Gathering #1

[Thorn]

Skystar jumped down and looked at Pebbleshine panic stricken. He listend as the she-cat listed off different herbs. However she missed an important one. His gaze looked down at his paws, he knew all to well what was happening. Frostbite was having kits. This time, she was having kits in front of all the clans....his secret would be let out. What would Brookpaw and Patchpaw think? Same with Stormpaw? "Brookpaw, take nightowl with you and go grab borage... follow Lillypool and robinsong" The leader mewed. He looked to the left and then the right. Would his kits be born alive if StarClan was angry. He then felt his fur stand on end. He saw an orange and black ghostly figure standing over Frostbite. Tigerflight? What in the name of Starclan was he doing down here. Tigerflight had given him one of his 9 lives. He heard a ghostly whisper and shuddered,"StarClan is angry, but we would never take it out on kits...." Skystar nodded."PLease let her be okay..."

Frostbite let out a loud screech. she let Pebbleshine do what she had to do. She had never been in this much pain before. Her eyes glazed over and they started to fade. She wanted to bite at the cats swarming around her. Starclan was angry, because she and Skystar were having kits again. Her eyes opened breifly to look at Brookpaw and Nightowl running off with Lilypool and Robinsong. Her daughter, who she had been distant with. Would she figure out the truth? Before long she let out another long terrible screech.

Brookpaw looked at her dad then at Frostbite."....Whats happening?" Before she got an answer Nightowl brushed her shoulder. She looked at Pebbleshine and nodded. She would run and get borage. She looked at frostbite then to her sister Patchpaw. All three of them look a lot alike. Was there something that Frostbtie adn Skystar weren't sharing?

[redwhisker]

Reedstar looked at the medicine cat. What in starclan's name is going on? he thought. He knew that there was something wrong wih her from the look in her eyes. He looked around the cats to see where his mate was. He jumped down from the post and walked over to her. I wonder what happened to frostbite he whispered in her ear and then licked her cheek. Had anyother cats fallen to the ground?

[Razor]

Blackhawk eyes broke open hearing a screech of pain. He looked around noticing a large crowd. He he ran over forcing his way through "What is going o-" he saw a medicine cat on the ground. He looked beside him and nudged at a cat "Hey, what is going on?" he asked gazing back over. Looking around he had wondered if a fight broke out. However something much more serious was happening than just some combat wounds. "This can't be good..."

[Golden]

Snowleopard heard the other Medicine Cat. She ran over, and looked at Frostbite. "Where does it hurt?"she asked, sniffing the other she-cat. "Oh my Starclan!"she thought, nervously. What was going on? She walked over to Pebbleshine. "Is she..going to kit?"she asked, not wanting anyone else to hear.


Rockpaw's blue eyes scanned the clearing and saw poor Frostbite. He looked sadly at her. " Frosybite? Are you all right?" he said, worried about his clan. His clan needed Frostbite, the Medicine Cat.

[Clementine]

Sorry I'm late!

Robinsong purred and was about to reply to Pebbleshine when the Gathering started. She glanced up, eager to hear what the leaders had to say. But as the clouds covered the moon and chaos began, she fought to keep her cool. Tail fluffed up in shock at the change of events, Robinsong skittered over to Frostbite, right behind Pebbleshine. It only took one look to tell that the she-cat was kitting. Her eyes glazed in shock as the older medicine cat took charge, and when she was instructed to go fetch the herbs with Lilypool, she nodded and scurried off with Lilypool and the others. "Alright, she's kitting so we need some rasberry, burnet, the moss, borage..."

As the group arrived at camp, she automatically knew where the medicine cat den was, just by the smell of the herbs. She quickly sifted through everything, spotting borage, rasberry, and burnet with ease. [color=dodgerblue

[/color]"Lilypool, take the rasberry, Nightowl take the burnet, right here, Brookpaw, go get the water-soaked moss, and quickly! I'll take this borage. Grab as much as you can, and quickly so we can get back soon enough."[/color] the shock was slowly wearing off, though she was still surprised that Frostbite had broken the medicine cat rules. Medicine cats were forbidden to have kits, everyone knew that... no wonder Starclan was angry. But there was no use worrying about it now; what's done is done, and what matters most is that the kits have a safe birth, and that Frostbite will be okay. She opened her jaws as wide as she could and collected the borage, sprinting out of the den and waiting by the camp entrance for the rest of the group to come so they could return[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]

[Thorn]

Brookpaw dashed collecting the soaked moss. RiverClans camp was so....so different than that of her own. She listened to Robinsong and dashed out of camp. She brought the ball of moss and pushed her way through the gathered cats."Get out of the way!" She shouldered her way through dropping the moss ball on the ground."Nightowl Lilypool and Robinsong will be here soon. I ran ahead..." She mewed panting."Frostbite are you okay?"

