Campion gasped as Woundwort leapt straight on top of him, claws ripping into his fur, there was a flood of owlsa officers into the burrow and Campion knew the only thing he could do. "Get outside!" He shouted to the rabbits of the warren. Many of whom had ran off already.

"It's too late, Campion! Your rabbits will be mine by the time Frith falls today! Your warren falling with him!" Woundwort snarled, suddenly he was buffeted from the side; Bigwig had managed to knock off for the moment.

"Get up and run!" Bigwig shouted, leading them to the mouth of the warren and out into the battle field.

Campion scrambled up with a few other rabbit who had made it before him, he shook himself and looked up. "Frith no.." He gasped.

The warren was surrounded by enime rabbits, many more then they had originally thought, all ready to pounce. Campion and Bigwig shared a unified look of hopelessness. Silver-weed managed to clamber up a nearby run, and ran to them. "I-i lost Fiver in the- the ruckus!" Silver-weed wheezed, blood coming from a scratch on his shoulder.. Silver-weed looked around. "What's going-going on? Why aren't you fighting!"

Campion only pointed to the surrounding rabbits in shock, and Silver-weed gasped. "What are going to do?"

"I-I hate to say it, but I think we've.. lost." Campion said miserly.

"W-what..." Sliver mumbled eyes wide.

"We don't have a chance." Campion stated. Silver-weed looked to Bigwig, whom seemed a bit stronger then Campion at the moment, but the maned rabbit shook his head.

"We don't have a chance." Bigwig echoed. "We may have to... give up, in order to save some of our rabbits."

"To WHAT!" Sliverweed asked franticly."NOOO! No! No!" Campion and Bigwig jerked in slight surprise at Silver-weed pitch.

"Silver-weed, I know you may not like it, but it maybe our only choice to keep some of us alive." Campion said.

"Well do tell me when you plan to do this so I can off myself first! I'd rather die here then go back to live in- HIS- warren!" Silver-weed cried. "I can see the rest of my life now! Living in a burrow for the rest of my days, only to come out to eat or when Woundwort wants a VISON! I'd rather get my suffering over with NOW! Don't think I won't!"

"CALM DOWN Sliver-weed!" Campion said. "Just.., just give me time to think...Bigwig, any ideas!"

"I agree with Sliver-weed." Bigwig said, causing the two to look at him in confusion.

"What?" Sliver-weed asked, slightly offended. "You want me to kill myself!"

"No!" Bigwig growled. "I mean, I'd rather die here fighting to my last breath then to have Woundwort do it himself after I've given up my pride."

"We can't very well make up our minds for everyone involved Bigwig." Campion frowned.

"If they want to surrender, then they can, but I'm duking it out!" Bigwig snarled.

"As am I!" Silver-weed added.

Campion looked between them before growling. "Well, with you chaps so work up about this I can't very well let you do it alone, can I." He smiled at them. "Tell everyone that if they want to surrender, they can, but were going out fighting!"


Blackberry and the others were huddled in the safety burrow as rabbits from woundwort's army tried to brake into it. The few bucks that were inside were trying to keep them back. Blackavar was currently holding the entrance with Dandelion, Hawkbit , Silisi, Nahlay and Strawberry standing by to take over when he got too tired.

Blackberry and Primrose had the kits in the back by the healing den, along with the other does in front of them to make a buffet in case any of the enime got through the door. Someone suddenly clamber up the healing burrow run, pausing to look at the scene in front of him. He turned to Blackberry.

"What are you doing?" Came his weak voice.

Blackberry jumped, staring at Clawfur fearfully, until she noticed how frail and pail he was. He clearly wasn't going to do anything. He hardly had enough energy to stay on his feet. Blackberry turned her fearful look to a stone hard one.

"Were fighting back against your side, what does it look like?" She growled.

"B-but it's hopeless.. They're too powerful.." Clawfur grumbled weakly.

Blackberry's frown grew bigger. "Well! We won't give up! We must have faith or Woundwort will get us!"

Clawfur looked back at the scene. "So, this faith will save you?" He asked and Blackberry blinked.

"Well, it helps!" She grumbled. "We'd rather fall here then go back with Woundwort!"

"I wish I had strength like that.." Clawfur sighed, causing Blackberry to look back at him.

"You just need faith, my faith is to my friends and family! Whom will suffer if I give up!" Blackberry turned to him. "Where is your faith? When do you start to kill kittens and does so easily that you grew board with it!"

"After my life went down the gutter." Clawfur moaned.. "As for my faith..."

"Look out! A few broke through!" Hawkbit shouted as Blackavar moved out of Silisi's way.

