Author's Note: Before I get any more reviews on the subject, I'd like to point out that "Get away from her, you bitch!" is a quote from the movie Aliens. It seemed appropriate.

Ch.7- Epilogue

One year had passed in Mossflower country since the Summer of the Fallen Comrade. Coll knelt in a wide, dimly lit chamber far beneath Redwall Abbey as he put the final touches on his the inscription on the wall behind which his friend lay. Behind him stood his wife Mara, watching Coll as he put down his chisel and bowed his head for a moment. He suddenly started at a small crying noise from behind.

He turned and smiled as Mara tried to hush the tiny bundle cradled in her arms, rose silently and walked over to her. He kissed her gently on the forehead and fondly stroked the headstripes of his infant son, Elm. He gently steered them out into the exit tunnel, pausing to gather the torches he had been using for light. Out in the hall, he braced himself against a large slab of rock, heaving it over the entrance to the tomb. As he slid it into place, he looked one last time at the tomb of his oldest friend and the message he had carved there. He smiled to himself and walked with his family out into the hot summer sunlight of Redwall abbey.

And as he joined the happy abbey folk, living his new life to the fullest, he felt a great weight lifted from him. Coll the Predator was dead, and now there was just Coll. No one ever discussed his past again, nor was the tomb reopened, until it was finally lost in the mists of time and forgotten.

And far below, in the darkness and silence and musty, dead air, a lonely warrior lay among the tokens of her life; forgotten but proud. Many long years she waited, until finally there was a grating noise as the slab was removed and torchlight fell once more upon the words of a friend.

Congratulations

You have found that which you have no doubt been seeking for some time. Despite my best efforts, you have come across the tomb of my friend Elmflyer. She died in defence of this Abbey, protecting it from an enemy that I can only hope you will never face. My name is Coll. If you look me up in the abbey records, you will find only that I brought the cure to a terrible Illness. That is a lie. We came to Redwall Abbey to drive away the monsters that threatened this country, and I will leave it at that. I am a Predator, like Elmflyer and thousands before us. If you have passed all the tests and riddles I have put in place to guard this tomb, you must be very determined or very desperate. Behind this wall lie Elmflyer and the weapons we both wore, along with the bodies of the monsters I have spoken of. If you choose to wear this armour, you forsake the right to friends and love. Death will follow these tools forever. I learned this too late and have given up the power so that I may lead a life of peace. If you have need of it, that power is yours. The armour cannot be destroyed, and will serve the wearer well. Be warned, though. Our weapons are to be used only to defend the weak and to destroy any threat to Redwall's future. We are the Predators. Join us.

The End.

Well, that's it. I hope you enjoyed. I'd like to get some feedback. Tell me what you think, what you like, and what you don't. I can't improve if I can't see a problem. To all those who have posted reviews, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Before I go, one last barrage of legal stuff.

ALIENS © 1986 Twentieth Century Fox. PREDATOR © 1987 Twentieth Century Fox.

ALIENS VERSUS PREDATOR © 1999 Fox Interactive and Rebellion Software, ltd.

REDWALL © 1986 Brian Jacques

Coll and Elmflyer are the mental property of S. Pipes, as are the Mouse, Hedgehog, Bankvole, and Sparrow aliens.