Author's Note: Yep. Here we are finally at long-lasted with THE TWO
TOWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!! You've been waiting a long time for this. I know.
Forgive me ;) Thank you all so much for your reviews! They're so sweet! I
nearly cried! Oh wait.I am crying. *Grabs a handful of Legolas' tunic and
wipes her eyes* so please continue reading and leaving your reviews and
letting me know what you think! As always your review notes are after this
story. Oh and one last thing: sorry if the characters seem a little OOC,
more like a lot OOC. Missy and I have left some of our bad qualities with
them :D Sorry this took so long. I'm working on some other stuff at the
moment but one is something sadly you won't be able to read. It's a
crossover fic with Lord of the Rings and something else but that something
else is not allowed on fanfiction.net so I don't have a clue why I'm
writing it. Oh yes for my own enjoyment :D and I'm working on the latest
chapter of Prisoners of the House of Elrond that has only one chapter at
the moment. But I am working on a brand new Lord of the Rings one so it
should be up soon! After you read this go straight to Chapter 22, okay?
That's why this chapter is so short. You get two chapters.
This chapter is dedicated to anime_princess4. Thanks for your reviews! Hope you like this chappy!
Chapter 21: The Grand Arrival of Gollum
"You cannot pass!" Gandalf said firmly.
"GANDALF!" Becky and Frodo howled at the same time.
Becky would have taken off after Gandalf except that Aragorn, Legolas and Missy were holding her in place.
"I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor! The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn! Go back to the Shadow!! YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!" Gandalf shouted, bringing down his staff in the middle of the bridge. The bridge broke and the Balrog fell.
Gandalf sighed and turned around but the Balrog's whip catches onto his ankle and pulls him down. He grabbed onto the edge of the bridge but could not keep his grip.
"NO! NO!" Boromir yelled, holding onto Frodo who tried to run after Gandalf.
"GANDALF!!!!!" Frodo and Becky yelled. At that moment Becky leapt free of Missy and began running towards the bridge. "NO!"
"Becky! NO!" Legolas shouted and grabbed the back of her shirt, holding her in place. "Stop!"
Becky was struggling to go after Gandalf; she didn't care if it was completely messed up if Gandalf didn't 'fall' and he came with them to Lothlórien.
"Fly, you fools!" Gandalf said and then he fell.
"NO!!!! NO!!!" Frodo howled as Boromir carried him away.
As Gandalf is falling downwards after the Balrog, he grabs hold of his sword Glamdring. As they continue to plunge, Gandalf repeatedly hacks away at the Balrog. Finally they end up in an enormous cavern and they fall into the water.
And Frodo opened his eyes, waking from the nightmare. "Gandalf!"
"What is it, Mr. Frodo?" asked Sam, putting his hand on Frodo's shoulder.
"Nothing. Just a dream," Frodo replied.
A while later, Frodo and Sam were climbing over rocky terrain and in the distance, the Mountain of Fire was clearly visible.
"Mordor. The one place in Middle Earth we don't want to see any closer. It's the one place we are trying to get to. It's just where we can't get. Let's face it Mr. Frodo. We're lost. I don't think Gandalf meant for us to come this way," Sam said, dejectedly nibbling on a Twix.
"I didn't understand what the fuzzy you just said. He didn't mean for a lot of things to happen, Sam. But they did," Frodo replied, thinking that Sam really ought to put down that Twix.
Suddenly the Eye was upon him again. "I SEE YOU! I SEE YOU!! GIVE ME THAT RING!"
Frodo recoiled, gasping. One hand immediately went for the Ring and the other went for his Rainbow Stick wrapper.
"Frodo?" Sam asked. "It's the Ring, isn't it?"
"It's getting heavier," Frodo replied. "What food have we got left? I'm totally digging a Big Mac, super-sized fries and an extra large order of chicken nuggets. With an extra-large Coke!"
"WHAT?!" Sam asked, in positive shock.
"Just repeating what I heard Becky say once. Don't bother," Frodo said, going back to staring moodily. He'd been going into these trances lately as he'd finished his Rainbow Stick and was much too ashamed to ask Sam if they had any more.
"Well, let me see. Oh yes, lovely. Lembas bread. And look! More Lembas bread. I don't usually hold with foreign food, but this Elvish stuff is not bad," Sam said, digging through their bags. "Ooh yes. Chocolate. And look! More chocolate! Oh lookie.a pack of Rainbow Sticks! Isn't that-"
Sam was cut off in mid-sentence as Frodo tackled him and wrenched the bag of Rainbow Sticks out of his hand.
