I am so sorry I haven't updated since like March, but I just haven't had too much time and I have had a major writers block…but here is the next chapter…
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Merry awoke some time later, wet and extremely cold. He didn't know where he was. He assumed that he next to some river or stream, but couldn't tell much else because it was very dark. His legs were submerged in water and they had gone numb. He had no clue how he got there. One he thought about it, he realized he didn't recall much of the last few days. Actually he didn't remember any of it. The last thing he remembered was discovering Pippin was missing and he was yelling for him, but nothing more than that. What had happened to Pippin? Where was Aragorn, Frodo and Sam? But the most important question was still not answered, where was he?
Merry crawled out of the water, then tried to stand up. As soon as he stood up a sudden dizziness overtook him and he fell back down to the cold earth. As he fell, his foot got wedged between something. He tried to get it out, but it was stuck fairly well. He assumed that it was stuck between some roots, but he wasn't entirely sure. He began to think of what he could do to get his foot unstuck when he heard thunder.
Shortly after the thunder, it began to pour. Merry didn't know what he was going to do. If he didn't get unstuck soon, the waters would rise and he would drown.
After about and hour of steady, hard rain, the water level of the river was up to where Merry's foot was stuck. He was cold to begin with, but now he was freezing. He was constantly shivering and all he felt like doing was sleeping. But he knew he had to stay awake. After about 15 minutes of fighting sleeping, Merry finally gave in and allowed himself to fall into the blackness. The water at this point was up to his chest. There was little more Merry could do to save himself. The last thing he thought of before he slipped into darkness was the horrified look he saw on Pippin's face when the ringwraith grabbed him. He wondered what had become of Pippin.
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The end…I know a short chapter, but you should be happy I updated, since I haven't since March. Well, as you can guess the next chapter might involve Pippin…but not directly. It will be posted in a couple of days…
May the Force be with you…
