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"Common Tongue"

"Elven Tongue"

Chapter 10

Stick it with the pointy end

Nividia looked back as the rest of the Fellowship was walking up the hill to her. She had run in front just to look at the view for any possibility danger. It was none. This morning was quiet and peaceful and also very beautiful. The sun was going up high with no sigh of any clouds. She looked back. Gandalf was first, then Frodo, Merry, Pippin, Gimli, Legolas, Sam with his pony Bill, Boromir and Aragorn. She turned again to look at what will be before them now and waited for the rest to come up.

Gandalf passed her first and stopped to look before him, and then he continued. Nividia waited for everyone to come pass her till she moved on after Aragorn.

Nividia was so lost in thought she did not see they had stopped and crashed in Aragorn. "Nividia?" Aragorn asked.

"Let´s take few minutes break," Gandalf said. They had been walking for hours now and Gandalf knew the Hobbits needed a break; even he rather wanted to keep moving.

"Thank you," Pippin said, totally exhausted as he sat down on the ground, leaning against a rock. "Now a good meal would do," he mumbled to himself.

After few minutes only Gandalf stood up again, about to move until they all heard Nividia growl at something. They all looked at where she looked, but they did not see anything. Legolas walked few feet before them and furrowed his eyebrows, trying to see what was coming.

"Wargs!" Legolas shouts out as he saw Wargs come running towards them out of the forest.

"Wait!" Nividia said to them all, as she was in tiger form, she knew Gandalf would tell them to run. "Just wait here, I will get rid of them." Nothing happened, Nividia just stood there and then the Wargs were upon them. The Fellowship got ready with weapons and let the Hobbits stay in the middle of their circle.

"Nividia?" Gandalf asked as he saw her standing absolutely still, but then they saw it. The Wargs did not see them, but they were looking for them. The Wargs circled and sniffed the ground, they knew they were here, but still they were not.

One after one the Wargs slowly went on the ground and died. They all looked at Nividia who now they all saw just relaxed in her muscles. Nividia turned around to them.

"Don´t tell me you had doubts in me, Gandalf," she said to them all.

"We should keep moving, I am sure there are more nearby," Legolas said and Gandalf nodded. Aragorn, Boromir and Gimli were giving the seven Wargs a little kick to make sure they are dead.

"How did you do that?" Boromir asked.

"A powerful spell, I used them once on…" She looked at Gandalf who still looked where the Wargs came from, the north. "Never mind, it is a spell I´ve been practicing on this lately. I was not quite sure it will work either," she said and they kept moving.

This time they did not stop for a long time. They had to make up for the lost time and get as much as they could away from the dead Wargs. They stopped on top of another hill surrounded by big rocks for cover. Sam prepares the food while Gimli set up fire. Nividia turned to Elf form and sat down to rest towards one of the rocks. She closed her eyes but opened them up again when two Hobbits stood before her.

"Lady Nividia?" Merry asked, they but looked a bit nervous. "We were wondering if you could teach us to fight, can you?" Nividia smiled to both of them. She stood up.

"Come on then, of course I will," she said and they went to a little place where it was free from everything that could be in the way. When she sat down she had take off the quiver with arrows and her swords that were all on her back. She draw one of her swords and so did the Hobbits. "All right, then." She looked at them how they stood; they stood just up and down. Nividia showed them to keep their feet away, as the basic. "Remember, stick it with the pointy end." They both looked almost stupid at her. Nividia chuckled. "Good, you know that." She heard others tried killing their laugh.

After a while, Boromir helped with the training. "One, two three," Boromir said.

"Nice work, Pippin. You´re getting better," Nividia said.

"Thanks," he said and then it was Merry turn. Nividia turned to Boromir and Aragorn who was joking with the Hobbits, and then they all looked at something in the sky.

"It is coming fast, against the wind," Boromir said.

"Crebain from Dunland!" Legolas shouts out.

"Hide!" Nividia shouts to them. She took with her Frodo and they hide under a rock and Aragorn came hiding before Frodo. The crows, the spies of Saruman came flying over them and flied away, back south. Nividia saw it at them that hey had already spotted them. The Fellowship came forth and looked at Gandalf for what to do.

"Spies of Saruman. The way south is being under watch, we must take the pass over Caradhras," he said and turned to the snowy mountain.