A/N: Well, I'm (meaning J-chan) posting again…and I decided to give you a fair warning. The next chapter will most likely have a couple of songs in here…though when I first started typing this story I wasn't really expecting to be posting it. I was just writing it for fun, but Shenaux, my bestest bud ever, convinced me to share this piece with others. So here I am. Sharing my writing…*shakes head* I never really thought people would actually like this story. Anyhoo, the reason why this chapter is so short is because I wanted to warn y'all that there are songs coming soon…Actually, the whole idea for this story came to me because of a song… well I'm rambling now and Shenaux won't be too pleased with me for keeping you all tied up with reading this author note so I'll go now… Have fun!

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Right before dusk the next day, they finally reached the walls of Moria. Gimli gasped in awe as he looked upon the walls of his forefathers.

"The walls," he gasped and that caught everyone's attention and everyone looked up, "of Moria."

As nightfall fell, the Fellowship walked along the edge of the water and Gimli proudly talked of Moria and how great it was. One little tidbit was about the walls.

"Dwarf doors are invisible when closed." He announced as he knocked on the wall with his axe and then listened for an echo.

"Yes Gimli," Gandalf said, "their own masters cannot find them if their secret is forgotten." He pointed out.

Legolas looked around. "Why doesn't that surprise me?" He muttered, but Gimli heard him and growled in response.

Sinn and Shenaux giggled even though they were frightened about what was to come. They had to release the tension somehow. It seemed only Legolas, Gandalf and the two women were the only ones frightened to go into the mines, and with good reason too.

Sinn looked upon the dark murky waters that the moon and stars refused to reflect upon and she shivered as she remembered what lies beneath the surface. The one fact that both Sinn and Shenaux forgot was that it was Pippin and Merry that awaken the Watcher by throwing rocks into the water in boredom. They won't remember that fact until it was too late.

"Well, let's see." Gandalf muttered to himself as they all gathered around where he was standing. "Ithildin, it mirrors only starlight and moonlight." He looked up into the sky and the clouds parted and the doors appeared. Everyone gasped in awe. "It reads, 'The Doors of Durin, Lord of Moria. Speak, friend, and enter'." He read to them, though Legolas and Aragorn probably already knew how to read Elvish.

"What do you suppose that means?" Merry asked the old wizard.

"Well, it's simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password and the doors will open." Gandalf told him.

Shenaux and Sinn snorted in laughter and the Fellowship looked at them strangely and they waved away their looks. "Sorry, having a conversation in our minds." Sinn explained quickly.

Gandalf gave the two a suspicious look then turned back to the walls. He placed the tip of his staff against the doors and began saying something in a different tongue. When he finished, the doors didn't even budge. He looked at the walls and then said something in yet another tongue. Then he tried to push the doors open with his shoulder.

"Nothing's happening." Pippin announced.

"I once knew every spell in all the tongues of Elves, Men and Orcs." Gandalf muttered to himself as he looked in consternation upon the doors.

"What are you going to do then?" Pippin asked.

"Knock you head against these doors, Peregrin Took!" Gandalf snapped. "And if that doesn't shatter them and I am allowed a little peace from foolish questions, I will try to find the opening words." Gandalf said the last part in a tired sigh.

So time passed and Gandalf tried to find the opening words. Everyone had dispersed to sit and relax. Sinn and Shenaux were sitting on a tree branch above Legolas' head, resting their heads back and they had their eyes closed. As usual, Legolas stood and was looking everywhere trying to find anything suspicious.

Boromir sat on a rock beside Gimli and they began smoking a pipe together while Aragorn and Sam took the packs off of Bill the Pony. Pippin and Merry were standing by the shore of the water and Frodo sat behind Gandalf on a rock and he watched the old wizard try to open the door as he thought about things. Somehow, the two women were able to block the thoughts of other people from their minds. It just happened one morning on their way down from the mountain.

The two women jerked to alertness when they heard splashes in the water and the memory came back to them about the two young Hobbits throwing rocks into the water. Unfortunately for Sinn, she was on the edge of the branch that she shared with Shenaux and when she jerked, she lost her balance. With a shocked squeak, she fell out of the tree, but before she could fall to the ground, Legolas caught her in his arms and then placed her on her feet.

"Are you all right Lady Sinn?" He asked her gently.

Sinn looked up at him. "Yes, I'm fine. Thanks again. It seems you're always there saving me." She told him quietly.

He smiled gently down at her. "It's not my fault that you always seem to be near me when you decide you want to hurt yourself."

She blushed and looked away from his eyes. For some reason, she wanted a different answer than that and then she remembered that he just thought of her as a "mere child". She nodded and then walked away from him to sit next to Boromir as she watched Aragorn catch Pippin's arm before he could through another rock. She missed the confused look on the Elf's face.

"Do not disturb the water." He told the young Hobbit.

Gandalf threw his staff down and then sat on a rock next to Frodo. "Oh it's useless." He muttered to himself in a defeated tone of voice.

Boromir and Aragorn were watching the water warily, and Sinn and Shenaux refused to even look at it.

'Sinn, what was all that about?' Shenaux sent the thought to her friend.

