a/n: Okay, you'll have to forgive me if I stray a bit from the story, and things WILL be going slower now! Since I just hit the end of TTT movie, i have to go by the books, and due to my short attention span I have trouble reading the LOTR books, so i may not fully comprehend the events. Please forgive me if that happens, I am reading the Return Of The King again right now so im doing my best! lol
And I know it takes them faster in this story than in the book to get to Isengard...I just didn't know what else to put!
~TC
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"We must go to Isengard!" Gandalf told them all. "Saruman must be dealt with." Gandalf, the remaining fellowship, Theoden, and his men began riding on the road to Isengard.
"DANGIT!" MC yelled, about an hour in, shaking her mase bottle.
"What?" TC asked, riding next to her.
"I'm almost out of pepper spray!"
"Thank God!" Aragorn and Merry muttered at the same time.
"That THING is giving me the evil eye!" Legolas said, eyeing Legagorn suspiciously.
"He has a name." TC replied, annoyed.
"How do you know it's a boy?" MC asked.
"How do you think I know?"
"You looked?!"
"Yeah."
"That's sick!"
"Yeah, no kidding. You ever looked between a Warg's legs? It's not a pretty sight..."
"Then why didn't you spare yourself the veiw and give it a name that suited both genders?"
"I had names chosen for both genders..."
"And what, prey tell, was your choice for a female name?" Aragorn asked.
"Arwen!" TC said, just to piss Aragorn off. It worked, he sent a glare her way. TC grinned back, feeling very satisfied with herself.
"I can't believe you let her keep that!"
"If you wanna make her get rid of it, you have to ride with her from this point on." Legolas said.
"Oh...I see your point."
"I figured you would."
"Hey MC, can I see your pepper spray bottle?"
"Why?" MC asked suspiciously.
"I might be able to...um...figure out a way to make it last longer!"
MC quickly handed the bottle to Aragorn. He grabbed it and threw it as far away as he could.
"Hey!" MC yelled, elbowing Aragorn in the stomach.
"WOO HOO!" TC screamed, excitedly. "Come on Legagorn!" Everyone looked to the rear of the group. TC and her warg, and Pippin (hanging on for dear life, looking quite afraid) were galloping along the back line of the group.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Aragorn demanded.
"Making sure all of the horses stay together!"
"You're HERDING us?"
"Sure, you could say that!"
"If that thing bites any of the horses..."
"He won't!" TC began aiming Legagorn towards Aragorn, with the comment: "I wonder if cutting is any fun." Before anyone could ask, she had put her warg in between Aragorn's horse and the rest of the group. She wouldn't let him re-enter.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Aragorn demanded, again.
"Cutting?"
"Why?"
"I was bored."
Aragorn would have attempted to rejoin the group, but his horse was afraid of Legagorn. And TC followed every move they made.
"Are they, all four of them, like that?!" Theoden inquired to Legolas.
"Yes." Legolas nodded grimly.
"All the time?"
"Yeah."
"Joy." Theoden replied sarcastically.
"Hey Aragorn can I borrow your horse?" MC asked that night, waking Aragorn up. Everyone was (supposed to be) asleep.
"What?!" The ranger replied tiredly. "Why?"
"Racing."
"I thought you couldn't ride."
"So?"
"I'm not letting YOU borrow my horse! It's, like, two a.m!"
"Probably closer to 3 a.m, is that better?"
"No! I'm not going to let you borrow my horse at ANY time of the day!"
"Okay." MC walked off, Aragorn couldn't believe how easy that had been. A few minutes later, he realized MC wasn't giving up.
"Aragorn, can I borrow your horse?" Pippin asked.
"For racing?"
"Um, I guess."
"Why only one horse? A hobbit wouldn't stand a chance against a horse."
"A warg would."
"You are not racing my horse against that THING!"
"Okay." Pippin walked away. Aragorn waited for Merry to approach, but instead, he heard: "Legolas, can I use your horse?"
The elf, still asleep, muttered "Sure."
"Yay!" Pippin ran over to the other hobbits. "Aragorn wouldn't let us use his horse, but Legolas said yes! I think he was talking in his sleep...but oh well!"
