The next day, the Company started to pack up and elves gave them food called lembas and strange gray coloured cloaks that the elves said could hide it's wearer from others .Captain John Mactavish looked at it and said to himself,
"Are these camouflage cloaks? But this is just a grey cloak and hood. Anyway this might be useful... I could snipe hostiles in any place without being spotted by just wearing this if the elves are right."
The company now walked out of Caras Galadhon towards the river and reached it in the afternoon. The company now boarded their grey boats. Captains Price and Mactavish manned the oars while Nikolai was at the rear with his AK 47 readied in his hands in case that the Company met enemies along the way. When the boats turned the company met a large boat that looked like a swan and they saw both the Lady Galadriel and Lord Celeborn and they were invited to a farewell feast. After they had feasted Celeborn briefed the company about their trip and told them where to go if they are going to Gondor or to Mordor. The Lady made a farewell toast and gave the Company different gifts. Price, Mactavish and Nikolai were also given golden belts and in gratitude the three stepped back and gave the lady a salute. The lady bowed to them and the three lowered their hands as if the salute was given back. Price and Mactavish now pulled their pistols tucked in their combat pants and converted their gifts into pistol belts with Nikolai also doing the same. When the Lady had given her gifts, the Company were now led back to their boats and the Company left Lothlorien with the Lady Galadriel singing in an unintelligible language to the three men.
"There goes the Land of Lorien and its beautiful Lady. So we're back to work then?"
Asked Nikolai who was looking back towards Lorien while he pulled the charging handle of his AK 47.
"Yes we are and I guess we left last safe place we have. We're on our own again Nikolai so stay sharp. "
Replied Price as he and Mactavish rowed their boat
Mactavish remarked at their speed,
"I wish our boats could go faster... I should have asked for a motor engine for our boats."
His companions on the boat just nodded in agreement as they followed the Company.
The Company sailed the river by day and then changed to travelling by night for some reason that the three men did not care about but they favoured travelling by night so that they will be harder to be spotted. At first the Company encountered no enemies until the eighth night when they were ambushed by orcs. The current took the boats close enough to the shore where the orcs are so while the company was trying to escape Price said to Nikolai,
"Nikolai, give us covering fire so that the others could go to the west. Soap and I will row the boat."
Nikolai spotted figures moving in the eastern bank and he aimed his rifle at them and fired it at full auto killing some archers who still did not cease shooting the company. Mactavish shouted to the rest of their companions in the other boats,
"All of you move on! We will draw their fire and will try to suppress them."
Nikolai reloaded his AK when Price said,
"Nikolai, drop a couple of rounds from your grenade launcher to the east bank."
Nikolai loaded a round on his GP 25 grenade launcher attachment and fired once and it killed half a dozen of enemy archers. The second round killed at least ten more and the boat made its way to the west bank of the river, were the rest of the company are but the archers were still shooting them. Mactavish just said aloud,
"These guys won't stop shooting us."
He pulled his M4A1 and fired back in short bursts at the orcs at the other side. Price and Nikolai also did the same and the three of them took cover in the side of their boat that was on the bank. The three stopped shooting when they heard Legolas sighing as he fired his bow to a flying creature flying towards them and the creature fell when Price was about to shoot it with his M4A1. The shooting had stopped and it was quiet again. The Company moved elsewhere to spend the night in full alert for another attack.
The next day, the Company have to continue on foot because they could not pass the rapids of Sarn Gebir and the men have to lift their boats to get to the other side of it. The Company spent the rest of their day resting and continued the journey tomorrow. The Company continued floating down the Anduin River and the Company neared the Argonath.
The three men looked at the giant statues with wonder. Mactavish said,
"This was bigger than the statue of Liberty I guess."
Nikolai wondered,
"Will they move if they are attacked? They seem to guard this place."
Price was silent as he rowed the boat into a tunnel.
After they passed the Argonath, the three men looked at it then glanced at Aragorn in curiosity. Price wondered at the Ranger and thought,
"Is this man really a king? Who knows, but what they said about the man in Rivendell, his sword, the stone that Galadriel gave him at Lothlorien and what he said earlier... We'll see... this man really has potential in him."
The company afterwards docked their boats in near a place called Parth Galen to spend the night there.
As the Three men disembarked, Captain Mactavish asked Aragorn,
"We are at the waterfalls Aragorn… So what are we going to do next?"
The Ranger answered,
"We shall rest for the night and then we will choose which path we will take tomorrow."
The Captain nodded and followed the Ranger.
