Once they were on the boats in the river rowing away everyone relaxed a little after the whole sharkies ordeal. In fact Merry relaxed a bit too much, he fell asleep with his face underwater and Pippin had to lift him up with his paddle. He got up sputtering and wet but the rocking of the boat was too much and he was soon asleep again only this time he fell forward onto Boromir. Boromir didn't know what to do and just kept paddling until Merry woke up.

"Aahhh!" he yelled jumping away to the helm of the little boat: that was the farthest point from Boromir and it wasn't too far since the boats were so small. 'What was I thinking?… Hey is that bread on his boat?' He had been in such horror at where he had fallen asleep until he saw the loaf on Pippin's boat and jumped across the gap between the boats and crashed into Pippin, knocking him down.

"You could say sorry." Pippin complained.

But Merry was very busy freeing the sharkies into the water where they belonged. He took one of the bags and dumped all the sharkies in. Sadly the sharkies floated belly up for a long time before absorbing too much water and sinking except for one sharkie that had a huge white ring one on flipper and sank before Legolas could catch it.

" ELF-KILLER!" he yelled," That was Galadriel now what will happen to all of us that she's gone!" But too bad for Legolas he was in another boat and couldn't get at Merry.

Then out of nowhere Merry screams. "Hey! Look it's Gollum!" At that everyone turns around and glares very angrily at him. (They never saw Gollum again.)

"You idiot", Aragorn half whispered half-yelled," Now every Orc within ten MILES probably heard you!" now he was so angry he was yelling louder than Merry. From then on no one spoke until they reached shore. Once on shore everyone split up. Frodo and Sam ran away together with the Ring, Legolas, Gimli and Aragorn left to case the Orcs which they thought had stolen Pippin and Merry. Actually they weren't kidnapped at all, the Orcs had come and they had glared at them until they left. But since they had no Fellowship to go back to, they decided to follow the Orcs and see where they were going and they in turn were followed by the unknowing Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli.