The Fellowship Of The Yu-Gi-Oh Cast

Thank you all for the nice reviews! Here's chapter eleven!

The Forest Is Alive With The Sound Of Ents

Joey, Seto and Duke were still chasing after the Uruk-hai. It was dawn.

Joey paused and looked up at the sky. "A red sun…"

"Oh drama." Seto sarcastically responded, looking at the world map to check where they were now.

"I have a bad feeling about this..." Duke mumbled.

All three of them became silent when another sound occurred. Horses, certainly more than ten were coming their way. The group hid themselves behind some boulders. A large group of horse-men appeared, galloping quickly, the flags of their land flying in the wind. When he realized that the passing group weren't orcs, Seto came out of their hiding place, followed by Duke and Joey.

"Horse-men!" Seto said, immediately getting a reaction of the horse-men. Éomer, the first horse-man, also the leader, ordered his men to turn around. The group surrounded the three warriors and pointed their spears at them menacingly. Seto and Duke raised their both hands as a sign that they didn't want to fight. Joey however acted rebellious and left his arms next to his hips. Éomer started to speak.

"What business does an Elf, a man and a Dwarf have in the Riddermark? Speak quickly!"

"You give me your name and then I'll give ya mine. Wadda ya say?" Joey responded.

Éomer raised an eyebrow, gave his staff to another rider and got off his horse. Seto pushed a surprised Joey back slowly. "Your big mouth will be the death of us all… shut up Wheeler!" Then Seto looked at Éomer, his hand still resting on Joey's shoulder. "I excuse myself in his place," Seto said nodding at Joey. "he is always like this, he can't help it, he's born with it."

Joey growled and pushed Seto's hand away, but didn't say anything anymore.

"I am Seto," The young CEO continued. "this is Duke and the rude one is Joey. We are friends of Rohan and of Théoden, your king." Seto had informed himself very well while they were at Lórien.

The leader horse-man was silent for a while. "Théoden no longer recognizes friend from foe." He took off his helmet, his eyes showed true sadness. "Not even his own kin…"

After these words all the other horse-men withdrew their spears.

"Saruman has poisoned the mind of the king and claimed lordship over these lands. My company are those loyal to Rohan. And for that, we are banished. The White Wizard is cunning. He walks here and there, they say, as an old man, hooded and cloaked." His face darkened. "And everywhere his spies slip past our nets."

"We are no spies." Seto assured. "We are tracking a group of orcs westward across the plain. They have taken two of our uh… company captive."

"The orcs are destroyed." Éomer said. "We slaughtered them during the night."

"But there were two humans." Duke said worried. "Did you see them?"

"They are insane, make a lot of noise?..." Seto asked.

"We left none alive…" Éomer said, his eyes looking at the ground. "We piled the carcasses and burned them." As if he wanted to give strength to his words, the young horse-man pointed at a smoking pile in the distance.

"Dead?..." Joey asked hoarsely.

Éomer nodded. "I'm sorry…"

Seto let out a sigh, Joey clinched his fists and Duke let his hand rest on the blonds' shoulder as a sign of comfort. Their whole attempt to get the two yamis back was all been for nothing. Bakura and Marik had maybe caused for a lot of trouble on their quest, but no one wanted to see them end up dead.

Éomer turned around and whistled. "Hasufel! Arod!" Two horses moved up, Éomer leaded them to Seto and his company. "May these horses bear you to better fortune than their former masters. Farewell." He putted his helmet back on and got back on his horse. "… Look for your friends. But do not trust to hope, it has forsaken these lands…" He turned to his men. "We ride north!"

Seto, Joey and Duke looked on as the Riders disappeared out of sight. Seto immediately stepped on one of the horses. "You two share a horse." He said gesturing at the remaining horse.

Joey mumbled something that sounded like "fucking arrogant egoist" and then got on the other horse with Duke behind him. "Hold my shoulders!" Joey cried out when Duke laid his hands on the blonds' hips.

