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Introduction:

Have you read Watership Down? Do you just like rabbits? After reading, watching, breathing in everything about Watership Down, I've decided to write a story. In this post will just be the intro, but I WILL post the story soon. Please comment!

Hawkrun, a tall handsome rabbit from the Whisper Warren has to face the facts when his sister is snatched away by a hawk. His leader, the mighty Stag, is becoming wary with the other near by warren, the Dark Warren. As they press closer, and Chestnut becoming weak, Hawkrun has a choice. Help Stag through the desicion of war, or helping his brother through his depression. And at the mean time, the Dark Warren is plotting to destroy Whisper Warren from the inside out! Will Hawkrun and Mist find out in time, or will it all come apart?

Whisper Warren

Leader: Stag
Guards: Hawkrun, Nightkill, Plague, Darkclaw
Commons: Chestnut, Roanheart, May, Daisy, Brook, Bone, Lily, Oak, Leaf, Cloud, Lilac, Clover
Elders: Blackeyes, Chippedstone, Bull, Sky
Healer: Mist

Dark Warren

Leader: Barkfur
Guards: Killer, Coal, Caesar, Buckhorn, Coldheart
Commons: Shadow, Blood, Robinwing, Sunset, Reddusk, Falcon, Bandit, Wheat, Waterfall
Elders: Turniptail, Flint, Smokefeet, Greyback, Dustfoot
Healer: Whiteear

Story coming to you tomorrow!

Whispering Hills
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Hawkrun sniffed the air, his ear twitched and he hopped slowly. The tall bluebonnets tickled his tan fur and grey ears. He hopped faster, the smell of other rabbits getting, slowly but surely, stronger. The clouds rolled by, so so slowly, as if they would say 'Oh my, it is too hot to move, let us just stay here a while'. Hawkrun studied the clouds, something seeming dreaded and wrong in the air. He shook the thought our of his head and hopped over to the entrance hole of his warren.
The hole was one of many, the main one. Hawkrun thumped his foot on the ground, to let them know he was no an intruder. He heard a thump back, and jumped inside. He shook his fur as the dirt rubbed against it, almost as if it were clawing at it, trying to hold him back. Hawkrun, usually became frightened in times like this, and ran full speed down the tunnel.

Then his fur brushed something.

He stopped dead in his tracks, whipping his head around quickly. There, back in the tunnel, he could barely make out a small, plump rabbit. Dark dark brown and breathing weakly.

"Chestnut! What on Earth happened to you?!"

Chestnut, Hawkrun's little brother, looked back up at him, his eye wron and tired. There, Hawkrun could smell, the thick scent of blood, completely covering his brother's back. There were three long claw marks on his lower back. Chestnut muttered,"I-I was out... With my friends, we were... eating. They were full... Not me... They didn't want to leave me alone... Rain! Oh, she wanted to stay and watch, to- to make sure I was ok... But then..."
He broke off in ragged sobs, his shoulders trembling. Hawkrun erected his grey ears, leaning towards the younger rabbit. "What! What happened, Chestnut?"

Chestnut shook his head weakly,"There was a falcon! Oh he was so big, Hawkrun! He came at me, clawing my back, grabbing me... dropping me... He came back! Rain... she jumped in the way..." More sobbing and sighs. Hawkrun leaned his ears back, looking down at his paws. "She's... dead?"
Chestnut nodded sadly, and trembled,"I... can't walk."

With Chestnut leaning heavily on him, Hawkrun slowly hopped down the tunnel.
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I couldn't resist not posting tonight! Comment and keep reading!

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Hawkrun and Chestnut came into a huge burrow. At the far end of the room, there was a tall wall with the leader rabbit's den on top, that only two rabbits (beside the leader) could make the jump up there. When they entered all heads turned to them. May, a small pudgy tan tabbit with white ears made a loud gasping noise and shook her head. "Oh my my! Chestnut, what on earth happened to you?"
Her sister, Daisy, a tall white rabbit, whispered to her sister hoarsely,"Be quiet or you'll startle him more! Just look at him!"

Oak, and older deep brown rabbit, tall and big, much like his nephew, Hawkrn, hopped over. He sniffed Chestnut's wounds then frowned,"What happened to him?"

"QUIET!"

Everyone turned their heads to the tall wall. On the top was a huge light brown rabbit with black ears and paws stood, staring down at Hawkrun, Chestnut, and Oak. "Now, would someone like to tell me WHAT is going on?"
Hawkrun repeatedly the terrible tale, while a silver rabbit with a white underbelly and icey blue ice came to work on Chestnut's wounds. At the end, Stag was staring down at his paws, with nothing to say.

