Cowgirls, a very long and hard ride!

Haldir got up and pushed Orlando to the ground, “Antolle ulua sulrim, Merchwarden! (Much wind pours from your mouth), Stated Orlando.

Legolas entered the stables as he approached to see what was going on. He saw the two fighting and knew he had to stop this before one of them kills the other.

Just as they were scuffling to the ground, Legolas approached them and pulled the two apart! He stated, “What have you done, Haldir?”

Before Legolas got that statement out of Haldir’s mouth, Orlando had gotten a ride from Lord Elrond. Orlando swooped around and the two had ridden off into the forest in the direction where the two women had fled too. Legolas had grabbed another horse as he jumped on it.

Haldir had jumped on his horse and rode in another direction to help clear up this whole situation.

He contemplated in his mind, “I have never been out of control with any kind of situation! Why Lady Jenny? Why does she captivate my mind? On the contrary, she does fond Legolas quite a bit! I should have stayed with her that morning until she had awakened! I have made such a mess out of this!”

Haldir had felt really bad about what he had done and he knew that he would have to explain himself to everyone. He made his way to Rivendell as he prayed to the Valar that Lady Chrissy and Jenny would be all right.
After everyone had left, Lanwe walked over, “What have you done? I thought you loved me and yet you kissed Lady Chrissy? I do not understand…”

Haldir got up as he tried to approach her, “I do love you, except jealousy got the best of me…Before you got here, Lady Jenny and I had a small fling with each other…as far as I am concerned, you and I are equal.”

Confused, “I guess we are…” she walked over to gather her horse in silence.

Haldir got his horse but before he left, “My love, I never meant to hurt you, just as you did not meant to hurt me…please know this.”

Lanwe just grinned at him as she rode off in a different direction from Haldir. She did not know what to think except he was right and that she had done the same things to him.

Chrissy had rode hard and fast to get away from the whole situation. She began to think that she had just gotten back with Orlando and something like this could muddy things back up.

She thought, “What on earth made him kiss me? I actually liked it until I saw the hurt in Orlando’s eyes, God what have I done?”

Chrissy heard Jenny yelling at her as she stopped her horse. Tears rolled down her face when suddenly Orlando’s horse began to buck at the creatures that stood fearless in the way.

She heard another horse come up around her as she saw her friend Jenny. “I saw what Haldir did to you? Stop the horse, now!” She yelled.

However, Jenny’s horse began to buck wildly. The ugliest Orc’s they had ever seen soon surrounded them.

Chrissy tried to quickly sooth the horse by telling the horse some commands. However, she slid right off and was now on the ground rubbing her bottom from the fall.

Then before Chrissy knew it a huge beast had picked her up and was staring her down. She looked around to see about twelve off them gazing upon them like they were the Chinese buffet on a Sunday afternoon.

A horrifying scream was let out as Chrissy saw the repulsive beast that tightly held on to her arms. It was black all over and its teeth were rotting out.

The monster was very hideous looking and it smelled really bad. The beast slapped her as she flew a few feet back into a tree. The blow felt like ten-thousand knifes piercing right through her skin.

She heard in the distance arrows and Orc’s falling over dead all around her, as she did not know who it was helping them.

Jenny was still on her horse when an Orc lifted her off. Jenny began to scream as well! She hated to look at them as they gave off a horrible stench! Just then, she saw her friend being ejected into the air as the beast threw her like a rag doll.

Haldir had smelled the ugly beasts a mile back as he heard screams that was deafening to his Elven ears. He rode fast to get to them first as he sensed there were several.

He knew that they would be taken advantage of and then killed. He saw in the distance the band over Orc’s and the one that held Lady Chrissy in the air.

He also noticed Jenny right away as the leader of the band pushed her over to the side. He knew that this was his chance to make things right with the others.

Haldir pulled his bow out and reached for three arrows. He aimed the arrow at his target when he focused the Orc in his sights. He quickly released the arrow as it pierced the Orc’s heart.

Then he released a few more until only four were left standing. He saw the one that held Lady Chrissy as he slung her back against a tree.

Haldir tried to swiftly ride over to Lady Chrissy to help her up. However, more Orc’s came out of no where and there were just too many of them. Then, he noticed how she regained her balance and immediately began to fight.

Lord Elrond and Orlando heard the screams as they followed in the direction of the sound. They were both scared for the young maiden and both of the hurriedly tried to get to the scene.

Legolas had heard the screams in the distance and knew that an Orc Party had found the two women.

He thought rather worried, “I will never forgive myself if they meet their doom with one of those Orc’s today. Wait the two could be tortured, I must ride faster!”

