VERY IMPORTANT: Ppl please read a drop of sunshine, that's my friend's story and we decided to make it a tagteam after chapter 2, I wrote chapter 3 yesterday, please read and review! Hardly anyone reviewed to it.

Aquapaw let out a tremendous yawn. She got up from her nest sleepily strecthing. Her nose sniffed the crisp, fresh morning air and she heard the birds tweeting a beautiful song. Darkshadow nearly instantly called her name.

Aquapaw reluctantly went with him to learn fighting. Both padded deeper into the forest, and Darkshadow taught her the easiest move he could think of. "When someone jumps at you, duck underneath and claw their belly."

Aquapaw couldn't help but let out a mrrow of laughter, "Their belly? What for?" Darkshadow simply mewed, "It is the most vulnerable part of them, now you try, but we are not really going to hurt eachother."

Aquapaw nodded and waited for it. Darkshadow was about to pounce on her when she smoothly ducked underneath him and pretended to rake her claws down his belly. "Did I do it?" She asked waiting.

"Yes, now, keep practicing until the afternoon, you must master it!" Aquapaw and Darkshadow repeated it over and over again. He also taught her how to avoid getting hurt when he was the one to duck.

Finally, they had finished, and Aquapaw proudly walked away, tail swishing high in the air. She went to the fresh-kill pile and got a plump squirrel and began nibbling here and there, watching for her friends.

Goldenpaw tumbled out of nowhere squealing at the top of her lungs, "Try and catch me!" She ran around Rippedpaw who was swinging his head around, trying to stop the 'annoying pest' that was buzzing around him.

Aquapaw watched in amusement as Rippedpaw knocked Goldenpaw down and announced with triump ringing in his voice, "Caught you!" The two of them blushed when they noticed how close they were to eachother.

"S-sorry..." Rippedpaw mumbled. Aquapaw grinned, "They look so cute together!" Then her mind wanderd farther off, Blazepaw, there was something about him she recognized, they fought like a brother and sister, which was odd.

But then...brother and sister in a different Clan? Aquapaw shook her head, "Nah, that can't be possible." With that though pushed out of her mind, she curled up into a ball, and drifted into the icy fingers of slumber.

000

"Let all cats old enough to catch their own pey gather around the Fallen Tree for a Clan meeting!" Aquapaw leaped to her paws startled, with moss clinging to her fur. She shook her pelt clean and padded to the Ledge.

"I have chosen the cats to go to the Gathering, Foxcunning, Creampearl, Minnowscale..." And the list went on until he stopped at this name, "And Aquapaw. All who heard their name called, follow me!"

Aquapaw excitedly bolted after her Clan leader to the lake, she plunged into the water and paddled towards the island, "Ahem." Looking back, she saw Sunstar behind her, blushing, she let him go infront of her.

Aquapaw watched Sunstar dipped his head in a small thank-you and swim over ahead with a gling of amusement and pride in his amber eyes. Confused, she kicked herself stongly through the star-shone lake.

000

Aquapaw swung her head around, she was already in the Gathering place, but she didn't know what to do now. She spied a familiar flame-colored coat and she padded towards it, "Blazepaw?" The apprentice swung around.

"Oh, it's you, fox-dung." Aquapaw growled and another fight broke out. She stuck her tongue out at him, and both burst out laughing like they were siblings having a play-fight. A snowy white tom padded towards them.

"Fighting with my brother?" He asked. Aquapaw giggled and stumbled to her paws, "Yeah...but whats wierd is...I feel like I know him." The white tom's beautiful jade eyes widend in slight surprise and quickly became normal.

Aquapaw couldn't help but laugh at his expression. He blushed mumbling something nearly inadubile, "Her voice is like a summer breeze rippling over the surface of the water..." But then aloud he mewed,

"My name is Stormingpaw." Aquapaw smiled, "And my name's Aquapaw." The moonlight caught Stormingpaw's fur and made his pelt shine. His fur glowed like soft snow and the light twinkled his eyes like stars.

Now it was Aquapaw's turn to blush, immediatley a voice rang out, "Cats of all Clans! Welcome again to the Gathering, Sunstar would you like to go first?" Then, Sunstar stepped up and bellowed politley,

"Thank you Firestar, we have a couple new apprentices, Aquapaw, Goldenpaw, Rippedpaw, Clawpaw, Spottedpaw, and Rainpaw. Rainpaw has decided to take after her sister, Willowtears in the way of a medicine cat."

Murmurs of delight chorused throughout the crowd. Aquapaw listened quietly to the leaders, but she couldn't help sending back glances towards Stormingpaw. Althought he wasn't sitting in the moonlight, his pelt glimmered brilliantly.

Finally the Gathering was over. Aquapaw gazed at Stormingpaw for a moment. He pretended not to know, but he did, and he felt a warm, tingly sensation that he had never felt before. Nearby a silver she-cat with gold tinges watched the two.

Pressing her muzzle against a pale ginger tom, she murmured gently and solemnly, "Why did our daughter have to make the same mistake? She won't know the pain until later...but still..." The tom rasped his tongue over her ear,

"I don't know, if they really love eachother, there will be nothing to stop them." The she-cat let out a deep purr, "Just like us...Sunstar, you better go back to your Clan now." "I suppose so, good-bye Moonflower."

Aquapaw had over heard a little bit, and wondered-as she went back to her Clan-who was the 'daughter' they were speaking of, surely, Sunstar didn't have an affair with a cat name Moonflower...did he?

Aquapaw shook her head to clear her mind, "No matter, I should not get into other's privacy, especially my leader's!" She followed the crowd of RiverClan cats back to camp still thinking of a certain, handsome, young, and white tom.

000

Aquapaw blinked her eyes open, "Morning already?" She asked herself, looking around. Surely this was a dream, she was floating through a night sky with stars around her, feeling as if she could just grab one instantly.

"I am Spottedleaf, of StarClan, young Aquapaw." Aquapaw spun around, only to be met by a sweet-smelling scent and a beautiful tortoise-shell she-cat, "There's an important message I have for you, listen carefully:

Another evil shall arise

The sparks of Blazing Ember

Will follow the steps of the Tiger and Hawk

But will be even greater then them

The Blizzard of the Wind

And the Moon of the River

Must join together to defeat him

And Once again restore peace to the forest

But in the process, lives will fall and so will blood."

SORRY FOR THE LOONG WAIT ON CHAPTER 2! And remember, read: A drop of Sunshine, made by Sunnyheaven4, she actually just send out chapter 4, lol! I'll be working on chapter 5. R AND R!