Kav Furrel

right|300pxKav Furrel is a male albino-mole and main hero in Invasion of Bugs.
==Biography==
===Invasion of Bugs===
He first appears being born, and both his parents Jala Furrel and Telma Furrel, and badger-mum Scarlette Broadstripe, were shocked to see him albino, though this didn't stop his parents from loving and naming him. His pigment has also earned him the nicknames "Snow-mole", "ghost-mole" and even "Mini-Urthwyte" over the seasons.
During his adolescence, he was bringing fruit to Bairdon Bardwing, but tripped and spilled it in front of Martin's tapestry. For a moment, he stared at it wondering why there has never been a mole champion. He was caught in it by Abbot Giotto, who helped him pick up the spilled fruit and bring it to cavern-hole, where they both see Bairdon chase Alzbeta Grang and Zonder Banksnout out of the kitchen. After handing the owl the fruit, Kav checks on the rogue youths, finding them under a table, then follow Erinaceus Quill and Myotis to see the latter's progress with a Blowpipe. In the evening, he and his father go fishing and catch a massive tench-fish for Bairdon to cook for tonight's feast. After the adults left the four juveniles to themselves, Kav's crush Nomi arrives to bring them up a wall looking at the sunset. Kav thought it was rather romantic, but it was spoiled by the vole Darovit, who hated Kav for how popular he was, though he still had a good time. Later, he was enjoying the feast when someone arrives from outside. When Kav laid eyes on the newcomer, he actually felt unnerved, which proved valid as the stranger revealed itself to be a centipede warlord named Wuya the Toxic. During the standoff that followed, Kav heard Martin's voice telling him to use Martin's sword, and Kav does, threatening Wuya with it, but the centipede was more delighted than scared as she had been meaning to fight the abbey-champion. After that fiasco, Kav planed to go to bed, but not before he heard his parents express worry at him, causing him to have second thoughts. While asleep, Martin visits him and assures Kav he'll try to keep the mole alive (not wanting him to give his parents or girlfriend broken-hearts like Laterose did). When morning comes, he chats with Telma to calm her nerves.
After getting Martin's sword, he finds his friends being taught some combat by Volkner Streamdog, and does some training himself, but it was interrupted by Koor arriving with news: Wuya was slaughtering the guosim. By the time the woodlanders arrive at the site, only a dozen or so shrews were alive. Kav was particularly horrified from the scene, although he nevertheless helps in bringing all shrews, dead and alive, to Redwall. After that, he and his friends were rather catatonic after realizing what war is really like. Luckily Bairdon cheers them up with tales of battles he's been in, and Kav agrees that even if they die, they must make sure Wuya dies, and start training some more. Unfortunately, Kav's special senses were telling him there was digging going on, which distracted him, and after Alzbeta theorized it was Wuya, Kav joined his father in digging a tunnel to meet the vermin's. The plan works, but Wuya halted everyone before a fight could happen, as she desires to fight Kav herself. Kav was nervous though, and the fact that Wuya could wield a big number of weapons due to having twenty-arms didn't help matters, but he remained combative and later engaged Wuya, cutting off two of her hands, and almost kills her, but she wretches him away with her tails and fled. In the aftermath, Kav opted to have Martin's shield and armor from now on, and Brother Esuom brought him to the attic where both were kept. Sadly, Kav proved too big for the armor and was restricted to just the sword and shield. Not long after, he and Nomi were having a little date when Wuya returns, and Volkner suggested Kav stay behind as a backup should the otter fail, and the mole reluctantly agrees. He watched the battle until Alzbeta catches other vermin sneaking in from the other side of the abbey, and quickly informs the rest where they quickly move out. Kav arrives just when Wuya climbs up the wall, but Bairdon knocks her back down with the corpse of Fastwing and Kav cuts the grappling lines, and though they were victorious Kav suspects Wuya wasn't finished yet.
At night, Erin gets to do guard-duty despite there being rain, though another reason was because Erin liked feeling the rain bombard his bare-chested body and thinks it makes him more attractive, and Kav actually agrees, tries it out himself, and enjoys it. They both later show off to the girls.
