§Butterflystar's Trust | Remake§

§Chapter 3§

Quickstar was gathering cats for the Gathering. Butterflypaw had been excited to go with Rainpaw, but he had fallen sick after eating crow-food by accident. Cedarleap had been keeping him in her den.

Finally, QuickClan left the camp and journeyed to a pile of huge rocks. Butterflypaw stared in wonder. She'd never seen rocks so huge! In the camp, the ruined twoleg den was just made out of small stones and tree pieces.

Frostpaw looked confused. "What's a gathering for?"

"In the other Clans, WindClan, ShadowClan, ThunderClan, SkyClan and RiverClan, they share news. Like how the prey is running, new apprentices or warriors, things like that. But it's just FallClan and Quickclan and there's no point in sharing news. Instead, we bring some fresh-kill of our own," Butterflypaw nodded to their mentors carrying rabbits and mice for them and their apprentices. "so we don't go hungry. Every cat hangs out with each other and we play games, like throwing balls of moss. That's all I know, Wolfbrook tells me everything!"

Frostpaw's green eyes widened. "That sounds so fun." They had a small glint of nervousness. Of course he's nervous. I would be too, being surrounded so many Clan cats and being the only kittypet.

"It's my first gathering." She mewed. Frostpaw seemed to relax a little bit.

QuickClan waited for FallClan, muttering their annoyance that they were late. The moon was high when they finally came. A dark ginger she-cat with blue eyes joined Quickstar on the pile of rocks.

"That's Fallstar, she leads FallClan." Russetnose explained to the apprentices.

"Huh. When there's a new leader does the Clan get a new name? Like Butterflypaw is  Butterflystar and QuickClan is ButterflyClan?" Frostpaw asked, and gave Butterflypaw an affectionate look. How sweet! I doubt I'll be leader of QuickClan, though.

Russetnose looked thoughtful, as if she thought that was interesting idea. "No. Fallstar and Quickstar are the first Clan leaders here. The Clan is named after the founder. If you made a Clan, it would be called FrostClan since you created it."

"Oh! I see." Frostpaw said, and sat next to Butterflypaw. He's so sweet! I can't wait to be warriors and we can hunt together whenever we want. Then she of Rainpaw. Am I replacing him? We've been best friends for so long, but Frostpaw is so kind. Rainpaw is always snapping at me about fresh-kill for StarClan's sake!

Fallstar stood up first. "FallClan has two new warriors; Rippleear and Volecloud!" She nodded to a pale ginger she-cat and a russet colored tom.

"Rippleear! Volecloud!" Every cat yowled.

Quickstar stood up next, taking a deep breath. He seemed nervous, afterall he let in a kittypet. "We have a new deputy and three new apprentices, Heathershade, Rainpaw, Butterflypaw and Frostpaw."

"Rainpaw! Butterflypaw! Frostpaw!"

"Frostpaw was previously a loner, so he's a bit older for an apprentice. He shows great promise, and we accept him as a QuickClan cat." Quickstar paused. "I've changed a rule in QuickClan. All apprentices will be trained for four moons instead of six. StarClan gave me a message and I must fulfill their wishes."

A tortoiseshell tom hissed. "Four moons? You're going against the Warrior Code, message from StarClan or not. What's the point?"

Quickstar seemed to freeze, as if remembered something horrible, then he snapped back to focus. "That is QuickClan business and our rules." He looked almost worried. "Cedarleap, tell them about the vision."

Butterflypaw looked at Frostpaw. "Vision?"

Cedarleap leaped onto the rock pile. "'Rain will bring a flood that will destroy both Clans.' We've received a prophecy. At first, Heathershade, Quickstar and I believed it warned us of a storm, but StarClan knows that we have high places to go when there is a flood and we'd walk away without a scratch. I believe it refers to a cat. And we must train our apprentices into warriors as soon as possible."

Fallstar's ears pricked. "A cat? Rain? You have an apprentice named Rainpaw. And I don't want to assume anything yet, but he may be important."

Amberpath hissed. "My apprentice may be snappy, but he's a kind and trustworthy cat! You have no right to assume that he will bring a 'flood.'"

Fallstar looked guilty. "I meant, what if he were to get hurt and it affected the Clan? He might be the strongest warrior one day and what if we need him and we won't have him?"

"You know what? Let's and this argument and have some fun. This a Gathering, we should enjoy ourselves." Quickstar mewed, giving Fallstar an apologetic look.