Harry Potter and the Fellowship of the Ring
PART 1 of the Harry Potter Ring series.
Rating: PG-13 like the movies.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and Co. I also do not own the Lord Of The Rings. They are property of J.K. Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkein respectively. The script is from the official movies. It belongs to the brilliant writers. Peter Jackson, Frank Walsh, and Phillipa Boyens
A/N: This is NOT according to the books, it is a crossover from the movies. I found the scripts online and went from there.
Ship: Wasn't gonna have one but.Draco/Hermione He He He
Characters changed: Frodo Baggins is now Draco Malfoy
Samwise Gamgee is now Hermione Granger
Peregrin Took is now Ronald Weasley
Meriadoc Brandybruck is now Harry Potter
Oh yea, everyone refers to the characters by their HP names, just to make it easier for me, like Sam is now Hermione and is a girl, K?
Oh yea, Bilbo will still be Draco's uncle...just go with it ok?
This is after the council of Elrond..read chapter one first but of course you knew that right? ^_^
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Chapter 2: The Ring Goes South and a Journey in the Dark
Bilbo was unwrapping some packed items when Draco entered the room.
Draco sees that what Bilbo is looking at is a strange, thin sword. He smirked, 'He calls that a sword?'
"My old sword, Sting. Here, take it. Take it." Bilbo said, noticing Draco and handing it to him. Draco expecting a heavy weight was surprised.
"It's so light." He said, in shock.
"Yes, yes. made by the Elves, you know? The blade glows blue when orcs are close. And it's times like that, my lad, when you have to be extra careful. Here's a pretty thing. Mithril. As light as a feather, and as hard as dragons scales. Let me see you put it on. Come on..." Draco excitedly unbuttoned his shirt.
'Hard as Dragon scales? I could get hit with a thousand bludgers at once and never feel a thing! Score!' The gold ring caught the light as Draco went to remove the shirt.
Bilbo noticed, "Oh - M-my old ring. Oh! I sh-should very much like - to hold it again, one last time."
Draco remembered what Gandalf had told him, don't let Bilbo touch the ring. Sad at not being able to try the dragon like shirt, he re-buttoned his shirt.
Bilbo lunged at Draco, eyes bulging out, teeth turning small and pointed. He had been transformed from the want of the ring.
He moved away, scared of what the old man might do.
The man returned to normal and put a hand to his head, as if nursing a headache, "I'm sorry I brought this upon you, my boy... I'm sorry that you must carry this burden... I'm sorry for everything!"
Draco stared him up and down, nervous that he might lunge at him again. He tentatively put a hand an his shoulder.
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Draco, Hermione, Harry and Ron were standing with 'their' horse Bill, taking one last look at Rivendell.
"You know, I really liked it here." Hermione said regretfully, "I would have liked to stay here longer."
"You mean you don't want to go back to Hogwarts?" Ron asked, shocked that she'd rather be anywhere but the Hogwarts Library.
"Of course I do, its just that.its so peaceful here."
"You do realize where we're going right? That creepy Mordor to toss this ring in, save the world.any of that ring a bell?" Draco asked, reminding her that it wasn't all that nice here.
"I know, its just.I don't know.."
She wasn't able to continue her train of thought as they were being summoned by the fellowship, they were about to depart.
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"We must hold to this course, west from the Misty Mountains for 40 days. If our luck holds, the Gap of Rohan will still be open to us. From there our road turns east to Mordor." Gandalf said as they began traveling over the mountains.
The nine stopped for lunch.
Boromir was teaching Harry and Ron to master a sword. "Two, one, five. Good! Very good." He said as Ron lunged at him at parried with the sword.
"Move your feet." Aragorn coached as he smoked his pipe.
"You look good, Ron." Harry said, awaiting his turn.
"Thanks Harry!"
"Faster!" Boromir encouraged Ron.
"If anyone was to ask for my opinion, which I note they're not, I'd say we were taking the long way round. Gandalf! We could pass through the Mines of Moria. My cousin Balin would give us a royal welcome." Gimli said, not enjoying the terrain they were having to travel across.
"No, Gimli. I would not take the road through Moria unless I had no other choice." Gimli pouted behind his beard and returned to watching Boromir who was now fighting Harry.
Legolas was suddenly distracted by something in the distance.
Hermione laughed at Boromir when the two boys tackled him down to the ground fighting in honour of Hogwarts.
