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Date Posted: 08:40:44 12/07/02 Sat
The storm raged, fearsome and unmercifull to any unlucky creature caught in it. I could not see past my quivering paws as I tried warming myself with my mothers cloak.I could just make out the cross on the palm of my paw. I didnt know I got it, but there it was for as long as I could remember. Me and my mother were travelling through they forest when this horrid storm blew up. It had always been just me and mum. I never knew my father. We pushed onward through the thickening snow. The cold snowfell all over me as i fell towards the earth. My mother picked me up and carried me as best she could ever onward into the storm.
I awoke the next morning, only to find my mother hunched over. I crawled to her side and tried to shake her awake. Her eyelids parted and gazed deeply into mine. "Tahnan" she said "you must know about your father before i leave"
"leave to where?" I said foolishly
"listen, your father was a warrior, a free one. He and I escaped from our oppressor know as Lachlan Timberwulf, or so we thought. One day he found us, only months after giving birth to you my son. Lachlan came and killed your father, Terep. However your father mortally wounded his foe, dealing him a savage blow across his chest with his saber".
"Before he died, lachlan gave you that cross on your paw as a sign that his son would find you and kill you. After that I grabbed your father's sling and ran, I ran as fast as my legs could carry me knowing that lachlan's troops would be hot on our trail. I kept thinking I must save my child, my fox pup, my Tahnan."
She pressed a small medallion into my paw."Make sure no beast discriminates you because you are a fox, you are good beast. This medallion will signify your kind heart. Your father got it of his squirrel friend before he died"
Then she pressed the sling and the satchuel of stones into my paw which concealed my scar. "Take this to protect yourself, I know you are a good shot. Good bye my son, Tahnan".
I could not speak as my throat was blocked. There in my arms lay my dead mother. I wailed, I cried for a long time, not knowing when I would stop.
A while later I stopped crying, knowing my parents would not like me too. I made an oath on that day to find that vermin's son and kill him for bringing cruelty, savagery and pain to my life and others. I would avenge everyone that he and his father had hurt.
I wrapped my mother tightly in her cloak and dragged her limp body along the road. After two days of walking and dragging without food I arrived at an abbey.
I sheepishly knocked on the door, not knowing what beast lay on the other side. The huge door slowly creaked open. There stood an old, plump and jolly looking mouse. "I...I...I.. am Tahnan" I stammed, nervously. I hastily showed the mouse the medallion in my pocket. He took it up and inspected it."I think you better come in young Tahnan. And if I may ask, what is that you are carring?"
"My mother....."I burst into tears. They rolled off my face and on to my paws.
"Oh dear I am sorry young one. Come in come in. We shall tend to your mother tommorrow where she will get a proper burial. However first of all lets clean you up eh? Some new clothes would not go astray either I suspect."
After cleaning myself up I was introduced to everyone that night at the dinner.
I was sat down with the other young ones, who collectively known as dibbuns.
"coar lookit that there sling!" exclaimed an excited squirrel
"burr aye, and those therr be gurt stoners" I young mole maid said inspecting my small sack of stones.
Then a young otter trundelled over introducing himself as Swiftstream.
"hello" he said in a gruff voice
"my name be Swiftstream, 'ave you got yourself any mateys?"
"no" I said feeling quite embarrassed.
"I have never had a friend before"
"well you should get some they be great things ya know! I'll start you off and be your first!"
I was estatic. I jumped and pranced about. Life was going to change from there on in. I devoted my life to good beasts and protecting them from the bad. That is my life story.
by Tahnan
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