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Chapter 10: A Secret Revealed
Eventually, by the leadership of Gandalf and Gimli, they made it down to where the wizard thought the Moria gate was. At first when they got there no gates could be seen, however Gandalf found them and with the help of a few words and the light from the moon and stars, he revealed to them a mighty gate made entirely of ithildin. However, Gandalf did not know the words that would get the gates to open, so the rest of the Company sat down, waiting and hoping that he would open the gates soon.
Celebfaer looked around at the lake that was outside the gate. She had been hearing voices inside her head coming from or directed towards the lake, though she had not paid them any heed until it was evident that they must wait for Gandalf to find a way to open the gate. It was the water spirit, calling out to her, asking her to cleanse the lake before moving on and telling her exactly how to cleanse the water. So, she turned to look at the lake, and realised that she could sense that evil things dwelled within its depths. Sorrow was thick in the water spirits voice and Celebfaer desperately wanted to go to the water's edge and do as the spirit asked, but she stopped herself, knowing the others would then find out the truth of what she was. She decided that if she ever had the heart to come back to this place she would come back to try and cleanse the water, alone so that none knew of her secret.
So, while they were waiting for Gandalf to open the doors, a silent battle was raging inside of Celebfaer and it was starting to unsettle her. Without realising it, a sad and troubled look appeared on her face, because of the task that the water spirit wanted her to do, but she knew that she could not. Boromir looked up at her, and seeing the dismay on her face he approached her.
The only sounds that could be heard was Gandalf's muttering and the soft sound of stones entering the water as Merry was throwing them in, trying to rid himself of the boredom he was feeling.
"Celebfaer, you do not have to go into the mines of Moria if it troubles you so. I could escort you back to Rivendell where you would be safe if you wished it my lady." Boromir said softly to her, not wanting to disturb the silence anymore than he should, and she looked at him regaining her composure and shaking her head.
"It is all right Boromir. It is the pool that troubles me, not Moria itself and I wish that Mr Merry would stop throwing those stones into its core." She said and Boromir turned to see Merry throw his fifth stone in the water.
"Merry, do stop that you are upsetting the lady." Boromir said and Merry looked up, startled by being spoken too, though he looked rather guilty holding yet another stone that he had been about to throw into the lake.
"I am sorry my lady but there is nothing better to do for a bored Hobbit." He said dropping the stone, then bowing his head slightly before he went to talk quietly with Pippin.
Celebfaer just smiled at the Hobbit, then cast her eyes to the pool, watching the ripples move across the surface of the water from where the stones had landed. The water spirit started to whisper to her once more and she shivered, unexpectantly, causing Boromir to frown.
"Are you all right Celebfaer?" He asked her, concerned and she nodded.
"I do not trust that water, and I wish that Gandalf would hurry up and open the gate for there is a foul feeling in the air." She said and Legolas looked up.
"I sense it also Celebfaer." He said looking at her and they both nodded.
At that moment, Gandalf managed to open the door, with the aid of Frodo. The company then hurried over to where the doors were and Gandalf walked in first.
He was but a few steps in the door when suddenly Frodo cried out and disappeared out of the doors. Celebfaer turned and saw that an octopus like tentacle had grabbed him, but she did not dare to try calling the water spirit to try and stop the creature, because if she did, she knew it would make her stop to cleanse the foul water. However, before anyone could move, Sam stepped forward and attacked the creature, causing it to let Frodo go.
Once the tentacle dropped Frodo, the Company ran for the doors and managed to just make it in before the tentacles did anymore damage to anyone. However, the creature pulled on the doors and slammed them shut behind the company, causing most of the rock above the gates to collapse from the force. So, they had no other choice but to get to the other side of Moria and hopefully make it out in one piece.
It was left to Gandalf to lead them through Moria for he had been there before and he was able to light the way with his staff. They walked for some time in silence and without rest until finally Gandalf was presented with three doorways.
"I have no memory of this place!" He said and the Company looked at each other with grave faces. "We shall rest here for the night." Gandalf announced after a short time and they found a room to sleep in.
Though it had a hole in the floor by the entrance, the room was big enough for them all to sleep in. Pippin however was enchanted by the hole and without thinking, he dropped a stone down there to see how deep the hole was. It took a couple of seconds to hit the bottom, but when it did, it made a dreadful noise, and all the Company jumped.
