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oz

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Disater In The Craft Room!-LP/ Dibbun Slavers LOG(DAB)

The Redwall Dibbuns are growing bored, which is terrible since literally, the entire DAB horde is among them. Squirrelbabe has decided that exploring Salamandastron is a good idea, so while DoraRose was on a (reluctant) break from tending to them, Squirrelbabe somehow got all the Redwall Dibbuns to give their caretaker the slip. The ferret Dibbun is the only one not with them, having chosen to stay with Matilda. They are now wandering around the Mountain, following their Ringleader, who is refusing to admit that she is hopelessly lost.   
   
Julia is freaking out. She knows her sister has returned, and she knows that Felicity is sick, but she doesn't know why she hasn't been allowed to see her yet. She has gathered that she couldn't catch the sickness, so why can't she see her sister??! No explanations are being provided by the adults, so to burn off her anger, the leveret Ringleader is leading the Long Patrol branch of the DAB to go make a mess somewhere (although she hasn't told them that's her plan).   
   
The 2 groups meet outside the door of the craft room. Julia quirks an eyebrow and puts her paws on her hips. "Whatcha /doin'/ up /'ere/? Aren't y's'possed t'be wi' da Redwallahs? Are y'losted?" Squirrelbabe crosses her arms, scowling fiercely. "We jus' /explorin'/. We no get /losted/ 'cause we Wedwallews! Whot /you/ doin'?"   
   
Oz has tagged along though mainly crawling as he follows and chuckles, likely carried a little ways before sat down on the floor again to look around.   
   
A couple of the dibbuns from the mountain stay towards the back of the group, they are a couple of the younger hare dibbuns, but they can walk and run fairly well.   
   
Isa was not originally a DAB member when they left the abbey but it was safe to say their adventures had brought her closer to Squirrelbabe and the rest of the group so where they go she goes too. As the two groups meet she's unsure if they're supposed to be friendly or not. The hares didn't seem too bad at the feast. She glances at Squirrelbabe for the answer. Squirrel's scowling so Isa does too, copying the arm folding as well "Yeah, we're not lost cause we can go anywhere we want!..." she points at the door "Like there. What's that?"   
   
Rufus is not too close to the dibbun groups, but he does hear them chatting, just whereas sound bounces off these long tunnels after all.   
   
Grace may not get on with Julia but there's other dibbuns in the Sala group that she does so she's there too, hanging back in the crowd and happy to have some fun causing mischief. She at first raises her paw to wave at the abbey dibbuns but then stops, looking between Julia and the others as they seem to have a standoff.   
   
Julia scowls back, first at Squirrelbabe, then at Isa. "We jus' lookin' foh fun! An' dat's da craft room -- 'tis where we go t'paint an' stuff." A couple of leverets bounce up and down. "We wantsa paints!!"   
   
Squirrelbabe glances at the door. "Paintin' sounds fun. I say we do dat!" There's a cheer from the Redwallers, and the trio of female mice clamber onto each other's shoulders and open the door! They tumble inside, managing to get out of the way of the stampede as the other Redwallers charge into the room.   
   
Squirrelbabe goes to help Oz stand up so he can toddle inside with them. Julia narrows her eyes, ignoring the leverets who follow the other Dibbuns into the room. "Whatcha doin' wif 'im?" The squirrel rolls her eyes. "'E came fwom Wedwall wif us. Chill out." She tries to lead the baby badger and any stragglers into the room, leaving the leveret Ringleader glowering at her back.   
       
Oz blinks and looks backward at Julia and back to Squirrelbabe and back to the hallway. He falls onto his bottom once and crawls over to a small stool and pulls himself up as he giggles.   
   
A couple of younger hare dibbuns find some little bits of paper, glue, and smile, "This room is fun" "Yeah...funs"   
   
Isa glares back but gets distracted as the other dibbuns get excited "Tha' does sound cool..." she gets out the way of the mice opening the door but quickly pulls one of them back up so they're not trampled in the stampede. She looks around and her eyes widen "Ooooh" she looks back at Squirrelbabe "Y'gotta see this, they don't just got paints in here there's cloth an' glue an' tools an' all sorts. We could makes everythin'" she heads for the neat rolls of fabrics herself, going to pull out a green one at the bottom which makes four others fall to the floor and start rolling away.   
   
Rufus slowly comes down the long hall and puffs up slightly at the noise coming from the craft room down the hall. He has not been in this room before so he grew curious, a small quick peek would not hurt after all.   
   
Grace has never got to play in the craft room unsupervised before, there's normally adults around. She's curious too though now that they've got a quiet spot. She huffs a little sigh on her way in the door though as Julia seems to be causing trouble "Just leave it" she says to the other hare as she passes Julia to get in the door and looks around. She's just deciding where to start when she spots movement by the door as Rufus peeks "Ah! Bird!" she yells, taken by surprise and grabbing the first thing she can, which is one of those rolls of fabric on the ground, and throwing it at the gull.   
       
