Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from any of these Lord of the Rings Characters. It all belongs to Tolkien, and Peter Jackson and all those wonderful people out there.

a/n – sorry its been so long, but family from New Orleans came into town. I'm going to try to post the whole story before I leave, because I'll be gone for three weeks. Once I come back I can post the sequel (two towers) which is done, I'm still working on Return of the King though.

Chapter 5 – Friends and Kraken's don't mix.

Okay now we're walking next to a dark lake. Well actually I am as far way from it as I can get as there is a GIANT SQUID THING IN THERE! But other than that everyone is calm. Then we reach the cool doors. Well, there not cool looking right now but they will be as soon as the moonlight hits them.

"Isildin. It mirrors only starlight and moonlight." Gandalf says while scrubbing away dirt off the wall.

Sure enough moon comes out and makes the doors all pretty looking.

"It reads, The Gates of Durin, Lord of Moria. Speak Friend and enter."

Oh I remember this. This is the stupid riddle thing which Gandalf the old wizened wizard can't figure out but Frodo the inexperienced hobbit does.

"What do you suppose it means?" Asked Pippin walking past me to get a closer look.

"Simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors open."

If only it were that simple.

"Oh I remember this……" Cass starts to say but Liv elbows her. " Ouch!..Nevermind I don't remember." Cass groans, giving Liv a death glare who smiles back at her.

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Okay it's been about an hour and I am bored out of my mind. I've tried several times to convince Liv and Rae to let me and Cass just tell them the God damn password. But they said no, what if we mess something up. Hello! We've already messed shit up by just being here. What's one more thing?

They said no again.

Meanwhile Sam and Aragorn said goodbye to Bill. The good old horse, I mean pon.

Pip and Merry throw rocks in the water. We forgot about that part or else we would have stopped them. None of us are looking forward to the giant squid.

Gandalf finally sits down in disgust having tried a lot of passwords. I lost count after 50.

Frodo stood up. Finally we can get out of this hell hole. "It's a riddle. What's the Elvish word for friend?" he asked Gandalf.

"Mellon." The four of us say before he can answer. (Did I mention that we really wanted to get out of this hell hole?)

Just like in the movie the door opened. Here comes the fun part. (Notice the sarcasm)

"Soon, mister elf, you will enjoy the fabled hospitality of the dwarves! Roaring fires, malt beer, red meat off the bone! This is the home of my cousin Balin. And they call it a mine. A mine!" Gimli says to us as we walk in. My friends and I tried to stick together but I ended up being between Sam and Frodo, not a good place to be.

"If you could call a mine a tomb." Liv muttered and we all nodded are heads in agreement.

Finally someone agrees with us. We are smart after all!

"This is no mine, it's a tomb." Boromir yelled.

"EEK!" Cass said and then grabbed on to Rae.

"Cass you're suffocating her! Let GO!" Liv yelled yanking Cass off of Rae.

Gimli meanwhile was having a fit. Legolas had just figured out goblins had done it. And Boromir was yelling at us to make for the Gap of Rohan.

Sam, Frodo, and I were starting to back out of the caves when I felt a tentacle grab by ankle.

"HOLY SHIT!" I said. I looked to see that Frodo was in the same predicament. I grabbed my sword and cut it off, while Sam cuts off Frodo's. I hear water rushing and turn around to see a dozen more coming towards us. Whatever it is grabs Frodo and I and lets just say that HAGGING UPSIDE DOWN IN THE AIR IS NOT FUCKING FUNNY! I try to get a firmer hold on my sword, but the tentacles are swigging me this way and that I can't do anything.

"Rae! Liv! Cass! Get me the hell down from here!" I yell at them.

"We're trying you dumbass!" I hear Rae yell at me.

Well I can hear her and Legolas shooting arrows so they are trying to help. And I can hear people splashing in the water, or that could be the kraken. Either way they are trying.

IT'S JUST THAT THEY AREN'T TRYING HARD ENOUGH!

Suddenly I stop swinging. I take that opportunity to cut the tentacles that are holding me. I flip as I fall so that I land somewhat on my feet. Aragorn grabs my arm, while Boromir grabs Frodo and yells "Into the mines!"

Running blindly into the mines, dragged is more like it. We barely manage to get their before the Kraken (figured out what it was called) closed the mines behind us.

I dropped my sword and bent down trying to catch my breathe. Cass immediately comes over to me and hugs me.

"Don't you ever scare me like that again! I thought something bad was going to happen to you!"

"Don't worry Cass. I'm fine now." I say, comforting her.

"I must say that you are a lot stronger that I thought you were. Forgive me for underestimating you." Aragorn said.

"There is nothing to be forgiven." I say in response.

"Now we have but one choice. 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. It is a four days to the other side. Let us hope our presence may go unnoticed." Gandalf says.

We start walking up the stairs, me leaning on Cass for support. /the fucking Kraken hurt my ankle/. We come to the top of the stairs just in time for Gandalf to have his memory relapse.

Just fucking great.

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"Are we lost?" Pippin asks.

"No, we're not lost." Merry says.

"I think we're lost."

"Quiet, Gandalf's thinking."

"Merry? I'm hungry."

"Oh will you two just shut up?" Rae says. She's wrapping my ankle up in some clothe and I guess the hobbits just got on her nerves. Rae gets easily annoyed when she's worried.

"Sorry." Pippin and Merry say looking at the two of us. I smile at them and mouth a "don't worry about it"

Meanwhile Frodo and Gandalf are having their Gollum convo. (a/n: again me to lazy to put it in here)

"Ah! It's that way." Gandalf cries out. Obviously their convo about Gollum has ended.

"He's remembered!" Merry yells happily. While we all gather our stuff.

"No, but the air smells less foul down here. When in doubt, Meriadoc, always follow your nose."

"Now that sounds like someone I know would do." I say smiling at Rae, while she just shrugs and smiles at me.

"Its not my fault I have a strong sense of smell." She says laughingly.

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Preview for Chapter 6:

"Hey, dumbass over here!" I yelled at the Troll. It stupidly turned to face me.

Okay now what do I do? I asked myself in my head.

Well I brandished my sword at him. He seemed to take this as a threat.

In slow motion I saw his hand, spear and all coming toward Frodo (who by the way is behind me) and me. In one swift motion I raised my sword and brought it crashing down on his arm.

Let me just say Troll blood is gross!

TBC