We were currently sitting upon the shoulders of Fangorn. We met with the white wizard, who turned out to be Gandalf. He told Fangorn to keep us safe. I could tell you all about the meeting, but there really wasn't much to it. Sitting on a giant moving tree is way more interesting in my opinion. "My home lies deep in the forest here." Fangorn said while he walked along the forest.
"I told Gandalf I'd keep you safe, and safe is where you shall be. The trees have grown wide and dangerous. They will harm you if they can. There are too few of us now. Too few of us left to manage them." He said while he walked along the forest. "What happened to all the others?" I asked him. "They were chopped down by orcs, I think." He explained.
"That's horrible…" I said under my breath. "It is indeed." He said with a sigh. "I hate orcs." Pippin said and we all agreed. "They're ugly." Merry commented. "And smell like shit." I also added. We just kept on going with a list of why we hate the orcs because of how stupid, ugly, and smelly they were. Even Fangorn made a couple comments about them.
"So Caranthir?" Pippin said after maybe an hour had passed by. "Yes, Pippin?" I said back, wondering what it was. "Is Caranthir your real name?" he asked me and I shook my head. "Valaina Felagund." I told them my whole name. "Valaina is a pretty name." he said. "Thank you." I said while looking down. "You're a very pretty girl, why did you always hide your face?" Merry asked me.
"Well everyone assumes girls are weak, I didn't want to be apart of the assumption so I decided to take fate by the reins and ride it until I came to a cliff." I explained to them with a smile. "I see, that makes sense." Pippin said and I nodded. I swung my legs over the side, the few locks of hair, including my bangs, flowed n the breeze. It's been a long time since I was last able to experience this. I just never really risked anyone making the connection that Caranthir and Valaina are one of the same, so I never showed my feminine side even when I was away from Liliana for the night.
The forest looked a lot more alive then when we arrived here at night, and no I'm not talking about Ents. There were actually animals scurrying past us, which was strange. I don't remember this place having any sorts of wildlife in the movies…although Pippin and Merry barely got any screen time during this time.
"How do you think the others will react to you being a girl and all?" Pippin asked and I shrugged. "I don't know, Liliana doesn't even know and we've been together since I was sixteen. She'll be shocked for sure." I explained to them with a grin. I guess they aren't use to me showing emotion, which is understandable. My facial expressions usually made all my statements themselves, without them you couldn't tell if what I was saying is supposed to be serious, sarcastic, funny, or just one of my blunt statements.
"Really, she never found out?" Merry asked in shock. "Nope, I am very professional with hiding my gender and race." I explained. "She didn't even know you were an elf?" Pippin questioned. "Not a clue, but I'm sure the other princess might've suspected at times." I said while playing with my circlet, then going to my ears that I received as a present from a godly elf.
"The other princess? There was only one other girl and that was Liliana." Merry said, a bit confused. "Well the princess of Mirkwood of course. You remember, long blonde hair, much longer than mine." I pointed out. Every time my hair was getting to long, I would cut it. Now it hung loosely over my shoulders. Although I never had a clue on how to cut my side bangs, so now they cover my right eye, making my eyes seem the same color since you can't exactly see my other eye.
We kept talking until they got tired and rested. I decided to follow their example and took a rest too. It was relaxing, you know? Being on a giant Ent that has sworn to protect us. It was a bit like riding in a car with the window rolled down, but more exciting and surprisingly more comfortable. Well the comfortable thing could be due to me not having anything remotely comfortable in quite a long time, and I frankly didn't care.
This world wasn't polluted or as corrupted as the one I came from. Most races didn't give a huge hoot about money, although dwarves and humans are al on that shit in my mind, but it's not as bad as where I was from. There is still racism everywhere, which annoys the hell out of me. People here aren't all whores, (although I have seen a few at various hotels, they still wore more than the girls where I came from) and they're pretty likable most of the time. Although I will admit I have come across a store that sold lingerie before and Liliana had to check it out. So I guess in this world girls still have the right to be sexy as hell. I mean I was pretty tempted on buying some of these things…okay so maybe my underwear was from there…it was cute and white so it didn't matter much anyway.
