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P.S.- I know Tawny and Rhia haven't been present in the last few chapters.
Don't worry, I bring them back in this one!
"I don't believe it!" Tawny shrieked. Lavender stared at her in confusion. "It could be PIPPIN!" Tawny continued. "But NO! It has to be MERRY, doesn't it? I don't believe it!" "Wait a minute," Lavender stated indignantly. "What gives you the idea that I like Merry more than I like Pippin? They're BOTH really cool guys." "No. You don't get it!" Tawny cried. "Why don't you take our advice for once? That's what we're here for, you know." Lavender frowned and snapped, "The only advice you gave me was to 'go for the hott one.' It's not really advice." "Yes it is!" "Why is it even your problem?" "You like Merry and you won't admit it! THAT'S what's my problem!" "I do not! And it's not!" "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Rhia screamed. "Once Tawny and I FINALLY stop fighting, you two start!"
"Whatcha readin'?" Pippin asked. He, Merry, and Lavender were sitting on the ground, bored out of their minds, while Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, and Boromir were inside the huge stone building, apparently talking some sense into the king. Lavender didn't buy any of it. She decided that, since they had all completely refused to let her come with them, they were just trying to get away from her. "I'm reading a book on forensic science," Lavender muttered, completely engrossed in her book. Pippin looked quite confused. Not that Lavender noticed. She was busy reading. "What's franenstic science?" he asked. "Forensic science," Lavender corrected, putting her book down. "It's like, say you got murdered tomorrow-" "I'm gonna die?!" he cried. "Save me!" "No," Lavender laughed. "Just PRETEND." "Oh. Okay." Pippin flopped over and pretended to die a horrific death, with lots of wheezing and coughing and gagging and screaming. Lavender was in fits of laughter. Pippin sat up. "What now?" he asked. "Okay, forensic science is like, if there's a crime committed, how you use DNA samples and fingerprints and stuff like that to solve it." "Solve what?" "The crime." "What crime?" "The crime that's been committed." Lavender was getting a bit exasperated at this point. "Was a crime committed?" "Forget it!" Lavender threw her arms in the air and picked up her book again, the book that had sort of just appeared in her backpack, like her headphones and CD. It was strange, but whenever she wanted something that she had left in New York, it seemed to just pop up in her backpack. "Fingerprints?" Merry asked in confusion. "Every person, or hobbit, or whatever, has a special pattern of lines on their fingers," Lavender explained. "Yeah, I know that," Merry said. "But how does that help you solve a crime?" Lavender proceeded to explain. Merry listened, fascinated, as she explained to him how exactly fingerprints and DNA can come in handy. "Wow," he said when she finished. "How do you know all this?" Lavender waved the book at him, and added, "I used to watch all the cop shows on TV, anyways. They had shows all about forensic science." "Fingerprints and all?" Lavender laughed. "Yeah, fingerprints and all." "That's neat," he said. "But why are you interested in this? You're only fifteen." "Well, before I came here, I wanted to be a forensic scientist, and work with the police department and stuff." "Do you get free food?" Pippin asked excitedly. Lavender laughed again and remarked, "Food is the only thing you think about, isn't it?" "Potatoes," Pippin reminded her. "My life would be VERY different if I were a potato. Everything would be really dark, and I'd live in the dirt." His eyes widened with horror. "Somebody might eat me! Then it would be very hot..." Lavender let Pippin amuse himself and turned back to her book. She didn't get very far, though. A few moments later, a man flew down the steps and landed directly on top of her. "What the heck do you think you're doing, jerk!" she shrieked, getting up. A crowd of people had surrounded them. The man was lying on the ground where he had fallen. Lavender kicked him in the face. Another man drew his sword to kill the man who had fallen down the steps, and got an encouraging shout from Lavender, but Aragorn stopped him. Lavender was thoroughly disappointed, but kicking him in the face again made her feel a little better. The man stood up and ran away as Lavender was introduced to Theoden and Eowyn. Lavender and Eowyn got along right from the start. They talked for a long time, but had to stop when Theoden announced that they were retreating to Helm's Deep. Lavender threw her book back into her backpack and made sure that Pineapple was comfortable before mounting Aurora Borealis and helping Merry and Pippin up behind her. The ride to Helm's Deep started out being very boring, until Lavender randomly screamed, "OFF WITH HIS HEAD!" People stared at her. Merry tapped her on the shoulder. "Alice in Wonderland," she whispered, answering his question before it was asked. "It's one of my