Plot

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= Detailed Summary =

Chapter One: The Massacre
There was a warren filled with rabbits in a field. It was surrounded by plentiful grass and flowers and around the perimeter had several bushes to block them from the wind and a giant tree to give them shade when the day grew hot. All the rabbits were at peace until a group of foxes came. The foxes got bored of hunting just crickets and grasshoppers, so Rabbitfoot went out in search of something better. He went over to the warren with Chaya following and they successfully killed two rabbits, Acorn who had been telling a story about his past feats, and Flower who had been peacefully grazing before it had all happened. Midnight, Rain, Rose, and Moon ran away with several other rabbits and got away and they all hid together in Midnight’s parents burrow. The fennec foxes decided to eat the rabbits they had caught in front of the ones that had escaped. This traumatized Midnight and she threw up at the sight of her friends being eaten. One of the foxes ridiculed Midnight and the rest of the rabbits for being weak and the other one laughed.

After the fennec foxes were full they took the remains and left the warren. Rain convinced Midnight that the foxes had gone and that is was safe to go out and told her that all the other rabbits were going out. Midnight agreed to come out and eat grass and Rain tried to comport her and impress her by keeping watch for foxes while the rabbits ate. The foxes had planned this and they turned around to sneak up on the warren to attack for a second time. One of the foxes, Rabbitfoot, quickly left the foxes cover to capture Rain, who tried to sound the alarm but they held his mouth shut so he couldn’t. The foxes planned on keeping him for interrogation. The foxes then went to kill and capture as many rabbits as they could from the warren while one stayed behind with Rain to keep him from escaping. Flower and Leaf were captured by Rabbitfoot. Not long after, Flower, Hazelnut, Sun, Fire, Sky and Moon we’re also captured. Leaf, Flower, and Fire were killed to be food for the foxes. Marigold when the attack began had been too far away from her burrow to get away from the foxes in time so she hid under a bush instead and witnessed the entire thing. She wasn’t captured but no one knows where she is now. Sun managed to escape shortly after Leaf, Flower and Fire were killed.

Sun made it back to the burrow and told them of what had happened and that some of them were still alive. This inspired Midnight and gave her an idea. Midnight stood up on the Great Rock inside their burrow and tried to get the rabbits to want to help free the rest of them that were captured. One of them, Moon, was Midnight’s father and so she not only wanted to save the other rabbits but also Moon. The rest of the rabbits sensed this and felt like she was making irrational decisions. They believed it was impossible to attack the foxes and said that it would only lead in bloodshed. Later Midnight was caught by a fox and presumably killed. The fox ate her alive while she was unconscious but she survived and no one knew what happened to her and thought she was dead.

Chapter Two: The Strangers
Meanwhile while the foxes were causing chaos Springtail, Valerian, and Arrowhead lived in The Hide. It kept them safe and the lush undergrowth sheltered them from foxes. Human hutches to them were called “caves” in which Springtail had been hearing noises coming from. Curious, she went to a nearby warren whom she thought’s chief rabbit was Midnight. Finding that it has been invaded by fennec foxes (who took cover as to bide their time to strike, smart creatures), Springtail is now thrust into a difficult situation. While “Midnight’s Warren” was digging a tunnel, she tries to convince them to fight the foxes using thorns like a sword, as the rabbits are the same size as the fennecs. The actual Chief Rabbit, Chief Elderberry, remarks that it is not the rabbit’s way. Springtail then severely wounds Chaya, who fights back and rips out her right eye, and slashes her throat. A short time after the fight, the snowshoe hare succumbs to her wounds.

Springtail's last words are that it is in fact not the rabbit’s way to flee and run. The fennec foxes flee because of their injured leader, and the rabbits make a new warren by a creek, rightfully named “Warren by the Creek”.

