Chapter Three

Elladan's POV

What the heck! How did I not hear the orcs? I saw the girl, Anna she called her-self; stand up wincing as she put weight on her ankle. She looked over at her backpack and then pulled out a sword and dagger. Sticking the dagger in her belt she began to defend her-self. When I saw the Elrohir was staying next to her I went into the midst of the orcs taking down orc after orc. Once we had killed all the orcs I turned to Elrohir and said, in Sindrian so that Anna wouldn't understand, "We need to leave now."

"Agreed." He said, "How are we suppose to take the girl?"

"I can walk." Anna said.

I stared at her shocked, how had she understood us.

"I can understand Sindrian." She said, as if it was obvious, "but I can't speak it."

"Alright." I said "but you have to tell me when you get tired. Elrohir or I can carry you."

"Alright." She said.

I could tell that Anna didn't really want to be carried but saw that she would slow us down if she refused to be carried when she couldn't go on walking. "Lets go." I said.

Legolas' POV

Bianca and I made good time as we walked along. If we kept this pace up then we would reach Rivendell in another three days.

"Legolas?"

I turned to her, "What?" I said.

"How long till we stop? I am getting pretty tired."

"How long do you think you will be able to go?" after all, the girl knew her limits better then I did.

"Maybe another hour." she said squinting at the sun. "Or and hour and a half. I have never walked for more than two hours." she looked at him "how long have we been walking?

"About eight hours." I said looking at her in surprise. She came from Rohan and wasn't use to walking.

As if she was reading his mind she looked over at me, "We aren't called "Horse masters" for nothing." She said, "We do a lot of riding not walking."

I nodded that made sense why walk for more than an hour if you had a horse to carry you there in half the time.

Elrohir's POV

I winced as we ran from the battle scene. One of the orcs had succeeded in slashing my leg as we were fighting. It wasn't like I would tell Elladan, he would just worry and then be impossible to deal with. After an hour of running my leg was burning and I was having to concentrate really hard to keep from stumbling. Just then a soft whisper came from my left.

"Elrohir?"

I looked over at Anna who was running next to me. "Yeah?" I asked.

"Are you okay?" she asked, concern filling her voice.

'Dang' I thought, now I knew that I wasn't thinking straight. I was so concentrated on not letting Elladan see that I was wounded that I had forgotten about the girl.

"Well?" she asked.

"Yeah I'm..."

"Fine. Yeah that pretty much makes it certain that you are hurt. Maybe I had better call Elladan to come check on it..."

I grabbed her arm to keep her from running ahead and telling Elladan. "No." I said

"What?" she asked, "Why don't you want me to tell him?"

"Tell me what?" came Elladan's voice from behind.

'Oh no!' I thought as I turned around and said "Nothing." The only problem was that at the same time, Anna said, "He's hurt." I glared at her for a minuet then turned to look at Elladan. He was giving me a very good imitation of Ada's look.

"Um..." What do I say now?

"What happened?" Elladan asked in a quiet voice.

"One of the orcs managed to get under my guard and get my leg." I said, knowing that Elladan wouldn't stop asking until I showed him. "It's a small injury, I am fine."

"Yeah right what do you guys say all the time? Oh that's right "I'm fine" well all that mean is that you are not fine. Also you guys seem to like the phrase "Its just a scratch" or "Its nothing to worry about". You guys would say that if you were dying." Anna said in the background.

"She is right Gwador. We do tend to say that a lot. Now lets have a look at that wound."

Bianca's POV

When we finally stopped for the night I collapsed on the ground.

"Are you alright Bianca?"

I looked up at Legolas who was looking over at me with a concerned expression on his face. "I'm fine Legolas. I am just tired."

"Alright. I am going to hunt for some meat for us to eat. Can you cook?"

"Yes." I said 'Unlike Eowyn.' I thought, remembering what we were watching when this all began.

"Alright."' Legolas said handing me some dried vegetables out of his pack. Then he left to go hunting. As I was about to cut up the vegetables I thought about the fact that I could get some fresh ones from my magical backpack. I went over and wished for three zucchini, five tomatoes, and six potatoes. When I got them I added them to the soup.

Half an hour later Legolas came back with three rabbits. He then skinned and cleaned them. Then I added them to the soup and let it simmer on the fire for an hour. When it was done I spooned it into two bowls. One of which I had gotten from my magical pack, gave one to Legolas as I sat down with the other.

After taking a couple bites Legolas looked over at me and asked, "What did you put in this? It somehow tastes better than usual."

I smiled knowing that it was the fresh vegetable that I had put in rather than the dried ones he had given to me. "That for me to know and for you to wonder about."

He smiled "Secretive aren't we?"

I smiled back at him and nodded. Just then found myself wondering how Anna was faring, weather she was even in Middle earth like me and, if she was, how she was faring.

Anna's POV

I watched as Elladan check out Elrohir's wound. The wound went from Elrohir's thigh to calf and he had blood running down his leg to his ankle. Since he had been running the wound hadn't been able to stop bleeding and clot. And, I also noticed that there were tell tale black lines of poison in the blood running down his leg, and slowly spreading under his skin. Elladan place a hand on the side of Elrohir's cheek and frowned at him. Elrohir looked at his brother and said,

"Don't look at me like that."

"Ro' you should have told me."

I watched as Elrohir looked at his brother and then he said, so softly that I almost couldn't hear him,

"Yeah I probably should have."

Elladan looked startled to hear his brother admit it. Then he turned away to look in his pack. I watched as he rifled through his pack muttering to himself, and then I turned around just in time to catch Elrohir as he fell down unconscious.

"Elladan!" I called after I caught Elrohir and lowered him down to the ground.

Elvish used in chapter.

Adar/Ada: Father/Dad

Peneth: Little one