Heylo again! ^_^ Sorry about the lack of updates, but we're talking about me here so surely you realise it's something I have problems with... ^_^

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Kawaii Elf Girl; Right you, update Fellowship of the Fleas and To Hell and Back, NOW!!! Pwetty pwease?! Wait a sec... O_O' No... you haven't!!! The slash bug got you too? It got my friend... it was horrible... ='(

Joee1; Lol, you're not the only one! ^.^ Well, There's only a two chapters after this- surely you can wait until the next one to find out what happened to Legolas?! *thinks about what has actually happened to Legolas and grins evilly* But I don't want to be telling you why... =)

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Mellaithwen ElvenMaiden; Oh yeah, I can imagine it... FRODO: AH!!! *sits up wildly. The Fellowship stare at him* ARAGORN: Are you alright Frodo? FRODO: *looks around* Never eat the purple mushrooms... nightmares... *falls asleep again*... Lol!!! ^_^ RANDOM INSANITY RULES!!!

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     Ah, blessed silence... ^_^

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Joslin; My ideas? Hmm... well, this one was originally intended to be a Halloween fic where one of the Fellowship went a bit... loopy but the others didn't know, and slowly each of them were being killed (btw, it would be the last Fellowship member you'd expect). Then I thought that was a bit too far-fetched, even for me, and then I thought of it like this... personally I prefer this version, but if anyone ever wants to see that original, I might post it some day... most of my ideas just come out of the blue though, or I sometimes watch films which give me ideas.

chels; Better but Worse... hmm, that's a new one! ^_^ Lol! Ah, they may all die, but I'm not sure... it depends how bad a mood I'm in when I write the final chapter!

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Coolio02; Yup; bye bye Merry and Pippin!!! =) Frodo and Sam may survive, but like I said earlier, it depends what kind of a mood I'm in...

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So, now that the formalities (or is it informalities?) are over... the chapter. Oh, just so you know, the next one is the last one! I've been changing a lot of my plans to suit me and my readers better... ^_~

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Sam awoke, blinking rapidly. It was still the middle of the night, but something inside had been gnawing away at him, telling him something was wrong. Now it was so bad he couldn't ignore it anymore.

Looking around him, the Hobbit couldn't see anything wrong. Frodo was still sleeping in his bedroll on the other side of the fire, and Pippin was still keeping watch...

Suddenly Sam bolted upright. Where was Pippin?!

"Frodo!!! Mister Frodo, wake up sir!!!"

Frodo groaned as he was pulled from a peaceful slumber. Seeing his faithful friend in such a panic however pushed aside all thoughts of tiredness.

"Sam, what's wrong?!" he asked. Sam turned to face him, and Frodo saw that his face was a picture of pure horror.

"It's Pippin! He's gone!"

Frodo gasped. The creature had come to their camp while they were asleep and abducted Pippin!

"Quick, we have to find him!"

The pair left suddenly fell very silent when a deep rumbling growl echoed through the trees behind them.

Sam stared, wide eyed into the darkness of the trees at a pair of bright red eyes that stared out at him. Frodo saw them too.

"Sam..." he whispered, his voice thick with terror. "Run..."

Quick as a flash, the two Hobbits took off as fast as they could as an ear-splitting "SCREEEEEEE!!!" echoed through the night. Suddenly the creature burst through the trees. Frodo took in its terrifying appearance and choked back a gasp.

The beast was wraithlike in appearance, but its skin was dry and wrinkly, with a mottle green colour and it crouched low to the floor. Its eyes were not normal. When it blinked, the lids of its eyes went left to right instead of up and down. Two great fangs like those of a snake sat between rows and rows of small pointed teeth, and sharp ripping claws grew from its long spindly fingers, dripping with blood.

Frodo shuddered at whose blood it could be.

The two ran as far as they could, trying to stick together. Shoving tree branches and shrubbery out of their way, Sam and Frodo headed deeper into the forest, running blindly to who knew where.

