By: SilverRose82
Go check out Before the Ring it's going to be a collection of short stories that half to do with how Ren knows everybody and why they act how they act around each other. Please!!!!!
I can't wait for my B-day which is the day after TTT comes out!!!! Yay. This is the eve before TTT chapter, since I'm so happy I'm putting it up two days early.
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Callisto Star : I'm glad you like her character I wasn't sure about how people were going to take to her being so different from the bubbly school girl persona she had during the whole SM thing. I'm also going off the Manga version in which she wasn't as whiny and crybaby like. I agree with the jump pairing part, they get rather tiresome after the first fifty some times and I aim for being as original as possible.
Empress : She grew up and became Cosmos is what happened to Ren. How do I do this? I sit down at my computer, put on some good music and let my fingers do the walking. ^_^
BenRG : I really look forward to your reviews they help a lot. I'm slowly writing and editing a chapter in Before the Ring that has to do with Gandalf and Ren's relationship, so that will be up in the next few days or so depending on how I do in finals and what I have to do on my B-day. I'll be using that battle scene advice for the upcoming chapters I'll be writing. Thanks!!
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"Are we going to be stuck in here forever?" Pippin asked as he looked at the others. Ren smiled softly, before shaking her head, while Legolas began to occupy the hobbits with tales of what he had done as a child. Ren listened with half an ear as she stood before the steep stairwell that they had to climb up, it was almost a wall really. Merry, Pippin and Sam were asking Legolas all sorts of questions about the Mirkwood spiders he spoke of or the wargs he would hunt with others. Staring into the darkness, Aragorn appeared beside her trying to see what she was looking at. She spared him a glance before turning back to the shadowy abyss.
"What do you see down there?" Aragorn asked as he studied her once more, tightening her jaw she turned to him with war hardened eyes.
"To much." She whispered before sighing silently, looking back into the silent abyss of the mine, she could just make out the form of Gollum peering up at them with his yellowish green eyes. "I see the battle, the slaughter, everything has a way of preserving its past. So that those who are willing to listen know of what took place, so history will not be forgotten."
The exiled king was silenced by her words as he turned to stare out at the unknown. "What do they say?"
"They dug to deep, they were overcome with greed and dug to deep. That is all it keeps whispering, they dug to deep." Ren whispered with her eyes closed, before glancing over at Aragorn, his grey eyes glanced around as he thought about what she had said. Turning to walk away she took one more glance at him, shaking her head she left the King of Gondor to his own thought. Moving to gather up something behind Legolas she jumped up onto a bolder nearby and sat thinking, intent on staying up there for the rest of their stay.
"He killed spiders and werewolves….. or were they just wolves?" Pippin told Ren excitedly as he glanced up at her then back at Legolas with a confused glance, she looked down at him with a smile as Sam sighed.
"They were wargs, Mr. Pippin." Sam corrected the youngest hobbit, Pippin looking back at Sam, his eyes widening he turned back to Ren who could only cover her eyes in horror. Legolas watched on with amusement at the hobbit's enjoyment and the pained actions of the Lady Ren.
"Didn't you tell us that someone once put one of those warg pups into your room?" Pippin asked as Ren fell backwards with a groan. Jumping back up so she stood upon the bolder she muttered a few choice words while stepping off of the rock ledge and landing on the ground before them, sitting on a rock a few feet off, she sighed.
"How is that possible, warg pups are as deadly and dangerous as the adults." Legolas asked as murmurs of hobbits remembering stories as well as they loved food came from her. Pippin smiled mischievously as Ren could only shake her head at the memories.
"It is something I would rather not remember, master archer. That little creature would not leave me alone for weeks." She told him as Pippin's face turned red from hidden laughter, Merry looked soon to join his cousin. Watching Frodo run up to where Gandalf was sitting she sighed before standing up once more. Piercing her lips into a fine line she closed her eyes for a moment trying to gather her thought on the topic. "No more talk about that pup, who I think has become a rather large and ugly guard dog to some egotistic man on another world."
"Ah! It's this way." Gandalf exclaimed moments later. Gathering up their things they slowly made their way after Gandalf, as he walked down the first of the three stone gateways.
"He's remembered!" Merry cried as he followed after Gandalf and Frodo. Gandalf chuckled as he turned to Merry.
