Redwall

 

The next day Morgath who had taken over as leader marched his friends hard they sang marching song which wasn’t very good as all rotter songs where terrible Morgath kept them hard marching all day they ran into some voles which trembled so much with fright that they didn’t even fight back when Morgath asked for vittles one thing should be known that Morgath was a very kind hearted but he and his friends where hungry the food they had wasn’t good enough to keep them going the voles seeing that they weren’t going to get killed gave the food and Morgath marched his band away they planned to head to the village of rotters of north where Trunn had recruited many of the rotter warriors Morgath marched his friends for about a season when they came to the village astounded by the sight of them because they thought they were all dead fighting for Trunn but what they returned was nothing compared what the castle had been that all rotters lived in its walls were weak some parts of the walls where crumbling the warrior strength was about one score and they weren’t as good as they had been when the four left they said when they arrived that almost 5 score grey rats had attacked when the majority of there warriors gone the grey rats showed no mercy killing all that met the warriors who where left fought and held the retreat while everyone else fled the rotters where known for there archery and had slain a good deal of the grey rats but they prevailed with numbers Morgath hearing of this got all men together he told Rangefur that one way or the other he was going to shred the grey rabbits home which was a large castle farther inland noone went there as thats where most vermin came from including every able bodied he had about 3 score men until news came that salamandastron had fallen every warrior he had moved out they where trained a score of them where archers with light swords at there side and birchbark shields the rest had motley array of weapons the rotter’s had no end to weapons and every man had axe sword or halberd