Thunderclan:
Leader: Badgerstar, black tom with white spot on forehead, amber eyes.
Deputy: Skyleap, light gray she-cat, brown eyes
Medicine Cat: Russetear, nervous brown tom
Warriors:
Cloudstorm, white and gray queen
Yellowlight, tan tom with yellow eyes
Pantherfoot, black tom, blue eyes
Briarthorn, black and brown tom.
Shadowgaze - black she-cat, gray eyes
Apprentices:
Eaglepaw, white tom with golden specks of fur
Waterpaw dark gray almost black she-cat
Queens:
Orangetongue- ginger she-cat expecting Badgerstar's kit.
Elders:
Foxeye, reddish brown tom
Rainfur gray and white she cat
Shadowclan:
Leader: Adderstar, brown she-cat with dark brown stripes and yellow eyes
Deputy: Robintail, dark red tabby, amber eyes
Medicine Cat: Duskfall, black tom with tuff of white fur on chest and two white paws, green eyes.
Warriors:
Liontooth, white tom with amber eyes
Grassclaw, lean brown tom
Finchcry, tabby she-cat
Brokenwing, black she-cat, one green eye, one yellow eye.
Kestrelheart, senior warrior, brown and black pelt.(she-cat)
Rainglaze, gray she-cat with dark eyes.
Applefur, red brown she-cat with green eyes.
Rabbitstreak, fluffy gray tan tom.
Wolfclaw - white and gray tom with ice blue eyes
Lonescar - black tom, amber eyes, left ear torn and scars across his nose
Apprentices:
Lilypaw white and black she-cat
Snakepaw dark brown tom
Sunpaw light brown she-cat with yellow eyes
Silentpaw - white she-cat with black paws and a black tip on her ears and tail, green eyes
Queens:
Windpelt, yellow and white queen with green eyes. Kits: Lichenkit, Blossomkit.
Flowernose, pretty sorrel queen. Kits: Nightkit, Brownkit, Gingerkit.
Elders:
Spiderstep, gray tom
Dewdrop white and brown she-cat
Foresteyes, brown she-cat and green eyes
Riverclan:
Leader: Fallenstar. -brown tom with black toes on left paw, yellow eyes
Deputy: Swallowleap, small gray she-cat with brown eyes
Medicine Cat: Snowtail, beautiful white she cat, green eyes, is missing front right leg.
Warriors:
Dustear, red tom with specks of gray and red, blue eyes.
Wildheart, orange tabby she-cat, green eyes.
Fireglare, orange tom, brown eyes.
Shallowcreek, black and white tom.
Streamfoot, black and gray she-cat.
Meadowfur, brown and black she-cat.
Apprentices:
Sharppaw gray and black tom with specks of white in fur
Icepaw white tabby tom
Lightpaw brown she-cat with white tips on ears
Queens:
Branchpelt, dark brown queen: expecting kits.
Elders:
Striketail, blind white tom
Windclan:
Leader: Sweetstar - small, light red she-cat with amber eyes
Deputy: Honeyspots, small light brown with tan spots she-cat
Medicine Cat: Mosspetal, Light brown she-scat with white underbelly.
Warriors:
Alderpounce, lean black tom.
Tinysoar, small gray she-cat
Eveningrunner, big, lean brown she-cat.
Cloudstep.- gray and white she-cat, brown eyes.
Amberfang- light brown tom.
Apprentices:
Fernpaw, dark gray she-cat
Duckpaw dark tabby tom
Queens:
Dewleaf, dapple she-cat expecting Alderpounce's kits.
Elders:
Beaverbelly, brown and white she-cat
Cats outside the clans:
Leafsong- brown and white she- cat, green eyes , formally Shadowclan.
Leo- dark gray tom, scars on shoulder, golden eyes. Rouge, former kittypet.
Whisper, a shy white kittypet.
Hank, big bobtailed tom, a barn cat who lives near the twolegs.
Elan, a black rouge with blue eyes.
"Cloudstorm, Waterpaw, Briarthorn, Eaglepaw, Yellowloght, Pantherfoot, and Shadowgaze. You are coming to the gathering tonight."
Shadowgaze glanced up at Badgerstar in surprise. Was she on his good side now? She hadn't gone to a gathering for moons! Badgerstar leaped off the ledge that led to his den and walked through the gaggle of cats that had gathered around the base of it. Shadowgaze took notice of the glare he gave her but she also took noticed of his weak, skinny frame. In fact, all her clanmates looked half starved anymore.
It seemed that every time a hunting party came back, they each had only been able to bring back a single shrew or a mouse. She took a glance at the fresh-kill pile, there was only a couple of mice and one frail robin. Her heart dropped, she knew that Badgerstar had been skipping meals and so had Russetear, the medicine cat. They were trying to make sure there was enough food for the clan.
