Warriors: The Dawn of a New Beginning.

Chapter 1: The Gathering.

Disclaimer: I do not own warriors.

"We are warriors, protecting our clan, making sure that the warrior code is kept, and every cat is treated as he or she should be. There are five clans here in our new forest home. Thunderclan home of the loyal and courageous, home of the heroes, and the clan of destiny. Windclan, home of the spiritual cats (cats closest to Starclan), and the strong. Riverclan home of grace and power. Shadowclan home of the cunning and the cleverness, and Skyclan home of freewill and beauty. We all say that our clans are better, but nobody can really say which clan is better, because as we look deep down into our hearts we share one common goal, to protect the ones we love and to keep ourselves on the right track so we do not slip off the road to eternal glory."

"That was the last thing said from Bramblestar, the old Thunderclan leader, before he died that night by a fight with Windclan." Rainstar said. The new Thunderclan leader looked over all of her clan. Her grey tabby pelt sparkled in the morning sun. Her sapphire blue gaze rested on a young apprentice named Goldpaw. Goldpaw had come to her earlier and asked if he could come to the next gathering, which was tonight. "Now I will choose 2 apprentices and 4 warriors to come with me to the gathering. Goldpaw, Eaglepaw, Mossmask, Redfur, Blizardcoat, and Darkpelt please be ready to leave at sunhigh. We will do a border patrol and then go to the gathering." Rainstar flickered her tail to motion she was done then she leapt off of high rock and walked toward her deputy Goldenclaw. Goldenclaw was a handsome golden tom with huge muscles. "Any sigh of Windclan?" Rainstar meowed.

"No." Goldenclaw sighed. Windclan had been bothering Thunderclan for days now. It was probably because of there new leader, Sonicstar. Every cat in the forest knew that Sonicstar had a liking for Rainstar, but he knew he couldn't get her, Rainstar would never break the warrior code. Plus she didn't even like Sonicstar she thought he was a rambunctious annoying cat. No cat knew how he became leader, but he did have a good deputy Straightface, which kept the things Winclan stands for alive.

"That's good, hopefully that piece of mouse dung stays off our territory." Rainstar hissed and walked toward her den.

"Poor Rainstar." Goldenclaw said under his breath and he went off to go on a hunting patrol. "Hey Goldpaw do you and your mentor want to go on a hunting patrol?"

"I don't know let me go ask Thunderstorm." Goldpaw ran off towards the warrior's den. Thunderstorm was a huge grey tom with big brown eyes. He could be a little ambitious at times but he was an excellent warrior. "Thunderstorm! Goldenclaw wants to know if we will go on a hunting patrol with him." Goldpaw called over to his mentor.

"Sure." Thunderstorm replied and followed his apprentice over toward Goldenclaw. They followed Goldenclaw out of the gorse tunnel and into the forest where prey was lurking everywhere. "What do you smell Goldpaw." Thunderstorm asked his young apprentice.

"I smell squirrel over there near that tree." Goldpaw motioned with his tail to a small tree. A squirrel was near the ground looking for some acorns.

"All right Goldpaw, show us what you've learned so far." Goldenclaw meowed to the young apprentice.

Goldpaw got low to the ground and crept up on the squirrel, he lunged for it. The squirrel saw him coming and tried to get away, but it was to late. Goldpaw had his paws around the squirrel's waist and pulled it towards his mouth where he gave the final blow. "Good job." Thunderstorm said as Goldpaw came triumphantly over to his mentor with the squirrel in his jaws.

The rest of the hunting patrol went great, Thunderstorm caught a magpie, and two squirrels. Goldenclaw caught three birds and a squirrel. Goldpaw caught a squirrel and 2 mice. They came back to the Thunderclan camp and put down there fresh kill on the fresh kill pile. "Hey Goldpaw," Eaglepaw called. Eaglepaw was one of the older apprentices. He had brown fur and white fur around his neck. He had big green eyes, and big pointed ears. "You might want to get something to eat real quick we are going to leave soon."

"Alright. Do you want to join me Eaglepaw." Goldpaw asked.

"Sure." Eaglepaw meowed. "I've been eyeing that vole all day." He said as he grabbed the vole in his mouth and started to chew. He purred in contentment. "Man that's a good vole." Eaglepaw said.

Goldpaw got up as he saw his leader motion towards both of them with her tail. They darted over to her. The other cats were waiting with her. Mossmask greeted her apprentice Eaglepaw. Mossmask was a orange cat with a brown face. She had big orange eyes that shone like the sun. Redfur was another cat in the group. She had fire red fur, with a squirrel looking tail. She was a excellent warrior, a lot of apprentices looked up to Redfur. She greeted us. Darkpelt was a black tom with big brown eyes. Blizardcoat was a white tom with grey patches of fur here and there.

"Let's go." Rainstar finally said as Goldenclaw her deputy came to her side. They left through the gorse tunnel and made there way to the gathering. "Alright you guys no what to do." Rainstar said flatly as she saw Sonicstar approaching her. Her fur stood on end. "You guys may go and see what the other clans have been doing." She walked toward the other leaders and passed the white tom, which annoyed her so.

Goldpaw and Eaglepaw went over to the other apprentices. Bouncepaw and Firepaw from Skyclan cam running over to them. Bouncepaw was a brown and white tom, and Firepaw was a red tabby with very visible black stripes. "Cheesepaw was just telling a story about how he caught a five foot squirrel." Firepaw said. Cheesepaw was a Shadowclan apprentice. He had an usually yellow colored pelt, with huge green eyes.

"He was five feet tall." Cheesepaw said.

"Oh that's just impossible." Goldpaw laughed.

"Yeah that squirrel probably had to many nuts." Eaglepaw added.

A yowl sounded at the top of the leaders stand. All the cats turned to see, Rainstar as she stepped up to go first and by the look in her eyes this was going to be a long night.

I hope it was good. I'm usually used to making Yugioh fan fictions so this is new for me, so don't be to harsh. Please leave comments. Oh yeah one more thing the next chapter will be up soon so don't worry.