Frodo, Sam, Tosh, and Vorazun traveled miles on their way to Mordor since the Fellowship disintegrated. They rested at one point until Frodo woke up abruptly, "Gandalf!"

"What is it, Mr. Frodo?" Sam asked.

"Nothing."

"Same dreams?" Vorazun asked and Frodo eyed her sadly then nodded. "What happened to the wizard is not your fault."

"You'll have to get over it in order to continue with your mission. Don't let it be a lethal distraction to you," said Tosh.

The group then used the elven rope from Galadriel to climb down and Tosh was ahead of Vorazun. Frodo followed with Sam asked, "Can you see the bottom?"

"Not yet. Just concentrate climbing down," the spectre leader replied and the group continued climbing down. Tosh and Vorazun were not seen.

Sam accidentally slipped and dropped something, "Catch it! Grab it, Mr. Frodo!" Frodo caught the dropped item and slipped. "Mr. Frodo!"

Vorazun caught Frodo and Tosh muttered, "Careless hobbits."

"Thanks," Frodo said to Vorazun.

"Bogs and ropes, and goodness knows what. It's not natural. None of it," Sam muttered as he finished climbing.

"What's in this?" Frodo asked about the small box.

"Nothing. Just a bit of seasoning. I thought maybe if we was having a roast chicken one night or something," Sam replied.

"Roast chicken?!"

"You never know."

"Sam. My dear Sam."

"It's very special, that. It's the best salt in all the Shire."

"It is special. It's a little bit of home."

"We heard that hobbits prefer the comforts of home and it's quite natural for them to be homesick. Mr. Raynor had once said that it occurred to Bilbo Baggins when he set out on a journey," said Tosh.

"I miss the Shire," Frodo muttered.

"Me too," Sam agreed.

"When the mission is completed, you will see the Shire again safe and sound," said Vorazun.

"We can't leave this here for someone to follow us down," Frodo spoke while heading to the rope.

"Who's gonna follow us down here, Mr. Frodo?" Sam asked.

"The Gollum creature we have been hearing about," Vorazun thought.

"It's a shame, really. Lady Galadriel gave me that. Real Elvish rope. Well, there's nothing for it. It's one of my knots. Won't come free in a hurry," said Sam as he pulled the rope down and it went through the knot easily.

"Real Elvish rope," Frodo muttered.

The group of four continued traveling and fire was seen faraway. "Mordor. The one place in Middle-Earth we don't want to see any closer. And it's one place we're trying to get to. It's just where we can't get. Let's face it, Mr. Frodo, we're lost. I don't think Gandalf meant for us to come this way," said Sam.

"He didn't mean for a lot of things to happen, Sam but they did," said Frodo.

"If you have not caused the Fellowship to break, Mr. Aragorn will know the way," said Tosh.

"Mr. Frodo?" Sam noticed something strange occurred in his friend.

"It has to do with the Ring. It'll be tricky when we enter enemy territory," Vorazun was certain.

"It's getting heavier," Frodo spoke as he felt something and drank some water. "What food have we got left?"

"Let me see," Sam checked his backpack. "Oh, yes. Lovely. Lembas bread. And look!" He took out a small package holding the elvish bread. "More Lembas bread," he took out another package then tossed one piece to Frodo. Tosh was given another piece of Lembas and Sam said, "I don't usually hold with foreign food but this Elvish stuff, it's not bad." He asked Vorazun, "Aren't you hungry?"

"No thank you," the Dark Templar replied.

"I'm impressed with the elvish bread," Tosh tasted the bread.

"Nothing ever dampens your spirits, does it, Sam?" said Frodo.

"Those rain clouds might," Sam spoke about the change of weather. Therefore, he and the rest of the small group had to find shelter from the rain.

The next day, they continued their hike through the mountains.

"This looks strangely familiar," said Sam.

"It's because we've been here before. We're going in circles," said Frodo.

"What is that horrid stink?" Sam asked. "I warrant there's a nasty bog nearby. Can you smell it?"

"Yes. I can smell it. We're not alone."

"Possibly that Gollum creature," Tosh thought.

Frodo, Sam, Tosh, and Vorazun rested in one spot. Someone muttered, "The thieves. The thieves. The filthy little thieves. Where is it? They stole it from us. My precious. Curse them, we hates them! It's our, it is, and we wants it!"

The hobbits woke first as someone tried to attack them and dragged that something. Tosh and Vorazun woke to see a gruesome humanoid creature attacked Frodo mainly. It tried to get its hands on the Ring and Tosh figured out that it must be that Gollum creature. The spectre slammed the creature on the back of its head using the butt of his rifle.

"You killed him?" Frodo gasped.

"No, he's unconscious. We'll put him to question," said Tosh.

Sam tied Gollum's hands with the elvish rope and used it as a leash.

The next day, Tosh and Vorazun woke up early to check on Gollum. The spectre readied his rifle while the Dark Templar readied her psionic scythe and held the rope simultaneously. Gollum woke up and found himself facing two strangers he had not seen before. "You have been tracking the two hobbits. Is it the Ring that brought you to us?" Tosh questioned.

"It is my precious. Don't kill us, don't kill us," Gollum pleaded with fear.

"How about we make a deal?" Vorazun asked.

Frodo and Sam woke up finding their two companions questioning the creature.

"The deal is this: we'll untie you only if you promise not to harm the hobbits," the Dark Templar proposed the deal.

"We swears to do what you wants. We swears," Gollum bowed.

"There's no promise you can make that I can trust," said Frodo.

Gollum turned to the hobbit, "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We will swear on the precious. Gollum. Gollum."

"The Ring is treacherous. It will hold you to your word."

"Yes, on the precious. On the precious."

"You know the way to Mordor?"

"Yes."

"You've been there before?"

"Yes."

"You will lead us to the Black Gate," Frodo untied the creature so that it could guide them.

"If you are to turn on us, we'll kill you," Tosh threatened and Gollum complied.

"To the Gate, to the Gate! To the Gate, the master says. Yes! No! We won't go back. Not there. Not to him. They can't make us. Gollum! Gollum! But we swore to serve the master of the precious. No. Ashes and dust and thirst there is, and pits, pits, pits. And Orcses, thousands of Orcses. And always the Great Eye watching, watching," the creature muttered while it went ahead of the small group. It then roared at Frodo, Sam, Tosh, and Vorazun before running off.

"Hey! Come back now! Come back!" Sam shouted as they went into a point where there were two paths to take. "He's run off, the old villain. So much for his promises," the hobbit spoke as the creature was nowhere in sight.

"This way, all of you. Follow me," Gollum appeared.

Author's Note

The next chapter will be on Aragorn's group. What happened to Merry and Pippin along with the enemy's movement will be incorporated.