Chapter 7:
Amber and Mary had their weapons at the ready as the thing came quickly towards them through the forest. The two figures burst out of the trees and Amber let loose an arrow, Hitting a tree just centimeters above the head of the one figure, who just so happened to be Emerson.
"Stop! Don't shoot!" yelled Ramses who was the other figure. Emerson looked up in surprise at the arrow that had almost killed him and let out a sigh of relief.
"Well it's a good thing I'm not that good a shot eh' Mary." said Amber nervously.
"What did you just do?!" yelled Mary, "I can't believe you! You almost killed Emerson! How could you do that to me?!"
"Hehe, oops." said Amber dashing for cover behind Ramses.
"Don't go behind me! She's got daggers!" said Ramses.
Amber then tried to go hide behind Emerson as she knew Mary would rather kill herself than kill him.
"What are you two doing here anyways?" asked Mary putting her daggers away... for now."Did she hurt you at all Emerson? Cause she's going to die one way or another!"
"Now now Mary, don't be so hasty!" said Amber as Mary approached her, daggers out once again.
"No no I'm alright, there's no need to get mad at her. We caught you by surprise, it's our own fault." said Emerson.
Mary turned on him now. "So you're going to defend her now are you?" she asked.
Emerson tried to assure Mary that he was acctually on her side.
'Why is it that everyone thinks that I am trying to steal their guy?' thought Amber.
Mary forgave Emerson then asked once again why they were there.
"Well we were kind of worried about you two so we followed you both, then we were chased by a large group of these strange creatures. They were extremely large and extremely dirty and seemed to be bent on violence." said Ramses.
"Wow, you were worried about me Emerson!?" asked Mary excitedly.
Emerson kinda blushed and started stuttering with no idea of what to say.
Amber rolled her eyes. "Didn't you hear what they said? They were chased by what is called here... orcs you idiot!" she said.
"Orcs... what are those?" asked Emerson trying to change the subject.
"Well, orcs are a very primitive race here in Middle Earth." said Mary. "Most of them work for Saruman, you know, the one who wants the one ring, the one we're trying to kill." Mary paused for a second, then said. "Anyways, back to the subject of you being worried about me..."
Ramses was looking particularly sour at this exchange. Amber wondered what was wrong with him.He didn't seem too fond of the idea of Emerson liking Mary.
Emerson looked entreatingly at Ramses and Amber trying to get them to change the subject. Neither of them said anything so he begain "Well........... I .......... um..........."
For once Amber's hearing was working and she could hear the group of orcs heading their way.
"Sorry to change the subject Emerson, but the orcs are heading this way!" said Amber, Emerson sighed in relief.
"Great, just what I need... a battle to kill my pants even more!" said Mary pointing to her jeans which looked a little worse for wear, then rushing over to Amber.
"I think I can find a spell in this book here that will help us, Ramses take my sword and Emerson take the daggers and kill the orcs got it?!" said Amber grabing a spell book and sitting down on the rock after giving Ramses her sword and Emerson her daggers.
Emerson and Ramses looked at each other in confusion.
"What are we supost to do with these?" asked Ramses looking at Amber's sword.
Amber rolled her eyes at them both then went back to reading.
"You kill the ugly things if they come near you... unless of course you are scared to do so." said Mary eyes glittering.
"Oh crums..." said Amber looking up from the book and seeing at least a hundred orcs comming out of the forest.
"Die you ugly thing-a-mabobbs!!! HAHAHAHA!!!" yelled Mary rushing at them cutting off heads and stabbing here and there.
Emerson and Ramses shrugged and went on killing every orc that crossed their path.
Amber frantically searched through the book for a spell that would help them that wouldn't leave her weak. When finally she came to one.
"I found one! Metayla shaperia ikulhy memphic!" she yelled standing up and holding her staff high in the air. She, Mary, Emerson and Ramses all turned invisible, but not before two orc archers managed to shoot both Mary and Amber... who then fell off the stone with a loud thud.
Luckily though, they could see each other and Emerson ran over to help Mary and Ramses to help Amber.
"Elf attack!!!!!" was all they could hear through out the clearing as Mercedes, Katie and Legolas and his band of elves began shooting orcs left and right. Amber managed to say the undoing to the invisibility spell and the four appeared once more.
"Okay... never EVER doing that again." said Amber wincing in pain when she saw the arrow in her right arm. Ramses held out his hand to help her up which she graciously took. Mary on the other hand... was much worse off, the arrow had almost penetrating her heart.
"MARY!!!" she yelled running over to her fallen friend, shoving Emerson out of the way.
"I hate you..." said Mary opening her eyes.
"Oh very funny. Elf-boy... I mean Legolas pass me over that book there." said Amber pointing to a mudstained book on the ground. Legolas looked confused but did as Amber asked.
"Oh look, invinceable armor... now I find it!!! Here it is. Merdoc heperika." said Amber.
While she was saying the incantation her left hand started to glow bright blue.
Mary's eyes widened. "Stay away from her! She's radioactive!"
Amber ignored her and placed her left hand on Mary's wound. the blood turned an odd blue colour and then disapeared. Mary sat up.
"Happy now? Okay someone is carrying me back to Rivendell." said Amber. She ripped her skirt before putting it back on, then pulled out the orc arrow and put the piece of cloth on it to make a makeshift bandage, cursing under her breath because she couldn't tie a knot in it.
