Merry had just told me his amazing plan and it was beginning to fall into action. We heard heavy footsteps coming and we hoped this was the right orc we wanted to pull the trick on. Merry went to the corner farthest away from the door, as I went to the corner closest to the door.

I sat down and pretended to be asleep. The orc had reached our cell door. As much as I wanted to open my eyes and see what was going on, I knew I had to keep them shut in order for the plan to succeed. Our cell door then began to unlock. I tried slowing my breathing and tried not squeezing my eyes shut to hard. I was mainly trying to relax.

"All right, don't move," snarled the orc at Merry.

I guessed the orc was inside the cell now and opened my eyes barely, just to see where he was. I watched the orc rip off Merry's bandage on his forehead. He jumped a little and bit his lip. I pulled off the loosely tied bounds on my wrists and dug into my pockets. I grabbed the two bones I had and placed one in each hand. I stood up queerly, my legs felt unstable and my head felt dizzy. The orc has now cleaning the wound with the black gooey stuff again. I looked up at the orc, my head only level to his stomach, so I did what any Hobbit would have done. I jumped onto the orc from behind and started smacking him on the head with the bones a whole bunch of times. The orc gave a high pitch wailing sound and almost fell on Merry.

The orcs hands went forward and onto the wall in front of him. Merry limboed under the arms and got his two bones ready. From all the noise and uproar in our cell, the orc guarding our cell came in. Right as he opened the door, Merry lunged onto him. It was harder for Merry to fight because his hands were still bound. Merry and the orc went flying into the wall outside of the cell.

I succeeded on smacking the orc so much, that he fell to the ground unconscious. It was easy to fight the orc from behind, but Merry was having difficulty getting the other orc from the front. As I was about to run out the cell door to help him, Merry came flying into me and we both fell down in the cell.

I remembered the smelly mushroom and dug it out of my pocket. Just in time because the orc looked mad and had his enormous sword ready in hand.

I spoke up and said, "Look what I...have," I held the mushroom in hand, but concealed it from the orcs sight. I continued, "This is the...ring of power...and it could be yours if you moved out of the way," I was trying to show I was brave, but I'm sure he saw me shaking.

"You are a fool if you think I will let you escape," The orc barked.

"Don't you want the ring to yourself?" Merry asked in a more confident voice than I.

The orcs attention went to Merry, but before he could respond I took my chance and threw the mushroom at the orcs face. He turned back to me with a really ugly and angry looking face. More ugly than his face already was. Then he did the unexpected. He ran at me with sword in hand. I gasped as the sword came close to my head and ducked to the ground fast. The orc ran right over me and into the cell corner. Merry threw a bone as the orc turned around and it hit him straight on the forehead. Then he threw another, hitting him on the nose.

I jumped up and as I did the fuming orc hurled his sword at me. Everything managed to get away but my arm. The sword had cut a clean slice through it. I fell in shock. Merry pulled me up and pushed me out the cell door. I was gripping my arm, there was blood running down it. Merry slammed the door and it clicked. Hopefully meaning it had just locked. Not wanting to find out, we ran down the long hallway as best as we could.

A/N: This chapter was super fun to write. I hope you guys are enjoying this story so far! :-)