One month later....
Valerian, who ventures back to the hide after he escaped from the foxes while Springtail and Chaya were fighting looks for a missing Arrowhead, and is shocked to see him without Springtail. The two look for her together, and decide to go to Warren by the Creek in case they have seen her. Chief Elderberry denies the possibility that he has seen her, but Valerian and Arrowhead are both suspicious of him. The rabbits learn that he his actually the Chief Rabbit, and not Midnight, like they thought she was. Chief Elderberry says that she was a “traitor” and denies that Springtail ever knew him. Outraged, Valerian attacks him. Chief Elderberry yells that fighting is “not the rabbit’s way”, to which Valerian responds that “Springtail would have said otherwise”. Elderberry is pinned to the ground, about to die when a strange rabbit pushes Valerian out of the way just in time and hides behind a rock. Warren by the Creek’s chief announces that their subjects should decide. It is unanimous, and Elderberry is still the chief. Arrowhead apologizes for his brother’s rash behavior and they both are escorted out of the territory. The strange rabbit, who is named Huckleberry is then recruited to the warren, although rabbits are suspicious of him for his previous “loner” title.

Chapter Three: The Fire
It is now morning and the fennec foxes are plotting to kill the Warren by the Creek, while Valerian and Arrowhead are plotting to kill them. Rabbitfoot remarks that “the rabbits couldn’t do anything to stop them”, which is ironic because of what is about to happen. The two loner rabbits head to a human’s campsite and lights a stick on fire, which they carry to the foxes’ den. It is dusk when they arrive and Rabbitfoot is the first to smell the fire. He is told off by Chaya who told him to “stop being such a scardey-fox”. The two lone rabbits drop the flaming sticks, which burn Arrowhead’s lip. They run away to a pond, and later come back to free the rabbit prisoners. Rabbitfoot had beaten them to it though, but his leg caught fire. The captive rabbits follow him out, but they stopped after noticing he was on fire. Arrowhead and Valerian lead the prisoners away while Rabbitfoot’s eyes get burnt, blindly running, he falls into a lake.

Chaya is also badly wounded by the fire. She nervously tries to keep her friend alive, whom she discovers is now blinded. Valerian has an asthma attack, and Arrowhead carries him while leading the freed rabbits to The Hide. Rabbitfoot dies due to his wounds and joins the fox god Vulpes in the sky after some convincing by the goddess.

Some rabbits want their Chief Rabbit, Elderberry to be overthrown.....

Chapter Four: The Hide
The rabbits that had been captured by the foxes followed Varian and Arrowhead to their warren which was in an old abandoned shack. Varian said that they would only allow them to stay if they told them their names. Sun refused and later left to Chief Elderberry’s Warren where he believed if he did he might be made leader. Rain, Snow, and Nightshade say their names. Snow says she might want to stay for a long time and help defeat the foxes if they are all gone and Rain and Nightshade both say they want to travel back to the old warren as soon as it was safe from foxes since they were both missing family from there. Midnight shows up and falls unconscious. The rabbits take her in to heal her.

Later Arrowhead and Snow form a patrol, taking Rain and Nightshade with them to scout out the area where the foxes used to live before the fire to see if there were any still left alive. They found the dead remains of Rabbitfoot and they figured Chica must be dead as well until she showed up, alive. Chica had tried to attack the rabbits and the patrol of rabbits, led by Springtail, had tried to kill Chica. A meteorite had fallen from the sky, killing Chica and severely wounding Springtail. Snow was left behind and it is unknown whether she is alive or not but the last time she was seen she was injured badly after being flung against a large rock. Rain had helped to drag Nightshade, who was badly injured from the fight, to the old shack where for the next several days he tried to treat Nightshade and Midnight’s wounds and keep them safe.

