Hello everybody, sorry for the long wait, due to a combination of real life, procrastination, and wanting to work on my other project it took a while but hey your here to read my attempt at combining two universes together and judgeing whether or not I succeed.
Disclaimer I don't own the Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings that belongs to Tolkien, and I don't own Star Wars that belongs to... Mickey Mouse
Chapter 5 Orcs, Wargs, and Trolls oh my!
(location Eriador wilds outside a small human settlement.)
Orcs, perhaps the most hated creatures in all of Arda, created by the Dark Lord Morgoth as a mockery and dark reflections of the first children of the Iluvatar, a small group of these savage creatures watched a small settlement from a tree line, "We'll be feasting tonight boys." the leader stated happily, the orcs all cheered in agreement fingering their knives and licking their lips in anticipation.
"Oh, will you be?" a voice asked, confusing the orcs, who looked around for the source of the voice.
"We know you're there tark." the leader shouted, "show yourself!" a green blade suddenly sprouted from the leaders chest.
"I am right here." Viridian stated and deactivated the blade, disappearing into the darkness, the orcs all howled and struck at the area they thought he disappeared to, only to hit each other.
"Hey watch it!"
"Stay out of my way!" several of the orcs started shouting, then they began to fight among each other.
Viridian watched this go down almost in total disbelief, "What already?" he asked.
"Sometimes Orcs will fight amongst themselves if they anger eachother and they will fight over petty things as well." Celebion answered with a shrug.
"I was expecting more of a fight than that." the young Jedi admitted.
"As was I." Dwalin muttered in annoyance.
"You want to jump in or just let them kill each other?" Viridian asked the others.
"Eh, let them soften them selves up a wee bit more." Gloin answered.
"Okay." Viridian sighed, "Oh man I just realised, these orcs are very similar to another warrior culture that I know of, I wonder if Jak would see the parallels as well."
"Another one eh?" Celebion asked curiously.
"Yeah, they're called Iridonians not a group I like to mess with."
"ENOUGH!" the hunters heard a voice bellow from the orc raiders direction, they looked in their direction and Viridian stretched out his senses trying to find the person who shouted, "We have a Jeedai here and you are doing exactly what he wants."
"Oh great." Viridian groaned, "it's a Vong."
"Well I guess now is the time to fight." Gloin grinned.
Viridian smirked, and charged into the raiders direction again, as he ran he created a ball of light in his hand and threw it into the air illuminating the entire area and confusing the orcs and their Vong leader, Viridian blitzed the Vong warrior first not wanting to give him a chance to do anything, but at the last minute Viridian saw that he was wearing a helmet so his plan to cut the warriors head off went out the window as his blade crashed into the warriors head and knocked him on his back, "Seriously Cark, Lightsaber resistant materials!" Viridian shouted in frustration, as he took his blade and made to stab the Vong in the eyepiece of its helmet, only for the warrior to turn his head away causing the lightsaber to be deflected into the ground, Viridian however used the force and threw a nearby rock at the charging snake creature knocking it out before he jumped away and landed on top of its heart d effectively crushing it.
The Vong stood up snarling at the loss of his weapon, before pulling out a short sword actually made of metal, "Oh so you don't restrict yourselves to purely organic weapons," Viridian observed, the others had arrived and began fighting the orcs killing them with minimal effort, Celebion told him that the Orcs had very little training with only a few being such formidable warriors, meaning that they relied mostly on their numbers to win their battles as much as their cunning, Viridian though had a feeling that with the Yuuzhan Vong it was a different story altogether.
The Vong thrusted at Viridian, who sidestepped the blow and cut the blade with his saber before hooking the warriors leg and tripping him he then pinned him beneath his foot then stabbed the warrior through the eye.
"You Vong are weaker than I thought, or maybe I'm just stronger than I realised." Viridian mused as he pulled his weapon out of the dead warrior's face, he looked around noticed that the orcs were dealt with, with that he shrugged and deactivated his saber, "Wow they are pathetic." Viridian said outloud
"Aye, the black uruks are the most dangerous breed of orcs but they are in Mordor and never venture this far west." Dwalin said.
"Hmn." Viridian hummed in thought, "Well then let's get back to camp."
"You'll get no argument from me." Celebion agreed, with that the Dwarves and humans made their way back to the camp, Viridian stopped short and looked back into the woods for a moment.
"Something the matter laddie?" Bifur asked noticing the young Jedi had stopped.
Viridian narrowed his eyes slightly and didn't answer for a long moment, "... I thought I sensed something was watching us." he explained, "It's probably nothing, but still let's remain weary."
The Dwarves and Celebion nodded in agreement and kept on guard incase anything struck at them in the night.
Deep in the woods a figure wearing a dark cloak watched as the hunters walked away, his face obscured in the darkness, "So the Son of Arnor has found himself in the company of dwarves and a young cultist… For what purpose I wonder?" the dark figure mused to himself, "Perhaps my lord has some insight." he added, then disappeared into the night
(Location Amon Sul the watchtower's ruins)
Jak leaned on one of the edges of the watchtower windows deep in thought, he looked over at Glorfindel who was looking out north his eyes narrowed and seemed to be following something in the distance, "You have question's warrior?" the golden haired elf asked.
Jak wondered if the elf had probed his mind for a moment but shrugged it off, "You seem to hold humans in a very critical light, why?"
Glorfindel turned to Jak with a raised eyebrow, "You seemed to have taken from my tale that I hold ill against the race of men, I assure you Jak of Mandaloria that is not the case."
Jak raised an eyebrow, "It's Mandalore." he corrected.
"A thousand pardons, but I should tell you some of my best friends were of the race of men, I died for several refugees of Gondolin one of which happened to be a man who was one of my most treasured friends."
"It's just that… you make it sound like the elves are perfect." Jak explained.
