GRRRRRR...I'm sick. Well this sucks. Btw, Kelsey and Nicole, I might not be at school tomorrow. Do you think I'd have to make up that really annoying and amazingly stupid test? (Kelsey: Yes...It wasn't that bad...Just TAKS really stinks...) Reviewers...

E.Tphonehome--: 0 OMG my friend has that song on her iPod! Maybe I'll put her in the fic and you can 'meet' her! 'Their going to take me away he he...

MEMEMEME--Glad you like it. Tomato won't get too close to the fire, unless he annoys the crap out of me. Then I'm going to roast him. : )

MEMEMEME and Siriusly Sirius Lily Black get cookies! (we're sorry we missed you before! At least...I think we did...btw, I do go insane with Kelsey's policies, which is why I also have Nicole to keep me from going too sane.) On to the story! (Kelsey: Nicole has the same policies, but she doesn't blurt them out like me!)


Disclaimer: Not mine. Not Mine! So, I get to have the fun of writing the pretty disclaimer! Yeah!


Mandy's PoV


Nickel Sings

I saw the guys running to the stairs out of the corner of my eye. Oh, crud.

"We've gotta go!" I yelped, racing out of the room that held Balin's Tomb. As far as I knew, they were following me. I ran after Gandalf and his crowd, little realizing they had stopped to wait for me and my crowd. "Hey! Wait – What!" I shrieked as my shoes slipped on the stone stairs. I tried to stop, but my shoes didn't want to stop, which brought me to the edge of a random gorge. And I fell over the edge.

"Mandy!"

"Lady Amanda!" My hands gripped the edge of the cliff tightly as Legolas and Nicole skidded over the edge with me.

"Ow, ow, ow!" I squealed, snapping my eyes shut.

"Aragorn! Go save them!" Kelsey ordered. Aragorn came close to the edge, but the moment he thought he'd be able to reach us, he tripped over the edge. The same type of thing happened when Boromir and Gimli tired to save us.

"Ow . . ." I moaned.

"Koli must SAVE UNCLE!" Koli announced, running and leaping over the edge.

"No, NO!" I murmured, my fingers slipping.

"Koli!" Tomato shouted and ran to the edge to try and grab him before slipping.

"Stay with me, Hobbits!" Gandalf ordered. I let out a soft sight of relief. I wouldn't have their weight.

"Kelsey!" Nicole squeaked. "Help us out here!"

"Yeah!" Kelsey frowned.

"But in order to say you all, I'd have to have a really strong rope or something . . ." she trailed off.

"Kelsey! Your dress!" I wheezed. "Strong . . . Elven . . . Material!"

"But I can't rip my dress!" she exclaimed, aghast.

"Do something!"

"But what could I do?" Kelsey wailed.

"Just rip . . . your . . . dress!" I gasped. My hands were sliding further down. "Now!"

"But . . . Gimme a second!" she groaned. We all froze as she began to pace, muttering things like "Dress . . . or friends." Suddenly, I had an idea.

"Kelsey . . . Save Aragorn!" I croaked. Kelsey froze.

"For Aragorn!" she declared, ripping the bottom of her dress and lowering the end to Tomato. For some odd reason, we were going to be lifted from the bottom of the chain up. "Hold on!" Kelsey began to pull, but we didn't budge. "Uh, Hobbits? A little help here?" The Hobbits quickly took hold of the hem of the dress and pulled, hoisting Tomato and Koli up onto the ledge.

"Koli is safe!" Koli announced. "And so is Koli's friend," he gasped. "But orcs are coming! See!" We all looked up. Sure enough, there were a bunch of orcs shooting at us.

"Aah! Get us up, get us up!" Nicole begged. Gandalf groaned.

"Hang on," he ordered, raising his staff. My eyes were still closed tightly, but I could feel the weight of people hanging from my feet steadily decreasing. My fingers started coming off of the ledge.

"No!" I panted. "Gotta . . . Hold on!"

"Mandy, let go." Someone slowly pried my fingers off of the ledge and held them in their hands.

