Deja Foo
Note: I'm not very good in writing Irish accent; Blackavar might sound more like the novel version.
Campion slips through the underground caverns, doing his best to trace the route to Watership Down; the arrival of Hak Foo made it clear to him that he can no longer continue his espionage missions for Hazel, now he shall fight alongside Hazel in direct competition against Woundwort. It is not long before he spots the way up to the warren on Watership Down and begins to climb.
On the down Jackie is teaching Bigwig and Blackavar Kung-fu, Fiver is teaching Jade the game of bobstones and Uncle is teaching Blackberry chi magic; Jade so far has lost three games to love, she does her best to keep herself calm in the heat of bother. Fiver and Jade commence with the fourth game, Fiver goes first.
"Bobstone guess?" He asks Jade, who looks at his forepaws that hide the stones.
"Bobstone guess," Jade replies, she is getting the gist of it, "Is… two, small!" Fiver lifts up his forepaws to show two small stones, Jade has succeeded in guessing, all she needs to do now is to have Fiver guess wrong. "Bobstone guess?" She asks him later on, she covers the stones by clutching them in both her hands.
"Bobstone guess," Fiver replies, "Is… four!" Jade opens her hands to show only two stones.
"Hello again!" Speaks an exhausted voice behind Jade, she turns and is surprised to see Campion at the run that leads to the underground caverns.
"What're you doing here?" She asks him, Campion soon responds.
"I have some important information for all of you!" He tells both Jade and Fiver, Fiver quickly goes out to get the others whilst Jade goes elsewhere in the warren to get Uncle and Blackberry.
When Jade arrives in Blackberry's burrow, where she and Uncle are performing practice chi spells, she finds Blackberry and Uncle arguing over the chant to use.
"Hlamo bracka hrom de hi!" Chants Blackberry, waving her parsley around, Uncle cries out.
"Ai-yaaa! That is not the chant! Is 'Humo brako fai di tzao!'" Jade coughs to stop the argument, they turn to her.
"Some news of this Efrafa!" She tells them, Blackberry immediately jumps before Jade continues. "There is to be a meeting!"
"In the Honeycomb, I suppose!" Blackberry comments, Jade thinks for a while before nodding her head in understanding; Uncle immediately puts all chi research away.
Later, in the Honeycomb, everyone is gathered to hear Campion's news, he begins.
"I can no longer be a spy for you all," Campion announces, "For there is a new ally to Woundwort, I don't think I could stay undercover with him around, he's also a dangerous fighter!" Jackie thinks for a while before asking.
"What's his name?" Campion soon replies.
"He says his name's Hak Foo," Jackie jumps back in shock, "It appears you might know him!" Campion tells the unnerved archaeologist, Jade speaks now.
"Hak Foo is here in your world?" She rhetorically asks him. "Really? I thought I dealt with him back at the shop! He's such a slippery one, that man!" Campion now asks a question.
"What can we do about him?" Everyone puts their thinking caps on, but Jade has it almost instantly.
"I have just the spell for him!" She announces, Jackie sighs in an annoyed way; all the Watership rabbits look at her with astonishment. "It shall, shall we say, bring him down to size!" For most of them it takes a bit of time to realise what she's talking about.
"What do you need for it?" Blackberry asks her, hoping to be helpful.
"I'll tell yer later!" Jade replies, she looks to the others. "Once it's ready we need to draw him well away from Efrafa so we can deal with him without too much interference! All we need is some 'bait'!" All the Watership rabbits turn to Hawkbit, standing in the back; he shakes his head and replies to the unspoken announcement.
"Nope, nope!" Blackavar thinks that a bit of persuasion is necessary and tries with the comment of.
"You warr a cowaardli liddle chiek, aren' tya!" With that everyone agrees that Hawkbit will be the lure for Hak Foo, much to his dismay.
Later Jade is preparing a spell in Fiver's burrow, Fiver looks on with amazement as he stands at the entrance to the burrow; Jade is in need of just one more ingredient for Blackberry to bring.
"I didn't know you could make magical stuff!" Fiver tells Jade, she turns to him and replies.
"If you mean powders and potions I've used them before, I need a bit of help in making those I haven't made before, but this is a spell I've created by accident!" Fiver is interested in this.
"Are you sure it will remove this Hak Foo person from the scene?" He asks her, Jade goes 'Tch' and replies.
"It's a very powerful spell; I just hope Hawkbit doesn't get in the crossfire!" Fiver is just puzzled by this.
