One Reason To Hate Air Travel!
In the woods on the way back to Redwall, only they find trouble or it finds them rather before they can get home=
Thunderwing flew carefully through the air, the reason being his passengers on his back, so he needed to be careful, “Mouse Friend doing okay ya?”
Leon nods, he was slowly, very slowly starting to get over being so high up and it did seem the best way to travel, or maybe least the fastest way to travel to drop something off at the nearby Ferravale, “Yes, just…just trying to stay calm, mice are not meant to fly you know”
Caleb is rather enjoying this, “This is cool, you can see a lot of the woods!”
Another beast along for the ride was a novice by the name of Pine, he was a shrew” I rather like it Brother Leon its relaxing and one can see a lot up here, you could even spot places where herbs could be like a stream or stump quicker and easier”
Thunderwing grins best a bird can, “Lots and Lots for friendbeasts to see up here is ya”
Leon sighs “Novice Pine…I rather not be reminded of the fact we are thousands of feet up in the air.” He has yet to look down; he has just looked ahead, at Thunderwing’s neck feathers or closed his eyes all together the past half an hour they have been flying.
Pine frowns, “Sorry sir I just find this exciting. Nothing much happens that’s exciting for me it’s read the books, study the scrolls, learn this and that and oh let’s NOT forget about chores”
Caleb speaks “Chores are part of a novice job and it helps you find something you like to do”
Thunderwing just clacks his beck and flies on; he looks down every so often. ”Thunderwing love flying”
Leon shrugs “You’re a bird Thunderwing so it makes since.”
On the forest floor they have been watched for a little while, the wildcat smirks at his new main archer beast “That’s the badger’s bird, I say it gets shot from the sky.” He notes the beasts and a smile forms “Oh yes indeed, he needs…grounded” The archer nods and takes aim, then fires the arrow.
Pine chuckles” What bird dislikes flying?”
Thunderwing is about to answer when the fired arrow enters his left wing and he starts flapping and losing attitude..”Friendbeasts hold tightfast!!”
Leon’s eyes widen as he grabs a hold of feathers and has totally lost any calmness he managed to gather. His good paw and tail grip on even as he slowly slides a little.
Caleb frowns and hangs on,he looks to where his father is”Dad!”
Pine grabs ahold of Leon’s middle, “Hold on Brother Leon I got you!!”
Zurrgg watches with a sense of his own version of excitement and chuckles as he aims the crossbow and fires “GOING DOWN!!!!!!!!”
Leon has fear, true fear “WAIT!..Who has you then if you have me!!!” He can only hope Pine has ahold of something besides him.
Thunderwing makes a loud eagle call as the bolt at least misses his chest but it further messages up wing and he tries his best to avoid crashing anywhere near the wildcat and aims to land near some sort of clearing, he goes to grab the three beasts before they would fall and slings them to a nearby tree just as he crashes and rolls , destroying a thorn bush in his pathway and leaving a trail of blood before he comes to a stop and groans weakly.
Pine eeps as he is about to fall off, well death by falling is nothing he ever wanted and then his grip tightens on Leon and he feels a..tree branch? He grabs it and yelps as the jerking motion hurts his arm, is other hopefully holds Leon’s good paw.”Br..Brother Leon?”
Leon has a tight hold on Pine’s paw as they seemly fall from the sky and yes he will most likely have nightmares about this for a couple nights. He gulps and tries to swing and land on a lower branch and barely avoids falling ”I..I..I’m fine, you hurt? Where is……” And he sees him ”Thunderwing!!”
Caleb gasps and lands roughly into the tree and shivers, He then errks he loses his grip and quickly grabs another branch, somehow he didn’t fall too far. He slowly edges to the trunk that’s very near him, then down before he does fall.
Zurrgg watches from where he is and chuckles, “I say that was fun. But we have other matters to tend to if we are to cause suffering and pain, I do hope it was seriously injured and others were as well. I do hope Zee Winters learns of this soon.” He nods to the archer and he and the archer start to head away from where the crash happened, serious injury he hopes for and in his mind death be even better. He smirks “I have a much…better idea”
Thundering’s left wing has an arrow in it and his right has the cross bolt right at the elbow or where wing meets shoulder blade sort of area. It barely missed the main blood vessel in the neck and any closer to the chest it could of got his heart or lung. He has cuts on his face and chest as it is from the crash and blood drips from his wounds as he weakly groans and then loses consciousness
Leon frowns and gulps as he gets a little lower and then losses his grip but falls into a pile of muddy leaves and shakes off the leaves and mud and looks for “Pine..Caleb!”