"MINE! The Rainbow Sticks are mine! Becky said they were for ME! ME! ME!" Frodo chanted, now in a fetal position, the bag of Rainbow Sticks pressed to his chest.
"But Mr. Frodo! Sharing is a good thing!" Sam dove at Frodo and tried to tug the bag out of his iron-tight grasp.
"NO! NO! NO! It's MINE!" Frodo fought back valiantly. "It came to me!"
"But Mr. Frodo I found it!" Sam said, tugging on one end of the bag as Frodo gripped and tugged the other.
"So?!" Frodo shouted back. At that moment he and Sam each gave an almighty tug and the bag of Rainbow Sticks burst sending a shower of the candy all over them and down the mountainside.
"Sam! Look what you did!" Frodo said, in tears. He scuttled around to grab the ones he could reach and immediately began sucking one. "How could you?!"
"I'm so sorry Mr. Frodo! I'll find all right now!" Sam said and with that dropped to his knees and began scuttling all over the place, looking for missing Rainbow Sticks.
Frodo sat back with a satisfied grin and popped another Rainbow Stick into his mouth. "This is the life!"
"Yes Mr. Frodo oh yes," Sam replied, not really figuring out exactly what he was replying to.
"Nothing ever dampens your spirit, does it Sam?" Frodo asked, feeling somewhat guilty now for trying to have all the Rainbow Sticks.
"Those rain clouds might," Sam said, gazing off into the distance. "AND THE FACT THAT YOU'RE NOT SHARING!"
"FIND YOUR OWN RAINBOW STICKS!" Frodo retorted, pouting.
They remained silent for a few minutes but then Frodo burst into tears. "Oh Sam! I'm so sorry! It's these Rainbow Sticks! They're making me act like this! Before Becky gave them to me, I was fine."
"It's alright Mr. Frodo. I understand," Sam nodded. But he knew himself he really didn't.
"Do you think it's time to take out my curlers?" Frodo asked. He'd thoroughly lost track of the days and knew Becky and Missy would positively kill him if he left it in too long.
Sam shook his head and rolled his eyes. "Come on, Mr. Frodo."
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"This looks strangely familiar," Sam said, a good time later.
"That's because we've been here before!" Frodo said, frustrated. "We're going in circles!"
He jumped up and down and nearly began tugging out his curlers, a tantrum reminiscent of Becky.
"Calm down, Mr. Frodo! Here have a Twix," Sam handed over a candy bar and Frodo immediately calmed down.
"Ah! What's that horrid stink? I'll warrant there's a nasty bog nearby. Can you smell it?" Sam asked, his nose twitching.
"Yes, I can smell it," Frodo replied, a clothes clip now firmly situated on his nose. Then he turned, his eyes wide. "We're not alone!"
"Really?" Sam asked. He turned around and around and waved at the rocks. "Who's there? Come out, come out wherever you are!"
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Later that night while the Hobbits appeared to be in la la Land, Gollum came stalking down the mountainside on all fours, not really being that quiet at all.
"The thieves! The thieves! The filthy little thieves! Wheeere isss it? Wheeere isss it? They stole it from us. My preciousssss. Curse them! We hates them. It's ours, it is, and we wants it!" Gollum snarled.
Suddenly the Hobbits sprang up, took hold of Gollum's arms and pulled him down. Gollum wriggles loose of their grasp and leapt unto Frodo. When he fell back the chain and the Ring around his neck was exposed and Gollum immediately headed straight for the Ring. Sam attempted to grab him but Gollum knocked him away. Gollum leapt onto Frodo and attempted to grab the Ring again as Frodo pushed away his hands. Sam took hold of Gollum and pulled him away from Frodo. Gollum turned and bit Sam on the shoulder, wriggled around and hooked his arms around Sam's neck and locked his legs around his waist tightly.
Frodo unsheathed Sting and held it to Gollum's throat.
"This is Sting. You've seen it before haven't you.GOLLUM," Frodo said. "Release him or I'll cut your throat!"
Slowly Gollum released Sam and let out a loud anguished wail.
"By the Valar. He sounds worse than when Becky's trying to sing!" Sam said, stuffing his hands over his ears.
He unfurled his Elvish rope and tied it around Gollum's neck. He half- dragged along the wailing and crying creature.
