By: Melphie13
Disclaimer: Tolkien owns all of em' except their personalities in this case and also the Orcs. Those are mine, and they always have been, they always will be. (Ever hear that song by Avalon called "Always have, always will"?) If you find the idea of personality-switching offensive and weird, you probably don't want to read the rest. You have been warned.
AN: Hi! This is Amanalda, my sister is out of town at the moment and is not able to right reviewer responses. (which she is devastated about) But she promises to make up for it, and here are another 2 chapters! (Oh, and all of the stuff at the bottom now are the stuff she has already written. Enjoy!)
Thank you Amanalda. You are my true-blue heroin. *hugs her* Also, there is another dedication and thank-you to be made. Thank you extremely much to my little sisters, Alisa and Tiffany, who I originally told this story to one night while we were sitting in their room, eating fireballs and talking about dumb Orcs.
Additional Author's Note: Here's where things are going to begin "going south" (one of my favorite expressions) for some of our characters, particularly a certain Elven Lord that likes to sleep with his windows open. So, get ready!
Sheesh these pro-information thingies are getting long! There's just so much stuff I have to cover on my first story. *lip quivers* I'm deader than a doornail.
Ok, enough blabber! Grab yourself a donut and a cappuccino and get ready for another chapter.
Chapter 5
The bright, full moon was high in the sky when midnight came along, and also as the four Orcs crept from their hiding place behind the waterfall, Bugley carrying the biggest sack they had, and headed for the quiet, peaceful city of Rivendell.
"AUGH! What was that?!" Boss hissed in near panic when the sound of a twig snapping reached his ears.
"Sorry Boss. I'll be more careful." Bugley promised quickly.
Boss scowled and kept creeping quietly along the path, (as quietly as Orcly possible...) keeping his eyes dutifully fixed on the lightless city before them. "This had better work..." He grumbled.
It took the Orcs a while to get into the city, but they did end up getting in, even if it meant disguising themselves as bushes and sneaking into the beautiful place.
Once past the idly chatting guards, Boss threw the bush off of himself and hissed for the others to do the same, and then all four Orcs looked around the deserted streets of the city.
"Boy. Everyone sure goes to bed early around here!" Slim pointed out in awe.
"You idiot, it's MIDNIGHT around here!!" Boss hissed angrily.
After that rather too-loud outburst, the leader of the group abruptly realized his mistake when the house behind them suddenly flicked on its lights, and a sleepy but alarmed dark-haired peered out of a window, looking for the makers of the noise. "Who's there?" He demanded in a sleep- hoarsened voice.
The Orcs panicked at that moment, all wildly diving under their bushes again and situating themselves carefully along the edges of the house.
The Elf frowned at the noise of shuffling and...panicked whispers was it?
Thoroughly suspicious, the fair being looked quickly towards the bunch of quivering bushes by his house, noticing that they were shaking, but after a cool breeze swept by his face, he concluded that it must be the wind.
Yawning as sleepiness came over him again, the Elf soon turned to go back to bed, switching off the lanterns and walking wearily into the house.
Well, it took about seven minutes after the Elf had gone for Boss to muster up the courage to peek out of his bush again.
Luckily for those unfortunate creatures, there was no one there.
Boss turned quickly back to his companions, hissing very quietly to them that they should move on, though it took an additional five minutes to get his petrified Orc-mates to even move an inch from their bushes.
"We're going to have to be very quiet from now on." Boss whispered lowly after finally getting his companions out of their bushes.
"B-but I-I th-though we w-were al-already b-being quiet!" Pugley whispered shakily.
"Yes, but Elves have extra good hearing, and so we need to be double quiet. Got it?" Boss hissed quickly.
The other, shaken Orcs barely nodded.
"Ok then, let's go!" Boss said eagerly, sneaking around the house of the now-sleeping Elf and heading right for the grandest house in the city.
The House of Elrond.
Once outside the great house, the Orcs all kind of just stood there and stared up at it.
They knew no one inside was awake. None of the lights were on, and when they peered through the parlor window, there wasn't even a fire burning in the fireplace. Just some glowing coals sitting in the ashes and slowly fading as time went on.
