A/N: I am sooo sorry that it's taking me this long to write more chapters. I currently have track every day after school for a while, so chapters might take a while to get up. After that I'll try to get up a bunch o chapters. (If I don't have any big projects, that is).

In the mean time, here's a new chapter! Hope you like it!

Oh, and by the way, I have a new.. er… thingy so that you know if there's a new paragraph. Whenever you see ~~, that means that you're beginning to read a new paragraph. Happy reading!

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Krystal held out her hands as Galadriel handed her a piece of silvery clothe that, when she unfolded it, went from her head to her feet. The cloak was thin and felt like raindrops sewn together with a thin thread.

"I give to you the cloak of miste. Let it be a shield for you when the darkness seems near. Namarië."

Krystal bowed her head and replied, "Namarië."

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Krystal and the Fellowship softly rowed their way down the river Anduin in their boats, heading for the Great River. They rowed into the western shore and got out of the boats.

"We wait until nightfall, then continue forward on the eastern shore," Aragorn instructed them. Krystal nodded and sat down her pack near a rock. She sat down and lay back onto the rock, watching the water and trying to calm down. But she knew it was no use. Ever since the night before and her brief meeting with Galadriel and the mirror, she had been troubled by the images she had saw. What did they mean? She tried to take her mind off of the image by watching Aria practicing shooting arrows while sitting on a branch in a tree, targeting another tree not far away.

"I've got you this time," She said quietly to the tree as she pulled the bow and arrow tight and, as she has done many times, pulling it too far. And, to Krystal's amusement, was off target by more than a few feet. The arrow shot off with such a great force that it knocked Aria right off the branch and into some bushes that lay below her. The arrow shot not straight ahead at the tree as she had hoped, but straight downwards to the left and shot right past Frodo, just barely missing his head. Frodo jumped with fright as the arrow went zooming off past him and into the water. Krystal, Isabella, and Pippin, being the only ones who had been watching, burst out with laughter and amusement. Aria got out of the bushes and, when having learned what had happened after she fell out of the tree, went over to a, if I may say so myself, very freaked out Frodo and apologized. Legolas looked at the eastern shore and saw something moving in the shadows that the trees gave off.

"There is something over there," He said. Aragorn walked towards Legolas and looked at the shore ahead of them before taking out his sword.

"Orcs," Aragorn started backing up. "Quick, go!" They turned and ran through the trees just as the Orcs started running through the water on a more shallow part, their fowl black swords and weapons in the air.

They ran from the Orcs as quickly as they could go, dodging hedges and trying not to trip over logs that lay on the ground.

"Quick, split up!" Aragorn yelled, turning away from them. Legolas and Gandalf followed Aragorn as Aria and Isabella ran diagonally to the right. Krystal, Frodo, Pippin, Merry and Sam ran to the left and jumped behind a wide tree. They held their breath as Orcs ran right past them, afraid that even a leaf falling would give away where they were. Krystal and the others ran out from behind the tree and towards where everyone else had gone, just as another group of Orcs ran straight at them. Krystal yelled and swerved to the right, running quickly down a hill. Merry, Frodo, Pippin and Sam followed her, trying not to slip on wet spots that seemed to be everywhere. They reached the bottom of the hill and ran forward. Krystal tripped over a log and fell onto her face, bringing out her hands too slowly. The others stopped as they passed her by a few feet and turned around as Orcs got closer and closer to her.

"Find the small elf!" One of the Orcs yelled.

"Krystal!" Frodo yelled, taking out his sword.

"Elendil!" Aragorn ran at the Orcs with his sword, cutting into them before they could reach Krystal. Krystal got up and started taking out her sword.

"Don't!" Aragorn ordered her. "Go, now!" Krystal nodded and sheathed her sword and turned around, running quickly with the hobbits down to the river where the boats were. They pushed one of the boats forward and jumped in, rowing across the river to the eastern shore. They got out of the boats as they landed on the shore.

"Come on," Frodo said as he got his pack out of the boat. "Let's go." Krystal nodded as she put her pack on her back and looked at the western shore where the others were still fighting.

"I wonder if they will be all right?" Krystal asked herself. They all turned and walked into the woods of the eastern shore, starting to calm down as they left the noise and danger behind them until they would face a greater fear.

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A/N: That's the end of this fanfiction! I'm going to be writing these like the books, so there will be three fanfictions in all. The next fanfiction will be called: A Ring of Surprise: In the Land Where the Shadows Lie

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