A/N: Okay, this one might be a little short as well, it was supposed to be part of 9, but it was taking so long and i didn't have it typed up. But I promise the next chapter will be longer (seeing as it's the battle of Helm's Deep!)!
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"I want MERRY!" MC screamed, not for the first time. Aragorn had eventually given up and let the hobbits ride.
"Yes, MC, you said that already!" Aragorn gritted his teeth, then saw something past the cliff they were near. He halted the horse and looked at the army of Uruk-hai. "Oh God!"
"What?" MC asked, not seeing the problem.
"They're headed for Helm's Deep!"
"Isn't that where we're going?" Pippin inquired, nervously.
"Yes!"
"SWEET! We get to fight them!" MC yelled happily.
"NO! You guys WON'T be going into battle!" Aragorn said as he signaled the horse to gallop.
"You've told us that twice, and both times we fought!" Pippin pointed out. "What makes you think we won't do it again?"
"You nearly died both times!"
"So?" MC clearly didn't see why that was bad. "You aren't going to keep us out of battle."
"Legolas, you're crowding me!" TC complained.
"SHUT UP! You're the one who wanted me to ride with you!"
"You offered!"
"You were being stubborn!"
"GET OFF!"
"FINE!" Legolas quickly jumped off of TC's warg.
"It's lonely up here now."
"OH MY GOD! Merry, YOU get up there!"
"I don't wanna!"
"SOMETHING BETTER HAPPEN SOON!" TC screamed.
"Like reaching Helm's Deep?" a nerby person asked. Actually, she turned out to be an elf.
"That might work."
"Good! Cause we're just about there!" Indeed, Helm's Deep was in sight.
"You can't stand her either?" Legolas asked.
"NO!" The elf replied loudly, then introduced herself. "Hi, I'm Liko."
"I'm Legolas, and this is Merry." Legolas guestured to the tolerable hobbit.. "And that one is TC." he added, with a bit of resentment in his voice.
"What happened to your hair?" Liko asked, referring to Legolas's somewhat long hair (which was recovering faster than normal).
"THAT happened to my hair!" Legolas pointed to TC. "And her friend, who is, thank God, not here."
"I miss her." Merry said sadly.
"Oh no." Legolas groaned as they entered Helm's Deep.
"Why do we have to go so fast?" Pippin screamed.
"Cause everyone will die if we don't warn them!"
"So?! I'll die if I fall off this horse! And I might tell you that that event is in the VERY NEAR future!"
"TC will die!"
"Will Merry die?" MC asked, suddenly panicked.
"Yes!"
"CAN'T THIS HORSE GO ANY FASTER?!"
"No, but we're almost there!" Aragorn then added, under his breath: "thank God!"
"This is REALLY getting uncomfortable!" Pippin screamed, positioned in front of Aragorn. "Being a guy, you can probably understand!"
"NOT THIS AGAIN!"
"I'LL BE USELESS IN THIS AREA SOON!" Pippin's voice was going higher with every syllable.
"DON'T NEED TO HEAR THIS!"
"I'LL ONLY BE CAPABLE OF SHOOTING BLANKS SOON!"
"OH GOD!"
"PIPPIN!" MC screeched from behind Aragorn. "YOU BETTER SHUT UP OR I'LL HAVE YOUR HEAD!"
"Which one?" Pippin squeaked.
"WHICH ONE DO YOU THINK?!"
"Well how am I supposed to know?"
"THERE IT IS!" Aragorn screamed, pointing to the outer walls of Helm's Deep. He seemed to be a little too eager. As soon as they entered Helm's Deep, Aragorn was pelted, in the face, by a ball of mud.
"Why does this always happen to me?!" TC screamed, covered in mud. Merry was about ten feet away from her, also covered in mud. Apparently they were having a mud fight. Aragorn, MC, and Pippin quickly jumped off the horse. TC rolled her eyes, thinking about how often the following events had already occured, and ran. Aragorn chasing after her.
"MERRY!" MC screamed, running over and hugging the mud-covered hobbit. Pippin walked off to wander, deciding he would rather not watch the reunited hobbits. He decided to try to find TC. It wasn't hard, all he had to do was follow the screaming and yelling. When Pippin found them, Aragorn and TC were fist fighting (actually, Aragorn had TC pinned down and was punching her while she screamed madly).
"Hey, stop that!" Pippin yelled, somewhat high pitched, ran over and began hitting Aragorn. The ranger got up and stared at him.
"Why?"