Back in Efrafa Vervain, Woundwort and Hak Foo are discussing on how to deal with the Watership rabbits; Hak Foo is itching to go.
"They have evaded and outsmarted me before," He tells the other two, "Now is the time to make a comeback!" Vervain is puzzled by this; Woundwort just takes it as fighting talk and tells him.
"You are a very good fighter; you will do me proud, I'm sure of it!" Vervain isn't so sure.
"Sir," He tells Woundwort, "Are you certain we can rely on a human, and a very insane one too?" Hak Foo once again reacts aggressively with.
"Rhino Charges Land-Rover!" Throwing a punch at Vervain after sprinting at him.
"Nice attack, Hak Foo!" Woundwort comments, joyous at Vervain's suffering; he then notices something not normal. "Where is Campion?" He turns to Hak Foo again. "Do you think he's been attacked by elil?" Vervain makes a comment now.
"General, sir," He tells him, "If he can fight outsiders one to four his side, he must be able to fight a homba! I think he's defected to Hazel and his outsiders!" Woundwort decides to try Hak Foo-ing himself and names how he's going to cuff Vervain.
"Pig Crushes Ant!" He growls and heavily whacks Vervain between the ears.
"Please don't mention ants!" Hak Foo groans; they both stare at him. "It reminds me of a very unpleasant event that I was lucky to get out of!" They look at each other, then back at Hak Foo trying to figure out what this means. "Do not underestimate the power of chi!" He tells them, they are still puzzled.
"Hak Foo," Woundwort announces, "I want you find and destroy as many of the outsiders as you can!" Hak Foo needs some help here.
"How do I know which are your followers and which are your enemies?" He asks him, Woundwort is quick to reply.
"The outsiders tend to be cheeky; they are very un-muscular, except one who can be recognised by a growth of fur on his head, and they are terribly disorganised!" Hak Foo tries to figure this out, but decides to try and follow the descriptions given to him and sets off.
Back on the down Blackberry brings the final ingredients to Jade, who has just finished the first half of preparing the spell.
"Nice work, Blackberry!" Jade tells her as she puts the stuff down in a corner of the burrow. "I'll leave one of you to deal with him once the spell's done it's work! Don't want him making a comeback again!" It takes a while for Fiver and Blackberry to comprehend what she's saying as the colloquialisms tend to interfere with their understanding.
In the Honeycomb Hazel, Blackavar and Bigwig are trying to get Hawkbit into accepting the way the trap would be set; they aren't having much luck.
"If you're not going to lure this man into range, then allow me to go!" Hazel-rah announces, since Hawkbit is continually refusing.
"No, Hazel," Bigwig tells him, "That's no job for a chief! Allow me!" Hazel-rah looked at him before replying.
"You realise there are a few dangers in this plan!" Bigwig nods his head and replies.
"That's why it's no job for a chief!" Blackavar intervenes.
"Is'a all verwy well bein'g braeve abou tit," He tells them, "But your both two impottant t' sackrifies! Dat's wy Haukbi' hast t' be de wan; becofs then if anywing goes wong the loss won' be two bad!" Hazel thinks for a moment before replying.
"If a problem occurs and Hawkbit is involved in it, if it can be reversed then it should as long as this 'Hak Foo' is removed from the scene; Jade was very insistent on that!"
Blackberry enters her burrow, satisfied that all ingredients for the spell are gathered, when she finds Uncle sitting in what appears to be a sulk; she decides to talk to him.
"Is anything depressing you, Uncle?" She asks, he turns to her with a disappointing look on his face.
"Uncle is ashamed," He tells her, "Uncle has often denied Jade permission to use mag-ic! Now Jade is performing magic and Uncle's not complaining!" Blackberry sighs and turns away at Uncle's somewhat bizarre way of speaking.
Meanwhile, back at Efrafa, the meeting between Woundwort, Hak Foo and Vervain has finished; unfortunately the last attack on Vervain made by Hak Foo has left Vervain traumatised, he now has a clear stutter. He watches over his mark at silflay, distressed at the recent turn of events; he turns to see Groundsel coming up to him.
"You should get your mark underground," He tells Vervain, "It's my mark's turn to silflay!" Vervain sighs and replies.
"Yes, you're r-r-right," Then he speaks louder and clearer than before, "G-G-G-Groundsel, f-f-f-fetch your mark!" He then goes out and tells the whole mark. "C-Come in L-L-L-Left-Flank M-M-M-Mark, our time is u-u-u-up!" And everyone in his mark hesitates a bit before going back to the mark burrows whilst Groundsel gets his mark up into the open.
