Chapter 2
After their celebratory feast the night before, the Fellowship were preparing to leave Rivendell and set off on their quest to Mordor to destroy the One Ring. Adrianna's guards had tried to persuade the Princess to return to The Glade of Tarasara with them, but she was quick to dismiss their pleas.
"My father said he trusts my judgement." She informed them as she handed over Persephone's reins to an elf. "And I believe Tobias will aswell."
Deciding that there was nothing more they could do to assuage the Princess' decision, the guards bowed their heads to their Princess and mounted their own horses. "Well, my Lady," Darius stated. "We bid you farewell and hope for your safe return." With that said, they turned their horses to the gates of Rivendell and rode back through the forest, towards the Glade of Tarasara.
Adrianna turned around and came face to face with Gandalf the Grey. She bowed her head to the wizard before looking up with a smile spread across her fair features. "I'm looking forward to our travels, Gandalf." She stated.
The wizard chuckled slightly and nodded, "The dangers we will face will be treacherous." He warned.
Adrianna nodded, and walked with the wizard towards the courtyard where the rest of The Fellowship were preparing to leave. "I've had much training, Gandalf." She stated, "And I'm sure I can hold my own against any dangers that we face. I will not need protection from any men."
"And I believe you." The wizard continued, "But you will have to prove your worth to others along our journey." Adrianna looked up at the rest of the Fellowship. Legolas and Aragorn were deep in discussion, whereas Gimli and Boromir were standing a few feet away from the elf; discussing something also and occasionally casting glances in her direction, the Faye shot them both a suspicious look.
As Gandalf wandered off to find Frodo, Adrianna changed into her fairy form and fluttered over towards Bill the pony. She sat down on his head, in between his ears and began to gently smooth his hair. She sighed and gazed at the beautiful elven city of Rivendell, as Sam, Merry and Pippin came towards Bill and began packing supplies into his saddle bags.
"Good morning." Adrianna smiled, "How're you all feeling?"
Pippin smiled and nodded his head, "A little hungry." He replied, "But excited!"
Merry chuckled in agreement, "What about you, my Lady? Are you all packed?"
Adrianna got to her feet and climbed down the horses mane to stand in front of the hobbits, "I've got everything I need in here." She patted the bag that was slung around her hip. "And I have my bow and sword." She gestured towards her miniature weapons; her bow was hooked over the quiver attached to her back whilst her Fathers' sword was hanging from a belt slung around her hips - the size of a needle in the hobbits eyes.
"Are we all ready?" Lord Elrond asked, catching the Fellowships attention.
"We await the Ring Bearer!" Gandalf gestured towards Frodo, who was slowly walking across the courtyard towards the grey wizard. As the Hobbit made it to the front of the Fellowship and led the way out of the gates (heading left) they began their dangerous journey.
By the afternoon they had travelled quite far, and were setting up camp at the top of a cliff. Adrianna was surprised that no one had had any arguments yet. All had been peaceful and-
-Pippin and Merry screamed loudly, causing Adrianna to jump - and fall off the leaf she was sitting on. Aragorn spun around and Legolas, Gandalf and Gimli all looked up to see Boromir wrestling with two of the young hobbits. Adrianna picked herself up from the floor and dusted herself off before forming to her elleth size and taking a seat beside Gandalf on a rock.
"Where does this path take us?" The Faye asked the wizard, smiling as she watched the Gondorian play with the hobbits as though they were children.
"To the Misty Mountains." Gandalf replied, smiling at the Faye, "Now tell me, my Lady - if you don't mind me asking, of course. How the Prince Tobias came to be gravely ill?"
Adrianna smiled sadly, "He was attacked," she began. "By the Wargs which live on the edge of our boarders, and wounded badly by a morgul blade from a Dark Rider. The Healers have been doing their best for him for the past week; but Faye healing is a slow process. My father - although good friends with elves - refuses to ask for their help." A flash of anger could be seen in her eyes.
