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The following context is the story of how Bloodbird died. It does contain violence and some gore, so please, you have been warned. Also take into consideration that I'm a bad writer :'D

Bloodbird looked up at the grey clouds that started to form overhead. Blood was going to be spilled today, she could sense it in her pelt and paws. Danger was fast approaching. Her tooth-studded collar clinked gently in the strengthening wind as she examined the horizon. A familiar scent filled her nose. A scent she wished she'd never smell again. Her fur rose along her spine and her claws instinctively scratched at the floor.

"Ash, Tiny, Bird!' Bloodbird called urgently to her kits that played nearby.

The small kits stumbled and raced over.

"Come on Ash, come on Bird!" Tiny, ironically the biggest of the kits, ran in first.

"That's not fair Tiny! I've got smaller legs than you!" Ash squealed chasing the black kit. Bird stumbled closely behind determined to catch her brothers.

Bloodbird gazed upon them with pride swelling in her chest. They were growing fast. They already knew many battle moves and how to catch prey- well the slow field mice at least.

"This is very important little ones, you must listen very carefully," Bloodbird spoke urgently,"I need you to run as fast as you can for me. Ok?"

"What!" Ash meowed loudly, causing a pair of nearby ravens to flee,"you mean a race! Right?"

"N-no..It's hard to explain.. You just need to know that there's some evil cats coming for us. Moma's going to try and stop them ok, but I'm going to need you to run."

"But moma, what then?"

"You just need to run as far and as fast as you can ok? Don't stop until you sense that the danger is gone."

"And then you'll come and get us right!"

"..,"Bloodbird sighed sadly,"no... Your on your own now. Moma won't be able to see you again."

"But-"

"Please little ones," Bloodbird licked the tears from the kit's eyes, holding back her own,"try to understand..."

Looking up, Bloodbird spotted three pairs of eyes approaching in the distance.

"Quick, you must go now!" She spoke urgently, ushering them away,"go, go and don't look back."

"Moma," Bird sobbed at her paws,"I'm scared, I don't wanna leave."

"You have to," Bloodbird placed a paw on the kitten's head,"just remember to be brave, fierce, and most of all, to do whatever you think's right."

"B-but.."

"Here," with some effort, BloodBird pulled her collar off over her head and passed it to the frightened kit, "take this with you, this way you'll always have a piece of me with you. Now go, hurry!"

"O-ok.." Bird squeaked, turning and running off through the long grass, collar in mouth. She ran in a slightly different direction than her brothers. But maybe that gave her more of a chance.

Bloodbird turned at the sound of approaching pawsteps. She moved into a defensive pose. Her eyes darted back and forth. By the way the grass twitched she could tell that there were three cats coming in fast. She had battled three cats on her own before. But the soft sound of clinking, teeth-filled collars told her it wasn't going to be an easy fight. These weren't normal cats. These were Bloodclan cats like herself. Cats that knew the same moves, cats that lived on the same streets, cats that had fought the same battles.

A skinny, brown tom stalked out of the grass first, followed closely by the two others.

"Ah my dear Bloodbird," the brown tom smiled,"it's been a while since I've seen that stubborn face of yours."

"Ratbite.." Bloodbird hissed with narrowed eyes,"I see you haven't given up yet"

"Now, now, why ever would I give up? You did destroy my life after all. It's only right if I destroy yours too"

"Bloodclan was my life too, along with many others. But I moved on, I'm not acting like a stubborn kittypet like you"

"You-," Ratbite snarled but quickly returned back to a controlled state,"It was your fault Bloodclan fell. Now, I see you, but no kits. How about you tell me where they are?"

"How about you choke on a furball?"

Ratbite let off a snarl again.

"I see you brought friends," Bloodbird glanced at the other two Bloodclan cats,"were you too scared to come alone?"

"You have a lot of enemies now, more than you realise. A lot of cats want you dead."

"Are you forgetting what rank I was in Bloodclan? I was a high rank member. Much higher than any of you. Do you realise who would have taken charge of Bloodclan if it had stayed together? With Scourge and Bone dead and Brick missing, me! It would have been me! So instead of trying to avenge a leader, your destroying another one!"

"I would never follow you!" Ratbite yowled,"Never!"

"We'll then," Bloodbird hissed, her tail lashing behind her,"If you can't follow a leader, try fighting one!"

Ratbite screeched with fury and flung himself at her. Bloodbird span and battered away his lousy attack, then answered back with her own, clawing deep into the tom's pelt. She bouldered into him as he fell back, easily pinning him down.

