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Bluekrystal1 à I looked for TR/LOTR fictions too but when I could only find a few I decided to write one myself. I will promise to keep writing until the very end.

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Like I already told Sean Malloy I am very busy at the time so I have little time to write but every little bit of time I have will be spend with words written for this story. Now please read the next chapter.

Just outside London.

They've been driving for two hours now. For Lara it felt like two days. she had started to get sick. The antidote Legolas had given her stopped working. Sweat was dripping of her forehead, her eyes felt like they were on fire, which was making it hard for her to keep them open. Breathing hurt because of the lack of oxygen. Fear had taken over, fear of becoming one of those horrible creatures, but she had faith in Legolas and only just hoped he would bring her to Gandalf in time.

"Legolas…"

Legolas turned his head and saw Lara's condition was getting worse by the minute. She has to be strong for a few more minutes and though he only knew Lara for a few hours he knew she had the strength for it.

"Please, you must hold on, I promise it won't take long."

It was a good thing Legolas keeps his promises. Darkness was slowly taking over and covering her eyes but when she felt the car stopping another burst of energy pushed the darkness aside. The door opened and she felt a warm hand connecting to her forehead, for a moment she opened her eyes to see the warm hand belonged to Legolas. She saw he said something to her but Lara was too busy fighting the darkness and was unable to hear the words falling from the elf's mouth.. She didn't even notice Legolas lifting her up and walking her inside a small cottage a few kilometers from London. The last thing she saw was Gandalf, from that moment on she was unable to fight of the darkness, there was no more energy left for it and she could do nothing but allowing the dark covering her eyes and cutting her of from the world.

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When she woke up again Lara looked upon the same face she saw before she lost consciousness. A large smile peered through his beard, wrinkles on his forehead frowning at her. Carefully Lara tried to smile back forgetting the pain under her shoulder, which turned the smile in a grimace of pain.

"Good morning, how are you feeling?"

"Smashing."

Gandalf laughed and helped Lara on her feet. They weren't alone in the room. Legolas was here too and another man stood next to Legolas. He had half long brown hair and an unshaven beard covered his chin.

"You must be Aragon."

"Correct Lady Croft."

"Please, Lara will do fine, I always feel old when people call me a lady."

Aragon laughed "Well then Lara, it's a good thing you found the ring."

Immediately Lara reached for her pocket, feeling the ring was still there.

"So you three are here to make sure the ring will be destroyed for once and forever?"

"You could see it that way yes."Gandalf replied while he placed a pipe in his mouth.

"But why ask me, can't the little fellow do it again?"

Aragon jumped up, almost looking insulted with the words Lara said.

"Frodo deserves to spend the rest of his life in peace. What he has been trough is nothing compared with you're adventures."

"Bloody hell, watch the temper chap, I didn't mean to offend you, I'll I wanted to know was why from all the humans on earth, you've picked me."

Immediately Aragon stepped back, almost ashamed of his actions he nodded to show his regret and answered Lara's question.

"We picked you because you're one of the few people who have been in the Cradle of life. You know the way to it and you are a true fighter."

"Well that's encouraging, when do we leave."

Immediately all three men started laughing. Off course Lara had no idea why they did this. She saw Gandalf walking to the window and opened the curtain. It was dark outside, while it was two in the afternoon and the sun should be shining brightly. Lara's mouth fell wide open. She had never seen anything like this before.

"Bugger…what…?"

"Sauron's spy's are outside…looking for you."

Gandalf closed the curtains and walked over to Lara, gesturing her to pull out the ring.

"You must never put the ring on, if you do Sauron will see you and warns his spy's about you're location."

"Then how are we getting to Africa?"

"We travel underground."

Lara turned around at the words of the elf and saw him kneeling down, opening an hatch leading downwards. She had to admit that these three men had arranged a good plan. But were they really going to travel to Africa all the way through a tunnel? It would take too long, too long for the sake of the world as well.

"From here we walk to a train station near the coast, then we take the train heading for France through the Channel Tunnel and from there on we have to find a way to get to Africa."

"The Channel Tunnel? You've got to be joking."

