A/N: Hey here's chapter 9! Well this is the first chapter featuring Dovepaw. I don't exactly know why she hasn't had a whole chapter yet in the story, but she will! Thank you for the reviews last chapter, glad to hear people are still reading this :) Should update rather soon, and I'm updating Sands of Chaos tommorow. I'm such a busy bee :)

~Leo~

CHAPTER 9

Dovepaw stared up at the full moon,its silver rays reflecting off of her clear bright blue eyes. A breeze blew pine needles down onto the ground, landing gracefully in front of her white paws.

It was almost time to leave for the gathering, but Dovepaw didn't want to walk all the way there.

"You ready to go?" the voice of her brother Thistlepaw called as he walked towards her. The gray and white apprentice with yellow eyes was carrying a mouse in his jaws, setting it down carefully onto the grass.

"I'm to tired" Dovepaw groaned, "Why did Flintstar ask me to go? Can't he just take Gempaw instead?".

The other apprentice would probably be glad to go, and Dovepaw didn't want to be bothered with so many other cats.

"But this is technically your first gathering" her brother stated in between bites, "Don't you remember what happened last time? Those two toms from WindClan started fighting, what were their names?".

Thinking back to the gathering, Dovepaw remembered how both toms turned on each other, probably just fighting over a she-cat.

"I think their names were Sparktail and Badgerleap" she yawned, stretching out her limbs. She remembered it so well, because it was uncommon for WindClan to fight among their ranks.

But to much of Dovepaw's dislike, it wasn't for ShadowClan.

"Did you hear Echoscream's expecting kits?" Thistlepaw meowed from his spot, "It looks like old Flintstar's still got it."

"More kits?" was it even possible for a queen to have so many kits? This had to have been her fourth litter since she had been made a warrior. Echoscream had a litter as an apprentice, but they all died because they were born in Leaf-Bare.

"It looks like Duskpaw and Gempaw are going to have more siblings" her brother smiled, twitching his tail to the two siblings who were chatting by a pine tree.

"All cats old enough to catch their own prey, gather here underneath the Pine Branch" Flintstar's call echoed over the clearing, as he scrambled up the branch.

Dovepaw rose her head, as warriors filed out of their dens, it was time for the gathering. Moonclaw, the ShadowClan deputy padded out of his den, his expecting mate Twilightfern not far behind.

The deputies brother, and Dovepaw's mentor Firesky padded out next. She and her mentor didn't exactly get along. Ever since Firesky became Dovepaw and Thistlepaw's mother's mate, they hadn't exactly gotten along.

"Are you coming to the gathering Dovepaw?" a meow came from Moonclaw, who was pausing to look at her and Thistlepaw.

Dovepaw nodded, "Yes, Flintstar told me I could" she meowed to her uncle.

"Good, this will be an interesting one alright" and with that, the deputy padded away to go listen to Flintstar.

Dovepaw tilted her head, why would it be interesting? But then she remembered the fire on WindClan's territory, the smoke had drifted into their camp in the middle of the night.

She just hoped it hadn't reached RiverClan, not Ember.

Ember. From the moment Dovepaw met him she knew something was different about him. Hopefully he had become an apprentice and would be at the gathering, she had a few ideas on how to tell RiverClan about Lightningcloud's treachery.

"Cats of ShadowClan! Tonight we leave for the gathering" the gray and white called down to his clan who were hidden the shadows of night. "But I warn you. StarClan have shown Sweetwillow a sign that treachery is to show its face tonight, be careful who you speak to."

The look in the ShadowClan leaders eyes showed that he meant what he spoke, even his solid black and gray eyes were round with seriousness. Dovepaw turned her gaze to the tortoiseshell Medicine Cat, who stood on her boulder with her gray eyes closed shut.

Sweetwillow always was a mysterious cat, often times she awoke the whole clan with Omens in the middle of the night.

"We leave now!" Flintstar leapt off of his branch with grace, and landed on the ground next to his strong muscled deputy. There was a reason Moonclaw was named Moonclaw, his claws were unusually long, and curved like a moon crescent.

Dovepaw looked up at the full moon as she turned to leave for the gathering, for some reason she knew that this was going to be a night to remember.

Which name for Emberpaw do you like better?

1.) Emberstorm

2.) Embersky

3.) Emberclaw

4.) Emberfall

5.) Embergaze

6.) Emberpool