"Okay, now we'll learn how to get out from beneath someone who's pinning you," Dogwood yelled out to Ivy, Thistle, Poppy, Pimpernel, and Mallow. The rest of the Owsla was on a training patrol led by Winters Wrath and Buttercup. "Ivy, pin down Thistle for me, will you," Dogwood yelled out again. Dogwood was getting very tired of trying to teach Ivy, Thistle, and Poppy an easy technique over and over again because they had no idea how to do it. Mallow and Pimpernel had known how to do it automatically, but the other three sucked at it. "Okay Thistle, can you please just get out of the pin so we can move on," Dogwood groaned. Thistle thrashed about for several seconds, only to get one of is front legs free.
"No I can't, Thistle said through his gritted teeth, it's impossible because this fat rabbit on top of me is to heavy. Upon saying that, Ivy bit him on the cheek so hard that Thistle squealed out in pain.
"Just cuff him with your free leg, you embleer fool," Pimpernel yelled from where he was standing with Mallow, "it's not that hard, just cuff him."
At this, Ivy began to make more hurtful comments. "He's right you know," Ivy snarled at Thistle, "the embleer prisoner's a lot smarter and stronger than you, you stupid little piece of hraka." Upon seeing Thistle thrash with anger, Ivy continued. "You probably couldn't even fight off a field mouse. It's a wonder that Silverweed picked you for the Owsla, because you can't do anything right."
At that moment, Thistle cuffed Ivy as hard as he could. When Ivy reared back in pain, Thistle rolled out of the pin and charged Pimpernel. "What are you doing, wasn't Ivy the one that called you good for nothing?" Pimpernel yelled loudly. Pimpernel was about to say something else, but Thistle charged up to him and began cuffing him as hard as he could.
Pimpernel fought back using all the knowledge of fighting he had gained back at the Sandelford warren. Thistle soon found that Ivy was right when he said that Pimpernel was a lot stronger than he was. It didn't take long for Pimpernel to pin Thistle to the ground a lot harder than Ivy had.
"You know, you should have thought twice about attacking me," Pimpernel said coolly to a terrified Thistle. He would have said more, but Dogwood knocked him off of the small, terrified rabbit. The second Thistle was up, he wasted no time in charging Ivy. The two were soon rolling around, fighting each other as hard as they could. Pimpernel and Dogwood were fighting with each other also, and it appeared that Pimpernel slightly held the upper hand.
All of a sudden there was a sudden yell, "what in the name of Frith is going on here." It was Winters Wrath. She hopped into the battle scene closely followed by Buttercup and the rest of the patrol. Buttercup, Dogwood, Silverweed, and Winters Wrath took no time rounding on Pimpernel.
"What in Frith's name were you thinking," screamed Winters Wrath. When Pimpernel gave no answer, Winters Wrath said, "let me put it in a different way, why were you fighting your commanding officer?"
"He attacked me captain, he did," sputtered Pimpernel. Now Pimpernel had no problem standing up to most rabbits in the warren, whether or not it was one of the Owsla, a pregnant doe, or even Dogwood, Buttercup, Silverweed, and Cowslip. Winters Wrath was a different story. She was a hulking great rabbit with a short temper, and as far as Pimpernel could see, she had a huge bloodlust. Pimpernel didn't think Captain Holly and Bluebell combined could fight her off. Luckily she thought the same about the warren as he, or Hazel, Fiver, and Bigwig did. The only thing that kept her in the warren was the fact that she was captain of the Owsla.
Winters Wrath was about to say something to Pimpernel when Buttercup said, "Dogwood, did you attack him?"
"Only to keep him from killing Thistle," Dogwood replied. "He took the poor chap down in an instant after Thistle attacked him.."
"Wait a second," Silverweed said. "Thistle, why did you attack him?"
"He was making comments, sir. So was Ivy. They prompted me into fighting both of them," Thistle replied. No one knew why most of the rabbits in the warren called Silverweed sir. It was clearly obvious that Cowslip had barely given him any power at all, even though Cowslip apologized to Silverweed for his sudden outburst during the first Owsla meeting.