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Pine panics a little when he sees Leon fall, he manages to ease himself down slowly “Brother Leon are you ok?” He asks as he goes over quickly to his teacher.
Thunderwing is passed out and in fairly bad shape. It will be hard to move him, but move him they may have to do if he is to survive and staying in this area could prove a danger with the wildcat and his helpers around.
Leon nods “Yeah just muddy and my back is a little sore but it’s fine. Nothing broken, you?”
Pine smiles “I am fine”Then he frowns “But I don’t think the eagle is ok at far, rather far from ok”
Leon nod and goes to check Thunderwing, take the arrow out but the cross bolt will need more work, he digs in his pack for bandages and his surcoat for herbs he needs.
Pine coughs and looks over at Leon “What…now Brother Leon?”
Caleb is still by the tree and stays beside it.
Leon is quiet and then looks around “First try and stay quiet, 2nd we need to do what we can here but also keep an eye out for whoever did this” He looks around for Caleb “And stay close, Caleb has to be close” Least he hopes he is.
Thunderwing breaths in and out slowly, he is alive but still needs serious help to stay alive.
Pine nods and looks at the eagle, he frowns as he knows very little on helping a large bird as he has only begun learning healing arts.
Leon quietly and carefully checks Thunderwing’s wounds and sighs softly. He adjusts his surcoat he keeps with him, least he has made it so the surcoat is water proof so keeps things like herbs, many herbs in the many varies pockets, dry. He learned it was waterproof a while back. Healer mode time as he tries his best to tend to the wounds he can.
What he doesn’t see is the wildcat that slips behind the shrew and lays a sword at his throat, a tail flicks and his couple dozen beasts, well 22 but whatever, surround the 3 beasts and their leader.
Caleb starts to head over to the two beasts and then stops when he sees Zurrgg and quickly hides behind a bush and gulps slightly.
Pine gasps “ B..B….Brother Leon….” His voice sounds stressed.
Leon still has his back to him “Novice Pine…please be quiet it’s important as it’s gonna be sun down soon and….great Dorarose is most likely worried sick by now”
Zurrgg speaks “Yes Novice Pine do be quiet so Brother Leon can try and save the downed eagle, Most likely a fail but one never knows. Maybe he can…save it” He chuckles, a not so nice chuckle.
Leon slowly turns around and stays fairly calm “Well……you must be Zurrgg then..how interesting to meet you.” His brave front slowly starts to fail seeing the other vermin, “ You..look, just release the novice please..”
Pine has lost his brave front a while ago as a small whimper escapes him.
Zurrgg grins and bows even “That would be me, yes.” He keeps the sword at Novice Pine’s throat “Release him, why is that may I ask?”
Caleb stays hidden in the brush and can only watch too many vermin to make a run for it.
Leon takes a deep breath “He is a novice of Redwall.”He stays fairly calm and glances over at Thunderwing briefly.”If you harm one..hair on his head , I will make sure the abbey knows your close and what you did as I am fairly sure you’re the cause of what happen to the eagle.”
An unseen figure keeps an eye on the wildcat, but remains hidden from sight for the time being.
Zurrgg chuckles “You will.? Ok then, fine...fine. I won’t harm a hair on the novice, warrior’s honor.” He then plucks a hair , letting it drift away in the wind” I choose that hair, I won’t harm –that- hair” He stands oddly silent, the blade then is pushed into the novice’s throat and slide across and he drops the novice and smiles coldly ”As for any other part of him, well that’s fair game is it not” He smirks “Oh and yes..I grounded the eagle.”
Pine has the look of total fear and tenses as the single head fur is pulled out. The next most likely seems to happen in slow motion but it’s really a mere second or two and the novice is dead.
Leon looks on in horror, he wants to scream but nothing comes out he just stands there in utter shock.
Caleb sadly can’t hold back a scream, well so much for hiding. He tries to make a run for it, get to the abbey is the only thing in is mind!
Zee steps into view now, “That’s enough Zurrgg. Tis me ya want not some other beasts, your days of harming will come to an end!”
Zurrgg ears flatten as he growls low, he then smirks as he nods and a group of vermin go to attack Zee and a couple go to grab Leon and Caleb.
