By: SilverRose82
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solarmistress17
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SWKayI feel so shameful. It took me seven chapters to get to about 22 thousand, which is half the amount of words I have for my only finished story and near one and passing two that have more chapters then this story but less words. Shesh.
I now have the script to TTT, if you want the script, it has bandwidth problems but it's the whole script.
Now I'm going to watch the rest of George of the Jungle on Disney, enjoy the chapter.
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The great falls of the river Anduin, the end of their river bound trip. Ren said nothing as she hopped out of the boat, turning to look at the rock point that sat in the center of the river, she felt Boromir walk past her to place his stuff down by a tree trunk. Glancing down at her hands she watched them shake, looking off into the trees she let out a silent hiss. She hadn't been the only one to feel the dark power. Cursing under her breath she moved to over to the river line she sat down and began playing with the small rocks that had been washed up over the years.
"We cross at nightfall, hide the boats and continue on foot. We approach Mordor from the north." Aragorn concluded as the group began to make a small camp, Legolas kept staring into the tree line, looking back at Ren he noticed that she didn't seemed to notice anything, but he learned that she would allow things to happen as they were to happen. Glancing over at him Ren flashed him a quick smiled and a nod, her eyes, he noted seemed greatly saddened.
"Oh? Just a simple matter of finding our way across Emyn Muil, an impassable labyrinth of razor-sharp rocks! And then it gets even better! Festering, stinking marshlands as far as the eye can see!" Gimli cried as he turned to face Aragorn, Sam and Pippin looked up at them not liking what they were going to partake in once they crossed the river.
"That is our road, sir dwarf. Perhaps you should take some rest, and recover your strength." Aragorn told him, his tone allowing no room for argument.
"Recover my...!" Gimli looked positively mortified at the assumptions that he needed to rest. Had the only elf been, Lady Ren he would have considered doing so without argument but saying that before Legolas. Gimli sat down to grumble as he watched the hobbits smile.
"We should leave now." Legolas chilled as he continued to look into the woods surrounding them.
"No. Orcs patrol the eastern shore. We must wait for the cover of darkness."
"It is not the eastern shore that worries me. A shadow and a threat has been growing in my mind. Something draws near, I can feel it." Legolas shot back quietly, but Aragorn only dismissed the elf's words.
"Recover my strength! Pay no heed to that, young hobbits." Gimli told them as Merry came back from gathering wood.
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"What do you feel?" Legolas asked as he walked over to where Ren sat, she glanced up at him from the small amount of rocks she had collected. Patting the ground next to her she turned her attention back onto the water as it rushed towards the falls. Picking up the pebbles one by one she started tossing them back into the river, a name was murmured under her breath as she watched each one make their little arch before disturbing the water and sinking into the river bed.
"What do I feel? I feel many things, Legolas. If you mean the darkness, I feel that, I have felt it for the last day or two. Nothing I can do about it though. Nothing I can ever do about it." Ren huffed before throwing the last handful of rocks into the river. Watching as the small pebbles rain onto the river, she looked downcast from doing that, upset that she couldn't utter the names to which each simple stone represented. Legolas turned to watch her as she clinched her fists before slowly standing to her feet. She glanced down at him before one last stone rolled off her palm and fell onto stone shore next to him, turning away from the water's edge she slowly made her way into the forest that surrounded them.
Looking down at the clear stone she had dropped beside him, he slowly picked it up, rolling it around in his palm as he looked over at the others. Merry and Pippin were staring at Ren's receding back before turning to stare at him, Pippin cast one last look into the forest around them before following Merry over to where they had docked the boats to gather some supplies for food.
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"I wish this could be different, Boromir." Ren whispered as she watched the man of Gondor cry into forest floor, coming to his senses after attacking Frodo. Standing in one of the tree behind him, its golden green leaves hiding her from view, she slowly turned away leaving the man who had just condemned his destiny to mourn. Jumping through the trees she put distance between the two of them before leaping from the canopy and calmly walking back into the campground. Legolas continued to look towards the east as Aragorn left to hunt for Frodo and Boromir, this caused the three remaining hobbits to stomp out the fire then run into the woods looking for their friend.
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"Frodo?" Aragorn asked as he appeared around the stone platform Frodo had fallen from moments before, the hobbit looked up at the man before him with frightened blue eyes. In his hand the ring shone in the light of the sun above them.
"It has taken Boromir."
"Where is the ring?" Aragorn asked as he moved towards Frodo. Frodo only backed up not sure if Aragorn would be like Boromir and try taking the ring away from him. His eyes following every movement that Aragorn made, the sweeping his cloak made in the wind, the sword hanging at his side.
"Stay away!"
"Frodo? I swore to protect you." Aragorn told him as he placed his hand over his heart.
"Can you protect me from yourself? Would you destroy it?" Frodo asked as he held out the ring for Aragorn to take. The ring hissed Aragorn's name, the ranger slowly reached for the golden band, coming to his senses he knelt before Frodo, closing the hobbit's hand over the ring. Looking into Frodo's eyes Aragorn nodded knowing what the hobbit was going to do.
