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Legolas:
Legolas watched in horror as the fierce girl stabbed the beast repeatedly in its eyes. Tentacles lashed about, splashing the foul water everywhere. Legolas noticed a stray tentacle inching its way toward the girl's back. He rushed forward, crying out a warning, but the beast snatched her up. The slimy appendage pinned her arms to her sides.
The creature gave a roar of triumph, and slipped back into the depths, taking a struggling Max with it.
Everyone stared at the water as it calmed, not quite accepting what had just happened. Then the dark haired boy who called himself Fang gave a howl of anger, and before anyone could stop him, he dove into the pool.
Aragorn gave a shout, and rushed to the water's edge, but the boy was already too far under to see. As far as they were concerned, they had just lost two of the fellowship... And they were only children! Legolas stared at the ground, thinking about how the girl had taken down Boromir so easily. He winced and rubbed the big bruise she had given him when she had pretended to fall unconscious, and then leapt up and kicked him. In the head, and hard... He had been shocked...He, an elf prince, defeated by a mere human child, and a female at that! But she had used tactics that were unknown to him. She could have been a major advantage against the forces of Mordor. He had no doubt she could cut through ranks of orcs with ease. But now she was gone...
"Into the mines," Gandalf said, and turned away from the water with a sad sigh. There was no way they could still be alive. The boy had dove into the pool, only to die along with his friend. Legolas turned away from the water, sadly following the wizard toward the open stone door. Then, he heard a loud splash, and he whirled back, staring in awe at the sight that met his eyes.
For bursting out of the filth was the boy. He grunted, using the last of his strength the propel himself, and an unconscious Max onto the shore. He gasped for air, looking up at the shocked group with a lopsided grin. Then he fell face first into the mud, and the other children raised a cheer, rushing forward to help their friends.
The blind one, Iggy, raced over to the girl, and immediately picked her up. He then proceeded to roughly tighten his grip on her several times. This resulted in the muck spewing from her lungs, and her eyes flying open. She coughed and gagged, but she was alive.
They had propped Fang against a rock, and Legolas noticed that his sword was covered in the monster's blood. Had he killed it? Amazing...These children truly were not to be underestimated.
Max:
I stumbled upright, taking the extra clothes I had packed in my pack. I selected the driest ones, and trudged off behind a boulder to change out of the filthy wet ones I was currently wearing. Fang did the same, as soon as Gazzy and Iggy shook him awake of course.
Legolas was holding up the blade that Fang had used to stab the monster, peering at it intently.
"This blade is covered with the beast's blood. Is it dead?" he said quietly, glancing back at the water as if the monster was going to go for him next.
Fang paused, "I think...I'm not sure. I felt it relax, so I'm going to assume it died... I doubt it would just let us go, unless it was dead..."
"That is a relief..." Legolas breathed.
Then, I thought of something. What was going to force us into the mines, now the Watcher was dead? Maybe the entrance would...collapse on its own? No, that would be way to coincidental...
"Let us go now...We have no time to waste. Our foes move swiftly, but we must go faster," Legolas said, and Gandalf nodded, "Indeed. Let us not tarry, and be off at once,"
"Geez...Give this guy a chance to rest!" complained Fang, but he stood anyways, and we trudged into the dark mines.
Gimli, now in good spirits after Fang miraculously rescued me from the Watcher, rumbled happily to Legolas, "Soon Master Elf, you will enjoy the fabled hospitality of the Dwarves!"
Unfortunately for me, I couldn't hold in a loud snort when I heard that. Gimli turned, looking at me in the dark, and said, "What is funny about that?"
"Oh, nothing," I said, paling considerably.
I knew what we were going to see as soon as Gandalf lit his staff. Lots of dead goblins and dwarves, according to Nudge. I wanted to make Angel close her eyes, but she would see it through our eyes anyways. So I nudged Nudge (hahaha) and whispered, "Shut your eyes, Nudge. "
Light flickered from the crystal in Gandalf's staff, and as Gimli rumbled on, " Roaring fires, malt beer, ripe meat off the bone!", everyone else looked around in horror at what they were seeing.
"And to think! They call this a mine! A MINE!" cried Gimli in anguish. Then Boromir whispered in shock and disgust, "This is no mine...it's a tomb."
Gimli stopped rambling, and finally looked around him. His mouth opened as he took in the blood stains on the walls, the cobwebs everywhere, the skulls grinning eerily from the floor. "No... No!" cried Gimli in horror.
Legolas yanked an arrow from a dead body, and proclaimed loudly, "Goblins." Almost as if on cue, the floor rumbled with the sounds of huge drums. BOOM! BA-BA-BA-BOOM!
"What is that?" squeaked Pippin, and Aragorn cried, "Drums! Get out! Get out!"
"Make for the Gap of Rohan!" cried Gandalf and Boromir simultaneously, and we scrambled to exit out the small door.
Suddenly, tentacles were everywhere, one whacking me in the face with a loud slap. Water and slime dripped into my eyes, and I rubbed the gunk off on my hand, gripping my daggers. But there was no need to do this, because the whole thing was out of the water, and it was even more massive that I previously thought.
"INTO THE MINES!" bellowed Gandalf, and everyone ran straight back into the mines, slashing at tentacles that followed them as they went.
The hobbits yelped, and dove through the door, followed by Aragorn and Boromir. They made it just in time too, because the Watcher gripped the cliff face and tore the entire stone door straight off. The wall seemed to explode into shards of deadly shrapnel, and the entrance collapsed in a avalanche of rock. The last rock fell into place, cutting out the last ray of light. There was no way out now... We would have to go through the mines, just like Nudge said.
"Only one option now..." I muttered grumpily.
"We must face the long dark of Moria. Be on your guard. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world," Gandalf instructed, lighting his staff.
"You think?" I grumbled, groaning, and coughing up rock dust.
After a short ways of walking down a small tunnel, the passage opened up, and we were looking down into the shadows of a deep chasm. There was a winding path of rough stone that cut across this place, and veins of glowing mithril could be seen, like little lights in the dark, reflecting the light from Gandalf's staff.
"Mithril..." Legolas breathed,"
"It is a three day journey to the other side. Let us hope our presence goes unnoticed."
I snorted again, "Great going Gandalf. You've just jinxed us."
"Jinxed you?" Gandalf asked confusedly.
"Um... Jinxing something means that that the very something you DON'T want to happen, happens because you said out loud, 'I hope so and so doesn't happen' Wait.. Did I say that right Max?" babbled Nudge.
"Yeah... I think..." I mumbled. I hadn't really been listening. I was stuck in a world of fear. The dark pressed in from all sides. At least we were in an open space right now, but in a minute, we'd be back in the cramped tunnels, where there was no escape, no flight. Trapped, we were trapped in a giant cage...
I shivered, and we pressed on. Then, Gandalf came to three tunnels, and paused. Gimli bumped into Fang, who mumbled, "Watch it, dwarf,"
Gimli grunted back, "I could say the same about your rude comments, boy."