A/N: I know this plot is a bit overdone, but im having fun writing this, and i hope you're having fun reading this! From the reviews it sounds like ya are! : ) I personally think this is my best story yet! it's fun. lol
~TC
~*~*~
"Hello MC." Merry said loudly, startling MC and causing her to jump several inches off the ground. Merry decided this was quite funny.
"Hi." MC greeted once she'd regained her senses. "What's up?"
"Oh, not much, um...." Merry suddenly got very shy. There was an awkward silence. This was soon broken by another outburst from TC.
"OH MY GOD!" She stopped dead in her tracks.
"TC, forget it! You are NOT riding Bill!" Sam yelled to her.
"But I don't wanna walk!" TC whined.
"Well, you're going to have to!" Strider yelled from ahead.
TC's face suddenly brightened, as if she'd just gotten a genious idea. "I could ROLL!"
Strider stopped and turned around. He looked rather annoyed (and somehow TC felt as though it was directed at her). "You are not ROLLING to Rivendell!"
"I'd rather do that than walk!"
"Fine! Roll!" Strider turned and continued walking at a fast pace. TC just stood for a second, then jogged to catch up with the group. She quickly fell behind again. Pippin dropped back to talk to her.
"Thought you were gonna roll?" He laughed. TC didn't say anything.
Up in the group, Merry was talking rather fast, and MC had trouble absorbing everything he said. He was also asking a lot of questions. Stuff like, where she lived, what her full name was, was she a light or deep sleeper. Stuff like that, it worried MC.
They reached a small clearing in the woods and Strider said they'd stay there that night. He put Frodo down by one of the large stone trolls that was there. Immediately the other hobbits crowded around him (except Sam, who was tying Bill next to a large rock, then removed all the luggage. Then Strider called him over).
"Sam, do you know the Athelas plant?" Strider asked, but the only response was a blank look. "Kingsfoil?"
"Kingsfoil?" Sam repeated, "Aye! That's a weed!"
"It may help to slow the poisoning."
Sam nodded and ran into the woods with his torch.
"TC!" Strider called, and signaled for her to come over. She slowly walked over to him. "Let me see your feet." he said, and squatted down to look at her feet.
"Hey! Don't touch!" TC screamed and accidentally kneed him in the face. He stood up and gave her a glare that sent chills down her spine. The glare worsened when he realized there was blood.
"Oh S#%@!" TC screamed and began running, Strider chasing her. She quickly ran over to Bill, untied his lead, and used the rock to mount him. Strider just missed her when she turned Bill and galloped off.
"I hope Sam gets back before she does." That was all he said. A few minutes later, his wish came true. Sam came running into the clearing, waving the Kingsfoil. He gave it to Strider, who did his thing with it. Then Sam noticed Bill was missing.
"Where's Bill?"
No one answered. Then Sam noticed TC was missing as well. Then he put it together. "That b!%#$!"
A few minutes later, two horses (with riders) came out of the woods.
"BILL!" Sam yelled, excitedly, then his eyes narrawed as he saw TC. The other rider was on a white horse, she had Bill's lead. The two riders dismounted (TC ended up hiding behind Merry, Pippin and MC so Sam wouldn't attack her).
The other rider was a female elf with long dark brown hair. She strode over to Frodo. "We must get him to my father!" She picked the hobbit up and carried him over to her horse. Strider was going with her. They began speaking in Elvish.
"What are they doing?" MC asked, somewhat frantically.
"They're taking him away." Merry said (hopefully, more than knowledgably, as this would give him a clearer chance for MC).
"WHERE?!" MC screamed, running up to Strider and the Elf. "Where are you taking him?"
Strider and the Elf looked at her in annoyance. "Arwen is taking him to Rivendell."
"No!" MC yelled in despair. Arwen quickly mounted the horse behind Frodo and took off at a gallop.
"Ride hard! Don't look back!" Strider called after her.
"No!" MC fell to her knees.
That night, when (almost) everyone was asleep, they were woken up by someone screaming . Everyone looked over to the source. Sam was on top of TC (who was trying to beat on him), strangling her...or, trying to anyways.
Pippin and MC ran over. Pippin dragged Sam off TC. Then MC jumped on Sam began pounding on him. Merry had to drag her off.
"What's going on?" Strider asked.
"She stole Bill!" Sam whimpered.
"For cripes' sake! He's right over there!" TC yelled, pointing at the pony, who was asleep.
"What if he's having nightmares? It'd be all your fault! You'd feel bad then, wouldn't you?"
"You have ISSUES!" Merry put an emphasis on "issues.''
