See previous chapters for disclaimer. I realize this chapter may be a little far-fetched, but maybe some of ya'll will like it? Reviews are good for that, hinthint.
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Darkness flowed around her, shrieks of some unearthly creature reverberating in her skull. As she slowly floated back to consciousness, Ari became increasingly aware of the fact that she was no longer on the same astral plane she was accustomed to.
"Hello?" she tried to sit up, but found that she was frozen in place. The shrieks grew louder, until her sensitive ears felt as if they were about to burst.
"Stop it!" she screamed, twisting and straining against her invisible bonds. "Let me free! Where am I?"
Suddenly, the shrieking stop and she was spun to face a red, glowing eye that hung suspended in the eternal darkness. For the first time in her life, she was terrified as she was sucked into its pulsating gaze.
You will be mine, a voice growled in her head. Although she knew she couldn't understand the language, it somehow made sense in this alternate world. My deadliest weapon with which I will destroy Middle Earth
Sauron. She snarled back in her own voiceless speech. I thought the Ring was your deadliest weapon.
It is. But they destroyed the Witch King, my greatest living creation. I need an emissary, a way to make them pay for meddling with my plans.
No. I will not serve you.
But you have no choice, elfling. It was fortune that dropped you here in the Shadowlands. Now I can both destroy the world of Men and Elves with one convenient stroke. You will be my Witch Queen, Ari, by your will or not.
She strained against her bonds, trying to avoid his gaze and the darkness creeping into the back of her mind. I would kill myself first.
Ah, but you are already dead. She could feel a twisted smile in his words. You are between worlds, Elentàri. No one and nothing can stop the process once it has started. By morn in your pitiful world, you will be a wraith, my Witch Queen.
Ari could feel herself slipping deeper into the darkness that waited to devour her. Before she fell, she could vaguely make out a bright light that washed over the Eye, and sent it screaming wordlessly back into the void from whence it had come.
Gandalf, she thought before she was lost to the void herself.