"All right then! I guess that means that it's time to put our plan into action!" Boss announced, whispering excitedly to the others. "Bugley, get the sack!"
Bugley nodded and grabbed the sack from his own shoulder, showing it to the rest of the Orcs. "Uh, what do I do with it?" He asked timidly.
"Uh, um, I think we have to find out where the Elf is." Boss explained quickly.
"Ya know Boss, you never did tell us who the Elf is." Pugley pointed out.
"Oh yes, I had forgotten." Boss admitted, scratching his smaller head. "I was thinking that we'd just get even with that mean old Elf lord that stared at us for so long that day."
"Y-you mean that important guy?!" Slim shrieked in horror.
"SHHHH!!!" Boss hissed immediately. "Do you want to give away our position? Keep your voice down!"
Slim quickly clamped a hand over his own mouth. "Sorry." He mumbled in a very muffled voice.
"Ok, so which bedroom is this guy in?" Pugley asked.
"Errr..." Boss looked slightly nervous on that one as he gazed up at the enormous house. "I...I think we should probably start from the first one and work our way down. I believe in these stupid Elvish houses they have all the bedrooms upstairs. So..." He pointed meaningfully up at the first window above them.
"Oh, ok." Bugley said simply. "But how do we get up there?"
"Hmmm...incongruous." Boss muttered as he gazed at the big distance between him and the window. "I think we're gonna need a ladder or something."
"We could throw a rock at the window and make the guy think he's under attack and grab him when he comes to the window!" Pugley suggested eagerly.
"You idiot, it's too high up! He'd be sure to see us." Boss contradicted stubbornly.
"Then what are going to do?" Bugley was getting scared. He didn't like being in a city with Elves in the middle of the night.
"I know!" Slim said quickly. "You could all take me by the arms and legs and streeeeeetch me, until I'm really tall and I can just reach into the window!"
"Actually Slim, with how fragile you are, I think we'd just stretch you clean out." Pugley admitted mournfully.
Slim snorted, but didn't deny it.
Bugley yawned. "I wanna go to bed." He said tiredly.
"No! We can't give up now!" Boss hissed desperately. "We can get up there!"
"How?" All three of the other Orcs said at once.
"Um..." Boss was stuck again. "Well...uh...I suppose we could...um..."
"Pile ourselves up like a bunch of building blocks?" Pugley asked sarcastically.
To his surprise and horror, Slim and Bugley looked thoughtful, and Boss smiled slyly, as he usually did when an idea popped into his head.
Pugley was horrified.
He had said too much.
***
"Hurry up you guys!" Bugley called up softly in a squashed voice, because, being the strongest, he was the one who had to support all the weight on the bottom of the Orcish ladder that the four Orcs had created.
"Don't worry Bugley, we're almost there." Slim tried to assure the other Orc, though he himself wasn't feeling too good about the matter. He was standing on Bugley's shoulders, his tiny, stick-like arms quivering like a noodle since he had to also support a lot of weight.
"Come on Boss!" Pugley called from up on top of Slim's shoulders, offering a hand to the smallest Orc who was struggling to climb up on both Bugley's, Slim's, and Pugley's shoulders. "We don't have much time!"
"Oh, thank you for that completely unknown information Pugley!" Boss snarled, but accepting the hand up all the same.
At long last, Boss climbed on top of Pugley's shoulders, trying to peer into the nearby window. "Just a little to the right Bugley!" He called down softly.
Bugley groaned and did his best to move to the right with his great burden, but it wasn't very easy or working since that only made the top of the stack of Orcs tilt to the left, and so Bugley had to hurry up and move to the left again in order to keep the others from falling clean off of his shoulders.
This actually went on for quite some time, and Bugley was just about deciding that they would never be even in either the righty or lefty direction.
"Woooaa!" Boss yelped as quietly as he could, clutching onto Pugley's head for dear life. "Bugley stop that! Stop that!!" He hissed in near panic. If they fell...they would be sure to wake up just about everybody in Rivendell and let them know that they were there.