Legolas caught her eye as he worriedly looked towards the horizon. She followed his gaze and gasped, "What is that?"
"Nothing. It's just a wisp of cloud." Gimli said, barely taking notice of the dark shadow moving swiftly towards them.
Harry and Ron stopped attacking Boromir and let him up so that he too could survey the thing approaching. "It's moving fast. Against the wind." The red haired man called out.
"Crebain from Duneland!" Legolas shouted, realizing what those bat-like creatures were.
"HIDE!" Aragorn shouted, ushering them all to take cover.
"Harry!" Boromir shouted, grabbing the back of Harry's cloak and pulling him behind a rock.
"Draco! Hurry take cover!" Aragorn yelled. Draco rushed over to help Hermione put out the fire, grabbed the lunch, and pulled her behind the rock Aragorn was already behind.
The nine companions remained still as statues in their hiding places as the black flying things swooped overhead.
A few moments later they were gone, and the fellowship was able to leave their places. "Spies of Saruman. The passage south is being watched. We must take the pass of Caradhras." Gandalf sighed and they turned to go another way.
Draco and Hermione beckoned Harry and Ron to walk with them for awhile near the back so they could talk.
"That was quite frightening!" Hermione gasped.
"They looked like flying spiders!" Ron said, tears of fear in his eyes.
"Oh don't be babies you two," Draco scolded, "Potter here has had to face things 20 times scarier than those pathetic little bugs."
Harry flushed. "Maybe not TWENTY times scarier, but a bit scarier yeah."
They heard Aragorn calling for them at the top of the hill and sighed. "Another day of walking. What fun." Ron quipped, as they continued on their way.
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They were walking up a slanted, snowy mountain side. Suddenly, without warning, Draco tripped and fell into the snow.
Up ahead Hermione gasped and Aragorn said, "Draco!" And helped him up, putting his hands on his shoulders. Draco checked for the ring and found it missing.
He whirled around to see Boromir picking up the chain from the snow. Aragorn removed his hands from his shoulders and moved them to the hilt of his sword. "Boromir." He said warningly, staring at the man as he looked at the ring lovingly.
"It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing." Boromir, holding the ring in his right hand, moved his left hand towards it.
"Boromir! Give the Ring to Draco!" Aragorn said angrily. Boromir smirked and handed it to Draco.
"As you wish." Draco grabbed it the moment it was within reach, looking at Boromir strangely. "I care not!" He said laughing it off. Draco returned the ring around his neck, it was his burden, he had to protect it until he threw it into Mordor.
He ruffled Draco's hair and walked ahead past Hermione, Harry and Ron. Hermione gave him an angry glare as he passed. 'There's something about that rat faced brat that I don't like.' she thought to herself.
Draco caught Hermione's eye and smiled, "Its alright."
Only then did Aragorn remove his hand from the hilt of his sword.
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The bird like spidery creatures flew to Saruman to relay their message.
"So Gandalf, you tried to lead them over Caradhras. And if that fails, where then will you go?" Images of the fellowship struggling over the mountains in a horrible snow storm.
"If the mountain defeats you, will you risk a more dangerous road?"
The old wizard smirked and sent more minions to do his evil bidding.
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The handsome elf Legolas was leading the group through the mountains. He was able to walk swiftly and with ease across the snow, while the rest of them were struggling.
It was difficult to see the short dwarf Gimli, The wizard Gandalf was covered from head to tow in snow, Aragorn was having to hold Hermione and Draco, while Boromir was doing the same with Ron and Harry. It was as if they didn't keep a tight grip on them, they would fly off the side of the cliff.
"I can keep my own footing, you know that right Draco?" Hermione whispered so that only he could hear.
"Yeah, I know, I can too. But if he wants to practically carry us, I'm not complaining, it saves us energy right?"
"Right."
Legolas stopped several meters ahead and listened to the sounds in the air. "There is a fell voice on the air."
"It's Saruman!" Gandalf cried, mere seconds before heavy boulders fell from overhead.
They all ducked, and waited out the rock slide. "He's trying to bring down the mountain! Gandalf, we must turn back!" Aragorn yelled over the sounds of the tumbling rocks.
"No!! Losto Caradhras, sedho, hodo, nuitho i 'ruith!" Gandalf chanted, waving his staff. [Trans: "Sleep Caradhras, be still, lie still, hold [your] wrath."]
