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 eerie shadows on the ground.
"We have to enter the forest here, stay close to me alright?" Louie said. "The forest can be dangerous... especially now that there is a full moon." Louie shivered, the thought of meeting a werewolf scared the hell out of him. They rode on for quite a while, the hoof beats of their horses in the soft, muddy trail were 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, sadly enough, only a few of them were 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 could be found in this forest.
Louie rode on, their horses were fast and strong, they rode on until Louie noticed something in the distance, a badly constructed, 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 night vision then him. Or most other living rabbits for that reason. Creatures of the night are known to have highly evolved sight, amongst other senses. "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. Louie quickly dove into a small opening that led to a trail and motioned for Marjorie to do the same. It would be a bit easier to sneak up on them this way. From here he could see that 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 through the bushes, he quickly ran after them, Majo decided to stay behind.
The rabbit that was escaping tripped over a thick root sticking out of the ground, and lost consciousness 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 man’s’ chest, but before he got the opportunity to do so, Louie had reached him and grabbed him by the wrist. "I think we should raise the odds, wouldn’t you agree?" He squeezed a little harder and the guy dropped his dagger at his feet, just a few inches away from the face of Thomas Bradhurst.
"What are the odds?" He muttered to himself. The guy that had been standing behind the man with the dagger punched Louie in the stomach; he loosened his grip on the rabbit’s wrist.
Both of them wanted to punch Louie again, but they weren’t quick enough. The vampire grabbed one of the assailants by the neck and slammed him into a tree with all of his might. He could hear the skull break open as it hit the bark. The other rabbit took a step back, terrified at this display of strength and brutality. "Holy ... What the heck are you?"
Louie quickly took two steps towards the rabbit and took him by the skin of the neck, lifting him slightly off the ground. He uncovered his fangs and spoke gently. "Does this answer your question?"
"Oh god, a vampire" The rabbit cried out, the face behind his fur growing pale. He had to repress the urge to vomit and a small trail of urine escaped from the left leg of his pants.
"I don't think I will, I would however like to play a game."
"What, a… what?"
"I ask you a question, and every time you give me a wrong or incomplete answer, I’ll break one of your fingers." The rabbit tried to get away, but quickly stopped moving when Louie wrapped two fingers around his pinky. "Let's start with this one. Are you ready?"
The rabbit nodded, cowering in fear, his eyes were opened wide and took another quick glance at his partner in crime and figured he would best be honest to this man. Because certain men did not play around and this was one of them. Majo ripped a small piece of cloth off of Thomas’ shirt and wrapped it around a nasty gash on his head. She didn't like to see Louie like this, but she knew it was necessary, they needed the information.
"And remember, if you are 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 was…?" Louie broke the hare’s pinky; this was followed by a loud scream. Harder than the scream that anyone at the city hall had let out earlier this day, louder than all of them combined even. He grabbed the hare’s ring 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..."
Louie broke he broke the rabbits ring finger, tears ran down the fur on the rabbits cheeks and he pleaded for his life. "Please, have mercy."
"I do not show mercy to 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 as the bone in his middle finger was broken.
"See, I do not have a lot of patience, I just asked you two questions, and you failed to answer them both." With these words, Louie broke the hare’s pointer finger. He now wrapped two fingers around the rabbits thumb.
"You felt a lot of pain didn't you?" Louie said.
"Yes, I did." The rabbit cried, he felt like vomiting, but he was too afraid of dying, the pain was too much, he should vomit, so that he could die and get this over with.
"Who send you here?" Louie asked for the third time, and something 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 happen." Louie said, and with an awful sound and a terrible scream, that made pierced into Majo and made her realize she’d never forget this moment, Louie broke the rabbit's thumb. He sank to his knees and fell down on the ground, the pain had been too much for him and he had given in. Louie looked down the trail, the other rabbit had run off with one of the horses, just as he expected.

"Let's get going, we could drive on to Greenthorpe and get this guy home, his wife must be worried sick." Majo suggested, trying to avoid having to talk about the incident.”We’ll also have to dye our fur; they’ll be looking for two people matching our description.”
Louie nodded, he understood her. "We will do just that." He picked up Thomas’ glasses that had fallen off his head as he rolled down the steep hill; luckily they were not broken during the fall.
They climbed up on their horses and rode off. It would take them at least a day to arrive in Prestbury, and it's been a heck of a day, but sleeping over here seemed too dangerous after that little incident.
They longed for a warm fireplace and a bed.