"No! We're falling!" I screamed.

"Mandy, open your eyes," Nicole instructed. I slowly opened them, then blinked.

"Hey! We're all okay!"


Kelsey's PoV

"But how?"

"Gandalf," I replied simply.

"But . . ." Mandy looked at Gandalf. "Why didn't you help us like that earlier?"

"Because he thought watching you was really funny and helping you would spoil that!" Pippin piped up.

"Be quiet," Gandalf hissed.

"Grampa," I began, "that wasn't ver–"

"Quick!" Aragorn interrupted. "We must get to the Bridge of Khazad-dum."

"Right behind you!" I agreed, starting after him.

"Uh . . . Taylor? I don't think this is the rock gym."

"Of course this is the rock gym Katie. Where else would we be?" I froze.

"Katie?" I asked, leaning over the edge of the stairs. Sure enough, Katie and Taylor were climbing up the side of the stairs.

"Kelsey!" Taylor shouted. "What are you doing here at the rock gym?"

"Taylor, I've been here forever."

"You have? Then this can't be the rock gym."

"Told you." Katie announced triumphantly. Taylor was about to give her the look, but the common sense that she was his girlfriend and did have the power to dump him kept him from doing usch.

"Well, then where are we?"

"Moria."

"Moria?" Katie frowned. "You mean like that Moria place from Middle-earth? The place with Fluffy?"

"Fluffy?"

"The Balrog." My eyes lit up.

"Speaking of that, we're about to meet one," Mandy remarked. "Hey, Gandalf! You wanna poof these two up here?" Gandalf grumbled before raising his staff. Immediately, Katie and Taylor were lifted up onto the stairs.

"Wow!" Taylor whistled when his feet touched the ground. "That was cool!"

"Yeah . . . So, where is Fluffy?" Katie asked.

"Far behind us," Nicole replied before pulling Katie into a hug. "But now we've gotta run before the orcs shoot us."

"Works for us!" Taylor decided, grabbing Katie's hand and running after Legolas, Mandy, and the rest of the Fellowship that we weren't holding up. I shrugged and followed, right as an arrow hit the place where my foot had been moments before.

"Eeeah!" I squealed, jumping up and racing off. We managed to make it to a pretty level place when several orcs started climbing down the walls.

"Oh, gross!" I heard Mandy exclaim as the orcs began closing around us. Aragorn and I had reached the rest of the group as the orcs finally surrounded them. We all drew our repected weapons, except Koli and Mandy, who hid in the center of the circle/behind Legolas or Tomato, you can match you was with who by now, I hope.

"Oh, go away," I whimpered. The orcs were so disgusting. They looked like cockroaches . . .except one that had a mohawk and another that had some kind of afro . . .ew . . .Then, I had an idea. "Nicole! Start singing!" Nicole looked at me strangely.

"What? You never let me sing!"

"I know, but I'm letting you now. So, do it!" Nicole opened her mouth to sing, which made not only me but Mandy, Katie, Taylor, and Tomato screw up their faces and cover their ears. But Nicole then shut her mouth and frowned. "What are you doing!"

"What do I sing?"

"Anything! Everything! Whatever tickles you fancy!"

"Hey! Fancy's the name of one of our teachers' dachshund!"

"Nicole!"

"Fine!" Before she broke out in her own rendition of "The Phantom of the Opera," I handed out earplugs 'cause we were certainly going to need them.

"Dude! You scared the orcs off! It worked!" I shouted as the orcs scrambled out of sight, climbing up pillars and such.

"Where'd they go?" Katie and Tomato asked at the same time.

"Jinx!" Taylor called it. "You owe me a soda!"

"Is soda like 'coffee'?" Frodo asked almost hopefully.

"What is this new devilry?" Boromir asked in a hushed voice.

"A Bal-"

"NO! Soda!" Boromir interrupted me. I rolled my eyes and refused to answer.

"You mean Nicole's singing voice or the Balrog?" Mandy asked in my stead."The one we're about to be attacked by is a Balrog, so let's get the heck outta here!" Everyone stared at her. "What?"

