Chapter 56 of Tess and the Stranger on the Plane.

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Posted by Short Round from 1Cust155.tnt3.fort-lauderdale.fl.da.uu.net on September 06, 1999 at 18:16:42:

Goodsport, Short Round, Meg, and Aragorn ran as fast as they could! The darkness came like visible air about to surround the whole place. The floor dropped from below their feet. They plummeted farther below...

They all woke up in a dark and clammy cave. They were pouting, and all soaking wet from sweat. They all exchanged glances.
"Where are we?" Aragorn asked.
"I wish I knew." Goodsport replied.
Silence.
"Did you feel that?" Aragorn exclaimed.
"Feel what?" Goodsport said.

Aragorn ran across the plains. The Orcs had been chasing him. He felt like he had been running forever. Smaug had then arrived, covering the air like a flying blanket.
"What's happening?" He said to himself. "I thought Valinor was a nice place!"
Aragorn tripped on both his hands and knees. As he tried to get up he started to fall with every step. He got weaker and weaker. As he tried to get up his muscles went stiff then limp, and he fell to the ground yet again! The Orcs got closer. His muscles felt like they were deteriorating! He couldn't feel his legs no more. The Orcs were close enough to touch! They ran over him...

"NOOO!" Aragorn yelled, wailing his arms around and kicking furiously!
"Aragorn stop it stop it!" Goodsport jerked Aragorn around.
"Dude you're totally beginning to freak me out!" Short Round exclaimed.
"Smaugs, Orcs, they were-were!" Aragorn started to stutter.
Everyone stared at Aragorn in shock.
"It was like, one second I was in this cave, next minute I was running across a grassy plain!" Aragorn started. "Orcs were miles and miles away from me! There wasn't a thing in sight besides their small, marble sized figures! Then, out of nowhere, smaugs appeared in the sky like a blanket! The Orcs were suddenly getting closer! For some reason I couldnt run and..." Aragorn stopped.
He tried to take in breaths of air, yet his lungs were strained.
"Shorty, Aragorn, you guys stay here. Me and Goodsport will go farther in the cave. To see if there is anything useful, or dangerous."
"You think we're crazy enough to get up and explore anything in the state we're in?" Shorty began. "You guys go, we'll be here when you need us... We hope." Shorty nudged Aragorn. "Right?"
Aragorn sat there silently.
"Good." Shorty replied to himself, as if Aragorn gave him an answer.
"We'll be back." Goodsport assured as he followed Meg.
Short Round just sat there, resting. His eyes started to get heavy. He was starting to fall asleep just as his head jerked up. He noticed Aragorn was not there.
"How the heck?" Shorty got up and looked around. Aragorn was just beside him not too long ago.
"This is heavy duty!" Shorty walked to where he seen Goodsport and Meg walk.

Outside the cave it was daytime. He heard a humming noise and felt a vibration under his feet. He went on the top lip of the cave to see two figures which looked like Deirdre and Nobody running towards him.
"The Dark World Order!" Shorty brought up to himself.
They finally reached the cave and jumped in.
"Hey! It's you!" Nobody exclaimed as he seen Shorty. "The Pheonix kid! I should have known you would be here!"
Nobody gestured to Deirdre who wielded a knife.
"Listen!" Shorty began. "I...I can explain the whole thing!"
Shorty backed up as Deirdre came closer. Shorty tripped on a rock and fell flat on his back. He hit his head on another rock. He was helpless. His body went limp. Deidre jumped on Shorty with the knife. Shorty then blew up in an eye-blinding aura of light. Deidre was now face first on the ground...

Shorty was on the floor of the cave, groaning. The back of his head was bruised.
"Shorty are you ok?" Aragorn asked.
"My... head!" Shorty mumbled.
Aragorn attempted to get up when a spasm in his back sent him on his hands and knees.

- - -

Goodsport and Meg had been going through the dark cave, when they heard a yell from where Aragorn and Shorty was.
"Meg," Goodsport said. "Go back and see what that was. I'll explore on."
"Ok, Goodsport. Be careful." Meg ran back.
Goodsport walked a few yards on when suddenly the floor beneath him gave out and he was plummeting deeper and deeper through water! A light source had been above for some reason. The pressure made his head feel like it was going to explode, his ears were stinging like needles has went through them! He suddenly stopped. He felt a vibration through the water. A figure appeared in the water and opened its huge mouth as it advanced toward Goodsport. Goodsport couldnt move left, right, up or down. He was frozen somehow. The beast engulfed Goodsport...

Goodsport was on the floor face first in the dark cave. He was soaking wet.
AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!" Goodsport shrieked in pain.

- - -

"What was that?" Meg said to herself.
"I guess it was Goodsport-AAAHHHH!" Aragorn tried to say in pain.
"I'll go check it out." Meg assured. "You guys stay here."
I guess you two don't quite have a choice.

Meg ran through the cave when suddenly she heard shrieks, like a bat or a bird in agony. Suddenly she felt a flying object land on her right shoulder, it's claws bit into her skin like needles through meat.
"AAAHHHH!" Meg yelled. "Get off get off!"
Meg tried hitting it off her shoulder when suddenly another one came to her left, and another on the left side of her stomach. They bit into her and others came and started burrying her with fangs...

She was laying on the floor of the cave. The bats or whatever they were, were not in sight. Suddenly the whole cave illuminated with light. The walls of the cave were not in sight. In few feet in front of Meg, Goodsport was on the floor all soaking wet. Behind her, Aragorn and Shorty lay. The cave looked like a giant dome at the moment. A voice suddenly boomed through the room.
"So you see what I am capable of doing, don't you? Your worst nightmares! Well you probably know that you were engulfed in the darkness. Now you will witness the power I can wield onto you! Short Rund hates losing in fights. I guess he knows how it feels now. Aragorn thinx he can survive or escape any situation. He has no emotion or really looks like he has feelings - he does now! Meg hates creatures doesn't she? I guess those youthful situations affect you for the rest of your feeble life! The same with you Goodsport! Now you know how it feels to drown! I bet you can imagine what I am doing with your weak Pheonix friends!"
Sauron's voice suddenly faded away, as did the light. They were trapped in an abyss. Only Gandalf could help them now - where ever he is.


Ok, who is for chapter 57?? If you don't like my chapter you dont have to use it. I thought it was a good idea though.


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