Weeeeeeell... someone asked me to make the chapters a bit longer, and to tell the truth, I
can never quite tell how long my chapters are, so sorry. Also, someone mentioned a
couple that I have been thinking of using, and I'm adding that to the "list". Also, there
will be some weird poll like thing within this story. You can either vote for Legolas/Usa,
Aragorn/Usa, or The Person I'm Thinking Of/Usa. There ya go, your choices. Of course,
that doesn't mean you can't vote for any other couples if you wish! On with the story.
They stayed in Rivendell for another two months, and over that time Arwen and
Mamatoba were inseprable. They were the first Elf and "Dwarf" in many years to have
become friends, yet none of the Elves approved, and neither did Gimli. He was strongly
against their friendship, and had tried to make her see what he saw, but he was never
successful.
It was time for the Fellowship to leave, and they had been doing nothing but gathering
anything needed for their trip. As they were getting ready to leave, Arwen came to them
and she called to them to wait but a minute longer. She walked to Mamatoba and quickly
unwound her hair from it's messy braid. She separated Mamatoba's mass of hair into five
parts and braided those together quickly and bound it with rings of beautiful silver.
"Friend Arwen, why did you do that? And what are those rings for?"
Arwen gave her a gentle, yet sad smile. A single tear escaped the corner of her eye, and
she whispered, "You, as well as I, know that you will not be returning. You must promise
me never to take out that braid, for it is the braid that will bind our souls with friendship,
even should you or I die. The ringlets will give you strength. You, dear Friend
Mamatoba, will never forget this land, and I will make sure of it,"
Mamatoba looked to her sadly, and a single tear escaped her eye. They made eye contact,
and both turned and left. Mamatoba muttered something and walked up to join her
brother, placing her helmet onto her head at the same time.
They walked for many days, soon stopping on a small plateau of land with many rocks
jutting out in all directions. As they stopped there, Boromir taught Pippin (or Peri, as
Mamatoba had taken to calling him) and Merry to fight better with swords, Aragorn
watched on amused, Frodo and Sam ate their lunch, Legolas surveyed the horizon, and
Gandalf, Gimli, and she where all just sitting on one of the lower rocks.
"If anybody asked me, which I note they're not, I say we go the long way through
Moria," Gimli grumbled.
"I agree!! Our cousin would give us a welcome fit for royalty!" Mamatoba piped up.
Gandalf's eyes flashed with fear, as the caves were mentioned. He quickly disagreed,
when Aragorn commented that there was something off about a random wisp of cloud in
the distance.
"It is moving fast, against the wind as well," Boromir commented.
Legolas gave a sudden gasp, "Crebain!"
With that, Frodo stomped out the fire, and they all hid beneath stones or among shrub.
Their gazes all followed the Crebain as they passed overhead, and they sprang out of
hiding and looked at the black creatures as they passed on towards the area from where
they came.
They discussed these happenings, and decided that the fastest way to get to Mordor, was
to go over the Caradhras. So on they went, not knowing of the sure doom awaiting them
at the mountain.
And so, they climbed the mountain, the snow burning their eyes, hindering them, and
making them sleepy. The higher they climbed, the stronger the snow got, the steeper their
path. As Mamatoba was taking this all in, she gave a small cry as she saw Frodo begin to
tumble down part of their path.
She gave a sigh of relief as his tumbling stopped at the feet of Aragorn. The relief was
short-lived, however, when the movements of Boromir picking it up by the chain caused
her body to stiffen. He mumbled somethings, which seemed to make Frodo and Aragorn
stiffen as well, but she heard them not, being at the front of the line.
"Give Frodo back the ring," she heard Aragorn tell him sternly, she felt relieved again, he
would keep everything in control.
"Of-of course," Boromir seemed to say, sounding as if he had suddenly broken out of a
trance.
And as Boromir gave the ring back to Frodo (ruffling his hair as well), they continued on,
until the snow made it almost impossible to go futher, for the Hobbits and the two dwarfs.
"I hear an evil voice in the wind," Mamatoba faintly heard Legolas say, "It is the
Caradhras, he is laughing at our misfortune,"
And, true to Legolas's word, they soon too heard the evil voice. They heard a sudden
rumblings, and pressed against the wall of the mountain for cover, as rocks showered
over the edge, and snow fell onto them.
Legolas, being the Elf he was, was first to spring out of the snow. Boromir, holding
Merry and Pippin, came second, followed by Gandalf, then Aragorn clutching Sam and
Frodo by their robes. After that, Legolas pulled out Gimli by his hair, and they group
gave a small laugh at Gimli's ramblings.
