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(Cups clinking)
(Crowd cheering)
(Laughing)
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Redwall!
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(Chattering)
LOG-A-LOGMembers of the
Guosim.
You have heard the tale Matthias
of Redwall and his friends
related to us.
There is evil abroad in
Mossflower.
Slavers.
SKANSo?
What does this got to do with
us?
Silence, Skan!
No one may interrupt the speaker
when he has the floor.
It is the rule of the Guosim.
It’s a stupid rule, like all
your silly customs.
I’ll talk when I feel like it.
(Murmuring)
Log-a-log-a-log-a-log-a-log!
Listen to me, shrews!
Evil in Mossflower concerns us
all!
I say we fight the slavers and
rescue the young ones.
Are you with me?
ALLHoy!
I say why get slain sorting
out the troubles of others?
(Growling)
Sit still, friend.
Leave this to Log-a-Log.
Perhaps you would like to be
the new Log-a-Log of the Guosim.
Let’s see if you fight as
bravely as you talk.
Who wants to be bothered with
the Guosim, anyway?
Come on, shrews.
(Murmuring)
ORLANDOHe’s not short on
courage, your friend Log-a-Log.
He is the fiercest warrior
I’ve ever seen, and as wise as
he is brave.
LOG-A-LOGSorry you had to
see that, old Redwaller.
Oh, well, it’s settled.
Tomorrow at first light we
follow the fox together.
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MANGIZIt is as I said, my
general.
The great red stone house is
only a short flight from us.
My good right wing, Mangiz,
it is as you foretold.
Truly this southland is a
wonderful place.
My visions tell me that the
water is as plentiful as the
weather is warm, and the
foraging will soon be easy.
(Bell tolling)
Listen, my general, the bells
are welcoming us.
Well told, Mangiz.
Truly, it will be a great thing
to own a red stone house with
bells.
(Screeching)
(Cawing)
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SLAGARRight.
Get going.
(Chuckling)
Go on up, dozy paws, or
you’ll feel my cane.
SAMI’m the best climber.
I’ll go first.
Go slow, take one rung at a
time, and remember, don’t jerk
the chain and don’t look down.
Birdie!
We findum.
You see.
Warrior mouse friend needum
scribbles for w*r win.
Warbeak vow we findum fast.
Give my love to Matthias-- if
you find him.
Bye bye!
(Screeching)
Oh, it suddenly does take it
out of one, staying up all
night, drawing maps, writing
poems.
What a magnificent sight.
I just hope they find Matthias
in time.
If Queen Warbeak can’t find
him, no beast can.
That’s strange.
I could swear I just saw a
magpie above the east wall.
You better get some rest,
then, my friend.
There hasn’t been one magpie
ever recorded in this neck of
the woods.
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What do you make of that?
Well, chaps, I suggest we
stop for a bite before we press
on and see for ourselves.
It looks like a land rise.
I’ve heard of a place called
the Great South Cliffs, but the
Guosim have never wandered this
far south before.
How is it possible that any
beast can scale such a wall of
rock?
(Grunting)
Oh!
(Sobbing)
SLAGARNo stopping!
We haven’t got all day!
Get a move on, you stupid
creatures!
(Panting)
(Gasping)
Out of the way, numbskull.
(Yelling)
Is that all you brought?
It’s enough.
They’re all young, strong, and
healthy.
I haven’t time to argue, rat.
I have business to attend to.
Fleaback, get yourself over
here!
Fleaback, old friend.
Don’t interrupt.
Back at the river, when I left
you in charge of the prisoners,
that meant you were to let none
escape.
There’s no room in my band for
blunderers, so I’m afraid you’ll
have to go!
(Screaming)
(Thudding)
Chief, we got company.
Who are you and what do you
want?
SKANI am Skan.
I have information to trade with
the slaver fox.
SLAGARCome on up, then,
shrew.
Okay, fox, before I start,
you must promise to let me and
my shrews join your forces.
You will join us.
SKANListen, then.
We ran through the night to get
here before the others.
SLAGAROthers?
SKANThere’s a huge army
coming after you.
Log-a-Log and the shrews have
joined with that Redwall bunch
they dug out of a cave.
By the teeth of the dead!
I thought I’d buried that lot
for good!
SKANOur forces will be
strong enough to defeat old
Log-a-Log and his stupid Guosim.
SLAGARWell, Skan, you and
your band will join with us
immediately.
Chain them up.
Scum!
You traitor!
Much like yourself, you
traitorous shrew, only I am good
at it!
No beast is better at sl*ve
catching than Slagar the Cruel.
Remember that, rat.
Give me the right answers,
turncoat, or you’re dead.
The creatures that were buried
in the cave, did they all
survive?
Yes.
Alive.
All of them.
Alive.
Ha!
Mattimeo of Redwall, your father
lives.
The shrew tells me that my
father, Orlando the Axe, and the
others all survived the cave in.
(Sighing)
I needed the information, and a
little hope will take us a long
way.
All I can say is, daughter of
Orlando the Axe, I’m glad you’re
on our side.
(Whispering)
Silence, slaves.
Now, get on your feet.
Don’t know what you’ve got to be
happy about.
The day’s a scorcher.
It’ll get much hotter and we’ve
got a long way to go.
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What is it, Mangiz?
Are you having more visions?
No, my general.
The visions are blocked.
