Chapter five
While the Abbey was sitting peacefully The Long Patrol was running out of food, fast. Luckily they had found one of the large rivers of Mossflower and wouldn't run out of water anytime soon. Then Radion felt like explaining his thought of what the fox was to his army who wasn't paying attention to the dialogue at the fight just the actual fighting.
"It was no regular fox that I was fighting at Salamandastron or my blow to his side would have crushed his ribs and killed him."
"Then what was he, a Marlfox?" said a newer member of his army with sarcasm dripping off of his voice.
"Yes, there is no other explanation for it."
"Right, there are none left," the hare stated and then under his breath, "I think the old badgers losing his mind."
"I heard that give me your name ungrateful little…"
"Carn, sir."
"Well then Carn I think you might have a reason to believe that losing Salamandastron to a fox that even, you, could have beaten is funny?"
"No, sir."
"Then why are you mocking my assumption?"
"Aren't you being a little harsh on him?" said a voice form seemingly nowhere.
"Who in the hell?" muttered Carn.
"I guess that no one knows who I am," said Log-a-log Montague as he came out of the bushes.
"Hello, Log-a-log." Radion said peacefully.
"Come to Loamhedge with me. Its barely 10 minutes walk from here."
"So we're extremely close to Redwall?"
"Yes, why?"
"I'll tell you when we get to Loamhedge."
"Okay."
As the walked towards Montague wondered why the whole of The Long Patrol was out in Mossflower away from Salamandastron. As soon as they arrived in Loamhedge they were greeted warmly by shrews, and Radion was immediately taken to Montague's quarters to talk about why they were all in Mossflower. Radion explained and Montague asked,
"Are you sure it was a Marlfox?"
"Yes."
"Then you want the Champion of Redwall GUOSIM forces and Redwall make-shift warriors?"
"Right."
"Then on to Redwall."
Chester tried to remember how long they had been gone from Salamandastron a week? A month? Not a year…. But how long had they been gone?
The next week after that they were at Redwall's gates with Radion knocking loudly and bellowing,
"'Tis The Long Patrol let us in!" With that the gates opened and all of Redwall was standing in the front of the gates letting them in.
"Pray tell us why you and your gluttonous…… er….. noble hares are here?" Alexander said with a hint of amusement in his voice and that arose quite a few chuckles from the crowd of hares, shrews, and abbeybeasts.
During the feast that night Radion explained everything about why they were not in Salamandastron at the moment. Almost everyone was stunned save Tom and Abbot Alexander. All anyone could say cam from Tom. "War Council. Tonight. Cavern Hole. GUOSIM, Abbot, me, Long Patrol, recorder, and Brother Sain."
In the cavern hole Montague spilt his plan for what he thought would work, "GUOSIM goes in Mossflower and everyone does a frontal assault to the Salamandastron and we come later in the assault."
"That wouldn't work at all," said Tom.
"Then I suppose you have a better plan."
"I was a tactician in The Great Mossflower War I know what I'm doing."
"Give us the bright idea then."
"Send me in a frontal assault with fourscore, send Chester through Mossflower with 2 score, and Radion takes 2 score by the mountains and GUOSIM goes through the sea."
"Good idea." Radion spoke out.
"Then that's what we'll do," said Montague.
