Mossleaf's Prophecy

Chapter 3

Mosspaw blinked open her eyes and glanced around, Ivyfern sat at the corner of the den muttering stuff under her breath, Mosspaw sat up and padded towards her mentor, "Isn't tonight the gathering?" Mosspaw meowed as she glanced out of the den realizing it was almost dusk.

"Yes but, I just needed to finish up in here, you can go ahead and catch up with the other apprentices but, at the gathering you can talk to cats outside of the clan just please tell them nothing important and sit beside me when the leaders are ready to talk." Ivyfern meowed as she twitced her ears and began pushing Cobweb into a cleft of rock. Mosspaw sighed and padded outside of the den and watched Dawnpaw race towards her.

"The territory is awesome! I'm glad you are able to come to the gathering even if you are younger than 6 moons!" Dawnpaw meowed, She wasn't usually the type to get excited but Mosspaw thought it was best for now because of her kins death.

Realizing she didn't answer Mosspaw quickly mummbled, "Yeah same, anyways what do you think the gathering will be like?" She looked up as Pinestar padded out of his den and flicked his tail and began to lead the patrol out of camp. Mosspaw followed Ivyfern out of the tunnel and into the forest. A firefly landed on Mosspaw's nose making her purr as it began to fly away again. The forest is huge, that firefly also seemed so cool I never thought one would land on my muzzle!   Mosspaw raced after Ivyfern and quickly meowed, "Are we allowed to make friends with other clans?"

"Yes, you may become friends with them but here is a warning, don't share any news about if we have barely any fresh-kill or are having problems because then the other clans will use that information against us inspecially Darkclan." Ivyfern meowed as she began to catch up with Frostbite and Moonpool.

Mosspaw frowned as she caught up with Dawnpaw and looked up at Dawnpaw as Dawnpaw wrapped her golden tail tip around Mosspaw making her stop, "You almost fell down the Gourge, if you look infront of you there is a large hole in the ground." Mosspaw slid out her claws and looked down at the gourge and shook out her pelt in embarresment, she meowed a thanks as she leaped over the gourge and landed a fox-length away from Vinetail. Mosspaw watched Pinestar leap over the gourge then lead the clan towards an area with four large trees that reached the stars. 

Pinestar leaped onto one of the trees while Vinetail seated himself nicely on a rock that was under the four tree's and watched the reeds carefully. Mosspaw sniffed the air as a dark and tangy sent filled her muzzle, her mentor padded towards her and meowed, "That is the Darkclan smell, it's best that you start knowing what each clan smells like and know their weaknesses. We may be medicine cats but we also have to learn the same way a normal warrior does." 

Mosspaw nodded as Ivyfern padded towards a gorse bush and sat there alone, Mosspaw tilted her head and realized none of the Darkclan cats were sitting with Ivyfern, Does Darkclan have a medicine cat ? Mosspaw shrugged as she seated herself a little ways away from Ivyfern and looked beside her as an orange tabby tom with white chest fur and paws sat beside her. He smiled at her and meowed, "Hey, I'm Fiercepaw, who are you?"

"Mosspaw, my friend Dawnpaw and I are the newest Echoclan apprentices." Mosspaw informed the tom as he nodded and meowed quietly.

"Strange I don't remember seeing her there when I was in Echoclan." The tom shook his head then meowed, "You are, same for me who is your mentor?"

"Ivyfern, I'm training to be a medicine cat!" Mosspaw meowed quietly as the tom nodded, "Who is-" She was cut off by a growl behind them.

"Oh look, our mouse-brained brother has a little crush on an Echoclan apprentice." Mosspaw jumped and turned behind her as two older apprentices glared down at them, one of them was a golden starry yellow while the other was orange like Fiercepaw.