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Prologue
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It was a pitch black night in Cherrybank Forest; the clouds misted over the stars, and there wasn't a ray of moonlight to be seen. A figure--a fox--clad all in black was silently standing on a rock protruding over a cliff, his paws nearly tucked into the opposite sleeve. The expression on his face was one of complete peace and serenity, but his golden eyes that shone through the shadow of his hood were as cold and hard as a stone. His large, sweeping tail was curling over his hind-paws. He could be patient--but it was two hours before dawn, and the three he was waiting for needed to hurry or he would be in a foul temper.

And his foul temper wasn't a pleasant one.

At last, much too his relief, the silhouettes of three figures soon could be seen in the forests. "Ah, Zoru, Turano. I assume the guest is with you still?"

"Very much, sir." Replied the first one--Zoru.

"Is she still alive?" Asked the one clad in black, taking his paws neatly out of each sleeve and putting them behind his back.

"Oh, she's definitely alive." Turano sniggered, ringing his paws. "She gave Zoru a good thrashing back a few miles." He glanced at his comrade, eyes twinkling with mischief. Zoru responded with a vicious snarl, obviously not wanting that information to be revealed.

"I don't care what she did," answered the figure coolly. "I simply asked if she was alive," he pulled a knife out from behind his back and looked over it thoroughly, running his paws over the gleaming blade.

Zoru fidgeted. "Do you want to see her...?"

"Of course I want too see her, Zoru. Don't ask such a ridiculous question." He put the knife in a sheath that hung from his belt, and curled his paw towards himself. "Bring her here."

The two nodded and bolted back into the trees. They soon reappeared by the cliff, dragging an otter along behind them. She gasped in pain as she was thrown before the feet of the figure.

"Ah, Korinu." Sneered the figure, his lips curling into a smile. "I see Zoru and Turano took care of you well, hmm?"

Korinu snarled viciously, pinning her small ears to her skull. "Shut up, rat-breath." She snapped. "I ought to slaughter you here and now--and I would, if I weren't in chains!" She struggled furiously, her eyes portraying her rage and hatred for the cloaked one.

"Ahh, yes. I'm sure you would," he pat her head as if she were a child, but that was a mistake. She lashed out with her hind-paw and kicked furiously at his legs.

The figure let out a little yelp from astonishment, but not so much from pain. He let out a puff and straightened himself after a moment, and dusted his cloak off. "Feisty one, is she not?" he said to Zoru and Turano, who both nodded in agreement. The figure suddenly drew a knife from his sheath and examined it closely. Then he walked steadily over to the otter, and set the top of the blade on her forehead. "Korinu," he said in a voice like silk. "I am going to ask you to give me all the information I need. If you don't, I will run this dagger through your head before you could even blink. If you do, you will be set free. Have I made myself clear?"

Korinu could feel blood welling from the small cut that the figure was making with his blade. She clenched her teeth, knowing her meant every word he said. Even so, she hissed, "I will never tell you anything!" she hissed. "Not over my dead body will I ever tell you anything!"

The fox took the blade from her forehead and wiped the blood from it. "Ahh, I figured you would respond this way." he said coolly. "So that's why I have a back-up plan. All minds like mine do, of course." The fox snapped towards his henchmen. "Bring the child, please."

The otter's eyes widened when he said "child". Surely he didn't mean...

"Mommy!" A shriek came from the woods. "Mommy, help me, please!"

Korinu recognized the voice. Her daughter Mayai! "No! No! Let her go!" she struggled furiously against the chains until she was breathless. "Let her go! Please, I beg you!" tears welled in the mother's eyes. "Please! She's only a child! Take me, please! Leave her!" she was stumbling over her words, on her knees, begging for the life of her child.

The figures of Zoru and Turano came out of the woods, behind them, in chains, a young otter girl. Blood was welling from the girl's jaws and her eyes were shut. "Oh...no! How could you do this!" In sorrow, rage and fury, Korinu launched herself in vain towards the fox, who nimbly dodged out of the way. "Be still, otter. Your daughter isn't dead yet, but perhaps she will be. She certainly needs medical attention, does she not?" He kicked the otter's head in the direction to where she would face the henchmen and her daughter.

"Let her go!" cried Korinu weakly, struggling still. "Please...please!"

"Oh, I will." said the figure, bending down and jerking her head towards him. He looked directly into her eyes, and she couldn't help but cringe at his cold golden glare. "If," he continued, "you give me the information I need."

"Anything! I'll do anything!" Korinu said. "But please, let Mayai go!"

The fox nodded. "Of course, Korinu." he stood up and looked to Zoru and Turano. "Unchain the girl now--gently, if you will. Run go get some cobwebs, marigold and burdock root, too. We'll need them too heal the wounds."

Zoru and Turano glanced quickly at one another, then nodded obediently. They tried as gently as they could to get the girl undone from her chains, and then they ran off into the woods to find the listed herbs.

There she laid, half-dead, curled up into a ball. Even in her unconsciousness, she was still quaking from the wounds she had received.

Korinu watched her daughter, and fury awoke again inside her. "What do you need to know?" she snapped.

"How to get inside the gates of Vinegrove." answered the fox coolly. "Where, when, how."

For a moment, Korinu hesitated. But knowing that her daughter's life was endangered, she began to speak. "There's a secret entrance on the far-side of the gates. In the dead-center of the wall, you will find five red bricks making the shape of an 'X'. You'll know it's them because they protrude a little ways out of the wall. If you press all five of them in at once, a secret passage will open. Make sure you stand back, though. The floor opens from underneath you if you are within a two-foot range of the door. Jump over the two-foot gap, and then there will be a tunnel. Opening from that tunnel will be a room, will many different tunnels with different colored walls. Always take the tunnel with the green walls, and then you will come up underneath the house of the King. You open the floor panel by pressing a button on the left side of the tunnel." she finished, breathless.

