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*GASP!* I'm such a bad bad authoress!!! I didn't do disclaimer on the last few chapters...*slaps self* Alright, I admit, I only put the disclaimer up on every chapter because I think it's cool...FORGIVE ME O MIGHTY READERS! *bows*
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DISCLAMER (yay!): Katie: *sobs uncontrollably and hugs Legolas action figure and anything else she has having to do with him.* I..don't.own.ANY OF THEM!!! WAHHHHH!!!!!!
Emily: *pats Katie's shoulder, look of terror on her face* She'll be fine.I think.
Legolas: *_* Get on with it crazy fangirl.
Katie: *stops sobbing and looks up.* Oh yeah. Well, here it is. R&R peeps. Remember, if you don't, you must sleep sometime!! *cackles evilly* This is my first fanfic so don't be too harsh.Hey.COME BACK HERE ELF!!
Legolas: *tries to get away. Katie attacks and stuffs him in her backpack.*
Emily: *looks at Katie* How come I can't do that to Aragorn?
Aragorn: Because I'll kill you if you do.
Emily: Okay.*shifty glance. Stuffs unsuspecting Ranger in her backpack.*
Special Note From the Author: This fanfiction is a hazard to your health and if you are a pregnant woman or are a very small child I suggest you not read this because it may just get scary.I know the begin is a little boring, but work with me. I'll have more random outbursts and such as I go along. I hope. Oh, and, "Good morning sunshine daisies, say hello to the thunder heads waiting to strike you dead!"
This also doesn't follow the movie or story plot. It's a little bit of both really. Sometimes I just add in whatever I feel like. You don't like it, DON'T READ IT.
Chapter Ten: Wanted - Lost Hobbit
"Hey...I can't feel my ankles anymore...you wanna let me down now?" I pleaded. Legolas and Emily looked up from their seat on the ground. Then they looked at each other and sighed.
"FINE, you heartless pack of slime," Emily said. "You're letting down all the little children in the world, I hope you know that. They want toys for Christmas, Santa, not pictures of you sitting on your arse eating Girl Scout cookies." I stared at her.
"Where did that come from?" I asked, noticing Legolas was drawing one of this knives. "Can you let me down gently? Please?" He didn't reply, and hacked me down with one swift move. I lay in a heap on the ground, glaring at him. Stupid Elf. That's, what, the fourth time I've called him that?
"There. You're down," Emily said.
"I can see that," I replied, my voice thick with irritation. Just then, Boromir stumbled back into camp. I got to my feet and followed Emily and Legolas toward the others.
"Where have you been Boromir? Have you seen Frodo?" Aragorn asked suspiciously.
"I- I did meet Frodo. I tried to convince him to come to Minas Tirith. I became angry, and he-he disappeared. Never have I seen such a thing. He must have used the Ring," Boromir replied guiltily. Aragorn looked at him in disgust.
"Begging your pardon, Strider, but I have a feelin' Mr. Frodo is about to leave us. He knows we would follow him to Mordor. Galadriel spoke with him in Lothlórien. I'm thinkin' he's going to go on his own!" Sam said suddenly.
"You know Frodo best, Sam," Aragorn replied. "I have a feeling you are right about this." Before he could take hold of the situation, Merry, Pippin, and Sam all dashed off to find their friend. Legolas and Gimli did the same, and I, grabbing my bow and arrows (just because I can't tell them what's going to happen doesn't mean I can't be prepared), dutifully followed the Elf. Aragorn glared at Boromir.
"Boromir, go and protect Merry and Pippin, even if you can do nothing else right!" he cried and beckoned Emily to follow him as he ran after Sam.
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Legolas led the way for the most part. He and Gimli called out to Frodo to no avail. Big surprise that the hobbit did just pop out and scream, "SURPRISE!" (note the sarcasm). We eventually came to a small break in all the trees. Gimli sat down, heaving a great sigh.
"We've lost Frodo!" he cried mournfully.
"You make it sound like Frodo's a dog that's run away from home," I muttered, hearing Legolas snicker a little behind me. "Let's all just put up signs that say, 'LOST HOBBIT---Cash reward, has One Ring around neck--- If found, please escort to Mount Doom.'"
"Do not give up yet, Gimli," the Elf said. His words obviously had no comfort to the Dwarf, because he let out another sigh. I glared at him.
"Fine, you two can sit on your fat arses, and I'll go look for Frodo myself," I declared and started to march off. No soon had I taken five steps did a large black, burly shape charged out. *BEEP* Orcs. I was taken by surprised, and jumped back, falling on my rear with a thump. Legolas started launching arrows at the troop of Orcs. Gimli charged forward and began to hack the heads of several Orcs while I stood up, retreating a few steps while I pulled my bow out and loaded an arrow onto it. Here goes.
My arrow veered downward and firmly lodged itself in the Orc's...well...never mind, I'm not going to EVEN go there. I had originally been aiming at the Orc's head, but I guess it landed in a good place anyway.
