Lord of the Rings: Adurna's Quest
"The Journey Begins"
"You what!" ,cried Edar from a tree stump. "You heard me. We are going with Gandalf to destroy the ring." ,answered Adurna, her blade slicing through the air. It was the day after the council, that Adurna decided to practice outside of Rivendale ,before they travel with Gandalf and the rest of the fellowship. She changed out from the dress back into her travel clothes. Trees swayed in the morning breeze ruffling the annoyed falcon's feathers. "Great, just great! We ride all the way here thinking we can talk to Gandalf and relax (for once) when you get us in another adventure." , exclaimed Edar. "Well, this time it will be different. If all goes well, afterwards we don't have to spend forever looking for Orks and Uruk-hai, that have been attacking villages." replied Adurna. "Fine!" huffed Edar. Putting her sword in its scabbard, a twig snapped behind her. Quickly turning around, she saw Pippin. In his hands was a plate with eggs, lambas (elvish bread), and cooked meat. "I thought you would like some breakfast." Pippin said eyeing Edar, who glared at the hobbit. "Thank you, Pippin." Adurna replied gratefully, "Edar won't hurt you, he just doesn't like hobbits." Then, with three great flaps of his magnificent wings, Edar landed on Adurna's shoulder. While giving the food to her, Pippin stroked the falcon's feathers. "He's so soft!" Pippin exclaimed, laughing. "What, did he think I was as hard as a rock?" Edar turned to stare at the hobbit. Scuttling down Adurna's shoulder, Edar looked at Adurna, then asked, "You going to eat that meat? If not…" "Here. Take it." she tossed the meat up in the air. Edar flew off her arm, caught the meat in his claws ,landed on the tree stump, and shoved the meat into his mouth. "He must have been hungry." the stunned Pippin remarked. Adurna plopped herself onto the ground, eating the lambas and eggs. When she finished, she told Pippin, "Come, we must get ready to go with Frodo." , and handed back the plate to Pippin. "Edar, you coming?" Adurna called to the brown falcon.
"Finally! Let's go!" Edar crowed as he soared into the air. "Don't go too far ahead." Adurna warned. Edar floated just above the elf and hobbit as they walked away from the forest.
Aftera little ways of walking, they came to Rivendale's courtyard. Four horses were tied to a hitching posts next to the stables. Gandalf was stroking Shadowfax, a pure white horse. Gimli was leaning against a stone pillar, smoking his brown pipe, while Aragorn and Legolas were saddling up a chestnut, dark brown, and gray horses. Boromir, the man from Gondor, was cleaning his sword on the white marble steps of Rivendale. Frodo and Sam were packing the saddle bags while Marry was searching franticly for Pippin. "Pippin. Oh, Pippin.", Marry was calling. "Over here!" Pippin called back to Marry. Pippin ran over to where Marry was, explained where he ran off to, then they both went to go help Frodo. "Good morning, Adurna. How are you?" Gandalf walked over to where she was. "I'm doing fine. Almost ready to leave?" She asked the wizard. "Yes, almost. Your horse, Welden, is in the stables. Saddle him up quickly. Oh, is it fine if Marry and Pippin ride him. He is a good horse for those hobbits."
" That is fine with me, Gandalf." she replied and ran off to the stall where the black horse waited.
Whinnies from the stall came when she arrived. "Hello Welden." Adurna soothed the big black horse. Welden pawed the ground then whinnied again. Adurna grabbed the saddle and bridle and opened the stall door. When the horse had the saddle and bridle on, she led Welden out of the stable into the morning light. Gandalf was standing in the center of the courtyard. "Best if we got going." Gandalf explained, "Frodo, Sam you'll ride with me. Gimli, you go with Aragorn and Adurna you go with Legolas. Marry and Pippin," Gandalf turned to the hobbits, "you will ride Adurna's horse. Boromir, will you alwrite if you took your horse?"
"Don't worry about me, Gandalf." Boromir said proudly.
Nodding, Gandalf walked to Adurna and whispered, "Edar might travel better in the air than on horseback."
"I'll tell him, Gandalf." He then turned to help Frodo on Shadowfax's slick back.
"Well, you heard Gandalf." Adurna called to the soaring falcon.
"You bet I did!" Edar joyfully screached and few off towards the east.
Adurna led Welden to the two hobbits. Pippin tried to put his foot in the stirrup, but no luck. So Adurna picked up Pippin and placed him in the saddle. She then lifted Marry up into the saddle. "You know how to ride, right?" Adurna asked nervously. "I think so." Pippin said looking back at Marry. "Well, just in case." She then ties the reins to Aragorn's saddle. After she tied them she asked Aragorn, who was on the dark brown horse, "You'll watch them right?" "I watched them before, so don't worry." Aragorn told her. Then he urged the horse into a trot, Welden following.
"Are you ready, Adurna?" a calm voice asked behind her.
Turing around, she saw Legolas on a chestnut horse. "Give me your hand so I may help you." Legolas told Adurna, outstretching his hand. She gave him her hand and swung up into the saddle, behind the elf. Legolas nudged the horse into a trot, running with the others, to the morning sun.
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