They ran. Aragorn began to seriously stink again. The only one of them that didn't seem to be getting tired was Rocky, who was making fun of Gimli for falling behind the other three.

'If... you... don't... shut up... I... am... going... to throw you... away.' He huffed at his pet.

But, of course, the rock didn't seem to take this threat all that seriously. He babbled on.

Boromir triped and fell and gazed at a blade of dead, yellow grass in wonder. 'It's gold... gold like the ring...' Gingerly, he reached out and plucked the blade out of the earth, then cradled it in his hand.

'Oh, for Eru's sake!' Aragorn yelled and kicked it from Boromir's grasp.

'NOOOOOOOO! What have you done?!' the Gondorian scrambled about on the ground, searching for the stupid little thing.

Until, that is, Legolas came up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder.

'What?' Boromir was temporarily distracted from his search. The elf pointed out the pair of golden wristgaurds the man had straped to his arms. The blade of grass was forgotten in favor of something that was actually gold.

'Can we just leave him here?' Aragorn asked.

Gimli caught up to them at this moment. 'What? Leave Rocky? NEVER!'

Even Boromir gave him a quizzical look, before colapsing onto the ground and catching sight of his hair (which was closer to gold than the grass was but still far from it).

'Perrrrdy...' He muttered. Legolas backed away, praying his friend didn't notice who's hair was REALLY gold in that group.

Without warning, Boromir jumped up from the ground. 'EARTHQUAKE!' he yelled and started running around in circles.

'What an idiot.' Rocky muttered. Gimli agreed.

Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli all shook their heads then ducked behind some rocks, which just happened to be nearby, and waited to see if Boromir dropped dead.

A heard of mounted horses came rushing towards the insane little man, but, in seeing him, they swerved and gave him a wide birth, apparently not wanting to get too close in case his insanity was contageous.

'Riders of Rohan!' Aragorn suddenly yelled, stepping out from the rocks.

Again, the riders swerved to avoid him, though this time it was likely to stay away from the smell than anything else.

Gimli was the next person to step out into the open, and this time, the riders surrounded him and shoved spears towards his face.

'Ahhhhh! Rocky! Help me!' And he held the rock up in front of his eyes in the hopes that this would save him.

To the surprise of Aragorn and Legolas (Boromir was still running around in circles) the riders backed away, wondering if this was the same insanity that had afflicted the crazy man behind them.

'Okay, what the hell is this? A circus?' Asked one of the riders.

'No! Of course not!' Aragorn said. The riders backed away even further as he approached. 'We're hunting the ECOD!'

'Really? Good, then you can leave. We killed them all and ate them.'

'All of the ECOD?'

'Yes.'

'The Evil Chipmunks of Doom?'

'YES!'

'Are you sure?'

One of the riders braved the smell STRIDER and shoved a spear in his face. 'Ask another question and die.'

'Okay. I got it.'

'What about a pair of hobbits? Did you kill them too?'

'No, they went into Fangorn Forest. I think maybe a few of their friends escaped too, but we didn't want to go looking for them. Fangorn is... well, it's one hell of a scary place!'

'Drat it! Now we have to go see if their still alive, don't we?' Aragorn complined.

'Nope, now you get to die. It'd illegal to enter Rohan without permission of the King.'

'How do we get that?'

'From Grima Wormetounge, or Saruman- either of which would kill you on sight so...' he stated to laugh insanely. 'I guess... you DON'T!'

All this time, Legolas had been moving about the crowd and giving the riders the 'Vulcan Neck Pinch' which knocked a person unconsious for hours. At this point, he reached the man who had been doing all the talking and caused his laughter to be cut off mid-chuckle.

'That was creepy.' Aragorn muttered.

'Yeah, let's go.' Boromir said, suddenly done with his 'earthquake' scare.

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Bookworm ~ You lost your mind too? Yay! I'm not alone! Sorry I haven't been updating, I had a hit of writer's block.