Lady Icebright stomped through the trees, massive mace and chain swinging in her prodigious paws. She paused, and Furgale bumped into her. He peeked a look at what was in front of her. "Oh my aunt's mittens!"

ShadowSong lay over the rock she was on, the slain Juska Leader on the other. A stone was lodged in his throat, and a deep red patch on his chest revealed a stabbing. ShadowSong looked up at the hares and badger and whispered in a hoarse voice: "Who are you?"

Lady Icebright, seeing that the wolf was a goodbeast, helped her up. A slash was across the she-wolf's tunic, slicing the dense fur slightly.

ShadowSong ignored the wound and quickly asked, "Have you seen a searat in a green tunic and a seer fox recently? I must know!"

Lady Icebright was about to answer when a yell from the troops issued out. "Rat!"

Icebright turned to see that Furgale had crossed blades with a searat, no other than Surugial SeaBlade!

A hare, Sunspur, drew her blade to defend the recruit, but a whisper in the trees caught her attention. She threw her blade, a dirk, and heard a juicy thud. Running over, she found a fox, very strangly clad, covered in seer's clothing. Picking her blade out, she spat on the vermin and ran back to the fighting.

Suru was putting up a good fight, but compared to Furgale, he was slow and clumsy. Long Patrol training ad quickened him. However, his blade kept getting caught on trees, the two rocks and the ground. As the young hare stumbled, Suru swiftly lashed his whip around his opponent's footpaw, and lunged with his blade.

Furgale swiftly moved out of the ways, coiling with whip and then loosing it, so it curled around the siletto. Suru yelped in surprise, an fell. Furgale thrashed the searat with his new found weapon, taunting, "Up on your paws, ratty!"

Suru snarled, hastily getting up, "By the end of this battle, your tunic will be mine, like your life!"

Furgale was ready on his footpaws, gibing the searat. "No thanks, you sea scum," he snapped, "and I'll have your life at my footpaws!" With that, he tensed, sensing what the rat was going to do next.

Suru yelled, and sprung at the hare. Furgale leapt aside, and as Suru was slashing at air, the hare plunged his blade in the searat's back. Standing over the rat, he growled to the dying rat, "See the Dark Forest gates, louse-ridden rat!"

The captain of the ship CrabCarcass stared into the darkening sky, seeing the gates behind film sheathed eyes.

The battle was won, at a price. A burial done during sunset. Three shrews and an otter were slain in the fighting.

Abbess Mhera sadly patted the flowers on a shrew's grave. Getting up, she sat next to Deyna at the edge of the Abbey pond.

"How many were lost of the vermin?"

Deyna flicked a pebble across the pond. It skated three times before it sank.

"All, except the leaders- I don't know where they are."

Mhera looked at the Abbey building. "Where is the wolf, ShadowSong?"

Deyna looked at his sister in some slight surprise. "I thought you knew."

Mhera stood up, dusting her green robe off. "Perhaps-"

The oaken door to the Abbey walls banged. A male beast yelled, "Open up, you chaps and chappesses!"

Boorab leapt up, then winced. He had suffered from a leg wound. Wobbling over to the gate, he shouted back. "Who are you, sah? Name and rank!"

A stern female voice sounded out. "ShadowSong StarGlaive of the Moonsky wolf pack!"

Boorab knew that voice and name; he threw the doors open.

An amazing sight met the Abbeydwellers eyes. The Long Patrol of hares, ten deep and a hundred wide, were outside the Abbey walls. In the front of all them was a black wolf clad in a pale gray tunic, clasping a long spear-like weapon, and a huge badger with a near tint of blue in her white stripe.

Mhera ran to the gates. "ShadowSong!"

ShadowSong bowed. "Abbess Mhera, this is one of the successors to Lady Cregga Rose Eyes, Lady Icebright. Lady Icebright, this is Abbess Mhera, Abbess of Redwall."

Icebright bowed also. She eyed Redwall. "Such a wonderous place you have!"

The Abbess beckoned. "Come in!"

The hares broke ranks and ran into Redwall Abbey. The Abbeydwellers laughed.

The Abbess turned to ShadowSong. "May you stay here as another champion to aid Deyna?"

ShadowSong smiled. "I will, Abbess."

The Abbess curtsied. "Thank you. Now, you can help prepare the end of the seige of Redwall feast!"

ShadowSong nodded. "I'll be in the kitchens!"

The Abbess ran off to the kitchens. ShadowSong opened her sling pouch and looked at the stone she had pulled out before coming to Redwall. A face reflected in it, but it wasn't hers.

"Thank you, Martin the Warrior, for bringing me to Redwall."

A/N Sorry it took so long to update. But I hope you like it! I sorta rushed the ending, my spelling and spell check was off, my grammer could be better but hey! It's a finished fic. Be sure to read my other Redwall fic, Ruddaring Sunsets! -Shadowsong StarGlaive of the Moonsky wolf pack