Title: Kinbark and a new name for Leslie
Disclaimer: I don't own LOTR. I do own Hushy, Leslie, Hopper, Swift Runner, Lightning Cloud, Shadow Killer, and Shadow Eclipse. Um I don't own Brittany and Patricia they own themselves…I'm just controlling them. Oh and sorry, it took so long. School is keeping me busy but I have not abandoned the story!
I bet you wont be surprised at what we did after we rested….yup we ran. By then we were too far for even Legolas to spot them.
"Now do I most grudge a time of rest or any halt in our chase. The Orcs have run before us, as if the very whips of Sauron were behind them. I fear they have already reached the forest and the dark hills, and even now are passing into shadows of the trees." Legolas said and I looked in the same direction that he was looking.
"This is a bitter end to our hope and to all our toil!" Gimli said grounding his teeth.
"Master Gimli. You should not loose hope so quickly. It's unhealthy." I said.
"Since when do you call me 'Master Gimli'?" Gimli asked staring at me.
"Since, I feel the need to point things out to you specifically." I answered calmly.
"To hope, maybe, but not to toil. We shall not turn back here. Yet I am weary. There is something strange at work in these lands. I distrust the silence. I distrust even the pale Moon. The stars are faint; and I am weary I have seldom been before; weary as no Ranger should be with a clear trail to follow. There is some will that lends speed to our foes and sets an unseen barrier before us; a weariness that is in the hearty more than in the limb." Aragorn said ignoring Gimli and me. I'm used to being ignored though. At school, I was ignored or made fun of.
"Truly! That I have known since first we came down from the Emyn Muil. For the will is not behind us but before us." Legolas said pointing away over the land of Rohan into the darkling West under the sickle moon...
"Saruman!" Aragorn muttered.
"Who is Saruman?" I asked never hearing of Saruman before now.
"He is a white wizard that has joined Sauron." Hopper answered.
"Oh. That sounds familiar in a way…" I said ( A/N: She had read LOTR when I was little but don't remember most of it)
"But he shall not turn us back! Halt we must once more; for, see! Even the Moon is falling into gathering cloud. But north lies our road between down and fen when day returns." Aragorn continued.
'You do realize that you can see in the dark and can guide them right?' Swift Runner said.
"I may be able to see in the darkness but I have an IQ of a snail when it comes to guiding others Swift Runner. So I will leave the guiding to Aragorn." I snapped turning behind me and coming face to face to Swift Runner.
"You can see in the darkness?" Legolas asked and I turned to see everyone looking at me as if I was crazy. But then to somebody that is watching me, it would look like I was talking to myself or to the warg but who would talk to a warg?
"Yes, but like I said I have no idea where I am headed and constantly ignore the trail that is right in front of my face. Like my older sister always said when I was looking for something. She would go to the same spot I was and find it right in front of where I had been standing." I said leaving out the part where she would say 'If I find it, I am so going to kill you; I am glad to say that she never did kill me.
"Knowing that, it makes me glad that it is Aragorn that is guiding us and not you, lass." Gimli said and you could tell that he truly did sound relieved.
"Oh gee thanks for trying to cheer me up." I said in a fake annoying cheerful voice. That got him to quiet down. Therefore, we slept and I was the only one that didn't have a cloak or anything to cover me so I was huddled up against Swift Runner, Hushy and Lightning Cloud. So I was pretty warm thanks to them. I woke up when the sun wasn't even up yet and decided to watch the horizon to watch the sunrise. I didn't notice Hopper and Legolas waking up. They stood there watching me, I didn't know it but I was giving a very sad aura that everybody could feel or at least those that were awake at the moment.
"Something happened while we were sleeping." I said to myself not knowing that they were listening. I got up and raised my head to be facing the sky.
"Ugh! That smells terrible! Smells like burning skin. Ugh I didn't think there was something that smelled worse than my brother's room when he was still living at home." I said kneeling down and facing the ground just in case I threw up from the smell. My brother's room always smelled like something died in there and has been there for months. Truth was it was just rotten snuck in food and underwear.
