~ Chapter 15 ~

*sniff*

Nearing the end....I think.

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"Christina!" shrieked Rachel. "WHY THE HELL AREN'T YOU SCREAMING ANY MORE?"

"SCREAM, YOU FUCKING IDIOT!" yelled Michelle.

Christina looked hurt as she rubbed her throat. "My throat hurts," she whispered. "Does anyone have a packet of Soothers?"

Steph reached into her pocket, but looked sad as she held up a piece of wrapper. "Sorry, Christina. None left."

"Oh NO!" wailed Katie. She kicked an orc in the shins.

"Fight, you freaking idiots!" Michelle urged them all. "Kill!" She emphasised her point by punching an orc in the nose and stomping on its foot. "DIE, YOU STUPID ORC! DIE!"

Despite their best efforts though, there was no point in denying it anymore. They were losing, and there was nothing they could do to stop it.

A

Angeline made up her mind. "Don't worry, guys!" she shouted suddenly. "I'm coming!" Storming to Saruman's Planning Room, she yanked open the door and grabbed several documents off his desk. Reading them over, she scowled and ripped them up into tiny pieces. Homemade confetti fluttering in the air, Angeline set about, rewriting his many papers, muttering obscenities under her breath.

F

"The Ring Bearer!" bellowed Boromir. "Protect the Ring Bearer!"

"What the fuck do you think we've been doing?" snapped Rachel testily.

"Yourself."

"Well, it doesn't matter who we're fighting for," sighed Victoria. "We're losing."

And it was true. For every orc they killed, five more seemed to appear. Katie noted this and relayed it to her fellow fighters.

"Oh, I've got a good idea," rasped Christina. "Why don't we just stop killing them? Then, more won't appear."

Michelle opened her mouth to reply, but was suddenly overcome by an urge to stop fighting and....and....

What was that word again?

Ah yes. Hug. Michelle was suddenly overcome by an urge to HUG someone. But how did you....'hug' someone? It had been a while.

So while Michelle puzzled over the concept of 'hugging' people, the others continued to fight, struggling to balance explaining to Christina why they couldn't stop whilst at the same time, killing monsters.

"Michelle? What are you doing?" asked Victoria, finally stopping to look at Michelle, who was looking around at people, elfs, dwarfs, hobbits and orcs with the oddest expression on her face. "Why aren't you fighting?" She slapped an orc away.

"Hug...." murmured Michelle. "How do you 'hug' people, Vicky?"

The younger girl stared. "MICHELLE?!"

"Oh yeah!" Michelle threw her sword aside and grabbed the nearest orc in a huge embrace. "You're my BEEEEEST friend!" she giggled in delight.

All around her, the other girls blinked and froze.

"I'm sad," said Katie.

"Aw, shut up," snapped Steph.

Victoria glanced at Legolas and suddenly noticed how the light shone in his blonde hair, giving his whole face a rather celestial look. She sighed dreamily. Just before she was about to approach him though, she caught sight of Aragorn who was looking equally gorgeous in the sun. Frodo didn't look too bad either. "Not bad," she murmured to herself. "Not bad at all."

"Stephanie, why are you so mean to people?" whined Rachel. "Please be nicer."

Christina suddenly launched into a lengthy, detailed description of the earth's atmosphere.

"Golly gosh, Christina!" gasped Michelle as she hugged another orc. "You're really smart!"

The Fellowship gaped at the girls who were now thrown into havoc. Seizing their opportunity, the orcs began to move in on the Fellowship.

"What's happening, Aragorn?" cried Legolas, staring at the girls.

"I don't know," moaned the Ranger.

Gimli dug his axe through the spine of an orc. "Never mind them females!" he shrugged. "Fight for your lives!"

"FIGHT!" screeched Stephanie. "YES! KILL!"

"Y'know, Legolas," said Victoria shyly. "I really like you."

"Happy orcies!" giggled Michelle, enveloping another orc in a massive hug. "I like you all! I'm so happy! Everything is happy!"

Katie sighed. "I'm depressed," she said. "I don't want to do anything."

"So as you can see, the earth's atmosphere is breaking down due to the-" continued Christina.

"Do YOU like ME?" asked Victoria.

Legolas blinked.

"Go ahead," urged Rachel. "Tell her how you really feel. Tell her the truth."

"Be happy!" coaxed Michelle. "D'you want a hug?"

With a dreadful ripping noise, the air split and Saruman stepped out. "Stop!" he ordered the orcs. The beasts stared at him.

"The White Wizard!" gasped Gimli.

"Do not worry yourselves over these pawns," Saruman told the orcs. He smiled nastily at the Fellowship. "I'll take care of them. Return to camp and deal with the intruders. They come in the form of your own species. Do not be fooled, however. Kill them. Kill them ALL."

The orcs bowed respectfully and left, bellowing orders to each other. At last, they were gone, leaving nothing but churned earth where they had been.

"You have made a grave mistake, Saruman," growled Aragorn. "And you shall pay for it."

Legolas nocked an arrow, training it on the heart of Saruman the White. "Goodbye, Saruman," he said.

"No!" cried Saruman, looking frightened. "Please! Wait! You have to trust me!"

Legolas sneered and prepared to release the bolt.

Aragorn, however, paused. "Wait, Legolas," he said. "Remember what Galadriel told us? We must trust him."

Legolas frowned.

Saruman nodded. "Yeah. Wait."

"Oh....very well then...." said Legolas, keeping the arrow trained on 'Saruman'.

The wizard snapped his fingers. With a brilliant flash of light, his features began to change until he was revealed as....

"Angeline!" shrieked Stephanie. "AHH! EW! KILL!"

Turning to face her friends, Angeline raised her hand and spoke a word.

The air sparkled, and their eyes cleared. Michelle was the first to react.

She blinked and stared at the orc in her arms. "EW!" Pulling a dagger from her belt, she stabbed it to death.

"Well, to tell you the truth, Victoria," replied Legolas, at last lowering his bow. "I DO like you."

Victoria's eyes widened and she screamed. "EW! GROSS!"

Legolas sighed.

"Aw....poor little itty bitty Leggy-lass," said Rachel wickedly. "Did she turn you down?"

Steph patted him awkwardly on the shoulder. "There, there, Legolas," she said. "It's okay."

Katie grinned.

"I think we should be going now," said Angeline. "I've found a rip in the boundary between our worlds. Say goodbye to your friends, people."

"Goodbye," said Victoria. "I guess that fulfills the prophesy, then. Trust someone you normally wouldn't."

"You heard that too?" asked Aragorn in surprise.

Victoria smiled and nodded. "Goodbye." She turned to Angeline. "Let's go."

Another snap of her fingers, and the girls vanished.

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I'm dead. My English essay is due tomorrow, I have to practise my violin and I need to write a debate. Shit.

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