The word no was a Legolas could think when he saw that poor little Pippin was dead. I cannot be, he thought., what will I tell Merry? His thoughts were interrupted when he heard the sound of Pippin's body being picked up out of the cold water and thrown onto the ground. He wanted to run to him and restore him to life, but a dagger was still being held against his neck.
"What should we do with this one?" Fern said, pushing the dagger a little closer to his neck. Legolas felt a drop of blood run down his neck, but ignored it and kept his eyes on Pippin. The pain of the loss he was feeling would always be worse than any wound. The hobbit's face was pure white and wet. For a moment Legolas thought he saw Pippin move. He's dead, Legolas thought grimly and shifted his eyes upwards to look and the horrible orc.
Rumbling coming from the east cause Legolas to turn his head quickly only to result in another nick on his neck. The rumble became louder and suddenly a whole lot of orcs came into view. All of them running towards him.
"Go! Go! Someone' attacking camp! Get out of here!" One orc yelled.
Then Legolas was pushed to the ground and the orcs that killed Pippin ran off. Legolas covered his head to keep from being harmed from the running orcs.
When most were gone Legolas looked up to the dead form of Pippin.
"Pippin?" he called, grimly, knowing he would not get an answer back.
He pulled him self over to the hobbit and pulled him up into his arms, off the ground.
Legolas closed his eyes. He could not stare at the face of a hobbit that a just some time ago had been smiling ear to ear while talking with his cousins.
"Legolas?"
Legolas jumped, opened his eyes and almost dropped the dead hobbit, who amazingly was staring right up at him.
"Pippin!" He almost screamed, "I thought you were dead! They drowned you!"
Pippin smiled tiredly, "When they were holding me under I held my breath and stopped moving to make them think I was dead!"
Legolas laughed out of pure joy and hugged the hobbit close to him.
(Authors note: I know this is really short but I thought I should give my loyal readers a little something after making you guyss wait so long. Next chapter will be up soon and definitely longer!)