Disclaimer: See first chapter.
Stalking he FellowshipBy Frufru, the PiXiE and Candyfloss
Chapter Five: Dodging dangers
'This is so boring' thought Mo I know! She rummaged down her bag, and then quickly ran over to Fran. "Francesca?" there was no reply, 'good sleeping like a baby'. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a pen. She then wrote all over Fran's face "I Love Gimli." She then ran over to Maddy and woke her up, "Look at Fran."
Maddy had a look and burst out laughing.
This woke Fran up, "What are you laughing at?"
"Mothing" said Mo quickly.
"Jigglypuff, jiggleieeeeepuff," Maddy started to sing.
"Why are you being a Pokemon?" Fran asked Maddy.
"No reason, come on we better get moving," Said Maddy.
… … …
3 hours and 7 miles later…
"My head really itches," Said Fran, Maddy once again burst into laughter.
"Can we stop yet? This is tiring," moaned Mo.
"Yeah sure, and we can redo your bandaged, its soaked."
"Who died and put you in charge?" asked Fran, Maddy decided to ignore Fran while she began to trim some more cloth of the t-shirt.
"Is it still bleeding?" Mo asked.
"Only a little bit," said Maddy trying to hide her concern.
"I wished I had some tuoc bac cuong!" (A/n Some Vietnamese without the right word symbols because I don't know where they go as this is just a transcription from Mo whose Word Art did not work, I have no idea what it means either…) Said Mo.
"What's that?" said Fran who had just taken a sip of water.
"It's a medicine that clots up the blood faster. Something like a catalyst," Mo replied.
"Oh, ok," said Fran.
"There you go we should keep this piece so that when we get to the river we can wash it. If we keep throwing things away we might run out by the time we get to Lorien, you would probably end up with buttons." Said Maddy.
"K, then hand it over. I don't want you doing any DNA crap on it or any experiments," said Mo. She took the blood soaked cloth and stuck it into the bag that her trainers had been in.
After the 10 minutes rest they were of again. "Only 1 more mile to go 'till we can stop," said Fran about 14 1/2 miles later.
"Wow! How did you work that one out Fran?" Maddy clapped, "Anyway we're doing an extra mile if we counted yours, we reached our target like hours ago," said Mo.
"So why can't we stop?" asked Fran.
"'Cos you said we go for as long as we can and we agreed to stop at 7 and its only 6 right now!" Said Maddy who was very close to slapping Fran for her constant moaning, but decided that one casualty was enough.
"Ew... Fran did you fart?" Asked Maddy.
"No why do you assume its me?" Said Fran looking hurt.
" Cos your the fart queen!" said Maddy giggling (A/n I would never say that ever. This is what happens when you let your friends write…)
Mo in the meantime was staring behind them as they had now stopped. She could see a big black mass moving towards them at very high speed. Suddenly she saw a flag!
"SHIT!!!!! Run you two its not Fran its the orcs! And they are coming straight at us!"
"What?" asked Fran.
Mo grabbed her arm and started running in the direction Maddy had started to run off in.
"Well....I...guess.....we're....going...to...die" Maddy said between breaths running as fast as little legs could carry her.
"Not...the...nicest...way either," said Fran.
"Are you sure they're after us?" asked Maddy.
"Do I look like an Orc?" Fran snorted
"I can't run and laugh at the same time!" Maddy exclaimed biting back laughter.
"Very funny," muttered Mo very sarcastically while scanning the horizon.
"Where are they going?" Maddy thought aloud, " I mean what kind of threat are we? Why would they come down this mountain to get us?"
"I dunno, maybe they're hungry?"
"So optimistic of you Fran. I'd rather not be orc food. In fact I'd rather not be food for anybody, because then I'd be dead. I think Saruman has contacted them, you know give them plans to attack Lorien. Cos you know they do that later?" Maddy questioned.
"This is no time to be miss- I-know-it all! We need to escape, they're catching up with us!" exclaimed Mo.
Just then Fran yanked her to the right, Maddy following, Fran pulled them into a small cave about a 3 feet high the cave mouth covered by a bush, it was a surprise Fran had seen it; It would have been hard for an elf, about twenty minutes later they heard the orcs run past.
"I smell man flesh!" grunted an orc.
"We have no time to look I can not see any. We must get to Orthanc." That was all that they heard as the pounding of the feet on the ground blocked those particular orcs out; you could feel the vibrations on the ground.
Forty-five minutes later they came out deciding that the orcs were at a safe distance.
"That was close," murmured Maddy, "we're lucky Fran saw this cave."
"Yeah but how did you see it?" asked Mo.
Fran didn't because just then they heard growling from the cave. They turned to see red eyes in the gloom of the cave.
"Wha...what's that?" asked Mo.
"I don't want to find out!" shouted Fran already running. Mo and Maddy copied, running towards a tree, which they tried to climb. Turning around they saw it was a wolf. Mo squealed and jumped; she reached the branch. She helped the others up and they continued to climb as far away from the wolves snapping jaws. It was now sunset. The wolf howled and within an hours time six more wolves surrounded the tree.
"Out of the frying pan into the bloody fire!" Moaned Maddy.
"Well we didn't get killed by orcs. Instead we're going to starve in a tree!" said Fran.
"Your bottle is always half empty! We'll just have to wait until morning, they should have left by then, because they're night hunters," Said Mo.
So the three spent the night in a tree with only an apple each for food and no drink.
A/n I apologise profusely for the months delay between these chapters being beta'd. I've just been over run with work but I should be back to one every day as I have no more school! To reviews…
Kaye Thorn: ::blushes:: DT folders are basically large see through plastic of A3 size that you put A3 sheets of paper in to make sure they don't get creased.
Serpent of light: Thanks for all the corrections! For the DT folder see above. And Fanta? You know the fizzy drink?
LadyGlory: Thanks!
I am a strange person: Thanks for your reviews of all the chapters.
Ciara: It's normal for us to go backwards… :coughs: oh how annoying this website can be!
Charles Raymond III: Sorry for the long wait! Yes there is the sequel, I was ediying chapter 12 of it earlier today. It will go up as soon as the whole of this mamooth story goes up. It will be up by September within that month! I would promise but I haven't spoken with Mo and Fran, so yes around September though!
See you tomorrow!
PiXiE
Updated: 24/6/2004