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Chapter 14

The Breaking of the Fellowship

~Legolas~

"Oof." Celebwen landed on the ground beside me with a thud, the fox on her stomach. Wait. The fox was here? Did that mean that Sauron was too? I sat up and looked around. No, he wasn't. Only the fox had tagged along.

"Why are you looking at me like you've just seen a ghost?" asked the fox.

I heard Pippin scream. Obviously it wasn't my imagination. Celebwen sat up, the fox landing on her lap.

"Hey! You could be a little more careful, you know." said the fox.

Celebwen was just as surprised as the rest of us.

"Fallon? What are you doing here."

"I honestly don't know. Are they ok, cause I swear they are acting like they've never seen a fox before."

"Not a talking one." said Pippin, getting over his shock.

The fox, whose name was apparently Fallon, stared at him.

"What? I can speak your language? Or are you able to speak fox language? What's going on here? Amalthea, I want to go home! Now! Even if Clymenestra is annoying. Wait, she isn't here too, is she?"

"No, I don't think she is, otherwise she would have complained about something by now." said Celebwen.

Fallon stood and leaped down, staring at all of us with curious black eyes. Boromir helped Celebwen up. I felt a slight pang of jealousy, but pushed it away. It was her choice. Not mine.

"Let's get back to the river." said Aragorn.

Thank goodness, something to get my mind off the more unpleasent thoughts that were plaguing my mind.

I helped Frodo and Sam get up, while Fallon perched on Celebwen's shoulder. It was rather amusing to see Celebwen entirely ignor Boromir while she and Fallon got caught up on what had happened to each other in the few months they were apart. After all, they had quite literally been in different worlds. However, the amusement was soon gone. As an elf, I had shar hearing, and was able to hear almost every word they said, wether I wanted to or not.

~Amalthea/Celebwen~

"So, Galadriel gave you an elven name? That's cool. Celebwen is a really pretty name. What does it mean?" asked Fallon. She was really curious about what had happened since I'd left.

"It means 'Silver Lady'. Galadriel told me that much. I've asked Legolas a little more about elvish, but not much." I told her.

"Legolas, Legolas... Oh! That blond haired person with the pointy ears! He's an elf, isn't he?"

"Yes." I replied, wondering just how much she would ask me about him.

"So he's immortal, like you!" I wondered just what she was getting at.

"What are you getting at, Fallon?" I asked.

"Well, he's immortal, you're immortal-"

"No. No, definitely not! We had a fight a couple days ago, not long before we laft Lothlorien. He most likely hates me now, not that I care. Because I most certainly am not friends with him anymore." I said, emphasizing on the points that would remove any thoughts of hers concerning Legolas and I being a couple.

"Oh. What did you fight about?" she asked.

Not a question I wanted to answer. Espescially since he was not far ahead of us. I secretly hoped that elves didn't have hearing as good as their sight. If they did, I was in for a few awkward days.

"I'd rather not talk about it." I replied.

"Fine. We're all entitled to our secrets."

I glanced at Boromir. Fallon quickly noticed.

"I take it that he was the reson for the argument?" I stared at Fallon.

"You know me too well." I told her.

"So he was."

"Partially."

"Ah."

We soon arrived at the river. I had a bad feeling that Legolas had heard us, considering that he kept looking at me with an odd expression on his face. Which proved that elves did have excellent hearing to match their sight.

"So. How am I going to get back?" asked Fallon.

"We could throw you over that cliff Amalthea jumped off when we arrived in your world." Suggested Pippin.

I gave him a scathing glare. If Fallon was a human, she would have gone white with shock. As it was, she stiffened and stared at the young hobbit in horror.

"Throw me off a cliff? Never! And what's this about you jumping off a cliff? If your mother knew-" Pippin threw a piece of meat at Fallon and she stopped ridiculing me and ate it.

"Now we know how to silence the fox." said Merry.

I cast the hobbits another scathing look.

~Legolas~

That night, after everyone else was sleeping, I walked over to the river. Sure enough, Gollum was there, floating like a log. Aragorn had been right when he had spoken to Boromir earlier. I recalled their fight about the ring. So I wasn't the only one who mistrusted Boromir when it came to the ring.

This prompted me to think of my fight with Celebwen. What had I been thinking? The ring had nothing to do with Boromir's feelings for her; how had I managed to connect them? Not that it had worked, all it had done had made her hate me. She had even admitted it to Fallon, the fox. Also, it had just driven her further into his arms and away from me. Brilliant.

Aragorn and Arwen had never fought like that, that I knew of at least. For them it was nothing but happiness. I merely tortured myself. In my mind, I made a list of things I had learned so far on this trip:

1. There is another world

2. Sauron has some pawer there.

3. Unicorns exist, half-unicorns like Celebwen can fly, on wings like a pegasus

4. I was in love with a half-unicorn

5. The half-unicorn I was in love with was with Boromir.

6. It was partially my fault, and I seemed to be very good at torturing myself.

7. Foxes can talk.

Clearly, things weren't quite going according to plan. What else could possibly happen on this quest that was out of the ordinary?

~Amalthea/Celebwen~

The next day dawned bright and clear. Legolas seemed unnerved. He was talking to Aragorn about something, and I was able to hear him say 'It isn't the eastern shore that worries me'. Sam made breakfast for everyone. When we were finnished eating, we began to pack our things so we could move on. That's when we noticed that Frodo was gone. And so was Boromir.

We began to search frantically; Frodo had the ring, and Orcs might be around. I suddenly remembered Legolas' warnings about Boromir and the ring. Could he have been right? I pushed the thought away. Right now we had to find them.