Most of my arrows either hit their destined target on the Orc, or somewhere else equally fatal. I managed to kill six of them (for the ones I managed to count anyway) and injure three. It was a start. A large part of the troop had already been taken down. Legolas grabbed my shoulder and motioned me to follow him and Gimli.
"Come, we must aid Aragorn and Boromir," he said shortly and took off at a run with Gimli. I bolted after them. I, personally, didn't want to be left behind and get lost in a forest creeping with Orcs.
We found Aragorn, who was taking on a mass of Orcs all by his lonesome. Well, there was Emily to help. Even if she could pick off some of the Orcs, I wouldn't have placed too much hope in her. In fact, I wouldn't have placed much hope in me either. But still, as long as we didn't hit any of them, the other three welcomed our help. Jack and Kirby (Emily's dogs, for you poor readers with BAD short term memories, remember that children) were launching themselves at any Orc his could find, closing their teeth on their throats. I think Emily's been training them to kill in her spare time...
Something came whizzing near me out of the corner of my vision. I didn't stop to look at it, because at that moment, a VERY large Orc decided to throw himself on me. He reached for one of his knives, and started to move it to my throat. I struggled from my position on the ground (laying on my back with him on top of me). Pushing my hands up with all my might, I shoved the creature off and grabbed his own knife, which had fallen out of his hand. Moving as fast as I possibly could, I started to rammed the sharp object into HIS throat. See how you like it, filthy moron.
Suddenly, I was thrown back onto my side, and the Orc was coming after me again. He now had the knife, and my bow was too far away from me. Still, I stretch my fingers out, trying to touch the weapon only inches from my grasp. The Orc laughed, an awful sound that made me cringe, and started to quickly raise the knife.
Then, he let out a strangled cry, and began struggling to breathe. He scrambled away on all four, screeching angrily. He fell down next to me, dying. With a malicious grin, he jabbed the knife into my arm. THAT LITTLE *BEEP*!!!!!!
"You flippin' retard!" I cried and looked down to see blood trickling from the cut. Someone reached down and pulled me up. I turned my head gingerly to see Legolas ripping a piece of cloth from his tunic. He swiftly tied it tightly around my arm.
"Keep this on it to stop the bleeding," he only said before disappearing into the throng of Orcs again, knives in his hands. Muttering curses to all Orcs, I grabbed my bow, kicked the vile thing that attacked me, and stormed off to make the idiots pay.
I nailed four Orcs before they started to scatter. I didn't think they'd back down that easily. Of course, we did bring down quite a few. The gouge on my arm was starting to numb or something, because I didn't really feel pain anymore from it, despite the large wet, red spot on the cloth. I straggled over to Emily, who was yanking her sword free of a dead Orc.
"You're hurt," she commented and wiped the black blood from her blade.
"I'm fine, it doesn't hurt much anymore," I said. Aragorn looked up, a grimace on his face.
"They're going to search for the hobbits," he muttered, referring to the fleeing Orcs, and then said in a louder voice, "Legolas, Gimli, follow me; we're going to hold off the Orcs. Emily, Katie, I need you to find Frodo and help him stay hidden in any way you can." Both Elf and Dwarf nodded. Jack whined at Aragorn's feet, butting his head against his foot as to say, "You aren't going anywhere without me." Looks like the furry creatures have made friends with the extra-terrestrials. I fingered my bow nervously, licking my dry lips.
"Hey, what happens if we die?" Emily asked.
"Then we'll mourn for you. Now, hurry! And do try to come back alive," Legolas added before darting off with the other two. I stood still for a few seconds, then jerked back to reality.
"C'mon, Emily," I said, motioning her to follow. "We can go to the shore of the river and watch."
"Yeah, we're watching Frodo get to safety," she said and grinned. We both took off, not wanting to be caught by any lost Orcs, Kirby following us.
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We went back to shore and wait for Frodo, telling each other to not say anything, so it'd change nothing that was supposed to happen. What harm could that be? We crouched silently shadows of a tall tree, watching Frodo. He was standing at the edge of the water, holding the Ring out. You had to feel sorry for him, but you also had to wonder why he always held the Ring out in the open and then go into a trance. I mean, God, any Orc could just walk by and take it without him even noticing.
Oddly, I found myself hypnotized by the swinging gold chain looped through the Ring. Do you ever start watching something really glittery or bright or something and then become entranced by it? That was what was happening to me. He finally slipped the Ring back into his pocket (bye bye shinny, shimmery, glittery chain!) and pushed a boat out.
Kirby shot out from behind Emily, barking like mad. The dog catapulted into the boat, looking up innocently at a dumbfound Frodo. The hobbit looked behind him and I jumped back deeper into the shadows. Emily, however, had different plans. She started to crawl out of the bushes, and I grabbed the back of her shirt just as she called, "Kir-"
"SHUT UP!" I hissed loudly in her ear. "Do you want him to hear us??" Emily whimpered.
"But, Katie, Kirby's going with him!"