"Are you coming, Shadowgaze?"
Shadowgaze jumped, startled. She looked up and saw Briarthorn looking at her worried. She nodded and offered a shy look. The rest of the party was now out of sight. He chuckled and said.
"Come on, they can't be far. Also, Badgerstar will probably yell at me for leaving Eaglepaw unsupervised." Briarthorn said with humor in his eyes.
They took off running towards their clanmates, they caught up to them before anyone noticed that had been missing. Slowing down, they walked side by side.
"Don't take this the wrong way, Shadowgaze, but I'm surprised Badgerstar let you come to the gathering. I thought he would have had you stay in the camp till you were an elder!" Briarthorn whispered.
"So did I." Shadowgaze said softly.
"It wasn't your fault, Shadowgaze. Maybe he has finally understood that." Briarthorn replied glancing at her.
"I don't think he has forgiven me. He probably never will. But, maybe he is willing to give me a chance, and for that I'm grateful." Shadowgaze said casting a look at Badgerstar's retreating form.
"You want a chance to prove yourself don't you?" Briarthorn said sadly.
"I want him to know…that…" She trialed off as the came down into the Gathering clearing.
"That you are still loyal to your clan." Briarthorn finished for her.
She nodded. "I may be a terrible cat but I still am a good warrior." Shadowgaze said sternly.
"You're not a terrible cat, Shadowgaze. I think you are quite nice." He said softly.
Shadowgaze stared at him for a brief second then licked his ear. "Thanks, Briarthorn. You are a really great friend." She said gently.
"Well, I better go look for Eaglepaw before he goes and tells some Shadowclan 'paw how to get to Thunderclan!" Briarthorn said before bounding off.
"Shadowgaze! Is that you!?"
Shadowgaze turned around and purred when she saw her Riverclan friend, Wildheart. Wildheart was a sleek, orange tabby she-cat. Her name suited her well, as she was overly energetic and had a rather quick temper.
"How are you? I haven't seen you in moons!" Wildheart exclaimed.
"I haven't been chosen for a Gathering in a while." Shadowgaze said bowing her head.
"Like for at last six moons! What did you do? Drown a kit in a river?" Wildheart asked, her green eyes wide.
"Not exactly. I just got on the wrong side of Badgerstar is all." Shadowgaze said, not meeting Wildheart's eyes.
"You know I won't tell anyone in my clan." Wildheart said gently.
"Wildheart, I don't want to talk about it." Shadowgaze said softly.
The Riverclan cat was about to retort when Sweetstar from Windclan let out a yowl. "Welcome all Clans! Windclan is doing well, Dewleaf is expecting kits." She said before quickly going to sit down.
Fallenstar from Riverclan stood up, Shadowgaze nearly gasped he looked so frail and old. She knew he couldn't be old as he had only become the Riverclan leader two moons again!
"Riverclan is strong. We welcome Lightpaw, Icepaw, and Sharpaw as new apprentices." All the clans joined in cheering the new apprentices names, Fallenstar waved his tail to silence them.
"I would also like to ask Shadowclan a question. Adderstar, I am not trying to accuse you of anything, but one of my patrols caught your scent a paw step over our border. Perhaps curious 'paws?" He asked, gently.
Shadowgaze glanced at some of the Shadowclan apprentices who thankfully looked more angry then guilty. Adderstar stood up, she was still breathtakingly beautiful despite being the oldest leader of the four clans.
"Shadowclan has a perfectly reasonable answer for that, Fallenstar. We recently banished a clanmate. She still may have our scent. If you see her, I suggest chasing her away or keeping your distance. She is dangerous." Adderstar said evenly.
Fallenstar gracefully bowed his head in acceptance then backed away letting Adderstar report for Shadowclan. "I will admit, my clan is in need of fresh-kill. But, I suspect that all the clans are. As you heard, we recently banished one of our warriors, Leafsong. Other then that, we welcome Silentpaw as our new apprentice. We have also smelled Thunderclan scent within our borders. I hope you have a reason, Badgerstar." With that she went and sat back down.
Once the cries of Silentpaw's name did down Badgerstar stood and cleared his throat. "Thunderclan is ready and willing to apologize for any scent crossing into borders. Prey is very scarce in our territory, if our warriors have chased something into another territory, they did not kill it. One of our queens is expecting." Badgerstar leaped from the High Rock and stalked towards the exit.
Shadowgaze said a quick goodbye to Wildheart and followed after her clan. Badgerstar hadn't even let Adderstar reply and he hadn't told them that it was his mate that was expecting. It made sense though, he didn't need a fight and of course he would be overprotective of his mate and new kittens. A twang of pain hit her, it had been her fault, but why all the sudden did he trust her?