Chapter 10: Mwahahahaha

Random olliphaunt: Say the disclaimer, Boromir!

Boromir: *sighs* the authoress owns nothing except her OCs.

R.O: Very good. Now dance, puppet, DANCE!

Boromir: *backs away slowly*

I still find it entertaining that at Boromir's death scene, when Legolas appears he has this sort of 'oh look, this is interesting' expression.

*Cat's POV*

'No dwarf needs to recover strength! Pay no heed to that, young hobbit,' Gimli told Pippin.

'Dude, seriously, let it go.' Erin said, rolling her eyes. Merry retuned, carrying a pile of firewood. 'Where's Frodo?' He asked. Aragorn and Sam looked round the clearing in alarm. Erin glanced at Boromir's shield and jumped to her feet.

'No! Erin! You idiot…' I trailed off as she took off running into the trees.

'What's she doing?' Merry asked, looking alarmed.

'Something stupid,' I sighed, and ran after her.

*Erin's POV*

I crashed through the trees, barely noticing the branches that scratched my arms. I could the sound of the Uruk-Hai running as well, and then the horn of Gondor rang out.

I burst into the clearing to see Boromir fighting off about ten Uruk-Hai. Off to one side, Lurtz was standing, stringing a bow.

I threw one of my daggers across the glade and amazingly, it hit Lurtz in the arm. The Uruk stumbled slightly and Boromir turned in time to see him take aim with his bow once more. Only this time, he was aiming at me. Shit.

'Milady, run!'

'Seriously? We're in the middle of a bloody ambush and you still call me milady?'

'Yes!' I rolled my eyes and sprinted into the cover of the trees, realized that I'd just abandoned Boromir to certain death, and ran back.

I vaguely noticed that Cat, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli had appeared at the edge of the clearing and were battling more of the seemingly endless orcs.

Another wave of Uruks-Hai swept down from the other side. Unbidden, Galadriel's parting words flashed through my mind.

Flashback time – Cue Doctor Who theme

'You both have greater powers than you realize. Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus.' Galadriel turned to walk back into the forest, but I could still hear her voice echoing in my mind.

'You can save him – but it will not be without a price. Choose carefully, Erin.'

End flashback time – Stop playing Doctor Who theme

I had never worked out what that had meant. Obviously the 'saving him' part referred to Boromir, but what was the price?

I turned around. 'Ah, shit!' Then an Uruk hit me over the head, and everything went black.

*Cat's POV*

'This way!' I gestured to Legolas, Aragorn and Gimli. We ran on through the trees until the clearing appeared.

Boromir was epically battling Uruk-Hai, and Erin was…

'Where the fuck is my sister?' I screamed. Boromir glanced over and shook his head slightly.

The next few minutes were a sort of blur of Boromir killing orcs epically, Aragorn killing orcs epically, Legolas killing orcs epically, Gimli killing orcs epically and me completely failing to kill anything. Eventually, though, we all met in the middle of the clearing.

'They took the little ones. And Erin,' Boromir said sadly.

'WHAT!?' I screeched.

'I am sorry, mi-'

'Call me 'milady' and I will personally castrate you.' Everyone backed away from me slightly.

'Frodo. Where is Frodo?' Boromir asked urgently.

'I let him go,' Aragorn replied.

'Then you did what I could not.'

oOo

We regrouped near the river. Legolas started pulling a canoe down to the bank. I picked up the horn of Gondor, smashed it on a rock and threw it into the river.

'What are you doing?' Boromir yelled.

'Saving the plotline,' I said mysteriously.

'That was the Horn of Gondor! YOU BROKE MY HORN!'

'Here, have a vuvuzela instead.' I picked up Erin's vuvuzela from where it was lying near her pack and handed it to him.

'Hurry! Frodo and Sam have reached the Eastern shore!' Legolas shouted. No-one moved.

'You mean not to follow them,' he realized.

'Frodo's fate is no longer in our hands.' Aragorn said.

'The Fellowship is broken,' Boromir intoned solemnly.

'Thanks for that, J.R.R. Tolkien,' I added.

'It has all been in vain… we have failed.' Gimli said sadly.

'Not if we hold true to each other. We will not abandon Merry, Pippin and Erin to torment and death, not while we have strength left.'

'Hell no,' I agreed.

'Leave all that can be spared behind. We travel light. Let's hunt some orc!'

'Yes! Haha!' Gimli shouted. Aragorn sprinted back into the wood, followed by Legolas, Boromir, Gimli and I.

'Wait, we're actually going to run the whole way, are we?' I called out as we ran. '

Ooh, I am evil, aren't I? Sorry this was so short.