Saruman was standing facing a large tower in the distance at this same time, waving his staff around, "Cuiva nwalca Carnirassë! Nai yarvaxëa rasselya taltuva ñotto-carinnar!" [Trans: "Wake up cruel Redhorn! May your blood-stained horn shall fall upon the enemy-heads"]
And suddenly, upon the fellowship, fell mounds upon mounds of heavy white snow.
They struggled and pushed at the snow until they were able to get above it. "Ok, cold!" Hermione shouted as she gasped for air.
"I'm wet! I'm cold! And I'm covered in ice! Some trip this has turned out to be!" Draco whined, brushing the snow from his blonde hair as Aragorn pulled him out of the snow. He then helped Hermione up as Boromir helped Ron and Harry.
"We must get off the mountain! Make for the Gap of Rohan! Or take the west road to my city!" Boromir pleaded with Gandalf.
"The Gap of Rohan takes us too close to Isengard." Aragorn cut in, always the voice of reason.
"We cannot pass over a mountain. Let us go under it! Let us go through the Mines of Moria." Gimli said, never getting his mind off of the 'going through the mines' idea.
Gandalf's head was infiltrated by the sound of the voice of Saruman, "Moria. You fear to go into those mines. The Dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke there in the darkness of Khazad-dûm: Shadow and flame."
He shuddered, "Let the Ring-bearer decide.....Draco?"
Draco sighed, 'Mines...safety, or Rohan...unsure of outcome...hmm tough one...'
"We will go through the mines." He said with finality.
"So be it." Gandalf said, a hint of regret in his voice.
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The nine were blocked. They were stuck. They didn't know what to do. No matter how you put it they couldn't get into the Mines.
They were standing in front of slimy, wet walls. "The walls of Moria." Gimli had explained when they first got there.
"Well, let's see... Ithildin. It mirrors only starlight and moonlight." As Gandalf said this, the clouds covering the silver moon moved away, shining brightly on the walls, revealing a silver door with words on it.
"It reads: "The doors of Durin, Lord of Moria. Speak friend and enter." Gandalf translated.
"What do you suppose that means?" Harry whispered to Hermione, but Gandalf overheard and thought he was talking to him.
"Oh, it's quite simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors will open. Annon Edhellen edro hi ammen!" Gandalf said, all knowing, waved his staff around and spoke to the door. "Ando Eldarinwa a lasta quettanya, Fenda Casarinwa!" [Trans: "Gate of the Elves open now for me!", "Gate of Elves listen to my word, Threshold of Dwarves!"]
Whilst Gandalf was yelling random things at the door, Aragorn was taking the baggage off Bill the Pony, Hermione had her arms around the pony's neck and was sobbing. "Mines are no place for a pony. Even one so brave as Bill." Aragorn said, patting him on the shoulder, pulling the weeping girl off him and sending him on his way.
"Bye bye, Bill." She chocked out.
"Go on, Bill. Go on. Don't worry Hermione. He knows the way home." Hermione looked up at him with tears in her eyes, he smiled reassuringly and she dried her tears.
Harry and Ron were throwing rocks into the water randomly through boredom.
As Ron was about to let one fly, Aragorn grabbed him by the collar and shouted, "Do not disturb the water."
Ron said, "Okay, Okay, touchy!"
In the meantime, Gandalf took his hat off in frustration, "Oh, it's useless."
"It's obviously a riddle." Draco said, looking at the wizard as if wondering if he even had a brain, "Speak 'friend', and enter. What's the Elvish word for friend?"
"Mellon." Gandalf said confused.
The shining doors opened revealing a dark tunnel. They walked through the doors. Gandalf with a look of pride on his face, "I knew I'd get it in the end."
Draco just rolled his eyes and caught up with Hermione and her friends.
"Soon, Master Elf, you will enjoy the fabled hospitality of the Dwarves! Roaring fires, malt beer, ripe meat off the bone! This, my friend, is the home of my cousin Balin. And they call it a mine. A MINE!" Gimli said, gesturing to the area around them, proud.
"This is no mine. It's a tomb." Boromir said shockingly pointing to the rotting corpses of Dwarves and Orcs alike.
"No! Nooo! NOOOO!" Gimli said, falling to his knees in despair.
Legolas yanked an arrow out of one of the bodies. "Goblins!"
"We make for the Gap of Rohan. We should never have come here! Now get out of here! Get out!!" Boromir cried.