They both yelped in shock as the creature suddenly burst out of the trees in front of them with shocking agility.

"Quick!"

They turned heel and ran in a different direction until they found themselves outside of a cave. Moss covered the dark rock and clinging plants crawled up its sides, and a strange unpleasant smell issued from inside of it.

Terror made Sam's blood run cold when he realised the creature's intention. It was herding them. Fury coursed through him, and he drew his sword. He couldn't let it get the Ring...

"Keep going... Frodo!" shouted Sam, breathing heavily. Frodo was confused, but then he saw what Sam was doing.

The young gardener stopped in his tracks and whirled around to face the beast, lifting his sword high. It seemed to him that the horrifying thing in front of him was almost... grinning...

He had no chance. If the more experienced members of the Fellowship had been taken down, what hope did a simple gardener from the Shire have? Darkness claimed him as the fangs sank into his shoulder, injecting a dose of a strange poison into him...

"SAM!!!"

The creature lifted unconscious Sam with ease and began to crawl quickly into the cave. Frodo watched in horror as his best friend was dragged into the darkness. Frozen and numb, the Ringbearer found he couldn't move. He couldn't go in and help his friend...

And suddenly, he found it; that spark of courage. The people who had been caught by the wraith were his friends. They had willingly risked their lives for him, taken risks and possibly put themselves in the greatest danger of all... for him.

Surely it was his duty to do something in return?

Gripping the hilt of Sting firmly, Frodo inhaled sharply before following the wraith in.

In the dim light, he saw it. It dumped something in the far corner, then, almost like when a rabbit hears something very faint, it stopped, pricking up its long slanted ears. It whirled around, and then stopped stock still. The wraith glared at him for a moment, trading gazes...

Then all hell broke loose.

It launched itself at the Hobbit, bearing its poison-laced fangs. Frodo's eyes widened and he sidestepped, trying to avoid letting the sharp teeth sink into his neck or shoulder; areas where it would bring him down fastest.

Frodo yelled in agony as the beast's fangs scratched along the surface of the skin on his forearm. In the struggle, the Ring, still firmly on the chain, slid out from under his shirt and fell into full view of the skinny attacker.

Looking up sharply, Frodo realised that the wraith was mesmerised by the Ring. Its wide red eyes were fixated on the little golden band...

Seizing the opportunity, Frodo stabbed Sting forward with a holler. It struck the beast directly in the heart; that was assuming it had one...

The wraith screeched with its familiar piercing cry as Sting began to glow blue in its chest. Slowly, the creature melted almost into dust, an unearthly wind picking up and blowing away the debris. Frodo stood silent, his own wound stinging and throbbing. He could feel the dark liquid gradually beginning to work its way around his veins.

All of a sudden, he caught sight of what seemed to be a bundle of clothes at the back of the cave. His heart leapt up into his throat when he began to think of what he might find...  

He walked deeper into the cave. The darkness was pressing in closer around him, tightening his chest and making it harder to breathe... or was that the poison?

His breath failed him as he caught sight of his friends.

At the very back of the cavern was the rest of the Fellowship, but each was pale and the dim light gave them a fearfully ghostly appearance. Bright red patches of blood stained their clothing, mostly centric around their necks and shoulders. All had blue lips and they were so still that it dawned on poor Frodo that he had to be too late to save them.

"No..." he whispered. He didn't even notice that his own skin was slowly turning whiter and that his breath was coming in gasps.

"Oh please no; I can't do this alone!"

Tears spilling down his cheeks, Frodo walked with tiny, tentative steps towards his friends. The little Hobbit fell to his knees as the poison from his own wound started to take effect. Frodo reached out a shaking hand as the world slowly began spinning; they were all there; Legolas, Aragorn, Gandalf, Gimli, Boromir, Merry, Pippin and there, closest of all to the grieving Ringbearer...

"Oh, Sam..." he croaked, his voice breaking. It was with those words that Frodo blacked out; the still bodies of his companions the last thing that he saw...

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