"I'm sure she didn't mean to hit you, she could have just been throwing at Merry, and overshot."
"Yeah!" TC put in. "I have absolutely horrible aim. I was, um, aiming for Merry!"
"HE WAS AT LEAST 10 FEET IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION!"
"Like I said, I have awful aim."
"I really don't think it's THAT awful!"
"Yes it is! Remember the snowball fight?" At the ranger's glare, TC decided that might not have been the best thing to bring up just then. "Hey, that one was Legolas's fault!"
"How was it my fault?" the mentioned Elf walked up behind them, Liko following him.
"You lost your grip as I threw!"
"I should have totally lost my grip and dropped you over the edge!"
"That's cold!"
"But he's not the only one who thinks that!" Liko said.
"YOU HARDLY KNOW ME!!"
"But Legolas is a good judge of character!"
"YOU HARDLY KNOW HIM!"
"He's hott! That's all I need to know!"
Legolas looked startled at this news.
"OH MY GOSH!" TC stormed off in a rage. Pippin followed.
Several hours later, TC, MC, Merry and Pippin were sitting in the streets. This caused people there to have a hard time getting by. Though the hobbits were indeed small, they could take up an incredible amount of room. The hobbits were just sitting there, conversing with one another. Aragorn had earlier made an announcment that all the women, children, and hobbits were to go down to the "basement" of Helm's Deep. The hobbits didn't really care. Aragorn pushed through the crowd. He'd heard there was a "traffic jam". He was unsurprised at the source of it.
"You guys have to go downstairs!" he yelled at them.
"Why?" Merry asked.
"A battle is about to commence!"
"So?"
"You have to go down with the others!"
"Why?"
"BECAUSE I SAID SO!"
"Dude, what in our history makes you think we're actually gonna listen to you? Remember what happened the last two times you told us not to fight?" TC asked.
"You almost died both times!"
"But we didn't, because we're short!" MC stated, proudly.
Aragorn could see that he would go nowhere with this. Nothing would keep the hobbits out of battle.
"FINE!" Aragorn stormed off. The four halflings decided to follow him, if only to annoy him. He led them to a room with armor and weaponry. Unfortunately, even their smallest mail coats were too large. They would drag on the ground and slow down the already slow hobbits. Not to mention the amount of complaining they would, no doubt, produce. Aragorn handed MC a shield. It was the smallest sheild, but MC still fell over from the weight.
"At least you can have better swords." Aragorn was going to hand MC and Merry swords, but they had quickly commenced in a deep, passionate kiss. "Guys--you will DIE if you don't pay attention!" He got no response. "MC? Merry?" Still, no response. "TEN THOUSAND URUK-HAI ARE MARCHING TOWARDS US AS WE SPEAK!" his yelling was in vain, for there still was no response. "YOU WILL DIE!"
"Aragorn, I really don't think they care." Pippin informed, stating the obvious.
"Oh my God!" TC said, nervously, staring at the ground by her feet.
"What? Is it so horrible that you can't look at it?" Aragorn asked, thinking she was talking about MC and Merry.
"OH MY GOD!"
"What?"
"KILL IT!! KILL IT!"
"Kill what?"
"ARAGORN! KILL IT!"
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!"
"YOU CAN'T SEE IT?"
"SEE WHAT?!"
"THAT!" TC pointed to the ground. "IT'S HUGE AND HAIRY!!!" TC began shaking, her eyes bulging out of her head just about.
"WHERE?!"
"THAT SPIDER!"
Aragorn walked over and looked at where TC was pointing, and squinted. "ITS THE SIZE OF A PIN HEAD!"
"KILL IT! IT'S HUGE!"
Aragorn rolled his eyes and stabbed the tiny spider with the tip of his sword. "Ya happy?"
"Yep!" TC said happily.
"I CAN'T SEE A BLOODY THING!" MC screamed. She, the other three hobbits, and Gimli, were all standing in the front line of the troop. They were on the wall of Helm's Deep, and there was a large wall in front of them as well. It was several hours later, and the Uruk-hai were in sight (to all those who could see above the wall). Elves from Lorien, lead by Haldir, had come to help them all. Liko, though she was female, insisted on staying by Legolas's side in battle. She was more persistant than the hobbits.
"Would you like me to explain it to you, or should I get you a box?" Legolas asked, standing behind them. MC just grunted indignantly. The Uruk-hai stopped a bit away from the outer wall, and began pounding their weapons on the ground, screaming. Aragorn commanded all the archers to get ready to fire.
