A/N: Well well well... it's time for ch.11!

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Ch.11

It had been two moons since Brookpaw had escaped from WindClan. Honeystar hadn't brought Brookpaw to the last gathering for fear of what WindClan would do. Brookpaw learned that while she was gone Swimpaw had become a full medicine cat called Swimheart and had returned to her home-clan, RiverClan. Cowkit was as annoying as usual and Lilykit had become his side-kick. Lightstar, ShadowClan's leader, died, Echoclaw took his place and became Echostar. Whisperwind's kits were now three and a half moons. Spottedsky had been drilling Brookpaw hard on hunting. The cat's prey was light, making it almost impossible for Brookpaw to feel the vibrations in the ground that they made. Also, she was always rustling leafs with her paws since she couldn't see them.

Brookpaw rolled over, revealing her fluffy belly to the afternoon sun. She had been hunting all morning and had only managed to catch one small mouse, mainly because the mouse fell into garlic and was easy to smell. Brookpaw wondered if she could ever become a warrior when she couldn't hunt. She could smell Honeystar coming into the camp with a mouth full of prey. The ThunderClan leader dropped the prey in the prey-pile and jumped onto the Highrock.

"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather underneath Highrock for a clan meeting," Honeystar's voice rang out.

Brookpaw scampered under the Highrock next to Leafpaw and Fishpaw.

Honeystar waited until the clan had gathered before she spoke again, "As you all know the gathering is tonight. Rabbitleap, Hawkherb, Blizzardfur, Vineclaw, Spottedsky, Beehive, Leafpaw, and Brookpaw, I want you to attend the gathering with me. Get some rest and be ready to leave soon! Clan meeting dismissed."

Brookpaw excitedly rushed over to the prey-pile. She soon stopped remembering that she barely caught anything today. She nosed through the pile and found a small mouse. She gulped it down in a couple of bites and left for the apprentices den. When she arrived she found Leafpaw, Deerpaw, and Fishpaw all sharing a huge rabbit that was unfortunate enough to stray across the WindClan border.

"Hi Brookpaw," Leafpaw smiled when she saw Brookpaw.

"Hey Leafpaw!" Brookpaw replied.

"Want some rabbit?" Fishpaw asked. "From that look of that mouse you gulped down you must be starving!"

"No thanks, all I caught today was a mouse so all I deserve to eat today is a mouse," Brookpaw looked at her paws.

"You'll need more than a puny mouse to get you to the gathering," Deerpaw mumbled. "Take a bit of the rabbit."

Brookpaw struggled to hide her surprise. Deerpaw barely even spoke to her and he was never actually nice to her.

"Ok, fine, if you insist," Brookpaw shrugged as she sat down by Leafpaw and took a bite of the juicy rabbit. "I can't believe I get to go to my first gathering!"

"Yeah, I wonder how WindClan is going to react. They barely mentioned it last gathering, I think they were embarrassed," Leafpaw stated.

Fishpaw added, "Serves them right!"

Deerpaw shrugged before leaving the den.

"What's with him?" Brookpaw asked.

"You haven't noticed? He's been mooning over Spottedsky for AGES!" Leafpaw giggled as she got up and stretched.

Leafpaw finished off her part of the rabbit and curled up in her nest.

Brookpaw woke up with Leafpaw poking her in the ribs.

"W…wha?" Brookpaw muttered.

"Gathering, Honeystar is bound to call us any moment!" Leafpaw exclaimed.

Brookpaw immediately sat up and crawled out of her nest.

"Thanks for letting me know," Brookpaw started to groom her pelt carefully.

A minute later and Honeystar's voice rang out, "Time to leave for the gathering! All selected cats please meet by the camp entrance."

Brookpaw and Leafpaw sprung out of the apprentice den and said 'bye' to Fishpaw and Deerpaw, who were sharing tongues outside of the den. Spottedsky and Blizzardfur nodded to their apprentices joined them.

"Now, remember Brookpaw, I want you to stick with me or Leafpaw and if things start going bad I want you to come running back to the clan as soon as possible. And, please, don't talk to the WindClan warriors," Spottedsky added dryly. "And make sure not to reveal any clan secrets."