"Kirby can take care of himself." Emily sniffed but didn't start crying. "Frodo and Sam get back alive, so Kirby will too. If those midgets can do it, then a dog can. Okay?" She nodded and creeped backward, still sniffing a little. I sighed quietly. She quieted down and I felt her grow calmer.
As Frodo was rowing out into the lake, Sam bulleted out of the undergrowth, shouting his head off.
"Mr. Frodo!! WAIT FOR YOUR SAM!!" he cried and started trudging into the water. Emily stifled a snicker behind me and I heard her mutter something.
"'Meether Frodo!'" she mimicked in a disgusted tone. Okay, well, I guess someone still testy about the dog...
"Go back Sam!" Frodo was shouting. "I'm going to Mordor alone!" The scene played out before me, pretty much exactly as I remembered it. After about twenty minutes the two hobbits were making their way across the water. I breathed a sigh, sad that Sam was gone and I couldn't torment him anymore. I know, I have no heart. But I am justified, since he doesn't like me either.
I started to get up when something caught my attention. There was a dark shape flitting at the edge of the forest, heading for the water. My face broke into a grin as I recognized who it was. I poked Emily and pointed at him.
Gollum turned his head, and then suddenly saw Emily and I. His face took on a furious expression as he started coming toward me. I stepped out and watched him for a minute.
"Hey, Smeagol," I started but he threw himself on my, quietly screeching. "HEY! Wait a minute you deformed hobbit, I'm not going to do anything!" I tried to shove him off. He hissed and I poked my finger in his eye, causing him to jump off, rubbing his eye. I stood quickly, glaring at him.
"You didn't have to do that. I'm not going to attack you or anything," I said furiously to him.
"Then what wassss you going to do, we wonderssss," he said menacingly.
"Either have a decent conversation with you or go back and find Legolas and Aragorn," I said and he cringed at the Elf's name.
"Elves! Nassssty, bright eyes!" he muttered.
"Yeah, he's an annoying little bugger but I guess he's okay for an Elf," I said. Gollum narrowed his eyes.
"You won't hurt usss?" he asked carefully.
"No. Why would we? I mean, I wouldn't have gone as far at assaulting Katie, but I guess it comes with the character," Emily said.
"Who isss the mortals, we wondersss," he said. This could turn out fun. Aragorn is such a liar, he's not that much of a murdering scum.
"I guess you can call me Katie. Or Bart. And this is Emily, or Wally. Whichever names float your boat," I said slowly.
"We don't have any boatsss..." It was almost a question.
"It's an expression. It means whatever you prefer," Emily explained, but he didn't replied to this. "You know, where I come from you're famous."
"Famousss?"
"People really like you," I said with a sigh. Poor Gollum. He hardly knew anything about the outside world.
"Like me," Emily butted in. "I can sing your song!" And then she started to sing it.
"We only wish,
To catch a fish
So juicy sweet!"
Gollum stared at her. I shook my head, muttering mostly to myself to ignore the mental escapee on my left.
"Where doesss the mortals come from, we wondersss, yes my Precious." Then he started making that odd sound, you know, that one that goes, "gollum...gollum"
"The United States. You don't know where it is though." I didn't say much after this, because he was cocking his head to the side, as if trying to comprehend this piece of information.
"Doesss the mortals know where our Preciousss isss?" he hissed finally. I shook my head, lying. Sure, I was going to tell him that Frodo had the Ring. Even though he most likely already knew it, there's always hope that he didn't.
"Yesss, you doesss. You liesss!!" he screeched. I shielded my face with my hands. "No, we only know who has it. And he's gone now. Which you already know, so it's not much help to you," Emily said quickly, saving me.
"True, true," Gollum muttered. "How doess the mortals know?"
"It's hard to explain, Smeagol, so I'll just say I have inside information," was my answer. As I said this, someone skidded to a halt behind me. Gollum let out an ear-splitting shriek and scrambled away into the forest, ranting about nasty elves with bright eyes. I look behind me and saw Legolas, straightening himself from a very un-Elvish stance.
"Hey, I was having a conversation!" I cried and he glared at me.
"Then next time come back and tell us that before you run off and do another of your scatter-brained plots so I won't think you've been taken prisoner by Orcs!"
"What Orcs?" I said blankly and stupidly. Brain lock down. Freezing center of nervous system. Booee, booee.
"Elbereth save me!" he cried impatiently, regaining his composure. "The Orcs that nearly killed us?" I remembered then.
"Oh yeah."
"Did you find Frodo or Sam? Merry and Pippin have been captured by Orcs. And Boromir has been slain."
"We found Frodo," I said, pointing across the water where the two hobbits were already nearing the eastern shoreline. "But they'd already left." Legolas was silent for a moment, as if he really didn't want to hear this information. I thought I heard him cursing in Elvish under his breath.
"Do you know that I have been running all through the woods looking for you?" he finally asked, changing the subject, and I shook my head.
"You were actually worried I'd let those...fuzzy monkeys get me?"
"Yes." I didn't reply, because I didn't know why to say about his show of concern. He steered me further up the shoreline (with Emily following us), to where Aragorn and Gimli were standing, waiting for us.