I was snapped out of my trance-like sleep when Pippin finally said something. I don't know how long we had been traveling, but I guess it was time. "Look, the smoke to the south." Pippin said as I rose up to see what he was looking at. Indeed, there was smoke. I was just happy I knew where south was. "There's always smoke rising from Isengard these days." Fangorn said in his usual slow pace. "Isengard?" Merry and I said at the same time and we got up more to get a better look.
"There was a time when Saruman would walk in my woods, but now he has a mind of metal. He no longer cares for growing things." Fangorn explained and a small shiver trailed up my back as we reached the top of the tree. "What is it?" Pippin whispered to us, although we all knew Fangorn could hear us perfectly. "It's Saruman's army." Merry told them. "Their numbers are huge…" I said in awe as we watched them. I never did realize how many there were until now. I always knew there was a lot, but this much is just ridicules. "The war has started." Merry said and I clung onto the tree a bit tighter.
I was no fool. I may be good at fighting with a small group, but in a war I would surly perish. I guess I should be thankful the orcs were stupid enough to take me along with them. If they hadn't…I fear the worst. Now though, I realize something though. Liliana was going to be fighting. I hoped that maybe Legolas has feeling for her, and made her sit out the fight, although I doubt it. She most likely would be fighting the war, and there was no grantee she'd make it out alive.
We traveled some more until I saw a clearing coming into view. "The Ents have not trouble themselves with the wars of people in a very long time. Now something is about to happen, that should not happen." He said before said some words that I didn't bother listening to. "What is that?" merry asked. "It's a gathering." Was the calm reply of Fangorn. "The gathering of what?" merry asked and his question was soon answered from the noises of the forest.
Fangorn started to name all the Ents that came into the clearing as we stood there in awe. "It is good that you have all come. Now we must decide if the Ents will go to war." Fangorn said in a serious voice while the other Ents looked at us then back to him.
He set us down and we walked away while the discussed their plans of action. "How do you suppose the others are doing?" Pippin asked while we sat down in the meadow. "Probably getting ready to fight." I told them and they just nodded. "Ya, knowin them they probably are goin to fight." Pippin said while Merry agreed. "I worry for them." I mumbled and the others just nodded. They were our friends and they were going to war, of course we were worried sick.
Nightfall came around and the Ents were still discussing, what with their slow way of talking and the huge debate about going to war. We saw Fangorn turn around and started to walk towards us. "Merry, Valaina." Pippin said and we got up and walked towards them. "We have just agreed…." he said and paused while we looked at each other in anticipation, "…I have told your names to the others and we have agreed…you are not orcs." He said with a smile.
"Well that's good news." Pippin said and then looked at Merry who was less than excited. "What about Saruman, have you come to a decision about him?" Merry asked the question we all wanted to know. "Now don't be hasty, Master Meriadoc." Fangorn said and I could tell Merry was upset. "Hasty? Our friends are out there fighting, they need our help. They cannot fight this war on their own." Merry said while furrowing his eyebrows.
"War, yes. It affect us all, but you must understand young hobbit. It takes a long time to say anything in old Entish and we never say anything unless it's worth saying. A long time to say." He explained to us and we were still very angry about this. "The Ents cannot hold back the storm. We must go about these things like we have always done." He told us and I frowned. "How could this be your decision?" Merry and I accused at the same time. "This is not our war." He explained and I glared at him.
"But you're part of this world," Merry yelled at the elder Ent while the others looked around, "aren't you?" the other Ents just kept looking at each other. "You must help, please. You must do something." He plead, but I don't think they could be persuaded. "You are young and brave, Master Merry, but your part in this tale is over. Go back to your home." Fangorn said and we all looked down in defeat.
