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Chapter Six

Crebain from Dunland. Those three words rung in Ali's head as she managed to crawl into a bush. She didn't know what Dunland was or anything of the sort, but by the sounds of it, Ali didn't want to know what it was.

The birds soon were flying over their resting spot. They reminded Ali of big black crows. 'Heck, maybe they are, only these Middle Earth people call them Crebain,' Ali thought.

Just as quickly as the birds appeared they disappeared from sight again and everybody got up out of their hiding places.

"Spies of Saruman. The passage South is being watched," Gandalf said. "We must take the pass of Caradhas (sp?)." He and Legolas looked up at the mountain passes at the same time.

Ali stood there staring at Gandalf for a few minutes. They couldn't go up there just yet. The mountain would defeat them, and then they'd go into the Mines of Moria and Gandalf would fall there. Ali didn't know how she could remember that, but she just seemed to have remembered.

"Wait a minute," Ali said and everybody turned to look at her. "We can't go just yet."

"Why ever not, Miss Ali? It's the only way. Gandalf just told us we had to go that way," Legolas stated and everybody murmured their agreement.

"It might be the only way, but we can't leave just yet. Don't you understand? That's Saruman's birds that are spying down, you just said so yourself, Gandalf. And you just said we're all going to the pass of Caradhas. Well, if you looked, the birds are still leaving that way," Ali pointed and everybody looked where she was pointed. "They could've heard what you said and tell Saruman that you're going to the pass of Caradhas. If we go there, Saruman might do something to the mountain to make us defeat us. And then we'd turn around and the only place we'll be able to go is the Mines of Moria and there you, Gandalf, will fall. Do you want that? Do any of you want that to happen?"

Everybody stared at Ali in shock. Ali stared back at them, quietly. She was mentally beating herself up. She shouldn't have said so much. They'd think she knew everything now. Ali didn't know the whole story. She never read the Lord of the Rings and the only reason she watched the first movie was because Eli and Elena wanted her to watch and she watched it to make them feel better? And anyways, what if this wasn't the right way? What if Ali changed what happened in the end? Her choices might make Sauron get the Ring back again and Ali didn't want that to happen any more than anybody else here did.

Ali shook her head. She should stop this carrying on. Didn't she say just days before that this was all a dream? It all had to be a dream. And if this was heaven, some kind of heaven. But somehow Ali didn't think this was heaven, she was still alive. She pinched herself enough times on this journey.

"Ali, I don't understand, how do you know all about this? Do you know how to look in the future?" It was Frodo talking.

Ali shook her head. "No, I can't look into the future, Frodo."

"Then how come you can know all of this? It would take a really powerful person to know all that," Gimili stated.

Ali rolled her eyes. "No, I'm not a powerful person. Can't you people understand that? I'm just a girl who woke up from an accident that I had back home and suddenly I realized I wasn't in my own world anymore. I was in some strange place in a strange bed. How do you think I feel? I'm just a plain human being who wants nothing more to go home right now and see all my friends and family again.

"And if you guys are wondering how I can know all this. Well, back home, there are these three books called The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. And they've made movies on them. I've only seen The Fellowship of the Ring movie. I only watched it because my friends wanted me to see it. So you see, I don't know what's going to happen. All I know is that when you all reached here, the birds come, then you all went up the mountain, got defeated, came back down and went into the Mines of Moria and that's where Gandalf gets defeated. Please trust me on something."

Everybody looked at Ali, not knowing what to say. Ali looked at Gandalf. He was quietly considering her. Ali looked around at the rest of the Fellowship. They also were looking at her. Ali's eyes came to rest on the four hobbits. Sam and Pippin both were staring at her wide-eyed, mouths open. Merry, who was looking at her, suddenly looked down at his feet, as if his feet were more interesting. Frodo was the only hobbit that didn't look at her wide-eyed and mouth hanging open. Ali's eyes drifted back up to Gandalf's.

Gandalf walked over to Ali and knelt down in front of her to Ali's level. Ali continued to look at her.

"I think I shall consider what you have said, Ali. After all, we're all part of this Fellowship and all advice is helpful." Gandalf looked around at everybody else. "We shall rest here for a few days while I think. Put down your stuff. There's no need for flight just yet, if my assumptions are correct."

A/n: Happy holidays to you all! I know it's a little short than the last couple of chapters that I wrote. But it's got the point in it that I want in it. I think. But anyways, I hope you all like the chapter all the same and I'll and try and get the next chapter up as soon as I can.

Ashes Kittyhawk-Thanks for the reviews! You must've been tired if you slept all that time. Yes, I made the chapters longer. Not this one, though. Ah, well, I'll try and get them longer in the future. Keep reading, you're questions just might be answered, but you can keep asking them. Laugh-out- loud. Thanks for the review again, and happy holidays to you, too.

Brilover-Thanks for the review! Yeah, I was planning on doing that. Just keep reading it. I'll get it out there eventually. And I'll be sure to email you on the chapters. Happy holidays and once again, thanks for the review.