Rat, Rat, Badger
Caution: This is a long one!
Jade attempts to follow Fiver but just sees him going down a hole; not long afterwards she hears a yokel-like female voice emitting from the hole.
"Fiver!" Cries the voice followed by Fiver crying in pain, just as Jade is about to rush in she hears Fiver's voice taking to the female voice in a serious tone.
"Enough with the hugging, Bark!" Jade wonders what kind of animal would be named Bark, particularly a female of the species. "Something very out of the ordinary has happened," Fiver tells Bark and commences with a summary of the story so far. "And I thought it would help her to understand if she met you face to face!" Next Jade hears Bark replying enthusiastically.
"Whoever is a friend to Fiver is a friend of mine!" It's clear to both Fiver and Jade that this is a positive answer, now Fiver comes up out of the hole.
"Prepare yourself for a shock!" He tells Jade, who braces herself again just in case. Now Bark emerges from her sett and reveals to Jade that she is a badger!
"Well," Jade comments, "This is certainly unusual." Fiver is relieved that she's not got too much of a surprise. "To accept our friendship, Bark; I would be happy if you would shake me by the hand!" Jade sticks her hand out to Bark, who holds on to it with her right forepaw and whams Jade up and down like a small sack of potatoes.
"NOOOOO!" Fiver cries out, separating Jade's hand from Bark's paw. "That's not what she meant!" He tells the badger, Bark is somewhat puzzled by this.
"But she asked me to shake her!" Bark replies timidly, Jade just sits there dazed, trying to get her quivering hand in her pocket.
"She's a human from another dimension," Fiver tells Bark, "And her kind doesn't talk quite the same as us!" Jade now manages to get a hold on a talisman in her pocket, she clutches it tightly and, nothing happens; she looks at the talisman and realises it's the Rabbit talisman, not the Horse talisman. So she tries again and astonishes Bark as she goes from bruised and dazed to alert and well.
"There's something in me sett," Bark tells the pair, "That you might be able to understand." So Fiver and Jade follow her down into the sett; Bark indicates something embedded in the wall. Jade soon identifies it.
"The Monkey Talisman!" She announces excitedly, Fiver looks slightly puzzled whilst Bark is totally stumped.
"How did it get in the wall?" Fiver asks her, Jade turns to him.
"When the talismans scatter," She tells him, "Their magic sometimes makes them go into awkward places." Bark is really confused.
"You two know of magic stones?" She inquires; Jade nods her head whilst Fiver explains it all to her. "What does this one do?" She asks as Jade pulls it from the wall.
"It can turn any living thing into any other living thing!" Jade tells her, Bark is quite surprised by this information. "We must get back," She tells Fiver, "We're not supposed to be here!" Now Fiver speaks straight to her face.
"Jade," He tells her, and the next thing is he begins to sing a quote from 'The Beatles' song 'All You Need is Love', "There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be; it's easy!" Jade is becoming astounded by Fiver's sudden singing talent; the next thing is even more surprising. Fiver holds on to her body and begins to get romantic. "Oh Jade," He tells her, "Ever since I first looked into your eyes I knew you were the one for me!" Jade pulls herself away before realising something.
"I've only ever had one other love proposal before," She reminisces, "And now that I think about it; anything is better than a demon! No wonder I ditched him instantly! But then how can a rabbit be the lover of a human; especially when she'll be returning to her original dimension!" Fiver then realises what she's saying.
"That doesn't matter," He tells her, "We can be together forever, even if we're apart!" Bark just looks on in surprise as buck and girl negotiate a love life between them.
"There isn't much of an option for us; one being a rabbit, the other being a human!" Fiver announces realising the troubles Jade was talking about; who groans with a slap on the head.
"Rats!" But then she remembers that she's still holding the Monkey talisman and makes her loudest groan yet as she, Fiver and Bark transform into rat equivalents of themselves. Jade retains her fringe, Fiver has a mystical appearance about him in rat form and Bark is clearly stronger than the average rat; they all retain their eye colours.
"Why did you do that?" Fiver asks Jade, who sighs and replies.
