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Chapter 7 – A Farm raid 2

It had been a round moon since Skylar and Selene had joined the owsla. Their training was going very well and they had started to help Bigwig with the single combat sessions. Hazel and Primrose had their kits, everyone was enjoying having the kits around including Skylar and Selene, although they were not very good at babysitting Hazel and Primrose's kits.

They often tried to avoid looking after the kits because they were both not fond of looking after babies. Luckily for them Bigwig insisted on training them every day, they were both a formidable team. Skylar was exceling in the single combat, she had managed to take down most of the owsla, except for Captain Holly and Captain Bigwig and Selene was really good at tracking and stealth.

The kits were enjoying themselves in the sunshine, Kehaar was chasing them around playing as a hawk. Bigwig had been teaching them everything he knew. Hawkbit then made a comment about how it would not take long. Skylar and Selene chuckled at this. Bigwig started to say how he used to raid gardens for carrots, and then said a raid on the farm would be a great idea.

Skylar then said "you don't like to take it easy then do you Bigwig?" Hazel then said "our first quiet day and you want to go on an adventure?" Fiver then laughed "Bigwig has never been one for quiet reflection" Bigwig then stated "reflection is for millponds" Dandelion then said "this reminds me about the story of El-arah and Rowsby Woof,"

Dandelion then told the story of how they both tricked Rowsby woof to dig them a tunnel into the vegetable patch and leave for the whole night. The kits then asked what flayrah was, so Bigwig said they have to go to the farm to get flayrah for the kits. "One thing I learnt as captain of owsla is, flayrah waits for no rabbit, right who's coming?" Hazel, Fiver, Hawkbit, Skylar and Selene step forward.

As everyone started to the farm Hawkbit said to Dandelion "that's the trouble with your stories, everyone wants to be El-arah!" Hazel laughs "especially Bigwig.

As they all reached the farm, they spotted the vegetable patch, it now had a large wire fence around the edge, and Duster was sitting in the middle. Hawkbit said "who's going to be the Fairy Wogdog?"

Bigwig volunteered and they all made their way to the fence. But they quickly realised that the dog was not understanding what they were saying, "this make fooling him a bit tricky" Fiver said Hawkbit answered "and tricking him a bit foolish" Skylar and Selene chucked. Bigwig then said "I have an idea" Skylar groaned "look out Bigwig is about to suggest something rash and daring"

Bigwig then looked at them and said "no its dead simple, I let him see me and he comes under the fence" Hawkbit rolls his eyes and says "yeah then he chases us all round the woods, dead simple alright" Bigwig looks at the others and said "we will hide and wait till he wonders off, then in we go" Bigwig then stands by the fence and the dog spots him and starts barking.

Everyone starts telling him to dig under the fence. "He does not get what we are telling him" Selene says. As the dog tried to jump up and then there was a crash from by the farmhouse, they then spotted the cat stalking them. Hazel cried out "cat! Run!" Bigwig shouted "back to the brambles" as they all bolted to the brambles they noticed that Fiver had got trapped under a wheelbarrow.

"Oh no." hazel sighed as the cat sat on the wheelbarrow, Hawkbit grumbles "El-arah would be very proud of us for this escapade. Oh well done chaps this is great, oh well done." Hazel tells him to shut up. Suddenly to Skylar and Selene's amazement a mouse appeared and said "are you rabbits moon struck, cats and dogs around and you come for carrots"

Hazel then said "it's not like we meant for this to happen" Skylar then spoke "I'm sorry but who are you?" the mouse laughed and said "I'm Hannah, and you are?" Hazel introduced them "Hannah meet Skylar and Selene. They have recently joined us" Skylar says "its nice to meet you Hannah" Hannah nods and says "I know Selene I have spoken to her on many occasions when she was in her squirrel family, and nice to meet you too Skylar" Selene, who was still amazed that she was seeing her mouse friend again, smiles and says "hello again Hannah its nice to see you again" Hannah nods and smiles and then continues "Fivers trapped like a mouse, now what are you going to do?" Hazel thinks for a moment and says "I have a vague idea, but we need to let Fiver know what we are up to."

Hannah they says "well how are you going to get a message to Fiver? Call him on ringing box?" everyone looks confused and Hazel asks "what's a ringing box?" Hannah just says "rabbits, know nothing" Skylar looks thoughtful and says "I'm guessing it's something man uses to send messages to each other, and it rings when there is a message for the human to hear" Hannah nods looking surprised, Hazel says " well Hannah, could you get a message to Fiver?" she nods and prepares to run.

