CHAPTER 10
Lionpaw glanced up at the moonshining full and bright into the hollow. Clouds aren’t going to stop this Gathering1
Dustpelt, Spiderleg, and Ashfur were already waiting by the camp entrance. Firestar stood beneath Highledge with Sandstorm and Brambleclaw, talking quietly to them.
“Why are we hanging about?” Hollypaw fussed, tearing the grass with her thorn-sharp claws.
“It can’t be much longer,” Lionpaw mewed. He felt every bit as excited as his sister. This was their first Gathering, their first chance to meet apprentices3 from rival Clans5, to swap7 stories and compare training—knowing that the next time they met might be in battle, with claws unsheathed and teeth bared.
“It looks like Firestar’s waiting for Leafpool,” Hazelpaw put in.
“Why’s it taking her so long?” Hollypaw complained. “She’s only sorting through the new herbs we gathered before sunhigh.”
“I tried helping!” Hollypaw protested. “But Leafpool said it would be quicker if she did it herself.”
“Of course I am,” Hollypaw snapped. “One day you’ll be waiting for meto come out of the medicine den11!”
“They’re only teasing you,” Lionpaw soothed12 her. He thought it was odd that Daisy’s kits14 were all going to the Gathering, while the Clanborn kits, Cinderpaw, Honeypaw, and Poppypaw, were staying behind. I guess it’s only fair, he decided15.Three Clanborn apprentices and three non-Clan6. He sighed.At least, it wouldhave been three, if only . . .
He looked at Jaypaw, crouching16 in the entrance of their den, and sighed. He had been sitting there since sundown, forbidden to go to the Gathering as punishment for the adventure that had ended with his half drowning in the lake. Now he glowered17 angrily out of the shadows, his sightless blue gaze fixed18 on his brother and sister joking with Daisy’s kits as they waited to leave.
Why did he have to be so reckless? It was harder now that they were apprentices—Lionpaw’s duties kept him so busy that he could not keep an eye on Jaypaw, as he used to when they were kits. He felt a flash of guilt19 but pushed it quickly away. His first responsibility was to the Clan now. Jaypaw would have to learn to be more sensible.
He padded over to his brother and smoothed the fur between his ears with his tongue. “I wish you were coming,” he mewed.
“You know that’s not true,” Lionpaw argued. “It’s your own fault you’ve been confined to camp.”
“Perhaps Firestar just doesn’t want a blind cat at the Gathering.”
“What do you mean?”
Was that true? Before Lionpaw could say anything, he heard Firestar’s call.
“I have to go,” he told Jaypaw. “But I’ll tell you all about it when we get back.”
He ran after the other apprentices, who were already racing22 toward the entrance. Firestar padded to the head of the party and, with a sharp nod, bounded away through the tunnel. Lionpaw charged after his Clanmates, his heart soaring as their paws drummed the forest floor. He felt Hollypaw’s pelt2 brushing his, rippling23 with excitement. A moment later they burst out of the tunnel and charged up the slope.
They raced past Sky Oak and down to the lake. The pebbles24 on the shore clattered25 beneath their paws. The stones grazed Lionpaw’s pads but he didn’t care; he could already see the island on the far side, rising from the water, crowded with trees. Their slender leafless branches reached up to the star-pricked26 sky, trembling like whiskers, and Lionpaw flicked27 his tail excitedly.
As the cats began the long trek28 through WindClan territory, Firestar steadied the pace. They passed the horseplace, where Daisy used to live, and crossed into RiverClan territory, always keeping within five tail-lengths of the waterline, as agreed by all the Clans. The ground became muddier as they neared the island. Lionpaw slowed down after he nearly slipped. He didn’t want to arrive covered in mud. He could make out dark shapes streaming over the fallen tree that bridged the gap between shore and island. The scent29 of WindClan mingled30 with the scents31 of ShadowClan and RiverClan; the other Clans were arriving.
“Will you mention the border markers?” Lionpaw heard his father meow. He peered past Mousepaw and Spiderleg and saw Brambleclaw keeping pace with Firestar.
“Do you mean the fact that ShadowClan and WindClan have marked every tree and blade of grass on our borders?” Firestar asked.
“Yes,” Brambleclaw replied.
“We’re not going to react,” Firestar told him. “Yet.”
