|Title Unknown| By: Chibi Arwen

Chibi Arwen: Konnichiwa! I'm twisting the story a bit. As in, the same stuff still happens, but maybe a bit differently. I've also decided on giving you a different kind of review this chapter. Anyway, here it is. Review:

So far, The scouts have entered Middle Earth, and, in effect, joined the Fellowship (Much to Legolas's pleasure. [Cammi's coming too]) We join them as they prepare to ride off. (Chibi Arwen: I have decided to give them horses) Let us return to Middle Earth to continue the story.



Cammi and the scouts mounted their horses and bade the Elves goodbye. (Chibi Arwen: They changed into their jeans and t-shirts, putting their cloaks on over top. Couldn't exactly ride in long dresses, now, could they?) They trotted ahead a bit as the rest of the Fellowship received final instructions. Elrond was loath to let the girls go, but under their assistance, he finally gave in. "Protect them all. Now, you must set out as quickly as possible. I bid you farewell and good luck," said Elrond, waving slightly as the Fellowship left Rivendell.

Cammi, Legolas, Ami, Aragorn, and Lita were in the front. The girls were answering questions about the 'strange language' they spoke to each other. It started when Lita called back to Serena. "Hime! We've got an issue going on about being only an only child. Come talk to Cammi and tell her that that is a good thing!"

"Nani?" Serena caught up to Cammi and rolled her eyes. "From experience with an itouto, you are lucky to be an only child."

"Hai, demo. I want an imouto. Someone to share my life with." Serena sighed when she said this and went back to the others. Legolas and Aragorn exchanged confused looks and Aragorn decided to broach the matter. "What are you speaking?"

Cammi snapped out of her conversation with Ami. They were both speaking rapid Japanese, in true teenage girl style. (Chibi Arwen: I don't know that much Japanese, so I'll do stuff like that) "It's Japanese. The language from where we live," she replied. She then went back to talking with Ami. Lita soon joined the conversation. They dropped back a bit and Serena, Rei, and Mina started talking with them too.

Serena was confused. "Chotto.nani?" she asked.

Rei laughed. "Sere-chan, you are truly an odango atama," she teased.

~*~Later~*~

Cammi went ahead again to Legolas and Aragorn were talking with Frodo. Sam, Merry and Pippin were at the back with Gimli.

"I think we should find a place to rest for the night. It looks like rain, and if we keep up for much longer we won't be able to see ahead of us," she said. They agreed. Aragorn called a halt in a wooded area and the set camp. Cammi, Mina, and Gimli were sent out for wood, and the rest unpacked the food and the thin warm blankets that they would later make into bedrolls. The three of them returned with the wood and laid it in the pit that had been dug.

Later that night found them sitting around a fire watching a fish cooking in a cradle of green reeds over the fire, each deep in their own thoughts. Suddenly, Cammi and Legolas stood. She looked to him. "You hear it too?" she asked. He nodded.

The others looked at them and Frodo asked, "Hear what?" Cammi was scaling a tree quickly as Legolas was drawing out his bow. "Orcs," he replied, fitting arrow to bow. Serena and the other scouts drew their short swords that they had been given. Cammi jumped down from the tree, taking her glaive from her sub-space pocket. "There aren't many, only about thirty strong. Most likely a long patrol," she said. Aragorn and the hobbits also drew their swords, while Gimli took the axe from his back, all of them forming a protective circle around the hobbits.

They eventually saw movements in the trees and bushes around them. Legolas let off an arrow, hitting an orc between the eyes. Suddenly, they were surrounded by the patrol. The battle had begun.

Cammi slashed at the orc that had charged her. The others were doing likewise, each taking another opponent. An orc had pinned Cammi against a wall of thick pricker bushes. It raised its sword to strike her, but she whirled around, her cloak hitting him full on the face, making it drop it's sword and put its hands to it's face. Quickly, Cammi slashed it, and moved to help Serena, Ami, and Rei, who had been surrounded. Glancing around, she saw Aragorn take out another two orcs, and start to make his way to the group. Gimli and Legolas fought back-to-back, spinning in a deadly circle. (Chibi Arwen: Legolas had discarded his bow and taken out his sword/dagger things) They were also making their way slowly to the group. The hobbits had joined the other scouts in the circle, and she joined them to help reverse the tides of battle.

~The hobbits aren't doing too badly~ she thought to herself as she ducked a spear from the orcs. There were only about five left now, and those five were quickly slain. They slumped down by the fire, catching their breaths as they tended the few minor scratches they had acquired.

Aragorn began to break camp, talking as he put the food away. "We must go. They patrol will be looked for when they don't return, and we must leave this area."