Glorfindel started to chuckle at that, "That my friend, is the furthest thing from the truth, not even the Ainer are perfect… for they to can be corrupted and if they can, all of us can." Glorfindel sighed, "one such elf, Feanor, we mentioned him before."
"The great smith and one of the first kings of the Noldor right?" Jak asked.
"The one and the same." the gold haired elf confirmed, "Many years ago he crafted three jewels of great beauty from the light of the two trees in Valinor, called the Silmarils, they were so beautiful and precious that they could never be reproduced not even by Feanor himself, Varda the 'star queen' would bless the jewels so no unclean hands or evil could touch them."
Jak listened intently as the elf told the tale.
"The Silmarils were a symbol of peace and plenty in Valinor, but they would also be a catalyst for war and set the house of Feanor on a path to ruin." Glorfindel sighed, "the first dark lord Morgoth infiltrated the undying lands with the help of Ungoliant, took the jewels and killed Feanor's father Finwe, and together Morgoth and Ungoliant fled to Middle Earth. Feanor was enraged at the theft of the jewels and the murder of his father, and thus took an oath taking up Iluvatar's name along with his sons to get the jewels back at all costs and to kill any who stand in their way. He lead many of the Noldor to the shores of Aman and demanded the Telari ,another elven tribe, to give them ships, the Valar at this point tried to dissuade the elf to go after Morgoth but he did so anyway, the Teleri refused to give them any ships and thus elf spilt the blood of another elf for the first time in our history." Glorfindel explained.
Jak's eyes were wide in surprise, "All for some jewels?" he asked in disbelief.
"These Jewels were the most beautiful things that a created being had ever made, Feanor was a proud elf, and in the end his pride is what brought about his doom and that of his sons."
"So they all died?" Jak asked.
"During the war with Morgoth all but two sons died, Maedhros, and Maglor, after the war the Valar allowed them to take the remaining two jewels after they killed the guards protecting them, so that no more blood would be spilt, the silmarils burnt their hands as they held it and ultimately brought them only misery, Maedhros would kill himself falling into a fiery chasm along with his silmaril, while Maglor would cast his into the sea and live out his days wandering the shores of Middle Earth sad and alone." Glorfindel answered.
Jak just sat there, "Wouldn't Maglor still be alive, since your race can't die by natural causes?"
Glorfindel nodded, "That is very possible, it is the fate he brought upon himself, that being said If he were to plead to the Valar for mercy they probably would give it to him and pardon him like they did the rest of the noldor who participated in the kinslaying."
"... I see." Jak nodded.
A silence drifted between the two warriors, Jak looked around and saw Iminye watching the south, she turned towards him and walked towards the two, "The south is clear." she told Glorifindal.
The Balrog Slayer nodded, "I see some Orc war parties up north as well as the warriors in white armor but they pose no threat to us here."
Jak raised an eyebrow, "Warriors in white armor?" he asked, "Do you mean Stormtroopers?"
"That is what they call themselves yes, you know of them?" Iminye asked
"I most certainly do, they are soldiers of the Galactic Empire, and as I'm sure you guessed our enemy."
The Elves raised an eyebrow at him, "I did have my suspicions as we saw you running from them on our way here," Glorfindel started cautiously, "Can you tell us why they are your enemy?" he asked.
Jak sighed, "They subjected my home, Mandalore," he told them, then he turned to the sleeping members of the group in the center of the tower, "Janus's home was also subjugated, and everyone else…" he sighed, "The Empire wiped out their people." he told them, "you see Ulra, Jasmine, Du, and Kes are members of a group called the Jedi order and about two years ago when the Empire rose, they wiped them out… Saying that they tried to assassinate the chancellor at the time, then… The Empire started to hunt down the survivors of the Jedi, the lucky ones were killed outright."
"What do you mean by that?" Glorfindel asked not liking where this line of thought was going.
Jak wasn't sure when he picked up the stone that he was absently tossing in his hand, but as soon as Glorfindel asked that question, Jak crushed the stone, thanks to his crush gauntlets it made it look easy but it certainly conveyed to the elves that he was angry, "About a year ago, Ulra and I raided an Imperial facility hearing rumors that a Jedi might have been kept there, when we got inside we found him, lying on a table splayed open like a fish." Jak growled, he saw the Elves staring at him in horror, "and to make it worse he had been like that for three days and he only died the day previous, the Imps kept him alive for as long as possible."
"Why would someone do that?" Iminye asked horrified
Jak considered his next words carefully, "The Chancellor was a member of an organization called the Sith and they are the enemy of the Jedi, when they caught word that he was a Sith, four members of the high council tried to arrest him, that didn't go very well to say the least, so to be fair there was some merit to the charges, But it didn't warrant the entire Jedi Order's destruction, quite frankly I wish that they had succeeded, and killed that chakkar for what he did."
"What did he do aside from that abominable practice?"
"He orchestrated the Clone Wars pitted the Republic and the Separatist against each other so he could gain more power and he blamed it all on the Jedi, the Jedi and the Clones were the ones on the frontline giving their lives for a FARCE! While he sat back on comfortable Coruscant taking the credit, And everybody else was unfortunate to be caught in the middle of it."
Glorfindel and Iminye looked at the group surprisingly they hadn't been woken up by Jak's triade or at least they didn't show it, "If that is the case then why are they fighting the orcs?"
"That's because the Empire is a very Humanocentric society, meaning they see humans as the most important species in the Galaxy, that being said they do make some exceptions for some near human species, with only the more snobbish people hating them, and they also make exceptions for force sensitives, some times and train them to hunt Jedi."
"What do you mean?" Iminye asked.
"You remember our discussion how they mentioned that they had a connection to the life energy of the Universe? Some people call that life energy the Force, and Force sensitives can tap into that energy field and can do some pretty wondrous things, The Jedi try to use this power for good and tried and still try to help the people of the galaxy, the Sith use it for their own gain, the Empire is run by the Sith, however there is this rule that the sith have been following for the last thousand years called the rule of two, "Two sith there are no more no less, a master and an apprentice, one to embody the power the other to crave it." so instead of training more sith, they trained several adepts as tools and weapons to hunt down the Jedi or other people who don't submit to their rule, they are called Inquisitors and Dark Jedi." Jak explained, "Ulra and I fought one at that facility where we found that Jedi's remains."
