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Date Posted: 16:49:37 06/06/03 Fri
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Checkery, adventurer of authors and quester of quills!
's message, "I'm starting a new type of Redwall writing...This one is called 'Mattoomeo', and it's just the introduction so everybeasy can see what it'll be like." on 16:45:47 06/06/03 Fri
Book One
Slogan the Cool
1
From the diary of Don Churchmoose, Recorder of Dreadwall Abbey in Shroomblossom woods.
We're close to the longest day of the season; the Summer of the Goldbrown Plain. I don't feel like writing today, or reading it aloud...So I'll be brief. A wonderful day, this. The sky is clear blue with no hint of a cloud, stretching out over the golden plains to the west. Abbot Mindlefuzz named the season wisely, I think. Just today he was helping to carry out tables for the feast, celebrating his jubilee and eight seasons of peace at Dreadwall. It's only two days away now, you know, and I can't wait to stuff myself! I must go now; the winecellars call me, and I know Ambrosia Speck needs help selecting wines for the feast.
Don Churchmoose (Recorder of Dreadwall Abbey, formerly of Saint Mimian's.)
Noon sun came through the ruined walls and roof of Saint Mimian's old church. A fox peered through a broken door timber at the winding path meandered aimlessly southward. His voice was a horrible rasping sound, as if it had been injured at some time. "Here they come. Get the side door open, quick!" A colored cart with rainbow covering was pulled into the church by about a dozen slaves, being whipped at by a stoat who sat in the driver's seat. "Come on, get in there! We have to start the story guys!" The cart was followed by a bunch of vermin, who shuffled in nervously and stared dumbly at the video camera. "What's that thing?" "I dunno, d'you?"
A voice boomed from the sky, "Pretend it's not there, okay? I thought we went through this before we started the story." The vermin silently shuffled to join the others waiting for them. They were all armed. Slogan the Cool hurried them along. "Come on, get in. Well, Quartertail my stoat?" Quartertail jumped from the cart. "Er, they'll all here, except for that otter. He wasn't strong enough to carry on, so we finished 'im off an' chucked 'im offset. The director says he'll only come back as an extra." The hooded fox snorted. "As long as you weren't spotted or nothin'. News goes fast in Shroomblossom, dude. We have to wait for Glitch to get here."
Slogan narrowed his eyes at the stoat, then swiftly and suddenly pinned Quartertail's whip to the ground. "Listen up, Quartertail my beast, I think you're gettin' deaf lately. I told you to stay in the woods with the cart." Quartertail let go of the whip. "I did, when I could. But have you tried hauling a cart and a bunch o' slaves through that forest?" Slogan the Cool picked up the whip. "I don't have to, I'm the boss! Do you realize that a sentry could, like, see your dust from Dreadwall?" Quartertail didn't take the hint. "No biggie. They didn't see us."
Slogan fell into whipping the stoat, who shrank against the side of the cart, unable to avoid the stinging blows. Slogan finally snapped the whip and threw it at the stoat's head. "Your hearing's better now. Get another switch, stoat, that one's busted!" The masked fox whirled on his band. "That goes for all of you. Anybeast who, like, disobeys or messes up will wish he'd committed suicide!" Slogan climbed to the window at stared at Dreadwall Abbey.
The fox ran a paw tenderly on the harlquin-patterned hood, smiling at his plan for revenge on Dreadwall. Those Abbeybeasts would pay for what they had done to him so long ago, or what he thought they had done to him. Slogan peirced a passing beetle on a claw and watched it die. "Dreadwall, hahaha!" The fox's snigger made everybeast within hearing range think he was crazy.
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I've got two more chapters! (Chapter three is real funny) Look inside for chapter two.