Prince of the Rings Chapter 7

[tacuma]

Title: The Prince of the Rings
Writer: Tacuma
Pairing: Perfect Pair, Golden Pair, Ah-Un Pair, Emerald Pair
Chapter: 7/?
Genre: AU, fantasy, angst, romance
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 2273words
Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis, nor do I own the Lord of the Rings.

Sorry I have no beta, so there will be mistakes in this, since English is not my first language. Don't like, don't read.

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The Prince of the Rings – Chapter 7

Echizen sighed once again. Momoshiro was sleeping peacefully on the cold rocks, but he couldn't sleep. He had nightmares, sometimes about what happened to Inui, sometimes about the Eye of Chinen Hiroshi.

Suddenly with a loud snore Momo woke up. He looked around like he didn't know where he was, but when he saw Echizen he remembered. He sighed, the same way Echizen had done only a minute before. They both watched Mordor that they could see, far away.

'Mordor, the only place I don't want to go,' mumbled Momoshiro. 'No light, no fun, no drinks, no good food. Talking about food, do we have any left?'

'Like I know,' answered Echizen.

The older Hobbit grabbed the backpack and opened it. 'Oh, lovely Lembas bread and look, more Lembas bread! Aren't we lucky?'

He threw some of it to Echizen and took a bite himself. 'I don't like to eat the same every day.'

'Be glad we still have something to eat. We should get going or we'll never reach Mordor.'

They both got up and continued their journey. The landscape wasn't interesting at all. Dark, slippery rocks everywhere. It was cold and they smelled the swamp, but couldn't see it. They walked the entire day. Or what they thought was the entire day, because the sun didn't reach the dark place, so it was a little dark the entire time. They only stopped to sleep when Momoshiro decided Echizen looked too tired.

'We can't, someone's here,' said Echizen.

Momoshiro didn't want to hear about it. He told Echizen they needed their rest if they ever wanted to reach Mordor. The younger Hobbit complained they would never make it if Momoshiro kept walking in circles, but in the end they were both sleeping soundly.

It was just a few minutes later that Shinjou Reiji appeared. He climbed down the rocks, muttering things to himself.

'Thieves, filthy thieves! They stole it from me! My masterpiece! It's mine! I need it!'

The creature had long limbs and moved easily over the slippery and pointy rocks, like it was soft green grass. When he reached the Hobbits he reached out, ready to take the Ring from Echizen. He could almost touch it when the two Hobbits opened their eyes and jumped up. They grabbed Shinjou's arms, but he struggled and freed himself from them. In the fight Echizen fell back, the Ring slipping out from under his shirt. The moment Shinjou noticed it he jumped for it, forgetting about Momoshiro.

Momo pulled Shinjou away from Echizen, but the weird creature attacked him instead. His long fingers curl around Momoshiro's neck and only let go when Echizen grabbed the sword he had gotten from his father.

'You know this sword, don't you?' Echizen asked with a small grin.

Shinjou let go and it took only a few minutes before there was an Elvish rope around his neck and Momoshirowas dragging him around without showing any mercy.

'Take it off! It hurts!' shouted Shinjou.

'No, shut up!' said Momoshiro. 'Every Orc in Mordor is going to hear us this way! How can we ever sneak in with him! Let's just tie him up and leave him here.'

'NOOOOOO!' shouted Shinjou ever louder. He was tall, but he almost cried like a kid. 'They will kill me!'

'So what?' answered Echizen. 'Inui said we should take him. It seems there is something he has to do. If it wasn't for that I would have left him behind the moment we caught him.'

'Sucks,' answered Momo.

'Please take it off!' whined Shinjou. 'I promise I won't do a thing! I swear on the Masterpiece!'

'As long as you shut up,' answered Echizen. 'You're loud.'

Momoshiro let Shinjou go. The creature was a little taller than the Hobbit, but he was really thin. It scared Momo. He wasn't going to share his food with this thing!

'You know the way to Mordor?' Echizen asked. Shinjou just nodded. 'Good, bring us to the Black Gate.'