Strider sighed. "This will be...interesting." he muttered. "Okay guys, can we get through the night without killing anyone, or making an attempt on anyone's life?" The hobbits didn't nod, or say yes. They just kind of, looked around. "Okay, how about we try that?" Strider's tone of voice was that of someone speaking to small children. He spoke slowly, as well, afraid they wouldn't understand otherwise).
They all went back to bed. Except TC and MC slept by Merry and Pippin. Sam by Bill. As they were walking to their new spots, they heard a loud thump of some sort, then TC yelled somewhere from the dark:
"Crap! I didn't know there was a tree there!"
Eventually she made it back to her sleeping bag.
The next morning, Strider wanted to get an early start, but MC wouldn't get up. Consequently, neither would Merry. As Sam was trying to get MC up, TC started inching towards Bill. She began stroking him and talking to him. Strider looked over at her, disturbed. Finally, Sam gave up and turned around, to find what TC was doing.
"AHHH!" He screamed and ran over to TC and Bill. Strider laughed. TC turned and saw Sam coming at her, but felt unthreatened. He began beating her away from Bill.
"Hey man! Chill out!" TC yelled and walked away. MC looked over, and found Merry staring constantly at her. She quickly got up. So did Merry.
"Are we ready to go NOW?" Strider demanded.
"Yes!" MC yelled and took off running.
"Wrong way!" Strider called after her. She stopped, turned, and rejoined the group. She stayed away from Merry. They began their journey to Rivendell.
As they were walking, TC and MC were walking with Merry and Pippin (MC wasn't thrilled, but the other three were). MC was just moping around, when Merry asked what was wrong, she mumbled something inaudible, except for "Frodo". Pippin and TC were talking, of course. And Merry was walking dangerously close to MC. Sam attempted to hit TC and MC with rocks, but had a bad arm, and hit Merry and Pippin usually. Once he accidentally hit Strider (ONCE being the keyword there. His rock throwing stopped after that. His goal, however, was unreached. TC and MC remained unmarked).
About half an hour in, TC's usual complaining started.
"How much further?" She whined.
"5 days."
"How much further? Like...distance?"
"I dont know. Shut up."
"My feet hurt!"
"I don't care."
"They do!"
"You can ride Bill!" Sam offered. The group stopped and stared.
"What?" They all asked at the same time.
"You can ride Bill!"
"Why?" TC asked suspiciously. "What are you plotting?"
"Nothing! You're just complaining so much..."
"Um..." TC hesitated. "Okay..." TC walked over and Sam helped her on. Something was up.
Pippin walked over to Sam. "If you do ANYTHING to her, your head will be on a stake like a shishkabob!" Sam only mumbled in reply, not making eye contact with Pippin. Sure enough, Sam was plotting some sort of revenge on horsback. As TC appeared to be dozing (after numerous complaints of being bored. Sam wouldn't stop Bill, so she couldn't get off), Sam quickly started running, which caused Bill to have to trot. In consequence, TC bounced right off.
"SAM YOU JERK!" TC began chasing him. So did Pippin. TC quickly grabbed a stick and continued chasing Sam. Strider caught her and Pippin. "Hey! You don't stop him when he does stuff to me!"
"Well YOU deserve it!" Strider said. TC raised her stick to smack him (which only would have reached his shoulder at most, so he wasn't worried) but realized what a serious mistake what would be, before she carried through. Sam drifted to the back of the group again, receiving glares from Pippin and TC. Strider told him "good job" as he walked by.
"Hey MC, did you lose this?" Merry held up a gold necklace.
"How'd you get that?" MC asked suspiciously, quickly grabbing the necklace. Merry looked down, blushing.
"Um...when you were asleep..."
"OH MY GOSH!" MC ran up to TC and Pippin. Not that that alone could stop Merry from following her.
"Having fun?" TC asked sarcastically.
"NO!" MC looked at Pippin, "YOUR friend is a FREAK!"
"Hey! That's not true!" Pippin defended Merry (who was walking right next to MC, unsurprisingly).
"I swear he's stalking me!"
"I am not!" Merry lied.
Strider, up in front, groaned in horror. "Five more days..." he though. And he, for some reason, didn't think that things would be getting any better as time wore on.
And they didn't. Over the next five days, the rivalry between Sam and TC grew, and spread to MC as well. Merry's stalking of MC grew to the point where the poor hobbit (MC, not Merry) could hardly sleep due to nervousness. Strider had to go off into the woods for a day, by himself, to keep from having a nervous breakdown. This extended their trip by another day. A long day. TC's complaining got more annoying and childish. At one point, Strider had to break up a fight between MC, TC, and Sam (the two girls took sticks to him. Of course, he'd poured hot water on TC's feet, and stolen both the girls' swords and attempted to keep them for his own [but they stole them back during the night], and attempted to cut off MC's hair...among numerous other things).