"What I meant was 'This is trouble'!" Then Fiver understands that it was a habit of saying something with a different meaning; now Jade holds the talisman up in front of Fiver and says. "Change him back!" And Fiver reverts to his normal form, now looking down on both Jade AND Bark. Now Jade turns to Bark, holds up the talisman and says. 'Change her back!" At which, Bark returns to her born species, confused by the whole ordeal. Finally Jade turns the talisman on herself and says. "Change me back!" And she transforms into her more familiar form. Just then Fiver realises a new potential; if either he or Jade transformed into the other's species they could develop a relationship better. Whilst Jade tries to work out how far they are from Watership Down he picks up the Monkey talisman that is lying by her side and points it at her.
"Rabbit!" He whispers and looks on as Jade goes into rabbit form; Jade looks at him disappointingly when she realises what happened.
"Magic can't solve all problems!" She tells him, Fiver is slightly disappointed by her new form; she just isn't convincing enough, anyone would think she is some kind of Japanese mythology beast with her fringe on an innocent-looking white rabbit, so Fiver turns her back by saying.
"Change her back!" And Jade is relieved to be her usual self again.
"Do you think we should be making tracks?" She asks him, to which Fiver replies.
"I don't think it would be wise to show where we've been; but we can start returning to Watership Down, which is what I believe you actually meant in your unorthodox way!" Just about now Fiver notices that there is more sunlight coming through the trees then before. "Wait," He tells Jade, "We must stay here a while!" Jade groans at this news and follows up with the question.
"Why?" Fiver is quick to answer.
"Because it is ni-frith; the time of day with the most sunlight!" Jade is quick to understand.
"You follow the philosophy that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun!" Fiver is now puzzled.
"Englishmen?" He asks her, Jade explains the situation.
"Men from England!" Fiver is still confused.
"England?" He asks again, Jade is getting tired of all this.
"An island that is rather big, that living on it you'd think it wasn't an island!" Just then Jade gets an idea in her head, perhaps they were in England all along!
"Okay," Fiver replies, "Just let me rest for the heat of ni-frith!" Jade can't understand this new approach.
"Listen up, Five," She tells him, Fiver pricks his ears up as best he can, aware she meant him by 'Five', "If you think this is hot you should be in Shanghai at noon!" Fiver just can be bothered now, it's too hot.
"Explain Shanghai to me," He tells her, "When a wake up!" And he dozes off, Bark has already fallen asleep; Jade wonders what she can do whilst she waits, then she remembers the three talismans, two in her pocket and one by Fiver's snoozing body.
Back on the down Hazel-rah is very puzzled, given the speed the Rabbit talisman can give and Fiver's enthusiasm they should've been back not too long ago. He decides to make an inquiry with the others. He goes into the Honeycomb.
"Fiver and Jade should be back by now," He tells everyone there, "But they're not!" Hawkbit goes into a panic.
"Don't panic!" He cries out. "Don't panic! The Efrafans have got them!" This is responded to by something very uncomfortable; Bigwig cuffs Hawkbit whilst Uncle salutes him simultaneously.
"Never be so pessimistic!" Uncle yells at him, Bigwig wonders which Hawkbit found more uncomfortable, his cuffing or Uncle's saluting.
"I think Fiver lost his accuracy with the speed and long distance he had to run!" Blackberry announces, they all look at her astounded. Then it comes to all of them, since Fiver never used the Rabbit talisman before there could be some complications.
"How will we know where they are?" Dandelion asks everyone, Hazel-rah comes up with an idea.
"Kehaar could go out and look for them!" He announces, but then hesitates. "Although it could take a bit of time." Now Blackberry comes up with an idea; she turns to Jackie and Uncle.
"Is there anyway we can trace the talisman?" She asks them, Uncle pipes up at this.
"Uncle can make spell to locate talisman!" He announces, and everyone agrees to this idea; Blackberry goes to help Uncle as she seems to be the only one who can substitute Tohru.
Back in Bark's sett Jade is wondering what to do with the talismans; then she remembers Fiver's outcry when he was hugged by Bark, if Fiver has an injury the Horse talisman can deal with it. She holds up the talisman, puts it against Fiver's cheek and the power activates, Jade spots a bruise on Fiver's flank through the fur and watches as it disappears.