"No, but the air smells less foul down here. When in doubt, Meriadoc, always follow your nose." Gandalf told the hobbit as they followed him into the darkened tunnel, Ren glared at Boromir before walking past him into the stairwell. Boromir only rolled his eyes at her actions, she seemed to like him less and less everyday as far as he could tell.
"Gandalf, it's dark in here I can't tell where the next step is or even if there is one." Frodo told the wizard in front of him. Gandalf said nothing and no more light came from the crystal upon his staff.
"Milady you have powers, light the way for the hobbits." Boromir suggested as Ren scoffed at him.
"I would not risk using the Light of the Moon or the Fires of Mars in this place. No one will fall, as long as you put one foot in front of the other and can see the outline of the person before you." Ren told him with a small smirk, talking to him as though she was speaking to a four or five year old. "I dare not risk letting anything else know we are down here."
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"Let me risk a little more light." Gandalf murmured as they appeared in a great cavern, the light allowed them to see the wonders that the dwarves had created around them giant silver marble pillars kept the ceiling from crashing onto the hall below. "Behold! The great realm of the dwarven city of Dwarrowdelf."
As they started to make their way through the stone city, a doorway with a single strand of sunlight peering through caught Gimli's eye. Turning towards the door he gave a startled cry before running towards it.
"Gimli!" Gandalf cried out as the others followed him into the room. Gimli was kneeling before a white marble tomb in the center of the room. All around them lay the dead and decayed bodies of dwarves, their armor pierced with goblin arrows, Gandalf made his way over to the tomb as the others watched silently. "Here lies Balin, son of Hrundin, Lord of Moria. He is dead then. It is as I feared."
"We must move on. We cannot linger here." Legolas told Aragorn, Ren shared his feeling for she was jumpier than most had ever seen her. Frodo and Merry were trying to calm her as Gandalf handed Pippin his hat and staff. Ren calmed down a bit and glared at Gandalf before placing a hand on Frodo and Merry's shoulders.
"They have taken the bridge, and the second hall. The ground shakes. We have barred the gates, but cannot hold them for long. A shadow moves in the dark. Drums, drums in the deep. We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They are coming." Gandalf read the last page of the book. Everyone jumped when Pippin accidentally knocked a skeleton into the well he had been standing next to, the sound was deafening in the silence of the mine. Gandalf whirled to face the young hobbit, scolding at him. "Fool of a Took! Next time, throw yourself in, and rid us of your stupidity!"
He paused in his ranting to listen, hearing nothing he started to turn around. Ren was trying to leave the room but was being held back by Legolas and Aragorn, Boromir sported nail marks on his face when he had tried to stop her from leaving. Raising an eyebrow he looked over at the hobbits and saw the three of them sporting similar grins. She wanted to leave and she wanted to leave badly, which Gandalf took as a bad sign. It only became worst when the drums started to pound, Ren froze and the two released her from their holds.
"Orcs!" Legolas hissed as a cobalt blue surrounded Frodo's sword, causing Boromir, Legolas and Aragorn to spring into action. Boromir moved to the door when two arrows flew past him almost hitting him, he shut the door. Aragorn having moved the hobbits by Ren, moved to help Boromir, bring with him a weapon to bar the door.
"They have a cave troll." Boromir told him as he leaned against the rotting door in false amusement. Legolas tossed them more weapons as Gimli jumped on top Balin's tomb.
"Let them come! There is one dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath!" Gimli cried as he raised his axe. What was left of the rotten door was broken down by the orcs on the other side as Legolas and Aragorn shot arrows through the holes, killing any that happened to be in the wrong place.
"I could go bowling for orcs or I could just slice through them and this happens to be more entertaining." Ren muttered as she sliced through the orcs that ran into the room. Dancing out of the way as the troll started to come through the door giving the creature a once over she sighed, pitying the blue grey creature.
The troll caught sight of three of the hobbits, trying for them, they to split apart Merry and Pippin were on one side and Frodo on the other. Going after Frodo, he couldn't find the hobbit that he smelled but after a moment he surprised Frodo. Frodo backed up into the corner after his fall, however, the troll grabbed him. Frodo swing from the troll's hand, reached up and sliced at him with Sting, the troll dropped him with a cry of rage. Reaching for him again, Aragorn jumped in the way stabbing the creature with a spear. Smashing him into a wall the troll went after Aragorn, Frodo's tries to awaken him only caused the troll to take interest in him again. Dodging the first stab with the spear the next one made it mark causing Frodo to fall to the ground with the spear in his side.