The next day, Parus the Manipulator arrives after stealing from Wuya, though she ends up offending Redwall when she insults Kav, who stormed off. Even worse, Parus decided to rob Redwall behind its back, but was caught by Myotis, who apparently recognized Parus as her parents' murderer. Parus managed to escape the abbey, though not with any loot, and Myotis aggressively wants to kill her. Kav comes and knocks sense into the bat, stating that Wuya was top priority. After that, Kav learns that Darovit has disappeared and no one could find him. Kav actually felt responsible for it and went to be alone in cavern-hole, but Nomi followed him and forced him to spill the beans, and both wonder if Darovit will betray Redwall. Come nightfall, he and his friends resume their training until Bairdon asks Myotis to accompany him on a stakeout to Moledeep, and Myotis thought it was the perfect opportunity to rid them of Wuya, with Kav being fully supportive. While Myotis believed she had indeed killed Wuya, Kav couldn't bring himself to believe her and didn't celebrate. When Nomi asks him, he confides that he thinks Wuya might still be alive. Both moles spent the night on a wall-walk, but were rudely awakened by the vermin attacking again, and as Kav suspected, Wuya was in fact still alive. After thwarting her again, Darovit returns alive and well, and Kav was glad, and in the celebration that followed, Kav apologized to Darovit for getting him neglected and ignored, much to Darovit's amazement. Unfortunately Darovit still had some animosity toward Kav, and had secretly sided with Wuya.
Before dawn the next day, Darovit lets in Wuya and her horde and they take over Redwall. Wuya herself breaks into Kav's house and takes him prisoner, as well as confirming it was real. Right before being brought outside, he sees his parents also captured, and everyone else upon exiting the house. Kav was also the one to deduce that Darovit was the one who gave Wuya entry, and did so out of jealousy. When Kav sees Wuya holding Martin's sword, he demands it, and surprisingly she actually gives him both the sword and shield. Confused, Kav asks why, to which Wuya claims she prefers to kill the strongest warriors in fights and proposes Kav engage her in a deathmatch, which he accepts. During the brawl, the other redwallers were freed by Darovit, and everyone else did battle, but Wuya and Kav were left alone. Nearing the end of the fight, Kav, now bruised and bloodied, lock weapons, and narrowly avoids getting bitten by Wuya's forcipules, all the while slicing the right one off. He retreats up stairs, right when Wuya leaps at him. He puts his shield up and when Wuya came down, he thrusts his sword upward, jabbing through her head and killing her.
In the aftermath, he was being bandaged up by Scarlette, and showered with praise by his parents, though he immediately didn't take kindly to everyone resenting Darovit, claiming it was his fault the vole betrayed them in the first place, and demands Darovit only be banished for two seasons. Despite Darovit's gratitude, he claims he won't be returning to Redwall at all, and when Kav and Koga follow him to try and make him reconsider, Darovit refuses: claiming he couldn't stay in the abbey after his mistake, and Kav understandably lets him go. Some eight seasons later, he and Nomi marry.
