Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel belongs to Joss Wheldon, Charmed belongs to the creator whose name I don't know and the Lord Of The Rings trilogy belongs to J.R.R Tolkien, Peter Jackson and all the other screenwriters. The songs in this story belong to the songwriters who wrote these amazing songs. Please don't sue me, I'm completely and utterly broke and it's for entertainment purposes only.

Timeline: post season 7 Buffy, six months after the series finale Chosen. AU: Charmed. During the first movie The Fellowship of The Ring all the way to The Return Of The King.

Pairing(s): Buffy/Legolas, Dawn/Frodo (weird pairing I know but I wanted to do something different), Dawn/Sam (friendship), Piper/Sam (friendship), Merry/Willow (friendship), Angel/Cordelia, Cordelia/Pippin (friendship), Fred/Wesley, Leo/Piper, Paige/Richard, Cole/Phoebe, Aragorn/Arwen

Author's Note: Sorry for the delay. The Internet browser on my computer doesn't work anymore so I can't upload from there so now I have to use my dad's computer (sucky!). Anyway, thanks for the reviews and keep it coming! I've just written an Angel/Lord Of The Rings crossover fic called Star From Heaven, which is a Cordelia/Sam friendship story and it contains some Frodo/Sam slash. If you don't like slash fan fiction then I don't recommend reading it but you are comfortable with it then read it but don't forget to review the story.

Summary: The Charmed Ones, Buffy and Dawn reached Bree without any incident and they meet Aragorn at the Prancing Pony where they were due to meet the four Hobbits. After three days, they finally meet Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin. After introductions, the Charmed Ones, Buffy, Dawn and Aragorn lead the Hobbits out of Bree and take them to Rivendell.

Man, this is really grueling. Paige thought as she, Piper and Phoebe walked in a slow pace. Despite the fact that they had woken at sunrise, they were already exhausted from walking for nearly three hours. While Spike was at the front talking to Strider, Buffy and Dawn were behind them with Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin. After nearly an hour, the four Hobbits stopped. Buffy, Dawn and the Charmed Ones also stopped and joined them. Strider and Spike turned to them.

"Gentlemen, we do not stop till nightfall." He said. Piper groaned in dismay. Dawn and Paige looked horrified.

"What about breakfast?" Pippin asked.

"We already had it." Strider pointed out.

"Yes, we've had one breakfast. What about second breakfast?" Pippin said.

Strider turned and walked away. Piper, Phoebe and Paige stared at Pippin with bewildered looks on their faces.

"Second breakfast?" Paige asked.

"I don't think they know about second breakfast, Pip." Merry said and gave the Charmed Ones and Buffy and Dawn an apologic look. Then he turned back to talk to Pippin. Dawn walked backwards to where Frodo and Sam were walking.

"Hi, Frodo." She said cheerfully. "Hi, Sam."

Frodo smiled at her. "Hello, Dawn."

"Hello, Lady Dawn." Sam said also smiling.

Dawn's cheeks grew three shades of red when Frodo kissed her hand and Sam did the same and then they engaged in a conversation about slang and the usage of it. She also talked about music and types of songs. Frodo and Sam seemed to enjoy Dawn's company and stories of her world.

"Do you know a song that you can sing for us, Dawn?" Frodo asked.

Dawn suddenly felt shy. The last time she sang was when she was under the influence of a magical demon but upon seeing the cute look in Frodo's eyes, she couldn't say no. She nodded her head and thought of a song she could sing. Once she did, she began to sing.

As Dawn was singing, Sam noticed that Frodo was looking only at her and not at anything and he was smiling at her. It was the same look; Sam would have when he was glancing at Rose. It was obvious that Frodo had fallen in love with Dawn. Sam can see it in his eyes and he could tell that Dawn was having the same feelings for Frodo. Buffy and the Charmed Ones must've noticed it because Buffy was grinning from ear to ear and Piper, Phoebe and Paige were smiling at Frodo and Dawn. For the rest of the journey, Dawn sang to the two Hobbits until her voice was hoarse and she had to stop. Then she looked up to see a structure standing on top of a hill.

"This was the watchtower of Amon Sul." Strider was saying. "We shall rest here tonight."