“Firestar’s right.” Ashfur hurried to catch up with them. “It would be better to send out more frequent border patrols than give the other Clans the satisfaction of knowing they’ve got us worried.”
“It takes more than the stench of ShadowClan to worry us!” Firestar declared. He broke into a run, bounding the last few tail-lengths to the fallen tree, and skidded34 to a halt by the withered35 roots.
Lionpaw stared up at the trunk that bridged the water between the shore and the island. The air was filled with the scents of WindClan, ShadowClan, and RiverClan. “We must be the last to arrive!” he whispered to Hollypaw. Suddenly he felt shy about facing all three Clans at once. “Do you suppose Ferncloud’s nursery stories about ShadowClan are true?”
“You don’t actually believe they let their elders starve, do you?” Hollypaw mewed scornfully.
“Well, no,” Lionpaw murmured. “But what if all the other apprentices are bigger than us?”
“We’ve been apprentices for only a quarter moon,” Hollypaw pointed out. “There’re bound to be some apprentices bigger than us.”
Firestar leaped up onto the fallen trunk, picked his way carefully across to the far shore, and jumped down. The pebbles swished beneath his paws as he turned to watch his Clanmates cross. Brambleclaw followed him, then Dustpelt, and before he knew it, Lionpaw was watching Hollypaw leap up ahead of him onto the tree. The smooth, black water flowed beneath her, lapping gently at the dead branches that held the tree fast in the lakebed. She wove her way through the stubby twigs36 and knots until she reached the other end. Then she jumped down and turned to watch Lionpaw cross.
Trembling with excitement, he scrambled37 up onto the branch. The bark was surprisingly slippery and his paws slithered in all directions. He felt the tree jerk and looked back to see that Ashfur had leaped up behind him. Ahead of him was a jutting39 shard40 of bark where a smaller branch had once sprouted41. He curved his body around it, keeping his eyes fixed firmly on the far end of the tree.
Suddenly his forepaw slipped and his paw shot off the trunk. He felt himself begin to fall and stared in horror at the water shining cold and dark beneath him.
A gray pelt flashed behind him, and Lionpaw felt the nudge of a muzzle42 against his flank. It pushed him up, supporting him until he regained43 his balance. His mentor44 had saved him from a humiliating start to his first Gathering.
Lionpaw unsheathed his claws and gripped the trunk like a squirrel the rest of the way. He jumped down onto the beach, happy to be on solid ground once more. The pebbles felt good on his tingling48 pads.
“Thought you were fish food for a moment there,” Hollypaw welcomed him.
“Me too!” Lionpaw purred.
He longed to race into the trees, impatient to see what was there, but he forced himself to wait while the others crossed. Hazelpaw wove her way among the jutting twigs; Berrypaw pushed his way through with his powerful shoulders, while Spiderleg slipped around them like a snake, clearly accustomed to the crossing. Lionpaw felt very small and inexperienced, but he lifted his chin and forced his fur to lie flat.
Finally, all the ThunderClan cats stood on the beach. Firestar swept his gaze over them, then, with a single nod, turned and padded into the trees. At last! Lionpaw raced between the shadowy trunks, bracken scraping his pelt. His ears twitched with anticipation49 as the trees thinned and a clearing opened ahead.
There were cats everywhere. Lionpaw had never seen so many different shades of pelts50. Some were lithe38, some broad-shouldered. Most seemed much bigger than him. There were more cats here than Lionpaw had imagined could live around the lake, and these were just a few from each Clan! At the far edge of the clearing, with the lake behind it sparkling distantly through the leaf-bare forest, he saw the Great Oak, the center of every Gathering.
“Is it what you expected?” Hollypaw whispered.
“I didn’t realize there would be so many cats.” Lionpaw stared at a RiverClan tom, his pelt so sleek51 that it shone in the moonlight as he flexed52 his well-muscled shoulders. “Imagine meeting him in battle! I’m going to train twice as hard from now on.”
“How can you be thinking about fighting?” Hollypaw scolded. “There’s a truce53 tonight. You should be trying to work out whether he thinks like a ThunderClan warrior54.” Her eyes narrowed. “If you know how your enemy thinks, then you have already won half the battle.”
Lionpaw glanced sideways at his sister. Where did she come up with this stuff? Here he was, wondering if he could match any of these cats in a fight, and she was already working out battle strategies like she was a Clan leader.