He hopped down and approached Chestnut, tear begining to brim along his eyes. Stag, the mighty leader, had loved Rain to death. No one, not even Stag, had known this, and no one ever would, but Rain had been pregnant with Stag's young.

Hawkrun lowered his huge ears, shaking his head,"I'm sorry, Stag." Stag smiled weakly,"No no, I'm sorry. She was your sister." Chestnut, out of no where, began to wail,"OH! Rain, so sweet and kind. Becase of me she's gone... Kill me, bring her back!"
Hawkrun shook his head, staring dumbfounded at his brother. Stag, became angered by Chestnut's words.

He began to claw at Chesntuts face

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"Stag!"

Hawkrun head-butted Stag's shoulder, causing him to slam against the wall. He made a loud wheezing sound and wiggled his ears. Chestnut was now curled up in a ball, near tears. Mist began to work on his face, quietly leading him down a tunnel towards his burrow. Hawkrun narrowed his eyes as Stag stood up and snorted angrily.
"WHAT was that for?!"

Hawkrun made a small laughing noise,"What do you mean, 'What was that for'?! You were hurting my brother. You KNOW how he can be some times!"

Stag looked away, jumping up and onto the wall, disappearing into his burrow. Oak and Leaf hopped over and sat next to their nephew. Leaf smiled,"Oh Hawkrun, what is happening?" Hawkrun and Oak frowned, turning to her, and asked,"What what is happening?"
Leaf sighed and shook her head,"Ever since Great Storm died... Our warren has been falling apart..."

Hawkrun nodded in agreement, saying good bye, and hopping down a tunnel to his burrow.

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((So sorry for short post, but more coming soon))

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Hawkrun closed his eyes, pressing down into the twigs and leaves that littered the floor of every burrow. He lowered his huge grey ears, breathing deeply. Every time he opened his eyes, the world would get darker, and quieter. He yawned quietly and deeply. Slowly, fading into the sleep realm.

Hawkrun ran up and down the hills. The wind blew on his face, his ears flying back, helping him soar into the air like wings. His whiskers tickled his face and he laughed jubilantly. The clouds rolled by faster than ever, saying at last,"Hurry, hurry, hurry! We must go the west, go go go!"

He looked down at the world so small, but then the dream became a nightmare.

His ear-wings became the large, terrible, beating wings of a falcon. His small muzzle became a beak, fur into feathers. His front legs disappeared and his hind became thin bird legs, sharp talons on each toe. He soared higher and higher, no control of wear he went.
Then he turned a dropped.

Facing the wind, full speed. Going down fast, faster, cloud practically running out of his way. The warren in sight, where he saw Chestnut and Rain. What was he doing? Grab the small one! Oh you dropped him fool. Go again, faster now! What? The tall one in my way? Well I'll take her instead. Ha! Rabbits, the fools. Fly fly fly back to the nest. Yum, rabbit for dinner. Just have to kill her first!

Hawkrun awoke with the loud alarming squeal rabbits utter out when they are scared. No a scream, howl, screech, bellow, or any of the sort. A loud, heart wrenching squeal. He then her head foot-steps pound down the tunnel. At the entrance to his burrow was a tall white rabbit.

"You OK, son? You look like you murdered someone!"

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Hawkrun squealed again and shoved past him, flying down the tunnel. Not back to the big burrow, but down farther. He ran for a literally a few minutes before he reached the end. He jumped out of the tunnel with a heave and sighed. The sun was hot on his tan fur. He looked up. No clouds in the sky. Not one.
He smelt something further off. Not too far off, but not close. He sniffed deeper, crouching low. More animals. Rabbits. Not from his warren.

"Dark Rabbits!!"

He almost squealed again, but instead he stood up straight. He smiled, narrowed his eyes, and thumped. THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

THUMP! THUMP!

He waited. Then, from all different holes appeared three rabbits. The first one light brown with black spots. The second, all black. The third, white with black ears. They lined up, tallest to shortest infront of him. "Nightkill, Darkclaw, Plague. Smell the wind!"
The four smelled the wind. The shortest, Plague, the brown one with black spots, whispered,"Rabbits from the Dark Warren. They are coming closer! We- we must warn Stag!"

"I'll go," Darkclaw rasped and charged down the tunnel.

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