"Fool of a Took!" Gandalf said to Pippin. "I had hoped we would get through Moria without our presence being noticed but that noise has now made it impossible. Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your stupidity." He added then told Pippin to have the first watch for his foolishness.
After the night though Gandalf seemed to have remembered and choose a way so, they continued on quicker as each member of the Company was eager to leave the mines of Moria as soon as possible. There was a strange feeling in the air, a feeling of dread and doom that was to come.
Eventually the Company came to a large hallway, where they rested. Gandalf decided after their rest that he needed to know exactly where they were before he could move on any further and so the Company journeyed a little further.
After some searching they found a chamber and entered. It appeared to be a burial place of someone great, and Gandalf reading the runes on the tomb confirmed that it was a Dwarf called Balin. Both Gimli and Frodo were saddened by this news though they seemed as though they suspected as such. Gimli looked down at the coffin where his cousin Balin lay, for some time, not listening to anything that the others were saying, silent in his grief.
Gandalf had found a record keeping book and was able to establish that the people in the room had died protecting Balin, but who or what had killed them could only be guessed at. As he finished reading what he could of the book, the Company heard drums. And the drums were what awoke Gimli from his grief and trance like state, then looked around the room at all the possible exits.
"They are coming!" Legolas cried suddenly and Gimli confirmed their worse fears.
"We cannot get out, we are trapped."
So, Aragorn took over, commanding that the doors be wedged and that they fight for as long as they could so that maybe they would make it out alive. Not long after Aragorn barricaded the doors with weapons they had found around the room, the doors were beaten down and a large number of Orcs started to pile in, but as quickly as they could enter, they were being slayed by all of the Company, including Gandalf and Celebfaer.
Aragorn's sword, was stabbing and killing Orcs almost as quickly as Legolas could fire the arrows from his bow. Gimli's axe, with each blow to an Orc seeked revenge for the death of his cousin, Balin. Boromir was killing the Orcs as quickly as he could turn to attack them with his sword. The hobbits themselves were quite good, slashing away with their knifes hoping that they would kill the foul things before the Orcs killed them. Celebfaer's bow was in her hand, firing arrows as quickly as she could, her knife also at the ready in case one of the foul beings sunk up on her. Gandalf was also using his sword, slaying anything that came his way.
Then, suddenly and without warning the Orcs retreated, moving aside and in the doors swept a cave troll, closely followed by more Orcs.
Celebfaer eventually ran out of her arrows and she had killed many Orcs with them. So, she turned to watch the troll to see what it would do and if she could help in any way, her knife in her hand and ready to be used if anything should threaten her. The cave troll had cast Sam aside and when Aragorn had jumped in to attack it, the troll had grabbed the spear that Aragorn tried to kill it with and thrown Aragorn against the wall, knocking the wind out of him and a dazed look appeared on his face. Then the troll turned to find Frodo, who was defenseless now and it stabbed Frodo deep in the heart with the spear it had stolen from Aragorn, making Frodo scream in pain. Celebfaer looked at Frodo in disbelief, refusing to believe that the cave troll had just killed the most important member of the party.
In a scream of furry she walked forward, her knife in hand and slashed at the troll trying to get it wherever she could and the blow landing on its foot, cutting quite deep, then cutting its leg as well. Before she could do anymore damage, the beast squealed in pain, then whirled around so fast that his hands rammed into her, throwing her backwards to thump into the wall quite hard, crushing her wings and throwing the hood of her cloak off, revealing her un-elven ears and hair.
Celebfaer did not notice, as she jumped to her feet in an instant and loudly chanted a few, angry, unintelligible words at the troll. As she did, Legolas jumped onto the troll's head, and once the Fairy finished her words, the troll simply collapsed in a heap and Legolas had to jump once again to save himself from being thrown then crushed by the troll. The noise the beast made when it hit the ground was horrendous and all fighting ceased, leaving a deadly silence in the hall.
The Orcs, seeing that their troll had been beaten, and hearing the power and command in Celebfaer's voice, fled, leaving the Company staring at Celebfaer with shocked faces as her hood was down and the look on her face was deadly. But, she did not see any of them; she rushed forward to Frodo, who was trying to stand.
