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Chapter 3:Not very secret now

The Fellowship had left three weeks ago and Rivendell was quiet. Nothing much went on now except for the scouting parties that were send out to hunt down the strange beasts that seemed to be appearing. The strange thing was that the weapons Glorfindel and the rest of the scouting party used didn't seem to do the creatures much harm. They would fall to the ground stunned, but five minutes later stand up with out a sign of acknowledging the weapon that had been lodged into them.

The Elves slowly crept around the creature that seemed to be eating a deer whole.

Glorfindel signaled fro the elves to prepare to shoot. They took aim and.

May and Andrea had been at the borders of Rivendell for about a week. They had somehow succeeded in keeping from being discovered by anyone. The only thing was that winter was coming in fast and both girls were freezing. The next problem was that the creatures seemed to be multiplying faster and there were many roaming Rivendell alone. " I don't think I can stand any more of this May." Andrea said shivering because of the cold. May rubbed her hands. " Once I get back home I'm heading to Jamaica. This place is so cold!" There was a growl to their left. With the ease of practice they had had the past weeks they quickly got out the ice guns, fired at the creature, which then shattered. They reloaded the guns and put them back at their side.

Half an hour later they heard a rustle in the treetops under were they had been camping.

They quickly got out their guns and waited. When the creature did show up instead of firing, Andrea's face went pale and letting go of her gun she turned round and ran the other way screaming at the top of her lungs. " Spider! I hate Spiders! Get it away from me! Waaaaaaaaaaaa!!" May fired at the giant spider and then went after her friend. She didn't have problem with spiders. It was slugs, which she detested. " Andrea wait! Stop all your screaming you'll call attention to us!"

At the sound of a scream the creature turned it's head towards it and ran of. Leaving the Elves starring after it. They came out of their hiding places and looked at each other. " The scream sounded female." one of them said. " The let us not stand around. We must go and do what we can." Glorfindel said. They took of after the creature.

Andrea kept running until she came to a clearing. There she stopped and sat on the ground. " This is to hard! I want to go home! I miss waking up in a warm bed and not seeing giant ugly creatures that want to eat me for their dinner!" She stopped her complaining when a creature that looked like a cross between a small elephant and a saber tooth tiger came into the clearing. Realizing she had left her gun behind she started crying again. " And now it seems like I'm going to die! It's not fair I didn't even get to be eighteen! I want to go home!" The creature launched at her, but before it could get to her, an ice blast hit it shattering it into pieces. May came to Andrea's side. " Andrea you should be more careful ,and your not the only one who's tired of being here you know." May said. Before the two girls registered it arrows surrounded them.

Both girls looked up to see Elves surrounded. " Well I do believe our mission has just gotten more complicated." One of the Elves stepped forward. " My name is Glorfindel. Who are you?" " I'm May and my friend's name is Andrea." " What are you doing here?" " Well I'm sure you've seen all the strange creatures appearing around here, well we were send to dispose of them." Andrea said. Both girls could see that the Elves were surprised about this. " What could two maidens possibly do against them?" Glorfindel asked. " We've been here for sometime now hunting them," Andrea pointed to the pieces of ice that were now melting, " That used to be one of the creatures. We have the only weapons that can actually kill them." May showed them her ice gun. " See this shoots Ice and it freezes the creatures, they turn into ice and shatter." All the Elves looked suspiciously at the weapon. " Come, we will take you into Rivendell. Elrond will like to hear your story." " O.K but first can we go get our things?" May asked. Glorfindel nodded.

Andrea and May sat in front of Elrond telling him what they could of their story.

None of the girls could tell if he believed them. " So that's about it." Andrea said finishing her story. " It is hard to believe, but I can tell none of you are telling lies

And your clothes and items are quite strange. Very well I will believe you, but if you insist on going out to hunt those creatures a group of my people will go with you, and when you're job is done, and you insist on going to Mordor I will send someone with you at least until you reach Lothlorien." Andrea and May looked at each other uncertain if that was a good idea. They were excused and both left. " Well at least we don't have to camp out any more if we stayed out there a little longer I was going to crack." Andrea said. May rolled her eyes and kept silent.