"Yeah this is an instance where that comes in handy." TC replied, and mounted Legagorn. "So who wants to race first?"
"Well, what are the rules?" Pippin asked.
"I race against one of you, me on Legagorn, whoever on Arod. Then the remaining two will race each other. After the races the winners will race each other on their mounts. If the two winners had the same mount...well, we'll see who the winners are. We'll race to that tree and back." TC pointed to a tree about a quarter of a mile away.
"That's a long way." Merry commented.
"Yep. So, who's going first?"
No one volunteered.
"Merry, mount up."
"Why me?"
"Because if you and MC race, you'll end up making out or something in the middle of the race!"
"How could you do that?!"
"I'm surprised you haven't figured out a way yet!"
"Why can't MC go first?"
"What? You don't want to check the path to make sure it's safe for her to ride on?"
"Good point!" Merry, with the help of MC and Pippin, mounted up onto Legolas's horse.
"Ready," Pippin raised his hand. "Set...GO!" Pippin's hand dropped and the two riders took off at a full gallop. Merry was riding on the outside of TC. As they came around the tree, Legagorn bucked and switched leads. TC flew off towards Merry, and grabbed his saddle.
"LEGGY!" TC called to her mount. The warg, who'd pulled ahead, began to slow down. TC was attempting to swing her leg over the other side of the horse, but the saddle began slipping. The hobbits both screamed as they fell. TC landed on Legagorn, but Merry grabbed her as he went down and they both ended up getting trampled by the warg. They got up and began walking back to the others, glaring at each other the whole way.
"WHAT are you doing?" Legolas demanded whent they got back.
"Yousaidwecould!" Pippin said quickly.
"When?"
"When I asked you..."
"I've been asleep this whole..." Legolas paused as he realized what they had done. "So what ARE you doing?"
"Racing...I suppose you aren't going to let us use Arod anymore."
"You can, as long as I can race with you!"
"You serious?"
"Yeah!"
"You wanna interact with us...of your own free will?!"
"Yeah!"
"Um, okay..."
"Yay! So who am I racing?"
"ME!" MC volunteered. TC quickly grabbed Legagorn's reins and blocked MC from mounting him. "What are you doing?"
"I'm not sure which of you I'd rather have ride him."
"I really doubt he cares."
"He just might! Stand right there!" TC pointed to a spot about seven feet away. MC movied. "Legolas, you stand there." She pointed to a spot seven feet away, but in the other direction. Legolas moved. "No, about a quarter inch to the right...No! Other way! Yeah, right there."
"What's the point of this?" MC demanded.
TC muttered something in Legagorn's ear. He looked back and forth from MC to Legolas. He finally walked towards Legolas.
"Ok, Legolas rides him."
"That doesn't make any sense! His feet will drag on the ground!"
"Sorry," TC shrugged. "Legagorn's choice, not mine."
"Whatever." MC mounted up onto Arod, with help. Legolas easily mounted Legagorn. His feet came dangerously close the to ground, but not quite there.
Pippin decided to start the race again. "Ready...set...GO!" MC and Legolas shot off, galloping towards the tree. They fared the turn better than TC and Merry had. However, as they were coming back, Legagorn began slowing down until he reached a halt. MC began screaming victoriously, Legolas was kicking Legagorn as hard as possible.
"COME ON LEGAGORN!" TC screamed, as if she were beckoning a dog. They then realized that Legagorn was peeing. Though he was in the middle of his business, his master's call encouraged him on. He took off...still pissing.
"Wow," Pippin said. "I've never seen ANYTHING piss and run at the same time before."
"Piss and run..." TC repeated, laughing quietly.
"Don't start!" Merry said sharply.
Despite Legagorn's efforts, MC and Arod still won. Merry hugged MC and congratulated her as soon as she dismounted. The races continued until the sun began rising, as did the people. Aragorn was the first up.
"Have you guys been doing this all night?" he asked.
"Yeah." Legolas replied nonchalantly.
Aragorn hadn't noticed the elf before, this surprised him. "You were in on it?!"
"Yeah."
"WHY?!"
"It's fun! Have you ever raced on a warg before?"
"No...and I'd rather not."
"Whatever. Dude, these guys are so cool!"