Skystar stood over his mate protectively. He saw the odd looks. He heard whispers such as is she dying, is she in the paws of starclan.. he didn't hear her speak or whimper anymore and he started to wonder."Frostbite please....are you okay?? WOULD YOU AT LEAST ANSWER YOUR DAUGHTER! Skystar froze....he wasn't even thinking. He looked at the gathered cats and stepped back nervously. He saw Brookpaw's jaw slowly drop and then her eyes turned into narrow slits as she looked right at Skystar...."Frostbite,....I shouldn't have ever told you....I cared.....I've done too much damage to ThunderClan...." he whispered.

[rivaxorus]

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[atrb=background,http://i559.photobucket.com/albums/ss40/Milkyface4455/Table2-1.jpg] Things were happening, happening fast, and to a she-cat to process that, it was hard. As cats scattered to aid their fellow cat, her eyes sharpened, as Skystar screamed to the aid of the medicine cat, who was bearing kits. Kestrelstar lowered her head, to think about this, what was going on, it was all happening too fast, too soon, and all too familiar. The wind blew in her fur as she jumped down the rock, she couldn't see through the crowd of cats, and she didn't want to burst through to avoid getting in the other medicine cats way. Yet, the feeling of dread over hung her, as the voices began to sheer through the ice that held at her ears. As she dug her claws in, the voices screamed she turned to the open sky. " Starclan let the cats suffer when they have done nothing wrong, perhaps in their past, perhaps in the future, But it is really your turn to decide?!" Her voiced dragged as she flicked her tail, this was just too much for her. She began to breath in heavily, thinking about the message from her brother, her talk with Skystar and now what was happening to him. It was all too much, of the past hitting her in the face. The beautiful she-cat fell onto her stomach as she burried her face in her paws. Don't pay attention to me, pay attention to those who actually need it, let a she-cat wallow in the blood once fallen, of her brother, her sister, her kits, and the love who took off when she only thought about him every night, and hoped for a brighter future, only for it to be broken down. She thought trying to calm herself, begging for the rest of the cats to just leave her where she was, as tears started streaming down her untamed cheek fur. "Starclan, have mercy on the tom's soul, he's only, him, what else can a cat provide for himself. At least I have a kit alive, it's not like my selfish need, maybe it did, cause trouble. It may not be my business, but, it's...... every cat who is the same" Her voice rasped over, as she stayed quiet, she was begging starclan to forgive Skystar, maybe even the medicine cat, what did love hold that they didn't have? That Kestrelstar was being rewarded for her hard work? Then, was Starclan truly cruel. Her heartbeat quickened as she found her vision failing, was she.....Hypervenalating?

[Frostbite }}]

Frostbite gave a push and felt light headed when she did so. She heard a little squeal from behind her. She would turn around and start licking it but she was so weak. She could feel another but didnt know if she was able to get the second one out.

Patchpaw stood by her sister watching her..mother..in pain and suffering and her cries made her want to break down and cry. If this was her mother.. no wonder why everything felt so right and protecting when patchpaw was around the medicine cat. Her eyes stayed on her mother and then went down to the kit that had come into the world. Her heart beated agsinst her chest and she looked at her father with wide eyes and with nothing to say.

Frostbite laied her ears flat against her head and whispered, "Patchpaw..Brookpaw, Stormpaw and snowpaw.. come here please.." waiting for them all to come up to her head with closed eyes she mewed, "I want you to all know that I love you very very much...You all are going to be great warrior and dont give your father too much trouble.. He's doing whats best..

Patchpaw felt tears sing her eyes and whisepred, "Why..didnt you or skystar tell us?"

Frostbite went silent for a bit then mewed, "You really think anyone would have believed you came from a grumpy old medicine cat such as myself?"

Patchpaw lowred her head and nuzzled her mother and gave a deep purr.

With frostbite giving one last push she heard another cry and tears fell from the medicine cats eyes. Looking up at all four of her kits she mewed, "I am always going to be with you children.."

Patchpaw shook her head and cried, "No.. no come on frostbite.. you can do this I know you can please.. we have so many questions.. please we love you mommy.."

Frostbite closed her eyes with a smile on her muzzle and her breathing got slow and in seconds.. her flank stopped moving..

Patchpaw let the tears fall and she cralwed up to her mother and burried her face into the white pelt of the medicine cat and cried.

