The Elven Gate. the entrance of the Mirkwood forest.
Gray and the other stoped and were preparing to enter. Gandalf found the eye mark and realized whos his enemy might be. So he decided to leave alone searching for the truth.
When Gandalf wanted to leave the dwarves were worried, but after thinking about Gray's strength, they didn't object, and Gandalf said he will come back anyway.
"Gray, you have to take care of them" Gandalf came to Gray's side and said. While looking at the forest with worried eyes. He can feel there is something back inside the forest.
"You don't have to worry since I'm here, nothing will happen to them" Gray knows what Gandalf is about to do, but he didn't stop him, after all, he doesn't have a reason to stop him nor Gandalf will die anyway.
Gandalf wanted to ride his horse again and was ready to leave, but before he left, he pointed to not enter the mountain before he comes back.
Gray watched the back of Gandalf leaving and then turned back, ready to enter the forest.
Soon the party entered the forest, along the way Gray looked around. The forest really was extremely dark, it's hard for sunlight to enter the forest because the trees were very lush and the leaves on the top made many layers that could block the light.
Soon Gray notice that Thorin and the other mental state started to worsen and their thoughts started to get confused.
Seeing this Gray knows that things shouldn't continue in this way. So he floated up and started to lead them from the top.
Even though their situation is not good but there's no problem with basic communication.
After an hour, Gray noticed the spider's webs all over the trees, he knows that they entered the spiders area.
"Be careful, we may be attacked at any moment" Gray shouted to the dwarves down, to tell the truth, he's worried right now. Originally he thought they will soon recover from the bad mental state, but the more time they spent in the forest, the worst their mentality becomes.
"CHIK CHAK" Gray's suddenly heard the sound tree trunks breaking.
He went down to the dwarf's side and both Glamdring and Orcrist were already in his hands, ready for a fight.
Soon Gray saw the sound source.
Spider!. Not the spider he knows but a giant spider, and not one but a group of giant spiders.
"Get ready to fight!" Gray said, and then floated slowly in the air and 5 daggers suspended in the air around him.
WISH!, Gray didn't wait for the spider to attack and took the lead, Five daggers penetrating the heads of the spiders around him, while he was moving between them attacking with his two swords left and right.
Gray's power raised so much since he entered the hobbit world, so killing this group of spiders is not so hard for him, besides these spiders are easy to kill somehow, as long as you hit their heads they will die, even Bilbo was able to kill 2 or three on the original.
But Gray still feels he's lacking many things, for example, his fight style is so stiff!. No fight tactics, no style, simply relying on his overwhelming power to kill his enemy.
Many times before he thought about copying the fighting skill of the dwarves, but the more he thought about it the more he found that he shouldn't do this. The dwarves are short so their fight style is not suitable for normal humanoid besides many of their fighting skills rely on teamwork.
Not long after, killed the last spider around him, but when he looked back he didn't see the dwarves!
"WHAT!" Gray realized that he made a mistake, they weren't in good mentality, so how can they fight those slippery spiders!. Such a stupid mistake, Gray wants to slap himself.
Looking around, he saw the back of the spiders running away. So he followed them in his fastest speed.
Tem minutes later, Gray followed the spider all the way to where they take Thorin and the others. Along the way, Gray killed many spiders who tried to get on his way.
"Kill them!, Eat them, Feast!!!" Gray also found that he was suddenly able to hear the spiders talking from time to time. He remembers that Bilbo was able to understand the spider when he wore the ring in the original.
Thinking of this he looked at the ring on his hand: " looks like you didn't lose your powers completely" Gray was annoyed when he found the ring became useless, but now knowing that it's getting back its ability, such news is very good for Gray. And he also noticed that the ring is getting darker than before, maybe when it completely changes to black, the ring power will appear again.
While thinking about this, Gray saw Thorin and the other, It's just that, they were wrapped up by webs and the spiders around them were ready to eat them.
"BUGS" Gray was really angry this time, at first Gray only treated Thorin and the others as plot characters and didn't really care about them. But throughout their time traveling together, they became closer, laughing together eating together, he already recognized them as his friends.
And now those spiders want to eat his friends in front of him. How can he not get angry?.
WOSH, Gray threw the swords on his hands toward the spider and took two daggers from his pocket and attacked with all he has toward the spider. At the same time, the suspended daggers around him started to cut the web around the dwarves.
After the dwarves freed from the webs, they already recovered from the confusion they were in, so they picked their weapons and attacked the spiders with Gray.
"thock" suddenly an arrow passed by and killed a spider in his side.
"Arrow?" seeing the arrow Gray was surprised, but then he was happy.
"Finally the elves came" As Gray said, the elves appeared around them one by one killing the rest of the spider's around. They were fast, lithe, Great bow skills, full of vitality.
When almost all the spiders were killed, the elves pointed their bow's toward Gray and the other dwarves.
Legolas, Son of the Elvenking Thranduil of Mirkwood, Prince of the Woodland Realm, at this moment he was looking at Gray who was suspended in the air with some doubt.
"Who is this man? Wizard? why can he stand in the air?" many questions appeared on his head, so he was more vigilant, he can feel some pressure from Gray.
Gray saw the vigilant look on Legolas, he doesn't want to have any conflict with the elves after all his survival depends on their Genes, their king's gene to be more specific.
Yes, the one that Gray wants to copy is Thranduil; The king the Woodland Realm. Not only his genes, but also the skills their king has, sword skill, bow skills, fighting skills.
Why not copy Legolas genes? After all, he also the son of Thranduil and would have the same blood quality as Thranduil. To tell the truth, since Gray wants to copy the elven gene anyway, he will aim for the best he could get. besides Gray's wants to copy the elven skills too, Thranduil should be the best choice, after all, Thranduil lived much longer then Legolas, so his skills should be much better.
Gray was ready to greet Legolas, but suddenly two spiders appeared beside one of the elves.
It was a female elf, she reacted fast and strikes one of the spiders, but the other one attacked her before she could react. Seeing this, Legolas' face changed and wanted to save her but it was already late.
Legolas wasn't able to save her, but this doesn't mean others can't.
WISHH, suddenly a sword descend from the sky directly penetrates the spider head, fixing him on the earth not allowing him to move.
"Lady, you should be more careful next time"
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