Hello again my good readers of this story, it is I the Great and Powerful Trixie!...Hehehe, not really. Anyway, I apologize again for keeping you waiting, but the next chapter is finally finished. YAY! *confetti cannons go off to celebrate* And I hope you all enjoy my Let It Go parody that I included as well. ;) And there's also another Disney reference in here as well, see if you can spot it and guess what movie it's from. I'll give you a hint, the character in this Disney movie who says this particular reference is named Mushu -but in this chapter, I have Happy saying it. ;) Anywho, I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Disclaimer: Nope, still don't own any of the characters from Fairy Tail or LOTR.


Chapter 8 Let It Go! From the Snows of Caradhras to the Mines of Moria

Gandalf was soon seen carving a path through the snow of Caradhras with his staff as they were making their way through a huge snowstorm in no time, with the hobbits clinging to Boromir and Natsu for warmth. As the Fellowship was trudging along through the snow, Frodo suddenly stumbled and began tumbling backwards down the mountain until Aragorn caught him and helped him back to his feet. The Ringbearer then suddenly noticed that the ring was no longer hanging around his neck as he began frantically looking around for it. Natsu suddenly noticed Boromir reach down to pick up the gold chain that the ring hung from, and pretty soon all eyes were on the Man of Gondor as he appeared to be entranced by the ring's temptations.

"Give it back to him...," Natsu told him in a dangerously low voice that meant he was serious, a flame igniting his fist just incase he happened not to listen.

"It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over such a little thing," Boromir said as he continued gazing at the ring while ignoring Natsu -which the pyro took great offense in as he was only trying to help get the man to return to his senses-, as he was completely mesmerized that he hardly heard Aragorn calling out to him.

"Boromir! Give the ring to Frodo."

Boromir seemed to return to his senses as he walked over and handed to ring to Frodo. "As you wish...I care not." Frodo then snatched the ring away from him and placed the chain back around his neck as Boromir then ruffles his hair before walking off, while Frodo stayed next to Aragorn.

Meanwhile, the Fairy Tail wizards were now all dressed warmly as they were continuing the seemingly long trek through the snows of Caradhras. Erza had requipped into something warmer and more suitable for cold weather, while Lucy summoned Virgo to ask for some warm winter coats from the Celestial World for her and Wendy to use to keep warm since wearing Natsu's scarf was only good with keeping her neck warm, as well as for any other members of the Fellowship who would like something warmer to wear too. And Gray, being an ice wizard, wasn't bothered by the cold and had taken to stripping his shirt off. Though it earned the ice wizard a few disapproving stares from the Fellowship -except for his friends, though he simply just shrugged it off and explained that it was just a habit he had due to the fact that stripping had been a part of his training in ice magic -though he also considered it to be a curse as a part of training with Ur as well. But the good thing was that at least he had only stripped his shirt off and not completely down to his underwear...or worse, nothing at all. And of course, Natsu kept warm by relying solely on his fire magic.

Gandalf then suddenly turned and whacked Gray on the head for stripping despite his immunity to the cold. "What did I say about that habit of yours, Gray Fullbuster?" he said sternly. "Even if being an ice wizard does make you immune to the cold, it is still indecent to be parading about like that. Must I continue to keep reminding you?" he huffed, as he then whacked him a second time just to make it clear.

"What the...? Aw crap, not again!" Gray exclaimed, realizing that he actually had gone and stripped to his underwear without even realizing it.

"Hehehe...at least it's not me being whacked this time," Natsu snickered.

"Shut up, Natsu!" Gray shot back, as he got his clothes back on. "And at least I'm not the one who gets whacked the most!"

"Enough!" Erza intervened, stepping between them and knocking their heads together to break up their fight.

Lucy, meanwhile, had suddenly become very bored as the Fellowship continued to trudge through the snow as she suddenly began humming quietly to herself as she walked along.

"Wow, it looks like the cold weather finally made Lucy snap," Happy teasingly commented to the rest of the Fellowship about the Celestial wizard suddenly bursting into song.

However, Lucy only rolled her eyes and ignored him as the song continued to come to her. "The snow glows white on Caradhras tonight, not a footprint to be seen.~" Of course she nearly fumbled over trying to pronounce the name 'Caradhras', but she eventually got it after a while. "We're walking through a blizzard, because Gandalf seems so keen.~" The Fellowship were all suddenly giving her confused and blank looks as to why she would just start up singing all of the sudden, especially while they were still trudging along through this huge snowstorm no less. Though they couldn't deny that she did have a pretty good voice, which she would beg to differ saying that actually Mirajane back at the guild was actually a better singer -as well as her Celestial Spirit, Lyra the Harp Constellation whenever she sings.

Though Lucy just continued on with her song, just to keep herself from being too bored with hardly anything else to do, and paying the comments no mind at the moment. "The wind is howling, snow is blowing all around. Wond'ring what to do, to keep from feeling down~"

"Hey Luce, you bored or somethin'?" Natsu suddenly asked her out of curiosity.

