This is my first fan-fiction story; since no-one else seems to be doing size-altering stories, I finally decided 'If you want something done, do it yourself!' I hope you'll like it.
Note: I only own the human characters in this story; the rabbit characters belong to Mr. Richard Adams.
Caution: Some sections have a mixture of Lapine & English!
Note: The height mentioned in the title is approximate, not definite.
Attack of the 50ft Rabbit
1: Vilthuril's Arrest
It was a beautiful summer's day; the sun was high in the sky bringing a golden glow to the fields of wheat and on Watership Down the rabbits were at silflay. As they fed on the lush, green grass, Vilthuril went to speak to Hazel-rah.
"Hazel-rah?" She spoke to him, who suddenly looked up to her.
"Vahl, Vilthuril?" he queried.
"Can I go down to the bottom of the hill?" She asked him; "Only I'd like to see what the grass is like down there." Hazel-rah looked at her with uncertainty; he knew the hrair dangers that were hard to spot when you were down there; but being the benevolent rah he was, he made a positive reply.
"Well, I suppose it'll be alright," He told her, "But always be alert, there are many dangers out there; as Fiver would say 'Always expect the unexpected!' I know it's hard to understand, but once he explains it more clearly you can understand him." Vilthuril was so excited that she was off like a shot (knowing rabbits even a desperate pfeffa couldn't match that simile so well; the rabbit can top a speed of about 43mph!) and she was halfway down the hill before she slowed with caution.
Meanwhile, not far from the base of the down, a group of cancer research scientists were setting up a trap to catch an animal to experiment on. One of them, a 27-year old female wasn't comfortable about this, but she had to do it; continually, she reassured herself that one day an animal would get it's revenge on her unfeeling colleagues.
"Stan, do you realise that animals have feelings as well as we do?" She told a 35-year old male, he looked up at her as though she was a 'silly' little girl.
"Elaine, what a load of nonsense you talk! All animals do is follow their instincts, except for those you can easily train that have some more sophistication than most of these stupid animals!" Elaine felt like she could kill him at that moment, but she was very witty & had a very high level of self-control, so she just said to him.
"We don't know that exactly, Stan! Why don't you think how it would be if we used a human in the labs against it's will?"
"Of course I think about human testing!" Stan replied, "That's why we use animals, you ninny!"
'One of these days,' thought Elaine, 'just one of these days, you'll pay for those remarks and everything relating to them!' By now the trap was set and the scientists withdrew to a van parked on the road, nearby & out of sight. One of them went to a peep hole, watching for an animal to wander into the trap.
When Vilthuril got down to the base of the down she thought she saw some movement of white; she turned towards it, but she saw nothing.
'Foolish doves,' she thought, 'they'll jump at anything they will!' As she placidly grazed on the grass she then caught the whiff of a carrot.
'There's no other flayrah,' she thought, 'I'd might as well try it.' So she sniffed her way towards the carrot and, upon seeing it, dived straight for it and started feeding; then she heard a clanking noise, which made her jump, and the next thing she knew, she was in a cage!
"FRITH & INLÉ!" She cried. "And not long ago Hazel-rah was telling me to keep alert, I'm so stupid! Hey, who am I talking to?" Rabbits, you see, aren't as mad as they look, unless s/he's a pro-Woundwort, in which case they are as mad as they look!
The scientists waited patiently, waiting, or in Elaine's case, grieving, for an animal to come into they're trap; what seemed like hours to them, but was actually minutes, the scientist at the peep hole shouted out.
"TOAD IN THE HOLE!" This happened to be the code word for 'An animal has been caught!' Some of the scientists came out to get the captured animal; as they neared the trap turned cage they could see the familiar shape of a rabbit.
"One of our regulars!" Chimed one of the scientists, in the sense that they usually experiment on rabbits. One of the other scientists went up to get a good look at the rabbit; it cringed upon seeing the scientists.
"Ah," commented one of the scientists, "'Tis a female, colleagues! Perfect for testing on." They all concurred; one of them lifted the cage and took it back to the van, with his colleagues following. At arrival the scientist who had lifted the cage brought it into the back where Elaine was waiting in humiliation.
"We know you like animals," mentioned the scientist to her, "You'd better look after this female rabbit while we drive back." Elaine had no choice anyway, but still she would like to see the animals before they got worse from testing. So the rabbit was put down opposite Elaine, the other scientists got in the front and began the drive back, Elaine watching the rabbit with a deep sadness in her.
Vilthuril watched as some men approached her, she became very distressed; what would they do to her, how could she escape, would she ever return home? Then eth of the men lifted the cage she was in off the ground, this got Vilthuril very disturbed, for there was no real ground to walk on.
She now found herself being put inside a hrududu, then she realised that if they put so many things inside hrududil then that must mean that hrududil aren't alive, this shocked her. When she was put down she found herself being under close guard by a man, it was then that she felt the hrududu begin to move.