Wuya the Toxic

right|300pxWuya the Toxic is a female Megarian banded centipede and main villain of Invasion of Bugs.
==Biography==
She was born on a completely different landmass, and over time started a campaign to slay the greatest warriors across the world and keep their weapons as trophies. 
She first appears residing in Loamhedge-Abbey, looking at a map of the Redwall-continent. After dismissing Castle Floret as too unpopular, Salamandastron as too far away from her position, and Noonvale for being too well-hidden (and devoid of warriors), she decided Redwall would be her next target after hearing about it. She was momentarily interrupted by Fastwing, who reports he found a path leading to Redwall, and Wuya ordered him to mobilize the horde for the trek. While that was going on she also deduced Moledeep to be the perfect headquarters to use against Redwall, after ruling out Saint Ninian's and Brockhall, then packed her things for the journey.
Eventually, she and her horde arrive in Mossflower-county, riding a cart pulled by a Callovosaurus. Upon arriving at Moledeep, she makes sure all of her top soldiers were accounted for, then orders Bigjaw to scope out Moledeep for any moles still living there, Slashtail and Dytiscus to join her at Redwall and the rest to stand watch, then heads to Redwall. She arrives when the abbey had a feast, and though she was allowed entry, she had Slashtail and Dytiscus wait outside. Upon coming into great-hall, she immediately took notice of Martin's tapestry, and laments that she won't get to fight him. Upon hearing no one was the champion of the abbey at the moment, she reveals herself and her intentions in the hopes to spawn one. Eventually, she gets her wish when the albino mole Kav Furrel takes Martin's sword and brandishes it at her. After getting his name, she leaves the abbey.
When day arrives, she has her horde built a siege-engine, while she herself went looking for the guosim, taking only Bigeye with her. Bigeye finds the guosim and Wuya stalks them, but made the mistake of standing upwind, which allowed the shrews to smell her. Undaunted, she tries to scare them into losing their rationality, and it works: one shrew cracked from the pressure and charged to her position, where she pounced and killed by biting with her forcipules. After tossing the body aside, she leaps into the trees, positioning herself over the shrews until they were directly under her. The shrews though escaped her at the last second, but Wuya was able to match virtually all of them, incapacitating several and killing many more. By the time she finally defeats log-a-log Raoul, the last shrew standing, the otter Volkner Streamdog and his holt show up, and Wuya, having had her fight, chose to leave.
When she returns to Moledeep, Fastwing had brought some possible recruits. Wuya instantly accepted Goldback the robberfly, but rejected some, and decided to test five, one being Spikehand the mantis. Afterward, she leads in the first attack on Redwall by undermining it, hoping to get Kav's attention so she can kill him and claim Martin's sword, which she believed would be the biggest trophy she could ever obtain. The plan actually works as the redwallers take notice of her and meet her by digging their own tunnel, and Kav was with them. She quickly arrives to confront him, noticing his anxiety, and displays all twenty of her arms. Even so Kav does put up a fight, cutting two of her hands off in the process, and knocking her off her feet. He nearly kills her right there, but she stops him and decides to cut her losses in this battle and orders a retreat.
While at Moledeep, she was tending to her newest weapons she took from the guosim, then takes a nap to prepare herself for the next attack. While asleep Martin the Warrior harasses her with nightmares. She was saved when her seer Tegenaria wakes her to inform their siege-engine was complete, and brings Wuya to see it. Wuya marvels at the Mangonel, and after noting that it would rain soon, has it tested, and decides to attack again now. She elects Fastwing, Dytiscus, and Bigjaw to create a diversion with the mangonel while she and others sneak around to infiltrate while the abbey's back was turned. Upon reaching their destination, she has Tubemouth give the go to begin, and while Redwall was busy, she had Slashtail, Spikehand and Goldback secure climbing ropes up on the wall. The plan almost worked, but they were discovered sooner than anticipated as Kav's friend Alzbeta Grang spotted them and alerted the abbey. Wuya arrived on the wall just when Kav and Nomi showed up to stop her, and the friar owl Bairdon Bardwing knocks her off with the corpse of Fastwing, though Wuya managed to grab the stone to stop her fall, only for Bairdon to stomp her hands, sending her plummeting back. While some thought the fall killed her, she proves otherwise by lunging her tails at Tubemouth.
At night, she was recovering in Moledeep, but was again plagued by a nightmare. When Scalewing and Goldback come to treat her injuries, Wuya asks the latter if he knew anyone experienced in treating fall-injuries, as Scalewing wasn't. Goldback admits Parus the Manipulator can do it, but is untrustworthy. Wuya disregards it and has Goldback tell Tubemouth to fetch her, but does consider Goldback's words just incase. Parus does arrive, and she does indeed have a cure for fall-injuries plus one for nightmares. Despite Goldback's protests, as he had been conned by Parus once before, Wuya sends him and Scalewing off after determining Parus isn't a threat. When Wuya falls asleep, Parus sneaks off with plans the centipede drew to bait the bird. When Goldback and Scalewing return to make sure nothing was stolen, the former notices the plans disappeared and began cursing so loudly that he woke up Wuya, who reveals she had actually taken Goldback's warnings to heart and outsmarted Parus. They then go to Redwall to see if Parus will pay for it, though she manages to escape. Wuya though wasn't worried, and instructs Bigeye to follow and kill Parus, who complies. Unknown to Wuya, while Bigeye would catch up to Parus, the bird got the last laugh by foreseeing this and kills Bigeye.
