User blog:Hollyfire53/Lioneyes- A Legendary Ending

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Darkness reigned. Mist covered a moon too thin to see anymore. Clouds strode purposefully among the Mossflower Trees. Rain washed the dirt into little hollows. Suddenly, lightning blinked and the world shook with the booming words of thunder. A little mouse scurried out. He tsked. “Tis the storm agin, n'doubt.” A movement to the left attracted his attention. Narrowed in suspicion, his eyes gleaming, the mouse made his way towards the movement. With a quick movement, he was hanging by his tail from a large oak tree. Two foxes-one a vixen-approached the mouse. “Well, aren't you in a tight place, Lioneyes?” The vixen cooed. The mouse struggled, his yellow, cat-like eyes blazed warningly. “You let me go or I'll scream!” The fox grabbed a string from inside a few bushes and pulled. Lioneyes rose higher into the tree. “What effect will screaming have on us, eh, retired warrior?” Lioneyes looked at the hollow from which he had just exited. “My family will...” The vixen snickered as she interrupted, “Sleep the rest of time. We've murdered them.” The mouse looked on in horror as she went on, “Yep. I snuck in while you so graciously left the entrance of the hollow unguarded. It was easy- they just looked at me. One, the lady-mouse, just looked at me.” Lioneyes gasped, “So they're all dead?” The fox smiled. “All dead.” No one saw the mousebabe slip into the woods in the direction of Redwall Abbey. “So... I'm on my own.” “Again. Why don't you just lay down and die, warrior?” The vixen cried. “You wrecked havoc on us- just let us take out our revenge, and we'll leave you alone?” The mouse gazed at her sadly. His eyes, for which he was named, were filled with pity for the vixen. “Because I want the legends of me to have a happy ending. Being hung in a oak tree on the eve before All Hallows Eve in a thunderstorm is not a happy ending. The happy ending would be, the foxes FORGOT TO UNARM ME, I CUT THE HANG-STRING, AND I ESCAPE. And, in fact...” With one quick movement, before they knew what was coming, the mouse was bounding off into the woods, waving his legendary sword Maimer, and calling back to the dumbfounded foxes, “It's happened! But watch your backs, because Lioneyes the Warrior has a reason to wreck revenge now. On you. For the murder of my family.” Suddenly the mouse was behind them. “And,” The two creatures whirled around in shock. “And, don't sleep safe at night, because you never know where Lioneyes lurks. Maimer is sharp, and so are my wits. You don't stand a chance.” Hopping around in the thunderstorm, Lioneyes called out,
 * Whirl! Clink! Clank! Clack!
 * You better watch your back.
 * Lioneyes the Warrior's after you.
 * And there's nothing that you can do.
 * My sword is fast.
 * I'll never be last.
 * I'm always armed!
 * You will be harmed.
 * Heed the warnings,
 * And stay away
 * But watch out
 * Every day.
 * Because Lioneyes the Warrior's after you.
 * And there's nothing else that you can do.

With a last sneer, the mouse drifted into the woods, leaving the fox and the vixen behind, wondering, How did our plan go so HORRIBLY wrong?