Hatred and Revenge

And thanks to the reviewers:

Haldirs LifeMate: Thanks! You have to wait a while until you will see how they escape... but I think that isn't that bad???

Tenshiamanda: Stop hitting my elves *lol*

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Imbefaniel: ... *lol*

Emerald Queen: Thanks!!!!! I will write that when I know what the others do... I'm not nasty... *pouts* ... I'm evil...

LotR Fan: I hope that your hope is not gone because I promise you more but not now... when they arrived there will be surely some good scenes...

Erin: OmG, thanks!!!! I'm happy if the chapter please you.

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Du weisch se schu: Danke, für deine review, ich kann dir ja mal erklären, welchen Sinn das ganze hat... Bei Gelegenheit kannst du ja mal die Geschichte lesen... HDAGDL

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Fairylady: I love cliffies... but I am sure that you noticed that... thanks!

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Part 6

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"I'm not yet finished with you and your little elf. I had no time to do what I wanted because Gwaith wanted to leave. If I had more time I would have done to you worse things than you can imagine." Dînnaeg ran past Aragorn, leaving the human stunned behind. What the other elf had done to Legolas was enough to show him that the dark elf meant what he just said.

Elrohir looked at his extremely pale human brother. Aragorn had lost blood because of the wounds from the hooks. The wounds didn't heal well compared to elven wounds. They hadn't seen why all stopped but they knew that it had to do with their friends and most likely with Legolas.

Their journey lasts another half day. It was already bright. The sun stood over Middle Earth, shining through the thick branches of Mirkwood.

Elladan could feel that something evil lay in front of them. His body tensed every now and then. Legolas was barely conscious, dragged from a few orcs.

Crebain flew over their heads away. They were scanning the ground. It was clear that they were working for someone else but no one, not even Gwaith knew for whom they work.

The landscape got bleak. The trees had no leaves and the grass was brown. Suddenly everyone knew where they were. Their suspicion had been true. They had just entered the area around Dol Guldur.

Gwaith breathed in. "Home again. Now we can walk the rest of the way. The enemy will not come that close to Dol Guldur." Gwann-Agar stopped glancing backwards to the prisoners. "Yes, now I have time to enjoy this little trip. Hey, Gwaith, do you need all prisoners or can you give me one? Or at least share one?" Gwaith sent a slanting look to his brother almost grinning in amusement. "You can't stop doing that, can you?" Gwann-Agar tried to look innocent, only the sparkling in his eyes betrayed him. "Me? What? I don't know what you mean!" Now Gwaith had to laugh. "Then I have to show you your special room... may be the mess in there will remind you. By the way, you should let someone clean that up before it starts to rot." Gwann-Agar smirked. "I'm sure a few orcs would enjoy, cleaning that up. They are such strange creatures but then again too useful to kill them." Gwaith expression changed. "Look around you before you speak or you will be never able to." After a short while he continued. "The other thing. You can do with them what you want. But you ask only for one... someone special?" Gwaith expression went from playful to cruel. "Yes, the little princeling. It feels wonderful to torment him and I'm sure there are more things coming in my mind..." - "I'm sure there are." Gwaith muttered under his breath. Only his brother could hear the last comment, bringing a grin on his face.

The ruins of Dol Guldur turned up before them. It was all black. No plants were growing there. Some orcs started to run. Gwann-Agar screamed them something afterwards in the black speech.

They were never this near to Dol Guldur. Aragorn had heard Gandalf and his father speaking about it but he never imagined such a dark place. The gate was half broken in. The once high tower was damaged and pieces lay spread across the earth around. Half of the passages lay bare. The prisoners struggled as they came closer to the dark fortress. They felt, except for Aragorn, the evil in this place.

They passed the gate, heading downstairs; they came into a barely lit corridor. The walls were made of black stone. Stairs leaded them downstairs. Torches spent light. From the corridor leaded short passages in tall rooms. Only a few rooms were locked with heavy iron doors. They came to a second stairway, again downstairs. The corridor they came in looked identically like the first, but the air was thicker and there was less light. Heavy doors prevent them a look in the rooms. They could hear voices but they could only guess that they belonged to orcs. At the end of the corridor came a great hall. It was also made of black stone. In the middle stood a throne. It was covered with dark red velvet. On the right from it stood a small stone pillar. A piece of cloth concealed the object that lay on it.

The orcs followed them. Standing around the throne where Gwaith sat down. The prisoners were forced on their knees. "I think now it's time for you to hear why you are here." Gwaith paused a short moment. Legolas little strength left him in this moment and he fell unconscious on the cold stone floor. "Bring him somewhere in a cell. I'm sure you will spent enough time with him to explain all he has to know." Gwann-Agar nodded. Ordering a few orcs to bring the prisoner along with him.

"Now that this is cleared up, I will tell you why you are here. It came news to our ears that the creature Gollum was in your hands. We have helped him escaping, as you know. Only to catch him again and bring him away. But that isn't what matters now. My Lord wishes to speak with each one of you... then I have the liberty to do with you what I want." - "Who is your lord?" Aragorn was suspicious. It didn't please him, that they knew of Gollum and that they captured him. He had seen Gandalfs seriousness and he had never seen the wizard like that before. That Gollum was now in the hands of the enemy was worse of it.

"You will know that soon enough. Let's just say, he was one of the followers of Morgoth." Aragorn only knew one creature that was near to Morgoth and lived once in this dark place. Before he could speak the name out loud, Elladan had done it. "Sauron... he is the dark lord you are speaking of!?" Gwaith was satisfied with the shocked faces. "You should not think about him... you will meet him soon enough." - "How is that possible that the dark lord trusts an elf?" This time it was Elrohir. "I think it is enough when I say, that we know us since my birth in Angband." Now the three prisoners were stunned. They had thought on all but that wasn't a possibility someone had in mind.

"Bring him and the human down in the cells but not two side by side. Separate them as far as possible. Gag them." Gwaith spoke in the black speech. Only the orcs and the other elves understood him. They dragged Elrohir and Aragorn away. They struggled violently against the rough hands of the orcs but it was hopeless. Elladan still knelt on the floor.

The orcs brought them one floor deeper, over large stairs into a dark place. The air was full of a rotten smell. It was alike a prison. The cell doors were made of iron with little windows with bars. They bound their feet and gagged them, before forcing them into the cells.

"Have you ever met the dark lord?" Gwaith stood up. Looking directly in Elladans slightly fearful eyes. The kneeling elf showed no sign of an answer. "I suppose not. Now I will show you something. I'm sure you have heard of them." Gwaith stepped behind the pillar. He grabbed the cloths and ripped it away. Elladan gasped. A round stone lay upon the pillar. "Where...?" Gwaith interrupted Elladan. "Where I've got that from? It is the Palantir from Elendil. One of his three stones. He had kept it on the Emyn Beraid in Amon Sûl but not good enough." Gwaith gave a sign to the orcs standing around. They left the room. Two elves hauled Elladan to his feet and dragged the struggling elf beside Gwaith. "Now you will look in there. Sauron wants to know what you know about the little story with Gollum." Elladan tried to resist the other two elves but they forced him to look in the round stone. Suddenly his whole mind was fixed, he couldn't move nor could he think straight. Then Sauron appeared.

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Sorry that it took so long but it was hard to force the ideas out of my head and I had to draw me a map of Dol Guldur, how it looks in my imagination.

I hope it pleased you again and I promise, for all who had asked, there would be Legolas torture in the next chapter.

To be continue...