Howdy everybody! Well I wanted to thank you for the nice reviews on my other story and I hope that you will like this one too. But I ask you to review even if you don't like the story. And any tips about writing would be nice too.I think that everyone who writes a Merry and Pippin story everybody likes to write one about when they were captured by the orcs because everyone has their different views about it and plus it just fun to write about it! Ok well I will shut up now and here's the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters nor do I know them.
Anything in Italics means it's a thought.
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Pippin slowly became aware of his surroundings, before he even opened his eyes, he noticed the pain in his legs, back, and other various places on his body.
Where am I? Was Pippins first full thought; he smelt the orcs and his heart plunged. A flood of memories came rushing at him so fast that he nearly threw up, Frodo going on alone... Merry and him running from the orcs... Boromir coming to save them... a loud horn blowing...Boromir being shot by arrows... the orcs catching them. He couldn't remember much after, except being taken away from Merry.
Merry! Pippins eyes shot open.
He looked around to see where he was at, it was dark and he was lying on the ground, off a little ways he could see the blackness of the deep, dark forest. He shuddered at the sight of it. It was Fangorn forest, some said it was full of many strange things, he hoped that he didn't have to find out about them. He could see orcs milling about trying to stay close to their fire they had built to keep warm.
Pippin's hands and legs were bound,and they were so tight that it had cut into his pale skin making it bleed and hurt for him to even move at all. He shivered as the cold wind picked up and he slowly raised his head up and there about 200 feet away he could see a mound of cloth, then he saw a little tuft of hair peek out behind the cloth.
It was Merry, he could tell that he wasn't moving so either he was asleep or unconscious. Pippin hoped it was the first one. Pippin knew that he somehow had to get to Merry but with being bound it wasn't going to be an easy task.
He didn't have to worry about it too long before he heard an orc talking and he heard that they were going to have to run.
"Everyone get packed up! We have to leave now! It seems we are being followed, the orc looked at Pippin and headed towards him. Pippin tried to crawl away but it was no use, the orc was by him in no time.
"It seems as though it's the rest of your Fellowship. Do you think they will save you?" The orc leader sneered and when he didn't get an answer he swiftly kicked Pippin in the side and yelled again, " do you!"
Pippin tried to curl up to at least maybe shield him from anymore blows and gasping for breath he said so softly that the orc had to lean in to hear him, "Yes," was Pippin's meek answer.
When he heard this it sent the orc off laughing an evil laugh and Pippin closed his eyes for he did not want to look at the terrifying orc.
Still laughing the orc bend down and grabbed a fistful of Pippin's hair and yanked it roughly up so that Pippin gave a pain filled cry. The orc pulled his hair again and made Pippin look into his eyes. He could see the frightened eyes and feel the shaking of the halfling; "They can not save you now, little one." He said in his gruff voice, "You are all alone."
He let go of the hobbits hair and Pippin fell back to the ground. "You and your friend shall run with us, we are sick of carrying you and you had best keep up or feel this upon your back," he took out a whip, "Lets get going!"
Another orc came up to Pippin and cut his rope and roughly dragged him up. He was put in line and suddenly there was Merry at his side.
"Pippin!" Merry exclaimed and gave his friend a hug, " Are you ok?" He worriedly checked over Pippin and found that he was pretty much in the same state as he.
"Yes I'm fine but my side hurts a lot where they kicked me," Merry saw Pippin take a deep breath trying to stop the pain as they started running.
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It had seemed forever that they had been running and Pippin could now see shades of pink and orange as dawn approached. He had been so caught up in looking at the sky and how much he wished he was back in the Shire safely in his bed that he didn't notice that he had slowed down until he felt the whip fly across his back. He gave out a yelp and tried to catch up with Merry who was silently trying to tell him to hurry with his eyes.
His side had been bothering him more and more and he knew that he had to leave some sign behind in hoping that Aragorn and the rest would find it to tell them which was they were going. "Merry," Pippin tried to whisper though having a difficult time while trying to breathe.
Merry looked over at his younger cousin and his heart went out to him. Pippins face was very pale and the dark bruises seemed to stand out even more. Pippin was too young to have to go through this. He could start to tell that he was having a hard time breathing. "Yeah Pip?" He too tried to whisper. "The orc leader told me that Aragorn was following us. We need to leave him a sign of where we are before we are not able to."
"Pip you're not going to try something are you," when he didn't receive an answer he looked at Pippin sharply. "No Pippin don't do that! You could get hurt or something."
"But we have to!" Pippin looked at Merry.
"No Pippin don't!" Merry pleaded.
"I'm sorry Mer, but I have to. Don't worry I'll be back, I won't leave you here," Pippin said as he saw an opening on his right and dashed through it.
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Pippin tried to run as fast as he could, because he now could hear the orcs coming after him. He hastily tried to take the pin off of his cloak with his shaking fingers and finally was able to pull it off and drop it to the ground before the orcs had seen it. He ran just a little ways more for his plan was to get caught be he knew he could not leave Merry along with the orcs. He was grabbed by the neck and thrown to the ground, his head hit a rock which caused a flash of pain to go through his head that left him dazed for a couple of minutes.
He saw the orc raise up his whip and closed his eyes tight waiting for the beating that was sure to come, but a voice stopped the on-coming beating, "Stop!" He heard, "We do not have time for that and we must deliver them unspoiled."
"I was just gonna teach it a lesson, I wasn't gonna kill it." The orc with the whip argued.
" Now we have to keep going," the leader yelled.
"Fine perhaps later then," the orc smirked back at Pippin and Pippin could see all the horrible things the orc wanted to do to him. This shook him to the very core and he wished that he could just sink into the ground.
"Now lets get going! Shouted the leader and again Pippin was pulled up. He was put back in place besides his cousin.
Merry took one look at Pippin and could tell that something had deeply frightened the younger hobbit for he had a far away look in his eyes and was about to see if he was alright when the orcs pushed them back to running again. He wanted so much to take his cousin in his arms and give him a hug and tell him that everything was going to be all right but couldn't because he himself did not know how things would turn out.
Everything had been silent except for the heavy breathing and footsteps of the orcs. It had been at least two hours since Pippin dropped his pin to his cloak. The sun was now shinning brightly over head and Merry had lost all sense of time. Everything seemed the same; the hills and mountains were never ending.
Merry had been lost in his own thoughts when he felt Pippin go down besides him. He stopped and tried to get Pippin up. Pippin was taking big gasps of air and clutching at his side.
"Pippin, get up." He urged, "we can't stop," he pulled at Pippins arm but didn't have the strength to lift him back up.
"I can't Merry," Pippin said and looked at his older cousin, "It hurts too much."
"Hey! What's this? There is not stopping!" They both looked up to see the big orc coming at them. He raised his whip and brought it down. It flew across Pippin's already too thin skin and made a gash across his cheek.
The force of the blow sent Pippin reeling back and landed heavily against the ground.
Merry tried to get in front of his cousin to protect him but was thrown back and his head bounced off of a rock and he remembered nothing.
Pippin saw the blood on Merry's forehead and it made him nauseas and he violently threw up before his body collapsed in exhaustion.
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Well that's the first chapter! Did ya like it or no? And if ya have any tips to give with writing they would be appreciated.