[Reed]

Everything was happening so fast, and it was all Pebbleshine could do to keep focused on the distressed medicine cat in front of her. Thankfully, Snowleopard was, in fact, there and helping, but there was only so much a medicine cat could do to help a birth, especially without herbs. Frostbite should have stayed home and gotten plenty of rest! Why didn't she? Her clan could have said she was ill and left it at that! Then she wouldn't have pushed herself and had energy to dedicate to the birth.

Pebbleshine was frustrated at her. Furious, even. A medicine cat should know better than to endanger herself like this! Mostly, she was worried. Things were not proceeding normally at all, and StarClan was upset. She knew better than to think they'd turn on the kits, but on the mother...

She couldn't think about that. She had to keep calm. Well, as calm as possible. And where in the place of no stars were those herbs? Surely they'd had time to run there and back by now? She'd told them to take from her stores because RiverClan's would be closest. They were taking way too long. Or maybe it just felt like more time had passed because of the situation.

Finally, Brookpaw arrived with moss. She made sure Frostbite could reach the moss and nodded when she spoke, taking in the gist but not the exact wording of what she said.

Frostbite wasn't licking her kit. She didn't look capable of it. Pebbleshine decided to do it for her. There was nothing she could do directly for Frostbite that Snowleopard wasn't already doing. She tried not to listen to the medicine cat give her final words to the apprentices - her children? How long had the affair been going on? Well, that was in StarClan's paws. They needed to care for the kits. The kits were innocent in all this.

"Is there a nursing queen here, by any chance?" She asked whoever would listen. The kits would need milk, and she had none to give. She tried not to think about Frostbite being dead, though the information wormed its way into the back of her mind. She couldn't deal with that right now. There was too much going on and her mind was more than overwhelmed. This whole situation should not have happened at all.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Birchpaw nodded when he was recruited to help with the herbs and he followed the other cats as they headed into RiverClan territory. It was weird, having permission to be here, but it was an emergency. Something was terribly wrong with ThunderClan's medicine cat. He didn't know the situation, but he did know that she needed the aid of the other medicine cats and he could play a part in it. Carrying herbs was a simple job. He could do that, easily.

He grabbed what he'd been instructed to grab and ran back, dropping the herbs near the other medicine cats and moving quickly out of the way, not yet realizing he was too late.

[Thorn]

Skystar looked at his mate as she slowly began to slip away. His eyes darkened and glazed over as well. She was gone. This is how StarClan was punishing him Taking the love of his life and leaving thunderclan without a medicine cat. Skystar lowered himself to the ground and nosed her white flank."I love you Frostbite..." He teared up and murmured a few more things;. He knew the cats of each clan were watching and in all honesty he didn't really care. His blue glazed eyes then fell on a ghostly figure in the distance an orange and black tom.

"It was her time to go Skystar...this is no punishment I assure you.....StarClan has deaths planned for all cats....this wouldn't have been avoided.....Skystar...your kits need youm your clan needs you....don't forget that..." Tigerflight mewed.

Skystar just nodded and twitched his whiskers. His tail landed lightly on Pebbleshines shoulder. She had done her best and that's all he could have asked for. He looked at his four kits. Hazelpaw was not his own. He looked at Brookpaw who still looked angry."In the eyes of Frostbite, and of StarClan, I give these kits their names. The gray tom will be known as Jaykit...the White tom as Whitekit..." Skystar hoped his deceased mate would approve.

Brookpaw narrowed her eyes and burried her nose into Frostbites flank. Her blue gaze looked at Skystar."That means Hazelpaw isn't really my sister....I HATE YOU!" Brookpaw mewed. She meant every word."How dare you not tell me, no wonder why I felt comfort around her and not snowberry, no wonder why we all look a like, I hope your happy, thanks to you i didn't know my own mother! Brookpaw bared her fangs at her father and licked her sister patchpaw between the ears. Her eyes then too began to water. She didn't even have the chance to get to know her mother....not one bit.

Skystar pulled his ears back at Brookpaws harsh words. His haze fell on Lilypool and then to his kits and then to Frostbite. He thought that by naming the kits his older kits would soften but he was wrong. The words I hate you stung his heart. Would Brookpaw forgive him. He soon snapped back into reality when a ShadowClan she-cat stepped forward.

"Greetings Skystar, I'm Minnowpool, Reedstars mate, I don't have kits yet, but i'm expecting any day... I have milk to spare " Minnopool licked her swollen belly before laying down next to Whitekit and Jaykit. She nosed the kits towards her belly to suckle.

Skystar just watched as the queen did her thing. All the clans stopped to help him...help his clan. He pulled his ears back and let out a soft whimper before burying his nose into Frostbites fur."Thank you...." he whimpered to all those who had helped.....