"I'm sure he will heal soon, Adrianna." Gandalf stated, changing the subject to refrain the Faye from becoming angered. "Frodo was injured by a morgul blade, you know. He was healed by Lord Elrond and his daughter, Lady Arwen."
Adrianna sighed, examining the brave hobbit from across the camp, "I wish my father would ask for the elves help. Maybe then Tobias will have a stronger chance of survival against the poison."
"The King is too proud." Adrianna nodded in agreement. "So tell me," Gandalf continued, "how you managed to persuade the King in allowing you to take the Prince's position at the Council?"
The chestnut haired Faye laughed, "You know my father, Gandalf." She replied, "The eyes always work."
The wizard began to chuckle, before taking a draw from his pipe. Adrianna shivered suddenly, feeling evil at work. Just as she was about to relay the feeling to the Fellowship, Aragorn and Legolas ran back towards the group, "Hide!" Aragorn exclaimed.
"Crebain from Dunland!" Legolas added.
Adrianna rushed to her feet and looped three bags over her shoulders before shrinking into fairy from, the bags decreasing in size with her. A hand then came out of nowhere and grabbed her and Adrianna screamed in protest, but then found herself in a warm, dark spot. She had been cramped into someone's pocket!
It was a few minutes until Adrianna felt her captor move as he got to his feet. Rudely, a hand grabbed her and she was pulled out.
Fuming with anger, Adrianna returned to her original form before she turned and glared at Boromir. "How dare you!" She shouted, taking the three bags off her shoulder and dumping them on the floor. "You don't just grab someone and shove them in your pocket!"
"You're thinking too much into it." Boromir rolled his eyes.
Anger surged through her again, "Thinking too much into it? How about I shove you into a pocket and see how you like that!" Aragorn placed a calming hand on the faye's shoulder as Boromir turned and walked away. The faye growled, before walking behind everyone as the Fellowship departed from their camp.
She could see Aragorn and Boromir speaking together ahead of her, but could not make out what they were saying. Then the Gondorian turned on his heel and made his way towards her, "Forgive me, my Lady, for acting without thought." Boromir stated, coming to stand in front of her. "I should not have put you in my pocket."
She was tempted to stick her nose in the air at him, but decided against it when Aragorn gave her a look of warning, "Thank you for the apology." If Boromir was expecting her to apologise for shouting at him then he had better think again! Adrianna changed into her fairy form and flew towards the front of the Fellowship, where Gandalf and Frodo were leading the way. She came to a stop on the grey wizards shoulder and took a deep breath; flying against the wind was quite hard, and she hoped it wouldn't get any stronger than it was.
Gandalf didn't mind Adrianna perching on his shoulder, and as Frodo walked beside Sam and Bill the pony, Gandalf and Adrianna spoke and laughed about the times the wizard came to stay in the Glade of Tarasara.
They stopped talking and turned around when they heard a commotion coming from the back of the Fellowship.
"Boromir!" Aragorn exclaimed, "Give The Ring to Frodo." The Ranger gave the Gondorian a stern looked, which was returned with a smirk as the man handed back The Ring. A few more words were passed, but Adrianna didn't hear them as Gandalf began to tell her a new tale about one of his many visits to The Shire.
They pushed themselves through the thick snow, the four hobbits and Gimli were waist deep whereas Gandalf, Boromir and Aragorn were knee deep. Legolas and Adrianna walked across the top of the snow at the front of the Fellowship with ease as they were both light of foot.
Adrianna turned back to look over the group every now and again to make sure no one had fallen too far behind, and both Aragorn and Boromir had to carry two hobbits each. Adrianna stiffened as she felt as though evil was at work again.
"Can you hear it aswell?" Legolas asked the faye standing beside him.
Adrianna shook her head, "No," She replied, "But I can feel darkness."
"What is it Legolas?" Gandalf called over the roar of the wind. The wizard was using his stick to push the snow out of his path.
"There is a fell voice in the air." The elf replied.