The ni-frith snoozes are over and Blackberry and Uncle have completed the spell; the other Watership rabbits watch on as the finishing touches are made.
"Locator spell is complete!" Uncle announces and an apple floats out of the cauldron, glowing green. "Any of you know where apples are?" He asks the Watership rabbits, Hazel-rah soon realises exactly where they are.
"I hope Jade doesn't get trauma!" He announces, Uncle and Jackie look at him puzzled. "They're in Bark's Orchard!" All the Watership rabbits understand what he means, Uncle and Jackie still can't understand the worry.
"Who is this Bark?" Jackie asks them, Blackberry fills in on this one.
"A lendri ally of ours!" Jackie asks another question now.
"What's a lendri?" Blackberry now sets up a definition.
"A lendri," She tells him, "Has black and white striped fur, waddles instead of any straight motion and usually has a lust for blood!" Then Jackie gasps while Uncle goes.
"Ay-ahhhhh!" All the Watership rabbits know now that they understand what a lendri is.
"Don't worry," Hazel-rah tells them, "Bark has a soft spot for Fiver, she will not harm anyone who is a friend of Fiver or is a friend of friend of Fiver, and it goes on like that!" Hazel-rah once again hesitates. "Although she tends to hug Fiver rather tightly."
In Bark's sett Fiver and Bark awaken to see Jade waiting for them.
"Okay," Fiver asks her, "What is Shanghai?" Jade replies enthusiastically.
"Shanghai is a large place where many humans live together, anywhere like that is a city," Fiver now understands what Kehaar meant back when they had to get Primrose and Blackavar from Efrafa, "But Shanghai is the name of a fairly large city, famous for it's style of food, or cuisine!" Fiver is amazed by this info, but feels he must tell her something.
"Jade," He announces, "I had a dream just then, I think it was an insight into your past!" Jade understands this and asks.
"What was it?" Fiver responds by singing a part of Status Quo's 'Pictures of Matchstick Men'.
"Well I look up to the sky, I see your eyes a funny kind of yellow; I hop to bed, I snuff my head and I see your face underneath my pillow; I wake next morning tossed aside, I see your face peeping through my window!" Jade thinks about this.
"Well," She replies, "The window scene is likely to be a caricature of what happened to me when we had to get a horse powered with the Horse talisman." Fiver can't quite understand what she means. "The pillow situation, well I'm afraid you might've made a mistake there as I can't remember anything in particular to do with pillows. Yellow eyes have got nothing to do with it, but I was under the influence of the Rooster talisman a couple of times." Just then Fiver realised something, something rather important.
"I think we should go back to Watership Down," He tells Jade, who doesn't show any concern, "They'll be wondering where we've got to. I think we'll go at a steady pace this time in case we meet any of them on the way!" Jade acknowledges this, hoping to find yet another talisman on the way.
"It was nice of you to call!" Bark tells them sentimentally, just then Fiver spots something.
"Where is the Monkey talisman?" He asks the both of them, Jade reaches into her pocket and pulls it out. "You never miss a trick, do you?" He remarks, Jade returns the talisman to her pocket and waves goodbye to Bark and both she and Fiver exit and trek across the orchard.
In Efrafa all the rabbits who've been exposed to Jade's sleeping spell are gathered together in the burrow that Jade used to be held in, Woundwort can't understand it.
"I think Vervain's having us on," He tells Campion, "He wakes up when we shout at him and then just goes back to sleep!" Campion looks at Woundwort with a fake look of amazement and awe.
"I know Vervain's a selfish slackly rabbit," He comments, "But you have discovered his sheer laziness! You never seize to amaze me, sir!" Woundwort buys Campion's comment without any doubt.
"You know," Jade tells Fiver as they exit the orchard, "Campion reminds me of a friend of mine!" Fiver looks at her as she says this.
"How?" He asks her, Jade is quick to reply.
"Well they both worked for someone who we've been fighting, but then changed to aid us instead; they're both brave and very strong and they both have a sensitive side!" Fiver is amazed by this news.
"What was the human's name?" He asks her.
"Tohru!" She replies, Fiver tries to spell it out and pronounce it.
