Bulma Greenleaf: ,,Hey people! This is a very important chapter for you,
isn't it? Because I FINALLY reveal Legolas' Power! And that's what you've
all been waiting for, isn't it? Sorry for the late update, but I had
problems with the Internet. So here's an extra long chapter! And guess
what? Two of the reviewers guessed the right Power! Congratulations,
MoroTheWolfGod and Lady Moon! Well, what am I waiting for? Let's thank the
reviewers and continue with the story! Warning: a major shock in this
chapter! You can't say I didn't warn you! : - D "
To Im A Brandybuck: Oh, thank you!!! You putted my story to your favorites! That REALLY made my day, I'm serious! Yeah, I love cliffhangers. To write them of course. Thank you for reviewing!!!
To goaway: Thank you very much for reviewing the story, I'm glad you like it and enjoy the next chapter!!! Bye bye!
To MoroTheWolfGod: You have no idea how right you are about Legolas' Power! Oh well, you'll see in this chapter!! Bye bye!!!
To Lady Moon: I know I'm evil. Thanks for the compliment! You're kinda right about Legolas Power, y'know. Congratulations! And your name is still cool!
To Kelly Neptunus: Here's the update you've been waiting for! Sorry it's late. Enjoy! Thanks for reviewing the story!
To Jedi Knight 666: Yeah, I think the Fire-Power is just right for him. Thanks for reviewing!
To Huinesoron: Your review was funny! I promise I won't stop writing after the 9 Powers are introduced. I like writing this story! I won't stop writing if the reviewers keep reviewing!!!
To EMerald QUeen: Nope, not a single teeny bit of sanity. Thanks for the compliment! Bye bye!
To elfbabe009: Thanks for reviewing! The idea of super-arrows is pretty nice, but no, I thought up a Power for Leggie already. But the idea was very good! Thank you!!! Bye bye!
To Blackbird: No, I won't tell what Aragorn's Power is! Wha ha ha! You'll have to find out for yourself! Wha ha ha! Well, bye bye!
To princess-Greenleaf-of-Mir: Thank you for reviewing (from my sister, too)! Have you really read all of my stories? That's just great! Thanks! Well, here's the next chapter! Enjoy!
To incurelf: Here's the next chapter! It's longer because you guys had to wait very long. Sorry! I had problems with the computer so I couln't help it. . . Sorry again and thanks for reviewing!
To Kierin: Thank you for reviewing, I'm glad to hear you like it!
Disclaimer: I don't own the story and the characters of Lord of the Rings, but I do own the Pearls of Victory and their Powers.
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Hoping doing this was right, Legolas cried out:
,,Power up!"
Immediatly, water he was standing in started twirling around his legs. Legolas looked at it for a second.
He felt like one with the water. And had the feeling he could do anything with the water. Legolas seemed to know exactly what he had to do to make the water do what he wanted.
With a quick movement of his hand, water from all around him started moving, forming a wave and hitting the Watcher. But that wasn't enough. Within just one second, he putted his arms above his head. All the water around the angry Watcher started to float. This was far more difficult than just causing a wave. Legolas couldn't do more than this at once.
But without water, the Watcher was pretty powerless. The rest of the Fellowship had no problem to defeat the Watcher on land.
They didn't actually kill the beast. They weren't able to. Legolas was getting very tired from using his Power. Aragorn was able to cut of the tentacle where Frodo was hanging upside-down. Lucky enough, Boromir caught Frodo just before Legolas sank on his knees. All the water he had been holding up fell down again. The lake was pretty deep and Legolas was still in there, probably drowning.
It seemed like the Elf would never come to the surface again. The other members of the Fellowship wanted to go after their friend, but Gandalf forbade them to do that.
,,I want to help Legolas just as well as you do, but going after him would be like suicide."
Frodo couldn't just watch without doing or seeing anything.
,,Power up!"
His eyes glew red and now he could see Legolas in the water. But the Elf wasn't drowning at all. Legolas seemed to be able to breath while being under water. But breathing wasn't the only thing he did. The Elf was fighting the Watcher at the same time!
* This is what Frodo saw. . .
Legolas was standing on the bottom of the lake, fighting a furious-looking Watcher. Creating vibrations in the water with his hands, the Elf really seemed to hurt the Watcher. Or maybe the Watcher seemed to be hurt because he couldn't reach Legolas, hindered by the strong vibrations.
