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"Nienna, we are leaving for Isengard within the hour. I know this will be hard for you and if you want to stay here, you are more then welcome too." Gandalf said at breakfast to the young Elf-Maiden.
Nienna looked without knowing it herself to Legolas. The Elf seemed very interested in his breads all of sudden and did not look her in the eye. "No, Gandalf, I will come with you. I cannot stay afraid and locked away all my life. It is time for me to face him and let see that he cannot bring me down." She answered.
Legolas smiled to his bread and Aragorn grinned next to him before he turned to Nienna and said. "Maybe it is time that you learn to ride a horse, my lady. I am sure that one would carry you and else somebody would not mind teaching you, right, Legolas?"
Legolas looked up and said. "What do you mean, Aragorn?"
I mean, that you would not mind to teach Nienna how to ride a horse the Elvish way now would you?"
Legolas shook his head and answered. "I am sure, she does not need any of my help but if she does I would not mind helping her."
Gandalf smiled and then said. "Well, I hope you packed your stuff." Nienna nodded and left the room swiftly, only to be followed by Legolas.
"Nienna, please wait!" He called. Nienna stopped and waited for him. When he caught up with her, he said. "Are you sure that you are up for it? I mean facing Saruman."
Nienna signed and answered. "It is now or never, Legolas. You have to understand, I need to prove to myself that he has no power over me anymore. "
Legolas nodded and while looking around, pressed a fast kiss on her lips before he whispered in a low rough voice. "For I could not stand it if something happened to you."
Nienna smiled at this display of affection and answered before he left. "Then let me do this." He only nodded and then let go of her.
Nienna kicked her horse in the flanks to keep up with the army that moved to Isengard. She wondered if she would have the power to face him. Yet as she told Legolas, she needed to be sure that he had no power over her again for her to move on with her life and maybe to love again.
They soon came to the forest and Nienna suddenly felt a lot safer. Her ears picked up the sound from the trees and if she did not know better, she would swear that they were talking to her. She urged her horse into a gallop next to Gandalf and asked. "Can the trees speak?"
She thought Gandalf would burst out laughing but he looked at her and only said. "Ask Legolas, he will know."
Nienna fell back a few paces until she was next to Legolas. "Can the trees speak?" She asked.
"Yes, they can. The Elves began it. Teaching them how to speak. These trees are dangerous; don't go to close to them. They don't like creatures that don't belong here." He warned her.
Soon the gates of Isengard came into view. Nienna found it hard to suppress a shudder. How many times she had seen those gates, she wondered.
"Look who returns. I knew you would come back to me, my little one. You cannot live without the evil now can you? You cannot live without the magic that you hold so dearly, the magic within you. Did I not tell you when you were younger that you were my grand student? That there was no such thing as good or evil only the most powerful. Choose wisely, Nienna, you might regret your choice in the future when you stick with the wrong people." She heard Saruman's voice in her head.
"Get out of my head, old fool. You once had power over me but not any more. I made my choice and I choice the light, I choice the good, the white and I will not back down from that. No matter what the future might bring, unlike you, I learned from my past. You had a change to do things differently but you choice the wrong side; I will be the winner in this game. Set my mind free, I COMMAND YOU, SET MY MIND FREE, NOW." Nienna shot back.
Gandalf's head shot to the right when he felt the sudden power coming from Nienna. "What is going on?" he asked her silently.
She looked at him and the wizard understood why she had been taken captive. Gandalf had known Saruman for a long time. He would never back down from power, he had the power of somebody or he would be teaching any other person who had enough power.
"Tell me." Was all he said?
"Saruman said that I was the only one with the power that Galadriel had. He said that she choice you as the leader of the White Counsel. He would use me to throw apart that counsel and become the Queen of Lorien and of the Elves. He told me that I had a choice between good and evil. I choice the evil and therefore immortality. That is why; she never tried to safe me. I am her heir and she knew that if she would get me out of there while I was under his power, I would turn evil and kill her. I had to choice for myself." Nienna silently answered.
"You did the right thing." Gandalf said while he petted her own the shoulder.
"I don't know if I did." Nienna answered before her eyes closed and she fell unconsciousness against Gandalf. Saruman had finally released her mind and her power.
The others were busy with the greeting the Hobbits, so Gandalf had time to bring Nienna by and he pressed her against him while he sat down behind her on Shadowfax. "Legolas, take her." He called to the Elf.
"What has happened?" Legolas asked while taking Nienna over from Gandalf.
"No questions." The wizard snapped. Nienna had fallen into the darkness again while only vaguely wear that somebody she loved was holding her.
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