Disclaimer: You guys know what I'm gonna say. ;0)
Oh man, you people all ROCK!!! Thank you so much for the reviews. Really keeps me moving!
Breck: Heh! I know it! The way Boss uses that word is actually a shoot-off from the book/movie "The Princess Bride", because there is this one fellow that always says, "inconcievable." But I didn't want to say that same thing, so I just said something else. :0) Thanks so much for the review!!
Ainu Laire: Ah! Ah! Ah! (grabs Aragorn madly) You're not saving Aragorn, 'cause he's gotta big part to play in the story ahead! (blinks) And, uh, yeah you did kinda' go fangirl there for a moment...but that's ok. Not all fangirls are bad! (points proudly to T-shirt that has "Insane LOTR Fangirl" on it) Mwahahaha! Thanks for the review Ainu! And here's the next chappie...
Angelofdarkness2003: Awww. (blushes beet-red) Thanks Angel! You made my heart do a weird little dance of happiness when I saw your review. Maybe you really are an angel...(awed look upwards) Oh, and you like Bugley?? Haha!! I know, I love that guy too! I'm glad you like him. He always likes to know he has friends. (cringes as Boss' voice screams out "A GOOD ORC HAS NO FRIENDS!!!") Ho boy. I guess Bugley will never be a good Orc then. (grins) But anyway, thanks for the review Angel! (bows) And here's the new chapter!
Nothinglikeyou'veseen: YAAAYY!!! (gives bone-crunching hug) Another review from you my nothing'ness friend!! Yeah, it took me a while to sort out that whole part with Elrond's evil explanation, but I had fun writing it! :0) Hehe, yeah. To tell you the truth, Aragorn's gonna have a bigger part in this than meets the eye...especially after what happens next...(EVIL grin) You were waiting on baited breath for me?? Oh no!!! I had better—(stops) Wait...did you say...Aragorn AND Legolas on top?!? NOOOO!!! (frantically sorts through folders of chapters) Aha! Chapter 12! Here it is!! (sticks it up on faster than lightning) There! There! wipes forehead Whew! Ok! Here's your next chappie my wonderful nothing'ness friend! And God Bless you as well! (bows)
AN: Oh, and on the subject of "not all things are as they seem", as I mentioned earlier, in this chapter you're going to see why. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ceiling and chandelier fall down on head Now what did I do to deserve both of those things?!? Oh yeah. Reader suspense. Heeheehee. chimney rattles menacingly Uhhhh...I didn't mean that!!! covers head Hmmm...better get Gimli and his workers in here again...
Well, let's see...picks up menu what would be the best thing to eat with this chapter? Hmmm...looks at appetizers I know! Chips and salsa. Best kinda' snack there is!...well, for this chapter anyway. So order up and get ready for the next chapter!
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Chapter 12
Arwen sighed as she put the last clean dish in the cupboard for the night, drying her hands on a dishtowel and then turning to leave the kitchen.
It had been another long, worrisome day for her, wondering if her father and Gimli were alive, or if Boromir's slightly crazy plans were going to work or not. I mean...surely those awful people out there would kill their prisoners for receiving three letters like that...
Shuddering at the very thought, Arwen forced it from her mind and started turning down all the lamps in the house instead. It was late...nine o'clock she predicted, so she knew she ought to be getting to bed very soon, but she was in charge of making sure the house was properly shut down before doing so.
Suddenly, just as she was turning down the last lamp, very familiar, loud, excited footsteps came from upstairs, and in no time, she spotted Aragorn and Boromir racing from their rooms and happily trotting down the steps...right towards the front door.
Arwen frowned. "Where are you two going?" She called after them.
Both Men immediately stopped in their tracks.
"Uhhh...just outside, shnookums!" Aragorn explained happily.
"Yeah, uh, just to go for a nice nightly-time walk!" Boromir added.
Arwen sighed. "All right then. But don't stay out too late or you'll be very tired tomorrow."
"Oh, don't worry about it, shnookums!" Aragorn said happily. "Who knows? We might even run into Pops and Gimlikins!" And with that, both Men were out the door like a shot, leaving the front door swinging, as usual.
Arwen sighed and went to close it, forbidding herself to lock it once she did so, for she didn't want the Men to have to climb down the chimney or something.
With this accomplished, the Elf maiden turned around and started to head for her own room, hoping that Aragorn and Boromir would be back soon...and that they wouldn't run into any trouble.
--
"Aw man, this is really cool, buddy!" Boromir said excitedly, looking around the certain area of Rivendell that Aragorn always walked at night. "It's a great idea to walk here every night!"