"I...can't..." Bugley was having simply no luck in the matter.
"Just...just lean us up against the house then!" Boss managed to hiss between grabbing on tighter to a grimacing Pugley's head.
Bugley thought for a moment while leaning to the left, and then finally nodded to himself when he thought he understood what Boss had just told him to do. And so, with that, the huge Orc gave it all he had, and tipped way towards the right.
Unfortunately, he either tipped too hard or too fast, and Slim, Pugley, and Boss barely had time to yelp in horror before they were squashed like perfect pancakes up against the house.
When Bugley heard the sounds from the Orcs he had on his shoulders stop, he got rather alarmed. "Uh, did I kill anyone up there?" He called softly, dreading the answer.
It took about a minute of recovery before Boss was able to peel his small self from the wall and glare down at the biggest Orc. "Bugley, when I say, lean us up against the house, I do not mean throw us up against the house. Got it?" He was really seething in anger, but he forced himself to sound halfway calm.
"Ok." Bugley replied softly.
"Good." Boss said, smiling as Pugley and Slim finally unstuck themselves too.
"Ohhhh...I ache, I throb..." Slim groaned, clutching his pounding head.
"Me too..." Pugley moaned.
"Whatever. Look! I can see into the window!" Boss said eagerly, poking his small head through the opening.
The Orc swept his eyes quickly around the beautiful room, around the beautiful dresser by the bed, by the mirror on the wall, by the wardrobe and the armory chest...and finally onto the bed where a still, dark-haired figure lay with his back to the window.
Boss put on a particularly evil Orc smile. "Bulls-eye." He murmured gleefully.
After a few more seconds of Orcish evilness for good measure, Boss peered down at Pugley. "We have to act now. Bugley, hand up the sack!"
Well, Bugley had three other Orcs on his shoulders, so picking up a sack from the ground would be no small task.
Finally deciding that he couldn't just sit there, Bugley just kind of slid his hands under Slim's boots...and threw all three Orcs up in the air, using his rather unusual strength.
And, while his friends were still coming down from their little rocket up a few feet into the sky, he bent down casually, picked up the sack, and then casually allowed his companions to land in perfect order back on his shoulders.
"Here it is Boss!" The biggest Orc called up softly and cheerfully to his rather shaken leader, handing Slim the sack so that the thin Orc could pass it on.
"Thank you Bugley, but next time do it without the tossing. Ok?" Boss ground out at the Orc on the bottom, grabbing the sack from Pugley and motioning for the other Orc to follow him inside the window.
Pugley nodded and climbed in after Boss, (having to jump aways but otherwise it was easy) jumping to the softly carpeted ground below once inside.
Boss was grinning evilly again. "At last! Our moment approaches..." He whispered eagerly, wringing his hands in anxiousness.
Pugley blinked. "Er, how are we going to get him back to the hideout Boss?" He asked timidly.
Boss shook his head and growled at him. "You idiot. How many times do I have to explain this?!"
Pugley shrugged.
Boss rolled his eyes and held out the sack to the Orc. "We're going to approach him from behind, then you get him in the sack, and I'll tie it shut! Got it?"
"And then what Boss?" Pugley asked worriedly.
"Then we hand him out the window to Slim, who will hand him down to Bugley, and we'll drag him out of the city!" The leader of the Orcs explained simply.
"And how are we gonna do that without beein' seen Boss?" Pugley asked suspiciously.
Boss grinned. "I guess we'll have to climb over the wall."
Pugley's eyes widened.
"Ok now, tiptoe up to him...and just fling the sack right over his head. Got it?" Boss instructed carefully.
Pugley nodded shakily, and trembling like a leaf, he silently approached the sleeping figure before him.
Ok! That might actually be a real cliffie. Sorry, but I had to try. Plus I've got a tight schedule here. Still gotta' fit school in along with all of this. Sorry to keep ya'll waitin'!