After Thistle said that, the whole conversation went downhill. Winters Wrath, Dogwood, and Silverweed were debating over how to punish Pimpernel, Thistle, and Ivy after Winters Wrath had given them a long lecture in a loud tone about how irresponsible they all were.
"I say we just throw our prisoner here out of the Owsla, and let Ivy and Thistle slide," said Dogwood, still angry about nearly losing a fight with what all the rabbits in the warren called Pimpernel, a lesser being.
"I don't think that would be fair," said Silverweed, "after all, wasn't Ivy the one who started the whole thing in the first place?" "I say that we just suspend them from the Owsla for two weeks, and give them a fair warning."
"I guess we could do that," said Winters Wrath. She, like just about every other rabbit in the warren, hated Pimpernel, but she also didn't like either Ivy or Thistle very much also.
"What," screamed Dogwood, "you mean you're just going to take the side of our very own prisoner!?" "Don't you know that this embleer piece of hraka is lucky he wasn't killed." "I mean, didn't he kill Vervain?" Vervain had been a close friend of Dogwood, and Dogwood's main excuse for bagging on the poor rabbit was because of his friend's death.
Pimpernel had grown angrier and angrier as he heard Dogwood yell out insults at him. Eventually, he couldn't help keeping his comment inside. "It wasn't me who killed your buddy, you idiot. It was one of the two rabbits I was traveling with. If it were up to me, I'd leave this horrible place in an instance, but you won't let me. I'll see you in two weeks." With that, Pimpernel stormed off back to his small burrow in a very angry mood.
Winters Wrath sighed. She glanced around her to see Poppy explaining to Walnut and Hawkweed what happened. Ivy belching out the worst things he could think of about Thistle and Pimpernel to Corona. And Mallow and Buttercup edging off back to the home warren.
"Silence," she screamed. "Mallow and Buttercup, get back here. Look," she said, "Ivy and Thistle, you are suspended for the next two weeks along with Pimpernel, yes Ivy, along with Pimpernel, now don't give me that look. The rest of you are dismissed for the day." With that, she headed off to talk to Cowslip in his burrow.

"What is it Winters Wrath," Cowslip drawled on wearily. It was clearly obvious that Cowslip had been woken from his nap by the sounds of Winters Wrath charging into his burrow.
Winters Wrath had come to tell him that Pimpernel, Ivy, and Thistle had been suspended from the Owsla for two weeks due to unnecessary fighting. She decided to go right through the cute stuff and tell Cowslip the punch line of what happened.
"I had to suspend Ivy, Pimpernel, and Thistle for fighting with each other. Pimpernel also attacked Dogwood and would've beaten him, if I hadn't come," said Winters Wrath rather calmly.
"What," said Cowslip, "tell me all of what happened." So Winters Wrath told Cowslip all about how she had found Pimpernel and Dogwood fighting with each other next to a gap of tree, and how Ivy and Thistle were rolling around on top of each other, kicking and scratching each other as hard as they could. She also gave him Dogwood's account of what happened.
Cowslip took the news better than Winters Wrath expected. "Hmmm, stupid Pimpernel. I knew it was a mistake not to kill him. Anyways, can you get either Corona or Poppy for me?" Cowslip said.
"Why," Winters Wrath replied.
"I want either one of our news spreaders to tell Ivy, Thistle, and Pimpernel that their suspension time has been lowered to one week. Upon seeing Winters Wrath giving him a dead stare, Cowslip added, "I want every single one of my Owsla to know how to survive out in the wilderness as soon as possible, and if three rabbits haven't passed training at the same time as the others, it will be a real pain for Dogwood and Buttercup to teach them what's left to learn when they have other work to do."
"But why do you need either Corona or Poppy," said Winters Wrath, "couldn't I just find them?"
"Thing is," said Cowslip, "that I want either Corona or Poppy to be our messengers and send messages to rabbits on raids or patrols. I don't know if many warrens have rabbits that do that, but I think it's a pretty good idea. Anyways, tell one of them the message, and tell them to give it to our three attackers. I'll be getting back to my nap know."