[angel]

Lilypool grabbed the herbs she was instructed to grab than ran to camp. Nightowl Robinsong and the two apprentices. They than raced back to the gathering. Once she reached Frostbites side she dropped her herbs than backed up a few tail lengths so she wasn't in the way.

Nightowl had led the way and was the first to cross the log. Reaching Frostbite he set the herbs down. When he spotted a kit he frowned knowing the kits would have a hard life now.

Stormpaw watched Frostbite in horror, he took a step back and shook his head. How could she be their mom. No she wasn't their mom. Snowberry was, she had to be. Stormpaw looked up at his dad with wide eyes filled with betrayal and pain. "No I refuse to believe she is our mother. Our mother is Snowberry not some stupid medicine cat who can't fallow the laws set for her by starclan," he yowled. When his mother died he hissed and walked away. "Good riddance," he mumbled before running out of the clearing. He wanted to be alone, he wanted nothing to do with his father or Frostbit right now.

Swiftstep watched from the sideline as everyone was freaking out. He watched as the medicine cat called a few paw's to her. He listened and his ears pricked up. This was good he might get a new recruit out of this. He watched as one of the Medicine cats so called kits refused to believe it. He could feel the sense of betrayal running of of the young cat. He almost smiled but he didn't.

[Golden]

(Are the kits up for adoption?

Snowleopard looked at poor Frostbite. "Frostbite...may you hunt with Starclan now."she whispered, and looked sorrowfully over to Skystar. He must be so depressed. She sighed and helped Pebbleshine lick the kit. She did it gently, not wanting to hurt the tiny thing. She felt awful that she couldn't save Frostbite, with another Medicine Cat helping her.

Rockpaw watched sadly. "What about Thunderclan? We need her!"he exclaimed.

[Thorn]

ooc:Jaykit got adopted by Fox, Whitekit got adopted by Avi but if the bios aren't made by Friday You may have one if you want ^_^

Brookpaw shot a look towards Rockpaw. Her eyes were turned into narrow slits."Yeah and we need an honest leader too but we don't have one....Oh isn't ThunderClan just wonderful." She blinked."We don't have a medicine cat, so don't do anything stupid." She retorted. Normally she wasn't like this, the once friendly and genuine Brookpaw had turned into something else. Her eyes shot over to her brother."Frostbite was our mother, can't you see it...Hazelpaw is a brown she-cat. Snowberry is white and brown, can't you see it? We are all gray and white...Look at Skystar and Frostbite, we look JUST LIKE THEM! My entire life is a lie..... Her eyes fell on Minnowpool who was nursing the kits. Shea lso watched Stormpaw run off."Are Jaykit and Whitekit going to grow up thinking minnopool is their mother like we thought Snowberry was ours, or are you going to be smart enough to tell them the truth!?!?"

Robinflight, a ShadodwClan warrior padded forward. His ginger tail touched Brookpaws shoulder."He made a mistake....Skystar still loves you I'm sure..." The ShadowClan warrior mewed. He felt the she-cat relax and nodded."She had a hard time keeping that secret.....I can tell...nothing is worse then have a family and not being able to be a part of it." He touched the deceased medicine cat with his tail and respect while he looked at Brookpaw and Skystar.

THunderClan's leader looked at Stormpaw and held his head low. He didn't even want to make eye contract with him. He flicked his tail and watched his son run off. At least Stormpaw didn't hate him, at least....he didn't admit to it. He listened to Brookpaw and just nodded. She would more than likely run off and tell Hazelpaw. ThunderClan...would be in a lot of trouble, he could tell. He watched Robinflight from ShadowClan interact with his daughter and raised a brow skeptically."Don't have a forbidden love....don't make the mistake I did...."

[Frostbite }}]

Patchpaw stayed by her mothers motionless side. She didnt want to leave. Her head shot up and looked at her sister yelling at her father and then watched snowpaw leave. Her ears lied flat against her head when she heard her sister talk the way she did.

Patchpaw got up and padded over to her sister and licked her on the ear. She looked back at her still mother and slowly looked up at her father and asked, "What happens now.. Secretstar..." Her eyes were hard and she stood her ground. "While we find out that hard way about our real mother is there anything else you wish to share with us? That you have kept for so long?"

[Panther]

Nightstar looked at frostbite. I hope that starclan will forgive her for what has happened here. He thought. He looked around and saw that Patchpaw and Brookpaw were furious with Skystar. He just shook his slowly.

Snowpaw licked frostbites cheek. I will always remember you. He said and then turned to Skystar, I mean I looked up to you and believed everything you said about snowberry being our mother but now our Real mother is dead and we will never get the real love from her. You could of told us. He said and walked over to his sisters.