Off With His Tail!
Involved: Oak, Bloodclaw, Pike, Torry, Jake
RW Abbey: Entry
You stand on a grassy sward between two cottages. To the south you see a small, calm pond. To the north lies an open space where the Abbey has its feasts in the warmer seasons. To the east is the Great Hall, a massive structure that rises far above the abbey walls and is completed with large towers that pierce upwards into the sky. The main building is completed with a large, iron banded door that would allow one into the Great Hall.
The blanket of snow is replaced with the vibrant greens of spring. Newly sprung flowers and young shoots dot the path. They hold a promise of color and enhancement. The earth is relatively dry here, and the soil rich for growing, but muddy patches of dirt still can be found. Many Abbeybeasts can be seen tending to the gardens, though some are content with just being out and about, enjoying the warmth of the virgin sun and the pleasant weather. Dirt paw prints are tracked upon the clearing's surface, serving as witness to the fact that the majority of Abbeybeasts are caught up in the "spring fever." Most will will do just about anything, or make any excuse to be outside, eager to watch as spring colors emerge in scraggly clumps.
Exits/Entrances:
[G]reat [H]all [C]limb to the [R]amparts [A]bbey [P]ond
[Ga]te [H]ouse [Leave] through the gates [Open] Ground
[C]hampion's [C]ottage
Pike is in the entry way of the abbey, being watched by a guard as he is cleaning off his twin long blades and after this and takes a couple swings with them in the air, he grins a little.
Torry steps out of the abbey, munching quietly on a scone. He had actually been a little TOO naughty this time... In his desperation to go kill the 'badrat' he didn't like, he stole a knife from the kitchens, hiding it cleverly in his habit. He saw Pike, and ran up to him, waving. "Pikey!"
Oak comes walking, still wincing every once and a while, but with a smile on his face. "G'mornin"
Pike look over at the dibbun and stops, "Ello Torry.busy and got to go..So bye" he goes to head out.
Torry blinks at that, and lowers his ears... But he had a determined look on his face. Ignoring everything else, he managed to slip outside the gate, planning on following while in hiding.
---All go to the road---
Mossflower - Dirt Road ---------------------------
On the east side of the road rises the main gate of Redwall Abbey, a massive, ancient structure of red sandstone that nearly obstructs the entirety of the eastern horizon. Here the road has been noticeably better cared for--ruts and potholes are few and far between, and the surface is smoothed and kept free of cropping weeds. Despite this, there is the sense of a thousand paw treads beneath your feet, taken by beasts long forgotten. Only the Abbey seems a constant, unchanging sentinel--worn and battered by the elements, but still standing tall.
Exits: [D]itch, [G]rasslands, Redwall [Gate], [S]outh, [N]orth
Oak chases after Pike. "Wait, I'm gonna show 'ye where Bloody is!"
Pike stops as he gets to the road and looks at Oak, he nods "Right...then where be the rat?"
Torry spies the otter and other squirrel from the bushes. Waiting to follow.
Oak points to the forest, "O'er in 'de forest, deep, near the grasslands"
Pike looks towards the woods and studies them a moment and nods "Sounds like a place ta hid' matey, maybe we be a get' someone free soon or least a dead rat, hmm?"
Torry continues to watch, frowning a little bit. He wasn't afraid...
Oak nods. "I like 'yer style, Pike" he grins. "Kill the rat together then?" he pulls out his sword.
Pike grins "Sounds lik' fun ta me matey, find the rat and kill it...." he looks around.
Oak blinks. "What's wrong? is Bloody a tryin' te sneak up on us?"
Jake comes slowly up the road, he is somewhat alert to what’s going on, a hooded cloak over him as he comes down the road, he mutters to himself about annoying useless trips.
Pike hmmms, he shrugs "No clue, but never know with him...." he catches sight of Jake and looks around again; he doesn't see Torry just yet.
Torry keeps hiding his best, waiting.
Out of the shadows, comes the form, then shape, then body of the rat named Bloodclaw, lashing out with a poisoned dagger at Jake, and stabbing him in the back of his cloak, very accurately.
Jake mutters to himself, he catches movement from the side and errks as he sees Bloodclaw, the dagger does go into his back, though unseen by others would be the fact he has a backpack under his cloak, he goes to try and swing his longbow at the rat and loses his balance sliding down into the ditch, he rolls a little and gets knocked out when he falls, he doesn't get back up as, well he is knocked out cold right now.
For a second, Oak has no idea what has just happened, then he becomes quite aware of the situation and frightened. "T-the old h-hare , he..he...'tis dead!"
Pike blinks as he sees Bloodclaw and what just happen, he growls and pulls out both his twin blades and goes charging with blades drawn at the rat "Die rat scum!!"