"The map, please." The figure held out his paw too Korinu without even looking at her.

Korinu pretended to be puzzled. She furrowed her forehead and stared at the fox. When she didn't respond, the figure snapped his head towards her and said through grit teeth. He was getting temporamental. "The map, Korinu. Right now, or I will call off your daughter's life."

Korinu hissed at him, but obdiently she dug a piece of paper out of her pocket and handed it too him. "This map will lead you through the King's palace. On the other side is a navigation through Vinegrove." She paused. "I swear, that's all I can give you."

"Good," answered the fox coolly. "Because there's no more I can ask you." He flicked his black tail dismissively as he turned to his henchmen. "Zoru, Turano, please escort this lovely lady back to Vinegrove, but keep the child. She may be of use to me in the future,"

Kinoru gasped and clasped her paws over her muzzle. "No!" she exclaimed. "No, I won't let you keep her! Not while there's breath in me will I let you take my daughter from me! I demand you give her too me this instant or I will tell the lot of Vinegrove about your plan!" she began to struggle insanely once more.

The fox did not reply; instead he made one swift movement and jerked the chains bounding the otter mother forward. As soon as she was near enough, her grabbed the collar of her shirt and thrust his muzzle two inches from her own, his golden eyes boring into her. He had lost his temper with the impulsive otter and was now talking through grit teeth; "You begged for the life of your child and that is all you will get. I promise never will I lay a claw, tooth or weapon upon a hair of that child, but it return she will not tell my plan too your King. I can run a sword through her skull faster than you can blink, so if I catch any signs of Vinegrove being prepared she will die." He let the shirt of the otter go and stood up swiftly, and Zoru and Turano--who had been watching in astonishment at the outbreak of their ruler--immediately scrambled around, knocking against one another to avoid confrontation. He was in a bad mood. That was not good.

"As I said," the fox said in a much cooler voice, "go and take the otter back to Vinegrove. She is of use to me no longer."

"You are an evil, wretched little worm." Kinoru hissed violently, only loud enough for the figure too hear.

"Yes, yes I suppose I am." He sneered at the otter, "and that is why they call me Workfox."

And with that, Zoru and Turano grabbed the otter roughly by each arm and toted her back into the forest, while Wormfox could hear her screeching with rage and sorrow for her lost child. Wormfox did not feel the least bit of pity in her stone-like heart; only what the future would hold for the young otter. He walked carefully over to it, running over her smoothly with his eyes, and picked her up--along with the herbs. He then headed south--his empire waited a few miles in that direction. He had a feeling that the daughter of Kinoru--Mayai, as she was called--would play a great role in the capture of Vinegrove--be it good or bad. He would have to risk having her, though--he was sure that even if he did fail at first in taking Vinegrove, he would succeed eventually.

The otter squirmed slightly in his grasp. The young otter could sense somehow that something evil was afoot. She huddled closely in the fox's--which she thought was her mother's--arms and lie as still as possible.

She swore, right then, that whatever evil was happening, she would stop it.

Chapter 1
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Many, many seasons had passed. Mayai was nearly a full-grown otter by this time, being nearly fourteen summers. She was currently residing with Wormfox, who--at this moment--was currently ruling over Vinegrove.

Now, Mayai had absolutely no recollection of that day when she and her mother was separated. She simply remembered she had a bizarre desire to right every wrong and destroy all evil from the world forever. It was the yearning of a warrior, though Mayai didn't know it.

But, the reason why Mayai hadn't stopped Wormfox long before is because she believed that he was her adopted father, who was trying to right a terrible wrong that the Vinegrove People had done too him long ago; this was actually the truth, too--but not all of it. He had done something very evil, and the people paid him dearly for it. He had lost half the skin on his face and it left a mean, nasty-looking scar. Thus, he took Vinegrove in payment for his deformity, and ruled over it as their king.

Now, being King, that would make Mayai the princess over all Vinegrove. She believed her step-father was a worthy ruler, for she didn't know he was tormenting them in secret. She did know, however, masked creatures would occasionally invade Vinegrove, and drag poor, helpless souls away, never to be seen again. Because of these tragedies, Mayai was very sweet and kind-hearted to the people, though deep within her she wished she could do nothing more than rip out the hearts of the cruel, masked beasts. And she had tried before, too--but got in deep trouble with Wormfox. He told her never, ever to go outside the castle unattended ever again, and she didn't.

At least, not when he knew.

She would sneak out at night sometimes through her window and disguise herself as a peasant, and then go out hunting with her four friends--Timothy Rodrick (or better known as "Guitar"), Allen Howlby and Joseph and Marie Spineback. Guitar was a rabbit, while Joseph and Marie were both young porcupines. Allen was an otter like herself, and her dearest, most trusted friend. They talked often and laughed together. Guitar, Joseph and Marie spread a rumor that there was a romance between them, but both knew this wasn't true. They simply valued each other's time together. Mayai considered Allen more like a brother than a lover.


Too be continued because I am choosing to leave.
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This is awesome Beamy-Chan! I wanna read more! 030
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Awww~ danke me amigo~
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BUMP~!
The prologue is now finished :)
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Just finished reading both.

This is awesome! I can't wait for the rest.
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Yaaaahy~ danke friend

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