"By 'these guys' I hope you're referring to Theoden's men."
"Well, they're cool, but I was referring to the hobbits."
"Um, are you feeling alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine...why?"
"These are the same creatures that have made this whole journey MISERABLE!"
"We're right here you know!" MC reminded them.
"So?"
"That's mean!" Legolas defended his new found friends.
"You are in no shape to travel."
An hour later they were back on the road, Legolas had convinced Aragorn he was indeed fit to travel, though Aragorn was suspicious of the hobbits. He couldn't figure out why Legolas was suddenly their friend...maybe they hypnotised him! He looked over to find Legolas chatting happily with the hobbits. MC and Merry riding with him on Arod, TC and Pippin on Legagorn.
"You really should change his name." Legolas said, referring to Legagorn.
"Yeah, you're right...but I don't know what to change it to..."
"Strider!" MC suggested.
"Yeah!" TC again muttered something to Legagorn, now known as Strider.
"Look!" Gandalf yelled. "Isengard is in view."
Everyone looked ahead and saw the tower of Orthanc, and a large pit. They all quickened their pace. When they reached their destination, two of the hobbits were quarreling. Merry and Pippin. Gandalf yelled at them to cease, but they ignored him. He yelled several times but grew irritated at them ignoring him.
"PEREGRIN TOOK AND MERIADOC BRANDYBUCK!" Gandalf shouted, his voice magnified by about five times.
"Great! You've got us in trouble with Gandalf now!" Pippin hissed to Merry.
"SILENCE!" Gandalf aimed his staff at the two hobbits in an attempt to silence them...but something went wrong. They all watched in horror as Merry and Pippin grew. They grew almost to the height of the tower of Orthanc.
"Gandalf, WHAT did you do?!" Aragorn yelled. "They were bad enough when they were three feet tall, now they're...a lot taller than any of us!"
Gandalf was staring in horror at the hobbits, who were just as mortified. "At least it wasn't the other two..."
"So how do we get them back to normal size?"
"Um..."
"You don't know?!"
"I don't even know how I got them that large!"
"I do!" TC yelled. "You pointed your big stick at them and yelled 'silence!'"
"I have an idea!" Legolas said happily. "We can use them to destroy Isengard! THEN we figure out how to make them normal again."
"How will we get them to destroy Isengard?" Gandalf inquired, liking Legolas's idea.
"Well, we hide MC and tell Merry that she is somewhere in Isengard and he must find her..."
"He's not stupid enough to believe that!"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes! Maybe MC really WILL have to go into Isengard..."
"Couldn't I...die, in there?" MC asked, nervously.
"Well you might get crushed by Merry's foot but I don't think the orcs will come near you once they see Merry."
"Okay...I guess I could do it..."
"Okay. Now how should we get Pippin involved in this?"
"Mushrooms!" TC said, grinning at her "brilliance".
"What?"
TC looked a bit dissappointed. "Tell him mushrooms are in there..."
"Oh! Okay, sure we could do that."
"Wish me luck." MC muttered and headed into Isengard. Merry needed no encouragement and began following her.
"Peregrin!" Gandalf yelled. The hobbit looked up (not quite used to being taller than everyone) then looked down. "There are mushrooms in there!" That was all the explanation needed for Pippin. He quickly ran into Isengard. MC was running around, Merry following her. She would hide behind rocks, and he would pick them up and toss them aside. Any orcs that were out there were crushed by flying rocks or enormous feet.
Pippin was running madly around, also throwing rocks, in search of mushrooms. Gandalf and the others quickly saw it was a mistake telling him there were mushrooms in there. They didn't want to think about what they would do with a giant, angry hobbit.
Merry and Pippin had done a sufficient job of tearing Isengard apart. Merry caught MC and picked her up, as Pippin threw another rock. This rock hit the dam, and the river quickly crashed through.
"RUN! RUN!" MC was screaming. Merry quickly ran back towards the group, Pippin following, not so happy about not getting any mushrooms out of it.
"Good job!" Gandalf said happily. "Now...about getting you back to your normal size..."
