Chapter 6 - Bree
For the next few days, Jeremy was silent and did not go anywhere near the two dwarves. He would rather have been locked in a closed room full of weapons with Feliesha then mess with those two. One cloudy night, they finally arrived in the village of Bree.
"Well I guess we should look for the Inn." Daniel suggested. After wandering the streets for a while, they found the Inn: The Prancing Pony. Once they got in, they found themselves in a tavern with a bunch of scary looking men wandering around. Daniel went to the counter.
"Uhh, can we have a room to stay in please?" Daniel asked. The man looked at them funny.
"WAIT!" Matt said. "We'll get our own room..."
"Why?" Brandon asked, confused. Matt elbowed him. "OH! Yeah, we'll get our own.." Everyone turned around and looked at them funny. Brandon smiled meekly. Feliesha looked at him with the "Whatever!" look on her face. So the two dwarves got their own room, while the rest got a master bedroom.
Once everyone was settled in their huge room, Garrett fell asleep in a bed, Jessica was drinking her tea at a table, Feliesha was polishing he double bladed axe, while Nicole, Daniel, and Jeremy went down to the tavern. Once they were down there, they noticed four Hobbits sitting at a table. None of them noticed them before. They also noticed two suspicious looking people sitting in a table in the corner, they were hooded so Daniel couldn't make out their faces.
Daniel, Nicole, and Jeremy sat at a table.
"Dammit, I'm getting a beer!" Nicole announced, slamming her hand on the table and then got up to the counter.
"Get us one too!" Daniel yelled. Daniel and Jeremy sat quiet at the table. Daniel thought he'd break the deadly silence. "So what's wrong?"
"What do you mean?" Jeremy asked.
"Oh c'mon Jeremy! We're best friends, I KNOW when something's wrong with you, you've been so quiet for the past couple days... Tell me what's wrong."
"Nothing..." Jeremy said. Daniel sighed. "Well, what if you had to tell your friends something, but if you did someone would kill you?"
"OH MAN!" Daniel screamed. "YOU'RE AN ASSASIN AREN'T YOU!"
"NO!" Jeremy screamed. "BRANDON AND MATT ARE REALLY ROBBERS AND THEY'RE PLANNING ON ROBBING US!" Daniel sat there with his mouth wide open.
"Are you sure?" Daniel asked.
"Yeah..." Jeremy replied. "I overheard them talking one night when we were camping."
"Well I guess we should ditch them tonight then..."
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Nicole was sitting at the bar counter. She noticed one of the Hobbits was sitting at the counter. She decided to make talk with him.
"So you from the Shire?" Nicole asked.
"Indeed I am! Peregrin Took, but my friend's call me Pippin!" The Hobbit said, shaking the she-elf's hand.
"Really?" Nicole asked. "Nice meeting you Pippin. You don't happen to know a Baggins do you? I'm looking for one..."
"Baggins? Sure I know a Baggins! Frodo Baggins! He's right over there!" Pippin said, pointing to the table. "He's my second cousin twice removed on his mother's side-"
"PIPPIN!" A black haired hobbit came running up.
"What!" Pippin turned around. It was Frodo. He accidentally pushed him and Frodo fell. Suddenly, he disappeared! This made one of the men at the table in the corner jump off his seat. Soon Frodo reappeared under a table and the man grabbed him and took him into a room upstairs. "Sorry Nicole, gotta go! Nice to meet you!" Pippin said, as he and the two other Hobbits ran up the stairs following Frodo.
"Well that was interesting..." Nicole said, sitting back with Jeremy and Daniel. She took a big gulp of her beer.
"Nicole! Jeremy just told me that Matt and Brandon are robbers!" Daniel blurted out. She spat out her beer. "We have to leave tonight."
"Okay." She replied, calming down a bit.
"You know who's really making me uncomfortable?" Jeremy said. "That cloaked person in the corner!" Just then, the cloaked person walked towards them.
"Man, you're loud Jeremy!" Nicole spat out. Jeremy stuck his tongue out at her, when she gave him a dirty look. He slurped his tongue back in right away. Once the person got to them.
"Are you the Elves who left Rivendell a few days ago?" They asked. It was a woman's voice.
"Uh... yeah." Daniel said. "Why?"
"Master Elrond sent me out, you are supposed to head back to Rivendell right away. My friend and I fulfilled what you were supposed to do."
"WHAT? Why!" Nicole demanded.
"He couldn't trust you." The woman said back. She pulled back her cloak, she had long dirty blonde hair. "The name's Anna. Me and my friend Aragorn will travel back to Rivendell with you. Probably with those Hobbit's too."
"Okay." Daniel said. "But we have a problem. We must leave tonight, two dwarves are planning on robbing me and my friends tonight."
"Don't worry about that." Anna replied. "Get the rest of you're friends and meet us in the home across the road in half an hour." After that, she put up her cloak and ran up the stairs.