Hazel then asks Hawkbit and Skylar to distract the cat, Bigwig says "nothing fancy, in and out ok?" Skylar nods and Hawkbit mutters "well I hadn't planned on playing bobstones with her" Bigwig moves to the other side of the vegetable patch to start digging a tunnel in. "right Hawkbit, you ready?" Skylar asks. Selene moves into threes to keep watch and create another division if needed.

Hawkbit nods and they both run with Hannah to where Fiver was trapped. Hawkbit bumped the cat away from the wheelbarrow and Skylar did her signature flying kick to knock the cat further away. "Run!" Skylar calls. She and Hawkbit run from the cat, expecting it to chase them, but as they check, they see the cat going back to the wheelbarrow. As Hannah dives under the wheelbarrow the cat grabs her tail, Skylar prepared to run back but, Fiver kicks the side of the wheelbarrow and the cat luckily let's go. Hawkbit and Skylar then move carefully toward Hazel and Bigwig.

As Skylar and Hawkbit reach Hazel and Bigwig, Hazel praises them for a job well done. Hawkbit then says "well we seem to have a talent for cat bumping, and Bigwig certainly has a talent for digging" Hawkbit then calls down the hole to bigwig "you're almost as good as a doe, oh captain of owsla" Skylar chuckles and Bigwig calls back "watch I don't come up and show you just how good I am mate."

He then kicks up some dirt which hits Hawkbit and Skylar "watch it Bigwig or I may drop some dirt down the hole" Skylar grumbles as more dirt comes up to hit Hawkbit again, but this time Skylar dodges. Hawkbit starts to growl and Hazel says "we might make El-arah proud of us yet." Hawkbit, while cleaning his fur from the large amounts of dirt that Bigwig had kicked on him, says "well assuming cats and dogs, keep behaving like cats and dogs, we will be ok."

Skylar chuckles "it's all good training, and we will have another story to tell the kits when we get back" Hawkbit grumbles "if we get back" suddenly Bigwig pops up from the ground in the vegetable patch and crabs a carrot. "Flayrah anyone" Bigwig says as he brings the carrot over and shoves it through the fence. "great Bigwig" Skylar praises, she moves the carrots Bigwig passes to them and puts them in a pile.

Fiver and Hannah appear on the other side of the vegetable patch, luckily for them the dog was interested in the cat, but as they started to move to Bigwig the dog suddenly turned around and started to chase them. Hazel cried out "Behind you!" Fiver and Hannah bolt down the tunnel Bigwig dug. Bigwig then shoved one last carrot through the fence before diving down the tunnel.

As Fiver and Hannah came out the other end the dog crashed into the fence. Bigwig appeared and said "right, let's not hang about, everyone grab a carrot" everyone grabbed one of the carrots Bigwig collected and ran back to the brambles. Fiver says "next time I get an urge for carrots I'll talk myself out of it" Skylar says "yeah remind me it's not worth it during the day."

Bigwig looks at the both of them and says "come on, life gets dull without a bit of terror" Skylar and Fiver chuckle and say "not lately" The cat was still by where Fiver and Hannah had been trapped, the dog looked down the hole where Fiver and Hannah had dug trying to figure out what had happened, the rabbit's watched eagerly as the dog started to dig by Fivers tunnel.

Hazel suddenly laughed "by Frith I think he's got it" Bigwig chuckles "every dog has its day." They all watch as the dog comes out from under the wheelbarrow and the cat panics and runs off across the yard. Hazel and the rabbits start laughing at the cats predicament "now cat, knows how mouse feels" Hannah laughs. When they all got home Bigwig tells the story of their escapade and how the dog came out of the ground and started to chase the cat. The kits enjoyed eating their carrot and enjoyed the story.

Bigwig announces "we should do it again soon Hazel" Hazel chuckles and says "lets finish these carrots first Bigwig" Primrose looks at Bigwig and asks "Bigwig if you went raiding gardens at their age, how did you get to be your age? Skylar laughed "he had a lot of near misses obviously" Hawkbit says "he's pure of heart" Selene whispers "he's a bit foolish" Skylar chuckles at this and replies "at least he has mellowed over time, well from what Fiver has told me about him." Selene then says "That's mellowed? Well next time I vote we plan first" everyone laughs agrees to this, and heads into the burrow for the night.

A/N - I have now re-edited this chapter - Lauz-millz