Mousepaw’s eyes twinkled. “Why not go and ask him?”
Hollypaw gasped. “Can we really just go up and talk to any cat?”
“Well,” Mousepaw cautioned, “you’d be better off talking to the apprentices.” He dipped his head toward a group of smaller RiverClan cats. “The warriors55 from the other Clans aren’t dangerous or anything, but they won’t be pleased to have some young apprentice pestering56 them.”
“What if theytalk to us?” Lionpaw asked.
“Just be polite and don’t give too much information away,” Hazelpaw warned. “Some of the warriors might use your inexperience to find out what’s happening in ThunderClan.”
“Did youspill any secrets at your first Gathering, Mousepaw?” Hollypaw asked.
“Yeah, right!” Berrypaw interjected sarcastically58. “If I hadn’t clamped my tail over your mouth you would have told Russetfur that Firestar was about to give up the land by the river before Firestar had a chance to announce it himself.”
“But she’s the ShadowClan deputy!” Mousepaw argued. “I couldn’t just ignore her.”
“You didn’t have to tell her your Clan’s whole history either,” Berrypaw mewed, his whiskers twitching59.
“Well,” Hollypaw mewed suddenly, “I’m going to see what everyone else is talking about.”
She began to head toward the group of wide-eyed RiverClan apprentices when a small, pale tabby came hurtling toward her across the clearing.
“Hollypaw!” It was the RiverClan medicine cat apprentice, her bright green eyes flashing in the moonlight.
“Hi, Willowpaw!” Hollypaw stopped to greet her.
Willowpaw skidded to a halt and stared at her in delight. “Mothwing told me that you’re Leafpool’s apprentice now.”
Hollypaw dipped her head. “That’s right.”
“Great!” Willowpaw mewed. “Have you had your first dream from StarClan yet?”
“No, not yet.”
“I bet you do soon,” Willowpaw assured her. “Come on!” She swept her tail around Hollypaw. “I’ll introduce you to the other medicine cats.”
Willowpaw led Hollypaw toward where Leafpool was sharing tongues with a group of cats. Lionpaw felt a flash of envy. As a medicine cat apprentice, his sister would have a special connection with all the Clans. He shuffled60 his paws nervously61 as he gazed at the strange faces around him. Then he remembered that the truce lasted for only one night. These cats were his enemies. There was no point making friends. His duty was to get to know them so that he knew their strengths—and their weaknesses—when he met them in battle.
“I’m going to talk to Harepaw,” Berrypaw announced.
“I’m coming too,” Hazelpaw mewed.
Lionpaw, alone now with Mousepaw, glanced around the clearing. He spotted62 a tightly clustered group of cats watching from the foot of the Great Oak. The shadows disguised the color of their pelts, and something about the way their eyes shone in the gloom made him shudder63.
“Are they ShadowClan?” he whispered to Mousepaw.
Mousepaw nodded. “Don’t let them scare you. They like to look like they’re enemies with all the world. But once you start talking to them, they’re okay.”
But Mousepaw didn’t hear him. “Minnowpaw!” he mewed. He was staring at a young gray-and-white RiverClan she-cat whose pelt looked as downy as kit13 fur.
“She looks barely out of the nursery,” Lionpaw remarked.
Mousepaw’s ears twitched. “She’s a whole moon older than me,” he corrected. “Come and talk to her,” he went on. “You’ll see she’s not as soft as she looks.”
Lionpaw followed Mousepaw over to where Minnowpaw sat with two more RiverClan apprentices, one gray and one brown tabby. His nose twitched as he scented65 them. He knew the stench of ShadowClan and WindClan from their border markers, but RiverClan’s fresh, fish-tinged scent smelled strange.
Minnowpaw nodded to them in welcome. Though she was slighter and softer in looks than her Clanmates, her amber66 eyes were sharp and intelligent. “Who’s your friend?” she asked Mousepaw.
Mousepaw was staring at her with a wistful look in his eyes. “This is Lionpaw.”
“Hello, Lionpaw,” mewed Minnowpaw. “This is Pouncepaw”—she nodded toward the ginger-and-white tabby tom beside her—“and Pebblepaw.” She flicked her tail toward the gray tom.
“What do you think of the island?” Pouncepaw asked.
“It’s great,” Lionpaw replied.
“We can show you around, if you like,” Minnowpaw offered.
