Author's Note: This short story is inspired from the classic hit Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen (as well a live cover by Zac Brown Band and the short film that is on YouTube.)and of course from BBC/Netflix Watership Down.

I should have escaped from Efrafa when I had the chance. My mother managed to escape with the does and the spy, who was breaking them free. The General announced that he and the Owsla are about to invade the warren where my mother and the does are free. After hearing the plan, I needed to buck myself up for being a good rabbit, than just being a good soldier. The night after he announced that we're going to invade the warren, I thought it was my time to set out to warn the warren of an imminent threat.

I sneaked out of Efrafa at an ease from using my experiences during my training to become an Owsla soldier. My escape was near towards freedom, until after passing through the Iron Road. An Efrafan buck stopped me, before I could reach the end of underneath the bridge. He was about to arrest me from desertion. I knew what I was doing is against our Owsla code, but I had no choice and started to do something right and have a new life. However, the Efrafan buck blocked my way and prevented me to move on.

We than engaged into a brawl. I was managed to stand on my ground, while obtaining wounds, while not wanting to hurt him, because everyone in the Owsla is like a brother to me. My combatant was losing the fight, that he managed to do one last move that resulted me to hold him down on the ground. I didn't know what to do, but he was trying to free himself. I couldn't be able to leave him and inform the General that I left the Owsla and I would be hunted down. The only option that I didn't think twice was striking him on the head and killed him.

The combatant lost all of his strength and lay on the ground lifeless. I closed my eyes, before opening them again, to realize what I have done. "Is this the real life... or is this just fantasy?" I couldn't believe what I have done. I backed away from his body, until I started to run for my life. Without looking back, I still see the Efrafan's dead body still picturing in my mind and he's being taken by The Black Rabbit. The reality is that I murdered a fellow Owsla and sent him to meet with The Black Rabbit of Inle'. I than looked up at the night sky to see the skies clear and the stars bright. I could only think back to see myself as a poor kitten that I was taken from my home, along with my mother. We both were forced to live in Efrafa, as I had to be put under training to join the Owsla, as my mother was forced along the does to only to be as mates. A gentle wind blow my face, to only realize up to this point that nothing matters up to this point, as I realized what I have done.

It took me days to finally find my mother's scent. I than followed a the scent to find a warren that she's probably living. As I reached towards the warren's entrance, I was stopped by tall rabbit that he looked very familiar that I seen him like he was captured from Efrafa. I simply told the Captain that I needed to see my mother. The strongest rabbit of the warren came and tackled me down to the ground, as I repeated the same request that I told the Captain. A middle-aged doe came across with us to recognize me. She told the Owsla bucks of the new warren that she knows me. They than let me go, as I rushed over to my mother's side and shared a nuzzle with each other. She was very surprised and happy that I finally left Efrafa. I couldn't share a smiling face to my mother, until her smile fades.

"Mother... I killed a buck. Pressed my paw against his head, until I struck him and he's dead..." I told her of my sin. She gasped in horror, as the Captain and his fellow Owsla buck wondered about what I have done. "...Mother my life has just finally begun. And now I just threw it all away. Mama..." I got emotional.

"Ohhhh..." she nuzzled me in tears.

"...I didn't mean to make you cry. If I'm not back again, this time tomorrow carry on. Carry on, Mother like nothing really matters." I told her.

"Perhaps we could harbor you, if you just came from Efrafa." The Captain tried to be comforting and willing to keep me here.

"Nothing really matters... they're coming here. For all you... even me." I told him.

We than saw silflaying rabbits hurrying back inside the warren. "They're here!"

My mother burst into tears, as the Captain instructed the buck to inform the Chief Rabbit of intruders invading our warren.

"It's too late... my time has come. I sent shivers of flayrah down my stomach and my body is aching all the time." I spoke and shook my head, as I headed my way towards the entrance of the warren. I looked back at the Captain and my mother. "Goodbye everybody... I've got to go. I got to leave you all behind and face the truth."

"We could set up defenses and we could protect you." the Captain informed me of a suggestion.

I shook my head, as I came back to my mother and nuzzled her. "Mother..."

"Ohhhh..." my mother nuzzled me.

"I don't want to die and sometimes I wish I wasn't born at all." I told her.

"You don't mean that! You're just going to send yourself to The Black Rabbit?" The Captain rejected what I was planning to do.


I was firm of my decision, as I headed towards the warren's entrance to see that The General just sent a patrol to pursue me. They saw me poking my head out of the warren.