Chrissy blacked out for a moment as red blood ran down the side of her temple. The blow to the head caused a blinding light to engulf around the sense of her mind. She knew that this was not her fate and began to regain consciousness.

Then fear started to over take her as screams were heard in the distance as she started to count slowly, “1..2..3..4..5”

The panic was gone out of her mind as the light got brighter and brighter. She opened her eyes and felt the stinking sensation from the cut as her hand reached over to touch the wound. When she pulled her hand back, blood was all over fingers and she felt sick to her stomach.

Chrissy knew that this could not stop her as she somehow found the strength to lift her fragile body up off the ground to face her worst nightmare. She scanned the area around her to find a weapon and saw a dead Orc in the distance next to her target. Then she noticed all the Orc’s and thought of a plan on how to get it.

However, in the distance an Orc noticed the maiden retrieve herself and ran after her with intent to finish her off. He saw that she was going to get the sword that was in plain view.

Chrissy glanced over to see the Orc charging after her and knew that some how she had to get the sword. She felt woozy as her body began to sway back and forth.

Then, she looked up and saw a vine hanging down from the thick limbs of the tree. She glanced over to see the Orc as she knew that he knew what she was after as the sword laid in the distance.

In her mind, Chrissy knew that she had to out smart the Orc as she quickly climbed up the tree. She took a deep breath, grabbed tightly to the vine and swung down to where the Orc was standing by the sword as he tumbled to the ground.

The Orc saw her disappear into the tree above and tried to figure out her next move. But, it was too late as the Maiden swung down and pushed him over to the ground where another Orc lay dead. He jumped up to see that the Maiden had gotten what her sights were set on.

Chrissy quickly grabbed the sword and noticed the Orc had gotten back up as laughter rang from his mouth.

She thought, “Let’s freak him out a little.”

She started to sing, “I may end up failing too, but I know, you were just like me, someone disappointed in you!” Her eyes never left his as she twitched them a little to freak him out.

The Orc thought, “This wench is singing at a time like this? She is very odd, what the? I must kill her now!!”

He reached out to grab her a second time but to his surprise she flipped over his head, into the air, a couple of time and she landed right behind him.

She clinched tightly to the sword, “On guard, you filthy Orc,” She touched her mouth, “Oh! Guess what? You won! What did you win you ask? A mad, crabby bitch with a sword and I would hate to be you!”

They swung swords as they clung together like two cars that had been in an accident. The crashing sounds caught Jenny’s attention as she glanced over.

Jenny said sarcastically, “I hate to be any of you when she gets a little nutty with a sword. Because you may end up ball less and head less. After she comes and saves me, I am running for the hills. I hate to be the one who pisses her off.”

The Orc gazed upon her, “Shut your hole, you babbling wench.” He said as he bound her hands up.

The fighting continued as Chrissy tried to defend what dignity she had left. She started to feel weak as her head wound started throbbing. It made her sick to her stomach. However, she kept swinging the sword as she knew that this was her only chance of survival.

Then she stumbled a little too far to the left and the Orc’s sword scraped her arm. She screamed out, “Holy crap that hurt!”
Her body was about to tire out, somehow she found the strength and ripped up the sword up as it sliced right threw his neck. His head bounced on the ground as his body fell over.

Jenny kicked him for telling her to shut up. He tried to slap her, however, she immediately ducked. He pulled out a knife and tried to stab it in her arm. She saw her friend in the distance, stumbling over to her as the blood that ran from head was also running out of her arm.

Chrissy saw Jenny in the distance, her hands were bound and she was, as usual, trying to talk her way out of a fight. She remembered the spray that was hidden inside of her bra and quickly pulled it out.

In her smart ass way, Chrissy said, “Here Orcy Orcy Orcy! I’ve got something for you…ME!” This distracted the Orc for a moment as he heard an arrow flying near by as he ducked. Jenny desperately was trying to escape as he came around and slapped her in the mouth.

It had busted her lips as blood came gushing out. She felt the sting of the slap as she gazed right up at the Orc as she spit in his face.

The Orc started to laugh, “The taste of a pretty maiden’s blood on my lips.” He wiggled his tongue around to lick the rest of it off.
Jenny was grossed out, “You are one NASTY Orc! I could have a disease or worse, AIDS!”

Chrissy tossed the spray to Jenny as she caught it between the folds of her hands.

She then thought, “I am no man, how can I stand up to him, I am so tired. I stood up to an Elf…I can do this!”

She sucked it up, found what strength she had left and started to swing the sword once again. Just then, Chrissy flipped to move out of the way of the blade that almost hit her other arm.

