Eleven Companions...
Frodo: the Ring bearer, armed with a short sword by the name of sting.
Sam: The bearer's most trusted and loyal companion, with a dagger and many cooking supplies.
Merry and Pippin: Both also with daggers, the comic relief
Gandalf: The wizard and guide with an arsenal of magic spells.
Aragorn: The ranger and secondary guide, armed with a bow and long sword.
Legolas: with a bow and white knife the Elvish prince is the groups "radar"
Gimli: The Dwarf armed with an Axe and multiple throwing axes. The brute force
Boromir: the Gondorian, with a long sword and round shield and a ox horn. The Warrior
Link: The Hylian, with a Gilded Long sword and Hero's shield and bow, he also had many other items up his sleeve like bombs, deku nuts, and spells.
Saria: The Kokiri, armed with a Short sword and dagger as well as a small shield and short bow and much glass ware.
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"We must hold this course west of the Misty Mountains for forty days. If our luck holds, the Gap of Rohan will still be open to us. From there out road turns east to Mordor." Gandalf had said on the first day... so on the fourth day or so they had set up camp on a hill somewhere west of the mountains.
Saria sat down with a water canteen open and drank some while she watch Boromir and Link teaching Merry and Pippin swordplay.
"Two, one, five, Good, very good" Boromir said
"Move your feet." Said Link
"you look good, Pip" said Merry
"Thanks" said Pippin
"Alright, a bit faster now" Boromir said
Gimli approached Gandalf with an idea "If anyone was to ask for my opinion, which I note they're not, I'd say we were taking the long way round. Gandalf, we could pass through the Mines of Moria. My cousin, Balin, would give us a royal welcome."
"No Gimli, I would not take the road through Moria unless I had no other choice."
"Aaaah!" Pippin yelled in pain
"Oops, sorry" Boromir said, as he had nicked Pippin's hand... "Ahhh!" Pippin kicked Boromir in the shin
Then Merry jumped on him "Yaa, get him!"
"For the shire!" Pip said in mock battle
Aragorn and Saria laugh and as does Link and he sheaths his sword.
Sam looked up in the sky, in the distance. "What's that?" he asked
"Nothing, just a whiff of cloud" Gimli offered
Boromir got up and looked "It's moving fast against the wind..."
Saria squinted, her senses were better than the others. "I think its birds..." she said
Except Legolas, who had much better "Crebain from Dunland!"
"Hide!" Ordered Aragorn
Sam doused the fire and ducked under a rock and Saria, Link and Legolas hid under a bush and the others found their own hiding spots.
The birds fly right over head and then after a quick turn they leave and head back.
Gandalf emerged from his spot "Spies of Saruman! The passage south is being watched. We must take the Pass of Caradhras!"
Later, upon the snowy hills of the mountain...
Frodo tripped in the snow and tumbled back into Aragorn, who helped him up. Instinctively Frodo checked for the ring around his neck, and not finding it looked up and saw Link pick it up by the chain, apparently Boromir had, had the same idea but stopped short when Link picked it up.
"It is a strange fate we should suffer so much fear and doubt... over so small a thing" he said
Link ignored Boromir and moved his hand to touch the ring...
"Link!" Saria called from behind Aragorn, Link snapped out of it. Saria nodded to Frodo
"Oh, right... sorry" he said and handed the ring back to Frodo.
Saria looked over at Aragorn and Frodo, Aragorn had his hand placed on his sword.
"You wouldn't dare!" Saria whispered in a harsh tone to him
Aragorn stayed silent...
Soon, on the face of the mountain, a voice could be heard on the wind... just barely over the sound of the blizzard they were now in.
"Cuiva nwalca Carnirasse; Nai yarvaxea rasselya; taltuva notto-carinnar!" could be heard
"There is a fell voice on the air!" Legolas said
"It's Saruman!" Gandalf exclaimed
Then Aragorn yelled "He's trying to bring down the mountain! Gandalf, we must turn back!"
"No! Losto Caradhras, sedho, hodo, nuitho I 'ruith" just as Gandalf had finished his voice was overwhelmed and the storm grew and a bolt of lightning struck one of the peaks, sending an avalanche towards them!