"Saruman!" Gandalf roared, bringing his staff up to fight against the sorcerers magic. But the mountain cracked, and an avalanche of snow fell towards the Fellowship.
Adrianna shrunk into her fairy form to fly away from the snow - but had forgotten about the strength of the wind, and was taken with it. Adrianna narrowly missed the avalanche of snow as she turned back into her normal size and picked herself off of the snowy ground. She ran towards where the Fellowship had once been standing, and began to dig around for the missing members.
Legolas pushed himself out of the snow and climbed to his feet, quickly digging for Gandalf as Adrianna helped Aragorn out of the snow.
It wasn't long until the entire Fellowship had been rescued. They were unscathed (but a little cold) and continued on their journey where Frodo had agreed with Gimli, and decided that they would take the underground route - through the mines of Moria.
Strangely, they had arrived without anymore worries or problems. They tip-toed around the edge of a dark lake, below great looming cliffs just outside the mine and waited for Gandalf to open the door which was set in the face of the rock engraved with faint, slender veins of luminous silver running through the stone.
Adrianna was a little behind the Fellowship. They were all lounging on rocks in front of the closed doors, whereas she was still making her way around the water; stepping with more caution than believed to be necessary. She could feel something evil and she glared, her eyes fixated on the still water before her. And she didn't want to get her boots wet.
"My Lady?" Boromir asked her, holding out his hand towards her.
Adrianna shot the water one last glare before gratefully accepting the Gondorian's outstretched hand. As she passed the water, she sat down on one of the unoccupied rocks and faced the water, her face still untrustworthy of the seemingly calm lake.
Although the gravely ground was uncomfortable, Aragorn sat down beside Frodo to wait with the Ring Bearer for the wizard to open the door. Everyone from the Fellowship had lost their patience by now, and were growing more and more anxious to move along.
Frodo watched the faye with curiosity, and turned to Aragorn for the answer to his question, "Aragorn, is something wrong with Adrianna?"
The Ranger glanced up at the faye to see the brunette staring at the water, her emerald eyes transfixed on the dark lake, unblinking. Aragorn turned to Frodo, "Faye's can sense danger." He stated. "They can feel when something isn't right - which is natural for them." He looked back at the faye, "And she's right to feel something; the Watcher in the water never sleeps."
Frodo looked up at Gandalf who had sat down on the rock behind him, a confused expression on his face which knit his eyebrows together. "It's a riddle." The hobbit stated, "What's the elvish word for friend?"
Gandalf looked up, "Mellon." (Friend) He stated. The rock divided down the middle to reveal two great doors. Heavy rock scraped across the ground and a cloud of dust puffed out of the mines once the doors were opened to reveal pitch black darkness.
Adrianna stood up suddenly, causing Boromir and Gimli to jump slightly. "We should go in," She stated, "Quickly." Although Pippin had stopped skimming stones into the lake, Adrianna knew that whatever was in the water had already been awake. The hobbit had done nothing but anger the creature that lay in hiding, and it was only a matter of time before it struck.
The Fellowship grabbed their belongings and headed into the mines, Gandalf lit up his staff so the Fellowship would be able to see where they were going.
Adrianna paused, so much darkness was swarming these mines, it would probably by safer if they took the road towards the Gap of Rohan - like Boromir had suggested, even if it did take them close to Isenguard.
"It's a tomb." Adrianna only managed to catch the last of what Boromir had said.
"Goblins." Legolas stated, pulling an arrow out of a skeletons' skull.
All of a sudden, Adrianna felt something slip past her ankle. It was cold and wet, "Aragorn." She whispered, loud enough for him to hear her. "There's something moving on my foot." She gasped when the thing clasped itself around her ankle, and just before she was pulled off her feet and dragged along the floor, Aragorn drew his sword and sliced through the tentacle. But then Frodo screamed, and everyone turned around to see him being pulled out of the mines by another thick tentacle.
