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Chapter 5 – The Killer returns

Skylar was at the entrance to the burrow looking over the down, it was almost sundown and Bigwig and Fiver had not yet retuned. "They will come back you know" Selene said and then suddenly a gull dropped beside them and said "I spot weasel, oh where is Bigwig, and who are you?" Skylar looked at the large bird and said "we are Skylar and Selene, we joined yesterday, who are you?" the gull looked at them and said "I'm Kehaar, so where is Bigwig?"

Selene answered this time "Bigwig is looking for Fiver, he will somewhere on the down" Kehaar nodded and took off into the sunset. Just as it started to get dark Bigwig returned. Hawkbit said "you did not find Fiver then?" Bigwig looked to Skylar then back to Hawkbit and said "yeah I found him, and Hawkbit, you and I will be having a chat about this later" Hawkbit looked confused and said "what have I done now?" no one answered him.

Just then Pipkin returned saying he had warned everyone about the weasel, but the hedgehogs were scared and wanted to stay with them, Bigwig said it was fine. Bigwig then shouted "right everyone below, we only get one shot at this" Skylar looked at Bigwig and said "so where is he?" Bigwig turned and said "he's down by some rocks, I left Kehaar with him, he will be ok, but now we have a weasel to tackle" Skylar and Bigwig headed into the warrant to take their places. As night fell completely the weasel approached, he looked around but could see no signs of the rabbits. So he headed down into the burrow.

As he travelled deeper into the burrow he could smell the rabbits, but he was not watching his step and fell into a pit filled with pinecones. He growled in outrage as the sharp points of the pine cones pricked him. Then suddenly two rabbits kicked dirt onto him. As he climbed up the side of the pit he spotted the two rabbits starting to back away, he growled and leapt after them but as he was running after them, he noticed they dropped down a ledge, he tried to stop but he slipped down, and landed onto the hedgehogs.

He cried out as the spines stuck in his skin. He looked up to see three large rabbits growling at him, he decided that direct attack was not the solution, so he backed off. He left the warren and as he headed down the hill he said "I will wait for you to come, and you will" Bigwig shouted back "well wait, we have plenty of food to last us, and everyone else has cleared off, stay here and you will starve" the weasel looked back and then headed down the hill. Bigwig then said "neat trick with the pine cones Skylar." Skylar nodded and said "yes they worked well, didn't they?"

He then caught a sent, "long ear" he growled, and he then headed towards the scent of the rabbit. Back at the burrow Skylar had started to pace around "there is something wrong I can sense it, something bad is going to happen!" Bigwig then looked at her and said "calm down Skylar there is nothing wrong, the weasel is not coming back tonight." Skylar shook her head and said "no it's something else" suddenly Kehaar shouted from above the warren

"Bigwig the weasel has trapped Fiver you need to come now!" Skylar cried "I knew there was something wrong" she then bolted out of the warren with Selene on her tail. Bigwig then said "oh idiot doe, Holly, Blackavar, Dandelion with me, we need to move fast." At the rocks Skylar saw the weasel leaning into a small hole. Skylar shouted "leave him alone you monster" she then did the flying kick to knock him to the ground, the weasel got back up and growled "I will take you instead."

Fiver cried "no!" as he lunged for the doe, but she jumped out of the way and ran around him quicker than the weasel could think and used a spin kick to knock him away again, she then scratched him across the face when he came too close. The weasel now angry said "stop fighting, you won't even feel a thing" suddenly Bigwig shouted "neither will you when we get done" the four bucks then fought the weasel and the weasel then ran for it knowing he could not fight all of the rabbits.

Bigwig turned to the doe and growled "what were you thinking! You could have been killed!" Skylar looked insulted and said "I knew what I was doing, thank you very much" Bigwig grumbled and said "I'm guessing you learnt that while at Efrafa" Skylar nodded. Everyone then gathered by the entrance to Fivers cave and tried to get him to come out. Not long later Hazel and Hawkbit joined them.

Hazel said "Hawkbit told me what happened, Fiver you are seeing the future and I can prove it, you saw Redstone empty and abandoned" Fiver looked distraught and said "yes I did" Hazel answered "and you were right, but it happened seasons ago, and we even brought back someone who can tell you about it" Fiver looked happy and said "it happened seasons ago!" Hazel said "yes, but some tend to blame the messenger when they don't like the message"

Fiver looked happy and said "so I am seeing the future, my visions don't cause anything" Fiver then looked guilty and said "Skylar said the same thing to me yesterday" Bigwig grumbled and said "we have been telling you this half the night" Fiver looked up and answered "but not the way Hazel said" Bigwig looked away and mumbled "no of course not"

Hazel laughed and said "I want to know about you dealing with the weasel, and I have great news to share" everyone looked intrigued and Selene said "go on then, don't keep us in suspense" Hazel laughed and said "well I'm going to be a father" Fiver chuckled "well I could have told you that" everyone started cheering and congratulating Hazel as they all headed back up to the warren.

The next few days passed in a blur of repairing the burrow from the weasel attack. When all repairs were done Skylar and Selene were sat on the top of the down looking at the view. "Well it is a very nice day" Selene said to Skylar. Skylar nodded and then said "I'm going to ask Bigwig if I can join the owsla" Selene looked shocked and replied "are you sure? Do you think Bigwig will let you join, do you think he will let me join too?"

Skylar looked thoughtful and replied "well I'm going to ask, the worst he can say is no, and Kehaar is in the owsla so he should let you in too" Skylar and Selene went over to where Bigwig was sat, he looked up when they approached him "this looks ominous" Bigwig chuckled as the two females joined him. "Bigwig may I ask you a question?" Bigwig nodded so Skylar continued "may we join the owsla?"

Bigwig looked shocked and asked "why do you want to join the owsla? You don't need to, you are a real help with Blackberry, Primrose and clover when you help with the digging" Skylar looked Bigwig in the eyes and said "we want to join the owsla because we feel we would be more use there" Bigwig looked thoughtful and replied "I will let you both join us on a preliminary bases and you can observe the training exercises to see if you defiantly want to join, I will then let you join the training exercises, I will then see if you can join the owsla fully, but I will have to ask Hazel first."

Skylar and Selene looked happy and nodded their agreement. Bigwig looked at them and said "join us for this owsla training session to start observing what happens in training exercises." Bigwig then left to talk to Hazel and Skylar and Selene went to tell Fiver their good news.