Chapter 25 - The Fated Hour

Daniel, Jeremy, Julliet, and Legolas left the gothic tower of Orthanc. It was now their final stage of their journey, they had to travel to the wastelands of Mordor and find Frodo and Sam, to finally destroy the One Ring. Hopefully, they'd still be alive. It was a long trek to Mordor, but within a week they finally arrived at the Black Gate. They stood outside the huge gate, looked at each other, took a deep breath and walked in. Mordor was a desolate land, with polluted air. The four elves stood in front of the huge closed gate.

"So how are we gonna get in?" Daniel asked, looking at the huge door. Julliet shrugged.

"Don't ask me!" She said.

"There are orcs on the inside that will greet us." Legolas said. "I'm sure it won't be a friendly greeting either." Just then, an army of orcs came marching up to the Black Gate. They stopped when they saw the four elves.

"Well, what have we here?" One of the orcs said. The elves hesitated and stepped back a bit, as Legolas slowly took out his bow. Julliet signalled for Legolas to put down his bow.

"Wait." She whispered. "I have an easier way. . ." He obediently took down his bow. She stepped ahead of the rest of her friends. "Greetings fellow. . . um . . . Orcs. We have travelled from the distant land of Rivendell to uh . . . congratulate the almighty . . . Sauron!"

"Bull." One of the Orcs said.

"Let's eat 'em." Another Orc said.

"AH!" Jeremy screamed. They started running away from the orcs, while they chased after them. Soon however, Daniel felt a hand grab him and lift him up. He found himself on a black dragon with someone wearing black sitting in front of him.

"What's going on?" He asked. The Ringwraith turned around. She had shoulder length blond hair.

"We've decided to rescue you . . ." She said. "I'm Jill." Daniel was a bit confused. But he shrugged it off. The important thing was, he was safe.

"What about my friends though?" He asked eagerly.

"They're alright." Jill replied. Daniel turned around to see Jeremy being hung in the air by another Ringwraith.

"LET ME GO!" Jeremy screamed. The Ringwraith just laughed. Jeremy looked up, he had streaked blond hair. He lifted Jeremy up to the dragon and they followed close behind Daniel and Jill. "Who are you?"

"I am me, but you can call me Paul I guess . . ." Paul said. Julliet was being held by her leg by Ashley. But after much complaining Ashley let her sit up on the dragon. Lena was holding Legolas by the arm. She pulled him up to sit with her.

"So why are you guys helping us?" Daniel asked.

"Because our leader, Sarah is asking too much out of us and we're under paid." Jill replied.

"Oh." Daniel said. He was silent for a few minutes. "But why did you guys blow up Helm's Deep? How could you do that? Think of all the innocent people you killed."

"Well that was Sarah's command so we did it." Jill said.

"I see." Daniel replied. So Jill led them all to their secret layer. While they were in the air, Daniel kept scrolling his eyes on the ground to find two Hobbits that would be carrying a ring to the fires of Mt Doom. He couldn't find them. Soon they arrived at the peak of a mountain, with a cave in it. They all landed on a platform and got off of the dragons. They entered the cave. It was a shabby cave, but not too bad. There were places to rest. On one of the beds made out of grass, they saw another Ringwraith sitting there.

"Hey Nick." Paul said, walking to Nick, who had his eyes closed.

"Why did you bring elves here?" Nick asked, not opening his eyes. "You know very well Sarah does not want any one of their kind in our layer."

"We're helping them!" Lena said. "We can't work for Sarah anymore." This made Nick open one of his eyes.

"What do you mean by that?" He asked.

"Well think about it." Jill said, sitting beside him. "Remember our raid in on Helm's Deep? We killed thousands of innocent people." She said. Nick closed his eyes again.

"Well Sarah doesn't care, as long as we get that Hobbit. Once we find her things will go back to how they used to . . ." Nick said. Daniel was quiet, but he thought he should speak up.

"But that Hobbit was in Helm's Deep!" Daniel blurted out. Nick immediately opened both his eyes.

"WHAT?" He screamed.

"What's so important about that Hobbit anyways?" Jeremy asked.

"Sarah just wants her as a Ringwraith for some reason . . ." Jill said.

"There's more to it than that." Nick said. "She wants Jessica to become a Ringwraith, because in an ancient Nazgulian Prophecy, there was a prophecy on a Hobbit who can over throw Sauron if they become a Ringwraith."

"Really?" Jill, Paul, Ashley, and Lena asked at the same time. Nick nodded.

"Sarah wanted Jessica because she was the Hobbit." Nick said. "And then the Ringwraiths would have ruled over Middle Earth." Jill, Ashley, Paul, and Lena imagined the possibilities. "But now that Jessica's gone, it's hopeless."

"But how come she never told us?" Paul asked.

"Because she knew it would get to your head, and she didn't want you guys going crazy until it was sure Jessica was a Ringwraith." Nick replied.

"But how did she know it was Jessica?" Legolas asked. "I mean, there are probably thousands of Hobbits in the Shire."

"Because she had an ancient pendant, which the prophecy spoke of." Nick replied. Legolas nodded in understandment. "But now that she's dead, there's no point."

"Where is Sarah?" Daniel asked, looking around and observing that Nick was the only one in the small cave.

"She's off talking with Sauron." Nick said. "He has her wrapped around her finger. That's why she wants to over throw him."

"Oh." Daniel said.

"You still shouldn't have brought them here." Nick said to Jill. Jill shrugged.

"What can I say? We're all just a bunch of back stabbers!" Jill said. Nick laughed silently as he closed his eyes again.

"Well as long as you don't get caught. . ." He said.

"Do you know if two Hobbits with the one ring made it to Mt. Doom yet?" Daniel asked.

"Yeah." Nick replied. "Sarah commanded Charlie and Monica to search for them and take them to Mt Doom to destroy the ring."

"Why does she want the ring destroyed?" Jeremy asked.

"Because she can't stand Sauron and she wants him dead, and if she can't get Jessica, then this way he will die. Even though we won't be the rulers of Middle Earth, but I don't think Sarah cares anymore. As long as Sauron's dead she's happy. Even if it means us dying too. . ."

"WHAT?" Paul asked. "We're gonna die? I don't want to die though. . . I have a life to live!" Nick shrugged.

"It's not our choice to what Fate takes us to . . ." Nick said. Jill, Ashley, and Lena were silent. They didn't know what to say, considering this is their last hour of living.

"Aw that's so sad!" Julliet said.

"It's our fault I guess . . ." Jill said. "I mean, we chose to be greedy and join Sauron and become succumbed to the dark side. . ."

"Not necessarily." Nick said. "It's just Fate running it's course." Daniel and his friends were speechless. Soon there was a huge explosion sound outside. They all ran to see what was happening.

"I guess this is it. . ." Jill said, taking a deep breath. The five Ringwraiths stood up, and soon completely demolished.

"wow. . ." Julliet said. "That's kinda sad."

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"Well what do we do now?" Daniel asked, as they walked out of the Black Gate of Mordor. They looked off into the distant sea, and saw an Elven ship departing.

"Maybe that's a hint on where our destiny lies . . ." Julliet said. They went silent.

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That night they camped outside they Black Gate. They had a small tent set up and were all sitting around a small campfire, silent. Tomorrow they would start their last journey in Middle Earth. The journey that every elf must face sooner or later. The journey to the Gray Havens, and then to the Undying Lands…