Fiver watches with curiosity as Jade mixes the various herbs and spices together to produce the intended spell, the result of which he is unsure of; when Jade's mixing slows down and stops.
"It's ready; fortunately there is no time limit for the use of the powder!" She tells him, Fiver acknowledges this and goes to tell the others.
Later on they are all gathered in the Honeycomb, Blackavar and Bigwig are restraining Hawkbit from chickening out, Jade is explaining the effects of the spell to Hazel, Fiver and Blackberry.
"So this spell will bring anything of human-size down to ant-size?" Hazel confirms, thinking how much danger this spell may cause.
"Anything touching the target," Jade adds, "Will also be shrunk on the same scale!" Then everyone turns to Hawkbit, who realises that there's no other option now.
"I'm going!" He cries panicky, "I'm going!" And hurries off to do what he was set to do before Bigwig gives him a cuff between the ears.
Later on, on the outskirts of Efrafa, Hak Foo is sitting on a rock keeping an eye out for trouble, he hopes he can take his revenge on the Chans; when he spots movement in the grass, he readies himself for aggression. Hawkbit pops out of the grass; he is surprised by Hak Foo's appearance and knows his sarcasm is just the thing to get Hak Foo going.
"Why is there squashed tomatoes in your fur?" He calls out; Hak Foo is angry and responds.
"Angry Crow takes Flight!" And he leaps off the rock towards Hawkbit, Hawkbit dashes to the side to avoid being pounced on, thereby Hak Foo lands 'bonk' in the grass; he looks around to see Hawkbit standing proudly with a slightly worried expression on his face.
"Can't catch meee!" Hawkbit calls out to Hak Foo, who immediately shoots after him.
Hungry Cheetah hunts Deer!" He shouts, Hawkbit dodges him with a mocking comment of.
"Cheetah loses Target!" And runs away with Hak Foo in hot pursuit.
Jade carries the cauldron containing the shrinking spell into the Honeycomb, where Fiver, Hazel, Blackberry and Hannah are waiting for Hawkbit to return with Hak Foo in hot pursuit. After a while Jade gets bored from waiting.
"How can it take this long to get Hak Foo across the distance required?" She rhetorically asks the world in general; Fiver looks at her and replies.
"Jade, speed isn't everything; if there's one thing we learnt about luring it is you have to use tactics to avoid coming to harm!" Then Bigwig enters the Honeycomb to find them ready and waiting.
"Just remember, Jade," He tells her, "Let 'Hak Foo' make the first move as it'll help you understand what he's up to; first rule of the owsla 'Always let your opponent make the first move'!" It is now that Jade realises why the others groaned last time Bigwig commented on rules of owsla and tries to stifle a groan herself.
"He's here!" Primrose cries as she rushes into the Honeycomb. "Hak Foo is here, right behind Hawkbit!" Jade readies herself and tell the others.
"Keep away from the middle; that is where the spell should take effect on Hak Foo!" They all move to the sides in response, and then an unfamiliar voice is heard outside the Honeycomb.
"Rabid Fox bites!" They immediately realise this is Hak Foo, but don't know why he said that line (unless you count Jade who already knows). Just then Hawkbit enters the Honeycomb with a panicky and worn out look on him; Hak Foo enters now and moves towards Hawkbit, Jade grabs a handful of shrinking powder and begins the spell.
"Xia xu, xia xu, xia xu, xia xu; Hak Foo!" The powder rushes towards Hak Foo and begins to envelop him, but just then Hak Foo pins Hawkbit to the ground.
"Quick," Jade calls to Hawkbit, "Get out of…" She stops when a green flash sends Hawkbit and Hak Foo out of site. "…There." She finishes.
Hawkbit reappears, he is confused as he is in the clear, but doesn't recognise the landscape; it gets worse for him when he sees Hak Foo, what to him is, 23ft (2") away from him.
"Now I can deal with you!" Hak Foo announces and moves to Hawkbit who performs the rabbit equivalent of backing-away, then he stops in shock at something behind Hak Foo and cries out.
"Paws!" He has noticed a pair of light brown-furred forepaws closing in on both him and Hak Foo.
"No one," Hak Foo tells Hawkbit, "Tells me to pause!" Just then one of the forepaws knocks Hak Foo onto his front and face; Hawkbit ducks as the same forepaw sails over him and lands behind him sending shock waves through the ground that would measure five on the Richter scale.
