Finding And Recueing Flare...

• • In a clearing in Mossflower Woods **

Zee has already looked in the abbey for his hare friend and didn’t find him, so he has the Blade of The Northwind Storms in his paw and his has his staff placed on his back as he walks through the woodlands near the abbey, he is soon maybe an hour into the woods.

Flare is tied to a tree and is not looking too well, he has a cut on his ear and side rom the fight earlier and a black eye from maybe another fight. His tunic is dusty and he looks tried, but is refusing to sleep.

Garth smirks “Your friend seems to have left you hare, what ya gotta say about that hmms long ears…”

Zee is close as he glances around, he then hears voices and grips the blade in his paw and proceeds to find the source of the voices and once he finds it he narrows his eyes “ I say let the hare go stoat, or face me.”

Flare smiles as he sees Zee and looks to Garth, “Yeah you are in trouble now chap”

Garth turns and smirks, “It’s a stripe dog and not just any it’s the one whom the boss wanted dead, heck he wanted your whole family dead, heck he hates all badgers what am I saying.” A thought then comes to mind on how to please his boss, whom he still has to learn is dead, he could bring back the badger’s head and maybe get a high rank in some new group..yeah. He grins and suddenly charges Zee.

Zee was ready for such a charge and sidesteps as he goes to slice at the stoat’s side with the Blade of The Northwinds Storm.

Garth growls in pain and goes to swing with his paw to punch the badger in the face if he is able to.

The punch connects with Zee’s jaw as he growls and kicks at the stoat, his jaw is not broken but he does lose a tooth from the punch and some blood forms. He goes to do a sweep type move towards the stoat’s legs.

Garth is smart and jumps backwards, he chuckles and swings his blade sideways towards the badger’s chest.

Zee blocks the move, but just barely and he is tiring quickly as he pants some and steps backwards, he almost trips over a rotten log behind him and looks over at Flare “You alright?!”

Flare rolls his eyes “Do I look alright? I am tied to a blooming tree and can’t do a darn thing!”

Flicktail steps quietly into the area, his sword drawn as he followed Zee not too far behind, but it did take a little time to find the badger.

Garth chuckles, this is starting to be enjoyable, "My boss was right, fighting can be enjoyable..maybe you should of waited to fight again so soon."

Flare frowns, he is tied to one of the trees and unable to help.

Zee spits out blood from where he was punched in the jaw and glares at the stoat, a wound on his arm was reopened and he lowers his sword slightly. “I’ll stop when you stop moving" He doesn’t see Flicktail yet.

Flicktail Stalks purposely in, and seeing Zee, wants to give the overweight stoat something else to think about. He gives the Redwall cry "REDWALLLLLL!!!!!!" and charges the stoat , sword held at the ready.

Garth chuckles, he notices Flicktail, he is far from being an overweight stoat and is in very good shape, muscles coiled " You should find...another beast to fight" He says as he sidesteps the charging fox and smirks, he then looks at Zee and grins, blade angered and goes to fake a left and suddenly goes to his right side with the blade.

Flare blinks and mutters "Great...more vermin" He does watch though, hoping this doesn’t turn out badly, well bad for him and the badger.

Zee watches the stoat closely and goes to block the blade, he quickly and almost too late notices the change of direction and swings his sword at the stoat as he backs up and gasps falling and tripping over a rotten tree log, he falls onto his back and the only thing good about the fall is all the blade does is slice into his tunic, and scrapes his chainmail, it could of been worse as he was lucky, but falling onto ones back is not good either and he is also tried from the fight earlier and now this one barely an hour or two later.

Flicktail charges past the stoat and then comes to a quick stop as his tail flicks as he plants a foot paw and pivots aiming a slash at the Stoats legs. He then goes to try and place himself between Zee and Stoat

Garth grins as he looks down at the badger, "Well..that must be annoying, your too old to fight but I can make it so you don't have to fight again!" He goes to stab down at the badger when the fox slices the side of his leg, he grips the short sword in his paw and growls. He goes to kick the fox before he can get in the way and once more goes to try and stab the badger, may be a good idea to block the blade.