===Parus Rides Again===
At one point, he and Nomi bear a daughter they name Freja Furrel. One evening, he catches her squabbling with Botaurus and promptly puts her in a timeout. Later, he and Jala once more fish in the pond, but weren't having any luck until Zonder helps. They later begin the party that honored Kav becoming Redwall's champion, but they didn't expect a travelling circus to join in, but Kav saw no reason not to allow them to. Unknown to him or anyone in Redwall, this was Parus. During the show, Parus personally greets Kav and lays eyes on Freja, then she douses everyone with sleep powder, knocking everyone out except for Telma and Vakama Foeseeker while she took Freja, Zonder and Ganner Grang. Kav was woken up by a combination of Martin and the eurasian-siskin Spinus, and Kav wakes up everyone else right after, with Nomi deducing the circus was responsible. Kav later joined Koga in searching for the five missing characters, rendezvousing with Alzbeta and Mareike who also failed. Luckily Koor finds at least two, but at a catch: Telma and Vakama were dead. Kav refused to believe his mother was dead and tried to revive her, but it was futile. After getting the bodies back to Redwall, Kav was in a meeting with Erin, Nomi, Myotis, Alzbeta, Volkner and Giotto, where Alzbeta claims to have found a feather that belongs to Parus, which stunned everybody as they thought Parus was killed by Wuya. After the meeting, he expressed guilt in letting Parus and her band into Redwall, feeling if he had turned them away, both Freja and Telma would still be present. When Myotis quotes she can empathize, Kav has a private talk with her, believing her own desire for revenge would become a problem and was reluctant to take Myotis on the hunt. Myotis thought this was unfair as Kav had the excuse to get revenge himself for Telma's death because Freja was abducted by Parus, and Kav reluctantly allows Myotis to accompany her, on the condition that she keep her grudge under control, which she promises to do. They, Alzbeta, Spinus and Erin later set off to kill Parus officially. With Spinus' guidance, they track Parus' whereabouts to where Saint Ninian's stood, though by the time they got there, Parus was long gone. When Alzbeta smelled more slaves, Kav compares Parus to Slagar the Cruel. They get interrupted by Myotis discovering a fight a little ways back. Arriving, they find the hares Jaxxon Thistledown and Poove battling Fleshtooth and Halfear. After disposing of the slavers and doing introductions, Kav discovers Jaxxon and Poove were also after Parus due to the great-tit having taken the former's daughter Kasper Thistledown and all seven decide to follow together. During the trek, they run into Reggie Swordmaid, Howard Axehound and Sasha Churchmouse who were looking for Reggie's twin brother Russell Swordmaid, leading the seven to believe Parus had kidnapped yet another woodlander, but it brings their number up to ten. 
The next day, all ten pursuers set off after Parus and by luck run into the guosim. Log-a-log Raoul sends up to ten shrews to join the ten, one of them being Láilá Bigboat, bringing the party up to twenty. Later in the day, they arrive at a swamp, but none saw Parus watching from the air. She later springs a trap on them: sending an army of toads to get rid of them, but it gets worse when a Baryonyx, unintentionally provoked by Poove, joins the attack, eventually cornering all the rescuers except Howard in a dead-end cave, but Howard manages to lure the dinosaur away, and once they were clear, Howard claims to have seen all their loved-ones temporarily free, but Kav didn't believe it would make a difference since there had to be more than their loved-ones in Parus' grasp. Continuing to trek through the swamp, they make the gruesome discovery of finding Whitebelly dead and headless. Kav deduced the woodpecker was watching their loved-ones when they escaped, and Parus killed him for it. Leaving the carcass behind, they set up camp in a clearing for the night, though during the night, Myotis arrives with Freja's friends Zootoca, Gjord and Algot Muskar, and the party reluctantly take them along. 
Two days later, they finally catch up to Parus' lackeys at Great Inland Lake, only to find them in the midst of an argument. After Sasha kills Brownarm, they learn that Parus ditched them and took the slaves alone to Marlfox Island. Howard immediately kills Spearbeak when she tried to attack, while the remaining three (Fuzzface, Botaurus and Xof Chopsnout) smartly surrender. They later take their prisoners with them to the island by swimming in the water, but a freshwater plesiosaur claims the vermin's lives, leaving them to come up with a new plan. Luckily they reach Marlfox Island, then break free all the slaves before finding their loved ones, but after reuniting with their intended targets, Brafilius catches them in a trap, and the woodlanders were immediately backed up by the freed slaves. During the battle that ensued, Kav chased Parus, but only Myotis could keep up with her. He did however see Parus meet her end at the hands of another Brancasaurus, officially handing the woodlanders their victory, but at the cost of Spinus' life. Kav and his little team return to Redwall to a happy reunion, and several days later, his friend Alzbeta and Poove wed.
==Appearance==
He was dressed in a purple-hose and sandals. His weaponry was Martin's sword and shield. 
==Personality==
Like all Redwall-champions and moles in general, Kav has a big heart and will protect those he cares about strongly. While his albinism made him popular, he never really relishes in it, and sometimes he actually hates it, especially when it gets Darovit jealous: when he found this out, he tried to make up for it. He also has fondness for warriors and was often curious why Redwall never had a mole for a champion until he himself became one.
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