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a/n – It's almost finished. I think this the second to last chapter, I believe. I hope. I leave in less than four days. I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it…and you all probably don't care. On with the story….

Chapter 7 – The Lady is just plain weird…

The diminished fellowship escaped into the sunlight. Most of them collapsed with their grief for Gandalf.

Even the great elf, Legolas seems stunned.

I looked over to see my friends with tears running down their faces. Even though we had not known Gandalf long, it was long enough to care for him. Even though we knew we would see him again. Even before we really met him, we loved his character. And to see him fall………that was more than we could handle.

I looked down at my bleeding arm. Rae had bound it with spare clothe but the bleeding had not stopped. The pain of my arm seemed very trivial when compared with the pain of my heart.

"Legolas, get them up!" I jumped. I had not expected to hear Aragorn's voice so soon. We had only just come out of the caves about 5 minutes ago.

"Give them a moment, for pity's sake!" Boromir demanded of Aragorn.

"By nightfall these hills will be crawling with orcs! We must reach the woods of Lothlorien. Gimli, Legolas, get them up!" he walked over to Sam. "On you feet Sam! Frodo?"

Frodo had walked away from the rest. I guess the "death" of Gandalf had hit him the hardest. At that moment when he turned around and I saw his eyes, I wished I could tell him. That Gandalf was not dead. That he would see him again. And everything would be all right. But I knew I could not. Rae and Liv would kill me for telling him, and Cass would kill me for not letting her to be the one to comfort him. It's a double-edged sword.

8

We were running through another forest. Lothlorien. We had entered the wood of silver trees. I must say I was a bit nervous about meeting Lady Galadriel. The four of us were.

"What do you think she will say to us?" Cass asked, she out of the four of us, was most worried about our upcoming confrontation with the Lady.

"I don't know. But I hope its something good." Liv said.

"Same." Rae added looking at my arm, which had stopped bleeding, while I just nodded my head.

"And if not, we could always curse her out in Japanese." I say trying to lighten the mood. That got everyone laughing.

"True, true." Rae said smiling.

"Stay close, young ones. They say a great sorceress lives here, an elf-witch of terrible

power. All those who look upon her fall under her spell, and are never seen again." He paused.

(here is where Galadriel talks to Frodo.)

/Bryn. You and your friends are not of this world I can tell. But do not fear you four will also have a part to play before the journey of the fellowship before it ends/

"Did you..?" I started to ask and they all nodded. I turned back to look at Frodo, who too had stopped.

"Well, this is one dwarf she won't ensnare so easily! I have the eyes of a hawk, and the ears of a fox!"

Then we were all surrounded by elves with their arrows pointed at us. "Well looks she did ensnare you Gimli, and very easily I must say." I muttered to him. And he grunted at me. I hear Rae sigh in content and turned around to see Haldir.

"The dwarf breathes so loudly we could have shot him in the dark." He said moving towards Aragorn, and they began to converse in elvish.

"Aragon, these woods are perilous! We should go back!" Gimli yelled looking straight at the arrow pointed at his noise.

"You have entered the realm of the Lady of the Wood. You cannot go back. Come. She is waiting." Haldir said and they lead us to 'the lady of the wood'. A.K.A: the lady who needs to get a tan according to the kids in one of my classes. I think Galadriel looked good though, she had that sort of ethereal effect, you know.

8

"Twelve there are here, but thirteen there were set out from Rivendell. Tell me where is Gandalf, for I much desire to speak with him." Celebron said.

I was right, she is ethereal looking, both of them.

"He is fallen into shadow. The quest stands on the edge of a knife, stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains as long as the company is true. Do not let your hearts be troubled. Go now, and rest, for you are weary with toil and much sorrow. Tonight you shall sleep in peace.

/Welcome, Bryn, one from one of the worlds beyond./

8

The girls and I had taken baths in the river and were now clothed in our school uniforms. I have to say it felt nice to be wearing a skirt again.

Liv and Cass had immediately fallen asleep. While Rae and I stayed awake. Listening the elves singing in the trees.

"A lament for Gandalf" Legolas stated.

"What do they say about him" Sam asked.