Chapter Five: Blood and Bone
At the Warren by the Creek, Honeycomb was accused of treason and brought to Chief Elderberry’s den for interrogation. She denied nothing and was sentenced to death, according to laws of the warren. Honeycomb lunged at Chief Elderberry in an effort to kill him but was unsuccessful as Chief Elderberry called his guards, Sky and Huckleberry, to stop Honeycomb. Honeycomb was winning the fight against the guards until Whirligig attacked her. Whirligig killed Honeycomb and Chief Elderberry after noticing that his previous general, Snow, was gone, decided to appoint Whirligig  as the new general since she had shown their loyalty. A fox, Dustspike, had come across a patrol of rabbits that were searching for Rain, Midnight, Marigold, Nightshade and Sun. Dustspike chased the patrol and all got away except for Petal. Dustspike forced Petal with some convincing to bring him to The Warren by the Creek as their prisoner. Petal leads him there where guards at the command of the chief force him into an abandoned burrow to be kept as prisoner. Chief Elderberry had tried to get his rabbits to hunt insects but they couldn’t since they weren’t built for that. Chief Elderberry didn’t want his prisoner to starve since they could use the fox as a hostage if an attack happened and the fox could teach them things about the other foxes so Chief Elderberry decided to feed Dustspike his other rabbit prisoners who were originally going to be killed by his guards. The first prisoner that was going to be eaten was Magenta. The guards were ordered to break her legs so she couldn’t hurt the fox. Dustspike at first refused to eat her and tried to starve himself to death instead but the chief managed to convince him otherwise after he had attacked one of the guards, Roach. Dustspike ate Magenta and Roach but hid the bones and lied, saying they had escaped. Chief Elderberry didn’t believe this as Dustspike had grown fat shortly after and therefore decided to continue feeding it one rabbit per day.

Chapter Six: Rise of the Foxes
Several new foxes come together when following the same scent trail towards the Warren by the Creek that was left by Petal and Dustspike as they had recently traveled to the warren. The foxes, Marrow, Dust and Bone decide to work together to capture some of the rabbits and to trap them in a hole where they could feed them grass and give them water and use them as their main source of food and just have the rabbits breed more and more over time. Marrow and Dustspike together killed Chief Elderberry, and 15 other rabbits that refused to fight back. Luna attacked Phantom, and finally got him on her side, trying to protect the Chief, but failed, eventually walking out, leaving the Chief to die. The warren is taken over by the foxes and only Huckleberry escapes.

Dust assigned different roles to the foxes to make sure that the rabbits stay trapped and provide a lifetime supply of delicious rabbits. All the foxes were glad that they were on top after their defeat in the fire incident, and now with more of them, they were set up for success. Fin gets the water working and the Rabbit Breeding Center is up and running. Charlotte, a forest dwelling fox, formerly a pet of humans who is now lost, becomes a captive of Arya, the leader of the foxes’ den. She introduces Charlotte to rabbit meat, to which she is mortified at the sight of blood, not used to seeing the red liquid. The next day, Charlotte, Luna and Arya bathe in the water in the creek, Charlotte starting to adapt to the harsh wilderness.

Springtail and Whirligig escape the Warren by the creek and retreat to The Hide. Huckleberry meets Cinnio and Rain, more escaped rabbits, while Fuji reunites with Spark, her adoptive brother. Arrowhead finally finds Springtail and a strange rabbit, Whirligig.

The next day Charlotte and Arya go to the beach where they find Thistle struggling in the sea and rescue them. Arya takes them back to Arya's Inn her den. Thistle mentions their dislike of humans which offends Charlotte.

Arya let some rabbits from the warren, including Foam, Aqua, Stench and later their friends from the warren, in and now they, Luna, Charlotte, Thistle and Arya herself live together.

Back at the hide, Whirligig and Springtail tell the rabbits what happened at the hide, and they angerly attack the foxes. They capture Locust, and brutally attack Dustspike. Springtail then kills the fox she blinded earlier, dust. They then proceed to rescue most of the warren by the creek rabbits, who they drag back to the hide. One of the rabbits they rescue is Cocoa, who seems to be obsessed with Elderberry, who is her father.

Thistle, Arya and Charlotte go to the beach and Thistle tries to teach Charlotte hunting, but she refuses to try. Thistle is shocked to discover that Charlotte didn't know any foxes when she lived with Nat.

Thistle finds the ribbon they thought the humans had stolen from them and Charlotte smugly says that she was right about the humans not taking it, causing Thistle to snap at he that "“They are like that! They may not have taken my ribbon but the only reason it’s so important to me is because they took my brother!”, which scares Charlotte.