(Flash Back)
Jak swallowed back the bile in his throat that threatened to come out of his mouth, he had seen some pretty horrible things in his time, but for some reason this scene nearly caused him to lose his meager breakfast he had earlier that day, on the table before him laid the Jedi they came to get, he was human that much Jak could tell, his body was cut up and he was flayed.
"... Jak." Ulra said her voice breaking, "I knew him."
Jak turned to face her, "Who was he?" he asked curiously.
"H.. he was one of my fellow initiates, Cadan Viel, he was one of my dearest f… freinds." she struggled to keep her emotions at bay.
"Such a tragedy." a new voice said coming up behind, Jak and Ulra spun to see a human cyborg in the doorway they had come through, he had a cybernetic eyepiece on his right and almost the entire right half his face had metal grafts, he wore a dark tunic and a brown cloak, beneath the cloak Ulra and Jak could make out several hilts of jedi lightsabers, he walked in, procured one of the lightsabers and activated a blue blade, "I am High Inquisitor Tremayne, Welcome."
Jak aimed his blasters at the new comer, "Were you the one responsible for this?!" Jak growled.
"I just did my job and sometimes it can get… messy, You'll be pleased to know that despite the excruciating agony I put him through he refused to break, truly he was a great Jedi, pity." he sighed.
"How could you?" Ulra asked, "Tremayne why?" she cried.
Tremayne looked at Ulra with a blank expression, "Why?" he repeated, "I don't need to explain myself to you, now surrender."
"Not going to happen." Jak growled.
Tremayne sighed, "You are going to make this difficult, I would stop and think, you I have no quarrel with Mandalorian, she's the one I want, if you leave now, I will forget all about you."
Jak didn't answer he only shot at him, the Inquisitor deftly moved his blade and deflected the Bolt at Ulra, only for her to deflect it with her blade.
(Flashback end)
"Tremayne turned out to be a very skilled combatant to say the least, we had to blow up the whole facility just to get away." Jak told them.
"Who's this Tremayne, and why does it sound like Ulra knew him?" Glorfindel asked.
"Because she did, Antinnis Tremayne was a Jedi padawan, and evidently survived the purge… by joining the Empire."
"Why?" Iminye asked surprised that someone would join the people who massacred them in the first place.
"I'd be lying if I said that I understood it myself, Ulra told me that Tremayne always had a fascination with the dark side of the force, and well he was a proud and vain individual, in the Clone Wars his master was killed and he was captured by the separatists, I have no idea what he went through but whatever it was he emerged a monster."
"... I don't know whether to hate him, or pity him." Iminye stated sadly.
Jak just sat there in silence as did Glorfindel, Jak turned to look out the window absently letting his mind wander for a bit, 'How would things be different if those masters succeeded?' he asked himself, Jak sighed he hated the quiet sometimes it caused his mind to become distracted.
Glorfindel sensed the Mandalorians restlessness and sought to spark a conversation, "I would like to know, what is a Clone?" he asked him
Jak regarded the Balrog slayer curious to see that he was interested in something like that, "A clone is… a physical copy of a being." he tried to explain, the elves seemed to understand what he was saying.
Glorfindel tilted his head slightly, "Would a clone have a Fea?" he asked him
Jak raised an eyebrow at the unfamiliar word, "A Fea? What is that?" he asked.
"A soul or a spirit." Iminye simplified.
"Oh… of course why wouldn't they?" Jak asked, "They are produced like normal beings… somewhat."
"Ah so clone is your word for children."
"... Sure let's go with that." Jak sighed not really interested in trying to educate them on things at the moment, "They were some of the bravest soldiers I ever met… even though I was fighting them at first." He recalled.
"You were with these Separatists?" Iminye asked curiously.
Jak shook his head "Not really, I was part of a group of Mercenaries and we did work with the Separatists for a bit, but I began to see what the Death Watch was truly like at Carlac." Jak snarled.
"What happened?"
"The Death Watch decided to set up a base on the planet after our original base on Mandalore's moon, Concordia, was compromised, the people that lived on Carlac were a peaceful people and unfortunately naive to a fault, we took their women and turned them into servants, I had never felt so appalled in my life before that, eventually the town leader that we set up camp came to Pre Vizla our leader, and unfortunately my clansmen, and demanded that we return their women and he agreed."
Glorfindel had a bad feeling about that.
"Wait if agreed then what's the problem." Iminye asked
Jak crushed a piece of the stone pillar that he was holding onto, "Oh he honored the agreement, after he brought them back to the town he executed them in front of the entire village and had us burn it down."
"... Were you their?" Iminye asked.
"No I was tasked with guarding the camp, I heard about it from a passing thug when they came back from the massacre, I killed him with my bare hands and ran to the town, I planned to make my way off the planet and away from the Death Watch, but when I got to the town… I saw one of my fellows lying on the ground a saber wound in his diaphragm, and he was clutching the body of a woman, he was A'denn one of the few members of Death Watch I thought as honorable despite the mistakes he made, I found out the woman he married several months ago, I actually was going to kill him and end his suffering, he told me not to."
"Why?" Glorfindel asked surprised and enamoured with the tale.
"He said that 'This is my punishment, and I can't die till I honor a debt that can never be repaid.'"
"What was this debt?" Iminye asked.
