A/N - They've finally arrived!
Thankyou to the ever wonderful Tigerlily for her contribution to this chapter - she came up with Gollum's revenge on Sam!
Chapter 10 - Eeeeek there's a Gollum on the loose! Oh, and the Olympic events start too.....
"Sam!" cried Frodo, "Sam look out!"
It was the opening ceremony of the Official Olympics of Middle Earth and Sam, who was carrying the Olympic flame, was being pursued (once again) by a Gollum who looked intent on revenge.
Sam ran, as fast as he could, in an attempt to escape the murderous Gollum. The crowd cheered thinking that, like Legolas arriving on Gwahir, this was all part of the show. Little did they know......
Anyway, like I said, Sam was running (very fast considering that he was carrying a large flaming torch) but, unfortunately for him, he failed to see the several officials that were situated at the exit of the stadium. CRASH! Sam ploughed into the men and then fainted dead away.
Gollum took this as his opportunity to leave with his prize. He dragged the heavy form of Samwise out of the stadium and into a small, empty, store cupboard in the changing room. Locking the door, he slapped the side of Sam's face so he woke up.
"Gollum?!" said Sam once the world had slid back into focus.
"Nasssty hobbitses..... nassty hobbitses bad to poor precious. Starves preciousss and ties him with nasssty elf rope....." Gollum paused as he shuddered at the thought. "Nasssty elves with their bright eyes...."
"Yeah so why have you brought me here?" said Sam. Gollum didn't scare him anymore. He just made him mad, very mad - especially after he bit off Frodo's finger.
"Preciousss has come to get revenge on nassty hobbitses...... preciouss was going to kill nassty hobbitses but has changed mind.... a better punisshment."
"What?"
"Fisssh."
"Fish?!"
"Preciouss has been fisshing in nice river Isen, caught juicy fisssh. Was sooooo hungry but saved fisssh for nassty hobbitses...."
"Hang on," said Sam, "All you want me to do is eat fish?"
"Fisssh...." repeated Gollum, "Fisssh as they should be, ssscaly and ssssilvery, not spoiled by nasssty red tonguesss...."
~*Meanwhile*~
"I can't find him anywhere," said Aragorn, wringing his hands in concern. He didn't like to admit it, but he would miss the halfling - even more so when they found the strangled form that was doubtlessly abandoned in the stadium somewhere.
"I *hic* never *sob* got to say goodbye...." said Frodo, crying into Legolas's knees.
"Frodo, Sam's a survivor - I'm sure he's fine," said Legolas, not really believing it.
"Yeah," said Merry, looking rather pale, "Sam'll be fine - he had the flaming torch, remember, and it's broad daylight. You know how much Gollum hates the light."
"Well, we looked everywhere," said Gimli, as he returned from the search with several elves and the odd dwarf. "He is nowhere to be found. I think we should fear the worst."
The sound of Gimli's voice filled the entire stadium. The crowd fell silent. The only sound that could be heard was the sound of Frodo's sobs.
~*Meanwhile, we go back to Gollum and Sam...*~
"Raw fish?! You want me to eat RAW fish?!"
"Fisssh. Nice, beautiful fissssh for nasssty hobbitses...... or hobbitsess not live to tell the tale....." Gollum gave an evil smile and flexed his long, thin fingers. Sam gulped, believing that Gollum could actually kill him if given the opportunity.
"Fine. Fine. I'll eat the fish. Then will you let me go?"
"Only if nassty hobbitses cooks preciousss fisssh and chipsss, as nasssty Sssam promissed long time ago..."
"OK"
Suddenly there was a series of loud thumps as the door to the cupboard was kicked in.
"Oh Sam, Sam you're alive!" cried a still sobbing Frodo.
"Uh huh. That I am," Sam replied.
"I thought I'd lost you Sam. Someone once said to me, I think it might have been Rosie, 'don't you lose him Frodo Baggins, and I don't mean to....'"
"Well I'm here, and so's Gollum. He was going to make me eat raw fish...."
"EEEEWW!" shouted just about everyone within hearing range.
"Fissssh, beautiful ssshiny fisssh!" protested Gollum.
Aragorn then grabbed Gollum's hand and led him away to his special Olympics office in the stadium.
"But no revenge on nasssty hobbitses...."
"I'll cook you fish and chips Gollum!" shouted Sam as Gollum was taken away.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After the havoc that was the opening ceremony and the dramatic events concerning Gollum and Sam, the Fellowship and the other participants in the Olympics were quite happy for the races to begin. They added a sense of almost normality to the strange proceedings. Due to the sheer number of Olympic events being held, several were going to have to be held at once - meaning, therefore that many events may only be summarised as I can only be in one place at a time! And you thought I was all powerful....
The first event that we shall witness will be a dwarvish event: the rock hewing event, where each participant has to break down ten pieces of rock with their axe and find the diamonds inside. The dwarf with the fastest time will win the event.
Pippin, Merry, Sam and Frodo (as well as Legolas, but he was sat up in the top box to avoid excited fangirls) sat to watch the event and cheer Gimli on: for he, of course, was participating.
"Did they let girl dwarves join in?" said Pippin staring at the dwarves in amazement.
"I don't think so....." said Merry.
"Are you sure?" said Pippin, "Cos some of those dwarves there look mighty girly to me. They've got dresses and everything."
"Pippin you ninnyhammer (as my Gaffer would say), didn't you learn anything on our quest? Female dwarves are bearded as well as male dwarves!" said Sam. (A/N - I'm not entirely sure if this is true, but in my Tolkien book it doesn't say that they don't.)
"Ohhhh..." said Pippin, turning back to watch the event that was taking place.
Gimli won the event, as you would expect. I would describe it in detail, but there's really not that much to describe - bis of rock and diamond went flying everywhere and one dwarf was taken to the hospital area clutching his eye and screaming in agony, but aside from that it wasn't that exciting.
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The other event that occurred on the opening day was the Mount Doom Ring Toss, as roadtested by Gollum. This ended with a tie, and both winners receiving shiny medals. The winners were Audrey and Tigerlily, and in the interview they gave afterwards, they said that the best prizes were not the medals, but the hugs they received from Frodo and Legolas. Tigerlily was later nearly arrested - for breaking into the restricted area and attempting to hug the king and Gollumnap..... well, Gollum! Acch! Preciousss.......
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A/N - Yay! I finally wrote an Olympics chapter! I'm so sorry that this chapter took soooooo long - a combination of a lack of ideas, and the fact that I've been writing a new fic!
Keep pressing that little purple button....... you know you want to!
Rachel xx
ps. THANKYOU!!!!