Chapter 8

All of them had been running for a long time, until they reached the whispering dunes at the edge of the woods, where the wind blows through the sands, blowing and whispering, to the shores of the sea, at the mouth of the Mossflower river. Tyra, Tuthine, Kessa, Tulia, Sassy, Muddy and Vicy all collapsed at the edge of the sea, after three long days of dodging seabirds and toads. Then, out of the night, a huge shadow loomed over the tidline, causing all of them to leap up and run back as the sound of something hitting the shoreline sounded behind them.

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The vermin patrol carried on headlessly, crashing over dunes and sand. They ran onward, not wanting to return empty-pawed to Predak and her troops.

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Ubel Bicharia, cap'n of the ship Bloodfarl, lept to the sand. He joined his crew chasing the young ones, the screaming and shouting crew that ran relentlessly towards the seven that pounded the sand ahead of them.

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Tyra knew that it would be immpossible to outrun the Searats, none of them having the stamina or speed to run across the sands. Then, looming out of the shadows in front of them, was the vermin patrol.

"Everyone! Run to the left!" she shouted, desprite to get her friends out of what she had gotten them into.

They ran to the left, being closely followed by the searats who were hot on their trail. The patrol just ran in circles, wondering where the shout had come from.

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All of the young ones had thought that they had escaped the searats, untill they were cut off by a few searats on all sides, soon supported by their crewmates. Tyra and her friends bunched together in a tight knot, no one knowing what would come.

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Breton was trying to get the moles to band together to help them get rid of the dangerouse catapult. The moles were not cooperative, but had their own plan.

"Burr, zurr Breton," Foremole said. "We diggum tunnel to da catathing and slice throw it wid yer zword, zurr, and fer dat we'll need yer cooperation."

In the end, Breton gave in. Their plan was much better than his was, anyway. They left Cavern Hole to begin their plan.

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It was not Tyra who began the fighting between they and the searats, but the terrible duo Muddy and Vicy. Now, after a few minutes, all but Tuthine, Tyra and Tulia were standing, and the searats had Kessa and the terrible duo in a deathlock, scimitars and knives ready to kill if the three did not give in immidiatly.