Chapter 6

(Warning note: In the middle of this chapter, you will deal with the council scene, written out...with a few things added...actually not that bad, but just as warning, one of those scenes that probably has the label: OVER KILL on it)

Danielle sat in her room in silence and fidgeted with her dress. Her thoughts were chasing after one another whether or not to go to the council. It was so…weird just to think about. Actually the thought of climbing out her window right now and away from the room sounded pretty good. For some reason there was a rope that could reach the ground hidden under the bed. The poor girl didn't want to see Boromir again. Her only thoughts were, I probably made a fool of myself. He's like 40 anyway…though doesn't look it…I'm almost 18, and in this day in age it isn't un common for someone my age to marry someone his age- what the F! What the heck is wrong with you! I know that Boromir's mother was 20 years younger then Lord Denethor, but still, it's just not right…he's still cute though, nothing wrong with looking… just can't touch… If I touch Rhiannan will kill me…and probably him too… Oh bugger, she looked up when someone knocked on her door.

Slowly she stood up and opened it. Arwen stood with Rhiannan at the door, "Oh, hey you two," Danielle smiled nervously, that rope was starting to look rather tempting.

"Good morning, Danielle. I have been commanded to escort you and Rhiannan to the council," Arwen told her, silently taking note of the look on Danielle's face.

"Oh right," Danielle spoke attempting to smile, "well um, let me just do my hair, and I'll be out in a minute," she gave them too cheesy of a smile and shut the door.

Rhiannan looked down at the ground then quickly looked up at the door, "Wait a minute!" she snapped, Danielle never does her hair, she can barely do anything passed a pony tail! Rhiannan kicked the door open and sure enough Danielle was climbing down the rope to the ground, "Danielle!" Rhiannan yelled down, "What the heck do you think you're doing!"

Danielle looked up at Rhiannan, "Oh, hi Rhiannan," she smiled nervously, "doing my hair?"

"It's all right Rhiannan," a male voice from down below, Danielle glanced down to find Aragorn waiting at the bottom, "I've got her."

"You're all out to get me aren't you!" she yelled at them while attempting to hang onto the rope the best she could, dresses were impossible to climb in, even with her converses on, "Well I'm not coming down! You can't make me! I'm not going to the council!"

"Danielle!" Rhiannan screamed, her temper was raising again, "Get your butt down or up, I don't care which, just DO IT! I am not going by myself! You hear me!"

"No!" Danielle yelled, "I didn't hear you!"

Arwen looked down at Danielle, "I have an idea," she spoke then disappeared for a moment.

"Lady Danielle…" Aragorn sighed, it was like trying to take care of a sibling for some odd reason, "please, we do not wish to be late and Lord Elrond needs to have all of us there."

"That's exactly why! Everyone will be there! That means HE will be there! I don't want to see him again! Rhiannan will kill me!" Danielle told them while clinging onto the rope for her life.

"I'm standing right here you know!" Rhiannan snapped at her.

"But I don't wanna!" Danielle whined gripping onto the rope.

This doesn't make any sense, Rhiannan thought to herself, she's acting terrified of Aragorn again, "Danielle, I promise I won't kill you, we just have to be there to sit and listen, neither of us will volunteer to go ok?"

"But!" Danielle yelled closing her eyes, her hands were beginning to lose their grip, "I don't want to go down there and I can't climb up!"

"Danielle, it's just Aragorn!" Rhiannan told her.

"It's not just Aragorn anymore!" Danielle told her gripping on as hard as possible.

"What in the world do you mean Danielle?" Aragorn asked from below.

Danielle continued to grip onto the rope attempting to climb up and not down, it wasn't going well, "Lord Elrond and Gandalf told me yesterday that Aragorn is my older brother!" she told them, "And that our mother sent me away so that Sauron couldn't reach me because he knew about me. He didn't know about Aragorn when he was born! That's why we're here!"

Rhiannan stared at Danielle, "WHAT! We're here because of YOU!" she looked peeved.

Danielle let a high pitch, "EEEEEEEEP!" and dropped into, more of onto, Aragorn.

The rope had been cut by Arwen. Apparently the rope wasn't elvish rope, just there just in case one needed a quick escape from the room. The poor ranger looked shocked and out of place. He couldn't move, he just laid on the floor like a hurt man and stared up at the sky. It was actually a rather large shock to find that Danielle was his sister. Kind of weird too. The only thing that could make this even better would be if someone happened to stumble onto them, which someone did. Both Legolas and Boromir.

"What's going on here?" Boromir asked while helping Danielle to her feet, "Are you all right lady?" he asked Danielle softly while tucking a lock of hair behind her face.

Danielle stared at him and clamped her mouth shut. Aragorn answered, "She's fine," and slowly got up, "I believe we have a council to attend. Rhiannan!"

"What!" Rhiannan yelled down.

"Follow Arwen to the council hall. I'll get Danielle there," Aragorn looked back at Danielle, "Afterward you and I need to talk."