"FIVER," Jade's voice booms through the land at Hawkbit's level, "BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU STEP!" Then Fiver's voice returns the boom in reply, to an extent that Hawkbit pulls his ears down over his jaw-bones.
"WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, JADE?" When the boom ends Hawkbit releases his ears and decides to get out of the way before Hak Foo gets to his feet; then he spots a familiar face and comes close to tharn.
"Oh no," He squeaks, "No, no, no, NO!" He is looking up at Fiver, who looms over him like the down would; and there's only one thing that Hawkbit can think of that would explain this.
"HAK FOO IS NO LONGER A WORRY!" Fiver thunders, the sight of a mountainous Fiver speaking is really terrifying to Hawkbit.
Jade tries to explain to Fiver a new problem. "But Hawkbit has suffered the same fate as Hak Foo pinned him at the moment the spell would take effect!" Fiver suddenly turns to her.
"What do you mean?" He asks her with concern; Jade recaps the situation to him.
"Not only is Hak Foo ant-size now, but Hawkbit has accidentally been shrunk, too!" Fiver then remembers exactly what she said when they were about to send Hawkbit to lure Hak Foo. "It'll be very hard to find them!" Jade adds to show why she's especially worried.
Hawkbit is terribly concerned about his predicament now; he tries to think about what to do when a shadow moves above him. He turns around to see another giant forepaw falling towards him, a sudden dash and Hawkbit avoids being crushed, but the impact causes a shockwave of 7.2 Richter scale, causing him to fall over (Fiver moved slightly whilst talking to Jade); looking up Hawkbit now finds another sense of terror and awe as he discovers that the paw belongs to Blackberry.
"IF IT IS POSSIBLE TO SHRINK THINGS," Blackberry thunders, "THEN THERE MUST BE A WAY TO RETURN HAWKBIT TO HIS NORMAL SIZE!" Hawkbit feels relieved at this and almost goes to lean against Blackberry's forepaw relaxingly, but his common sense got the better of him.
"The last time such a problem had to be solved," Jade tells Blackberry, "Hak Foo returned to normal size, too!" Blackberry thinks for a while and replies.
"There might be a more complex spell to restore Hawkbit's size without affecting Hak Foo!" Jade thinks about this whilst everyone there waits for a reply.
Hawkbit listens to the giants with interest, happy that they're looking into his restoration, when he hears a voice he suddenly remembers.
"I shall dispose of you before they're ready!" Hak Foo growls approaching Hawkbit from the direction of Fiver's right hind-paw; Hawkbit thinks about the situation whilst commenting.
"I forgot you were there!" Hak Foo is approaching him head-on, behind him is Blackberry's left forepaw and to the sides are other rabbits of normal proportions; he realises that his only escape from Hak Foo is to climb onto Blackberry's paw, he finds it embarrassing and rather dangerous, but there's no other clear option, so he navigates the space between her toes and clambers up to the top of her forepaw by using her fur as a combination of rope and footholds.
"It is possible that there maybe such a spell," Jade answers to Blackberry's inquiry, "Blackberry, you go talk to Uncle about the situation, you two are those most likely to make the spell work; Fiver, Hannah, you two had better look for Hawkbit and Hak Foo, if you find Hak Foo do wha'cha want with him, if you find Hawkbit you must do everything you can to keep him safe!" They all acknowledge this and Blackberry goes on her search for Uncle.
Hawkbit looks over the edge of Blackberry's forepaw with concern that Hak Foo will climb up and attack him; when he feels a shifting beneath his paws, he realises that Blackberry is beginning to move and quickly grabs onto her fur to prevent him falling off; it is a rough ride for him as the world twirls around him and every impact of Blackberry's paw makes him feel as though his stomach is going to leave through his mouth. Hak Foo isn't faring any better; with the paw Hawkbit's on moving over his head and crashing behind him, he attempts to chase after that paw when he finds his own life in danger as Blackberry's left hind-paw is on a collision course with him. He leaps forward and only narrowly avoids being squashed, but has a headache from the intensity of the impact; Blackberry moves forward again, but this time her hind-paw misses Hak Foo entirely.
"It just had to happen again!" Hak Foo groans, and runs towards Blackberry in the hopes of catching Hawkbit.
Blackberry first goes outside of the warren in her search for Uncle, but she only sees Captain Broom, Clover, Dandelion and Pipkin at silflay; she decides to ask them if any of them have seen Uncle. She first approaches Clover.
"Excuse me, Clover." She asks, she looks up. "Have you seen Uncle?" Clover thinks for a while to remember where she last saw him.
