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Chapter 1: Cave In
The nine members walked through Moria's dark and dreary hallway, Gandalf leading the way with his illuminated staff. Merry groaned as they walked, they had been walking for what seemed like forever and he was so tired. His legs felt like they were going to collapse at any moment.
"Gandalf, can we please stop for a rest? I'm so tired." Merry pleaded.
Gandalf sighed, that was like the hundredth time Merry had asked that question.
"I guess so." Gandalf gave in.
Merry breathed a sigh of relief and plopped down right where he was. The rest of the Fellowship sat down, leaned against either side of the fairly wide hallway. As Pippin sat there, he was starting to get quite bored, there was hardly anything to do in this dark sanctum that the Dwarves used to call home. He looked around, trying to find something to occupy himself. As he scanned the hallway, something caught his eye. He saw a huge, old statue of some Dwarven leader in a medium-sized room off to the left. It was well within the sight of the rest of the Fellowship, so he descided to take a look around the room and at the statue. He got up from his spot beside Sam and walked into the room.
"Where are you goin' Mr. Pippin?" Sam asked as Pippin got up.
"Just in that room to look at that statue." Pippin replied.
He walked the rest of the way onto the room and stared in awe at the huge statue. His eyes wondered around the room and as he started to drift off into his own thoughts, he heard a strange rumbling noise. It sounded distant, but it was still fairly loud. He looked around to see where the noise was coming from, and as he did, rocks started to fall from the ceiling.
"Cave in!" he heard Aragorn yell.
He tried to run for the doorway of the room, but a rock fell on his head, knocking him unconscious.
"Pippin!" Merry yelled as he tried to run for the room to get Pippin out.
Before he could get inside, the doorway collapsed, blocked by tons of rock and stone.
"Merry, come on!" Boromir said, running up to him and grabbing him up.
Merry squirmed, trying to get out of Boromir's grasp.
"No! Pippin's in there! We can't leave him! Put me down!" Merry yelled as Boromir ran down the hallway to keep up with the rest of the Fellowship.
Boromir paid no heed to Merry's cries and continued to run. Tears streamed down Merry's face, he couldn't leave his Litlle Pip in that dark, dank room in the middle of a cave in. There were Goblins and possibly Orcs down there, they would hurt him or possibly even kill him.
"Pippin..." Merry whispered through sobs.