Seeing this caused everyone to renew their strength and kill anything that came in their path. Merry and Pippin watching their cousin fall to the ground and fearing for the worst drew the swords Ren had given them and jumped upon the creature stabbing it. Merry was quickly tossed off the troll's back. Pippin stabbing the creature again gave Legolas a chance to let an arrow fly into its mouth killing it as it went through the creature's brain. As it fell to the ground with a thud, upsetting dust, Pippin was thrown off its back and onto the floor a few feet off.
"Oh, no." Aragorn murmured as he crawled over to Frodo, turning the hobbit over he was surprised to find that the hobbit was indeed alive and not dead like everyone thought. Frodo sat up shaking his head slightly as he glanced around.
"I'm all right, I'm not hurt." Frodo assured them as Aragorn's eyebrows knitted together in confusion. He had seen the spear go through Frodo's chest.
"I think there is more to this hobbit than meets the eye." Gandalf said eyeing Frodo. Glancing up at everyone around him Frodo pulled open the flaps of his shirt, showing the silver undercoat of mithril that he wore.
"Mithril! You are full of surprises, Mr. Baggins!" Gimli cried as the sounds of more orcs approaching them could be heard throughout the tomb.
"To the bridge of Khazad-Dum!" Gandalf cried as they ran out of the tomb and made their way through the cavern only to be surrounded by orcs. Legolas stood on one side of the group pointing his bow at the orcs, Gandalf put more power into the staff causing the orcs to flood back away from the light, Ren willed forth the Bow of Mars into her hands. The fire danced around in an array of colours ranging from a deep golden yellow to the bright red, the sun turned when she set. A roar at the far end of the cavern caused the orcs to flee while Ren let the bow fade from existence, dropping her hands to her sides she curled delicate fingers into fists. Legolas standing next to Gandalf tried fruitlessly to find something to fire upon, relaxed his bow in shock when he saw the wall on the opposite side glow a fiery red and hear the deep seeded roar on the other side of the hall.
"I am Cosmos. By the powers I hold as High Queen to the Order of Light, I command you to leave." Ren whispered as she raised her left hand in the air, a small pin print of light started to form before she closed her fist around it. As the light pulsed through her hand she allowed for it to grow until pulsing flares of it could be seen dancing around her fist. Opening her hand so that it lay flat against the blinding light it floated away as though it were a small moth. Only the agonized screams of the creature could tell them that something had happened. "Noro nalaquel a hunie!"
"A balrog. A demon of the ancient world. This foe is beyond you. Run! Lady, go on with the others." Gandalf cried as they ran off towards the bridge with Ren being pulled along by the hobbits, Boromir running straight down the stairs almost fell off the edge as the stairs dropped out, Legolas ran down to pull him back causing them to fall backwards as everyone else came to a halt around them.
"Lead them on! The bridge is near." Gandalf cried as he pushed Aragorn away, Ren gave a slow and pain filled glance at Gandalf before herding the others off. Running down more stairs the rumble of the barong's steps neared them, rocks rained upon them as they reached a minor gap in the stair well. Legolas jumped across with ease and turned, bidding Gandalf to follow after him, hesitantly Gandalf jumped across while Legolas steadied him, Ren stood behind the group staring back the way they had come growled before walking up a few more steps. Turning to see Boromir jump across with Merry and Pippin tucked under his arms then Aragorn throw Sam across. She jogged down a few steps as Gimli refused to let Aragorn move closer to him.
"Nobody tosses a dwarf!" Gimli cried as he jumped across, not making it all the way Legolas grabbed at his beard in the last few seconds causing Gimli to cry in anger. "Not the beard!"
He was pulled up only to see Ren jumping into the air over the heads of Aragorn and Frodo, she flipped before landing behind the group, turning to face them, in sailor form, her cape disappeared before she held up her left hand as white sapphire, ice shards appeared between each knuckle. With a speed that none could measure, she spun around and flung them towards where a mass of orcs were firing down at them. Five fell, with cried of fear as they plunged to their death in the chasm below. Another cry came as more of the stairwell broke off, causing Aragorn to pull Frodo back from the edge. The balrog roared again as parts of the ceiling broke around them, one piece hit the pillar holding the stairwell up breaking the part Aragorn and Frodo were on to begin tilting as it started to crumble below them.
