Chapter 9 - Rendezvous in Rivendell
After the incident at Weathertop, everyone was silent. They were all speechless about what happened with Garrett. A few days after that incident, they arrived in Rivendell. Feliesha kind of stopped at the gate, she wasn't sure if she should go in or not.
"Oh man!" She suddenly said.
"What is it?" Nicole asked her.
"I just realized Aragorn is travelling with us." She replied. "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO ME!" She suddenly screamed, turning around to Aragorn and slapping him in the face. Then, she stomped off into Rivendell. Aragorn turned to Anna with a confused look on his face. Anna just shrugged.
"What's with her?" He asked. Nicole sighed shockingly.
"What do you mean?" She spat at him. "Men!" Then, she followed Feliesha and went into town.
"I think women were created to confuse the man." Jeremy stated. Then, they all went into town. Daniel and Jeremy immediately went to see Elrond to tell him what happened with Garrett.
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"So Garrett is now one of the nine Ringwraiths?" Elrond said, as he, Daniel, and Jeremy walked in the gardens of Rivendell. "Why was he with you? I told you two not to tell anybody what you were doing!"
"Well...uh...I-I I don't know!" Daniel said. "It was Jeremy who invited him!"
"Oh so now it's MY fault!" Jeremy screamed. "What about when you stole my girlfriend a while back?"
"Jeremy had a girlfriend?" Elrond asked surprised. Daniel shook his head.
"It's the schizophrenia..." Daniel whispered. Elrond nodded.
"Plus you invited him too! We're both equally guilty." Jeremy said. Elrond rubbed his forehead.
"Who else went with you?" Elrond asked, not sure if he wanted to know.
"Nicole, a Hobbit, two dwarves, and a human." Daniel said. "But don't worry! The two dwarves were thieves and we ditched them in Bree."
"Why did Nicole go with you?" Elrond demanded.
"She wanted to raise her grades in your class." Jeremy said.
"Well what about the others? Why did you travel with them?" He asked.
"Man, are we playing twenty questions?" Daniel asked. Elrond glared. "The human, Feliesha came with us because she's a merchant and she wanted to do business in The Shire, the two dwarves came un-invited, and we rescued the Hobbit, Jessica from the Ringwraiths." He said very fast, once Elrond glared.
"Feliesha?" Elrond asked. That name sounded familiar.
"Yeah. Do you know her?" Daniel asked.
"Uh... no." Elrond replied. "Go gather your friends, and meet at the council in an hour. We have to decide the fate of the one ring." Daniel and Jeremy bowed their heads, and went to gather their friends.
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After an hour, Daniel, Jeremy, Nicole, Feliesha, Jessica, Aragorn, Anna, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin arrived at the Council of Elrond. There was an old man there, with a long pointy hat and a long beard. They saw he was talking with Elrond. Once he saw them, he stood up.
"Hello, I'm Gandalf the Gay- I MEAN Gray." The old man said, taking off his hat.
"It's a wizard!" Nicole said to Daniel in a hushed whisper.
"Ah, the others have arrived." Elrond pointed out. Daniel and his friends looked off the balcony, and saw a tall wood elf with blond hair ride in on his white horse. After him, came another female wood elf. She had long dark brown hair, a rich purple cloak, and a forest green tunic. Beside her rode another Elf, she had shoulder length dirty blond hair, a dark blue cloak, and a brown tunic. After them, came four dwarves, and two of them seamed to be Matt and Brandon. After them, came a few humans, then some other wood elves, dwarves, and humans. Eventually, they arrived in the Council of Elrond.
"People of Middle Earth." Elrond said. Everyone was sitting in a big circle. "You are gathered here today to decide the fate of the world. Frodo, bring out the ring." Frodo got out the ring, and placed it on a stone table in the center of the circle.
"THE RING!" Said Boromir, a human from Gondor. Then, almost everyone dived for the ring. Except for Daniel and his friends, not counting Jeremy. A few elves didn't either. After Elrond screamed at the top of his lungs, everyone sat down again.
"That's better." He said. Frodo had the ring again. "Now, we need to destroy that damn ring before it corrupts us all! So who wants to take it to Mordor and destroy it?"
"Nope."
"Not me."
"I'll pass."
"Maybe in another life."
"Get Frodo to! He's the one who had it in the first place!"
"Fine then." Elrond said. "Frodo you're taking the ring to Mordor whether you like it or not!" Frodo sighed.
"Fine!" He said.
"Uh... Can I talk to Frodo for a second?" Boromir said. He took Frodo with him out of the Council. "You know Frodo, say that you don't know the way, and I'll say I'll show you, and then we'll take the ring to Gondor and it can save my people, ok?"
"But I do know the way!" Frodo replied. "I go there every summer to see my friend, Sauron."
"But Elrond doesn't have to know that, right?" Boromir said. Frodo thought for a long hard moment.
"What's in it for me?" Frodo asked. Boromir pulled out a plastic bag with little green leaves in it. Frodo stood shocked and happy. "Ok! You got yourself a deal!"
"Hey!" Elrond yelled. Frodo quickly hid the bag. "I want to get this over with!" Frodo and Boromir walked back in.
"I'll take the ring to Mordor." Frodo said.
"I know you will! You had no saying in it." Elrond said.
"But I don't know the way..."
"Man!" Elrond said. "You whine about EVERYTHING. Fine, who wants to show wimpy over here where Mordor is?"
"I will." Boromir said. Elrond didn't trust him.
"Anyone else?" He asked. The crowd was silent.
"Fine, I'll go..." Said the blonde elf.
"Oh! If Legolas is going, I'm going too!" Said the elf with dark hair. "So is she!" She pointed to the dirty blonde elf. Elrond wrote the names down on a scroll.
"Ok. What are your names?" He asked.
"I'm Julliet." The dark haired elf said. "And this is Iekika. In modern tongue that's: Jessi."
"We're going too!" A dwarf named Gimli, and Matt and Brandon said at the same time.
"I'll go too." Aragorn and Anna said at the same time.
"Count me in!" Feliesha said, gawking at Aragorn.
"Well I'm not going." Daniel said.
"Wait a minute!" Elrond said. "Daniel, you Jeremy, and Nicole have to go and try and get Garrett back to his modern senses." Daniel sighed.
"Fine." He said under his breath.
"I guess I'll go." Sam said.
"Well we're not!" Merry and Pippin said. Sam elbowed them. "Fine, we'll go."
"OOOOOOOh, I think I'll go." Gandalf said, winking at Merry.
"I think I'll stay behind then." Merry said, with a worried look on his face.
"Too late." Elrond said. "Now go! I shall call you, the Fellowship of the Dorks, I mean... The Fellowship of the Ring!"