Tauriel had fought the Darkness over 600 Years now. She had been promoted by the great King personally and he had always supported her. He had even allowed that she and his Son, Prince Legolas, became good friends. But he would never allow his son to marry a lesser Wood Elf like her. 

Over the Years she had grown into a deadly Warrior and an expert with the Bow. She had hunt everything in the Wood. Spiders, Orcs, Human and things that were to cruel to think about a name for them. But the Situation had changed somehow. The Wood had became darker and the light had faded out of the most areas. The great King had ignored these information and had ordered his Warriors that their only Duty was it to defend the Bother of his country. What happened outside was none of his concern. 

Tauriel feared that this would bring great disaster over her kind but even as the Leader of the Royal Guard she was not allowed to talk to the King about her Worries. So she decided to try to find out on her own what was cursing the Woods and which kind of illness had fallen over the World and her Homeland. She moved trough the Woods in every single Minute that she could spend but found nothing. She had encounters with some single Orc Mobs and some Spiders but nothing that would explain what happened. 

After a few days she finally found the old Castle known as Dol Guldur. It was a place that had been old before her first days on this world and it was a place of Magic. She could feel the flowing of ancient Magic in the corner of her Mind. It was cold and not the Kind of Magic that her race used. She had felt similar as she had fought against some of the darker beings in the Wood but not at such dimensions. Carefully she walked over the old Bridge that lead her into the scary Building. She had felt fear before but always had managed to get over it with her willpower and her training. But here it was something else. She felt a dark cold hand that tried to reach for her soul and take it to a darker place. She took her Bow into her left hand and in her right hand she had one of her Arrows. She would find the Source of the Evil and then she would try to defeat it.

As she moved to the forgotten Places of the Castle she could not see anything that would be a prove for some Presence in this castle. She was deep inside of the Building as she saw a strange light deep underneath herself. It came from one of the Chambers downstairs. It looked like a flame or a fire that burned. So she moved down with all her trained skill and not made any sound on the ground. As she opened the Door she saw a giant burning Ball of Fire that engulfed someone. It looked like a giant burning Eye of Fire with a black Pupil inside of it. She wanted to scream, wanted to run away but was unable to look away. She felt a cold dark presence inside of the Fire and was mesmerized by it.