Introduction

Greetings.  I am Procyon.

Thanks for the interest in my fan fiction…  I wanted to write a little introduction to the story, hoping to make clear what I intended and also to give some acknowledgements.

First of all, if you cannot guess from the title, this fan fiction follows from the movie and as such facts were matched with this first and the book second, though I’ve tried to match the two up as closely as I can.  Of course some things may have a personal spin.  This world is perhaps more fantastic than that of the book, and has magic, a power that Mrs. Brisby channeled through the stone to save her children in the film.  It is this that is the point of interest in the story (well hopefully).

It’s meant to read a bit like a movie.  If you’re picturing it in your head with the same sort of backgrounds and overall style as the original film you’ll probably be close to what I’m imagining (whether that’s a good thing or not is open to debate). I have also tried to keep to no more than a PG rating (actually I strived not to put in anything worse than in the original film, but things can get out of hand).

This is my first fan fiction (well the first I have actually had posted anywhere) and so may be a bit scrappy in places.  Please forgive this.  I’m hoping to improve with practice.  Because of this there may be changes made to parts of the story that have already been posted in light of developments later.  These will be made known as and when they happen.

Some of the pictures in the fan art gallery tie into this story.  It would sometimes help to look at those as my descriptions are rarely up to scratch (go and look anyway and please give feedback, post comments and make suggestions).

I would like to say a thank you to Simon who kept giving me encouragement, laboriously read the drafts of the story and gave me advice on how to make it better and more readable (and make sure I was not the only person who could understand what was going on).

Ooh.  Almost forgot.  A thanks to all you who read and enjoy the story.  Feedback (good or bad) is really appreciated.

A quick word on feedback… the future is not set (why does that sound familiar?) and only certain points about the ending are fixed.  If there is anything that you would like to see included or ignored within the story incorporate it into any feedback you send and I will more than likely take it on board (well… as long as it doesn’t interfere with what I have planned).  It’s always really interesting to get other’s ideas.

And now I will leave you with sound words from Nicodemus:

“There is a book there…   Read the words.”

Procyon.

P.S.  Pretend this is a book for the purposes of the quote above...  Also here’s just a brief legal note.  This is a derivative work and as such all rights for characters (even those embellished by myself) remain those of their respective owners EXCEPT those original characters created by me.  Please do not use them without permission (that I will be more than likely to give if you want them for a good reason).  Please do not reproduce this fanfiction, in part or in full, without my permission.  This does not affect your statutory rights, blah, blah, blah…  Okay, on with the show...

Editor's note: You can email Procyon with feedback or questions about this story.

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