"T-O-R-R-O-O, Tor-roo!" Jade shakes her head and replies.
"No, T-O-H-R-U, Tohru!" Fiver is shocked, he tries to help out.
"Shouldn't it be pronounced 'Tor-Hru'?" Jade shakes her head.
"In the language it originated from the h is silent!" Fiver stands still as Jade walks on, unaware of Fiver's hesitation. "Are there any colloquialisms in your language?" She asks rhetorically, no response, puzzled she turns round. "Fiver?" She says in query, and sees him standing there staring into space. Jade shrugs her shoulders and goes back to him. "Earth to Fiver!" She says to him and snaps her fingers in front of his face, Fiver notices her and says.
"I think a group are coming to find us!" Jade looks at him with puzzlement.
"Efrafa or Watership Down?" She asks him, Fiver soon replies.
"Watership!" Jade nods her head and they both continue on their journey. Just then Fiver spots something he's never seen before.
"What's that?" He asks Jade in surprise, Jade turns to look at what Fiver's looking at.
"That's a guitar." She tells him, Fiver is puzzled again.
"What's it for?" He asks, Jade tries to elaborate.
"A guitar," She tells him, "Makes nice sounds called 'music' if it is used in the right way or it'll make the sounds, but in the wrong order causing the music to not be nice, to go 'out of tune'!" Fiver is curious to this and asks her.
"Could you demonstrate?" Jade hesitates for a bit before replying.
"I can try, but I've never used one before." She goes and picks up the guitar in both hands, she makes sure the strings are all fastened in and begins to strum; producing a 'Dave Lister' version of the intro to Beethoven's 5th. "I think it's broken!" Jade tells Fiver, he is not so sure.
"Let me see it." He asks her, she gives it to her,
and with the guitar in his forepaws Fiver feels a new sense, one of
excitement and love, a desire to use this guitar to it's best and
he takes off with 'You're Not the One I was Looking For' by
Blue Oyster Cult. "I used to lie in my bed,
the sleep wouldn't
come; I'm thinking about the things that they said, they led me on;
all of the fancy ladies, oh they could talk and talk.
I shot for
the highest star, but I aimed too high; you wanted a rich rock star,
but he made you cry; now that we have each other, oh we can laugh
about it. You're not the one I was looking for, but you're the one
for me (you're the one); I'm not the one you were looking for, but
you can't go wrong with me; you're not the one I was looking for but,
you're oh so good for me! Now I can't make it without, I can't go on;
we can make beautiful music and prove them wrong; we've been put down
by the best and now we laugh about it, yeah! You're not the one I was
looking for, but you're the one for me (you're the one); I'm not the
one you were looking for, but you can't go wrong with me; you're not
the one I was looking for but, you're oh so good for me! You're oh so
good for me (You're so good); you're oh so good for me (You're so
good); you're oh so good for me!" Jade gasps, Fiver doesn't
have hands, or even primate limbs, nor does he have any familiarity
with music; yet he strummed the guitar like a pro and sang in the
manner of the original singer, and his voice was in pitch. He has
little to none experience with singing alone, yet he seems to know
how to play a guitar, change the pitch in his voice and how to
breathe when singing. It's though he learnt how to do all this in a
millisecond.
"How did you do that, Fiver?" She asks in surprise, Fiver looks at her in bewilderment.
"How did I do what?" He asks her, Jade soon replies.
"How did you all that singing and playing the guitar so well?" Fiver soon replies.
"It just came to me!" Jade has heard of naturals for something or rather, but this is ridiculous; just then Fiver spots something encrusted in the back of the guitar.
"There's another talisman here!" He announces Jade hurries to see which one, she recognises it.
"The Dragon Talisman!" She informs Fiver, who remembers what she said it did and quickly drops the guitar and jumps back. Jade very carefully prizes the talisman out of the guitar and gingerly slips it into her pocket; Fiver breathes a sigh of relief.
Back in Efrafa two of the sentries are coming round as Jade's sleeping spell wears off; Woundwort watches on, and as they open their eyes he pulls them onto their feet.
"How dare you sleep on duty!" He yells at them, one gibbers while the other simply says.
