April: Smiles sheepishly Um...hi?

Haili: April.

April: So sorry for the delay. Once On This Island just had it's last performance Starts crying I'm going to miss it so much!

Haili: Eyes start tearing up Stop it!

April: Anyway, sorry. I know I've been working on Brotherhood too. I wasn't sure what to do next though! I don't own LOTR.

Chapter 4: Seeking for shelter

The sound of the approaching Orcs were near. Legolas and Estel glanced at each other nervously.

"Come!" Legolas said. "We'll leave the horses for them to run."

They quickly jumped off their horses and told them to go. The sound of the Orcs was growing nearer. Their fowl smell filled their nostrils. The dark night sky seemed even more forbidding then usual, and the trees hardly seemed friendly.

The two ran across the ground, jumping tree roots and diving under branches. The sound of their enemies had increased, and the Orcs were gaining on them.

The two spotted a small cave in the distance. They crawled in, as the cave was very small. They crawled to the back of the cave and listened, small speckles of light dancing across their faces.

"I smell blood!" they heard, somehow understanding the terrible voices of the Orcs.

"What kind?"

"I'm not sure. It's so far away."

There was the sound of metal hitting sword as the Orc tried to knock away some of the cave. But when he did, it knocked the whole cave.

There was a terrible rumbling sound, and before Estel or Legolas could even move, rocks started tumbling down upon them. The cave in completely covered the human and the elf.

After the smoke had cleared, the two Orcs looked at the pile of rocks, waiting fro movement. An injured rabbit jumped out of it's rabbit hole, and luckily the Orcs thought that had been the blood they smelled, not the Elves or Child's.

The two Orcs joined the rest and they continued north at a quick pace, running around the mass of fallen rocks, which secretly hid two injured boys.

A few minutes after the Orcs were gone, one of the two pushed himself out of the rocks coughing. There was a long stream of blood going down his arm, crisscrossing this way and that, as the small droplets landed with a small plop on the rocks. He groaned slightly and looked around, quickly noticing the other was not there with him.

"Estel?" the young elf asked.

Underneath the rock, Estel wasn't in the best condition. His head was pounding, and he could feel blood running down his neck. His arm felt terrible, and he didn't really want to see if he could move it. Then he heard a voice.

"Estel?"

It was Legolas. What was that in his voice? A little bit of worry? Estel groaned and pushed a large rock off of him as he sat up. He looked blearily at Legolas, who had a shocked expression on his face.

"What are you looking at?" Estel snapped, his head banging. He guessed he had been hit directly with a rock.

Legolas shook his head but glanced at Estel once more. There was a bruise coming into focus and blood was running down his cheek. His arm had an angry gash on it also, accompanied with blood on the back of his head.

"We better get out of here," Estel said quietly, though really not wanting to move. Legolas nodded and the two got up.

Estel suffered a moment of dizziness but then stood straight. Legolas glanced at him, and the two walked in the opposite direction that the Orcs had went.

As they walked, neither of them noticed the sound of approaching footsteps.

I'm so sorry I ended there! I got stuck and didn't know what else to say. I don't want to leave you without updates anymore, so here's the chapter. Next chapter may take awhile. I'll update sooner if I get some ideas in my reviews of what could happen. Please forgive me, and maybe ideas? I need some to get through the next part. It's like I know what's going to happen, but I have this like...four chapter gap where I don't know what to do. Leave a review please. If I haven't updated in three weeks start bugging me with reviews.

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Someone Reading: Thanks. I know, this one is WAY to short, but I got writers block and didn't want to keep the chapter anymore. Sorry.

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That was pathetically short. I'm sorry.