Chapter 8- The End Of the Way

Five Missing Hobbits.-----------------------------------------------------

Levanna nervously crept away from him, the thought of him going mad again like he had the previous day making her nervous. She got up and walked away toward the woods. She gently caressed her dragon between her fingers and she closed her eyes in pain. She remembered now.

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It had been a cold, January night, just like all of the rest. It was January 12th, Levanna's birthday. Her eighteenth to be exact. Her parents, Omartrique and Solei`, and her fiance` Legolas, had thrown her a party, and now it was late. Levanna looked to the east, then to the west. Mirkwood was frighteningly still. She was sitting in the den, Legolas' arms wrapped around her. They whispered sweet nothings and smiled together. He would kiss her cheek and she would kiss him back. Her parents hid from their view, smiling at their only daughter with glee. A sudden *BANG* caused them all to jump. Legolas and Levanna hopped up, and the door busted open. Before he could stop him, Haronius knocked Legolas to the ground. He grabbed Levanna as best as he could and he shoved a long blade against her throat. She ceased from struggling. Their was some talk and the last thing she said before she became unconscious was, "You'll never kill me completely."

"Oh, yeah?" He said. He nodded to a man who grabbed her mother and then without effort slit her throat, a large gaping hole their as her mother fell to the ground. Levanna screamed and then a sharp pain spread over her neck as well, but did not go all the way around before Legolas knocked Haronius unconscious from behind.

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Levanna collapsed to the ground. She was crying very hard and her legs now hurt from the twigs beneath them, but she did not care. She heard someone creep up, but when she looked up no one stood there. She was either going mad, or there was someone there. They ran away and it came to her.

"Bless me! He's put the Ring on!" She desperately followed and then watched as Frodo and Aragorn spoke.

"Can you protect me from yourself?" Frodo asked.

Levanna listened to no more. A sudden commotion came about and she quickly wiped her face to hide the fact that she had been crying. Sting gleamed blue, telling that Orc's were not far.

Levanna ran back to find her bow and arrows. her feeling had been right. Something major, was about to happen.

The sound of the Horn of Gondor picked at her ears, and so she slung the quiver behind her, grabbed the bow and an arrow, and then made a run for it. Boromir was fighting off a group of Orc's by himself, while Pippin, Merry and Frodo were hiding.

"Levanna, here! Before they see you!" Pippin called from behind a stump. But that was not what Levanna had on her mind. She pulled the arrow through the bowstring, and shot an Orc.

Frodo crept across to the other side of the road and began to creep along.

"Frodo, what are you doing?" Merry asked.

But Pippin knew right away. "He's leaving. Go on, Frodo. We'll distract them! Come along Merry!" They ran over to the group and began to cause a ruckus. Confused, Levanna looked back to see Frodo leaving. And then it happened. Olane`a came running to look for her which distracted Levanna from the Orc's. An Orc made an order, and Boromir was shot. he continued to fight bravely and Levanna tried to help, but by the time Aragorn reached the group, Pippin, Merry and Olane`a had been kidnaped when they were confused with Frodo, Sam and Levanna.

Boromir died shortly afterwards. he had had enough time to explain that he had tried to take the Ring from Frodo, and that he was sorry. Aragorn told him that he was forgiven. Suddenly, Levanna remembered Frodo sneaking off. She hurried down to the boats in time to see Frodo hauling Sam out of the water into one. She froze and suddenly a painful tightness in her throat caused her to say nothing. sam noticed her and whispered something to his master.

Frodo looked to her. "If you are coming, I suggest you hurry. But if not, please tell no one you saw us."

She stared at him. He was willing to go on without her. To leave her behind when he knew very well that he may never return.

"N-no. Go on ahead, do not let me spoil your plans." She said coldly.

"Levanna..." He groaned impatiently. he extended a hand and she stared at it from the distance she stayed at.

"Goodbye Frodo, it was nice knowing you." She said and then she turned to walk away. He groaned again and then rowed the boat back toward the shore and then tied it so that Sam and it would not float away.

He raced up to her and roughly grabbed her arm and flung her around so that she was looking him in the eye. He pulled her to him, dipping then pressing his lips to hers. She pushed against him, trying to get him away but he did not budge. he just kissed her. finally she did get him off.

"I've not the time, nor patience to fight with you Levanna, are you coming...Or not?" His eyes burned into her.

She looked into them, then pulled him back in another kiss, causing Sam to give a round of applause from the boat.

"I love you." He whispered as they parted.

"I'm still upset with you." She said as he tried to grab her hand on their way back to the boat.

End Book 1.