"A'denn was an officer of the law on our home world several years ago, he grew frustrated with Satine, the duchess of our world, because he believed that her policies were making us weak, so he joined the Death Watch wanting to bring strength to Mandalore, after he passed his training he started bounty hunting, he took a Job to hunt down a slave smuggler, and he ended up killing him, but in the process he killed the man's eldest son, and his wife, then he found out the man was innocent, and he had killed three members of an innocent family right in front of the two youngest, he never forgave himself, and so he spent years trying to track down the person who hired him, but he hasn't had much luck, Pre called him, and in our culture when the Mandalore calls you answer, so he had to put the search on hold, after we went to Carlac he met one of the women and well began to court with her, and they eventually married, from what I gather he refused to take part in the slaughter and even tried to attack Pre, Pre stabbed him in the gut and killed his wife right in front of him, and left him to die in the middle of the ashen town."
"What did you do?" Iminye asked.
"Well I wasn't going to leave him there, so after we cremated his wife's body, we made plans to get off the planet, it seemed that someone wanted us to get off the planet though because the Republic and the Separatist came and had a small skirmish, that was the day I met Ulra." Jak stated as he looked over at the sleeping form of his beloved, "The Death Watch captured her, and A'denn and I agreed we couldn't leave her to their devices, so we concocted a plan to rescue her, and well it worked obviously, After that I decided to follow her, and A'denn left after getting proper medical treatment, both to get back at Pre, and the one who hired him."
"So you decided to fight with Ulra's government?" Glorfindel asked
"I did but I mostly focused my efforts on the Death Watch, and I stayed with Ulra for the entire war, up until order 66 and beyond till we arrived here."
"... What was order 66?" Iminye asked after a moment, Abruptly they heard someone whimper from the sleeping pile, Jak saw Jasmine take her arm and wrap it around Kes in an effort to comfort her.
"It was the order that saw the destruction of the Jedi, as you can tell it still bothers them immensely." Jak told them quietly
"I'm sorry." Iminye apologized.
"You asked a question I can't fault you for that, Jasmine, Kes, and Du were at the temple when it happened, along with two others that aren't with us at the moment, Xey, and Viridian, they barely managed to escape the temple with the help of the disgraced Jedi master Depa Billaba."
"Disgraced?" Glorfindel asked curious of the story behind that.
"Depa, experienced the horrors of war, and well she couldn't handle it so she cracked, and committed some very heinous acts at this one battle, her teacher Mace Windu went to retrieve her and after getting to her she attempted to kill herself and ended up putting herself into a coma, she and another man, a Kar Vaster were charged by the Republic for crimes against civilization, and that hasn't happened in the Republic since, Ulic Qel Droma nearly four millennia ago, well anyway she woke up shortly before order 66 and well I guess she sought to atone for what she did and proceeded to try and get any survivors she came across out of the temple, after that they got off of Coruscant they found themselves on the world of Carthean and met Janus, to make an incredibly long story short, Depa began to train Janus and the others, at some point Ulra and I ended up bringing weapons to the resistance they allied themselves with against this anti force sensitive group and decided to fight alongside them, the Empire came in and our resistance had to leave, Depa sacrificed herself to Darth Vader so we could escape, after several months we needed to find resources to keep our ship running and we were sent out here, we got shot down and crashed on your world."
The elves thought for a moment, "You all have been through so much."
Jak merely chuckled without humor at that, "Yeah we have, and we're still alive, for better or worse."
"Everything happens for a reason Jak of Mandalore." Glorfindel told him.
Jak nodded in agreement, "True." he agreed, "So do you have any questions?"
"Who's this Darth Vader?" Glorfindel asked, "I noticed that when you uttered his name you tensed."
Jak rose an eyebrow behind his helmet, 'well this guy is observant,' he thought to himself, "Vader is the current apprentice to Darth Sidious, also known as Palpatine, and the supreme commander of the imperial military, and a notorious Jedi killer, I heard of stories where he killed fifty Jedi at once, I think that's all propaganda, but even still he is not to be underestimated, according to Du, Kes, Jasmine, Viridian and Xey, Vader was once the hero with no fear Anakin Skywalker, they confronted him at the Temple, and only survived thanks to Sera Keto, and the Jedi BattleMaster Cin Dralig."
The elves listened for more, "Who was this Anakin skywalker?" Iminye asked.
"He was the greatest hero to the Jedi during the Clone Wars along side his teacher Obi-wan Kenobi, it was said that the two of them together we're unstoppable, but he eventually fell and became the one everyone fears now."
"... I'm sorry to hear that, do you know why?"
"No, we don't." a voice said from the sleeping pile the trio looked over to see Du sitting up and stretching, "And we don't much care either, he is our enemy now, and we will have to deal with him if we want to take down the Empire."
"... I see." Iminye said, "The empire hasn't done anything to us though, they have mostly fought against the orcs and other fell creatures, King Thranduil has even allied with them, but the rest of us are… more weary and now after what you told us… well I don't think we will want to do any more business with them."
"If you do that you'll only make them suspicious and if they find out that you've been helping Jedi fugitives." Du said, "they will bring the hammer down on you hard."
"They will not succeed ," Glorfindel proclaimed, "the Valar and Iluvatar himself would not allow it." he told them
"... You said you wanted to take us to Rivendell right?" Jak asked, the elves nodded in confirmation, "how do we know that you won't turn us in."
Glorfindel raised an eyebrow, "Why would we do that? Elrond has no desire to do such a thing, and after everything you told us he wouldn't want any of you to go through that evil." he spat
"... Thank you." Kes murmured from her spot, still nestled in Jasmine's embrace
Glorfindel looked over to the east, and smiled, "Is one of your missing companions a young girl, with white hair, pale skin, and silver eyes?"
Du raised an eybrow, "That sounds like Xey… but her eyes are dead looking, she lost the ability to see during her torture sessions with… a group who hates people with our gifts." Du explained.
"My Lord Elrond is a skilled healer and appears to have restored your friend's sight." Glorfindel said much to every one of the group's surprise as all those still laying down sat up.
"Not even Ulra could do that and she's an incredible healer." Du muttered surprised.
"You can see that far?" Jak asked.