I heard Boromir's voice suddenly. He was talking to Frodo.

"We should none of us wander alone. You least of all." he was saying. They said some other things I couldn't quite hear for a few moments.

"Give me the ring Frodo." No. He couldn't have just said that. I must have heard wrong. Unless Legolas had been right all along.

"I ask only for the power to defend my people!" Boromir told him.

I glanced through the trees and saw them. Frodo suddenly put the ring on and vanished. Boromir went crazy.

"I see your mind!" he shouted. "You will take the ring to Sauron! You will betray us all!" he slipped suddenly and fell. When he got up it was like he had just woken p.

"Frodo?" he said.

I ran out to him.

"Boromir! What just happened?" I asked.

"I-I'm not quite sure. I know I asked for the ring-"

"Demanded it from Frodo was more like it. I saw."

He stared a me for a moment.

"Boromir, you know it has to be destroyed. Just look what it made you do. For a moment I thought you were going to kill him." I said. He seemed to ignore me. "Are you even listening to me?" I asked.

"Do you hear something?" he asked.

I looked around, and heard the sound of many footsteps. We stood. Fallon crashed through the trees.

"There are scary creatures out there, Amalthea!" she cried, and I lifted her up so she could rest on my shoulder. She was trembling.

"Orcs." said Boromir.

"What's an orc?" asked Fallon.

"Horrible creatures that would probably eat a fox like you." Boromir told her. Fallon shuddered and whimpered.

"In other words, the scary creatures you saw." I said, glancing at Boromir. "Fallon, go find the others. They may not know about the orcs yet."

"Yes, right away." she said, and leaped down from my shoulder.

As Fallon bounded away, the sound of orcs grew closer. Merry and Pippin's voices could be heard not far off. Boromir and I ran towards them. The orcs were nearby, clearly going after the hobbits. Boromir drew his sword, and began to battle the orcs.

~Legolas~

I shot arrow after arrow at the orcs. There were several of them. Eventually, we defeated them, but I had afeeling there were more. The sound of a horn pierced the air.

"The horn of Gondor." I said.

"Boromir." Aragorn whispered, and he ran off in Boromir's direction.

Celebwen. I hadn't seen her since we ran off in search of Frodo, and there was every chance she was with Boromir now. I ran after Aragorn, Gimli on my heels. I was so focussed on getting to Boromir that I nearly tripped over a fox.

"Hey! Watch where you're going!" said the fox.

"Fallon!" It was Celebwen's fox.

"Legolas. Gimli. Thank goodness I found you! Amalthea scent me to find you. There are orcs!"

"Where is she?" I asked.

"She's with Boromir."

"Lets go, then." said Gimli, clearly wanting to kill more orcs with his axe.

We started to race towards Boromir and Celebwen, Fallon following on her short legs.

~Amalthea/Celebwen~

I watched as a third arrow struck Boromir, and as he continued to fight. I reared again, striking orcs with my hooves. But there were too many, and I was injured. I collapsed as they grabbed Merry and Pippin, slipping back into human form. Another orc grabbed me, likely assuming that a unicorn may be useful to them, if they could convince me to join them. I struggled and managed to free myself, and ran towards Boromir. The giant orc aimed again with a fourth arrow, and was about to shoot when Aragorn leaped out an began to fight the orc. I fell unconscious just as he cut its head off.

When I opened my eyes, we were back at the shore. All four hobbits were gone. Aragorn and Legolas were lifting Boromir's body into a boat.

"What happened?" I asked Gimli, who was leaning on his axe.

"He's dead." the dwarf replied.

I froze in shock. Not just because he was dead, but because for some reson I wasn't as sad as I would have expected to be. No tears came, causing me to wonder if I had ever really loved him. I'd thought I had, but now... I was confused. If it hadn't been love, then what had it been? Certainly more than friendship. But I was a unicorn. The only unicorn ever to ruly know love had been my mother, as she had spent time as a human. But I was half-unicorn, I forced myself to remember. It was all a lie.

Boromir was scent into the river in the boat, and washed over the waterfall. Legolas walked over to me.

"Are you all right? I know that you and Boromir were... close." he said.

"I'm fine." I said, pausing before adding, "You were right. He was always after the ring. I saw him asking, no, demanding Frodo to give it to him. For a moment I thought he was going to kill him!"

He looked at me with sympathy in his eyes for a moment before looking at the river, and seeing Frodo and Sam.

He ran over to a boat.

"Hurry! Frodo and Sam have reached the eastern shore." He was right, the hobbits were making there asy through the bush. Legolas glanced at Aragorn, who simply stood there.

"You mean not to follow them." he stated simply.

"Then it has all been for nothing. The fellowship's failed." said Gimli. Fallon wrapped her tail around her paws and looked at Aragorn.

"Frodo's fate is no longer in our hands. We won't abandon Merry and Pippin to torment and death. Not while we have strength left." said Aragorn. "Leave all that can be spared behind. We travel light." He looked around at all of us. "Lets hunt some orc."

Gimli gave a slight sheer, and followed Aragorn into the bush. I smiled at Legolas. I was happy that we were getting along again. Then the two of us ran after the others, Fallon hard on our heels. The first part of our quest, helping Frodo as much as possible, was over. Now, a new quest, helping Merry and Pippin, was about to begin.

Well, I hope you like this story so far, and that things have been resolved for those of you who didn't like Amalthea/Celebwen being with Boromir. I'll try to update again soon! Thank you to everyone for reading!