Chapter 3, Talk to You
By: SilverRose82
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Half of this in the council meeting, the other half is mine.
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The one thing that Ren always hated about coming to Rivendell was the fact that the female descendants of Galadriel live in the elven city. Whether it be Celebrian or now Arwen, arguments happened when ever any of them met up with each other. Celebrian hadn't be as adamant about angering Ren but Arwen living with her grandmother for a great deal of her life, had grown to dislike the silver warrior. Elves knew that when Ren and Arwen had any sort of encounter with each other that a mini war would breakout between the two. Which was why Elladan and Elohir were fleeing from the garden they had been in earlier.
They had seen the two women enter from different sides of the garden, Ren more interested in the elven roses that grew in the sunlight by the tiny silver blue pond with its small white waterfall that glistened in the morning light, allowing the melody of rushing water to sooth those in most need of calming. Arwen seemed to have spotted Ren as soon as she had come into the garden and was making her way over to where Ren was standing.
"You lied to the hobbits." Arwen spoke up from behind Ren, not even looking up from the yellow rose she had been gazing at. Ren sneered before turning to face the chocolate haired elf, any kindness that had been in her eyes had vanished when her eyes cast onto the elven princess.
"Accuse me of lying to them again girl and you will not live to see another day." Ren all but growled as she began to leave the garden, other matters pressed into her time. Things that had to be settled and found.
"You have no right to threaten me." Arwen told the elvish queen.
"I have all the right in the world to threaten you." Ren whispered angrily as she began to walk away from the pond, away from the younger elf.
"You are nothing but a coward." Arwen spat as Ren turned around to face her so abruptly that she had no warning to prevent a pale hand from making contact with her left cheek.
"Know my pain child and you will learn I am anything but a coward." Ren hissed as she disappeared from the garden, no lights, no colours accompanied this leave. Arwen glanced at the grass below her feet, where Ren had been standing was a black rose. Kneeling to pick it up she watched as it crumbled into dust, getting blown away in the early morning wind.
"What have I done?" Arwen whispered as she looked up to meet the eyes of her father and Gandalf.
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"Strangers from distant lands, friends of old. You are summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle-Earth stands on the brink of destruction. You will unite or you will fall. Each race is bound to this fate, this one doom. Bring forth the ring, Frodo." Elrond greeted the lords as he stood before them. A short pillar stood in the center of the ring of lords. Frodo hopped of his chair and slowly walked towards the pillar allowing the ring to drop from his palm onto the stone surface. Walking back to his chair relief washed over his features murmured flew through the group as the different groups whispered among theirselves.
A hand landed on his shoulder softly, look up behind him he saw Ren standing in her soldier form glancing at all the men before her. Her eyes lingered on a few but stayed on the ring the most. Frodo knew that she didn't care for it's power for she couldn't become corrupted by calls of darkness for she was light. She glared at the ring with a sort of anger, but her eyes became soft when she glanced down at him. A smile played on her lips for a few seconds, a rare gift for as Cosmos she had no emotions, before her attention was drawn on one man who stood up.
"It is a gift, a gift to the foes of Mordor. Why not use this Ring? Long has my father, the Steward of Gondor, kept the forces of Mordor at bay. By the blood of my people are your lands kept safe. Give Gondor the weapon of the enemy. Let us use it against him." Boromir, a man of Gondor, one Ren already knew would cause great trouble. Watching him step towards the ring, tension filled the council as Gandalf jumped up and began chanting in the language of Mordor, causing Boromir to come out of his trance like state.
"You cannot wield it. None of us can. The ring answers to Sauron alone. It has no other master." Strider spoke up from his seat on the other side of the elves.
"What would a ranger know of this matter?" Boromir sneered as one elf jumped up to defend his friend's honor when he showed no point in doing so his self.
"He is no mere ranger. This is Aragorn, son of Arathorn. You owe him your allegiance." The white blonde elf told the man to his right. His tawny robes, shown with a blue shine as he stood facing the man that seemed to be easily swayed.
"This is Isildur's heir?" Boromir asked astonished.
"And heir to the throne of Gondor." Legolas answered him before turning his gaze to linger on his friend.
"Havo dad, Legolas." Aragorn told the elven prince with a raise of his hand. Legolas complied as Ren cocked her head to the side trying to figure something out.
"Gondor has no king, Gondor needs no king." Boromir spoke arrogantly.
"Aragorn is right. We cannot control it." Gandalf concluded, as Boromir took a seat, knowing that he was loosing the battle.
