Chapter 9: Snow

"EWW! Oh my god! I am soooooo tired! This is gross!" they were now nearly at Caradhras and the snow was up to the taller members' knees.

"For the last time," growled out a very annoyed blonde, "Shut. The fuck. Up!"

"Dasha you're so mean to me!"

"That's 'cause you've been whining for the past twelve hours!"

"Both of you be quiet!" what happened next, happened so fast that Nora barely had time to blink. Both, Dasha and Shrisha took handfuls of snow and threw them at her. The redhead stood still with wide eyes as the snow balls hit her head and then with a screech charged at the other two.

"Fuck!"

"Run!" they said together launching up the path (made by Boromir and Gimli) with surprising speed.

"Come back here you idiots! I swear I will murder the two of you!" while tripping and face-planting into the snow.

"So passes Nora, daughter of… umm… what was your dad's name again?" Dasha asked.

"Dasha go to hell," she said standing up from the snow and trying, unsuccessfully, to hide the grin at the blonde's words. Then adopting a snobby expression she continued, "BTW, your Gandalf impersonation was horrible."

"Nora! Dasha! Sisa!" they all turned around to see Gimli waving his axe at them somewhere in the distance, "Hurry up! We are nearly at Caradhras!"

They nodded and hurried to catch up with the rest of the fellowship.

"Eww how disgusting, they don't even, like, remember my name," mumbled Shrisha looking slightly hurt.

"Hun don't worry, it's just because you've been with them a shorter amount of time," Nora smiled slightly down at her friend.

"Ya Sisa, don't worry," Dasha said with a suspiciously sly smirk, "Pippin knows your name."

"Eww please! Can you like, not?" she said putting her hands on her hips. It looked rather hilarious since the girl was nearly twice as short as the other two. But their smiles dropped when they noticed the famous 'Shrisha-glare'. Gulping they turned around and walked as quickly as they could away from the little, evil, hobbit-lass.

Dasha begun musing on how long it will be till they reach Moria and finally will be able to rest in a nearly secure environment when she heard a tumble and grunt behind her. Spinning around she noticed Frodo being helped up by Aragorn. Oh shit… the Ring around his neck was gone and Boromir was slowly standing up looking at the golden peace of jewelry.

"Boromir," Aragorn's voice was quiet as if scared to get the younger man out of the Ring induced trance.

"It is a strange fate we should suffer, so much fear and doubt…" whispered the Gondorian, but his words seemed to echo around the mountain and Dasha stared petrified at the scene in front of her, "Over so small a thing. Such a little thing…" his voice trailed off as he reached out his hand about to touch it.

"Boromir!" shouted Aragorn and Dasha together. The girl terrified and the man slightly angry yet at the same time cautious. Dasha noticed the change in Boromir's demeanor, as if it wasn't him before and now the real Boromir is back. He looked up questionably at Aragorn seemingly not noticing the Ring at all, "Give the Ring to Frodo."

Once more he seemed shocked looking at the Ring as if seeing it for the first time. He smiled slightly to the hobbit as he began walking up to him, "As you wish. I care not," and in that one moment Dasha realized that he actually didn't care about the Ring. That really all he wanted was to save Gondor. She always thought that he cared about Gondor but now she was sure that the real Boromir is the one they show in the Extended Edition of the Two Towers when he speaks with Faramir. I love that scene! Hmm… Since when am I so SAPPY? Seriously, 'He really wanted to save Gondor'? Bloody hell, I need some Quentin Tarantino movie or maybe Silence of the Lambs...

"Uh, Dasha are you alright?" she came back from her thoughts to realize that Aragorn and Boromir where looking at her strangely, Yeah, that's probably because you've been standing staring at Boromir for the past five minutes you idiot! She screamed at herself in her mind and with an embarrassed smile and a nod, turned and walked away towards the rest of the fellowship.

"What happened?" Nora asked when she saw Dasha rush passed her with her head held down.

"Nothing happened! Why would you think that something happened? I don't know what happened! It's a great day today huh? Well how are you?" all this was said so fast that it took Nora a minute to process.

"Umm okay, ignoring that little outburst… want to tell me what happened there? Did your little boyfriend already try and keep the Ring?"

"Who's boyfriend?" they both looked down to see Merry looking up at them curiously and with that damned spark of mischeif in his eyes.

"Hi to you too Merry, why aren't you with Pippin?" asked the blonde tiredly rubbing her firehead.

"He's to bussy talking with the new lass. Fine girl if I say so myself!" he said excited for his friend (or so the two girls hoped).

"Nice Merry, but Dasha! You are not getting out of answering my question," th blonde looked up at her friend to find herslef on the recieving end of 'the look' so with a sigh she explained.

"I didn't know I did, but then when I zoned out it appeared that I was staring at Mr. I-have-nothing-I-need-nothing for about five minutes."

