AN: Here's another chapter. I'll probably update Dognapper catchers soon so who ever likes it keep an eye out. And now for news about this story: Sheila will probably be in the story for a couple chapters but not the whole story. Next few chapters will have a bit to do with Fred's jealousy of Legolas. And Scooby develops a crush on Sheila. And everything is going crazy!
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"Daphne!" Fred shouts as he makes a dive to save her. "Help me!" Daphne cries. "I'm falling!" Fred grabs her hand but the he himself falls and is only able to grab on by his fingertips. "Arrugh!" he screams. "Help!" By now Daphne is only holding on to Fred's arm and nothing else. "Legolas! Help me!" Daphne screams. Legolas springs into action. He grabs a rope that he has on his back ties it to one of his arrows. He shoots the arrow towards Daphne so she can reach it. "Ahhh! I'm slipping from Freddie's hand!" Daphne cries.
"Quick, tie the rope around your waist!" Legolas instructs. Daphne ties it around herself and it is just in time because she slips from Freddie's hand.
Legolas pulls her up while Aragorn helps up Fred. "Oh, Legolas!" Daphne exclaims. "You saved me!"
"I am only happy to save the life of such a beautiful young Hobbit." Legolas says. Daphne smiles. "Let's just get going." Fred says angrily.
"You don't have to be so uptight about it, Fred." Daphne says. As they walk across the mountain Daphne keeps on rubbing her leg. "What's the matter, Daphne?" Velma asks.
"When I fell I must of hurt my leg, it's killing me." Daphne replies, holding her leg.
"Don't worry, are horses will be waiting for us." Gandalf says. "Huh?" Velma questions.
"I told The Horse Lord to direct the other horses to the other side." Gandalf smiles.
"Oh, thank you!" Daphne says happily. Once they get to the other side they mount on their horses and ride off to the west. They stopped at the side of a river to rest.
"We shall camp here for the night." Aragorn states. "Finally!" Shaggy cries, plopping down in the sun. "I'm so tired." Fred yawns. "Yeah." Daphne says sleepily. Aragorn sits down next to Legolas. "We should keep a eye out for Orks." Aragorn says. "Yes, all around us is danger." Legolas agrees.
"Yeah, and the Freaks come out at night!" Pippin jumps up. "Where did you hear that?" Aragorn laughs. "Daphne says it was a song in a movie." Pippin explains. Aragorn and Legolas laugh. Legolas stops laughing suddenly, he stands up.
"Something is not right, the earth is shaking." Legolas says, worriedly.
"What is the matter?" Aragorn asks. "There is activity in Isengard." Legolas replies. "How can this be?" Aragorn asks. Just then Gandalf steps towards them. "There is a new head wizard in Isengard."
The Hobbits jump up. "Huh, what do you mean?" Daphne asks. "Is he dangerous?'
"Very." Gandalf answers. "He is creating a new breed of Orks. More dangerous and powerful. And also, there are more Ring wraiths."
"Relp!" Scooby screams as he jumps into Shaggy's arms. "Yeah, help."
"Does he know where we are?" Gimli asks, gripping his axe. "I'm not sure yet." Gandalf replies.
"Oh, I don't feel well." Daphne groans. "What's the matter?" Fred asks, holding her.
"I don't know, I feel sort of faint… I…Uh, maybe a walk in the woods would help." Daphne stutters. "Well, okay, but don't go to far." Fred orders. "Yeah, okay." Daphne says.
Daphne walks around looking at the leaves. She takes the ring out of her pocket. She looks at it. "It is amazing such evil can come out of such a tiny thing." She says to herself.
She slips the ring on her finger. Everything is windy and blurry. Then she suddenly sees the eye of Sauron. It flashes before her eyes. She feels dizzy. She immediately pulls it off. She falls over.
Fred comes running towards her. He helps her up. Just then, they hear a horrible 'screech'. Meanwhile back at camp, "Ring wraiths." Legolas says, standing up.