"I would have gone with you to the end, into the very fires of Mordor." Aragorn told him honestly, Frodo nodded as he closed his eyes. Understanding past between the two as Frodo looked Aragorn straight in the eye.
"I know. Take care of the others. Especially Sam, he will not understand." Frodo told him as Aragorn suddenly turned, his sword ready for battle.
"Go, Frodo!" Aragorn cried as Frodo glanced down to see Sting glowing brightly. Giving one last glance at Aragorn he turned and fled down the hill. "Run!" Before him were hundreds of Uruk-hais, all ready for battle as they filled the small clearing, their blades held ready. Rushing into them he sliced through the first few who were unprepared for the sudden attack.
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"Causes are a great thing to have." Ren told Gimli as she unsheathed a pair of silvery white elven swords, they were simple in design, the only runes that decorated them stood for fate and destiny. As Sailor Cosmos she mostly relied on a semi long distance way of fighting, here she didn't always have to rely on those to battle, they were efficient but took up a large amount of time to gather the energy needed and in Middle Earth time meant everything.
"What's your cause?" Gimli asked as they ran up the hill after Legolas. After the hobbits had moved out to find Frodo the sounds of battle were heard by the ears of the elves.
"My cause? To keep this planet from falling into darkness." Ren told him as she spun away from a black arrow more than likely tipped with poison. Glaring at the pure black arrow that had embedded itself in a tree she slowly turned around, a controlled look came on her face as she schooled her facial features. Looking past the trees she glared at the creature that stood on the hill top barking out orders, his cries of 'find the hobbits' were heard over the battle. She glared at the tall creature, looking back at Gimli she got an evil look in her eye before jumping into the trees. A long silver bow, similar to the one Legolas now had, appeared within her hands a set of arrows appeared in a silvery quiver that appeared across her back. Drawing back the bow with a knocked arrow gleaming in the filtered sunlight.
Gimli watched as she let the arrow fly, embedding itself into an uruk-hai that was trying sneaking up on Legolas, who had been engaged in another battle. Running into the fight himself, the dwarf lord began spinning his axe in deadly precision, Uruk-hais falling to his blade as the battle raged on around them. There was a sudden crunching of leaves as Ren jumped from the tree she had been perched on before she started running and sliding down the side of the hill. No uruk-hais followed her as they raged on against the warriors.
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"Do you believe that I can do this?" Frodo asked as he gazed into Ren's silver blue eyes. The sounds of battle deeper in the forest could scarcely be heard from where they stood.
"I believe in you. I always have and I always will. As long as your heart stays true, you shall not fail." Ren told him as she knelt before him on the river shoreline where they had docked the boats. Pushing her hair behind her as she looked him straight in the eye.
"You won't try to stop me?" Frodo murmured as Ren pushed a few stands of hair from in front of his face.
"Would I be able to, even if I tried?" Ren whispered as she let her hand dropped onto her knee. Shaking her head she slowly began to stand. Placing a pale hand on his left shoulder she smiled warmly. Frodo hugged her around her waist, as Ren dropped back to her knees she held him tightly. Pulling away from him after a minute she could hear the horn of Gondor in the distance. Looking into the tree line, she turned back to Frodo. Tears fell down his face silently, whipping some of his tears away, Ren could only give him a semi comforting smile. "You must go little one. I will join you when I can. Stay safe and trust your heart."
"Alright." Frodo nodded as he grabbed his pack and tossed it into one of the boats. Turning to look at Ren, he saw that she had turned to join the battle. But he knew as well as she did that it was already over, the unicorn's words ran through his head once more, Death will come to the man of Gondor.
"Frodo! Mr. Frodo!" Sam cried as he ran onto the shore line. Frodo didn't turn around, he just kept paddling the boat across the river.
"No, Sam." Frodo whispered as the sound of splashing caused him to turn around, he watched as Sam started to wade into the river. "Go back, Sam. I'm going to Mordor alone!"
"Of course you are, and I'm coming with you!" Sam yelled as he continued sloshing through the water as while heading for the boat.
"You can't swim! Sam!" Frodo cried as he watched Sam start to splash around in the water. Turning the boat back so that he could save his friend, he reached into the water and pulled Sam into the boat with him.
"I made a promise, Mr. Frodo. A promise. Don't you leave him, Samwise Gamgee, and I don't mean to. I don't mean to." Sam whispered, tears in his eyes as he sat before Frodo in the boat, water dripping off his curly brown hair.
"Oh, Sam." Frodo whispered as he hugged his friend. Together the two started to paddle across the river. Taking one last look behind them, they saw Ren standing on the shoreline smiling sadly at them, her hair glowed in the sunlight as she turned to await the remaining members of the broken Fellowship.
"Will we ever see her again?" Sam asked as they began to walk along a new path, only knowing that the direction they were going was the right one. Pushing past brushes and low tree branches they continued onward.
"Yes, we will see her, but will we ever see the others, again?" Frodo asked as they continued their climb through trees and overgrown bushes.
"I don't know Mr. Frodo." Sam whispered as they disappeared from sight. "But she'll protect them won't she?"