"Are you alright ringbearer?" She asked, the look on her face replaced with her normal look, though concern was clearly in her eyes and voice.
"Yes, I am fine and I knew you were no Elf." Frodo said panting and taking a deep gulp of air before leaning back against the wall because his attempt to stand had failed.
Celebfaer realised then that the hood was no longer up, and she quickly put it back in its place though the Company had already seen all that was needed.
She turned around to see that all but the hobbits were looking at her in shock. When she looked at them Merry, Pippin and Sam quickly turned their gaze to Frodo, looking as though they were glad to see that he was alive, but unable to work out how. The rest of the Fellowship were looking at Celebfaer shocked, but for Aragorn and Gandalf it was merely because of how she had killed the cave troll. Neither had seen any of her spells and summons, so she could understand why, but she had no words for them that could comfort them because she did not quite know what it was she had done just yet. Boromir had his sword drawn and Gimli had his axe at the ready, both weapons were pointed in Celebfaer's direction, but Aragorn recovered from his shock first and stepped in before any could attack her, or try to kill her.
"It is alright. Put your weapons down, she can do no harm and we have little time if we wish to escape." He said, and Boromir laughed.
"Do no harm, she just killed that cave troll by the mere sound of her voice!" He said looking from her to Aragorn, wearily but Aragorn turned and stared at him.
"She will not harm any that travels with us as a friend, now put your weapons down." Aragorn said, and the looks he gave them, made them lower their weapons, so he turned back around and walked over to where Frodo sat propped up against the wall. "Can you walk?"
"Just give me a minute." He said, then taking a deep breath, he leaned on Aragorn's shoulder to help himself up before nodding. "Yes, I am fine." He said, then Aragorn turned back around but Boromir and Gimli were still looking at Celebfaer with caution. Legolas was even looking at her suspiciously, his hand resting on the top of his knife that hung by his side.
"We must run!" Gandalf announced but when the Company did not seem to notice his words, he spoke again. "Now is no time for explanations we must go quickly." He added, then without another word, Aragorn took off, and the Company followed close behind, Celebfaer and Gandalf came last in line and Gandalf gave her an encouraging smile as she ran past.
Chapter 10: A Secret Revealed
Eventually, by the leadership of Gandalf and Gimli, they made it down to where the wizard thought the Moria gate was. At first when they got there no gates could be seen, however Gandalf found them and with the help of a few words and the light from the moon and stars, he revealed to them a mighty gate made entirely of ithildin. However, Gandalf did not know the words that would get the gates to open, so the rest of the Company sat down, waiting and hoping that he would open the gates soon.
Celebfaer looked around at the lake that was outside the gate. She had been hearing voices inside her head coming from or directed towards the lake, though she had not paid them any heed until it was evident that they must wait for Gandalf to find a way to open the gate. It was the water spirit, calling out to her, asking her to cleanse the lake before moving on and telling her exactly how to cleanse the water. So, she turned to look at the lake, and realised that she could sense that evil things dwelled within its depths. Sorrow was thick in the water spirits voice and Celebfaer desperately wanted to go to the water's edge and do as the spirit asked, but she stopped herself, knowing the others would then find out the truth of what she was. She decided that if she ever had the heart to come back to this place she would come back to try and cleanse the water, alone so that none knew of her secret.
So, while they were waiting for Gandalf to open the doors, a silent battle was raging inside of Celebfaer and it was starting to unsettle her. Without realising it, a sad and troubled look appeared on her face, because of the task that the water spirit wanted her to do, but she knew that she could not. Boromir looked up at her, and seeing the dismay on her face he approached her.
The only sounds that could be heard was Gandalf's muttering and the soft sound of stones entering the water as Merry was throwing them in, trying to rid himself of the boredom he was feeling.
"Celebfaer, you do not have to go into the mines of Moria if it troubles you so. I could escort you back to Rivendell where you would be safe if you wished it my lady." Boromir said softly to her, not wanting to disturb the silence anymore than he should, and she looked at him regaining her composure and shaking her head.
"It is all right Boromir. It is the pool that troubles me, not Moria itself and I wish that Mr Merry would stop throwing those stones into its core." She said and Boromir turned to see Merry throw his fifth stone in the water.