*falls to knees* PLEEEAAASEEE review!!! I really like to know what you think. It keeps me up and goin' around here. So just drag your mouse over to the little button down there and REVIEW!!! *begs pitifully*
Disclaimer: Tolkien owns all of em' except their personalities in this case and also the Orcs. Those are mine, and they always have been, they always will be. (Ever hear that song by Avalon called "Always have, always will"?) If you find the idea of personality-switching offensive and weird, you probably don't want to read the rest. You have been warned.
AN: Hi! This is Amanalda, my sister is out of town at the moment and is not able to right reviewer responses. (which she is devastated about) But she promises to make up for it, and here are another 2 chapters! (Oh, and all of the stuff at the bottom now are the stuff she has already written. Enjoy!)
Thank you Amanalda. You are my true-blue heroin. *hugs her* Also, there is another dedication and thank-you to be made. Thank you extremely much to my little sisters, Alisa and Tiffany, who I originally told this story to one night while we were sitting in their room, eating fireballs and talking about dumb Orcs.
Additional Author's Note: Here's where things are going to begin "going south" (one of my favorite expressions) for some of our characters, particularly a certain Elven Lord that likes to sleep with his windows open. So, get ready!
Sheesh these pro-information thingies are getting long! There's just so much stuff I have to cover on my first story. *lip quivers* I'm deader than a doornail.
Ok, enough blabber! Grab yourself a donut and a cappuccino and get ready for another chapter.
Chapter 5
The bright, full moon was high in the sky when midnight came along, and also as the four Orcs crept from their hiding place behind the waterfall, Bugley carrying the biggest sack they had, and headed for the quiet, peaceful city of Rivendell.
"AUGH! What was that?!" Boss hissed in near panic when the sound of a twig snapping reached his ears.
"Sorry Boss. I'll be more careful." Bugley promised quickly.
Boss scowled and kept creeping quietly along the path, (as quietly as Orcly possible...) keeping his eyes dutifully fixed on the lightless city before them. "This had better work..." He grumbled.
It took the Orcs a while to get into the city, but they did end up getting in, even if it meant disguising themselves as bushes and sneaking into the beautiful place.
Once past the idly chatting guards, Boss threw the bush off of himself and hissed for the others to do the same, and then all four Orcs looked around the deserted streets of the city.
"Boy. Everyone sure goes to bed early around here!" Slim pointed out in awe.
"You idiot, it's MIDNIGHT around here!!" Boss hissed angrily.
After that rather too-loud outburst, the leader of the group abruptly realized his mistake when the house behind them suddenly flicked on its lights, and a sleepy but alarmed dark-haired peered out of a window, looking for the makers of the noise. "Who's there?" He demanded in a sleep- hoarsened voice.
The Orcs panicked at that moment, all wildly diving under their bushes again and situating themselves carefully along the edges of the house.
The Elf frowned at the noise of shuffling and...panicked whispers was it?
Thoroughly suspicious, the fair being looked quickly towards the bunch of quivering bushes by his house, noticing that they were shaking, but after a cool breeze swept by his face, he concluded that it must be the wind.
Yawning as sleepiness came over him again, the Elf soon turned to go back to bed, switching off the lanterns and walking wearily into the house.
Well, it took about seven minutes after the Elf had gone for Boss to muster up the courage to peek out of his bush again.
Luckily for those unfortunate creatures, there was no one there.
Boss turned quickly back to his companions, hissing very quietly to them that they should move on, though it took an additional five minutes to get his petrified Orc-mates to even move an inch from their bushes.
"We're going to have to be very quiet from now on." Boss whispered lowly after finally getting his companions out of their bushes.
"B-but I-I th-though we w-were al-already b-being quiet!" Pugley whispered shakily.
"Yes, but Elves have extra good hearing, and so we need to be double quiet. Got it?" Boss hissed quickly.
The other, shaken Orcs barely nodded.
"Ok then, let's go!" Boss said eagerly, sneaking around the house of the now-sleeping Elf and heading right for the grandest house in the city.
The House of Elrond.
Once outside the great house, the Orcs all kind of just stood there and stared up at it.
They knew no one inside was awake. None of the lights were on, and when they peered through the parlor window, there wasn't even a fire burning in the fireplace. Just some glowing coals sitting in the ashes and slowly fading as time went on.
