first of the blood elves.

Reality comes and goes, flashes of lucidity before darkness grips him again.

Unimaginable pain mixed with forced feeding.

Hearing your bones creak, break and regrow.

Muscles and tendons breaking down and reconstructing.

He felt his whole being collapsing before it rebuild itself stronger.

2 months passed this way for him.

Until he fully woke up.

He opened his purple eyes a reflection of the valyrian dna used as the human sample.

As Frank was getting a bearing of the surroundings, he felt a power in him at least three times greater than before.

Right after he woke up the door opend.

Mairon walked into the room, his clothes typical for valyrian high noble's.

"I see you woke up Frank."

"That is good; I talked to your half brother about your position in Moria after the procedure."

Frank still sported a heavy headache could only follow half of what Mairon told him.

First he gets dragged here, and now after the weird experiments his brother suddenly wants to come in contact again.

His brother ignored him after he lost against him, in his claim for Moria after their father fell to Thoron oaken shield.

He lived a destitute live neither the lowest caste in the hoard but neither in their lead.

But despite Franks swirling thoughts Mairon rambled on.

"Abandon has regalded you as general after you wake up again."

As Frank got up he was amused to see he now looked down on Mairon.

Mairon looked up to him before taking his arm and pressing it.

Pain shot trough him, while Mairon clinical voice kept sounding like he was looking at a speciment instead of a intelligent being.

"Looks like your strength enhanced within expected parameters."

"Same for growth and reflex's."

Mairons power surged trough Frank inspecting every cell and Viber of his body.

"I will do a few more tests before you can report to your brother."

"First bow"

*Bam* Frank planted his face into the ground.

"W-what is happening to me."

Frank spoke for the first time in two months his voice raspy of disuse.

"Simple I changed orcs in planted loyalty to Morgoth and chanaled it towards me instead."

"You see after I threw of the title of his luitenant most orcs don't follow my orders anymore."

"So I took control of your brother and his family, what made taking over Moria a lot more easy."

"Why control them at all?"

"You have enough power to make us swear loyalty."

"Simple the power structure was already there, making it easier to leave them enstated like a royal family."

"Alright I got everything I need, you can leave now."

"Oh and like I said go visit your brother you have a lot to discuss."

"Yes pale Lord"

*Click* the door sounded after Frank left Mairon alone.

'looks like I need to tinker a bit more with the virus and maybe the magic of the ritual.'

'the results a satisfying but it takes way too long for the reformation.'

'looks like I need to water down the effects, I don't a full army of super soldiers, as long as they are stronger than the enemy and my generals are enhanced magical creatures I am happy.'

'i can't have my army unusable for multiple months.'

'Gondor is already on my doorstep.'

'afyer Frank has been informed of his duties I will enhance Abandon and his family.'

'I will wait a bit with my own family, Vysesa is yet to be fully grown, or grown at all.'

'And I need more time and materials to properly enhance them.'

' but I should start purging the influence of Messenia's late husband from her soul'

'she has avenged him already and it's time she moved on.'

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As time ticked away, the combined forces of Gondor were marching towards Moria.

The dwarves of the grey and lonely mountain were making their way south too.

They would meet at Lorien, planning to penetrate Moria from the backside.

Rivers, marsh and dens woodland slowed their march but they would get there within a month.

Within the forces of Gondor, a heated debate was taking place between the commanders of the army.

"I can't let you risk yourself like that Gandalf."

"I understand Aragarn, but I must understand how he is able to communicate with the world of the living."

"If not, even if we banish him again he would just return in another orc invested stronghold."

"You told me so already, alas if you truly dive in he bellows of Moria we could lose you again."

"We mourned you Gandalf!, and I don't want to repeat the same process."

"Aragorn my friend everything is the will of Eru, if my task is yet to be completed I will return."

"Death did not stop me before and it will not stop me now."

Resigning himself Aragarn left the topic.

"Alright old friend but you are not going alone, I will go with you."

"No! You will not."

"You have something to live for now."

"You are now longer the ranger without land family or responsibility."

"You are a king husband and father now."

"So I will not risk your life like that."

Silence filled the wartent afterwards.

"Alright Gandalf you make a sound point, I will leave this task with you."

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Back in planetos the high Lords of Valyria were in shambles.

Their meticulous plan failed miserably.

The aberration wasn't dead, but one of their high Lords and his heir was sacrificed on the altar of their conspiracy.

This painted a stark contrast with their usual expectations.

They lost thousands of citizens and soldiers. multiple nobles died in the fighting, and all just to show that the monster capable of withstanding dragonfire stood above their mortality.

They blew of his arm just to see it regrown, they summoned their armies just for him to open portals in the hart of their empire capable of spewing out endless monstrosities.

They asked their blood sorcerer's to study their remains, only to see them tremble with fear.

But information was gathered, they were creatures twisted by a dark god to serve his bidding.

Bound by endless torture and servitude.

And now they made the one commanding them their enemy.

And he would return.

Now they could only pray their gods would intervene.