   
Julia's glare becomes even darker at Grace's words. "You leave it!" She grumbles, but she, too, follows the others into the room. She smiles at a number of the Redwallers opening the paint and brushing it onto a piece of paper. "Can I paint, /too/??" They hand her a brush, and she plops down with them, content (for now) to just make something pretty.   
   
Squirrelbabe doesn't leave the baby badger's side, but she does look around. "Hammews?" she asks the kitten. Watching the fabric roll across the floor, 2 of the bolts unfurling as they do so, the squirrel says, "I wantsa builds a boat so's I no gotta wide wif dat dummy Ciocan."   
   
At Grace's exclamation, both Ringleaders turn towards the door in time to see the fabric flying across the air towards the gull! "No, don'ts!" Squirrelbabe calls out. The massed Dibbuns start squeaking in alarm, and Julia tries to get them to settle down with no luck. "'Tis okie, Grace 'as gots it 'andled!"   
   
   
Oz blinks and squeals in delight at the sight of the room, the colors of paper and such and grabs a pain can that tips over and spills, his eyes widen as he looks at it. He puts a paw in it and slaps the paw on the table, then giggles as that looks so cool!   
   
Koda passes the room, stopping a moment and then just shrugs and heads on. Meanwhile, a couple of hare dibbuns start arguing with an otter dibbun over who should get some string and bits of colored paper and the nice neat box...turns over!   
   
Isa hugs on to the green bolt of fabric as she looks around but she glances back at Squirrelbabe when the other dibbun joins her and asks about hammers "Ummmmm" she looks around and points at some wood, saws, hammers, and general woodworking stuff "There...Do we gots time t'build a boat? Maybe we could just steal their ship?" problem-solving dibbun style. She puffs up at Grace's yell from the door and quickly spins around but hesitates when Squirrelbabe says no. A second later though and she drops the green bolt of fabric to grab one which had unrolled a bit on the floor "'e's always talkin' to the big badger, 'e might go an' tell him" and she goes to toss a bit of the loose fabric at the gull, hoping it might tangle him up somehow.   
   
Rufus pokes his head in and yarks loudly "Small furs being loud, ya ya...and small furs no mess with ship, small furs need to be goodfurs ya ya!!" He steps in further, likely not the best idea.   
   
Grace is disappointed to have missed but she is only little and rolls of fabrics are heavy. She backs away from the gull a little when he enters but after he's inside she edges around the side of the room, trying to get to the door so she can shut it before anyone else just passes by and spots them.   
       
Julia is still trying to calm the Dibbuns who are freaking out, especially after Isa mentions the gulls might tell on them. "'Tis okie, 'tis okie, we all gonna be okies!" Squirrelbabe glares at her. "You no' doin' dat wight." The leveret flails her arms in agitation. "Oh, yeahs?? Den 'ow would YOU do it?" The Redwall Ringleader straightens her back. "Like /dis/."   
   
Squirrelbabe gestures at the kitten to make sure Oz doesn't fall then stands in the middle of the room and says "OI!!" really loudly (which she obviously stole from DoraRose, who says that all the time to get their attention). Once quiet is mostly restored, she spreads her paws out wide. "It gonna be okies. We done dis befowe. We gonna be okies." She whips around, grabs the fabric Isa tried to cover the bird with and stalks over to him. "'Cause you no gonna tell on us, aw yous??"   

She spots Grace trying to close the door and decides to use that as a distraction. "Ya, she gots da wight idea!" Hopefully, this distracts the bird enough for her next move to work: the squirrel pounces, trying to cover the gull with the fabric! The Redwall Dibbuns cheer and the Long Patrol Dibbuns just look at Julia, who is staring in shock at her rival.   
   
A couple of the younger hares hide under the table and start crying, clearly, the seagull looks frightening.   

Oz looks at the seagull and points to it, he reaches out as if trying to grab a feather, those feathers look neat!

Isa glares at the gull to try and look scary as he's scaring some of the dibbuns. It kind of fails as she's small and fluffy but she backs off anyway at Squirrelbabe's gesture, going to go to Oz instead quickly, just making sure he's not about to fall over as he reaches for the bird.   
   
Rufus puffs out as a lot happens at once and he is covered in cloth and yarks loudly, his tail feathers stick out and the baby badger pulls out one when the gull starts to pull away! Luckily one feather will not mess things up as he starts to go back and forth yarking louder and louder "Rufus is gonna peck a beast plentygood! YARK YARK YARK!!!!"   
   
Grace slams the door shut as Squirrelbabe pounces and then she pounces too, going to grab the end of the fabric and run it around the bird to try and tangle him up further "Yah not peckin' anyone here!"   
       