"I see a little silhouette of a buck!" Sergeant Sainfoin informed the patrol.

"Hufsa! Hufsa!" I heard one of the bucks exclaimed.

I backed away until I have no sight of them. "Will you do the fandango?" I took deep breaths and prepared for my final stand, as they wanted me and save the warren for a later date. "Frith and The Black Rabbit... very very frightening me."

"Hufsa!" I heard Captain Orchis shouted.

"Hufsa!" I than heard Captain Campion shouted.

"Hufsa!" Sergeant Sainfoin shouted.

"Hufsa!" Captain Campion spotted me.

"Hufsa hraka!" As well Captain Orchis spotted me.

"I'm just a poor buck and nobody loves!" I shouted back at them, as I stood by the entrance, as I was walking out of the warren.

"He's just a poor buck, from a poor family! Spare him his life from this monstrosity!" I heard my mother behind me shouting at the Efrafan Owsla patrol.

I than saw Captain Orchis smiling viciously at me. "Easy come... easy go."

"Will you let me go?!" I demanded them to let me be free.

"In the name of Frith!" my mother exclaimed.

"No! We'll not let you go!" Captain Orchis refuses.

"Let him go, in the name of Frith!" my mother exclaimed once again.

"We'll not let you go!" Sergeant Sainfoin refuses.

"Let him go, in the name of Frith!" my mother shouted louder than before.

"We'll not let you go!" Captain Orchis refuses once again, as Captain Campion was conflicted of wanting to capture me alive or freeing me.

"Let me go!" I demanded.

"We'll not let you go!" Captain Orchis shouted.

"Let me go!"

"Never." Sergeant Sainfoin refuses.

"Never let you go!" Captain Orchis exclaimed.

"Let... me go!" I exclaimed and demanded.

"Never!"

"Ohhh... please let my son go!" my mother cried, as she hid her face in the Captain's fur in tears.

"No, no, no, no, no!" the Efrafans shouted repeatedly.

"Mamma Mia, mamma mia let me go!" I begged for the last time, as I was about ready to fight my way for freedom.

"The Black Rabbit of Inle' has a devil put aside for me." I heard Captain Campion stated, as he shook his head.

"For me!" my mother exclaimed.

I took a deep breath... "For me..."


I charged up at the patrol at the patrol and attacked one of the lesser bucks and I was able to take them down in combat. I than attacked the Sergeant by biting him and tossed him to the down bucks. I than came face to face with Captain Orchis.

"So you think you can stop me and just spit in my eye!" I exclaimed, before I turned towards my mother and she's with the Captain. "And so you think you can love me and leave me to die!"

"Ohhhhhh..." my mother burst in tears. "You can't just do this to me, baby!"

"I just got to get out, just got to get right out of here!" I turned back towards Captain Orchis. We engaged into combat and I was able to get the upper hand, before I was struck to the ground and being scratched upon by my former brothers, as Captain Orchis is recovering from my aerial strike. My injures were severe that I couldn't fight anymore. I managed to stand up, but I was very weak that I was about to expire.

"Nothing really matters... anyone can see." I said weakly, as if they're about ready to strike me down permanently. "Nothing really matters... nothing really matters..." I than fell to the ground, as my body became very cold that I couldn't control my body. The Efrafan bucks started to fall back, as Captain Campion stared at me. "... nothing really matters... to me." I let out my last breath, as I than saw The Black Rabbit coming towards me to claim my life.

The Captain shook his head and headed his way to join his brothers, as I was dying and The Black Rabbit touched, as I felt a gentle cold, foreboding wind blowing on my body and eventually blowing on my face.

"Anyway the wind blows..." The Black Rabbit's feminine, calming voice, said to me, as my eyes closed to only hear my mother's and the Captain's voice praying over me.

My Heart Has Joined The Thousand... For My Friend and Son Has Stopped Running Today.


Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oh oh
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oh oh (anyway the wind blows)
I don't want to die
Sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, Scaramouch will you do the Fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening me
Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo, figaro, magnifico

I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go will you let me go
Bismillah, no we will not let you go, let him go
Bismillah, we will not let you go, let him go
Bismillah, we will not let you go, let me go
(Will not let you go) let me go (never, never let you go) let me go (never let me go)
Oh oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me for me for me

So you think you can stop me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh baby can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out just gotta get right outta here

Oh oh oh yeah, oh oh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me
Anyway the wind blows