The marsh was eerily silent as was the small patrol. A light breeze blowing their hair.

They moved along the water's edge, to the limited area.

"It's so quiet." The young woman finally broke the silence.

"It has being like that for quite a while already. No spiders, no nothing." Tauriel answered.

"That's odd. They must be hiding somewhere." Said the elven prince trying to focus on the landscape before him.

Ninel was looking around the dark woods. Something was not right. She could feel it. It was in the air.

"Maybe something worse scared the spiders away…" she whispered to herself while walking.

"Ninel don't go too far." Legolas called out to the young woman.

"It's alright Legolas, I'm just…" before she could finished her sentence she fell inside a big hole in the ground. It was a deep trap covered with leaves.

"NINEL!" The elven prince screamed running towards the pit. "NINEL ARE YOU ALRIGHT?!"

"Ouch! I think I landed on my butt." The young woman said trying to get up.

She was alright. Thank Eru, thought Legolas normalizing his breath.

He leaned close to the hole offering his hand to the dark haired woman.

"You guys should have told me there were traps around!" Ninel said a little annoyed.

Tauriel looked to Legolas, and both realized that the trap was too primitive looking to have been put there by an elf.

Before the elven prince could take Ninel out of the pit, a loud growl was heard.

Seconds later Legolas found himself meters away, laying on the forest's ground. It was when he finally managed to see what had happened. He has being attacked.

A huge dark orc full of scars charged against him again.

Fast as a lighting, the young prince got up, ready for combat.

While Legolas was confronting the orc, Tauriel was trying to aim an arrow at the beast.

"No! Get Ninel out of here! I can handle him!" the young prince managed to say to the redhead between the strikes from the orc. "TAURIEL DO IT NOW!"

His scream took Tauriel out of the torpor she was in. As quick as possible she helped the young woman out of the trap.

Ninel was able to finally see what was happening.

"LEGOLAS!" she screamed running towards the young elf.

"No, I need to get you out of here!" Tauriel said holding her arm.

"No way in Mandos! Let me go!" Ninel yelled pulling her arm away from Tauriel's grasp.

The dark orc,was able to disarm the young prince. Legolas was now dodging himself from the orc's sword.

The orc was laughing when suddenly felt something hit his head. It didn't hurt at all, but it did caught his attention. The orc turned around to find a young female throwing rocks at him.

"GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Ninel screamed to the orc.

The orc couldn't resist but smile. What a ridiculous scene. An elleth trying to hurt him with small rocks. No wait, not an elleth, she didn't smell like one. The dark orc took a deep breath this time. Human. She smelled like a human.

How interesting... he decided to approach her.

Tauriel put herself in front of Ninel, aiming her bow in the orc's right knee.

Before she could shot, the young prince jumped on the orc's back with his arms around the beast neck, pulling the orc down with him.

"Legolas! Watchout!" Tauriel yelled.

It was too late, the dark orc stumbled on a rock thrown by Ninel, and went down the cliff carrying the young prince with him.