Winters Wrath took off out of Cowslip's burrow right after he said this. She did think that the messenger idea was good, and that Cowslip was actually starting to act more or less along the lines of a chief rabbit. Winters Wrath decided to get Poppy, since Corona was one of the strongest in the Owsla and was needed for patrols and raids, not sending out messages.
It didn't take long for Winters Wrath to find Poppy, who was out on silf with Buttercup and Mallow. When Poppy heard what her new task was, she scuttled off as quickly as possible. Winters Wrath didn't stop to chat with Mallow or Buttercup very long and soon afterwards ran of to talk to some of her younger half brothers and half sisters, who were out on one of their very first silflays together.

A Day Later

Walnut had had a good training that day. He had become the third rabbit to get over halfway through training, only third to Mallow and Corona. It was now the early evening, and Walnut was very hungry. He went out to silflay with some of his friends. They were all talking about the fight that broke out the day before.
"I don't know how that scummy little runt of a prisoner didn't get expelled from the Owsla," said Redwood, "I heard that he only got two weeks of suspension for it."
"He got one week for your information," said Walnut as he approached, "it was Cowslip-rah's decision." All of Walnuts friends had been jealous of him, since he got into the Owsla, and that they didn't. For this reason, Walnut expected a haughty remark, but none came.
"You don't say so," said Waterfall, "I heard that Thistle was pretty damaged after that fight. I think that's why he hasn't shown up on silf today. Either that, or he's just to embarrassed to show his face after being beaten heavily by Pimpernel."
"I think it's just 'cause Thistle's a weakling," said Perloo who, like Ivy, was one of Thistle's tormenters. "I heard that Pimpernel fought Dogwood."
Though Walnut's friends were not familier with Dogwood, Buttercup, or most of the Owsla for that matter, they knew that Dogwood was a high- ranking officer.
"Wow," said Willow, "you mean that the prisoner actually had the nerve to fight of all rabbits, Dogwood. He might as well have fought Winters Wrath. You were there weren't you Walnut, did you see what was happening?"
"Actually I did," said Walnut, "and Pimpernel's no wimp. He was beating Dogwood just barely, but he was beating him."
"Never expected that," said Waterfall as he grabbed a mouthful of grass, "I didn't think that after the bad treatment he's had here that he would actually have the nerve." Out of all five of the young bucks, Waterfall was the one that was most sympathetic to Pimpernel.
"Well he is in the Owsla isn't he," said Walnut as he hungrily chomped on some clover, "he even made a smart remark to Winters Wrath as he stormed off."
"Wow, what was it," said Willow excitedly. Willow was one of the warren's favorite storytellers, and so he would most likely put together a tale about what Pimpernel had said to Winters Wrath, Dogwood, and Buttercup. So Walnut told them the comment that Pimpernel had made to Winters Wrath. The other rabbits awed in wonder as Walnut told them the remark that had been made. All of the rabbits were silently eating the grass for some time after Walnut had told them about what happened the day before.
The silence was broken when Perloo said, "You're so lucky that you are in the Owsla, Walnut. You get to see all the good stuff happen."
Redwood was about make a comment when someone yelled out "WALNUT." It was Buttercup. "Walnut, you were supposed to be at the meeting in the great burrow.
Upon hearing this, Walnut said, "I don't call myself lucky." He then took off to the Great Burrow as fast as he could.
Buttercup was about to leave to, but Perloo said, "hey you're an Owsla member right," he didn't know that he was talking to Buttercup, the captains sister.
"Yes," Buttercup replied angrily. She was in no mood to be taunted by the young rabbits that stood before her.
"Do you think you could fight off prisoner Pimpernel?" Perloo continued, "because he beat Dogwood, and I think he'll soon be after you, you wimp. What's your name anyway?" Perloo had a nasty habit of saying bad things to the wrong rabbits.
"Buttercup, and if I were you I'd better start running right.. about.. now." Upon saying this, Buttercup began to charge Perloo, who took off running as fast as he could.
"Dimwit," said Redwood, "I always knew that habit would catch up to him." The rabbits watched Buttercup chase Perloo into his burrow and then returning to their own after Buttercup threatened him and then returned to the Owsla meating.