   
Squirrelbabe scowls and makes sure the gull's head is covered with the fabric. "You no peck us o' I gonna give Baby Ozzie mowe o' you feavvews!!" She nods appreciatively to Grace. "T'anks! You good at dis." She then turns to the other Dibbuns. "It okay, he can't do nuffink nows. We gonna be okies. Oh, I knows, let's make somet'in' /pweety/ for DwowaWose!!"   
   
As the other Dibbuns smile and go back to making pretty things (although they do stare worriedly at the wrapped up gull, hoping the Ringleader is right that he won't do anything now), Julia stares in slight awe at the squirrel, amazed at the fact that she has all the Dibbuns doing as she says. She stands there wordlessly, trying to figure out the squirrel's secret.   
   
Squirrelbabe pokes at the gull, saying, "Now you's be quiets! I's gots paint ovew hewe dat I gonna put on you feavvews if you don't be quiet!" She then marches over to the wall that has the hammers and things and scrambles up to them with all the agility of, well, a squirrel. She is intent on ignoring the bird unless he stays loud.   
       
Oz looks at the feather he has and puts it in his mouth, he then spits "eeeeeeeee" He says and makes a face, the feather did not taste good.   
   
Isa eeps as Oz gets himself a feather and she quickly puts herself between the baby badger and the bird in case he does start pecking or just flails their way "Get away!" she hisses at Rufus and if he gets close again she will try to swipe him with her claws. The warning made she looks back at Oz to check on him and has to giggle when he tries to eat the feather. She picks up the feather again for him "Look, yah can paint with it" she offers, going to dip the end of it in some paint and brush it on the mess of papers as a demonstration before she offers it back to him.   
   
Rufus yarks loudly and starts to fly upwards, getting even more tangled in the cloths and now some strings as he moves and crashes into a shelf and into some bright blue paint get spills all over himself, the floor, the shelf and only yarks more as he gets back to the ground and shakes the paint pail off that sends the paint pail into the wall with a loud clack!   
   
Grace actually looks quite proud when Squirrelbabe compliments her but it quickly turns in to a grimace as Rufus takes flight and takes down half the room with him. She covers her head to shield herself from the paint flying and yanks on the fabric but it just gets pulled out of her paw.   
   
A second later and the door opens suddenly to reveal Greg. It sounded like there was a fight or a bird broke in or something! He'd ran there from the forge but whatever he was expecting to find in the room it wasn't this. He freezes in the doorway, staring at the scene until his brain can process enough for a roaring yell "Wot in the name of hell do yah lot think yah doin'?!" Grace immediately goes eep, grabs a bit of fabric, and throws it over herself, as if that'll hide her.)   
   
   
Dibbuns frantically run out of the way as the bird takes flight. Squirrelbabe gets a splash of blue paint as she tumbles to the ground holding a hammer. She drops it and runs over to the other Dibbuns, joining Julia as she guides them to the far corner of the room. The trio of mice is crying because the "meanie birdy" ruined their picture! Most of the other Dibbuns are crying now, too, really scared.   
   
Matters are not improved by the adult hare's appearance. Basically, everyone freezes, staring. But when he yells at them, frightening the Redwall Dibbuns so much they all start crying even more loudly, Squirrelbabe finds her anger and moxie, and she marches over to him, shakes a fist in the air, and gives him a trio of very choice curse words. "It not okies fow yous t'come in hewe an' /scawe/ us!! You say you sowwy, o' I wip you /eaws/ off an' makes you EAT 'em!!"   
   
Julia's mouth drops open. First, she just learned a new word! Second, who does this squirrel think she is, shouting and cursing at the Smith like that? Julia could learn some lessons from this brave little Redwaller. Squirrelbabe continues to glare at the adult. Forget the fact that he helped rescue them, she's not going to let him yell at them like that!   
   
Oz tilts his head, he giggles and happily says one of the choice words, it was an easy one and sounded funny, he then whimpers a little when some paint got on his head and cries loudly!   
   
Isa screams as the paint hits her too, coloring the side of her head blue. She tries to rub it off with her paw but just spreads it around more before she quickly looks at Oz when he starts wailing "Shh shush shh shh, it's ok, it's just paint, it's just makin' a mess...Like a game! Look" she takes the blue paw she'd got from trying to get the paint off herself and she lightly smacks herself in the face with it, leaving a nice pawprint behind. She grins, trying to reassure him and act like everything's fine while she ignores adults and scary birds behind her "See? It's just a game"   
   
Rufus puffs out as now he has some blue on the end of his feathers now, he yarks loudly and mutters some things. He manages to get some cloths off off himself and looks very unhappy."Bad bad furs make mess...attack Rufus yark!!!!!"   
   