"MMM. I wonder how they are doing? Shadow Killer said that she replaced my injured body back at home with a dummy so that everyone would think I was dead. Do they miss me at all? I wonder…. Now when all this is over, I won't be able to return home because it would be like I returned from the dead. I wonder what I will do after this. Grr! Why am I saying this stuff? All this thinking is only getting me depressed!" I said angrily and threw a rock as hard as I could as the red sun started to rise. What I didn't know was that that rock ended up hitting and Urukhai in the head killing it in. Making the human that was about to kill it surprised and wonder where the rock came from then become very thankful that it hit the Urukhai and not him. That person was none other than Denise my supposed to be twin next to Eomer.
"Ugh. If I continue to depress myself then the bright day will go to waste. Like someone out of my friend Shaula always said: 'Don't start the day depressed or the day will be ruined and you will DIE a painful death!'" I said shaking my fist at nobody. I stood there for a few seconds unaware that everyone was awake and staring at me. Ok well maybe that isn't the best way to cheer someone up but it worked on me (AN: She never really said anything like that but she seems to be the kind of person that would say something like that :P just to make others laugh) I turned around and saw everyone staring at me.
"Um…Right….Shall we continue then and forget everything you just saw while you are at it." I said and started to look around ignoring the blush that was crossing my cheeks.
"WELL! Are we going to save our hobbit friends or not?" I snapped. Oh was definitely in a bad mood today. All cause I got myself depressed. Either way that snapped, they came back to reality and we started to follow the trail once again. We run and run and run then stop to listen to Aragorn.
"Riders! Many riders on swift steeds are coming toward us!" Aragorn cried springing to his feet.
"Yes there are 105. Yellow is there hair and bright are there spears. Their leader is very tall." Legolas said.
"Keen are the eyes of an elf." Aragorn said smiling.
"106. There is a fox demon not far behind. She has probably already spotted us. How can you count so fast? Oh, she must be Denise! Shadow Killer, she visits me when I sleep, told me about her. She said that if I had been born in Middle Earth Denise would have been my twin. She is the reincarnation of Shadow Eclipse. Shadow Killers twin sister." I said remembering what Shadow Killer had told me.
"It seems that Fox Demons have keen eye sight as well." Gimli said smiling at me.
"Nay, Princess is the only Fox Demon besides her sister Shadow Eclipse that can see that far. Though all fox demons can see far the ones with royal blood may see farther." Hopper said smiling at me as well. At the moment I was pretty sure that I was brighter than a tomato. His smile is melting all the invisible shields that I had worked on my whole life to build. Damn me and my pathetic crush! Most girls in my place would be falling for Legolas or Aragorn but then I was never the kind of person to fall for someone just by how good looking they were. (Keyword: Most) I didn't start falling for Hopper until we spent some time talking with each other.
"The riders are little more than five leagues distance." Legolas said.
"Five leagues or one? We cannot escape them in this bare land. Shall we wait for them to here or go on our way?" Gimli said.
"We will wait, I am weary and our hunt has failed. Or at least others were before us; for those horsemen ("and woman" I added.) are riding back down the orc-trail. We may get news from them." Aragorn said ignoring my interruption. I glared at him for that.
"Or spears." Gimli retorted.
"There are three empty saddles, But I see no Hobbits." Legolas said.
"Neither do I." I said sadly.
"I did not say that we should hear good news. But evil or good we will wait." Aragorn said. After five minutes of waiting, I got bored.
"Aragorn I am going to look around. I promise I won't leave from….Legolas sight. If you need me just tell Hushy here to come get me, she is really fast." I said after a second and petting Hushy's head. Before anybody could say anything, I ran off near Fangorn forest but not in it. I sat down right outside yet still under the shade of a tree and leaned toward the tree, as I got comfortable. I sighed in content despite I had no idea where I was at the moment since I just followed Aragorn.