"Faceless Freaks!" Shaggy exclaims, frightened. "Where is Daphne?" Gandalf asks anxiously, looking around. "In the woods, Fred went to get her." Aragorn replies.
"Where do we go now, Gandalf?" Frodo asks. "Yeah, we need to get away from here." Sam agrees.
"We should first find out where they are coming from." Gandalf says. "Ri'm rared!" Scooby whimpers. "Don't worry, Scooby, I can defend you." Sheila comforts. Scooby looks at her and sighs.
"Is there something wrong here?" Velma asks confused. "The female defending the male?" "I like that idea." Shaggy says. "Velma will you protect me?"
Velma pushes him off. "Forget it!" A moment later Fred and Daphne arrive.
"I'm so sorry guys, I put on the ring and now the Faceless Freaks know where we are." Daphne apologizes. "It's all my fault."
"Do you know what direction they are coming from?" Fred asks. They hear another 'screech'. "Sounds like the north," Legolas says, "Seems like they are coming from Isengard."
"Now where are we going?" Merry asks. "How 'bout to a pub?" Pippin suggests.
"Sounds good to me!" Merry exclaims. "I'm afraid that is not a option at the moment." Gandalf says. Merry and Pippin groan. "Should we head across the river?" Legolas asks.
"I think that would be best." Gandalf replies. "But, we don't have a boat." Sam says.
"Yes, that is a problem." Gandalf ponders. "Can you tell how deep it is?" Velma asks.
"Not to deep but the waters are dangerous." Gandalf starts. "If we try to walk through we might end up going down the water fall."
"Should we take that risk?" Aragorn asks. Gandalf sighs, "I don't know."
"Legolas, how far would you say the Ring Wraiths are from us?" Aragorn asks, stepping toward his friend.
"About a mile from Isengard." Legolas answers. "They will probably reach us in a hour or two."
"Our only chance is to fight!" Gimli says, lifting his axe. Aragorn pushes Gimli's axe down and says, "I'm not sure that's a good idea." "Why not?" Gimli asks, pulling his axe back up. "Because not all of us have weapons." Aragorn answers, pushing Gimli's axe down again.
"But, Aragorn, us girls do have weapons." Daphne says, pulling out her bow and arrow and Velma pulls back her cloak to reveal a dagger attached to her belt. Aragorn smiles. "I guess you are prepared." He says. "Gandalf, do you think we should fight?"
"I think we should fight only if we have to." Gandalf replies. "If they do not take us by surprise we should just run."
"Like, do you think we can, like, eat and run?" Shaggy asks. "We should eat and then get as far as we can before they attack." Gandalf smiles.
They quickly set up to eat. "Like, I'm starved!" Shaggy says. "Like, pass the bread, please." "But, Shaggy you already have three serving of bread." Daphne exclaims. "But, like, the more I eat the larger my stomach gets." Shaggy says. "Rine roo!" Scooby barks. Daphne groans.
"When should we leave?" Fred asks. "As quickly as possible." Gandalf states. "I hear horses." Legolas says. "They are getting closer." "They must be traveling quickly." Aragorn says.
"Everyone, be prepared to fight!" Gandalf instructs. "We shall go north west and the hopefully pass them but if that is not possible we will fight."
"But, Gandalf that would lead us to close to Isengard." Frodo contradicts. Gandalf takes out his pipe fills it up and lights it.
"We need to take that risk." Gandalf says, clenching his pipe in his teeth. "They won't expect us to be going by there, therefore they will not by on their guard."
"But, they might hear our horses." Fred says.
"We will go on foot, our horses will go another way." Gandalf replies. "Come now, we must hurry!" The group stays close together and goes off towards Isengard. They pass through the shadows of trees. Shivering and shaking in fright. "How close do we have to get to Isengard?" Fred asks.