"Good, you found them," Aragorn said, his voice sounding relieved. Jack was sitting at his feet, panting. Flecks of blood lined the edges of his mouth. Orc blood. Emily bent down to wipe it off of him, murmuring praise to the dog.
"Everyone is worried about us all of a sudden! What, do you think we're going to throw ourselves off the waterfall?" I asked reproachfully.
"It's highly likely and I'm not taking any chances," Aragorn replied and Emily scowled at him.
"So, old Bori's dead then?" I asked, mostly myself. Aragorn shot me an irritated look and-could it be-sadness.
"Yes," he said and then went silent. I guess I felt kind of sorry for him, but I hadn't really forgiven him for thinking that I was worthless because I was annoying, a "child", and a girl. I did, however, wish him, in my mind, a save journey to his afterlife, whatever that may be.
"If I was in your shoes I'd zip your mouth about Boromir," Emily hissed in my ear. I nodded slowly. Aragorn began walking toward the place where our "cargo" had been placed, and we all followed him. Legolas went ahead and started to push the last boat into the water. I guess they already sent Boromir off the waterfall while we were chit chatting with Gollum.
"Hurry, Sam and Frodo have already reached the eastern shore," he said to Aragorn, who was sheathing a dagger. The Man looked up and didn't reply. "You mean not to follow them..." The sentence hung in the air until Aragorn spoke.
"Frodo's fate is no longer in my hands," came his short reply.
"Then let us face it, the Fellowship has failed," Gimli said mournfully.
"No, but you will if you keep acting grumpy and sad because you'll be dead by my hands," I muttered. Aragorn chose to ignore this comment.
"Not if we hold true to our friends," he said and looked from Legolas to Gimli.
"Hey, why aren't you looking at us? We've come this far, and we're not letting you guys get away now..." Emily said. This was also ignored.
"We won't let Merry and Pippin be tortured by Orcs, will we?" continued Aragorn and received two small nods of agreement from Elf and Dwarf.
"Sure, what do we need them for?" I said sarcastically, getting annoyed that no one was paying attention to me. "Are you guys going to really throw us off the waterfall or something?"
"Only if you don't hold your tongue, girl," Gimli grumbled.
"I DO have a name you know."
"And what might that be? The Worlds Largest Pain in the Arse?" Emily asked sweetly.
"Don't mix my name up with yours," I replied dryly. Jack yipped quietly, and I couldn't help but think he was agreeing with me.
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Kids...it's been fun...but...THIS IS NOT THE LAST CHAPTER!! BWHAHAHA...I'm sugar/caffeine high again, forgive me. I'm probably doing one or two more chapters after this. So fear not. And *gasp* guess what!?!? I'm doing TTT and RoTK! Aren't you all so lucky?
I would like to apologize for the fact that some of you awesome reviewers/readers wanted me to be nicer to Boromir but...*starts to cry* I can't!! I couldn't find it in my heart!!! I honestly dunno why I don't like him. He's just so...arrogant and stuff. However, rest in peace, small Boromir chap. I seriously DID think about making Boromir live but...It'd screw up the story too much, with when Fro Fro and ol' Sammy meet Faramir and blah blah blah.
You people better like this chapter by the way. *grumbles* Took me forever to sort it all out. It was VERY confusing. Emily kept reminding my of things that had to be put in and I kept adding things in myself and yada yada yada. This thing is SEVEN PAGES LONG ON MS WORD!! This chapter at least...GO ME! Anywayz, so be happy, even if it is boring or not very good or whatever you folks wanna call it. ^_^ And remember, all flames go to Bob. I may have to throw my poor ickle Bobby-wobby into Mount Doom to save him...But I suppose that's good a good thing. *happy happy grin*
CAtz: I am being overly mean to Boromir...but...yeah, I justified myself up above. Sowwy!! Please don't desert me...lol.
Surfer-Gurl: Yeah, last chappie was EXTREMELY pointless, but fun all the same. ^_^
Sabs: What? No caffine yet? CALL THE DOCTOR!! This is a crisis...lol, sorry. Thank you ever so much for your review! (i've done worse ones *grin* so don't worry)
Devil's little imp: lol, funny. ^_^
TASAKAPEOTKAUU: *snicker* I guess Gimlet does have anger managment problems...maybe we should call in a physciatrist? Legolas has to be a little evil...it happens when people get around me. My friend claims she used to be quiet and polite but now she bounces off the walls 24/7. Plus, tying me up is an unforgivable task. And *I* didn't kick him, Emily did. So you can go get mad at her. *innocent grin* But still, it's all part of war. The guinea pig and Sam thing is requested by the annoying editor I have who shall remain anonymous *hack hack* Emily *hack hack*. Me and Wally really did do this civilization project in 5th grade and made Migoem. There's this thing in there that says the paper clip is given only to the bravest people (Emily would NOT stop laughing when she read that part to our class). Hope that explains the Paper Clip. ^_^
*GASP!* I'm such a bad bad authoress!!! I didn't do disclaimer on the last few chapters...*slaps self* Alright, I admit, I only put the disclaimer up on every chapter because I think it's cool...FORGIVE ME O MIGHTY READERS! *bows*
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DISCLAMER (yay!): Katie: *sobs uncontrollably and hugs Legolas action figure and anything else she has having to do with him.* I..don't.own.ANY OF THEM!!! WAHHHHH!!!!!!
