Stalking the Fellowship
By Frufru, the PiXiE and Candyfloss
Chapter Five
Disclaimer: See first chapter.
"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, the days just get worse and worse, by staying in that tree we just extended our hike by half a day more, were going to starve by then!" Moaned Fran.
"Shut up! I'm thinking," said Maddy.
"You guys, we can go now they're gone, and Maddy where's that river flow to?" asked Mo.
"Which one?"
"That one!" said Mo pointing south.
"Yes, yes, yes. I was hoping to find that river, otherwise we would most likely been lost, my sense of direction isn't very good. That river flows to the heart of Lothlorien."
"Freak! What have you been doing? Eating the book or something?" said Fran.
"Right so once we're off this tree we go south to the river?" asked Mo.
"Yeah," answered Maddy.
So the three girls made their ways down from the tree and walked towards the river arriving there half and hour later. Francesca ran straight into the river and swallowed a mouth full.
"Hey Fran how do you know that you can drink that?" asked Mo who was testing to see if Fran knew anything at all.
"Er...Maddy?" said Fran who was looking quite concerned.
"Yes you can, there's no pollution in Middle-Earth idiot!" answered Maddy.
"Well we should fill up our bottles here, then we better get going," said Mo.
So they filled up their bottles and set of once again, as usual Fran started to moan about being hungry and everything else. Maddy and Mo had now learnt to ignore Fran, and so began to talk to each other.
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"If we hadn't been stuck in that bloody tree we would be there by now," said Fran the next morning.
"Stop moaning it's only half a day away," said Mo.
So after a little breakfast they set of again, and at noon they had arrived on the outskirts of Lothlorien.
"Here at last!" said Fran.
"It's beautiful, better then in my imagination" said Mo.
"We're finally safe" said Maddy
Just then archers surrounded them, all were pointing their arrows directly at the three strangers.
" I swear someone is out to kill us," Fran murmured.
"Yeah and talking while we have really sharp pointy arrows really close to our face is a good idea!" Said Maddy sarcastically.
"Why are you here?" an elf asked.
"Wish the hell we knew," Said Mo.
Maddy grimaced, "Don't insult them it's the last thing we need, we don't actually know why we're here, just looking for somewhere safe at the moment, because well, we don't want to be orc chow or wolf chow for that matter. We decided after climbing Cahadhras that Lothlorien was the safest place to go next."
The elf looked at her appraisingly, "What never seen a mortal-" started Fran.
"Fran, kindly keep your trap closed until the bow bows go away," Said Mo
"But-"
"If you want to live! Would you chat back to Miss Randell? No! Well these elves are 100 time worse," Said Maddy as she turned back to the elf, "Now mister elf."
"Orophin."
"Ok," said Maddy.
"What?" Said Mo.
"That's his name. Anyway, Orophin, you wouldn't kill us would you?"
He gave them a look "Well maybe you would, but you wouldn't kill defenceless...Maidens would you? The lord and lady of the Galadhrim wouldn't be very happy, would they?"
" No, they wouldn't." answered Mo playing along, "I mean, we've come from death,"
"And persecution," added Maddy.
Orophin looked between Maddy and Mo looking for something, "I will take you, you are lucky that the Lady happens to be in a town nearby."
'Or she knew you were coming,' said a voice in their heads.
Maddy backed a squeal of delight and instead grinned. 'Galadriel just spoke in my head' she thought to herself, as her grin got wider, though it faltered when she realised the elves we're staring at her.
Each of them was separated. Maddy at the back, Fran in the middle and Mo at the front.
About an hour later they arrived in a town, which was in the trees in the form of interconnecting talans.
They were taken to a room and seated. Five minutes later Galadriel walked in, sat down and motioned to for the guards to leave.
"Where did you get the idea to stalk the fellowship?"
"Erm..." started Maddy.
"She fancies Legolas," Finished Fran.
Maddy blushed, glaring at Fran while Galadriel laughed musically.
"Well, I must endeavour to help you in your light hearted quest, which we need in these times, you have my permission to stay in Lorien until they leave. I will give you supplies to help." She smiled and then left pausing briefly to talk to a guard in Sindarin.
A/n Well we got a total of two reviews for that chapter! I'm sure we can do a lot better. I know we were missing for a while but we have 45 people on author alerts for us, some of those have to be for stalking! So come on, review! Please
KayeThorn: Yes we could have thrown mushrooms, if we had any but I must say it would be a pity to waste mushrooms in such a way. And we got the apples from picking 'em. Though why there would be apples around in erm…early January I'll never know, I'd have to go back in time and ask my younger self…
Alassea2: They got rid of the story because of our bad grammar…::coughs:: which might just have been in these last two chapters… Mo says thank you for liking the website, her little pride and joy, or not ::shakes head::
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Updated: 26/6/04