Chrissy found herself next to her friend and cut her binds. However, the Orc was quicker then the two girls were able to move. One of them was hit, “Oh shit, Jenny!”

The Orc had hit Chrissy in the back out of the head and caused her to black out. Jenny realized that she had the spray and started squirting all around him.

It smoked all around him as the Orc’s vision began to get very blurry and he could not breathe! He fell to his knees and began to gasp for air.

Jenny pulled her friend along and hurried for the nearest tree to hide behind. She sat there and stared at her friend that was bleeding to death from the blow.

Fear came over Jenny as she glanced at the sword as she could not pick it up. She then looked once again at her friend.
Jenny said scared, “Chrissy, wake up! I can not do this by myself.” She started to cry as terror rained over her surroundings.
The Orc had gotten up and started running towards the two Maidens. He was going to cut them up into pieces when he got to them.

Haldir was in the distance as he saw what Lady Chrissy did to the Orc.

He thought, “A woman that fights as well as an Elf? This is odd. Lady Jenny will not fight?”

Then Haldir saw what happened next, the Orc had knocked Lady Chrissy out and Jenny was dragging her out of the line of battle. He then noticed that the Orc had gotten up and was running towards them. Haldir quickly took three of his arrows and released them in his bow.

Jenny heard foot steps in the distance as she glanced over and saw him running towards them. She motioned for her friend to get up, “Chrissy, I need for you to wake up, please, the Orc is coming for us.”

Just then three arrows brushed by in the distance and Jenny hit the ground. The arrows hit the Orc in the neck area and it fell to its death. She was so relived to see that the Orc was dead and now she had to deal with her friend.

Jenny was not sure who shot those arrows until she looked up to notice Haldir and gave him a quick smile to show appreciation. Then, she wished that Orlando’s horse had not run off.

There was one more Orc that came out of no where and he knocked the air right of Jenny. She went crashing back into a tree as her senses began to become blurry.

Lying on the ground lifeless, Chrissy knew that she had to get up and help Jenny. However, her body was telling her to throw in the towel and give up. She remembered a song by one of her favorite bands, ‘Swithfoot.’

She started to sing the words. However it more mouthing the words, “I dare you to move…I dare you to move…I dare to lift yourself off of the ground…”

Chrissy started to come around as she opened her eyes. She saw the Orc had slung her friend back a few feet from her and knew that she needed to help Jenny.

The pain that ripped through her was enough for anyone to just give up. However, she needed to get to Jenny right away as the Orc was about to kill her. Chrissy got up, looked around for a sword or something that would kill the Orc.

She found the sword that she was using earlier right beneath her feet. Chrissy picked it up and ran towards the beast who was about to kill her friend.

The beast looked down at the Maiden that was slipping into darkness and lifted his sword to finish her off. Just then, he felt a blade rip through his shoulder blade.

Chrissy snuck up behind him and planted the sword into his back. The Orc screamed and turned around to see who it was that dared to strike him. To his surprise, the other Maiden had some how gotten up from his blow.

Jenny finally came around as she heard swords swinging once again. She saw her friend trying to fight off another Orc. However, she knew that Chrissy could not with stand another blow.

As there blades met each other, Chrissy noticed that Jenny was coming around as she tried to pick her body off the cold ground. She knew that Jenny needed to get help.

But Jenny knew that she was going to die as her body was very weak and could not take much more.

Chrissy yell out, “Jenny, I need for you to get up, run and find help.”

Little did Jenny know, an Orc over heard and followed her into the woods. She felt eyes were following her and she began to run. The Orc was catching up to the woman who was his prey.

The Orc spoke with a barbaric tone, “Run, little one! When I catch you, I am going to break your bones and eat you when I find you.” The Orc stated.

Lord Elrond saw in the distance, “The women are being ambush by a band of Orc’s. We must help them right away or they will be killed.”

The two elves noticed Lady Jenny running from an Orc. Legolas motioned for Orlando to hide in the tree as he was to snatch Jenny when she ran past him in the woods.

Jenny started to run faster and wished that Haldir was close by to take care of the Orc that was on her heals. She started crying as tears streamed down her face. To her surprise some one grabbed her and pulled her down into a large bush.
Jenny started to fight back to get away from who ever pulled her down. She tugged and pulled to get free. In the mist of her fighting the tight grip around her started to loosen.

Legolas felt the warm tears that streamed down her face and the heavy breathing of fear. He wanted her to calm down as he spoke softly into her ear.

A familiar voice whispered in her ear, “Do not struggle, Jenny! It is Legolas. Do not speak.”

Just then the Orc came around that tree where he had seen her disappear. He thought she had fall from exhaustion but to his surprise an arrow flew out from the tree’s and killed him instantly.

