Shadow and Flame
Disclaimer: I do not own LOTR, I hate that fact!
A/N: This all starts out in the Mines of Moria, just as the Fellow Ship realizes that there is more chasing them than Orcs.
Chapter One: The Balrog.
Boom Boom Boom.
The Orcs. Shade realized. Damn they have found something new to chase. Let's just hope that they don't wake up the- Her thoughts where cut off as a loud roar erupted from the floor above her. -Balrog!
Shade too had just been woken from her long slumber, in the Shadows. Those scatter brained Dwarves had awoken her the first time from her millennia long slumber. And so had ensured the wraith of the others they had awoken in the deep. Costing them their lives. There was nothing she could have done to prevent it. The orcs and the Balrog did not bother her but that didn't mean that they listened to her either.
If the Balrog has been awoken, this could prove to be interesting. Shade mused to herself. Lets us go investigate, I do grow tired of waiting around here all the time.
So The Shadow Stalker Shade took of running down the corridor closely followed by the Balrog. She could feel the heat on her back as she ran.
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Orcs surrounded the Fellow ship, in the great halls of Moria. They didn't see any way of getting out of it until there was an even louder stranger happening. All the orcs turned tail and ran. They could see the corridor they had just come from and there were red lights on the wall. Something was coming. But what?
Just then A girl came tearing around the corner, yelling "Run you fools! You've awoken more than you can handle!"
The Fellow ship was stunned where had this girl come from and what did she mean. More importantly how had she got here?
"Who are you?!" Aragorn asked as she ran by.
"Your savior! Now Run before I drag you by your ears!"
Gandalf did not look fazed by the remark. "What is coming?"
"A Balrog! You have awoken two of the sleepers! The Balrog and myself, now RUN!" Shade snarled "I cannot make the Balrog sleep when it senses prey!"
Gandalf was shocked; he rounded on the fellow ship. "Run we cannot fight a such a monster!"
"Do you mean her or the thang chasen us?" Pippin piped in.
Shade laughed heartily as they ran. "Both halfling."
They came to the stairs and began to race down them when arrows began to come at them from all sides. Shade lets the elf take care of them at first but when one nearly sliced her ear, she got angry.
"ORCS! YOU DO NOT KNOW WHOM YOU SHOOT AT!" Shade's entire body glowed, white light as she yelled. "I WILL GIVE YOU ONE CHANSE TO RETREAT OR YOU WILL SUFFER A FATE WORSE THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGEN!"
The Orcs not wanting to have anything to do with the strange light that had suddenly appeared out of the gloom did as they were told and left.
"That was amazing!" Legolas said in awe as all the light that had been emitted from this new girl was sucked back into her, and she smiled
"You just have to know how to talk to people." Shade shrugged.
Boromir having heard this chuckled. He liked this woman. Shade snapped her head in the man's direction, who were these people she wondered.
"Who are you people and what are you doing in my territory?" Shade asked. It was time to put this mystery to rest.
"Your territory?!?" Gimli shouted outraged. "My cousin came do to claim our land!"
Shade merely snorted. "My family has been here since time began. "And I nearly that long."
Suddenly Gandalf coughed. "My friends I believe this is an argument best left for later."
Shade and Gimli both nodded and they once again began running down the stairs towards the bridge of Kazad-Dum (A/N: I don't know how to do the ^ thingie)
They would have continued on but there was a break in the rock. Legolas quickly jumped the gap, it was a simple hop for the prince but for the hobbits it was a different matter.
Legolas called out to Gandalf to jump and helped the old man over. Boromir grabbed Merry and Pippin and leapt over himself. Aragorn picked up Sam and tossed him into Gandalf open arms.
"Gimli." Aragorn made to reach for the dwarf but he would not have it.
"Nobody tosses a dwarf!" Gimli snarled and jumped. He landed inches away from the edge that crumbled under the sudden weight.
Legolas's hand shot out and grabbed the only part of the dwarf in reach. His beard.
"Not the beard!" Gimli yelled.
Aragorn made a reach for the girl.
"That won't be necessary." Shade said simply and leapt into the air doing a flip and landing behind a startled Boromir.
"Hello" Shade waved tilting her head to the side and smiling. Boromir smiled right back.
"Hold On!" Shade and Boromir's heads snapped to the side.