Shinjou started walking in the direction of Morannon and the two Hobbits followed him.

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A huge group of Uruk-hai marched through the fields of Middle-Earth, two Hobbits bound on their backs. Their hand and feet were bound with ropes, so they couldn't move at all. Oishi was crying that they didn't have the Ring and begging to let them go, but the monsters were ignoring him completely. Eiji had tried to comfort him with words, but it didn't help much. The redhead had stopped trying and worked on another plan. He was trying to get his Elven brooch from his cloak. But because his hands were bound it was rather difficult.

Suddenly the Uruk-hai stopped.

'I smell something,' said one of them.

'What is it?' asked a second.

'Man-flesh!' shouted the first. 'They picked up our trail. Hurry up!'

Eiji thought about his friends. It must have been Tezuka they were talking about and they were after the Uruk-hai. With even more effort he tried to take his brooch off and in the end he managed. He spit it on the ground. Even though many of their enemies stepped on it, it didn't break and it was still visible in the grass.

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Tezuka is lying with his eyes closed, his ear pressed against the ground.

'They found out about us, they're speeding up,' he said as he looked into the direction of the sounds. 'We must hurry.'

Fuji quickly followed Tezuka and so did Kaidoh. Dwarfs weren't creatures who ran around a lot, but Kaidoh wasn't one of them. His stamina was almost as good as that of the Elf.

'Three days without food or rest,' the Dwarf complained. He could do it, but that didn't mean he liked it.

Fuji laughed. 'You will learn to live with it! Do you think I at every day of those thousand years of my life? It's be terribly fat by now!'

Kaidoh only glared at him and didn't answer. He followed the others over rocks and mountains, through fields and woods. Until Tezuka stopped. He picked an Elven brooch from the ground.

'One of them must have dropped it for us to found,' said Fuji when he noticed what Tezuka had found.

'They might still be alive,' answered Tezuka. 'They're less than a day ahead of us.'

The three of them started running again. They ran up a hill, so they could see their surroundings and to see where the Uruk-Hai were going.

'We're in Rohan,' Tezuka noticed. 'What can you see, Fuji?'

The eyes of the Elf were much better than that of any human. It might be the bright blue colour of those eyes, but Tezuka had never dared to ask.

'They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!'

Tezuka was surprised. 'Isengard? They're taking them to Yanagi?'

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Yanagi Renji stood in his chambers and communicated with Chinen Hiroshi through his seeing-stone. He was definitely happy with the things he saw: the destruction that his Orcs had brought to this world.

'No one has the strength to stand against the armies of Isengard and Mordor. There is only a 2 per cent chance somebody will win from Yanagi Renji and Chinen Hiroshi. We will rule Middle Earth!'

Outside Orcs were taking down all the trees to feed the fires of industry underneath Isengard. Sounds of hammering were filling the air while weapons were made.

'The old world is burning in the fires of industry,' said Yanagi. 'We will drive the machine of war with sword and spear and the iron fist of the Orc! A hundred per cent chance we will destroy those who dare to oppose us.'

Behind the Wizard some men had gathered. Yanagi turned around to face them.

'The horsemen took your land,' he said. 'They drove your people to the mountains. Take back what is stolen from you. Burn all the villages!'

The men roar of approval and stomp off to do what the Wizard had told them to do. They will take back what was ones theirs.

'A 90 per cent chance it will begin in Rohan. Your time has come, there is no escape. Rohan is ready to fall.'

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A group of horsemen rode to the city of Edoras, led by a blond man named Tachibana Kippei. They were carrying wounded men on their horses as they rode home.

At the Golden Hall, where the King of Rohan lived, a girl is waiting for the men to return. When they finally arrive she ran as quick as she could to the rooms where the wounded could to rest and heal. She looked at the men, but she could see most wounds were fatal and they would die before the morning.

'Ann, don't stay here,' said Tachibana to his younger sister. 'There is nothing we can do for them anymore.'