"No, there is no other way and it's the fastest, with the train we will be in France soon."

Lara eyed the elf. He knew so many, while Gandalf and Aragon knew only a little, or at least they were letting Lara believe they did.

"How do you know al these things, for someone from Middle Earth you now very much about earth these days."

"Fifteen years ago we caught the news of the ring growing back to his new form. I returned to the earth to investigate. I learned how it can be destroyed after ten years and in those years I learned a lot about you're technology."

Legolas walked over to a table and opened a small diary that was resting on it. A short glance at it told Lara it were all notes made by Legolas. The diary had at least a hundred pages. He turned a few pages and then moved his finger to a picture of Pandora's box.

"Once I found out how the ring could be destroyed I had to start looking for the Cradle of life. I read in you're books that Pandora's box was hidden inside it but no one knew where that was."

He closed the diary and placed it in the bag that was resting on his shoulder.

"So when I found out you had been there to destroy Pandora's box I immediately warned Gandalf and Aragon and asked them to assist me. We didn't knew exactly where the ring was so that was the second reason why we asked you and at the same time a test to see if we could trust you."

"Well…can you trust me?"

Legolas smiled and nodded at her to get ready for leaving while he walked down the ladder. Lara grabbed her guns and followed Legolas downwards to the underground tunnel. Aragon and Gandalf were close behind her. It was a long way to the train station. They had been walking for hours and there weren't much conversations during the walk. Finally they took some rest. It must have been at least half a day since they left the cottage. She took fully chance of break and leaned down against the cold rocks. She closed her eyes for a few moments and opened them when she sensed someone sitting down next to her. Immediately her eyes met those of Legolas.

"How is you're arm?"

A good thing he asked, Lara had completely forgotten about the injury. She moved her hand over it and only felt pain when she pressed on it. What ever Gandalf had done, it sure made the wound heal quicker then normal.

"I guess it's doing fine, it only hurts when I press on it. Gandalf did a good job, much better then my butler.

The charming smile of the elf was clearly visible again.

"Sounds like you get injured a lot."

"You don't know the half of it, but most were bullet wounds."

"What's the worst injury you ever had?"

"The dead of my mother and father, a deep wound that will never heal."

"I'm sorry. How did they die?"

A cold shiver went down her spine when Lara thought back at the day her father was reported missing. She refused to believe it, it just couldn't be. She was so young and was forced to life without a father and a mother. It was a good thing Hillary had helped her through that difficult period, or else Lara might have been dead too.

"My mother was sick, my father was murdered. They both died before I reached the age of twelve. What about you?"

"Me? I don't know, it has been a long time since I last saw them but they had died long before the war with Sauron. Aragon and Gandalf are the only family I have left now and I think you are having a good time with you're butler and Byce."

Lara chuckled when he said that "It's Bryce."

"Bryce, really a weird name."

"That's because he is weird."

The two started laughing, their heads coming closer. The warmth of his body covered hers and she closed her eyes. Lara could feel the touch of his lips, it felt so comfortable and trusting, it made her heart feel warm. The overwhelming feeling was disturbed when suddenly the ground started shaking. Immediately Legolas was back on his feet, running a few paces forward to see what was causing it. Aragon was next to him in a flash. They looked at each other and both knew what was coming.

"Human orcs." Legolas turned back to Lara and held out on of his swords. "Those guns really are useless now Lara, you must use a sword and aim for their heads."

For a moment Lara hesitated, then she took the sword and held it firmly in her hand. It wasn't the first time she used one, only she has a much better aim with her guns. But she knew they were useless against those human orcs.

"Gandalf how did they find us?"

"I don't know Aragon, Sauron has spy's everywhere, just be ready god knows how many there are."

The strider nodded at Gandalf and removed his sword from his holster. The trembling started to get worse. Lara could already hear the screaming of the orcs. She knew she was up too the biggest fight of her life. There are only four of them and from the sounds those orcs are making she would say there are at least a hundred. But what ever would happen, Lara will never give up, she never thought of it in her entire life. She had fought herself through the death of her father and mother and she will definitely fight herself though this.

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