Someone else is hidden, up in a tree very close to Zurrgg now, in fact behind him as he looks on and frowns. He stays quiet and still and stays very alert.
Zee manages to behead two rats before a fox gets a good hit on his lower right arm, but he manages to block two other swings. A stoat joins the fox, as well as a couple weasels and the old badger finds it harder to fend them off. He kicks one weasel in the gut and it tumbles backwards. He growls as another fox joins in the fighting and he slashes and swings, barely blocking a couple blades. He gets a punch to the jaw once and is slammed into a tree, the wind knocked from him. He drops the blade and groans.
Zurrgg smirks, “Well this was fun..step back while I finish this”
Leon is easily grabbed and struggles some, as Caleb is grabbed as well he frowns, this is not good and what of Thunderwing as he was not able to tend to the eagle much, not that he could do much right now .
Then dropping from the tree is a small badger, he gets the large blade and holds it “Ya leaves my Uncle alone!!! Or I hurt you!!” He almost falls backwards but he manages to hold the blade in both paws and swing it once, though he needs serious practice!
Zee blinks and he still has the wind knocked from him…”X..Xander….No..Run….” He knows he can’t defend too well right now. Out of breath and his chest hurts now, his arm is bleeding and he has a stab wound in his leg.
Zurrgg only chuckles and goes to grab the blade, he is a wildcat and has strong muscles. ”Let me hold this before you cut yourself, you have spunk, I like that in the right paws that could be powerful” His next move may or may not result in pain for either him or the small badger. He goes to grab the badger cub and twirl him around so the blade, if he has it, is at his throat.
Leon can only frown,”Caleb..stay still or least try to”
The only thing Caleb does is nod, there is no way he is risking death.
Xander tries to stab Zurrgg’s paw and then bite it as the blade is from his paw and he is yanked forwards, but once he feels the blade at his throat he stops and becomes fearful.
Zee ‘s eyes widen, he coughs and has regained some of his breath but he will not risk any beasts life, “Noo…please, he is just a cub”
Zurrgg hisses as a finger is cut off, but then he chuckles as he has the dibbun in his control. The loss of a finger is not too bad as an insane smile forms.“This is familiar isn’t old fool? But it was Bora’s paw on this blade and at the throat of your..son, yes that didn’t end well did it. You know what I have an idea. I will let you recover from this and the young cub stays with me as my guest, and the younger mouse as well” He points to Caleb and smiles coldly, “You and the healer mouse can try, most likely in vain, to save the eagle. Then again it may be too late, it surely is too late for poor Novice Pine. The badger cub and mouse will be my guest, they will stay alive providing you don’t come looking for me, or anyone come looking for me. I will talk to you in couple days’ time and you will listen to me.”He offers a cold smile “It be a shame to have family blood on this sword again I am sure.” He nods to the vermin with him “Let’s move out. Release the healer mouse and let him tend to injuries….” He looks back to Zee, “We will see one another soon Zee Winters.” And with that he and his slightly shorter group, 19 now, leave the area with two captives, Caleb and Xander, and Zee’s blade.
Leon frowns even though he is released, the vermin still have his son, he quickly goes over to Zee.
Xander to wail as he is carried off.
Zee frowns as tears go down his face, he manages to speak”Thunderwing..tend to him first Brother Leon..I ..I can get me self up” He slowly stands and gets a bandage from the first aid kit he has with him and bandages the wound tightly, it will be fine till he gets back to the abbey.
Thunderwing has good deal of blood, but he has stopped bleeding as the small bit of tending to did help stop further bleeding, but he will still need the cross bolt slowly taken out as the arrow was easy. He will take a while to recover and he won’t be flying anywhere for a long while. He will live.
Leon frowns and goes to check Thunderwing, the only thing helping him not get emotional is being healer mode to best help Thunderwing, “Need to make a stretcher…ok and you need tended to as well Zee when we get to the abbey”
Zee frowns “I..I am sorry Leon.I…this is not a good thing”
Leon nods “I know..I know but right now we need to get to the abbey ok? Get you and Thunderwing to the infirm and then we can let others know what happen .”
Zee only nods slowly and helps to make a stretcher for the eagle and will help best he can to get Thunderwing to the abbey.
Leon makes sure Zee doesn’t do too much and the two will slowly get to the abbey, then the infirm. From there they will explain what happen.
