the story of the bellmaker

five will ride the roaringburn but only four will e'er return!.
mariel & dandin of redwall return! in the bellmaker. ( for more information go to redwall.org )when urgan nagru, the fox wolf ( he's really just a fox but he calls himself a fox wolf becausehe killed a wolf, skinned it, & wears its skin & skull ) captures gael the squirrelking, his wife,queen serena, & their baby, truffen, along with muta, truffen's nurse, &, worst of all, castlefloret. the otter, rab streambattle & his band of otters must try to save them, but thensomething goes wrong, king gael gets left behind & nagru sends out his dirgecallers to find the southswarders.....................................but even as this is happening mariel, dandin, & a hedgehognamed bowly pintips are getting closer every second, when they meet up with meldrum themagnificent, & later on save queen serena & truffen, but, unfortunately get themselves, (oops! i forgot, bowly was with some moles while they were saving queen serena & truffen) but, with the help of glokkpod the butcherbird & king gael the get out............................meanwhile at redwall joseph the bellmaker father of mariel, dreams of martin the warrior, & all that is happening in southsward. in a short time rufe brush,joseph,foremole, durry quill & hon rosie along with log a log & his crew of shrews get them to finnbar galedeep. finnbar, with their help steals the pearl queen(owned by cap'n slipp)& tries to sink the shaloo (owned by cap'n strapp, brother of slipp) but failing, they flee in the pearlqueen with the shaloo hard on their heels, but when the two ships reach the green maelstrom, it's a close one.....................but with pearl queen emerging victorious.....& the shaloo in the sea, still spinning...................now back to mariel, having escaped but finding the walltop swarming with vermin. mariel runs back into castle floret where she meets egburt the scholar, muta, & rab and with muta and rab's help takes control of the gatehouse and then egburt goes back to his tunnels. meanwhile, joseph and the others are recruiting an army, find castle floret and meet egburt the scholar, meldrum, and iris, rab's mate. together with dandin, joseph is reunited with mariel and they put the vermin into flight right out of castle floret where the final battle of urgan nagru and finnbar galedeep would take place that day ending up with all the vermin deader than doornails. finally rufe, foremole, durry, hon rosie, mariel, & last but not least dandin return home to redwall.(joseph returns later on after he makes a bell for king gael)
redwall!
extract from the writings of brother paco
as the seasons come and go, we all become no younger, i am happy to say that great abbot saxtus, simeon, mariel, dandin, joseph, and the others are still with us, i think abbess vale will be a good abbess, may the seasons be kind to all redwallers and, the gates of redwall are ever open to all our good friends.
brother paco recorder of redwall abbey in mossflower country. paco churchmouse.