Chapter 4 - Journey in the Dark
The fellowship had been there a while and still the doors had not opened. Shysa had finished giving Ewok lessons and was talking with Aragorn. Boromir was standing there bored while Legolas kept watch. Gandalf had sat down and was trying to figure out the password.
Shysa could hear the hobbits and Gimli practicing their Ewok, she had never thought any one could learn Ewok so fast. In just the few days they had known each other they had learnt every thing in the Ewok language and were speaking it almost naturally. So far they had successfully annoyed Legolas, Gandalf and Boromir with their 'secret language'.
"What were you teaching the hobbits?" Aragorn asked.
"A language that us smaller folk can learn," Shysa replied.
"Why don't you have a weapon?"
Shysa sighed, slightly irritated at the fact no one thought she had a weapon, and removed the Sith's double bladed lightsaber. She ignited one end of it. "This is a weapon called a lightsaber. It is similar to the sword except the blade can 'go away' if it is not in use."
"Why do you have three of them?" Aragorn asked.
"One I made for myself. The one I hold now is the saber of a Sith Lady who is now dead. The other I am keeping for someone till I find him."
"Do you know who this person is?"
Shysa tried to remember, she could see the person's face but couldn't remember his name. "I don't remember his name," she confessed, "but I will know him when I see him." Shysa deactivated the blade then asked, "Aragorn, would you mind practicing with me?"
"With what?"
"You can use my single-blade saber."
Aragorn thought for a little then said, "Alright."
Shysa handed him her single-blade saber and showed Aragorn how to turn it on. Once she had ran him through the basic warning of 'don't touch the blade for any reason', then ignited one side of the dark purple and black saber.
Aragorn found that using the lightsaber was easy and hard at the same time. It was easy because the saber was relatively close to the weight of his real sword. It was hard because he couldn't let the blade touch him at all. He was impressed with Shysa's skill with this particular sword. Shysa also was impressed with Aragorn's ability to wield a saber. They had just finished shutting down their respective sabers when they heard Gandalf say, "Mellon".
The doors opened and the fellowship walked into the dark hall of Moria.
Gimli was saying that we would now be in the halls of his cousin, Balin. When Gandalf lit his staff though, they saw the bones of dwarves that had been slaughtered. The hobbits started trying to back out of the cave when something grabbed Frodo from behind and dragged him, screaming, out of the cave.
The rest of the fellowship ran to help Frodo. When Aragorn got there he saw Frodo was being dangled high above the water by an ancient creature, one of Sauron's agents.
Legolas was firing arrows in rapid succession at the creature while Aragorn, Boromir, Gimli, and Shysa were hacking at the monster with their various swords. Gandalf held the other three hobbits back, protecting them. The sword wielders hacked off tentacles, trying to get to Frodo. Finally Gimli and Shysa hacked off the tentacle holding Frodo and Aragorn caught him. They then proceeded to run into the caves where it was 'safe'. The creature started to follow but all the noise had caused the ceiling above the entrance to cave in before it could reach them.
Gandalf lit his staff again while Shysa ignited her white saber, brining light to their surroundings. "We must now face the long dark of Moria," Gandalf said. "Be as quiet as you possibly can, lest the shadows waken."
The fellowship traveled trough the dark passages of Moria. Shysa tried to help the hobbits cope with the darkness by making fire appear in her hand and then making it dance for them. The hobbits loved watching Shysa do things with fire. There was no helping Legolas though, he hated being under the earth and seemed more on edge then Aragorn and Boromir were. Not to say they weren't comfortable in the dark either, both had a bad feeling about Moria and neither wanted to be here; but they trusted Gandalf.
Shysa, noticing the men's faith in the old wizard, was disgusted. She had grown up with being taught by her ex-master (whom she still respected very much) to never trust someone who claims the uses of 'magic'; and wizards were right down that ally.
Frodo tried telling Shysa that Gandalf was good and wise, unlike Saruman the White (At that point Gandalf corrected Frodo by saying that Saruman was now of many colors) who was working against them and trying to obtain the ring for Sauron. Samwise Gamgee, Merry, Pippin and Gimli also tried convincing her of this. Shysa finally decided to make them stop venerating Gandalf to her by saying, "Alright! I'll consider being friendly with him but no more."
This kept them quiet about Shysa dislike for Wizards.
The fellowship passed though Moria quietly. They had been walking all night, though no one could tell, when Gandalf suddenly stopped and spoke, "I have no memory of this place at all!"
They had stopped at a wide dark arch splitting into three passageways all leading in the same general direction, eastwards; but the left hand passage plunged down, while the right-hand climbed up, and the very middle way seemed to run on, smooth and level but narrow.
The fellowship sat down on the steps while Gandalf tried to figure out which passage they should take…
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