"Lean forward!" As Frodo and Aragorn leaned forward the stairs fell towards the others, as they continued down the stairs the part behind them fell as the pillar holding it up shattered into pieces. As they reached the long chamber leading to the bridge the balrog appeared behind them, the once dark, murky chamber was lit with fire and shadow. Once everyone has crossed over the bridge Gandalf stopped. He gave the group one last glance before turning to face the fire demon, he unsheathed his sword and brought both sword and staff together, before him, glaring at the creature of shadows and flames.
"Anno ho poldora!" Cosmos cried as she held onto Merry and Pippin, the two hobbits could only watch in a mixture of horror and awe at the balrog before them as the closed their hands around her arms.
"You cannot pass." Gandalf commanded as the others turned to watch, Frodo cried for his old friend to move. Waves of shadow and flame swirled around the balrog as it tries to sweep Gandalf off of the bridge with its great shadowy bat like wings.
"I am a servant of the secret fire, wielder of the flame of Anor! Dark fire shall not avail you, flame of Udun!" Gandalf cried out as the balrog tried to swing a sword of pure dark fire at Gandalf who blocks the blow with his own powers. "Go back to the shadow! You shall not pass!"
A flash of pure power errupted from the staff as Gandalf slammed his staff into the bridge cracking it, the balrog flinched backwards. However, gaining courage moved to step onto the bridge while drawing out a whip of pure flame. As the bridge caved under the weight of the balrog, the fire creature to fell in the black chasm, Gandalf turned once it had fallen but with a snap, the whip came up wrapping itself around Gandalf's ankle. Grasping the end of the bridge for a few brief moments he looked over at them as his hold weakened.
"Fly, you fools!" he whispered before losing his grip on the bridge and falling into the shadows of Moria.
"No!" Frodo screamed as Boromir reached out to grab him, halting his attempts to flee back to the bridge. Cosmos, grabbing Pippin was forced out of the last gateway by orc and goblin arrow, Legolas having picked up Merry followed after her as they made their way were followed by Gimli who had Sam in his clutches.
"Aragorn!" Boromir cried as he carried Frodo up the stairs, Aragorn looked back at the chasm once more in disbelief before being driven away by the arrows of orcs. Coming out into the sunlight, grief was all around him as he gazed at everyone around him. Merry was comforting a distressed Pippin, Sam was off by himself shaking his head, Boromir was hugging Gimli to him, Legolas just looked around lost and uncertain about what to do and Cosmos was staring at the doorway they had just come out off, looking around at the group she turned to stare at the doorway once more, trying to make up her mind.
" Cosmosamin. Vee taurn a tel teema en mea, amin daro ilya kshtullo oio us sina haba." she whispered before looking off toward where Frodo was standing, silent tears fell down her face, reaching up to whip them away she stared at her hand as the crystal tears sparkled in the late afternoon sun. She had never once cried since the first time she had ever became Cosmos. " Lavi qualin an serin."
"Legolas, get them up!" Aragorn ordered, Legolas turned to Aragorn confused as to why Aragorn would not all the others to morn the lost of their friend and comrade.
"Give them a moment, for pity's sake!" Boromir cried as he stood glaring at Aragorn while sweeping his hand around showing the others who still shed tears for the loss of a great friend and leader.
"By nightfall these hills will be crawling with orcs! Gimli, Legolas, get them up! On your feet, Sam. Frodo? Frodo!" Aragorn ordered as he pull Sam up, with a glance at Ren who's disappointment could clearly be seen, he turned to look for the ring-bearer. Frodo had moved away from the group, standing off by himself, he stared at the tree covered ground that awaited them. Turning to face the group, silent tears fell down his face, his eyes hardening a great deal more from the pain. A sharp intake of breath was the only thing heard from the group as they waited for Frodo to make his way over to them.
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"You come and go as you please. Why could you not take the ring to Mordor during the council meeting?" Boromir asked as they stopped for the night a few miles away from the east entrance to Moria. Ren who had taken to sitting by herself in a nearby tree growled under her breath. "It would save us this trouble."
"Men always asked to many questions for their own good." She spat silently before hopping off the branch, turning to face the group before her she walked up to Boromir slowly. "Fate has played an evil card. If I so as step into Mordor with that ring. I will die. But not die how you think. I will become the one thing I hate most. Emotionless. As Cosmos I am unforgiving. I would loose all memories I have, that I want to keep hold of and never let go."
