A girl was fumbling through the forests of Middle earth, she was dwarf size but her frame was too slight to be fully dwarf kind. She wore a mottled green, black and brown cloak, with the cowl casting deep shadows over her face, it was lined with fur and was the only source of warmth she had. Underneath her cloak she wore her mother's old armour which was made out of a metal and was forged by her father. The metal was called delva, which is a lightweight, rare metal only know to by the dwarfs. She also had leather wrist guards secured on both wrists and thick, fur laced, leather hide boots on her feet.
As she stopped to take a drink out of her flask her hood fell back to reveal her face. Her hair was blonde and fell down to the middle of her back, it was braided simmerly to that of the dwarfs, with intricately designed metal clasps. Around her neck there was a metal pendant engraved with a crest which, supposedly, belonged to her father and she hadn't shown it to anyone. Her sharp blue eyes, high cheek-bones and lack of beard again proved that she wasn't fully dwarf and as soon she pushed her hair back from her face, the other species she was became obvious as her ears tapered off into a point, similar to those of the Elves.
From her hip hung her Elven blade, Vanyali which was Elvish for magic and in one hand she held a large recurve bow which, if she placed the tip on the ground, reached up to the top of her chest. The young half dwarf, half elf had a quiver strapped to her back, hidden underneath the ruck sack she carried, and was only visible by the fletching on the arrows. She also had numerous knives hidden and placed around her person.
Her name is Elizabeta Veôrbál, or Eli to her friends, her last name was Elvish and meant 'Firestorm'. No one knew lands of Middle Earth better than the young woman as she had lived in the forests for the majority of her life, for reasons that she didn't want to remember. Eli was the bearer of magic, this was uncommon among full elves let alone half bloods, she also had the ability to shift into any animal so long as she could picture it in her minds eye.
Since she had lived alone in the woods she often shifted for days at a time, into a wolf or a bird, and because of this her senses had been dramatically improved along with her instincts and reflexes. When she shifted her clothes and belongings dissapeared no one knew why even Gandalf, when she had asked him, had no idea how her clothes and belongings disappeared but came back intact when she returned to her natural form.
Suddenly a vile stench entered her nose, she pulled up her green scarf from around her neck and over her nose and mouth, gagging as she moved forward. Eli entered a clearing and was shocked by what she saw. There, in the center of the clearing, were three stone trolls, all gathered around a fire. Eli spun round and quickly located a split rock, which the rising sun would have been able to penetrate through. Dawn was three hours ago and judging by the state of the stone, these trolls were victims of that morning's sunrise.
"Somethings not right here" She murmured softly to herself as she ran her fingers over the split rock. "This cut is too clean" She realised "Magic was involved...Gandalf." She smiled as she realised that the wizard was the cause of stone trolls. But why would Gandalf bother with these trolls? She thought. Eli was now more confused about the entire ordeal as the only reason she was travelling this way was because Gandalf had told her that he needed her help. If he needs my help. She thought, angrily to herself. Why does he keep moving on? She knew however that he wasn't that far ahead now and that she was closing in on the wizard.
Then there was an tickling, itching feeling in her nose, Eli rubbed it and sneezed, realising that there was another smell underneath the troll stench, one she couldn't place. Eli's eyes scoured over the clearing, using her senses as a hunter and a slight amount of magic in order to figure out what happened in this place.
Suddenly she was back, just before dawn, seeing what was happening in her mind. Smoke clouded at edge of vision as she viewed the scene in front of her, the colours dulled and none of the faces recognisable. There was no sound, but she could tell who was talking as the scene played out in front of her.
Beings...dwarfs some tied up on a large spit, the others trapped in sacks. Eli saw this as she walked over to the rock were the dwarfs were tied up. All that remained now were scuff marks and empty sacks but what Eli saw was the scene from a couple of hours ago. One of the dwarfs stood up...no it was a hobbit. She realised, stepping back so she wouldnt disturb the scene. He started to talk to the trolls and something he said obviously angered the dwarfs as they started to struggle. A troll then picked up a large dwarf and was about to eat it but the hobbit spoke again and he stopped. This shocked Eli as she had never seen someone stop a troll eating. The large dwarf was flung onto the pile of his tied up kin. Eli winced as he landed on the others, knocking the wind out of them. The hobbit then said something else and the dwarfs argued even more, except one who seemed to have a sense of clarity about him and kicked the dwarfs on top of him.
The scene then disappeared and Eli was thrown back into the now empty clearing, her head reeling as something pulled her out of the memory. Cursing in Elvish as she picked up her weapons and jumped on top of the rock as she looked around, trying to figure out what had caused the end of the memory. Then she heard it. The howl of a wild animal and her eyes focused into the distance until she saw then.
"Wargs" She breathed, then a loud horn and Eli's blood froze. "Orc pack" Cursing under her breath she jumped off of the rock and shifted before her feet hit the ground. In her place stood a wolf. Her fur was a deep midnight black but her stomach and face was white, her large paws meant that she made no sound as she landed and her tail was extended for balance. Eli paused slightly, smelling the air for the orc's sent, her ears flickering until she located their approximate position before running off...in the direction of the Orc pack.
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