The Rescue of the Kidnapped Abbot, Part 2

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Rascal awakens to a world of /pain/. Horrible, burning pain as he is moved quite the wrong way. His paw slaps to his side and he opens his jaws wide to let out a soundless scream. He cringes and bunches up into a ball before he can take a look at his surroundings. Given that his last memory is being run through with a sword his first reaction to seeing the otter looming over him is...probably not the best, given the circumstances. "You'll never take me alive!" He shouts and swipes his claws at the otter.

Benar says, "It is indeed Tea, my captor has been nothing if not polite," He hugs Zarok's arm and steps out of the tent slowly and starts to walk. "It would appear I have an army of Vermin under the abbey Captain. I'm going to need you to come back up with me and set a guard on the tunnels until we can work out what to do next once we are above ground." Which is about when Rascal wakes up and he sighs, "Rascal do behave yourself, this is a rescue." DoraRose vanishes into the darkness with the Brother, Sister and the dibbuns, Anomen's ridulous, heroic last stand giving them more than enough time to get away.

Chud runs off into the tunnels after most of the party, conking a few vermin in the head on his way. He knows they'll need his navigation skills to get back above ground. Zarok meanwhile walks with Benar, daring with his eyes for any martens to get close.

Anomen manages to stab one marten that gets too close, another one was hit in the forehead with a rock and falls over unconcious. He gulps as he has indeed distracted guards and backs off a little more as he looks back to see Dora and them get away and vanish from sight.

"Oy, calm yerself, ye dumb lug. I'm rescuin' ye." Lee glares, dodging the swipes. He glances at Benar. "Leave? Oy, not ta be disrespectful, Benar, but as the 'ead o' security, this is a *severe* threat ta the safety o' Redwall. With all due respect, I am not doin' me duty if I don't put a stop ta this, right now." He is loath to admit that Benar is right. Lee is hopelessly outnumbered. “ Plus, DoraRose, John, an' Anomen are all still lost down 'ere, I cannot leave 'em behind."

Benar turns to look at Lee and his eyes grow flat and steely, "That is an order Lee, Martin needs you up above now. You cannot take out the king and all his minions on your own. Dora and Anomen will find their way above ground and John can take care of himself. The Abbey needs its head of Security doing his job above ground securing the Abbey that bastard is planning to lead troops through the tunnels into the grounds. I need you up there defending our walls." He walks along beside Zarok, picking up the speed, "Now come along all of you."

"Rescue? You call this a rescue? This...this..." The fox stammers for a while until he gets his barring. His eyes widen out and tears roll down his cheeks, "You're really here to rescue us? REALLY?" The fox moves to hug the otter, but cramps up again, clutching his side. He rolls onto his side, then weakly tries to get up. "We need to get out of here...they...they are mad beasts! Mad I tell you! They, they stabbed me! They even thought I was the champion and...and they made Benar cuss! Holy beasts don't cuss, do they? Why is everything so wobbly..."

One guard near Anomen goes to try and grab the squirrel's tail, while others are a bit further away from him.

Zarok gnashes his teeth a few times, getting a bit of a bloodthirsty aspect to him. The battle calls to him, but he /must/ stay with Benar. "I kill something," he mumbles.

"That's enough o' ye, fox." Lee uses the hilt of his sword to try and knock Rascal out cold again. "Ye talk too much, sorry." He picks up the pace, slinging Rascal over his left shoulder. "Kill later, Zarok...Benar is right, we must go while the guards are distracted at the other end of camp."

The fox let's out a muffled yelp as he is knocked out again, by his rescuer no less. No doubt Rascal will have words with the head guard, when he awakens again, but for the moment he hangs limply as he is carried off to relative safety, eyes flickering open and closed as he drifts between alertness and unconsciousness.

Anomen elbows the guard in the jaw as most of the tail fur is taken off and then dashes forwards, he tenses up as an arrow sinks into his back, where it hits it’s unclear, he stumbles but makes it to the tunnel, he fights the urge to pass out and proceeds...get above ground he thinks...get there.

