A/N: I interrupt this story for another installment of Me Flaming Flamers. Today it is only one and his name is Someguy. He reviewed three times and this is what he had to say.
Wolfs have no compassion therefor there cannot be love betwin them thank you.
First of all do you know how to spell? Wolfs is spelled wolves and I don't feel like telling you the others. Just so you know Wolves do have compassion between them you have just never watched Animal Planet, you'd rather watch MTV and believe that Ozzy Osborn is the greatest in the world and I think your stupid.
The other two went like this
Pwease no womance pwease!
Translation
Please no romance please!
yucky romance yucky yucky yucky!
please don't make it big!
I don't know why but that last one made me laugh. Listen if you don't like to read any romance then don't tell me how you don't like it and don't read it, it is as simple as that. How old are you any way like 10, 12 maybe. I hate to say this but you need to get a life. And shove your romance problems up your butt. These three reviews will be deleted in a few days so I won't have to look at that drabble named Someguy.
Any way on with the story.
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"Strider," said a heavenly female voice a few minutes later.
Strider looked up a blinding white light beaming down on him. He could not see anything in front of him and had no idea if he was still on the beach or not.
"Strider," said the voice again but this time he could see a shape coming toward him until finally he noticed he was looking at a beautiful young female badger.
"Who are you and where am I?" asked Strider.
"Strider, I am your mother," said the badger.
Strider looked at her in shock, was he dead or was he just hallucinating.
"I'm not dead am I?" asked Strider.
"Oh no, your just very tired, remember you barely slept while this battle went on, you begin to see things when you are tired," said Rosemary.
"Yes I know that, but why are you here?" asked Strider.
"Because I wanted to tell you that you have killed the creature that killed me, you avenged my death without even knowing it," said Rosemary.
"You mean that wolf that I just beheaded killed you?" asked Strider.
Rosemary nodded silently.
Strider then began to cry uncontrollably until he felt a warm paw touch him on the shoulder. He looked up to see his father and next to him Martin.
"Why are you crying son?" asked Blaze.
"Because, even though I killed the vermin who killed my mother there is never any way to bring her back," said Strider.
Blaze turned to Strider and looked him straight in the eye. "It is part of life; many things cannot come back including me or Martin over there. You have to deal with many things on your own but one day you will be with us again," he said.
Strider just nodded and looked over at Martin who had been silent the whole time. When Strider looked at him, Martin smiled. "You have been a wonderful abbey warrior with my sword even though you have also needed to rule Salamandastron. I hope you are able to keep it for many years to come until you feel when it is right to give it to someone else," said Martin.
Strider smiled at the mouse who saved all of Mossflower those many seasons ago and knew that no warrior would ever be as brave as him.
"Well we must be leaving you now, it is time to decide the fate of the remaining band of vermin," said Rosemary.
"Oh mother, I don't want to leave you yet though, I never had a chance to know you," said Strider who then gave his mother a huge.
Rosemary pushed him back and smiled at him. "I have never left you; I have always been in your heart. I am the one who has given you kindness to other creatures and I will keep doing that to you until your seasons are up," said Rosemary.
Strider nodded and then saw his mother, father, and Martin fad away in the white light and a few seconds later, Strider found himself still on the ground with the rain pouring down hard on him.
"Excuse me sir," said a voice next to him.
Strider lifted his head up just in time to see Burr the fox standing there before Alma arrived and knocked him down hard on the ground.
"How dare you try to harm my mate," said Alma who then tried to grab Tanners dagger that lay on the ground nearby. Instead Strider stepped on it. Alma looked up at her mate angrily.
"He was going to kill you," said Alma.
"Do you see a weapon on him any where?" asked Strider.
Alma looked and saw that he did have nothing. "No I guess not," said Alma.
"Then leave him alone and go back to the mountain, I will return shortly," said Strider who was now talking in a very calm voice. He then turned to Burr who had a very stunned look on his face.
"Uh sorry for sneaking up on you like that sir but Tanner's mate would like to speak with you and she promises that it is a peace talk, she now knows what you can do to those who try to take your land," said Burr.
"Then lead me to her," said Strider.
Burr nodded and led Strider over to the camp. It took longer than expected because of where Tanner had stabbed Strider in the leg and now had a very bad limp.