Jenny stopped struggling when she knew it was Legolas that pulled her into the bushes. He turned her around and smiled at his maiden.

Just then, Orlando jumped down from the tree, “Lady Jenny, where is Lady Chrissy?”

“Orlando, you must go now! You will find her over the hills fighting several ugly Orc’s. She is very weak and I am afraid the Orc’s will kill her, GO NOW!” Jenny said with hysterics in her tone.

He saw the terror in her eyes, before another word was spoken he ran into the distance to find his love.

Chrissy was very tired as her body swayed up against a nearby tree. She looked all around and saw that there were just too many of them to fight. In the mist of battle and the fear, she could not let terror take over or she would end up dead.
She started to swing her sword again as it clung up against the Orc’s sword. The metal kept ringing in her ears and then her body just grew too tired.

The Orc knew it was a perfect time to kill her as he pulled the sword from her hand. Chrissy felt her body being pushed to the ground. The Orc began to rip her clothing off and she tried to get away from him as she kicked and punched him.

His eyes grew with hate, “Fair Maiden, I will have you before your companions come to rescue you.” The Orc said as he grabbed at her chest.

She began to get frightened as those words rang through her ears. Screaming out in fear, “No, please! Do not hurt me! I hate Orc’s!! Get your hands off of me!”

Orlando saw the Orc in the distance and the woman he loved cling swords back and forth. He knew she could hold her own as he watched her clever movements with the blade.

His heart began to race as he gasped when he saw the Orc push her onto the ground. In desperate deep fear, he ran towards Chrissy to try to save her from being tortured.

Chrissy felt herself fade into darkness as she knew what was about to happened next. She did not want to be conscious when he ripped through her body. But she found the last bit of strength as she somehow kicked him off.

The Orc flew only a few feet away from her as he got back up but to his surprise something sharp had ripped through his skin.

A faint shadow was in the distance before she slipped away. She prayed that Orlando would find her soon.

Then the Orc had fell next to her as she felt the dimness seeping in her mind.

A sword pierced his heart from behind and the Orc screamed in pain. Orlando pulled it out of him and rolled the Orc away from his beloved. He saw the large cut on her head and the other cut on her right arm.

Covered in blood he cried out, “My love, please come back to me,” as he picked her body up.

The Orc did not even get close to violating her body as Orlando silently thanked the Valar. He began to walk back hurriedly as he knew that infection would be setting in to her body.

Questions rained from her mind, “What if she die’s? I will never forgive myself!” Jenny stated as she sobbed into his chest.
Legolas embraced her body into his as he held onto the emotional woman.

Chrissy began to twitch around in his arms and she slowly opened her eyes to see Orlando’s chocolate brown eyes boring into her own. She opened her mouth to speak and with those words, it clung to Orlando’s heart.

Focusing on him, “Orlando, I am so sorry,” Then tears formed, “I…,” She started to cough up blood.

Chrissy felt the blood that ran down the side of her mouth and trailed onto the ground. She was trying to speak the words in her heart to him before darkness crept over her eyes.

Orlando looked upon her with much worry, “Do not talk, my luv!” as his eyes never left hers.

Starring at him, “I…knew I loved you from the moment you first touched me in the gardens,” She stopped for a moment, “Death does not frighten me, what scares me is... not trusting you or myself” She stated as weakness over took her body.
He felt a tear slip down his face, “I have also known, from our first touch that I was in love….with you!”

Her eyes began to flutter as tears glistened in the corners as words began to pour from her mouth.

With straining breathes, “I am a lucky woman….I have you in my life…” She stated as unconsciousness took over.
A tear fell down his cheek, “No, my love, I believe I am the lucky one. Never have I ever felt this way towards any female….until you.” He spoke softly to her as exhaustion over took her body.

Quickly, Orlando wiped the tear from his face as he saw Lord Elrond in the distance quicken his pace.

Lord Elrond saw with his Elven eye sight that Orlando was carrying a limb body that hung in his arms. He motioned for Legolas and Lady Jenny to come right away.

As Lord Elrond met Orlando he saw what the Orc had done to the side of her face and arm. He knew if they did not act fast then she would die and this was not part of her fate.

Looking around, “We must not linger here any longer! I sense more Orc’s in the surrounding area.” Orlando stated.

Legolas saw the Maiden covered in blood and his heart went out to his brother. He knew Orlando loved her very much as he saw the remains of tear stains on his cheek.

Jenny started freaking out, “NO! You can’t leave me here by myself, Chrissy.” She ran over to see her friend, lifeless as she dropped to the ground.