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Stalking the Fellowship

By Frufru, the PiXiE and Candyfloss

Chapter four: Stranded in the wilderness

Fran ran out and dragged Mo in.

"It's not really deep, but we need to stop it bleeding," said Fran.

"But we don't have anything, only our school uniform," Whined Maddy.

"Well rip a bit off the white shirts, we can use that till we find something else," so Maddy got out her pencil case and began cutting off the bottom bit of Mo's shirt.

"Here," said Maddy as she threw the strip at Fran, "I'd better go outside, if I remember correctly they're supposes to come down and go through Moria," and with that she went outside to see where the fellowship were

'Typical, leave me with the messy things' Fran thought as she tied the cloth around Mo's head, which was still bleeding but not as heavily as before.

Maddy suddenly ran back in, they're coming down! Hurry move to the back and be quiet."

So they ran to the back of the cave with Fran dragging Mo. They put mo down on the ground carefully laying her head across her bag. They sad in silence waiting, and surely enough just like Maddy said, someone came down, and then went up again.

'Oh my gosh that's Legolas,' thought Maddy .

'Crap what if Mo wakes up now?' Fran decided to share her thoughts with Maddy by writing it in one of her books.

'If Mo wakes up now , we are in shit she's going to start wondering where we are'

'Keep an eye on her then, when she wakes up put your hand over her mouth to keep her quiet. I'll keep watch to see when they've gone.'

This thought proved extremely difficult, as the blizzard outside was getting heavier. However, the shapes of each person as they went by the cave were just visible. Finally Maddy whispered, "They've gone, she woken up yet?"

"No and why are you whispering?" said Fran normally.

"Because I think they haven't got very far yet" said Maddy who was hitting Fran at the same time.

"Ow, why do I have this tremendous headache?" asked Mo blearily as she started to stir.

"Lie down we're not going anywhere yet, and we are in a cave," said Maddy.

"Why the hell have I got something wrapped around my head?"

"'Cos we got attacked and you got hit in the head. Now lie down and rest!" said Fran.

The girls decided to stay in the cave for another hour, so that the Fellowship would be able to gain some distance between them and the girls.

"Ok, it's really cold out there so we might as well put all the clothes we have on," said Maddy, "and then we are leaving, we don't want to go through Moria so we have to go down this mountain then I think South to Lothlorien."

So they put on their school clothes right under their tracksuit bottoms and polo shirts, then their jumpers and then finally their coats.

After what seemed like an hour's walk climbing upwards Fran shouted, " I'm hungry!"

"Shut up there's no food up here, we're all hungry!" shouted Maddy back at Fran.

"SHUT UP! I already have a bad enough headache without you two yelling at each other! I just hope those shit faces snow people don't come back for their own sake," shivered Mo

"Yes finally! From here onwards its all down hill!" They heard Fran shout a couple of meters ahead.

When they caught up with Fran, Mo had an idea "Hey how about we slide down as far as we can?"

"On what?" said Maddy.

"Our DT Folders!"

"Huh?"

"The ones in our hands!"

Mo took her one and went down first. She skidded five meters the stopped. Maddy went next "Shit! Help me!" Maddy had fallen of her folder and was now rolling down the side of the mountain right into Mo!

Maddy and Mo collided and went hurtling down the mountain. Eventually they stopped and lay down in a heap waiting for Fran, who reached them. Eventually, Maddy got up, grumbling and looked around. "Well at least we're half way down this mountain."

"My head hurts!" Mo declared.

"I'm not surprised, but what do you expect us do? We'll sort everything out in Lothlorien, if we ever get there," said Maddy. She took out the map. "Once we get to the bottom of this blasted mountain we have about 50 miles. That's a good I don't know three days march?"

"Three days?" Fran deadpanned.

"Well yeah. We were doing 10 miles in 4 hours with the fellowship. If we walk for 8 hours a day we'll get there in 3 days."

"You want me to walk for 20 miles a day?" asked Fran astonished, "That isn't going to happen some how 10 miles was bad enough!"

"Exactly WAS. We're in the present!" Maddy then added in a whisper to Fran, "We don't know how bad Mo is, we need elven medicine, no scrap that, any medicine!"

Fran sighed, " how about we walk as long as we can each day?"

"Perfect," said Maddy optimistically.

"Well, I agreed to help you stalk the Fellowship," agreed Mo grudgingly. They each got back on their DT folders and slid to the end of the mountain, and then some.

"Let's set up camp," Maddy panted as she collapsed onto the floor. She pulled herself up and pulled off her shoes rubbing her feet. Mo and Fran did the same.

"So ... who's got first watch?" asked Fran.

" I'll take it," murmured Maddy looking ahead to see a green mass. Mo followed Maddy's sight "Lorien?"

"No, Mirkwood. We're looking east. Anyway I'll take watch from now," she looked at her watch, "It's 8, I'll be on watch till 1am, Fran you're on until 5am and Mo you take watch till we wake up or until 4 hours later."

"Well we had better go look for food," said Mo.

The three of them went off in different directions, leaving their DT folders so that they could find their way back. Eventually they came back with a pocket full of blackberries (Maddy), a hand full of Plums (Mo) and a jumper full of apples which Fran had found (surprisingly) as it was winter.

They ate hungrily; in fact they left nothing Maddy took a "Fanta" bottle out of her bag, which she had filled with snow a few hours ago. It had melted and she took a large gulp. The others followed taking a sips out of their own bottles all silently thinking 'thank God (or the Valar in Maddy's case) for packed lunches'

Fran went off to get some more apples for the next days breakfast, as well as for in case there wasn't anymore food before their arrival Lorien.

Mo and Fran settled down, huddling together for warmth. Maddy sat staring off into Mirkwood, 'I wish I had the prince of that realm here'

A/n sorry if I seem a little bit rushed, I have loads of important stuff to do, like go and watch Angel and read an update or two, only have 20 minutes left on the computer, will I make it? ::shrugs::

Banana4422: Lol, you've already read it? Re-reading is good! We'll remind you of characters that will appear in the sequel, hint, hint.

Rhynnasse: Meh, I'm not sure if I spelt that right ::frowns:: Yes it appear asterix's and those squiggly line and any other on-text or numerical things don't appear when uploading now, very annoying ::Purses lips::

Serpent of light: I'll make sure to change it, probably tomorrow when I have the time, I'm not getting bugged by my annoying younger brother! ::mutters:: I'm not going to get into Ff.n's sudden militaristic style, I wish we were back in the good ol' days like when I started reading on this website, like 3 years ago ::sighs:: there was no annoying censorship, you could post what you like etc. etc. I mean surely it is up to the reader as to whether they put up with people's grammar etc. The no chat text is also annoying, not even allowed in the authors notes any more ::sighs:: oh wells best me off. Lol, and when you say "you guys are good at this editing" you mean me, Fran is going through a bout of not being able to spell anything ever, and Mo is now asking me to red pen all her work for grammar mistakes, hopefully if I get rid of them when they're written they won't appear when she types them up, one hoped anyway.

PiXiE