User blog:Hollyfire53/Fires of the Sea (a fan-fic)

Prologue
Letting an arrow fly, Lady Marigold jumped down, out of arrow range, to watch. The arrow hit it's mark, and a stoat fell over, dead. The wildcat did not even stop to pick him up, only kicked him over to a mouse slave. "Bury him." snarled the wildcat. "Squirt! Keep an eye on the slave. Make him dig four graves. One for Batkret, one for this one..." the wildcat lord kicked the stoat over to the poor mouse. "One for Maridress, and one for that fox!" Squirt, a ferret, saluted the wildcat. "Aye, Lord Crught." Crught, snarling still, nodded. Lady Marigold, hidden behind the tree, ran off to tell Maple that Leaf was well and truly captured. "Imagine, having to dig graves for those vermin! A snort made her turn around. There was Crught and a fox standing there. "You will be, too, squirrel!" snapped the fox. "Catch me, first!" challenged Marigold. Launching an arrow that killed the fox, Marigold fitted another arrow. She shot it and missed Crught. Hearing a shout, the wildcat lord turned away, snapping Marigold's arrow as he went. "I'll be back!" he snarled. "And I'll be ready!" snarled Marigold back. Sighing, she turned away, scrambled down the tree, and headed into the forest.

Chapter One
"Burr aye, Gonffee, hurr hurr. You'm a greet cookee." Gonff flashed the mole a big grin. "Do ya really think Lady Maple'll like my cranberry pie?" Dewlap, for that was the mole's name, grinned too. "Who doesn't?" asked the mole. "Umm, let me think..." said Gonff, son of Gonff the thief. "I can't think of anything!" sighed another voice behind him.<BR> "Marigold!" cried Gonff. "What happened?!"<BR> "I met the cat and his fighters. My gosh, the fox is stupid! He didn't even duck from my arrows!" Marigold sighed.<BR> "Is Leaf captured my the Crught cat?" asked Gonff, spitting the wildcat lord's name out angrily.<BR> "Yes." groaned Marigold.<BR> "Doas Ladee Maple know ret?" asked Dewlap through a mouthful of cranberry pie.<BR> "No. I'll tell her later, at the feast." Marigold groaned again.<BR> "Paws off, pieface!" Gonff snatched the pie away from Dewlap.<BR> "Tis good!" said Dewlap hopefully.<BR> "Not till the feast." said Gonff.<BR> The mouse and the mole watched as Lady Marigold, sighing wearily, headed off to go tell Lady Maple that Leaf was captured by Crught.<BR> Meanwhile, in the bushes, Squirt continued to watch. I must have a satisfactory message for his Lord, thought the weasel. I must have a satisfactory message.