They backed carefully out. Suddenly, Draco was grabbed by a slimy tentacle protruding from the water.
"Draco!" Harry and Ron yelled in unison.
"Oh My God!" Hermione screamed.
"Strider!" Draco called desperately.
"Strider!!!" Hermione shrieked, trying to get the mans attention.
"Help!!" Draco yelled to those trying to figure out how to save him.
"Get off him!!!" Hermione yelled, throwing rocks at the tentacles waving around.
"Aragorn!" Harry called, while enlisting Ron and Hermione to help him in slashing at the tentacles with their swords.
Meanwhile, Draco was screaming with shock each time the creature lurched him in a different direction.
"I'm not liking this one bit guys!" He said as he swept past his friends who were desperately trying to free him.
Legolas rushed forward, his bow out. He began swiftly shooting arrow after arrow. Hitting each and every tentacle he aimed for. While Boromir and Aragorn plunged into the water to help Ron, Harry and Hermione attack with swords.
Finally Aragorn succeeded by cutting the one that held Draco. Boromir caught him just in time before he fell back into the water.
"I'm really not liking this." He said to Hermione when he caught her eye.
"Into the Mines!!!" Gandalf shouted.
The creature from the water crashed out and around, causing the door to cave in behind them. Blocking the way out, and the light.
"Well, We now have but one choice." Gandalf said as he fitted a stone onto the end of his staff. "We must face the long dark of Moria. Be on your guard. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world. Quietly now. It's a four-day journey to the other side. Let us hope that our presence may go unnoticed."
They began climbing through the caves, up rock faces and over thin cliffs.
As they were climbing, Ron accidentally let some rocks fall upon Harry's head. "Ugh Ron! Watch what your doing!"
"Sorry Harry."
When they got to the top of the rock face they had been climbing they skidded to a halt. They had three paths to choose from before them. Which to choose they did not know.
"I have no memory of this place." Gandalf said, shocked that there was something he didn't know.
Ron nudged Harry and they grinned at Hermione, "Just like you Mione." Harry teased.
She smacked them playfully on the shoulder, smiling.
"Are we lost?" Ron asked.
"No." Harry replied.
"I think we are."
"Ssh Ron, Gandalf's thinking." Harry scolded. He didn't want to disrupt the thinking of the man that was leading them to safety.
"Harrrrry..." Ron whined.
"What?"
"I'm hungrrryyyy..." Ron pouted and Harry smirked.
Draco and Hermione had been sitting discussing their near-death experiences when Draco noticed something in the dark, leering at them. He hurried over to Gandalf.
"Uhh, Gandalf? Sorry to interrupt you but there's something creepy down there." He point at the chasm.
"It's Gollum." Gandalf said, glancing over, not worried at all.
"Uh... Gollum?"
Gandalf nodded, "He's been following us for three days."
"He escaped the dungeons of Barad-dûr?" Draco asked, having been told the story of Gollum by Bilbo and Hermione.
"Escaped. Or set loose. He hates and loves the Ring. As he hates and loves himself. He will never be rid of his need for it."
Draco sneered in its general direction, "It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance."
"Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Draco? Do not be too eager to deal out death and judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of the Ring." Gandalf explained, looking from Draco to the chasm where Gollum was perched.
"I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened." Draco lamented, truly feeling what he was saying.
"So do all that come to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Draco, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case you were also 'meant' to have it. And that is an encouraging thought. Eh - it's that way." Gandalf stood and walked down the middle path.
Draco whispered to Hermione and Co., "How could I be meant to have the ring???"
"The will of the universe is not easily understood." Ron said. The three looked at him as if he had grown an extra head. "What? I can be philosophical at times too!!" He pouted and they just laughed and followed the others.
"So you've remembered eh Gandalf?" Harry asked, jogging up to fall in step with the Gray wizard.
"No, but the air doesn't smell so foul down here. If in doubt, Meriadoc, always follow your nose. Let me risk a little more light." He waved the staff again and the area brightened. The find themselves in a great hall with pillars towering overhead. "Behold the great realm of the Dwarf-city of Dwarrowdelf."
Hermione gasped at its majesty. "There's an eye opener, and no mistake."
The others nodded as they proceeded nervously, unsure of what was to come.
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A/N: Chappie two complete. Look for Chappie three tomorrow, the weekend at the latest.
