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Will Scarlet and Wulf were walking through the woods. They had been set the task of gathering fresh firewood as the rain that had come the previous night had dampened all the remaining firewood in the store, causing it to be unusable.

Will was like a big brother to Wulf, they had known each other ever since Wulf was born. Wulf seemed to be the only person that understood Will, everyone else just thought of him as a selfish, grumpy man who hated the rich. Ever since Robin had arrived and claimed himself leader of their small group, he had brought out the worst in Will, as every time the two were within shouting distance of each other they would start arguing over something, sometimes it was whether it was sunny or rainy that day. Whilst Will hated arguing with Robin he could never tell him the reason for his undying hate for the fellow man. Everyone presumed it was because Robin was rich and Will was not but they had no idea how wrong they were. The sound of Wulf's voice interrupted his trail of thought.

"There doesn't seem to be much firewood around here!" stated Wulf. "Maybe we should try going east where the forest is thicker, then there maybe some usable wood there."

"You're right. Lets go." replied the older man glancing down at Wulf with a half-hearted smile on his face. Wulf smiled back and then set off again, eastward. Will followed chuckling to himself as he saw what a good time Wulf was having. Will did not like doing chores or assignments, unlike his small friend who enjoyed making himself useful. One day Fanny would tell him that the only reason she sent him on errands was to keep him out of her way, not to make him happy but she and Will were to content with the way things were turning out that she saw no need to even mention it.

As Will moved deeper into Sherwood forest, it became increasingly darker and a thin layer of mist was starting to settle. He suddenly realized that Wulf was not with him any longer.. He started to quicken his pace, hurrying down the same track that Wulf had followed.

"Wulf!" he called, starting to get worried. "Wulf where are you buddy. Come on stop playing games!" When there as no reply Will started running until he got to a clearing. It was deadly silent in the clearing. This surprised Will because when he usually came to this clearing he could normally hear the sound of bird song or the occasional insect. Not even a mouse scurried or an owl flew. Nothing. He strained his ears trying to pick up even the faintest noises, but again he heard nothing. He was about to turn back, assuming that he had gone the wrong way at some point when he thought he heard what sounded like a muffled shout. He stopped, facing the in direction in which the sound had come from. But there was still nothing to be seen apart from tall oak trees and the odd scrub. He was about to dismiss it, thinking it was his imagination when the noise sounded again. This time he knew that he was not imagining things.

"Who's there?" he called into the now growing darkness. At first there was no reply but then from the direction that the noise came from, came the sound of crunching leaves. Will was just about to shout something annoying at Wulf but then he saw what was coming towards him.

A party of the Sheriff's men were coming towards him, but his attention was not drawn to something else. Just behind the men was Wulf. He was being pushed along by one of the men with a knife at his back. Will gasped as he saw Wulf's terrified expression. He drew his sword and started waving it around making sure that no one could get to him.

The men stopped about one hundred feet away. One man stepped forward, also drawing out his sword.

"Put down the sword!" the man commanded but Will only tightened his grip on it. He kept glancing at Wulf making sure that the men didn't try to hurt him.

"Never!" he shouted back, swinging the sword threateningly at the men to ward them off.

"Look I really don't have time for this! Drop you weapon or my friend here will kill the child!" the man snapped. Just then the man that had the knife pulled Wulf close to him and put the knife at his throat. Will glanced from Wulf to the lead man.

"Just let him go. He has done nothing wrong!" Will tried to reason with them but the man who had Wulf just applied a little pressure to the knife causing Wulf to gasp as the knife cut his skin slightly. Will looked desperately at the man and then dropped his sword. The lead man smiled in delight and moved closer to him. Will noticed that the man was being very cautious of him but when he got close to Will's abandoned sword he kicked it out of the way and then hurried up to Will and pointed the sword at him again.

"Turn around!" the man ordered. Will did as he was told. The man pushed him to the ground and then took Will's hands and tied them with rope behind his back. When Will tried to wriggle out of the rope the man only tied the rope tighter. Will could start to feel the blood supply to his hands being cut off. He was then pulled up by his hair so he was standing. He then felt a knife being placed at his back and he decided to do what his captors commanded. He was pushed along side Wulf and the two looked at each other, Wulf's terrified expression was now mirrored in Will's face too. He could clearly see the cut mark on Wulf's neck where his captor had put the knife. Will tried to reassure him by smiling but he knew that it was no use.

They walked on for what seemed like ages before they broke the cover of the trees. Ahead loomed the Sheriff's castle.

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