"Merry, do stop that you are upsetting the lady." Boromir said and Merry looked up, startled by being spoken too, though he looked rather guilty holding yet another stone that he had been about to throw into the lake.
"I am sorry my lady but there is nothing better to do for a bored Hobbit." He said dropping the stone, then bowing his head slightly before he went to talk quietly with Pippin.
Celebfaer just smiled at the Hobbit, then cast her eyes to the pool, watching the ripples move across the surface of the water from where the stones had landed. The water spirit started to whisper to her once more and she shivered, unexpectantly, causing Boromir to frown.
"Are you all right Celebfaer?" He asked her, concerned and she nodded.
"I do not trust that water, and I wish that Gandalf would hurry up and open the gate for there is a foul feeling in the air." She said and Legolas looked up.
"I sense it also Celebfaer." He said looking at her and they both nodded.
At that moment, Gandalf managed to open the door, with the aid of Frodo. The company then hurried over to where the doors were and Gandalf walked in first.
He was but a few steps in the door when suddenly Frodo cried out and disappeared out of the doors. Celebfaer turned and saw that an octopus like tentacle had grabbed him, but she did not dare to try calling the water spirit to try and stop the creature, because if she did, she knew it would make her stop to cleanse the foul water. However, before anyone could move, Sam stepped forward and attacked the creature, causing it to let Frodo go.
Once the tentacle dropped Frodo, the Company ran for the doors and managed to just make it in before the tentacles did anymore damage to anyone. However, the creature pulled on the doors and slammed them shut behind the company, causing most of the rock above the gates to collapse from the force. So, they had no other choice but to get to the other side of Moria and hopefully make it out in one piece.
It was left to Gandalf to lead them through Moria for he had been there before and he was able to light the way with his staff. They walked for some time in silence and without rest until finally Gandalf was presented with three doorways.
"I have no memory of this place!" He said and the Company looked at each other with grave faces. "We shall rest here for the night." Gandalf announced after a short time and they found a room to sleep in.
Though it had a hole in the floor by the entrance, the room was big enough for them all to sleep in. Pippin however was enchanted by the hole and without thinking, he dropped a stone down there to see how deep the hole was. It took a couple of seconds to hit the bottom, but when it did, it made a dreadful noise, and all the Company jumped.
"Fool of a Took!" Gandalf said to Pippin. "I had hoped we would get through Moria without our presence being noticed but that noise has now made it impossible. Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your stupidity." He added then told Pippin to have the first watch for his foolishness.
After the night though Gandalf seemed to have remembered and choose a way so, they continued on quicker as each member of the Company was eager to leave the mines of Moria as soon as possible. There was a strange feeling in the air, a feeling of dread and doom that was to come.
Eventually the Company came to a large hallway, where they rested. Gandalf decided after their rest that he needed to know exactly where they were before he could move on any further and so the Company journeyed a little further.
After some searching they found a chamber and entered. It appeared to be a burial place of someone great, and Gandalf reading the runes on the tomb confirmed that it was a Dwarf called Balin. Both Gimli and Frodo were saddened by this news though they seemed as though they suspected as such. Gimli looked down at the coffin where his cousin Balin lay, for some time, not listening to anything that the others were saying, silent in his grief.
Gandalf had found a record keeping book and was able to establish that the people in the room had died protecting Balin, but who or what had killed them could only be guessed at. As he finished reading what he could of the book, the Company heard drums. And the drums were what awoke Gimli from his grief and trance like state, then looked around the room at all the possible exits.
"They are coming!" Legolas cried suddenly and Gimli confirmed their worse fears.
"We cannot get out, we are trapped."
So, Aragorn took over, commanding that the doors be wedged and that they fight for as long as they could so that maybe they would make it out alive. Not long after Aragorn barricaded the doors with weapons they had found around the room, the doors were beaten down and a large number of Orcs started to pile in, but as quickly as they could enter, they were being slayed by all of the Company, including Gandalf and Celebfaer.
Aragorn's sword, was stabbing and killing Orcs almost as quickly as Legolas could fire the arrows from his bow. Gimli's axe, with each blow to an Orc seeked revenge for the death of his cousin, Balin. Boromir was killing the Orcs as quickly as he could turn to attack them with his sword. The hobbits themselves were quite good, slashing away with their knifes hoping that they would kill the foul things before the Orcs killed them. Celebfaer's bow was in her hand, firing arrows as quickly as she could, her knife also at the ready in case one of the foul beings sunk up on her. Gandalf was also using his sword, slaying anything that came his way.