Please Read and Review! ^_^
~*~Emma~*~
PART 1 of the Harry Potter Ring series.
Rating: PG-13 like the movies.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and Co. I also do not own the Lord Of The Rings. They are property of J.K. Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkein respectively. The script is from the official movies. It belongs to the brilliant writers. Peter Jackson, Frank Walsh, and Phillipa Boyens
A/N: This is NOT according to the books, it is a crossover from the movies. I found the scripts online and went from there.
Ship: Wasn't gonna have one but.Draco/Hermione He He He
Characters changed: Frodo Baggins is now Draco Malfoy
Samwise Gamgee is now Hermione Granger
Peregrin Took is now Ronald Weasley
Meriadoc Brandybruck is now Harry Potter
Oh yea, everyone refers to the characters by their HP names, just to make it easier for me, like Sam is now Hermione and is a girl, K?
Oh yea, Bilbo will still be Draco's uncle...just go with it ok?
This is after the council of Elrond..read chapter one first but of course you knew that right? ^_^
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Chapter 2: The Ring Goes South and a Journey in the Dark
Bilbo was unwrapping some packed items when Draco entered the room.
Draco sees that what Bilbo is looking at is a strange, thin sword. He smirked, 'He calls that a sword?'
"My old sword, Sting. Here, take it. Take it." Bilbo said, noticing Draco and handing it to him. Draco expecting a heavy weight was surprised.
"It's so light." He said, in shock.
"Yes, yes. made by the Elves, you know? The blade glows blue when orcs are close. And it's times like that, my lad, when you have to be extra careful. Here's a pretty thing. Mithril. As light as a feather, and as hard as dragons scales. Let me see you put it on. Come on..." Draco excitedly unbuttoned his shirt.
'Hard as Dragon scales? I could get hit with a thousand bludgers at once and never feel a thing! Score!' The gold ring caught the light as Draco went to remove the shirt.
Bilbo noticed, "Oh - M-my old ring. Oh! I sh-should very much like - to hold it again, one last time."
Draco remembered what Gandalf had told him, don't let Bilbo touch the ring. Sad at not being able to try the dragon like shirt, he re-buttoned his shirt.
Bilbo lunged at Draco, eyes bulging out, teeth turning small and pointed. He had been transformed from the want of the ring.
He moved away, scared of what the old man might do.
The man returned to normal and put a hand to his head, as if nursing a headache, "I'm sorry I brought this upon you, my boy... I'm sorry that you must carry this burden... I'm sorry for everything!"
Draco stared him up and down, nervous that he might lunge at him again. He tentatively put a hand an his shoulder.
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Draco, Hermione, Harry and Ron were standing with 'their' horse Bill, taking one last look at Rivendell.
"You know, I really liked it here." Hermione said regretfully, "I would have liked to stay here longer."
"You mean you don't want to go back to Hogwarts?" Ron asked, shocked that she'd rather be anywhere but the Hogwarts Library.
"Of course I do, its just that.its so peaceful here."
"You do realize where we're going right? That creepy Mordor to toss this ring in, save the world.any of that ring a bell?" Draco asked, reminding her that it wasn't all that nice here.
"I know, its just.I don't know.."
She wasn't able to continue her train of thought as they were being summoned by the fellowship, they were about to depart.
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"We must hold to this course, west from the Misty Mountains for 40 days. If our luck holds, the Gap of Rohan will still be open to us. From there our road turns east to Mordor." Gandalf said as they began traveling over the mountains.
The nine stopped for lunch.
Boromir was teaching Harry and Ron to master a sword. "Two, one, five. Good! Very good." He said as Ron lunged at him at parried with the sword.
"Move your feet." Aragorn coached as he smoked his pipe.
"You look good, Ron." Harry said, awaiting his turn.
"Thanks Harry!"
"Faster!" Boromir encouraged Ron.
"If anyone was to ask for my opinion, which I note they're not, I'd say we were taking the long way round. Gandalf! We could pass through the Mines of Moria. My cousin Balin would give us a royal welcome." Gimli said, not enjoying the terrain they were having to travel across.
"No, Gimli. I would not take the road through Moria unless I had no other choice." Gimli pouted behind his beard and returned to watching Boromir who was now fighting Harry.
Legolas was suddenly distracted by something in the distance.
Hermione laughed at Boromir when the two boys tackled him down to the ground fighting in honour of Hogwarts.