"Yes, Sam. Ren will protect them." Frodo told him with a small smile as he glanced around him in silent awe, hoping that they were going the right way.
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Ren watched in silence as Legolas and Aragorn placed Boromir's body in one of the remaining boats. Pushing the boat off they watched as the silvery white boat floated towards the waterfall, Boromir becoming one with the Great Anduin. Legolas moved toward the last boat but was stopped by Ren.
"We mean not to follow them?" Legolas asked as he looked from Ren to Aragorn. Aragorn looked up as he put his sword into its sheath, his grey eyes tired.
"Frodo's fate no longer rests in our hands."
"What of you Lady? Who will you follow?" Legolas asked as Ren let her hand drop from his shoulder. Closing her eyes she lowered her head slightly, facing the river she let the rushing noise of the falls calm her frayed nerves before looking into the sky blue eyes of the elf before her.
"I go where ever my feet take me." She whispered as she turned away. Murmuring some Lunarian words under her breath her body was surrounded in a silvery black haze. Legolas took a step back at the magick he felt around her. The three shaded their eyes as the blinding light died down. Looking for the lady they could not find her, but no rose lay on the ground where she had stood. Legolas looked at the palm of his hand when he felt a small amount of weight. Standing on his hand was the Lady Ren, Gimli's eyes widened as he walked closer to Legolas to get a better look at her. Aragorn muttered something under his breath as he too, walked closer to peer at the tiny woman. Her tall frame was reduced to the size of Legolas' hand, not even seven inches tall, she smiled up at them, brightly.
"What sort of magic is this?" Gimli asked as Ren looked at him.
"Lunarian magic." was the perky reply he got as she looked up at them. She wrinkled her nose up at the perkiness of her voice but stood firmly on Legolas' palm as he raised his hand up to get a better look at her. The outfit she wore was a pale birch, designed like a normal dress, the neckline was round and the sleeves were tight and ran down to her wrists, the extra material covered her hands when she let her arms dangle at her side. The skirt was short as in her sailor form but the strips were cut and dangled around her upper thighs in half diamonds. All over the dress, long willowy leaves curved around her body, they shone against the birch material in a silvery green. From her back, silver moonlight wing appeared, from her shoulder blade came two pairs, each leaf like in shape, they shone like the rainbow that came from the mist of a waterfall, glowing with an eternal light. Her feet were bare and her hair flowed around her in waves of pale golden quicksilver, her eyes became an intense blue that could rival the sky.
"Where do you go now?" Legolas asked quietly as she looked at him while pushing her wavy hair out of her way. Folding her hands together she glanced at the prince with one eye while staring at the ground with the other.
"I go to Merry and Pippin." Ren told him as she looked down at her bare feet, giving the elven prince a cheeky grin she jumped off his palm. Fluttering before them, sounding much like a small bee, she disappeared in an array of colours.
"And we go to help Merry and Pippin. No sense of leaving them to the hands of uruk-hai. The Lady will comfort them." Aragorn told them as he ran into the woods. Legolas and Gimli shared a quick glance, before following after Aragorn.
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"Ren!" Merry cried out silently as he and Pippin sat tied against a pair of trees while the uruk-hais ate whatever creature they had killed earlier that day.
"You two are hard to find." Ren told them as she landed on Merry's shoulder. Her wings folded against her back as she looked around, the entire uruk-hai camp reeked of dark magick. "I guess it's just because of the dark magick around them. It throws everything off."
"Did Frodo and Sam fare well?" Pippin asked as he stared fearfully at the orcs before him.
"Both are heading towards Mordor as we speak." Ren whispered as she flittered behind Merry's neck as an uruk-hai past by them, not seeing the small light that glowed behind one of the halflings' neck.
"Are they all this stupid?" Merry asked as Ren leaned against his shoulder. Looking up at them as she climbed up to sit on his shoulder, crossing her legs she looked up barely missing the mass of brown blonde curls that would have knocked her off of her perch.
"Yes, but they are about as strong as five or six average men put together." Ren told him with a sigh, not like the odd, there were still about thirty uruk-hais left, that was about a hundred some odd men give or take the uruk itself.
"How strong is that?" Pippin asked as he flinched as the uruk-hais cracked with laughter, it sounded merciless and evil.
"Umm, Aragorn, Boromir and Gimli put together. Or Legolas on a very, very bad day." Ren shrugged, but caused the two halflings to grin slightly at the thought of the elven prince having a bad day. He was the only one out of the group that hadn't become downcast even with the raging snow storm in the mountains.
"I don't think that Legolas had ever had a bad day." Merry told her as she smiled up at him. At least they could still smile.
"Well you will have to ask him, when you meet up with them again." Ren told them quietly as she fled again behind Merry as two or three more uruk-hais walked passed them to join the large group in the center of the encampment.
"I think Gimli would get a kick out of that answer." Pippin smiled as he looked over at Ren, she was peering out over Merry's shoulder slowly, as if not sure of anything around her.
"This place is worst then the darkness I felt in the mine. Darkest of dark." She murmured before giving them a reassuring smile. "Do not fear, they will find you."