"You would allow the lost of people who needlessly die so you can keep memories?!" Boromir cried as her eyes flashed dangerously in the light.
"I may be Cosmos which makes me overly powerful but I cannot tamper with what is set in stone. I am above them but I still have to abide by them." Ren growled as her hands clinched into fist, silver hands turned a shade of white that Aragorn and Legolas didn't seem to believe health. Strangely the hobbits and Gimli did not wake from this word battle. "Besides, human, memories are all I have left."
"Had you taken the ring to Mordor the hobbits wouldn't have had to go through all this pain." He battled back as Ren pushed stands of pale gold hair behind her delicately pointed ears.
"But what would happen if I had altered all of this? This which was meant to be, meant to happen." Ren told him quietly as she closed her eyes. "There are two things that will always be set in stone. A person's destiny and a person's death. They will still take place no matter of the events around them. Yes, you can die before the day you are suppose to, but as I have learned there is no way to escape destiny."
"Blood wouldn't have to be shed if you would take the ring to Mordor." Boromir grumbled, a feral growl came deep within her throat, as Legolas jumped in to stop the battle which could and would rage until all hours of the night. Ren's eyes shone with red and gold fire as she stared at the man before her.
"I would not argue with the lady, Boromir, she know of what she speaks." Legolas told the man of Gondor, Boromir glared at the second elf before Aragorn moved him to away from the two elves. Lifting her hands up as she uncurled them she watched silver blood run down her palm and forearm in small rivers, from where her nails had pierced through the skin, studying the small half moons she sighed. Legolas took her hands in his own when he saw the silver liquid, he watched in shock as the wounds slowly closed up and vanished leaving no traces that they had been they excepted for the silver glitter than ran along her hands and forearms. "How?"
"By being Cosmos, there are certain perks, I guess you could say. Healing quickly happens to be one of them." Ren told him as she sat down by her sleeping area. Legolas nodded though he couldn't help but be confused, how could she withstand the pain, everyone and she herself said she went though and stay sane? Ren glanced over at him silently before answering his silent questions. "I have one wish, that will be granted to me after this. For I have become fate and I have become destiny. The two I hate most in this world, for they caused me the most pain, I have granted them the one thing I can never grant myself. Eternal rest."
"You speak of being emotionless when Cosmos, then why do you grant them peace?"
"Because I have always been a forgiving person. That trait will carry over even into Cosmos, but to enemies I have lost all forgiveness I once held for them." she told him silently while staring up to where the moon would be, but she was in her hidden part of her cycle. Silence reined over them as two more snores joined the chorus of hobbits and dwarf, Ren let her head fall into her hands.
"Why do you carry this burden? Why were you chosen?" Legolas asked as Ren looked up at him, her eyes studied him silently as she decided whether or not to answer him.
"I carry it because I could never stand to watch another carry it. Why they chose me to do this? I wish I could answer that."
"There is no way to ease your pain?" Legolas asked quietly as he gazed out into the darkness that surrounded them the small fire in which the hobbits had curled around flicked as it licked at the air around orange flames.
"My pain has already been eased a great deal. There are many simple things here, right now, that ease my pain." Ren told him as she leaned against the tree behind her. Looking up at him with calm, ancient eyes, Legolas was forced to look away as he was overwhelmed by images of what would come to be.
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Elvish Translations :
Sindarin :
Noro nalaquel a hunie : Go back to darkness!
Anno ho poldora : Give him Strength
Cosmosamin. Vee taurn a tel teema en mea, amin daro ilya kshtullo oio us sina haba : I am Cosmos. As High Queen to the Order of Light, I block all evil from ever leaving this mine.
Quenya :
Lavi qualin an serin : Allow the dead to rest.
This page helped with all the quenya translation, , and some of the sindarin. Most of the sindarin came from the Grey Company translation dictionary. I'm not saying that any of this is 100% correct, because this is the first time I've put together a full sentence in any foreign language other than French and Spanish. So if you find anything wrong with it do feel free to tell me. Sorry I didn't put the translations up with the sentence they go with, I'm lazy and I don't think it would look as nice.
Umm on a lighter note, was it just me or did anyone else see a resemblance between the balrog and the red bull from The Last Unicorn? Or is it just me?
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