Stalking the Fellowship
Chapter Nine
The girls awoke the next morning to find clothes folded neatly at the bottom of their beds.
"Well at least it's not pink," Said Fran, picking up the short sleeved blue dress.
"Hey how comes you get the green one?" Maddy complained looking over at the dresses her two friends where holding.
Looking over Mo burst into fits of laughter and replied, "I don't know, but I'm happy I haven't got a yellow one"
"Shut up," Muttered Maddy through gritted teeth.
"Hey guys, there's a note here, says, 'your lessons starts at ten with Haldir, and be quiet the Fellowship are still around.'"
"What's the time?" Asked Mo.
"9:55 I think... Crap! We're going to be late!"
"Yay, at last!" Exclaimed Maddy now suddenly accepting her yellow gown, pulling it over her head
Hurriedly the other two rushed to put on their clothes, and hurried down to the court yard, where a cheerful, if not slightly annoyed Haldir was waiting for them.
"Tut, tut...ten minutes late for your first lesson girls, that's not very good," He sneered "First lesson, this is a bow!...and this is an arrow."
"We aren't stupid you know, two of us have done archery before," Said Fran, a irritation in her voice.
"Ok then, what do you know?" Haldir asked, directing his question at Mo.
"What me?" Asked Mo who had been day dreaming about ice-cream as it was a very hot day.
Haldir nodded.
"Well...the strings on the bows are made from elf hair, and that's about it."
"Well that's not a lot!" Haldir exclaimed mockingly, handing Maddy and Fran some arrows and a bow each. "Since you two already know how to do this you two can go and practice whilst I teach...."
"Ithildin..." Said Mo thinking it was best to use an elven name to reduce suspicion.
"Ok Ithildin, you hold a bow like this," Said Haldir showing Mo.
"YES! I got a bulls eye!" Mo heard Maddy shout.
"Stop gloating!" Moaned Fran who was hitting the targets but missing the bulls eyes.
"Hello?" Said Haldir.
"I'm sorry, yes, carry on."
"You put a bow in like this-"
"Oh this is boring! Can't I just try it, and if I do something wrong you can correct me."
"Ok, we can try that," Said Haldir, and he handed Mo the bow and arrow.
Notching it as he had told and showed her how to, she let lose the arrow, going slightly wide. "This sucks," She muttered under her breath.
"That was pretty good for a beginner," Haldir complimented.
"Yeah right, you're just saying that to be nice."
"No really I mean it, with practice you could become quite an archer."
Quirking an eyebrow she gave him a funny look which clearly said 'as if'.
In reply he said "You'll see in a few months time." After what seemed like an extremely long period of time he turned to the other two, giving them a bit of help before saying, "I have to go now, feel free to carry on practicing." With that he left the girls to carry on for another two hours.
"Gosh I'm hungry" Said Fran suddenly.
"Fran!" Said Maddy laughing.
"Yeah but my arm really aches," Said Mo who was now rubbing her shoulders.
"But how's your head?" Asked Fran who had stopped moaning about food and was looking at Mo's still bandaged head.
"Fine it's healing now, won't have to wear the bandage tomorrow, well at least I hope not!! You?"
"Fine. Apart from the fact that Maddy here almost shot my ass when I went to get the arrow from the target board." Replied Fran who was glaring at Maddy.
Mo and Maddy both burst out laughing and Maddy said, "I knew perfectly well where I was shooting!"
"Where?"
"The spot next to your ass!" Said Maddy and she burst into laughter once more.
'Fran if your hungry go to your room,' Said Galadriel in Fran's head.
"You guys hungry?" Fran asked.
"Yep" Replied Maddy.
"Yes, but not as much as you are by the looks of it." Said Mo.
"Well we have to go to our room then," Said Fran, so Mo and Maddy followed Fran without an idea of what they were meant to find in their room.
'Hope it's roast of something big! Or maybe a caramel tart, or something elvish,' Thought Fran as she opened the door to the girls bedroom.
"What! You must be kidding!" Shouted Fran as she picked up a plate of Lembas.
'Well you did something elvish,' Said Galadriel's voice in Fran's head.
"Well Lembas is supposed to be nice if you don't eat it all the time," Said Maddy.
"Shut up Fran! All your shouting is going to attract elves, one in particular! Legolas!" Said Mo quietly.
"Legolas...ahhhhh..."Said Maddy now day-dreaming again.
Mo took a Lembas from the plate and took a bite "See it's quite nice Fran," She said with her mouth full.
'That's good because you need to get use to it, as it will be the main food in your journey,' Said Galadriel now talking in all their heads.
"Oh great!" Said Fran
"Maddy," Mo called.
Nothing, Maddy was still daydreaming.
"MADELEINE CLARKE!!! Bring your ass back here!!" Shouted Mo now kicking Maddy
"Ow that hurt! What? And stop shouting Legolas will hear!" Hissed Maddy.
Across the corridor Legolas was sitting in his room talking to Aragorn,
"Ok...I think I'm going mad," Said Legolas.
"What is it?" Asked Aragorn.
"Right, you know those voices, I heard before in Hollin? Well I can hear them again. They're around here somewhere, shouting at each other. And one of them is called Madeleine Clarke and she keeps on saying my name."
"I don't think you're mad, I say they are following us."
"But how? They would have been killed by orcs in the mines of Moria." Said Legolas.
"Well where is it coming from?"
"Down the corridor."
"Let's go see then!"
So Aragorn and Legolas walked down the corridor and stopped outside the room that Legolas thought the voices were coming from as they had stopped now. Legolas then stuck out this hand to turn the handle and open the door.
A/n Grr, that was annoying. Now that I have XP all my lotr words have disappeared from the dictionary. Any the dictionary is now set to American which is even more annoying as, no offence, you can't spell! Realise not realize. Pfft. I could have just alienated a whole load or readers there... ::shrugs:: Anywhoo to reviews!
Saeleth Tinuviel: Hopefully the updating times should be closer together now. I now have two friends bugging me to update everyday just so they can get to the chapters that we were at before the story got taken down...
Kaye Thorn: Naked hobbits, lol. Yes they are most amusing in a non-slash way...
Serpent of light: We have a flag? So cool! Mo does actually have her own flag...it's purple and says Mo on it...someone made it for her.
Dark borg drone: Do we didn't take it in the wrong way, though I think you gave us a link which ff.n doesn't accept for some reason...
Lady glory: No, we haven't given up writing, I'm just very lazy and don't edit chapters when I must. Mo's computer broke so she couldn't bug me on msn every day...
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