Author's note: Nothin' except the Redwall people are mine.
Malachai of Redwall
Malachai didn't use Martin's sword as much as he did his knife, he always did favor his knife. A few ferrets were trying to attack him, he cut the throat of two of them and the other one went down from a mallet striking him in the head.
"Hello Malachai." Andrew the hedgehog was standing where the dead ferret just was, he swung his mallet and hit a passing rat.
"Hello." Malachai swung his knife and killed a weasel that was trying to jump at him. Solarblade was trying to get to Deathsong on the other side of the vermin, Leafpaw was somewhere in the middle, and Malachai was at the end near the gate.
"Eulaliaaa! Blood an' vinegar!" Matt and the other hares yelled their battle cry.
"Redwaaalll!" Leafpaw yelled as she swung her sling and stabbed with her spear. Andrew fell with a spear in his chest.
"Give me that you idiot!" Deathsong yelled at a passing fox as she took his bow and arrows, she fitted one and aimed it at Solarblade.
"Solarblade look out!" Matt said. Malachai looked at Deathsong she aimed it at Solarblade but he moved and she let it fly. It hit Leafpaw in the stomach and she fell to the ground.
"Holt Fishfiiiinnnnn!" Watertail and his otters came running into the battle.
"Logalogalogalooggg!" The Guosim shrew also came into the battle. Malachai finally recovered from the shock of the arrow hitting Leafpaw. He started running, he scattered vermin left and right using Martin's sword, he didn't care about the wounds the enemy was inflicting on him he just wanted Deathsong dead. An arrow took him in the shoulder he ripped it out and broke it.
"Deathsong you die!" He was on Deathsong like a wolf that found it's prey, "This is for Leafpaw! Redwaallll!"
"Mercy! Please, I beg-" Everybeast stopped fighting to see what had just happened.
Malachai was standing over Deathsong's fallen body, Martin's sword sticking out of her chest. He began to feel weak from too much blood loss he fell over and everything went black. It was a long time before he came to; he was lying in the infirmary there were others in there too. He didn't see Leafpaw.
"You're awake!" Sister Casey said as she ran out the door she came back in with Matt and Abbess Samantha.
"We won thanks to you." Matt said, "The horde didn't know what to do after they found out Deathsong was dead, so they gave up."
"That's nice." Malachai paused and began to weep openly, "She's gone. I watched the arrow take her through the middle."
"Maybe we should tell him." Abbess Samantha said.
"Tell me what?" Malachai said trying to hold back his tears.
"Leafpaw isn't dead. In fact she's quite alive. She's in the orchard if you want to go see her." Samantha said.
"I can't I'm too weak to get up." Malachai said.
"Malachai do you know how long you have been in that bed for?" Sister Casey said pulling the covers off of him.
"No. How long?" He sat up.
"A little over a season now summer has gone and it's autumn. Solarblade left with his hares, all except for me, to go back to Salamandastron." Matt said. Malachai got up almost all of the battle wounds were gone, he went outside to the orchard, and Leafpaw was up a tree picking some early fruit.
"Malachai!" She jumped out of the tree and ran over to him, "I thought you were never going to wake up."
"I thought you were dead." Malachai said hugging Leafpaw.
"So did I, but when the arrow hit me it only got my side." She showed him the scar.
"I got hit one to many times to show you all my scars." Malachai said Leafpaw laughed.
"Let's go get you something to eat." She said they went down to the kitchens.
"Oh no! Don't cook anything please." Friar Brandon said guarding the flour.
"We're not here to cook, give Malachai something the eat he just got up from his season long slumber." Brandon gave him some soup, scones, cheese, and mint tea.
"Now get away from the kitchen you horrible cooks." He pushed Leafpaw and Malachai away from the kitchen. They went back out to the orchard to talk.
"I saw you kill Deathsong, and how you said it was for me." She said as she leaned against him, "It was very sweet of you."
"I didn't mean for it to be sweet, but if that's the way you see it." He put his arm around her.
"Well what have we here?" An old gray squirrel said.
"Malachai this is my dad, Treepaw." She said as she stood up and took her dad's paw and then took Malachai's hand.
"Hello sir." Malachai said.
"Hello Malachai, you're the human that everybeast has been talking about." Treepaw said.
"Who has been talking about me?" Malachai said as he looked at Leafpaw.
"Everybeast in Mossflower, you're the hero that saved the Abbey by defeating Deathsong with one blow, right?" Treepaw said taking his paw from Leafpaw's grasp.
"Yes." Malachai took his hand back too.
"Congratulations then." Treepaw walked off.
"Sorry, my dad is odd." Leafpaw sat down and leaned against Malachai again, he put his arm around her.
"That's okay." He looked over at some Dibbuns playing near the pond.
"Malachai what do you think about marriage?" She smiled at him.
"I don't know, depending on who's getting married." He said drinking the last of his mint tea.
"I mean us getting married." She took the beaker from him.
"It sounds great and everything." He said finally realizing she was dropping hints.
"My dad said we could marry if you asked for his permission." She said.
"Really?" He stood up and began to run.
"Yes, but where are you going?" She got up and ran after him.
"A Dibbun went out to far in the pond and can't swim to get back to shore." He ran down to the pond and jumped in with the grace of a bird with a broken wing.
"Help I!" A baby vole said, Malachai swam over and got him.
"Hold on." He said to the babe he swam back, and once again became a hero.
"Oh Dustin what am I going to do with you?" Angel, Alex's wife, said picking up Dustin, "Thank you Malachai."
"You're welcome." Malachai said, Leafpaw walked up and kissed him on the cheek, he fell backwards in to the pond.
"Come on Dibbuns time to wash up it's almost dinner time." Angel hurried the babes into the Abbey so Malachai and Leafpaw could be alone.
"What was that for?" Malachai said as he got out of the pond.
"I don't know." She said pushing him back in the pond.
"Let me out or I'm going to be too soaked to ask your dad anything." He said as he got out again.
"You are going to ask my dad?" She said, as she got ready to shove.
"Yes now I'm going to run away so I don't get pushed back in the pond." He said as ran off to the dining hall.
"Get back here you!" She ran after him, the bells tolled for dinner just as they ran into the dining hall.
"Don't worry, Matt isn't going to eat all the food." Abbess Samantha said, "Malachai go dry off."
"Okay, save me a seat Leafpaw." Malachai ran off to get dried. He came out all dried off and clean, he sat down in between Leafpaw and her father.
"Now my daughter says you have something to ask me." Treepaw said waving his paw for silence.
"Yes I do. May I have your daughter's paw in marriage?" Malachai asked.
"Well I don't know." He paused and gave it a long thought, "Okay, yes are you happy, now let me eat."
"Let's eat quickly, we have things to plan." Abbess Samantha said everybeast ate as fast as they could to plan for the wedding and the feast for Leafpaw and Malachai.
