Gathering Time

Spottedstar nodded back and murmured her salutations, growing perturbed. She yawned to hide her irritation, trying to look calm and unnerved. Although she was very proud of Blackstar, having shown up for this gathering and taking a strong hold in leadership this past moon. The RiverClan leader's anger quickly turned into curiosity as she thought about what the other leaders would say when they finally arrived.

Diamondfur stared at her leader with a blank face. Diamondfur didnt know what to think, many things had been calm. She then turned to peer around with concern. She had wanted to know what was going on in the other clans, but it seemed like it would be a quite night.

Diamondfur padded over to talk to Watersong, "hello, hows the clan?" Diamondfur tried to stay out of Sweetdreams gaze, feeling a little guilty. But streightened up and started to talk with Watersong.

Spottedstar shook violently and wretched. She trembled from ears to tail tip as if she were cold. Her eyes glazed over as she tried to calm herself. Remembering something terrible, she closed her eyes and hunched over, trying to stop the constant shivering. It was like a threat of peril and paranoia was about to consume her. Feeling more bile rise up in her throat, she wondered in a panic if she should get off the high stone. She did, while engaged silently in the battle with her nerves and the sudden reasons for why she felt this way.

(spicing it up) xD

Diamondfur smiled warmly at watersong, "Thank you very much, and may prey run plentiful in Windclan too. and uh..." Diamondfur stared up at Spottedstar with confusion and worry. "Spottedsta-" She was cut off

Spottedstar heaved and spat in a choking nausea, her brain whirling. She felt a sudden warmth, fearing a fever, she laid down pathetically in the grass by the high stone. Hiding her head in the weeds, she closed her eyes and waited for the sickness to pass, and for the forest to stop spinning.

Spottedstar felt a revolting hatred inside of her gut, towards this place, towards everything. A splash of home-sickness overwhelmed her as she remembered the things that she rarely ever thought about anymore. Her past life and everything she had ever left behind. Colors fused into her brain as she folded over and whited out, only to gain a blurry conscious back to her eyes. Feeling remotely solemn and deeply depressed, she kneaded her claws into the soil. She wretched again, while completely oblivious to the outside world. The vile smell of her vomit filled her nostrils briefly before she threw her head to the side, stretching out her neck. She felt withered now and shivered terribly again, as if her spine had snapped. That same smell that she had tried vainly to get away from still haunted her. Her brain numbly identified it. Water? Her muddled thoughts whirled awfully about. It smelled like tainted water. Could this be the thing that was making her sick? Was it poisoning her; giving her hallucinations? She felt a rush of hot blood at her forehead. Her vision went blurry again to an altogether blindness. Coughing faintly and gasping for air, Spottedstar closed her eyes shut again and waited for the dizziness to pass. Fear pulsed through her veins as the feelings did not go away. Pressing herself close to the earth, and almost to the point of her mind thinking that she would be conjoined to the ground, it passed. She raised shakily to her paws, looking down all the while. Unbalanced and wobbly, she tottered to the side, woozy. Her thoughts spun for it was trying to grasp what was truly going on. If it was the water, then why was this coming so suddenly? Poison effects don't randomly come about. They take time to be broken down and passed into the blood-stream, and then of course there are always the ever dreaded symptoms. She would have felt them long ago. Confusion melded into her brain to then remain there for the rest of the night.

With a carefree look, i led my clan into the gathering, a little bit late, but it'll do no harm could it? Silently marching through the forest floors, no sound was made except the song of the trees and the passing of time. Expecting the gathering to have already started, I looked into the clearing, only to find Spottedstar on the ground...
What happened here... hmmm...
Still with the casual look, i led my clan into the clearing, and saw most of them rushing to Spottedstar and similtainiously asked,
"Whats wrong?"
"Is she okay?"
"what happened?"
I crawled up onto the greatrock, looking down at the commotion there was at the bottem.
"I hope this isnt going to waste my time, i have better things to do than watch other cats struggle" For Life..

All of sudden, it seemed as if her illness was yanked from her body. Her vision was clear, and her senses came back to her in one giant crash. Like a wave, the recent events just seemed to hit her. She swung around to face Blackstar and Blazingstar. Swishing her tail for Sweetdreams to go back to talking with her friends, Spottedstar hopped back up onto the high stone, taking a seat next to the new ShadowClan leader. Her gut was still clenched though as she looked about the clearing with a straight face.

Brambleclaw paced back and forth across the camp waiting for Sneezestar to come out of her den for the gathering. Hopefully she comes soon, we are going to be late for the gathering, again!Brambleclaw thought. The clan was waiting hastily outside of there dens finishing up their meals or taking a quick bath. She sat down to wait a little longer, very impatiently.

Jadestream padded into the clearing of cats following Blazingstar and the rest of her obviously idle clan. She swiftly flickered her tail in greeting towards Watersong.

Diamondfur gave a nervous glare at Spottedstar, but stayed quite glancing at Spottedstar once or twice. Diamondfur sighed, she felt weird, sitting a good couple tail lenghts from other cats. She then decided to move over toward a near by cat, waiting for the leaders to begin. Her paws itched badly for no reason but it felt like there was an unsteady breeze in the air, makeing the hairs on her neck stand up, she peered in back of the clearing, nothing but cats and plants and trees, why am i so worried? She thought wearily. Diamondfur decided to just ignor the thoughts and turn her attenion to the front

Spottedstar fidgeted, worried deeply about her nausea reappearing again. She shook her head and winced at the dizziness that caused her. She sighed, finding that it felt good to let the air out of her lungs in a calm fashion.

'I'm okay... you?' she said with something clouding herusually shiny light blue eyes. 'How is WindClan?'

'That's nice to hear...' she said only seeming content when she really wasn't.

Shadedapple followed in behind Thistlewing and the others, grumbling under his breath. He watched Blackstar and Spottedstar talking quietly together with contempt. He hated the RiverClan leader. She seemed to be so unpredictable and idiotic. Flicking back his ears, he scowled.

Brambleclaw began to lead the clan out of the camp on the way to fourtrees, before they missed the gathering. The sunset was warming, as the night got cooler and the clan traveled their way through heather and gorse lead up to slope to fourtrees. The clan filtered in the clearing and brambleclaw looked around for sneezestar then glanced at the great rock. She padded her way to the base and slowly trekked her way up to the top. She nodded her head in a friendly greeting to the other leaders. "Sorry we are late" she appologized. "Sneezestar is a little late, she should hopefully be on her way." Brambleclaw stared down at the large herd of cats down below, gradually silencing in time for the gathering. The sun was finally set and the moon shone down on the cats, starclan watching closely.

Spottedstar grunted, contempt with Sneezestar for not making it on time once again. "Lets wait a brief moment," she told the other leaders. "I need to think briefly."