"We have but one choice. The ring must be destroyed." Elrond told all before him as he gazed at every person in the council. A hiss of displeasure was heard only by Ren and Frodo, glancing at the ring, Ren tighten her hold on the back of Frodo's chair slightly.
"What are we waiting for?" Gimli asked as he went to raise his axe. Lowering it down upon the cursed ring, Frodo was bombarded with the images of the eye of Sauron, the blade shattered and Gimli fell to the ground from the force.
"The ring cannot be destroyed, Gimli, son of Gloin, by any craft that we here possess. It was made in the fires of Mount Doom. Only there can it be unmade. It must be taken deep into Mordor, and cast back into the fiery chasm from which it came. One of you must do this." Elrond told them as Gimli sorely stood up, picking up the handle of his axe he sat back down beside his father. No one spoke as everyone looked at the people beside them and across from them.
"One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its black gates are guarded by more than orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the great eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. It is folly. Not with ten thousand men could you do this." Boromir spoke of what would be faced should anyone go to Mordor.
"Have you heard nothing that Lord Elrond has said? The Ring must be destroyed!" Legolas cried not liking the man from earlier was quick to argue against him. Gimli looked apposed at what he thought the elf was implying.
"And I suppose you think you're the one to do it?"
"And what if we fail? What happens when Sauron takes back what is his?" Boromir argued back.
"I will be dead before I see the Ring in the hands of an elf! Never trust an elf!" Gimli roared as the elves jumped up to uphold their honor. Legolas held back the elves as he argued solely with Gimli and Boromir. Ren could only sigh deeply, glancing to see the Elladan and Elohir had joined into this stupid argument, only Elrond, Aragorn, and Frodo did not get into the argument, even Gandalf joined the fray. The ring soaked up the anger like a sponge. It whispered its name to all that could hear, all that would listen. The arguing became louder as red flames danced within the golden band.
Ren tensed as her hands once again rested upon Frodo's shoulders. He glanced up at her and saw a sadness that not many ever saw in her eyes. The silver orbs landed on the arguing group then to the ring. Her eyes widened as she listened to the words the ring was speaking, how it was enjoying this fight.
"I will take it." Frodo spoke up as he felt a tear land on his arm. Looking up again as the arguing continued he noticed that Ren had disappeared.
"I will take it!" Frodo yelled, Gandalf hearing the hobbit closed his eyes, knowing that this was the only way. The hobbit would have to take the ring for the hearts of everyone else were easy to sway. Silence insured after the proclamation.
"I will take the ring to Mordor…. Though I do not know the way." Frodo told them as he looked around at everyone. The soft voice of Ren could be heard within his head.
"I will go with you as far as I am allowed. Other matters press into my bidding but I will come to you when things turn dire." Frodo could picture her with her silver eyes and silver hair blowing in front of her eyes like the tall grass he used to play in when he was younger, trying to hide the treasures that they held.
"I will help you bear this burden for as long as it is yours to bear." Gandalf told him as he walked to stand behind Frodo.
"If by my life or my death I can protect you, I will." Aragorn promised as he stood to walked before Frodo and kneeled before him. "You have my sword."
"And my bow." Legolas promised moving to stand next to Aragorn.
"And my axe." Gimli raised what was left of his axe as he moved to stand beside Legolas. The two shared a potent glance in each others direction but said nothing more.
"You carry the fate of us all, little one. But if this is truly the will of the council, Gondor will see it done." Boromir mused as he took to standing next to Legolas. From behind them came Sam.
"Here! Mr. Frodo's not going anywhere without me." Sam told them as he stood next to Frodo. Glaring at Elrond, daring the elf lord to try and change his mind.
"Indeed, it is hardly possible to separate the two of you, even when he is summoned to a secret council and you are not. Very well." Elrond mused slightly before Merry and Pippin barged into the council from behind two pillars. Elrond's looks soon turned to annoyance at their arrival.
"We're going, too! You'd have to send us home tied up in a sack to keep us away." Merry told them as he stood proudly next to his cousin, Frodo on his right.
"Anyway, you need people of intelligence on this sort of mission. Quest. Thing." Pippin told them seriously as he nodded his head. Merry glanced at his friend with a look of lost hope and sighed.
"Well, that rules you out, Pip."
"Nine companions. So be it. You shall be the Fellowship of the Ring." Elrond told them before sitting down in chair and shaking his head about the madness of hobbits.
"Great. Now, where are we going?" Pippin asked as he glanced around. Merry all but fell over as he glanced hopelessly at Pippin, Legolas chuckled quietly as everyone turned to get ready.
