It was getting dark and Zoe was still far out by the pond. Her baby cusins goldfish died and she wanted to catch another for her.

"still no luck. Its already been two hours. I bet Aunt Ginny is worried." she said to herself. Zoe still waited. she could hear sound of crickets cherping. All of a sudden it went quiet. "somethings not right." Then she started hearing the running of horses. It came closer and closer. She ducked down and peeked to see who it was. She saw three men.

"hey you !" yelled the man with the brown hair.

GASP! Zoe ducked back down.

"no dont be firghtened. We are here to help you." he tried to explain. He could see her emerald green eyes slowly come up to peek again.

"who are you?" she asked.

" my name is Aragorn and this is Legolas and Gimli." he told her, "Why are you out here by yourself um.... what is your name?"

"Zoe"She slowly got up and wiped the dirt off her dress. " I'm trying to catch a goldfish for my cusin."

Aragorn looked at her dress. It was as dirty as a rag. " Your a peasant from Rohan are you not?" Aragorn asked.

"yes I am. Why do you ask?" she asked

" you cannot go back there. Orcs have already invaded and destroyed the peasant villages. Im sorry but you cannot stay here either. You'll have to come with us." he explained.

Legolas helped Zoe onto Brego. She turned around and looked at him.

" Where will you take me? How will I tell my aunt and uncle?" she asked getting worried.

"We will take you to Lothlorien. It's one of the most beautiful places of all middle earth and dont worry you will see your family again we promise." Legolas told her with a smile.

Zoe scooted forward so Aragorn could get on behind her. She took one last look at the pond and then they road off. It was getting cold and Zoe had no coat, so Aragorn took his cloak and wrapped it around her. She was getting tired and the cold wind was making it hard to keep her eyes open so she turned a little to fall asleep against Aragorn's chest.

They finally made it to Lothlorien. It was still dark Aragorn and Legolas trotted towards the entrance where they met up with Haldir.

"sorry we were late. we had to bring this young girl along because she was out by herself." Aragorn explaind to him

"Well what in the world was she doing out by herself?" Haldir asked.

" thats not important now. Could you grab her, I dont want to wake her." he asked

"sure..." Haldir replied. He slowly pulled her arm so she could slide into his arms. He got a hold of her and looked at her. She was still sleeping. 'shes a very lovely young girl' he thought. All of a sudden her eyes started twitching. She was waking up. Haldir waited for her to open her eyes.

Zoe slowly open her eyes and could see a blond man carrying her. She thought it was Legolas until she took a second look. She saw he was a older. GASP!

" PUT ME DOWN! " she yelled. She wiggled around so she can get out of his grasp

" Calm down Im not going to hurt you!" Haldir tried to explain

"NO! LET ME GO NOW! " she yelled again still wiggling around.

"okay if you say so..." Haldir pulled his hands away and just let her fall. THUMP! She landed right on her bottom. He looked down at her and grinned.

"ouch! I said PUT me down!" she yelled at him .

"no, you said let me go the second time, so I let you go." he explained to her. Aragorn let out a small laugh. " get up we must continue in. " he told her. Haldir offered to help her up, but she gave him a mean look and got up herself. "sorry" he told her. He looked at her and turned to lead them in.

' I just want to go home' she thought. Still rubbing her bottom she followed them into Lothlorien.