"Don't just stand there fools!" Ratbite spat at the two Bloodclan cats that seemed suddenly unsure of what to do,"kill her!"

"Don't follow this Ratbrain!" Bloodbird yowled back,"Obey your leader!"

"She's no leader of yours! She killed Scourge, our real leader!" Ratbite managed to throw her off,"She's nothing but a traitor!"

"I'm not! Your a fool, your mad, your a monster!" Bloodbird glared at him as they circled each other,"your the one in the wrong here!"

"Monster!? Your the only monster here! You let your own clan fall! Your own mate was killed at your paws!"

"..," Bloodbird hesitated and Ratbite noticed instantly. His voice turned into a sharp hiss.

"So what was it like Birdy? Huh? Seeing his eyes dim and body go cold as he died in front of you?! How did it feel knowing you killed him!?" Ratbite knew he'd found a weak spot and pushed further as he watched Bloodbird start to crumble,"what was it like knowing you'd not only killed the leader of Bloodclan and therefore destroyed it, but you'd also made your kits fatherless!? How does it feel knowing its all your fault!?"

Lighting struck in the sky above and rain started to thunder down around them.

"S-shut up.." Bloodbird's eyes had clouded over as she became entrapped in nightmarish memories. Dead clanmates littering the ground around her, a black pelt going cold between her paws. Blood. Blood everywhere. All over the grass. All over her. In her pelt, her mouth, her nose, her eyes. Blinded by a scarlet red haze. She couldn't see, she couldn't breathe..

"You ruined your own life and so many others! YOU destroyed Bloodclan! YOU killed your own mate! YOU are the reason I'm going to make sure I kill your kits! YOU! YOU! YOU-!"

"SHUT UP!" Bloodbird screeched, lunging at Ratbite, claws outstretched. With her water filled eyes full of hate, she tore up the left side of his face. Her reinforced claws ripped effortlessly through flesh. Ratbite let out an agonising screech as his left eyeball was freed from its socket and sent flying into the air along with his blood. He collapsed in pain. Staying down in shock, slowly trying to get to grips with what had just happened. His shredded eyelid flicked rapidly, letting the scarlet river flow from his eyeless socket.

"M-monster.." Ratbite stuttered with his face completely covered in red and his body covered in cold, wet mud,"kill h-her.."

The two other Bloodclan cats snapped from their confusion. Fur on end, eyes narrowed, they turned on Bloodbird.

The first cat with a black pelt, bit down on Bloodbird's back. He was huge compared to her, making her fall under his weight onto her side. The other cat with a grey pelt locked his jaws onto Bloodbird's paw as she tried to swat at the black cat. Flailing around in the mud, she managed to kick off the large black cat and slam a paw into the other one's face. Though back on her paws, Bloodbird was immediately attacked again. She twisted around and managed to lock her jaws onto the grey cats chest, this time throwing him down into the deep mud. She could taste the hot tang of blood on her tongue as she held him to the ground and battered his exposed stomach with her hind legs. The weakened Bloodclan tom screeched in pain and managed to wiggle flee. With scraps of fur left behind, he fled, disappearing off into the high grass.

Bloodbird whirled around and tried to collect her thoughts for a brief moment. Her body was caked in cold, wet mud that had already started to soak through her fur and onto her skin. She shivered feeling the damp. She breathed deeply, feeling the blood pump through her veins, giving her strength.

"I-If..your a threat..t-to my kits," she huffed,"I will.. k-kill you.."

Ratbite was slowly raising back onto his paws, glaring at her through one good eye.."I....will....end..you Bloodbird!"

The other black Bloodclan cat lunged forward to attack again. Bloodbird dodged in time but wasn't quick enough to defend herself as he twisted around and bit down onto her back. The large cat buried his fangs as deep as he could into her flesh and started clawing deeply into her skin with his reinforced claws, causing massive gashes over her body. Bloodbird could feel his rippling muscles against her pelt as she tried to throw him off, to no avail. She span, with eyes blurred from pain, and dived at the cat. Her jaws snapped nothing but air as she missed her target. She slumped forward causing the black tom to loose his grip and tumble off her. With great pain, Bloodbird rose back up once again. Blood streamed heavily from the wounds covering her body. The mud on her pelt was now half red. The black cat lunged again, giving no time for her to blink as he aimed a blow at her neck. Bloodbird looked up, just being able to see through the rain and blood that rolled down her face. She opened her mouth and let out a short breath.

