Five years later Gandalf came back terrified and I ran into him on his way to see someone. "Gandalf! What's wrong?" I asked riding up alongside him.

"The ring has been found. The wraiths are coming," he said heading for someone's home.

"Can I help?" I asked. "I can get them to Rivendell, whoever has it."

"Yes you can, get him to Bree; I'll meet you there, at The Prancing Pony."

"And if you don't show for some reason?" I asked.

"Wait a day then take him to Rivendell. Keep him safe," Gandalf said. Danaë, my wolf was running beside me.

"Who is it that I will be escorting?"

"Frodo Baggins."
"Nephew to Bilbo Baggins? I asked.

"That's him," Gandalf replied dismounting. I got off my horse and followed him to the door. He just walked in and I followed unsure. Then Frodo came home. He knew there was someone in the house. Gandalf came out of nowhere and scared me and Frodo. "Is it secret? Is it safe?" Gandalf asked.

It was, I could sense it and Frodo dug up an envelope and Gandalf threw it into the fire. "What are you doing?" Frodo asked.

"It won't hurt it Mr. Baggins," I said.

"Who are you?" he asked me.

"A friend of Gandalf's," I replied. I could see the mistrust in his eyes. "There's no need to fear me young one. Orcs are the ones that need to be afraid." After a whole bunch of talk between Gandalf and Frodo about the ring and what had to be done Gandalf pulled another hobbit out from under the window. I just smiled and chuckled slightly.

Marvelous creatures hobbits were. Soon I set out with Frodo and his friend Sam Wise. I took them out to my horse. "Get on guys," I said. My horse knelt down so they could get on. They looked scared, "He won't throw you. I trained him to tolerate things, especially for those that don't know how to ride." They still looked unsure. "I won't let you fall," I assured. Sam was there first to get on and I got on behind him and pulled Frodo on behind me. Evenstar stood and Frodo almost slid off. I grabbed on to him and placed his hands at my belly button. "Hang on tight Mr. Baggins," I said placing my arms in front of Sam and grabbing on to the mane. I asked my horse to walk and quickly.

Sam started talking to me, to fill the silence I guess. "You live here in the Shire?"

"I guess you can say that," I replied.

"How did you come to be here?" Frodo asked.

"I travel a lot. I mostly live in the woods. I needed some human company, and I just happened to stumble upon a birthday party a few years ago. I was heading to Rivendell when I saw Gandalf coming back and I knew something was wrong," I said. We continued for several more hours till the sun was starting to set in the west.

"What's up with your dog?" Sam asked.

"She knows it's time to stop for the night," I replied using my legs to tell Evenstar to bend down. We all got off and I asked Danaë to go hunting and bring back dinner.

"What did you ask her?" Frodo asked. It was then that I realized I had been growling to speak to Danaë.

"To find dinner, and she's not a dog, she's a wolf."

"What?!" Sam asked.

I laughed. "She won't hurt you. I'm her boss, you could say. I lived with her pack until they were killed. They were my family and I only managed to save her," I said. I helped Sam build a fire and set up camp. Danaë was only gone for an hour when she came back with 2 rabbits. "Good girl Danaë," I said taking the rabbits from her and I started to skin them. Frodo was on a tree branch above me smoking a pipe and Sam was cooking. I looked in a direction away from our camp site. "Do you hear that?" I asked.

Frodo sat up, "Wood elves!" he said excited. We went to see them.

"Where are they going?" Sam asked.

"Beyond the white harbor," Frodo said.

"They're leaving Middle Earth," I said.

"Never to be seen or heard from again," Sam said. I listened to their song, so sad and mournful. I got up and went back to the camp as they got too far away to see. The hobbits had some conversation about how hard the ground was and that they would never be able to sleep here. I climbed up into the low branch that Frodo had been in earlier. I stayed up that night to watch the hobbits and keep an eye on the fire. At sunrise I put out the fire and woke them up.

"Come on you two, if we want to get to the crossing tonight we need to go. There are apples and berries by my bag." They slowly got up. We had been traveling for months now, I think it was five. It would probably be the end of a sixth month before we reached the Prancing Pony.

"Why so early?" Sam asked.

"These roads won't be safe much longer. Evil is coming and I don't want to be here when it arrives," I said. They ate and I got my horse ready, feeding her a few apples and bringing her something to drink.

"Did you sleep last night?" Sam asked.

"No, I watched over you two and kept an eye on the fire," I replied. We got ourselves put together and got on my horse the way we did yesterday and I asked for a little more speed than I had for the past several weeks. The hobbits were now able to keep their seat at a brisk walk so I upped the pace to a trot.

After a few hours Sam said, "I'm hungry mi' lady."

"Allie will work Sam. Here," I said handing him an apple. I also passed one to Frodo.

"Could we walk for a while Allie? I'm getting stiff," Frodo asked.

"Sure," I said asking my horse to bow down. They both got off and I too got off. It would be nice to walk for a while. We hadn't been walking for an hour when two red head hobbits collided with us.

Frodo had just a little while ago asked, "Sam we're still in the Shire what can possibly happen?"

"To answer your question Frodo that can happen," I said referring to the question he had asked Sam when he had moved out of our sight.

"Merry its Frodo Baggins," one of them said who was wearing a teal-blue vest. The other was wearing a yellow vest and I was guessing that was Merry.

"You've been into farmer Maggot's crop!" Sam nearly yelled and the two newcomers shoved plants into Sam's hands.

"Hold these," Merry said and then we could hear a dog coming.

"Let's get out of here," I said. We left and the hobbits fell down a rocky hill. I sighed, "You find another way down Evenstar, you too Danaë." I jumped on to a snow board sized piece of bark and slid my way down like a surfer and came to stand beside them jumping off the bark board. "Come on get off the road you four. It's no longer safe." They didn't heed my words, but Frodo noticed something.

"I think we should get off the road," Frodo said. Suddenly there was a huge gust of wind and a high pitched scream. "Get off the road! Quick!" Frodo yelled. I took them to some tree roots to hide under and I climbed the tree, being too big to hide with them. While hiding I heard Sam telling someone to stop and to be quiet. We hid for five minutes and then someone threw something to distract the black riders and I leapt into another tree and slid down that one and ran to catch up with the hobbits and my wolf and horse joined me. By nightfall we were a few miles from the river.

"What was that?" the hobbit in the teal vest asked.

"That black rider was looking for something or for someone, Frodo?" Merry asked.

"Get down!" Pippen said. We all dropped to the ground as a black rider walked by.