"Whew, it's about time." Piper said. "I thought I was going to pass out with all this walking we've been doing."

"Me too." Paige agreed as she tossed her backpack aside. Everyone tossed their backpacks aside as they rested. Strider took out a pack filled with weapons and laid it out in front of him.

"These are for you." he said and tossed each weapon to the Hobbits. "Keep them close. I'm going to keep a look around."

Buffy, Spike and Phoebe got up. "I'm going with you and so are these lovely ladies." Spike said in a voice that Strider knew it meant not to argue with him. Dawn got up to join them but Buffy shook her head.

"You stay here with Piper, Paige and the Hobbits. Okay, Dawn." Buffy said.

Dawn muttered something that Buffy couldn't hear and she laid down on her sleeping bag. After a few minutes, she fell asleep.

Piper and Paige flipped through the spell book Willow gave them to replace the Book Of Shadows since they couldn't take the Book with them to Middle Earth. It was filled with protection spells and charms that would be useful for when they and Phoebe use them to protect Frodo and for when they return to San Francisco. After a few minutes Piper closed the book and was about to suggest to Paige they go and take a look around the watch- tower when the smell of cooked food and of smoke filled the air. That sent ice water through Piper's veins and she rushed to where Merry, Pippin and Sam were sitting around a fire with food around. Frodo had apparently woken up and was staring at the sight in horror.

"What the hell are you doing?" Piper exclaimed.

"What are you doing?" Frodo cried at the same time

"Tomatoes, sausages, nice crispy bacon." Merry replied.

"We saved some for you, your sisters and Frodo, Lady Piper." Sam added.

Piper was both angry and flabbergasted. "Cooking food here on this watch tower with those Wraiths on the loose? Are you crazy?" She screamed.

"Put it out, your fools!" Frodo yelled joining her. "Put it out." he began to stump on the fire to put it out.

"Oh, that's nice." Merry snapped angrily. "Ash on my tomatoes!"

At that moment, the sound of the Nasgul split the air sending Piper's fear and anxiety up high. The sound woke Dawn and she recoiled in horror behind Paige. Merry, Pippin and Sam took out their swords, as did Frodo.

"Go!" Frodo shouted now terrified.

"Get behind me!" Piper shouted. Merry, Pippin, Frodo and Sam got behind her while she put herself in position.

"Paige!" she shouted. "Get Spike, Phoebe, Buffy and Strider! Go!" Paige nodded her head and orbed out. Piper suppressed an overwhelming pang of fear as a Wraith came at her and attempted to blow it up. She succeeded in blowing it's arm off causing it to screech in agony.

"Back you devils!" Sam shouted and came at one of the Wraiths with his swords.

"Sam, no!" Piper cried but her warning came too late as the Wraith tossed him aside like a sack of potatoes knocking him out. Merry and Pippin made a similar attempt that proved dismal and they were also tossed aside. The lead Wraith drew a sword and walked toward Piper and Frodo. It grabbed Piper and tossed her aside. Terrified, Frodo took out the Ring and slid it on his finger disappearing before Piper's eyes. He glanced up at the Wraiths one of them was reaching for the Ring. He felt his hand reaching for the Wraith and when he realized what he was doing, he pulled back. At that moment, the Wraith took up its sword and was about to stab him with it when Frodo saw a figure of a woman standing in the way and heard a piercing scream of pain.

A familiar sounding scream.

Piper lifted her head to see that Frodo had disappeared and she realized why. The Ring! She saw that the Wraith was reaching for it but that changed when she saw it taking up its sword. With no thought for herself, Piper ran in front of the empty spot where Frodo would be lying and felt the pain of the blade entering her flesh. She let out a scream of pain and agony and struggled to remain standing.

"Piper!" Frodo screamed and crawled over to her now terrified at the thought of losing her. He then looked up to see that Paige had returned with Buffy, Spike, Phoebe and Strider who were now fighting the Wraiths with Dawn close behind them. Piper collapsed onto the ground in front of Frodo who was trying to get to her. When he got to her, Frodo gazed at her with tears in his eyes. Piper tried in vain to smile resurrely.

