briarstar is as dumb as a mouse?" Crowstorm asked.
"Even dumber than that." Crowstorm mewed. They soon padded near the camp as Tawnypaw moved off so she could stretch her legs. Yewberry was right behind her as he pounced on her, pinning her down. Tawnypaw squirmed as Yewberry was sliding on top of her.
"What are you doing!" Tawnypaw called out.
"Since you don't want to comply, I will get you under my fur." Yewberry mewed. Rowanstar saw this and he was furious.
"Yewberry! What are you doing?" Rowanstar mewed horrified. His pelt ruffled as he bit into Yewberry's scruff as he dragged him off the apprentice. Tawnypaw was covered in blood and white seed. Tawnypaw was stiff with fear. "I'll deal with you later, I need to get Tawnypaw cleaned up." He dragged her off to get healed and clean. The making of kits had only begun.
[A/N]: Let's play spot the references and fourth wall jokes. Do you see them? Review if you spot them. Also I am quite impressed in one week and almost 200 people read it? Probably the fastest viewing for a story, keep reviewing as well as making OC's so I can mention you in the story. Keep the reviews and the views coming and this story is barely a week old so keep up the views. Next chapter be posted soon.