An old man lost grip, and the first arrow was fired...
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"I want MERRY!" MC screamed, not for the first time. Aragorn had eventually given up and let the hobbits ride.
"Yes, MC, you said that already!" Aragorn gritted his teeth, then saw something past the cliff they were near. He halted the horse and looked at the army of Uruk-hai. "Oh God!"
"What?" MC asked, not seeing the problem.
"They're headed for Helm's Deep!"
"Isn't that where we're going?" Pippin inquired, nervously.
"Yes!"
"SWEET! We get to fight them!" MC yelled happily.
"NO! You guys WON'T be going into battle!" Aragorn said as he signaled the horse to gallop.
"You've told us that twice, and both times we fought!" Pippin pointed out. "What makes you think we won't do it again?"
"You nearly died both times!"
"So?" MC clearly didn't see why that was bad. "You aren't going to keep us out of battle."
"Legolas, you're crowding me!" TC complained.
"SHUT UP! You're the one who wanted me to ride with you!"
"You offered!"
"You were being stubborn!"
"GET OFF!"
"FINE!" Legolas quickly jumped off of TC's warg.
"It's lonely up here now."
"OH MY GOD! Merry, YOU get up there!"
"I don't wanna!"
"SOMETHING BETTER HAPPEN SOON!" TC screamed.
"Like reaching Helm's Deep?" a nerby person asked. Actually, she turned out to be an elf.
"That might work."
"Good! Cause we're just about there!" Indeed, Helm's Deep was in sight.
"You can't stand her either?" Legolas asked.
"NO!" The elf replied loudly, then introduced herself. "Hi, I'm Liko."
"I'm Legolas, and this is Merry." Legolas guestured to the tolerable hobbit.. "And that one is TC." he added, with a bit of resentment in his voice.
"What happened to your hair?" Liko asked, referring to Legolas's somewhat long hair (which was recovering faster than normal).
"THAT happened to my hair!" Legolas pointed to TC. "And her friend, who is, thank God, not here."
"I miss her." Merry said sadly.
"Oh no." Legolas groaned as they entered Helm's Deep.
"Why do we have to go so fast?" Pippin screamed.
"Cause everyone will die if we don't warn them!"
"So?! I'll die if I fall off this horse! And I might tell you that that event is in the VERY NEAR future!"
"TC will die!"
"Will Merry die?" MC asked, suddenly panicked.
"Yes!"
"CAN'T THIS HORSE GO ANY FASTER?!"
"No, but we're almost there!" Aragorn then added, under his breath: "thank God!"
"This is REALLY getting uncomfortable!" Pippin screamed, positioned in front of Aragorn. "Being a guy, you can probably understand!"
"NOT THIS AGAIN!"
"I'LL BE USELESS IN THIS AREA SOON!" Pippin's voice was going higher with every syllable.
"DON'T NEED TO HEAR THIS!"
"I'LL ONLY BE CAPABLE OF SHOOTING BLANKS SOON!"
"OH GOD!"
"PIPPIN!" MC screeched from behind Aragorn. "YOU BETTER SHUT UP OR I'LL HAVE YOUR HEAD!"
"Which one?" Pippin squeaked.
"WHICH ONE DO YOU THINK?!"
"Well how am I supposed to know?"
"THERE IT IS!" Aragorn screamed, pointing to the outer walls of Helm's Deep. He seemed to be a little too eager. As soon as they entered Helm's Deep, Aragorn was pelted, in the face, by a ball of mud.
"Why does this always happen to me?!" TC screamed, covered in mud. Merry was about ten feet away from her, also covered in mud. Apparently they were having a mud fight. Aragorn, MC, and Pippin quickly jumped off the horse. TC rolled her eyes, thinking about how often the following events had already occured, and ran. Aragorn chasing after her.
"MERRY!" MC screamed, running over and hugging the mud-covered hobbit. Pippin walked off to wander, deciding he would rather not watch the reunited hobbits. He decided to try to find TC. It wasn't hard, all he had to do was follow the screaming and yelling. When Pippin found them, Aragorn and TC were fist fighting (actually, Aragorn had TC pinned down and was punching her while she screamed madly).
"Hey, stop that!" Pippin yelled, somewhat high pitched, ran over and began hitting Aragorn. The ranger got up and stared at him.
"Why?"
"I'm sure she didn't mean to hit you, she could have just been throwing at Merry, and overshot."