"I'm okay, Frodo." Piper said weakly. "I just need to..." She tried to get up but she was so weak that she couldn't stand up and she fell back down on the ground again. Now crying, Frodo crawled to Piper and held her upper body in his arms. Sam ran to them and stayed with them while Buffy, Phoebe, Paige, Spike and Strider fought the remaining Wraiths. Phoebe and Paige ran to where their wounded sister and Frodo were laying.

"Strider!" Phoebe shouted. "Piper's hurt."

"Please help her, Strider." Frodo sobbed.

Strider ran to them and picked up the sword, which was lying a few feet away and it turned to ash when he picked it up. "She's been stabbed by a Morgul blade." He said frantically. "This is beyond my skill to heal. She needs Elvish medicine." Strider carefully picked up Piper and quickly began the frantic journey to Rivendell. Within hours, the remaining Charmed Ones, Buffy, Dawn, Spike and the four Hobbits ran to try to catch up with Strider.

"Hurry!" Strider shouted frantically.

"We're six days from Rivendell!" Sam shouted. "She'll never make it!"

"Sam's right, Strider." Phoebe said frantically. "Piper will be dead before we get there!"

Strider didn't say anything as he held Piper over his shoulder. "Hold on, Piper." He whispered. After twenty minutes, they rested. Strider was astonished that Piper didn't pass into the shadow world as quickly as others like her who had been stabbed by Morgul blades. The thought of losing her to the Wraiths didn't sit well with him. Apparently, it wasn't sitting too well with Frodo either. She saved his life at the price of her own and took the blade for him when it wasn't meant for her. Frodo hadn't left her side for a long time and was glancing her for a few minutes with tears in his eyes. Her face was now deathly pale and her brown eyes were now a dark blue. She was gasping in pain. Paige and Phoebe went to her side.

"Piper?" Phoebe touched her sister's face and recoiled in horror. "She's getting cold." Sam, Merry and Pippin all stared at the sight with fear and concern for Piper.

"Is she going to die?" Pippin asked fearfully.

"She's passin' into the Shadow World, Pippin." Spike said sadly. "Soon, she'll become a Wraith like them."

Phoebe and Paige stared at Spike in horror. "Oh, my God." Phoebe gasped. "You mean, if you get stabbed by those things you will..."

Spike nodded his head. "Afraid so, Phoebe." He said. Piper gasped in pain again louder this time. Then the sounds of the Wraiths were heard in every corner of the forest. Spike knew that the Wraiths were close.

"Those bloody Black Demons are close." He said.

Strider turned to Sam. "Sam, do you know the Athelas plant?"

"Athelas?" Sam asked.

"Kingsfoil." Strider asked.

"Kingsfoil. It's a weed." Sam replied.

"It may help to slow the poison. Hurry!" Sam and Strider rushed into the bush to find Kingfoil for Piper's wound. Strider bent down in front of a bed of Kingfoil and was about to cut some when he felt a sword at his throat and a familiar voice.

"What's this? A Ranger caught off his guard?"

Phoebe, Paige, Buffy, Dawn, Spike and the four Hobbits all looked up to see a beautiful white horse approaching and stopping inches away from Piper and a woman getting off. A woman, Spike immediately recognized as Arwen, the daughter of Elrond. Another horse approached and stopped. A man got off. Phoebe's breath caught in her throat when she saw him.

"Cole!" she cried and ran to him.

"Thank God, Phoebe!" Cole exclaimed and threw his arms around her. "Are you all right?"

"I'm okay but Piper..."

"I know." Cole replied. He and Phoebe watched as Arwen approached Piper and knelt down in front of her.

"Piper." Arwen was saying softly in Elvish. "I am Arwen. I have come to help you. Hear my voice. Come back into the light." Piper's head was facing toward Arwen and now she turned her back toward her worried sisters and friends gasping in pain.

"Who is she, Spike?" Buffy asked.

"That's Arwen, daughter of Elrond and Strider's lady love." Spike replied. "She's an Elf."

Arwen examined Piper knowing that her condition is worsening. "She is fading." Arwen said. "She is not going to last. We must get her to my father." Strider gently picked Piper up to carry her onto Arwen's horse.

