Stones of Serg
Chapter 5
Disclaimer: I do not own the concept of Redwall, nor any characters created by Brain Jacques. I created all off the characters featured in this chapter, minus the people, titles, or places of Great Hall, Cavern Hole, Friar, Recorder of Redwall, Abbot, Abbess, Sister, and Brother, and Martin the Warrior. All the names are original (I think), and so is the title of Mole Mother of Redwall.
AN: Thank you to all who reviewed! Question: Do you want me to do shout-outs to my reviewers? I will if you ask me to. Well, the following chapter is even longer than the last, so I will write no more and let you read. Also, I won't be updating until June 21 or later due to finals. So read and then review please!
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From the Records of Chever chipmunk, Recorder of Redwall. It is such a beautiful spring day outside. Our orchard is filled with growing fruits, and naughty Dibbuns too. Mother Merall, our Mole Mother here at Redwall, will be chasing them around, trying to clean all their berry stained faces. The birds of Mossflower are singing the tides of springtime. Today would be the perfect one for a Nameday Celebration, but unfortunately, there is no Abbot or Abbess to name this season, just as there wasn't one for last winter, or the autumn before that. In fact, it has been seasons since the last proper Nameday Feast.
I hear Nerdo and Trukle ringing the Matthias and Methuselah bells, calling all the good beasts of Redwall to Cavern Hole for breakfast, made by none other than our good Friar Halun. I will just wash my paws of this ink and go join them now.
Chever Recorder walked slowly out of the gatehouse, where he kept his records of all past recorders. He was joined shortly by two older mice, Sister Celma and Brother Hendo.
"Ah, it's a very beautiful morning, isn't it Chever?" Hendo asked.
"Yes indeed it is. I was just thinking of how perfect it would be to have Nameday this morning." Chever sighed. "It would have been very nice."
Sister Celma looked to the chipmunk recorder. "Did you say 'Nameday'?"
Chever looked confusingly over at the Infirmary Sister. "Yes I did Celma. Why?"
"Oh, it just reminded me of this dream I had last night."
Brother Hendo and Chever looked at Sister Celma expectantly. "Well, aren't you going to tell us of your dream?"
Mother Merall came over to them then. "Boi hokey, they dibbunses be quite a hanfuller! Could yew three gennelbeasts help me while oi gather 'em up?" she asked in her rustic mole speech.
"Why certainly we will help you Merall," Celma said instantly. Chever, Hendo, and Celma followed the Mole Mother to the orchard where the dibbuns had planted themselves (literally).
"Eeee! Noooo!" they all cried as the four adults crept up to the naughty beasts and lifted them out of the pile of their pilfered berries.
"Tch! You'm all bes dirty. You'm all getten ee bath before breekist." Merall decreed.
"No! We norra getten no baffs! We'm good likkle dibbunses, we'm is!" an incredibly cheeky mouse babe declared.
Chever chuckled as he scooped the mouse up. "Oh, you are, eh Ticbuhi? What do you think Brother Hendo? Do these look like good dibbuns to you?"
Hendo lifted a mole babe up as he replied. "Oh, I don't know Chever. They look like naughty beasts to me."
The little mole babe in his arms snorted huffily. "Hoh, we'm goodbeasts alroight! Oi'll declare we'm be ee bestest dibbunses e'er! Ain't no uther dibbunses around to compare usns to!"
"That's mole logic for you Hendo!" Celma said laughingly. "Come on, let's take them inside for breakfast. They don't need baths." All the dibbuns "hoorayed" at this and speedily ran inside to Cavern Hole.
"Not yet, anyway," Celma whispered to Merall, who chuckled and nodded her head in agreement.
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Chever sat back with a sigh. "I declare, Halun, you get better with every meal," he commented to Redwall's Friar.
"Thank you Chever," Halun replied stiffly. They had not gotten along in the past, but were able to act slightly friendly towards each other as the seasons progressed.
Chever looked contently down the table of happy Redwallers. He spotted Mother Merall, who was currently feeding the squirrel dibbun Milem, with Ticbuhi and Grolo the mole babe on either side of her. Further down sat Nerdo, the otter bell ringer, and his friend Trukle, their hedgehog bell ringer. Beside them sat Odren, Nerdo's sister and her squirrel friend Soliha. Across from them sat Swishuma, Nerdo and Odren's mother. She had a sad and mournful face ever since her husband, and Redwall's Warrior, Divlou, had died. But she smiled and waved to Chever when she noticed him looking at her.
Chever smiled back, then turned to Brother Susumolu, who sat to his right. "Poor Swishuma. We all took it pretty hard when Divlou died, but none more than her. I wish there was something we could do."
Brother Takachicko, who sat beside Susumolu, heard the chipmunk recorder. "I agree with you Chever, but what can we do? Besides, you know what they say. 'Time heals all wounds.' Eventually, Swishuma will become happier, but it will take time."
Sister Celma, who sat on the other side of Chever, joined their conversation. "What did you say Taka?"
"I said 'Eventually, Swishu-'"
"No no no. Before that."
"You mean, 'Time heals all wounds'?"
"Yes that."
Chever looked curiously at his mouse friend. "Celma, what is it?"
"What Taka said reminded me of my dream last night."
"You mean the one you were telling Hendo and me about earlier?"
"Yes. I didn't get a chance to tell you about it earlier, but I'll tell you about it now, if you still wish to hear it."
Hendo, who sat beside Celma, nodded excitedly. "Yes Celma, tell us your dream!"
"Well, I was standing in the middle of Great Hall, staring at the tapestry of Martin the Warrior. Suddenly, he stepped out of the wall-hanging and walked towards me. 'Sister Celma,' he said. 'The abbey has no leader to name the upcoming season, but that does not mean you cannot have a Nameday for it'
'Martin, I don't understand. If we don't have an Abbot or Abbess to name the season, how can we have a Nameday?' I asked, puzzled.
He replied, 'There is no Abbess yet, but keep on hoping Celma. Don't stop believing. As they say, "Time heals all wounds".'
'But Martin, I don't understand. What shall we call this season?'
'Call it…"the Spring of Hope and New Beginnings." Yes, that will work very well.'
"He said a lot more, but my memory just isn't what it used to be." Celma sighed unhappily. "I'm sorry, my friends, I can't remember anything else."
Chever patted Celma's paw sympathetically. "That's alright, my old friend. What you told us is more than enough. Besides, I'm sure Martin will let you recall what he said when the time is right."
Celma smiled at her chipmunk friend. "Thank you Chever." Then she turned to the others. "Shall we tell them the news?"
As if in answer, Brothers Susumolu, Takachicko, and Hendo jumped up like young dibbuns and announced," We're going to have a Nameday!"
The other Redwallers leaped up in joy at the wonderful news. Friar Halun and his assistants retreated into the kitchens, with the hedgehog saying, "It will be a Nameday to remember!"
The Redwallers all scattered to get the preparations for the season's feast underway. As the Mole Mother and the infirmary Sister went away with the dibbuns to tidy them up, the squirrel babe Milem asked, "Muvva Mewall, whatsa Nameday?"
Mother Merall smiled down on the youngun. "Woi, moi derre, itsa bes day o' the entoire season! There be's a bigga feast, an' singin' an' dancin' and joksers, and loighter, and everones happy as can be."
Milem's eyes shone at the thought of a feast. "I canna wait tiw Nameday!"
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