Danielle sat on the other side of Aragorn, attempting to make herself as invisible as possible. Rhiannan sat just next to Legolas and to the left of Gandalf. She seemed about ready to fall over and die at what she was going through. On one side, pretty-boy elf, on the other side Gandalf the Gray who seems to know more about them then she would want. It just bugged her. The group of men, elves, and dwarves sat in a semi circle and Elrond sat at the head. He had all ready heard of Danielle's dispute in the morning and was hoping someone would teach this girl some manners, or a quieter way of trying to escape. Both girls looked to Elrond when he began to speak, "Strangers from distant lands, friends of old. You have been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle-Earth stands upon the brink of destruction. None can escape it. You will unite or you will fall. Each race is bound to this fate--this one doom," he gestured to the pedestal. "Bring forth the Ring, Frodo."

While Frodo went to set the ring on the pedestal Rhiannan caught Danielle staring intently in Boromir's direction. It wasn't exactly the, I-think-your-hot-look, it was more of a I'm-trying-to-see-when-the-ring-starts-to-take-hold-of-you-look. Whether or not Danielle would admit it, the wheels were turning in her head. Rhiannan looked back toward the pedestal and suddenly had a great desire to get up from the room and run. An awkward and cold tension had settled all around her and all she could do was stare at the ring in disgust and awe at the same time. It was so weird.

"So it is true…" Boromir spoke gently.

Someone around them, Rhiannan was thinking one of the elves, but she wasn't sure whispered, "The Doom of Men."

Boromir stood slowly to address the Council, "In a dream, I saw the eastern sky grow dark. But in the West a pale light lingered. A voice was crying: Your doom is near at hand," Boromir slowly began to approach the pedestal, his hand beginning to stretch out toward it. "Isildur's Bane is found."

Elrond leaped from his chair, "Boromir!"

It seemed the ring began to utter a harsh chant. Gandalf stood suddenly and began to chant, thunder crackled as the sky seemed to darken:
"Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul."

The voice of the ring died away gently and horrified Boromir took his seat. Elrond and Gandalf began to do the same, "Never before has any voice uttered the words of that tongue here in Imladris!" Elrond told Gandalf, in rather upset tone.

Gandalf answered, his voice now raspy from the force of the words and the language, "I do not ask your pardon, Master Elrond, for the Black Speech of Mordor may yet be heard in every corner of the West! The Ring is altogether Evil!" Gandalf gave Boromir a final scathing glance before resuming his seat.

Boromir seemed to not even notice the glance from Gandalf, for he began to speak again, "It is a gift. A gift to the foes of Mordor. Why not use this Ring?" Boromir stood and began to pace along the council, "Long has my father, the Steward of Gondor, kept the forces of Mordor at bay. By the blood of our people are your lands kept safe! Give Gondor the weapon of the enemy. Let us use it against him!"

Aragorn shook his head, "You cannot wield it! None of us can. The One Ring answers to Sauron alone. It has no other master."

"And what would a ranger know of this matter?" Boromir asked in a seething tone.

Legolas stood suddenly, "This is no mere ranger. He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn. You owe him your allegiance."

Boromir answered in a disbelieving voice, while he looked at Aragorn his eyes flickered to Danielle for a moment then back at the ranger, "Aragorn? This... is Isildur's heir?"

"And heir to the throne of Gondor," Legolas spoke again. Talk about your overdoing it Legolas, sit down, your embarrising yourself, Rhiannan thought to herself shaking her head and slumping back in her chair. She had seen this movie way too much. This scene was pratically engrained in her mind. It bugged the heck out of her.

"Havo dad, Legolas," Aragorn side gesturing for him to sit down. Legolas did.

Boromir looked at Legolas, "Gondor has no king," then he turned to Aragorn while he took his seat, "Gondor needs no king."

"That's what you think…" Danielle half sung half muttered looking down at her hands. Aragorn glanced at her then shook his head.

"Aragorn is right," Gandalf told the council. "We cannot use it."

"You have only one choice," Elrond told them looking from each person of the council to the next. "The Ring must be destroyed."

"Then what are we waiting for!" Gimli quickly spoke bringing up the axe, both Rhiannan and Danielle were both block their eyes, and were getting and odd look from the others, "ARGH!" he screamed while he slammed his axe down onto the ring. The axe was quickly smashed into tiny pieces and it threw Gimli back down onto the floor.

Rhiannan caught herself thinking, stupid dwarves, they're barely good for anything, they're not even nice to look at…bloody hell what am I talking about? Elvish thoughts! AAAAH! Get it out!

Elrond spoke, "The Ring cannot be destroyed, Gimli, son of Glóin, by any craft that we here possess. The Ring was made in the fires of Mount Doom. Only there can it be unmade. It must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came."

Danielle blinked, "Ash Nazg…" a voice whispered from the direction of the ring.

"One of you must do this," Elrond finished.

Boromir answered, his hand pressed up against his forehead rubbing his temples, "One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its black gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep. And the great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland. Riddled with fire and ash and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten thousand men could you do this. It is folly!"