"Not to close, we just pass it and then we will on the right path." Gandalf replies.
"Gandalf, when I put on the ring I saw some sort of eye, it was so strange, what was it?" Daphne asks.
"It was the eye of Sauron, his relative is somewhat like him." Gandalf say, looking for the right words, "It is his spirit, but he can only be truly alive if has the ring. You see if we destroy the ring we will be killing Sauron for good."
Scooby sniffs along the trail. "Rook!" Scooby barks, pointing to something in the bushes.
"What's the matter Scooby?" Daphne asks. Sheila and Scooby are already looking in the brush. "Ra rody!" Scooby shrieks. "A body?" Aragorn asks as he goes over towards them.
Legolas, Gimli and Gandalf go over to the shrubs. The hobbits stay where they are. Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, Scooby and Sheila are looking at a man's body; he has two arrows in his chest and one in his shoulder. A pool of blood is next to him.
Aragorn takes out one of the arrows, he examines it. "An Ork killed him." He says. " He must have been a traveling and a patrol of Orks must have attacked him."
Daphne looks at the body sympathetically. "It's terrible that they have to kill people who aren't even involved with the ring." She says. "Yes." Gandalf agrees. "The Orks are merciless."
Gandalf kneels down and pats Daphne on the back. "Let's get going." Daphne gives a weak smile. "Okay." She says softly. Aragorn stands up and then says, "But what if they have a patrol out, they will take Daphne and kill the rest of us."
"Just be prepared to fight." Gandalf orders. Aragorn only nods.
Suddenly they hear a loud marching sound. "Orks, Gandalf, what do we do?" Aragorn asks.
"I think we still have time to get out of this part of the woods, we can get on our horses and ride like the wind." Gandalf says. "Now hurry!"
They all run as fast as they can towards their horses. Once they get to their horses they immediately jump on and ride as fast as possible.
As Shaggy is riding on a horse with Gimli he turn around to see an army of Orks following them. "Like, Orks are following us on those animals that look like they are half wolf and half lion!" Shaggy screeches.
Everybody stops and looks behind them. "Run!" Gandalf yells. The horses don't budge. "Run!" Gandalf repeats. "Like, tell that to the horses!" Shaggy exclaims, nudging on his horse's side, trying to get it to run. Gandalf looks at the horses, all of them motionless.
"This is the work of Swarmon." Gandalf says. "Huh?" Everyone asks.
"The wizard I told you about." Gandalf clarifies.
"Zoinks!" Shaggy interrupts. "They're coming!" "Everyone, get your weapons out!" Gandalf calls out. Everyone draws their weapons.
Legolas shoots an Ork straight in the fore head and then shoots to arrows and kill the creature the Ork was riding on.
Daphne shoots a creature and then it turns over crushing the Ork on its back. "Legolas, how many Orks can you kill a minute?" Daphne asks, reaching for another arrow to shoot. "Last time I check it was ten." Legolas says. "It depend how fast they are coming towards me."
Aragorn swings his sword, chopping off an Orks head, and then he stabs another one in the chest. "This is getting sort of boring." He thinks.
Gimli swings his axe toward an Orks head but it hit the Ork's helmet. He shakes. "Arrh, darn helmet!" He grunts, then chops off it's head.
Merry and Pippin are sword fighting with Orks. Suddenly a gigantic Ork comes up behind Pippin. "Look out, Pip!" Merry shouts, "There's an Ork behind you!" Pippin kills the Ork he is fighting with then turns around and kills the one behind him. "Did you say something, Merry?" Pippin asks. Merry laughs.
Velma sits down on a rock. Just then an Ork comes up to her. She grabs her dagger and jumps as high as she can. She stabs the Ork in the neck. Once the Ork is dead she sits down and rubs her foot that is sore from landing from her jump. "This is the first time in my life that I wish I had high heels… really high heels." She thinks to herself. "Then I wouldn't have to jump!"