Hawkbit is glad that Blackberry has stopped; he hopes to climb up her foreleg and call into her ear to help the other Watership rabbits know of his whereabouts, just as he moves towards her ankle she stands up, tipping her forepaws 90° downwards, Hawkbit quickly grabs onto some of her fur.
"Typical," He groans, "She just has to stand up when she talks to someone!" But he could barely hear himself speak due to the volume of Blackberry's own voice; he then hears Clover reply.
"THE LAST TIME MY EYES HAVE SEEN THE MAN IN QUESTION," Clover thunders, "THE SAID MAN WAS GOING IN THE DIRECTION OF YOUR BURROW, BLACKBERRY, ABOUT FU-FRITH!" Just then Blackberry shifts her forepaws suddenly to think about this, causing Hawkbit to lose his grip and not only does he fall, but the movement of Blackberry's forepaws causes him to travel through the air what to him is 123ft (10.5") away from Blackberry before going into an all out plummet, he yells out in terror, but his voice is too feeble for anyone to hear.
Blackberry finally decides that this was while she was getting the ingredients for the shrinking spell and moves on to the other rabbits at silflay.
Hawkbit covers his eyes as the ground approaches him rapidly, all there is to break his fall are giant grass blades erupting from the ground, but even they couldn't help break his fall, in that instance Hawkbit is too big! Fortunately he lands against the side of a blade of grass that acts as a slide, slipping Hawkbit down to ground level gently enough so that the impact will just be a slight bump.
Hak Foo finds he can't keep up with the behemoth doe as she leaves the Honeycomb; what she covered in a few seconds he could only manage in half an hour, so he theorises that he'll have to hitch a ride himself. Fiver and Hannah are looking for him so they're out, Jade, Hazel and Bigwig are 750yds (5ft 4") away from him so they're out; which leaves Primrose, 16yds (7") away from him, he immediately heads for one her forepaws; he leaps onto her left forepaw just before she begins to move away, he really has to endure a lot from her impact intensity and speed.
Hawkbit wanders through the jungle of grass, wondering how far away the nearest rabbit is, he feels he needs to find another rabbit to ride on to (ironically) keep safe; just then he feels a 3.2 Richter scale tremor, which means a massive animal isn't too far away, he turns around and notices a foreleg of a rabbit rising from the grass 89ft (9.2") away from him. Cranking his neck he recognises the rabbit as Clover, nibbling at the grass; he then makes a comment to himself.
"Of course, to talk to her Blackberry had to be close!" He immediately starts to navigate his way through the grass towards her; there's always a sense of dread somewhere inside him relating to the size of his colleagues, but this seems to be the only way for him to have a chance of safety.
Primrose leaves the warren for silflay, unaware that Hak Foo is braced upon one of her forepaws; she finds a good spot about 8ft (3mi. to Hak Foo) from Clover and goes on her haunches to silflay. Hak Foo is thrown off Primrose's forepaw at the last impact when even he loses grip on her fur, he slams into the ground at an apparent distance of 28ft (2.5") away from the said forepaw; he can clearly hear Primrose's teeth chopping and grinding grass to his right at a distance of 15ft (1.6"), so he is also able to look right up along her left jawbones and cheek; he feels uncomfortable at getting such a good view of a rabbit at silflay (even if she is very good-looking). He immediately begins to seek out Hawkbit; but for all he knows Hawkbit could still be riding Blackberry.
By now Hawkbit is at a distance of 60ft (7.1") from Clover, in general her nearest paw is 56ft (7") to his right-front and the nearest part of Clover overall (the left edge of her chin) is 55.5ft (6.92") away from him; he immediately turns towards the great furry column that is her left foreleg. Hak Foo continues to wonder where Hawkbit might be; he has to look all around the top of the down, a lot like looking for a piece of straw in a haystack. He continues on his million to one chance search for Hawkbit.
Unfortunately million to one chances are classic storybook chances to overcome; so as Hawkbit decides to attempt to alert Clover to his whereabouts at a distance of 120ft (10.43") from her nearest ear; he calls her name as loud as he can, just as he is about to shout as loud as he can Hak Foo somehow reaches him and jumps at him; they both go flying through the air and land 4ft (0.3") apart. Hawkbit figures out he should fight back at Hak Foo to stand a chance, he continually attempts to cuff Hak Foo whilst continually dodging Hak Foo's moves.
