Boromir ran towards the door and stopped abruptly. If he had continued on, he would have been dead; beside his head, buried in the wood of the door were three arrows. Using all of his strength, he shoved the doors shut. Aragorn ran over to help Boromir.
"They have a cave troll," Boromir informed Aragorn dryly.
While the men were holding the doors shut against the coming onslaught, Aallieah and Legolas were busy trying to find anything that they could block the doors with. The task wasn't even hard; they just used the weapons of the long dead dwarves. Seeing that they doors were now secured, the whole Fellowship slowly backed away from the entrance.
"Stay close to Gandalf!" Aragorn warned the hobbits.
During all of this Gimili had managed to clamber on top of Balin's tomb. "There is one dwarf in Moria that still draws blood!" he announced.
The doors were now shaking uncontrollably. The rotten wood would not hold the enemy at bay for long.
Legolas and Aragorn were taking careful aim. When holes began forming in the doors, they let fly a barrage of arrows at anyone unlucky enough to be standing behind them. Finally the doors caved in and the battle had begun!
Seeing that the orcs were now too close for arrows, Aragorn drew his sword and Legolas his hunting knives. The hobbits then decided to join the fray. The leapt into the battle brandishing their daggers and yelling at the top of their lungs. Gandalf was keeling the enemy away with both his Elven-made sword and his staff. Boromir and Aragorn were fighting back to back, around them lay a wall of dead orcs three feet high. Legolas's knives were moving faster than sight. Aallieah had taken to the air and was swooping around the orcs cutting their throats even before they knew what was happening. Gimili was cleaving the orcs' heads form their bodies as the came close to the tomb. The Fellowship had almost vanquished the enemy when the cave troll suddenly burst in.
It went first for Gimili. It swung the club it held and shattered the bodies of any orcs that got in its way. It mattered not who it killed as long as it created death. Gimili leapt away just in time. A split second after he left his perch the club slammed down obliterating the tomb.
Legolas shot two arrows at him at once, but it did nothing but annoy it more.
Suddenly it headed for Frodo. With its club it separated him form the other hobbits. Frodo managed to evade it for a moment, but it then had him cornered. Aragorn saw this and rushed to save him. He picked up a spear that was lying at his feet and shoved into the beast's chest. The cave troll merely pulled it out and slammed Aragorn into the wall where he then fell unconscious.
It then brought the spear down into Frodo's side. Frodo stood there with a surprised look on his face, then slide down to his knees then fell onto his face.
When the other hobbits witnessed this atrocity, they jumped onto the back of the troll.
"No! You fools!" Aallieah cried. "Get down, getting killed yourself will not help Frodo!"
Obviously this got through their heads; slowly all three of them slid off and dove for cover. Suddenly Aallieah thought up a plan.
"Gandalf! What are cave trolls attracted to?"
Gandalf thought a moment, lobbed the head off of a passing orc and answered. "Anything shiny or glittery as long as it's not too bright."
He then looked at her straight in the face and saw a brilliant smile on it. Realization dawned on him, "Don't you dare!"
She just grinned recklessly, "Boromir!"
"What?" he called.
"Watch my back! You too Legolas, and when I say shoot, for all our sakes shoot!"
Legolas nodded perplexed.
She then slowly rose into the air with her back facing the troll's face. Aallieah gently fluttered her wings, just enough to keep her air-born. "Here, troll. Here trolley troll," She whispered.
When the troll saw her wings her immediately became transfixed with them. Aallieah slowly started to drift upwards bring the troll's head up with her, exposing its vulnerable neck. But, unfortunately one of the smarter orcs figured out what she was trying to do. It shot an arrow at her just a moment before Boromir sliced it in two. The only way for her to avoid the arrow was to turn towards the troll, taking away its shiny new 'play-thing.' Enraged, it shot out one of its hands and smacked Aallieah against the wall, she landed on the floor with a sickening thud. Seeing that it downed the one that tore its play short, the troll lifted its head back and gave a great roar of victory. Legolas, knowing this was his one and only chance, shot the troll in its now exposed neck.
The troll grunted once, and fell down dead at their feet. Aragorn finally came to and walked over to Frodo, "Oh no."
When he turned him over, Frodo, amazingly, was taking great gulping breaths, "I'm fine, really I am," he managed to gasp out.
"How can that be? That blow would have skewered a wild boar!"
Frodo opened his shirt at the neck and showed them what was underneath.
"Mithril," Gimili gasped in wonder.
"I think there is more to this hobbit then meets the eye," Gandalf told everyone.
Aallieah then decided that now would be a good time to join the group standing over Frodo. She hobbled over, hoping that Gandalf would be too preoccupied to deal with her; she was wrong.
"Aallieah! That was a very foolish move and what's worse, it didn't even work. Next time think about what you are going to do before you go and attempt to kill yourself!" Gandalf thundered.
"Well it mostly did work, and I didn't intend for that to happen," she muttered under her breath.
Legolas, although he heard her quite well, him being an elf and all, couldn't resist the chance to tease her, "What was that. I didn't hear you clearly."
Aallieah scowled at him, "Don't even start with me," she growled.
Frodo looked at the pair, "What was that all about? What happened to her?"
Sam sighed, "I'll tell you later, Mr. Frodo."
Suddenly more orcs and drums could be heard. They were moving towards the Fellowship fast.
"Quickly," Gandalf commanded, "To the bridge of Khazad-dum!"
A/N: In a lot of this story, for the FOTR at least, I am quoting the script to the movie quite extensively. So if you see a phrases that you thought was in the movie, it more than likely was. I just thought I had better mention that. Thanks to all of you that have reviewed, they are really helpful. If you have written a story before you know what I mean. I'll try and get the next chapter up quickly, but I'm going to be pretty busy so I can't guarantee anything. Bear with me!