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And so another bunch of review replies is done...
No chapter though...
I really ought to do it...
But the question is; can I be bothered?!
sees angry mob glaring; pitchforks, knives, cutlasses and crossbows in hand...
8-' Erm... yes! Yes I can!!!
.: Chapter Six :.
So, why had the two fallen silent?
After the Dwarf had dealt a deft blow to the Elf's stomach, Legolas had gone completely wide eyed. The harmonica skidded across the floor, coming to rest by Gimli's feet.
"Well, would you look at that?!" chuckled Legolas.
Gimli's eye twitched. "Is that all you can say for yourself?! IS THAT ALL?!?!"
'Ooh... not good...' thought the Elf. He backed away slowly.
"WE ARE STUCK, IN A CAVE, WITH NO WAY OF GETTING OUT, BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR LOVE FOR THAT STUPID HARMONICA!!!" bellowed Gimli.He grabbed the harmonica off of the floor and flung it with all of his might at the cave opening. It was a lucky shot, flying straight out of the tiny gap. All that was heard was a loud yelp from a familiar voice outside.
"Hey!!!" shouted Legolas indignantly, a scowl on his face. "I don't go throwing your things around!" With that, he strode towards the miniscule space between the rock and the cave wall, leaving Gimli to wonder what on Middle-Earth the crazy Elf was going to do this time...
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Aragorn rubbed the sore spot on his head where an A.Y.U.F.O; As Yet Unidentified Flying Object, had thwacked into it. "Alas, poor peacefulness," he grumbled ruefully. "We hardly knew ye..."
Still irritable and under cursing colourfully under his breath, Aragorn stood up and grabbed his pack. He stopped and turned as a grunting noise alerted his attention.
"What ARE you doing?!"
Legolas was currently pushing at the sides of the rock in a drastic and seemingly failing attempt to free himself. "Trying... to get... out!" he said between pushes.
Aragorn just stood and stared. Apparently, watching an Elf try to force itself through a tiny gap was a good spectator sport.
Legolas sucked in his breath and to Aragorn's amazement, squeezed through the gap. As he popped out the other side with the same noise as a cork popping out of a champagne.
Aragorn's eye twitched. "You mean to tell me, that you could have squeezed through that gap at ANY TIME?!" he shouted, his voice increasing in volume with each word.
Legolas thought to himself for a moment before replying. "Yes..." he said, nodding and grinning. "I suppose I could..." He bent down to retrieve his harmonica (which, incidentally, was the thing that had thwacked Aragorn). It was a little dusty and... slimy (but we won't go into that!), but it still seemed to be playable. He wouldn't try it though; he'd been through enough with the thing recently.
"Well, let's go then!" he said briskly, pulling on Aragorn's sleeve.
"OI!!! GET ME OUT OF HERE, NOW!!!" screeched a voice. Dwarves stuck in tight places did not make very musical tones when in bad moods.
Aragorn rolled his eyes for what felt like the hundredth time that day and proceeded to pull a rope from out of his pack. Legolas however tapped him lightly on the shoulder.
"Yes?" groused Aragorn. He looked up.
Legolas had a devilish grin on his face. This was bad news.
"Do we really have to get him out?" he asked, smiling sweetly... too sweetly...
Aragorn eyed him suspiciously. "Just what are you getting at Legolas Greenleaf?"
Legolas pulled a casual face and leaned on his friend's shoulder in a blasé manner. Aragorn didn't like this situation more and more by the second.
"Well, him being a Dwarf and all..."
That was it. Aragorn couldn't take it anymore. "Alright, Legolas. What are you up to?!"
"Well, Gimli likes caves... a short stint in there; it won't do him any harm..."
Aragorn snorted, much like a bull when it sees red. Legolas leaned back, knowing what was coming...
"I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU GET YOUR SENSE SOMETIMES, BUT BELIEVE YOU ME, I AM NOT ABOUT TO LEAVE GIMLI IN A CAVE, JUST BECAUSE YOU FEEL LIKE IT, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!?!"
Legolas blew the hair up that had flopped down into his face, finally being able to stand up straight again after The Hurricane Treatment. "Yessir..." he squeaked in a small voice.
"Sanity is a foreign concept to you, isn't it?" Scowling darkly, Aragorn turned and fed the rope through the small gap. Now that he looked, he could think of no conceivable way Legolas could have slipped through. The Elf was skinny, but not that skinny... there was something fishy going on here...
Nevertheless, there was a Dwarf to be gotten out of a tight place.
A much louder cork-popping-out-of-champagne-bottle noise sounded and the three of them went flying spectacularly through the air.
At that moment, a porcupine with rotten luck happened to be wandering by. It had been a normal day for him; threatened to be eaten by a Warg, nearly skewered by an Eagle's talons, and almost swept off of a cliff with a tide of lemmings. Now it was headed home, where hopefully his wife had broken out of her preying mantis-mode and would rather eat dinner than him.
Gimli, now having been pulled out of the cave, was met with a loud pain-filled yelp as the poor unfortunate porcupine had a certain Ranger King land on it... and not from the animal. The Dwarf shook his head despairingly. "Here we go again..."
Well, I'm off on me hols for two weeks tomorrow, but please R&R so I have something to read when I get back! NEXT CHAPTER: Legolas finds he feels quite motherly towards the porcupine as Aragorn goes through minor surgery... well, getting needles pulled out of your posterior can be quite a complicated issue, can't it?!
;-) copies The Terminator I'll be back...