Mouse Guard: The Siege of Redwall

A/N: Hello there fellow readers, Sonicfighter here bringing you a new story made by moi. Mouse Guard: The Siege of Redwall. Redwall is a great book. I also saw the cartoon of the same name. Unlike the cartoon, I'll add a few scenes from the book. When you think of if, Mouse Guard is kinda like Redwall. Redwall belong to Brain Jacques (May he rest in peace), Nelvana, and Teletoon. Mouse Guard belong to David Petersen. I only own my OCs. Now, on with the show!

The snow thawed in the Territories, which means Spring have arrived. After discovering a map and journal of a cartographer named Soren, who explore different places beyond the Mouse Territories, Gwen, Richard, and their finest, Saxon, Kenzie, Lieam, Sienna, Sadie, Edward and Remy, along with Twilight, Angela, and Alvin, decide to go on an adventure beyond their home. But first, Gwen dispatched the Guards to do different jobs before they set off on their journey.

Chapter 1: The journey begins.

Spring. A season of new beginnings, and new life. It's been raining hard in the Mouse Territories. Inside Lockhaven's study, Gwen is busy writing her entry in her journal as she wrote:

"16th of March, 1153, three days before days and nights are equal. For the last 8 days, it have been raining hard. Both the rivers and streams have overflowed above their average waterlines. I've once again sent out nearly every Guard we have in this most demanding of seasons."

In the armory, Twilight cover Gwen and Richards armor and prepare to take them with him on their adventure. He'll never know when Gwen and Richard will might need them.

In the apothecary, Angela packed about 36 herbs, including the Sun Lilly for the trip.

"After my brother, Richard, showed me and the others of a map and a journal belonging to a cartographer/explorer named Soren, I was amazed that there are places beyond the scent border. My entire life I've been told that there was nothing beyond our Territories but wasteland as far as the eye can see, and predators too. Guess I was proven wrong."

On an unknown trail, two guard, Cedric and Annika is looking for a new route.

"While I'm on the subject, Spring brings with more need to rebuild and repair what have been destroyed during the Winter, or the thaw and every town and city requires our attention and every path between the said towns need to be scouted again."

Annika heard something and said to Cedric,

"Cedric, get down."

Both mice hide as a family of wolves stopped next to a river for a drink.

"A family of wolves. They seem harmless." Cedric said to his fellow guard.

"Yeah. No kidding." Annika said in agreement.

"Predators are walking again and breeding, and the weather, while getting warmer, seems to be more angry than any Winter snow storm."

In Rootwallow, a couple of guards, Sela, Cerise and two others, with Remy accompanying them, are gathering green onions and placing them on a cart.

"Our mice are working in pairs to cover all the ground our work takes us through."

A while later, Sela is gathering berries and putting them into a bag. A berry fell from the bag and landed next to Remy. Remy pick up the berry and licked his mouth as he about to eat it.

Before his teeth could bite into the fruit, Cerise snatched it from him and said,

"That's not for you, Remy."

"I know that, Cerise. I just got a bit hungry." Remy said to Cerise.

"Save your appetite for when we get back to Lockhaven. Okay?"

"Okay, Cerise." Remy said. "But we need to save some for our food supply."

"True." Cerise said to Remy.

After loading the berries in the cart along with the green onions, the two mice pulled the cart while Cerise stood on top with his sword and dagger drawn in case of trouble and Sela and Remy guard the cart with weapons drawn as they travel back to Lockhaven with the food.

They'll be needing them to feed a bear in Ferndale which is now home to a brown bear. He's friendly as long as the mice give him food.

"It's been three months since the youngest of our Guard, Lieam, decide to stay. I have promote him to Mouse Guard during the Winter Solstice."

In the town of Whitepine, two guards, Ewing and Waldon are cutting a tree. Ewing is cutting and Waldon is holding a rope to hold the tree.

After a couple of chopping, Ewing shouted,

"Timber!"

The tree falls as Waldon get go of the rope. The two guard grab a long saw as the two mice begin cutting the tree into a couple a logs.

After they finish cutting, they tie the three log with ropes as they journey down stream.

"Lieam have grown so much in a short period of time since he first came into our order. I can only hope that Celenawe's death didn't scar him deeply."

Back in Lockhaven, in the apiary, Saxon, Sienna and Lieam, now a Guard since he was promoted, are helping the apiary keeper gather honey. Lieam's arm have fully healed thanks to Angela's treatment.

"Everyone in Lockhaven now knew that Celenawe was the Black Axe as Richard explained during Celenawe's funeral. They where surprise that the legend of the Black Axe was real all along."

The apiary keeper swings his incense back in forth, releasing a smoke which case the bees to fell asleep.

Lieam, Saxon, and Sienna get to work using their weapons to get the honey into buckets. A glob of honey fell on Lieam. Covering him from head to toe in the sticky honey. Saxon and Sienna both laugh at Lieams misfortune. Lieam get some honey from his face with his finger and tasted it.