"Yeah, more or less," Lucy replied, as she continued to make up more lyrics to her song. "How 'bout a song, and soon you'll see. You won't be as bored as you seem to be. Let's try, right now, and then you'll know! Well here we go!~" she then took a big breath as she got to the chorus. "Let it go! Let it go! On a quest to reach Mordor! Let it go! Let it go! We're caught in a huge snowstorm! And I don't care, what they're going to say~" She was suddenly cut off when Happy randomly decided to join in for some reason.

"Let the storm rage on!~" the blue Exceed added in, followed by Natsu adding, "The cold never bothered Gray anyway.~" much to the ice wizard's annoyance as he retaliated by punching the fire wizard in the face.

"Don't go relating it back to me like that, you pyro!" Gray told him, though both he and Natsu received a whack on the head from Gandalf's staff before a fight could start up between them as the old wizard firmly reprimanded them about needing to learn to get along better despite the fact that fire and ice don't mix. And Gray also ended up getting another whack for stripping again as he once again had to put his clothes back on, while Legolas couldn't help commenting on how the fire and ice difference was a bit similar to the feud between elves and dwarves though not nearly as bad considering the way Natsu and Gray fought and bickered was only as a way of acknowledging each other.

"Aye, and even Master Makarov said something like that one time too about how they only fight to acknowledge each other," Happy stated in reply to Legolas' comment. "But that's also why we have the Great Erza here as well incase it does start to get out of hand. And not to mention Gandalf's head-whacking-staff-of-doom to keep them in line as well," he added in reference to Gandalf's staff whacking Natsu's and Gray's heads like a game of whack-a-mole, or though in this case it would be considered whack-a-Fairy.

Meanwhile, Wendy decided to continue Lucy's song though she was hardly heard over the blizzard since she started out so quiet. "It's funny how we started,~" she began quietly, and a bit nervous. "A simple job request, written in a foreign language, we couldn't read at all!~" though she became more confident and determined the more she got into it.

"Oh no now thanks to Lucy, Wendy's finally gone and lost it!" Happy shouted frantically.

Carla only sighed in annoyance. "Honestly, tomcat, no she hasn't so there's no need for that!" she huffed.

"Aye," Happy replied, downcast.

"And now we're here in Middle Earth, on a quest to destroy a ring,~" Wendy continued on with her lyrics, putting a little more 'umph' into it now. "Strange world, strange sights, new friends we've made! Unafraid! Let it go! Let it go! And I'm one with the wind and sky! Let it go! Let it go! You'll never see me cry! Here I stand, and here I'll stay! Let the storm rage on!~"

Unfortunately, the song ended up being cut short after that when Legolas suddenly lightly stepped forward passed everyone to the edge of the mountainside and stared out into the blizzard. "There is a fell voice on the air!"

"Yeah you're right, maybe we really should change the line that says, 'let the storm rage on' since none of us want that to actually happen anyway," Happy said.

"And you're clearly missing the point with that, Happy," Lucy sarcastically pointed out to him.

Suddenly they all heard Saruman's voice chanting in an unfamiliar language and the mountain began to crack and rumble. "It's SARUMAN!"

An avalanche was starting as lightning hit the peak and rained debris down upon them. "He's trying to bring down the mountain! Gandalf, we must turn back!" Aragorn shouted out against the howling blizzard.

"No!"

Natsu could now be seen cracking his knuckles at the mention of Saruman again before igniting his fists on fire. "Oh, yeah? I say bring him on, 'cause I'm all fired up! I'll burn him to a crisp in no time, and then I'm gonna kick his butt straight into Edolas where there's no magic!" he declared, only to earn a whack on the head from Gandalf's staff as the old wizard harshly reprimanded him for that kind of rash thinking.

Gandalf then stepped forward and began chanting something to counter Saruman's spell, which soon continued to be drowned out by Saruman chanting even louder which was followed by a crack of lightning hitting the top of the mountain above the Fellowship. "Anyone have an idea of how to dodge all that?" Lucy suggested when she saw that they were now about to be buried by falling snow, as she was now beginning to freak out.

"Ice-Make: Shield!" Gray said, quickly reacting in time by creating a shield made of ice above the group before glancing over at his friends and smirking as he decided to add in more song lyrics despite it being a bad moment for it now. "My power flurries through the air into the ground, my soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around. And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast~"

"Really, Gray? Now is hardly the time to be continuing that now," Erza told him, as she could also be seen helping out Natsu and Boromir to protect the hobbits.

Unfortunately Gray's ice shield suddenly didn't last long as it suddenly began to crack from the weight of the falling snow and debris that had begun to pile on top of it, although he continued to pour more magic power into it to keep it from collapsing down on everyone. "Aw crap!" the ice wizard suddenly exclaimed as everyone now found themselves being buried under the snow after the shield finally caved in on them.