"Its about as dead as I am.." Clawfur looked down at Blackberry with a frown. "Sorry."

Blackberry tensed, expecting an attack from the buck, but instead he leap in front of her, taking an attack from an enime rabbit and falling down on top of him. Blackberry stared down in shock as the buffet does ran to her.

"Blackberry! Are you alright!" Spartina asked.

"Yes... but why! Why would he do that?" Blackberry asked, pointing to Clawfur. Spartina frowned.

"Clawfur.. He's just.. He wasn't born in Dark haven. He just showed up one day, out of the blue. He was always so dark and gloomy when he first came.. He just lost everything important to him and... Wasted away to the thing that tried to kill you.. If anything, he was just.. Well he was...lost, I guess.." Spartina bent down and picked Clawfur up, as Marigold pulled the knocked out buck under him away. Spartina sniffed Clawfur before shaking her head. "He's dead.."

Blackberry's kit gave a shrill cry of fear at having seen someone killed, but Blackberry herself could only wonder what Clawfur had lost to drive him this... and why he had taken that hit..


Fiver had run to the first place that had come to mind..

Hazel..

Yet when he arrived, he found the burrow empty.. Frantic, Fiver raced for the surface, braking through just in time to see Hazel looking around the battle field. "What is going on!" Hazel asked as Fiver ran to his side.

"HH-h-h-ha!" Fiver stuttered.

"So much for relaxing a bit!" Hazel said, he yelped suddenly when an enime rabbit crawled out of a run nearby. With a thump of his foot, Hazel sent the rabbit fly back down the run. "This place is crazy!" Hazel looked at Fiver, then groaned. "What is with you rabbits?" and Fiver glared at him in return.

"Hazel!" Campion ran to his side out of the fray, covered in more scratches then he had been before. He nodded to Fiver as he stopped in front of them. "This maybe the end fellas."

"Oh my!" Hazel blinked in confusion. "You mean,- you mean you'll be giving up!"

"You can, if you wish. Yet most of us are going out fighting to our last breath!" Campion explained. "Whatever happens, you both have done well and I'm sorry I let you down."

Hazel watched the brown rabbit race off to attack another pocket of enimes. Hazel turned to Fiver sadly. "Well, Hair-roo. We might as well do our part! Come on!" He leaped down on an unexpecting rabbit, Fiver right behind him.


Bigwig charged through a large amount of rabbits, furiously. He knocked into a rabbit and sent him down a nearby run. The ground began to shake as Root and Bark emerged from the bushes. They quickly started to pick the rabbits off, two by two.

Bigwig turned and watched Scree carry a rabbit off into the sky, so he could drop him, as Keharr chased the a few rabbits around. Bigwig looked around and Campion returned to his side. "By Frith we may just pull this off!"

Campion grunted slightly and tried to catch his breath. "Yes, well, don't count your carrots before the raid." He flexed his claws with a groan. "Don't know about you, but I'm getting sick of this."

"Well we'll just have to beat them faster then, won't we!" Bigwig smiled, he kicked up his back feet, knocking a rabbit away. "You wanna go! GRAHHHH!" Bigwig lunched himself at the rabbit, who squealed in fear. Campion gave a chuckle before racing after them.

"Save some of them for me!" Campion smiled.


Daisy hopped about crazily inside the warren, she scrambled to a stop when a dark haven warrior leaped out before her. He hissed at her, leaping to attack, but hit his head on the roof, bringing down a hail of dirt and dust into the air. Daisy cough roughly, she turned and ran in the other direction, only to bump into-..

"Daisy!" Silver-weed said, looking down at her."Are you alright?"

"Can't –can't breath!" Daisy coughed. "D-dirt in the-the air! Airs gone- b- bad!"

"Airs gone-, oh Frith!" Silver-weed gulped. "The Sandleford vision! Quickly Daisy! We must get out! This warren won't be standing much longer!"

"What about the others in the safety burrow!" Daisy asked. "Thorn and the others are still down there!"

"We'll hurry!" Sliver-weed answered. Together they ran down to the safety burrow, managing to avoid a few Dark Haven warriors, until they came to the tunnel leading to the safety burrow. Silver-weed turned the corner and frozen, Daisy accidently knocking into him. A large line of warriors were waiting to take their turn to attack the burrow. The two backed up until they were back around the corner.

"So many!" Daisy gasped and Silver-weed shook his head.

"Indeed." He stopped to think and then turned to Daisy. "Do you think you can dig another entrance?"

"Sure, it may take a little while though. It'd be quicker if we went to the next burrow." Daisy said.