Finally, after what seemed like forever, they reached Rivendell.
~TC
~*~*~
"Hello MC." Merry said loudly, startling MC and causing her to jump several inches off the ground. Merry decided this was quite funny.
"Hi." MC greeted once she'd regained her senses. "What's up?"
"Oh, not much, um...." Merry suddenly got very shy. There was an awkward silence. This was soon broken by another outburst from TC.
"OH MY GOD!" She stopped dead in her tracks.
"TC, forget it! You are NOT riding Bill!" Sam yelled to her.
"But I don't wanna walk!" TC whined.
"Well, you're going to have to!" Strider yelled from ahead.
TC's face suddenly brightened, as if she'd just gotten a genious idea. "I could ROLL!"
Strider stopped and turned around. He looked rather annoyed (and somehow TC felt as though it was directed at her). "You are not ROLLING to Rivendell!"
"I'd rather do that than walk!"
"Fine! Roll!" Strider turned and continued walking at a fast pace. TC just stood for a second, then jogged to catch up with the group. She quickly fell behind again. Pippin dropped back to talk to her.
"Thought you were gonna roll?" He laughed. TC didn't say anything.
Up in the group, Merry was talking rather fast, and MC had trouble absorbing everything he said. He was also asking a lot of questions. Stuff like, where she lived, what her full name was, was she a light or deep sleeper. Stuff like that, it worried MC.
They reached a small clearing in the woods and Strider said they'd stay there that night. He put Frodo down by one of the large stone trolls that was there. Immediately the other hobbits crowded around him (except Sam, who was tying Bill next to a large rock, then removed all the luggage. Then Strider called him over).
"Sam, do you know the Athelas plant?" Strider asked, but the only response was a blank look. "Kingsfoil?"
"Kingsfoil?" Sam repeated, "Aye! That's a weed!"
"It may help to slow the poisoning."
Sam nodded and ran into the woods with his torch.
"TC!" Strider called, and signaled for her to come over. She slowly walked over to him. "Let me see your feet." he said, and squatted down to look at her feet.
"Hey! Don't touch!" TC screamed and accidentally kneed him in the face. He stood up and gave her a glare that sent chills down her spine. The glare worsened when he realized there was blood.
"Oh S#%@!" TC screamed and began running, Strider chasing her. She quickly ran over to Bill, untied his lead, and used the rock to mount him. Strider just missed her when she turned Bill and galloped off.
"I hope Sam gets back before she does." That was all he said. A few minutes later, his wish came true. Sam came running into the clearing, waving the Kingsfoil. He gave it to Strider, who did his thing with it. Then Sam noticed Bill was missing.
"Where's Bill?"
No one answered. Then Sam noticed TC was missing as well. Then he put it together. "That b!%#$!"
A few minutes later, two horses (with riders) came out of the woods.
"BILL!" Sam yelled, excitedly, then his eyes narrawed as he saw TC. The other rider was on a white horse, she had Bill's lead. The two riders dismounted (TC ended up hiding behind Merry, Pippin and MC so Sam wouldn't attack her).
The other rider was a female elf with long dark brown hair. She strode over to Frodo. "We must get him to my father!" She picked the hobbit up and carried him over to her horse. Strider was going with her. They began speaking in Elvish.
"What are they doing?" MC asked, somewhat frantically.
"They're taking him away." Merry said (hopefully, more than knowledgably, as this would give him a clearer chance for MC).
"WHERE?!" MC screamed, running up to Strider and the Elf. "Where are you taking him?"
Strider and the Elf looked at her in annoyance. "Arwen is taking him to Rivendell."
"No!" MC yelled in despair. Arwen quickly mounted the horse behind Frodo and took off at a gallop.
"Ride hard! Don't look back!" Strider called after her.
"No!" MC fell to her knees.
That night, when (almost) everyone was asleep, they were woken up by someone screaming . Everyone looked over to the source. Sam was on top of TC (who was trying to beat on him), strangling her...or, trying to anyways.
Pippin and MC ran over. Pippin dragged Sam off TC. Then MC jumped on Sam began pounding on him. Merry had to drag her off.
"What's going on?" Strider asked.
"She stole Bill!" Sam whimpered.
"For cripes' sake! He's right over there!" TC yelled, pointing at the pony, who was asleep.
"What if he's having nightmares? It'd be all your fault! You'd feel bad then, wouldn't you?"
"You have ISSUES!" Merry put an emphasis on "issues.''
Strider sighed. "This will be...interesting." he muttered. "Okay guys, can we get through the night without killing anyone, or making an attempt on anyone's life?" The hobbits didn't nod, or say yes. They just kind of, looked around. "Okay, how about we try that?" Strider's tone of voice was that of someone speaking to small children. He spoke slowly, as well, afraid they wouldn't understand otherwise).