"Mmm. This is good honey we have this year." Lieam said to Saxon and Sienna.

"Yep. Hope we have enough for us." Saxon said as he use his sword to get more honey.

On the edge of the Scent Border, a couple of Guards, Aeren, Elymis, and Vinson is carrying a barrel as they walked along the border with a special brew leaking out to strengthen the Scent Border from predators while Elymis guarded the two mice.

"In Ten days time, our seasonal summit is to occur in Lockhaven. The leaders from across the Territories are being escorted by each of the settlements sons and daughters that wish to become Guard mice. A Trial by Fire, or Rain in this case, will test their desire to start a life honor of service."

In LillyGrove, Kenzie and Sadie, are lowering a worm on a hook into the river using a winch while the two mice remove the pegs and place them on another hole after each turn.

"I can admit that the loss of Celenawe have rattled my sense of security. But the myth still lives as Celenawe passed the Axe and the title to Lieam, but he wasn't ready to take on the role."

Underwater, a fish swam up to the hook and ate the worm. Above, Sadie and Kenzie pulled hard trying to get the fish out of the water and while trying not to break the line.

"Over the years, we mice have risen above the ability to survive in this world to a level of prosperity we have grown to know."

In the town of Greenlake, Bastian, Edward and Delvin are fighting a tortoise which have been causing havoc. Bastian and Edward lose their arrows as they hit the tortoise on the front as it wail in pain. So fair, the tortoise have arrows on it's front legs, neck and snout and a few slashes on it's face. Despite all of this, the reptile refuse to go down without a fight.

"Gee. This is one though tortoise." Edward said to Bastian as he reload his bow and fired again.

"All animals died, Edward, even a brute like this one." Bastian said to his fellow archer as he too reload and fired.

The tortoise then snapped at Delvin's shield with it jaws to crush his shield into splinters.

But Delvin raised his sword and trusted it on the tortoises neck as blood gusted out. The tortoise let go of Delvin's shield and fell to the ground dead.

"Nice work there Delvin." Edward said congratulating the swordmouse.

"Your welcome Edward." Delvin said as he sheathed his sword.

"Now we have to move this guy to the cart." Bastian said as he look at the now dead tortoise.

"I think we need some help with that." Edward said to Bastian.

"With Lieam, now the Black Axe, we can prosper. Without the Black Axe, I fear we'll need to back to a more primitive way of life. I must ask, are the territories too large to govern themselves? If so, they're certainly too big to be govern by one alone."

In Gilpledge, Pearse, Erwynn, Feagan and Richard saw a badger digging into the town to get the roots.

"Come on, fellas!" Richard said to the three guards as Richard, Erwynn and Feagan drew their swords and Pearse notch an arrow on his bow as they charge into battle.

The badger saw the four mice while holding a mouse in it's teeth. Luckily, the mouse was still alive.

The four mice battled the badger as it dropped the mouse. Feagan's cloak got caught on one of the badger's teeth and dropped his sword. Lucky for him, his cloak ripped as he fell to the ground.

Richard helped the wounded mouse out of danger by dragging him.

"Thanks captain." The mouse said, happy to be alive.

"Don't mention it." Richard said to the mouse.

Pearse was on the badger's head as he aimed his bow and fired. The arrow hit the badger's brain and the badger scream in pain as it fell down dead.

"Excellent shot, Pearse." Erwynn said.

"Thanks." Pearse said to his friend.

"Now we just need to move it out of here." Feagan said while getting up.

"Yeah, we'll need it for that bear." Richard said.

"These terrors are nothing new for a matriarch, not even to one so young such as myself, who had an open declaration of war with another species. However, unlike the Weasels or other predators the Guard have face before, this one is more dangerous."

In a place formally called Ferndale, which have fallen to the Weasels during the war, Isabel, along with Gylham and Heilyn, are pulling a cart with a couple of Green Onions and berries, honey from Lockhaven, a couple of fishes that Kenzie and Sadie manage to catch, and the dead tortoise and badger.

"Isabel, are you sure this is a good idea? This is Weasel territory, after-all." Heilyn said nervously.

"Don't worry Heilyn, we'll be long gone before their scouts come here." Isabel said to Heilyn.

"I hope so. I hate to become rabbit stew."

The supply cart stop near a cave were the bear live. Isabel remove the harnesses on Gylham and Heilyn as she said,

"Okay, let's get out of here."

She then got on to Gylham and the two hares race away from the cave.

A few minutes later, a brown bear emerge from the cave and look at the cart full of food.

"Well, what do you know, they left this for me. Don't mind if I do." The bear said as it started eating the food.

"This one have no name, face, or home. It looms in the shadows like a dark giant, half asleep and half awake. My only hope is that the Black Axe, along with the Guard and together with the common mice can defeat this new evil. Whatever it is." -Gwendolyn 1153

After Gwen finish writing, Angela walked in and said to the matriarch,

"Gwen we're all packed and ready to travel."