Emily: *pats Katie's shoulder, look of terror on her face* She'll be fine.I think.
Legolas: *_* Get on with it crazy fangirl.
Katie: *stops sobbing and looks up.* Oh yeah. Well, here it is. R&R peeps. Remember, if you don't, you must sleep sometime!! *cackles evilly* This is my first fanfic so don't be too harsh.Hey.COME BACK HERE ELF!!
Legolas: *tries to get away. Katie attacks and stuffs him in her backpack.*
Emily: *looks at Katie* How come I can't do that to Aragorn?
Aragorn: Because I'll kill you if you do.
Emily: Okay.*shifty glance. Stuffs unsuspecting Ranger in her backpack.*
Special Note From the Author: This fanfiction is a hazard to your health and if you are a pregnant woman or are a very small child I suggest you not read this because it may just get scary.I know the begin is a little boring, but work with me. I'll have more random outbursts and such as I go along. I hope. Oh, and, "Good morning sunshine daisies, say hello to the thunder heads waiting to strike you dead!"
This also doesn't follow the movie or story plot. It's a little bit of both really. Sometimes I just add in whatever I feel like. You don't like it, DON'T READ IT.
Chapter Ten: Wanted - Lost Hobbit
"Hey...I can't feel my ankles anymore...you wanna let me down now?" I pleaded. Legolas and Emily looked up from their seat on the ground. Then they looked at each other and sighed.
"FINE, you heartless pack of slime," Emily said. "You're letting down all the little children in the world, I hope you know that. They want toys for Christmas, Santa, not pictures of you sitting on your arse eating Girl Scout cookies." I stared at her.
"Where did that come from?" I asked, noticing Legolas was drawing one of this knives. "Can you let me down gently? Please?" He didn't reply, and hacked me down with one swift move. I lay in a heap on the ground, glaring at him. Stupid Elf. That's, what, the fourth time I've called him that?
"There. You're down," Emily said.
"I can see that," I replied, my voice thick with irritation. Just then, Boromir stumbled back into camp. I got to my feet and followed Emily and Legolas toward the others.
"Where have you been Boromir? Have you seen Frodo?" Aragorn asked suspiciously.
"I- I did meet Frodo. I tried to convince him to come to Minas Tirith. I became angry, and he-he disappeared. Never have I seen such a thing. He must have used the Ring," Boromir replied guiltily. Aragorn looked at him in disgust.
"Begging your pardon, Strider, but I have a feelin' Mr. Frodo is about to leave us. He knows we would follow him to Mordor. Galadriel spoke with him in Lothlórien. I'm thinkin' he's going to go on his own!" Sam said suddenly.
"You know Frodo best, Sam," Aragorn replied. "I have a feeling you are right about this." Before he could take hold of the situation, Merry, Pippin, and Sam all dashed off to find their friend. Legolas and Gimli did the same, and I, grabbing my bow and arrows (just because I can't tell them what's going to happen doesn't mean I can't be prepared), dutifully followed the Elf. Aragorn glared at Boromir.
"Boromir, go and protect Merry and Pippin, even if you can do nothing else right!" he cried and beckoned Emily to follow him as he ran after Sam.
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Legolas led the way for the most part. He and Gimli called out to Frodo to no avail. Big surprise that the hobbit did just pop out and scream, "SURPRISE!" (note the sarcasm). We eventually came to a small break in all the trees. Gimli sat down, heaving a great sigh.
"We've lost Frodo!" he cried mournfully.
"You make it sound like Frodo's a dog that's run away from home," I muttered, hearing Legolas snicker a little behind me. "Let's all just put up signs that say, 'LOST HOBBIT---Cash reward, has One Ring around neck--- If found, please escort to Mount Doom.'"
"Do not give up yet, Gimli," the Elf said. His words obviously had no comfort to the Dwarf, because he let out another sigh. I glared at him.
"Fine, you two can sit on your fat arses, and I'll go look for Frodo myself," I declared and started to march off. No soon had I taken five steps did a large black, burly shape charged out. *BEEP* Orcs. I was taken by surprised, and jumped back, falling on my rear with a thump. Legolas started launching arrows at the troop of Orcs. Gimli charged forward and began to hack the heads of several Orcs while I stood up, retreating a few steps while I pulled my bow out and loaded an arrow onto it. Here goes.
My arrow veered downward and firmly lodged itself in the Orc's...well...never mind, I'm not going to EVEN go there. I had originally been aiming at the Orc's head, but I guess it landed in a good place anyway.