"Maybe the tree is right, Merry. This world is too big for us. What could we do here? We got the Shire, maybe we should go home." Pippin announced while I grabbed my cloak and put it on, leaving the hood off though. "The fires of Isengard will spread, the whole world will burn, and what was once green and good in this world will be gone." Merry said to Pippin. "You know, once I heard about this thing called the butterfly effect. It tells about how a sensitive dependency on initial conditions in which a small change in one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state." I finished, remembering a thing or two I had once learned in school.
"In a language we can understand?" Merry asked and I sighed. "A small, sensitive thing can impact the future at a large scale." I told them in much simpler terms and Pippin still looked confused. "A small thing makes the largest differences." I finally said before Pippin finally got it. "That makes sense, so if we do something that seems small, it can change things a lot?" Pippin asked and I nodded. "It could change everything for better or for worse." I told them with a smirk.
We eventually got back on Fangorn so we could be taken back home. It was quiet, nobody really wanted to talk. We were just walking and relaxing a bit on the large Ent. "I will leave you at the western borders of the forest, you can make it north to your homeland from there." Fangorn explained to us while we just sat there lifelessly. "Wait, stop." Pippin said and Merry and I just looked at him.
"Turn around, turn around and take us south." Pippin said and I looked at him and remembered that were they cut down all the trees. "South, that would lead you right through Isengard." The Ent said in a confused voice. "Yes, exactly" Pippin said with a smile and I couldn't help but smile to. "If we go south we can slip past Saruman unnoticed. The closer we are from danger, the farther we are from harm since that's the last thing he'll expect." Pippin said in a knowing voice while I just nodded.
"That doesn't make much sense to me, but you are very small. Perhaps you're right. Yes…south it is then. Hold on, little ones. I've always liked going south, for some reason it always feels like going downhill." Fangorn said. "Are you mad, we'll be caught." Merry hissed at Pippin. "I don't think we will, no not this time." I said and glanced at Pippin with a smirk. He was a smart one, this hobbit.
The sun was rising ever so slightly when we got to our destination. Fangorn was telling us some stories when he stopped. In front of us was a graveyard of tree stumps. "Many of these trees were my friends. Trees that I had known." He told us. "I'm so sorry, Fangorn." I said in a sympathetic voice, showing the sorrow on my face. "They had voices of their own…" He said and looked up to see Isengard.
"Saruman…that wizard should know better!" Fangorn said while shaking out of anger and sorrow. He cried out so loudly I'm sure that the whole forest heard it. "There are no words for an Ent for this treachery. Tonight we march on Isengard, with rock and stone. We heard some calling from the forest and turned our heads. We saw many Ents coming out of the forest slowly, but steadily. Many more were to come.
"Yes, come my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom." Fangorn said and Merry looked in awe. It was time, time for this to start ending. All of this, shall perish before us. They will know no mercy. We will march upon them in this time, to stop their evil from spreading across the land. The forest will come alive on this morning.
Well that escalated quickly. Muhaha so as far as I can tell, this story is actually being written a bit longer than I expected. Well the after story part is (I mean after all there is still life after the war that we need to see with our favorite elf...of you though I meant Legolas? We all know Valaina is now everyone's new favorite elf muahaha) Anyway so this story is max going to have thirty chapters in it...as far as I can tell. of course that is just the max number, it will probably have less but it will definitely have more than 26 chapters.
Anyway, anyone up for a sequel to this yet? A very cracky sequel? If nobody replies then I'm going to decide for myself if I make an after story. As for a rewrite, it still seems like a good idea. Also to my guest that likes to comment, so glad you enjoy this story. Leave a name or something (you know cool nicknames) or else I'm giving you one, and if you haven't been able to tell with the names Valaina, Caranthir, and Liliana...my names are very eccentric. So unless you want an eccentric name like that, the next time you comment write an amazing name.
Well that's enough rambling, I need to start on chapter twenty six now so I hope you enjoy this story, don't forget to review and all that jazz. Goodbye my dear...pickles. I like pickles so now you are a part of my pickle army. Goodbye~