Hmm. Could it be that ff.net is working? *crosses fingers* soon find out. Still not mine.
Fight Music.
Waking next morning I found the 'Sues' were already prepared for battle. I smiled amused at the thought that me, the biggest wimp that I know was going to war. Then I frowned and muttered, "Which part of me exactly thought that this was a good idea?"
"We are ready." Stated one of the 'Sues'. "Here." She said handing me a bow and a quiver full of arrows.
"Err. Thanks." I said half- heartedly looking at what I had just been given. I couldn't remember the last time I had a bow in my hands. Suffice to say it was a very long time ago and the target was not a living, breathing creature.
I glanced around the room and watched my comrades as they picked up their own weapons and started to leave the room in formation. I looked back down at the bow and arrows and shrugged. "What the hell." I muttered, "Can't be that hard can it?"
As I made my way towards the door I noticed a carving knife that one of the 'Sues' had been using the night before. "What the fuck?" I asked rhetorically as I picked it up and shoved it in my bag. "Just in case."
***
We marched into the forest. Unsurprisingly the 'Sues' were excellent trackers.
"Obviously searching for Merry and Pippin as the tenth member of the fellowship does have some advantages." I muttered beneath my breath almost silently.
Finally we found what we were looking for. We were searching for the tracks of the creatures that had plotted to overthrow the elves. And there were the tracks. Headed towards the Palace.
"Dammit!" I exclaimed as I realised that the creatures were going probably going to attack the Palace. I turned to the 'Sues' "Looks like we're going back to where we started ladies."
As one the formation of 'Sues' turned back to the Palace and at a very quick march, which I had trouble keeping up with we moved back towards the Palace.
***
This time however we were a lot faster. As I tried desperately to keep up with the 'Sues' I realised that this was because we were not trying to hide our movements, as we were when we were looking for the creatures. Good thing we aren't hiding from anything this time, my brain commented with a snigger, we sound like a herd of rampaging elephants.
"Or should that be oliphants?" I puffed aloud as I jogged to keep up with the 'Sues' "Aww who the fuck cares?" I groaned as the pace increased.
***
Finally we made it back to the Palace. And not a moment too soon. Battle had already commenced between the creatures and the elves. Both the dwarves and men helped the elves. Unfortunately the creatures were far more powerful than they looked and their leader had cast a spell that made the creatures look like those that they were attacking.
"Must be the same spell he used on Thingy." I noted. "Hmm." This would take some planning.
***
Gathering the 'Sues' around me I held my own short council of war. Within minutes I realised that as we were not original inhabitants of Middle earth we could see through the spell that had been cast.
"Convenient." I said aloud. "Right then ladies. Shall we?"
And with those words I launched into what was probably the worst war Middle Earth had seen since, well, since the last war in Middle Earth.
***
I found I was actually not that bad at firing my arrows. Although I tended to shoot to hurt, not shoot to kill. And anyway, once the creatures were injured the spell seemed to lose its potency and those who were fighting could see what they really were.
Of course if I had thought about it I would have realised just how stupid I was being. But those kind of thoughts only come with hindsight unfortunately.
"You will die for this fangirl!" Declared the leader of the creatures as he saw that I was leading the 'Sues'.
And me with more stupidity than I could have ever imagined that I possessed said something that I'd always wanted to say.
"Come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough!"
Idiot.
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Shorter chapter today folks. Am tired and am trying to plan next few chapters ahead – for a change. Last one will (hopefully) be chapter 50. With any luck. And I have to have a meeting with my brother later *groans* soooo not looking forward to that… R&R please!