Legolas caught her eye as he worriedly looked towards the horizon. She followed his gaze and gasped, "What is that?"
"Nothing. It's just a wisp of cloud." Gimli said, barely taking notice of the dark shadow moving swiftly towards them.
Harry and Ron stopped attacking Boromir and let him up so that he too could survey the thing approaching. "It's moving fast. Against the wind." The red haired man called out.
"Crebain from Duneland!" Legolas shouted, realizing what those bat-like creatures were.
"HIDE!" Aragorn shouted, ushering them all to take cover.
"Harry!" Boromir shouted, grabbing the back of Harry's cloak and pulling him behind a rock.
"Draco! Hurry take cover!" Aragorn yelled. Draco rushed over to help Hermione put out the fire, grabbed the lunch, and pulled her behind the rock Aragorn was already behind.
The nine companions remained still as statues in their hiding places as the black flying things swooped overhead.
A few moments later they were gone, and the fellowship was able to leave their places. "Spies of Saruman. The passage south is being watched. We must take the pass of Caradhras." Gandalf sighed and they turned to go another way.
Draco and Hermione beckoned Harry and Ron to walk with them for awhile near the back so they could talk.
"That was quite frightening!" Hermione gasped.
"They looked like flying spiders!" Ron said, tears of fear in his eyes.
"Oh don't be babies you two," Draco scolded, "Potter here has had to face things 20 times scarier than those pathetic little bugs."
Harry flushed. "Maybe not TWENTY times scarier, but a bit scarier yeah."
They heard Aragorn calling for them at the top of the hill and sighed. "Another day of walking. What fun." Ron quipped, as they continued on their way.
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They were walking up a slanted, snowy mountain side. Suddenly, without warning, Draco tripped and fell into the snow.
Up ahead Hermione gasped and Aragorn said, "Draco!" And helped him up, putting his hands on his shoulders. Draco checked for the ring and found it missing.
He whirled around to see Boromir picking up the chain from the snow. Aragorn removed his hands from his shoulders and moved them to the hilt of his sword. "Boromir." He said warningly, staring at the man as he looked at the ring lovingly.
"It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing." Boromir, holding the ring in his right hand, moved his left hand towards it.
"Boromir! Give the Ring to Draco!" Aragorn said angrily. Boromir smirked and handed it to Draco.
"As you wish." Draco grabbed it the moment it was within reach, looking at Boromir strangely. "I care not!" He said laughing it off. Draco returned the ring around his neck, it was his burden, he had to protect it until he threw it into Mordor.
He ruffled Draco's hair and walked ahead past Hermione, Harry and Ron. Hermione gave him an angry glare as he passed. 'There's something about that rat faced brat that I don't like.' she thought to herself.
Draco caught Hermione's eye and smiled, "Its alright."
Only then did Aragorn remove his hand from the hilt of his sword.
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The bird like spidery creatures flew to Saruman to relay their message.
"So Gandalf, you tried to lead them over Caradhras. And if that fails, where then will you go?" Images of the fellowship struggling over the mountains in a horrible snow storm.
"If the mountain defeats you, will you risk a more dangerous road?"
The old wizard smirked and sent more minions to do his evil bidding.
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The handsome elf Legolas was leading the group through the mountains. He was able to walk swiftly and with ease across the snow, while the rest of them were struggling.
It was difficult to see the short dwarf Gimli, The wizard Gandalf was covered from head to tow in snow, Aragorn was having to hold Hermione and Draco, while Boromir was doing the same with Ron and Harry. It was as if they didn't keep a tight grip on them, they would fly off the side of the cliff.
"I can keep my own footing, you know that right Draco?" Hermione whispered so that only he could hear.
"Yeah, I know, I can too. But if he wants to practically carry us, I'm not complaining, it saves us energy right?"
"Right."
Legolas stopped several meters ahead and listened to the sounds in the air. "There is a fell voice on the air."
"It's Saruman!" Gandalf cried, mere seconds before heavy boulders fell from overhead.
They all ducked, and waited out the rock slide. "He's trying to bring down the mountain! Gandalf, we must turn back!" Aragorn yelled over the sounds of the tumbling rocks.
"No!! Losto Caradhras, sedho, hodo, nuitho i 'ruith!" Gandalf chanted, waving his staff. [Trans: "Sleep Caradhras, be still, lie still, hold [your] wrath."]
