Ok, chapter 5! Lets do this thing!

"Gandalf!" Screamed Frodo

"What is it, Mr. Frodo?" who woke abruptly with his shout.

Frodo's breathing calmed down and he looked around before sighing "Nothing. Just a dream."

Lord of the rings: The Two Towers, the legend of the ring...

The next day, as they're wandering through the Emyn Muil, they look toward Mordor and Sam sighs "Mordor. The one place in Middle-Earth we don't want to see any closer is the one place we're trying to get to, and just where we can't get. Let's face it, Mr. Frodo. We're lost. I don't think Gandalf meant for us to come this way."

"He didn't mean for a lot of things to happen, Sam. But they did." Frodo muttered trying to hold back a sob. Frodo stares at Mordor and suddenly is zoomed into the Eye, he shudders and falls to his knees.

Sam looks concerned at Frodo "Mr. Frodo? It's the Ring, isn't it?" he asked

Frodo nodded to confirm Sam's guess "It's getting heavier." He clutched the ring to his chest, and then takes a drink of water, Sam sits down as well and starts to dig in his bag.

Frodo looks over at him "What food have we got left?"

Sam smiled smugly "Well, let me see. Oh, yes. Lovely. Lembas bread. And look! More... Lembas bread." Sam broke off a piece for Frodo and threw it to him and then a piece for himself and they proceed to eat it. "I don't usually hold with foreign food, but this Elvish stuff – it's not bad." Commented Sam trying to keep the mood up.

Frodo chuckled "Nothing ever dampens your spirits, does it, Sam?"

Sam's expression changed as he looked to the sky "Those rain clouds might."

After the storm...

Sam glanced over the rocks of the mountain "This looks strangely familiar." He said

Frodo heaved a large sigh and grunted "That's because we've been here before. We're going in circles." He near yelled.

"Ugh. What is that horrid stink? I wonder if there's a nasty bog nearby. Can you smell it?"

"Yes, I can smell it." He turned around to face Sam "We're not alone."

Later that night the hobbits covered themselves with their elven cloaks to the best of their abilities when a small shrivelled creature slithers down the side of the mountain cliff next to them.

"They're thieves. They're thieves, they're filthy little thieves. Where is it? Where is it? They stole it from us. My Precious. Curse them, we hates them! It's ours it is, and we wants it." It muttered. And it reached Frodo and reached out a boney hand to steal the ring, but...

Frodo and Sam grab hold of the creature; Gollum. He pushes them away from him, causing them to fall down. Gollum seeing the Ring has come out of Frodo's shirt jumps on Frodo. Sam crawled over and grabbed Gollum's leg, dragging him off Frodo. Gollum slapped Sam causing him to fall. He goes back to Frodo, trying desperately to touch the ring. Sam jumped back up and grabbed Gollum and jerked him off Frodo, flinging Frodo to the other side as well. Gollum broke loose and jumped off Sam's back onto the rocks. Gollum jumped back down onto Frodo. Sam grabbed Gollum again and lifted him off Frodo. Gollum bites Sam. They tussle on the ground until Frodo unsheathes Sting and points it at Gollum's throat.

"This is Sting. You've seen it before, haven't you, Gollum? Release him, or I'll cut your throat." Frodo threatened.

Gollum made a crying noise and released Sam. The next morning they had Gollum tied with Sam's Elvish rope. Gollum was flailing around and moaning.

"It burns! It burns us! It freezes…nasty Elves twisted it! Take it off us!" he screamed

"Quiet you!" Sam yelled

"Aaahhhh!"

"It's hopeless! Every orc in Mordor's gonna hear this racket. Let's just tie him up and leave him." Sam suggested

"No! That would kill us…kill us!"

"It's no more than you deserve!"

"Maybe he does deserve to die…but now that I see him, I do pity him." Said Frodo

"We be nice to them, if they be nice to us. Take it off us! We swears to do what you wants. We swears!" Gollum promised.

"There is no promise you can make that I can trust."

"We swears…to serve the master of the Precious, we will swear on…on…the Precious! *gollum, gollum*"

"The Ring is treacherous. It will hold you to your word."

Gollum nodded his head head "Yes…on the Precious. On the Precious."

"I don't believe you!" Sam shouted and ran forward and grabbed hold of the rope…pulling Gollum on the ground. "Get down! Get down!"

"Sam! Don't Sam!" Frodo protested.