"Yeah!" TC put in. "I have absolutely horrible aim. I was, um, aiming for Merry!"
"HE WAS AT LEAST 10 FEET IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION!"
"Like I said, I have awful aim."
"I really don't think it's THAT awful!"
"Yes it is! Remember the snowball fight?" At the ranger's glare, TC decided that might not have been the best thing to bring up just then. "Hey, that one was Legolas's fault!"
"How was it my fault?" the mentioned Elf walked up behind them, Liko following him.
"You lost your grip as I threw!"
"I should have totally lost my grip and dropped you over the edge!"
"That's cold!"
"But he's not the only one who thinks that!" Liko said.
"YOU HARDLY KNOW ME!!"
"But Legolas is a good judge of character!"
"YOU HARDLY KNOW HIM!"
"He's hott! That's all I need to know!"
Legolas looked startled at this news.
"OH MY GOSH!" TC stormed off in a rage. Pippin followed.
Several hours later, TC, MC, Merry and Pippin were sitting in the streets. This caused people there to have a hard time getting by. Though the hobbits were indeed small, they could take up an incredible amount of room. The hobbits were just sitting there, conversing with one another. Aragorn had earlier made an announcment that all the women, children, and hobbits were to go down to the "basement" of Helm's Deep. The hobbits didn't really care. Aragorn pushed through the crowd. He'd heard there was a "traffic jam". He was unsurprised at the source of it.
"You guys have to go downstairs!" he yelled at them.
"Why?" Merry asked.
"A battle is about to commence!"
"So?"
"You have to go down with the others!"
"Why?"
"BECAUSE I SAID SO!"
"Dude, what in our history makes you think we're actually gonna listen to you? Remember what happened the last two times you told us not to fight?" TC asked.
"You almost died both times!"
"But we didn't, because we're short!" MC stated, proudly.
Aragorn could see that he would go nowhere with this. Nothing would keep the hobbits out of battle.
"FINE!" Aragorn stormed off. The four halflings decided to follow him, if only to annoy him. He led them to a room with armor and weaponry. Unfortunately, even their smallest mail coats were too large. They would drag on the ground and slow down the already slow hobbits. Not to mention the amount of complaining they would, no doubt, produce. Aragorn handed MC a shield. It was the smallest sheild, but MC still fell over from the weight.
"At least you can have better swords." Aragorn was going to hand MC and Merry swords, but they had quickly commenced in a deep, passionate kiss. "Guys--you will DIE if you don't pay attention!" He got no response. "MC? Merry?" Still, no response. "TEN THOUSAND URUK-HAI ARE MARCHING TOWARDS US AS WE SPEAK!" his yelling was in vain, for there still was no response. "YOU WILL DIE!"
"Aragorn, I really don't think they care." Pippin informed, stating the obvious.
"Oh my God!" TC said, nervously, staring at the ground by her feet.
"What? Is it so horrible that you can't look at it?" Aragorn asked, thinking she was talking about MC and Merry.
"OH MY GOD!"
"What?"
"KILL IT!! KILL IT!"
"Kill what?"
"ARAGORN! KILL IT!"
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!"
"YOU CAN'T SEE IT?"
"SEE WHAT?!"
"THAT!" TC pointed to the ground. "IT'S HUGE AND HAIRY!!!" TC began shaking, her eyes bulging out of her head just about.
"WHERE?!"
"THAT SPIDER!"
Aragorn walked over and looked at where TC was pointing, and squinted. "ITS THE SIZE OF A PIN HEAD!"
"KILL IT! IT'S HUGE!"
Aragorn rolled his eyes and stabbed the tiny spider with the tip of his sword. "Ya happy?"
"Yep!" TC said happily.
"I CAN'T SEE A BLOODY THING!" MC screamed. She, the other three hobbits, and Gimli, were all standing in the front line of the troop. They were on the wall of Helm's Deep, and there was a large wall in front of them as well. It was several hours later, and the Uruk-hai were in sight (to all those who could see above the wall). Elves from Lorien, lead by Haldir, had come to help them all. Liko, though she was female, insisted on staying by Legolas's side in battle. She was more persistant than the hobbits.
"Would you like me to explain it to you, or should I get you a box?" Legolas asked, standing behind them. MC just grunted indignantly. The Uruk-hai stopped a bit away from the outer wall, and began pounding their weapons on the ground, screaming. Aragorn commanded all the archers to get ready to fire.
An old man lost grip, and the first arrow was fired...