PS- I hope you like this chapter, and for those of you who don't know what cutting is, im not referring to like, with scissors. It is when you're on a horse and there is a herd of cattle and you have to cut one of the cows or bulls or whatever out of the herd and keep it out of the herd...I think i explained that right.
And I know it takes them faster in this story than in the book to get to Isengard...I just didn't know what else to put!
~TC
~*~*~
"We must go to Isengard!" Gandalf told them all. "Saruman must be dealt with." Gandalf, the remaining fellowship, Theoden, and his men began riding on the road to Isengard.
"DANGIT!" MC yelled, about an hour in, shaking her mase bottle.
"What?" TC asked, riding next to her.
"I'm almost out of pepper spray!"
"Thank God!" Aragorn and Merry muttered at the same time.
"That THING is giving me the evil eye!" Legolas said, eyeing Legagorn suspiciously.
"He has a name." TC replied, annoyed.
"How do you know it's a boy?" MC asked.
"How do you think I know?"
"You looked?!"
"Yeah."
"That's sick!"
"Yeah, no kidding. You ever looked between a Warg's legs? It's not a pretty sight..."
"Then why didn't you spare yourself the veiw and give it a name that suited both genders?"
"I had names chosen for both genders..."
"And what, prey tell, was your choice for a female name?" Aragorn asked.
"Arwen!" TC said, just to piss Aragorn off. It worked, he sent a glare her way. TC grinned back, feeling very satisfied with herself.
"I can't believe you let her keep that!"
"If you wanna make her get rid of it, you have to ride with her from this point on." Legolas said.
"Oh...I see your point."
"I figured you would."
"Hey MC, can I see your pepper spray bottle?"
"Why?" MC asked suspiciously.
"I might be able to...um...figure out a way to make it last longer!"
MC quickly handed the bottle to Aragorn. He grabbed it and threw it as far away as he could.
"Hey!" MC yelled, elbowing Aragorn in the stomach.
"WOO HOO!" TC screamed, excitedly. "Come on Legagorn!" Everyone looked to the rear of the group. TC and her warg, and Pippin (hanging on for dear life, looking quite afraid) were galloping along the back line of the group.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Aragorn demanded.
"Making sure all of the horses stay together!"
"You're HERDING us?"
"Sure, you could say that!"
"If that thing bites any of the horses..."
"He won't!" TC began aiming Legagorn towards Aragorn, with the comment: "I wonder if cutting is any fun." Before anyone could ask, she had put her warg in between Aragorn's horse and the rest of the group. She wouldn't let him re-enter.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Aragorn demanded, again.
"Cutting?"
"Why?"
"I was bored."
Aragorn would have attempted to rejoin the group, but his horse was afraid of Legagorn. And TC followed every move they made.
"Are they, all four of them, like that?!" Theoden inquired to Legolas.
"Yes." Legolas nodded grimly.
"All the time?"
"Yeah."
"Joy." Theoden replied sarcastically.
"Hey Aragorn can I borrow your horse?" MC asked that night, waking Aragorn up. Everyone was (supposed to be) asleep.
"What?!" The ranger replied tiredly. "Why?"
"Racing."
"I thought you couldn't ride."
"So?"
"I'm not letting YOU borrow my horse! It's, like, two a.m!"
"Probably closer to 3 a.m, is that better?"
"No! I'm not going to let you borrow my horse at ANY time of the day!"
"Okay." MC walked off, Aragorn couldn't believe how easy that had been. A few minutes later, he realized MC wasn't giving up.
"Aragorn, can I borrow your horse?" Pippin asked.
"For racing?"
"Um, I guess."
"Why only one horse? A hobbit wouldn't stand a chance against a horse."
"A warg would."
"You are not racing my horse against that THING!"
"Okay." Pippin walked away. Aragorn waited for Merry to approach, but instead, he heard: "Legolas, can I use your horse?"
The elf, still asleep, muttered "Sure."
"Yay!" Pippin ran over to the other hobbits. "Aragorn wouldn't let us use his horse, but Legolas said yes! I think he was talking in his sleep...but oh well!"
"Yeah this is an instance where that comes in handy." TC replied, and mounted Legagorn. "So who wants to race first?"
"Well, what are the rules?" Pippin asked.
