The Fortelling of the Stars

The Gathering

I padded through thousands of trees. Where was I? I've never seen this place before. Ever.

I padded into a clearing and stopped. There was a cat in the middle of it.

"H-hello? Who are you?" I asked.

He turned around, his green eyes glowing enchantingly in the dark of the night. His dark gray pelt glowing silver under the light of the moon. He took a step towards me, his muscular build making him look like a fresh warrior ready to fight.

He sauntered up to me, never letting his eyes leave mine, he stopped, his muzzle an inch from mine.

Then he spoke.

"Hello Moonpaw." His voice was like a song, filling my ears with it's melody and putting me in a trance.

"I- hi Nightfeather." I don't know how I knew his name. I just did somehow.

He smiled warmly at me, before licking the top of my head and padding past me into the woods. He stopped just before going in. "Are you coming?" He swiveled his head around to look at me.

Then I woke up.

My mentor, Mintburr, was prodding me with his paw.

I stretch and grin up at him. "Morning Mintburr! What's up? Wow It's REALLY early! The sun's not even up yet!"

"Actually, it's very late." Mother poked her multi-colored head in from the tunnel. "It's almost time for the gathering."

"OOOOH! We'll be out in a moment Mother!" I call.

Mother smiles. "Alright. See you soon my darling." 

She walks out of the den and I turn to Mintburr, remembering that he'd told me to tell him if I ever had an odd dream. And I'd definitely say that my dream had been odd.

"Hey Mintburr, you said that if I ever had an odd dream, then I should tell you, right?" I ask.

"Yes. Why? What did you dream about?" He asks me.

"Well..." I bite my lip, searching for the right words. "There was this cat. And he acted like he knew me. But I'd never seen him before. But somehow, I knew his name."

"What was it?" Mintburr asks.

I tell him, then he asks me to tell him what the cat looked like and I gave him my best description. He said that it sounded like I was describing ThunderClan's Medicine Cat apprentice, which was weird.

He says that he'll be at the gathering so I could tell him if it was the same cat or not, and we head out with the rest of the Clan.

We soon arrived at the fallen tree. I smelled cats. SO MANY cats!

Mintburr helped me with crossing the log and I jumped onto the island. He led me through the huge crowd of cats and to a small group of three gathered near the edge of it.

Three cats, one was an orange tabby tom, the she-cat sitting next to him was red with a blue tail and a ticked tabby pattern, while the third looked to be an apprentice like me. She was a simple black and white she-cat.

Mintburr padded up to them and dipped his head. "My friends, this is my new apprentice, Moonpaw."

I flicked my tail and smiled nervously. "Hi."

"Hello Moonpaw! I'm Jaypaw! I'm from RiverClan!" The black and white apprentice jumped to her paws and grinned at me.

I laugh shyly and smile at her.

"Hey, where's Foresttail and his apprentice?" Mintburr asks his companions.

"ThunderClan haven't arrived yet." The red and blue she-cat meowed.