'Thoughts and flashbacks'

"Language"

" 'Enemy' "

~Moria~

The Fellowship stopped to rest for a while, not knowing the time, and waited for Gandalf to choose a tunnel. Legolas sat on a rock by Aragorn, lost in thought as the ranger smoked his pipe quietly, observing his friend's silence. Suddenly Legolas let out a hiss of pain and clutched his head, shocking Aragorn and the others. "Legolas?! What's wrong?" Aragorn asked "Something has happened. I don't know what it is, but I thought I heard Alice's voice. We need to get out of here." Legolas answered just as Gandalf stood, laud an encouraging hand on Frodo's shoulder after their conversation, and pointed towards the tunnel on the left. "He's remembered!" Merry exclaimed "Not quiet. But when in doubt Meriadoc, always follow your nose." Gandalf said and lead the fellowship on, Aragorn keeping a careful watch on his elven friend.

"Let me risk a little more light." Gandalf whispered and made the crystal in his staff light up, revealing the place they were in. The Fellowship looked in awe at the room they were in, it was filled with pillars that seemed to disappear above them while the room around them seemed to be endless in the light Gandalf summoned. "Behold, the great realm and Dwarf city, Dwarrowdelf." Gandalf said quietly, his voice echoing in the cavernous hall as they walked. "Now there's an eye opener for you, no mistake." Sam commented in awe. A sliver of light shone through an open door, Gimli gasped and immediately ran to the light filled room.

"Gimli!" Gandalf called, trying in vain to stop him. The Fellowship followed after Gimli and were met with quite a horrific sight. The room was full of dwarf skeletons surrounding a large rectangular stone in the middle where the light shone. "No. No..." Gimli sobbed as he fell to his knees, reading the inscription on the stone. "No." "Here lies Balin, son of Fundin, Lord of Moria. It is as I feared then, he is dead." Gandalf whispered as Boromir placed a comforting hand on Gimli's shoulder as he said a short prayer to Balin.

~Forest~

On their way to Lothlorien, the elves and their friends ran into a band of orcs, all of which seemed fixated on the fair haired twins and their elven friends rather than the two young rangers and wizards. "Don't let them escape!" One of the orcs, the least no doubt, yelled at the others as they fought and were defeated. Skitty and Natalie shot countless light spells at the orcs and were forced to continue running on to Lothlorien with Sam and Dean while Elladan, Elrohir, Glorfindel, Erestor, Hérion, Lance, and Alice followed, killing orcs as they went. Suddenly, a pain filled cry reached everyone's ears as they turned to see Alice get stabbed by an Orc in the side, Lance standing behind her with a look of pure shock on his face as another Orc lay dead at his feet.

Obviously the Orc that had stabbed Alice was originally trying to stab Lance when his back was turned, prompting Alice, who was closest, to deflect the orc's blade but ended up being stabbed instead. The Orc grinned maliciously at Alice and pushed its sword further, twisting it slightly to the side. Hearing a pained gasp, Lance quickly killed the Orc and caught his sister before she fell, Hérion, Glorfindel, Erestor, and the twins running to them quickly to help remove the blade and assess the wound. "The sword was poisoned. We must reach Lothlorien at all costs." Glorfindel stated.

Realization dawned on Hérion as he turned to look at the forest around them, the trees whispering a single word to him before they called out to the elves of the Golden Wood. "Twilight... Alice, do you have enough strength to call Twilight?" Hérion asked quickly as their friends gave him looks of surprise and shock. "Twilight is in Autumn Wood, Hérion! He'll never reach us in time!" Lance yelled in panic as he tried to stop the bleeding as Elladan and Elrohir tried to help bind the wound. "No, he isn't. Bregolien sent Twilight to Lothlorien before we departed for Rivendell because he refused every elf to be his new master. When Alice left you and I were practically the only elves in Autumn Wood who could ride him, your father as well." Hérion explained. "He sent Twilight away when he threw Yáviel off his back." Lance added. Without sparing anyone a glance, Alice lifted her fingers to her lips and whistled a clear, simple tune, stoping as the sound of fast hoofbeats were heard immediately and a light gray horse with a silvery mane and tail stopped in front of them.

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