Hello my fellow readers!
For those who are reading Little Fire I apologize for the lack of updates. I have a bad case of writer's block. I always had the hots for Legolas and had to write a Lord of the Rings fanfic. For those who have read "Of Stars&Fire I hope you enjoy this fic!
Rowan as I mentioned before would be portrayed by Kate Winslet, Rowan's hair is a dark red with gold streaks and her eyes are gold.
Now on with the first chapter!
All Lord of the Rings characters belong to J.R.R. Tolkein
I only own my OC's.

Bree

The door to the Prancing Pony opened and a young female entered the tavern out of the stormy night. She hurried over to the inn keeper and paid her fee for a room for the night, before deciding to order some alcohol. While her drink was being made she dropped her things off in her room before returning to the tavern for her drink. Her traveling cloak was off and in the firelight did the locals get a good look at her. Her name was Rowan Black the daughter of Smaug the Magnificent and Lenora Black. In her human form she had red hair that resembled the color of her scales, with golden streaks. Her eyes were a beautiful gold and when her dragon half was activated or awake the pupils would become slits. Rowan also had both wolf skin changer blood as well as a small amount of elf. Her paternal grandfather's grandmother had been an actual Sindarin Elf, and her mother had taught her the ways to speak the elfish language.

For it would come in handy as Rowan's true mate was also an elf and the mere thought of being separated from him didn't suit Rowan well. Her true mate was Legolas Greenleaf son of Thranduil and Prince of Mirkwood. The pair met in Rivendell five years earlier and sealed their fate as mates in the very building she now stood in. Rowan wore a black mithril shirt under a red top that had straps resting at the shoulders. She wore black pants and brown boots, her sword Jura was strapped to her waist. Rowan inherited Jura from her mother as the sword found the firstborn offspring of Smaug and his mate worthy. Lenora still wore her dark blue traveling cloak as she finally retrieved her drink from the bar.

The skin changer wasn't hungry since she had hunted earlier in her wolf form, and her stomach was full of buck meat. Turning her back against the counter Rowan had the feeling she was being watched. Her golden eyes traveled around the tavern until they caught a hooded male smoking a pipe. She almost laughed into her drink when she recognized who the human was. Smirking she strode over to the human and took a seat next to him.

"You could have said hello when I walked in Aragorn" Rowan greeted her old friend quietly. Rowan had met the son of Arathorn while she had been visiting friends in Rivendell several years earlier.

"I have to keep my cover under shadow" Aragorn returned the greeting back to the dragoness with an amused tone. "What brings you to these parts no doubt Legolas is eagerly waiting your return to Mirkwood"

"I had business outside the Shire"

Rowan was always being sought out to either kill orcs, to shoo out unwanted animals eating crops, and many other things.

"What business was it this time?" Aragorn asked his tone still holding amusement.

"A herd of deer were eating away in Farmer's Maggot's crop and I had to shoo them out also it appeared two hobbits were also trying to sneak food out as well"

Her answer got the Ranger to chuckle just as the door to the tavern open. Lenora caught the same scent of the two hobbits she had chased out of her employer's fields earlier. Behind the blonde hobbits came two more. One with blonde hair and the other with dark brown curly hair. Immediately a hiss escaped Rowan's lips.

"What is it Mellon?" Aragorn asked the skin changer.

"That dark haired halfling carries something of great evil what it is I do not know" Rowan whispered to her friend turning to him. The Ranger's eyes frowned and his attention went to the dark haired hobbit. Both watched the two hobbits, the dark haired one conversed with the tavern owner before they all ordered some ale and food.

"They seem to be a little young to be drinking alcohol" Rowan growled disapprovingly as she watched one of the blonde hobbits sit down with a pint of ale. His companion hurriedly stood up to get himself the same amount of alcohol.

"They are old enough Mellon you always are looking out for those younger than you" Aragorn teased Rowan quietly. Due to the fact Rowan was now mated to Legolas she was immortal, but that didn't mean she would not age. Due to having both skin changer and dragon blood in her veins she aged slowly than most species on Middle Earth. Physically she was in her fortieth year, but looked like she was in her middle thirties in human years. The hobbit sitting next to the dark haired hobbit nodded in their direction and Rowan turned her head away, while Aragorn did not.

She felt the dark haired hobbits eyes rest on the ranger and the dragoness for a few moments before she turned her attention back to the Halfling once more. The hobbit looked sleepy eyed and he seemed to be fingering something. Rowan sensed the evil object and she held back another hiss. Rowan's attention then was caught by one of the blonde hobbits at the bar and he nodded towards the dark haired hobbit. Rowan heard the name Frogo Baggins and this got her eyes to widen. Another hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins had snuck into the Lonely Mountain under the employment of thirteen dwarves to steal the Arkenstone away from her father.

Frodo stood up and hurried over to the blonde Halfling, who wouldn't shut his trap and tried to grab him, but the dark haired hobbit lost his footing and he fell backwards. The sight of a golden ring soaring into the air caught Aragorn and Rowan's attention. The trinket then slowly slid onto the hobbit's index finger before disappearing. A gasp was heard in the crowd and Rowan turned to Aragorn.

"That is the Ring of Power"

"Indeed"

Throughout her life Rowan had been told about the One Ring from both her parents as well as many others. It was a ring made by Sauron himself, and it only would it heed its master's call. Those who wielded the ring for a period of time would be brought into its dark embrace and eventually bringing out the worst in them as well as longer life span. This fate happened to the creature Gollum who once had been a hobbit and he killed his own kin in order to have the Ring of Power. Gollum lived for five hundred years bestowed upon him the ring until it was taken by none other than Biblo Baggins himself.