Frodo was just about to tell the others Legolas was doing fine down there, untill he saw something alarming. Legolas was looking really pale and about to collapse. He wouldn't be able to continue this fight for long!
,,Power down!"
Frodo turned to the others, who were waiting for him to tell them what happened to Legolas.
,,Legolas is alive, can breath underwater and he's fighting the Watcher. But there is one problem. . . Well, he's getting kind of tired. Remember what Lord Elrond told us, the Power drains a lot of your energy. I don't know what's going to happen when he's out of energy."
The others looked alarmed. Legolas still alive, but needed help from his friends. How could they ever been thinking about leaving him here? Legolas had always been there to help them, at least as long as they knew him. They were a Fellowship and wouldn't let him down.
Aragorn was the first who jumped in the water. Boromir was right behind him.
The rest of the Fellowship really wanted to help their friend, but couldn't. Gandalf was too old, the Hobbits couldn't swim, and Gimli's clothes were far too heavy, he would sink like a brick. Anyway, if they would jump into the water, they would drown, that was for sure.
* From Aragorn's point of view. . .
Suicide or not, he had known Legolas for long enough to risk his life for him. When Aragorn jumped into the water, the first thing he saw was indeed Legolas, fighting the Watcher. Everything was exactly like Frodo had described. Legolas' attacks were getting weaker and weaker, running out of energy. Aragorn saw that Boromir was following him. Good. He needed all the help he could get.
As he swam towards the Elf, Aragorn pulled his sword. If he had to fight the Watcher, he'd better be armed. He looked over his shoulder and saw Boromir right behind.
Legolas saw them coming and decided to put up a diversionary manoeuvre to give the Men a chance to come closer. Swimming to the right, Legolas kept on creating vibrations.
It worked. At the first sight. But one thing was forgotten. Watchers live in the water their whole lifes, and feel everything that's in the water, too.
So when the Men approached, the Watcher didn't quite see them as enemies. The Elf was more threatening. So the Elf had to die. That's the way Watchers think and act.
But from the moment the two Men started to cut off tentacles, the Watcher was ready to attack them at once.
Avoiding tentacles and fighting at the same time, Aragorn, Boromir and Legolas had a pretty hard time going to the surface. Actually, it looked like they wouldn't succeed at all. And of course Aragorn and Boromir needed air. Which was one thing they hadn't.
This was the time Gimli had enough. Getting fed up with doing nothing on land, the Dwarf jumped in the water. He wasn't just being stupid, he had a plan. And he was hoping it would work, or else would drown for sure. The others on land were pretty shocked and tried to stop him, but failed.
When Gimli hit the water, he immediatly started to sink. Little as he was, the Watcher didn't saw him as an enemy. He was used to Dwarves. So he ignored Gimli as he kept attacking the three other members of the Fellowship.
Meanwhile, Boromir and Aragorn were starting to look a bit. . . blue. Having no air left, they were despirit to get to the surface. Swimming to the others, Gimli tried to get their attention by waving his arms.
Eventually, Legolas saw him. Avoiding yet another angry tentacle, the Elf swam towards the Dwarf. Gimli beckoned Legolas had to go get the others. Confused, tired, but despirit enough, Legolas obeyed. After a lot of trouble getting through the tentacles, Legolas was managed to grab a nearly- unconcious Boromir by his shoulder. Dragging him back through the tentacles, he finally reached Gimli. Looking over his shoulder, Legolas saw that Aragorn had lost conciousness and at least ten tentacles wrapped around the Man. Almost in panic, Legolas swung Boromir at Gimli. They would have to save themselves. He was going to get Aragorn from this situation. It was his fault Aragorn was down here, and the Man died, who was supposed to be the King of Gondor? And he would lose a dear friend with it.
With new-found powers, he rushed through the maze of tentacles again. Reaching Aragorn, he grabbed the sword Aragorn had dropped when he lost conciousness. Legolas was pretty experienced in handling swords, and he immediatly started to cut off all the tentacles that were wrapped around Aragorn's body.
Meanwhile, Gimli had time to carry out his plan. While holding Boromir, he tried to say 'Power up!' underwater. After a few attempts, he finally succeeded enough. Because of the oxygen in the water, Gimli was able to rush through the water to the surface very quickly. The tentacles of the Watcher weren't able to keep up with him at all.
In the open air again, Gimli could finally breath again. Looking at Boromir, he saw to his relief that the Man was breathing, too. No time to think too much now. He had to concentrate on flying now. He was supposed to reach the Hobbits and Gandalf. With a lot of effort, he managed to get above them.
