Everything hurt; Elsa's head throbbed in pain. Her vision was dark and blurry; she heard distant and dull voices calling her. Elsa struggled to sit up.

"Elsa? Elsa, can you hear us?" A voice said breaking through the haze. The blonde struggled to sit up.

"What...what happened? Where are we?" she asked as her vision cleared revealing Mavis and V kneeling around her. Mavis wiped away a tear.

"The bite has started to convert you. Oh gods...why did you ever let me do this to you?" the girl sobbed. Elsa took her hand and gave it a squeeze as she shakily got to her feet. She could hear the loud rushing of water nearby.

Elsa stumbled over to the edge of the water and knelt down; taking a long drink of water. She felt better...but only for a moment. Staring back up at her was a strange woman, Elsa jumped back in surprise. Her reflection was no longer hers. The face staring back at her no longer had long blonde hair, now it had long and dark violet hair. Her once blue eyes had a blood red tone and the bite marks on her neck had completely disappeared.

Upon further inspection Elsa realized her normally ice blue dress had become dark black and her cape seemed to be made of shadows. "What the Fuck!? What in Odin's name happened?!" the Queen cried in anger and confusion.

"The bite turned you into...someone like me." Mavis said sadly, "Although I'm not too sure how it will affect your powers." V looked enraged at Mavis but said nothing for a moment. Elsa stumbled and was caught by V. The guardians helped the weakened Queen to the fire where the rest of the Fellowship sat.

"We must cross the lake at nightfall." Aragorn said, as Elsa weakly sat down. "Hide the boats and continue on foot. We will approach Mordor from the north as soon as our Ice Goddess recovers her strength."

"Oh yes?" Gimli said sarcastically, "Just a simple matter of finding our way through Emyn Muil, an impossible labyrinth of razor sharp rocks." The dwarf's deep sharp words only helped to increase the throbbing in Elsa's head. "And after that it gets even better! A festering, stinking, marshland as far as the eye can see."

Aragorn nodded his head and calmly replied, "That is our road. I suggest you some rest and recover your strength master dwarf and you to Elsa." Gimli got up and wandered off grumbling. Legolas approached Aragorn and whispered, "We should leave now."

"No." Aragorn said shaking his head, "We must wait for our goddess to recover her strength. We will not be able to make it without her help." Looking around he added, "Besides, orcs patrol the eastern shore; we must wait for the cover of darkness. It will be then that we will be the most protected. After all we now have three magical beings with control over darkness."

"That is what makes me so nervous about them. We can never be sure where their allegiances lie." The elf said as he walked away. Merry walked over the fire carrying an armful of fire wood.

"Recover my strength! Pay no heed to that my young hobbit." Gimli grumbled. The hobbit smiled at the grumpy dwarf but soon frowned as he realized something. "Where's Fordo?"

Elsa looked up to find her favorite hobbit but he was nowhere to be found. "I will go and find him." She offered. V and Mavis quickly stood up and began to walk with Elsa into the forest.

"Aragorn", Legolas said "Go with them. There is a terrible darkness I have sensed growing in the Ice Goddess." Aragorn nodded and jogged over to join the companions. A short time later, much to the protests of V and Mavis they all split up. As Elsa walked through the trees she heard yelling in the distance. As she snuck forward she realized the voice belonged to Boromir.

"You will take the ring to Sauron! You'll go to your death and the death of us all!" Elsa walked forward wearily. "Curse you! Curse you and all the halflings!" Suddenly Boromir was thrown to his feet, coming to his senses the man called out to Frodo begging for forgiveness.

Elsa quickly ran off in search of the hobbit, but was suddenly stopped with a deep searing pain that racked through her body. The terrible whispering had returned, Elsa struggled to stand but the strain was too great. Collapsing the Queen struggled to breathe as thick black blood ran from her eyes, ears, nose and mouth. In front of her she saw a great fiery eye that seemed to be trying to shred her very soul into pieces.

Through the haze Elsa heard a horn sounding; forcing herself to stand she ran toward the call for help. Upon reaching the source of the horn she found Boromir struggling to protect Merry and Pippin from an ever growing wave of Orcs. To her horror an orc unlike any she had previously seen walked forward carrying a large black bow. He was pointing it directly at the warrior...

Suddenly ice shot everywhere piercing the bodies of dozens of orcs, much to the surprise of the large orc. For a brief second Elsa saw fear in the enemy's eyes, this was soon replaced with greed. "It's the Ice Goddess! Saruman wants the witch alive!" he cried drawing the attention of the orcs away from Boromir and the Hobbits.

Just as she was about to launch a spear of ice at the orc's head Elsa was slammed back and pinned against a tree. A terrible searing pain tore through her shoulder, looking down she saw a large black and white arrow sticking out of her left shoulder. Elsa fumbled to pull the arrow out but her consciousness was fading. The last thing she remembered before blacking out was the rough hands of orcs tearing her from the tree and carrying her off.

