Chapter Ten: Gandalf Leaves

Gandalf took Aragorn and went to free the slaves, meanwhile the rest talked quietly about their adventures with Torak.

"You chopped it right off?" Arwen asked.

"Like a roll of sausage," Kay said gleefully.

Some of the hobbits winced at that. Katie just laughed. "You should've seen it. It was marvelous."

Pippin looked shocked.

"NO! I mean....well the act of cutting. Geez. I'm not that sick."

Gandalf and Aragorn came back shortly with a group of scantily dressed women behind them. "Bad news," Aragorn said in his oh-so-sexy voice.

"What?"

"Torak escaped."

There was a collective gasp.

"He still has his magic power. And he used it to escape. Simple as that," Gandalf said.

"But at least Gondor is ours again," Aragorn said with a sigh of relief. "I hated being locked up."

Katie smiled at him. "They shouldn't lock someone as marvelous as you up."

Arwen and Pippin both looked at her with furious glances. Katie quickly shut up, something she is not very good at doing.

"Well um....maybe we should form an army here in Gondor," Katie suggested, hoping to redeem herself. "We've got to get Torak out of our way."

"She's right," Gandalf said. "There will be a great journey, consisting of Aragorn, Arwen, Beth, Frodo, Katie, Kayla, Merry, and Pippin."

"Whoa he went in alphabetical order." Frodo said. "But wait. We need a fellowship of nine, Gandalf. You need to come."

"This is a different fellowship, young Frodo. The Fellowship of Eight. Even numbers are better anyway. I have other things to attend to."

"Well good, I didn't want a chaperone anyway," Katie said, looking naughtily at Pip.

"Hell yes!" Pip shouted.

"Ahem," Aragorn said in an authoritative tone.

"Excuse me, but you'll be too busy with Arwen to notice," Merry said loftily.

Aragorn pondered that a moment. "Ah you are most likely right, dear Merry."

"Don't talk like that, dude. It's kinda creepy."

Aragorn smiled, and the newly formed fellowship laughed heartily.

It would be a good journey.