Chapter 1: The Hawk Attack

Humans' POV

"Come on Christie! We don't want to get there late and have to face that snake the farmer warned us about!" a young woman with long brown hair called out to her daughter. The latter looked a lot like her mother, only with tan blonde hair that ruffled over her cute pink dress, as she happily waddled after her mother.

"Slow down, mommy, you're too fast for me!" the four-year-old called after her mother. She tried to waddle as fast as she could, but she couldn't keep up with her mother. The brunette sighted as she turned back and picked up her young daughter.

"And there I thought you were such a big…" she started, but stopped as she heard a hawk screech in the air. Both mother and daughter looked up and saw the hawk flying very close to the ground. It then flew upwards, carrying something brown in its claws.

"Mommy, mommy look, da big birdy got a rabby..." Christie squealed as she pointed to the hawk. The older woman could see that it indeed had a rabbit in its claws, and that it was still alive and struggling to escape. Soon afterwards, she saw the hawk let go of the rabbit, and both mother and daughter saw it fall in a tree, before it disappeared from sight.

"Come on Christie! Maybe the poor thing is still alive!" the woman said, as she looked at her daughter who was sitting on her arm. She ran as fast as her legs could carry her, towards the place where the rabbit had fallen.

Watership Down rabbits' POV

"He's still alive," Hazel said, as he came close enough to the unconscious Campion to see that he was still breathing.

"Campion is in a class of his own," Bigwig said, as he looked at the brown wounded rabbit that was lying unconscious at his feet, gasping for air.

"He won't last long here out in the..." Hazel started, but stopped when he heard the sound of footsteps, human footsteps, closing in fast.

"Man! Scatter!" he called. He tried to pull Campion along himself, but it was no use, he was too heavy. Hazel went to hide with the others, praying to Frith the humans wouldn't see Campion lying there. But he was proven terribly wrong, as he saw two humans, both of them looking female, run straight to were Campion was lying.

"Oh...poor bunny..." the biggest of the two said, as it walked towards Campion and gently touched his side.

"Mommy, mommy, is it...dead?" the shorter one asked her mother with a high-pitched voice, looking at her with sad eyes. The mother smiled as she gently shook her head, making the fur around her face move up and down as she did so.

"Not yet, but he will be if that mean birdy comes back. It would be best if we took him to the vet for a checkup," she said.

With that, she picked him up, and Hazel saw her put something blue around Campion, and both humans left with him.

As soon as they were out of ears reach, Hazel called:

"They got Campion! We have to get after them!"

He jumped out of the bushes, but was stopped by Bigwig and Hawkbit who leaped in front of him.

"Why would we risk our lives for him, Hazel? He is the enemy. Let that human take him, and hopefully we will never see him again," the grey-furred rabbit huffed, as he looked at the two humans take away one of their sworn enemies.

"Hawkbit, he might be the enemy, but he also is a fellow rabbit who needs our help," Hazel said wisely as he tried to move past him. But both rabbits didn't let him pass, still not wanting their friend to help the enemy, knowing that would be far too risky.

"Hazel, those are HUMANS!" Bigwig said sternly. "They are not only the sworn enemies of rabbits, but also untrustworthy and cunning. We have to get back to Watership Down. Right. NOW!" The other rabbits all looked like they agreed with him.

"Very well then. You all go back, and I go after the human alone. Take care of Watership Down until I come back. IF I come back... " Hazel said, before he ran the other way as fast as he could to follow the humans' trail, leaving the others looking at him, shocked at what he had done. They ran after him, not intending to let him face danger alone.

"Be reasonable Hazel, you can't expect us to follow the trail of a HUMAN. Especially not to save someone who is bound to kill us afterwards," Bigwig said, as he looked at his best friend sternly.

Hazel looked back at him, raising one paw, ready to strike if needed, when suddenly, a drop fell on his nose. It was followed soon afterwards by more drops, soon turning in a heavy rainstorm.

"Great, that's all we needed now. Rain…" Hawkbit murmured as he looked up at the sky, where the rain came from. It was already raining harder and harder, and judging by the black clouds above them, it wasn't going to stop anytime soon.

"Hazel, it will be impossible to follow her trail now. Let's go home. Campion can fend for himself, hopefully," Fiver said. He worriedly looked back at where the humans had disappeared, knowing all too well the state Campion was in at the moment. But he had seen what Campion was capable of if he needed to defend himself, so he was sure the captain of owsla would be fine.

"You're probably right, Fiver. Lets go home before this storm grows worse," Hazel admitted.

With that, they all turned around and hopped off towards Watership Down, where they belonged. However, they did not know that what they had just witnessed was going to end in a friendship that absolutely no one had ever thought would be possible.

And with that, I end the first "real" chapter of my story. I really hope you all enjoyed it, I sure enjoyed writing it.

Dandelion: And I sure enjoyed reading it. It was very well written.

Hawkbit: A lot of spelling and grammar errors if you ask me.

Fiver: Impossible! Chipster-roo got most spelling and grammar errors out of the story.

Blackberry: Ooh, he did a great job if you ask me.

Hawkbit: Yeah sure...

Hazel: He sure did. Now all we need is some reviews.

Dandelion: She can get a nice review from me.

Bigwig: I say, well done you two.

Pipkin: Will there be a update soon?

Kehaar: Kehaar sure does hope so...

Hannah: Only one way to find that one out guys!

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