Title: The chase
Disclaimer: I do not own LOTR.
After a quick funeral for our beloved or in my case annoyingly hatred for the guy, Boromir. Legolas was putting a boat in the water where in the other shore Frodo and Sam
"If we hurry we can still catch them." Legolas said as he got the boat ready but when Aragorn didn't move he turned to him slowly.
"You mean not to follow them." Legolas said as he looked at Aragorn.
"Frodo and Sam's life is no longer in our hands." Aragorn responded.
"So we failed then, the fellowship has failed." Gimli said.
"No, as long as we are together the fellowship has not ended. We will not leave the young hobbits to that terrible fate." Aragorn said with a smirk.
"Boys, lets hunt some orc." Aragorn said but then turned to Hopper and me.
"What will you two do?" He asked us.
"I'm not sure. I was never a part of the fellowship so there is no reason for me to go with you, but Merry and Pippin were my closest and first friends that were born in Middle Earth… So I will go with you three as well." I said with a smile. That's right; I will not allow my first friends in Middle Earth to die in the hands of Urukhai. I smiled.
'Yep, no damn, smelly, Urukhai is going to kill those two hobbits if I have anything to say about it. Thing is, I might not be there to have anything to say about it…. Either way I think they will be glad to know that if they do die I will want revenge on them and will get the revenge.' I thought with a killing look in my eyes, involuntarily my claws started to get sharper as I thought that stuff.
"Anywhere the Princess goes, I go as well." Hopper said. Wow, I actually have a boy that would willingly risk his life because of my foolish decisions…yes I think that I am being foolish at risking my life for something I shouldn't be involved in and still have no idea how dangerous there quest is… But then these are the closest friends I have in Middle Earth. Let's see, friends or my life? Friends, life? Yeah definitely friends.
"Now that you have decided. Lets all go hunt some orc." Aragorn said and ran off.
"Yeah!" Gimli shouted as he went behind Legolas who was behind Hopper who was behind me.
3 days later
Gimli and I were having a bit of a hard time catching up with the rest. Hopper was so kind as to let me lean on him as we ran so I wouldn't fall to the ground with exhaustion.
"No food, no water, no rest! For three days." Gimli was muttering behind Hopper and me. I smirk; I will tell ya a little secret that I have been doing every time I get hungry. I start daydreaming as I run, knowing Hopper will catch me if I fall, and meet up with Shadow Killer and she gives me food from both my world and Middle Earth. I feel somewhat bad for doing it but if I don't I will starve and there is no way for me to share the food since it is in the dream.
"We are catching up to them. Hurry, Gimli, Leslie." Legolas said as he continued to run behind Aragorn.
"Well, sorry for not being an elf like you!" I shouted at him and heard Gimli chuckle behind me. Yup, I was in a bad mood, but who wouldn't be after running for 3 days non-stop? Legolas chose to ignore my comment as he continued to run but then stopped when Aragorn began inspecting a rock…
"They have quickened there pace. They must have caught our scent." Aragorn said and I rolled my eyes. Of course, they caught our scent! There not idiots! Oh, wait, are they? I don't know… Either way I'm tired of running. So guess what? We ran… We ran like our lives or more like the hobbits lives depended on it. I hope the hobbits are ok, and I mean all of them.
'So, how are you three doing?' I asked the two wargs and the fox, I had sent them ahead to tell me if any orcs were near by and if they had hobbits with them.
'No orcs in my area but there scent is still fresh so they probably passed through here a few minutes ago.' Swift Runner said.
'No scent here yet but there getting closer to my area so I will be forced to hide in one of the bushes.' Hushy said.
'I am at a distance from the orcs but still have them clearly in view.' Lightning Cloud said.
'Ok, thanks for your help you three.' I said grateful that I knew them and had become close friends. Poor Hushy though, she is so small that all she can do is hide when the orcs come to close.
"How are you holding up Hopper?" I asked.
"I'm fine, you?" Hopper answered.
"Well I have had better but what's life without a few bumps in the rode?" I said cheerfully. Ok, so I might be lying but then I was the one that decided to go with them so I have no right to complain about it. Legolas who was in front suddenly cried out.
((I'm copying the part from the book…kinda I changed a little bit to suit my story better.))
"We have already overtaken some of those we are hunting, look!" Legolas said pointing at what I had once thought were just boulders. There lay five dead orcs huddled together. They had been hewn, whatever that means, with many cruel strokes, and two out of the five had been beheaded.
"Ew, I wonder what they did to be killed. Either way this is a disturbing sight for me." I said scrunching up my nose.
"Here is another riddle! But it needs the light of day, and for that we cannot stay." Gimli said ignoring me.
"Yet however you read it, it seems not unhopeful; enemies of the Orcs are likely to be our friends. Do any folk dwell in these hills?" Legolas asked.
"No, the Rohirrim seldom come here and it is far from Minas Tirith. It might be that some company of Men were hunting here for reasons that we do not know. Yet I think not." Aragorn answered.
"You don't think?" I asked and once again, I was ignored.
"What do you think?" Asked Gimli as he looked at Aragorn.
"I think that the enemy brought his own enemy with him. These are Northern Orcs from far away. Among the slain are none of the great Orcs with the strange badges. There was a quarrel I guess: it is not uncommon thing with these foul folk. Maybe there was some dispute about the road." Aragorn said.
"Or about the captives. Let us hope that they, too, did not meet their end here." Gimli said.