In silence they walked to the King Jiroh, who sat motionless on his throne. His eyes were open, but other than that it looked like he was sleeping. He looked old, although he wasn't. He didn't even move when the siblings entered the room.

'Many men are wounded, My Lord,' said Ann.

'We were ambushed by Orcs!' said Tachibana fiercely. 'If we don't defend our country we will all get killed by Yanagi and he will take our land!'

'That's a lie!' said a man who came from the shadows. He had black, curly hair that was all over the place and green eyes. 'Yanagi Renji has always been our friend and ally!

'Kiri…hara…s that…you?' mumbled King Jiroh from his throne. 'My…men…'

'Orcs are running freely across our lands!' said Tachibana. 'They kill our people and take whatever they want. Those Orcs are bearing the White Hand of Yanagi!'

He dropped a helmet in front of Kirihara, so he could see the White hand painted on it.

'Don't trouble your King even more,' said Kirihara, not paying attention to the helmet on the floor. 'He has enough troubles already. I won't let you talk him into fighting, war-freak.'

Within seconds Tachibana was pinning Kirihara against a pillar. 'What did Yanagi promise you? What will you get when all my men are dead?'

For a second Kirihara's eyes are watching Tachibana Ann. It's enough for the older brother to know what his price would be. Tachibana grabbed Kirihara's jaw, so the man had to look at him.

'You will not ever get my sister! Don't even think about laying a finger on her!'

Before the man could say anymore two guards grabbed his shoulder and pulled him away.

'You see much, Tachibana Kippei,' said Kirihara. 'Too much. You are banned from Rohan.'

The two guards dragged the struggling Tachibana from the Golden Hall.

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The Uruk-hai were running as fast as they could. They knew they were being chased, but going on for such a long time was even impossible for the group of monsters like these. One of them said he wouldn't continue if they didn't get a short break. They all stopped and quickly chopped some trees to make a fire.

'Oishi! Oishi!' Eiji called.

The black-haired Hobbit opened his eyes. 'What is it?' he asked.

'What's making that noise?'

Oishi listened carefully. 'It's the trees,' he answered. 'Do you remember the Old Forest, close to Buckland? I heard people tell stories that the trees grew incredibly big there. They said there was something in the water that made them come alive.'

'Eh! How is that possible?' asked the redhead surprised.

'Shh, not so loud!' warned Oishi. 'I don't know either, but they said the trees could speak and even move.'

They both stopped talking when all Uruk-Hai were looking at them.

'We could eat their legs,' said one of them. 'They don't need their legs and they look so tasty!'

'Get back, scum!' said another. 'Those are not for eating.

'Not even a little?' said the first, a knife ready in his hands. He approached the Hobbits, ready to stab.

Before he reached them the second Orc moved and cut off the first Orc's head with one swing of his weapon. 'Looks like there is meat on the menu!' he shouted to the others.

Within seconds all the Orcs and Uruk-Hai sat around the dead one and ate him. Eiji and Oishi turned quickly and moved backwards, away from the gross meal. No one was paying attention to them at the moment.

The two Hobbits tried to crawl away as fast as they could with their hands still bound to each other. They were only a few meters away from the group of feasting creatures when a foot landed on Eiji's back.

'Where do you think you're going?' asked the Orc who had stopped them. He was carrying a weapon. 'Call for help if you want to. No one is going to save you now!'

Suddenly a spear pierced through the Orc's body and he fell flat on the ground. The Riders of Rohan had appeared and were fighting the Uruk-Hai.

'Eiji!' Oishi called.

The two of them started to crawl away from the fight. Around them everyone was fighting and they had to be careful not to get stepped on. It was slowly getting dark and the Uruk-Hai were to engrossed in fighting these new enemies. Without anybody noticing they disappeared into the forest.

Comments

[bowsie22.livejournal.com]

My favorite movie/book and one of my favorite animes. I love you so much for this. Can't wait for more =D

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Thank you so much!! I'm so glad to get a review on this! I thought everybody stopped reading! But knowing at least one person likes this, I will definitely continue!! ♥