Aragorn and Frodo where stuck on a part of the stairs that had separated it's self from the rest of the stairs. "Lean forward!" Aragorn yelled to Frodo. The stairs looked as though they would fall back at any moment, but then slowly, it went forward enough for the two to jump off to safety.
"Very nice!" Shade called clapping her hands.
"Uh-Thank you." Frodo answered confused how was narrowly escaping death 'very nice'?
Suddenly Gandalf raced by yelling "Over the bridge fly!" They all ran towards the bride of Kazad-Dum.
But the Balrog was not far behind them roaring like a mad dog hot on the trail of its prey.
"Damn it you fools! Why did you have to wake the Balrog up! And for that matter why did you wake any of us up! We were happy in our dreams of what once was!" Shade snarled at the group.
"Of what once was?" Frodo asked.
"Of when I was allowed to walk the upper realm in the forests." Shade sighed recalling old memories. "Before I was driven back down here into this accursed place." She throw her arm put and banged the wall beside them that crumpled under the force of her blow leaving a large dish sized dent.
When they had reached the bridge. They sprinted across it hoping to find safety on the other side. But Gandalf stopped in the middle of the bridge spread his feet and faced the Balrog.
"What is that old man doing? Surely he does not believe he can stop the Balrog?" Shade asked pointing towards the old man.
Aragorn turned to her "That is no old man but Gandalf the Grey he is a wizard, one of the highest of his order."
Shade started at this Gandalf the Grey not daring to believe it. She had thought that he would surely have died by now, For she had herd stories of him from her mother when she was little.
Shade could hear Gandalf yelling his voice shook with rage and power as he held out his sword and staff to ward of the great beast. "You shall not pass. I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor! The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun! Go back to the Shadow!!" The Balrog was in plain sight now meters away from Gandalf a fiery ball from hell if there ever was one. He stood three times the height of a man and had a whip made of flame. But Gandalf was not destrbed by this. "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!" And suddenly he brought his staff down braking the bridge and the Balrog fell into the darkness.
Gandalf sighed turned around and smiled, nut the Blarong's whip snaked up.
"Watch out!!" Shade cried and ran forward as the whip grabbed Gandalf's ankle and pulled him down. She managed to reach Gandalf's wrist as he fell over the edge and held on.
Shade saw the pain in the man's eyes for he to knew was about to come. "Fly you fools" Gandalf said as the weight of the Balrog pulled him from her grasp, and was gone.
Shade stared into the darkness for a moment before getting up and turning to face the others. She realized that she did not know any of them and they did not know her, but they had been treating each other like old friends, she would not leave them now. She would venture into the upper world for the first time in one thousand years.
They encountered no more Orcs on the way out, though it did not surprise any of them, after the display the girl had put on they wondered if they would even come out at night.
When they got out all of the hobbits except Frodo fell and began weeping.
Shade to found herself sad even though she did not know Gandalf.
After a time Aragorn turned to the elf and told him to get the hobbits up. Legolas looked shocked.
Boromir rounded on him. "Give them a moment for pity's sake!" He yelled at him.
Aragorn simply looked at him "By nightfall these hills will be swarming with Orcs. We must reach the woods of Lothlorien. Come Boromir. Legolas, Gimli, get them up."
"He is right you know, I may have influence over some of the orcs in Moria but once they are out I can do nothing to stop them save fight them." Then Shade realized that one of the hobbits was missing. "Hey, where did that dark haired halfing go?" She asked Aragorn.
He looked around realizing this also. "Frodo? Frodo!" Then he noticed that Frodo was just at the edge of a rock staring off into the distance. Frodo turned around and a solitary tear ran down his face.
"Oh dear." Shade muttered and walked over to the hobbit. "There, there. It is all right little one." She soothed embracing the hobbit like a mother would a sad child.
"No it isn't I am the one who agreed to go through Moria it was my choice I should not have ever considered Moria. We should have made for the gape of Rohan."
"It is not your fault Frodo! You could never have seen this. You made the best choice you could and that is an honorable thing." Shades wiped the tears from Frodo's eyes and lead him to the others.
A/N: What do you think?? Review please. And yes some introductions will be made in the next chapter. And for those of you who are wondering how she knew Frodo's name.well ARAGORN JUST CALLED IT OUT!!! There that feels better. ^_^
Disclaimer: I do not own LOTR, I hate that fact!
