Chapter eleven: A vision

"Cats of all clans! The gathering will begin!"

Raggedstar, the Shadowclan leader, yowled from the top of the Great Rock in the centre of Fourtrees. Tigerpaw stared up at the four great oaks that stood around the rock, amazed at the sheer size of it all. Hmmm... There are a lot of cats here. Never actually realized that about half of the four clans would be this big...

"Hey! You!" Tigerpaw turned to face the source of the voice. He saw that an apprentice from Shadowclan was where the voice was coming from. "Uh... Me?" Tigerpaw questioned the apprentice. Another apprentice joined the first. "Duh! Who else would we be calling?" Yeah, you'd be could be calling me and the whole of the clans here. "What do you want?" Tigerpaw asked. "We haven't seen you at the gathering before." The ginger apprentice meowed. Suddenly, yet another apprentice thrust his way in through the small group of young cats. "There you are! I was-" The newcomer suddenly saw Tigerpaw. "What's this?!" He hissed.

"Quiet!" A warrior in front of them was glaring at the four apprentices. Tigerpaw gazed at Thistleclaw. He hadn't noticed anything. The apprentice that just came lowered his voice, but went on. "Foxpaw, Wolfpaw, what are you doing talking to a Thunderclan apprentice?" Foxpaw flattened her ears. "Brokenpaw! This is a gathering. It's okay to talk to other clans!"

"Besides," Wolfpaw added, "He's interesting. I wanna know more about Thunderclan's secrets! We could learn.. Uh...Stuff."

"Oh, so that makes it right, huh?! This is a puny, small, weak, Thunderclan mousebrain that doesn't know anything!" Brokenpaw spat at his clanmates.
Rage boiled in Tigerpaw. How dare he?! Hissing, he launched himself at the Shadowclan apprentice.

Brokenpaw was stunned for a heartbeat, then unsheathing his claws, he slashed at Tigerpaw hard in the face. Tigerpaw yowled in pain and fury.

Instantly, all four clan turned to look at the apprentices. "Apprentices! Stop this at once!" Sunstar commanded. Tigerpaw dug his claw deeper into his opponent's flank, ignoring his leader. "No one," he growled into Brokenpaw's ear. "Calls me weak!" Before he could bite down on the apprentice's throat, Thistleclaw wrenched him off the Shadowclan's apprentice. "Stop Tigerpaw! You've done enough!" His mentor spat. "You've won." Tigerpaw was confused. But that is what I would've done to the kittypet...

"You were just lucky you won." Muttered Brokenpaw. Tigerpaw growled at him but Thistleclaw whacked him in the head again. "Listen! Will you never learn that?!"

"Thistleclaw, thanks for calming this disruption down, but I think that's enough for Tigerpaw." Sunstar meowed. Dipping his head to Raggedstar and the other leaders, he continued to speak. "I'm sorry for such a unexpected event." Heatherstar of Windclan turned to Sunstar. "Shall I go on?" Sunstar nodded and she began speaking her report of Windclan.

Before she had done though, Sunstar suddenly leapt down from the Great Rock and began gathering up his clanmates. "What?" Windflight said confused. "You haven't even started your report! The gathering isn't over yet!"

"I know." Sunstar growled. "But one apprentice doesn't deserve to be here tonight." Tigerpaw's heart sank. Me! They say I don't deserve to be here! But Thistleclaw said fighting was everything! That it was the only answer! Then why did he push me off Brokenpaw? Ugh! This is just so frustratin-

Paws seized him from a bush. He didn't even have time to scream when one of the paws slapped itself around his mouth. The scent of Shadowclan flooded his nostrils. Fighting free of the paws, he spun around, expecting to see Brokenpaw's smug face. He didn't. Foxpaw and Wolfpaw were in front of him, looking slightly guilty. "What in the name of Starclan are you doing?!" He hissed. "Shush!" Wolfpaw whispered. "Keep your voice down!"

"We wanted to say we're sorry about... Well, about Brokenpaw and all that." Foxpaw murmured. "He's just really bad-tempered."

"W-We wanted to give you this..." Wolfpaw added. He pushed forward a rabbit. Tigerpaw's eyes narrowed. "Why? Are you trying to trick me?" Foxpaw shook her head. "No. I don't believe this myself, but Wolfpaw... Had a strange vision." Wolfpaw looked nervous. "I...I'm not sure what it means... But in my vision, I saw Brokenpaw as a leader, Brokenstar." Wolfpaw trembled. "H-He was killing so many cats...so much blood..." Tigerpaw eyed the to apprentices warily. "And why are you telling me this? Why don't you tell Yellowfang? Your medicine cat?"

Wolfpaw gulped. "I was worried it meant I was becoming a medicine cat but I would hate to do that! So I didn't tell Yellowfang or Raggedstar." Tigerpaw privately agreed with him, but didn't show it. "Anyways, why are you telling me? And hurry up so your speech, my clanmates are going to notice I'm gone! I'm already in enough trouble!"

"We told you because I saw you in my vision." Wolfpaw whispered. "You...uh.. Came into my vision, and the blood stopped. For a heartbeat. Than it all rushed back again, this time worse. Than a cat that looked like you but with ice blue eyes. Than more... More blood..."

Tigerpaw shivered. Suddenly, Sunstar's voice sounded from outside the bush. "Tigerpaw! Where are you?!"

"I got to go." Tigerpaw whispered. "Take the rabbit!" Foxpaw meowed. Tigerpaw shook his head. "No. The information is enough. Thank you."

"Goodbye." The Shadowclan siblings murmured. "Goodbye." Tigerpaw echoed. Then the both parted, going back to their own territories.

Yay! For some reason, I love to write about visions! ^^

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