Then, suddenly and without warning the Orcs retreated, moving aside and in the doors swept a cave troll, closely followed by more Orcs.
Celebfaer eventually ran out of her arrows and she had killed many Orcs with them. So, she turned to watch the troll to see what it would do and if she could help in any way, her knife in her hand and ready to be used if anything should threaten her. The cave troll had cast Sam aside and when Aragorn had jumped in to attack it, the troll had grabbed the spear that Aragorn tried to kill it with and thrown Aragorn against the wall, knocking the wind out of him and a dazed look appeared on his face. Then the troll turned to find Frodo, who was defenseless now and it stabbed Frodo deep in the heart with the spear it had stolen from Aragorn, making Frodo scream in pain. Celebfaer looked at Frodo in disbelief, refusing to believe that the cave troll had just killed the most important member of the party.
In a scream of furry she walked forward, her knife in hand and slashed at the troll trying to get it wherever she could and the blow landing on its foot, cutting quite deep, then cutting its leg as well. Before she could do anymore damage, the beast squealed in pain, then whirled around so fast that his hands rammed into her, throwing her backwards to thump into the wall quite hard, crushing her wings and throwing the hood of her cloak off, revealing her un-elven ears and hair.
Celebfaer did not notice, as she jumped to her feet in an instant and loudly chanted a few, angry, unintelligible words at the troll. As she did, Legolas jumped onto the troll's head, and once the Fairy finished her words, the troll simply collapsed in a heap and Legolas had to jump once again to save himself from being thrown then crushed by the troll. The noise the beast made when it hit the ground was horrendous and all fighting ceased, leaving a deadly silence in the hall.
The Orcs, seeing that their troll had been beaten, and hearing the power and command in Celebfaer's voice, fled, leaving the Company staring at Celebfaer with shocked faces as her hood was down and the look on her face was deadly. But, she did not see any of them; she rushed forward to Frodo, who was trying to stand.
"Are you alright ringbearer?" She asked, the look on her face replaced with her normal look, though concern was clearly in her eyes and voice.
"Yes, I am fine and I knew you were no Elf." Frodo said panting and taking a deep gulp of air before leaning back against the wall because his attempt to stand had failed.
Celebfaer realised then that the hood was no longer up, and she quickly put it back in its place though the Company had already seen all that was needed.
She turned around to see that all but the hobbits were looking at her in shock. When she looked at them Merry, Pippin and Sam quickly turned their gaze to Frodo, looking as though they were glad to see that he was alive, but unable to work out how. The rest of the Fellowship were looking at Celebfaer shocked, but for Aragorn and Gandalf it was merely because of how she had killed the cave troll. Neither had seen any of her spells and summons, so she could understand why, but she had no words for them that could comfort them because she did not quite know what it was she had done just yet. Boromir had his sword drawn and Gimli had his axe at the ready, both weapons were pointed in Celebfaer's direction, but Aragorn recovered from his shock first and stepped in before any could attack her, or try to kill her.
"It is alright. Put your weapons down, she can do no harm and we have little time if we wish to escape." He said, and Boromir laughed.
"Do no harm, she just killed that cave troll by the mere sound of her voice!" He said looking from her to Aragorn, wearily but Aragorn turned and stared at him.
"She will not harm any that travels with us as a friend, now put your weapons down." Aragorn said, and the looks he gave them, made them lower their weapons, so he turned back around and walked over to where Frodo sat propped up against the wall. "Can you walk?"
"Just give me a minute." He said, then taking a deep breath, he leaned on Aragorn's shoulder to help himself up before nodding. "Yes, I am fine." He said, then Aragorn turned back around but Boromir and Gimli were still looking at Celebfaer with caution. Legolas was even looking at her suspiciously, his hand resting on the top of his knife that hung by his side.
"We must run!" Gandalf announced but when the Company did not seem to notice his words, he spoke again. "Now is no time for explanations we must go quickly." He added, then without another word, Aragorn took off, and the Company followed close behind, Celebfaer and Gandalf came last in line and Gandalf gave her an encouraging smile as she ran past.