,,Power down!"
Gimli and Boromir fell on the ground, and the Hobbits and Gandalf tried to help them as much as they could immediatly. Boromir was still unconcious.
Underwater, Legolas was still cutting off Watcher-tentacles. It didn't help at all. For one tentacle he cut off, two came back. So he decided to use his Power to attack once more. He did no longer care if he would use to much, or if he could handle this little energy. Life or death, he no longer cared. He had to save Aragorn, even if he had to sacrifice his own life.
Legolas moved his arms above his head with one quick movement, and nearly collapsed because of the great Power he couldn't actually bear anymore. But eventually Legolas succeeded in lifting the water. The Watcher dropped Aragorn and turned to the Elf, who was having a hard time holding on. This Elf was really getting too annoying.
,,Power down!"
Legolas felt lighter without his Power, and ran to Aragorn, who was lying on the ground, still unconcious. While the water was falling down again, Legolas grabbed Aragorn's wrist and pulled him to the dry land. He was very lucky the tentacles of the Watcher didn't hit him.
The Hobbits, Gandalf and Gimli helped them both on land. They were incredibly happy to see them.
Legolas sat on the shore, totally out of breath. Gandalf called to him:
,,Come on Legolas, it's still dangerous out here! The Watcher is still the- "
On that moment all the tentacles shot out of the water. They all wrapped around Legolas within one second and pulled him back into the water.
The Elf didn't even had time to react or to activate his Power. The Fellowship was stunned. This couldn't be happening. . .
With a wild scream, Gimli jumped in the water a second time. The rest of the Fellowship that wasn't unconcious, couldn't do anything but staring to the water and hoping they would be okay. They could see there was a fight underwater, but couldn't see who was winning. Frodo didn't even dare to use his Power to see.
After two minutes (it seemed like two hours), Gimli came flying out of the water with Legolas.
As fast as they could, they carried the Elf and the two unconcious Men into the Mines. That was probably the only place where the Watcher wouldn't be able to stop them from going there.
Tentacles tried to reach them, but they were to far off already. Right after they entered the Mines, the entrance broke down. Now they had no choice but to go through Moria.
Gandalf placed Legolas on the ground and bend over the Elf, to check his heart-beat.
Then he realised the awful truth. There was no heart-beat. Legolas had died.
~NOOOO!!!! What have I done???? Legolas is dead!!! Tell me what you think in a review!
To Im A Brandybuck: Oh, thank you!!! You putted my story to your favorites! That REALLY made my day, I'm serious! Yeah, I love cliffhangers. To write them of course. Thank you for reviewing!!!
To goaway: Thank you very much for reviewing the story, I'm glad you like it and enjoy the next chapter!!! Bye bye!
To MoroTheWolfGod: You have no idea how right you are about Legolas' Power! Oh well, you'll see in this chapter!! Bye bye!!!
To Lady Moon: I know I'm evil. Thanks for the compliment! You're kinda right about Legolas Power, y'know. Congratulations! And your name is still cool!
To Kelly Neptunus: Here's the update you've been waiting for! Sorry it's late. Enjoy! Thanks for reviewing the story!
To Jedi Knight 666: Yeah, I think the Fire-Power is just right for him. Thanks for reviewing!
To Huinesoron: Your review was funny! I promise I won't stop writing after the 9 Powers are introduced. I like writing this story! I won't stop writing if the reviewers keep reviewing!!!
To EMerald QUeen: Nope, not a single teeny bit of sanity. Thanks for the compliment! Bye bye!
To elfbabe009: Thanks for reviewing! The idea of super-arrows is pretty nice, but no, I thought up a Power for Leggie already. But the idea was very good! Thank you!!! Bye bye!
To Blackbird: No, I won't tell what Aragorn's Power is! Wha ha ha! You'll have to find out for yourself! Wha ha ha! Well, bye bye!
To princess-Greenleaf-of-Mir: Thank you for reviewing (from my sister, too)! Have you really read all of my stories? That's just great! Thanks! Well, here's the next chapter! Enjoy!
To incurelf: Here's the next chapter! It's longer because you guys had to wait very long. Sorry! I had problems with the computer so I couln't help it. . . Sorry again and thanks for reviewing!
To Kierin: Thank you for reviewing, I'm glad to hear you like it!