The group of ThunderClan cats started racing through their territory to the lake bed.

Honeystar paused at the lake side, "Let's go around the ShadowClan way, I don't really feel like running into WindClan warriors before we reach the island."

Brookpaw dipped her head nervously before the cats snaked in between the ShadowClan border markers and the lake.

"Don't worry. WindClan wouldn't dare try to do anything with ShadowClan and RiverClan are both there," Blizzardfur whispered to Brookpaw.

Finally, the Thunderclan cats reached the island. Brookpaw could hear the hungry water lapping underneath the fallen tree as she felt around for the start of it. Her paw hit the rough tree and she slowly padded along the tree, testing to make sure each paw step was safe. Finally she made it to the other side and joined her waiting clan mates. She could smell the scent of many cats, but one was unfarmilar.

"Spottedsky, I smell ShadowClan and WindClan… but what is that other scent," Brookpaw asked.

Spottedsky looked confused for a moment before her eyes shined in understanding, "Oh, that's RiverClan scent."

Brookpaw ducked her head in embarrassment and silently rebuked herself for asking the stupid question.

Leafpaw nudged Brookpaw, "There is a new RiverClan apprentice! Let's go say hi to him!"

Brookpaw followed Leafpaw over to where a dark ginger tom sat talking to brown and white spotted she-cat.

Brookpaw's eyes light up with recognition when her eyes meant the brown and white spotted she-cat.

"Ashpaw!" Brookpaw exclaimed.

"Hey Brookpaw, I see you have finally made it to a gathering!" Ashpaw teased. "Oh, and by the way this is Lastpaw."

Lastpaw ducked his head in embarrassment. Clearly he and Ashpaw hated his name. Brookpaw's eyes drifted to Lastpaw's hind leg. It was slightly bent, making him limp a bit. She realized how horrible it would be to have the name 'Lastpaw.'

"Hi," Lastpaw said.

"Hi," Brookpaw replied, something about the tom seemed to calm her.

Ashpaw broke the silence, "Brookpaw, I wasn't at the gathering two moons ago, but Moonrise, Moonpaw at that time, had told me that a ThunderClan apprentice was taken hostage in WindClan. That wouldn't happen to be you, would it?"

Brookpaw shrunk back into her pelt.

"Uhh… maybe," Brookpaw winced.

"What happened?" Ashpaw asked a bit gentler.

"Spottedsky, my mentor, was showing me the borders for the first time. We were ambushed on our side of the territory by Jetstar and a couple of his warriors. We were outnumbered and Spottedsky told me to run and get help," Brookpaw paused. "Jetstar blocked my way back to the camp and threatened to kill me if Spottedsky didn't stop fighting and go back to the clan. She fled and Jetstar took me prisoner."

Ashpaw and Lastpaw looked horrified.

Before they could respond one of the cats up on the Great Tree let out a yowl to start the meeting. Brookpaw sat down between Leafpaw and Ashpaw. Lastpaw sat next to Ashpaw.

Leafpaw whispered to Brookpaw, "That's Tanstar, the RiverClan leader that is speaking."

"RiverClan is almost fully recovered from the rogue battle. Kalefrost has given birth to six kits, Hopekit, Farkit, Carrotkit, Wavekit, Yellowkit and Wispkit, three she-cats and three toms total," Tanstar paused.

Lastpaw whispered, "They are so cute! RiverClan is lucky to have such a large number of kits. Though Kalefrost might not be that happy when they get older, they will be quite a paw full."

Brookpaw purred happily. She could just imagine a poor queen trying to take care of six kits.

Tanstar continued, "We found two young kitty-pets in are territory. Their mother and their twolegs had abandoned them and they were 'paw' age so I decided that they could become apprentices. Their apprentice names are Bubblepaw and Storkpaw. We found a rogue on our territory. Thanks to Halffoot and Lastpaw the rogue was taught a lesson he'll never soon forget. That is all."

Lastpaw straightened up proudly.

Ashpaw whispered to Brookpaw, "Jetstar is next."

"Cats of ThunderClan and RiverClan, Echostar and I have a proposition for you!" Jetstar's voice rang out around the clearing.