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Stalking the Fellowship

By Frufru the PiXiE and Candyfloss

Chapter two: A decision is made

"OMFG!" exclaimed Francesca.

Maddy clapped her hand over Fran's mouth, hissing, "Legolas can hear you speak from here so what do you think your yelling will do?"

"He's fighting though," Fran replied hastily. 

Mo, meanwhile, was keeping her eye on the fight. "Come on! The Fellowship knows we're in this house. We need to get a move on!" 

"We're totally fucked," Fran concluded.

"I know, they have the best ranger in Middle Earth. He'll be able to follow our tracks," whispered Maddy.

"We'll just have to make lots of tracks then!" said Mo.

The girls ran out of the house going this way and that before running into some ruins.

The Fellowship, after killing the 3 Wargs, started looking for the voice(s). "Why can't we just leave them?" asked Pippin, who was quite tired. "They could be spies for Saruman," answered Gandalf, looking at the hobbits fondly. Legolas and Aragorn were ahead looking at the tracks. "They've run across a lot. These tracks are fresh, like they're running from something," murmured Aragorn. "The Wargs?" Legolas queried.

"Or us."

The girls were behind a wall near the elf and man.

'Ever the pessimist,' thought Mo.

Maddy's thoughts were more along the lines of 'OMG Legolas is within touching distance.' Fran, however, was not lost in thoughts she was listening. "These were not made by spies," said Aragorn finally. "They are the footprints of women, or small children. They don't want us to find them, but not even Saruman would use them as spies." They heard Aragorn walk off, though they weren't sure Legolas had; as an elf he didn't make any noise.

"That was close." Mo whispered so quietly that Fran and Maddy had to strain their ears.

"Legolas was so close," whispered Maddy, her eyes bright. "But we should stay here and decide what we're going to do."

"I think we should follow them," said Fran frowning.

"But that's dangerous," whispered Mo, ever the voice of caution.

"I agree with Fran," Maddy decided, attempting to put her unruly hair into a bun.

"That's rare," Mo joked, then added carefully, "But they are going to Mordor." "Correction: Frodo and Sam are," said Maddy.

Mo sighed. "So we're all agreed?" she asked. "We're stalking the Fellowship!"

"Hey I think they're camping here tonight!" said Mo. 

"Good, because I don't feel like going anywhere!" moaned Fran.

"Right. We have to get into our P.E. kits, as our school clothes are quite filthy," said Maddy, crinkling her nose at the now very stained school skirt. "Yeah, but where the hell are we going to change?" yelled Fran.

"Shut up! Legolas will hear you; he is still around here somewhere you know!"

"They're still here, arguing about something. They sound like young maidens," said Legolas.

"Which direction? Can you make out where they are?" asked Aragorn. Legolas paused for a moment, before replying, "Behind that house." "Come on then."

"But what if we frighten them to death?" 

"So what?"

"Well… no one is supposed to know we're here! Remember?" Legolas explained.

"True, let's leave them and go back to camp," said Aragorn finally.

"They're gone," whispered Mo.

"Good I'm hungry. Can we steal some of their food or something?" asked Fran.

"Ahh...Legolas," said Maddy, her mind definitely elsewhere.

"Right, we need to change," said Mo. The girls went off to find a place to change. They decided on a house, so Legolas could not see them if he happened to be scouting around the area. After they had changed, they had a polo each for before going too sleep.

They decided on Mo as look out for various reasons. First Fran, who was still hungry, would obviously run and try to get food from the Fellowship and second: Maddy would be miles away dreaming about Legolas, so Mo was the only option.

A few hours into her watch, boredom definitely settled upon her shoulders. The stars, while amazing, had ceased to hold an allure, so she decided to find out who was keeping watch for the Fellowship. Carefully she crept around bushes, making sure not too crack any twigs. She found Aragorn and Legolas sitting up, heads close in conversation.

She came closer to hear what they were saying, trying to walk on her tiptoes. The leaves under her feet crunching, she hoped Legolas would think it was a fox or another creature of the night.

"It was quite strange. Why were they running everywhere only to come back too the same place?" Legolas mused. "Probably trying to throw us off track," said Aragorn. "Did you by any chance work out how many of them there were?" "About three."

"Good they can't harm us then."

"How could they? They haven't even come of age!"

"But you can't be sure."

"You didn't tell the others did you?"

"No. Better go wake Gimli and Boromir, it's their watch."  They got up and started too walk towards a huddled form that Mo guessed to be Boromir. Deciding that there was nothing left to listen to, Mo decided to leave.

While backing away, she tripped on a twig.  "Crap!" Legolas heard her, and spun around, running off in the direction that he had heard the voice.

A/n Thanks for the reviews all of you, on the note off 'nin mellon' I don't want to get into a debate, on this site I've seen 'mellonamin' and 'mellon nin' I decided that I'd use nin mellon, simply because I know it can be used and it had a better ring to it, in my personal opinion.

Also, if people spot gaping spelling/ grammar mistakes do point them out in a review, I'm quite happy to go and edit the mistake- I won't pretend to have the eyes of a hawk, more of a pigeon really…

Frufru, the PiXiE and Candyfloss