Yes…I'm finally updating! I just saw "The Two Towers" (GREAT movie by the way. Lots of Pippin) so I promised you all I would update this story when I saw the movie and that's what I'm doing! Some of it will go by the movie and some of it will go by the book (the movie changed some and took out some of the good stuff from the book) okay. Now I'm babbling. So just read, enjoy and please review! Y'all were so good to me with "Why Am I Here?"…I love you guys! Hehehehe.

Chapter Two

            The band of Uruk-Hai trampled through the open land, two of them carrying Merry and Pippin on their backs. Pippin looked around at his surroundings. The Uruk-Hai that carried Merry was running along side Pippin's Uruk-Hai. "Merry!" he called out but Merry was barley conscious. "Merry!" he tried again.

            The head Uruk-Hai stopped, as did the rest. "What do you smell?" an Orc asked.

            "Man flesh," it replied.

            "Aragorn," Pippin whispered.

            "Keep moving!" the Uruk-Hai ordered. They started again.

            Pippin looked down. Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Phoenix, had to find the trail again. An idea popped into his head. A brilliant idea. He pressed his chin to his chest and started to bite at the Elven broach from Lothlorien. He nipped and chewed at it until it loosened from his cloak. He held it in his mouth for a moment then spit it out onto the ground.

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            Her muscles were sore and her lungs ached for air. They were close to the Uruk-Hai or at least that's what Legolas had been telling. They had been running almost nonstop for the last two days.

            Strider and Legolas ran ahead searching for signs of the Orcs and Uruk-Hai. Phoenix didn't feel so bad for lagging in the back. Gimli was faring worse than she. At least she was only a few paces behind the man and elf.

            Strider pressed his ear to one of the rocks. He could hear the Uruk-Hai running at a fast pace. "They have caught our sent. Let us move on." He and Legolas began running again. Phoenix sighed and went after them. Gimli huffed behind her. She held onto the sword that was in a belt she made for herself.

            Gimli huffed and puffed about something about dwarfs not being able to run or something of the sort. Phoenix wasn't really paying attention. Her only focus was trying to find a sign that Pippin and Merry were still alive.

            She paused for a moment, crouching to the ground. She wasn't used to running this much especially in her Hobbit body. Even as a human she didn't think she could have ran this much.

            She looked at the horizon in front of her. Strider and Legolas were still jogging; Legolas a head of Strider. Phoenix looked down at the ground. They were standing in the path of footprints left by the Uruk-Hai and Orcs. Something under the brown, ripped grass caught her eye. She brushed the grass away and saw the green leaf shaped broach. She felt her stomach fill with butterflies. "Strider!" she yelled. Strider and Legolas stopped. "Strider!" she stood up and ran to him.

            "What is it Phoenix?"

            "Look!" she handed him the broach. He observed it carefully.

            "Not would someone be so careless with a gift from Lothlorien. Where did you find this?"

            "Back there," she pointed. "It had been trampled on by the Uruk-Hai."

            "They aren't very far a head of us. Only half a day,"

            "There is hope then?" she asked.

            "There has always been hope," he assured, placing his hand on her shoulder. "We will find them. Let us go." He began to walk towards Legolas but stopped. "Maybe you should hold onto this." He tossed her the broach. She smiled.

            "Come on Gimli!" she yelled happily. She had a new found strength and caught up with Legolas and Strider.