"You bet it is!" Aragorn agreed. "And it's a place I know Poppsy will never come looking for me!" And giggling like a maniac, the dandy Dunadan happily hopped across a small stream that ran alongside their path, and raced happily into the forest.
Boromir grinned and ran after him, eager to see just where Aragorn would take him next.
But neither of them realized the danger at hand.
Four sets of Orcish eyes peeped out of the bushes just a little south of where they were heading, all looking very dangerous.
Well, actually only one set was looking dangerous, the others were looking kind of nervous.
"Uhhh...Boss?" The voice that belonged to one of the pairs of eyes said.
"What?!" Hissed Boss' voice.
"How're we gonna catch this Aragorn guy?"
"It'll be very easy. You know the description the Elf gave us!"
"Oh yeah...but still...what if he bites?"
"Oh, you idiot he's not gonna bite!!"
"But the Elf said that he was crazy!"
"So what?! You can't believe what an Elf says."
"Then why are we out here at all?!?"
"SSHHHHH!!! You idiot!! You're going to give us away!!"
"Sorry Boss."
"I do not forgive you. Now let's move out!"
And with that, the four Orcs crept eagerly from their hiding place and started after the Men, hauling their big sack with them and praying that nothing would go wrong.
And so the chase began.
It was dark outside, so this created a problem for the Orcs. Why? Because in the dark, Aragorn and Boromir looked almost exactly the same.
To our Orcs, one minute Aragorn would be standing over by the path, and the next minute he would be sitting on the rock ledge that was way in the forest.
"Man, this guy has a way of getting around!" Pugley said seriously.
"Maybe he's a ghost!" Slim suggested, his eyes going huge on his very thin face.
"Don't say that!!" Bugley wailed.
"SSHHHHHH!!!" Boss hissed furiously. "Do you want him to hear us?!?"
"At the moment, I'm not sure whether that would matter or not!" A very scared Pugley said.
Boss looked at them all in disbelief. "You really believe that this stupid little creature is a ghost?"
The other Orcs all glanced at each other.
"Well...uh..." Slim began.
"Kinda'..." Bugley admitted.
Boss' face was growing very red.
Not a good sign.
"Well then," He said sweetly, another very bad sign. "You can all just march on back to the cave while I get Aragorn, and when the ransom money comes, I'm going to take all of it, and leave you all for dead!!!!"
The other Orcs cowered at the very thought...then stopped.
"But Boss...you don't have the donkey." Bugley reminded him.
Boss blinked. "So what?!"
"Well, how're you s'posed to get around?" Pugley asked.
Boss' beady little eyes narrowed. "I have legs you know, you mindless idiot!! Now enough talk!! Let's go get us that human-fellow!" And with that, the rather short Orc started marching off determinedly in the direction that the Men were still going.
The Orcs all sighed and started after him, clearly unsure about what was going to happen next, and just what they were up against.
--
"Wow, this sure is an awesome place buddy!" Boromir said excitedly as he and Aragorn happily skipped down the path, looking around this way and that. "We should do this more often!"
"Yeah!" Aragorn agreed happily. "And maybe we can even go jumpin' the falls once in a while!"
"Woa, that sounds great!" Boromir agreed, not noticing the pair of arms that tried to snatch him from behind a bush.
"And we can go bunji-jumpin' too!" Aragorn added, not noticing the thing dangling from the tree above him that was this close to grabbing his head.
"And cliff-hangin'!" Boromir exclaimed, narrowly missing a swipe from another pair of arms that were sticking out of an empty log.
"And cliff-climbin'!" Aragorn said.
"And waterfall climbin'!"
"Yeah!"
"And maybe we can even take Arwen sometime!"
"No way. Shnookums could get hurt."
"Yeah, but she could cook campfire meals for us!"
"Oh yeah."
"And we could also go river-hopping."
"Ohhh, that sounds fun!"
"Yeah, and we can go swimming too if we want."
"Awesome!"
"And we could skip stones!"
"Yeah!"
"And we could die!"
"Yeah!"
"And we could—"
That was the exact last thing Boromir said before a bag was brought down right over him, and he was dragged mercilessly into the bushes.
Aragorn stopped after a few more feet, noticing that Boromir wasn't making very much noise anymore. He looked around in confusion. "B?" He looked the other way. "B, where are ya?"
Boromir was nowhere in sight.
This, needless to say, greatly confused our Rangerly friend, and scratching his head, the confused Man suddenly got the impression that perhaps his buddy was playing a game with him.