"Where is Mamatoba?" he growled after the laughter subsided. Everyone gave a start,
where WAS she?
"Ahh! There's somethin' grabbin' at me!" they heard Pippin cry, "Get it off me, get it off me! Have you no mercy?!"
"Quiet down, Peri, and help me out from under the snow!" a muffled voice cried. With
that, they pulled the blue-lipped Mamatoba out of the snow, and agreed, however
reluctantly, to going through Moria.
"You won't regret it," Gimli kept on repeating, "You won't regret it,"
However, Gimli didn't know just how wrong he was.
They trugged along the shore of a lake with water darker than night, and they couldn't
help but tense with the bitter feeling of apprehension. Mamatoba was constantly looking
back and forth at the water, and at the high walls of the cavern.
They reached a place where two tree's seemed to guard something inbetween them. She
heard Gandalf mutter something and a small beacon of moonlight lit up something
resembling a door. The moonlight vanished, but writing remained on the strange thing,
and they listened as Gandalf read to them what the runes said.
"Maybe there's some sort of clue for the password in the message," Merry commented
absently. Gandalf seemed to ponder on this, and so he sat and thought, Frodo fidgeting
next to him.
They all paused, and to their horror heard the cry of wolves outside of the cavern.
Aragorn and Sam conversed quietly, when Sam started to unload their trustful pony, Bill,
with tears streaming down his cheeks. He let go of the rein's holding Bill, and allowed
him to leave.
As this was happening, Merry and Pippin gathered a few rocks and made as if to throw
them.
"Peri, Merry, don't do that!" Mamatoba cried, "It is so ominous, it... it wishes not to be
disturbed," she continued with a mumble, "It may bring us great loss,"
Pippin and Merry couldn't help but stare at her. From the short while that they had
traveled with her, they had learned that she was not just klutzy and clumsy, but she was
also quite a bit the ditz. Yet, here she was, having just uttered the most serious sentences
they ever expected to hear from her.
They heared Frodo say something to Gandalf, and he in turn, quirked an eyebrow and
said softly, "Mellon," Then, to the surprise of everyone, the door opened with a shiver,
and the entered the corridor, the darkness of it starting to frighten them.
Um, that's all, and this will probably end up being a short story, and something surprising
will happen in Moria, I'll let you know... hehe... Please review!
can never quite tell how long my chapters are, so sorry. Also, someone mentioned a
couple that I have been thinking of using, and I'm adding that to the "list". Also, there
will be some weird poll like thing within this story. You can either vote for Legolas/Usa,
Aragorn/Usa, or The Person I'm Thinking Of/Usa. There ya go, your choices. Of course,
that doesn't mean you can't vote for any other couples if you wish! On with the story.
They stayed in Rivendell for another two months, and over that time Arwen and
Mamatoba were inseprable. They were the first Elf and "Dwarf" in many years to have
become friends, yet none of the Elves approved, and neither did Gimli. He was strongly
against their friendship, and had tried to make her see what he saw, but he was never
successful.
It was time for the Fellowship to leave, and they had been doing nothing but gathering
anything needed for their trip. As they were getting ready to leave, Arwen came to them
and she called to them to wait but a minute longer. She walked to Mamatoba and quickly
unwound her hair from it's messy braid. She separated Mamatoba's mass of hair into five
parts and braided those together quickly and bound it with rings of beautiful silver.
"Friend Arwen, why did you do that? And what are those rings for?"
Arwen gave her a gentle, yet sad smile. A single tear escaped the corner of her eye, and
she whispered, "You, as well as I, know that you will not be returning. You must promise
me never to take out that braid, for it is the braid that will bind our souls with friendship,
even should you or I die. The ringlets will give you strength. You, dear Friend
Mamatoba, will never forget this land, and I will make sure of it,"
Mamatoba looked to her sadly, and a single tear escaped her eye. They made eye contact,
and both turned and left. Mamatoba muttered something and walked up to join her
brother, placing her helmet onto her head at the same time.
They walked for many days, soon stopping on a small plateau of land with many rocks
jutting out in all directions. As they stopped there, Boromir taught Pippin (or Peri, as
Mamatoba had taken to calling him) and Merry to fight better with swords, Aragorn
watched on amused, Frodo and Sam ate their lunch, Legolas surveyed the horizon, and
Gandalf, Gimli, and she where all just sitting on one of the lower rocks.
"If anybody asked me, which I note they're not, I say we go the long way through
Moria," Gimli grumbled.
"I agree!! Our cousin would give us a welcome fit for royalty!" Mamatoba piped up.
