Disclaimer: We own money... we have a lawyer his name is Alfonzo... we listen to Alfonzo... He tells us this isn't ours... we believe him.
Author's Note:
E.A. Hopkins: Hi
The Wise Grasshopper: Greetings
The First Real Hermione: Soup... I mean sup.
EAH: This is our first LotR fic.
TWG: Well actually...this is my first frick I mean fic... ever
TFRH: This story is written in three different POV'S therefore you will have three different authors.
EAH: Unfortunately for you I will be your author for The Prologue. Ok, stop crying! I'm not that bad! Just to start you off, the plot revolves around three American teenage girls (yeah I know a nightmare!) who start the day off in summer camp and end the afternoon (not to mention the rest of their lives)...somewhere else! Ok! So I present to you Caroline, Riana, and Emma!!!
Three fates... one path...
Three hearts... one voice
Three destinies... one tale
"Emma! Emma!" with great effort I opened my eyes only to find I was being woken up by my counselor, Josie.
"What do you want?!?!" I moaned. My voice sounded foreign and disused after a nights sleep. Drafty camp cabins definitely are not good on the vocal cords. Meanwhile an irritated Josie glared menacingly down at my groggy figure.... I knew exactly what she wanted.
"Wake up the others! You're going to be late!" and with that she slammed the cabin door. How typical. We were going to be late for breakfast again. I glanced over at my cabin mates. Ray's sleeping bag was pulled over her head and wrapped about like a cocoon. She let out a groan and glared at me, but stayed incased in her bedding. Ray never was a morning person. Caroline laid sound asleep on her bed, strait as a pole. Her arms were crossed gracefully across her stomach. So serene, so peaceful, so creepy.
"CARE!" I screeched, majorily creeped out by her funeral-like sleeping position.
"MOVE THINE ASS!" Ray in turn shouted from her position on her bed. Caroline's eyes frantically opened and darted around the room. "Well good morning sunshine..." Ray said sarcastically. She scowled at Ray and looked over at the bed next to hers. Our fourth roommate was a scrawny blond who seem to be anorexicly thin but still ate as much as all of our body weights combined. Curse you metabolism! She appeared to be staring off into space but finally snapped out of it.
"Last night... I had a dream that my toes were hanging off the side of the bed... and somebody cut my toes off." Brianna wasn't the brightest crayon in the box. In my opinion...she's got air for brains. I mean how strange can you get? Not to mention random.
"Morning Brianna." Care smiled pleasantly in her direction, ignoring the obscurity of her previous comment. Joy another morning in aspen cabin! With nothing else to screech at each other we had no choice but to follow Josie's orders and get ready to go to breakfast.
A little while later, we were slowly trudging through the depressing hall they dare call a mess ... about 15 minutes late. It didn't take 2 seconds for us to go through the line... everyone was done. Naturally our expert chefs prepared a meal of crap, crap and more crap with side of raw sewage. Mmm! My favorite!
"God this is good!" Brianna stuffed her face with runny eggs. "What's in this?"
"Oh, well its pure cheese!" Caroline smiled evilly at me. Cheese! CHEESE! I hate cheese with a lethal passion. I gag at the very sight of it. Merely by reflex I spit the mouthful of whatever it was right at some kid at the next table. It hit him square in the forehead. I grinned innocently as he glared at me, shocked by the glob of disgusting runny muck dripping down his nose. Ray began to laugh hysterically, gripping to the table for support. Out of nowhere a big glob of runny eggs hit Ray in the eye. She stopped laughing and looked over to see the boy who I had spit eggs at had another glob ready in his hands. She grinned evilly and chucked some hash browns at some pretty-girl loser, who was looking in a small mirror. She let out a shriek and the great food war began.
"Yogurt, duck!" I screamed as a large glob of something skimmed past Caroline's ear. I set a tray in front of me for protection, while Care and Brianna ducked under the table. Ray leapt up and charged toward a table of rowdy food slinging boys in wild abandon; a large glob of oatmeal at hand. Out of nowhere a bagel, cream cheese and all, hit Care in the face. You could tell she was trying to stay calm but she had had enough. She quickly grabbed a something off the table and joined Ray in her battle. I looked over at Brianna who shrugged and together we ran to join our two companions. All of a sudden a shrill whistle blasted. Everyone halted.
