*Ellie's POV*

I feel so ashamed. I'm certain that Gandalf is telling Aragorn to watch over me tonight. I just pushed that thought out of my mind. I climbed into the sleeping blankets. Everyone followed soon after.

Ellie stayed awake for a long time. She could see the fire was dimming. It went out completely.

Then she heard it. The voice. It wasn't the ring. The ring had a snake-like voice. This voice was like listening to the wind.

'Ellie..."

'yes?'

'Are you willing?'

'What?'

'Are you willing to give up your friends?'

Ellie instantly tensed up after that. 'They aren't my friends.'

'What about Gandalf?'

Ellie paused for a moment. Was Gandalf really her friend? Then why had he left her at the pass? Wouldn't he have noticed that she was gone? If he really cared for her, wouldn't he have waited for her?

'That's right.' The voice didn't sound like the wind anymore. It sounded like the rain in a storm.

'That's right. They don't care about you. See Aragorn is watching you right now. They think you're a threat to their safety. They're just using you for your powers. They're using you as a shield.'

'NO! They wouldn't do that! Gandalf wouldn't do that!' She screamed in her head.

'Then why did he leave you? You know he could have just sensed if you were there or not. He isn't the one who noticed you were gone. Someone just looked back to see that you weren't there. Face it! They don't care if you die.' The voice was now like thunder.

"NOOOOO!!!!!!!!" She screamed. Everyone was startled awake. They looked to the source of their alarm.

Ellie was holding her head with a pained look on her face. Then she dropped to her knees and panted.

"Are you alright?" Everyone was surprised to see Legolas stooping down to hold her. He consoled her by whispering elvish words into her ear. When she finally calmed down she pushed herself away from his grasp and laid back down.

Everyone just stared at her.

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*Moria Entrance*

While the password problem was going on at the entrance, Ellie was sitting on a rock looking into the water. She knew that Pippin had to disturb the water to go through Moria and have Gandalf be reincarnated as the white wizard. But she didn't want to fight again. She was tired. Her magic wasn't even back yet. She didn't get to the time for the process.

The doors opened and they walked in. Then the guardian grabbed Frodo's leg. She quickly sliced the leg with the arrow she had ready. Then she hurried in before the entrance caved in. Gandalf used his staff to summon some light and they continued.

Even though elves naturally hated dark underground places, Ellie was used to it. When she was living on the street she was once captured by an underground thief society. She had lived there for a couple of months until the thief lord realized that she didn't know anything. They let her go.

She looked at the group to see how they were doing. Legolas was trying to look like he wasn't scared and Aragorn looked worried of the shadows. Gandalf was leading the way and Boromir was walking silently along. The hobbits looked tired. Gimli was happy to be going to his cousin again. She however remained emotionless and kept up with the group.

She walked and looked at her surroundings. It was too dark to see anything. Ellie then heard a voice.

"Kill......"

She jerked around trying to find the source of the voice.

"Kill.....Kill kill kill kill!!"

"Do you hear that?" She asked the person closest to her which was Legolas.

"Hear what?"

"That voice. It said 'kill' many times."

"I don't hear anything." He said as he walked on.

She just walked on and tried to ignore the danger signs going off in her head. She kept extra watchful just in case.

Suddenly something happened. Something clicked in her head and she stopped walking. Legolas saw this and asked what was wrong.

"Nothing. Just stopped before I tripped over that rock."

Legolas knew this was a lie but he let it go.

Ellie had stopped for a very good reason. The reason was that she knew who the voice was.

It was her. Only she heard it so it must have been in her head.

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