"He's trying to trick us! If we let him go, he'll throttle us in our sleep!" Sam complained

"You know the way to Mordor?" Frodo asked Gollum ignoring Sam.

Gollum nodded.

"You've been there before?"

He nodded again and Frodo removed the rope. "You will lead us to the Black Gate."

Meanwhile...

The Uruk-hai were running, Merry and Pippin being carried by them... As Merry's Uruk passed Pippin's Uruk, Pippin whispered to him. "Merry! Merry!" Then the lead Uruk paused, and motioned for the group to stop.

"What is it? What do you smell?" asked the Uruk behind him.

"Manflesh." Said the leader.

"Aragorn" thought Pippin.

"They've picked up our trail." The leader growled "Let's move!"

The Uruks picked up speed but Pippin had an idea and acts on it at once. Using his teeth, he detached the leaf-brooch of his Lórien cloak, and spits it out onto the trail. Orc feet trample the brooch, pressing it into the dirt.

Meanwhile...

Aragorn lay on the ground, listening. Faintly, the sound of many feet were heard.

"Their pace has quickened. They must have caught our scent." He said and rose. "Hurry!"

Boromir, Legolas, Link, Saria and Gimli ran up behind him and just catch up as Aragorn continues on.

"C'mon Gimli!" Saria cheered wondering why the dwarf was so slow.

"Three days' and nights' pursuit. No food, no rest, no sign of our quarry but what bare rock can tell." He muttered between breaths.

Aragorn jumped down a small embankment and found an obviously Uruk worn trail and followed it a bit when a shimmer caught his eye. He went over to look at it and found it was one of the hobbit's brooches "Not idly do the leaves of Lórien fall." He mumbled to himself.

"They may yet be alive?" Asked Legolas

"Less than a day ahead of us... Come."

While Link, Boromir, Saria, and Legolas are easily keeping up with Aragorn Gimli is constantly falling behind... Link turns around to him and shuffles around in his bag, he pulls out a bunny hood and a green potion.

"Hey Gimli... this hood will allow you to run faster without exhausting your stamina so much, OR you could use this potion to replenish you stamina now." (Green potions replenish Mana for spell casters and Stamina for warriors)

Gimli got up after tumbling down the embankment "I think I'd prefer the potion"

"Fine suit yourself..." and Link gave him the potion which he drank a quarter of and was refilled with energy.

"Alright lets continue then." He said enthusiastically. "but I will have you know I am wasted on cross-county. We Dwarves are natural sprinters. Very dangerous over short distances."

Soon they reached a rock overhang which looked over the huge plains of Rohan...

"Rohan. Home of the horse-lords. There is something strange at work here. Some evil gives speed to these creatures, sets its will against us." He said but before he could continue he heard an irregular breathing, not so much from exhaustion, but that is what worried him. He turned around to face Saria who clutched her chest and stared out onto the fields with wide eyes. "Something the matter little one?"

"W-Well..." Saria gulped "I... I've lived in a very... very closed in forest for my entire life... never stepped outside of it unless I had to go to the Temple of time in the city... and that didn't last very long... so... needless to say that while some people have deadly fears of closed in spaces... I have quite the opposite..."

"I'm sorry but we cannot falter, for Merry and Pippin's sake, Link, we don't have time for this, can you console her as we continue on?"

"Sure, c'mon Saria... it wont be for long anyways..." Link said

"I hope so..."

Legolas ran ahead a bit and stood on the edge of the overlook "Legolas, What do your Elf eyes see?" Aragorn asked

Legolas peered off into the distance "The Uruks turn Northeast. They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!"

"Saruman." Muttered Aragorn under his breath.

The next day...

"The red sun rises" noted Legolas "...blood has been spilled this night."

Aragorn bent down looking at the ground, he heard horses and stood up to gesture for the others to follow him behind a rock. A band of riders rode over a hill nearby, at least a hundred of them. Aragorn, seeing who they were, stepped out...

"Riders of Rohan, What news from the Mark?!" he yelled

As he said this the horsemen turn around and quickly surround them, spears are lowered towards them...

A man with a horse hair plume jumped off his horse and walked to the center of the circle of cavalry. "What business do three Elves, two Men, and a Dwarf have in the Riddermark? Speak quickly!"

Saria and Link steamed "What! Are people here freaking racists?" Link yelled "now listen here! We're... not elves!"

"You know what, I don't really care what you are... but I would cut off your head, if you so much talked to me like that again!"

"No! You'd have to go through me first!" yelled Saria and stood in front of Link.