Gandalf's eyes flashed with fear, as the caves were mentioned. He quickly disagreed,
when Aragorn commented that there was something off about a random wisp of cloud in
the distance.
"It is moving fast, against the wind as well," Boromir commented.
Legolas gave a sudden gasp, "Crebain!"
With that, Frodo stomped out the fire, and they all hid beneath stones or among shrub.
Their gazes all followed the Crebain as they passed overhead, and they sprang out of
hiding and looked at the black creatures as they passed on towards the area from where
they came.
They discussed these happenings, and decided that the fastest way to get to Mordor, was
to go over the Caradhras. So on they went, not knowing of the sure doom awaiting them
at the mountain.
And so, they climbed the mountain, the snow burning their eyes, hindering them, and
making them sleepy. The higher they climbed, the stronger the snow got, the steeper their
path. As Mamatoba was taking this all in, she gave a small cry as she saw Frodo begin to
tumble down part of their path.
She gave a sigh of relief as his tumbling stopped at the feet of Aragorn. The relief was
short-lived, however, when the movements of Boromir picking it up by the chain caused
her body to stiffen. He mumbled somethings, which seemed to make Frodo and Aragorn
stiffen as well, but she heard them not, being at the front of the line.
"Give Frodo back the ring," she heard Aragorn tell him sternly, she felt relieved again, he
would keep everything in control.
"Of-of course," Boromir seemed to say, sounding as if he had suddenly broken out of a
trance.
And as Boromir gave the ring back to Frodo (ruffling his hair as well), they continued on,
until the snow made it almost impossible to go futher, for the Hobbits and the two dwarfs.
"I hear an evil voice in the wind," Mamatoba faintly heard Legolas say, "It is the
Caradhras, he is laughing at our misfortune,"
And, true to Legolas's word, they soon too heard the evil voice. They heard a sudden
rumblings, and pressed against the wall of the mountain for cover, as rocks showered
over the edge, and snow fell onto them.
Legolas, being the Elf he was, was first to spring out of the snow. Boromir, holding
Merry and Pippin, came second, followed by Gandalf, then Aragorn clutching Sam and
Frodo by their robes. After that, Legolas pulled out Gimli by his hair, and they group
gave a small laugh at Gimli's ramblings.
"Where is Mamatoba?" he growled after the laughter subsided. Everyone gave a start,
where WAS she?
"Ahh! There's somethin' grabbin' at me!" they heard Pippin cry, "Get it off me, get it off me! Have you no mercy?!"
"Quiet down, Peri, and help me out from under the snow!" a muffled voice cried. With
that, they pulled the blue-lipped Mamatoba out of the snow, and agreed, however
reluctantly, to going through Moria.
"You won't regret it," Gimli kept on repeating, "You won't regret it,"
However, Gimli didn't know just how wrong he was.
They trugged along the shore of a lake with water darker than night, and they couldn't
help but tense with the bitter feeling of apprehension. Mamatoba was constantly looking
back and forth at the water, and at the high walls of the cavern.
They reached a place where two tree's seemed to guard something inbetween them. She
heard Gandalf mutter something and a small beacon of moonlight lit up something
resembling a door. The moonlight vanished, but writing remained on the strange thing,
and they listened as Gandalf read to them what the runes said.
"Maybe there's some sort of clue for the password in the message," Merry commented
absently. Gandalf seemed to ponder on this, and so he sat and thought, Frodo fidgeting
next to him.
They all paused, and to their horror heard the cry of wolves outside of the cavern.
Aragorn and Sam conversed quietly, when Sam started to unload their trustful pony, Bill,
with tears streaming down his cheeks. He let go of the rein's holding Bill, and allowed
him to leave.
As this was happening, Merry and Pippin gathered a few rocks and made as if to throw
them.
"Peri, Merry, don't do that!" Mamatoba cried, "It is so ominous, it... it wishes not to be
disturbed," she continued with a mumble, "It may bring us great loss,"
Pippin and Merry couldn't help but stare at her. From the short while that they had
traveled with her, they had learned that she was not just klutzy and clumsy, but she was
also quite a bit the ditz. Yet, here she was, having just uttered the most serious sentences
they ever expected to hear from her.
They heared Frodo say something to Gandalf, and he in turn, quirked an eyebrow and
said softly, "Mellon," Then, to the surprise of everyone, the door opened with a shiver,
and the entered the corridor, the darkness of it starting to frighten them.
Um, that's all, and this will probably end up being a short story, and something surprising
will happen in Moria, I'll let you know... hehe... Please review!