"I race against one of you, me on Legagorn, whoever on Arod. Then the remaining two will race each other. After the races the winners will race each other on their mounts. If the two winners had the same mount...well, we'll see who the winners are. We'll race to that tree and back." TC pointed to a tree about a quarter of a mile away.
"That's a long way." Merry commented.
"Yep. So, who's going first?"
No one volunteered.
"Merry, mount up."
"Why me?"
"Because if you and MC race, you'll end up making out or something in the middle of the race!"
"How could you do that?!"
"I'm surprised you haven't figured out a way yet!"
"Why can't MC go first?"
"What? You don't want to check the path to make sure it's safe for her to ride on?"
"Good point!" Merry, with the help of MC and Pippin, mounted up onto Legolas's horse.
"Ready," Pippin raised his hand. "Set...GO!" Pippin's hand dropped and the two riders took off at a full gallop. Merry was riding on the outside of TC. As they came around the tree, Legagorn bucked and switched leads. TC flew off towards Merry, and grabbed his saddle.
"LEGGY!" TC called to her mount. The warg, who'd pulled ahead, began to slow down. TC was attempting to swing her leg over the other side of the horse, but the saddle began slipping. The hobbits both screamed as they fell. TC landed on Legagorn, but Merry grabbed her as he went down and they both ended up getting trampled by the warg. They got up and began walking back to the others, glaring at each other the whole way.
"WHAT are you doing?" Legolas demanded whent they got back.
"Yousaidwecould!" Pippin said quickly.
"When?"
"When I asked you..."
"I've been asleep this whole..." Legolas paused as he realized what they had done. "So what ARE you doing?"
"Racing...I suppose you aren't going to let us use Arod anymore."
"You can, as long as I can race with you!"
"You serious?"
"Yeah!"
"You wanna interact with us...of your own free will?!"
"Yeah!"
"Um, okay..."
"Yay! So who am I racing?"
"ME!" MC volunteered. TC quickly grabbed Legagorn's reins and blocked MC from mounting him. "What are you doing?"
"I'm not sure which of you I'd rather have ride him."
"I really doubt he cares."
"He just might! Stand right there!" TC pointed to a spot about seven feet away. MC movied. "Legolas, you stand there." She pointed to a spot seven feet away, but in the other direction. Legolas moved. "No, about a quarter inch to the right...No! Other way! Yeah, right there."
"What's the point of this?" MC demanded.
TC muttered something in Legagorn's ear. He looked back and forth from MC to Legolas. He finally walked towards Legolas.
"Ok, Legolas rides him."
"That doesn't make any sense! His feet will drag on the ground!"
"Sorry," TC shrugged. "Legagorn's choice, not mine."
"Whatever." MC mounted up onto Arod, with help. Legolas easily mounted Legagorn. His feet came dangerously close the to ground, but not quite there.
Pippin decided to start the race again. "Ready...set...GO!" MC and Legolas shot off, galloping towards the tree. They fared the turn better than TC and Merry had. However, as they were coming back, Legagorn began slowing down until he reached a halt. MC began screaming victoriously, Legolas was kicking Legagorn as hard as possible.
"COME ON LEGAGORN!" TC screamed, as if she were beckoning a dog. They then realized that Legagorn was peeing. Though he was in the middle of his business, his master's call encouraged him on. He took off...still pissing.
"Wow," Pippin said. "I've never seen ANYTHING piss and run at the same time before."
"Piss and run..." TC repeated, laughing quietly.
"Don't start!" Merry said sharply.
Despite Legagorn's efforts, MC and Arod still won. Merry hugged MC and congratulated her as soon as she dismounted. The races continued until the sun began rising, as did the people. Aragorn was the first up.
"Have you guys been doing this all night?" he asked.
"Yeah." Legolas replied nonchalantly.
Aragorn hadn't noticed the elf before, this surprised him. "You were in on it?!"
"Yeah."
"WHY?!"
"It's fun! Have you ever raced on a warg before?"
"No...and I'd rather not."
"Whatever. Dude, these guys are so cool!"
"By 'these guys' I hope you're referring to Theoden's men."
"Well, they're cool, but I was referring to the hobbits."
"Um, are you feeling alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine...why?"
