Splashheart, along with her sister, trotted out of camp with Rockstar and the Clanmates she chose to go with them. Splashheart was so excited! This would be her first time going to a gathering as a warrior! She tried not to show how excited she was, but she couldn't help it. She started to jump up and down this was the best day ever!

"I can see how excited you are," Rockstar said with a purr.

Splashheart stopped, embarrassed, "I-I'm sorry mother!"

Rockstar laughed, "It's fine my sweet daughter," Rockstar mewed, "you should of seen me when I was leader." Rockstar paused and looked passed Splashheart. Splashheart saw Midnightgaze padding up to them. She must have heard what Rockstar was saying.

"How did you react?" Midnightgaze asked.

Rockstar purred, "Let me just say I was jumping as high as the trees."

Both Splashheart and Midnightgaze giggled.

"Rockstar!" Redheart growled. "The other Clans are already at the gathering place!"

"Coming!" Rockstar mewed.

Splashheart gapped and Midnightgaze had a shock expression on her face. "Mother!" Midnightgaze yelled.

Rockstar winced at the change of tone Midnightgaze had. "Yes?" she said turning her head around.

"How can you let Redheart talk to you like that?" Midnightgaze hissed.

Rockstar blinked in surprise, "He's deputy for StarClan's sake," she flatten her ears, "You should respect him of that!" Rockstar hissed.

"Hey, you she-cats need to calm down," Splashheart pleaded, while getting between Midnightgaze and Rockstar, but they walked passed her.

"You didn't answer my question!" Midnightgaze growled, "Why did you let him talk to you like that?" Midnightgaze repeated with a snarl.

"Cause he's deputy!" Rockstar retorted.

"And?" Midnightgaze sneered.

"And now it's time for a certain medicine cat to go back to RockClan's camp!" Rockstar mewed, still angered.

Midnightgaze flatted her ears, "What?" Midnightgaze broke into a sob, "You can't do that to a medicine cat!"

"The word of a leader is the warrior code," Rockstar mewed, sternly.

Midnightgaze stood there for a moment, then she started to walk back to camp slowly.

"Midnightgaze," Splashheart mewed, "Wait for m-," Splashheart felt Rockstar's tail cover her mouth.

"No, she can go to camp by herself," Rockstar mewed. "I still want you to stay with us." Rockstar paused and licked her chest fur, "You did nothing wrong. She deserves to be punished alone."

"But-" Splashheart was interrupted by Redheart.

"Rockstar!" he hissed. "Come on!"

"I'm coming!" Rockstar growled.

Splashheart saw that Redheart was surprise at the stern tone Rockstar had.

Rockstar then walked through the bushes that lead to the gathering place.

Splashheart then padded after them. She knew it wouldn't be the same without Midnightgaze there, but she had to deal with it. Just as Splashheart came out of the bushes, Rockstar quietly ran up to Four-Rocks with the other leaders. Splashheart stood in amazement on how pretty her mother's black-and-white pelt shone so brightly in the moonlight. Splashheart then heard a meow and turned her head to see Leaftrail holding a spot for her. Splashheart could see his black pelt shine as bright as Rockstar's in the moonlight. She then mewed a 'thank you' to him and then sat down.

"Rockstar, what took you so long?" Bramblestar, a cream tabby asked.

"I got into some problems, but it's worked out now," Rockstar answered.

"Ok, I guess I'll go first then," Bramblestar mewed. "BrambleClan has been doing very well this leaf-bare," she started. "Prey has been running well and our steams are as fresh as ever. Plus we want to introduced a new pair of kits into our Clan," she paused and looked at a mottled grayish-blue tom. "My brother Pebblefang and his mate Russetwater have had two new little kits." The Clans cheered for Pebblefang and Russetwater. Pebblefang dipped his head in thanks to all of them. Then the Clans meows died down and they waited for another Clan leader to speak.

Lakestar, a gray tabby tom then walked up and spoke for LakeClan. He basically said the same things Bramblestar said before, except his Clan had two new warriors, Duskpelt and Minnowwhisker. So once again the Clans cheered for them.

Splashheart then saw her mother, Rockstar come forth. "RockClan has been doing well as always," she mewed. "I do have a couple of announcements to make though," then Rockstar cleared her throat. "RockClan would want to welcome a new warrior into our Clan." Rockstar then looked down at Splashheart.

