A/N: After I have reread my story I have noticed that it was very centered on women being able to pull their own weight. Although I am only too well aware on how other people may not agree with me, that is what I believe. So in other words this is more of a story for women, not as much man; but if they keep an open mind they will like it too. I'm sorry for my rambling but I just thought I should say that. Oh! I really would appreciate more feedback form my readers, I want to know what you think. Review!
"Gandalf, what should we do?" cried Frodo.
"Let me think for a moment," he said. "There is only one option that I can imagine. Her life energy is running low; someone needs to give her some of his." Seeing the shocked expressions on their faces, he added, "No, I do not mean sacrifice yourself; merely let me transfer a small portion to her from yourself. Now, I need a volunteer."
At this Legolas stepped forward, "I will help her," he declared.
"Of course it has to be the Elf; they always have to be the heroes," Gimili muttered darkly.
"That is not it, friend Gimili. It simply makes more sense that an immortal should do this; and being an elf I have more life energy than all of you." Legolas stated.
"Legolas is right Gimili," Gandalf said, "Besides, this is not the time to be glory hunting, a life is in very real danger." He then turned to Sam, "Find a blanket and spread it down on the snow," he ordered. That done, he then said to Aragorn, "Set her down here on the blanket."
Aragorn gently laid Aallieah down; she was struggling desperately for each breath she took. When she let the breath out, her whole body shuddered with the effort.
"Hurry Legolas, we haven't much time!" Gandalf commanded.
Legolas walked up to Aallieah, "Lay down beside her and take her hand; then lay very still and just relax. You will be unconscious for a while, but there will be no lasting harm," Gandalf told him.
When Legolas touched Aallieah's hand, he grimaced. It felt as cold and stiff as if she were already dead; he ignored it and grasped it anyway. "I'm ready," he declared.
"Boromir, start a fire; and make it big," Gandalf ordered.
"But will that not alert the enemy to out location if they should see it?" Boromir questioned.
"It matters not anymore. From what Aallieah has told us, Saruman already knows where we are and what we intend to do. Now hurry, no more questions." Gandalf stepped up until he was standing over Legolas and Aallieah's heads. "Okay, here we go."
With that, Gandalf started chanting. "Sa'am allwy tuahe ahdobh dftkjha. Sa'am allwy tuahe ahdobh dftkjha! Kkjakfdi dkdk jahdodrn kthoskenov tk'ot!"
As he was speaking, Legolas started feeling something lifting off of his chest. When he brought his head up enough to see, there was a ball of light slowly rising off of his chest. When it was clear of his chest, it slowly floated up and over him to Aallieah. It hovered there for a few moments and then started its decent down towards her. Suddenly Aallieah gave a great gasp and the ball of light hurtled down into her chest, making her whole body lift up off of the ground at the instant of impact.
While this was all happening, Legolas was still awake. Although his body kept telling him to go to sleep, he fought it off. But slowly his body won the battle; the last thing he saw before he slumped into unconsciousness was Aallieah's deep, even breathing.
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"Mister Frodo, do you think they will ever wake up?" asked a concerned Sam.
"I don't know Sam. You should consult in Gandalf for this matter; I know nothing in the matter of magic."
Frodo then looked over to where the pair was laying. Both looked like they were sleeping, but Frodo knew better. They had been unconscious for close to six hours now. Suddenly Legolas sat up and looked around.
"Aw, you have awoken," Gandalf said cheerfully.
"Did it work?" Legolas inquired.
"Yes, she should be just fine; give her some time and she will be as good as new. If I would have prolonged performing the exchange by any margin, we would have lost her."
"Ugh."
Everyone turned towards the sound; Aallieah had finally awoken. She groaned again and slowly tried to sit up. Gandalf hurried towards her, "No, you must rest my dear, you have been through quite the ordeal."
She shook her head; "I cannot delay us any longer. I would very much like to know what happened though."
"You nearly froze to death. When you did make it back to our camp you were so frozen you almost didn't make it. But luckily I figured out a way to save you; Legolas shared some of his life energy with you. If not for him you wouldn't be here right now."
Upon hearing this she turned to Legolas who was standing behind Gandalf; "What he speaks is the truth?"
Legolas nodded.
"Then I am forever in your debt, thank you."
"Nay, it was merely something one would do for one's friends."
At this Aallieah nodded. "I am fine, we must continue on."
"That is not possible, you cannot even walk yet; besides if you can't walk how do you propose you get through this snow?" Aragorn asked.
For the first time she looked around at her surroundings. While Legolas and Aallieah were unconscious the Fellowship had managed to find a hollow in the side of the mountain and take up shelter in that. Through the snow storm the snow had slowly accumulated and it was now almost entirely covering the entrance to their make-shift cave. Boromir was in the process of clearing a path through the snow bank.
"I must try anyway," she said. With that she slowly got to her feet, before she got half way up she started to sway dangerously; she caught herself on the side of the cave. Gimili started to move towards her to help her if she should need it. Seeing this, Aallieah waved him away. "I must do this on my own."
Finally she stood unaided and took a few steps; on her forth step she started to fall to the floor. At the last second, much to everyone's amazement, her wings took over and she hovered a couple of feet off of the ground.
"There, I think I will be just fine should we continue on? It's nice to know my wings are good for something, even if its just to keep me moving." She said with a wiry smile.
"Now that we know she can continue on we must leave immediately, we should pass through the Mines of Moria. If we cannot go over the mountain we should go under it. My cousin Balin would give us a royal welcome." Gimili said.
"Nay, friend dwarf, I would never go through those mines." Gandalf declared.
Boromir finally joined them, upon seeing Aallieah up and more or less moving around, he gave her a wide smile. "I do not think we will be able to go through this snow, it is almost to deep for a grown man to go through; the hobbits wouldn't stand a chance."
"I agree," piped up Merry. "I don't think you big people realize how difficult it is for us hobbits. I believe the mines would be a much better place than this confounded mountain."
Gandalf gave a small sigh, "Let the Ringbearer decide."
Frodo thought for a moment, "We shall go through the Mines of Moria."
"So be it," Gandalf agreed.
A/N: Gandalf's chanting earlier in this chapter is just a bunch of letters. I have absolutely no idea what it means; I was only pressing keys. So far I only have seven reviews. Come on people, give me some feed back here, I'm lost!