The Fellowship swiftly left the mines and drew their weapons. Aragorn, Legolas and Adrianna loaded their bows, and fired arrows at the giant water beast, whereas Gimli and Boromir sliced and slashed at the tentacles with their sword and axe. The Hobbits picked up stones and small rocks, and began to throw them at the creature.
As the hobbit screamed and was brought closer towards the open mouth of the creature, the dark lake began to bubble and ripple as the head of the great beast appeared. Aragorn drew his sword and ran into the water, joining Boromir and Gimli to hack away at the writhing limbs.
Adrianna put her bow away and formed into her fairy size. She dodged tentacles and splashing water as she flew overhead the creature. Then she drew her sword and formed back into her normal elf-like size. Gravity pulled her downwards, and as her sword pierced through the Watcher's skull, he roared and dropped Frodo into the awaiting arms of Aragorn before sliding a tentacle around the faye's slim waist and launching her out of the water and towards the rocky wall of the mines.
Before the faye could crash into the rocks, she formed into fairy size and used her wings to slow herself down as she whipped through the air, slowly skidding to a halt. The Fellowship then rushed into the mines of Moria, the Watcher launching huge rocks at their retreating backs and eventually blocking the exit and trapping them all inside.
"I guess we have no other choice but to go through here then." Boromir stated, once again eyeing the white skeleton bones of goblins and dwarves. Adrianna shivered and pulled her cloak even tighter around her body, the feeling of danger left her cold, and she knew whatever this danger was - she had never faced something like it before.
"I don't like being underground either." Legolas stated, coming over to walk beside the fairy formed faye.
"I can feel such darkness from these mines." She stated, looking up at the elf Prince. "Something resides here, and it's not just goblins and orcs."
Everyone walked in silence for a few moments, and Adrianna returned to her elf-like form and looked up at the ceiling, "Gandalf?" She asked the wizard once he had stopped. "We're growing closer to something...I can feel it."
Gandalf simply nodded in reply as the light of his staff threw a creepy glow across his face. "Quietly now," He stated, "It's a four day journey to the other side, let us hope that our presence will go unnoticed."
The Fellowship continued down a steep staircase, and passed through a dwarf cemetery. Skeletons were strewn about and it looked as though goblins had scrawled writing on the different stone monuments in dwarf blood. Adrianna shivered again. Their path then split into three passages, the ends of both were encased in darkness and Gandalf paused in his step, frowning. "I have no memory of this place."
Adrianna's eyes widened, "Oh dear." She perched herself on a stone podium beside the elf Prince as the Fellowship's nervous waiting began.
Gandalf stared intently at the three tunnels and Adrianna needed to focus on something - else she'd go insane. "Are we lost?" Pippin asked.
"No." Merry replied, "I don't think we are."
"Shhhh," Adrianna stated. "Gandalf's thinking." She did not want to be in here for longer than she needed to be.
Merry and Pippin exchanged glances with each other before returning their gaze to the faye and then back to each other again, "Merry!" Pippin whispered loudly.
"What?"
"I'm hungry."
Adrianna listened to their bickering for a while until Gandalf spoke with a bright tone of voice, "Ah! That is the way!" Gandalf pointed towards the right hand tunnel and the Fellowship scrambled to their feet.
"He's remembered!" Merry stated in relief.
"No," Gandalf replied. "But the air doesn't smell so foul down there. If in doubt, always follow your nose!" He chuckled. "Let me risk a little more light." He tapped his staff on the stone ground, and as the light brightened many shadows sprung up and fled. "Behold! The great realm and Dwarf city of Dwarrowdelf!"
The hobbits and Adrianna gasped at the sight of a vast roof, far above their heads. Many mighty pillars of stone stretched up the huge empty hall, the black walls were polished as smooth as glass.
"Well," Sam gasped in awe. "There's an eye opener and no mistake!"
Ahead of them, a wooden door had been smashed and black arrows were embedded in the timbers where two goblin skeletons lay at the doorway. Everyone paused once Gimli started to wail and run into a room at the end of the corridor.