Grace edges towards the wall while remaining under her cloth of totally not invisibility. She's just trying to blend in until he dad's far enough away from the door to run for it. Greg does not look impressed with Squirrelbabe but nor is he shocked by bad language or scared by threats. He does recognize that he probably shouldn't be scaring them after everything so he at least stops yelling but he gives the squirrel a huff noise and heads inside towards the bird, pointing at Squirrelbabe on the way "Don't threaten beasts" he turns his attention to Rufus "Stop yellin' and calm down! Yah makin' this worse. They're just dibbuns" he snaps the words at the bird before looking around the room at the youngsters and their mess "Dibbuns who should know bettah than tah be causin' trouble like this"   
   
   
Squirrelbabe growls. "I talks da way I wants!!" She angrily informs the Smith. An otter Dibbun pipes up. "We was just tryna make pretty thingies f'r Dora! Da birdie's da one who maked da big mess!" The other Redwallers echo an agreement, even though most of them are still crying. Squirrelbabe nods in satisfaction. "Yeah, we no' /twyin'/ t'be naughty! We jus' twyin' t'make pwetty t'ings!" Forget that she had a hammer shortly before he came in.   
   
Julia, for her part, stays wisely silent since she had led the leveret DABers in here to actually make a giant mess so maybe her sister will have to deal with her and she can finally see her. Most of the leverets are trying to blend in with the Redwallers (seeing as how the hare-that-eats-books is the only Redwall hare present, that won't really work) or hide in manners similar to what Grace is doing. A pair of them try to slip out the door, not realizing that they're leaving a trail of paint pawprints behind!   
   
   
Oz wails loudly now and rubs his eyes, he is very tired now. About then Matilda comes in and frowns at the dibbuns "What the seasons?" She had been speaking with Ciocan and the grown-ups of the Redwall group as they would be leaving the mountain in the next day or two. A frown as she studies them."Explain what happen...please"   
   
Rufus glares at Greg and then goes to pout, can a bird pout? In a far corner of the room.   
   
Isa sighs quietly as Oz doesn't seem any happier but then Matilda arrives and it's clear with two adults and a blue bird they're not going to get to have any more fun. She points at Rufus "It was his fault!"   
   
Greg raises an eyebrow at Squirrelbabe but he's not going to waste his time arguing with her. He looks at the otter and sighs heavily "Well, yah should have had an adult in here tah help yah...yah shouldn't be on yah own tah begin with so yah've clearly broken free from yah caretakers. /Grace/" he doesn't really need to look to know the shape under the cloth is her, he just assumes it is because he can't see her anywhere else and of course she'd be involved. He looks back as Matilda appears and Grace, defeated, stomps back in to the room to accept her fate. In response to Matilda's question, Greg just shrugs and gestures around at the same time "Dibbuns" dibbuns happened. That should be explanation enough. He looks back at the group "Right, well. The gull here is goin' tah have tah go take a bath before even more paint gets everywhere. The rest of yah though, if yah clean up maybe there'll be time for makin' gifts aftahwards"   
   
The Dibbuns looks to Squirrelbabe, the obvious and only leader. The Ringleader hesitates, thinking through the offer. Clean up, then make presents? She makes a swift decision. "Alwight, fine! We clean up, but den YOUS gotsa helps us make giftsies fo' DwowaWose!" The other Dibbuns nod, going along with what their leader said. They help clean up, with the mouse trio tattling on Greg's choice of words to Matilda. Julia helps clean up, too, glad to not fully be in trouble for once. Now she just needs to figure out how to get them to let her see her sister in another way....
   
Oz has fallen asleep as Matilda sits down and makes sure all the dibbuns do help clean up before they make any homemade gifts for whomever, she mentions how it be nice to make one for Ciocan even, she looks tired but she will wait till this is taken care of.   
   
Isa is happy to at least accept that the bird has to go take a bath, that seems punishment enough to her. Never mind that they're all covered in paint and will need a bath too. She once more glances at Squirrelbabe but if the squirrel accepts the terms she goes along with that. She's a little reluctant at cleaning up but she does try. Rolling up the fabrics a little messily, mopping up paint, and then she gets to at least have that fun they'd been wanting and make things too.   
   
Matilda keeps an eye on them and then once they are done its bath time, dinner, and then time for sleep. They have to get up early after all, and finally...finally start the last leg of the journey to...home   
       
   
The worst thing Greg said was hell and Squirrelbabe way surpassed that with her language but the smith doesn't argue with the taddling anyway. He refuses to argue in general but helps tidy and then helps making gifts. He even helps a few including Grace make some rough flowers out of bits of wire. He doesn't mention bath until it's too late and they're too sleepy to argue but all in all, it turns in to a pleasant afternoon of arts and crafts.

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Oz-  Badger-young adult-Wanderer