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CHAPTER 9

Legolas

After a few hours of walking over the rock in the dark mines of Moria, Gandalf had finally lost his spot. We all sat down on the rocks as he attempted to figure out our direction. Amy looked very tired, as was I. I think my shoulder hurt more then her ankle.

Slowly, I helped her lower herself onto a rock as we waited.

"Oh my God, I'm such an idiot. I can't believe I did that. Now I'm just slowing you down." She whined as she lifted up her pant leg so she could see the wound. It didn't look that bad, just a little black and blue, from what I could tell. I'm sure it didn't look as bad as it was. It was so dark down there you could barely see your hand in front of your face anyway.

"Hush, it's not your fault," I whispered, "you did what you had to do to protect Frodo."

"Yeah, but that still doesn't stop it from hurting."

"What hurts?" Aragorn butted in to our conversation and immediately started questioning.

"Oh, my ankle, I just twisted it a little bit." She calmly replied.

"Well, let me have a look," he crouched down and she winced as he slightly applied pressure.

"It will heal with time," was all he had to say before he got up and walked away.

"Oh that was helpful," she whispered as she laid her head on my shoulder. "Wake me up in an hour." And with that she drifted off into a restless sleep. It gave me a lot of time to think and soak in my surroundings, and ponder about everything. The one thing that I couldn't get off my mind though, was what she had told me the day before. Those words echoed through my head like the beating of a drum.

"Something is going to happen, but I can't tell you what, and I can't do anything about it, and I can't stop it from happening."

I grew more on edge by the minute. I was waiting and waiting for something to pop out of nowhere. My greatest fear though, was what was going to happen. Would we be attacked? Would someone die? Or worst case scenario, would someone take the Ring? And then it occurred to me, the rest of her paragraph.

"Everything that happens happens for a reason."

That made me a little more comfortable knowing that whatever would happen, would be done with reason behind it. Fate would take control and we could only hope for the best. We could only hope that the ring gets destroyed in the end, but we did son with a fools hope; the same thing that made us volunteer for this mission. The chances of that little hobbit making it down to Mordor without getting captured, then walking all the way through the evil lands without being spotted by the eye, and then actually resisting the power and corruption of the ring to drop it in the mountain, oh they were slim. We all knew our chances were slim when we stood up during that council meeting, and we knew what our odds were, but we also knew what needed to be done. When we took this task, we all knew we were bound to meet some kind of grief. And as I pondered at that moment, the thought came that maybe that was what she was trying to say. She was reminding me of what I openly risked my life to do and that we all swore on our lives to protect Frodo and were meant to keep that promise.

In the background, I heard Frodo and Gandalf talking and he said something that I would never forget, and that completely wrapped up my train of thought.

"All we have to decide what to do with the time that is given to us."

He then figured out which direction we were to go and I gently woke Amy and we were off and moving again.

AMY

I carefully stepped down the stairs with the help of Legolas. The pain was starting to ease a little, but it would still kill me for a while.

When we reached the bottom of the stairs, we came to a set of double doors and Gimli bolted through screaming.

"Ooh God," I said to myself as we all looked at the tomb in horror.

"Here lies Blain, son of Fundin, Lord of Moria."

I looked up to Legolas and could see in his eyes that he was starting to put the pieces together. He could tell this was only the start of a chain that I was referring to.

"We must move on, we cannot linger," he said hastily. Then CRASH! Pippin had accidentally pushed the skeleton down the well. I cringed and realize that I would start glowing with fire any minute. The drums started beating and arrows started flying everywhere. I pulled a dagger from my belt and as the goblins came into view I slowly lost consciousness and the last thing I heard was, "Legolas, let her go, she'll be fine."

LEGOLAS

I readied my bow while still grasping Amy. I fired and slowly helped her on her won feet. She pulled a dagger and fell to the ground. I quickly dropped, but Aragorn pulled me away, telling me she'd be fine. I fired my arrows and 10 seconds later, I heard a horrendously loud growl. I looked for a cave troll, but there was not one in sight. I turned to my right and there she was, standing there with a black glow about her. Her eyes and hair were as black as the night. Her fangs stuck out of her mouth and her ears pointed far beyond her head. She grabbed her daggers and went crazy on the goblins, stabbing, kicking, throwing, and even beheading. The poor hobbits looked terrified, but I was marveled. She was still such a beautiful creature, even in demon form.

Before I lost my concentration, I took my eyes off her and kept firing my arrows. I was running low and my quiver was starting to empty. I reached back and there was nothing there. And of course, as perfect timing would have it, there was a goblin running straight at me. I froze and before I could even move Amy came out of nowhere and jumped it, pinned it to the ground. The goblin pulled a knife and stuck it to her throat.

"Any last words?" it asked her.

"You can't kill me," she laughed, "I'm already dead." And with that she stabbed it at least six times before slitting its throat. I was impressed. As I continued to fight off the goblins, I watched her fighting techniques with awe.

One by one, she sliced her daggers upward, slitting the goblins stomach, as its insides spilt on the stone floor. As they ascended, she brought them together and brought them back down to her stomach and stabbed behind her, sticking right in the middle of another's stomach. She turned around, and with all of her strength, lifted it in a semi circular motion above her head and threw it on the ground on top of the one she had killed previously.

I put my attention back to the door as the cave troll entered the room. By this time I had gathered some of my arrows and refilled my quiver, so I kept firing at the troll. Suddenly, it slashed at Frodo, and picked him up in the air.

"FRODO!" I screamed. I fired an arrow at the back of its head, but it did no damage. So I looked to Amy for her help. But I didn't see an evil demon. She was still in the same form, but her eyes were different. I could look at them and tell she was sad. She showed compassion and mercy, two things I thought I would never see from the demon inside. She looked like she had just lost someone.

"Amy!" I yelled, "GO! NOW! Get it! Bring it down!" She looked at me, nodded, and then looked back at the troll. Her sad, compassion turned into malice as she charged at it. She drove her daggers into its neck.

The troll let out a screech and it threw her off it's back. It stumbled and Merry and Pippin jumped off as Legolas fired another arrow at it. Amy quickly pulled out her daggers as it fell to the ground. Everyone rushed to Frodo, accept for Amy, who slowly returned to human form.

Her fangs went back to regular teeth, her ears shrunk back to normal size, and her eyes and hair returned to their normal color. Then, she yelped out in pain. Her ankle was back to normal too. She fell to her knees as she struggled to get up. I went over to help her up and I took her over to where everyone was standing.

"He's fine guys," she said as Frodo got up.

"But you're not." He said to me as he looked at her ankle.

"I'll be fine," she replied, "But we need to get out of here." Then, the drums sounded again.

"To the bridge of Khazad-dum!" Gandalf shouted as we all rushed through the double doors towards the bridge.

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