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Chapter 20

Ancalagon… Kill her!

When Nividia got just outside of Osgiliath she saw the Nazgûl tried killing the Men and search for Frodo. The Orcs was on the same side of the river as her and the Men on the other side. She swam over and ran into Osgiliath. "Frodo! Where are you?" She asked to him. She could sense the Ring was near. She ducked just as one Fell beast was about to take her head in its mouth.

"Nividia!" She heard someone whisper and turned to its voice, just inside some of the destroyed buildings she saw the Hobbits hide… With Gollum. "Oh, I´ve never been so glad seeing someone alive, Nividia," Samwise said. Nividia smiled to him.

"Are you two all right?" She asked the Hobbits and they both nodded. She ducked, afraid one of the Nazgûls saw her. "You two need to leave, it is too dangerous here." Someone called Frodo´s name and young Captain Faramir showed up.

"Nividia," he said.

"Captain Faramir. It must be you who brought them here," she said and he nodded. "Sauron is here."

"I know, I think I saw him. You need to leave," Faramir said to Frodo. Both Frodo and Sam was shocked hearing those words. "I was wrong. The Ring cannot go to Minas Tirith. I will take you outside of the city, but we must hurry."

"Thank you, Faramir," Frodo said. Faramir smiled to him and Nividia followed them to an old system under the ground. After Frodo and Sam left, Faramir laid a curse upon Gollum if they ever got in harm.

"You will not leave with them?" Faramir asked Nividia when Gollum had left with the two Hobbits.

"No, if I am still here. Sauron may think that Frodo is here to," she said and Faramir understood. "I will catch up with them. Sauron may know where they will be going." They both hurried back to the men and Nividia changed to Elf form.

She pulled an arrow on her bow and began aiming for a Fell beast. She was too busy aiming for Sauron´s Fell beast that she did not see the other coming towards her. The Fell beast grabbed her with its mouth, squeezed and tossed her few meters away. Nividia screamed of the pain when she tried to get up. The teeth had gone into her chest, stomach and her right leg. It was Melkor who dismounted the Fell beast and walked over to her with his sword in his hand.

"Why did you do it?" She asked. "Why did you kill an innocent girl to get me?"

"Because I needed a sacrifice," Melkor said and went down on his knees next to her. He knew she was too weak to do anything now. "The Elves was to weak for my magic, even the Istari. So I travelled through Realms and found her. I must say I never regret it, but I do regret it telling you to run for your life." Nividia tried to get up, but the pain in her chest stopped her. "Please, you will only kill yourself if you move." Melkor looked to his right when seeing Ancalagon, in his dragon form come flying down. Ancalagon looked at her with sad eyes. She saw the small light in his eyes she had always seen before. "Ancalagon… Kill her!" He ordered and went back to his Fell Beast. The dragon moved closer to her, ready to strike her.

"Please, Ancalagon…" She whispered. Ancalagon opened his mouth but turned quickly and grabbed Melkor in his mouth. With his claw he grabbed the Fell Beast and twisted its neck. The dragon let out fire while Melkor was still in its mouth and threw him far away. He then turned to Nividia. He took her with his claws carefully; he did not want to hurt her anymore and flied away.

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"I´ve never been so cold," Nividia said and coughed up some blood. Ancalagon took her close in his arms. They were at the riverbank far in the north under a small tree. "Even I´ve died a slow death, I was never this cold. Maybe Melkor can kill me truly." Ancalagon tried to calm her down, but she was shaking so badly it hurt.

"I am here with you, I won´t let you go," he said. Nividia had always trusted him, but she was not sure which side he was on. If he truly was on her side, or still on the dark side. "It was not really him who tried killing you, but his Fell beast." Nividia wanted to laugh, but the pain increased in her chest.

"I need to go, I have to help someone," she said.

"You will die. You used to be good healing yourself in Elf form, just wait a little longer and you can turn to tiger and heal properly," he said and she nodded. She was lying in his arms when she barely touched his waist when she felt he was hurt. She took up his shirt and saw a dark blue mark there.

"What is this?" She asked weak. Weaker than before.

"Don´t worry about it, my lady. I will be fine," he said. She looked up at him and saw it now in his eyes he was in pain. "I never betrayed you, Nividia. Sauron came and…"

"And what? Don´t stop now, tell me!" Everything was silence, as he did not say anything. Nividia tried keeping her eyes opened, but they were so heavy. Darkness covers her eyes and she could barely hear Ancalagon call her name.