Mousepaw’s eyes lit up. Clearly he liked the idea of a starlit stroll with the pretty apprentice. But Lionpaw would rather explore the place for himself, especially if Mousepaw was going to be round-eyed and moony over Minnowpaw the whole time
“Thanks for the offer,” he mewed. “But Mousepaw’s promised to introduce me to some of the other cats.”
Mousepaw gazed at him blankly. “Huh? Have I?”
“Come on!” Lionpaw prompted before Mousepaw could object. He padded away from the group and Mousepaw sighed, but followed him across the clearing.
Suddenly a soft voice sounded in his ear. “Are you Jaypaw’s brother?”
He swung around to find a light brown tabby she-cat gazing at him with eyes the color of a late-afternoon sky.
“Berrypaw told me. I’m Heatherpaw, by the way.”
Because your eyes are the color of heather . . .
“Jaypaw might have mentioned me,” Heatherpaw went on. “I was there when Crowfeather saved him from drowning. Has he recovered?”
Lionpaw forced himself to stop gaping68 like a startled rabbit. “Jaypaw?” he echoed. “Oh, he’s fine now.”
“Is he here?” Heatherpaw inquired.
Lionpaw was having trouble remembering where any of his littermates were right now.
“Not this time,” Mousepaw answered for him, sounding impatient.
“I still can’t believe he was out alone when he’s blind,” Heatherpaw breathed. “He must be so brave!”
Lionpaw felt a twinge of envy. “Most of the time he’s just grumpy,” he told her. “Especially now that he’s been confined to the camp for a quarter moon.”
“Me too,” Lionpaw agreed.
“How long have you been an apprentice?” Heatherpaw asked.
“Since quarter moon. What about you?”
“For a moon and a half now,” she replied. “This is my second Gathering.”
“Have you met Mousepaw before?” Lionpaw asked, sensing that his Clanmate was growing restless and casting longing70 glances back to the RiverClan apprentices.
“We’ve never spoken,” Heatherpaw confessed. “But I saw him last time talking to Russetfur.” She looked at Mousepaw. “Did Russetfur get any information out of you? She tried to from me, but fortunately Crowfeather had warned me not to give anything away.”
Before Mousepaw could answer, a black tom with amber eyes trotted71 up to them. “We ought to join our Clan,” he told Heatherpaw gruffly, ignoring the ThunderClan apprentices. “The meeting’s about to begin.”
“This is Breezepaw,” Heatherpaw told Mousepaw and Lionpaw. “He’s our newest apprentice.” Her whiskers twitched. “Though you couldn’t tell it from his manner. He’s been trying to boss the other apprentices from the moment he went from a ’kit to a ’paw.”
Breezepaw stared furiously at her, and the tip of his tail flicked from side to side.
“Don’t worry, Breezepaw,” Heatherpaw went on. “You’ll be a warrior before you know it, and then you can boss all the apprentices around.”
Breezepaw narrowed his eyes, clearly unsure whether she was being serious or not.
Heatherpaw glanced at Lionpaw, then whispered loud enough for Breezepaw to hear, “He thinks that I have to do what he says because his father, Crowfeather, is my mentor.”
“You know Crowfeather would never—” Breezepaw started to object.
“Oh, come on, Breezepaw!” Heatherpaw pleaded. “Lighten up!” She gave his flank a nudge with her muzzle, then turned back to Lionpaw. “It’s hard to believe, but Breezepaw can be great fun on a good day.”
A commanding meow sounded from the Great Oak. “We meet beneath Silverpelt—”
“That’s Onestar calling for the meeting to start!” Heatherpaw gasped.
Lionpaw swung around and saw the four Clan leaders sitting like owls72 in the lowest branch of the tree. Onestar, the lithe brown tabby who led WindClan, was speaking.
“. . . commanded by the truce of the full moon.”
Breezepaw flashed Heatherpaw a look that said, I told you so,and hurried away to join the rest of his Clan. Heatherpaw rolled her eyes at Lionpaw, then followed her Clanmate.
Feeling more confident now, Lionpaw joined the cats gathering around the base of the oak. He wove among his Clanmates till he found a space between Hollypaw and Spiderleg.
Firestar sat beside Onestar on the branch. A sleek, spotted tabby she-cat sat next to him. Lionpaw guessed that was Leopardstar of RiverClan. Beyond her was a huge white tom with jet-black paws—ShadowClan’s leader, Blackstar.
