User blog:Lord Rose Thorn/The Badger and the Rose: Book One A Champion in the Midst Chapter One - Eight

It was a terrible storm sweeping across the northlands. All manner of plant life and random discarded objects were being torn throughout the storm. There was barely any beast out in the open where the storm was raging. The kind skipper of otters, skipper Wavecrester was trying hard to get his tiny otter babe and otter wife out of the storm. Frantically he ran and searched until he finally found a cave in the Cliffside. Inside him and his wife Perla started a fire with some dry wood they found in the cave. They started to make some hotroot soup. While the soup was cooking he checked on his little otter babe, Roughtide was his name. He was shivering very violently. Skipper Wavecrester carefully brought the little otter babe closer to the fire. Perla asked if he could find any more of the dry wood in the cave. Skipper Wavecrester agreed and went deeper into the cave with a torch to light the way. As he went deeper into the cave he thought he heard a noise, he turned around to look for the source of the noise. As he turned around something hard hit him in the back of his skull and out he went like a small candle flame. Some time passed by and Perla was getting worried about her husband. She got so worried that she took a torch and went to look for him. When she finally found him he was dazed and slightly confused as to what happened to him. He went with his wife back to the fire. To their shock they found an enormous serpent an adder close to their baby. "no!" cried Perla as she thought everything was lost. "Roooaaaarrr", to their surprise an incredible sight bestowed them. A small to medium sized badger came bounding past them and threw itself upon the adder.