Aries: the White Rabbit (Watership Down fanfic)

How to stop a car (Aries style)

"Capitan Aries" snapped a booming voice that echoed through the large, dry warren. Aries zoomed down the meandering corridors at a great speed. Almost knocking over other rabbits that were coming in the opposite direction. What would take a normal rabbit 5 minutes to get from his chamber, at the top of the warren, to the main chamber, at the bottom of the warren, took him only one minute.

Aries appeared in the main chamber in a flash, "yes Commander Sherwood" Said Aries, standing to attention.

"Go find me food!" Commanded Sherwood, avoiding eye contact with him as he looked down on his Captain from his rock that looked out over his chamber.

The young buck bowed his head, "yes sir" replied Aries as he turned and bolted away.

His paws pounded the ground rapidly, his platinum white, short fur blew a little in the wind, as he whizzed out of his warren and into a large pine forest, that separated them from the farms and fields.

After 5 minutes Aries had run across the forest, crossed five fields and ended up in Efrafa. Aries had only ever been there once before.

He looked around curiously, "where, am I?" thought Aries, 

An Efrafen patrol was out on duty. When they caught sight of Aries, standing on his hind legs, trying to find somewhere he recognised as he stared bewildered.

"Get him!" Yelled what he guessed was the Efrafen patrol captain.

Aries whipped his head around to face the small patrol that charged towards him, "oops, time to go" thought Aries as he ran almost full speed in the opposite direction.

He lost the patrol within 4 minutes.

After that encounter with those other rabbits, that did not look friendly, one bit. Aries came across a straight road, which he had seen before and knew how to cross. Aries looked left then right, but just before he crossed.

A ginger, short-haired rabbit, stood at the other side of the road with a small army standing behind him.

"Get him, don't just stand there!" He barked.

Aries rolled his deep blue eyes he went to turn and run the other way. When he heard his little brother and sister screaming his name. The young buck turned his attention to the road, he spotted the two baby rabbits, huddled together in the middle of the road and a car was coming fast...

Aries wasted no time in saving them. He flew onto the road, stood in front of the blue/grey and cream and white balls of fluff, went on to his hind legs and held his front paws out in front of him. The car made no sign of stopping. Aries growled as the car crashed into his paws. The car was stopped in its tracks by Aries's shear strength. The car engine smoked and the tyres screeched as it tried to go but Aries held it back.

"Go, go... Go now!" Shouted Aries at his siblings.

The young rabbits ran onto the other side of the road from the Efrafens. Once Aries saw his brother and sister got to the other side of the road, he let the car go, and tumbled out the way, as the car raced on past. The ginger rabbit watched Aries retreat into the woods with his brother and sister close beside him, in disbelief.

"Did you see that?" Asked the ginger rabbit loudly, his eyes wide with shock.

The other rabbits nodded their heads quickly, mouths open wide.

"Campion...We must tell the general!" Gasped a brown/black rabbit.

Aries looked behind him, to check he was not being followed. He stopped and looked at his brother and sister, who were sadly staring at the ground.

Aries glanced down at them, "I don't think that was very clever... Do you?" Asked Aries.

The two young rabbits shook their heads quickly, "well... I think you have learned your lesson..." Continued Aries.

Aries walked on as the two small rabbits followed on quickly behind.

20 minutes later they appeared at the foot of a large pine forest, with the food they stole from one of the farms they had passed on the way back.

"How did you escape, the bunny sitter?" Asked Aries tilting his head to one side,

"Wind Runner fell asleep again" smirked his little sister and his little brother at the same time. Suddenly they started to hear terrifying screams, the ground trembled beneath their paws. Aries knew the screams were coming from their warren... His heart sank...