Neomys

right|300px|link=Special:FilePath/PlaceholderNeomys is a male Eurasian water shrew and one of the heroes of Creeps from the Deep.
==Biography==
He first appears alongside Corax bringing in a haul of fish from the abbey pond, then agrees to accompany Fantina Dubbidge and Tekli Shellhound in gathering fruit outside. Unfortunately a juska tribe lead by Terref Rath shows up, but was only interested in a fight with Fantina, not the abbey.
Several days later, Fantina was warned by Martin that Salamandastron was in danger, and Neomys accompanied his friend on the errand of delivering scones to the fortress as well as aiding it. During the trek, they run into Log-a-Log Boshti and explain what will happen. Boshti sent half her guosim to meet them at Salamandastron while she remains in Mossflower-Woods. At night, they set up camp, where they meet Pipistrellus, who provides for them, but was really intending to rob them. Neomys actually noticed maliciousness and faked being drugged, when Pipistrellus tried to rob Neomys, the shrew anticipated it and they start a fight, waking up the others. After being chewed out for his actions, he tries to leave, but Neomys kills him instead. After killing him, they moved somewhere else. By the next morning, it's clear they were still a little shaken by the encounter.
At some point, they arrive in the toadlands and trek through it, but Thon halted out of fear. Neomys, undaunted, went to scout ahead, and partly assumes the girls were just afraid to get dirty when they refused to join him. When he got halfway through, he was ambushed by painted-ones, who take him prisoner and bring him to their village, losing his cutlass in the process. There, they planned to sacrifice him to the "Meg", a Megalosaurus. Fortunately Fantina, having heard his scream from being attacked, comes to his rescue, and after freeing Neomys, flee back the way they came. After rejoining Corax and Thon, they fill her in while finally escaping the swamp.
By night, they eventually reach the mountains leading to Salamandastron and had set up camp when Molayne McGurney finds them. He explains that Fantina's vision had been correct: a corsair named Passel the Nasty was attacking the fortress, but the trio lament Thon was too exhausted to continue any further, until Molayne finds, fights and kills the corsair Dashwing who had been following the owl. This prompted the trio to continue, with Corax flying ahead with Molayne while Fantina and Neomys rode Thon after them. Tragically, they come just when Molayne was killed and the guosim dispatch arrive. By morning, he was in a meeting with his friends, Korrina Forgefire the badger lord, Thorton Bletgore of the Long Patrol, and Piruk of the guosim. He pays his respects to Molayne before joining the other heroes in attacking Passel's forces, who by this point was running low on subordinates, some of which try to abandon him. When Passel fled back to his runaway ship, Fantina follows, much to Neomys' dismay, who tries to stop her, but she makes it on the Sinister Shark and gets captured. Thankfully, the Long Patrol had their own ship, the Lifesavor and boarded it to pursue Passel.
During the voyage, he finds Vanto Forgefire had stowed away, and was being lectured about it by Thorton, but Neomys accepts the badger onboard out of suspense he'll be needed. Not a moment too soon, they start nearing the Sinister Shark, who was scuffling with the Manly Marauders, who Neomys reasoned could be allies if they were fighting Passel. Arriving on the ship, they meet with Lucian Shellrudd the otter corsair and all three find and free Fantina. Neomys later got to fight Marka Frildur, but when he disarms the shrew, the lizard leaps at him, only to miss and fall on the Lifesavor, dropping his weapon too, and when getting up, Neomys kills him with his own weapon. Then joins in the surrounding of Passel when he was the last one standing: Passel was killed in the water by Lucian. After burying the dead, the woodlanders bid farewell to the marauders and head to Ruddaring to drop off Lucian. Soon after that they return to the mainland and Salamandastron, before Neomys himself and his friends return to Redwall.
==Appearance==
He wears only a codpiece and wristbands. His weapon is a Cutlass.
==Personality==
He was more level-headed than Fantina, willing to use caution and doesn't succumb to pride. Being the only male of his group of friends, he sometimes felt like an oddity, like during their trek in the toadlands, he partly assumed the girls refused to help scout ahead because they didn't wanna be dirty. He does however, have more sense to know not to try something that could backfire, like when Fantina rushed after Passel to kill him, Neomys feared she'd be captured or worse, and tried to stop her. 
He was very considerate with odds, when Vanto was found to have stowed away, Neomys believed keeping him with the group would be beneficial, and later when Passel waged war on the manly marauders, Neomys believed they could ally with the woodlanders: in both cases he turned out right.
==Trivia==
*His name is the genus name of the Eurasian water shrew, Neomys fodiens.
==Gallery==
Category:Creeps from the Deep Characters
Category:Males
Category:Shrews
Category:Heroes