Chapter 6

"Why don't we save you the trouble." Merut said, munching on the food Sam had prepared.

"Are you going to read the future again, Merut?" asked Boromir, rolling his eyes.

"Actually, yes, Gondor boy." Merut said, shooting an icy glare to Boromir. He sighed.

"Please don't call me that." Boromir said, acting hurt.

"Well ex-CUSE me! I'm not the one that wants to use the ring of power to save a city that has FAILED!" Merut said, placing her hands on her hips.

"The White City has not failed!"

"Well it will if your FATHER stays in power!"

"My father is a good man!"

"He commits suicide!"

"What!" Boromir said, aghast.

"Merut!" Ete said, running up and clasping a hand over Merut's mouth. Merut had given too much away. "Please forgive her! After the little incident back there, well, she hasn't been herself." She gave a pleading smile. "What Merut means to say is that we will only meet with terrible trouble if we make our way south. We should go through the Mines of Moria."

Merut bit Ete's hand and continued her anger whilst walking off to sit on a rock.

Ete held her hand and sighed. "Boromir, why don't you teach the hobbits how to fight?"

"Sounds like fun!" said Pippin, pulling Boromir off.

"My father's going to die?" Boromir said to himself as Merry and Pippin pulled him off.

"If it makes you feel any better, he dies after you!" Merut called after him. That remark earned her a smack upside the head from Ete.

A few moments later, the conversation was continued.

"If you were to ask my opinion, which I know you are not," Gimli said. "I would have to say that I agree with Ete. We should go through the mines. My cousin Balin would give us a royal welcome."

Merut gave a cough that sounded a lot like "he's dead" but was soon given an angry look from Ete. She covered it up by coughing some more and saying "Sorry. Tomato in my throat."

"I would not go through the mines unless I had no other choice." Said Gandalf.

"Sounds like snow for me." Ete said, frowning. Legolas became alert.

Ete and Merut smiled greatly to one another. They stopped eating and jumped on the rock with Legolas. He was a bit disturbed by the girls holding onto him for lack of balance. The rock was quite small, after all.

The argument broke out in the background.

"For the Shire!" they heard Pippin say.

Sam was the one who noticed it.

"What's that?" he asked.

"Nothing! Just a whisp of cloud." Said Gimli.

"But it's moving fast... and against the wind." Boromir said, looking up.

Merut and Ete jumped up and down with giddy-ness.

"Crebain from Duneland!" The three elves said in unison. Legolas looked to the girls.

"Hide!" Aragorn said, jumping down behind a rock. All the fellowship hid as the birds flew by.

When the storm of birds was over, all came out.

"We must take the pass of Caradhras." Gandalf said, looking up to the mountain.

"Damn." Ete said.

Several hours later, Ete stopped the Fellowship.

"Wait! I can save us a lot of trouble!" She said.

Here's the story. Ete hates snow. She hates cold. She hates cold and wet. Therefore, she hates snow. Snow is baaaaaaaaad. Got it?

"More fortune telling?" said Boromir, sighing.

"Don't make me start with you!" Merut said, holding up a fist.

"Very well." Gandalf said, sighing. "But make it quick."

Ete spoke quickly. "All that's going to be accomplished is that Frodo will fall, drop the ring, Boromir will pick it up and get mesmerized, Aragorn will almost snip his head off, we'll climb up the mountain, there will be a fell voice on the air, Saruman will try to take down the mountain, we'll all get covered in snow, Frodo will be placed with the decision either to continue across the mountain, make for the gap of Rohan, or go through Moria and he'll chose to go through Moria, which will mean that we have to make our way back down through the mountain and then go to the mines!"

Hours later, they were making their way through Caradhras, wind whipping and sending everyone into the darkest depths of cold.

"I hate snow." Ete said.