"It burns! It burns us! It freezes! Nasty Elves twisting it!" Gollum hissed, thrashing around wildly.
"Be quiet!" Frodo said in a hushed voice. "Becky might hear you! She might come back and try to push you off a cliff for the nasty Elves comment!"
"Quiet you! It's hopeless! Every Orc in Mordor will hear this racket! Let's tie him up and leave him!" Sam said, tugging on the rope.
"No! Thats will kill us, kill us!" Gollum replied.
"It's nothing more than you deserve!" Sam shot back, glaring at the creature. "Plus I think he stole one of your Rainbow Sticks, Mr. Frodo!"
Frodo's heart immediately hardened at the thought that someone had gone off with at least one Rainbow Stick but he did feel just a teensy bit sorry for Gollum.
"Maybe he does deserve to die. Now that I've seen him, I do pity him," Frodo admitted.
"We be nice to them, if they be nice to us," Gollum begged. "Take it off us. We swears to do what you wants. We swears!"
"There is no promise you can make that I can trust," Frodo said. Especially if the skulking little creature really did steal one of his Rainbow Sticks.
"We swears to serve the master of the precioussss. We swears on. on the precioussss! *Gollum Gollum*" Gollum begged.
"The Ring is treacherous. It will hold you to your word," Frodo said, staring down Gollum. He wondered if that little skirt thing that the creature was wearing had any pockets that could conceal his Rainbow Stick.
"Yes... on the preciouss... on the preciousss," Gollum replied.
"I don't believe you! Get down! Get down!" Sam shouted suddenly. He jerked at the rope hard and Gollum fell to the ground. He immediately got to his feet and began doing the chicken dance.
"Sam!" Frodo cried, horrified. "He's doing the chicken dance! Make it stop!"
"He is trying to trick us! If we let him go, he'll throttle us into our sleep!" Sam protested. "Stop dancing, Gollum. You look ridiculous!"
"You know the way to Mordor?" Frodo asked Gollum.
"Yes," Gollum nodded, getting in one last chicken hop before he stopped dancing.
"You've been there before?" Frodo asked.
"What do you think, silly big blue-eyed Hobbit?" came the answer.
"Yes or no?" Frodo asked.
"Yes," Gollum replied, exasperated.
"You will lead us to the Black Gate," Frodo said, as he took off the rope from around Gollum's neck.
He looked at Frodo for a second in wonder and then scrambled off, the Hobbits hurrying after him.
"Stupid Hobbitses," Gollum mumbled to himself as he raced ahead of the Hobbits. "*Gollum Gollum*"
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Mwahhahhahahhhahahahha! Okay, okay. It was a bit short but you did get two chapters! So here's the end of Chapter 21 go straight to Chapter 22 now. Your review notes are on the bottom of that!
This chapter is dedicated to anime_princess4. Thanks for your reviews! Hope you like this chappy!
Chapter 21: The Grand Arrival of Gollum
"You cannot pass!" Gandalf said firmly.
"GANDALF!" Becky and Frodo howled at the same time.
Becky would have taken off after Gandalf except that Aragorn, Legolas and Missy were holding her in place.
"I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor! The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn! Go back to the Shadow!! YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!" Gandalf shouted, bringing down his staff in the middle of the bridge. The bridge broke and the Balrog fell.
Gandalf sighed and turned around but the Balrog's whip catches onto his ankle and pulls him down. He grabbed onto the edge of the bridge but could not keep his grip.
"NO! NO!" Boromir yelled, holding onto Frodo who tried to run after Gandalf.
"GANDALF!!!!!" Frodo and Becky yelled. At that moment Becky leapt free of Missy and began running towards the bridge. "NO!"
"Becky! NO!" Legolas shouted and grabbed the back of her shirt, holding her in place. "Stop!"
Becky was struggling to go after Gandalf; she didn't care if it was completely messed up if Gandalf didn't 'fall' and he came with them to Lothlórien.
"Fly, you fools!" Gandalf said and then he fell.
"NO!!!! NO!!!" Frodo howled as Boromir carried him away.
As Gandalf is falling downwards after the Balrog, he grabs hold of his sword Glamdring. As they continue to plunge, Gandalf repeatedly hacks away at the Balrog. Finally they end up in an enormous cavern and they fall into the water.
And Frodo opened his eyes, waking from the nightmare. "Gandalf!"
"What is it, Mr. Frodo?" asked Sam, putting his hand on Frodo's shoulder.