They all went back to bed. Except TC and MC slept by Merry and Pippin. Sam by Bill. As they were walking to their new spots, they heard a loud thump of some sort, then TC yelled somewhere from the dark:
"Crap! I didn't know there was a tree there!"
Eventually she made it back to her sleeping bag.
The next morning, Strider wanted to get an early start, but MC wouldn't get up. Consequently, neither would Merry. As Sam was trying to get MC up, TC started inching towards Bill. She began stroking him and talking to him. Strider looked over at her, disturbed. Finally, Sam gave up and turned around, to find what TC was doing.
"AHHH!" He screamed and ran over to TC and Bill. Strider laughed. TC turned and saw Sam coming at her, but felt unthreatened. He began beating her away from Bill.
"Hey man! Chill out!" TC yelled and walked away. MC looked over, and found Merry staring constantly at her. She quickly got up. So did Merry.
"Are we ready to go NOW?" Strider demanded.
"Yes!" MC yelled and took off running.
"Wrong way!" Strider called after her. She stopped, turned, and rejoined the group. She stayed away from Merry. They began their journey to Rivendell.
As they were walking, TC and MC were walking with Merry and Pippin (MC wasn't thrilled, but the other three were). MC was just moping around, when Merry asked what was wrong, she mumbled something inaudible, except for "Frodo". Pippin and TC were talking, of course. And Merry was walking dangerously close to MC. Sam attempted to hit TC and MC with rocks, but had a bad arm, and hit Merry and Pippin usually. Once he accidentally hit Strider (ONCE being the keyword there. His rock throwing stopped after that. His goal, however, was unreached. TC and MC remained unmarked).
About half an hour in, TC's usual complaining started.
"How much further?" She whined.
"5 days."
"How much further? Like...distance?"
"I dont know. Shut up."
"My feet hurt!"
"I don't care."
"They do!"
"You can ride Bill!" Sam offered. The group stopped and stared.
"What?" They all asked at the same time.
"You can ride Bill!"
"Why?" TC asked suspiciously. "What are you plotting?"
"Nothing! You're just complaining so much..."
"Um..." TC hesitated. "Okay..." TC walked over and Sam helped her on. Something was up.
Pippin walked over to Sam. "If you do ANYTHING to her, your head will be on a stake like a shishkabob!" Sam only mumbled in reply, not making eye contact with Pippin. Sure enough, Sam was plotting some sort of revenge on horsback. As TC appeared to be dozing (after numerous complaints of being bored. Sam wouldn't stop Bill, so she couldn't get off), Sam quickly started running, which caused Bill to have to trot. In consequence, TC bounced right off.
"SAM YOU JERK!" TC began chasing him. So did Pippin. TC quickly grabbed a stick and continued chasing Sam. Strider caught her and Pippin. "Hey! You don't stop him when he does stuff to me!"
"Well YOU deserve it!" Strider said. TC raised her stick to smack him (which only would have reached his shoulder at most, so he wasn't worried) but realized what a serious mistake what would be, before she carried through. Sam drifted to the back of the group again, receiving glares from Pippin and TC. Strider told him "good job" as he walked by.
"Hey MC, did you lose this?" Merry held up a gold necklace.
"How'd you get that?" MC asked suspiciously, quickly grabbing the necklace. Merry looked down, blushing.
"Um...when you were asleep..."
"OH MY GOSH!" MC ran up to TC and Pippin. Not that that alone could stop Merry from following her.
"Having fun?" TC asked sarcastically.
"NO!" MC looked at Pippin, "YOUR friend is a FREAK!"
"Hey! That's not true!" Pippin defended Merry (who was walking right next to MC, unsurprisingly).
"I swear he's stalking me!"
"I am not!" Merry lied.
Strider, up in front, groaned in horror. "Five more days..." he though. And he, for some reason, didn't think that things would be getting any better as time wore on.
And they didn't. Over the next five days, the rivalry between Sam and TC grew, and spread to MC as well. Merry's stalking of MC grew to the point where the poor hobbit (MC, not Merry) could hardly sleep due to nervousness. Strider had to go off into the woods for a day, by himself, to keep from having a nervous breakdown. This extended their trip by another day. A long day. TC's complaining got more annoying and childish. At one point, Strider had to break up a fight between MC, TC, and Sam (the two girls took sticks to him. Of course, he'd poured hot water on TC's feet, and stolen both the girls' swords and attempted to keep them for his own [but they stole them back during the night], and attempted to cut off MC's hair...among numerous other things).
Finally, after what seemed like forever, they reached Rivendell.