Disclaimer: I don't own the story and the characters of Lord of the Rings, but I do own the Pearls of Victory and their Powers.
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Hoping doing this was right, Legolas cried out:
,,Power up!"
Immediatly, water he was standing in started twirling around his legs. Legolas looked at it for a second.
He felt like one with the water. And had the feeling he could do anything with the water. Legolas seemed to know exactly what he had to do to make the water do what he wanted.
With a quick movement of his hand, water from all around him started moving, forming a wave and hitting the Watcher. But that wasn't enough. Within just one second, he putted his arms above his head. All the water around the angry Watcher started to float. This was far more difficult than just causing a wave. Legolas couldn't do more than this at once.
But without water, the Watcher was pretty powerless. The rest of the Fellowship had no problem to defeat the Watcher on land.
They didn't actually kill the beast. They weren't able to. Legolas was getting very tired from using his Power. Aragorn was able to cut of the tentacle where Frodo was hanging upside-down. Lucky enough, Boromir caught Frodo just before Legolas sank on his knees. All the water he had been holding up fell down again. The lake was pretty deep and Legolas was still in there, probably drowning.
It seemed like the Elf would never come to the surface again. The other members of the Fellowship wanted to go after their friend, but Gandalf forbade them to do that.
,,I want to help Legolas just as well as you do, but going after him would be like suicide."
Frodo couldn't just watch without doing or seeing anything.
,,Power up!"
His eyes glew red and now he could see Legolas in the water. But the Elf wasn't drowning at all. Legolas seemed to be able to breath while being under water. But breathing wasn't the only thing he did. The Elf was fighting the Watcher at the same time!
* This is what Frodo saw. . .
Legolas was standing on the bottom of the lake, fighting a furious-looking Watcher. Creating vibrations in the water with his hands, the Elf really seemed to hurt the Watcher. Or maybe the Watcher seemed to be hurt because he couldn't reach Legolas, hindered by the strong vibrations.
Frodo was just about to tell the others Legolas was doing fine down there, untill he saw something alarming. Legolas was looking really pale and about to collapse. He wouldn't be able to continue this fight for long!
,,Power down!"
Frodo turned to the others, who were waiting for him to tell them what happened to Legolas.
,,Legolas is alive, can breath underwater and he's fighting the Watcher. But there is one problem. . . Well, he's getting kind of tired. Remember what Lord Elrond told us, the Power drains a lot of your energy. I don't know what's going to happen when he's out of energy."
The others looked alarmed. Legolas still alive, but needed help from his friends. How could they ever been thinking about leaving him here? Legolas had always been there to help them, at least as long as they knew him. They were a Fellowship and wouldn't let him down.
Aragorn was the first who jumped in the water. Boromir was right behind him.
The rest of the Fellowship really wanted to help their friend, but couldn't. Gandalf was too old, the Hobbits couldn't swim, and Gimli's clothes were far too heavy, he would sink like a brick. Anyway, if they would jump into the water, they would drown, that was for sure.
* From Aragorn's point of view. . .
Suicide or not, he had known Legolas for long enough to risk his life for him. When Aragorn jumped into the water, the first thing he saw was indeed Legolas, fighting the Watcher. Everything was exactly like Frodo had described. Legolas' attacks were getting weaker and weaker, running out of energy. Aragorn saw that Boromir was following him. Good. He needed all the help he could get.
As he swam towards the Elf, Aragorn pulled his sword. If he had to fight the Watcher, he'd better be armed. He looked over his shoulder and saw Boromir right behind.
Legolas saw them coming and decided to put up a diversionary manoeuvre to give the Men a chance to come closer. Swimming to the right, Legolas kept on creating vibrations.
It worked. At the first sight. But one thing was forgotten. Watchers live in the water their whole lifes, and feel everything that's in the water, too.
So when the Men approached, the Watcher didn't quite see them as enemies. The Elf was more threatening. So the Elf had to die. That's the way Watchers think and act.
But from the moment the two Men started to cut off tentacles, the Watcher was ready to attack them at once.
Avoiding tentacles and fighting at the same time, Aragorn, Boromir and Legolas had a pretty hard time going to the surface. Actually, it looked like they wouldn't succeed at all. And of course Aragorn and Boromir needed air. Which was one thing they hadn't.
This was the time Gimli had enough. Getting fed up with doing nothing on land, the Dwarf jumped in the water. He wasn't just being stupid, he had a plan. And he was hoping it would work, or else would drown for sure. The others on land were pretty shocked and tried to stop him, but failed.
