Chapter 27
The next morning the fellowship started again. They could not stay in one place for long because they had already lost a lot of time and Legolas felt that the evil was getting stronger. The longer they took, the more powerful Sauron became. Slowly the elf regained his strength and he was also feeling better. The prince knew that it was the right decision to talk about.
They crossed several forests and mountains, passed rivers and lakes and traveled through some towns and villages, where they were often viewed as rather strange. Legolas had to admit that it had to look really funny. A group of four hobbits, two people, a dwarf, and an elf. Again, there was a little pain in the beautiful warrior's heart when he thought of Gandalf, but he pushed it away. But slowly the dark shadow that weighed heavily on the prince's soul was getting worse. Frodo also struggled with the ring because his dark powers were slowly beginning to affect the innocent soul of the hobbit. The ring also began to seduce Boromir. The man hadn't done anything yet, but the elf's watchful eyes didn't miss the greedy glances which the Gondor man threw at the ring. The Isengard army was getting closer and Legolas now felt a darkness that he could not assign, but which he was very familiar with.
"Legolas, are you okay?", suddenly asked a voice next to him and the archer looked into the gray eyes of Aragorn. The rest of the fellowship also listened intently to the conversation. Of course, the elf didn't want to worry anyone, on the contrary, but he knew he couldn't keep anything from them because they had to be prepared.
"Something is coming up to us. Something dark. I don't know what it is, but it seems so familiar to me." The ranger looked at him worried, but also confused.
"Orcs?" Legolas shook his head. He knew the feeling when orcs were around and that was not what he was feeling. Something in him contracted with fear and anguish and a cold shiver ran down his back. What was out there? Why couldn't he find out what it was and knew it at the same time? A hand lay on his shoulder and his mortal friend smiled reassuringly at him. The prince knew that he must have looked more concerned than he thought. "Whatever is out there, we'll deal with it." Legolas nodded, but something made him doubt. The darkness he felt had something that troubled him more than usual. Suddenly the prince felt the unknown and at the same time well-known darkness very clearly. And there was also something else.
"Orcs!", he shouted. He immediately got several shocked looks, but he couldn't take care of that right now. They were facing a fight. The archer reached for an arrow and placed it in his bow.
And at the next moment, a bunch of orcs came running. Everything contracted in the elf when he saw how many there were. But nothing was lost yet. While the others immediately plunged into close combat, the prince tried to bow as many orcs as possible. But soon he had to fall back on his double blades because the enemies were too close.
When he severed an orc's head, he noticed something that kept his heart still. One of the orcs had knocked Frodo down and tried to escape with the ring. Although Legolas was also afraid for Frodo, he took his bow and ran after the orc. He quickly pulled an arrow out of the quiver and fired it at the enemy. This reached its goal and the ugly creature fell to the ground with an even uglier grunt. The ring rolled out of his hand and as quickly as possible the handsome warrior took it in his hand. The dark shadow on his soul grew stronger and slowly the elf realized what burden Frodo was carrying. But there was no time to think about it. The ring had to be brought to safety until this cursed fight was over. Then Legolas discovered an inconspicuous stone in a bush. After making sure no one was watching, the prince hid the ring underneath and plunged back into the fight. However, they were far outnumbered and the archer slowly realized that they could not win this fight. He had long since lost sight of his companions and he could only hope that they were doing reasonably well. But the handsome warrior didn't notice the elf behind him, who was feeding himself with a devilish grin.
At the next moment, pain exploded in Legolas' head and his vision became blurred. The last thing he saw was a piece of black hair, then everything went dark.
