It wasn't long before he came towards the place they were at. He only froze when he heard a scream.
Link quickly broke out into a run, and found this octopus like monster holding Frodo upside down as the others fought it.
Link snarled before letting out his howl battle cry, drawing most attention to him.
The octopus thing saw him and let out a cry, narrowing it's eyes. Link was in a battle position, crouched and ready to fight it.
" No Aragorn! Whatever you do, do not hurt that wolf!" Gandalf said from by the door in the mountain.
The Octopus sent a tentacle at him, but Link just easily jumped and ran on the tentacle, jumping from arm to arm as they moved. He lunged at an arm holding Frodo, and bit down on it, hard. The Octopus tried to retract it's arm, but Link wasn't letting go.
It soon ripped off the tip of the tentacle, filling Link's mouth with it's blood.
Link practically threw up. He jumped and was hanging down from the last tentacle holding Frodo, and the octopus screamed again, dropping Frodo. The wolf held on only enough so that Frodo could escape, before jumping off too after ripping the tip.
He ran with the tip of the tentacle in his mouth to the door where the others were retreating as the Octopus attacked the side of the mountain. Link made it in just as rocks and stones of all shapes and sizes fell from the roof, effectively blocking the octopus out, but effectively keeping them in.
Gandalf's staff gave off ligh, and everyone saw him. They pointed their weapons at Link, all but Gandalf, ready to fight.
Link couldn't think about that though.
The tentacle and blood of the octopus was making him sick.
He let out a low whimper and dropped the thing in his mouth quickly and ran into the darkness. He began heaving in a corner, and threw up as a wolf would right there. He morphed back, leaning his forearm against the wall and his head on that as he gripped his stomach and moaned in pain.
" Link?" Frodo's surprised voice asked from behind him.
" Goddesses that thing is horrible. Wait, get back." Link said, feeling another twist in his stomach. Gandalf quickly moved everyone away, including the light, as Link threw up again. No one liked hearing that sound really.
" Frodo, if you are ever captured again, do not let me save you." Link groaned in pain.
" You transform into a wolf?" Boromir asked.
" WHO BLOODY CARES IF HE TURNS INTO A WOLF?! HE'S PUKING IN AN ANCIENT DWARF CIVILIZATION!" Gimli yelled as Link came into the light, still looking sick.
" Do you want to taste that things blood Gimli? Because if you do that tentacle is still there." Link said pointing at it. No one moved.
" It doesn't explain why you morph." Legolas said calmly.
" There's another World call the Relam of Twilight in Hyrule. When Twilight entered the human world, it transformed all humans into spirits. What set me apart from the rest as the Hero of Time, is that I transform into what is known as the Blue-eyed Beast then a spirit. Ever since Twilight left I have been able to morph at will into a wolf, though I only use it in emergencies." Link explained.
" We musn't waste any more time here. It is a four day journey from here to the other side." Gandalf said.
" I'll scout ahead for Orc's and goblins in my wolf form. I see better in the dark anyways." Link said. Still in the light he lunged towards the darkness, exploding into the black and white furred wolf.
" Wow." He heard Pippin and Merry say behin him in awe.
The wolf turned his head and barked at them before trotting off into the darkness with the others following.
Link soon deemed the path in front of them safe, and rejoined the group, surprisingly walking next to Legolas. Compared to the others, he was about the height of Frodo, and little above the waist for the others besides Gandalf.
" Hey Link, do people ride on your back?" Merry asked. Link looked at him, and without opening his mouth let out a growl as a warning. The others chuckled.
" You should've have seen Bilbo when he accidently sat on Link's back in his wolf form. Poor Bilbo ran away for three hours straight from Link and avoided him for almost a week." Gandalf said.
There were a few more laughs, before they came to a three way cross road. Gandalf couldn't remember the path, so they all sat, but Link, out of wolf form, sat with Gandalf. Soon Frodo joined.
" There's something down there." He said.
" It's Gollum." Gandalf answered.
" Gollum?" Frodo cried quietly.
" He's been following us for three days." Gandalf informed him. Link thought he felt something watching them.
" He escaped the dungeons of Barad-dur?" Frodo asked.
" Escaped… or was set loose. And now the ring has drawn him here… he will never be rid of his need for it. He hates and loves the ring, as he hates and loves himself. Smeagol's life story is a sad story." Gandalf spoke. So Gollum's last name is Smeagol, interesting.
" Yes, Smeagol he was once called, before the ring came to him. Before it drove him mad." Gandalf added.
" It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance." Frodo said. Gandalf and Link were surprised to hear that from the Hobbit's mouth.
" Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo?" Link asked him.
" Do not be so eager to deal out death in judgment… even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good of ill, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many." Gandalf told him.
" I wish the ring never came to me… I wish none of this had happened." Frodo said.
" So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide it what to do with the time that is given to us." Gandalf told him.
" There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it… and that is an encouraging thought." The wizard spoke.
" Ah! It's this way." Gandalf said with a smile, remembering. They gathered together once more and Link morphed again.
Then they continued on their path.
Hi again! So, how am I doing so far? The next update might not be for a little bit because I have to write it. These I already wrote but kept forgetting about updating. Anyways I want to make sure that all Lord of the Ring hard core fans understand that if I EVER write something that is wrong about it I am seriously sorry. Anyways, UNTIL NEXT TIME! :)