The Nine to Free Them All

MINAS MORGUL

P.O.V OUR WANNABE HEROS

Daring was right in front of us at our mercy. What should we do?

I think it would be foolish to let her go squabbling back to the princesses.

I agree we must remain scarce.

We could give her a choice. Crocker suggested

This peaked my interest. What do you suggest?

I suggest that we give her the choice of living here in peace or going back to her media driven home.

He has a very good point. We are not monsters, so we will not keep her against her will. But if we let her go back we could give her an exception.

And what would that exception be?

To include all of this in her next book.

Outstanding thinking Johnny!

And so with our decision we surrounded the laughing Daring. She quickly stopped and looked around for escape only to come up short hooved. She let out a sad sigh and said,

"Congrats. You got me, the great Daring Doo." with a heavy sigh and some tears in her eyes. I felt a knot in my stomach and a pang of guilt at the sight.

"Do not fret little pony, you have yet to die and we will not be the bringers of your death. But know this, our doors are always open to you if you want to get away from your fame or fortune to pursue your passion. We give you a choice. You can live here in Minas Morgul or you could go home to the media, with the exception that you write a book involving what happened here today." I said in a fatherly tone. But she looked at me incredulously.

"Why would you want to be in my next book?" she asked with suspicion.

"We need to clear our names with the princesses. But we need help, can you do that for us?" I asked. Daring looked deep in thought for a moment before looking back at me and said,

"That depends on what you did to irk the princesses." she said with the same suspicious tone as before.

"We havent exactly met but that wont stop Celestia from sending us to tartarus for power and looks alone." I stated knowing that she knows this is true about Celestia, she can be too quick to judge. Again Daring slipped into deep thought and then spoke up,

"Can I think about this offer? Im not sure if I trust you guys yet." She managed to say before we cut her binds and she fell to the stone floor. I helped her up and said,

"Take all the time you need but if your going to right your book tell the truth and tell them we are not villains." I pleaded.

"O-ok, I guess I could." Good. Now we can stay here and rebuild. "By the way, what are you?" I took a step forward.

"We are the nine Nazgül or wraiths." Her eyes widened and her jaw dropped. "If you choose to stay with us you would be under the best protection in the world." I added in.

"W-well thanks for freeing me and letting me live but I'm gonna go back to my home and ill think about your offer. Again thank you." She said calmly and started trotting away.

Once she was out of sight I turned to the others and said, Time to get to work. Lemur I need you to tail Luna so that we can keep an eye on her, Im worried about her. And Crocker I want you to gather info in ponyville about anything, anything important.

oooooooo! Do I hear a crush? Drak mocked.

*sigh* Im not dealing with with you right now, we need to get to work on rebuilding Minas Morgul to its former glory. And so we began our work to build our new home.

2 Weeks Later

Minas Morgul is looking better than ever I told everyone. Where there used to be cracks and chips in the stone and broken towers were now flawlessly built stone archways and streets with rebuilt towers along the outer walls. All was normal, Lemur and Crocker report back to me every week and everyone was working on building homes. My musings were cut short by Cryo running up to me with a letter in his hand.

"A letter from Daring Doo" He wheezed

Rest while I take this letter. He weakly nods and walks off

I open the letter and start to read:

Dear Nazgül,

I have given a lot of thought upon your offer and I graciously accept and will be arriving in a week to move in. I am about to finish my new book, and as promised, included Minas Morgul in it. Let's hope it has the desired effect that you so longingly want, I mean what kind of wraith are you? The good kind? I hope you arent fooling me because then you would be the first villain to get this far. Anyways, see you in a week!

-Daring Doo

*snort*Villain. I am excited to see our first LIVING resident in a week if nothing arises- That thought was immediatatly put to a halt when Crocker came sprinting up to me.

"My leige! There is talk of attack in the back alleys and bars. Some stallions and mares in midnight blue cloaks were talking about escape routes in the castle and where the princesses were to be, and there was more talk about one in particular. Princess Luna's return has seemingly off-put this lot and are going to go to extreme lengths to kill Celestia. Further inquiry led me to the upcoming gala in 3 days." Oh no. No no no. I started panicking. If there was going to be an attack during the Grand Galloping Gala, that means everyone is going to be there! Twilight and her friends, Luna, Celestia, possibly Cadence, possibly Shining Armor, and, lets not forget, Blueballs! (I know its not his name but he doesnt deserve my respect.) For the first time in a long time, I was concerned. I was concerned about the Mane 6 and Celestia, but most of all, Luna. She seemed to be the main target of this attack, and ill be damned if I'm gonna let her slip into these guys' clutches just like that!

NAZGÜL TO THE MAIN CHAMBER!! Everyone went sprinting into the main chamber, which had 9 elevated thrones in a circle like in Dol Guldur and old Middle-Earth paintings lining the walls and the ceiling was a map of Middle-Earth. We each sat upon our thrones, mine being higher than the rest, and we started discussing our plan of action.

News bends my ears to beleive that there will be an attack in Canterlot at the Gala. Everyone was slightly shocked to hear this and began thinking solutions. Except Drak....

*snicker* At the Gala *snicker* Crisis looked over at him disapprovingly.

Do I need to swat you again?

No ma'am! He got swatted in the back of the head by a torch stand.

Would it be a possibility to warn them? He asked hopefully.

Not a chance. No way, no how.

Then perhaps we should intervine?

Yes perhaps. But its very risky. If Celestia gets to us before we get to them we are gonna be in a world'o'shit.

If it comes to that we can parley, but we need to get involved.

We need a plan of action. What do you propose we do, my liege?

We do overwatch until we are needed. Now there isnt a moment to lose. We make for Canterlot! Everybody got up and left the room. We were able to catch 9 wild Stag. So we enchanted them to each of our will and gave them black fur with blood red eyes to match our style. Each one of us got on our Stag and departed for Canterlot.

TO BE CONTINUED....