A/N: This all starts out in the Mines of Moria, just as the Fellow Ship realizes that there is more chasing them than Orcs.
Chapter One: The Balrog.
Boom Boom Boom.
The Orcs. Shade realized. Damn they have found something new to chase. Let's just hope that they don't wake up the- Her thoughts where cut off as a loud roar erupted from the floor above her. -Balrog!
Shade too had just been woken from her long slumber, in the Shadows. Those scatter brained Dwarves had awoken her the first time from her millennia long slumber. And so had ensured the wraith of the others they had awoken in the deep. Costing them their lives. There was nothing she could have done to prevent it. The orcs and the Balrog did not bother her but that didn't mean that they listened to her either.
If the Balrog has been awoken, this could prove to be interesting. Shade mused to herself. Lets us go investigate, I do grow tired of waiting around here all the time.
So The Shadow Stalker Shade took of running down the corridor closely followed by the Balrog. She could feel the heat on her back as she ran.
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Orcs surrounded the Fellow ship, in the great halls of Moria. They didn't see any way of getting out of it until there was an even louder stranger happening. All the orcs turned tail and ran. They could see the corridor they had just come from and there were red lights on the wall. Something was coming. But what?
Just then A girl came tearing around the corner, yelling "Run you fools! You've awoken more than you can handle!"
The Fellow ship was stunned where had this girl come from and what did she mean. More importantly how had she got here?
"Who are you?!" Aragorn asked as she ran by.
"Your savior! Now Run before I drag you by your ears!"
Gandalf did not look fazed by the remark. "What is coming?"
"A Balrog! You have awoken two of the sleepers! The Balrog and myself, now RUN!" Shade snarled "I cannot make the Balrog sleep when it senses prey!"
Gandalf was shocked; he rounded on the fellow ship. "Run we cannot fight a such a monster!"
"Do you mean her or the thang chasen us?" Pippin piped in.
Shade laughed heartily as they ran. "Both halfling."
They came to the stairs and began to race down them when arrows began to come at them from all sides. Shade lets the elf take care of them at first but when one nearly sliced her ear, she got angry.
"ORCS! YOU DO NOT KNOW WHOM YOU SHOOT AT!" Shade's entire body glowed, white light as she yelled. "I WILL GIVE YOU ONE CHANSE TO RETREAT OR YOU WILL SUFFER A FATE WORSE THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGEN!"
The Orcs not wanting to have anything to do with the strange light that had suddenly appeared out of the gloom did as they were told and left.
"That was amazing!" Legolas said in awe as all the light that had been emitted from this new girl was sucked back into her, and she smiled
"You just have to know how to talk to people." Shade shrugged.
Boromir having heard this chuckled. He liked this woman. Shade snapped her head in the man's direction, who were these people she wondered.
"Who are you people and what are you doing in my territory?" Shade asked. It was time to put this mystery to rest.
"Your territory?!?" Gimli shouted outraged. "My cousin came do to claim our land!"
Shade merely snorted. "My family has been here since time began. "And I nearly that long."
Suddenly Gandalf coughed. "My friends I believe this is an argument best left for later."
Shade and Gimli both nodded and they once again began running down the stairs towards the bridge of Kazad-Dum (A/N: I don't know how to do the ^ thingie)
They would have continued on but there was a break in the rock. Legolas quickly jumped the gap, it was a simple hop for the prince but for the hobbits it was a different matter.
Legolas called out to Gandalf to jump and helped the old man over. Boromir grabbed Merry and Pippin and leapt over himself. Aragorn picked up Sam and tossed him into Gandalf open arms.
"Gimli." Aragorn made to reach for the dwarf but he would not have it.
"Nobody tosses a dwarf!" Gimli snarled and jumped. He landed inches away from the edge that crumbled under the sudden weight.
Legolas's hand shot out and grabbed the only part of the dwarf in reach. His beard.
"Not the beard!" Gimli yelled.
Aragorn made a reach for the girl.
"That won't be necessary." Shade said simply and leapt into the air doing a flip and landing behind a startled Boromir.
"Hello" Shade waved tilting her head to the side and smiling. Boromir smiled right back.
"Hold On!" Shade and Boromir's heads snapped to the side.