"All right then! I guess that means that it's time to put our plan into action!" Boss announced, whispering excitedly to the others. "Bugley, get the sack!"
Bugley nodded and grabbed the sack from his own shoulder, showing it to the rest of the Orcs. "Uh, what do I do with it?" He asked timidly.
"Uh, um, I think we have to find out where the Elf is." Boss explained quickly.
"Ya know Boss, you never did tell us who the Elf is." Pugley pointed out.
"Oh yes, I had forgotten." Boss admitted, scratching his smaller head. "I was thinking that we'd just get even with that mean old Elf lord that stared at us for so long that day."
"Y-you mean that important guy?!" Slim shrieked in horror.
"SHHHH!!!" Boss hissed immediately. "Do you want to give away our position? Keep your voice down!"
Slim quickly clamped a hand over his own mouth. "Sorry." He mumbled in a very muffled voice.
"Ok, so which bedroom is this guy in?" Pugley asked.
"Errr..." Boss looked slightly nervous on that one as he gazed up at the enormous house. "I...I think we should probably start from the first one and work our way down. I believe in these stupid Elvish houses they have all the bedrooms upstairs. So..." He pointed meaningfully up at the first window above them.
"Oh, ok." Bugley said simply. "But how do we get up there?"
"Hmmm...incongruous." Boss muttered as he gazed at the big distance between him and the window. "I think we're gonna need a ladder or something."
"We could throw a rock at the window and make the guy think he's under attack and grab him when he comes to the window!" Pugley suggested eagerly.
"You idiot, it's too high up! He'd be sure to see us." Boss contradicted stubbornly.
"Then what are going to do?" Bugley was getting scared. He didn't like being in a city with Elves in the middle of the night.
"I know!" Slim said quickly. "You could all take me by the arms and legs and streeeeeetch me, until I'm really tall and I can just reach into the window!"
"Actually Slim, with how fragile you are, I think we'd just stretch you clean out." Pugley admitted mournfully.
Slim snorted, but didn't deny it.
Bugley yawned. "I wanna go to bed." He said tiredly.
"No! We can't give up now!" Boss hissed desperately. "We can get up there!"
"How?" All three of the other Orcs said at once.
"Um..." Boss was stuck again. "Well...uh...I suppose we could...um..."
"Pile ourselves up like a bunch of building blocks?" Pugley asked sarcastically.
To his surprise and horror, Slim and Bugley looked thoughtful, and Boss smiled slyly, as he usually did when an idea popped into his head.
Pugley was horrified.
He had said too much.
***
"Hurry up you guys!" Bugley called up softly in a squashed voice, because, being the strongest, he was the one who had to support all the weight on the bottom of the Orcish ladder that the four Orcs had created.
"Don't worry Bugley, we're almost there." Slim tried to assure the other Orc, though he himself wasn't feeling too good about the matter. He was standing on Bugley's shoulders, his tiny, stick-like arms quivering like a noodle since he had to also support a lot of weight.
"Come on Boss!" Pugley called from up on top of Slim's shoulders, offering a hand to the smallest Orc who was struggling to climb up on both Bugley's, Slim's, and Pugley's shoulders. "We don't have much time!"
"Oh, thank you for that completely unknown information Pugley!" Boss snarled, but accepting the hand up all the same.
At long last, Boss climbed on top of Pugley's shoulders, trying to peer into the nearby window. "Just a little to the right Bugley!" He called down softly.
Bugley groaned and did his best to move to the right with his great burden, but it wasn't very easy or working since that only made the top of the stack of Orcs tilt to the left, and so Bugley had to hurry up and move to the left again in order to keep the others from falling clean off of his shoulders.
This actually went on for quite some time, and Bugley was just about deciding that they would never be even in either the righty or lefty direction.
"Woooaa!" Boss yelped as quietly as he could, clutching onto Pugley's head for dear life. "Bugley stop that! Stop that!!" He hissed in near panic. If they fell...they would be sure to wake up just about everybody in Rivendell and let them know that they were there.