CRACK! Bloodbird dived up in the last second and caught the tom's throat in her jaws. The impact instantly snapped the cat's neck. The tom fell with a soft thump to the floor, his spine broken in two, dead. Bloodbird looked down at his body, shakily. The floor around them was now mixed with wet mud and scarlet red blood. The blood mostly being her own.

A brief silence fell upon them.

"Y-you.." Ratbite stuttered in shock,"..you..killed him.."

Bloodbird looked up from the body at her paws to glare at Ratebite through narrowed eyes.

"I g-guess..you were right.." She growled deeply,"I am a monster..."

The brown Bloodclan cat stood slightly taken back. Blood still poured from the hole in his face where his eye used to be.

"..J-just like he w-was..," Bloodbird muttered and slumped forward into the mud as her paws gave way from under her. Her wounds stung as they continued to spill out scarlet red streams of blood. She tried to get up again but found she couldn't as the wet mud, mixed with red, stuck to her fur and weighed her down. She had no strength left to lift a paw. The pulsing blood that she'd felt before, pumping through her veins, was felt no more. The adrenaline and rush of battle had left her body and the ringing of war had left her ears.

Ratbite stalked over to her side. A sudden smirk lit up his face at the sight before him. He placed an unsheathed paw onto her chest rolling her over slightly to get a clear view. Bloodbird looked on through eyes glazed in pain.

Ratbite's grin grew wider and he whispered over the heavy rain,"down with the bloody bird."

"Y-you..know..," she choked barely audible as a small smile crept onto her own face,"..you w-were..always considered-d... the w-weak one.."

Ratbite snarled as he hooked his claws deeply into her flesh and slowly tore down her neck. Bloodbird made a short gurgling noise before going still. Ratbite glared down at the body he once called his greatest enemy. Even with her throat scored and blood soaked, she looked peaceful lying limp in the cold mud.

He glanced at her one more time through an eye of hatred, before turning sharply and disappearing into the long grass. He opened his mouth to gather as many nearby scents as he could. Immediately he picked up the scent he was after. He had to hurry, the rain was washing it away. Ratbite raced off in pursuit, licking the blood off his muzzle. He had some kits to find...

Holy cow. If you read all of this... *claps and hands over a cookie*

Art & OCs & story (c) me
based around the Warriors series by Erin Hunter

Description
The following context is the story of how Bloodbird died. It does contain violence and some gore, so please, you have been warned. Also take into consideration that I'm a bad writer :'D

Bloodbird looked up at the grey clouds that started to form overhead. Blood was going to be spilled today, she could sense it in her pelt and paws. Danger was fast approaching. Her tooth-studded collar clinked gently in the strengthening wind as she examined the horizon. A familiar scent filled her nose. A scent she wished she'd never smell again. Her fur rose along her spine and her claws instinctively scratched at the floor.

"Ash, Tiny, Bird!' Bloodbird called urgently to her kits that played nearby.

The small kits stumbled and raced over.

"Come on Ash, come on Bird!" Tiny, ironically the biggest of the kits, ran in first.

"That's not fair Tiny! I've got smaller legs than you!" Ash squealed chasing the black kit. Bird stumbled closely behind determined to catch her brothers.

Bloodbird gazed upon them with pride swelling in her chest. They were growing fast. They already knew many battle moves and how to catch prey- well the slow field mice at least.

"This is very important little ones, you must listen very carefully," Bloodbird spoke urgently,"I need you to run as fast as you can for me. Ok?"

"What!" Ash meowed loudly, causing a pair of nearby ravens to flee,"you mean a race! Right?"

"N-no..It's hard to explain.. You just need to know that there's some evil cats coming for us. Moma's going to try and stop them ok, but I'm going to need you to run."

"But moma, what then?"

"You just need to run as far and as fast as you can ok? Don't stop until you sense that the danger is gone."

"And then you'll come and get us right!"

"..,"Bloodbird sighed sadly,"no... Your on your own now. Moma won't be able to see you again."

"But-"

"Please little ones," Bloodbird licked the tears from the kit's eyes, holding back her own,"try to understand..."

Looking up, Bloodbird spotted three pairs of eyes approaching in the distance.

"Quick, you must go now!" She spoke urgently, ushering them away,"go, go and don't look back."

"Moma," Bird sobbed at her paws,"I'm scared, I don't wanna leave."

"You have to," Bloodbird placed a paw on the kitten's head,"just remember to be brave, fierce, and most of all, to do whatever you think's right."

"B-but.."