'It was nothing. I was just embarrassed that he was right. He is always saving me. I'm never clumsy around anyone else of the Fellowship, only him. As long as I stay as far away from him as possible, then maybe I won't need rescuing anymore.' Sinn told her friend.

'That's strange logic Sinn. Maybe there is a reason why you are always finding yourself needing rescuing from Legolas.'

Sinn knew exactly what her friend was thinking. Her romantic mind was working overtime. Sure, Sinn's romantic side was trying to take over as well, but she just wouldn't let it. She didn't need to have her heart broken yet again. It needed to mend not get shattered yet again. 'Listen Shenaux, mortals and immortals can't be together so stop trying to play matchmaker. Only the family of Elrond can chose if they want to live a life of a mortal or a life of an immortal. Besides, even if I did feel that way about Legolas, he just thinks of me as a "mere child" nothing more. Now get over it!'

Shenaux blinked in surprise and realised that Sinn was right, but she couldn't help to hear the hurt in Sinn's thought when she said 'mere child'. Legolas actually managed to get pass Sinn's defences and then hurt her. Needless to say, she wasn't pleased about it at all.

"It's a Riddle." Frodo announced as he stood up. " 'Speak friend and enter'. What's the Elvish word for friend?"

Gandalf looked at the young Hobbit. "Mellon." He told him and the doors opened with a loud grinding sound of rock against rock.

The Company stood up from where they all sat and then they all entered. Shenaux and Sinn walked closely together as they tried not to picture all the dead bodies strewn about the floor.

"Soon, Master Elf, you will enjoy the fabled hospitality of the Dwarves! Roaring fire, malt beer, ripe meat off the bone!" Gimli announced with pride in his voice.

As Gimli talked about the mine, Gandalf placed a crystal in the knotted roots at the top of the staff and lit the crystal so that they could have light as they walked.

"This is the home of my cousin Balin. And they call it a mine. A mine!" The Dwarf continued with more pride evident in his voice.

Sinn and Shenaux felt their hearts grow heavy with sadness for the Dwarf and they looked at him with pity.

"This is no mine." Boromir whispered as everyone looked around in shock at the dead Dwarf bodies. "It's a tomb."

The two women had to place their hands over their mouths trying not to let their stomachs get the better of them. The stench was awful and the sight of the still sticky corps' made their weak stomachs react and try to get rid of whatever food they had in their system.

"No." Gimli whispered in horror. "No…. NO!" He finally cried as he went to a skeleton.

Legolas bent over and took an arrow out of one of the dead bodies and looked at the head of it. "Goblins!" he spat as he readied an arrow in his bow as everyone drew their weapons, except for the two women whom were now kneeling on the floor panting heavily.

"We make for the Gap of Rohan. We should never have come here." Boromir said as the Fellowship began to back out of the mine.

The two women spun when they heard a faint splash and the Hobbits call out for help. They opened their mouths to say something, but Sam beat them to it.

"Strider!" The blond Hobbit called. And soon everyone was helping but the two women and Gandalf.

Sinn and Shenaux went deeper into the mines, knowing what is to come next and well, they didn't really want to watch the men slice the tentacles off of the Watcher.

"Into the Mines!" Gandalf shouted to the rest of the Fellowship as Aragorn cut the tentacle holding Frodo and Boromir caught the Hobbit.

"Legolas!" Boromir called as he and Aragorn ran out of the water and Legolas let loose one of his arrows straight into the Watcher's eye. When they reached shore, Boromir put Frodo on his feet and Legolas helped the Hobbit into the mine.

The Watcher followed them all and it's tentacles pulled the doors out of the walls, causing it to collapse upon the beast. The Fellowship ran out of the way of the falling boulders and watched as their route was closed behind them. They all knew that there was no turning back.

"We now have but one choice." Gandalf announced as he lit the crystal again to give them all light. "We must face the long dark of Moria. Be on your guard. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world." He began to lead them again as everyone followed. "Quietly now," he said as they were going up some steps. "It's a four day journey to the other side. Let us hope that our presence may go unnoticed."

The women shuddered knowing that there was a snowflake's chance in hell of their not being found out by the evil things that lurk in the dark.

They travelled for a long time before they finally reached this one ledge where Gandalf decided to give them all a lesson on what the Dwarves were mining for.

"The wealth of Moria was not in gold or jewels," The wizard said as he touched one of the shimmering walls, "but mithril." He held his staff out over the ledge and the light caught all the mithril veins and everything lit up. The whole Fellowship looked on in awe at what they viewed.

"Bilbo had a shirt of mithril rings that Thorin gave him." Gandalf continued on as they began to walk again.

"Oh that was a kingly gift!" Gimli exclaimed in awe.

"Yes, I never told him, but its worth was greater than the value of the Shire."

Frodo's eyes widened in shock as he stared at the old wizard's back, trying to come to terms that he wore something of much worth under his clothing. Sinn and Shenaux grinned at each other.

Finally they came to a stop and everyone soon fell asleep. All that the two women and the Hobbits knew was that they were going up.

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A/N me again… so what do you think? Am I getting to close to other plots of MS'? I've read so many, I may be subconsciously using some plot lines from other stories. PLEASE WARN ME IF I AM!!!!!!!!!! I really don't want to get into trouble!