Whatever happened to Merry and Pippin?
Authors NOTE: I know all of you have been reviewing and there is this girl (I think) who is criticising my work. Let me tell you something second breakfast ( ) , this story is MEANT to be my own version and I wanna write it different to the book so DEAL WITH IT!!! Ok that's me done, enjoy da story…
1 Chapter 8- Beginning of the End
Merry stared up at the dark walls closing in on them. He shivered more with fear than cold. Pippin was not far away, whimpering every so often with the large cut across his back still sending shooting pains from Sarnak's orders. It had been over 2 hours since they had watched Legolas' escape and the hobbit's hearts had risen a little, but Ugluk had sent a few orcs away from the pack to retrieve him.
"Do you think Legolas will get away," Pippin asked moving to a crouching position in the shadows next to Merry.
" I don't know Pip, I don't know."
Aragorn stood near the limp body of Legolas, his dwarf friend, Gimli, crouched by the elf, wrapping his chest and legs with bandages. He sighed as he found more cuts or bruises on his broken friend. Aragorn stared at the blackness surrounding them, he was expecting something to come, something to collect Legolas, and then his plan would be in action.
"Why do you stand there as if waiting for something?" Gimli asked the ranger as he let out a tremendous sigh, "I wait for the orcs to come and collect Legolas," Aragorn replied, not daring to take his eyes off the darkened woods.
"Why! We should go and get Legolas to safety, but you want us to wait here for certain doom!" Gimli cried jumping up in a defensive manner.
"I do not wish that my ear friend," began Aragorn kindly, "I want the orcs to come this way so we can find a path to Merry and Pippin, if you haven't noticed our other two friends have been kidnapped," Aragorn finished, making the last words stand out. Gimli replied by nodding reluctantly and carrying on with treating Legolas.
Legolas' eyes snapped open and he jolted up at the thought that he had slept while he was in the hands of orcs, " Merry, Pippin!" he shouted before falling silent and taking time in gathering his surroundings. His eyes fell upon Gimli and Aragorn, who watched him silently, he forced a smile and stood up wobbly.
"Aragorn, Gimli what has happened here? Are the halflings alright?" the elf asked briefly scanning the area for two small figures.
"We do not know, Aragorn and I found you in these woods, Merry and Pippin are still with the orcs," Gimli reported. Legolas thought for a moment, he picked up a bow and quiver full of arrows that was lying near to him and announced,
"I will find them, if I remember rightly they are not far from here." Aragorn nodded in agreement and took up his sword and cloak. Gimli did the same.
"Lets hunt some orc," he stated
An Uruk hai pushed Merry up and prodded him with a long but stubby finger,
"Not long now," he snarled, Merry glared back at him but trembled in fear of the words. It was true Mordor was very near, in fact, Ugluk had even said that they were in Mordor woods. He thought about Frodo and Sam, then about Gimli and Aragorn-they could be dead by now, then about Legolas and finally Pippin. If Legolas was dead, then that would most likely mean that he and Pippin were the last ones alive, he hoped not.
Suddenly, the group stopped dead in their tracks, an orc right in front of Pippin had fallen, an arrow deeply embedded into his thick neck. Some orcs scattered but Ugluk calmed them and ordered for a search. Then another two orcs fell, this time on the other side of the troop. It went on and every time orcs fell and never got up, until it was only Ugluk and about 40 or so orcs left.
"Go, deliver those halflings to Sauruman, you and you stay here with me," Ugluk ordered pointing to 2 orcs nearest to him. The 3 remaining orcs waited for the others to go before leaping through the trees after the intruders.They found Legolas waiting, arrows and bow at the ready. Aragorn and Gimli had slipped off after the escaping orcs
Authors NOTE: I know all of you have been reviewing and there is this girl (I think) who is criticising my work. Let me tell you something second breakfast ( ) , this story is MEANT to be my own version and I wanna write it different to the book so DEAL WITH IT!!! Ok that's me done, enjoy da story…
1 Chapter 8- Beginning of the End
Merry stared up at the dark walls closing in on them. He shivered more with fear than cold. Pippin was not far away, whimpering every so often with the large cut across his back still sending shooting pains from Sarnak's orders. It had been over 2 hours since they had watched Legolas' escape and the hobbit's hearts had risen a little, but Ugluk had sent a few orcs away from the pack to retrieve him.
"Do you think Legolas will get away," Pippin asked moving to a crouching position in the shadows next to Merry.
" I don't know Pip, I don't know."
Aragorn stood near the limp body of Legolas, his dwarf friend, Gimli, crouched by the elf, wrapping his chest and legs with bandages. He sighed as he found more cuts or bruises on his broken friend. Aragorn stared at the blackness surrounding them, he was expecting something to come, something to collect Legolas, and then his plan would be in action.
"Why do you stand there as if waiting for something?" Gimli asked the ranger as he let out a tremendous sigh, "I wait for the orcs to come and collect Legolas," Aragorn replied, not daring to take his eyes off the darkened woods.
"Why! We should go and get Legolas to safety, but you want us to wait here for certain doom!" Gimli cried jumping up in a defensive manner.
"I do not wish that my ear friend," began Aragorn kindly, "I want the orcs to come this way so we can find a path to Merry and Pippin, if you haven't noticed our other two friends have been kidnapped," Aragorn finished, making the last words stand out. Gimli replied by nodding reluctantly and carrying on with treating Legolas.
Legolas' eyes snapped open and he jolted up at the thought that he had slept while he was in the hands of orcs, " Merry, Pippin!" he shouted before falling silent and taking time in gathering his surroundings. His eyes fell upon Gimli and Aragorn, who watched him silently, he forced a smile and stood up wobbly.
"Aragorn, Gimli what has happened here? Are the halflings alright?" the elf asked briefly scanning the area for two small figures.
"We do not know, Aragorn and I found you in these woods, Merry and Pippin are still with the orcs," Gimli reported. Legolas thought for a moment, he picked up a bow and quiver full of arrows that was lying near to him and announced,
"I will find them, if I remember rightly they are not far from here." Aragorn nodded in agreement and took up his sword and cloak. Gimli did the same.
"Lets hunt some orc," he stated
An Uruk hai pushed Merry up and prodded him with a long but stubby finger,
"Not long now," he snarled, Merry glared back at him but trembled in fear of the words. It was true Mordor was very near, in fact, Ugluk had even said that they were in Mordor woods. He thought about Frodo and Sam, then about Gimli and Aragorn-they could be dead by now, then about Legolas and finally Pippin. If Legolas was dead, then that would most likely mean that he and Pippin were the last ones alive, he hoped not.
Suddenly, the group stopped dead in their tracks, an orc right in front of Pippin had fallen, an arrow deeply embedded into his thick neck. Some orcs scattered but Ugluk calmed them and ordered for a search. Then another two orcs fell, this time on the other side of the troop. It went on and every time orcs fell and never got up, until it was only Ugluk and about 40 or so orcs left.
"Go, deliver those halflings to Sauruman, you and you stay here with me," Ugluk ordered pointing to 2 orcs nearest to him. The 3 remaining orcs waited for the others to go before leaping through the trees after the intruders.They found Legolas waiting, arrows and bow at the ready. Aragorn and Gimli had slipped off after the escaping orcs