"You're in for it now!" Hawkbit tells Hak Foo as he grabs a large lump of something from nearby; he is just about to throw when both of them notice what it is. "A crumb of grass?" Hawkbit comments at seeing the item; a shadow moves above them, Hak Foo notices areas of shorter grass around them. "Oh dear!" Hawkbit squeaks as both of them look straight up at Clover's vast face closing on them, and she begins to open her mouth!
Hak Foo and Hawkbit now totally succumb to their natural survival instincts and cry out in terror as they find themselves looking straight inside Clover's mouth; as she comes within 40ft (4.8") of them they both leap for safety, it takes to attempts when, at a distance of 23ft (2") from Clover's Olympic-sized muzzle they find safety by leaping towards her chin and hanging tightly. Both are now preoccupied with keeping safe than fighting each-other, just then Clover only takes three nibbles of the grass, the sound of her huge jaws grinding the grass into a mush terrifies both Hawkbit and Hak Foo when they realise how close they were to total demise; she lifts her head and sets off for her burrow.
Hawkbit looks down as he watches what seems to be the whole world rushing by as Clover hops across the down, it seems like he and Hak Foo had been lifted 118yds (3ft 3.79") off the ground; Clover stops by an entrance to the warren. She commences to lick her lips; both Hawkbit and Hak Foo her an earthy, watery rumble coming from up above, looking up they both see Clover's giant tongue running across her upper lip and coming down towards the lower lip from their left; what concerns them is that they are close enough to have contact with her tongue as it rushes past, and they both know what'll happen if they do! Once again they both cry out in terror, but neither of them can be heard even by a rabbit at such close proximity; then the terrifying tongue reaches them and pulls the both of them into her mouth!
Fortunately, when she swallows after licking her lips, Hawkbit and Hak Foo are saved by getting stuck between her incisors; Hawkbit in the lower gap and Hak Foo in the upper.
"Well," Hawkbit comments to Hak Foo sarcastically, "I'm sure we're going to be safe now!" Hak Foo growls at Hawkbit's sarcasm; very little light is seeping through Clover's mighty lips, but there's enough for Hawkbit to look upon himself down to his waist and at the nearest parts of Clover's lower incisors, a surprisingly pearly white; with Hak Foo it is the same, neither can see past their waists because that is where the gap in Clover's teeth is. They both feel powerful jolts as Clover hops into the warren; it is not long before Clover stops again and they hear Hazel's voice, it sounds normal to them because Clover's lips muffle the sound enough for it to seem like Hazel's voice when they would be both normal size.
"Hello Clover," Hazel greets her, "Is there anything I need to know?" Hawkbit has become dislodged in the jolting and is now laid right where the lip joins the gums, with his hind paws propped up against one of her incisor gums; he braces himself knowing that Clover's about to speak, seemingly louder than before due to the fact that he is within what she speaks with.
"NONE I CAN THINK OF!" She booms, this dislodges Hak Foo and both he and Hawkbit are blown out of her mouth and across the Honeycomb; Hawkbit cries out in fear, but his landing isn't fatal as he lands in a droplet of Clover's saliva, it is the size of a pond to him. "OH," Clover continues, "THERE IS ONE THING! BLACKBERRY WAS ASKING ABOUT THIS 'UNCLE' CHARACTER!" Hawkbit climbs out of the pond of saliva and sits by it's side.
"I KNOW SHE WAS!" Hazel-rah replies, Clover moves away. Hawkbit looks around and sees that only Jade and Hazel are in the Honeycomb, he knows he has to get the attention of one of them and the only option is to climb up to an ear. He realises that the nearest leg to him is Hazel's, that is a clear option; he heads for Hazel's mighty forepaw in a bid to get within shouting distance of his ear-drum.
Hak Foo has landed within walking distance of Jade's right foot; he too has landed in a droplet of saliva, he has no idea where Hawkbit is and is determined to deal with him.
Blackberry enters her burrow after deciding that it was the best place to look when no rabbits have given her a good lead, and she finds Uncle looking at what he calls a book.
"Uncle," She announces to him, "We need your help!" Uncle looks up at her with concern.
"Has Jade mIs-takenly shrunk any other with Haak Fu?" Blackberry nods her head.
"Is there anyway we can return Hawkbit to normal size without doing the same to Hak Foo?" Uncle hesitates in thought before replying.
"Normally Uncle would perform universal anti-shrinking spell that restore all who shrunk! To restore Hawk-bit only he must be found so a restoration spell can be cast on HaWkbit!" Blackberry acknowledges this and sets off to tell Hazel as Uncle gets his gear ready.
