The writing in italics are thoughts.
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From Here to There
By Epic Elven Warrior Princess
Chapter 1
"Come on Tanis! Keep up!" Callista laughingly shouted to her best friend.
"I'm... coming." Callista's friend Artanis panted back.
"Why don't we head back to the house, grab something for lunch, and go eat in the big oak tree in my backyard?"
"Sure!"
"Come on!"
Laughing, the two girls sped back to the house, hurriedly made sandwiches, and them scrambled up the old oak tree in Artanis' backyard.
"Hey Cali?"
"What?"
"Where did you put our packs?"
The girls had sewn leather satchels like the ones that the Fellowship carry in LOTR. Artanis' had turned out slightly better than Cali's, seeing that she had a lot more sewing experience.
"Oh, they're right here."
Cali chirruped while simultaneously producing two packs from a nook in the tree.
"Lets see.." mumbled Artanis, while she rummaged through her pack, "I know I've got some chocolate in here somewhere."
At that moment an arrow whizzed past her head and lodged itself in the tree about two inches too her right. It was then that she saw about twenty or so orcs emerge from the thicket of trees.
Wait thicket of trees? Orcs!
"Um, Cali.."
"Yep!" Cali cheerfully answered through a mouthful of sandwich.
"We've got a problem."
"Uh-oh!" exclaimed Cali, her face turning as white as a sheet of paper, as she looked down into the clearing.
I always thought it would be fun to fight orcs. This doen't seem like it's gonna be as easy as Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli make it look in the movies.
"I'm sure they've seen us by now" said Artanis, as she rummaged in the packs some more.
"Here. Catch." she instructed, as she tossed a short sword to Callista. Soon after, Artanis extracted, for herself, a bow and a quiver of arrows from her satchel, as another orcish arrow flew by her head, way to close for comfort. She then began firing arrows in rapid succession into the fray of orcs. Most hitting their mark, but, there were to many orcs and they were closing in on the tree in which Artanis and Cali were perched.
"Artanis! This doesn't seem to be detering them!"
"O.K. new plan," hollered Artanis, still rapidly firing arrows, "run!"
The two girls lept from the tree and raced off into the woods the remaining orcs on their tail.
Just then, Callista head a cry of pain from Artanis and whirled around to see her friend crash to the ground clutching her shoulder, blood seeping through her fingers.
"GO!" Artanis shouted to her friend, randomly gesturing forwards, as her world was began to go dark.
Artanis saw her friend blatently refuse and then darkness engulfed her.
Hehehe! Clifhanger! I know, horrible for a first chapter but the dramatic potential was just too great. Anyway, please rate and review, this is my first fanfic EVER (does a happy dance). I will try to update at least once a week. Character discriptions are on my profile.