favorite books." "But I thought you were reading a book on florescent science," Pippin stated in confusion. Lavender shook her head and said, "I've read a lot of books, not just the one on forensic science." "What about that other book you have?" Merry pointed out. "You mean, Sherlock Holmes?" Lavender asked. "Yeah, that one." "It's one of the hundreds of books I've read." "You read a lot, don't you?" Pippin asked. Merry hit him on the head. Lavender let those two squabble and turned to Eowyn, who was walking with them. "What's your horse's name?" Eowyn asked. "Aurora Borealis," Lavender told her, quite proudly. Eowyn looked like she'd swallowed a lemon. "That's a, uh, very nice name," she stammered. Lavender looked very proud. Suddenly, there was a shout and what appeared to by a giant, mutated hyena appeared over a hill, bearing an orc as a rider. Legolas hit the warg (the mutated hyena) with an arrow. But soon more appeared over the hill. Lavender grabbed her sword and prepared for battle, but Aragorn grabbed the horse's reins and stopped her. "Hey!" Lavender cried. "Let go!" "No! You can't go out there!" Aragorn insisted. "You'll get hurt!" "How many times have you said that?" "Lots." "How many times have I listened?" "None." Aragorn was getting suspicious. "And how many times have I actually gotten hurt?" "Hey, there's a first time for everything," Aragorn pointed out. "What makes you think I'm actually going to listen?" Lavender asked, raising her eyebrow. Aragorn didn't say anything, just shook his head. "I thought so," Lavender stated. "Now let go before I kick your face!" Aragorn did not let go, which was unfortunate for him because he did get kicked in the face. Before he could do anything, Lavender was charging into the battle, sword raised, with Merry and Pippin hanging on for dear life. Aragorn decided to just let it go, and charged into battle himself. Lavender was doing very well, actually, until Merry fell off the horse. She quickly mastered the art of charging at an oncoming warg and stabbing the rider as they passed. She turned to horse sharply, and Merry lost his balance and tumbled off the saddle. He fumbled for his sword to meet an approaching orc, but it didn't look like he'd make it time! Lavender yelled at Pippin to take Aurora Borealis from here. She jumped off the horse and stabbed the orc before it got to Merry. "Thanks," he said, smiling. Lavender smiled back, then turned to chop off another orc's head. The battle was pretty much uneventful, unless you count that they spent a while time killing orcs. Lavender and Merry stuck together like glue until they were done fighting. The battle didn't last too long. Lavender had managed to locate Pippin and Aurora Borealis, and was mounted on her horse, before she scanned the crowd headed for Helm's Deep. "WHERE'S ARAGORN?!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. Legolas shook his head. "What's going on?" Lavender asked suspiciously. "Aragorn went over a cliff," Legolas told her, grimly. Lavender's eyes got very big. "What?!" she cried. "That can't happen! There's no one to annoy!"
Lavender sat, among the other women, in the large stone cave at the very back of Helm's Deep. She had wedged herself into a corner, not wanting to be seen. The men were preparing for battle. The only reason that she was not with him was because Aragorn had arrived at Helm's Deep safely. Lavender was not sure if she was happy about this or not. Immediately upon his arrival, he had appointed several women to guard Lavender so that she could not sneak away and join in the battle. Lavender had done all she could to get away. She had hidden when the women came to find her, but they found her anyway. She begged them to let her go, pleaded with them, shouted at them, and even cried a little, but it did not good. She even kicked one of the women once, and ran. But, as she was not a good runner, she was soon caught. There seemed to be nothing she could so, except sit and be miserable. She wished that Merry and Pippin were there. Aragorn had not let them participate in the battle either, but they didn't put up near as much fuss as Lavender did. He had also forbidden them to go near Lavender, and taken her backpack away. She had no music, no books, and no gopher. She was miserable. Until she heard a whisper from behind her. "Hey, Lavender!" She turned around, and saw Merry's face from a crack in the rock. "Merry!" she whispered. "What are you doing?" "Come on, quick!" he urged. "Climb through!" None of her guards were paying any attention. They were sitting a ways away, talking, with their backs to Lavender. So Lavender squeezed through the little crack and found herself in a dark tunnel. "Where are we?" she asked. Merry explained that he and Pippin had been poking around when they came upon the tunnel, hidden in the rock. Merry had followed it out of curiosity and discovered that it led right to where Lavender was being held hostage. "Let's go," Lavender said joyously. "Let's chop off an orc head or two!" "Wait!" Merry cried, stopping Lavender