(Authors note: I just wanted to thank my girlfriend for helping me revise and edit this and the next three chapters.)

When Mithcham got outside he over heard some elders talking. He found out that uruk-hai and orcs were heading their way. He was so excited, for he had always wanted to see an orc and also to fight one. It would also give him a chance to see if his dagger really has Sting. Mithcham was so excited that he didn't bother listening to what else they had to say. He then ran off to tell his friends Dolencamiel, Alakaha, and Maikahyandowen about what he heard.

When Mithcham the spot he and his friends agreed to meet, his friends were nowhere to be seen. Right away he feared his friends had gone off with out him, because they had made a plan to spend the day hiking together and he was probable a few minutes late and he has a history of being late. Just as he was thinking that, he saw his friends coming up the path. Alakaha and Maikahyandowen were hand in hand, and Dolencamiel was next to them looking like she felt out of place. Once Dolencamiel saw Mithcham she ran up to him and hugged him, then standing next to him Mithcham put his arm around her, and then Dolencamiel rested her head on his shoulder. Alakaha and Maikahyandowen could now be seen with their arms around each other's shoulders.

"Hurry up you two, I have great news," Mithcham called to them.

Alakaha and Maikahyandowen showed no signs of moving any faster.

"Well," Maikahyandowen said when she and Alakaha got there.

"You're not going to believe this but, orcs are coming," Mithcham replied.

"THEY ARE?!?" Alakaha asked with great excitement.

"Yes they are," replied Mithcham with a half smile on his face.

Both Dolencamiel and Maikahyandowen did nothing except for Dolencamiel, who was trying to hold back tears. For Dolencamiel and Maikahyandowen's parents were killed by orcs during an attack and Dolencamiel did not wont to loose her only love.

"Now I believe I have a secret weapon we can use against the orcs. Last night I was walking in the woods and I came across this dagger. When I found it there was writing all around it, but when I looked at it this morning the writing was gone," Mithcham explained.

"Could it be? Could you really have found Sting, or at least another another dagger of the same origin?" Maikahyandowen asked.

"What ever it is I fell it is going to help us," Mithcham answered.

Then silently the group went off onto there hike deep into the woods.