AN. So yeah, Chapter Seven. Here you go!

Chapter Seven

Firepaw bounded over to Swanpaw and Shadowpaw with Sunpaw trailing close behind. "Great guys! Now come on! I wanna show you around camp!" She eagerly lead the way towards the nursery. Shadowpaw and Sunpaw exchanged a glance; Firepaw was one hyper excited apprentice, but she was amusing. They followed Firepaw towards the WhisperClan nursery. Swanpaw trailed behind. Greeting them at the nursery entrance was a cream and white queen. She gave them a small grin. "So I see you're already comfortable with our new friends Firepaw,"

"Hi Moonsong!" Firepaw greeted cheerfully. "This is Sunpaw and Shadowpaw of HiddenClan!"

Moonsong eyed them a bit, "Nice to meet you, I'm Moonsong. A new queen of WhisperClan."

"New?" Questioned Sunpaw, "So you're expecting?"

Moonsong nodded, "Yes, my first litter!"

Shadowpaw smiled, "That's exciting! If you don't mind me asking, who's the father?"

Moonsong frowned, "My mate remains unknown to my Clan as it will to you, but aside from that, I'm glad to meet you."

"Moonsong, who are you talking too?" Asked an annoyed voice from inside the nursery. A black queen with emerald eyes stalked out of the nursery. Firepaw grinned, "Ivyclaw! This is Shadowpaw and Sunpaw!"

Ivyclaw snorted, "Well keep your mouths closed! Ironkit is asleep and the last thing I need is a bunch of apprentices disrupting it!"

Moonsong frowned, "Come on Ivyclaw, they only wanted to meet us,"

"Well we can meet another time!" Ivyclaw turned her back on them and slunk back to the den. Moonsong sighed, "Sorry, Ivyclaw may have affection for kits but her temper is much different around others. I guess that's one thing she and her mate Bloodstripe have in common. You better move along before you annoy her more."

Firepaw looked a little disappointed but then cheered up saying, "Okay! Well then come on! I'll introduce you to the elders!"

Firepaw eagerly scurried not far to the elders den with the other three apprentices following behind. Sunpaw caught up with Firepaw and proceeded into the elders den. A black elder snapped at them, "You, HiddenClan apprentice! Bad enough you're in our camp but you could at least stay away from my den!" His cold yellow eyes gleamed at Sunpaw.

"Excuse me Crowtail? Your den?" Questioned the blind brown elder tom next to him. Crowtail snorted, "You're gonna die soon anyway so it'll be my den then Maskeye!"

The blind elder grunted, "I may be the eldest in the Clan but that don't mean I'm gonna go join StarClan before you!"

Crowtail just snorted again and focused his attention back on Sunpaw, "Get out of 'ere apprentice! I don't need you hangin' around!"

Then he saw Firepaw, Swanpaw, and Shadowpaw. He grinned, "Well, well! I see some lovely little young ones coming to visit me. How may I be of service to you?"

Noticing Crowtail's sudden personality change, Sunpaw snorted, "Well we were-"

"Hey! I was talkin' to them mouse dung!" Crowtail snapped.

"Crowtail we were going to introduce you to them," Firepaw explained frowning at the elder's harshness. "This is Shadowpaw and Sunpaw!"

Crowtail grinned, "Shadowpaw? Well it's my pleasure! I certainly hope you make yourself comfortable here. And be sure to visit often!" Crowtail gave no sign that he even recognized Sunpaw's presence unless he snapped at him.

Shadowpaw blushed a little, "Well, thanks."

"This here is Maskeye! Our eldest cat!" Firepaw stated introducing Maskeye to them. The blind elder nodded, "It's been so long since our clans met each other in peace not under full moon gatherings."

Shadowpaw nodded, "Yes, I wasn't even born to remember,"

Firepaw jumped towards the exit, "Come on! I still need to introduce you to the warriors! You guys never met Echowind or Bloodstripe yet have you? Come on!" Firepaw didn't even make halfway across the clearing when a long furred black she-cat with a grey stripped pattern stood in her way. The warrior cocked and eyebrow, "And where is this apprentice of mine headed off to?" She questioned.

Firepaw grinned, "Oh hi Echowind! I was just going to introduce you to Shadowpaw and Sunpaw!"

Echowing sighed, "That's very nice of you Firepaw but you don't have to have them meet every cat in the Clan, we ally just this once to drive of rouges then we go back to living as two separate clans."

Firepaw flattened her ears, "Oh, but still…"

Shadowpaw padded up to the WhisperClan apprentices side, "Don't worry about that though, why don't we just meet the other apprentices? I saw one talking to Dovepaw and Stormpaw."

Firepaw brightened up, "Oh yeah! That's Sightpaw! She's the eldest of the apprentices and soon to be a warrior."

"I heard my name?"

Shadowpaw turned her head to see the silver she-cat with white flecks padding up to the group with Dovepaw and Stormpaw.

"Yep you did! This is-"

"Shadowpaw and Sunpaw, yes. I believe everyone here knows their names now that you practically yowled it to everyone," said Sightpaw.

Firepaw flattened her ears in slight embarrassment, "Oh, well at least now nobody can forget them!"

Sightpaw sighed, "Of course they won't now. Except for our missing clanmates! One of them being my mentor Swiftclaw! I was supposed to be a warrior already. Swiftclaw was going to do my assessment yesterday. And I was going to help Rosepaw with training moves but both are gone and we need to drive them out and get them back!"

Shadowpaw twitched her ears, "I'm sorry," she said.

Sightpaw shook her head, "No, no. Don't be sorry. Not your fault. I just hope we can get them back."

"I wonder when Cloverwing will get back with the rest of the Clan?" wondered Sunpaw.

Sightpaw shrugged, "Who knows? I heard you guys had to swim across the river because Log Bridge is too close to Cloudtrees so it might take them awhile."

Dovepaw shuddered, "Urg! That river frightens me! I would've drowned on the way over if it weren't for Stormpaw,"

Sightpaw nodded, "Yes, it's definitely a dangerous river. Dawnstar had us practice swimming in it as apprentices in calmer waters," she paused, "I don't think Dawnstar would have appreciated me telling you that but no cat deserves to have a long death of drowning."

Shadowpaw nodded, "Yes, I agree."

Just then they heard a rattling in the bushes near the camp entrance, the warriors leaped to their paws ready to fight in case it was the rouges. But instead rushing through the entrance were Cloverwing, Nettlesting, and Phoenixfeather. Alone.

Dawnstar raised her head and demanded, "Why have you come back alone? Where is HiddenClan?"

"Yes, where is the rest of my Clan?" Shadestar asked fiercely.

Cloverwing's eyes were wide with panic as she announced, "Shadestar! The Clan! They're gone!"

AN. Well it wasn't the most exciting chapter but as you can tell the next one should be much more interesting! Oh, and if you haven't noticed, in the Allegiances Dawnglow is supposed to be Duskglow but I kept saying 'Dawn' instead throughout the story. My bad, there are many 'Dawns' here and I would prefer Duskglow instead but too late now. Ahwell, Review! Also, for all you readers who are not signed reviews I'm going to be disabling anonymous reviews next chapter for the sake of the story. I'm terribly sorry but better safe than sorry.