Hawkbit just manages to get onto Hazel's forepaw as he begins to head for his burrow for, for want of a better word, a kip; Hawkbit braces himself and keeps a tight hold on Hazel's fur as his behemoth chief thunders through the giant warren. Hawkbit manages better now because he has had experience when on Blackberry; Hazel finally comes to a stop and settles down, Hawkbit looks straight up to Hazel's head.
'Maybe it is easier to reach his ear now!' Hawkbit thinks and begins to hop along Hazel's foreleg towards the shoulder.
Hak Foo is continually scouting the Honeycomb to find Hawkbit and is having little success; he is about to give up when Jade moves closer to him in a couple of steps, each step causes Hak Foo to tumble.
"Of course!" He comments slyly, believing that Hawkbit's climbing up to Jade's ear he goes for hot pursuit, clambering up Jade's trainers using one of the laces as a rope and then leaping for the trouser leg. "Billy Goat Scales Mountain!" He announces, and then Jade begins to pace making everything shake for Hak Foo.
After a while Hawkbit has reached Hazel's shoulder and is about to hop up his neck to his right ear, just then a shadow falls across him.
"HAZEL?" Blackberry's voice booms, Hawkbit braces himself as Hazel-rah stirs and gets to his feet.
"WHAT'S THE PROBLEM, BLACKBERRY?" Hazel thunders, Hawkbit wants to cover his ears from the volume of their voices.
"UNCLE KNOWS A SPELL TO RETURN HAWKBIT ALONE TO NORMAL SIZE," Blackberry replies, "BUT WE NEED TO FIND HIM FIRST!" Hawkbit is ready to comment now.
"Oh lovely," He comments sarcastically, "After all this while of figuring out how to get me back you return to having to find me! Well done!" Hazel-rah has a plan.
"BLACKBERRY," He thunders, "YOU WILL HAVE TO ASK UNCLE THE INGREDIENTS AND GET THEM! RIGHT NOW I'LL GO AND SEE JADE ABOUT FINDING HAWKBIT, I HAVE AN IDEA!" Blackberry hops away and Hazel rises to his paws and goes towards the Honeycomb.
"Oh, you have a plan now, Hazel," Hawkbit comments sarcastically, "Well I hope you've thought it through."
Hak Foo has reached the same height as Jade's pocket and there's still no sign of Hawkbit, but he's sure he's close to her ear and continues to climb.
Hazel enters the Honeycomb to find Jade leaning against the wall with a dull expression on her face.
"Blackberry tells me that Uncle has a spell to return Hawkbit without this 'Hak Foo' man," He tells her, "But we need to know where Hawkbit is!" Jade looks up at him and replies.
"What d'yer think we've bin trying t'do?" Hazel briefly stops and looks at her blinking a couple of times before answering.
"I've just had an idea about how to find him!" Jade gets to her feet and listens with interest. "We need Fiver!" Hazel adds, just then Primrose enters the Honeycomb.
"Any luck in finding Hawkbit?" She asks them.
"Could you go and get Fiver for us?" Hazel asks her. "I've got an idea of how to find him!" Primrose hesitates to work out how this answers her question before going to fetch Fiver.
Hak Foo has just reached Jade's ear and he can see no sign of Hawkbit; he thinks for a while and hears the news from Hazel and comments without Jade hearing him.
"I've got to deal with him before they do!" He now thinks he has it sussed. "Hawkbit must in her other ear!" He comments and decides to make his way round to Jade's other ear using her hair as rope.
Hawkbit has found a perch on Hazel's collar-bone, he wonders exactly what it is about Fiver that would help them find him because Fiver's visions are unpredictable, but are often useful.
Jade now asks Hazel something.
"Isn't there anything I can do, Haze?" Hazel thinks for a while to work out that 'Haze' is short for 'Hazel' and to think of something for her to do.
"Yes," He replies, "You can help Blackberry get the stuff for the spell! She'll be in her burrow with Uncle!" Jade acknowledges this and goes towards Blackberry's burrow.
Later on Jade, Uncle and Blackberry arrive in the Honeycomb with the stuff to accomplish the chi spell and only a few moments later Primrose and Fiver enter the Honeycomb.
"What is it that I can do, Hazel?" Fiver asks, Hazel is quick to reply.
"Fiver, you must get into Hawkbit's mind and find out where he is!" Fiver is concerned about this.
"Hazel, you know I don't like interrupting the thoughts of others!" Hazel acknowledges this.
Hawkbit continues to hang from Hazel's collar as he listens to the giants, Hazel gives Fiver courage.