Nora looked at her for a second before she burst out laughing freaking out Merry into backing away ever so slowly.

"Mr. I-have-nothing-I-need-nothing? Really?" managed the redhead between gasps of air. Upon hearing just how that sounded Dasha burst out laughing aswell.

"What are you two lasses laughing at?" they looked up to see Gimli staring at them with a peculiar expression on his face.

"Ah, I believe Master Dwarf, that we will never understand the mind-works of these women," smiled Gandalf who has slowed down his pace. All the men seemed to nod simultaneously as the girls simply shrugged and continued walking.

After another hour or two, they found themselves on the great mountain. The weather has worsened tremendously and the hobbits (plus Shrisha) could hardly walk. Dasha noticed just how much Shrisha was shivering and decided to be nice for once in her life.

"Here you go," she shouted (even though it was intended to be a mutter but due to the wind she would not have been heard) taking off her cloak and handing it to her freezing friend.

"B-b-but wa-want you n-need it?" asked the hobbit as she wrapped herself in the cloak relishing in the little warmth it provided.

"Hell, I'm Ukrainian," said the blonde smiling before turning around and squinting to see where the path was. She noticed Legolas run by on top of the snow and scowled, Stupid elf, go trip over the cliff… grrr!..

"Thre is a fell voice in the air!"

"Thank you Captain Obvious!" came a sarcastic reply from the blonde as she glared at the elf. He decided to do the mature thing and stick his tongue out at her.

"Wow, elves do that?" she asked Nora who was glaring at her nearby.

"It's Saruman!" with the scream from Gandalf everyone backed into the mountain wall due to the mass of rock and snow nearly falling on their heads.

"Tell me once again, why didn't we go straight to the Mines and wait for them there?" asked Nora.

"I think it's becau-" Shrisha's reply was interrupted by Dasha.

"That, my little idiot, was a rhetorical question."

"You know what Dasha? Why don't you, like, go and suck a-" no one ever found out what exactly the blonde had to go and suck due to the huge mass of snow falling on their heads. Again.

Dasha tried opening her eyes but all she saw was grey, and everything she felt was cold and wet. Fucking great, maybe this is where I die? Hmm, kind of a crappy way to get finished off… just as she thought that she felt someone grabbing her hair and pulling.

"OUCH! What the fuck is your problem?" she screamed, or at least tried to but due to the fact that she began screaming while still partially under the snow, all she did was produce noises and cough up snow. She then proceeded to glare at Aragorn, who was the one who pulled her out, and rub her now aching scalp.

"We must get off the mountain! Make for the Gap of Rohan and take the west road to my city!" shouted Boromir in a poor attempt to be heard over the howling wind.

"The Gap of Rohan takes us too close to Isengard!" yelled back Aragorn. By this time Nora and Shrisha made it to the blonde and Shrisha asked the question that (thankfully) no one exept for the girls heard.

"Is he, like, just trying to, like, you know? thing the other guy?" the other two girls starred at Shrisha with wide eyes.

"Umm, huh?" they both inquired adopting a 'March Hare' expression.

"I mean like, is that Aradin dude or whatever his name is, only disagreeing because it was, like, the other dude's idea?"

"Oh! Nah, he actually has a valid point. Isengard is where Saruman lives, and Saruman wants the Ring, hence he wants to kill Frodo, hence he is a threat. Plus he works for Sauron," Dasha explained in her 'whatever' manner.

"Dasha you do remember that it's Shrisha you're talking too here, right?" asked Nora. At her question Dasha saw the expression of complete un-comprehension on the hobbit-girl's face.

"Oh great. I forgot we were dealing with an idiot."

"Hey! I'm not that stupid. I just don't care for your stupid Lord of the Flies or whatever this is!" at that the other two began laughing again. At a clearing of throats their heads shot up and they saw the Fellowship starring at them.

"What?" asked the three girls looking curiously at the guys.

"What exactly do you find funny about Mister Frodo picking the Mines of Moria?" asked a bewildered Sam.

"Did he just, like, say Mines of Moria? Isn't that the place with the dea-" once again Shrisha found herself interrupted, but this time it was Dasha's and Nora's hands over her mouth.

"What did she just say?"

"When? Who? Oh! That.. Haha... umm... she just wanted to say the place with the... umm... delightful! yes that's it! Delightful people!" answered Nora as quickly as possible receiving the unconvinced looks from the rest of the Fellowship and a bewildered one from Dasha and Shrisha.

"I'm s-s-sorry to interrupt, but can we please get off the mountain?" the timid voice belonged to none other than Frodo. With another glance in the direction of the girls, Gandalf nodded and began their track downwards.

Okay... You hate me... I know! Such a long wait for this... but hey, maybe if you review it will get better and FASTER :P anyways, hope you injoyed :)