Gandalf knocks out an Ork with his staff then kills it with his sword. An Ork comes up to him and growls. He kills it. "Orks can be so annoying sometimes."
Fred sticks his dagger into an Ork's chest. But, then all of a sudden an Ork comes up to him and prepares to kill him. Just then Fred's eyes happen to glance behind the Ork and he sees Shaggy charging in on Scooby's back with a sword under his arm. Shaggy and Scooby charge in and kill the Ork. "Thanks guys." Fred says, wiping the sweat off of his forehead. "Like, no problem, old pal, ol' friend, ol'— Ah!" An Ork come up and scares Shaggy and Scooby away. Fred quickly kills the Ork.
"Fifty-nine, sixty, sixty-one, sixty-two." Legolas says, killing Orks. "Thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two." Gimli counts. Legolas smiles and then say, "My, you are way behind today."
"That's only because when the Orks run past they don't even notice me!" Gimli defends himself. Legolas laughs, his long blond hair flying in the wind. Legolas shoots a creature coming towards them.
Velma stands by Aragorn as he kills Orks with his sword. He chops off one of the creature's head. It lands right at Velma's feet. Velma inches away from the head. She looks at the way it's guts pour out. "Yuck." She says under her breath.
Merry chops off an Ork's head, and then kicks it toward Pippin. "Hey, I don't want it!" Pippin protests, kicking it back. "Well, take it anyway." Merry says, kicking it back to his friend. "It's your head, you take it!" Pippin continues, kicking it back to Merry. "It's not my head, it's that Ork's head." Merry clarifies, kicking it back. "Then tell him to take it!" Pippin shouts.
"But, he's dead!"
The two kick it back and forth for about two minutes then Pippin does a really good kick and it flies about twenty feet away from them. "Hey, good one, Pip!" Merry compliments, giving him a high five.
Frodo and Sam are standing together. Waiting for an Ork to come. "You know Sam, these Orks may be more dangerous but they are just as stupid." Frodo says. "They haven't even noticed us!" Sam yawn. "Oh, Mr. Fordo, I'm getting sleepy." Sam says. "How about we practice our sword fighting to keep us awake?" Frodo suggests. "Sure." Sam says. They pull out their sword and start fighting when an Ork comes up to them and growls. They attack it.
Twenty minutes later every one is sweating and breathing heavily. "Like, finally it's over." Shaggy says, dropping into Fred's arms. Fred drops Shaggy.
Daphne looks as the blood seeps into the ground. She turns away. "Can we get going?" She asks softly. "Reah!" Scooby agrees.
"That would be a god idea." Gandalf says, signaling for them to follow him. They stagger to their horses. The horses are still not moving. Gandalf looks at them. "It is a spell cast on them by Swarmon." Gandalf murmurs to himself. Gandalf lights up his staff and shines it on the horses' eyes. The horses shake their head. Gandalf smiles, "Let's get going now." Everyone get on their horses and rides off.
After a day of hard riding they settle down under a giant oak tree. Daphne sprawls out on her blanket.
"Gandalf." Daphne starts, crawling over to the wizard. "Who exactly is Swarmon?"
Gandalf puts his arm around Daphne and smiles. "Oh, Daphne, that is hard to explain even for me." He says. "He is like a new link in a chain that is being used for evil… he is just making it stronger."
"Why would anyone do such a horrible thing like creating a ring that can do such evil?" Daphne asks, looking at the ring.
"I don't know." He sighs. "All I can say to you is do not let the ring take hold of you, it has brought many people to their fate." With that Gandalf stands up and walks away.
Daphne crawls over to where Scooby and Sheila are lying down. She sits next to Scooby and pats him. He puts his head on her lap. Daphne smiles and scratches him behind the ears. "Roodright Raphne…" Scooby says, then falls asleep.
"Goodnight Scooby." She says softly. She gives him a gentle kiss on the nose. Then falls asleep.