Mission 165
by DarkBlade

Mission:
I led an army of foxes, stoats, weasels, pine martins, rats, and wolves to Redwall Abbey where I met the wolves. There were about 300 of them, and their leader was a cunning wolf named Gringepaw. The wolves were mostly armed with large clubs and spears but Gringepaw shouldered a longbow and wielded a large rapier. The wolves had the Abbey surrounded and were firing dead animals over the walls to spread disease throughout the Abbey grounds. But, some crafty squirrels were launching a sneak attack. I learned this when me and my men were walking through Mossflower woods when and arrow flew through the air and pierced one of my rats through the heart. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a grey figure leap through the air and into another tree. I told most of my pine martins to climb up into the trees and slay whatever was up there. A few moments later three squirrel carcasses fell out of the trees. The pine martins climbed back down and told me that many more squirrels were in the trees surrounding the camp of the wolves. Quickly I sent all of my men who could shoot a bow or sling over to the camp. Those men shot slingstones and arrows into the trees. Many of these hit their marks and sent wounded or dead squirrels falling out of the treetops. Soon all the squirrels were either dead, captured, except for the few that escaped alive. I had a meeting with Gringepaw and we made a truce with each other. After the meeting we had our men start to make a battering ram. After the battering ram was finished we made a makeshift cieling out of wood and connected it so that it hung over the men that were operating the ram, so they could not be hurt by things from above. We also set archers and slingers by the walls and ordered them to shoot at anybeast that showed it's head over them. Soon we had about twenty strong vermin banging the battering ram against the Abbey gates. After a while the battering ram broke the gate down, revieling a small army of Redwallers ready to fight for their Abbey. After a short battle we had slain all of the brave beasts and captured the rest of the goodbeasts in Redwall. We went to work making Redwall into a formidible fortress for vermin warriors. Soon we had strong wooden walls built around the Abbey walls for extra protection and had new strong iron gates put into each entrance in the walls. We built a barracks and made the Abbey a magnificent castle fit for Lord Ublaz! After all that was finished we asked the wolves if they wanted to join Ublaz's empire. We promised them many chances to slay goodbeasts and get gold. Gringepaw said he would agree under one condition, that he and his warriors got to stay in the new and improved Redwall Abbey. I told them that it was up to Lord Ublaz to make that decision. So, now I'm back on Sampetra and I asked Lord Ublaz about the wolves staying in Redwall Abbey, which was renamed Bloodspire Castle. Lord Ublaz still hasn't given and answer, but I await his decision.

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