"Yes." Glorfindel answered simply, "and I can see that our journey to Imladris will be perilous." he added his eyes narrowed slightly.
"Orcs?" Iminye asked coming up beside him.
"Worse, I see Trolls, Back Uruks, and Olog hai as well as the sky orcs." Glorfindel told her.
Iminye looked at him in shock, "A force like that hasn't been seen in these lands since…" she trailed off
"Angmar." Glorfindel finished grimmly.
"Sky orcs?" Du asked.
"The ones that grounded ones that your empire call the far outsiders." Iminye answered.
"Oh the Yuuzhan Vong." Jak said in realization, "how long will it take to reach Imladris?"
"21 days on foot."
"So we have at least 21 days of fighting ahead of us." Du stated, "Sounds like a wet dream for you." the young Jedi teased the Mandalorian, who rolled his eyes.
"Whatever." he responded though he wouldn't deny, a challenge did sound great.
(Back with the Company)
Almost three weeks had past since that night, and now Thorin's company were in the middle of a downpour, "Here, Mister Gandalf, can you do something about this deluge?" Nori asked
"It is raining master dwarf and it will continue to rain till the rain is done. If you wish to change the weather of the world you should find yourself another wizard."
"Are there any?" Bilbo asked
"What?
"Other wizards." Bilbo clarified
"There are five of us, the greatest of our order is Saruman the White, then there are the two blue wizards… eh I've quite forgotten their name." Viridian couldn't help but think that was a bit mean on his part.
"And who is the fifth?" Viridian asked.
"That would be Radagast the Brown."
"Is he a great wizard or more like you?" Bilbo asked, Viridian was about to rebuke him for being a bit rude.
"I think he is a very great wizard, in his own way, he's a gentle soul who prefers the company of animals to others, he keeps a watchful eye over the vast forest lands to the east, and a good thing too for always evil will try to find a foothold in this world." after that the company drifted into silence.
"Hey Viridian can you do something about this rain?"
Viridian sighed, "Sorry Nori, I can't, My friend Janus could but he's not here is he?"
Nori cursed under his breath but still continued, after a while the company came to the ruins of a house.
"We'll camp here for the night." Thorin called out, "Fili, Kili look after the ponies make sure you stay with them. Oin, Gloin get a fire going."
"A farmer and his family used live here, I think it would be wiser to move on, we could make for the hidden valley." Gandalf advised.
"I already told you I will not go near that place."
Viridian sighed in annoyance, "Why not?" the Jedi asked
"The elves could help us we could get food, rest, advice."
"I do not need their advice." Thorin snarled.
"You're being childish." Viridian butted in.
"A dragon attacks Erebor and the elves did nothing, Orcs plunder Moria and desecrate our sacred halls all the while the Elves stood by and looked on."
Viridian stopped short, "Alright I can understand your bitterness, but come on who governs the Hidden Valley?" Viridian asked Gandalf.
"Lord Elrond, and your friends are there waiting for you." Gandalf told him.
Viridian's eyes widened, "Now we have to go there." he told him.
"No." Thorin refused.
Viridian got on his knees in front of Thorin, "I have never asked you of anything in our entire journey, please Thorin Oakenshield allow me to reunite with my friends and kin, please." he pleaded.
Thorin stared at Viridian for a moment, before sighing, "Very well we'll head there tomorrow." he agreed reluctantly.
"Thank you."
Celebion was looking around the house to see what had happened, he looked around for several minutes, before he ran to Thorin, "What ever happened here was recent, I suspect trolls."
Thorin looked at him in alarm, "We'll be sure to keep an eye out." he told him, trusting the rangers instincts.
Gandalf smiled to himself, "If you'll excuse me Thorin, I will go to look ahead."
"Very well." Thorin nodded, with that Gandalf took the horse and went on ahead, Thorin called out to Bombur, "Bombur we're hungry." the biggest dwarf nodded and began to get dinner ready, some time had gone by and the sun had gone down.
"He's not back yet." Bilbo stated.
"Who isn't?" Bofur asked as he served the dwarves the stew that Bombur made.
"Gandalf." Bilbo clarified.
"He's a Wizard he does as he chooses, here take this to the lads." he asked him.
"Bilbo." Viridian started, catching the Hobbit's attention, "If it will make you feel better I'll go look for him." he told him
Bilbo looked uncertain, "Are you sure."
"Don't worry about me, I can handle myself." Viridian said with a smile as he walked over to his steed and took the Bio armor and put it on, "Better safe than sorry." he told them and headed off into the night.
Viridian looked around for a good fifteen minutes with no sign of the Grey Wizard, "Well I shouldn't be too worried Gandalf is far more powerfull then I ever will be." he said to himself, as he walked back to camp to find it empty, Viridian stretched out with his senses and found the company they all seemed to be terrified, he also sensed three large life forms in their vicinity, he bolted in that direction, he came to a stop just outside the clearing, he saw the Dwarves all tied up some in a pile next to a large pile, some on a spit over a fire, Celebion looked to be unconscious under the boot of another humanoid that was talking to the trolls.
"What is your answer?" the mysterious person asked.
"We'll mull it over." one of the trolls said.
"I'd prefer one tonight."
"Laying siege to the elven city is not an easy task." another troll said.
"You will be with the Legions of the misty mountains." the silhouette sighed in annoyance.
Bilbo looked absolutely terrified, he looked over and saw Viridian in the tree line and mouthed at him.
Viridian looked at him and read his lips, 'Vong. Well poodoo,' Viridian thought to himself, so the Vong were going to lead an attack on one of the Elven Cities? That can't be good.
Viridian heard the Vong sniff the air, and snarled a bit, "So there is another one of you Dunedain here?" he asked out into the wilderness.
Viridian cursed under his breath.
"You may as well come out now, or my Staff gets to feast on your friend." the Vong said holding up his Amphistaff.
Viridian clenched his fist and came into the clearing.
