Ok I am helping Redwall with yet another story and with out further a-due here is her story!
A light brown mouse was helping his wife prepare supper for their 4 hungry children. It seemed as though the two youngest Timothy and Cynthia ate more than Martin and Teresa. The male mouse's name was Jonathan Frisby. He was an extremely smart mouse who could read and write. His wife Elizabeth was a mouse of dark brown fur. She was of average intelligence she could only read a little, but she was a devoted wife and mother. And Jonathan never tried to act superior because of his intellect. He was a loving father and a devoted husband. But still he did have his secrets, there were some things that he felt his wife would not understand. Or if she knew the truth, she might leave him and the children. Still, even with his secret their marriage was a happy one. After he finished helping his wife prepare supper he said:
"I have to go out dear. My friend mister Ages needs help with a project of his."
"I wish he didn't ask for your help at night!" Mrs. Frisby said "You know that is when mister Fitzgibbon's cat Tiger is let out."
"I'll take the greatest care." Jonathan assured his wife "Besides you know that Mister Ages is the Doctor for all the animals in the woods. So, the only time I can help him with his projects is at night."
This statement was only partially true. Mister Ages was indeed a doctor for the wild animals, but there was another reason why Jonathan had to help him at night. And that involved the secret.
Mrs. Frisby resigned herself to the fact that it would be pointless to continue arguing about things she didn't understand. But she made her husband promise to watch out for the cat should he see it, in avoid it. He promised and left. At supper the children asked where their father was and Mrs. Frisby said that he would be back by morning.
Jonathan Frisby HAD gone to see mister Ages, but it was to get a sleeping powder to put into the cat's food. The project that Mister Ages was involved in, had Jonathan Frisby putting himself in grave danger. But he did it to help his friends the rats. On this night, a rat with a black eye patch was with him. And he spoke his concerns aloud:
"Jonathan I don't like you taking these risks. It was fine when you were single but you have a wife and kids to think about. You should not be taking these risks."
"Nicodemus, without you and the others I would not have this life. I am willing to take the risk."
With that he crawls through a hole that is small enough only for a mouse. He puts the sleeping powder in the cat food, but unfortunately the cat saw him and killed him. Nicodemus was saddened by this, but he couldn't tell Mrs. Frisby what happened since she didn't know the secret. But he resolved to help her some way in the future. But Mrs. Frisby did know that the cat must have got her husband somehow because he never came back.
Author note this is my adaptation of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. When I heard that they were making a new Secret of Nimh movie I wanted to tell my own version of it. I will also do stories based on the sequel books. Also I have permission from the Masked Bard to do a sequel to Abigail and the Rats of Nimh so keep an eye out for it.