The night was falling as Louie and Majo rode onwards to Orleton, a large forest lay to their right, darkness fell over the tree's, and the full moon made them cast eery shadows on the ground.
"We have to enter the forest here, stay close to me ok?" Louie said. "The forest can be dangerous... especially now that it is full moon." Louie shivered, the thought of meeting a werewolve scared the hell out of him. They rode on for quiet a while, the hoofbeats of their horses in the soft, muddy trail where the only sounds they heard.
"Look over there, fire pixies." Majo said, she was amazed by the beauty mother nature had to offer.
The pixies were flying round the tree's, legend says that they guard the tree's from danger, sad enough, only a few are left, way back when people did not have electricity, they were caught, to bring light in the mines and homes. But they are growing larger in numbers again, it's the first time in ages that pixies are seen in this forest.
Louie rode on, their horses were fast and strong, they rode on untill Louie noticed something in the distance, a badly contstructed, crude fence.
This was a rather strange place to build a fence, the middle of the forest. Louie stopped his horse and Majo quickly followed the example, she knew he had better nightvision then him, or most other living rabbits for that reason. Creatures of the night are known to have highly evolved sight.
"There's a fence over there, stay behind me." They walked closer, and could hear a few rabbits talk.
"Get off him!" One of them shouted. It was clear that there was a fight going on, he could see one of them breaking away from the group, he dove into a small opening that led to a trail, that was a bit easyer to reach from here, two of the rabbits followed the one that got away.
"Come on, we have to help that man." Louie said as he fought his way trough the bushes, he quickly ran after them.
The rabbit that was escaping tripped over a thick root sticking out of the ground, and lost consiousness when his head smacked against the ground.
The two others approached him, one of them pulled his dagger and wanted to plant it in the guys chest, but before he got the oppertunity to do so, Louie had reached him and grabbed him by the wrist.
"Two against one isn't really fair is it?" He said, he squeezed a little harder and the guy dropped it's dagger in front of his feet, just a few inches away from the feet of Thomas Bradhurst.
"Hey Majo, look who we found." He said. The guy that had standing behind the man with the dagger punched Louie in the stumach, he loosened his grip on the rabbits wrist.
Both of them wanted to punch Louie again, but he grabbed one of the rabbits by the neck and threw him against a tree with all his power, he could hear his skull breaking open as he flung against the tree, head first. The other rabbit took a step back. "Holy ... What the hell are you man."
Louie quickly took two steps towards the rabbit and took him by the neck, he uncovered his fangs and spoke gently. "Does this ring a bell?"
"Don't kill me, please, don't." The rabbit cried out.
"I don't think i will, i have a great idea though, we could play a game, how does that sound."
"I want my mother." The rabbit cried.
"I ask you a question, and every time you give me a wrong answer, or if your making me wait, i'll break one of your fingers."
The rabbit tried to get away, but quickly stopped moving when Louie wrapped two fingers around his index finger. "Let's start with this one. Are you ready?"
The rabbit nodded, covering in fear, his eyes were opened wide, he took another quick glance at his partner in crime and figured he would best be honest to this man, because he was the kind of person that ment it. Majo ripped a small piece of cloth off of Louie's shirt and walked over to Thomas Bradhurst, who had an ugly cut on his forehead, where he hit the ground.
She sat down next to him and cleaned it, gently, she didn't like to see Louie like this, but she knew it was necessary, they needed the information.
"And remember, if your honest and you don't make any attempt to harm me, or my friend, you'll be ok. Who send you here?"
The rabbit mumbled "How do you know i?" Louie broke his index finger, the rabbit screamed harder then anyone at the city hall did before, no, he even screamed harder then all of them combined. He grabbed the rabbits middle finger. "Let's try it again, shall we? Who send you here."
"Please, i can't tell you, if i tell you that, they'll k..."
"Bye, bye, middle finger." Louie said as he broke the rabbits middle finger, tears ran down the fur on the rabbits cheeks.
"Please, have mercy." The rabbit said.
"I don't have mercy for people like you, you wanted to kill an innocent man like mister Bradhurst, and for what? A few golden coins?"
"I didn't kill him." he said, followed by a scream, there went his ring finger.
"See, i do not have alot of patience, i just asked you two questions, and you failed to answer them both." He said as he broke his pinky.
He now wrapped two fingers around the rabbits thumb.
"You felt a lot of pain didn't you?" Louie said.
"Yes, yes." The rabbit said, he felt like vomiting, but he was to afraid of dying, the pain was to much, he should vomit, so he could die.
"Who send you here?" Louie asked for the third time, and some made the rabbit realize that he was not going to ask him again.
"I'd rather have you kill me then them, just get it over with." The rabbit cried.
"I didn't want this to happend." Louie said, and with an awful sound and a terrible scream, that made Majo feel like she had to vomit, Louie broke the rabbit's thumb.
The rabbit sank to his knees and fell down on the ground, he died of the pain, it became to much for him.
Louie looked down the trail, the other rabbit had ran off, with one of the horses, just as he expected.