"Gimli!" The rest of the Fellowship ran after the dwarf, and came to a stop in front of a tomb. A stream of light shone down on top of the stone coffin, setting an eerie glow about the room. "Here lies Balin, Son of Fundin, Lord of Moria." Gandalf read the inscription aloud. "He is dead then, it's as I'd feared." The wizard carefully lifted a thick, dusty book off of a stone slab and the pages cracked as he opened it.
"We must go." Adrianna stated, her eyes darting around the room.
Legolas nodded in agreement, "We cannot linger."
All of a sudden, there was an almighty crashing noise and everyone turned around to see Pippin accidently push a dwarf skeleton into the well, followed by a chain and then finally, a big wooden bucket.
Gandalf snapped the book he was holding shut and turned to the Hobbit, "Fool of a Took!" He snapped, "Why don't you just throw yourself in next time and rid us of your stupidity!"
A sinking feeling settle in the pit of Adrianna's stomach, and she noticed Legolas look up. "Drums." He stated and it wasn't long until the entire Fellowship could hear them too, followed by the crying wails of goblins and orcs together.
Adrianna shifted into her fairy form and flew towards the door, closely followed by Boromir. They peered out of the doors quickly before ducking back inside the room and slamming the door closed behind them. "They have a cave troll." Boromir informed the others.
Adrianna shifted back into her normal faye size as she handed Aragorn and Legolas spears, shields and various other weapons, and they passed them to Boromir who bordered up the door. Then they stood and waited; drawing their weapons and facing the door as they did so. Waiting for the battle to begin.
The sounds of orcs and goblins reached their ears, and the door began to be battered from the outside, Legolas fired an arrow at the ugly creature as it burst a hole through the door, and was rewarded with a shout of terror as the creature fell dead to the floor.
Adrianna stepped to the left, and fired an arrow just as the doors burst open and a swarm of orcs and goblins swept into the room. "Let them come!" Gimli growled, readying his axe from on top of Balin's tomb. "There is one Dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath!"
The door burst open in a shower of wooden fragments, and a swarm of creatures filtered through the doors, Aragorn, Legolas and Adrianna had to swap their bows for their swords. Adrianna grew angry as the orcs and goblins seemed hesitant to attack her, she never knew such unearthly creatures to have the manners of a gentleman! But still, she decapitated them all the same, and upon finding that the female could fight - they no longer hesitated.
The Cave Troll burst into the room, taking the doors off it's hinges as he did so. The beast swung it's club - killing many orcs and goblins with it's stupidity.
A big shadow fell over Adrianna during her battle with some orcs, and she glanced up - screaming as she dodged the giant club within a second of almost being struck with it. Samwise tried to come to her aid, but rolled underneath the great beast, drew his frying pan and fought orcs with the steel cooking utensil instead.
Adrianna dodged the club and flew onto the upper ledge of the room, using the pillars as safety. She sheathed her sword and drew her bow again, causing the cave troll to roar angrily and throw his club at her. She barely dodged it, mentally scolding herself for becoming so sloppy with her defence. Another arrow flew through the air and pierced through the trolls flesh, right in the heart - causing the troll to stumble. Adrianna looked towards the right where her saviour had appeared from and nodded in Legolas's direction. She then aimed for his chest and fired another arrow - piercing the troll through the eye - Adrianna grimaced. Now angered, the beast ripped his chain off, and cracked it like a whip. He roared again, sending spit flying everywhere. He turned away from the elf and the faye just as a horde of orcs and goblins came on the attack.
Adrianna barely drew her sword in time, and as the last few orcs and goblins fell to the ground around her, she looked around to see Legolas finish off the troll. It whimpered and cried out before falling to the ground, defeated.
"He's alright!" She heard Sam exclaim with excitement and relief. "He's alive!"
A/N: I would have messaged you Scylla's revenge, but you have disabled the feature :(
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