"These are the same creatures that have made this whole journey MISERABLE!"
"We're right here you know!" MC reminded them.
"So?"
"That's mean!" Legolas defended his new found friends.
"You are in no shape to travel."
An hour later they were back on the road, Legolas had convinced Aragorn he was indeed fit to travel, though Aragorn was suspicious of the hobbits. He couldn't figure out why Legolas was suddenly their friend...maybe they hypnotised him! He looked over to find Legolas chatting happily with the hobbits. MC and Merry riding with him on Arod, TC and Pippin on Legagorn.
"You really should change his name." Legolas said, referring to Legagorn.
"Yeah, you're right...but I don't know what to change it to..."
"Strider!" MC suggested.
"Yeah!" TC again muttered something to Legagorn, now known as Strider.
"Look!" Gandalf yelled. "Isengard is in view."
Everyone looked ahead and saw the tower of Orthanc, and a large pit. They all quickened their pace. When they reached their destination, two of the hobbits were quarreling. Merry and Pippin. Gandalf yelled at them to cease, but they ignored him. He yelled several times but grew irritated at them ignoring him.
"PEREGRIN TOOK AND MERIADOC BRANDYBUCK!" Gandalf shouted, his voice magnified by about five times.
"Great! You've got us in trouble with Gandalf now!" Pippin hissed to Merry.
"SILENCE!" Gandalf aimed his staff at the two hobbits in an attempt to silence them...but something went wrong. They all watched in horror as Merry and Pippin grew. They grew almost to the height of the tower of Orthanc.
"Gandalf, WHAT did you do?!" Aragorn yelled. "They were bad enough when they were three feet tall, now they're...a lot taller than any of us!"
Gandalf was staring in horror at the hobbits, who were just as mortified. "At least it wasn't the other two..."
"So how do we get them back to normal size?"
"Um..."
"You don't know?!"
"I don't even know how I got them that large!"
"I do!" TC yelled. "You pointed your big stick at them and yelled 'silence!'"
"I have an idea!" Legolas said happily. "We can use them to destroy Isengard! THEN we figure out how to make them normal again."
"How will we get them to destroy Isengard?" Gandalf inquired, liking Legolas's idea.
"Well, we hide MC and tell Merry that she is somewhere in Isengard and he must find her..."
"He's not stupid enough to believe that!"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes! Maybe MC really WILL have to go into Isengard..."
"Couldn't I...die, in there?" MC asked, nervously.
"Well you might get crushed by Merry's foot but I don't think the orcs will come near you once they see Merry."
"Okay...I guess I could do it..."
"Okay. Now how should we get Pippin involved in this?"
"Mushrooms!" TC said, grinning at her "brilliance".
"What?"
TC looked a bit dissappointed. "Tell him mushrooms are in there..."
"Oh! Okay, sure we could do that."
"Wish me luck." MC muttered and headed into Isengard. Merry needed no encouragement and began following her.
"Peregrin!" Gandalf yelled. The hobbit looked up (not quite used to being taller than everyone) then looked down. "There are mushrooms in there!" That was all the explanation needed for Pippin. He quickly ran into Isengard. MC was running around, Merry following her. She would hide behind rocks, and he would pick them up and toss them aside. Any orcs that were out there were crushed by flying rocks or enormous feet.
Pippin was running madly around, also throwing rocks, in search of mushrooms. Gandalf and the others quickly saw it was a mistake telling him there were mushrooms in there. They didn't want to think about what they would do with a giant, angry hobbit.
Merry and Pippin had done a sufficient job of tearing Isengard apart. Merry caught MC and picked her up, as Pippin threw another rock. This rock hit the dam, and the river quickly crashed through.
"RUN! RUN!" MC was screaming. Merry quickly ran back towards the group, Pippin following, not so happy about not getting any mushrooms out of it.
"Good job!" Gandalf said happily. "Now...about getting you back to your normal size..."
PS- I hope you like this chapter, and for those of you who don't know what cutting is, im not referring to like, with scissors. It is when you're on a horse and there is a herd of cattle and you have to cut one of the cows or bulls or whatever out of the herd and keep it out of the herd...I think i explained that right.