Alyssa pov

The orcs had thrown us over their shoulders. That's right, us- I wasn't alone. Apparently Merry and Pippin and Amanda had also been captured. Although you already know that don't you? Eh, I'm a reader, I know what's happening! Oh wait I'm not supposed to break fourth wall. Anyways, back to the story!

I groaned at the pain. First, the orc (I assumed it was a boy because… I don't know, all the orcs look like boys. None of them look like a girl to me.) who was carrying me had really sharp, dirty nails that dug into my skin and were very painful.

Second, as he ran he moved a lot, causing me to bump around a lot very painfully. I could see the others were suffering too, except for Amanda and Pippin who seemed to be unconscious. So basically only Merry as the 'others'. At first I had felt bad for them, but after I had been jostled up a good amount I envied them greatly.

After what seemed what like forever (although in reality was somewhere near 5 hours, which is fairly close to forever so in a sense I was right) the orcs stopped. I gave a brief sigh of relief as they set us all down. The relief was short though, as they quickly tied my hands and legs tightly with scratchy rope. I sighed before looking over at the only companion who was awake that I knew: Merry.

….

Seriously, world?

"Hi." I said after a moment to Merry. He looked at me, confused.

"Hi?" He said slowly.

"Fine weather we're having." I stated. Okay, I'm sorry, but I needed anything to distract me from what was going on.

"Uh, I guess." Merry agreed cautiously. Then he was spared my awkwardness as Pippin (aka hobbit 2, which is a much easier name to remember but I have been told to call him Pippin) woke up.

"What happened?" He asked slowly. Merry quickly explained the day's events while I observed the clouds. I found a bunny on a unicycle, a monkey being eaten by a whale, and a fish swimming into a mountain. Well, okay then. Pippin then noticed Amanda, who had a bruise on the back of her head. She was still unconscious. Well, I don't know- all I know is she wasn't moving.

"Miss Amanda?" Pippin said softly to her, voice sounding afraid.

"Ugh." Amanda said slowly, opening her eyes.

"You're okay!" He exclaimed. He leaned forwards to hug her, but then realized that with his arms tied up that might be a little difficult. He just sat back. Amanda didn't notice.

"Yeah, you could call it that, except my head feels like it's been shattered to pieces." Amanda reached back with her tied hands and felt at the bruise. "Yep, that's why." She announced.

"An orc hit you unconscious, same with Pippin." Merry explained. The orcs had started talking about something, but we weren't paying attention.

"You're hurt." Pippin changed his evaluation, looking saddened.

"Yes, that would be the bruise on my head." Amanda said sarcastically, nodding a little. Seeing his look, she started to reassure him. "Look, I'm fine, alright? It's just because I wasn't expecting it. I can't feel it as much. I have a pretty high tolerance of pain. I'll survive." Pippin looked unconvinced. Then Amanda seemed to notice me. Yay, people knew I was there!

"Alyssa!" Amanda said. "So I guess we got captured too."

"I noticed." I said. She laughed.

"Alright, now so long as we don't do anything completely stupid, we should survive." Amanda said.

"Well that's reassuring." I laughed nervously. I started to hyperventilate a tiny bit. "And if we do manage to do something stupid?"

"Shh." Amanda said, listening to the orcs. I attempted to pay attention. They spoke English like us. Huh, learn something new every day.

Amanda pov

Yeah, I kind of sort of lied to Pippin. That orc could throw a good punch! My head was throbbing terribly. However, considering that Pippin couldn't have helped me even if he wanted to, I thought it best to attempt not to worry him. Besides, I didn't completely lie. I do have an above average tolerance of pain, which means I can withstand and/or not feel more pain than most people. Plus, if I die in the next few days I'm pretty sure it will have more to do with orcs wanting to eat my legs than a bruise I have on my head.

Anyways, back to current time. I had shushed Alyssa so that I could listen to the orcs, who were talking in English/the common tongue because there were different races of orcs so that was the only language they had in common.

"My orders were to bring the hobbits and as many girls as possible unharmed." One orc said.

"Well if we can't kill them, we should at least search them." A second orc growled.

"That's a very interesting remark." Another sneered quietly. "my orders are the prisoners are NOT to be searched or plundered."

"Those aren't my orders!" Another argued. "My people have only come to kill for revenge. Now let's kill them and get it over with!"

"No." The largest growled. "I am in charge, and we are taking the prisoners on the shortest route to isengard unharmed."

Soon this continued until they were all fighting one another. And then they all killed each other and the four of us escaped free! Oh, if only it were that easy. However, in the confusion, Pippin did have some time to free his hands. Soon after he slipped them back into the loose rope (so the orcs wouldn't get suspicious) The orcs stopped fighting, picked us up again and kept moving.

Yeah, I was glad I had been unconscious the first time- this was awful! The whole trip seemed like one long nightmare. Only at nightfall did we stop again, and then we were thrown to the ground, causing me to groan in the pain.

"Be glad it isn't more." The orc who had been carrying me growled. This was the orc who had punched me in the face. I know because he wouldn't stop bragging about it. Yeah, go you, you hit a distracted girl from behind.

"Yeah, because death would be so much worse." I sassed. Okay, maybe not my best plan.

"I could make that happen." He said, leaning real close to my face with his knife.

"You could also wash your nails, but obviously that hasn't happened yet either." I sassed even more. Ugh, why couldn't I just shut up?!

"Why you little…!" He was stopped from killing me by the leader coming over and reminding him we were not to be harmed.

"That's right, I'm invincible." I told him. He growled at me.

"Not forever." He spat on the ground in front of me before walking away.

"Yeah love you too Philip!" I yelled sarcastically.

"Philip?" Pippin questioned.

"What I decided to call the orc who punched me in the face." I explained.

"Why do you love him then?" Pippin asked.

"Oh I don't, I was being sarcastic, which means basically I mean the opposite of what I say." I explained.

"Oh." Pippin said. Was that a sigh of relief I heard from him? What does he have to be worried about my love life? Yep, Pippin, I'm totally secretly dating Merry. You guessed it.

READERS: oh wow that was a lot faster than I thought. Okay I also have ideas for the next chapter but it will probably be at least tomorrow. And there are no reviews because I'm not even sure chapter 24 has been officially posted yet and either way there are no reviews. This is super weird but also awesome. Anyways, enjoy this chapter! PLEASE REVIEW!