Later, Wuya checks on the teenage vole Darovit, who was caught outside Redwall last night by Slashtail. Wuya noted bitterness emanating from him, and deduced he hated Redwall, which Darovit admits is directed at Kav, who unknowingly kept getting Darovit treated like a nobody. Sympathetically, Wuya offers a place for Darovit among the horde, but he shoots her down out of wariness that she'll break her promise. Wuya left him to think it over after that. 
At night, she gets another nightmare, and in the real world Tubemouth was planning to take her place: the assassin-bug creeps into her room with a dagger, but Wuya wakes up before he could kill her, and she harshly throws him out after catching him. She then gets to work when Slashtail and Bigjaw arrive with news: the redwallers were planning to assassinate her and Tubemouth plans to usurp her. Though shocked by the latter at least, she decides to use both to her advantage. She summons Tubemouth to her bedchamber, and claims that she is putting him in charge while she plans another attack on Redwall, and intends to be in it. Tubemouth, unaware of her plan for him, agrees happily. She then left to Saint Ninian's to have a Battering ram built for tomorrow. Slashtail then arrives with the news that the redwallers were planning to kill her tonight, and to ensure Tubemouth gets killed instead, Wuya has Slashtail tell Tubemouth to disguise himself as her under the pretense of quelling any thought of rebellion. The plan was successful as Tubemouth not only does put on her attire, but it gets him mistaken for Wuya by Myotis the bat, who was laying in wait in a hole in the ceiling, and she kills Tubemouth under the assumption he was Wuya. Wuya herself later arrives to see if it worked, and Goldback confirms it by revealing Tubemouth was dead in her room. Entering the room herself, she does indeed find Tubemouth, and after turning him over, finds Myotis' dart, and after looking at the hole, deduces that was the trap the redwallers made. She then had Bigjaw and Tegenaria remove the corpse, then gives a speech about Tubemouth's treachery, and extinguishes anymore thought of usurping.
When morning arrives, she launches her next attack, and once again tries to sneak in while the abbey was distracted, but the woodlanders again find out sooner than she liked, and it cost her Hardskin, Spikehand and Teganaria's lives, although her survival from last night did shock the abbey, except Kav who had figured Wuya had been alerted to their trap and used it against them. After returning to Moledeep, she visits Darovit again in her attempt to sway him to the dark-side, and this time Darovit concedes. She then had him released and allowed to return to the abbey freely, and Wuya was confident he would honor her deal. In the morning while dawn was still an hour away, Darovit does indeed keep his promise and lets the vermin in, but when he tries to confirm that Wuya will keep her part, she responds by knocking him out, and admitting she won't after all. Then she breaks into Kav's house, strolls personally into his bedroom and apprehends him when he sensed her presence. She then takes him outside, where her horde caught the rest of the residents, and she doesn't hide the fact Darovit joined her. When Darovit wakes up and sees everyone a prisoner, he was outraged, but she assures him she still has her sights on Kav, even handing the mole Martin's sword and shield, and when asked about it, she claims killing him in a fight is more fun, and Kav agrees to fight to the death. During the dual, Darovit defects back to the good-side and frees the prisoners, causing everyone else to fight as well. While fighting, Wuya loses more limbs to Kav, but it doesn't stop her, and Kav proves to be the one warrior that could possibly defeat her. On one clash, she tries to bite him with her forcipules, but Kav dodged them and sliced the right-one off. When he retreats up some stairs, she taunts him, then leaps up for one more attack, but this would be her undoing: when she locks weapons with Kav again, he thrusts his sword up at her and cuts through her skull, killing her and ending her reign of terror.
==Appearance==
She wears a green-cloak, a yellow-gown, a belt and two sashes. Due to having twenty-arms, she can wield multiple weapons at once: her weapons include two Pikes, a Bolas, an ax, a Spear, two Cutlasses, a Crossbow, a Halberd, a Flail, a Glaive, two Morning Stars, two Sabres, a Javelin, two Maces, a Blowpipe, a Dagger, a War scythe, a Bill hook, a Scimitar, a War hammer, Throwing Knives, a Trident, a Dirk, a Lance, two Claymores and a Sling (though she'll also use her forcipules and collects weapons from those she kills).
==Personality==
Wuya was rather unusual compared to the last warlords Redwall faced as she wanted mainly to kill the abbey's champion and have Martin's sword rather than claim the abbey itself, which she viewed as just a bonus. She also takes care to minimize casualties in battle, calculating which she'll be willing to sacrifice: her most competent subordinates she actually tries to preserve as much as possible, and if they die, she's actually devastated or horrified from it, and even makes note to avenge them. For those who are downright useless to her (or traitorous in Tubemouth's case), she'll happily sacrifice if it benefits her. She also looks down on vertebrates, regardless if they are with her or against her, but it doesn't stop her from allying with the evil ones (something Tubemouth began resenting her for), and her cunning demeanor could rival that of Cluny the Scourge, like how she saw through Parus' manipulative nature and outsmarted her very much like how Cluny did to Sela and Chickenhound. She also takes enjoyment in battle and likes collecting the weapons of those she beats.
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