"FIVER, YOU MUST GET INTO HAWKBIT'S MIND OR WE MIGHT NEVER FIND HIM!" He booms, Hawkbit comments again.
"Of all the ideas, Fiver needs to read my mind to find out where I am, that is just fine! But it is important for me to be found!" He prepares to concentrate on thinking where he is.
Jade is puzzled by this and asks Fiver.
"Are you telepathic?" Fiver turns to her and replies.
"I'm not sure what that is, but…" He begins to sing ELO's 'Secret Messages'. "A moving stream of information that is calling on the wind, the secrets never end; and now they call, they sing, they play against for you from out of the blue; what can you do? The secret messages are calling to me endlessly, they call to me across the air; the messages across the atmosphere they whisper in your ear, they're calling everywhere! Where words cascade like rainbows tumbling from the sky then I'll be there, I'll be there; with messages they call to you their secrets all around without a sound, they're all around! The secret messages are calling to me endlessly, they call to me across the air; the messages across the atmosphere they whisper in your ear, they're calling everywhere! Those secret messages they spin to the Efrafan far away, so far away; a calling river of illusion running with confusion never gone, it goes on and on! The secret messages are calling to me endlessly, they call to me across the air; the messages across the atmosphere they whisper in your ear, they're calling everywhere!" Jade waits for a while before replying.
"I'll take that as a yes!" And Fiver goes into a trance as his thoughts flow through the air undetected.
Hawkbit now really concentrates; it was good that he didn't bother whilst Fiver was singing.
'I am on Hazel's neck!' He thinks. 'I am on Hazel's neck!' Just then he hears a familiar voice in his head.
'Hawkbit, brace yourself! We're coming!' Then the voice fades away and Hawkbit relieves himself of the concentration.
Fiver comes out of his trance and announces.
"I've found him!" They all turn to him to hear the news.
Hak Foo just reaches Jade's ear when Fiver voice booms around him in announcement; he listens with interest.
"HAZEL," Fiver tells Hazel, "HE IS ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK!" Hak Foo cries out now.
"NOOOOOOO!"
Hazel is surprised to hear the news when Jade says.
"And I think I've found Hak Foo!" They all turn to Hazel though, thinking about Hawkbit more than Hak Foo for obvious reasons.
"I'll get him!" Blackberry announces and Hazel keeps still whilst Blackberry looks through his fur.
Hawkbit hears the news and realises he'll have to cooperate, looking up he sees Blackberry's great face peering through Hazel's fur; carefully balancing on his hind legs Hawkbit waves his forepaws over his head to catch Blackberry's attention.
Hak Foo knows he needs to get away and begins abseiling down Jade to the ground.
"Raccoon Raids House!" He announces, comparing his abseiling to a burglar breaking an entry from the roof of a house.
Blackberry carefully moves her forepaw to the tiny figure of Hawkbit balancing on Hazel's neck, he gingerly climbs onto her paw and she gently retrieves him.
"I can see Hak Foo!" Fiver announces, indicating with his forepaw to Jade's jumper, she lifts her arms as Fiver reaches in and causes Hak Foo to land on his forepaw and pulls his forepaw back.
Hawkbit hangs onto Blackberry's fur as she ferries him through the air to a spot where he can return to normal; she sets him down in the middle of the Honeycomb and h jumps off.
"STAY THERE!" Blackberry tells him, Hawkbit feels like she's forcing him but knows it's for his own good.
Uncle prepares the chi spell as Hawkbit is set down and Fiver ensures that Hak Foo doesn't try anything by keeping him perched on top of his muzzle right under his gaze.
"Uncle requires assistance!" Uncle tells Blackberry, she goes to his aid and they commence the spell with Blackberry dancing about waving her parsley whilst Uncle waves the aromas of the spell towards Hawkbit chanting.
"Humo brako fai di tzao! Humo brako fai di tzao!"
Blackberry's dancing causes 5.5 Richter scale earthquakes from Hawkbit's point of view, then a green mist swirls around him and he begins to grow.
A few moments later, Hawkbit returns to normal size and the spell is complete; Blackberry observes Hawkbit's condition.
"You don't look too good, Hawkbit." She comments, he turns to her.
"So would you be if you had to hang on to avoid being flung across the Honeycomb!" He comments, and he tells them everything that happened to him and they all give serious apologies for what trouble they gave him.
"I'll deal with Hak Foo!" Fiver announces and goes off with Hak Foo helpless on his muzzle.