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Leaving for Minas Tirith

Cat's POV

"There was no lie in Pippin's eyes. A fool, but an honest fool he remains." Legolas, Aragorn, Gimli, Gandalf, Lizzy, Theoden and I were standing in the hall, listening to Gandalf. "He told Sauron nothing of Frodo and the Ring." Gimli sighed in relief. "We've been strangely fortunate. Pippin saw in the Palantír a glimpse of the enemy's plan. Sauron moves to strike the city of Minas Tirith." I spotted Aragorn tense out of the corner of my eye. "His defeat at Helm's Deep showed our enemy one thing. He knows the Heir of Elendil has come forth." Gandalf nodded at Aragorn. "Men are not as weak as he supposed. There is courage still. Strength enough, perhaps, to challenge him. Sauron fears this. He will not risk the peoples of Middle Earth uniting under one banner. He will raze Minas Tirith to the ground before he sees a King return to the throne of men. If the beacons of Gondor are lit Rohan must be ready for war."

"Tell me! Why should we ride to the aid of those who did not come to ours? What do we owe Gondor?" Theoden asked angrily. Legolas glanced at me.

"I've heard that before." I heard a faint whisper inside my head. Smiling, I replied.

"I did come to your help eventually!" Legolas had got stuck up a tree. As ridiculous as that sounds, he was very young. I said something along Théoden's lines when he asked for help.

"I will go!" Aragorn said, interrupting my mental flashback.

"No!" Gandalf told him.

"They must be warned!"

"They will be." Gandalf approached Aragorn and spoke in a low voice. Ha. Elf here! "You must come to Minas Tirith by another road. Follow the river. Look to the black ships." Gandalf turned back. "Understand this, things are now in motion that cannot be undone. I ride for Minas Tirith-" Gandalf looked at Pippin. "-and I won't be going alone." Gandalf began to usher the hobbits out of the hall, and beckoned for Lizzy to follow.

"Gandalf, why are you bringing me along?" Lizzy asked as Legolas and I watched Gandalf, Lizzy, Merry and Pippin running/hurrying towards the stables.

"At a request from someone." Well, it wasn't me! Might have been Galadriel.

"Of all the Hobbits, Peregrin Took, you are the worst! Hurry! Hurry!"

"Where are we going?" Pippin asked innocently.

"Why did you look? Why do you always have to look?" Merry yelled at him.

"I don't know, I can't help it."

"You never can!"

"I'm sorry, alright? I won't do it again."

"Don't you understand? The enemy thinks you have the ring! He is going to be looking for you Pip. They have to get you out of here."

"And you? You're coming with me?" Merry walked away. "Merry?"

"Come on!" They went under an arch and I kept level with them, still listening.

Gandalf lifted Pippin onto Shadowfax's back.

"How far is Minas Tirith?" Pippin asked.

"Three days ride as the Nazgul flies. And you'd better hope we don't have one of those on our tail."

"Here, something for the road." As Lizzy climbed onto a horse she had borrowed from someone, Merry handed Pippin a leather pouch.

"The last of the Longbottom Leaf?"

"I know you've run out. You smoke too much, Pippin."

"But, we'll see each other soon?" Merry looked at Gandalf. "Won't we?"

"I don't know! I don't know what's going to happen." Merry backed up, upset.

"Merry?"

"Run, Shadowfax, show us the meaning of haste!"

"Merry!" Lizzy, Pippin and Gandalf galloped off. Merry ran up some steps to the top of a watchtower. Legolas turned to me.

"Hobbits are very hardy folk. He will survive. So will Lizzy, knowing how hard she can slap." I smiled. Legolas could sense I was slightly worried about them.

"I know they will." We started to walk together through Edoras. "I've always been there for Lizzy, even when she got me in major trouble... but she was always there to get me out of it again."

"That sounds similar." Legolas remarked. I rolled my eyes. When we were elflings, I would constantly get him in trouble, but like with Lizzy and I, I would always get him out of it again. Reversed roles. Huh. Oh well, enough thinking about Lizzy; we had our own problems.

Disclaimer: I don't own LOTR, Gandalf's seriousness, Théoden's quote thingy or Gandalf's Shadowfax quote.

Sorry it was so short, I didn't know what to do at the end. I really should've put this at the end of the previous chapter but... oh well. On with the next chappie! Plz R&R, much appreciated.