"Nothing. Just a dream," Frodo replied.
A while later, Frodo and Sam were climbing over rocky terrain and in the distance, the Mountain of Fire was clearly visible.
"Mordor. The one place in Middle Earth we don't want to see any closer. It's the one place we are trying to get to. It's just where we can't get. Let's face it Mr. Frodo. We're lost. I don't think Gandalf meant for us to come this way," Sam said, dejectedly nibbling on a Twix.
"I didn't understand what the fuzzy you just said. He didn't mean for a lot of things to happen, Sam. But they did," Frodo replied, thinking that Sam really ought to put down that Twix.
Suddenly the Eye was upon him again. "I SEE YOU! I SEE YOU!! GIVE ME THAT RING!"
Frodo recoiled, gasping. One hand immediately went for the Ring and the other went for his Rainbow Stick wrapper.
"Frodo?" Sam asked. "It's the Ring, isn't it?"
"It's getting heavier," Frodo replied. "What food have we got left? I'm totally digging a Big Mac, super-sized fries and an extra large order of chicken nuggets. With an extra-large Coke!"
"WHAT?!" Sam asked, in positive shock.
"Just repeating what I heard Becky say once. Don't bother," Frodo said, going back to staring moodily. He'd been going into these trances lately as he'd finished his Rainbow Stick and was much too ashamed to ask Sam if they had any more.
"Well, let me see. Oh yes, lovely. Lembas bread. And look! More Lembas bread. I don't usually hold with foreign food, but this Elvish stuff is not bad," Sam said, digging through their bags. "Ooh yes. Chocolate. And look! More chocolate! Oh lookie.a pack of Rainbow Sticks! Isn't that-"
Sam was cut off in mid-sentence as Frodo tackled him and wrenched the bag of Rainbow Sticks out of his hand.
"MINE! The Rainbow Sticks are mine! Becky said they were for ME! ME! ME!" Frodo chanted, now in a fetal position, the bag of Rainbow Sticks pressed to his chest.
"But Mr. Frodo! Sharing is a good thing!" Sam dove at Frodo and tried to tug the bag out of his iron-tight grasp.
"NO! NO! NO! It's MINE!" Frodo fought back valiantly. "It came to me!"
"But Mr. Frodo I found it!" Sam said, tugging on one end of the bag as Frodo gripped and tugged the other.
"So?!" Frodo shouted back. At that moment he and Sam each gave an almighty tug and the bag of Rainbow Sticks burst sending a shower of the candy all over them and down the mountainside.
"Sam! Look what you did!" Frodo said, in tears. He scuttled around to grab the ones he could reach and immediately began sucking one. "How could you?!"
"I'm so sorry Mr. Frodo! I'll find all right now!" Sam said and with that dropped to his knees and began scuttling all over the place, looking for missing Rainbow Sticks.
Frodo sat back with a satisfied grin and popped another Rainbow Stick into his mouth. "This is the life!"
"Yes Mr. Frodo oh yes," Sam replied, not really figuring out exactly what he was replying to.
"Nothing ever dampens your spirit, does it Sam?" Frodo asked, feeling somewhat guilty now for trying to have all the Rainbow Sticks.
"Those rain clouds might," Sam said, gazing off into the distance. "AND THE FACT THAT YOU'RE NOT SHARING!"
"FIND YOUR OWN RAINBOW STICKS!" Frodo retorted, pouting.
They remained silent for a few minutes but then Frodo burst into tears. "Oh Sam! I'm so sorry! It's these Rainbow Sticks! They're making me act like this! Before Becky gave them to me, I was fine."
"It's alright Mr. Frodo. I understand," Sam nodded. But he knew himself he really didn't.
"Do you think it's time to take out my curlers?" Frodo asked. He'd thoroughly lost track of the days and knew Becky and Missy would positively kill him if he left it in too long.
Sam shook his head and rolled his eyes. "Come on, Mr. Frodo."
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"This looks strangely familiar," Sam said, a good time later.
"That's because we've been here before!" Frodo said, frustrated. "We're going in circles!"
He jumped up and down and nearly began tugging out his curlers, a tantrum reminiscent of Becky.
"Calm down, Mr. Frodo! Here have a Twix," Sam handed over a candy bar and Frodo immediately calmed down.
"Ah! What's that horrid stink? I'll warrant there's a nasty bog nearby. Can you smell it?" Sam asked, his nose twitching.