Most of my arrows either hit their destined target on the Orc, or somewhere else equally fatal. I managed to kill six of them (for the ones I managed to count anyway) and injure three. It was a start. A large part of the troop had already been taken down. Legolas grabbed my shoulder and motioned me to follow him and Gimli.
"Come, we must aid Aragorn and Boromir," he said shortly and took off at a run with Gimli. I bolted after them. I, personally, didn't want to be left behind and get lost in a forest creeping with Orcs.
We found Aragorn, who was taking on a mass of Orcs all by his lonesome. Well, there was Emily to help. Even if she could pick off some of the Orcs, I wouldn't have placed too much hope in her. In fact, I wouldn't have placed much hope in me either. But still, as long as we didn't hit any of them, the other three welcomed our help. Jack and Kirby (Emily's dogs, for you poor readers with BAD short term memories, remember that children) were launching themselves at any Orc his could find, closing their teeth on their throats. I think Emily's been training them to kill in her spare time...
Something came whizzing near me out of the corner of my vision. I didn't stop to look at it, because at that moment, a VERY large Orc decided to throw himself on me. He reached for one of his knives, and started to move it to my throat. I struggled from my position on the ground (laying on my back with him on top of me). Pushing my hands up with all my might, I shoved the creature off and grabbed his own knife, which had fallen out of his hand. Moving as fast as I possibly could, I started to rammed the sharp object into HIS throat. See how you like it, filthy moron.
Suddenly, I was thrown back onto my side, and the Orc was coming after me again. He now had the knife, and my bow was too far away from me. Still, I stretch my fingers out, trying to touch the weapon only inches from my grasp. The Orc laughed, an awful sound that made me cringe, and started to quickly raise the knife.
Then, he let out a strangled cry, and began struggling to breathe. He scrambled away on all four, screeching angrily. He fell down next to me, dying. With a malicious grin, he jabbed the knife into my arm. THAT LITTLE *BEEP*!!!!!!
"You flippin' retard!" I cried and looked down to see blood trickling from the cut. Someone reached down and pulled me up. I turned my head gingerly to see Legolas ripping a piece of cloth from his tunic. He swiftly tied it tightly around my arm.
"Keep this on it to stop the bleeding," he only said before disappearing into the throng of Orcs again, knives in his hands. Muttering curses to all Orcs, I grabbed my bow, kicked the vile thing that attacked me, and stormed off to make the idiots pay.
I nailed four Orcs before they started to scatter. I didn't think they'd back down that easily. Of course, we did bring down quite a few. The gouge on my arm was starting to numb or something, because I didn't really feel pain anymore from it, despite the large wet, red spot on the cloth. I straggled over to Emily, who was yanking her sword free of a dead Orc.
"You're hurt," she commented and wiped the black blood from her blade.
"I'm fine, it doesn't hurt much anymore," I said. Aragorn looked up, a grimace on his face.
"They're going to search for the hobbits," he muttered, referring to the fleeing Orcs, and then said in a louder voice, "Legolas, Gimli, follow me; we're going to hold off the Orcs. Emily, Katie, I need you to find Frodo and help him stay hidden in any way you can." Both Elf and Dwarf nodded. Jack whined at Aragorn's feet, butting his head against his foot as to say, "You aren't going anywhere without me." Looks like the furry creatures have made friends with the extra-terrestrials. I fingered my bow nervously, licking my dry lips.
"Hey, what happens if we die?" Emily asked.
"Then we'll mourn for you. Now, hurry! And do try to come back alive," Legolas added before darting off with the other two. I stood still for a few seconds, then jerked back to reality.
"C'mon, Emily," I said, motioning her to follow. "We can go to the shore of the river and watch."
"Yeah, we're watching Frodo get to safety," she said and grinned. We both took off, not wanting to be caught by any lost Orcs, Kirby following us.
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We went back to shore and wait for Frodo, telling each other to not say anything, so it'd change nothing that was supposed to happen. What harm could that be? We crouched silently shadows of a tall tree, watching Frodo. He was standing at the edge of the water, holding the Ring out. You had to feel sorry for him, but you also had to wonder why he always held the Ring out in the open and then go into a trance. I mean, God, any Orc could just walk by and take it without him even noticing.
Oddly, I found myself hypnotized by the swinging gold chain looped through the Ring. Do you ever start watching something really glittery or bright or something and then become entranced by it? That was what was happening to me. He finally slipped the Ring back into his pocket (bye bye shinny, shimmery, glittery chain!) and pushed a boat out.
Kirby shot out from behind Emily, barking like mad. The dog catapulted into the boat, looking up innocently at a dumbfound Frodo. The hobbit looked behind him and I jumped back deeper into the shadows. Emily, however, had different plans. She started to crawl out of the bushes, and I grabbed the back of her shirt just as she called, "Kir-"
"SHUT UP!" I hissed loudly in her ear. "Do you want him to hear us??" Emily whimpered.
"But, Katie, Kirby's going with him!"