"Cole and I have been looking for you for two days." Arwen said to Strider. "There are five Wraiths behind you. Where the other four are, I do not know."

"Where are they taking her, Buffy?" Frodo asked Buffy concerned and not letting Piper out of his sight.

"I think they're taking her to Rivendell." Buffy replied quietly. She then turned back to Strider and Arwen who were now talking.

"Stay with the Hobbits. I will send horses for you." Strider said in Elvish.

"I am a faster rider. I will go." Arwen said.

Strider shook his head. "It is too dangerous." He said.

"If I can get her across the river, the power of my people will protect her." Arwen said then she switched to English. "I do not fear them."

Spike then stepped forward. "I'll go with you," he said. Arwen and Strider turned to him. "Those bloody bastards are tough to outrun especially when I promised your father that I'd protect you."

Arwen smiled at Spike. "I thank you for your kindness, William. But..."

"But nothing, She-Elf." Spike said. "There's no way I'm letting you go off alone."

"And there's no way I'm letting you have all the fun protecting her and Piper, Spike." Cole said teasingly. "I'm going with you too."

Spike was about to protest but decided against it. He climbed onto the horse behind Arwen and Cole climbed in behind him. Strider looked at him and Cole.

"William, protect her. Be careful. Ride hard and don't look back." Strider said to him gravely.

"Be careful, Spike, Cole." Phoebe added. "Keep Piper and Arwen safe."

"You bet, Pheebs." Spike said with a grin and with the flap of the reins he and Cole rode behind Arwen and Piper. The remaining Charmed Ones, Buffy, Dawn and the four Hobbits watched the two horses disappeared from sight.

"What are you doing'?" Sam shouted angrily. "Those Wraiths are still out there."

Paige turned to Sam. "Hey." She said calmly. "We had no choice. If Arwen didn't take her, Piper would be lost to us."

"Paige's right, Sam." Phoebe agreed. "If Arwen's father could save her then we have to take that chance."

"So what do we do now?" Dawn asked.

"Pray." Was all that Phoebe could say before she followed her remaining friends to the rest of the walking journey to Rivendell.

Meanwhile...

It had been a long time since Spike and Cole rode out of the forest and into open land to catch up with Arwen who had Piper with her on her horse. As much as Arwen was determined to get Piper to Rivendell as soon as possible, so were Spike and Cole and protect the two women from the Ringwraiths. Spike felt his senses going off and saw that his worst fears were realized when the five Ringwraiths came up behind him and Cole trying to catch up with Arwen and Piper.

"Oh no, you don't, you bloody bastards." Spike snarled and with a free hand, he drew his sword.

"Here! Take the reins!" he shouted to Cole and he swung his sword at one of the Wraiths. He managed to cut the arm off of it sending it screeching in the other direction. Two of the Wraiths lost their focus with Arwen and Piper and focused only on Spike and Cole. While Spike was busy fighting the two Wraiths, Cole held on the reins and struggled to maintain speed and direction.

"How much further, Arwen?" Cole shouted.

"We are almost there!" Arwen shouted back.

"Okay, good!" Cole shouted again. "Because I'm not sure how long Spike will be able to hold them off!"

After a very long time, Spike and Cole, along with Arwen and Piper, finally made it over the river. The four Wraiths stopped at the river and waited.

"Give up the woman, She-Elf." One of the Wraiths demanded.

Arwen drew her sword. "If you want her, come and claim her." she said in a determined voice. Spike kept his sword out while Cole drew his and held it out in front of him. The four Wraiths drew swords and started to come across the river. Arwen began chanting in Elvish and Spike immediately realized what she was going to do. She's going to stop them before they get across here! His suspicions were proven right when the water level of the river rose and a large wave about twenty feet high came crashing through sweeping the four Wraiths into the water.

Spike then turned to see that Piper's strength was now almost gone as she fell against the horse's neck. He ran to her, lifted her off of the horse and held her in his arms.

"Arwen!" Spike shouted frantically. "She's losing it!"

Arwen and Cole ran to them. Arwen reached them first. "Piper, no!" she cried. "Piper, don't give in. Not now."

"Come on! There's still a chance!" Spike said and he ran to put Piper onto his horse and ride her the rest of the way to Rivendell.