Chapter Seven: Tensions rising
Back at the hide with the rescued rabbits, the members who have been at the hide longer, mostly Valerian, tend to the newer rabbits wounds. Pebble, a new rabbit, who has an injured leg, is found by Valerian while he is looking for more herbs and joins the hide. Later, Springtail attempts to train Sk and Red to fight. Despite the snowshoe hare furiously yelling at him, Sky dosent try to fight back and instead tries to argue with her, on why the foxes shouldnt be fought incase they take revenge.

Meanwhile, Peck, a battlescarred rabbit with a point of view similar to Springtail's, meet Luna and, unluckily, the rabbit-loving (food wise) fox Marrow. When he learns that Luna is friendly with rabbit, he is shocked to find this out, says that she's not a real fox, and scratches her on the snout. In fury and sadness, Luna blames him for her mother's death, and a fight breaks out.

Back at the hide's training zone, despite his pleads, Springtail keeps on the attack until she decided that he is a lost cause, and goes to attack Red instead.

In a desperate attempt to scare Marrow off, Peck fake-attacks Luna, though Marrow sees right through him, saying a rabbit couldn't hurt a fly. Despite the female fennec's best effort, she looses the fake-fight against the rabbit, causing Marrow to further insult her as "not a real fox".

At the training session, the fight between Springtail and Red is going well. They are both equally-matched in battle, with Red kicking her off of him when she pins him down. She is impressed by his performance, and compliments him, and asks if he wants to sign up for training again tomorrow, which surprised Red, who never had a choice on what to do in his life because of Elderberry. He decides that he is going to train more so that he can rise in ranks.

Unknown to both the two rabbits and the hare, another is watching them both. Sun wants to be leader, and is jealous that the hide has prospered far more than he has. He then pounces on Sun when Springtail and Red leave, and peer pressures his brother into going to find a fox and take over the hide with them.

Chapter eight: War of the Warrens
Back inside the hide, Arrowhead asks Cocoa how she is doing. She then snaps at him, and calls him a power-hungry fool, and announces that she will call the collecting of the things for the winter celebrations. She does just that, and also announces that if not enough rabbits sign up for the patrols, she will force rabbits to go, which angers Arrowhead, who tells her that only rabbits who want to go will go. Cocoa gen responds with how she is the chief because of the fact that Elderberry was her father, and he corrects her by saying that the hide is a different Warren from the Warren by the creek. The argument goes on, and Whirligig joins, noting the fact that Elderberry was a tyrant, which only succeeds in making Cocoa more mad. She calls her father a great and noble leader, which is the last straw for the old hare, and she attacks her.

Though the rabbit tries to fight her off, Whirligig being a hare and being much more experienced in fighting, pushes her over with ease, while Arrowhead tries to stop the two. He managed to stop them from fighting and tries to calm them both down, but fails, and the argument goes on when Cocoa refuses to leave. He then tries to get his own rabbits to escort the delusional one out of the hide.

While waiting for the hide rabbits to escort Cocoa out of the building, Arrowhead and Whirligig go to collect herbs and plants for the winter in a satchel with the rest of the patrol. Back in the hide, Cocoa, who is still convinced that she is chief, orders the rabbits to leave. When Red questions her orders and says that the hide founders where much better leaders, Valerian wakes up, and the other rabbit informs him on what's going on.

In fear of being exiled, Cocoa calls up every rabbit who supports her, which is a surprising amount.

Meanwhile, far away, Charlotte is collecting mushrooms for the winter solcitice event, and finds Aqua the rabbit. Charlotte being a fennec fox scares her quite a bit, but she reassures her that she means no harm.

Back at the hide, the argument becomes far worse after Cocoa summons up her rabbits, and they both begin throwing insults at each other.

Aqua and Charlotte talk together, and the rabbit warns the fox that the mushrooms she just picked to eat are poisonous, thus indirectly saving Charlotte's life.

Valerian, in response to Cocoa claiming the Warren is here and that he is just a thief, summons up his supporters to escort her. Valerian lunged at her, and the rabbits start fighting one another. More will be added as time goes on, for rght now, this is it!