"Yes, I can smell it," Frodo replied, a clothes clip now firmly situated on his nose. Then he turned, his eyes wide. "We're not alone!"
"Really?" Sam asked. He turned around and around and waved at the rocks. "Who's there? Come out, come out wherever you are!"
*******************************************************************
Later that night while the Hobbits appeared to be in la la Land, Gollum came stalking down the mountainside on all fours, not really being that quiet at all.
"The thieves! The thieves! The filthy little thieves! Wheeere isss it? Wheeere isss it? They stole it from us. My preciousssss. Curse them! We hates them. It's ours, it is, and we wants it!" Gollum snarled.
Suddenly the Hobbits sprang up, took hold of Gollum's arms and pulled him down. Gollum wriggles loose of their grasp and leapt unto Frodo. When he fell back the chain and the Ring around his neck was exposed and Gollum immediately headed straight for the Ring. Sam attempted to grab him but Gollum knocked him away. Gollum leapt onto Frodo and attempted to grab the Ring again as Frodo pushed away his hands. Sam took hold of Gollum and pulled him away from Frodo. Gollum turned and bit Sam on the shoulder, wriggled around and hooked his arms around Sam's neck and locked his legs around his waist tightly.
Frodo unsheathed Sting and held it to Gollum's throat.
"This is Sting. You've seen it before haven't you.GOLLUM," Frodo said. "Release him or I'll cut your throat!"
Slowly Gollum released Sam and let out a loud anguished wail.
"By the Valar. He sounds worse than when Becky's trying to sing!" Sam said, stuffing his hands over his ears.
He unfurled his Elvish rope and tied it around Gollum's neck. He half- dragged along the wailing and crying creature.
"It burns! It burns us! It freezes! Nasty Elves twisting it!" Gollum hissed, thrashing around wildly.
"Be quiet!" Frodo said in a hushed voice. "Becky might hear you! She might come back and try to push you off a cliff for the nasty Elves comment!"
"Quiet you! It's hopeless! Every Orc in Mordor will hear this racket! Let's tie him up and leave him!" Sam said, tugging on the rope.
"No! Thats will kill us, kill us!" Gollum replied.
"It's nothing more than you deserve!" Sam shot back, glaring at the creature. "Plus I think he stole one of your Rainbow Sticks, Mr. Frodo!"
Frodo's heart immediately hardened at the thought that someone had gone off with at least one Rainbow Stick but he did feel just a teensy bit sorry for Gollum.
"Maybe he does deserve to die. Now that I've seen him, I do pity him," Frodo admitted.
"We be nice to them, if they be nice to us," Gollum begged. "Take it off us. We swears to do what you wants. We swears!"
"There is no promise you can make that I can trust," Frodo said. Especially if the skulking little creature really did steal one of his Rainbow Sticks.
"We swears to serve the master of the precioussss. We swears on. on the precioussss! *Gollum Gollum*" Gollum begged.
"The Ring is treacherous. It will hold you to your word," Frodo said, staring down Gollum. He wondered if that little skirt thing that the creature was wearing had any pockets that could conceal his Rainbow Stick.
"Yes... on the preciouss... on the preciousss," Gollum replied.
"I don't believe you! Get down! Get down!" Sam shouted suddenly. He jerked at the rope hard and Gollum fell to the ground. He immediately got to his feet and began doing the chicken dance.
"Sam!" Frodo cried, horrified. "He's doing the chicken dance! Make it stop!"
"He is trying to trick us! If we let him go, he'll throttle us into our sleep!" Sam protested. "Stop dancing, Gollum. You look ridiculous!"
"You know the way to Mordor?" Frodo asked Gollum.
"Yes," Gollum nodded, getting in one last chicken hop before he stopped dancing.
"You've been there before?" Frodo asked.
"What do you think, silly big blue-eyed Hobbit?" came the answer.
"Yes or no?" Frodo asked.
"Yes," Gollum replied, exasperated.
"You will lead us to the Black Gate," Frodo said, as he took off the rope from around Gollum's neck.
He looked at Frodo for a second in wonder and then scrambled off, the Hobbits hurrying after him.
"Stupid Hobbitses," Gollum mumbled to himself as he raced ahead of the Hobbits. "*Gollum Gollum*"
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Mwahhahhahahhhahahahha! Okay, okay. It was a bit short but you did get two chapters! So here's the end of Chapter 21 go straight to Chapter 22 now. Your review notes are on the bottom of that!