Hide-and-seek.
And so for the next fifteen minutes, Aragorn ran around the area, looking for Boromir and checking each and every hiding place that he thought would be possible for a Gondorian guy to hide...
But he never found him.
The Orcs sure did though! And they were having a very rough time getting their new charge away from the scene.
"Man, this guy is almost as bad as that Elf guy!" Pugley commented as they all struggled to haul the wriggling sack back towards the invisible path that led through the woods.
"Shhh!!!" Boss hissed. "We don't want him to know we have the Elf guy yet!"
"But he's bound to have found out by now!" Slim insisted, dodging a very close blow from the flailing form inside the sack.
"Whatever." Boss grumbled. "Let's just concentrate on getting him back to the cave now!"
"Uh...ok..." Bugley agreed nervously, narrowly dodging a punch in the nose.
"Man, we're gonna be the luckiest Orcs alive if we manage to get back to our hideout in two pieces." Pugley sighed wearily, realizing that death could very well be close for each one of them.
Boss glared dangerously at him. "Don't you DARE say such things!!!" He ordered angrily.
"Sorry Boss." Pugley mumbled miserably.
--
Well, it took a great deal of doing, but the Orcs did manage to get their captive back to the cave...thank the Valar.
Elrond and Gimli were very quick to stop their actions of trying to escape the moment they saw the Orcs coming, and quickly pretended that they had dozed off while their captors were out getting their new captive.
The moment the Orcs got inside the cave though, both the Elf Lord and the Dwarf took a good look at the situation.
All the Orcs were covered in bruises, (if they could be seen under all that dirt) and some had bloody noses and others had black, swollen eyes.
Boy, if Aragorn was in that sack, he was quite a fighter.
Imagine their shock when a very angry Boromir was dumped out of the sack and onto the floor, looking extremely angry, and not in the least bit like Aragorn.
Elrond and Gimli stared at him.
And they had thought that this was impossible to screw up.
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Just a'when I thought things couldn't get worse...
Shania Twain
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And then there were seven. Eheeeheeeheee!!! Got you all again! Now they've got Boromir as company in that cave! Man, that really creates catastrophe.
And just what is our other group going to do without their master planner?
They might just have the give the money over. (gasp)
Review and you'll get to find out what happens next a whole lot faster, I garauntee it!!
Oh man, you people all ROCK!!! Thank you so much for the reviews. Really keeps me moving!
Breck: Heh! I know it! The way Boss uses that word is actually a shoot-off from the book/movie "The Princess Bride", because there is this one fellow that always says, "inconcievable." But I didn't want to say that same thing, so I just said something else. :0) Thanks so much for the review!!
Ainu Laire: Ah! Ah! Ah! (grabs Aragorn madly) You're not saving Aragorn, 'cause he's gotta big part to play in the story ahead! (blinks) And, uh, yeah you did kinda' go fangirl there for a moment...but that's ok. Not all fangirls are bad! (points proudly to T-shirt that has "Insane LOTR Fangirl" on it) Mwahahaha! Thanks for the review Ainu! And here's the next chappie...
Angelofdarkness2003: Awww. (blushes beet-red) Thanks Angel! You made my heart do a weird little dance of happiness when I saw your review. Maybe you really are an angel...(awed look upwards) Oh, and you like Bugley?? Haha!! I know, I love that guy too! I'm glad you like him. He always likes to know he has friends. (cringes as Boss' voice screams out "A GOOD ORC HAS NO FRIENDS!!!") Ho boy. I guess Bugley will never be a good Orc then. (grins) But anyway, thanks for the review Angel! (bows) And here's the new chapter!
Nothinglikeyou'veseen: YAAAYY!!! (gives bone-crunching hug) Another review from you my nothing'ness friend!! Yeah, it took me a while to sort out that whole part with Elrond's evil explanation, but I had fun writing it! :0) Hehe, yeah. To tell you the truth, Aragorn's gonna have a bigger part in this than meets the eye...especially after what happens next...(EVIL grin) You were waiting on baited breath for me?? Oh no!!! I had better—(stops) Wait...did you say...Aragorn AND Legolas on top?!? NOOOO!!! (frantically sorts through folders of chapters) Aha! Chapter 12! Here it is!! (sticks it up on faster than lightning) There! There! wipes forehead Whew! Ok! Here's your next chappie my wonderful nothing'ness friend! And God Bless you as well! (bows)
AN: Oh, and on the subject of "not all things are as they seem", as I mentioned earlier, in this chapter you're going to see why. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ceiling and chandelier fall down on head Now what did I do to deserve both of those things?!? Oh yeah. Reader suspense. Heeheehee. chimney rattles menacingly Uhhhh...I didn't mean that!!! covers head Hmmm...better get Gimli and his workers in here again...