Oak pauses for a second, then says. "What he said!" and charges at the rat with his sword.
Torry covers his mouth in shock - but it was to his delight that the hare lived. So it seemed, at least... When Pike ran for the rat, he moved down near the action, taking the kitchen knife from his habit. He was waiting for the opportune moment, to lunge out and strike, himself.
Bloodclaw laughs as he barely manages to block all three blades that are coming at him (he's a very skilled combatant). "Fool otter, the hare is dead!, killing me will not change THAT!"
No sooner had Bloodclaw said that, Oak swirls his sword around and uses the hilt to jab Bloodclaw in his eyes, temporarily blinding him.
Pike growls deep at the rat and goes to swing at him with one of the blades" Ya death make me feel better!!"
Jake is still unseen in the ditch, still knocked out.
Somehow, with miraculously luck, Bloodclaw manages to block the twin swords, with his arm, but the cost is a deep cut in his arm. Wincing in pain, Bloodclaw laughs. "hahhahahaha, come on then Pike, KILL ME!, if you've got the guts"
Torry goes a little wide-eyed, but finally gets the guts - he leaps out from the grass, running. "BAAADRAAAAAT!" he screams, lunging for the rat's rear - making a swinging motion with the knife for his tail, in an attempt to prove he wasn't wanting to just threaten to 'choppa off' the tail...
Bloodclaw falls back, in shock and pain. "Ye stinkin dibbun!, come back here 'ye filthy demon, argghh, MY TAIL!....YER DEAD!". His sight back, Bloodclaw charges after the dibbun.
Pike blinks as he sees Torry and the rat charging him, he frowns and goes to quickly grab Torry and scoop him up and sidestep out of the way of the rat.
Oak ignores the battle, and falls on the ground laughing. "Bloody's tail is gone, Bloody's tail is gone, hahahaha". Oblivious to the angry Pike and running dibbun, Oak continues laughing.
Torry stares at the rat with a fearless expression on his face, still brandishing the slightly-bloodied knife. "YER DEAD!" he replied in a mocking manner, before charging the rat - avoiding Pike as best as he could, with the knife raised. He was going for it...
Jake groans weakly, though unheard by anyone as he is in the ditch still, sounds of battle above the ditch ring in his ears but the headache he has isn't helping much, he goes to try and get up and tenses up in pain, staying put he blinks dirt from his eye and looks at his swollen leg...probably broken leg.
Oak stops laughing, and runs over to scoop up the dibbun. "Don' try and go affer Bloody, 'ye'll get 'yerself killed".
Bloodclaw effortlessly avoids the rest of the dibbun's charges, even without his tail, Bloodclaw is quite able to keep his balance. He throws a poison dagger at Torry, but it misses by less than an eighth of an inch.
Pike growls at the rat and goes to try and stab him again, he narrows his eyes "Your pay one day ye rat....." he looks at Torry and gets ready to grab him if needed.
Torry squirms as the squirrel picks him up, still pointing the knife at the rat. "I'LL KILLA YOU, BADRAT! I STABBA YOU IN DA ASS!" he shouted loudly, using that dirty vocabulary he'd heard some days ago again.
Jake, still in the ditch, listens to the yelling and fighting sounds and closes his good eye and sighs softly, his leg hurts badly now and he isn't able to climb out and right now he isn't sure it is wise to if he could even.
Oak almost thinks about slapping the young squirrel, then just laughs. "You tell 'im little buddy" he picks up Torry again. "But you’re going a bit far, thinkin' you can kill bloody all by yourself". He smiles. "Tell ya what, how 'bout I make that tail 'o 'is into a necklace, eh?"
Bloodclaw laughs, and looks at Jake. "I'm goin'..I'm trying to turn over a new leaf, see?...by only killin' one beast per day!". he grins evilly, and with one last maniacal laugh, vanishes into the shadows of the dark, deep forest.
Pike growls and looks ready to follow the rat into the woods, he growls loudly "I WILL Kill him, SOON!" he growls and looks over at the ditch where Jake fell and frowns, tears on his face now, he slowly goes over towards the ditch as he puts his blades away. “We need ta et back ta the abbey..."
Torry pouts a little bit as the rat leaves, looking a little mad himself. "I wanna kill the ratty... Stabba his ass dead..." he whined sadly, though he looked at the squirrel at the question. "Otay!"
Oak smiles. "Good, now it might take me a while, but I'll make it. I'm a very good crafter..make my own arrows I do". he looks at the dibbun. "But 'ye 'ave to promise me one thing"
Jake tries to climb out of the ditch and oofs as he slides backwards and groans in pain, cussing under his breath.
Torry looks back at the squirrel, tilting his head curiously. "Yes mister squirrel!"
