Follow the Wabbit: 5. The Wabbit and the Cave in the Hills

Monday, October 12, 2026

5. The Wabbit and the Cave in the Hills

The Wabbit and Lapinette followed the sea monster until they reached a cave in the hills. They lay in wait until the Sea Monster emerged from the entrance. He carried a skull and his eyes gleamed with an eerie glow. They'd never seen him with one of the heads and the Wabbit whispered. "He must have kept that one." Lapinette shrugged. "Everyone's got a hobby." The Wabbit was astonished, Usually he did the jokes. Lapinette smiled and nudged him. "Let's wait a little more." The Monster rolled his head from side to side and bellowed. "I am Fred, Freeeed! Be afraid!" He stopped as if he wasn't satisfied with his bellow. "Afraid of Fred!" His hand grasped his skull and his eyes glinted. "I drink of the blood therein! Tremble without!" He shook the skull and swayed drunkenly. "Right said Fred. Right Right Right." The Wabbit and Lapinette pushed him and he roared again. "Push, would you? I can see you, rabbits. Don't you push me again." Lapinette pushed with all her might. He lurched, drunk on blood, ever closer to the precipice beyond. "You can't go round, severing people's heads, not at the weekend," yelled the Wabbit and he pushed with vigour. "Turn round," shouted Lapinette, "turn round and face us." The Monster called Fred struggled to turn, but it was the one thing he found difficult. "I cannot face you, otherwise I will be forced to rip off your heads." The Wabbit nodded sagely. "It's a rare condition, but a common one amongst monsters." Lapinette grinned. "You Freud, me Jane?" The Monster struggled and summoned all his resources. Then he found the strength to turn ...

IN A RECENT STORY : Out by the river the Wabbit finds an abandoned remote control, he can’t resist checking it and finds himself on a remote spot. In the distance he spots a Rover, a space vehicle, still scraping rocks. He helps the Rover fly and on telling a joke he finds himself at a CERN Collider back in Turin. Whirling round with the remote out of reach, he thinks he can see Lapinette, waving. He waves back but catches a button on the remote. It heads into a tunnel where he finds Lapinette and Wabsworth working on a particle accelerator. Particles collide and music begins. The remote twitches and pulls them all into a quantum space where a giant android mosquito awaits. It’s sluggish and smells awful. They try to stop it interfering with the accelerator. The Wabbit calls in Major Duetta and her red spiders. They pinch the legs from mosquitos as they dismember them. At the Adventure Caffe they agree that the story was part of a hybrid genre that challenged the tenets of narrative!

All about the Wabbit Adventures

Follow the Wabbit is a long running story blog now over 2300 episodes. Commander Wabbit is a Secret Agent attached to the Department of Wabbit Affairs in Turin, Italy. He works with a team of amazing pals who are animals, pirates, dragons and androids.

Each adventure is separated by an episode set in an Adventure Caffè. That's how you find an adventure in the archives. Use the search box to find Adventure or Caffè. An exciting story has just ended ... and another is starting!

The Adventures are photo collage and text. But everything in the picture is a photograph. Characters and creatures are made from collage material of all sorts, then photographed. The background photograph is their stage and characters are very particular about how it looks.

The Wabbit and Lovely Lapinette adventures are written by Coinneach Shanks. Photographs are by Coinneach Shanks unless otherwise attributed at the bottom of the page. Permissions granted on application and available at low cost to charities and animal welfare. Commander Wabbit may be reached at shanks.coinneach@gmail.com He's really most approachable!

Out by the river the Wabbit finds an abandoned remote control, he can’t resist checking it and finds himself on a remote spot. In the distance he spots a Rover, a space vehicle, still scraping rocks. He helps the Rover fly and on telling a joke he finds himself at a CERN Collider back in Turin. Whirling round with the remote out of reach, he thinks he can see Lapinette, waving. He waves back but catches a button on the remote. It heads into a tunnel where he finds Lapinette and Wabsworth working on a particle accelerator. Particles collide and music begins. The remote twitches and pulls them all into a quantum space where a giant android mosquito awaits. It’s sluggish and smells awful. They try to stop it interfering with the accelerator. The Wabbit calls in Major Duetta and her red spiders. They pinch the legs from mosquitos as they dismember them. At the Adventure Caffe they agree that the story was part of a hybrid genre that challenged the tenets of narrative!

Attributions

The background graphics in ""The Wabbit takes a Quantum Leap" (24-11-11) and "The Wabbit takes the Scenic Route Home," (27-11-11) are courtesy of NASA and are understood to be images in the public domain.

The cover thumbnail in The Wabbit and the Secret Garden (07-12-11) is understood to be fairly used and may be purchased from.

http://www.amazon.com/Clink-Kelly-DiPucchio/dp/006192928X

The book thumbnail used as the Carrrot Museum poster in "The Wabbit and the Carrot Library (18-04-12) is "Carrrots, Plant Life Cycles" by Gail Saunders Smith. It is understood to be used fairly and may be purchased from Amazon Books.

Various very small items such as wine glasses are attributed to various Wikipedia contributors under the Creative Commons Licence 3.0 Share Alike. e.g. Aperol glasses 17-01-13

Acker Bilk by kind permission of FishNote (rights) http://paper.li/FishNoteOx/1348533301 Photo: Pier Corona

Background images of Vesta in the asteroid adventure, courtesy of NASA

Background images of earth in the Orange adventure, February-March, 2014 - courtesy of NASA

The Merlin helicopter and Type 45 Destroyer published in post 11th April 2014, is courtesy of the UK Ministry of Defence under the Open Government Licence. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/