"Why...why me?"
"It had to be me."
"I had to become the vessel..."
"And no one will even look me in the eye anymore, after what I've done..."
"After what I've been through..."
Chapter 1
"Mattimeo!" shouted a rather bloated mouse, namely Friar Klaus. He was a slightly comical sight, with his head seemingly too small for his plump, round body. His legs were barely visible under his fatty bulk. His feet were like clodhoppers with sandals on the bottom, and he had what looked like carrot cream on his face and robe, which was actually mixed wines, foods, and other edible mess. He had a messy grayish-orange coat of fur that was tangled and curled almost everywhere. Whoever looked at him would probably laugh...
But the urge would be taken away by the urgency displayed on his face.
"Mattimeo!" screamed Klaus, his voice now riddled with frightened gasps.
"Your father! He's outside fighting some kind of...some...monster!
Mattimeo was the new warrior mouse of Redwall Abbey as of twelve years from the time he had defeated Slagar the Cruel. Slagar was a demonic and cunning fox that attempted to steal all of the children from Redwall. He plummeted to his death over a gaping pit after Matthias, Mattimeo's father, interfered.
Mattimeo had not heard the call from Friar Klaus within his room in Redwall Abbey, which was peaceful. He and nearly everyone else in the abbey were completely unaware of the beast outside in the courtyard that was fighting Mattimeo's father, Matthias. Matthias was bleeding all over, sealing his fate, but he kept fighting for as long as his last breath would last. He knew he was fighting against the invincible, but he would keep fighting to save Redwall. He leapt toward the demon, a piercing cry just barely making it's way from his mouth as he jumped one final time;
"Reeeeeedwaaaall!"
With that and Martin's mighty sword by his side, he slew the threat by slicing it in half.
And then his eyes glazed over one last time.
Just before his untimely death.