"Sorry sir, we couldn't help it!" Woundwort finds this to be no excuse and gives them four torso wounds each as punishment. Campion looks on and as the two sentries hurry away with fear Campion makes a request to Woundwort.
"Sir," He asks, "Could you keep your watch over those left over for a while? Only I'd like to see the look on Vervain's face when he finds you caught him sleeping on duty!" Woundwort looks to Campion and replies.
"I shall wait for Vervain and give him what's coming to him when he wakes up; I think you should be there to see it! The other two you'll watch carefully if they're still sleeping when Vervain wakes up!" Campion reacts confidently and in a respectful and disciplined fashion. They don't have long to wait, Vervain slowly stretches and opens his eyes to meet those of an angry sumo rabbit, Vervain realises what this means and the expression on his face tells of extreme surprise and alarm.
"Er, hi General!" Vervain says nervously, Woundwort hauls Vervain up and gives him verbal thrashing that doesn't need to be mentioned here, followed by a nasty physical thrashing. Vervain hurries away and Woundwort turns to Campion.
"If he puts a paw wrong one more time," Woundwort tells him, "I'm demoting him to Captain Aspen's level and promote the others up the ladder!" Campion knows this means Moss will replace Vervain, Groundsel will take place of Moss, and Aspen will take Groundsel's place.
Fiver and Jade continue on their route to Watership Down, what Blackberry did with the parsley Fiver has done with the guitar; as they wander along Fiver suddenly starts sniffing about.
"I think we need the Rabbit talisman now!" He tells Jade, who looks at him with uncertainty and replies.
"What makes you so sure?" Fiver answers with a sound of tension in his voice.
"A homba!" He cries, just then a vixen jumps at them and both Jade and Fiver run in their own direction; the vixen pursues Fiver for a while when Fiver finds himself cornered, the vixen closes in. Just then a cough is heard behind the vixen, Fiver looks over her shoulder as she turns to see who/what made the cough, and there stands Jade Chan with a stern look on her face.
"Who's the shrimp?" The vixen crudely comments, Jade goes into a frown and asks the vixen.
"Are you talkin' to me?" Fiver realises the problem and whispers to the vixen.
"Oh no, you're calling her a shrimp!" The vixen can't understand what Fiver's talking about.
"Are you talking to me?" Jade asks again, more aggressively this time; Fiver realises how much trouble the vixen is in.
"Oh dear, oh dear!" Fiver comments, Jade is really wound up now.
"Are You TALKING To Me?" She growls at the vixen, Fiver informs the vixen of the danger.
"Now you're in trouble!" Jade now flares.
"They call me," She tells the vixen, "Miss Shrimp!" And she jump-kicks the vixen so violently that she sails over Fiver's head and smack into the ground on the other side of the obstacle. Jade apologises to Fiver. "I'm still having trouble with that!" She tells him, Fiver shrugs and they both head back to the down.
About ten minutes pass before a scout group encounters them; this group comprises of Bigwig, Broom and Blackavar. Bigwig is the first to speak.
"You two took your time!" He says. "What held you back?" Fiver answered this.
"Ni-frith caused some delay," Bigwig understands this, rabbits are seldom active at noon, "And we found two more talismans!" Jade shows Bigwig and the other two the Monkey and Dragon talismans; Bigwig nods with pride.
"You two clearly have initiative!" He tells them, he continues with. "First rule of the owsla 'You must use initiative'!" Fiver and Blackavar sigh at the last comment, Blackavar covering Broom's lips to prevent him from going on about his past; Jade cannot understand what all this is about, being in this world for only a few days meant that she couldn't understand Fiver's and Blackavar's sighing nor could she understand why Broom's mouth had to be covered from time to time.
By mid-afternoon the five of them reach the down to find Jackie and Hazel-rah waiting for them; Jade feels this has been a job well done and readily announces.
"We've found two more talismans!" Jackie is amazed by this and looks at her with puzzlement, Hazel-rah just asks her.
"Which talismans, Jade?" She is quick to respond, pulling out the two extra talismans from her pocket.
"Check it out, Hazé," She comments, "The Monkey and the Dragon!" Hazel-rah wonders what they do before he realises she called him 'Hazé', Fiver gives him a look that Hazel-rah catches and understands.