"Everyone to the showers in an orderly fashion now!" Head Counselor Ben screamed. "You four," he glared towards Riana, Caroline, Brianna and I. "Stay here." Great! Why did our cabin always get in trouble? After every stupid camper had left the mess hall Ben approached us. "I want you four to clean up this mess you started, understand?" Without waiting for an answer he proceeded to leave.
"This so sucks guys!" Ray groaned picking up a bucket.
"Well you guys did start it!" Brianna glared at us all "Use your common sense guys!"
"Oh, and this is coming from the woman who thinks her toes are going to get cut off in the night." I rolled my eyes sarcastically. God she was stupid. I took us over an hour to meet Ben's cleaning requirements. Relieved of our duties we walked back to the cabin.
"Ahhhhhh!" Ray screamed from the bathroom. After 40 campers showering, the camps hot water supply was running low. Actually it was none existent. I stared over a Care who was struggling to brush her thick curly brown hair. Brianna was throwing her socks against the wall, sticking them in abstract shapes. "I hate this camp's bathrooms!" Ray came in, a towel rapped around her head like a turban. You could tell she was about to go on but was interrupted by Josie.
"You girls need to report in front of the Recreation Room in 5 minutes! Were playing capture the flag!" We let out a collective groan.
"Okay girls," Josie was pacing wildly in front of us "The boys flag is somewhere on this side of the woods but remember, it's illegal to go through the woods during the game, alright? Now then our flag is on this side of the lake by some bushes. The boundary to our land is right here by the lake understood? Cross it and your as good as dead ladies, now move out!"
"Uh, Josie, what do we do?" Care asked sincerely as our fellow team mates exited the fire pit.
"Well, why don't you cause a diversion in the field near the woods?" And with that she ran off to operate her ingenious plan.
"God, you'd think she thought this was the army or something!" Ray glared at Josie's retreating form.
"Come on guys this is war! Boys against girls! Now let's kick some masculine butt!" Care ran off enthusiastically with Brianna in tow.
"Well if you can't beat them join em." I gave Ray a shrug and ran off after them.
"Well this is a waste of time!" the four of us were standing in the middle of a field, surrounded by... nothing.
"I went to Cancun over spring break, and that was a waste of time." Brianna smiled stupidly.
"If I had gone to Cancun instead of my grandparents I would have made sure it WASN"T a waste of time." Ray rolled her eyes, obviously annoyed.
"You stuuuuuupid fat hobbitses!" I croaked in my Gollum voice.
"It burns, it burns us!" Ray joined in.
"We's told yous he was tricksy!" Care in turn croaked.
"Will the three of you shut up? Not everyone is as weird as you. Lord of the Rings? Come on! Can you act normal for like one millisecond? Gawd you're annoying! The only thing more annoying than you is my pet iguana Jebadiah who enjoys eating my earwax. I..." Brianna wasn't able to finish because during her stupid little whining, some twerp came charging at us crying out like Tarzan, and tagged Brianna.
"A prisoner!" He screamed dragging Brianna.
"Don't worry shortie, my friends will save me." Brianna cried out dramatically.
"Sure we will...not!" Ray began to laugh, leaning on me for support. I watched as Care looked worriedly around us.
"Guys we might get stuck with her again if we land in jail! Plus we're standing in an open field."
"She's right let's hide in those woods." I pointed behind me.
"We can't do that! It's off limits!" Care was beginning to smile mischievously.
"Since when do we follow rules?" We grabbed a still laughing Raina ran quickly into the woods. Ray was taller and had longer legs, making her naturally fast. She sped past, leaving us to run frantically in her wake. Care was light on her feet and seemed to skim over the leaf covered forest floor without touching it. I, on the other hand, was trudging slowly behind struggling to keep up.
"Ray, slow down! We're all not athletes here!" Care called out in a singsong voice. We finally caught up to her, and proceeded in a pace that all were capable of maintaining. We were nearing a clearing when I was thrown violently on my back. A white blinding light flashed, and then all I saw was darkness. I was gone...