Chapter 4

Shamrockpaw stared in shock and the many cats below her, all seemed to be dancing while strobe lights flashed.

Her jaw slowly fell open, this feeling of awe filling her. This was the gathering?

"Shocking isn't it?" a voice asked from beside her, Shamrockpaw felt a shiver as she recognized Endlesspaw. Oh why did she always feel this way around the medicine cat apprentice?

She turned to look at him, stunned by his blue eyes that seemed to go on forever.

"It'll be okay, I was surprised when I was at my first gathering too." Endlesspaw smiled at her and Shamrockpaw felt as though she could fly.

"Hey! Come on Shamrockpaw!" her menotr's voice interrupted her good mood. Nightlight charged past, she hurried after him, paws racing over the grass.

DiamondClan slid in, Diamondstar's gray eyes reflected the light flashing around, giving the leader a deranged look, "DiamondClan party on!"

"WOO HOO!" the Clan cheered and raced off.

Shamrockpaw was left standing next to Nightlight and Endlesspaw. "What should I do?"

"Go have fun until the announcement's begin." Nightlight shrugged, looking around, "you know, get jiggy with it."

"Nightlight, my man!" it was Fenrirfang from the last chapter. The shaggy gray tom trotted up, followed by an older black tom with green eyes.

"Heh heh! I am the bad guy!" the tom giggled, Shamrockpaw's eyes widened.

"You had to bring your father with you?" Nightlight muttered dipping his head to the black tom.

"I'm Lokiheart, what's your name little one?" he asked, prancing up to Shamrockpaw.

"Err…"

The tom leaned down to whisper in her ear, "oh I only pretend to be crazy. Really I'm planning to prank them all." He stood up and pranced off, "Loki'd!"

Nightlight and Fenrirfang had vanished as well, probably having something to do with massage chairs.

"Come on!" Endlesspaw turned to her, "let's go have fun!"

Endlesspaw plunged into the throng of dancing cats, Shamrockpaw followed him, rearing onto her hind legs to dance with him.

"Isn't this great?" he asked, grinning wildly.

Shamrockpaw could only nodded breathlessly, her stomach felt like it had butterflies in it. She felt as though she could gaze into his blue eyes forever.

"Endlesspaw!" A lovely black she-cat danced over to them, her dark blue eyes wide.

"Onyxpaw! Shamrockpaw, this is Onyxpaw of GemClan!" It took Shamrockpaw a moment to notice they'd all been shouting over the music.

"Pleased to meet, you come dance with me Endlesspaw!"

Endlesspaw was dragged off, leaving Sharmockpaw alone on the dance floor. She watched them dance, her claws flexing slightly. Stop dancing with her! Don't look at him like that! What are you two doing? What am I thinking?

"Hey there gorgeous. Come here often?"

Shamrockpaw slowly turned around, to come face to face with a pure white tom. His blue eyes were nothing like Endlesspaw's these were ice cold. What her eyes were drawn to though was his long fangs, curving out from his muzzle.

"I'm Dragonfrost, who are you?" he winked as he asked, dancing with her.

She suddenly felt awkward, "I'm Shamrockpaw."

"Want to fall in love?"

Shamrockpaw's jaw fell open, "what?"

"Fall in love with me."

Shamrockpaw stared at him in horror, "But I'm six moons old! You're a younger warrior of another Clan!"

Dragonfrost shrugged, giving her another wink. "So? You so sexy!"

Shamrockpaw's eyes widened, and the moment the crowd parted to her right, she dove through the opening, not stopping until she reached the side, where she almost crashed into yet another black cat.

"Oh, I'm sorry." She jerked back, stunned when the tom turned around. His fur was bushy, but his eyes, his yellow-green eyes were like poison. This must be Onyxstar of GemClan.

Onyxstar walked past Shamrockpaw with an ominous look. "I am a black furred leader of an enemy Clan. Clearly I am the bad guy and whatever I say will scare your fur off." he had a deep, almost demonic voice. "Fear me!"