"Good. But first, I need to check on something." Gwen said as she got up from her desk.

"Like the recruitment in ten days?" Angela guessed.

"Exactly." Gwen said. "Although, Landra and Rand will handle that while were away."

"You sure those two can take care of things?" Angela said with a bit of doubt in her voice. "They never have this kind of responsibility before."

"I know they can, Angela. I have faith in them. I'm sure they can not fail me or Richard." Gwen said to the healer.

"I hope your right." Angela said to Gwen.

A couple of hours later, Edward, Remy, Richard and their parties return to Lockhaven for debriefing, and a big announcement.

"I want to thank all of you for taking part during this season." Gwen said to the other guards while on the balcony along with Richard.

"Also, I have an announcement. Tomorrow morning, I along with Richard and a couple of our finest will be leaving Lockhaven." Gwen said.

This cause the guards, except for Kenzie, Saxon, Sienna, Lieam, Remy, Sadie, Edward, Twilight and Angela to mutter in confusion.

"I know what your all thinking, 'Why you want to leave?' well, It's been a while since I last set foot outside of this castle and I want to see places beyond our Scent Border and Territories. To maintain things around here, I suggest Landra and Rand will take our place while were away." Gwen said to the guards.

Both Rand and Landra are surprise by Gwen's choice.

"Are you sure about this Gwen?" Rand said to Gwen. "I mean, sure I take charge of the defenses and track the guards movement, but taking charge of Lockhaven? That sounds a bit complicated. Even for me and Landra."

"Yeah. I'm in charge of the equipment." Landra said in agreement.

"I know, I know." Gwen said to the two mice. "But I have faith that you two will not fail me or Richard while were gone."

"Well, we can try." Rand said to Gwen. He and Landra will give it a shot.

"Good." Gwen said as she continue to address the other Guards,

"I expect everyone to be on their best behavior and treat Landra and Rand like you would with me and Richard while we're away."

The Guards nodded in response. If they treat Gwen and Richard with respect, they can do the same with their defense expert and quartermaster.

"Excellent." Richard said seeing that everyone agreed.

"Til we get back, Mouse Guard forever!" Gwen said as she salute the other guards.

"Mouse Guard forever!" The rest of the Guard said as they salute back at their matriarch and captain.

Where ever Gwen may go, they'll always remember her as a kind leader.

Later that very night, Gwen do some last minute packing in the study. She packed her journal, her halberd and extra clothes for the journey tomorrow.

She was both excited and nervous at the same time. Excited, because she haven't been outside of the castle since she first became matriarch, and nervous because she never set foot outside of the Scent Border before. But hey, first time for everything.

As soon as Gwen finish packing the last of her stuff, her brother came in and said to her,

"Nervous about the journey tomorrow?"

"Yes. I'm also a bit excited too. This is the first time in a long time since I set foot outside these walls." Gwen said to Richard.

"Well, that's one of the downside of being matriarch." Richard said to Gwen.

"Yeah, I know." Gwen replied in understanding.

"We better get some rest, we got a long day in the morning." Richard said to his sister.

" I couldn't agree more." Gwen said as both she and Richard retire to their bed chambers.

Gwen and Richard both knew that they, or the others will not be the same when they return.

At dawn early light the next day, the rain have finally stopped. Gwen, Richard, Saxon, Lieam, Kenzie, Sienna, Sadie, Edward, Remy, Alvin, Angela and Twilight was at the front gate and all of Lockhaven was there to say goodbye to the departing mice.

"This is it, huh guys?" Lieam said to the others as he carry his bag of supplies along with the Black Axe. After a few discussions, Lieam decide to bring the Black Axe along for the journey.

"Sure is Lieam." Kenzie said as he carry his bag of supplies, as well as his staff. (A/N: Just to be clear, the Guards have their supplies and weapons with them.)

"Yeah. But we don't know what we'll find out there." Saxon said with caution.

"Like Richard said Saxon, We're going to Port Sumac to get Nicholas to help us get were we need to be." Kenzie said to Saxon.

"True." Saxon said to Kenzie.

Gwen walked to the group and said to them,

"Is everyone all set?"

"Yes M'lady/Yes sister." Saxon, Kenzie, Richard, Sienna, Sadie, Edward, Lieam, Remy, Angela, Twilight and Alvin said to Gwen.

"Good." Gwen said as she turn to Landra, who is by the winch.

"Landra, open the gates. We're going."

Landra nodded and turn the winch and the portcullis went up. A pair of mice open the gates as the 10 mice walked out of Lockhaven.

The other guards wave goodbye and wishing luck. The group wave back as they continue their way to Port Sumac to begin the biggest adventure of their lives.

(A/N: Cut and print. The first chapter of my new story is complete. In the next chapter, out 10 heroes enter the city of Port Sumac where they meet Nicholas. The son of the late Conard and like his father, get into a fight with beginning is from The Black Axe. Don't forget to read and review. Any flaming will be use to light campfires. Til the next chapter, TTFN.)