So much for the Morale of men, Rhiannan thought to herself while letting out a sigh, Legolas was standing again, making a spectacle of himself, "Have you heard nothing Lord Elrond has said? The Ring must be destroyed!"

Gimli leaped to his feet, "And I suppose you think you're the one to do it!"

Rhiannan covered her ears, she was never one to condone to loud arguing. Boromir stood up, "And if we fail, what then! What happens when Sauron takes back what is his!"

Gimli snarled at Legolas, "I will be dead before I see the Ring in the hands of an Elf!" Two other elves stood up to get to Gimli but Legolas held them back. Gimli continued to rant as if to eg them on, "Never trust an elf!"

Gandalf stood up while proclaiming, "Do you not understand that while we bicker amongst ourselves, Sauron's power grows!" None can escape it! You'll all be destroyed!"

Danielle stared at the ring. Unlike the others she did not move. Rhiannan stayed still as well. Rhiannan felt her stomach leap in a bad way when the faintest coldest whisper hit her ears, "Ash Nazg Durbatulûk! Ash Nazg Gimbatul! Ash Nazg Gimbatul! Ash Nazg Gimbatul!"

"I will take it!" Frodo yelled, Danielle hadn't noticed until now that the Hobbit had stepped forward.

Danielle suddenly jumped to her feet and started jumping down, "Shut up! All of you just shut up so it'll shut up!"

All those that were arguing suddenly paused and looked at Danielle in shock. It was the first time she had spoken at the council. Frodo spoke again, "I will take it…" Gandalf looked like his stomach had just dropped and fallen out of his body. Sadness was in his eyes. Danielle slowly sat before she made even more of a spectacle of herself, "I will take the Ring to Mordor. Though… I do not know the way…"

It seemed at the same time Danielle and Rhiannan clamped their hands onto the arms of the chairs as if to force themselves not to move. Gandalf walked toward Frodo slowly, "I will help you bear this burden, Frodo Baggins, as long as it is yours to bear," then placed his hand on his shoulder.

Aragorn rose slowly, "If by my life or death, I can protect you, I will," he approached Frodo and kneeled before him, "you have my sword."

Legolas came toward Frodo slowly, "And you have my bow," then joined to stand next to Aragorn who was now standing behind Frodo.

"And my axe!" Gimli volunteered. He stood next to Legolas, though looked grim about doing so.

Boromir walked slowly to Frodo, sizing up the hobbit, "You carry the fate of us all little one. If this is indeed the will of the Council, then Gondor will see it done," and stood behind Frodo as well.

Danielle let out a sigh when someone called out, "Here!" and Sam popped out running out to Frodo's side, "Mr. Frodo is not goin' anywhere without me!"

Elrond spoke, with an amused smile on his face, "No indeed, it is hardly possible to separate you; even when he is summoned to a secret council and you are not."

Rhiannan tried to sink farther into her seat. Merry and Pippin emerged from behind a pair of pillars to join them, "Wait! We are coming too!" Pippin called.

"You'd have to send us home tied up in a sack so stop us!" Merry told them.

Pippin added, "Anyway, you need people of intelligence on this sort of mission, quest…thing!"

Merry rolled his eyes and muttered, "Well, that rules you out Pip."

Elrond muttered as if thinking, "Nine companions…" he looked to the two girls and noticed they were trying as hard as possible to stay in their seats, "So be it! You shall be the Fellowship of the Ring!"

"Great!" Pippin smiled, "Where are we going?"

Rhiannan suddenly jumped up, "YES!" and punched a fist into the air. She looked at all those who were staring at her and muttered, "oops…"

faeriekittie306 animelover: Boromir, torture…kind of runs hand in hand. I love Boromir (as in Danielle) but it's always fun to play with the character! Thanks for your review, we're trying to update as fast as possible!

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Theycallmemary: Yeah, I'm trying to make Legolas annoying, but still try to keep him in character. He is just attracted to Rhiannan cause you know the whole, almost-every-mary-sue-wants-Legolas, well somewhere in his brain he knows this, so he's trying to make her want him. Though obviously it isn't working… ha ha! Thanks for your review! Hope to see more!

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Rhiannan looked around her. Elrond spoke, an amused smile on his face, "Would you and Danielle like to join them?"

"What!" Rhiannan screamed, she wasn't the only one. Danielle, Aragorn, and Boromir screamed with her.

"My lord, I do not think it fit they come!" Aragorn objected quickly, looking to Danielle. He had just discovered that she was his sister, wasn't that stress enough?

"Danielle and I can't even fight!" Rhiannan told him quickly, trying to think up any excuse, "Much less use a bow. The last time we used a bow was in tenth grade, and Danielle shot the instructor in the butt!"

"Hey now!" Danielle yelled, "That's personal information!"

"Well Merry and I can't fight and we're-" Pippin began but was cut off when Aragorn put his hand over the hobbits mouth.

"And I am not letting Legolas teach me!" Rhiannan objected suddenly when Legolas looked up to speak, "NO! N-O! No! No! No! No! NNNOOOOOO!"