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Chapter Five
Beginnings of Many Endings
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Rules For Gender Change By The One Ring Of Sauron
4.) Just when thou thinkist that being a woman is not bad the pains shall begin. First they shall be only annoying, then cometh the great horror of womanhood.
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"So fell the last king of Amrach in the days of Snow while the sun slept in Finnishtion." Sam concluded. She had been telling an epic tale to the fellowship to pass the time during which they looked for the door to Moria.
"Wow, that was amazing." Pippin sighed. "That was lovely Sam, where did you hear that?"
Sam blushed and looked away and said, "Oh, I don't remember."
Frodo leant over and said, "You made it up didn't you. If you did it was perfect."
"Thank you, it was nothing really." Sam looked pleased and tossed her curls over her shoulder.
They had been walking along the high vaulted cliffs for hours while Gimli would swing an axe at the wall saying something about how great dwarven doors were hidden. Legolas trailed behind her eyes glued to the bow in her hands. She was busy restringing it with her own hair. Somehow she managed to miss very rock and crack in the ground that might have tripped her. All without looking up once.
"How does she do that?" Boromir asked Gandalf.
Gandalf, who was in a bad mood said, "I don't know, but if we don't get to Moria soon I swear that…"
"…Ithildin. It mirrors only starlight and moonlight." Gimli babbled on loudly. Suddenly she danced around and said "There it is!"
The moon, as if one cue slipped from behind the clouds and the smooth cravings lit with an eerie blue light. A tree and many words in elvish script ran along the door.
Boromir shifted from one foot to the other, "Ur…can we go inside I have a bad feeling about this place."
"You're not scared are you?" Aragorn said, her grey blues twinkled weirdly in the moonlight and Boromir glanced away.
"No, I am not." She said, "I have never been afraid of the dark."
'Be quiet you two." Legolas, finished with her bow nudged them in the back as Gandalf intoned the proper words.
Only, they weren't the proper words at all. In fact nothing happened even as Gandalf went through one spell after the other. Gandalf then proceeded to do everything short of swearing at the door while Pippin stood by and made irritating comments.
Meanwhile Aragorn and Sam were bidding goodbye to Bill. The pony seemed in a usual haste to be out of the area. The departure of the faithful pony didn't seem to bother the other hobbits because they were busy seeing how far they could throw rocks into the murky black water.
"I can still throw farther then you can Pip." Merry crowed with delight.
"Not fair!" Pippin tossed a pebble at the back of Merry's head only to have it miss completely and give Frodo a crack on the head.
"Ow!" Frodo lowered his hand and saw blood. "Can't you two find anything else better to do?" she said. She wiped away at the tiny cut.
Aragorn knocked Merry and pippin's heads together and said grimly, "Don't disturb the water, you never know what might be living in it."
At that moment the water rippled but it was only Gimli washing his hands. Aragorn shot her a look and Gimli snorted and drew away from the water. She sat beside Legolas who was testing the drawing power of her restrung bow. The long gossamer strands of her hair gleamed in the moonlight as she pulled them back.
"Mummm." She said.
"What does that mean?" Gimli asked, "That it'll work now?"
"Ahum." Legolas braced at arrow and pulled back the cord, "Yes," she murmured again, "Quite satisfactory."
Frodo suddenly started up and encouraged the wizard by solving the riddle before the centuries old wizard could. Boromir snickered into her sleeve and received a kick from Aragorn.
But even as they entered the dark cave it became quite clear that this was a realm of the dead now, not the living. With a disgusted expression Legolas pulled an arrow out of a skeleton, "Goblins." She hissed.
"Goblins?" Boromir looked confused, "where did they come from I thought only orcs..." Aragorn clamped a hand over the other woman's mouth and said, "Hush! They might hear you."
As they backed down the water rippled and something long cold and slimy wrapped around Frodo and began dragging her away.
"Help!" she shrieked. The others rushed out to battle the creature but the waving arms and tentacles of the beast churned the water and sent sprays of mud and earth into they eyes.
"Strider!' Sam screamed, she made as if to dart in but Boromir shoved her back as she and Aragorn drove into the water swords flashing wildly.
With a sickening church Aragorn drove his sword through the tentacle holding Frodo and with perfect timing she landed in Boromir's arms narrowly missing the edge of her drawn sword. They struggled out of the water as Gandalf herded the hobbits deeper into the cave.
Legolas, her nose showing blue and greenish in the light drew back her bow and with all the training of her life location the pulsing black eye of the creature. "Elbereth!" she yelled and let loss the shaft.
It whistled by the humans' heads and suddenly the tentacle that had been plucking at their cloths and limbs, vanished.
Only to burst with hate toward, nearly dragging its heaving body onto the dry ground. The Fellowship, screaming and yelling plunged into the darkness, anywhere away from the grasping, clawing arms of the watcher.
They fell in a heap as the doors of Moria crushed the Watcher behind them. Gasping, crying and in some cases cursing in a very unladylike manner, they were alive. Gandalf pulled herself up and shook the dirt and dust from her robes. She was in a worse mood now.
"We now 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." She said. She stamped her staff on the ground and a blue light began to emit from the stem.
"How does he do that?" Pippin sighed.
Boromir dragged her up and made sure the hobbit was unharmed while saying, "She a wizard, they do things like that."
"It's a four-day journey to the other side. Let us hope that our presence may go unnoticed." Gandalf said with a pointed look at the hobbits.
And so they walked on into the glistening beauty of Moria's abandoned caves. As the days passed they told old tales of Bilbo's adventures, great gifts and strange happenings in the first ages. Legolas, uncomfortable in the oppressive dark followed right behind Aragorn, bumping into her every time they stopped. Her nose was already healed, the green having faded away leaving her face the perfect even white of before the accident.
Finally, when they had every hope of finding the way out that evening, Gandalf stopped at a three ways hall and said, "I have no memories of this place."
"Great, just great." Merry said. They settled down and waited, Aragorn, Legolas and Boromir keeping guard against, they really didn't know what. The darkness of Moria was unlike anything the humans or hobbits had even experienced much less the surface loving elf.
Strange echoes sounded off the high walls and made them jump at every sound of falling rock. Merry and Frodo sat together watching the others Sam was busy calming Pippin with a whispered story and Gimli was sharpening her axe.
'Do you think we're lost Frodo?" Merry whispered.
"I don't know Merry, I hope that." Frodo tried to smile, "Gandalf will find a way out."
"I'm not so sure." Merry said, "I think we'll be in here forever somehow, if something doesn't happen soon. What's wrong?"
Frodo rubbed her stomach, "Nothing, maybe just something I ate."
"Maybe you should have Aragorn take a look at you?" Merry suggested.
"No. I'm sure it's nothing." Frodo said. She had no idea how wrong she would prove to be.