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Unexpected Visitor

By nightfall they had a roaring fire and they were all attending to different things. Boramir sat off to the side just out of the firelight, Frodo was near but looked as though his mind was very distant. Sam, Merry, and Pippin sat talking and laughing, about food mostly and the many feasts they had planned when they got back to the Shire. Legolas was standing on the very edge of the forest with his new bow shooting arrows through the trees to a specific target which changes each time, and each time he shot he would run into the trees and retrieve it. Aragorn and Aradel sat near the fire talking and arguing, as usual.

"Steel is much better though. It's stronger, more durable and more rust resistant than silver. And silver is much more expensive and it breaks so easily." Aradel insisted.

"I beg to differ. Silver is very much resistant to rust. It's smoother for easy in and out action. When you are battling ten orcs at a time you don't have time for friction when the blade comes out of one of their bellies." Aragorn retorted intelligently.

Aradel looked defeated. "I must admit I do like silver better. You make a good argument."

"You mean all this time you've been arguing against something you are actually with? I can't believe you would do that." He said humorously, with a chuckle.

She rolled her eyes. "I know, I know it's immoral to go against my principals or something, right?"

"No, it's just a waist of time for both of us." He got up to get another log for the fire from a pile they had earlier collected. She breathed in deeply then let out a long sigh. He sat down again and turned towards her. "What is it?"

"It's nothing it's just this journey is nothing like I expected it to be. I thought it would be nothing but running day and night, fighting and killing. No free time, little rest, little food, little anything of comfort and now I find myself here talking and laughing with a good friend around a warming fire. I'm just surprised that's all." She replied, speaking very fast. Aragorn was about to reply when Legolas cut in.

"I see something. It looks like a horde of orcs!" he ran to the group and grabbed his sword, and other battle weapons as did the others. They stood in a line while all that had bows drew them and shot with amazing accuracy. They burst through the forest, large, black sword in the air charging and screaming.

The battle began and it truly was an almost equal fight. The fellowship was much greater skilled, with fighting, weapons and overall intelligence but the orcs greatly outnumbered them. Soon they were surrounded but still killing steadily. Through a series of ducks, twirls, kicks, punches, arrows, lunges, and stabs the army soon thinned without barely a scratch or bruise to the band. Only about thirty or fifty were left when Aradel heard a scream ring out from her good friend, Legolas' mouth. She looked over her shoulder and saw him on the ground holding his leg. She backed up quickly and stood over him shooting many deadly arrows as he too drew his bow, as his sword lay, useless on the ground beside him. Two minutes after they had slain the entire horde.

Aradel bent down and crouched over Legolas' leg wound. She took a firm hold on the arrow that still stood in his flesh and gently pulled it out. He winced but did not cry out.

"Hold still and for future reference don't complain." She instructed him bluntly.

"I haven't complained once." He replied through gritted teeth as she reached into her cloak and pulled out what looked like an herb of some kind. She put it in her mouth and started to chew.

"I know that I said for future reference. Now sshh." She demanded. She pulled out the herb she had been chewing and put it in a small bowl that Gimli had handed her. She pulled out a powdered substance from within her cloak and mixed it with the paste to make a thicker paste.

"This is going to sting a bit but afterwards it will numb the pain and help it heal. Pull your pant leg up." She told him calmly. He obeyed knowing that to question would lead to nothing but wasting time. She applied the paste and he winced again. She spread a thick layer over the entirety of the wound and ripped a piece of her cloak off. Spinning it into an appropriately shaped makeshift bandage she tied it around the wound and pulled the knot tight.

Chapter 15

"There you go, in a couple of days it will be good as new." She said clapping the excess herbs off of her hands. She stood up and held out a hand to help him up. He took it and shakily stood up wobbling on the spot. He lost his balance and almost fell over but instead fell into Aragorn who put his arm around him to support him.

They slept on nothing but their cloaks with no fire that night and woke up very cold indeed. They all walked around to pick up and organize what was left of their camp, except Legolas who hopped and limped everywhere. It took them the entire day to reorganize their stuff so that as soon as Legolas' leg was healed enough for him to walk on they could leave. Of course, Pippin and Merry chasing each other around knocking everything in their way over didn't help much.

By the time they had something that resembled a camp it was late afternoon mid evening. The sun had just begun to set and it gave everything around them an orange-red glow. They sat pretty much where they were the night before but Legolas had now joined Aragorn and Aradel and Gimli joined Sam, Merry, and Pippin.

"And then she tripped me and I fell down the stairs. I almost broke my neck but luckily I didn't and my father never found out. We lied so much that night." Legolas told Aragorn much to the annoyance of Aradel who was sitting to his left arms folded across her chest showing her frustration.

"I did not trip you. You tripped over your own feet. Don't blame me for you clumsiness." Aradel said with a laugh in a sad attempt at defending herself.

"Right we believe you." Aragorn scorned. Aradel was about to reply something witty but was interrupted by a cracking sound, like someone walking through a forest, behind them.

"What was that?" he asked turning around and scanning the forest floor for traces.

"I have no idea but it came from up that tree. Yes, I see something it doesn't look dangerous though, don't worry." Legolas replied. He stood up, grabbed his bow and limped a good angle to shoot the tree, it looked like. Aradel and him exchanged glances and nodded at each other. Aradel stood directly under the tree when Legolas shot an arrow and something screamed, lost it's footing and fell down onto the floor in front of her.

Aradel grabbed it and pinned it to the tree by its throat. She took one look at it and stepped back in amazement. "You." She breathed.

A/N: Hee hee, little bit of a cliffie there. I don't know whether that would but considered evil or not but still it's the closest i get to cliffies! I'm so sad. I'll probably update tomorrow but if i don't remember I'll do it the next day. I won't be able to on Sunday i know that because my friend is sleeping over(finally, yay!) I'm so sure you needed to know that coughnotcough Nehoo, bye-bye!:D