Cammi got up and began to roll up her bedroll. "Aragorn's right," she said, packing it away in her bag. She walked a short way into the thick trees nearby and lead out the horses. She mounted hers as the others did the same. "Hime, are you okay?" she asked Serena.

"Yeah, but your cloak is torn in a few places. And your wings look a bit out of place. Are you okay?" she asked, pointing to Cammi's white wings.

Cammi nodded as she took off her cloak and took out a needle and thread. She began to repair it, as she let her wings stretch. " I have an idea," she said suddenly. "You can all put your supplies on my horse and I can fly. I mean, what's the use of wings if you can't use them?"

The other agreed, and they took a quick break to load the horse and let Cammi take a test flight.

She flapped her wings experimentally, and then she leapt from the huge old oak she was in. Spreading them wide, she glided gracefully over the heads of the Fellowship. She began to flap her huge white wings to gain height, and then suddenly, folded them and dropped head first. Spinning so that she was right side up, she let her wings out once more and landed gently. "That felt good," she said. "Well, I'm ready to go."

The others nodded slowly and mounted their horses. Cammi flew ahead a piece to explore the landfall and look for a safe camp location. She came back shortly and reported. "There's a small clearing not too far ahead and it's almost completely covered by rock spurs all 'round it."

They held a small council as they went the short way to the temporary safe haven.

"How much ground do we have to cover to the mountains?" Rei asked.

"About twenty leagues left before we reach the foothills," replied Boromir, looking at the faint dark blob on the horizon.

"Are they really that far?" asked Mina, also looking at the horizon.

Cammi hovered not to far from the group listening to them talk. "I'm afraid so, haime (Chibi Arwen: Nicknames are added as I go. Hime: princess; Haime: Dancing girl. You'll get translations, but maybe not immediate translations). It should take us just about." Cammi paused as she reckoned the number of days it would take them to reach the foothills.

"We should reach them at the end of the second day," finished Merry. The others looked at him, the hobbits had been very quiet since they left Rivendell, and hearing them speak now was surprising.

"Merry's right," Frodo said. "Going at this pace it should take us just under three days."

"We're here." Came Cammi's voice. She had told the truth about the rock spurs. They covered the small clearing almost completely, and gave them enough cover to rest for what remained of the night.

They made no fire, nor did they eat food. They set out their bedrolls and slept, taking turns at sentry duty.

Cammi was on third sentry. She wrapped herself tighter in her cloak as she watched the sunrise. ~It's beautiful~ she thought. The intertwining shades of light blue, red, orange and pink trapped her in her imagination and she did not hear someone behind her rise and sit next to her. She stared blankly ahead, lost in her thoughts until she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"It's my turn for sentry, Cammi."

Cammi turned to see Boromir next to her. She snapped out of her reverie and nodded. She moved over and leaned on one of the spurs.

"Can't sleep?" Boromir asked quietly.

Cammi shook her head. "I probably won't be able to until I'm comfortable again. Not well, at least."

He nodded understandingly. Cammi curled up on the blanket she had laid out and began reciting an old poem. "Now the frost is on the pane, Rugs upon the floor again, Now the screens are in the cellar, Now the student cons the speller, Lengthy summer noon is gone, Twilight treads the heels of dawn, Red-eyed sun is now a squinter, Tiptoe breeze a panting sprinter, Every cloud a blizzard hinter, Squirrel on the snow a printer, Willy-nilly, this is winter." (Chibi Arwen: This is a poem entitled: A word About Winter, by Ogden Nash. It is only a part, and is also one of my favorites by him. And, I don't own it [duh])

Boromir looked at her and asked, "What was that?"

"It's part of an old poem I know. My mom used to tell it to me when I was little." Her eyelids began drooping as she began the next part. "Summer-swollen doorjambs settle, *Yawn* Ponds and puddles turn to metal, Skater whoops in frisky *Yawn* fettle, Golf clubs stingeth *yawn* like a nettle, Radiator sings like *Yawn* a.kettle." She never finished it. Cammi had dropped off to sleep.

Boromir smiled at her sleeping form and draped his cloak over her. He liked her. She was sweet, and the two of them got along well, Boromir being like a big brother to her. ~Sleep well, Cam~ He thought.

Cammi woke to Lita shaking her gently. "Cam," she said. "We have to get going. You'll have to eat on the way." Cammi sat up and rubbed her eyes. Blinking owlishly, she took the other cloak from over her and looked around, and spotted Boromir. "I believe this is yours," she said, giving him the cloak back.

They broke camp and set off.

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Chibi Arwen: Like it so far? *audience nods* YAY! They like it! *C.A. Grabs Random audience member, which happens to be Duo, though from where he popped, I don't know, and begins to dance with him* They Liked it! Yay! Anyway, Next chapter's being worked on now! But I go into school on Wednesday, So that interrupts my schedule a bit.