Meanwhile, Gandalf and Amy had been walking up the hill and find some old ruins they passed.

"How far are we to this place?" Amy asked.

"Not to far." Gandalf replied.


Amy and Gandalf were now climbing a narrow stone ledge built into the side of a tall, bare, mountain. Just as Amy managed to reach the door, Gandalf was about to do the same until the stone ledge he is standing on crumbles away, and he begins to fall, but manages to catch himself and climbs onto the entrance of the doorway.

"Hold on!" Amy cried as he pulled him. "Are you alright?"

"I will manage."

A set of metal interlocking bars that had in the past covered the doorway now sit broken and bent away from the opening. Gandalf and Amy step through the doorway and into a short tunnel going into the mountain. The tunnel ends in a vast, cavernous hollow in the mountain, and the ground falls away into the distance at the end of the tunnel. Gandalf blows the end of his staff and makes it glow; with this light, and examines his surroundings. On the far wall of the cavern, the two see a door similar to the one they had just entered. They go to it by carefully walking on narrow stones set in the sides of the cavern.

"Gandalf, someone must've broken out of this tomb." Amy said quietly as she examined the metal grate that had been broken and bent away. "What evil would do this?"

"This is impossible." Gandalf breathed in shock and enters the enters the crypt and sees a tomb inside. However, the cover of the tomb has been broken. Suddenly, a bird flies out of the broken tomb at Gandalf. Gandalf starts, then turns around to find Radagast behind him.

"Oh, it's YOU!" Gandalf gasped in surprise.

"How did you get here?" Amy asked.

"Why am I here, Gandalf?" Radagast asked, wondering why he was in this dark cavern.

"Trust me, Radagast." Gandalf assured him. "I would not have called you here without good reason."

Radagast removes his hat, and three birds fly into the nest on his head. He then replaces his hat. "This is not a nice place to meet."

"No its not." Amy sighed. "This place is really giving me the shivers." She looks up and down of Rhudaur's tombs. "These are dark spells."

"Indeed." Radagast nodded. "It's old... full of hate. I wonder who was buried here?"

"If he had a name, it's long since been lost. He would have been known only as a servant of evil." Gandalf explained and made a deep echo across the cavern. "One of a number. One of nine."


"Why now, Gandalf? I don't understand." Amy said. "What are Ringwraiths?"

"The Ringwraiths have been summoned to Dol Guldur." Gandalf explained.

"But it cannot be the Necromancer." Radagast assumed. "A human sorcerer could not summon such evil."

"Who said it was human?" Gandalf asked and explained. "The Nine only answer to one master. We've been blind, Radagast, and in our blindness, the Enemy has returned. He is summoning his servants. Azog the Defiler is no ordinary hunter. He is a commander, a commander of legions. The enemy is preparing for war. It will begin in the east. His mind is set upon that mountain."

"Then we need to head back and warn the others." Amy said.

Amy and Gandalf turn and begin to walk away.

"Wait, where are you two going?" Radagast asked, sounding puzzled.

"To rejoin the others." Amy replied.

"Gandalf!" Radagast called.

"I started this; I cannot forsake them. They are all in grave danger." Gandalf said worriedly.

"If what you say is true, the world is in grave danger." Radagast informed. "The power in that fortress will only grow stronger."

"You want me to cast my friends aside?" Amy asked and turned to Gandalf. "Gandalf, tell me your not serious?"