from running off and joining the battle. "What now?" Lavender asked. "You can't," Merry insisted. "Aragorn said so." "What's that got to do with anything?" "Well, he IS the highest authority..." "You're making stuff up." Lavender rolled her eyes. "Just tell me the truth. Why can't I fight?" "What if you get hurt?" Merry blurted. Lavender just shook her head. "I didn't get hurt before, and I won't get hurt now," she insisted. But Merry looked genuinely concerned. Lavender thought for a minute, then took off her necklace and showed it to him. "See this?" she said. "If I'm wearing it, I can't get hurt." "But it's just a necklace." "It's not JUST a necklace!" Lavender cried in astonishment. "It's magical fairy dust! That's not JUST a necklace!" Merry examined the unique design on the ornament. A miniature bottle contained blue sparkly dust, behind a silver fairy. "I got it for my twelfth birthday," Lavender told him. "It's my fairy dust. It brings good luck. So, if I'm wearing it, which I always am, no harm can come to me." Merry looked a bit more relieved, so Lavender smiled and put her necklace back on. Before he could say anything, she was running through the tunnel, making her way through a swamp of people, and making her way to the vicious battle going on outside.
Aragorn was astonished when he saw Lavender just show up out of nowhere and begin fighting. So astonished, in fact, that he almost passed out. When his wave of sickness was over, he made his way over to Lavender and began yelling at her. "What are you doing?!" he shouted. "I'm just trying to help!" she yelled back. "I heard you guys weren't doing so well!" "We're fine! Now go find Merry and Pippin and stay with them!" Aragorn was positive that Merry and Pippin would never disobey him. "Well, I kind of can't," Lavender said. "They're somewhere in the battle, and I don't know where, exactly." Aragorn really did pass out this time, but revived when Lavender stepped on his face. She frowned at him. "Look, there's not much you can do about it," she told him. "You COULD have listened to me," he grouched, getting up. "And miss all the action?! No way!"
"I don't believe it!" Tawny shrieked. Lavender stared at her in confusion. "It could be PIPPIN!" Tawny continued. "But NO! It has to be MERRY, doesn't it? I don't believe it!" "Wait a minute," Lavender stated indignantly. "What gives you the idea that I like Merry more than I like Pippin? They're BOTH really cool guys." "No. You don't get it!" Tawny cried. "Why don't you take our advice for once? That's what we're here for, you know." Lavender frowned and snapped, "The only advice you gave me was to 'go for the hott one.' It's not really advice." "Yes it is!" "Why is it even your problem?" "You like Merry and you won't admit it! THAT'S what's my problem!" "I do not! And it's not!" "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Rhia screamed. "Once Tawny and I FINALLY stop fighting, you two start!"
"Whatcha readin'?" Pippin asked. He, Merry, and Lavender were sitting on the ground, bored out of their minds, while Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, and Boromir were inside the huge stone building, apparently talking some sense into the king. Lavender didn't buy any of it. She decided that, since they had all completely refused to let her come with them, they were just trying to get away from her. "I'm reading a book on forensic science," Lavender muttered, completely engrossed in her book. Pippin looked quite confused. Not that Lavender noticed. She was busy reading. "What's franenstic science?" he asked. "Forensic science," Lavender corrected, putting her book down. "It's like, say you got murdered tomorrow-" "I'm gonna die?!" he cried. "Save me!" "No," Lavender laughed. "Just PRETEND." "Oh. Okay." Pippin flopped over and pretended to die a horrific death, with lots of wheezing and coughing and gagging and screaming. Lavender was in fits of laughter. Pippin sat up. "What now?" he asked. "Okay, forensic science is like, if there's a crime committed, how you use DNA samples and fingerprints and stuff like that to solve it." "Solve what?" "The crime." "What crime?" "The crime that's been committed." Lavender was getting a bit exasperated at this point. "Was a crime committed?" "Forget it!" Lavender threw her arms in the air and picked up her book again, the book that had sort of just appeared in her backpack, like her headphones and CD. It was strange, but whenever she wanted something that she had left in New York, it seemed to just pop up in her backpack. "Fingerprints?" Merry asked in confusion. "Every person, or hobbit, or whatever, has a special pattern of lines on their fingers," Lavender explained. "Yeah, I know that," Merry said. "But how does that help you solve a crime?" Lavender proceeded to explain. Merry listened, fascinated, as she explained to him how exactly fingerprints and DNA can come in handy. "Wow," he said when she finished. "How do you know all this?" Lavender waved the book at him, and added, "I used to watch all the cop shows on TV, anyways. They