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HARRY POTTER AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
Chapter Two : A CHANCE ENCOUNTER
Hagrid, Harry and Ron headed off after Firenze into the Forbidden Forest. Hagrid was annoyed and concerned about the unicorn, Harry was wondering if they'd have to come back for the detention they'd get for being late to class. Ron was wanting to know if they'd come out alive and if the hunter was dangerous. Firenze turned to them politly and bowed.
" I'm sorry but I must leave you now, good luck." Secretly he knew that DBZ was on and was going to go watch it...(A/N we put this in for Raen ^_^). Firenze disappeared into the forest leaving them very much alone.
"*cough* umm, Hagrid?" Ron's voice broke the uneasy silence.
" Shhh." Hagrid held up a hand and they saw a shape, too solid to be a shadow, run past them and disappear the way they'd come. Hagrid ran on at an incredable speed thinking that it had already got to the unicorn. Harry and Ron stood there looking around them.
" Let's go back Ron. Let's go back right now." Harry patted Ron's shoulder nervously and started edging back the way they'd come. They stopped and stared around, wondering how to get back. They heard a twig snap behind them and whipped around, wands raised, then opened their mouths and yelled.
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Merry waited until Aragorn and Gimli had gone far enough ahead of him, then turned and motioned to Pippin.
Putting his mouth close to Pippin's ear, he whispered, "This looks like the perfect sort of forest to find mushrooms in!" Pippin nodded in agreement, licking his lips hungrily. Slowly, the two crept off into the trees, searching in all the best mushrooming places. Far off they could hear Legolas' singing and headed in his direction, in case Aragorn spotted them (so they had a good excuse). Suddenly the singing came to an abrupt end and the two young hobbits discovered how very lost they had got themselves.
"Uh oh," whispered Pippin, but Merry just smiled and dived down to the foot of a tree.
"Mushrooms!" he hissed to Pippin happily. But Pippin was looking up at two dark figures coming slowly towards them. Neither figure had spotted them yet because of their grey elven cloaks. Pippin stepped backwards and tapped Merry on the shoulder, but as Merry stood up he stood on a twig making it crack under his bare foot. The two figures spun around to face them, pulling what looked like sharp pointy sticks out of their voluminous cloaks and pointing them at the hobbits. The shadow of the trees was too great, so the hobbits couldn't see their opponents very well, but they pulled their swords out anyway. Suddenly a thought struck Pippin.
"NAZGUL!" He and Merry looked at each other and then back at the two dark figures, opened their mouths and yelled.
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Aragorn looked around. He could hear yelling, very very loudly, and not too far away. Looking back at Gimli, he saw the absense of the two hobbits. Gimli looked grim. Without a word they ran towards the noise. What they came upon, they didn't stop to think about. Seeing the two dark figures, they jumped forward and banged them on the heads. The two figures dropped to the ground like stones. To Aragorns's surprise, when they did stop, they saw the two were just children! The two hobbits stopped yelling and stared. Merry's mouth opened and shut a few times at Aragorn's stern face.
"They had pointy sticks!"
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Harry blearily opened one eye, and saw Madame Pomfrey's face looking down at him. He groaned and opened both eyes. His head hurt horribly. Madame Pomfrey gave him some chocolate and then bustled over to where Ron lay on the bed next to him. Harry hastlily stowed the chocolate in his mouth before sitting up. Hagrid sat on a chair next to his bed, keeping his large bulk to himself as much as he could.
"Wmmm hmmnmm?" asked Harry.
"Wha'?" asked Hagrid. Harry swallowed his chocolate.
"I said, what happened?" Hagrid looked concerned.
"Well, I was after the hunter, you un'erstand, an' I heard yer yellin'. So I hurried back as fast as I could go! And when I got there, the two of yer was jus' lyin' on the ground! Yer've suffered a bit o' a bump to yer head. What happened ter you?" Hagrid asked. Harry frowned, concentrating. That hurt his head so he spoke.
"Me and Ron were going to go back to the castle, but we weren't sure which way to go. We went for a little distance when we heard a twig crack behind us. We turned around and," Harry looked up at Hagrid, "there were two small figures, like gnomes only bigger and prettier. They were hardly visible against the shadow, but they whipped out swords. One of them yelled something I didn't understand, and they both started yelling. We yelled too, in fright, but they were yelling for backup, because the next thing I knew, I was hit on the head and I fell down. And that's all."
"Really," said a soft voice next to Harry's bed. Harry looked around. Dumbledore stood there, his eyes a little concerned. "What did they yell?" Harry concentrated, but he couldn't remember.
"Nazgul. They said Nazgul," Ron piped up. Dumbledore looked a bit afraid for a second, and then recovered and let out a little laugh.
The door of the hospital wing swung open and Professor McGonagall strode in.
"Sorry to disturb you, Professor, but I was told you'd be here. Two Griffindors are missing," she said shortly.
"Who?" asked Dumbledore.
"Hermione Granger and Ginny Weasley, Professor," she said. Harry and Ron sat up with an exclamation. Hagrid looked upset.
"It's all my fault, I should never have left 'er there," he wailed, fat tears dripping down his face. "I left 'er by my cabin and I left them two alone in the Forest! Oh dear oh dear!" he cried.
"But that doesn't explain Ginny!" cried Ron. We left Hermione there, but I haven't seen Ginny since breakfast!"
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Ginny grumbled to herslf as she scrabbled about and ran at the same time. Finally she managed to get her bag done up just in time to be swung off her feet and have a hand, gentle but strong, placed over her mouth.
" Hush and I won't have to hurt you." She relaxed instantly and he let her go. She spun around to see a tall fair haired stranger standing in front of her.
"Wha...Who....wha.." she tried weakly to list of the questions flooding into her head.
"shh, I'm not meant to be here and by the speed you were going I suppose you're not ment to be here either." Legolas' voice was full of laughter and light. Ginny suddenly felt like she trusted him with all her heart and had done so for years.
"I'm Ginny Weasly." she managed to say at last.
"Legolas Greenleaf, Prince of the Elves of Mirkwood," he replied with an elven bow which Ginny returned. " Come now, just answer me a few things and ..." he was cut off short by some harsh words not far away that Ginny didn't hear. He turned his head in the direction of Hagrids cabin. Taking Ginny's arm he whisked her away.
He stood still behind a girl talking to Sam and Frodo. He watched Gollum disappear into the forest before the human maid in front of him turned around.
"So, Sam, Frodo, we meet again already." With a few neat steps he came to the hobbits' sides and left Ginny to talk to Hermione while he had a quiet word in elvish with Frodo and then in common tounge with Sam.
Finally he turned to the girls and opened his mouth to say something, but heard someone coming through the forest and swept the girls and hobbits away.
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A/N: Well That's the end of Chapter 2! Ya like? Good! We'll write more then! Coming soon: Gandalf! More Merry and Pippin! Draco Malfoy and his gang! A star-studded line-up for you soon!