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//"Kiera gvarkandak! Qourkanak!" the shrill voice of the Sidvils' came to the Uruk-Hais ears. Gulak turned his eyes to the Sidvil.

"What have you to say?" he roared on the black language of Mordor.

"Thee laadyy wiitch iss heereee iin Moooriiaa, thee hiigh Loord waants Heer! Aliive waass thee onlyy deemaand!" Gulak turned and lifted his bow and the blade, notching an arrow and pointed it at the annoying little creature. He let it fly and it landed in front its feet.

"Show this to the Uruk-Hai, sent them to the hidden passage, they will obey me. Tell them to catch them all, they do not need to be unharmed!"\\

Aragorn was sitting on a high bench in the chamber where the horses was when Ellara came back.

"Lady?" Aragorn said when he saw her white hair; he jumped down and paced to her as she dismounted. "What?" his voice was worried, he didn't know what she had done.

"I will explain, are the others awake?" Ellara said swiftly. Aragorn nodded as he stroked Elass' neck. Merry and Sam was preparing breakfast as Ellara walked in.

"I would like to see us on our way as soon as possible," Ellara said avoiding the strange glimpses and the sounds of Sam losing his grip on the plates that fell down on the ground with a loud clattering. Gimli looked at her, eyes bewildered as he asked:

"Lady Ellara? Is that you?"

"Of course it is I, who else would it be?"

"You are changed…" Pippin said as he walked around her glancing at her bright white clothes, the large round silver shield and the unlighted fire- sword hanging at her side.

"To the better I hope, this is Trhaw, on the common language Light," she said and showed them the Ring. "I hope it will aid us in our war. And that it will help me now. Merry, Sam, would you be so kind to hurry with the breakfast."

They hurried and then mounted their horses, Ellara led the party and Aragorn was as always the last.

Merry soon fell a sleep in front of Pippin and as he started to snore loudly he involuntarily brought the entire company to laughter.

"What?" Merry asked rather annoyed as the rest laughed even harder.

Aragorn simply shook his head when Pippin started to complain about lunch, he reached into a pocket and pulled up an apple, which he then threw to Pippin who gladly started to munch on it.

"Now me must rest for the night," Ellara said hours later as she slid of Elass back helping Sam down as well. Ellara walked to a pillar supporting a door reading its sign.

"Do you not remember the way?" Gimli asked.

"Well, it has been over seven thousands since I last past this road."

"How can you sure that it is clear all the way through?"

"The sentries told that they are clear, I trust in them. Although they said that the Orcs had found their way down to the Eastern Passage and they asked me to enforce the spell of that door so they will not come down here, this door however leads to the West. We will rest here anyway."

The following morning the company ate quickly, Ellara disappeared during the breakfast though no one worried. When she came back her red eyes glittered, she talked very quiet and very fast on elfish:

"Someone watched us last night, a Sidvil. This is a dire tiding. We must hasten our passage as much as we possible can. If we ride in gallop we can get go the exit in four hours."

They hade rode for hours when Aragorn suddenly felt if like the walls around him grew if possible even dimmer and that glimmering eyes was all around them.

"We must hurry, these walls has grown eyes and ears!" he said on Sindari.

"The Exit is just in front of us!" Ellara screamed as she drove her horse faster.

"TIRNIE MORNIE!" something bellowed from the darkness above them.

"Turn to your left!" Ellara shouted as she swiftly brought her shield up to protect herself and Sam from the black arrows that rained from the caverns' roof. Aragorn saw her unsheathe her sword that burned so white one could not lay ones eyes on it, and then he saw the black long ropes and nets dangling down from the roof as if the Uruk-Hais were fishing. He drew his horse nearer Merry and Pippin and trusted his small shield into Merrys thankful hands. Aragorn felt like something suddenly punched his thigh, a black arrow was protruding it didn't hurt much right then but he knew to well that the arrow would be poisoned and that the pain would come.

Aragorn felt scared, for them all and he felt the panic grow in his chest when he saw how Merry and Pippins horse fell its' legs entangled by a rope. Pippin quickly got to his feet shielding the unmoving Merry with his shield and his gleaming blue weapon. Aragorn noticed as he rode close to Ellara that she had lost her sword; a arrow had pierced through her unprotected wrist, although she still held her shield high.

"Sam! See to Merry and get him to me!" she said as she took the hobbit around the waist with her wounded hand and swiftly got him to the ground from the still moving horse. Sam and Pippin lifted Merrys unmoving body and dragged him to Ellara who swiftly pulled him in front of herself. Meanwhile Aragorn had caught Arod, Legolas friend and rode forth to Pippin who he helped up and made sure that Sam was sitting behind him. Aragorn only hoped that the horse was friendlier than it looked. He rode behind the rest his head was swimming now, and he was more or less leaning over the neck of his mount as they reached the sunlight.

Ellara made the company ride fast for yet awhile to place some distance between them self and the passage. Gimli noticed how Aragorn slumped more and more in front of him. Not until then he saw the arrow jutting out from Aragorns leg.

"Ellara! Aragorn is wounded!" he then shouted realizing that she had already started to slow in.

"We are now in the valley of the Grey River, there is a Elven house just across it and there is a ford not long from here," her voice was strained, Gimli had to caught Aragorns body so he would not fall of as his body started to shake violently.

"We must see to that we reach the other side of the river," Aragorn said with barely bearing voice.

"We will ride as fast as we can," Gimli said supporting the wounded king.

The horses were so sweaty the fur had on some places turned white and Ellara was worried when they were about to cross the wild river. She was holding the still lifeless Merry cradled in her arms.

"The water is cold and our horses are warm, they will be shocked by the cold water. But I believe that this is the shallowest place and the closest to Thalleom."

She made her mare walk through the cold water and the other two horses followed without much argument. Gimli was now holding Aragorn who was more or less unconscious now; he was talking on a low voice.

"It's the poison," she whispered as she slipped of Elass carefully because of Merry. "It is weakening him. Sam and Pippin, would you see if you can find Athelas and Freijul? Gimli, help me to get him down."

"Ellara, we must see to your wound as well," Gimli said and pointed at her still bleeding wrist when they had gotten Aragorn to the ground.

"Break it of and pull it out. I will deal with it later," Ellara simply said. Gimli did as she had told him and took the arrow and broke it, she paled but she did not move. Gimli covered it with a clean cloth, and then went to find something to light a fire with. He saw how the unearthly beautiful elf maidens' hands started to glow with a pale light as the trees stopped him from seeing more.

Ellara was very frighten, that she might not be able to find her ability to heal. The wound did not threaten Aragorns life but it would make her able to release him from his pain, she looked into her self, sensing the place where she knew that her powers lay. She let it flow forth in her and as she opened her eyes she saw how the wound oozed with clean red blood as she made the arrow vanish and as she concentrated more the wound started to close somewhat. She let out a sigh of relief; her powers hadn't been all gone, just asleep. She did not want the wound to heal to quick she could still sense something foul in it.

She was concentrating on Merrys head wound when a large shadow fell over her back; she saw the shadows' large black robe, she knew what it was and why it was there. She drew the long dagger Legolas had given her, enchanted it to light as she attacked, she turned and looked into fire brimmed eyes…

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SARA ;) sort of wanted some kind of cliff-hanger ;p

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