Shamrockpaw shivered in her pelt, and shrank back in fear. Onyxstar continued on his way over to the giant rock, which he jumped onto with ease, and reared onto his hind legs and began dancing with the other leaders.

"Don't let that bother you, he's always been that way." Shamrockpaw was relieved that this time the cat approached her, rather than appeared behind her. This was a black and white she-cat, her eyes were yellow-green, but despite their ugly shade were much friendlier than Onyxstar's.

"I'm Harpypaw." She nodded to the group that had followed her, "these are other apprentices of MythClan."

"You Shamrockpaw?" a golden tom with scale like markings asked, his tongue flicking out, "our older brother mentioned you."

She stared in surprise, were these Fenrirfang's siblings? The only other she-cat was black with strange bone shaped patterns on her fur. There was a long legged golden tom who looked remotely normal but MythClan was a strange Clan for sure.

"Onyxstar's been that way since he became leader." The music on the dance floor had lowered quite a bit, as had Harpypaw's voice, "time for the leaders to dance."

A bright cheerful song began and the three leaders reared up and danced, their hips swaying to the music and paws going up and down, almost like bunny ears.

"I love this part." One of Fenrirfang's brothers muttered, sitting down to watch.

"The brown tom next to Onyxstar is Mythstar." Harpypaw told Shamrockpaw as they watched the leaders Caramelldansen. "You can see his long tail from here."

Diamondstar looked vaguely bored, as though she'd rather be digging another hole.

Once the music ended, the leaders dropped to all fours. "Let the Gathering begin!" they yowled as one, before jumping off the rock. They landed in the hot tub with a loud splash.

"Come on, we know a good spot to watch from!" Harpypaw hissed, weaving through the crowd. Shamrockpaw ended up behind her and in front of Fenrirfang's siblings.

They halted beside Fenrirfang, who was sitting next to several large black chairs, Nightlight lay sprawled out in one of them.

"You four, oh five, here for the view?" the shaggy tom whispered, whiskers twitching.

"Good idea." Nightlight's tail tapped Shamrockpaw's head, "get up here, you'll be able to see better." He moved over in the chair as his apprentice hopped up.

"Diamondstar, would you like to start the Gathering?" Mythstar offered, his voice was warm and strong, the kind of cat Shamrockpaw would love to hear stories from.

"Your eyes are made of redstone!" Diamondstar splashed through the hot tub, towards the massage chairs, staring at Rubyblaze.

Mythstar calmly placed one paw on Diamondstar's head and dunked her.

"In MythClan Goddessmoon is expecting kits and has moved into the nursery."

There were a few murmurs of approval, and Mythstar let Diamondstar up.

"In DiamondClan we have yet to see any creepers this moon and we have three new apprentices, Shamrockpaw, Abysspaw and Foreverpaw."

Onyxstar moved forward, placing his paws on the side of the hot tub, steam rising around him, and water dripping off his whiskers. Shamrockpaw swallowed, something wasn't right here.

"GemClan is powerful and strong. We are declaring war on MythClan!"

Yowls of approval met with cries of alarm and anger.

Mythstar stepped forward, "but Onyxstar why? We've done nothing to you. Let's be reasonable."

Onyxstar huffed, "for a Clan of legends you sure are a coward."

Diamondsar laughed, "oh don't worry Mythstar, DiamondClan territory is between your territory and his. You've got nothing to worry about."

The Clans laughed as Onyxstar looked humiliated to have forgotten that.

"This is true." Onyxstar growled, attempting to regain control. "So I shall declare war on DiamondClan instead!" Silence met his words as he jumped out of the hot tub, "now someone bring me a towel!"

Oh noes, what is going to happen now? Will I take another six months to update? Will the next chapter be funnier? Who knows!

I shall try to work on this more, and be funnier. I really will try. I just need the small bit of plot I had to progress.