"Kirby can take care of himself." Emily sniffed but didn't start crying. "Frodo and Sam get back alive, so Kirby will too. If those midgets can do it, then a dog can. Okay?" She nodded and creeped backward, still sniffing a little. I sighed quietly. She quieted down and I felt her grow calmer.
As Frodo was rowing out into the lake, Sam bulleted out of the undergrowth, shouting his head off.
"Mr. Frodo!! WAIT FOR YOUR SAM!!" he cried and started trudging into the water. Emily stifled a snicker behind me and I heard her mutter something.
"'Meether Frodo!'" she mimicked in a disgusted tone. Okay, well, I guess someone still testy about the dog...
"Go back Sam!" Frodo was shouting. "I'm going to Mordor alone!" The scene played out before me, pretty much exactly as I remembered it. After about twenty minutes the two hobbits were making their way across the water. I breathed a sigh, sad that Sam was gone and I couldn't torment him anymore. I know, I have no heart. But I am justified, since he doesn't like me either.
I started to get up when something caught my attention. There was a dark shape flitting at the edge of the forest, heading for the water. My face broke into a grin as I recognized who it was. I poked Emily and pointed at him.
Gollum turned his head, and then suddenly saw Emily and I. His face took on a furious expression as he started coming toward me. I stepped out and watched him for a minute.
"Hey, Smeagol," I started but he threw himself on my, quietly screeching. "HEY! Wait a minute you deformed hobbit, I'm not going to do anything!" I tried to shove him off. He hissed and I poked my finger in his eye, causing him to jump off, rubbing his eye. I stood quickly, glaring at him.
"You didn't have to do that. I'm not going to attack you or anything," I said furiously to him.
"Then what wassss you going to do, we wonderssss," he said menacingly.
"Either have a decent conversation with you or go back and find Legolas and Aragorn," I said and he cringed at the Elf's name.
"Elves! Nassssty, bright eyes!" he muttered.
"Yeah, he's an annoying little bugger but I guess he's okay for an Elf," I said. Gollum narrowed his eyes.
"You won't hurt usss?" he asked carefully.
"No. Why would we? I mean, I wouldn't have gone as far at assaulting Katie, but I guess it comes with the character," Emily said.
"Who isss the mortals, we wondersss," he said. This could turn out fun. Aragorn is such a liar, he's not that much of a murdering scum.
"I guess you can call me Katie. Or Bart. And this is Emily, or Wally. Whichever names float your boat," I said slowly.
"We don't have any boatsss..." It was almost a question.
"It's an expression. It means whatever you prefer," Emily explained, but he didn't replied to this. "You know, where I come from you're famous."
"Famousss?"
"People really like you," I said with a sigh. Poor Gollum. He hardly knew anything about the outside world.
"Like me," Emily butted in. "I can sing your song!" And then she started to sing it.
"We only wish,
To catch a fish
So juicy sweet!"
Gollum stared at her. I shook my head, muttering mostly to myself to ignore the mental escapee on my left.
"Where doesss the mortals come from, we wondersss, yes my Precious." Then he started making that odd sound, you know, that one that goes, "gollum...gollum"
"The United States. You don't know where it is though." I didn't say much after this, because he was cocking his head to the side, as if trying to comprehend this piece of information.
"Doesss the mortals know where our Preciousss isss?" he hissed finally. I shook my head, lying. Sure, I was going to tell him that Frodo had the Ring. Even though he most likely already knew it, there's always hope that he didn't.
"Yesss, you doesss. You liesss!!" he screeched. I shielded my face with my hands. "No, we only know who has it. And he's gone now. Which you already know, so it's not much help to you," Emily said quickly, saving me.
"True, true," Gollum muttered. "How doess the mortals know?"
"It's hard to explain, Smeagol, so I'll just say I have inside information," was my answer. As I said this, someone skidded to a halt behind me. Gollum let out an ear-splitting shriek and scrambled away into the forest, ranting about nasty elves with bright eyes. I look behind me and saw Legolas, straightening himself from a very un-Elvish stance.
"Hey, I was having a conversation!" I cried and he glared at me.
"Then next time come back and tell us that before you run off and do another of your scatter-brained plots so I won't think you've been taken prisoner by Orcs!"
"What Orcs?" I said blankly and stupidly. Brain lock down. Freezing center of nervous system. Booee, booee.
"Elbereth save me!" he cried impatiently, regaining his composure. "The Orcs that nearly killed us?" I remembered then.
"Oh yeah."
"Did you find Frodo or Sam? Merry and Pippin have been captured by Orcs. And Boromir has been slain."
"We found Frodo," I said, pointing across the water where the two hobbits were already nearing the eastern shoreline. "But they'd already left." Legolas was silent for a moment, as if he really didn't want to hear this information. I thought I heard him cursing in Elvish under his breath.
"Do you know that I have been running all through the woods looking for you?" he finally asked, changing the subject, and I shook my head.
"You were actually worried I'd let those...fuzzy monkeys get me?"
"Yes." I didn't reply, because I didn't know why to say about his show of concern. He steered me further up the shoreline (with Emily following us), to where Aragorn and Gimli were standing, waiting for us.