Once they finally reached the camp though, he said Midnight standing near the entrance of her tent.
"Come inside away from the rain," she said.
"No, I will stay out here and we will negotiate," said Strider.
"Very well then," said Midnight who then took a deep sigh and sat down on a nearby rock. Strider stayed standing.
"I am sorry we tried to conquer your mountain, my husband was a fool, he thought he could defeat anything, I can see that you proved something different," said Midnight.
"A badger must protect his land at all costs, very rarely has any vermin won this mountain," said Strider.
"That is why we will leave you in piece, you may do whatever you want with us as you like such as killing my son who Tanner only cared about instead of his daughter, I do not care what you end up doing," said Midnight.
Strider looked over at the two children who were peaking through the tent; they had seen their father's death and both were too afraid to approach the badger. Strider could see the anger in Savage's eyes but somehow knew he would never have to fight the young rip.
"No, I will not be the one to kill him when he is older, but I know that someday someone else will. Besides your husband killed my mother and left me alive so I am doing the same to him," said Strider.
"I understand," said Midnight.
"But as for the rest of the vermin band you are all forbidden to enter Mossflower again. If any of you return, you will be killed instantly, is that understood?" asked Strider.
Those who all had been listening nodded; they did not want to anger the badger in any way.
"Good now leave before I change my mind," said Strider.
The vermin then began to take down their tents as quickly as possible while Strider slowly limped back to the mountain to begin a nice long rest. Halfway back though, Strider collapsed in exhaustion and loss of blood and quickly lost consciousness.
When Strider opened his eyes again, he found himself in the infirmary where many of his friends were standing near him and waiting for him to wake up.
"Welcome back," said Nathanial.
Strider rubbed his head and looked at everyone, he noticed that Lucky was now up and about so he must have been out for a while. "So how long was I out?" he finally asked.
"Four days we all thought you would never come out of it," said Alma.
"Are the vermin still there?" asked Strider.
"No, they left the day the bally battle ended wot," said Lucky.
"I could not believe what you bally did to that flippen wolf wot, you just swung your sword and ended his life in one bally second," said Pawflash.
"Well I had to, he did cheat by stabbing me in the leg and shoulder blades a few times," said Strider.
"Thank goodness he did not hit your leg too deep though or you would be limping for the rest of your life, but the scars on your shoulder will be around forever," said Alma.
"That's okay, at least I will have a memento of that evil wolf," said Strider.
"Alma brought his dagger in here too," said Nathanial who then showed Tanner's dagger to Strider. Strider took it from him and looked at it for a while.
"This dagger here, killed my mother," said Strider.
Everyone looked at Strider surprised, wondering if he was still half dead or telling the truth.
"How do you jolly know that?" asked Lucky.
"Because my mother appeared to me and told me and from now on this dagger will never be used for hate again but will be hung over the fireplace of the dining area," said Strider.
"I will jolly do that for you right now wot," said Pawflash who then took the dagger from Strider's paw and walked out of the room. Everyone then turned back to Strider.
"So are your fighting days over for now?" asked Nathanial.
"No, I'm still young and ready to fight at any moment, besides I bet Redwall will still need my help in the near future, where is Swift any way?" asked Strider.
"She went to Redwall to tell everyone about the battle and that you are recovering, she will be home shortly," said Alma.
Strider nodded and looked at his friends, he noticed how they seemed to be watching every move he made and still seemed to be worried about him.
"Don't worry everyone, I will still survive this, I bet I will be up two days from now," he said.
"Oh you better because if you don't, you will be sorry," said Alma. Everyone then laughed at her because they knew she was joking.
Strider then made a big yawn and realized that he was still quite tired and weak from the battle. "Well I better sleep more to gain my strength for future battles," said Strider.
Alma gave him a kiss on his forehead. "You rest then oh great warrior of Redwall and Salamandastron," she said, and everyone left the room to give him peace and quiet.
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A/N: Okay that was not a very good chapter I know but there is no more action left, just what happened after the battle. Still though one more chapter and an epilogue to go and I hope that someone reviews since I got no reviews for the last chapter so I don't know what you all think of Tanners death. Any way please review that's all I want you to do but if you flame I will flame you back, so have a great day.