"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!" Pippin yelled and jumped into the also screaming Merry's arms. The Orcs that had captured them were entering Soromon's fortress. The hobbits were watching for something, anything, to give them an excuse to scream. A mouse had just twitched a whisker in the corner. "Halflingssss, my Lord!" the chief Huru-Kai hissed to Soromon. "Very good. Now, you!" Soromon glared into Merry's eyes. "Give me the Ring!" "I.I don't h-have it, s-sir!" Merry stumbled on his words. "Then YOU!!!" The wizard turned his icy eyes on Pip. "Where is it?!" "I.I d-don't know s-s-sir!" Pip stammered. "DON'T LIE TO ME!!!!" The powerful man screamed. "I KNOW THAT ONE OF YOU CARRIES THE RING OF POWER!!!" "N-no, sir! You see, there are four of us hob." Merry began, but never finished. "SILENCE!!!! I know there are four of you! But I was told by my spies." he gazed around the building at all the black birds, "that the ones my Huru- Kai would pick up.one of them would carry Sauron's Ring!" "He must mean Sam and Frodo," Pip whispered to Merry. Soromon turned to the Huru-Kai. "Lock them up until they confess!"

Meanwhile, Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas were plodding through the woods. "And then, we shall feast on mead and beer!" Gimli proudly gambled on. He had been planning the party he would throw back in Moria when the Ring was destroyed. "Oh, shut up, Gimli!" Legolas groaned. Gimli had been planning for the past two days. "Ssh!" Aragorn held out his left hand and put his right forefinger on his lips. The three scrambled over to hide behind a tree.

After waiting quite a long time, Gimli decided it was safe to come out. Legolas and Aragorn didn't agree. "It's nothing!" he insisted, just as a young feminine figure dropped out of a tree. He turned around and screamed. "Aaah!!! A spy! A spy!" He ran back to his place behind the large tree. "I am no spy." The girl, about twelve, long blonde hair, dark blue eyes and.yes.pointy ears! "Lorikkah!" Legolas came out of his hiding spot and embraced the small Elf.

"Legolas!" Aragorn hissed as he stepped out from behind a tree. "Who is she?" "I am Lorikkah," the stranger nadded to Aragorn in greeting. "And you are Aragorn. Also known as Strider, Elfstone, Longshanks, Wingfoot, Elessar, Thorongil, Estel or Telcontar. You are Isildur's heir." Legolas smiled. "She is a Forentian Elf. And Elf from the village of Forenta," he explained. "Allow her to accompany us. She is a very well trained swords.uh.person." "Very well, but I'm watching you, child," Aragorn warned, never taking his eyes off of Lorikkah.

"Mr. Frodo?" Sam whispered gently. "Yes, Sam? What is it?" Frodo whispered back. "Should we have left the others?" "We had no choice. But you could have stayed, you decided to try and drown yourself." "I was just trying to follow orders, Mr. Frodo. 'Don't you leave him, Samwise Gamgee!' And I don't mean to," Sam said. The two hobbits were walking across a rocky terrain. As they neared the end of the rock, Frodo heard a sound. He whipped around. "What was that?" he hissed. No answer.