When Gimli hit the water, he immediatly started to sink. Little as he was, the Watcher didn't saw him as an enemy. He was used to Dwarves. So he ignored Gimli as he kept attacking the three other members of the Fellowship.
Meanwhile, Boromir and Aragorn were starting to look a bit. . . blue. Having no air left, they were despirit to get to the surface. Swimming to the others, Gimli tried to get their attention by waving his arms.
Eventually, Legolas saw him. Avoiding yet another angry tentacle, the Elf swam towards the Dwarf. Gimli beckoned Legolas had to go get the others. Confused, tired, but despirit enough, Legolas obeyed. After a lot of trouble getting through the tentacles, Legolas was managed to grab a nearly- unconcious Boromir by his shoulder. Dragging him back through the tentacles, he finally reached Gimli. Looking over his shoulder, Legolas saw that Aragorn had lost conciousness and at least ten tentacles wrapped around the Man. Almost in panic, Legolas swung Boromir at Gimli. They would have to save themselves. He was going to get Aragorn from this situation. It was his fault Aragorn was down here, and the Man died, who was supposed to be the King of Gondor? And he would lose a dear friend with it.
With new-found powers, he rushed through the maze of tentacles again. Reaching Aragorn, he grabbed the sword Aragorn had dropped when he lost conciousness. Legolas was pretty experienced in handling swords, and he immediatly started to cut off all the tentacles that were wrapped around Aragorn's body.
Meanwhile, Gimli had time to carry out his plan. While holding Boromir, he tried to say 'Power up!' underwater. After a few attempts, he finally succeeded enough. Because of the oxygen in the water, Gimli was able to rush through the water to the surface very quickly. The tentacles of the Watcher weren't able to keep up with him at all.
In the open air again, Gimli could finally breath again. Looking at Boromir, he saw to his relief that the Man was breathing, too. No time to think too much now. He had to concentrate on flying now. He was supposed to reach the Hobbits and Gandalf. With a lot of effort, he managed to get above them.
,,Power down!"
Gimli and Boromir fell on the ground, and the Hobbits and Gandalf tried to help them as much as they could immediatly. Boromir was still unconcious.
Underwater, Legolas was still cutting off Watcher-tentacles. It didn't help at all. For one tentacle he cut off, two came back. So he decided to use his Power to attack once more. He did no longer care if he would use to much, or if he could handle this little energy. Life or death, he no longer cared. He had to save Aragorn, even if he had to sacrifice his own life.
Legolas moved his arms above his head with one quick movement, and nearly collapsed because of the great Power he couldn't actually bear anymore. But eventually Legolas succeeded in lifting the water. The Watcher dropped Aragorn and turned to the Elf, who was having a hard time holding on. This Elf was really getting too annoying.
,,Power down!"
Legolas felt lighter without his Power, and ran to Aragorn, who was lying on the ground, still unconcious. While the water was falling down again, Legolas grabbed Aragorn's wrist and pulled him to the dry land. He was very lucky the tentacles of the Watcher didn't hit him.
The Hobbits, Gandalf and Gimli helped them both on land. They were incredibly happy to see them.
Legolas sat on the shore, totally out of breath. Gandalf called to him:
,,Come on Legolas, it's still dangerous out here! The Watcher is still the- "
On that moment all the tentacles shot out of the water. They all wrapped around Legolas within one second and pulled him back into the water.
The Elf didn't even had time to react or to activate his Power. The Fellowship was stunned. This couldn't be happening. . .
With a wild scream, Gimli jumped in the water a second time. The rest of the Fellowship that wasn't unconcious, couldn't do anything but staring to the water and hoping they would be okay. They could see there was a fight underwater, but couldn't see who was winning. Frodo didn't even dare to use his Power to see.
After two minutes (it seemed like two hours), Gimli came flying out of the water with Legolas.
As fast as they could, they carried the Elf and the two unconcious Men into the Mines. That was probably the only place where the Watcher wouldn't be able to stop them from going there.
Tentacles tried to reach them, but they were to far off already. Right after they entered the Mines, the entrance broke down. Now they had no choice but to go through Moria.
Gandalf placed Legolas on the ground and bend over the Elf, to check his heart-beat.
Then he realised the awful truth. There was no heart-beat. Legolas had died.
~NOOOO!!!! What have I done???? Legolas is dead!!! Tell me what you think in a review!