"I'm not gay or something!" Duke said defending himself. "It's just better to hold you there so I won't fall off!"

"Shoulders!... SHOULDERS!"

"OKAY OKAY!... Jesus Christ…" Duke finally gave in laying his hands on Joey's shoulder.

"Now… if our lovely couple is ready maybe we can go now?" Seto asked mockingly.

Duke and Joey both got a rather red colour and started to curse the young CEO under their breath. Then they rode towards the burning carcasses, the smell of burned flesh coming towards them. They got off their horses and started to shift trough the smouldering pile. A minute later Duke pulled out a charred belt and dagger sheath. He turned towards his companions, holding the object he had just found in the air.

"One of their belts…" Duke said nearly above a whisper.

Seto bowed his head, another sigh escaping his mouth.

"GOD DAMN NO!" Joey yelled out, kicking a helmet, he fell on his knees and punched the ground with his fist.

"We failed…" Duke said, throwing the belt back down on the ground.

Joey shook his head in defeat when suddenly something got his attention. There were tracks in the grass. Joey crawled closer to the tracks and touched them briefly. "Someone lay here, and another one over here… they were crawling…" Joey stood up quickly, following the tracks thanks to his elf abilities. Duke and Seto came behind him. "Their hands were bound." He picked up a broken length of thick rope. "They ran over here.. the tracks lead away from the battle…!" They started to run but then stopped. "… into this forest…"

"Fangorn Forest…" Seto mumbled.

The trees of the forest seemed to look at them, dense and dark.

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At the same time Yugi, Yami and Gollum reached the end of Emyn Muil. Mordor was clearly closer in comparison while they were travelling without the creature. Gollum noticed this too.

"See, see, we have led you out!" He said joyful. "Hurry, hurry! Very lucky we find you!" Gollum jumped after the little Yugi. Yami didn't trust the creature and kept his eyes on him all the time. Suddenly Yami's foot slipped into muck. The taller version of Yugi looked down.

"He has led us to a swamp!... and has caused dirt to get on my shoe! …NO!" He stood on one leg, got a tissue out of his pocket and tried to clean up his shoe. "…a pharaoh… with a dirty shoe… outrageous!... holy Rah!..." He mumbled.

"A swamp, yes, yes. Come, master. We will take you on safe paths through the mist. Come, come. We go quickly." The creature took the lead and looked back at the duo, gesturing to follow him. "I found it, I did. The way through the marshes. Orcs don't use it. Orcs don't know it. They go round for miles and miles. Come quickly. Swift and quick as shadows we must be."

The marsh lands stretched for miles and miles as far as the eye could see. Yami, Yugi and Gollum appeared as little specks in the surroundings. As the three picked their way gingerly though the marshes, they saw faces floating in the water, still, rotting and pale, and flickering flames on the swamps. Yugi clenched to Yami with a shriek.

"There are dead people in the water!" He squealed.

"All dead. All rotten. Elves and men and orcses. A great battle long ago." Gollum turned to face Yugi and his alter ego. "The Dead Marshes. Yes, yes that is their name. This way. Don't follow the lights."

For a second time Yami's foot slipped into the water. "NO NOT AGAIN!" Yami said pulling his foot back in disgust. Another tissue appeared out of his pocket.

"Careful now," Gollum said still taking the lead. "or you go down to join the dead ones and light little candles of their own."

Yugi had taken halt without either Gollum or Yami noticing it, for he was busy cleaning up his shoe. The little boy was drawn to one of the faces in the water, wearing Elven armour. He stared at it intently, until suddenly it's eyes opened and Yugi fell face-down into the water. Yami turned around quickly after hearing the loud splash.

"YUGI!"