"That leaves us with…?" Hazel-rah inquires, Jackie answers this one.
"The Pig and the Rat talismans!" Hazel-rah realises this means it won't be long before they have all the talismans.
By sunset the two sentries who were guarding Jade wake up to find Campion looking down on them sternly; they get nervous.
"I've just been talking to the General!" Campion tells them in the stern fashion that matched his expression; one of them nervously replies.
"We can explain!" Campion pulls on the fur of his chest and tells him with authority.
"Excuses are not the business of Efrafa, doing the job is!" He then gives them a couple of cuffs each and sends them on their business.
As night falls on Watership Down the rabbits and Chans get ready to get some sleep.
"That Woundwort is such a fascist," Jade comments, "No wonder you lot wanted the talismans to help you!" She continues informing all the Watership rabbits in the Honeycomb before they all set off for their burrows, Fiver asks Jade a question as they head for their burrow.
"Can you teach us how to know different values of hrair?" He asks her, Jade hesitates for a while as she figures out hrair means anything over four.
"Sure, Five!" She confidently replies, Fiver sighs at her habit of using abbreviations when addressing someone informally.
By the next morning Fiver is the first to wake up, he finds Jade snoozing by his side. Nuzzling her Fiver commences to try and get her more cheerful about waking up with a song, coincidentally it is a slightly altered version of The Monkees' 'Daydream Believer'.
"Oh, I could hide beneath the wings, of the bluebird as she sings! The six o'clock alarm would never end, but it rings and I rise, wipe the sleep out of my eyes; the shaving razor's cold and it stings. Cheer up, sleepy Jade; oh, what can it be made of, it's a daydream believer and an incoming trade. You once thought of me as a white knight on a steed, now you know how happy I can be! And all good times starts and end without one carrot to spend; but how much paperwork do we really need. Cheer up, sleepy Jade; oh, what can it be made of, it's a daydream believer and an incoming trade! Cheer up, sleepy Jade; oh, what can it be made of, it's a daydream believer and an incoming trade." Jade comes round and is shocked to hear words in Fiver's singing that rabbits cannot comprehend. "Cheer up, sleepy Jade; oh, what can it be made of, it's a daydream believer and an incoming trade!" Fiver cannot help but repeat this until he runs out of breath.
Later Jade is trying to teach Hawkbit to count above four, using the talismans to help him understand, without much luck.
"Okay Hawkbit," She comments, "Let's start again, eh." She slips three talismans in her direction. "This is called adding! I have three talismans," She slips another two talismans in her direction, "And then I add two more talismans. What do I have?" She asks him, Hawkbit is quick to respond (badly).
"Some talismans!" He tells her, Jade is subconsciously annoyed.
"Yes," She tells him, "And no! Let's try again!" She repeats the actions. "I have three talismans, and then I add two more talismans! What does that make?" Hawkbit blunders again.
"A very chaotic life!" He answers; Jade is getting tired of Hawkbit taking what she says literally.
"Hawkbit," She tells him, "The apes of the Savannah have mastered this! Look," She points to each talisman mentioning numbers consecutively, "One, two, three, four, five! So how many are there?" Hawkbit tries to answer, but fails again.
"Four," He tells her, Jade begins to inquire with this answer when Hawkbit says, "And that one!" Pointing to the Tiger talisman, Jade picks it up.
"Four and that one!" She rhetorically comments. "So if I add that one to the four," She puts it back impatiently, "What will I have?" Hawkbit seems to get.
"Oh!" He says. "Some talismans!" Jade is ready to give up now.
"Yes," She groans, "To you Hawkbit, 'education for all' is just something that is granted to other species, isn't it!"
Later on all are in the Honeycomb, Hazel-rah is taking central stage and announces.
"I believe that this war will end soon! The threat of Efrafa is not our concern!" But just then Fiver starts shivering.
"Fiver's gone again!" Jade comments, Hazel-rah rushes to Fiver's side.
"What do can you see, Fiver?" He inquires, all of a sudden Fiver's eyes spring open, staring into space and he begins to sing Genesis' 'Land of Confusion' in this format.