"Then lets go!" Sliver-weed said, leading her to a next door burrow, once they entered it there was a snarl. The two turned to find a dark haven warrior right behind them. The buck snarled, making his way towards them. "G-get away!" Silver-weed spat.

Daisy quickly leap forth and slammed her back feet against the arches of the entrance, with a loud rumble the tunnel gave way, and tumbled down, sealing Daisy and Silver-weed inside. Silver-weed shook his head, clearing the dust from his nose. "Are you alright, Silver-Weed?" Came Daisy's voice.

"Fine!" Silver-weed cough. He blinked the dust away. "Excellent job Daisy, but we best start digging!"

"Right!" Daisy said, hopping to the wall and beginning to dig, Silver-weed at her side.


"We can't keep them back much longer!" Hawkbit shouted, as he helped Dandelion back away from the hole, just as Nahlay took over. Dandelion's cut had opened again, causing him to lose his vision. The girls all backed up slightly at the thought of the enemie rabbits getting in... There was a sudden crumbling from the wall.

Everyone was on alert. Strawberry crept towards the wall, sniffing it. He jumped back. "Someone's coming through!" Just then, the wall came down and Strawberry leapt forth.

"Ahh!" Was the response. After a bit of scuffling the voice shouted. "Gah! Strawberry! Its me, you idiot!"

"Silver-weed!" Strawberry gasped, hoping away as the two entered.

"Daisy!" Thorn shouted and raced to her sister, they brushed whiskers lightly.

"How in Frith's name did you get in there!" Strawberry asked.

Yet Silver-weed shook his head. "No time! I think the runs are losing stability; this whole warren is tearing apart! We must get above ground now!"

"How do you think we should do that!" Hawkbit asked. "We have our paws full here!" He smacked a dark haven warrior back into the tunnel.

"Daisy, quickly!" Silver-weed said. The doe nodded and raced to the entrance, past the bucks and broke the supports to the entrance. The run toppled in and as it did so, dirt showered everywhere from the roof, the walls quivered slightly.

"I think Silver-weed is correct, this warren won't hold much longer! There's not enough baring walls left to hold it, we must get out!" Blackberry said, running to a wall. "Alright! Everybody dig! Its our only hope! Pipkin, get the kittens ready to bolt!"


Hazel batted the warriors back and tackled another to the ground. He was trying his best not turn badly hurt anyone. Fiver hopped about behind his brother, trying to find a way to help him. The larger rabbit was buffeted by two smaller ones, but were easily knocked away.

"I-I believe there are too many to fight, hair-roo!" Hazel said, gasping for air.

Fiver frowned, only to look across the battle space in worry, when someone dug a run up onto the surface. Blackberry appeared, along with many of the other rabbits of the down and Silver Stone.


"Run! Quickly, I don't know how much longer the warren will hold!" Blackberry shouted. Fiver watched everyone dash to safety to the opposite end of the field. Blackberry joined them with the last rabbit out, when the warren gave a moaning noise, it began to crumble away in the middle until everything collapsed in on itself, the crack got bigger and bigger until it was the length of the down, the bottom unseeable.

"Goodness, didn't know we dug so much!" Toadwort grumbled from his spot with the other.

Spartina also looked over the edge. "So much for Woundwort's lot. Half of them must have been sucked down there…"

"And there go the others!" Holly said, pointing up to where the rest of the army scattered away. "Without the Dark Haven rabbits here, they won't stick around.."

"We did it, can't believe it.." Campion groaned, slumping to the ground. "Once Hazel's has his memories back he can take this job back to. This rah stuff is crazy!"

"Only on Watership Down Campion.." Bigwig chuckled.


Hazel and Fiver also both looked down the crack in amazement. "Quiet the fall isn't it." Hazel mumbled. "Must connect with that old river gorge I heard Bigwig speak off. The deep cliffy area nearby ."

Fiver nodded, when he felt a dangerous feeling tingle up his neck.. They were in danger! There was a growl beside them, Fiver and Hazel looked up.

Woundwort snarled again and pulled himself onto the safe land, having saved himself from falling to his doom. The large rabbit looked up, freezing. He stared at Hazel until an enraged frown crossed his muzzle. He turned to Fiver. "You..." He growled and Fiver slunk back. "You said Hazel was dead. You said Hazel-rah was dead! You said YOUR BROTHER WAS DEAD!" He leapt up, scaring the two. "You are a LIAR! You shall pay for lying to Woundwort!"

"Hazel-rah? Brother? What are you going on about?" Hazel frowned, he stopped when Woundwort cuffed him, sending Hazel down to the ground. "OFFH!"

"No wonder you were all getting away so easily! Escaping , right under my own nose!" Woundwort thundered. " Hazel was alive this entire time!" Woundwort march forth and snarled. "But not THIS TIME!"