Ramses walked over and tied it for her. "Thank you..."
Ramses handed Amber back her sword which she put back in its sheth, Emerson handed her back the daggers which she did the same to.
"If Amber gets a piggy-back ride from someone, then I get one from someone too, cosidering the fact that I almost DIED." said Mary. She sniffed, pretending to cry. "Doesn't anyone care that I have gone through so much?! It is SUCH a mental strain to heve almost died, will no one take pity on poor wounded little me?"
Emerson didn't realize she was just acting however. "Well, of course we care, you and Amber just saved us." he said. "Without you Ramses and I would both be dead. I would be honoured to have the privelage of escorting such a heroic personage to the castle."
Mary blinked, surprised that he had actually believed her. Then she grinned. "I'll take you up on that!"
Emerson turned red and said "Oh, er.... um... yes, thats settled then!" and went to help with the other wounded elves.
Mary walked over to Amber. "Wow, I didn't know my acting skills were THAT good. I was just joking around."
Amber grinned. "Don't be stupid Mary, you couldn't act if your life depended on it!" Mary frowned and started to protest. Amber silenced her and said, "He volunteered because he likes you, not because of your acting skills."
Mary looked over at Emerson "You think so? It's hard to tell whether he does like me or he's just being chivalrous." Amber shrugged and Mary continued, "Anyways, at least I'm getting a piggyback ride! And I know Ramses will give you one. It's so obvious that he likes you!"
"Ha!" said Amber derisively. "How could you tell, with his 'stone pharaoh face'."
Mary shrugged negligently. "I dunno. He just does."
Katie walked over to them. "Everyone's ready to go now." she said. "And congrats Mary, on getting Emerson to give you a ride. I wish somebody would like ME that much." Then she walked away.
Emerson and Ramses then came over. "Are you two ready to go?" he asked.
Mary smiled and nodded, then went over and jumped on his back, which was hard seeing as Emerson was like almost a foot taller than her.
Mercedes quickly pretended to be hurt so Legolas would give her a piggy-back ride too, but she didn't need to, Legolas offered to give her one.
"Yeh' think I would say no?" she asked running over to him, Legolas gave his quiver of arrows and his bow to another elf them letting Mercedes jump on.
"Legolas must like her now eh'? asked Mary before Emerson started to walk away.
"Can I have a ride Ramses?" asked Amber trying to look sad... but as usual she couldn't keep a stright face.
Ramses smiled. "But of course Amber." he replied, Amber quickly jumped on his back, staff in one hand and bow in the other... which she quickly gave to Katie who was walking all by herself.
"Ramses go up beside Mary and Emerson." said Amber, Ramses looked confused but did as she asked.
"What do you want?" asked Mary in an annoyed voice.
"Look at Katie all alone back there. She needs someone from a book... and I know just who to get for her." said Amber smiling.
"But she won't be able to see him, he's kinda dead just to let ya know." said Mary.
Emerson grimaced. "I thought you said you wouldn't bring anyone else here!" he said. "And what do you mean that he's DEAD?"
"It's a long story." said Mary, patting his shoulder. "I'll explain in a minute. How DO you expect to fix that little problem?" she asked Amber.
"Let me worry about that." said Amber looking smug.
"Surprise though, right?" asked Mary who was still very VERY happy that she acually got a piggy-back ride from the greatest literary hero of all time.
Amber nodded. "She must never know... well until we show her him anyway."
They were all silent for a moment as Ramses and Emerson walked slowly on.
Suddenly Mary grinned and came out of the trance she had been in for the last little while. "Hey, you know what? You'd look really cute as horses. Don't you think so Amber?" asked Mary. Amber nodded.
"Yes I do believe so Mary... and they would be a lot faster too." said Amber, Ramses and Emerson exchanged worried glances. Mercedes pulled up beside them.
"Lets have a race! Giddy up Legolas!" said Mercedes grabing a branch an threatning to hit him with it. "Faster or I will hit you! Faster horsy FASTER!" Legolas went faster with that notion.
"Go Emerson or I will turn you into a horse!" said Mary.
"I am going as fast as I can!" he exclaimed, then winced as he saw her raise her staff.", but with your persuasiveness I will do your bidding." said Emerson hastily. Mary grinned and put it down.
Ramses took one look at Amber and knew what she was going to say and quicky picked up the pace.
"Too slow... Toklia!" said Amber pointing Ramses, then Emerson, then Legolas and then an elf beside Katie into horses.
"Great going Amber, Giddy up Emerson!" said Mary kicking Emerson and trying to pull into the lead.
Mercedes ended up winning, but only because she kept hitting Legolas with a stick. "HAHA! I win! My horse is better than all of yours!" said Mercedes.
Mary pulled up with Emerson and jumped off. "Well my horse is hotter than yours." said Mary, her and Mercedes got into a huge fight about who's horse is hotter.
Amber then rode up and did a front flip off of Ramses... landing on her butt. "Watch out, one very ungraceful elf comming through! And on a mission at that too. Come on Mary... to the library, and run before Ramses and the others capture us again!" said Amber grabing her staff from Katie and running inside after Mary, after saying the undo spell.
Ramses, Emerson and Legolas quickly ran in after them. "Don't let them into the library!" called Ramses running down the hallway.
Emerson, Legolas, Mercedes and Katie running to try to catch Amber and Mary before they got into the library... again.
