Elrond stood at the centre of the council Gandalf to his left and Thranduil on his right. Legolas sat with Atan, Manwë, Millie and Emma near to his father.

"It grieves me to be speaking to you all again so soon after the threat of Sauron has been removed from our world, but now a new threat has arisen and we are needed again." The high elf looked around at the assembled dwarves, elves and humans before turning to one of the dwarves, "Gimli, son of Gloin, son of Groin(apparently), will you speak before the council."

A red haired dwarf rose, battle axe in one mighty fist which he span continually whilst talking; "As you know the darkness of Moria was forced out after the ring and its master were destroyed. Not one of the vermin was left in the Misty Mountains and we dwarves returned to our mines. But now a far darker threat has arisen. Formed from magics unknown to us; creatures came into the mines who were impervious to our blades. We could stop scarce few of them, but all who they bit became creatures like them and they fed off the blood of our brothers.

"They massacred my people and took the dark caverns of Moria for their own. Little, is known about these creatures and their origin but it is known that they are lead by a mortal man named Radhnor. We know nothing more of him, or his plans. But we do know that with this army of dark beasts he could take over all of middle earth if he wished, and we'd have no way to stop him!

"We know now that the creatures must feed on blood and are already invading the lands of the Rohirrim by night to satisfy their hunger. They need to be stopped, though we know not how this can be done."

"Wait a moment, let me get this straight…" Millie said not bothering to stand as the entire council turned to watch her; "There are Vampires in Moria and they're killing everyone, and you want them stopped but don't know how."

"Basically." Legolas replied standing to address the council; "I think that now I should introduce my companions, this is Millie, and her friend Emma. Millie is an elf, Emma is…not. They know of the Nos Feratu and can show us how to kill them."

The whole of the council turned back to the two girls.

"Right," said Millie looking generally knowledgeable, "All you have to do is stake them."

"Stake them?" One of the other elves asked.

"Yes, get pointy wooden stake and shove it through their heart." Millie replied providing actions in case they still did not understand.

"Unless their like the vampires in Blade, 'cos if then you're gonna need silver." Emma put in, her voice quiet in comparison to Millie's.

"Whoever heard of silver killing a vampire?"

"I guess whoever came up with Blade. But even then you have to make sure you don't get blood on their dust, if they even turn to dust."

"Vampires always turn to dust."

"Except in night world."

"Um excuse me," Atan said, "What was that about blood on dust?"

"Oh in some legends, if you get blood on a dead vampire's ashes-ie dust-they come back to life."

"Oh. How else can you kill them then."

"Well…" Millie began, "Sunlight."

"Except in night world."

"Fire."

"Except in interview with a vampire where the evil one, was that Brad or Tom? Whoever anyway, he wasn't killed by the fire."

"Drinking the blood of the dead."

"Again except in interview with a vampire where the evil guy, who ever he was, wasn't killed by that either. He just ended up looking dead…very strange."

"Holy water."

"Generally harms but doesn't kill unless in huge quantities."

"Garlic."

"Do they even have garlic in Middle earth? Anyway generally used to keep vampires away rather than to kill them."

"Crosses."

"Or any other holy symbol-I don't think they have crosses in Middle Earth not having had Jesus here or anything-but again mostly as a ward against vamps though the pain they cause can be over come as seen in both Buffy(Film and series) and Disc World."

"Steal their left socks!"

"I still think that one's a bit ridiculous, plus how the hell are we gonna get hold of their left socks anyway?"

"Fine, decapitation?" There was a pause… "What, no draw backs, problems or well anything wrong with that?"

"Not that I know of, though you might have to use wood or silver to actually cut the vampire's heads off."

"So basically," Came a voice from across the council chamber, "You have no idea how to kill these things, and you're supposed to be the experts!"

"Who the hell are you?" Millie asked.

"Éomer. Ruler of the Rohirrim"

"I think I like Karl Urban better." Millie said taking in the man's stocky form and red-blond hair.

Emma nodded trying not to laugh at the look of confusion on the man's face.

"Look, we have no idea how to kill them because, as Emma loves to point out, there are so many different versions of the vampire myth. These vampires may be like nothing we've seen before. For all we know chocolate could kill them."