Well, let's see...picks up menu what would be the best thing to eat with this chapter? Hmmm...looks at appetizers I know! Chips and salsa. Best kinda' snack there is!...well, for this chapter anyway. So order up and get ready for the next chapter!
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Chapter 12
Arwen sighed as she put the last clean dish in the cupboard for the night, drying her hands on a dishtowel and then turning to leave the kitchen.
It had been another long, worrisome day for her, wondering if her father and Gimli were alive, or if Boromir's slightly crazy plans were going to work or not. I mean...surely those awful people out there would kill their prisoners for receiving three letters like that...
Shuddering at the very thought, Arwen forced it from her mind and started turning down all the lamps in the house instead. It was late...nine o'clock she predicted, so she knew she ought to be getting to bed very soon, but she was in charge of making sure the house was properly shut down before doing so.
Suddenly, just as she was turning down the last lamp, very familiar, loud, excited footsteps came from upstairs, and in no time, she spotted Aragorn and Boromir racing from their rooms and happily trotting down the steps...right towards the front door.
Arwen frowned. "Where are you two going?" She called after them.
Both Men immediately stopped in their tracks.
"Uhhh...just outside, shnookums!" Aragorn explained happily.
"Yeah, uh, just to go for a nice nightly-time walk!" Boromir added.
Arwen sighed. "All right then. But don't stay out too late or you'll be very tired tomorrow."
"Oh, don't worry about it, shnookums!" Aragorn said happily. "Who knows? We might even run into Pops and Gimlikins!" And with that, both Men were out the door like a shot, leaving the front door swinging, as usual.
Arwen sighed and went to close it, forbidding herself to lock it once she did so, for she didn't want the Men to have to climb down the chimney or something.
With this accomplished, the Elf maiden turned around and started to head for her own room, hoping that Aragorn and Boromir would be back soon...and that they wouldn't run into any trouble.
--
"Aw man, this is really cool, buddy!" Boromir said excitedly, looking around the certain area of Rivendell that Aragorn always walked at night. "It's a great idea to walk here every night!"
"You bet it is!" Aragorn agreed. "And it's a place I know Poppsy will never come looking for me!" And giggling like a maniac, the dandy Dunadan happily hopped across a small stream that ran alongside their path, and raced happily into the forest.
Boromir grinned and ran after him, eager to see just where Aragorn would take him next.
But neither of them realized the danger at hand.
Four sets of Orcish eyes peeped out of the bushes just a little south of where they were heading, all looking very dangerous.
Well, actually only one set was looking dangerous, the others were looking kind of nervous.
"Uhhh...Boss?" The voice that belonged to one of the pairs of eyes said.
"What?!" Hissed Boss' voice.
"How're we gonna catch this Aragorn guy?"
"It'll be very easy. You know the description the Elf gave us!"
"Oh yeah...but still...what if he bites?"
"Oh, you idiot he's not gonna bite!!"
"But the Elf said that he was crazy!"
"So what?! You can't believe what an Elf says."
"Then why are we out here at all?!?"
"SSHHHHH!!! You idiot!! You're going to give us away!!"
"Sorry Boss."
"I do not forgive you. Now let's move out!"
And with that, the four Orcs crept eagerly from their hiding place and started after the Men, hauling their big sack with them and praying that nothing would go wrong.
And so the chase began.
It was dark outside, so this created a problem for the Orcs. Why? Because in the dark, Aragorn and Boromir looked almost exactly the same.
To our Orcs, one minute Aragorn would be standing over by the path, and the next minute he would be sitting on the rock ledge that was way in the forest.
"Man, this guy has a way of getting around!" Pugley said seriously.
"Maybe he's a ghost!" Slim suggested, his eyes going huge on his very thin face.
"Don't say that!!" Bugley wailed.
"SSHHHHHH!!!" Boss hissed furiously. "Do you want him to hear us?!?"
"At the moment, I'm not sure whether that would matter or not!" A very scared Pugley said.
Boss looked at them all in disbelief. "You really believe that this stupid little creature is a ghost?"
The other Orcs all glanced at each other.
"Well...uh..." Slim began.
"Kinda'..." Bugley admitted.
Boss' face was growing very red.
Not a good sign.
"Well then," He said sweetly, another very bad sign. "You can all just march on back to the cave while I get Aragorn, and when the ransom money comes, I'm going to take all of it, and leave you all for dead!!!!"
