Chapter 12:

After four long days in the mines the Fellowship still hadn't forgotten about their fallen comrad whom had died to save them.

"Legolas it is not your fault that Zefron is no longer with us, you did your best to save him." said Aragron to the elf who blamed himself for not going after Zefron to save him. Legolas was quiet for a few moments, everything was quiet until Pippin spoke up.

"Where is that white stuff coming from?" he asked pointing to the right door where a white mist was ouring out of. Legolas looked up just as Zefra wearing her usual long black dress fell out of the right door almost ontop of the small ringbarrer.

"So very sorry little hobbit, but wearing a dress and running away from hundreds of goblins in the dark are not good things to be mixed with. Hello to you all, I am Zefra daughtor of Acon King of Foresthem." said Zefra getting up and brushing herself off looking at all of the Fellowship who were all standing up with their weapons drawn.

"How very strange, I see that you have been precticing your magic over the years Zefra. Though you are still a black." said Gandalf reaching out a hand to touch one of Zefra's golden locks. Zefra's eyes opened up wide in fear and backed away quickly.

"Are you trying to see what wizard has brought me here?" asked Zefra coldly, quickly spinning around and jumping onto a nearby rock, her violet eyes flashing at the old wizard.

Gandalf looked at Zefra with curios eyes. "Yes I wanted to make sure that you are not a spy for Saruman. As your brother was."

Zefra laughed loudly. "You don't know as much as you let onto the rest believe Gandalf. The correct passage is to the left. Farwell to you all." she said before dissapearing once more.

"Does she do that often?" asked Gandalf turning around and facing the left door.

"Yes, quite often indeed Gandalf. Are we to trust her and take the left passage?" asked Legolas getting up trying to get away from Aragorn's lecture about how it was not anyones fault that Zefron died.

"Yes I do believe that Zefra is telling the truth in that this is the correct passage." said Gandalf starting to walk down the left passage way. The others quickly followed him down the staris.

"Let me risk a little more light..." said Gandalf holding his staff higher as to light up the entire area that they were in.

"There's an eye opener no mistake." said Sam looking all around him. They walked down the gate way and were about half way through when Gimli spotted something a a room and started to run towards it as fast as he could.

"Gimli!" called Gandalf walking in after him. The others close behind him.

"No..." cried Gimli seeing that it was his cousin's burial chamber they were in. Gandalf read the inscriptions on the tomb to everyone, then got preoccupied with a book that some of the dead dwarfs was holding.

"We have barred the gets, but can not hold them for long. Drums, drums in the deep..." started Gandalf as he read from the book, Pippin started to back up getting a bit scared by what Gandalf was reading, then he came to a dead dwarf that was dead and at the edge of a well.

Pippin stopped listening to what Gandalf was saying and reached out to touch the arrow that was embedded him it. White mist started to appear

"NO!!!" Zefra yelled appearing and trying to stop Pippin from touching the arrow, but she was to late and the head of it fell down the well. Zefra and Pippin ended up in a tangled mess afterwards as they tummboled(?) into a wall. Zefra hit her head hard, but managed to save Pippin from the same fate.

"Zefra! What are you doing here?" asked Legolas, but was interupted by the rest of the sekeliton(?) falling down the well loudly, ecoing throughout the entire mine. Gandalf went to scolding Pippin and Legolas went over to help Zefra's double up.

"Thank you Legolas, but I must go now. danger draws near." whispered Zefra as she heard the drums sounding. She then dissappeared from sight.

"Mr. Frodo!" said Sam pointing to Sting. it was glowing bright blue.

"Orcs." said Legolas. Boromir ran over o the door to close it and was almost hit in the head twice by orc arrows, but he quickly close the door to prevent one from acctually hitting him. "They have a cave troll." said Boromir sarcastically. Aragorn and Boromir blocked off the doorway for now. The hobbits drew their swords.

"Get back and stay close to Gandalf!" yelled Aragorn as he drew his bow, Legolas did the same and both of them shoot arrows at the orcs as they broke into the room. The orcs burst through the door and they all started killing orcs left and right. All was going well that is until the cave troll was let in, it tried to kill the nine of the Fellowship but ended up killing the orcs instead of the nine.

Legolas tried shooting arrows at it but it was proving more difficult then he expected. The cave troll walked closer to Legolas, cornering him and holding up his mighty club. Legolas prepaired to be killed at that moment as he could not find anyway out of the crevice. Aragorn tried to reach his elven friend but couldn't through the swarming orcs.

"Molholanda!" yelled someone wearing a black robe, as it dropped down from the celing landing on the cave troll and embeding its glowing sword into the back of the troll. It screamed and turned his attention away from Legolas long enough for the elf to get away from harm. The figure let his sword out of the trolls back and ran over to Legolas.

"Second time I have saved you elf." said the figure. Legolas stood speachless and staired at the figure, for it was none other than Zefron himself...

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