Happy New Year everybody!
Wow hasnt the year gone really fast!

All of Ellies thoughts are in Italics

And seeing as I dont know Elvish...all Elvish wil be in Bold

Chapter 3: Grieving for a friend

Ellie froze and it felt like time had stopped. Dread washed over her and was replaced with sadness and heart ache. There infront of her was her beloved friend lying there on the forest ground dead. Blood was splatted all over his silky fur coat. The cause of such a wound was one made by an arrow.

The arrow was one which was made with such detail she had never seen before. The arrow was a dark brown with gold leaf patterns spiraling around it. The feathers were neat and straight with one side black and the other side a sort of orange colour.

She felt sick to look at what was before her. That her best friend was there dead. No more life left, no more joys and laughs. Slowly Ellie walked over to Milo's body and looked at it through blurry eyes. Her eyes were glazing with crystal tears. She tried to hold them back but before she could she found that one was already making its way down her cheek. She heard a twig snap and looked up and couldnt believe what she saw.

A man standing tall, way taller than she was. Long blonde shoulder length hair with two braids beside his ears...errr pointed ears in fact. Her eyes scanned over his face. Too perfect was his features for him to be human. Her eyes traveled over his body and clothing. Dressed in forest colours such as green and brown with a blue shirt underneath. Her eyes saw that he held a bow with an arrow notched in it. The same type of arrow that killed Milo. Her eyes met his eyes. As blue as the ocean they were. He held no facial expression. She looked deep into his eyes and some how she could see that he was older than he looked. She was looking at the man who killed Milo.

Anger, sadness, greif and hate where the mixed emotions she was feeling. She felt hate towards this person and that was something she usually never did. The only person she had ever hated was the drunk seventeen year old who was behind the wheel of the car that killed her parents. She didnt know what to say to this person. She looked at Milo's lifeless body and then looked into the eyes of this person, the first thing that came out of her mouth was,"You son of a bitch".

He seemed taken back by this comment but then he regained his usual blank expression look. "You God damned son of a BITCH!" She hadnt even realised the said that and at that moment, three other people jumped out of the trees. She noticed that they hadnt made any sound when they landed and they landed without falling over. ' What are they Ninjas or something?' They blocked off any ways to escape so she couldnt run off. They all seemed to look at her up and down to see if she was some sort of threat...or just looking at her weridly because of the whole uniform thing...it probably was both.

One of them stepped forward and said," What is a young girl doing out here alone and unarmed?"

"Maybe she is a spy", one of them called out. Ellie's minde was all confuzzled. So much had happend within the last ten minutes and she couldnt think straight. Her emotions where bouncing around but the one emotion that stuck out the most was fear. She turned around to the person who had said that. She had a look of befuddelment on her face and stupidly said," You think Im a spy? Well, Im no James Bond I can tell you that but no way in hell am I a spy." She replayed what she had said in her mind. She close her eyes and slightly shook her head and thinking how stupid she actually is.

She was interupted from her thoughts where the same person asked her again, "Who are you and what are you doing here?" She popped her head up and looked round at the group. She looked over the shoulder one of them to see in the background Milo. She felt sadness again and replied,"I woke up here with my dog and he ran off so I ran after him and...", she looked over once more and looked into Milo's eyes. They were still and dull. She looked up at the blonde man and said, "And then that bastard," she said pointing to him," killed my dog."

At that moment, they all whipped out their bows and arrows and pointed them at her...wow that really shut her up. She became totally still and was looking at all the deadly arrows aimed at her. She didnt know what to do or say seeing as she had never been in this sort of situation before. Her mind was frantically thinking of ways to get out of this, so the best thing she told herself was just to shut up before she said something really stupid.

"What do we do with her?", one asked. They were on their way to Rivendell to attend a secret council which was about the fate of the One Ring. Ellie did not know their names and so she decided to name them herself. ' Red 1', she named the one on her left, ' Red 2', she named the one on her right, ' Red 3', she named the one behind her (if you have ever seen the movie ' The Pacifier', you will understand) and the one infront she named ' Milo Killer'.

"We will take her to Rivendell with us. Lord Elrond will know what to do with her", Milo Killer said. She was getting confused at the language these people were talking. Milo Killer stepped forward on and looked at her, he said, "You will be comming with us to Rivendell".

"Im not going anywhere with you", Ellie said while crossing her arms and looking straight into his eyes. "You are not safe out here." Ellie thought about this and realised he made a point.'Doh!' She looked around on the floor trying to find some way to get out of this. Once she realised she couldnt, she closed her eyes and sighed. She looked up and said in a defeated tone, "Fine".

This took me solong to type cos I wanted it to be somewhat emotional. And your probly thinking that shes getting upset over a dog...but there is more to that story that will come later