had shows all about forensic science." "Fingerprints and all?" Lavender laughed. "Yeah, fingerprints and all." "That's neat," he said. "But why are you interested in this? You're only fifteen." "Well, before I came here, I wanted to be a forensic scientist, and work with the police department and stuff." "Do you get free food?" Pippin asked excitedly. Lavender laughed again and remarked, "Food is the only thing you think about, isn't it?" "Potatoes," Pippin reminded her. "My life would be VERY different if I were a potato. Everything would be really dark, and I'd live in the dirt." His eyes widened with horror. "Somebody might eat me! Then it would be very hot..." Lavender let Pippin amuse himself and turned back to her book. She didn't get very far, though. A few moments later, a man flew down the steps and landed directly on top of her. "What the heck do you think you're doing, jerk!" she shrieked, getting up. A crowd of people had surrounded them. The man was lying on the ground where he had fallen. Lavender kicked him in the face. Another man drew his sword to kill the man who had fallen down the steps, and got an encouraging shout from Lavender, but Aragorn stopped him. Lavender was thoroughly disappointed, but kicking him in the face again made her feel a little better. The man stood up and ran away as Lavender was introduced to Theoden and Eowyn. Lavender and Eowyn got along right from the start. They talked for a long time, but had to stop when Theoden announced that they were retreating to Helm's Deep. Lavender threw her book back into her backpack and made sure that Pineapple was comfortable before mounting Aurora Borealis and helping Merry and Pippin up behind her. The ride to Helm's Deep started out being very boring, until Lavender randomly screamed, "OFF WITH HIS HEAD!" People stared at her. Merry tapped her on the shoulder. "Alice in Wonderland," she whispered, answering his question before it was asked. "It's one of my favorite books." "But I thought you were reading a book on florescent science," Pippin stated in confusion. Lavender shook her head and said, "I've read a lot of books, not just the one on forensic science." "What about that other book you have?" Merry pointed out. "You mean, Sherlock Holmes?" Lavender asked. "Yeah, that one." "It's one of the hundreds of books I've read." "You read a lot, don't you?" Pippin asked. Merry hit him on the head. Lavender let those two squabble and turned to Eowyn, who was walking with them. "What's your horse's name?" Eowyn asked. "Aurora Borealis," Lavender told her, quite proudly. Eowyn looked like she'd swallowed a lemon. "That's a, uh, very nice name," she stammered. Lavender looked very proud. Suddenly, there was a shout and what appeared to by a giant, mutated hyena appeared over a hill, bearing an orc as a rider. Legolas hit the warg (the mutated hyena) with an arrow. But soon more appeared over the hill. Lavender grabbed her sword and prepared for battle, but Aragorn grabbed the horse's reins and stopped her. "Hey!" Lavender cried. "Let go!" "No! You can't go out there!" Aragorn insisted. "You'll get hurt!" "How many times have you said that?" "Lots." "How many times have I listened?" "None." Aragorn was getting suspicious. "And how many times have I actually gotten hurt?" "Hey, there's a first time for everything," Aragorn pointed out. "What makes you think I'm actually going to listen?" Lavender asked, raising her eyebrow. Aragorn didn't say anything, just shook his head. "I thought so," Lavender stated. "Now let go before I kick your face!" Aragorn did not let go, which was unfortunate for him because he did get kicked in the face. Before he could do anything, Lavender was charging into the battle, sword raised, with Merry and Pippin hanging on for dear life. Aragorn decided to just let it go, and charged into battle himself. Lavender was doing very well, actually, until Merry fell off the horse. She quickly mastered the art of charging at an oncoming warg and stabbing the rider as they passed. She turned to horse sharply, and Merry lost his balance and tumbled off the saddle. He fumbled for his sword to meet an approaching orc, but it didn't look like he'd make it time! Lavender yelled at Pippin to take Aurora Borealis from here. She jumped off the horse and stabbed the orc before it got to Merry. "Thanks," he said, smiling. Lavender smiled back, then turned to chop off another orc's head. The battle was pretty much uneventful, unless you count that they spent a while time killing orcs. Lavender and Merry stuck together like glue until they were done fighting. The battle didn't last too long. Lavender had managed to locate Pippin and Aurora Borealis, and was mounted on her horse, before she scanned the crowd headed for Helm's Deep. "WHERE'S ARAGORN?!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. Legolas shook his head. "What's going on?" Lavender asked suspiciously. "Aragorn went over a cliff," Legolas told her, grimly. Lavender's eyes got very big. "What?!" she cried. "That can't happen! There's no one to annoy!"