"Good, you found them," Aragorn said, his voice sounding relieved. Jack was sitting at his feet, panting. Flecks of blood lined the edges of his mouth. Orc blood. Emily bent down to wipe it off of him, murmuring praise to the dog.
"Everyone is worried about us all of a sudden! What, do you think we're going to throw ourselves off the waterfall?" I asked reproachfully.
"It's highly likely and I'm not taking any chances," Aragorn replied and Emily scowled at him.
"So, old Bori's dead then?" I asked, mostly myself. Aragorn shot me an irritated look and-could it be-sadness.
"Yes," he said and then went silent. I guess I felt kind of sorry for him, but I hadn't really forgiven him for thinking that I was worthless because I was annoying, a "child", and a girl. I did, however, wish him, in my mind, a save journey to his afterlife, whatever that may be.
"If I was in your shoes I'd zip your mouth about Boromir," Emily hissed in my ear. I nodded slowly. Aragorn began walking toward the place where our "cargo" had been placed, and we all followed him. Legolas went ahead and started to push the last boat into the water. I guess they already sent Boromir off the waterfall while we were chit chatting with Gollum.
"Hurry, Sam and Frodo have already reached the eastern shore," he said to Aragorn, who was sheathing a dagger. The Man looked up and didn't reply. "You mean not to follow them..." The sentence hung in the air until Aragorn spoke.
"Frodo's fate is no longer in my hands," came his short reply.
"Then let us face it, the Fellowship has failed," Gimli said mournfully.
"No, but you will if you keep acting grumpy and sad because you'll be dead by my hands," I muttered. Aragorn chose to ignore this comment.
"Not if we hold true to our friends," he said and looked from Legolas to Gimli.
"Hey, why aren't you looking at us? We've come this far, and we're not letting you guys get away now..." Emily said. This was also ignored.
"We won't let Merry and Pippin be tortured by Orcs, will we?" continued Aragorn and received two small nods of agreement from Elf and Dwarf.
"Sure, what do we need them for?" I said sarcastically, getting annoyed that no one was paying attention to me. "Are you guys going to really throw us off the waterfall or something?"
"Only if you don't hold your tongue, girl," Gimli grumbled.
"I DO have a name you know."
"And what might that be? The Worlds Largest Pain in the Arse?" Emily asked sweetly.
"Don't mix my name up with yours," I replied dryly. Jack yipped quietly, and I couldn't help but think he was agreeing with me.
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Kids...it's been fun...but...THIS IS NOT THE LAST CHAPTER!! BWHAHAHA...I'm sugar/caffeine high again, forgive me. I'm probably doing one or two more chapters after this. So fear not. And *gasp* guess what!?!? I'm doing TTT and RoTK! Aren't you all so lucky?
I would like to apologize for the fact that some of you awesome reviewers/readers wanted me to be nicer to Boromir but...*starts to cry* I can't!! I couldn't find it in my heart!!! I honestly dunno why I don't like him. He's just so...arrogant and stuff. However, rest in peace, small Boromir chap. I seriously DID think about making Boromir live but...It'd screw up the story too much, with when Fro Fro and ol' Sammy meet Faramir and blah blah blah.
You people better like this chapter by the way. *grumbles* Took me forever to sort it all out. It was VERY confusing. Emily kept reminding my of things that had to be put in and I kept adding things in myself and yada yada yada. This thing is SEVEN PAGES LONG ON MS WORD!! This chapter at least...GO ME! Anywayz, so be happy, even if it is boring or not very good or whatever you folks wanna call it. ^_^ And remember, all flames go to Bob. I may have to throw my poor ickle Bobby-wobby into Mount Doom to save him...But I suppose that's good a good thing. *happy happy grin*
CAtz: I am being overly mean to Boromir...but...yeah, I justified myself up above. Sowwy!! Please don't desert me...lol.
Surfer-Gurl: Yeah, last chappie was EXTREMELY pointless, but fun all the same. ^_^
Sabs: What? No caffine yet? CALL THE DOCTOR!! This is a crisis...lol, sorry. Thank you ever so much for your review! (i've done worse ones *grin* so don't worry)
Devil's little imp: lol, funny. ^_^
TASAKAPEOTKAUU: *snicker* I guess Gimlet does have anger managment problems...maybe we should call in a physciatrist? Legolas has to be a little evil...it happens when people get around me. My friend claims she used to be quiet and polite but now she bounces off the walls 24/7. Plus, tying me up is an unforgivable task. And *I* didn't kick him, Emily did. So you can go get mad at her. *innocent grin* But still, it's all part of war. The guinea pig and Sam thing is requested by the annoying editor I have who shall remain anonymous *hack hack* Emily *hack hack*. Me and Wally really did do this civilization project in 5th grade and made Migoem. There's this thing in there that says the paper clip is given only to the bravest people (Emily would NOT stop laughing when she read that part to our class). Hope that explains the Paper Clip. ^_^