"Hey Bert it's another human can we eat him too?"
"I don't see why not."
With that the more scrawny troll made his way to Viridian.
"Take one more step and just see what happens you pitiful excuse of a Rancor." Viridian threatened
"Ha, and what are you going to AHHHHH!" the Troll suddenly found himself on his ass which happened to land on a very sharp rock.
"Je'daii!" the Vong turned around, and saw Viridian wearing the armor of the Yuuzhan Vong Warriors, "Where did you get that?!" he asked.
Viridian didn't answer he only glared at the Vong, the Vong snarled and did a hand gesture his snake stiffened into a spear and he held it to Celebion's back.
"Answer me heathen!" he barked.
Viridian grinned at the Vong all the while thinking of ways to save Celebion without hurting him, "I took it off a warrior after I knocked him out,"
"You shamed him!" he shouted at him in disbelief.
"Yes I did." Viridian grinned,
The warrior glared at him for a moment before a foul grin spread across his face as well, "Have you ever heard of Vega Ryal?"
Viridian dropped the grin and a shocked expression came upon his face, "What does he have to do with anything?"
"You should know we shamed him too, he squealed and cried so much it was beautiful to watch a mighty Je'daii being brought so low." he chuckled.
Viridian began to shake with absolute rage, "You tortured a child, and you call that beautiful?" he snarled, the Company could feel the intense anger pouring out of Viridian, Fili and Kili could even see he had specks of Gold appearing in his eyes.
"Absolutely, to be brought close to the gods is a beautiful thing indeed." the Warrior said taking great satisfaction in bringing this anger out of the young Jedi.
Viridian couldn't take it any more, he let out a scream of pure unadulterated rage, the Company all winced as their ears screamed in protest, the flames of the fires doused, and the leaves shook from the scream, "I'M GOING TO KRIFFING KILL YOU!" Viridian Screamed, as he pushed off from his standing position and landed a knee in the Vong's face, the company heard a sickening crack, but the Vong remained standing in fact his helmet was destroyed but he looked fine save for the black blood dripping down his face, the Amphistaff was disoriented from the scream, Viridian took the opportunity to grab it by the head and pull its head from its body effectively killing it.
The Vong recovered and began to wrestle with the angered Jedi, all the while the troll that Viridian pushed over attempted to come up behind him again, Viridian sensed him approach, so he grabbed the Vong more firmly by the arms and with all his strength and then some, threw the Vong into the troll, causing the troll to fall over from the impact, Viridian then sent telekinetic shoves at the other trolls knocking them over and began to rouse Celebion.
"Celebion, wake up and get the others up, That vong is mine." he snarled as he charged again the two lightsabers on his hip flying to his hands, their blades activated and Viridian leaped at the Vong who was scrambling away, just then the Rock split and the the sun hit the three trolls, Viridian didn't care he was only interested in killing the Vong, the Vong ran up the beaten path with Viridian in hot pursuit.
"Viridian stop!" Gandalf shouted out to no avail.
At some point the Vong pulled out a strange blade about one meter long and rigid it looked like a sword, and he turned to face the young Jedi who stopped four meters away from him.
Viridian charged with his sabers at the ready with one he tangled with the Vong's sword and the other he attempted to stab in the gaps which failed, with some deft swordplay on the Vong's part he disarmed Viridian of one of his swords.
Viridian responded with a vicious punch to the Vong's face, followed up with tripping him up with his blade, only for the warrior to tackle Viridian into a tree causing them both to lose their weapons, their fight descended unceremoniously into a brawl each trading punches, and kicks, grappling, claws on the Vong's part, and Viridian even resorted to biting at one point.
This brawl lasted for several minutes, before help came in the form of Gandalf, smacking the warrior in the head with his staff knocking him out and the Dwarves and Celebion physically restraining Viridian.
"LET ME GO I'LL KILL HIM!" Viridian shouted.
"VIRIDIAN MALLORY YOU WILL CALM DOWN NOW!" Gandalf shouted, a dark aura spreading out from the Grey Wizard, Viridian immediately calmed down and even became submissive at the Wizards presence, Viridian began to whimper and tears started to fall, with that Gandalf walked up to the distraught young man and pulled him into a hug, "It's alright now."
After a moment the Company waited for Viridian to compose himself, before Thorin asked, "Who is Vega Ryal?" he asked him.
Viridian let out a shaky breath, "He was one of the Jedi initiates, that My friends and I helped escort out of the temple when Order 66 was issued, my best friend Daniel Valo saw him as a friend and kind of adopted him as a brother and in a way we all did, I have no idea where they are now."
"How old would he be?" Celebion asked.
"Now? About fourteen or fifteen, he was approaching twelve when the attack on the temple happend." Viridian answered.
"I'm so sorry." Thorin sighed.
"No I am sorry for losing it back there, I take it Gandalf told you the dangers if that happens."
"You could eventually become an agent of evil." Balin answered, "if you lose control."
"Sounds right." Viridian sighed bitterly, "What are we going to do about him?"
"Considering he knows something about your kin, I will allow him to be interrogated." Thorin said.
"He also said something about they trying to besiege an elven city." Viridian added.
Gandalf nodded to show he heard that, "I will get the details necessary, first let's look for the troll hoard."
"Agreed," Thorin said, then turned to the others, "Someone tie this filth up, and take his armor." he commanded, Thorin, Gandalf, Viridian, Dwalin, Gloin, and several others followed the path till they came to the troll hoard.
As they entered the smell hit them hard. "What on Earth is that foul stench." someone asked.
"It's a troll hoard." Gandalf said as if it were obvious, which it was, the group walked through the hoard, there were some gold and jewels on the ground, this prompted Gloin to ask Nori to get a shovel, Viridian looked over at Thorin and saw that he picked up two well made swords.
"These swords weren't made by any troll." Thorin said in wonder as he handed one of to Gandalf.