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"Are we doing the right thing?" Frodo asked as he looked up at Ren who was standing on a tree branch above the soon to be departing fellowship. Glancing down at him her eyes betrayed nothing as faint images of things to come appeared in his mind.
"How do you expect me to answer that question?" Ren asked quietly as she leaned her head to the side, her hair falling in front of her eyes.
"I'm not sure, I don't know if I'd like the answer very much." Frodo mumbled as he felt for the ring under his shirt.
"I do not think I would either." Ren told him honestly as she looked away, not wanting to watch the young hobbit beginning descent into something she had no control to stop. The power would slowly corrupt him and those around him as willed by Fate.
She watched silently as Frodo lead the group out of the stone gate of Rivendell, Frodo asking which way to turn, Aragorn's last glances at Arwen. Turning to look at the chestnut haired woman, she smiled quietly to herself. Though openly she would never admit to anyone, the young elf below her wasn't bad for a great great grandchild who knew nothing of her and disliked her passionately.
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"Do you know if Ren's going to be joining us?" Merry asked as he walked along side Frodo and the others. Legolas and Aragorn who were following after the hobbits shared a glance, before turning back to listen to the conversation.
"She'll come when we need her the most. So she'll probably appear before we really need her help." Frodo answered as he gazed around at everything before them, it was mostly brush and dead grass.
"This is tiring, nothing around here changes." Pippin muttered as he continued to follow along side his cousin.
"Nothing is tiring, Pippin, unless you make it tiring." Ren whispered in his head soothingly as her presence in his mind calmed his aching soul.
"Come on Pip, you know that this isn't going to be all fun. Besides remember the story Ren told us about her first battle. She didn't give up, if she had we wouldn't be here right now. So we're doing this for her as much as her family. You know how sad she gets when she talks about missing them." Merry told the youngest hobbit with a lopsided grin. Pippin looked up from the ground as he looked at his cousin then at Frodo who nodded in agreement to Merry's words.
"For Ren and our futures." Pippin smiled brightly as Bill neighed causing the hobbits to glance at the pony who seemed to understand every word they were saying.
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"I can't sleep." Merry muttered as he turned to look up at the cloudless night sky. The stars glittered like tiny little dancers across a black stage. "It's hard to believe that she lives up there somewhere. Has she ever spoken to you, Legolas?"
"I have yet meet the Lady Ren. But I have heard of her from many, while in Rivendell." Legolas told the hobbit, his soft spoken voice made it a bit hard for Merry to hear him, but he did and it caused him to grin slightly.
"It's a bit of a shame you have to meet her like this. She's going to be extremely war hardened." Merry told him as he rolled over onto his stomach to study the quiet elf. Legolas nodded as he looked up from cleaning his dagger, it had been a gift given to him by Lord Elrond before they left Rivendell. It was extremely light, made out of a glistening silvery white with words that even he could not read, the hilt was made out of the softest grey stone. However, he knew that if used in battle it wouldn't slip out of his hand or break. "She hates her life you know? Having to know everyone's life and not being able to stop what will happen to them because it ruins the greater picture. Makes her hate her job. But she says that she would never wish for this to befall on another soul. She would carry this burden a million times over before letting another go through her pain."
"How do you know so much of the lady?" Legolas asked as he sheathed the dagger.
"I've known her my whole life. As have Frodo and Pippin." Merry told him with a smile. "Though she did stop showing up as much after Bilbo adopted Frodo. Also missed my ninth birthday. That's the only one she's ever missed. Never missed any of our birthdays until Frodo turned twenty one. Had some mission on a distant planet or some sorts. It's been about thirteen years since we've last seen her. She always had a story to tell when she came to visit, though she didn't like to pry into her past which has lead to who she is now."
"Her life has been a hard one then?" Legolas summed up as he stood to calm Bill who had become restless.
"Hard, that's nothing compared to her life." Merry told him as he glanced around, nothing seemed to move in the darkness and shadows played and jumped around. "She once told us that a hard life would be not having enough food to feed a family, her life has been painful she knows all that will and has been and there's nothing that she can do about it. She had to watch her friends die before her eyes for protecting her."
"Do you think that she will show up?" Legolas asked as he studied the hobbit before him. Merry moved to sit up as he stared into Legolas' eyes.
"Ren doesn't lie. She told Frodo she would come when she could so she will come." Merry told him clearly, there was no room for arguments in his voice, Legolas nodded there was no reason to try to counter the hobbit.
"I believe you should try for some rest, Meriadoc, we have a long day ahead of us." Legolas commented after minutes of silence. Merry glanced over at Legolas once more before trying to find a comfortable spot.