Splashheart gulped, as she was trying to keep her blue-and-white fur down from the cold breeze that suddenly came and blew passed her.

"Splashheart, my daughter," Rockstar mewed.

"Splashheart! Splashheart!" The Clans cheered.

Splashheart grew hot with embarrassment, "T-Thank you!" she yelled.

Suddenly the Clans stopped, and started to look over to the medicine cat gathering place.

"Where's Crookednose?" yelled a dark gray tom.

"And Midnightpaw?" another cat yelled.

"I was getting ready to say that," Rockstar mewed. "Crookednose has been with us for many seasons, but he decided it was his time to retire to the elders den."

Many cats nodded in agreement.

"My other daughter, Midnightpaw, got her medicine cat name, Midnightgaze," Rockstar paused and saw all the cats watching her.

Splashheart was surprise at how many cats were listening to what her mother was saying.

"Anyway, the reason why she isn't here is because she had to collect some herbs for the Clan," Rockstar lied.

The cats nodded again, and even some of them were cheering for Midnightgaze.

"My last announcement is that RockClan has a new deputy," Rockstar eyed Darkstar, a mottled black tom when she said that.

The other Clans gasped except for DarkClan, which was silent, for they knew what happened.

"Tanglepelt was killed in a battle with DarkClan," Rockstar paused. "Redheart is our new deputy."

Some cats cheered for Redheart, though most was still shocked. Some of them must have known that Tanglepelt and Rockstar were mates.

"Are you done Rockstar?" Darkstar said in an evil voice.

Rockstar nodded and let Darkstar speak.

Darkstar then straighten himself up and sat among the Clans. "DarkClan has been doing well also with this new piece of territory that RockClan put up a good fight for. He then eyed Rockstar evilly. "Though it left two DarkClan warriors dead."

"You had enough territory already!" Redheart spat. "None of our Clanmates deserved to die that night!"

Rockstar flicked her tail, "Redheart, this is no time for you to speak," she mewed, "however, he does have a point."

Darkstar lashed his tail, "But we needed some more territory for our Clan!" he hissed.

"But you won't even have a Clan if you keep losing them in battles!" Splashheart growled.

The Clans gasped and looked at Splashheart when she said that.

"Who dares says that to me?" Darkstar snarled.

The Clan cats then made a path between Darkstar and Splashheart.

"Not surprising that it was Rockstar's daughter saying that," he mocked. Darkstar then jumped down from Four-Rock and started to stalk Splashheart.

"Stop!" her mother yowled. She then jumped in front of the DarkClan leader. "This is nonsense!" she growled. "I know my mouse-brained daughter said that to you, but she is kind of ri-"

"Out of my way!" He then slashed Rockstar's cheek and then she fell to the ground.

Everyone, including some DarkClan members gasped.

"Rockstar!" Redheart yelled. He started to run over to her, though some other cat was quicker.

"Darkstar!" said Bramblestar while catching up to him. "Stop, Now!" she growled.

"NO!" he was getting ready to slash her when suddenly clouds appeared over the moon and lighting started to struck the earth.

The Clan cats started to quake with fear.

"Look, now StarClan is mad!" Lakestar growled. He then stood straight up on Four-Rocks, revealing an old scar on his chest. "This gathering is over!" he growled. Then he looked at a black she-cat with white paws. "Frostfoot, help Rockstar." Then he looked back at Darkstar, "You and your Clan, go home!" he growled.

Darkstar still snarled at Splashheart.

"Now!" Lakestar hissed.

Darkstar reluctantly left with DarkClan on his heels. Some of them gave hisses on their way out.

Just them, Bramblestar came up to Lakestar, "We'll stay too, until she's better."

Lakestar nodded and went over to where Rockstar was laying.

Splashheart felt sick in her stomach. She knew if Rockstar died, it would be her fault.

"Call yourself a warrior?" scorned Bluestripe, while he was padding up to her.

"More like an apprentice," mocked Oakfeather, his dark brown fur bristled in the moonlight.

Splashheart looked at the ground sadly, "I'm sorry," she murmured.

"Yeah right," Fireblaze mewed.

