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Torzhug:
It had been a whole day... A whole day we had been trudging through the small tunnels. Three times we had to slowly push and pull Peet along a stretch of tunnel because he was too big. And here was another small section...
"Oh come on! Not another one!" groaned Peter, and Julia echoed his groan.
"Suck in your gut," I said with a heavy sigh. Thankfully, this section was short...
We emerged in a large area, on a small stone path over a deep abyss. I was glad I wasn't scared of heights... Unfortunately, Julia was mortally terrified of heights.
"Gahhh!" she screeched, and I clapped my still unfamiliar hand to her mouth.
"Sorry, I forgot I have Orc hands now..." I muttered.
"Tyler," Julia said, forgetting her fear and turning deadly serious, "Be yourself, and don't let this change you. It's me who needs to be accepting of you, not the other way around..."
"Alright..." I stuttered, stunned that my girlfriend had just started spouting wisdom like a therapist or something. I love Julia, she is shy, and scared of practically everything, but she always knows what to say when it matters most...
She smiled, and took my hand again, her soft fragile hand cupped in my large, rough one.
"Let's ride for a while, shall we?" I said with a slight smile.
"I'd love to," she replied, and I swung myself onto Peet's back, offering her my hand. She took it, and I easily lifted her up to sit in front of me.
A while later, we came upon three tunnels. This was the part where Gandalf forgot where he was going... And I couldn't remember which tunnel it was... SHOOT!
"Which one is it Torzhug?" asked Peter.
"I don't remember!" I cried in anguish.
"Oh no..." whispered Julia.
"Don't worry, I'll remember it," I assured her.
"No, someone's coming!" she hissed, and I panicked. Goblins! Soon enough torchlight and pounding of feet could be heard from the tunnel on the right.
"Quick, we need a plan!" Julia hissed, and I racked my brain for possibilities. We could try to hide behind Peet, but we had no clue which way they were headed. If we chose wrong, they would run straight into us... A half baked plan slowly formed in my mind.
"Okay, I have a plan, stay calm. All you have to do is growl if they threaten us, and Jewel, all you have to do is act drunk and stupid," I whispered.
"Um why?" she asked.
"Just do it!" I hissed, and Julia complied, slumping forward on Peet's neck like she was passed out.
A solitary goblin came out of the tunnel, carrying a torch. He yelped when he saw us, dropping his torch which went out with a hiss.
Our torch illuminated his frightened face, and I grunted, "What are you doing? Shouldn't you be in your places? Trust a goblin to mess everything up! Scram!"
"I won' be doin' that til' ya tell me what YER doin' down here!" replied the ugly little goblin in a whiny voice, regaining his composure and standing tall and proud.
"On orders of Sarumon, I am to aid you idiots,"
"How?" whined the goblin. He had a very irritating nasal squeak, and sounded like a whiny kindergartener, "And why ya got an elf with yer? And a...a nasty warg!" asked the whiny goblin
"I wouldn't think you numskulls would understand," I taunted him, knowing I was pushing it.
"You Orcs have yer heads stuff' full of Balrog dung!" squeaked the goblin, "Why ya got the elf? Answer the question, or are ye too stupid?"
I growled in the back of my throat, and Peet joined in with me.
"The elf is poisoned and she's got no weapons," I growled, "I was instructed to leave her in the chamber where YOU plan on attacking the group that will be coming through here shortly,"
"Yer talkin' er lot for an Orc. You bigger too. Yer Uruk-hai scum?"
I growled again, surprised at how guttural and ferocious I sounded, "Uruk-hai, yes, but you're the scum here. If you really need that much explaining, the group coming wouldn't just leave an elf to perish. She'd be a burden to them, making it all the more easy for you to kill them."
The goblin frowned, and then the rest of the goblins came filing in, endless rows of five goblins. Ten of them were holding chains to restrain a cave troll. The cave troll that would attack the fellowship. Just great.
"Was goin' on here, Gurlp?" asked a big meaty one in the front.
"This here orc says he here ter help us. He Uruk-hai from Sarumon. Says Sarumon tell him ter poison sum elf, and leave it fer the fellership ter find, and that helps us killin' the fellership. Do yer thank he's tellin' us the truh?"
"I durn no, Gurlp. But we bet' not mess with Sarumon, I hear he doing nasty thinks to goblins that not followin' his orders..."
"That's smart on your part," I said, "I need one more thing. Which way do I need to go to get to the room?"
"That way, Orc scum. That way'll take yer to the place you tryin' to get to," said one of the orc, pointing at the left tunnel with a gnarled finger.
I grunted in thanks, figuring Orcs wouldn't say thank you, and made Peet head down the tunnel. The others went the way we had come, and then went around a corner and headed down. We stayed in the shadows until they had left, and then Julia whispered excitedly, "Tyler, that was brilliant!"
I would have blushed, if an orc could blush that is. We headed off down the steeply sloping tunnel. Wait, why was this tunnel going down so much? Shouldn't we be going up?!
We realized our mistake to late. They had tricked us...
The tiles went from steep to a straight drop, and Peet scrabbled to gain purchase on the slick stone with his claws.
We teetered on the edge for a second, holding our breath, and then we toppled off, screaming the entire way.
The fall was very long...With a painful thump at the bottom, we landed on something leathery and stiff. Leathery, stiff...and hot...
Molten red eyes of fire opened mere inches from my face, and I screamed.
We had crash landed on the freaking Balrog...