Author's note: You know it all already.
Micah the Warrior
Micah and Maelynn were the first to wake; the badgermaid was the next to wake up. It was a rainy morning and it was real quiet. A fox came over and smiled cruelly at them.
"No need to wake up, slaves. The rain has got everything all wet; consider yourselves lucky." She said as she opened the pen and put the their food in a small bucket, "One more thing, I need the human to come with me."
"Why?" Micah said.
"We're going to have a tea party." The vixen said sarcastically she added, "You're need to move a few things."
"Okay." Micah followed the fox in to a small soldier's hut; there was nothing but female horde members in it.
"He's so cute." A weasel remarked to a stoat that nodded in agreement. A large ferret stood up and shook Micah's hand.
"I'm Devina the Destroyer, Konker the Killer's mate." She said as she let go of his hand, "It's nice to have somebeast actually worth looking at here. Is there anything you want? Konker will never find out about our little meeting."
"How about double rations for the slaves?" Micah asked looking at the paintings and pretty rocks that hung on the walls.
"How about freedom for all the slaves?" She said waving her paw, a few of the members brought food and drink.
"Freedom, what's the catch?" Micah said suspiciously, she pushed a plate of food to him.
"You must bring me too." She took her beaker and drank deeply from it.
"What?" Micah said pushing the plate back.
"I'm also like a prisoner, I hate it here. Konker took me from my perfect home; I'm a gentle farmer. My really name is Melody he killed my sister Mallory." She looked at Micah's shocked expression, "He made me his mate and we had a son, but Konker said he was a threat to his power and had him killed. Nobeast but you and my own troop of females know of this plan we are about to put in action, will you take me with you?"
"Yes, but what about your troops?" Micah put his food and drink in a sack a rat brought him.
"They are free to go as they please just as long as they do no harm to anybeast." She got up and went over to a table that had a map of Bloodbath on it, "Come here, I will show you my plan."
"Okay." Micah got up and went over to where the map was.
"See these lines, they're tunnels my troops have dug. There is lots of them as you can tell, do you know anybeast that could act as a diversion?" She traced the lines with her claws.
"Yes the badger in the slave pen." Micah said.
"Flowerstripe." She sad as she pointed to the center of the parade ground on the map, "Have her go out and make all the noise she can here and have it done today."
"Okay." He watched as she ran her claw over the largest line.
"Now you must go, tell nobeast of our plans." She put the map up and signaled for the fox that had brought him in to take him back to the slave pen. When he got the everybeast questioned him about his little meeting.
"Look I had to move a few heavy things." He looked at Flowerstripe, "You need to go out to the center of the parade ground and make as much noise as you can. Got that?"
"Yes but what about the rest?" She said as the fox took her out of the slave pen.
"We'll be around." Micah said as Flowerstripe and the fox left for the parade ground. It took a few minutes before she could put up enough anger to throw her in a howling rage. She screamed and stomped on the ground, the entire horde came out to see what was happening. Devina got all her female troops together and went to the slave pen.
"Hurry, follow us." She said as she waved for them to come out.
"No vermin!" Maelynn said.
"Trust them, come on we don't need to waste time." Micah said as he followed Devina, all the slaves, including Maelynn followed too. Devina showed them a large hidden tunnel.
"Go in here I'll catch up with you all later, I must get Flowerstripe." She went off to the parade grounds; some of the horde members were cruelly beating Flowerstripe to get her to stop. Devina ran out to her and acted like she was putting her back in the pen; she whispered, "I'm with Micah and your friends just come with me and act like you resisting me."
"Okay." Flowerstripe whispered back, they went to the tunnel that the other went in and crawled in.
"We must do this quickly because the tunnel might cave in." Devina said as she pushed the badgermaid through the hole and crawled in, they got out on the other side behind some rocks. Micah was standing there when they got out.
"We hid over near a cliff a ways from here." He said as he helped Devina out, they went to the cliff. There was a large well-hidden cave everybeast was inside.
"This is a very nice cave, who found it?" Flowerstripe said looking around at the sketches on the wall.
"I did," Maelynn said, "This is my old home."