"Here," with some effort, BloodBird pulled her collar off over her head and passed it to the frightened kit, "take this with you, this way you'll always have a piece of me with you. Now go, hurry!"

"O-ok.." Bird squeaked, turning and running off through the long grass, collar in mouth. She ran in a slightly different direction than her brothers. But maybe that gave her more of a chance.

Bloodbird turned at the sound of approaching pawsteps. She moved into a defensive pose. Her eyes darted back and forth. By the way the grass twitched she could tell that there were three cats coming in fast. She had battled three cats on her own before. But the soft sound of clinking, teeth-filled collars told her it wasn't going to be an easy fight. These weren't normal cats. These were Bloodclan cats like herself. Cats that knew the same moves, cats that lived on the same streets, cats that had fought the same battles.

A skinny, brown tom stalked out of the grass first, followed closely by the two others.

"Ah my dear Bloodbird," the brown tom smiled,"it's been a while since I've seen that stubborn face of yours."

"Ratbite.." Bloodbird hissed with narrowed eyes,"I see you haven't given up yet"

"Now, now, why ever would I give up? You did destroy my life after all. It's only right if I destroy yours too"

"Bloodclan was my life too, along with many others. But I moved on, I'm not acting like a stubborn kittypet like you"

"You-," Ratbite snarled but quickly returned back to a controlled state,"It was your fault Bloodclan fell. Now, I see you, but no kits. How about you tell me where they are?"

"How about you choke on a furball?"

Ratbite let off a snarl again.

"I see you brought friends," Bloodbird glanced at the other two Bloodclan cats,"were you too scared to come alone?"

"You have a lot of enemies now, more than you realise. A lot of cats want you dead."

"Are you forgetting what rank I was in Bloodclan? I was a high rank member. Much higher than any of you. Do you realise who would have taken charge of Bloodclan if it had stayed together? With Scourge and Bone dead and Brick missing, me! It would have been me! So instead of trying to avenge a leader, your destroying another one!"

"I would never follow you!" Ratbite yowled,"Never!"

"We'll then," Bloodbird hissed, her tail lashing behind her,"If you can't follow a leader, try fighting one!"

Ratbite screeched with fury and flung himself at her. Bloodbird span and battered away his lousy attack, then answered back with her own, clawing deep into the tom's pelt. She bouldered into him as he fell back, easily pinning him down.

"Don't just stand there fools!" Ratbite spat at the two Bloodclan cats that seemed suddenly unsure of what to do,"kill her!"

"Don't follow this Ratbrain!" Bloodbird yowled back,"Obey your leader!"

"She's no leader of yours! She killed Scourge, our real leader!" Ratbite managed to throw her off,"She's nothing but a traitor!"

"I'm not! Your a fool, your mad, your a monster!" Bloodbird glared at him as they circled each other,"your the one in the wrong here!"

"Monster!? Your the only monster here! You let your own clan fall! Your own mate was killed at your paws!"

"..," Bloodbird hesitated and Ratbite noticed instantly. His voice turned into a sharp hiss.

"So what was it like Birdy? Huh? Seeing his eyes dim and body go cold as he died in front of you?! How did it feel knowing you killed him!?" Ratbite knew he'd found a weak spot and pushed further as he watched Bloodbird start to crumble,"what was it like knowing you'd not only killed the leader of Bloodclan and therefore destroyed it, but you'd also made your kits fatherless!? How does it feel knowing its all your fault!?"

Lighting struck in the sky above and rain started to thunder down around them.

"S-shut up.." Bloodbird's eyes had clouded over as she became entrapped in nightmarish memories. Dead clanmates littering the ground around her, a black pelt going cold between her paws. Blood. Blood everywhere. All over the grass. All over her. In her pelt, her mouth, her nose, her eyes. Blinded by a scarlet red haze. She couldn't see, she couldn't breathe..

"You ruined your own life and so many others! YOU destroyed Bloodclan! YOU killed your own mate! YOU are the reason I'm going to make sure I kill your kits! YOU! YOU! YOU-!"

"SHUT UP!" Bloodbird screeched, lunging at Ratbite, claws outstretched. With her water filled eyes full of hate, she tore up the left side of his face. Her reinforced claws ripped effortlessly through flesh. Ratbite let out an agonising screech as his left eyeball was freed from its socket and sent flying into the air along with his blood. He collapsed in pain. Staying down in shock, slowly trying to get to grips with what had just happened. His shredded eyelid flicked rapidly, letting the scarlet river flow from his eyeless socket.

"M-monster.." Ratbite stuttered with his face completely covered in red and his body covered in cold, wet mud,"kill h-her.."