"I have not the heart to tell you. For me the grief is still to near.

A few hours later. The company is asleep. Well at least I'm not and I know Rae is not. And I know for a fact that Sam and Frodo aren't. When Galadriel passes. She calls to the four of us.

We all get up and follow her to a basin set in stone, which fills with water from a silver urn.

"Will you all of you look into the mirror?" She asks of his.

"What will we see?" Frodo asks, wary of her.

"Not even the wisest can say, for the mirror shows many things. Things that are, things that were, and some things that have not yet come to pass.

We all in turn look into the mirror. I do not know what Rae saw, but what I saw I will not say here. It was to disturbing and is still too fresh in my mind.

"I know what it is all of you have seen, for it is also in my mind. It is what will come to pass if you should fail. The Fellowship is breaking. Already it has begun. He will try to take the ring. You know of whom I speak. One by one it will destroy all of whom are from Middle Earth."

Rae and I breathed a sigh of relief. Since we were not from Middle Earth the ring could not control us.

"If you ask it of me, I will give you the One Ring."

"You offer it to me freely. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this."

Skipping Galadriel goes scary women part.

"I passed the test. I will diminish, and go into the west, and remain Galadriel.

"I cannot do this alone."

"You are a Ringbearer, Frodo. To bear a ring of power is to be alone. This task was appointed to you, and if you do not find a way, no one will."

"Then, I know what I must do. It's just I am afraid to do it."

"Don't worry mister Frodo I will always be by your side."

"And we always be here to offer help if it is needed Frodo." Rae said.

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." Galadriel said smiling.

"Yeah and we are small. In case you didn't notice." I say.

8

Okay now we're on a river. In boats. Did I mention I hate canoeing? Because I really do. I have had bad experiences.

Okay so I'm in a boat with Frodo and Aragorn and Sam. WHY the hell do I keep getting stuck with them? Cass and Liv are in a boat with Gimli and Legolas. While Rae remains with Pippin, Merry, and Boromir. (I think they're really close. And I know Rae is considering allowing him to live. Oh and just to let you know we all received gifts from the Lady – we each got our own evening star necklaces though very different from Arwens and something else – but you'll find out later)

"Frodo, Bryn. The Aragornath. Long have I desired to look upon the kings of old, my kin." Aragorn said.

I look up to see the two enormous statues of men in armor flanking the river. The awesome power of the statues send a chill down me spine. The movie doesn't do them justice, if I may so say so.

We pass them, into a lake, where we find an old moorage and beach our boats there.

"We cross at nightfall, hide the boats and continue on foot. We approach Mordor from the north." Aragorn said.

We were all sitting around a fire. Rae was attending to my arm, again. While Cass was cat napping, her head in Liv's lap.

"Oh? Just a simple matter of finding our way across Emyn Muil, an impassible labyrinth of razor – sharp rocks! And then it gets even better! Festering, stinking marshlands as far as the eye can see!"

Pippin went pale, I think, so did Liv.

"That is our road, sir dwarf. Perhaps you should take some rest, and recover your strength."

"Recover my…..!" Gimli started but was interrupted by Legolas.

"We should leave now." He said.

"No. Orcs patrol the eastern shore we must wait for the cover of darkness."

"It is not the eastern shore that worries me. A shadow and a threat has been growing in my mind. Something draws near, I can feel it.

"Recover my strength! Pay no heed to that, young hobbits." He said looking at Merry who had returned form gathering firewood.

"Where is Frodo?" he asks.

We all look around and realize that Boromir is also missing. Rae immediately jumps up and runs in the direction Frodo probably went.

"Rae wait!" I say running after her.

8

Preview for Chapter 8:

"Where did they fucking go?" Cass asked.

"Cass. Language please."

"Liv this is no fucking time to be worried about language. Our friends are fucking missing and if we don't find them soon…."

"Look there's Frodo." Merry shouted interrupting her.

We all look in the direction of his finger and see Frodo crouched against the tree and orcs running toward him.

"Here, Frodo, hide here!" Pippin shouted, but Frodo shakes his head. Cass and Liv realized that they would probably be captured along with Pippin and Merry and groaned.

TBC