Oak blinks. "Umm, Pike...'yer friend, he's alive..." he looks at Torry. "Hang on young'n..I'll talk later"
Pike looks wide eyed in the ditch and quickly climbs down into the ditch..."Jake?...Jake!" He looks him over and looks confused.. "How?"
Torry squirms, until he's able to slip out of the squirrel's arms. "Mister Jake..." he said, with a smile. "Alive!"
Oak shrugs. "Dunno" he pats the dibbun on the head, pocketing the rat tail, waiting to make the promised necklace. "Bloody musta missed". He removes the cloak Jake is wearing, and points to the backpack. "Ah, 'dat'id 'splain it...Bloody stabbed 'is back..PACK..'ye see" he laughs. "Bloody 'tis 'avin a bad day, I’m lovin' dis"
Jake groans, he looks at Pike, he slips off the cloak, the backpack is stuck to it and that’s where the poisoned dagger is, he looks at his leg "My leg..it’s broken I think, can’t stand or move it without horrible pain"
Pike looks at the leg, he then hugs Jake tightly "Your alive matey!" He half listens to Oak and looks at the backpack remembering that he send Jake to get something, he looks in the pack and frowns..."He..that rat messed up me hotroot!!!"
Torry squats next to the hare, smiling down at him. He was still holding that slightly bloodied knife, but it was slack now. "I choppa off tail! Stabba da ass!" he declared again.
Jake frowns as he is hugged, he was never one that liked hugging too much, he sighs, he tries to stand and fails, he looks up "o, how do we get up and..what about the rat?. Probably thinks I'm dead now...wot but that?"
Oak takes Jake's acknowledgement of live as a sign to keep talking to the dibbun. "So 'yer alive 'den...okay" he turns to Torry. "I'll give 'ye 'de necklace, s'long as 'ye promise 'never 'ta say a bad word a'gin, allright?"
Torry looks back to the other squirrel at the promise, and quickly nod nods with a smile. "Yes mister squirrel!"
Pike thinks a moment "I ay make him think ya still dead...for now anyways"
Oak smiles. "Allright then, I'll be making it soon". He turns to Jake and Pike. ""Iffen Bloody thinks 'ees dead, I think he should keep pre'tendin 'te be dead, 'an we can take 'oer as gaurds 'err summat"
Torry looks back over to Pike, frowning a little bit. "But bunny's not dead..." he said, sounding a little sad. Why did they want to think he was?
Oak pats Torry on his head. "But we want Bloody 'te think 'ees dead...it's all part of the plan...don't 'ye trust me?"
Pike goes to help Jake up and hmmms, "Well first we gets 'im ta the abbey, he's hurt and the dibbun need not be out 'ere"
Jake groans as he is helped up and frowns "Pretend to be dead? but..I am in charge of...the guards, wot do I do inside the abbey, I'm needed!"
Oak is already waiting for Jake, Pike, and Torry, busy making the tail necklace (because adult squirrels are fast). "Ope, 'ee recovers soon, strength in numbers 'wid Bloody"
Torry follows the group up to the infirmary, staring at the knife. He was only just now noticing the blood... "Why's there stwawbewwy juice on da knifey?"
Pike helps Jake inside the abbey and to a bed, and looks around"so..what now mates?"
Oak smiles. "Because beasts body's are full of it, Strawberry juice gone bad, very bad...very very bad in Blooody's case"
Torry held the knife he'd used up to Pike. "Clean knifey?"
Jake sighs as he is placed on a cot and looks around with a frown “Don’t know how fast broken leg heals"
Oak laughs, and goes off to finish his necklace. "Well, iffen 'ye needs me, I'll be resting". He goes off towards the bunk beds, yawning
Pike carefully takes the knife "Where ya get this matey?" he places it on a table and shakes his head, he miles to Jake "I am glad ya not dead Jake, still...the rat thinks ya dead now"
Torry giggles a little bit. "Kitchen! I'm gonna be da fwiar one day!" he announced. Though after his act of bravery, he'd have been surprised if someone suggested he go for champion...
Pike sighs "Ya shouldn't of went out, ye could of died out there little matey, then what?"
Torry waves his paw in the air. "Die?"
Jake looks around the infirm and sighs, a healer comes to tend to his leg as the others talk, he frowns and looks at Torry, "Pike is right...stay inside from now on..k"
Torry lowers his ears at them requesting him to stay in. "But I killa badrat..."
Pike smile and looks between them "Ok, ummm so both stay inside, besides Bloodclaw thinks ya dead Jake. " he looks at Torry and shakes his head "You almost got stabbed Torry....hey least ya DID cut off the rat's tail, that was neat.." he chuckles and heads outside, "I am getting some food, talk later" he slips off.