"A Balrog?" Gimli whispered. Gandalf glared at Mandy.

"It is a Balrog. A demon of the ancient world. This foe is beyond any of you. Run!"

"Took you long enough!" Nicole shouted as we began to run toward an opening in the wall ahead.

Then, we reached a gap in the stairs. "Aah!" Mandy leaped over it, and Nicole kicked Legolas over before she leaped over as well. Boromir threw Merry, Pippin, Sam, Gimli and Koli over the gap before jumping over himself. Gandalf, Katie and Taylor jumped over too. Aragorn and Frodo decided to skip the drama and leap over. Tomato leaped over, leaving me alone as the rest ran on. "Hello? Guys! I can't do this!" I squeaked. That's when my Knight-in-Shining-Armor jumped back over the gap.

"Come on." He grabbed my hand and jumped.

"AAHH!" I screamed before landing firmly on my feet. "Oh. That wasn't so bad – ow!" Aragorn began running, his hand still around mine as we raced to the bridge.

"Hey! Did y'all know that this bridge is at least a quarter of a mile long?" Nicole asked.

"YES!" Mandy and I shouted in unison.. That's when we reached the bridge. "Oh, no . . . Oh, no, no, no, no." I groaned, skidding to a stop. "I am not going to run across that! Look at it! It's so narrow!" Suddenly, as everyone except for Gandalf and I ran across the bridge, something large and fiery came into view behind us. Seriously, it was huge! Gigantic! And it was about to kill me! "Never mind! I choose life!" I squealed, racing across the bridge.

"Fluffy!" Katie gasped. "It's Fluffy!"

"Yeah, and it'll kill you!" I shouted as Gandalf stopped in the middle of the bridge.

"You shall not pass!" he shouted.

"You tell it, Gandalf!" Mandy's muffled voice piped up. I looked around for her. She was hiding behind Legolas, her eyes wide in fear. I shook my head. Typical . . .

"Fluffy is not an it!" Katie snapped. "Fluffy is a boy!"

"Fire," Tomato murmured, staring at Fluffy.

"Hey, boy, girl or it, Gandalf just made it die." We all turned to the bridge where Gandalf was standing. Half of it was gone, and we saw the last of the Balrog fall into the abyss.

"NO!" Katie screamed, leaping off of the edge after Fluffy right asFluffy's whippulled Gandalf down.

"Katie!" Taylor shouted, leaping after her.

"Dude! That thing is every pyro's dream," Tomato said quietly. "I'm going after it!" He jumped after the Balrog.

"NO! Koli's best friend!" Koli screeched, leaping off as well.

"Koli!" Gimli groaned, but he stayed on the ledge.

"Gandalf! NO!" Frodo screamed, trying to get away from Boromir, who was holding him captive. But the men/Legolas/Mandy/Nicole were eventually able to pull all the Hobbits out of the gate.

The East gate's landscape was beautiful, and I might have enjoyed it if the others hadn't been sobbing, save Nicole, Mandy and me.

"It'll be okay," I told Aragorn, patting his back gently. Mandy was telling Legolas the same thing, only they were locked in a tight embrace. Nicole sighed over-dramatically.

"Okay! We're so sad that Gandalf and everyone else is gone," she said, exasperated. Notice that she didn't say "died." "Can we go already?"


Yet another loooong chappie! Hope you enjoyed it! It took a while to type up, though, so y'all had better be grateful! Just kidding! As always, R&R!

LOL, I love this chapter. Can't wait to get more up. R&R

Yeah! I get to sing! Yeah! Funfunfunfun! Singing! (Kelsey: that was ordained by me. We were sitting at lunch planning Moria when the idea popped into my head of the perfect way to stop the orcs. Nickel was, of course, happy that she got to sing. But, on the other hand, we stopped the orcs!)

Kelsey and her gorgeous dress which she has been walking, and fighting in, btw. I do believe she uses a sword, but it's hard to tell since she always switches. And of course, to Kelsey, everything is a weapon.