"Well, who might this be?" I heard. I jumped up and looked around trying to find whom that raspy voice belonged to. I looked at the tree and saw that it had eyes, the tree started to laugh lightly at my shocked look.
"Wha-what are you? Oh. I hope I wasn't being rude or anything I just! Oh, I'm so sorry if I did anything to offend you, its just….I have never seen or heard of anything like you. But then this is my first time in Middle Earth. Ah, you see I am from another planet or is it dimension? Anyway that's the reason why I said this was my first time in Middle earth and Mmmph." I stopped talking cause he had put a finger in my mouth to calm down. I looked up at him…not that I have a choice since he is the size of a tree after all.
"Shh, there is no need to apologize, it is quite alright. Fox Demons are welcomed in Fangorn Forest, or at least some. I am an Ent and my name is Kinbark. Now what is your name little fox demon?" Kinbark said and removed his finger from my lips.
"Ah, um, my parents named me Leslie, but when I arrived in Middle Earth I started having these dream with a fox demon, Shadow Killer, telling me that I am her reincarnation." I said smiling at him now that I had calmed down.
"Hrumph, hrumph. You may be her reincarnation but you should not call yourself by her name or you wont be remember as well as you should be for being you. Now! What would be a proper fox demon name for thy?" Kinbark said.
"Oh no that's alright! I don't mind not being remembered. There is no need for that but thank you. I don't know how but you made me happy. I had started the day in a bad mood but the bad mood is gone now. I thank you for what ever you did." I said with a very sincere smile and my hands were positioned over where my heart should be.
"You are very modest for such a young girl. Every time a girl your age passes by here I can tell that she is selfish." Kinbark said.
"That's not true I am selfish! If I weren't selfish then I wouldn't worry about shelter, money, and even clothing. Everyone is selfish! There is no such thing as a living this that isn't selfish! Humans, Elves, Dwarfs, Fox demons, Ents, Hobbits, etc. etc. they all are selfish anything that is living is selfish. We are all created selfish." I said though I don't know why I said it.
"I wasn't saying that you weren't selfish I was saying that you aren't as selfish as others. What you said was wisdom though, how did you know that all living creatures are selfish?" Kinbark asked.
"How do I know that? Well its kind of obvious really. We all are selfish for water, food, oxygen, love, and stuff like that. Its strange how some of us are unaware of being so selfish. Or at least to me that stuff is selfish." I said getting a dazed look in my face as I grew into deep thought.
"Caring Emotions." Kinbark said snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Huh?" I said confused.
"Caring Emotions. That is what your name will now be. It suits you in a way. You are very caring and you have an aura around you that clearly says that you have many emotions in you that you refuse to let out." Kinbark explained.
"Caring Emotion… I like it." I said happily. Just before Hushy came to get me.
Fk306: That is chapter 14 is it? Or is it 15? I forgot T.T
Bucky: Too bad for you.
Leslie: Oh be quiet Bucky. It's not like you remember.
Bucky: You don't remember either!
Fk306: Um, should we answer reviews?
Leslie and Bucky: We can't! Fanfiction isn't allowing us to answer reviews remember?
Fk306: Oh. Anyway I keep getting questions about how Leslie likes to be called Yoko sometimes and that she is a fox demon. Just to let you know Leslie has nothing to do with Yoko Kurama, because for starters, Yoko is my nickname at school and I chose the nickname before I even knew that Kurama was a fox demon but I do watch the show a little I just never got that far into the series.
Leslie: That's all we can say because it is a common question. Ask any questions and we will be happy to answer but we won't say the question or the person that asked it. We will only answer questions.
All: Please review.
Leslie: By the way, this is chapter 15.
Fk306: Why didn't you say so to begin with?
Leslie: Eh, it was fun seeing you worry about such a small thing.
Fk306: …