Just to tell you, since every large animal in redwall books is minimized, a cougar would be only like 2 feet taller than the other animals.

Back at the Abbey, Springleaf, Dalroy, and Benjamin were having breakfast with the rest of the Redwallers. Riverpaw had just started out to find the two squirrels when he saw them coming in at the North gate along with a hare, and Abbess Fara and the abbey dwellers were delighted at having a visitor. After breakfast Springleaf and Dalroy were sentenced to three days of chores in the infirmary, were they wouldn't be let out until their sentenced time was over.

Breakfast out in the shade of the orchard in long rows of tables was oatmeal scones, fruit slices, and bread with raspberry jam, along with dandelion milk. Benjamin was having a field day with his favourite pastime, eating, as like most hares, he was a glutton.

'Mmm, this raspberry jam is simply marvellous! And these scones are better than even the maple syrup scones we always made up North. Hmm, I wonder what a scone sandwich would taste like.' The hare stuck a few slices of fruit onto a scone and sandwiched it between two pieces of jammy bread, and prepared for the biggest bite of his life. 'Mmmphhh.'

Debine, a female mole tsk tsked at the hare. 'Oi doin't know how ee' cin thoink so much o' food when ur moit is owt in ee' woods, lost, hoo arr!'

Benjamin swallowed the last of his scone sandwich. 'Ol' Snowbuck is a tough one, dontcha know. It would take a great beast to cause him harm, wot wot.'

Fara heard a faint noise coming from behind her. She turned around to see the North gate being smashed open, and a large horde of vermin flooding through.

Standing up quickly, she bellowed out, 'everybeast in the abbey! Now!'

All the Redwallers got up and ran to the abbey, Fara and the Redwall warriors, Jaldor the squirrel, and Riverpaw helping the dibbuns and old ones. Benjamin stayed in his seat, looking around confusedly. 'Whats going on here? Can't a chap finish his breakfast?' He looked around and his ears shot up. The vermin were now almost at the back of the building and two of the most ferocious creatures ever to walk the woods were behind them. He quickly shot up and sped past the other creatures into the abbey.

'Excuse me, pardon me, a chaps gotta get through, wot wot.'

The last creature had just made it in the abbey when the horde reached the doors. Harble and Riverpaw began dragging tables, chairs, and desks to the doors to block them. Then all the bigger creatures put their backs toward the empty spots on the doors, ready push against any attempts to get in.

Dlake gave a hard shove to the door in false hope. Then he moved aside as Knifeclaw and Bissle moved in and threw their weight against it. It trembled, but thanks to all the weight on the other side, did not budge.

'Go for the windows!' Dlake shouted. Instantly every vermin shouldered a spear and began climbing up the ledges and bricks of the abbey to the windows.

'Everyone, listen up,' Hurble yelled to the redwallers after hearing Dlake's shout. 'Grab anything you can use as a weapon. Olderbeasts and dibbuns, head to the basement, as far as you can go Everyone else, guard the windows and get ready to fight,' He headed to his chamber to grad a bow and arrows.'

Abbess Fara started up the stairs just as a window shattered into a million pieces onto the floor.