The two other Bloodclan cats snapped from their confusion. Fur on end, eyes narrowed, they turned on Bloodbird.

The first cat with a black pelt, bit down on Bloodbird's back. He was huge compared to her, making her fall under his weight onto her side. The other cat with a grey pelt locked his jaws onto Bloodbird's paw as she tried to swat at the black cat. Flailing around in the mud, she managed to kick off the large black cat and slam a paw into the other one's face. Though back on her paws, Bloodbird was immediately attacked again. She twisted around and managed to lock her jaws onto the grey cats chest, this time throwing him down into the deep mud. She could taste the hot tang of blood on her tongue as she held him to the ground and battered his exposed stomach with her hind legs. The weakened Bloodclan tom screeched in pain and managed to wiggle flee. With scraps of fur left behind, he fled, disappearing off into the high grass.

Bloodbird whirled around and tried to collect her thoughts for a brief moment. Her body was caked in cold, wet mud that had already started to soak through her fur and onto her skin. She shivered feeling the damp. She breathed deeply, feeling the blood pump through her veins, giving her strength.

"I-If..your a threat..t-to my kits," she huffed,"I will.. k-kill you.."

Ratbite was slowly raising back onto his paws, glaring at her through one good eye.."I....will....end..you Bloodbird!"

The other black Bloodclan cat lunged forward to attack again. Bloodbird dodged in time but wasn't quick enough to defend herself as he twisted around and bit down onto her back. The large cat buried his fangs as deep as he could into her flesh and started clawing deeply into her skin with his reinforced claws, causing massive gashes over her body. Bloodbird could feel his rippling muscles against her pelt as she tried to throw him off, to no avail. She span, with eyes blurred from pain, and dived at the cat. Her jaws snapped nothing but air as she missed her target. She slumped forward causing the black tom to loose his grip and tumble off her. With great pain, Bloodbird rose back up once again. Blood streamed heavily from the wounds covering her body. The mud on her pelt was now half red. The black cat lunged again, giving no time for her to blink as he aimed a blow at her neck. Bloodbird looked up, just being able to see through the rain and blood that rolled down her face. She opened her mouth and let out a short breath.

CRACK! Bloodbird dived up in the last second and caught the tom's throat in her jaws. The impact instantly snapped the cat's neck. The tom fell with a soft thump to the floor, his spine broken in two, dead. Bloodbird looked down at his body, shakily. The floor around them was now mixed with wet mud and scarlet red blood. The blood mostly being her own.

A brief silence fell upon them.

"Y-you.." Ratbite stuttered in shock,"..you..killed him.."

Bloodbird looked up from the body at her paws to glare at Ratebite through narrowed eyes.

"I g-guess..you were right.." She growled deeply,"I am a monster..."

The brown Bloodclan cat stood slightly taken back. Blood still poured from the hole in his face where his eye used to be.

"..J-just like he w-was..," Bloodbird muttered and slumped forward into the mud as her paws gave way from under her. Her wounds stung as they continued to spill out scarlet red streams of blood. She tried to get up again but found she couldn't as the wet mud, mixed with red, stuck to her fur and weighed her down. She had no strength left to lift a paw. The pulsing blood that she'd felt before, pumping through her veins, was felt no more. The adrenaline and rush of battle had left her body and the ringing of war had left her ears.

Ratbite stalked over to her side. A sudden smirk lit up his face at the sight before him. He placed an unsheathed paw onto her chest rolling her over slightly to get a clear view. Bloodbird looked on through eyes glazed in pain.

Ratbite's grin grew wider and he whispered over the heavy rain,"down with the bloody bird."

"Y-you..know..," she choked barely audible as a small smile crept onto her own face,"..you w-were..always considered-d... the w-weak one.."

Ratbite snarled as he hooked his claws deeply into her flesh and slowly tore down her neck. Bloodbird made a short gurgling noise before going still. Ratbite glared down at the body he once called his greatest enemy. Even with her throat scored and blood soaked, she looked peaceful lying limp in the cold mud.

He glanced at her one more time through an eye of hatred, before turning sharply and disappearing into the long grass. He opened his mouth to gather as many nearby scents as he could. Immediately he picked up the scent he was after. He had to hurry, the rain was washing it away. Ratbite raced off in pursuit, licking the blood off his muzzle. He had some kits to find...

Holy cow. If you read all of this... *claps and hands over a cookie*

Art & OCs & story (c) me
based around the Warriors series by Erin Hunter