*Foomp!*
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Slowly the Fellowship dug their way out of the avalanche and regrouped, the storm still going.
"We must get off the mountain! Make for the Gap of Rohan and take the west road to my city!" Boromir suggested
Then Aragorn said "The Gap of Rohan takes us too close to Isengard!"
"If we cannot pass over the mountain" Gimli stated "Then let us go under it. Let us go through the mines of Moria."
Gandalf got a far off look in his eyes... then he spoke "Let the ring bearer decide."
Frodo stood there for a moment
"We cannot stay here! This will be the death of the hobbits and the others!" Boromir exclaimed and pointed to Merry, Pippin, Link and Saria, who were huddled for warmth, as all of them are not used to this kind of weather.
"Frodo?" Gandalf asked
"We will go through the mines." Frodo decided
"So be it..."
The Fellowship passed south and found themselves standing on a plateau with a sheer rock cliff facing them.
"The walls, of Moria!" Gimli gasped
The fellowship searched for the entrance and right beside a pool they found one!
"it reads 'the doors of Durin- Lord of Moria. Speak, friend, and enter'" Gandalf said
Link stared at the door "What do you suppose it means?" he asked
"Oh, quite simple my boy. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors will open. Annon Edhellen, edro hi ammen!"
The doors remained shut...
"Uh... Fennas Nogothrim, lasto beth lammen."
"Nothing's happening..." Said Saria
"I once knew every spell in all the tongues of Elves... Men... and Orcs."
"Well then what are you going to do!?" Shot Pippin
"Knock your head against these doors, Peregrin Took! And if that does not shatter them and I am allowed a little peace from foolish questions, I will try to find the opening words."
Later...
Link and Saria were staring at the door, while Gandalf was stumped and thinking and the others were just sitting...
"It's a riddle" Said Link "Speak friend and enter... What's Elvish for Friend?"
Gandalf looked up "Mellon..."
"Malon?" Link wondered, but was cut off by the shuttering of the doors that now opened before them.
And then they all entered... but...
"Help me!"
"What!?" Link exclaimed
The fellowship turned around to see a giant squid thing pick up Frodo and dangle him over its mouth.
Link notched an arrow, as did Aragorn, Legolas and Saria and they fired at the thing while Gimli and Boromir sliced its tentacles as it swung at them... Pippin, Merry and Sam were also trying...
Boromir sliced the tentacle that held Frodo and they all raced into the mine and the thing stuck onto the opening of the mine and collapsed the opening...
"This is the home of my cousin Balin, now prepare to be amazed, roaring fires, malt beer, fresh meat right off the bone... and they call it a mine... A Mine!"
Gandalf waved his staff around after adding a magic light...
Then Boromir shuttered "This is no mine... it is a tomb..."
All around the floor skeletons were strewn along with broken shields and weapons...
Legolas pulled an arrow from a dead Dwarf "Goblins!"
The fellowship drew their weapons.
"Now we have no choice... we must face the darkness of Moria, be wary for there are fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world." Gandalf said
Then they pushed onwards...
"The wealth of Moria was not in gold... but Mithril..." Gandalf said and stroked the Dwarven walls, brushing off some dirt to reveal the shining metallic substance underneath...
"I once had a pair of gauntlets made out of Mithril, they also had red leather padding and silver outline... and somehow they also increased your physical strength..." Link said and Gandalf looked at him funny "Don't ask, I never understood my home world either..."
"It is a four day journey to the other side, let us hope that our presence goes un-noticed..." Gandalf said
Day two of the journey through Moria...
The fellowship finished climbing a steep staircase and saw three corridors leading in different directions.
"I do not remember this place..." Gandalf muttered.
The Fellowship sat down while Gandalf thought.
Frodo looked down the way they had come and his eyes widened and he walked over to Gandalf and whispered "something is down there"
"It is Gollum..."
"He escaped the dungeons of Bara-dur!?"
"Escaped...? or set loose... he's been following us for three days... for he loves the ring, yet hates it... much like he loves, but hates himself..."
"It's a pity that Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance..."
"Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. My dear Frodo, many that live deserve death, and many that die deserve life... do not be so hasty to deal out death and judgement... for even the very wise can see all ends" (My FAVORITE quote in the LOTR saga) "Ah..." Gandalf smiled "That way"
"He's remembered!" Merry said cheery.
"No, but the air is fresher down here, when in doubt Meriadoc, always follow your nose" and they headed down...
"Now behold the magnificent halls of the Dwarven city of Khazad..."(I think that's what it was)
The entire Fellowship gasped...
White halls for miles and tall pillars exactly every quarter mile or so, no further and no closer.
"This is amazing... I don't think I have seen anything of the likes of this back in Hyrule" Link said
As they walked on they came past a door with broken weapons and armour in front of it as well as plenty of skeletons.
Gimli looked in and ran for it. "No, no... no..." he ran to the foot of a large stone...
Gandalf came up next to him "Here lies Balin, Son of Fuden... He is dead then..."
"No..."
"We mustn't linger" Legolas said.
Gandalf picked up a book and handed his hat and staff to Pippin who while Gandalf was reading accidentally bumped into a skeleton sending it down a hole in the ground...
*Crash* *clang* *KEERASH!*
Meanwhile...
"Wow, that was close... that falling armour could have killed me" said Idrial as she jumped away from the falling suit of armour after getting seriously startled and bumping into Berathor (Reference to LOTR: the third age, RPG game)
Back with the fellowship...
"Fool of a Took! Next time throw yourself in, rid us of your stupidity!" Gandalf shot at Pippin.
*Boom, Boom... Boomboomboomboom*
"They are coming..."
*Screeching and shouts*
Boromir ran to the door to shut it and pulled back as an arrow flew past his head and he shut the doors, turned around and shook as he admitted "They brought a Cave Troll"
"Um... a what now?" Saria asked "What the heck's a cave troll!?"
"Argh! Let them come! There is still one dwarf in Moria who still draws breath!" Gimli yelled
Aragorn, Boromir and Link piled pikes and great axes in front of the doors to bar them and drew back as the Orcs cut their way in.
The moment one broke a hole in the door Legolas fired an arrow through and killed it.
Aragorn and Link were also firing arrows through the holes in the door and in a moment.
*Crash*
The door blew open and a huge group of goblins ran in and ten were killed by arrows before the fellowship drew their blades.
Saria pulled out her short sword and dagger and slashed one in the middle and sliced another's head off then ducked a swing from another and stabbed it with her dagger in the gut. Then stood and pivoted and caught her blade in one's shoulder and kicked it off her blade. "Huh... not as tough as I thought..." she said and cut a head off another.
Link shield bashed a Goblin and stabbed it with his Gilded sword and turned kicked one in the groin and slashed upwards vertically leaving a nice red line up the center of it and pivoted and chopped a head of one that was about to stab him.
Aragorn used his two-handed sword to chop apart the goblins and he thrust into one, his blade passing all the way through and he cut out and cleaved another one in half and lobbed the head off two more before chopping one in half at the waist.
Legolas was firing at point blank range all his shots got a kill "15, 16, 17... Are you sure you can keep up master dwarf?"
Gimli also was counting up his kills "18, 19, 20!"
Gandalf was protecting the hobbits Pippin and Merry using his sword and staff while they threw rocks at the goblins.
Sam was wailing on the goblins with his sword and a frying pan! "Hmm, I think I'm gettin' the hang of this" and he bashed another in the face with the pan and slashed one on the other side of him.
Then the goblins let the Cave Troll in.
Boromir looked at it as it swung "Aw, crap..." *Whack* Boromir flew against a wall with a *Thud* "Oww" he mumbled and got up.
Merry and Pippin jumped on top of it and stabbed it a few times before being thrown off. Then Legolas did the same and shot and arrow in its head and was also thrown off. While the fellowship was busy with the rest of the goblins the troll found Frodo who ducked behind a pillar and the troll went and found him after a few seconds of 'Fail' (if you watch the movie you know what I mean) and grabbed him but Frodo slashed its hand and it let go of him. Aragorn then jumped down next to Frodo and chucked a giant spear at it which stuck in its chest and the troll smashed Aragorn away and pulled out the spear and stabbed Frodo with it...