Yugi was in the water and saw many faces of the dead, no longer still, but screaming and grasping, their rotten robes and hair flowing about their gruesome faces. Their hands were reaching for him, like they wanted to give Yugi a deathly embrace. Suddenly Yugi was grabbed from behind by his shirt. He sputtered and gasped for air as Gollum pulled him out of the water.

"Don't follow the lights!" Gollum repeated and crawled on like nothing happened.

Yami ran to Yugi's side. "Yugi! Are you all right?"

"Hurry up, The Black Gate is very close!"

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"Are we save?"

Bakura was standing against a tree, gasping for breath.

Marik nodded, also out of breath. "I think so…"

Suddenly, the second little orc from the group of Uruk-hai appeared from behind the trees, a blade in his bloodied hand. His armour seemed to have stopped the spear that had hit him earlier.

"I'm gonna rip out your filthy innards! Come here!"

"Doesn't that guy NEVER give up?" Bakura cried out as they started to run again.

"Climb this tree!"

The two yamis climbed up a tree. Everything was silent. Marik looked around and sighed in relief. "He's gone."

Ironically Marik was pulled by his legs after these words and fell on the ground with a loud thud. The orc was leaning over him, his blade still in his hand. The yami tried to kick him away but all to no avail.

"Marik!" Bakura yelled looking down. He turned his head and saw a pair of gleaming yellow eyes blinking in the tree he was sitting in. Bakura rubbed his eyes and looked back at the yellow eyes. "…those were bad mushrooms…" Then the tree started to move and groan.

"Hoooooh!..."

"ARGH!" Bakura yelled. He lost his balance and grabbed at the air futilely while he fell down. Bakura was caught by the tree before he hit the ground.

"Let's put a maggot-hole in your belly!" The orc said moving his blade closer to Marik's stomach.

"Not my beautiful belly!" Marik yelled out.

Suddenly the orcs sensed something behind him. He looked up slowly, his eyes growing big when the tree stomped and squashed the orc onto the ground.

"RUN MARIK!" Bakura yelled

Marik backed away, but before he had the chance to stand on his feet properly, he got scooped up by the tree also. The yellow eyes of the tree looked at the two yamis in it's hands. "Little orcs! Burárum!"

"Hey… Are you calling us ugly?" Bakura yelled out. "Marik may be not the prettiest one around but I'm certainly NOT ugly!"

"Hey you son of a…" Marik said turning his head to the other yami. "Take that back!"

"Oh just accept the truth…!"

"The truth is that I'm gonna punch you in the face from the moment this tree let's us down and…"

"The tree…" Bakura repeated.

"Tree…" Marik repeated also.

The duo turned their heads to the tree slowly and then they both started to scream.

"HOLY MOLY!"

"THE TREE IS TALKING!"

"Tree? I am no tree. I am an Ent! Treebeard, some call me." The Ent started to move on slowly.

"And you are on our side?" Bakura asked suspicious.

"Side?" Treebeard asked loudly. "I am on nobody's side because nobody's on my side, little orc. Nobody cares for the woods anymore."

"We are no orcs!" Marik yelled.

"Sound like orc mischief to me!" Treebeard said angry. He tightened his grip on Marik and Bakura, who both whimpered in pain. "They come with fire, they come with axes. Gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning! Destroyers and usurpers, curse them!"

"We are no orcs!" Bakura yelled this time.

"Maybe you are and maybe you aren't. The White Wizard will know."

"The White Wizard?" Marik asked.

"Isn't that the guy that was once Pegasus' friend but is now evil?"

"Oh yeah what was his name again…?"

"Something with an S…" Bakura memorized.

"Steward?"

"No…"

"Steve?"

"No!"

"…"

"Saruman!" They both said at the exact same time.

Then Treebeard dropped them on the ground. The two yamis looked up at the white figure before them.

I skipped the part were Frodo, Sam and Gollum have to hide from the Nazgul. I'm always bored with the Sam and Frodo scenes and even now with Yugi and Yami I think they are boring as hell! XD Oh well, I hope you liked it!