Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli ride towards the burning Orc carcasses.

Gimli starts to shift through the smoldering pile, and pulls out a charred belt and dagger sheath.

Gimli : It's one of their wee belts.

Legolas : <with his head bowed and eyes closed> Hiro îth… ab 'wanath... (May they find peace in death)

Aragorn : Kicks a helmet and yells> AAARRGGHH!!! ......He falls to his knees.

Gimli : We failed them.

Aragorn looks to the side as some tracks catch his attention.

Aragorn : A hobbit lay here, and the other. Flashback: Pippin yells as he looks up at a pair of thrashing hooves bearing down on him. He rolls over, avoiding the hooves. They crawled.

Aragorn starts to follow the tracks, with Legolas and Gimli behind him. Flashback: Merry and Pippin crawl frantically away from the battle.

Aragorn : Their hands were bound. <Flashback: Merry rubs his bonds furiously against the sharp edge of a weapon.> Their bonds were cut. Aragorn holds up a broken length of thick rope.

Aragorn : They ran over here. They were followed.

Flashback: Their hands freed, the hobbits run away from the battle scene, dodging under a horse and trying to stay out of harms way. As they flee, Grishnákh grabs Pippin by his belt and clings on.

Merry : The belt!

Pippin undoes his belt and Grishnákh is left holding it.

Merry : Run!

Aragorn : The tracks lead away from the battle... into Fangorn Forest.

The Three looks up into a dense and dark forest

Gimli : Fangorn. What madness drove them in there?

The hobbits run into the Fangorn, seeking to lose the pursuing Orc. They collapse onto the ground, out of breath.

Pippin : Did we lose him? I think we lost him.

Suddenly, Grishnákh appears from behind the trees, brandishing a blade.

Grishnákh : I'm gonna rip out your filthy little innards! Come here!

Merry and Pippin run and hide behind a tree.

Merry : Trees! Climb a tree!

Looks around and then sighs in relief.

Merry : He's gone.

Suddenly, Merry is pulled by his legs and falls to the ground. Grishnákh leans over him with his menacing blade. Merry tries to kick him off but to no avail.

Pippin : Merry!

Pippin looks down inhorror but as he turns his head, he spots a pair of gleaming yellow eyes blinking in the tree he's clinging to. The tree starts to move and groan.

Treebeard : Hooooo...

Pippin : Argh!!

Pippin loses his grip in fright and grabs at the air futilely as he falls. The tree catches him before he hits the ground.

Grishnákh : Let's put a maggot-hole in your belly. Suddenly he senses something behind him and as he looks up, the tree stomps and squashes him onto the forest floor.

Pippin : Run, Merry!

<Merry tries to run away but is scooped by the tree.>

Treebeard : Little Orcs! Burárum...

Pippin : It's talking, Merry. The tree is talking!

Treebeard : Tree?! I am no tree. I am an Ent.

Merry : A treeherder! A shepherd of the forest.

Pippin : Don't talk to it, Merry. Don't encourage it.

Treebeard : Treebeard, some call me.

Pippin : And whose side are you on?

Treebeard : Side? I am on nobody's side because nobody's on my side, little Orc. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.

Merry : We're not Orcs. We're Hobbits!

Treebeard : Hobbits? Never heard of a hobbit before. Sounds like Orc mischief to me! They come with fire, they come with axes. Gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning! Destroyers and usurpers, curse them!

Merry : No, you don't understand. We're Hobbits... Halflings! Shirefolk!

Treebeard : Maybe you are and maybe you aren't. The White Wizard will know.

Pippin : The White Wizard?

Merry : Saruman.

Treebeard drops them on the ground and the hobbits look up at the White Wizard.

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