Lavender sat, among the other women, in the large stone cave at the very back of Helm's Deep. She had wedged herself into a corner, not wanting to be seen. The men were preparing for battle. The only reason that she was not with him was because Aragorn had arrived at Helm's Deep safely. Lavender was not sure if she was happy about this or not. Immediately upon his arrival, he had appointed several women to guard Lavender so that she could not sneak away and join in the battle. Lavender had done all she could to get away. She had hidden when the women came to find her, but they found her anyway. She begged them to let her go, pleaded with them, shouted at them, and even cried a little, but it did not good. She even kicked one of the women once, and ran. But, as she was not a good runner, she was soon caught. There seemed to be nothing she could so, except sit and be miserable. She wished that Merry and Pippin were there. Aragorn had not let them participate in the battle either, but they didn't put up near as much fuss as Lavender did. He had also forbidden them to go near Lavender, and taken her backpack away. She had no music, no books, and no gopher. She was miserable. Until she heard a whisper from behind her. "Hey, Lavender!" She turned around, and saw Merry's face from a crack in the rock. "Merry!" she whispered. "What are you doing?" "Come on, quick!" he urged. "Climb through!" None of her guards were paying any attention. They were sitting a ways away, talking, with their backs to Lavender. So Lavender squeezed through the little crack and found herself in a dark tunnel. "Where are we?" she asked. Merry explained that he and Pippin had been poking around when they came upon the tunnel, hidden in the rock. Merry had followed it out of curiosity and discovered that it led right to where Lavender was being held hostage. "Let's go," Lavender said joyously. "Let's chop off an orc head or two!" "Wait!" Merry cried, stopping Lavender from running off and joining the battle. "What now?" Lavender asked. "You can't," Merry insisted. "Aragorn said so." "What's that got to do with anything?" "Well, he IS the highest authority..." "You're making stuff up." Lavender rolled her eyes. "Just tell me the truth. Why can't I fight?" "What if you get hurt?" Merry blurted. Lavender just shook her head. "I didn't get hurt before, and I won't get hurt now," she insisted. But Merry looked genuinely concerned. Lavender thought for a minute, then took off her necklace and showed it to him. "See this?" she said. "If I'm wearing it, I can't get hurt." "But it's just a necklace." "It's not JUST a necklace!" Lavender cried in astonishment. "It's magical fairy dust! That's not JUST a necklace!" Merry examined the unique design on the ornament. A miniature bottle contained blue sparkly dust, behind a silver fairy. "I got it for my twelfth birthday," Lavender told him. "It's my fairy dust. It brings good luck. So, if I'm wearing it, which I always am, no harm can come to me." Merry looked a bit more relieved, so Lavender smiled and put her necklace back on. Before he could say anything, she was running through the tunnel, making her way through a swamp of people, and making her way to the vicious battle going on outside.
Aragorn was astonished when he saw Lavender just show up out of nowhere and begin fighting. So astonished, in fact, that he almost passed out. When his wave of sickness was over, he made his way over to Lavender and began yelling at her. "What are you doing?!" he shouted. "I'm just trying to help!" she yelled back. "I heard you guys weren't doing so well!" "We're fine! Now go find Merry and Pippin and stay with them!" Aragorn was positive that Merry and Pippin would never disobey him. "Well, I kind of can't," Lavender said. "They're somewhere in the battle, and I don't know where, exactly." Aragorn really did pass out this time, but revived when Lavender stepped on his face. She frowned at him. "Look, there's not much you can do about it," she told him. "You COULD have listened to me," he grouched, getting up. "And miss all the action?! No way!"