"I...can't..." Bugley was having simply no luck in the matter.
"Just...just lean us up against the house then!" Boss managed to hiss between grabbing on tighter to a grimacing Pugley's head.
Bugley thought for a moment while leaning to the left, and then finally nodded to himself when he thought he understood what Boss had just told him to do. And so, with that, the huge Orc gave it all he had, and tipped way towards the right.
Unfortunately, he either tipped too hard or too fast, and Slim, Pugley, and Boss barely had time to yelp in horror before they were squashed like perfect pancakes up against the house.
When Bugley heard the sounds from the Orcs he had on his shoulders stop, he got rather alarmed. "Uh, did I kill anyone up there?" He called softly, dreading the answer.
It took about a minute of recovery before Boss was able to peel his small self from the wall and glare down at the biggest Orc. "Bugley, when I say, lean us up against the house, I do not mean throw us up against the house. Got it?" He was really seething in anger, but he forced himself to sound halfway calm.
"Ok." Bugley replied softly.
"Good." Boss said, smiling as Pugley and Slim finally unstuck themselves too.
"Ohhhh...I ache, I throb..." Slim groaned, clutching his pounding head.
"Me too..." Pugley moaned.
"Whatever. Look! I can see into the window!" Boss said eagerly, poking his small head through the opening.
The Orc swept his eyes quickly around the beautiful room, around the beautiful dresser by the bed, by the mirror on the wall, by the wardrobe and the armory chest...and finally onto the bed where a still, dark-haired figure lay with his back to the window.
Boss put on a particularly evil Orc smile. "Bulls-eye." He murmured gleefully.
After a few more seconds of Orcish evilness for good measure, Boss peered down at Pugley. "We have to act now. Bugley, hand up the sack!"
Well, Bugley had three other Orcs on his shoulders, so picking up a sack from the ground would be no small task.
Finally deciding that he couldn't just sit there, Bugley just kind of slid his hands under Slim's boots...and threw all three Orcs up in the air, using his rather unusual strength.
And, while his friends were still coming down from their little rocket up a few feet into the sky, he bent down casually, picked up the sack, and then casually allowed his companions to land in perfect order back on his shoulders.
"Here it is Boss!" The biggest Orc called up softly and cheerfully to his rather shaken leader, handing Slim the sack so that the thin Orc could pass it on.
"Thank you Bugley, but next time do it without the tossing. Ok?" Boss ground out at the Orc on the bottom, grabbing the sack from Pugley and motioning for the other Orc to follow him inside the window.
Pugley nodded and climbed in after Boss, (having to jump aways but otherwise it was easy) jumping to the softly carpeted ground below once inside.
Boss was grinning evilly again. "At last! Our moment approaches..." He whispered eagerly, wringing his hands in anxiousness.
Pugley blinked. "Er, how are we going to get him back to the hideout Boss?" He asked timidly.
Boss shook his head and growled at him. "You idiot. How many times do I have to explain this?!"
Pugley shrugged.
Boss rolled his eyes and held out the sack to the Orc. "We're going to approach him from behind, then you get him in the sack, and I'll tie it shut! Got it?"
"And then what Boss?" Pugley asked worriedly.
"Then we hand him out the window to Slim, who will hand him down to Bugley, and we'll drag him out of the city!" The leader of the Orcs explained simply.
"And how are we gonna do that without beein' seen Boss?" Pugley asked suspiciously.
Boss grinned. "I guess we'll have to climb over the wall."
Pugley's eyes widened.
"Ok now, tiptoe up to him...and just fling the sack right over his head. Got it?" Boss instructed carefully.
Pugley nodded shakily, and trembling like a leaf, he silently approached the sleeping figure before him.
Ok! That might actually be a real cliffie. Sorry, but I had to try. Plus I've got a tight schedule here. Still gotta' fit school in along with all of this. Sorry to keep ya'll waitin'!
*falls to knees* PLEEEAAASEEE review!!! I really like to know what you think. It keeps me up and goin' around here. So just drag your mouse over to the little button down there and REVIEW!!! *begs pitifully*