Flare gasps as he sees Zee fall, from where he is he can't see whats going on now, "Zeee!"

Zee has his foot paw and lower leg is stuck in the rotten log now as he looks up at the stoat, he goes to block the sword with a clank and tries to shove the stoat backwards and away from him.

Flicktail is open as the kick connects but attempts, anyways, to tangle himself in the stoat, the air knocked from the fox as he attempts to fall toward the stoat maybe grabbing the stoats kicking leg

Garth kicked the fox away from him, "Back Off! I don't plan on...arrgghhhh!" He is also sent towards the fox from the badger pushing him, he growls and barely manages to keep his balance and goes to try and push the fox to the ground. "Fine..you die first!"

Flare watches, he is not sure whom to trust or not trust at this point, he glances over at where Zee is.

Zee snarls and starts to chop at the rotten log and manages to get free of it as he again pulls his leg away from it, this time freeing the leg and stands, but his ankle or foot paw may be injured as he can’t place much weight on it.

Flicktail is sprawled out before the stoat, rolling to his back with the mystic sword across his chest, ready to parry of he can, he holds the sword with both paws and the sword is wet with Garth's blood , he moves the sword to block the other sword, "Fat chance ya stinky Stoat!"

Garth smirks, and goes to get a foot paw on the fox's chest, "You’re in a bad position to win foxface. Good one to die in though."

Zee narrows his eyes and goes to stab towards the stoats back if he can, but being off balance doesn't help, nor a possible broken foot paw.

Flicktail tries to bring the sharp edge of the blade up to the stoat’s foot or leg but still keeps it crosswise so he can parry if need be.

Garth gasps as Zee’s blade cuts into his shoulder and comes out the other side, blood flows and the fox's blade does manage to at least block a deadly moves, he falls forwards and goes to elbow the badger away from him, not really aiming for anything major he just wants the sword out. The fox’s blade misses his foot paw.

Zee grips the blade and the elbow gets him on the side of his arm and he falls backwards, still holding the blade that he lets rest at his side, he tries to stand again and fails badly, yep broken foot paw most likely.

Flare frowns, he still needs untied but he is also tried and passes out. Too much stress today and he has a couple of his own wounds from earlier.

Garth grins as he turns his back on the fox and looks at Zee, "Oooops ya fell ya old fool, your mistake and ...let’s see ya last!" He goes to raise the blade and angle it in a move that’s fairly hard to block.

Flicktail jumps up trying to use the handle of his sword to crack the stoat on the back of the head. He is swinging rather hard so weather it knocks the stoat out or kills him Flicky will not know yet

Garth is about to finish off the badger when he feels pain and then falls sideways onto a pile of leaves, knocked out cold.

Flicktail Pants "Are you ok Un...um Zee?”

Zee narrow his eyes at the stoat and then blinks as the stoat falls sideways and slowly sits up, he looks over at Flicktail and nods "Thanks..to you....we need to get Flare to your healers, your have to carry him" He stands using a tree to stand and frowns at his foot paw as he goes to limp on it.

Flicktail asks, "Wot do we do with the stinky stoat?" He says cutting a sapling for Zee to use as a crutch and then cuts Flare loose and lifts him in strong arms.

Zee has his staff and shakes his head , "Just leave the fool there, don’t think he will want to mess with anyone again for a while.." He frowns "I am getting to old for this....." And the last word is lost on the wind.

Flicktail says, "Leave this to Champion" He says "Is it me or is Flare… " He grunts "Putting on weight?"

Zee chuckles "He is a hare after all....he is a hare" And he limps beside the fox and on to the abbey where once there, and checked out will get much needed rest.

• • • Zee limps beside Flicktail as Flicktail carries Flare back to the abbey, then he stays in the infirm watching over his hare friend. Both hare and badger get their wounds tended to and Flicktail most likely got checked out as well, least guessing he would have been as well. The stoat was left in the woods as it didn’t seem much of a threat, least for a while it shouldn’t be a threat. ***