"Nor were they made by any smith among men." Gandalf added, "these were forged in Gondolin, by the high elves."
Thorin stared at his blade for a moment, "You could not wish for a finer blade." Gandalf told him, Thorin looked at him and nodded, before grabbing the hilt, pulling it out a bit, and studying the blade, Viridian had to admit it looked beautiful, Viridian went deeper into the cave, and stopped short when he felt his foot hit a sword, he looked down and saw a similar sword to Gandalf's seeing no harm in having a back up he bent down and picked it up, the Sword resonated with power and he wondered briefly if it would function in the same way as the ancient weapons of the Jedi and the Sith before the invention of Lightsabers, he took his lightsaber and cleared off the webbing from the sword and fastened the blade to his hip, he was about to leave, before he spotted an envelope with a strange seal on it strange for this world anyway.
"What is this doing here." Viridian asked picking up the envelope, he could tell that whatever its contents were, were pretty powerful.
"What is the matter young Viridian." Gandalf asked.
Viridian turned to him the envelope in his hand, "This seal look at it." he told him.
Gandalf studied the seal for a bit, "I don't recognise it." Gandalf said surprised.
"I do." VIridian said, "it is the symbol of my Order." he explained, much to Gandalf's surprise as well as Thorin's who was watching the encounter.
"What is it doing in this place?" Thorin asked.
"I have no idea." Viridian admitted, "What I am curious about is how it got here."
"Well there are some in Middle Earth who have the gift of far sight, perhaps they left a gift for you." Gandalf proposed.
Viridian stared at the envelope for a moment, "I'll wait till we get to Rivendell and meet my friends before I open this thing." he decided as he pocketed the envelope.
"A good idea, Let's get out of this foul place." Thorin beckoned, Viridian nodded and began walking out and saw Oin, Gloin, and Nori filling in a hole.
"We're making a long term deposit." Gloin answered the unasked question, Viridian shrugged and walked out of the troll cave with the others soon following, Viridian walked to the clearing where he saw the Vong warrior that provoked him to anger, was tied to a tree and gagged so he couldn't speak and he looked absolutely livid.
Gandalf strode up to him and removed the gag, only for the warrior to spit at him, Gandalf merely sighed at this behavior, "I'm going to ask you some questions and you will answer." Gandalf told him, causing the warrior to laugh at him as if he was joking.
"We know your Je'daii tricks don't work on the children of Yun Yuuzhan." the Vong said smugly.
Viridian didn't even bother telling him that the Force worked on both the orcs and the trolls so far, though if he was honest with himself he didn't really try to use the Force on the Vong, 'I will have to test that later.' he noted to himself.
"How do you know Vega Ryal?" Gandalf asked.
"We captured the Je'daii Ryal, less than two years ago and had him brought to the Koros Strohna Do'Nom." he answered, "What the…. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME!?"
"Where is the Koros Strohna Do'Nom." Gandalf asked instead.
"Je'dai Valo and several others lead a fleet of the chiss and a another mix match fleet to attack the Koros Strohna, Ryal escaped and the ship crashed onto a world on the other side of this region of space, the Je'dai have built a base there, STOP IT!"
Viridian looked shocked and happy, Vega was alright, and Daniel was alive and well, all he had to do was find his friends finish the quest and figure a way off this planet.
Gandalf could sense Viridian's elation, and looked at him with a smile, "What City do you plan to attack and when?"
"The City of Imladris in five… AHHHHHHHHHHH" the Vong abruptly screamed and thrashed about before finally going limp, black blood coming out of his eyes, 'nose', and mouth.
"What just happened?" Bilbo asked.
"He took his own life." Gandalf said with pity. Celebion walked up to him and drove a his knife into the warriors skull just to make sure.
"I'd rather not take any chances with these things." Celebion told Gandalf who nodded in understanding.
Before another word could be said another sound was heard in the distance the trample of feet, "Arm your selves." Gandalf told them, Viridian drew his newly acquired sword deciding to let his lightsabers to cool down a bit, all the while he stood next to Bilbo ready to defend him should he need to, he saw that Bilbo also had a blade a small one though, Viridian made a mental note to get the hobbit a shield and to help train him how to defend himself when they had the chance.
Abruptly a bunch of rabbits pulling a sleigh jumped into the clearing with the rider quite literally screaming Bloody murder, he came to a stop and Viridian studied the strange man he wore brown robes and seemed quite dirty, his hair was also brown.
"It's alright my friends this is Radagast, how are you my old friend?" Gandalf asked the Brown Wizard.
Radagast looked like he was about to speak but always seemed to lose his train of thought, "Oh I had a thought it was right on the tip of my tongue, oh, it's not a thought at all, it's a little stick insect." as he said this he opened his mouth and pulled a small insect out of his mouth, the company looked among each other in surprise that this man was a wizard.
After a bit the Company decided to tend to their own things while Gandalf and Radagast talked, Viridian stayed close by and dropped eaves on the conversation, "The Greenwood is sick Gandalf, nothing grows there anymore, at least nothing good, then there were these spiders they looked like some kind of spawn of Ungoliant, Gandalf they came from Dol-Guldur." as soon as Radagast said that Gandalf went rigid.
"Dol-Guldur?" Gandalf asked, "Are you certain?" he asked the Brown Wizard.
Radagast procured a strange object from his cloak and held it out to Gandalf, Viridian could sense a sickening darkness emanating from that object, Gandalf unwrapped the object and Viridian could make out the hilt of a dagger or sword, he began to walk forward to study the object further, only for Gandalf to quickly douse the object and hide it in his cloak.
"You know what that is Gandalf." Radagast stated.
"The White Council will make to march on that fortress soon my friend, I will be there myself."
Viridian was so confused what was he talking about, one thing he knew he was going to do when they reached safety was confront Gandalf about it.
Abruptly they heard howling in the distance, Bilbo looked up in alarm as did the rest of the Company, "What was that? Was that a wolf? Are their wolves out their?" Bilbo asked in alarm.