Orcs where everywhere and so was V. The warrior dodged in and out between his enemies; stabbing and slicing as he went making his way to where the horn had last sounded. Beside him moving at a much faster speed that him was Mavis, the girl had no weapons. She needed none; the vampire tore the orcs limb from limb, one moment she was humanoid the next she was a bat. She would fly up into the trees then come soaring down transforming back and landing on the shoulders of an unlucky orc and then ripping its head clean off its shoulders.

Finally finding the source of the horn Mavis and V found Boromir with an orc pointing an arrow at his face, he was already filled with arrows and was bleeding heavily. V ran forward determined to save the fellow warrior but was suddenly hit hard in the face by the orcs shield. Quickly jumping back up V watched as Mavis tore at the colossal orc, cracking bones, tearing flesh and biting it neck.

The orc angrily threw the girl from his shoulders and attempted to stomp on her head. Mavis swiftly evaded the orc's foot and bit down hard on his ankle. The creature howled in pain and make on last feeble attempted to flatten the girl before his heart was torn from his chest. Mavis held the orc's heart out in from of his face, grinning in triumph as she watched the life fade from the monster's eyes.

Aragorn ran in from the side and knelt at Boromir's side with V and Mavis. "They have Elsa and the Hobbits!" the fallen warrior gasped. Mavis looked alarmed at V; her look became one of fear quickly. The vampire had never seen so much anger and wrath in one creature's expression before.

"Forgive me, I have failed you all. Please do not let our city fall." Boromir said in his final gasping breath and died. V leaned forward and closed the warrior's eyes. "No, Boromir, it is I who has failed to honor the pledge I made to Elsa."

Mavis wiped a single tear from her eye and stood up. They were soon joined by Gimli and Legolas, who both stood in a grim yet respectful silence. After a few minutes the Fellowship returned to the river bank, V could just barely make out the shapes of two hobbits disappearing into the opposite forest.

"You mean not to follow them?" Legolas stated.

Aragorn shook his head, "Frodo's fate is no longer in our hands."

"Then it has all been in vain! The Fellowship has failed." Gimli said sadly.

Aragorn walked forward and looked at the remaining fellowship. "We may no longer be a fellowship. But as long as we have each other then we will have...what did you call it V?"

"A Companionship."

"Yes, a Companionship. We shall not abandon our Queen to torment and death. Nor will we forsake Merry and Pippin. Not while we have strength left. Leave all behind that can be spared" the warrior walked over to his dagger and picked it up, "We travel light. Let us hunt some orc."

Everything was blurry; Elsa could barely lift her head. The world seemed to be bouncing up and down. A sudden and sharp pain tore through her mouth. Feeling around with her tongue she located the source of the pain, two of her teeth had just fallen out. Spitting them out in disgust Elsa tried to take in her surroundings.

It was late at night and she seemed to be being carried by an orc. Elsa choked on the foul creature's stench, "he smells like fear and anger and...Wait how can I possibly know this?"

Elsa could feel the very blood pumping through the orc's veins; she could sense every emotion, thought and movement all around her. The darkness began to clear and soon it no longer looked like night. All around her was bright as day.

"Keep moving!" the orc at the front of the line growled. Elsa noticed that Merry and Pippin were also being carried along with her.

"I'll have to wait for the right moment to get away..." The Queen thought. "Or I guess that now's a good time too."

The head orc suddenly felt the night get even darker and the air become much colder. He wondered how that was possible when they were getting so close to Isenguard. Suddenly realization dawned on him, "The Ice Witch! She's awake, kill her! Kill her! Kill her!" he howled.

Dark spikes of ice shot out of the ground impaling the orc who was carrying her and a few of the other orcs. Elsa hit the ground and felt her body shrink, she tried to crawl under what seemed to be a big rock before passing out once more...

"Come along Gimli!" Legolas shouted as the group of five ran through the frigid mountains. Gimli could barely squeak a response. It had been five days now that they had been chasing the orc troop and they had yet to see their targets. Mavis was being carried by V, days without any food had left the vampire weak and unconscious. V on the other hand was focused and determined to recover Elsa at any cost.

The mountain air didn't agree with him, he liked darker and deeper places. V had felt at home back in the mines, up here he felt to exposed, too... vulnerable. In the distance the warrior noticed a pile of bodies on the ground surrounded by dark ice cycles'.

The next moment the warrior disappeared much to the annoyance of Aragorn. A moment later V was back in his arms was a small violet bat. Very gently V placed a small black stone on the bat's chest and said a word in a strange language. The stone glowed deep red for a moment and then dissolved. The bat shuddered and slowly the bat transformed back into the wounded snow queen.

"I have looked into the enemy and the enemy into me." Elsa whispered. "And he will stop at nothing to destroy us..."

Author's Note:

Sorry it took longer than usual to update but school started again for me and I really need to focus on it at the moment. However feel free to annoy me with messages either here or on my skype (sirvcheers) telling me to update. Otherwise I'll forget. I will try updating every week to two weeks. We are now done with part one and will be moving on to part two, three, and four. Also I'm still hoping someone would be kind enough to draw a cover for this. As always you are all amazing people and I hope you all have a wonderful day.

Cheers!

V