"What are all these drawings?" Micah said.
"Nothing really, just pictures the little ones used to draw. Look I drew that mouse with the fat nose; it was a picture of my dad." She went over and sat down.
"We have to fight against Konker or he will enslave others." Devina said getting up and walking around everybeast, "He will not rest until we are found and killed, we must fight against him."
"But how? We only have about half his horde number." A hedgehog said.
"It's not the amount that is needed it's how well we fight. We must pick out a name for our little army." She looked around.
"How about Fangs and Freedom fighters?" Maelynn said Devina smiled.
"That's a wonderful name." She said as she went over and sat next to her, "We need to get our army ready for battle and forage for food."
"We also need to make weapons." Flowerstripe said.
"Good thinking." Devina pulled out a long dagger and placed it on the floor, all the other ex-Bloodbath troops put their weapons with the dagger. A small group of slaves went out to do look for some food and supplies. Micah went out and found long sapling trees of some kind and took them back to the cave.
"Can we use these for anything?" He said as he put the saplings down, Maelynn went over and examined them; she got a knife and some string that had been found on the beach.
"Yes we can, now leave me be so I can work." She said as she began cutting the ends off one.
"Sure thing." Micah said as he went outside again, a rat came running past him carrying a basket made out of Devina's old cloak it was filled with berries and button mushrooms.
"Micah come quick we found something!" Flowerstripe said as she ran down the beach, on the other side of the cliff in a little inlet was a large ship that had been wreaked. Micah stared at the beautiful ship it was green and blue with large green sails that were ripped.
"Come on let's board this beauty." Devina said as she grabbed a rope that was hanging off the side she climbed up, "Come on we haven't got all season.
"We're coming." Micah and Flowerstripe climbed up too. They looked around.
"We hit it big this time." Flowerstripe said as she walked out on the main deck.
"Why?" Micah and Devina asked.
"There's a weapon storage ton and tons of weapons. It looks like we won't need to make them now." She went and show the other two what she had found. There were enough weapons to supply Konker's horde two times. Micah went into another room and found food, fresh food.
"This stuff looks fresh." He said as Devina nodded.
"I'm guessing this wreak happened only a half a season ago or so." She said as she got a plate down that had dried fruits on it.
"Help me." A ghostly voice called to them from anther room in the ship, it caused Devina to drop the plate; Flowerstripe came running in, "Help meeeeee."
"What was that?" She said. Micah began following the voice in to the main cabin he had to ram the door down because it was locked, a large male wildcat was lying on a bed, and he looked almost starved.
"What happened?" Micah said as he sat down next to the bed.
"I was an oar slave for this ship, it was called Plunderwake but when we slaves got free we killed all the searats and named it Sailfree. There was a terrible storm out at sea and we wreaked here everybeast got out except me, they thought I was out and locked this cabin because of the treasure in here and they don't want to share it with anybeast." He coughed and sighed, "I haven't had food in awhile can you get me some so I can get some strength up?"
"I'll get some." Flowerstripe said as she went to go get him some food.
"What is your name?" Devina said.
"I'm Whitetail the Wild, also known as Ratdeath for all the rats I killed in battle." He said, "If you want to know how I got here I'll tell you."
"Okay but first our names, I'm Micah, this is Devina, and the badgermaid is Flowerstripe." Micah said just as Flowerstripe came in with food and drink for Whitetail.
"Konker the Killer traded me, a bunch of other slaves, and Plunderwake to the searats for Castle Bloodbath so that's how I became an oar slave." Whitetail ate greedily and drank the entire flagon of water in one gulp.
"Would you like to help us Whitetail?" Devina said.
"Help you with what?" He asked.
"To destroy Konker the Killer." Flowerstripe said, he got up and smiled devilishly.
"Yes I'd like to get a hold of him and rip him to shreds." He ate the rest of the food they gave him and went to a table and banged on it, a small scrap of paper fell out from under it, "I made an oath that I will kill Konker one day, let us go."
"Right!" The four friends got the food and some of the weapons and went back to the cave. Micah thought he heard some of Konker's troops but he dismissed the thought.