Saruman was standing facing a large tower in the distance at this same time, waving his staff around, "Cuiva nwalca Carnirassë! Nai yarvaxëa rasselya taltuva ñotto-carinnar!" [Trans: "Wake up cruel Redhorn! May your blood-stained horn shall fall upon the enemy-heads"]
And suddenly, upon the fellowship, fell mounds upon mounds of heavy white snow.
They struggled and pushed at the snow until they were able to get above it. "Ok, cold!" Hermione shouted as she gasped for air.
"I'm wet! I'm cold! And I'm covered in ice! Some trip this has turned out to be!" Draco whined, brushing the snow from his blonde hair as Aragorn pulled him out of the snow. He then helped Hermione up as Boromir helped Ron and Harry.
"We must get off the mountain! Make for the Gap of Rohan! Or take the west road to my city!" Boromir pleaded with Gandalf.
"The Gap of Rohan takes us too close to Isengard." Aragorn cut in, always the voice of reason.
"We cannot pass over a mountain. Let us go under it! Let us go through the Mines of Moria." Gimli said, never getting his mind off of the 'going through the mines' idea.
Gandalf's head was infiltrated by the sound of the voice of Saruman, "Moria. You fear to go into those mines. The Dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke there in the darkness of Khazad-dûm: Shadow and flame."
He shuddered, "Let the Ring-bearer decide.....Draco?"
Draco sighed, 'Mines...safety, or Rohan...unsure of outcome...hmm tough one...'
"We will go through the mines." He said with finality.
"So be it." Gandalf said, a hint of regret in his voice.
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The nine were blocked. They were stuck. They didn't know what to do. No matter how you put it they couldn't get into the Mines.
They were standing in front of slimy, wet walls. "The walls of Moria." Gimli had explained when they first got there.
"Well, let's see... Ithildin. It mirrors only starlight and moonlight." As Gandalf said this, the clouds covering the silver moon moved away, shining brightly on the walls, revealing a silver door with words on it.
"It reads: "The doors of Durin, Lord of Moria. Speak friend and enter." Gandalf translated.
"What do you suppose that means?" Harry whispered to Hermione, but Gandalf overheard and thought he was talking to him.
"Oh, it's quite simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors will open. Annon Edhellen edro hi ammen!" Gandalf said, all knowing, waved his staff around and spoke to the door. "Ando Eldarinwa a lasta quettanya, Fenda Casarinwa!" [Trans: "Gate of the Elves open now for me!", "Gate of Elves listen to my word, Threshold of Dwarves!"]
Whilst Gandalf was yelling random things at the door, Aragorn was taking the baggage off Bill the Pony, Hermione had her arms around the pony's neck and was sobbing. "Mines are no place for a pony. Even one so brave as Bill." Aragorn said, patting him on the shoulder, pulling the weeping girl off him and sending him on his way.
"Bye bye, Bill." She chocked out.
"Go on, Bill. Go on. Don't worry Hermione. He knows the way home." Hermione looked up at him with tears in her eyes, he smiled reassuringly and she dried her tears.
Harry and Ron were throwing rocks into the water randomly through boredom.
As Ron was about to let one fly, Aragorn grabbed him by the collar and shouted, "Do not disturb the water."
Ron said, "Okay, Okay, touchy!"
In the meantime, Gandalf took his hat off in frustration, "Oh, it's useless."
"It's obviously a riddle." Draco said, looking at the wizard as if wondering if he even had a brain, "Speak 'friend', and enter. What's the Elvish word for friend?"
"Mellon." Gandalf said confused.
The shining doors opened revealing a dark tunnel. They walked through the doors. Gandalf with a look of pride on his face, "I knew I'd get it in the end."
Draco just rolled his eyes and caught up with Hermione and her friends.
"Soon, Master Elf, you will enjoy the fabled hospitality of the Dwarves! Roaring fires, malt beer, ripe meat off the bone! This, my friend, is the home of my cousin Balin. And they call it a mine. A MINE!" Gimli said, gesturing to the area around them, proud.
"This is no mine. It's a tomb." Boromir said shockingly pointing to the rotting corpses of Dwarves and Orcs alike.
"No! Nooo! NOOOO!" Gimli said, falling to his knees in despair.
Legolas yanked an arrow out of one of the bodies. "Goblins!"
"We make for the Gap of Rohan. We should never have come here! Now get out of here! Get out!!" Boromir cried.
