Firepaw walked onto the top of the Floating Wood. He loved the feel of the salty wind in his face, feeling of the rocking against the waves, it was calming.
"Come on, get moving lazy fur or you'll be late for the Gathering!" Molepaw meowed harshly at Firepaw.
"Keep your fur on Molepaw, I'm coming!" Firepaw walked to the center of the of the top of the Floating Wood, where the Gathering was held. He looked up at the full moon, and all the glittering stars around it. It was brighter than normal. He looked back down at the leaders, it looked like the Gathering was about to start.
"We all know it's been a hard moon so far," Onestar started off. Murmurings of agreement sprouted out in the crowd.
"But as we also know, we are still here. We can heal the sickness, eat our fill of fish, and live normally out here, where the sun is swallowed. Our new friend, Eightfourninetwo, has help heal our clans, let us all thank him." Cheers went out to him as he nodded in thanks.
"Now, I'll let Bramblestar say a few words." Bramblestar walked up to where Onestar was.
"Even though Onestar said almost everything, I have to give a sincere thanks to Riverclan, for feeding us all in this hard time." Many cheers for Riverclan's great fishing skills. But meanwhile, a Riverclan warrior was walking on the other side of the Floating Wood, getting ready for a fishing patrol, saw something in the distance. She squinted to see what it was. She then gasped. Another Floating Wood, about the same size was drifting towards them. After a few more moments, she could see that there were twolegs on it. She turned and ran to the Gathering.
Bramblestar was the first to see the Riverclan warrior running towards them. Blackstar was currently talking to the crowd, with his heart-touching and boring speech. Meanwhile, the Riverclan warrior ran up to Mistystar and whispered in her ear. Bramblestar could pick up a few words:
"...fishing patrol... ...glimpse... ...Floating Wood... …with twolegs... …get ready now." He saw Mistystar nod and say politely, "Excuse me Blackstar, though you tale is touching, it seems that twolegs on another Floating Wood are coming towards us." She nodded in the direction of the other Floating wood. All the cats turned to see the other Floating Wood, floating nearer every moment, getting closer, with twolegs running amuck. They were babbling their language, pointing at the cats, swinging shining objects, some with two long rods, some with only one short one.
The cats were in a frenzy. The younger warriors sent the apprentices and the queens, elders and kits from Windclan and Riverclan into the inside of the Floating Wood, while the leaders and older warriors got ready for battle. The other Floating wood drifted closer, like how a cat stalks it's pray. Soon it was close enough for the twolegs to jump onto the cat's Floating Wood. The first one to jump on the Wood though, was attacked by a wave of warriors, biting and scratching, until he fell into the water. Two more jumped over, except this time, one of them pointed the shining rods at a cat, pulled back part of it, and a sound of thunder shot from it, and Appleleaf fell down, bleeding and screaming.
Kestrelflight ran over. He quickly looked over the wound. Bramblestar saw that the wound was caused by a silver rock imbedded in the flesh, so Kestrelflight got some cobwebs ready and took it out. Blood gushed out and Kestrelflight quickly pressed the cobweb on the wound. Appleleaf gasped in pain before passing out. Kestrelflight and a warrior pulled her into the Floating Wood.
Bramblestar turned back just in time to see a twoleg point a shining object with two rods at him. He Quickly jumped out of the way just as it pulled back part of it. This one though, shot tons of smaller rocks two where Bramblestar was. One of them briefly scraped part of his leg. He saw that it was only minor, so he jumped back into battle. He ran and jumped onto a twoleg's leg and started biting. It howled in pain and and pointed it's one rod thing at him, but jumped off, and the twoleg shot it's own leg. It howled louder as it jumped back and falling off the Floating Wood, into the water. This was going to be a long battle.
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Cherryblossom stood in the entranceway into the Floating Wood. She was assigned with some other younger warriors to guard incase some twolegs got through. So all she could do was watch. She watched as the battle went on, as twolegs fell, and as cats were hauled in, screaming. She watched as Lionblaze scratches and bites at a twoleg's neck, and as the twoleg falls screaming, then going silent as his head hits the floor. She watches as a twoleg points the shiny thing at a cat, pulls back a top part, then a part inside a loop. The sound of thunder flashes out, and the rock thankfully misses.
She watches this over and over again. She sees the battle isn't working out for them. Two fatalities, thirteen injuries, it was just horrible. She knew if she saw a cat about to die again, she would leave her post and try to help him/her. She scanned the battle. Then she saw a twoleg pick up a cat, from Riverclan she was pretty sure. The rod was put two his head.
When Cherryblossom saw this, she ran out into the battle to the Riverclan cat and the twoleg. She saw that she wouldn't be able to get there in time. But then she saw a shiny thing, on the floor. Then she knew exactly what to do. She ran to it, angled and aimed it at the twoleg, pulled the first thing back, then the one inside the loop. Both took effort, but she managed to do it. The sound of thunder sounded, and was pushed back by it, but it worked. She saw the twoleg fall. She had just killed her first twoleg.
How do you like it? Sorry for the wait, but I had some writers block. Thank you if you reviewed.