"A Wolf? No that wasn't a wolf." Bofur said on edge, Viridian looked up the small hill and saw a giant CAnine like animal.
"Look out!" Viridian shouted, as he lept at the animal his new blade at the ready, the Warg saw his sword and Viridian could actually sense quite a bit of fear coming from the creature, just before Viridian's blade cut into its body and into its neck.
"Kili get out your bow!" Thorin shouted, as another Warg came up behind him, Kili shot the animal and it stumbled down the hill past Thorin who took his elven sword and cut into the downed Warg, and several of the other dwarves beat it to death with their weapons, "Warg scouts which means an orc pack is not far behind." Thorin told them.
"Orc Pack?" Bilbo asked in alarm.
Viridian pulled his Sword out of the Wargs body and flicked it clean.
"Who did you tell of your quest aside from your kin?" Gandalf asked.
"No one." Thorin answered.
"Who did you tell!?" Gandalf asked more urgently.
"No one I swear!" Thorin answered honestly
"You're being hunted!" Gandalf exclaimed coming to the obvious conclusion.
"We won't be able to outrun them."
"Our ponies they bolted, only Celebion's horse is left."
Viridian stepped forward "I will hold them off till you get to safety." he offered.
"I will not allow a member of my Company to die needlessly." Thorin shot that down.
"I will draw them off." Radagast said.
"These are Gundabad Wargs they will outrun you." Gandalf stated.
"These are Rhosgobel Rabbits." Radagast said, causing Gandalf to look at him in surprise, A grin broke out over the Brown Wizard's Face, "I'd like to see them try."
With that Radagast got on his sleigh and began leading the Wargs on a roundabout chase Celebion let his horse go off in the opposite direction knowing that he would be fine.
The Company ran across the planes while Radagast lead the Wargs by the nose, after a few minutes of hiding and running one of the riders and his steed was on the rock that they were hiding behind, Thorin nodded to Kili, and the young Dwarf, knocked his bow before running out catching the Warg and Orcs attention, he shot the Warg in the shoulder, While Viridian reached out with the force and pulled both animal and rider down into the midst of their group where they were quickly dispatched but not before the Warg and the Orc let out howls of pain and let the rest of the pack know where they were.
"RUN!" Gandalf ordered, with that they bolted across the planes, they ran for several minutes before they realized that they were trapped on all sides, the Wargs then herded them to a small rock formation.
"They have us surrounded." Thorin said his sword at the ready, "Defencive formation!"
Viridian held his sword at the ready and stood next to Celebion, the Orcs and the Wargs seemed to regard Viridian with a hesitant anger, 'Why, what is this sword's history?' he asked himself, and he also wondered Thorin's and Gandalf's sword's history as well even Bilbo's blade, 'Now's not the time." he thought to himself as one of the Wargs brought up the courage and charged him, Viridian stabbed the blade into its head then ripped it out, he absently noted that the blade started to glow blue, 'huh interesting.' he risked a glance and saw that Thorin's blade did the same as did Bilbo's, 'hmn I will have to look into that later.' another Warg charged him, he reached out with the force and pulled its legs out from under it, causing it to trip up and fall.
"Where's Gandalf!" one of the dwarves shouted.
"He's abandon us!" Dwalin shouted.
Kili shot a rider off of his steed and killed it but the Warg still snarled as it approached, the company all backed up a bit and braced themselves in preparation for the beasts charge.
"This way you fools!" Gandalf shouted from a secret path near in the rocks, as he popped up and descended again.
Thorin and the rest of the Company bolted for the rocks, Viridian, Celebion, Kili, and Thorin keeping watch as the company dropped in one by one, "Kili Come on!" Thorin called for his nephew, Kili turned and ran to the rocks, While Viridian killed the Wargs that came towards him.
"Celebion you next!" Viridian ordered.
The ranger looked uncertain but Viridian didn't give him the option as he caused him to fall into the opening.
"Come on Viridian!" Thorin shouted, abruptly an object hit Thorin with an audible 'Thud' and he fell into the hole.
Viridian turned to see some Vong Warriors with their weapons and some strange insect like creatures in their hands, he then heard a buzzing sound and saw a bug fly past him and back into the warriors hands, behind the Warriors he saw several Orcs they were tall about man high and armed with some decent weapons, some Trolls wearing some heavy armor and large swords and hammers, and Wargs with Riders on them.
Viridian briefly considered making a break for the hole but then what was to stop the enemy from following them, Viridian took a deep breath and adopted a defensive stance, all the while he held his saber at the ready in his off hand and deactivated, Abruptly he heard what sounded like a rocket over head, then a rocket flew down into the enemy's formation, Viridian looked up to see a Man in full armor land right beside him in the armor styled after the Mandalorians, Viridian grinned.
"You looked like you could use some help." the man said as he aimed his blaster pistols at the enemy.
"Any help is appreciated Jak."
"We should save the chat for later, we gotta get down to business and go!" Du exclaimed coming up on Viridian's other side along with, Kes, Janus, Ulra, and Jasmine on the other side of Jak two strangers appeared they had an odd but pleasant aura about them, they were armed with swords and armored lightly.
"You're right let's get 'em." Viridian stated, with that they all charged the enemy
AN: I shall explain, Gandalf in the actual lore has already been to Dol-Guldur, that's where he got the Map and Key to Erebor from a very messed up Thrain, the thing about the wizards is that they were sent to Middle Earth to keep Sauron at bay, I never understood why the movies made it look like they weren't aware of Sauron still being alive but whatever, well Saruman was just trying to get the ring and what not so there is that, Daniel and Vega are main character in my other story Soul of the Jedi if you want to check it out you'll find it, also the stalker in the woods called Viridian a cultist guess what the two Blues did? Also I made all the elven swords glow blue because why not?
any way I hope you all enjoyed see you next time