Zarok shakes his head a little, fighting back his predatory instincts and the memories brought on by being underground. He mutters to himself in the Southern Lizard tongue.

Benar holds Zarok arm and leads him through the tunnels, "You can fight another day my son for now get me back above ground." With that the parties converge on the tunnel to the surface, Dora and the dibbuns with Dorothy and Theoidore and the Abbot and the guards! All of them returning quickly to the surface.

Lee runs along with Rascal flung over his shoulder. "Alright, Chud, I trust ye can get us out of 'ere, work yer magic."

Chud nods as he emerges from the pack. Zarok is shaking a bit, then he focuses, and calms down, clinging to Benar tightly. "Okay every beast, follow me," Chud announces. He goes to light a torch, decides he doesn't have time, and instead darts off into the gloom, occasionally pausing to check his memories of where they turned, or which route they took. Unerringly, with occasional guidance from Zarok, he navigates the tunnels, being careful not to leave any beast behind.

Anomen walks slowly and trips once, but he gets back up as he refuses to let himself lose consciousness down here. He weakly and wobbly stands and gets closer to the surface, he falls when he is almost to the surface and is now not too far ahead of Lee and Chud oddly, he groans and falls forward, how he got this far with an arrow in his back is anyone's guess, but he may not be getting any further without help as his eyes start to droop some.

Lee does indeed find Anomen, actually. "Oy, some beast, I found Anomen! I...I think 'e's been shot! Some beast carry 'imp!"

Chud and Zarok are both too busy navigating to carry Anomen, but Zarok helps lift him initially. "We better keep moving," Chud says. "Lee, can you take him?"

Lee takes the unconscious squirrel over his right shoulder. "Alright, let's move!"

Anomen feels himself lifted up and starts to panic at first, well weakly panic till he gets a blurred look at Lee and Benar and then passes out fully.

The abbey beasts quickly get to the surface and a couple novice healers do some checking on them. A couple order members help get Anomen to the infirm. Also it looks like a guard will be keep at Benar’s side and guard his door as well.

To the infirm =

Anomen is carried to the infirm, but he still has the arrow in his back as others were afraid to remove it, least it make it worse.

Leon has been told Anomen was here and frowns as he gets into the infirm and takes a deep breath "Ok, this will take some time as we don't want him to get any worse, if he is to be saved your all gonna listen to me and listen well" The healers on duty nod to the Master Healer. " Alright..someone find Angela as well" He also lists off varies herbs, a couple other items as he gets his surgery knife and gets into serious healer mode, this will take a while but he will do what he can to save the squirrel’s life.

Rayen is meanwhile on another cot, still in her own deep faint, she doesn’t seem to be getting any better either and maybe worse even, it’s hard to say just yet as only time will tell.

Anomen is worked on and slips into a deep faint. The arrow barely missed his heart, just barely as it was resting against it slightly. A lung was bruised, but luckily not ripped open. The arrow did enter where his spinal cord is, damaging it some but not totally so there is a chance, maybe small, it could heal but it will be very swollen before that.

Leon keeps alert and with help he does slowly remove the arrow, it seems to take forever, in fact a good 2-3 hours and he carefully tends to the wound, applying herbs for swelling and infection and with a skilled paw and tail, yep tail, he sews the wound shut and steps back "That’s all we can do for now, if he survives though the next 24 hours his chances of survival go up by a good deal, but sadly his chancing of surviving the night is dangerously low. It’s in Martens paws now.." He decides now to go check on the others, whether they want a checkup or not they will be getting one, all of the ones that went down there and the other ones that was captive. Yes a couple other novice healers had checked them, but it’s the Master Healer's job to make double sure of things, then and only then will he go to bed for the night.

Anomen lays on the cot, banded up and in a deep deep faint, they will know in the morning if he survived or not, or if he passed on to the dark forest or not....

The beasts of the abbey all seem to either be asleep or maybe having some trouble sleeping, it’s been a long day today indeed.