Fiver: I must've dreamed a thousand dreams, been haunted by a million screams; but I can hear the marching feet, they're moving into the street! Well did you read the news today; they say the danger's gone away, but I can see that fire's still alight, and burning into the night! There's too many men, too many people making too many problems, and not much love to go round! Can't you see this is the Land of Confusion? This is the world we live in…
Dandelion (Paw on cheek) Ohh errr!
Fiver: …And these are the hands we're giving…
Dandelion (Paws on chest)Err werrrr!
Fiver: …You never will stop trying…
Dandelion (Paw on forehead) Ahhhh!
Fiver: …To make it a place worth living in! Oh Superman where are you now?
Hazel (whispering) Shout!
Fiver: Where everything's gone wrong somehow!
Hazel (whispering) Shout!
Fiver: The man of steel, the man of power…
Hazel (whispering)Shout!
Fiver: …Are losing control by the hour! This is the time, this is the place for we look to the future; but there's not much love to go around! Tell me why this is the Land of Confusion! Well this is the world we live in…
Dandelion (Paw on cheek)Ohh errr!
Fiver: …And these are the hands we're giving…
Dandelion (Paws on chest)Err werrrr!
Fiver: …You never will stop trying…
Dandelion (Paw on forehead) Ahhhh!
Fiver: …To make it a place worth living in!
Jade tries to work out exactly what they mean; what Fiver says next penetrates her soul.
Fiver: I remember a year ago, ooh when the sun was shining and the stars were bright all through the night and the sound of your laughter as I held you tight; so long ago! I won't be coming home tonight,
Hazel (whispering)Shout, shout!
Fiver: My generation will put it right!
Hazel (whispering)Shout, shout!
Fiver: We're not just making promises…
Hazel (whispering)Shout, shout!
Fiver: …But we know we'll never keep! Too many men, there's too many people making too many problems, but there's not much love to go around! Can't you see this is the Land of Confusion? Now this is the world we live in…
Dandelion (Paw on cheek) Ohh errr!
Fiver: …And these are the hands we're giving…
Dandelion (Paws on chest)Err werrrr!
Fiver: …You never will stop trying…
Dandelion (Paw on forehead) Ahhhh!
Fiver: …To make this a place worth fighting for! This is the world we live in…
Dandelion (Paw on cheek) Ohh errr!
Fiver: …And these are the names we're given…
Dandelion (Paws on chest)Err werrrr!
Fiver: …Stand up and let's start showing…
Dandelion (Paw on forehead) Ahhhh!
Fiver: …Just where our lives are going to!
Jade, Jackie and Uncle continually try to comprehend this message as the Watership rabbits now go about their daily business.
In Efrafa a red cloud begins to form in the middle of the audience burrow; Woundwort, Campion, Vervain and many others gathered at this strange phenomena.
"Have any idea what this is, sir?" Campion asks Woundwort, who thinks a bit before replying.
"Other than that it's a red cloud of supernatural existence, no!" Now a human silhouette can be seen in the cloud, Woundwort cheers up. "Perhaps this man will help us in dealing with the outsiders and that insubordinate man-kitten!" He announces, the cloud clears and there stands none other than Hak Foo.
"Have you rabbits had any trouble with a Chan?" He asks the Efrafans, Campion gets nervous but doesn't show it.
"We've encountered a Jade Chan!" Woundwort tells him, Hak Foo understands this and announces.
"I offer you my services in your struggle!" Woundwort thinks that having a man ally who knows this Jade Chan would be very helpful, Vervain just gloats.
"What use is a pathetic man like you?" He asks the Black Tiger rhetorically; this gets on Hak Foo's nerves and responds with a move.
"Angry Crow Takes Flight!" He announces and jump-kicks Vervain in the stomach, followed by. "Disturbed Cobra Bites Wrist!" And he whacks Vervain on the fore-ankle; Woundwort tells Hak Foo.
"You are welcome to Efrafa, that's the name of this warren!" Hak Foo introduces himself.
Later Campion slinks away from Efrafa, continually watching his back.
"I can't stay in Efrafa," He tells himself, "That Hak Foo would expose me and smash me before you could say 'Woundwort has only got one!'" And he sneaks into the underground caverns leading to Watership Down.