Daniel's Thoughts

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Daniel was yanked to his feet and the Hobbit's were thrown over back on the Uruk-Hai's shoulders as they started off again. In front of him, Daniel saw Pippin moving his head strangely as if he was trying to bite the collar of his shirt. He dropped something over his shoulder, which was quickly trampled into the ground. As he went past it Daniel saw that it was a broach of some sort, it appeared that the small Hobbit was leaving a trail.

Chapter 3
Earth

Jack sat in the debriefing room, staring out into space. It had been 4 weeks since Daniel was taken and the air force had declared him missing in action. They had been off the mission roster for the time that while they searched for Daniel and the had been taken off active duty for a week before they had been ordered back to the base to resume their normal off world missions.

Sam was still secretly going through all the planets with the one symbol that Jack had seen on the DHD in them, but there were so many of them that they all knew that it was unlikely that they would ever visit the right planet. Jack would simple look to see if the symbol was in the address they were going to visit and if it wasn't he would simply switch off and just do whatever the mission entailed, watch Sam take samples, shoot at the Goa'uld, go home and get ready for the next mission. It wasn't the same without Daniel to annoy.

Middle Earth

Daniel was thrown to the ground near the Hobbits, the Uruk-Hai gave him one last kick before heading over to the rest of the group. But Daniel didn't really notice. Unlike the Orcs the Uruk-Hai were not affected by the sunlight and so they had run for the last 2 days without stopping. Having been already about to drop, Daniel had fallen more often then not and the front of his body was now covered in cuts and scraps.

But while Daniel had desperately wanted the group to stop he also dreaded it. While the Orcs had beaten him every night, the length of the beatings had started to shorten as the Orcs lost interest and although this surely wasn't going to do Daniel any good in the future, it gave him a chance to regain some of his strength for running and maybe even to escape.

The Uruk-Hai on the other hand would see him as new 'meat' and so his beatings would lengthen again, there were also more Uruk-Hai then the orcs and they would all most likely want a piece of him.

But he was starting to think that it wouldn't matter he now felt that one more beating or another day of running like this one and he would be dead anyway.

"I'm starvin'. We ain't had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinkin' days."

"Yeah! Why can't we have some meat? What about them? They're fresh!" one of the Uruk-hai suggested looking at the Hobbits with hungry eyes.

"They are NOT for eating." The leader snapped.

"What about him?" another said, "We don't need him do we?"

"No I suppose not." The others started forward but he stopped them and approached Daniel. He crouched down in front of the battered human, "I will give you one chance to live. Tell me what do these do." He held Daniel's Zat in one hand and his hand gun in the other.

"What makes you think I want to live?" Daniel said weakly.

"Humans will do anything to preserve their own life," the Uruk-Hai stated matter-of-factly.

"And why should I tell you, you'll just kill me anyway."

"Well you'll just have to take your chances then won't you." The leader smirked.

"Alright, give it to me and I'll show you."

"No you can just tell me." The Uruk-Hai said without missing a beat.

Daniel remained silent and the Uruk-Hai struck out forcing his head to turn to the side sharply.

"Just tell him Daniel." Pippin said from his spot one the ground near the forest, not realising they were weapons having never seen anything like them before.

"Yes listen to…" the Uruk-Hai jerked forward and a second later the head of a spear poked through his chest.

The Uruk-Hai leader toppled forward almost landing on Daniel, but a man appeared out of the shadows of the trees, astride a horse and pulled the spear out of the creatures back, causing it to fall backwards instead.

Daniel grabbed his weapons from the Uruk-Hai's cooling hands and turned to see where Merry and Pippin were. Both were running towards him, trying to avoid the horses that were now everywhere, their riders killing the Uruk-Hai that had held the three captive.

"Into the woods!" Daniel yelled to the Hobbits, adrenaline alone allowing Daniel the energy to follow the Hobbits into the trees. He grabbed an Orc blade from the floor as he run and he made the tree line, just before an arrow hit the tree he had been in front of moments before.

The three of them ran through the trees, trying to find a place to hide and wait out the fight. They hid behind a tree, listening for anyone who might have been following them.

"Did we lose him? I think we lost him." Pippin said, collapsing on the ground. But Daniel kept watch around the tree, still not sure if they were alone.

"I'm gonna rip off your filthy little heads! Come here!" Sure enough one of the hungry orcs had followed. Daniel grabbed Pippin by the back of his shirt and hauled him to his feet and forward.

"Trees! Climb a tree!" Merry said starting up the tree. Daniel waited for both of them to climb the tree, crouching next to the chosen tree, zat gun at the ready. The Orc rushed out from behind a tree, reaching for Merry's foot to pulling out of the tree, but he missed Daniel who shot him once with the zat.

"Is he dead?" Merry asked.

"No." He shot him again as the Orc tried to stand again. "Now he is."

The adrenaline in his system now having run dry Daniel collapsed onto the forest floor and lay down. He knew that they should keep moving but he simply didn't have the energy.

Pippin looked down at them and seeing that it was safe he turned back to the tree so he could climb down.

"Argh!"

Merry and Daniel looked up just as Pippin let go of the tree and fell towards them. Daniel went to get up and catch the falling Hobbit but a large wooden hand swept over them and caught him.

"Run Merry!"

Merry was off like a shot running away from the walking tree, but Daniel wasn't fast enough and the tree grabbed him before he had even gotten to his feet. A few seconds later Merry joined the other two in the trees hands five metres about the ground. The Hobbits were in one hand and Daniel in the other.

"Little orcs! Búrarum" the tree said, in a loud booming voice.

"It's talking, Merry. The tree is talking." Pippin said, sounding utterly terrified, having escaped from one danger in to what seemed to be another.

"Tree! I am no tree! I am an Ent."

"Treeherder! A Shepherd of the forest."

"Don't talk to it, Merry. Don't encourage it."

"Treebeard some call me."

"And whose side are you on?" Pippin asked.

"Side? I am on nobody's side. Because nobody is on my side, little orc. Nobody cares for the woods anymore."

"We are not orcs. We are hobbits!"

"Hobbits? Never heard of a hobbit before. Sounds like orc mischief to me." The tree squeezed them all tightly. "They come with fire, they come with axes. Biting, breaking, hacking, burning. Destroyers and usurpers. Curse them!" With each word Treebeards hand tightened.

"No! You don't understand. We are hobbits! Halflings! Shirefolk!"

"Maybe you are, and maybe you aren't. The White Wizard will know."

"White Wizard?"

"Saruman!"

Daniel didn't know anything about the white wizard but by the Hobbits reactions it wasn't good.

"Look we aren't Orcs, we are just lost, it you take us to the edge of the forest we will be on our way." Daniel said still fighting unconsciousness.

Treebeard didn't say anything but dropped them, Daniel hitting his head on the forest floor and losing his battle with darkness.

I should probably said this in the first chapter but i will say it now instead. Like MMM i am basing this around the movie scripts and so alot of this will look familiar, i've found that it helps me get started and then i can write my own dialogue in later chapters, so any dialogue that you recognise is most likely from the movies and not mine, but it will have some things added to compensate for Daniel and later when it goes past ROTK.

Off the subject abit (well alot but...) has anyone seen Star Wars ROTS it is so good, Yoda so cute. Squeek and Obi too.

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JEDIBANT

PS it also helps me to write when i know what the readers think HINT HINT! cya.