Everyone wakes in the morning and goes down to the dining hall for the most delicious breakfast that they can remember, Kanan and Hera getting hooked on something the Elves called 'Tea'.

The Council… "…friends of Old, you will unite or you will fall" The crew of the Ghost has been allowed to attend, under the exception that Chopper hide in the bushes, Zeb and Hera wear cloaks, and the others adopt elvish garb. Which Sabine found quite stylish and comfortable.

"Frodo, bring forth the ring" Frodo walked over to an ornate pedestal and placed a simple golden band on it. Ezra only now felt it, that ring…it just felt wrong, it reeked of sickness, though not of the Force.

Ezra turned to Kanan and said "Kanan do you…" "Yes" Kanan replied, his eyes narrowing as the Force sent warnings through him and Ezra. "That thing is not just a story, I can feel it's power almost like it's speaking." "Yeah" "Be careful around that Ezra" "No need to tell me twice" Ezra replies

The rest of the crew hear this exchange and it worries them, if that is what they sense than this little ring can only spell trouble.

"It is a gift, a gift to the foes of Mordor" says one regal looking man "Long have my people died to keep your lands safe, let Gondor have the weapon of the enemy" he reaches out to take the ring, at that moment Gandalf stands up and begins to chant in a dark language, storm clouds forming as he chants. Ezra and Kanan grip their heads in pain, as Elrond reels, and the man stumbles back to his seat. Even Zeb looks mildly disturbed by this blatant display of power.

"Never before has that tongue been uttered here in Imladris!" Elrond almost seems enraged, "I beg neither your pardon nor your forgiveness, for the black tongue of Mordor may yet be heard in all the lands of Middle earth, the ring is altogether evil" and Gandalf sits back down, Ezra scooting a little farther away, closer to Kanan, from the wizard.

"The ring must be destroyed, there is no other choice "Gandalf said, "Well what are we waiting for!" one red haired dwarf, as Elrond called them, gets up and smashes an axe into the ring, causing a large cracking noise, blasting the dwarf backward, shattering the axe, and causing the Jedi quite some mental pain.

"The ring, Gimli son of Gloin, cannot be destroyed by any craft we here possess, it was forged in the fires of Mount Doom, only there can it be unmade…one of you must do this…" Elrond concludes"

Silence reigns, and Sabine mutters "Don't all volunteer at once", then the regal man from earlier said wearily, and warily "One does not simply walk into Mordor, It's black gates are guarded by more than just orcs, there is evil there that does no sleep, and the great eye is ever watchful. Tis a barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash, and dust, the very air you breath is a toxic fume, not with ten thousand men could you do this, it is folly."

At that a blonde haired elf stands up and shouts "Have you heard nothing Lord Elrond has said, the ring must be destroyed!" Then the dwarf, Gimli, retorts "And I suppose you think that you're the one to do it!" then the regal man shouts "And what happens when Sauron takes back what is his!?" then Gimli has the final word by saying "I will be dead before I see the ring in the hands of an elf!" at that the council erupts into chaos, everyone yelling at one another.

"Never trust an elf!" yells Gimli, Kanan looks at Hera and she nods as Frodo yells "I will take it!" not hearing him he yells "I will take it!" again at which the council quiets down and looks at this Hobbit "Though I do not know the way"

Then Gandalf stands up and says "I will help you bear this burden Frodo Baggins, as long as it is your burden to bear" then Aragorn gets up and says "If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. You have my sword"

"And you have my bow" says the blonde elf from earlier, "And my axe!" yells Gimli. Deciding that the time is upon them, and much to Zeb and Chopper's displeasure Kanan gets up and says "And you will have our help as well" motioning to the crew.

Chopper wheels out of the bushes and Hera and Zeb remove their cloaks, stunning the council, "We are not from here but we shall help you all the same" finishes Kanan, Zeb mumbles "Karabast"

Recovering from his shock the regal man says "You carry the fate of us all little one, if this is the will of the council then Gondor will see it done."

Then Sam runs out from behind another bush and says "Mr. Frodo's not going anywhere without me" With Elrond saying "No it is hardly possible to separate you, even when he is summoned to a secret council and you are not."

Suddenly Merry and Pippin come running over and Merry yells "We're coming too! Have to send us tied up in a sack" With pippin adding "Anyway, you need people of intelligence on this kind of mission, quest…thing" "Well that rules you out Pip" chides merry.

Looking at Gandalf who simply smiles Elrond says "Very well, Fifteen companions, so be it you shall be the Fellowship of the Ring" and then Pippen asks "Great, now where are we going?" and gets a headslap from Merry.