A while later the Fellowship could soon be seen all popping back up out of the snow like daises -if growing daisies in the snow was even possible, which...oh wait, it wasn't-. Natsu was now seen punching his way to the surface with only one hand, while he held onto Happy with his other hand, before then reaching down to pull up Lucy who was now shivering violently from the cold despite still wearing his scarf and her warm coat from the Celestial World.

"Luce, you ok?" Natsu asked her.

Lucy just nodded as she was now shivering through her coat and Natsu's scarf. "J-J-J-Just a l-l-little c-cold n-now is all," she managed to say through chattering teeth and sniffling a bit from the cold, as Natsu pulled her towards him to share the warmth of his body heat, and she soon found herself nuzzling into him to try to keep warm.

Gray came up next pulling Wendy and Carla up with him, -the Sky Dragon Slayer was also close to freezing to death now as well despite her warm coat from the Celestial World, and not to mention her teeth were also chattering as she too was shivering violently from the cold as well.

"A-Achoo!" Wendy suddenly sneezed, sniffling as she began to feel a cold coming on. And it didn't really help much with the cold wind blowing her hair around, same with Lucy, as it only made both girls feel even colder here.

And last but not least, Erza soon pulled herself up out of the snow next. "Is everyone alright?" she called out, and receiving a few teeth-chattering 'ayes' in reply from the Fellowship, though Lucy and Wendy were both starting to come down with a cold now.

"Whoa! Did everyone just see that?" Happy suddenly exclaimed. "We popped out of the snow! Like daisies!"

"Although, begging your pardon Happy, but daisies wouldn't actually be able to survive in a place like this with this kind of weather," Sam, ever the gardening expert, pointed out in reply to the blue Exceed's sudden exclamation.

Meanwhile, Boromir could soon be heard saying something about how they should turn back and make for the Gap of Rohan which Aragorn disagreed with saying that it would take them too close to Isengard. And Gimli then suggested that they go under the mountain through the Mines of Moria, and causing Gandalf to pause and think for a moment as the old wizard somehow knew what awaited them should they enter the Mines.

"Let the Ringbearer decide," Gandalf finally said after a while, as all eyes were soon on Frodo. Even Team Natsu all had their eyes on the dark haired hobbit, and waiting for his decision.

Boromir shouted against the biting wind: "We cannot stay here! This will be the death of the Hobbits!" he could be seen holding a freezing Merry and Pippin close to him in an attempt to keep them warm.

"And Lucy and Wendy ain't doin' so good either!" Natsu added as he was also seen holding onto Lucy even more protectively with his arm around her, while Gray was still trying to keep Wendy warm with Erza helping a bit as well since Gray's ice magic wouldn't be of much use in keeping others warm the way Natsu's fire magic could.

Frodo was now seen looking around at each of his comrades -both the Fellowship and the members of Team Natsu, glancing from his fellow hobbits and then over to Lucy and Wendy, and he felt his heart go out to them when he saw how they were now shivering from the cold. They shouldn't have to suffer out here in this freezing cold weather like this...none of them should, he inwardly thought to himself, feeling sympathy for them, as he had then made his decision about where they should go. "We will go through the Mines," he finally announced to the rest of the Fellowship.

Gandalf looked over at them with flakes of snow decorating his beard and hat. Gandalf gazed out against the blizzard and spoke: "So be it...we make for Moria!"

As the Fellowship and Team Natsu began making their descent from Caradhras, Carla suddenly began to have a vision as her eyes suddenly became wide with fear. She suddenly had a bad feeling about what was about to happen once they entered Moria, as she also saw that one member of their group wouldn't make out of the Mines alive with the rest of the Fellowship. Altogether the vision frightened her as she began pondering over what she just saw and she had to wonder if there even was a way to prevent such a tragedy from happening. She continued to glance over at Gandalf, expressing both fear and worry over the fact that they might end up losing him soon, as the group continued onward to Moria.


LOL! Natsu really likes to give Gandalf a hard time. And Gray with his really bad stripping habit. *sighs* What are we gonna do with those two boys, right? *smirks mischievously and suddenly takes Gandalf's staff and uses it to whack Natsu and Gray on the head, while grinning in satisfaction* Hehehe... Sooooooooooooo, were y'all able to guess the Disney reference that Happy says in here? I'm giving a shout out to the first person who guesses it correctly. ^_^ And as for Carla's vision, more of it will be revealed in the next chapter as they're just arriving at the Mines of Moria, and she also may end up telling Gandalf of what she saw in her vision as well. Anywho, until next chapter. ;) And sorry if I didn't finish my Let It Go parody for Team Natsu, but I just suddenly couldn't think of anymore parody lyrics to make up to add to it -hence why I ended up starting to drift back into the original lyrics after a while, but I hope iz still ok. :) Anywho, enjoy this chapter. Next up is the Mines of Moria, and the beginning of Team Natsu's nightmares and trauma. Poor them. :(