"I hope so too Gimli, I hope so too." I said as we started running again.
((A few Hours later))
Still running but then once again stopped by the oh so keen eyes Legolas. Sometimes I just want to strangle that prissy elf. Wow, did I just think that? That's a first… Oh, great! Because I was so caught up in my own thoughts, I missed what he said and now Aragorn was talking.
"But look! I can see something nearer at hand and more urgent; there is something moving over the plain!" Was what I heard Aragorn say.
"Many things, it is a great company on foot; but I cannot say more, nor see what king of folk they might be. They are many leagues away: twelve, I guess; but the flatness of the plain is hard to measure." Legolas said.
"I think, nonetheless, that we no longer need a trail to tell us which way to go. Let us find a path down the fields as quick as may be." Gimli said.
"I wholeheartedly agree with Gimli." I said. Wow, that was a first also. Go me.
"Yes, let us go." Hopper said his tail swishing with anticipation to kill the freaking Urukhai that took the hobbits.
"What has gotten you so exited Lady Leslie?" Legolas asked and I glared at him.
"Don't call me Lady! And what do you mean I'm excited?" I asked.
"Your tail is a dead give away. It's the same with Hopper." Gimli answered.
"I doubt if you will find a path quicker than the ones the Orcs chose." Aragorn said making our small conversation stop. So we ran following our enemies now by the clear light of day. It seemed that the Orcs had pressed on with all the possible speed. Every now and then, we found things that had been dropped or cast aside. The trail led us north along the top of the escarpment, and at length we came to a deep cleft carved in the rock by a stream that splashed noisily down. In the narrow ravine, a rough path descended like a steep stair into the plain. We continued to run when this time it was Aragorn that stopped us holding up something that he got from the floor.
"The brooch of an elven cloak." Legolas and Gimli said shocked. But I, leaving Lothlórien sooner than they, did didn't know anything about it so I did the next best thing; Put on a pathetically cute confused face.
"Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall, this did not drop by chance: it was cast away as a token to any that might follow. I think Pippin ran away from the trail on purpose." Aragorn answered.
"That means he is still alive! Our search has not been in vain." Gimli answered with a smile. Ch no reason to smile yet.
"Let us hope that he did not pay too dearly for his boldness." Legolas said and we started to run once more. My poor feet they have never suffered so much in fourteen years of life. Surprisingly I wasn't the first to voice out my complaints.
"We have come at last to a hard choice, shall we rest by night, or shall we go on while our will and strength holds?" Aragorn asked. No, he isn't the first to voice his complaint.
"Unless our enemies rest also, they will leave us far behind, if we stay to sleep." Legolas answered. Well, he is an elf so of course he wouldn't complain.
"Surely even Orcs must pause on the march?" Gimli said. Ok! So nobody complained! Geez, well actually it depends on your definition of complain. But at least I haven't voiced out my complaints and that's saying something.
"Seldom will Orcs journey in the open under the sun, yet these have done so." Legolas said. Mr. Obvious.
"But if we walk by night, we will not be able to see the trail." Gimli stated and I mentally rolled my eyes. Hello? Two fox demons here, fox demons can see clearly in the dark.
"The trail is straight, and turns neither left nor right as far as my eyes can see." Legolas said staring at the trail.
"And that's pretty far if you're an elf." I said as Legolas glared at me for that comment. I didn't mention it but I could see almost as far as Legolas. The key word is Almost.
"Maybe, I could lead you at guess in the darkness and hold the lone, but if we strayed or they turned aside then when light came there might be long delay before the trail was found again." Aragorn stated.
"We will not walk by the dark." Aragorn said finally choosing.
"Yes, now we can rest a bit and I can visit Shadow Killer." I said then Lightning Cloud came with some fish and rabbits.
"Oh, thank you Light." I said taking the food from her. Just as I had a good grip on the rabbits she ran off so the three remaining fellowship wouldn't attack her. The fellowship stared at me in shock at what happened.
"Why did that warg come and give you a rabbit and fish then run off?" Aragorn said.
"She was giving us some food for tonight and she ran off because she was afraid that you might kill her. She is a friend of mine and would never hurt anybody unless I told her too or if it meant my life was in danger." I answered as I started to prepare the fish and rabbit. After that, nobody said anything and ate the food that I had finished preparing.
Fk306: Yay! Chapter 14
Bucky: Yeah, so? Nothing much happened.
Leslie: He is right you know.
Fk306: Shut up! I'm having author's block and you guys aren't helping!
Bucky: Actually the reason it took so long was because you were to busy thinking about chapters that are a little far away from this one.
Leslie: Yup.
Fk306: Stop agreeing with him! I thought you hated him anyway.
Leslie: I do but that doesn't mean I have to deny the stuff he says when I know there true.
Fk306: Ugh. Fine. Anyway, to my readers, I am not sure if I am going by the book or by the movie. It is somewhere in between.
Bucky: Ok, time for reviews. Lady Keshanna of the Night thanks we are glad you liked it.
Fk306: Haldir-Freak1 I'm glad the reason you read it was because it sounded strange. To tell you the truth it was meant to be strange and I know I have many grammar problems. I know there are no talking foxes in LOTR but then Hushy wasn't really talking she was thinking in Leslie's mind and the fox was an extra from me. You see I have a fancy for foxes, which is the reason I created Hushy and why I turned Leslie into a Fox Demon.
Leslie: Aw. Only two reviewers? Oh well please read and review.