Frodo remained unseen for a few moments before he reappeared a second later. Rowan was the first to get up with Aragorn following behind her. She quickly placed a hand onto Frodo's right shoulder while Aragorn did the same with the other both hoisting the young hobbit to his feet. Rowan gently pushed Frodo against the wall in front of her.

"You draw far too much attention to yourself little one" she said to the frightened hobbit and she then let Aragorn guide him towards his room. Aragorn opened the door to and pushed Frodo inside; Rowan followed in behind Aragorn and closed the door.

"What do you want?" Frodo demanded standing up from next the fireplace.

"Caution that is no trinket you carry" Aragorn replied first to the hobbit walking past him.

"I carry nothing" Frodo argued.

"Indeed you do" Rowan corrected. Frodo turned to Rowan and eyed her as Aragorn went to the window putting out the candles to avoid drawing attention.

"I can avoid being seen if I wish but to disappear entirely that is a rare gift" Aragorn then turned around and removed his hood from his cloak to reveal his handsome face.

"Who are you two?" Frodo demanded looking from Rowan to Aragorn.

"Are you frightened?" Aragorn questioned the Halfling.

"Yes" Frodo replied.

"Not nearly frightened enough I know what hunts you"

Aragorn began to approach Frodo when the door to the room suddenly burst open and both the Ranger and Rowan drew their swords out.

"Let him go or I'll have you Longshanks!" the blond hobbit who was slightly fat threatened. All three blonde hobbits wielded useless items.

"You have a stout hearts little ones" Rowan said to the three blonde hobbits. "But that will not save you" she then placed Jura back into its sheath.

"You can no longer wait for the wizard, Frodo they're coming" Aragorn said coming up to Frodo. The four hobbits, along with Rowan and Aragorn quickly grabbed their belongings and hurried across the street to another inn to avoid being caught by whatever was hunting Frodo.

"I know who you are" Frodo said as Rowan lay her head against a pillow. She was tired and needed sleep. "You are Rowan Black"

The other three blonde hobbits all turned to the skin changer their eyes widened. Rowan smiled at the dark haired hobbit.

"You're the offspring of Smaug?!" the hobbit named Sam exclaimed.

"Indeed young one" Rowan answered her eyes looking over to Sam.

"I heard Smaug was still alive but I didn't know he had children" another blonde hobbit this one named Merry added. "Where is your sire?"

"He and my mother have a new domain in the south after they were driven out of the Lonely Mountain by the dwarves sixty years ago"

"And what of your siblings?" the other hobbit named Pippin asked after Merry.

"Each of them live in the west, east, and north few times a year I go to visit each one including my parents, father no longer wanted to be around the greed of humans and dwarves"

Rowan then yawned and she felt sleep call to her.

"Sleep Mellon I shall wake you later" Aragorn told the dragoness and she sent her friend a thank you nod before she finally was able to sleep. Rowan along with Pippin, Sam, and Merry slept for a few hours before inhuman like shrieks got her to wake up.

"What the hell was that?" Rowan asked sitting straight up in her bed looking to Aragorn who was looking out the window. The shrieks continued and Rowan winced due to the fact she had good hearing the noise was painful for her. The shrieks had made Sam, Merry, and Pippin to get up as well.

"I must ask as well what are they?" Frodo asked. Aragorn turned to Frodo and began to explain.

"They were once Men, Great Kings of Men, then Sauron the Deceiver gave to them nine rings of power blinded by their greed they took them without question, one by one falling into darkness" Aragorn then looked out the window once more. "Now they are slaves to his will"

Aragorn then turned back to look back at his companions.

"They are the Nazgul, Ringwraiths"

"Neither living or dead" Rowan interrupted her friend standing up. In all of her years of her existence she never once encountered the Nazgul and now was the first time she had heard one in person. Aragorn nodded as Rowan began to braid her hair ready to take their leave most likely shortly. Aragorn looked back out at the window and continued.

"At all times they feel the presence of the Ring drawn to the power of the One they will never stop hunting you"

By first light all four hobbits along with Aragorn and Rowan departed Bree.

"You do not need to come with us Mellon" Aragorn said to Rowan as she led Bill the pony forward by his reins. Rowan left the care of her beloved stallion Alijan behind in Mirkwood with Legolas. The stallion was a Mearas and was the offspring of her mother's now deceased horse Ancalagon, so the dragoness knew how to work alongside horses.

"Do not try to talk me out of this hatchling you know once my mind is set I will not change it" this got Aragorn to chuckle.

"All dragons tend to have stubbornness in their veins"

This got Rowan to chuckle and the six of them continued their journey. Rowan wore her usual clothing with a quiver of arrows on her back, along with a black bow strapped in front of it. The bow had been a gift given to her by her future father-in-law Thranduil. The company traveled briskly throughout the day not once taking a break. At one point Rowan heard the two hobbits Merry and Pippin question Aragorn's trust.

"But where is he leading us?" Sam questioned towards Frodo.

"To Rivendell, Master Gamgee" Aragorn answered hearing the blond hobbit's question. "To the house of Elrond"

Rowan smirked when she heard Sam get excited about the elves.

"I know you miss your mate Mellon" Aragorn told Rowan at one point through the walking.

"Indeed I do but I have a feeling I shall see him soon"

And with that the company of six continued their trek across the beautiful terrain of Middle Earth for another few hours before settling down for the night in a marsh.

And thus Rowan's journey begins.
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