"Frodo!" Sam yelled
Frodo fell to the ground...
Sam jumped on its head and stabbed it in the head and it reared up and Legolas shot it in the neck and it fell dead, throwing Sam off in the process.
"Frodo..." Sam said and rolled him over "Oh, thank god, he alive..."
"How? That spear could have skewered a wild boar?!" Aragorn demanded
"I think there is more to this Hobbit than meets the eye" Gandalf said.
Frodo opened his button shirt.
"Mithril...!" Gimli gasped.
"You see, you surprise us all little one." Gandalf said. And they all turned when they heard the sound of more goblins approaching...
"To the bridge of Khazad-Dum!" Gandalf cried
The fellowship ran out a hole in the wall of the chamber and headed straight down the halls of the city as more and more goblins swarmed from behind them, to the right and left, above and even below!
"Run!"
Saria looked back... "Oh...! That's a l-lot!" she panicked
Finally they could run no further... the Goblins had completely surrounded them.
Link twirled his sword and raised his shield, Boromir did the same, Aragorn got his sword up the hobbits got their swords ready and Legolas got his bow notched and Gimli raised his axe, Saria crossed her Sword and dagger and Gandalf aimed his staff and raised his sword...
*Growl*
All the goblin started to panic and run away, back from the holes they emerged from... Gimli laughed and yelled "Cowards!"
"What is this new devilry?" Boromir asked as he looked down the hall to see an orange light from down the hall.
Gandalf stared "A Balrog of Morgoth... this foe is beyond any of you RUN!"
They all started to run towards the bridge and made it to the great stairs of Khazad and started to descend them but goblin archers started shooting at them and Legolas, Saria, Link and Aragorn shot back killing most of them and then they came to a gap in the stairs and they would have to jump.
Gandalf and Legolas and Boromir crossed with ease then Link went and Saria, who almost fell but was caught by Boromir. Then Aragorn tossed Pippin, Merry and Sam across and offered Gimli but he replied.
"No one tosses a Dwarf" and he jumped hardly making it, having to be pulled by Legolas by the beard. "No! Not the beard!"
The stairs started to crumble and were too far to jump. A huge stalactite fell from above and destroyed part of the stairs...
"Lean forward" Aragorn said.
The broken stairs moved and fell onto the rest of it and they both jumped off and the remainder of the stairs fell into the black pit...
The Fellowship ran down the stairs and made it to the bridge just as the Balrog appeared.
"Aragorn, lead them on, swords are no more use here... quickly fly! Fly!"
The fellowship made it across the scary narrow bridge and Gandalf stood on the narrow bridge and yelled at the Balrog "You cannot pass! I am server of the secret fire, wielder of the flame of Arnor... the Dark fire shall not avail you... Flame of Udun!" and he slammed his staff on the bridge "Go back to the shadows!"
The Balrog stepped onto the bridge and attacked Gandalf with its fire whip and Gandalf blocked it with his magic... "YOU. SHALL NOT. PASS!" and slammed his staff against the bridge and it crumbled and the Balrog fell into the empty void...
Gandalf sighed and turned around... but the whip was flung up and it caught around his ankle pulling him down, hanging onto the edge as Frodo gasped with his strength he said... "Fly you fools" and let go...
"NOOOOO!" Frodo yelled and Aragorn had to grab him and run out of the mines with him slung over his shoulder...
Once the fellowship was outside... the Hobbits sat down and cried for the loss of their friend...
Saria made a Kokiri prayer for the dead... and Link made a Hylian one.
Legolas seemed to stare off into space and Gimli hung his head along with Boromir...
"Legolas, get them up" Aragorn said
"For pity's sake, give them a moment's rest!" Boromir yelled
"By nightfall these hills will be swarming with Orcs" he sheathed his sword "We must reach the woods of Lothlorien..." he pointed over the hills. He then noticed Frodo walking away by himself "Frodo!"
Frodo turned around and walked back...
"Get them up" he repeated and they slowly got to their feet and made for Lothlarien...
To a Shadowclaw07: Why don't you get an account, they are free? It would make getting messages between us allot easier... it would also make getting information on my next fic much easier :P