Inside the great red stone
house, my eye within is blurred.
Blocked by-- an earth crawler, a
strangely dressed mouse with a
sword.
(Cawing)
Maybe it is a good omen.
We will see, my general.
Rest now, Mangiz.
We have much to do when the sky
gets black.
Then will I take the red house
for my own!
(Chattering)
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CORNFLOWERHere we are.
Fresh fruit with cream and mint
wafers.
(Giggling)
(Crashing)
Huh.
Oops.
Rollo.
(Giggling)
CHURCHMOUSEGot you, you
little scamp.
It’s bath and bed for you now.
No, don’t want to go!
After your bath, Mrs.
Churchmouse and I will sing you
to sleep.
Would you like that?
Yup, yup.
Sing a-- sing a song for Rollo.
(Humming)
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(Humming)
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(Door creaking)
(Door creaking)
(Giggling)
Mercy me!
The little rogue has escaped!
Baby Rollo!
You get back to bed this
instant!
(Giggling)
(Shrieking)
MATTHIASAny clever ideas on
how we get up there?
Could be another trap.
JABEZMaybe that sly fox is
a-waiting to start ’urtling
boulders down on us.
Trap or not, it’s a risk we
take for our young ones.
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SAMMatty, why do you think
the guards are being so nice all
of a sudden?
Yes, it makes me nervous,
too.
I’d say the guards look
pretty frightened themselves.
SAMThere’s a forest up
ahead.
Do you suppose it has anything
to do with it?
(Shushing)
Tonight, we must move quickly
and silently.
Follow Stonefleck exactly.
Only he knows the safe path
through the Dark Forest,
otherwise none of us will
survive.
Oh, how I wish I was safe in
bed at Redwall again.
(Shrieking)
(Gasping)
CHURCHMOUSEStrangers in the
abbey!
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(Cawing)
Who are you and what are you
doing in our abbey?
I am Mangiz the Seer, General
Ironbeak’s strong right wing.
He demands all earth crawlers
leave our red stone house.
Your red stone house?
Fool of a bird.
Bow your head and show the
proper respect when you speak to
me, stripedog.
(Snarling)
(Cawing)
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Look what I found here!
Come on, Winifred.
(Shouting)
(Grunting)
(Cawing)
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MANGIZGeneral Ironbeak’s
word is law.
This house is his now and we
will prevail.
Prevail, my paw!
Shut it, you crazy birdbag!
Redwall be ours!
Ha-ha.
Gone quiet.
I shut their beaks.
Foremole, Winifred, gather
every beast to the safety of
Cavern Hole.
These black birds are trying to
take the abbey from the top
down.
How goes the tracking, Basil?
We’re hot on their tails,
m’laddie, just like I thought.
You’re sure they went this
way?
BASILI’d bet your summer
spikes they’ve scaled those
bally heights, Jabez.
Puzzles me is to how any
creature ’cepting a bird could
get up there.
BASILOne of those stoat
fellows didn’t make it.
Either he thought he could fly
or he missed his pawhold.
Stumbling across him nearly put
me off me supper, it did.
I say, chaps, what is for
supper?
(Chuckling)
I make a wish upon a star to
keep our young ones safe from
harm.
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Bones.
If any beast gets att*cked,
we’ll have no chance of making a
run for it.
Don’t be frightened, Tess.
(Whapping noise)
Ow!
(Yelling)
It’s the Painted Ones!
Run!
Pick up the chain, keep in
line, and run fast as you can.
If one of us falls we are all
finished!
Ow!
(Yelling)
(Screaming)
Jerk the chain!
Jerk the chain!
Run, run!
Hide there.
(Panting)
We’ve lost Slagar, too.
(Gasping)
(Laughing)
By the claw!
You should see your face, mouse.
(Chuckling)
♪
It’s too late to cross the
river now, fox, but tomorrow my
rats will still be waiting.
SLAGARGood.
The Painted Ones will not risk
the light.
We cross at daybreak.
Bad, bad bird.
Yes, sir.
Bad birdbags.
That raven wouldn’t have
dared to att*ck us if Warbeak
was still here.
I confess, I suddenly miss the
feisty Queen Sparra.
I says you’d be quite the
feisty one yourself tonight,
ma’am.
He fight and bite.
(Laughing)
CHURCHMOUSERollo.
I says we send them nervy
birdbags packing.
Better warriors than they is
tried to take us and failed
miserable, so they have.
Absolutely!
(Shouting)
Please, order.
Eight seasons of peace since the
Great w*r and now one summer
strewn with trouble.
First the fox and his band, now
this.
What Redwall needs right now is
a warrior with both the strength
and wisdom to show us how to
keep our beloved abbey free.
As Matthias cannot help us, who
can?
Cornflower?
Constance?
FOREMOLEConstance!
(Cheering)
(Chanting "Constance")
I’ll do the best I can.
For Redwall!
ALLRedwallers for Redwall!
You have underestimated these
earth crawlers, Mangiz.
MANGIZAye.
The big stripedog is
dangerous, my general.
The dirt pig and water hound, as
well.
They must all be taught a
lesson.
(Cawing)
IRONBEAKTomorrow they will
pay for their defiance-- with
their lives.
I, General Ironbeak, leader of
the seasoned warriors of the
north wing, make the declaration
of death!
I declare death to all earth
crawlers!
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