They backed carefully out. Suddenly, Draco was grabbed by a slimy tentacle protruding from the water.
"Draco!" Harry and Ron yelled in unison.
"Oh My God!" Hermione screamed.
"Strider!" Draco called desperately.
"Strider!!!" Hermione shrieked, trying to get the mans attention.
"Help!!" Draco yelled to those trying to figure out how to save him.
"Get off him!!!" Hermione yelled, throwing rocks at the tentacles waving around.
"Aragorn!" Harry called, while enlisting Ron and Hermione to help him in slashing at the tentacles with their swords.
Meanwhile, Draco was screaming with shock each time the creature lurched him in a different direction.
"I'm not liking this one bit guys!" He said as he swept past his friends who were desperately trying to free him.
Legolas rushed forward, his bow out. He began swiftly shooting arrow after arrow. Hitting each and every tentacle he aimed for. While Boromir and Aragorn plunged into the water to help Ron, Harry and Hermione attack with swords.
Finally Aragorn succeeded by cutting the one that held Draco. Boromir caught him just in time before he fell back into the water.
"I'm really not liking this." He said to Hermione when he caught her eye.
"Into the Mines!!!" Gandalf shouted.
The creature from the water crashed out and around, causing the door to cave in behind them. Blocking the way out, and the light.
"Well, We now have but one choice." Gandalf said as he fitted a stone onto the end of his staff. "We must face the long dark of Moria. Be on your guard. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world. Quietly now. It's a four-day journey to the other side. Let us hope that our presence may go unnoticed."
They began climbing through the caves, up rock faces and over thin cliffs.
As they were climbing, Ron accidentally let some rocks fall upon Harry's head. "Ugh Ron! Watch what your doing!"
"Sorry Harry."
When they got to the top of the rock face they had been climbing they skidded to a halt. They had three paths to choose from before them. Which to choose they did not know.
"I have no memory of this place." Gandalf said, shocked that there was something he didn't know.
Ron nudged Harry and they grinned at Hermione, "Just like you Mione." Harry teased.
She smacked them playfully on the shoulder, smiling.
"Are we lost?" Ron asked.
"No." Harry replied.
"I think we are."
"Ssh Ron, Gandalf's thinking." Harry scolded. He didn't want to disrupt the thinking of the man that was leading them to safety.
"Harrrrry..." Ron whined.
"What?"
"I'm hungrrryyyy..." Ron pouted and Harry smirked.
Draco and Hermione had been sitting discussing their near-death experiences when Draco noticed something in the dark, leering at them. He hurried over to Gandalf.
"Uhh, Gandalf? Sorry to interrupt you but there's something creepy down there." He point at the chasm.
"It's Gollum." Gandalf said, glancing over, not worried at all.
"Uh... Gollum?"
Gandalf nodded, "He's been following us for three days."
"He escaped the dungeons of Barad-dûr?" Draco asked, having been told the story of Gollum by Bilbo and Hermione.
"Escaped. Or set loose. He hates and loves the Ring. As he hates and loves himself. He will never be rid of his need for it."
Draco sneered in its general direction, "It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance."
"Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Draco? Do not be too eager to deal out death and judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of the Ring." Gandalf explained, looking from Draco to the chasm where Gollum was perched.
"I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened." Draco lamented, truly feeling what he was saying.
"So do all that come to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Draco, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case you were also 'meant' to have it. And that is an encouraging thought. Eh - it's that way." Gandalf stood and walked down the middle path.
Draco whispered to Hermione and Co., "How could I be meant to have the ring???"
"The will of the universe is not easily understood." Ron said. The three looked at him as if he had grown an extra head. "What? I can be philosophical at times too!!" He pouted and they just laughed and followed the others.
"So you've remembered eh Gandalf?" Harry asked, jogging up to fall in step with the Gray wizard.
"No, but the air doesn't smell so foul down here. If in doubt, Meriadoc, always follow your nose. Let me risk a little more light." He waved the staff again and the area brightened. The find themselves in a great hall with pillars towering overhead. "Behold the great realm of the Dwarf-city of Dwarrowdelf."
Hermione gasped at its majesty. "There's an eye opener, and no mistake."
The others nodded as they proceeded nervously, unsure of what was to come.
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A/N: Chappie two complete. Look for Chappie three tomorrow, the weekend at the latest.
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~*~Emma~*~