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EDIT: 1st of February 2018: I didn't change much from the story, only the fact Poppypetal wasn't expecting kits during the battle over a new territory.
EDIT: 31st of October 2021: Fixed some grammar errors, jesus I can't read this

Well as you may know I uploaded a storyboard on my YT channel, and quite a lot of people are interested to know more about the story! So here it is! Excuse me if you'll see grammar mistakes, English is not my native language
And also I'm really bad at writing ahahaha

Story:
It all started a long time ago, where once a clan that lived in peace, was startled by a 'disease' that was spreading through the forest in a surprisingly high speed. By that disease I mean rabies, every third or so prey was rabid and thus dangerous. The same goes for foxes that are far more dangerous to cats than a hare. The clan's leader later presumably died when he and fellow clanmates tried to save his clan from a rabid fox. He wasn't heavily wounded, but he was bitten which meant that sooner or later he would turn into an aggressive beast. The medicine cats thought they could help him, so they kept him alive and tried to save him. One day, during the deepest of nights the wounded leader sneaked away from the clan's territory and he was never seen again.
The next day Brightnight became the new leader, Brightstar. Brightstar made Gullwing his deputy. During a meeting, he said that they would be moving from their territory to find a new one. Brightstar said that they would attack anyone to claim any territory they find as their own. A few cats politely disagreed with him, as it was not moral to attack other clans to claim their territory, but the rest of the clan cats were pleased and excited. Brightstar didn't listen to those who disagreed with him. He didn't want to, he believed that there will be always a sacrifice, even if it's not fair.
After a long journey through fields and twoleg-place they found a forest. Brightstar sent out two cats to investigate the forest and, as it was expected, there was already a clan. At the edge of the forest, Brightstar started to tell his plan; they would attack during moon high, when the clan was most vulnerable, and so that happened. Innocent blood was spilled. Brightstar did not want any cat from the other clan alive. Everyone went by the rule but then, here goes Dirtpool. After fighting and killing he finds a she-cat with her kits. She was scared and hissing all over the place. He retracted his claws and tried to calm her down, after a long time arguing over whether she should trust him, she takes two of the three kits and runs away with the help of Dirtpool. He was relieved when he thought nobody noticed but he was wrong, three cats sprinted in the direction where the queen ran. Moments later he heard the she-cat screaming, so loudly that he felt like he was right in front of the brutal scene, a shiver ran down his spine. He noticed his Gullwing's disappointed expression. When Dirtpool looked away from his eyes that were piercing through his flesh, he noticed the third kit the she-cat hadn’t taken with her. Before he could do anything, he was attacked, fighting for his own life he forgot about the kit.
The fight was over, Brightstar won with his clan, not everyone cheered but everyone was glad the fight was over. Gullwing then heard a sudden squeaking coming from the nursery, even other cats started to notice. Dirtpool instantly regretted his stupidity, realizing he forgot about the kitten. He rushed over to Gullwing as he approached the nursery, he begged Gullwing to not kill the small kit. Dirtpool told Gullwing that he would take care of the kit but Gullwing didn't listen, it was almost like he didn't hear him at all. Gullwing took the kitten from the nursery and places it on the ground. Dirtpool and Gullwing were about to get into a fight when Brightstar stepped in. Without a second thought he snapped the kit's spine with his jaws, the squawking was over and Dirtpool felt more disgusted than ever. He felt horrible but that emotion quickly turned into hatred towards his own leader. No one said a word, everyone was utterly shocked.

It was a few moons since the incident, everyone in the clan was living a quiet, normal life. Dirtpool became a father and didn't think about anything else other than the kits and his mate.
News spread through the clan that twolegs were cutting down trees from the forest. Twolegs were taking over their habitat, and once again the clan was in danger. Prey started to be harder to find. Everyone was suggesting to their leader that they should move and find a new place again, but Brightstar refused, he didn't want to leave the territory that he proudly fought for. Anyone who tried to flee was immediately killed by the paw of their leader.
Food started to be even more scarce to find, there was nothing left, every leftover or crowfood was appreciated at the time, cats started to fight for every piece of meal. Even Dirtpool got once into a fight over a hare.
Dirtpool tried to spend as much time as possible outside of the clan, sometimes he found a hare, sometimes he found a rat but most of the time he didn't find anything.
One time when he was hunting with Gullwing he stumbled upon some road kill, a kittypet. He hadn't eaten in such a long time, he gave all the food he ever found to his mate. He walked to the dead cat and started to feed on it out of desperation. Suddenly Dirtpool stopped when he realised what he was doing. It was not normal, it was not what he was supposed to be doing, but once he was in, he couldn't stop. it didn't taste different from other things he has ever eaten. He was violently pushed away from the dead body by Gullwing. They both started to argue, while Gullwing was questioning his Dirtpool's sanity, Dirtpool told him that he had a plan.
A promise was made, Gullwing's mouth would be sealed, on the condition that if Dirtpool killed a clanmate he would be exiled for good and he would never get to see his mate or kits ever again.
Some time passed and Dirtpool was doing quite good, he gained weight and kept his family alive. They didn't know what they were eating. Dirtpool couldn’t think of any good lie to tell his mate, so he just told her that he was stealing it from twolegs.
One time while Dirtpool was eating all alone, away from the clan territory, he spotted Bunnykit. She was staring at him like a beaten-up dog and, because he felt sorry for her, he gave her the entire piece of bloodied meat he had been eating. Bunnykit thanked him and lied down. Dirtpool and Bunnykit talked about various things while Bunnykit feasted on a chunk of juicy cat meat.
- summary of the video -
Dirtpool had been searching for food- for normal food, like mice etc., when suddenly, he saw Raspberrypelt. He didn't look pleased at all, he looked angry and disgusted. As he was getting closer to Dirtpool he spat out various of ugly words, he called Dirtpool disgusting, that what he's doing is immoral. Then he finally said that he saw what Dirtpool did, he saw him eating another cat. It caught Dirtpool by surprise when Raspberrypelt told him that he was going to stop him, Raspberrypelt didn't want to let Dirtpool to attack and feast on his own clanmates. Dirtpool was trying to tell him that nothing like that is going to happen. Raspberrypelt lost his temper from his 'lies' and attacked Dirtpool. Raspberrypelt was surprisingly strong, Dirtpool thought that he was just skin and bones but there was something else to it. It was the determination, the hatred, the disgust that led Raspberrypelt to such strength, but the fight didn't last long, and Raspberrypelt was killed.
Dirtpool couldn't hold himself back and began to feast on Raspberrypelt. Sure, Dirtpool had a large supply of food, but it was always difficult to get that food. He didn’t go to the twoleg-place and kill like a maniac, it took hours upon hours before he found the right target. Before he kills his prey, he befriends the unsuspecting kittypet and lures them away from the twolegs place so no other kittypet sees him when he kills them.
Then there’s Bunnypaw, she was behind a tree the whole time, watching, and Dirtpool notices her. He stopped eating Raspberrypelt and tried to explain to her everything that was going on while he was 'pretending' that he wanted to kill her. Of course, they get into a fight, when he bites into her neck, he stops right away, telling her that if he really wanted to, she would've been dead. Dirtpool also says that he doesn't behave the way Bunnypaw thinks he behaves. Dirtpool keeps repeating that everything that he does is for the sake of his mate and his kits.
And then here goes Gullwing who interrupts Dirtpool's emotional outburst.

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The storyboard: [link]