Aragorn and Frodo where stuck on a part of the stairs that had separated it's self from the rest of the stairs. "Lean forward!" Aragorn yelled to Frodo. The stairs looked as though they would fall back at any moment, but then slowly, it went forward enough for the two to jump off to safety.
"Very nice!" Shade called clapping her hands.
"Uh-Thank you." Frodo answered confused how was narrowly escaping death 'very nice'?
Suddenly Gandalf raced by yelling "Over the bridge fly!" They all ran towards the bride of Kazad-Dum.
But the Balrog was not far behind them roaring like a mad dog hot on the trail of its prey.
"Damn it you fools! Why did you have to wake the Balrog up! And for that matter why did you wake any of us up! We were happy in our dreams of what once was!" Shade snarled at the group.
"Of what once was?" Frodo asked.
"Of when I was allowed to walk the upper realm in the forests." Shade sighed recalling old memories. "Before I was driven back down here into this accursed place." She throw her arm put and banged the wall beside them that crumpled under the force of her blow leaving a large dish sized dent.
When they had reached the bridge. They sprinted across it hoping to find safety on the other side. But Gandalf stopped in the middle of the bridge spread his feet and faced the Balrog.
"What is that old man doing? Surely he does not believe he can stop the Balrog?" Shade asked pointing towards the old man.
Aragorn turned to her "That is no old man but Gandalf the Grey he is a wizard, one of the highest of his order."
Shade started at this Gandalf the Grey not daring to believe it. She had thought that he would surely have died by now, For she had herd stories of him from her mother when she was little.
Shade could hear Gandalf yelling his voice shook with rage and power as he held out his sword and staff to ward of the great beast. "You shall not pass. I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor! The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun! Go back to the Shadow!!" The Balrog was in plain sight now meters away from Gandalf a fiery ball from hell if there ever was one. He stood three times the height of a man and had a whip made of flame. But Gandalf was not destrbed by this. "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!" And suddenly he brought his staff down braking the bridge and the Balrog fell into the darkness.
Gandalf sighed turned around and smiled, nut the Blarong's whip snaked up.
"Watch out!!" Shade cried and ran forward as the whip grabbed Gandalf's ankle and pulled him down. She managed to reach Gandalf's wrist as he fell over the edge and held on.
Shade saw the pain in the man's eyes for he to knew was about to come. "Fly you fools" Gandalf said as the weight of the Balrog pulled him from her grasp, and was gone.
Shade stared into the darkness for a moment before getting up and turning to face the others. She realized that she did not know any of them and they did not know her, but they had been treating each other like old friends, she would not leave them now. She would venture into the upper world for the first time in one thousand years.
They encountered no more Orcs on the way out, though it did not surprise any of them, after the display the girl had put on they wondered if they would even come out at night.
When they got out all of the hobbits except Frodo fell and began weeping.
Shade to found herself sad even though she did not know Gandalf.
After a time Aragorn turned to the elf and told him to get the hobbits up. Legolas looked shocked.
Boromir rounded on him. "Give them a moment for pity's sake!" He yelled at him.
Aragorn simply looked at him "By nightfall these hills will be swarming with Orcs. We must reach the woods of Lothlorien. Come Boromir. Legolas, Gimli, get them up."
"He is right you know, I may have influence over some of the orcs in Moria but once they are out I can do nothing to stop them save fight them." Then Shade realized that one of the hobbits was missing. "Hey, where did that dark haired halfing go?" She asked Aragorn.
He looked around realizing this also. "Frodo? Frodo!" Then he noticed that Frodo was just at the edge of a rock staring off into the distance. Frodo turned around and a solitary tear ran down his face.
"Oh dear." Shade muttered and walked over to the hobbit. "There, there. It is all right little one." She soothed embracing the hobbit like a mother would a sad child.
"No it isn't I am the one who agreed to go through Moria it was my choice I should not have ever considered Moria. We should have made for the gape of Rohan."
"It is not your fault Frodo! You could never have seen this. You made the best choice you could and that is an honorable thing." Shades wiped the tears from Frodo's eyes and lead him to the others.
A/N: What do you think?? Review please. And yes some introductions will be made in the next chapter. And for those of you who are wondering how she knew Frodo's name.well ARAGORN JUST CALLED IT OUT!!! There that feels better. ^_^