"H-HH-Hh-HH!" Fiver stuttered. "Ha-Ha-Haz!"

Hazel managed to his front paws, looking up at Woundwort. "No! NOT this time!" Woundwort snapped. "For this time, I will FINSH,YOU, MYSELF!"

"Nooooo!" Bigwig shouted from where he and Campion sat on the other side of the gorge. Woundwort raised his paw, ready to strike and Hazel let his ears fall..

"Oh no.." Hazel mumbled.

"HAZEL!"

Woundwort looked up, but was attacked, head on, by Fiver. The extra weight made the ground under them crumble, sending the two down to the bottom of the cliff. Hazel quickly went to the side, scanning over the cliff for any sign of the two.. He glanced everywhere, but there was no sign. Hazel fell down on the ground, blinking sadly down the cliff...

"Fiver!" Hazel cried, tears rolling down his muzzle.. "I-... I remember.."


Bigwig watched as Hazel and Primrose talked at the base of the down, the large rabbit frowned and shook his head as the blonde doe hopped off to Tardrayn's side. She looked back to Hazel one last time, before hopping off with him.. Bigwig waited as the Hazel came back up the down..

"She's gone, Bigwig." Hazel said as he came close. "She's found another.."

"And after everything you did for 'er.." Bigwig frowned.

"No." Hazel shook his head with a sigh. "Truthfully we've been slowly growing apart for a while before the farm mistake.. and while it dose sting, I think it was for the best. We've just been leading each other one.. It was a kitten crush, to say the most.. Times of war and all that..I guess we just rushed into it.."

"True." Bigwig mumbled. "I thought it happened a little fast myself.

Hazel shrugged. "Maybe there's a rabbit out there for me, somewhere.."

"So where are they off to?" Bigwig asked, gesturing to Primrose and her new love.

"The newly named Cave of light Warren. I'm sure Nahlay would take them in." Hazel shrugged.

"A blind, doe rah. Thought I'd seen everything." Bigwig sighed. "So it's got all the rabbits from Warren of The Badger's prey, along with the ones already there?"

"About right, and the Silver-Stone rabbits are home once more.." Hazel nodded. "Not to mention a few new rabbits here." He turned to looked at Daisy and Thorn, whom were talking away to Sliver-weed. "And new kittens, and couples." Meadow and Blueberry were sniffing at a flower as Clover and Holly were grazing nearby.

"Things are rather nice.." Bigwig said, looking to Hazel, but he frowned when he spotted the look on Hazel's face.

"And yet, its not the same without Fiver." Hazel sighed.

"Yes, it's not.." Bigwig agreed. "But we never found any trace of a body, for either rabbit, Hazel.."

"Yes, it worries me slightly, but gives me hope..." Hazel said, looking to Bigwig. "Hope that Fiver will come back to us.." They both looked up when Campion began to approach them.

"Hazel-rah." Campion said with a smile as he came close enough to be heard. "Blackberry wants you to meet the kittens."

"Of course." Hazel agreed. He watched Campion move off.

"So, now what do we do, Hazel?" Bigwig asked as the brown buck got up.

"What we must do, move on with our lives and hope for the best." Hazel sighed, but smiled as he padded off to meet the new kittens..

Spartina hoped up to Bigwig's side, she flicked her ears with a smile as Bigwig smiled back. "What's got you so happy?" Bigwig asked.

"Oh nothing." Spartina smiled, nuzzling Bigwig. "Was just thinking about that Rose name you like."

"Oh yes, such a nice name.." Bigwig nodded, pulling some grass into his mouth.

"Well we may just have to put it to good use soon." Spartina said, hopping off. Bigwig spat out his grass with a cough, jumping to his feet.

"What!" He coughed. "S-spartina, you don't mean-!"

Spartina only winked at him and entered the warren with the shake of her tail.

Yes, after everything that had had happened, the down wouldn't feel the same... yet it wasn't very different from before.


O.O It's done... Its Done! Good Sweet Frith ITS DONE!

Man it was fun to write this, but after such a long writers Block I got worried there.. Luckily I got back into the series and started to do a bit of work on other stories I left hanging, then figured, why not wrap this one up..

After, lets see, 08,09,10,11... four years its finally done, but in all truth It could have been done a long time ago, if I hadn't been blocked..

Yet at any rate, There may (UNDERLINE) MAY be a sequel but not in the near future... Don't hold your breath kiddies, but don't give up either..

Dedicated to Coral, my first pet , even if you were a goldfish, you were the best goldfish a person could ask for.. Rip 2000-2004