Title: The Power of Love

Author: landofthekwt

Prompt: Destiny At First Tweak

Word Count:503

Genre: Crossover Inuyasha/LOTR

Universe: Canon

Warning: None

Summary: Power is illusory. Only love is real.

(A/N This oneshot is a dream I had on March 6.)

He gazed at the impossibly tall woman. Never in his entire life had he seen anyone so beautiful. The moonlight caused her gold and silver hair to glow. Her aura flashed so powerfully that he wondered how he kept from being blinded. If she had asked him to worship her he would gladly have bowed down to her. Instead she asked him to look in her mirror. Reluctantly he obeyed. It meant that he could not gaze upon her beauty. The images were cloudy at first, but slowly began to clear.

He saw a dying god shouting to his mother because he realized that he was totally alone because no one in the world loved him. A blind man staggered away from his dead wife into the desert to tell the world that his vision which had killed billions of people had been a lie. A mother's love protecting her son killed the world's greatest wizard with his own spell. Lava melted a gold ring and destroyed the foundations of the greatest power of the age.

Thousands of similar images flooded the mirror All had the same theme. A man would accumulate power. In end it would crumble and death would take it all away. He gazed up from the mirror. The mighty woman had dwindled to a size slightly taller than himself. She was still beautiful, but in an ordinary way. No longer did she seem a goddess.

" What are you trying to tell me?"

"The power you seek is illusory."

She bade him look at the mirror once more. He gasped. In his arms was a small girl with raven hair and blue gray eyes. She was dressed in strange clothing. He held a huge sword in one hand. The two of them were staring at the Jewel of Four Souls. He knew that the woman had waited for him to come to her. Now that he was with her, she had the confidence to complete her mission and destroy the Jewel.

" She is your destiny. This girl was born to be with you and you were born to be with her. In the universe, you will find that while power is illusory only love is real."

" But I loved and was betrayed. I only reached out for power in anger."

"You must have patience that your love will come for you."

When he tried to reply, she put a finger to his lips.

"Sleep now. Your love will soon come to awaken you. Choose her love and reject the power of the Jewel."

The images faded and he felt himself and his memory of these events fading with them. He realized that he was back on the tree and he was still impaled by Kikyou's arrow. Deeper and deeper he fell. Soon he returned to the sleep of death he had been in for fifty years.

Galadriel awoke in a cold sweat. She shook her husband.

"Celeborn, I just had the strangest dream."