“WindClan has one new apprentice this moon,” Onestar announced. “Breezepaw.” The black-pelted apprentice lifted his chin, apparently73 quite undaunted by having cats from all four Clans turning to stare at him. Lionpaw’s heart began to race. He hoped he could act so coolly when it was his turn to be named.
“Leaf-bare has been kind to us this last moon,” Onestar went on. “The rabbits are running, but not too fast to catch, and the windy weather has made hunting hard for the buzzards and hawks74, which leaves more prey75 for us.”
An alarming thought struck Lionpaw. Would Onestar mention Jaypaw’s intrusion into WindClan territory? He leaned forward, ears pricked.
“Other than that,” Onestar went on, “WindClan has nothing important to report.”
Lionpaw glanced, relieved, at Hollypaw. She leaned against him. “Thank StarClan he didn’t say anything about Jaypaw,” she whispered.
Onestar turned to Blackstar, nodding for him to speak next.
“ShadowClan has one new apprentice too,” Blackstar began. He looked down at a wiry brown she-cat sitting among the ShadowClan warriors. “Ivypaw.”
Ivypaw nodded, her eyes narrowed. She didn’t look pleased or proud to be announced as a new apprentice, as Breezepaw had.
Do ShadowClan cats ever show their feelings?Lionpaw wondered. He felt Hollypaw fidgeting beside him. Her eyes were shining with excitement. “Our turn next!” she breathed.
But Blackstar had not finished. “Hunting has been good for ShadowClan since we enlarged our territory.”
Lionpaw stiffened76 as he heard a gasp46 from the ThunderClan warriors around him. Was Blackstar really going to make out that they had seized the land by the river from ThunderClan?
“Our new stretch of territory is a great source of prey,” Blackstar meowed.
Spiderleg muttered under his breath, “Firestar would never have given it up if it were!”
“ShadowClan would like to thank Firestar for his generosity78 in granting it to us,” Blackstar finished with poisonous gratitude79.
Firestar stared levelly at him. “I am pleased to hear that you are getting so much out of a piece of land prey-poor by ThunderClan standards,” he meowed.
Then Firestar turned his green gaze on the crowd. “ThunderClan are fortunate to have more than one”—he lingered over the word—“new apprentice this moon.”
“Jaypaw couldn’t come tonight.” Murmurs84 of surprise rose from the other Clans, but the ThunderClan leader carried on. “But Hollypaw is here.” Hollypaw’s green eyes shone like stars, her black pelt almost invisible in the gloom. Then Firestar’s gaze flicked to Lionpaw. “And Lionpaw.”
Lionpaw could hardly hear anything for the blood rushing in his ears. He puffed85 his chest out and held up his chin, feeling his pelt burn under the stares from the other cats. In a moment that was at once too short and too long, it was over, and Firestar was carrying on with his report.
“We have been lucky this leaf-bare,” he meowed. “There has been frost but little snow, and the prey has continued to run.”
Lionpaw’s pelt prickled. There was a new scent in the air, something he hadn’t smelled before. Some of the other cats clearly scented it too—he could see their heads turning, searching the edge of the clearing.
There was a rustle86 in the bracken close to where the WindClan cats were gathered and in the shadows Lionpaw saw movement.
Firestar fell silent and watched with the other cats as two lithe shapes emerged from the undergrowth.
“Intruders!” The alert spread through the Clans like wildfire. All around Lionpaw felt pelts bristling87 in alarm and battle-hungry muscles tensing, ready to spring.
The WindClan warriors who were nearest lunged at the strangers. Yowling and hissing88, they wrestled89 the trespassers to the ground.
Are they going to kill them?Lionpaw turned back to the Great Oak, wondering what the leaders would do.
Firestar’s fur was standing90 on end. His tail was stiff with shock, and his ears were pricked as he sniffed the air and sniffed again.
“Stop!”
The WindClan cats froze and drew back, leaving the two strangers standing alone on the edge of the Clans. Lionpaw strained to see over the heads of the other cats.
In a voice that was taut91 with shock and disbelief, Firestar called a name Lionpaw had only ever heard mentioned in nursery stories.
“Graystripe!”
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| n. 发嘶嘶声, 蔑视 动词hiss的现在分词形式 | |
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