"I hope not, they might have garlic here but they certainly don't have chocolate, and I don't know about you but I have no idea how to make it."

"And you call your self a chocoholic!"

"What's chocolate?" Legolas asked.

"It doesn't matter."

"Doesn't matter!" Emma repeated unbelievingly, "Chocolate is the best thing in the world, well one of, its…"

"Ok we don't need to know, it doesn't kill vampires so we don't need to know!"

"If you don't know how to kill them, do you at least know their weaknesses?" Elrond asked in an attempt to return order to the meeting.

"They can't walk in sun light." Millie said.

"Except in Night World where they can."

"Your Gods Emma you read way too much! Anyway Gimli said they attack only at night which kinda suggests the sunlight weakness."

"Even in night world they hunt at night, hence 'night world'."

"Fine so maybe sunlight. Um they have no reflections."

"And that's a weakness why?"

"They have terrible fashion sense." Millie replied.

"Sure, terrible weakness. Ok in some legends they can't cross running water. Um…"

"That's so crap, I've never head that before you just made it up to sound like you know more than me."

"I didn't actually, read Disc World, it has basically everything in."

"And still we have only three weaknesses."

"You can't really count the reflection thing, or you'd have to count that they can't be captured on film, you know photographed or anything. Except that they can in Buffy."

"You can count both…as a way of telling if someone's a disguised vampire."

"Vampires can disguise them selves?" This question came from Legolas.

"The ones I saw had wild amber eyes like those of a rabid dog, and fangs like wolves." Gimli said.

"In most legends vampires can disguise themselves as humans; lose the fangs, dull the eyes etc. so I guess you could use mirrors to find out if someone was one, but I don't think the film thing counts as you don't really have cameras in Middle Earth."

"So can we tell you about what vampire can do now?" Millie asked ready to show off her knowledge again.

"In some legends, fly…"

"They have telepathic powers."

"They can morph."

"They have heightened senses."

"And super strength."

"Oh and they're basically immortal."

"All right, so these things sound basically unstoppable and at this moment they are massacring my people." Éomer said, "What are we going to do about it?"

"I feel that we need to know more about these creatures before we can decide anything." Thanduil said, his cold blue eyes staring around the council.

"What?" Éomer exclaimed, "My people are dying and you want to waste time looking for more information!"

"The lad's right." Gimli put in, "We should march down there with an army of dwarves, men and elves and see how they withstand out blades!"

"And then if, as has been suggested, only silver harms them, we will all be killed." Thranduil put in.

"Or turned into creatures like them as you yourself said Gimli." Elrond said, "No, we need more information before we can do anything, and yet these creatures have never been seen in Middle earth before."

"The only information we need is how to kill them." Éomer pointed out to the agreement of many of the dwarves and men.

"Maybe it would be best if some of our people went into the mountains to gain information about the Nos Feratu and their leader. A small group may be able to pass unseen by most of the creatures and could bring back the information needed to kill them."

"Oh no!" Gimli cried, "I'm not joining some doomed fellowship again!"

"I never suggested you should." Elrond comforted the dwarf, "but someone will have to."

"I will go my lord." Legolas said and Atan and Manwë were quick to volunteer as well.

"Millie," Emma whispered, "Do you think, seeing as how we're the only ones who have ever heard of Vampire, that we should…"

"We're coming too." Millie said before Emma could finish.

"Millie!" Emma hissed, "I was only gonna say we should write down what we know or something."

"Oh come on Emma, we can't come to Middle Earth and then spend the whole time here when there's a huge quest to save the world!"

"Shizer! Oh dear God, we're going to die." Emma muttered. (Little German there, shizer shit)

"Don't be silly, we're the heroes, or heroines or whatever, we can't die."

Nobody else volunteered for the quest, Emma wasn't really surprised still believing that it would lead only to death, but Elrond was more confident saying that the small group was more likely to avoid danger. (Not that they will of course 'cos that would be boring)

Gandalf now stood and spoke for the first time; "Firstly I wish you luck Legolas. What you and your companions discover could change the course of this war. But in the meantime, Éomer I suggest that you move your people as far away from Moria as you can. If I understand correctly what these girls have been saying there is a chance that the creatures can only move at night and if they can only travel on foot and your people are a good distance from Moria then they will not be able to feed."