The other Orcs cowered at the very thought...then stopped.
"But Boss...you don't have the donkey." Bugley reminded him.
Boss blinked. "So what?!"
"Well, how're you s'posed to get around?" Pugley asked.
Boss' beady little eyes narrowed. "I have legs you know, you mindless idiot!! Now enough talk!! Let's go get us that human-fellow!" And with that, the rather short Orc started marching off determinedly in the direction that the Men were still going.
The Orcs all sighed and started after him, clearly unsure about what was going to happen next, and just what they were up against.
--
"Wow, this sure is an awesome place buddy!" Boromir said excitedly as he and Aragorn happily skipped down the path, looking around this way and that. "We should do this more often!"
"Yeah!" Aragorn agreed happily. "And maybe we can even go jumpin' the falls once in a while!"
"Woa, that sounds great!" Boromir agreed, not noticing the pair of arms that tried to snatch him from behind a bush.
"And we can go bunji-jumpin' too!" Aragorn added, not noticing the thing dangling from the tree above him that was this close to grabbing his head.
"And cliff-hangin'!" Boromir exclaimed, narrowly missing a swipe from another pair of arms that were sticking out of an empty log.
"And cliff-climbin'!" Aragorn said.
"And waterfall climbin'!"
"Yeah!"
"And maybe we can even take Arwen sometime!"
"No way. Shnookums could get hurt."
"Yeah, but she could cook campfire meals for us!"
"Oh yeah."
"And we could also go river-hopping."
"Ohhh, that sounds fun!"
"Yeah, and we can go swimming too if we want."
"Awesome!"
"And we could skip stones!"
"Yeah!"
"And we could die!"
"Yeah!"
"And we could—"
That was the exact last thing Boromir said before a bag was brought down right over him, and he was dragged mercilessly into the bushes.
Aragorn stopped after a few more feet, noticing that Boromir wasn't making very much noise anymore. He looked around in confusion. "B?" He looked the other way. "B, where are ya?"
Boromir was nowhere in sight.
This, needless to say, greatly confused our Rangerly friend, and scratching his head, the confused Man suddenly got the impression that perhaps his buddy was playing a game with him.
Hide-and-seek.
And so for the next fifteen minutes, Aragorn ran around the area, looking for Boromir and checking each and every hiding place that he thought would be possible for a Gondorian guy to hide...
But he never found him.
The Orcs sure did though! And they were having a very rough time getting their new charge away from the scene.
"Man, this guy is almost as bad as that Elf guy!" Pugley commented as they all struggled to haul the wriggling sack back towards the invisible path that led through the woods.
"Shhh!!!" Boss hissed. "We don't want him to know we have the Elf guy yet!"
"But he's bound to have found out by now!" Slim insisted, dodging a very close blow from the flailing form inside the sack.
"Whatever." Boss grumbled. "Let's just concentrate on getting him back to the cave now!"
"Uh...ok..." Bugley agreed nervously, narrowly dodging a punch in the nose.
"Man, we're gonna be the luckiest Orcs alive if we manage to get back to our hideout in two pieces." Pugley sighed wearily, realizing that death could very well be close for each one of them.
Boss glared dangerously at him. "Don't you DARE say such things!!!" He ordered angrily.
"Sorry Boss." Pugley mumbled miserably.
--
Well, it took a great deal of doing, but the Orcs did manage to get their captive back to the cave...thank the Valar.
Elrond and Gimli were very quick to stop their actions of trying to escape the moment they saw the Orcs coming, and quickly pretended that they had dozed off while their captors were out getting their new captive.
The moment the Orcs got inside the cave though, both the Elf Lord and the Dwarf took a good look at the situation.
All the Orcs were covered in bruises, (if they could be seen under all that dirt) and some had bloody noses and others had black, swollen eyes.
Boy, if Aragorn was in that sack, he was quite a fighter.
Imagine their shock when a very angry Boromir was dumped out of the sack and onto the floor, looking extremely angry, and not in the least bit like Aragorn.
Elrond and Gimli stared at him.
And they had thought that this was impossible to screw up.
------
Just a'when I thought things couldn't get worse...
Shania Twain
----
----
And then there were seven. Eheeeheeeheee!!! Got you all again! Now they've got Boromir as company in that cave! Man, that really creates catastrophe.
And just what is our other group going to do without their master planner?
They might just have the give the money over. (gasp)
Review and you'll get to find out what happens next a whole lot faster, I garauntee it!!