The spears got closer but the leader held them back noticing Saria "A child?" he asked "Well..." he stumbled with his words looking a bit ashamed "I'd never want to hurt just a child..."

" I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn" Said Aragorn " and this is Gimli son of Glóin, Legolas of the woodland realm, Boromir son to the steward of Gondor, Link the..." he turned to Link and murmured something in question to him "Link the hero of time, a Hylian and Saria of the Kokiri, the eternal children... We are friends of Rohan, and of Théoden your King."

"Théoden no longer recognizes friend from foe." Éomer removed his helmet "Not even his own kin."

The Rohirim raised their spears.

"Saruman has poisoned the mind of the King and claimed lordship over his lands. My company are those loyal to Rohan, and for that we are banished. The White Wizard is cunning. He walks here and there they say, as an old man, hooded and cloaked, and everywhere his spies slip past our nets."

"We are no spies. We track a party of Uruk-Hai westward across the plain. They have taken two of our friends captive." Said Aragorn sternly.

" The Uruks are destroyed, we slaughtered them during the night." Replied Éomer

"But there were two hobbits. Did you see two hobbits with them?" asked Gimli quickly

"They would be small, only children to your eyes." Aragorn explained

Éomer looked sorrowed and he sighed "We left none alive. We piled the carcasses and burned them."

"Dead?" Gimli asked

Éomer nodded with legitimate grief "I am sorry." Legolas put his hand on Gimli's shoulder in comfort. Then Éomer whistled sharply "Hasufel, Arod..." Two horses came forward, one sorrel and one white "May these horses bear you to better fortune than their former masters. Farewell." And he remounted and replaced his helmet before turning back to them as the Rohirim left "Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands." And he turned to the Rohirim and yelled "We ride north!" and they rode... well... to the north...

Then Aragorn noticed a problem... "Uh... we only have two horses... there are six of us..."

The others seemed to notice this for the first time as well... Link dug into his bag and pulled out a light brown submarine with a green ring around the spout.

"Hey!" said Saria "That's the Ocarina I gave you a few years ago... I didn't know you still had it!"

"Of course I still have it, Zelda made me return the Ocarina of Time to the royal family, besides, I think this one suits me better. I just hope it works here" Link played a charming tune, almost made the sorrow fade from the other party members as he played it, once he was done Legolas asked him "Was there some magic in that song you just played?"

"Yeah... its sorta a horse caller, if it works out right she should be-" a horse's neigh was heard beyond a hill from where the riders came from and a Reddish-Brown horse with a white mane galloped over the hill.

"Oh! It worked!" Link cheered "Wow!"

Finally the horse reached Link and company and neighed happily. Link turned to the others "Ok so where were we going?" he remembered "oh right..."

Later...

The party shuffled around the battlefield searching for any signs of their lost friends then Gimli got everyone's attention "It's one of their wee belts." He said sadly

"Hiro hyn hîdh ab 'wanath." Said Legolas (Translation: May they find peace after death)

Aragorn shouted and kicked one of the orc helmets.(DID YOU KNOW... that when he screamed it was actually cuz he broke his toe when he kicked the helmet when filming, and the producers liked it so much they kept it in the final cut? :P) He then fell to his knees and put his head down "We failed them." Said Gimli

"Hey I found something!" called Saria and the others came over and Saria held up a cut rope "this rope was cut recently, on that blade I assume..." she pointed to an Orc scimitar on the ground.

"A hobbit was there... "They crawled... Their hands were bound... Their bonds were cut..."Aragorn picked up the rope. "They ran over here. They were followed... the tracks lead away from the battle..." he ran to the edge of a nearby forest... "into Fangorn forest..."

"What madness drove them in there...?" Gimli asked, the whole party looked worried at this news, then Aragorn noticed Saria, who ,ironically, seemed to be the only one happy about entering these woods...

Damn, I realise that Link and Saria haven't had much input in this chapter, but don't worry the next chapter will basically be about Saria and Link, and Théoden and such but meh I'll get to that in time :D

Also I'm sure you're wondering why Boromir said absolutely nothing (or did anything) this whole chapter other then get mentioned once or twice simply to remind you he was there... well... that's cuz... well... I forgot about him until I was done writing this chapter so I just went back and added his name a few times cuz I'm a lazy bastard... that and I'm too tired to re-write it right now... (And despite the fact I'd forgotten about this chapter in my files for almost a year now... a year? no half a year! right?)