"Hey, leave her alone," Leaftrail mewed, "She didn't do anything wrong!" he stood in front of Splashheart. "Darkstar was the one who hurt Rockstar!"

"Yeah, but if she didn't open her big mouth then Rockstar wouldn't be hurt!" Fireblaze growled.

Splashheart was getting ready to protest when Leaftrail put his orange mottled tail over her mouth.

"Splashheart did say things at the wrong time, but it didn't mean for Darkstar to attack anyone. She was right after all!" Leaftrail mewed.

Fireblaze just sniffed and walk over to a LakeClan cat and talked to them.

The other cats just went to go do their thing, though they avoided Splashheart.

"Cheer up buddy!" Leaftrail mewed. "It'll be ok soon."

"They'll hate me forever, even if Rockstar lives," Splashheart sighed.

"No they won't." Leaftrail came over and licked Splashheart on the head. "Now I need to go check on Rockstar, you can go talk to LakeClan or BrambleClan cats for now," he mewed.

"Ok," Splashheart nodded.

Leaftrail then went over to where Rockstar was at.

Splashheart wanted to go back to RockClan and sleep with her sister. Maybe I can go to sleep here and see if she's dreaming. Splashheart wondered. As she was getting ready to sleep, four cats, one from LakeClan and three from BrambleClan came up to her. "Please don't yell at me!" she begged.

"Yell at you? You just did nothing else any Clan cat would do!" said a black-and-brown tom.

"Not even a Clan leader would do that!" mewed a red she-cat with a huge ginger strike on her chest.

Splashheart was shocked on how many cats were nice to her. "Thanks!" she mewed.

"Hey Splashheart, remember me?" said a cream she-cat.

Splashheart looked closely at her, she was shocked, "Dawnpaw?!"

"Dawnfur, now."

Splashheart remember on how every cat was being mean to her at her first gathering, because she was so small. Then Dawnfur, Dawnpaw at the time, defended Splashheart and they remained friends ever since. Then one day Rockstar said Dawnpaw had broken her back and wouldn't be able to walk ever again.

"How are you?" Splashheart asked.

"Good," she licked her flank. "Our medicine cat, Grasstail did everything he could to fix my back but all was hopeless. Then finally, he did one more hit and it mended back to place."

Splashheart came and licked her friend on her shoulder. "I'm very glad!"

"Splashheart!"

Splashheart turned her head and saw Redheart behind her.

"Rockstar is up now," he mewed, "LakeClan is going with us to make sure she doesn't clasp again."

Splashheart felt relieved that her mother was alive. "How is she?"

"She's stable at the moment," he growled.

"Ok," she then turned her head back to Dawnfur. "Bye," she mewed.

"Bye." Then Dawnfur left with the two other BrambleClan warriors behind her.

"I guess I'm going with you then," said the red she-cat with a ginger strike on her chest.

Splashheart nodded. "What's your name?" Splashheart asked while walking to the bushes that lead out of Four-Rock.

"Heatherstrike," the LakeClan warrior mewed.

"Nice name!" Splashheart mewed.

"Haha, thanks!" the she-cat thanked.

Just then Fireblaze walked passed Splashheart, with Bluestripe and Oakfeather behind her. "Hey look, it's Splashheart, the loud mouth!" she mocked.

Bluestripe laughed, "More like Splashheart, the mouse-brained blabber!" the gray warrior mewed.

"Hey! Stop that!" Heatherstrike growled.

"And why should we listen to a LakeClan cat?" Oakfeather mewed?

"Cause my medicine cat saved your leader!" Heatherstrike growled.

The three warriors just stood there, not knowing what to say.

"And would you ever talk to Darkstar like that?" Heatherstrike asked.

The three cats slowly shook their heads.

"Then leave Splashheart alone!" Heatherstrike warned.

"C'mon Fireblaze let's go," Oakfather said while walking away, with Bluestripe on his heels.

Fireblaze just gave a hiss of annoyance and then left.

Splashheart sighed, "Thanks for that!" she mewed.

"Don't mention it!" Heatherstrike mewed.

Then out of nowhere, Leaftrail was running up to Redheart with Brightfur hot on his heels. "Redheart!" he yelled.

Redheart turned around, "Yes?"

"It's Whiteflame!" Brightfur panted.

"He's gone…"