What Ever happened to Merry and Pippin?

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Part 3- Pippin!!!!!

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The orcs showed no mercy as they separated the hobbits. Pippin feared for Merry until he figured out that HE was the one in trouble.

"We shouldn't be doing this Sarnak," one of the orcs said to what looked like the big boss in the group.

"I'm fed up of hearing this, if you don't like it then go back to Ugluk, he will take the halflings back unharmed and get all the credit. I, on the other hand want to have fun and I'm sure that everyone else here thinks that too, except for our little prisoner," Sarnak smirked looking down at Pippin who was being dragged along by the orc who had just spoken to Sarnak. The orc quietened and went back in line. Pippin could feel the rope tightening around his neck, burning and twisting. He flinched at the fiery pain hanging around his dirty neck, but then he felt himself being flung to the ground. Not thinking he picked himself up and shook the dirt off himself. Sarnak growled angrily and lifted Pippin up by the neck.

Bringing the hobbit up to his head level, Sarnak began to talk in a cold threatening voice.

"Ugluk ordered us for miles and miles, never thinking about us but only about what Sauruman would do to reward him. Well I'll give him something to think about. The blame will not come on us if the halflings get damaged, oh no, it will come back on him, he is the leader, well for now." He laughed to himself and Pippin panted from being strangled for too long. Then Sarnak dropped him carelessly and walked away. He sat on a tree trunk and tried to look like a mighty orc warrior, he made his slanted eyes go smaller and then signalled for the orcs to begin.

Pippin swung his head around at the advancing orcs; this was surely the end for him. Panicking a bit he tripped over as the orcs got nearer and nearer. Then suddenly one grabbed him and threw the small body against a large oak tree, which winded Pippin as he slumped to the floor.

"I want him to be black and blue by the time it gets light," Sarnak roared watching in delight as the orcs continued to beat up Pippin. Out of nowhere an orc produced a whip. He brang it down hard on Pippins back, making the hobbit scream in pain. It continued for at least 10 minutes, every lash leaving a trail of thin blood down the hobbits back and chest. Finally Sarnak got bored of Pippin who was crumpled up on the floor.

His ribs had been cracked or bruised, his back patterned black band blue except for the blood and it felt like he had broken a wrist. Without warning Sarnak delivered a vicious kick to the stomach-sending Pippin into an unimaginable world of pain, then he blacked out.

Merry heard all of the screaming cease, he got even more worried than he was, then he saw it….

The band of orcs emerged from the trees dragging a broken unconscious body behind them, Merry at once recognised who it was.

"Pippin," he breathed.