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Chapter 7

Legolas was the first to reach Jack, and was relieved to find that wasn't unconscious, but he looked very shaken up and wasn't quite aware of his surroundings. Next to get there was Gandalf, who rushed over to Jack and started asking him what happened and what he saw. It took him a while to bring himself back to reality and brought himself to answer. "It was Gondor…and Sauron had taken over…he was saying things to me, but I couldn't understand."

Gandalf looked somewhat surprised that Jack was able to answer, but decided that he needed some rest.

With Gandalf and the rest

He let Legolas lead Jack to his room, and gave a worried glance to the others, "I think we should leave sooner than we might've hoped…We will leave tomorrow at dawn, once Jack has fully recovered." Gimli looked up in amazement at Gandalf, "And how do you suppose we leave at dawn? And what would we say to Jack? It's not likely that he'll be prancing around merrily after he finds out about all this!" Gandalf knew it would be hard, but he had a feeling that some evil was dwelling near, and he could tell the elves felt it also.

"We must keep it a secret for now…it is sill not his time to know. We'll tell him tomorrow that the elves had warned us to leave." Everybody was getting tired of lying to Jack, but they all agreed in silence.

After a while Aragorn stood up, an announced he would be leaving that night for Gondor. "I can not leave my people any longer; I bid you all a fond farewell." And so, a couple hours later, Aragorn was off to Gondor.

With Legolas and Jack

Legolas lead Jack up to his room in silence, and surprisingly, he didn't even need any help. They opened the door, and a fire was already lit in the fireplace, and Jack sat down in his bed.

Legolas looked at him with slightly curious yet slightly worried expression, "So what exactly happened? And what did you see?" Jack sighed, the truth was, he really didn't know what was going on, but he told Legolas everything he knew. "I was just sitting around at the party and I, for the one time at a party wasn't drunk….because they had no rum…well, anyways, I had just started watching Merry and Pippin doing there little drunk dance on the table, and I felt dizzy." Legolas remained silent as if he was listening intently, so he continued "Next thing I knew, I was flying around Middle Earth…and you already know what I saw….except" Legolas turned his head and looked at him strangely, "Except?" Jack sighed again, and continued, "Except I was with Sauron, and I was helping him…until he started talking to me. Whatever he said, I'm pretty sure it wasn't an invitation to a nice afternoon tea."

Legolas laughed, lifting all the pressure of the conversation off Jack, "You never fail to loose your sense of humor, mellon nin." Jack looked up confused, "Mellon nin? What's that?"

"It means, my friend." Jack still looked confused even after Legolas had translated for him, "Erm Pardon me for not really understanding all of this, but is the language you speak, the same Sauron spoke to me?"

"No, it is not. The language you heard was the Black Speech of Mordor. Some say that Sauron was the one who created it, making it evil and dark sounding. Elves can hardly tolerate listening to it." Jack finally had an idea of what was going on (or so he thought), so he settled down for the night, and Legolas left the room.

Merry walked up to Legolas after he reappeared from Jack's room, and asked him how he was doing. "He's quite alright, just needs some rest." He looked up in confusion at the sight of Gandalf packing some bags, and realized Aragorn was missing, "Where's Aragorn, and why are you packing so soon?"

Gandalf was hurrying from one place to another, quickly packing things, and getting ready for the upcoming trip, "There's not much time to explain, but we are leaving tomorrow. Make sure you do not tell Jack about his…position with us, and just tell him the elves advised us to leave at once. We will make for the Western shores at dawn tomorrow."

It was dawn, and Jack had already risen, and was preparing to leave (for some reason he did not know of), and found his pistol in one of his bags. He thought to himself 'Now this would really surprise them.' And smiled, and packed his last bag on a fairly loaded, and quite unhappy horse.

They had only gotten about 10 miles away from the very edges of Lothlorien, when Legolas spotted an army of orcs and goblins, he recognized to be the ones from Moria he had seen only a few years ago. It looked as if they were heading towards Gondor, and then down into Mordor, where they could serve their master. Jack turned his horse towards Gandalf, and made a suggestion, "Even though we've got four funny little hobbits, a dwarf, an elf, me, and an old wizard with a stick." He paused after Gandalf gave him a stern look at the stick comment, "I don't think we'd to take on all of these guys." Gandalf looked completely frustrated with the whole ordeal, but finally spoke, "We will make for Gondor, and warn Aragorn. And it's not a stick, it's a staff!"

Jack grinned the way he did so many times before at the Port Royal officers, "Say what you want about your staff, I think you're just embarrassed you've only got a stick for a weapon."

Everyone, especially the hobbits could be heard laughing at Jack's comment. Even Legolas chuckled, but they were all brought back to reality at the sound of the orcs making calls behind them. They headed to Gondor as quick as possible.