This was an idea I've had in my brain forever and it is slowly killing me not to write this. This is inspired by Avatar:The Last Airbender. I may have changed the timelines to fit my needs and plans for this story. Just letting you know, and sorry if the first chapter is a little fast but I'm setting the stage for the story. After this chapter the story will begin to even out into a slow burn.

Oh and if you guys want you can choose from these three pairings, and if enough people lean one way or I make up my mind there will be a definite pairing.

Pairings: Female Bilbo Baggins/Aragorn, son of Arathorn

Female Bilbo Baggins/Legolas Greenleaf

Female Bilbo Baggins/Fili

Rating: T

The Hobbit belongs to J.R.R. Tolkien.

It starts as a longing sensation, to want to be near and dear to the elements itself.

Then there is the need to be near a specific element.

Next, the afflicted person begins a certain degree of control over said element.

Finally, said person is to seek out others that master the element so they themselves can learn it.

There is a drawback, however, and it will affect the person until they become masters of their own element and teach their knowledge to another student. This is only used for people who refuse the Call, and over time the numbers of these people have grown. Though they should know that there is no escape from the Call and have learned this lesson the hard way.

Children and adults from all races have been Called by this need to learn and control; they then learn to get along with the other races during the period of time known as the Wandering. Then they learn to use their elements in groups with the same affinity in a period of time called the Apprenticing. After learning to completely be at one with their element they experience a time called the Mentoring before they feel the hold on their instincts be released and they can integrate into their old culture again or join their new one. They were legends.

They were the Elements Benders.

Fili, son of Dis, experienced the first tendrils of the Call when he was forty-five and was still considered a small child in the race of the dwarrows. He was always close to the earth as all dwarrows were, but he was continuously found trying to sneak into the mines to be as close as he could to the earth. His uncle and mother were always seen rushing to the mines in the Blue Mountains' mines to retrieve the child and brought him home even if he was kicking and screaming.

Then when he was nearing forty-seven he had been playing in the dirt with his little brother Kili when he moved the boulder that was in their little play area. It may not have moved much but it was enough for Fili to realize something was wrong with him. After his mother had told him that he must have had some imagination to conjure a tale like that he knew that he would never be believed.

Kili, like the little angel he was, encouraged Fili to follow his instincts and the two dwarflings were often seen playing with the stones and earth around them. When people weren't watching them it was Kili who sat atop large rocks while Fili moved them. He moved the rocks and earth while swift movements of his feet or strong stances with his arms and hands.

When he was forty-eight, Fili was sick and delirious with the need to leave Ered Luin and was confined to his room by the healer Oin. His mother watched with tears in her eyes and a hand over her mouth as he finally strapped to the bed after his many escape attempts. His sickness lasted for months and he, himself, refused to follow the Call if only for the sake of his family.

He was not yet forty-nine when he went blind; screaming in the early mornings for his mother and for Mahal to give him back his sight. Dis had cried as she lead him outside two days after he went blind and was awestruck as her son maneuvered through crowds as if he could see. Though the milky white eyes that stared her dead in the eyes told her that he was blind and when she asked him to tell her how he moved he smiled.

"Its like I can see the vibrations in the ground Amad!"

Through all this he suffered the Call and finally broke when his uncle traveled to Bree in order to get enough money to feed their family in the Winter months. He left in the dead of night and took clothes and a meager amount of food with him in his desperation to get his aching need to stop. Fili would never hear the anguished screams of his brother and mother when they woke the morning to find that the blonde prince was gone.

As he traversed the lands East he met a hobbit.

Belle Baggins was descended from a respectable line of Hobbits and an adventurous one as well, she was ten when she began wanting to swim. Despite the Hobbits adversity to water she found that she could swim better than some of the Rangers that stopped by the Shire. Her mother was shouting her prayers to Yavanna when she first caught sight of the fauntling paddling through water, and she was forever grateful when her husband plucked the small child from the tiny pond.

She was eleven when she began fussing for more milk during dinner, and after her father declined to give her more he was shocked to see his daughter flick her wrist and the milk in the pitcher flew up out of the porcelain. Then it began to shake as it floated in the air before falling on the table and all over the pie her father baked that morning. Her instincts told her to seek out the Brandywine River so she could see how much control she possessed, but in honor of her father's respectability she didn't.

The aching need to follow these impulses was nearly crippling in her opinion and when she refused to follow the thoughts that meant for her to leave the Shire she got ill. Very ill indeed.

Her large ears were red and her mind was frazzled and even Gandalf the Grey couldn't seem to find what was wrong with the small child.

The next day after she got sick, Belle lost her hearing.

The cries and sobs that she made even made her horrid cousin-to-be Lobelia Bracegirdle feel bad for the young girl and when the fever lingered for weeks Belladonna and Bungo Baggins feared for Belle's life.

Before Belle was even twelve she up and left the Shire completely, leaving only a goodbye note and taking a large pack of food and clothes along with Belladonna's walking stick. For many days she alluded Rangers and animals before she met up with a dwarf. Her mind told her to trust the dwarf and she read his lips to communicate.

"I can't hear you," she told him after meeting the blonde.

"I can't see you," he informed her as they settled for the night. Belle sharing her rations with him and Fili giving her his blanket for the night.

It was a week after the left the borders of Bree they met an elf.

Legolas was the prince of the Woodland Realm and had fended off the Call for centuries for the sake of his father, who had spent many centuries a widow. He was unable to talk to the two and written words in Westron for Belle to read and tell Fili. He was a mute hunter who helped extended their supplies, and due to his tall stature and being of age in the eyes of Elves he became their protecter.

He remembered when the Call started, and even though he couldn't remember how old he was at the time all he knew was that the sky and air called out to him. So he spent most of his childhood and teen years jumping through trees to experience the air and was well into his 8th century when he controlled a bitter wind from the south. His father watching as a small barrier protected him and Legolas from the bitter cold breeze, and he immediately confined Legolas to the Palace in order to stop these phenomenons.

His worry drove him to keep his son in isolation and it grew more when the elf grew sick in his 9th century; and with a heavy heart he had been forced to see his son loose his voice. The sweet chimes that kept Thranduil going was taken from him and to keep his greenleaf from following his heart's urges Legolas was locked in his room. For decades he attempted many escapes and finally succeeded one night during Mirith-En-Gillith when the guards at his doors were drunk.

Then after leaving the Mirkwood with nothing but a bow and his quiver of arrows he stayed in the care of Radagast the Brown for many centuries after. Then the Call had returned full force and he departed West and met up with a dwarfling and a fauntling. The two felt much better after meeting him and they continued East and it was near the Citadel of the Kindly West they met Aragorn.

He was a young teen at the age eighteen when he met the three travelers, and he had first called himself Estel before flat out telling them his birth name. Aragorn told him of his lineage without a care and in the hours after meeting the human they found he lost his emotions.

Telling the others of his story didn't faze the young Man.

"My mother was slain by orcs and I watched as my father was eaten by wargs. It was then that I wanted fire, and I ignored all the signs and everything until I just didn't feel anything. Then after being taking in by Lord Elrond and his kin it was then that I felt the need to be here, and in order to be here I set fire to Elrohir and Elladan. "

"That's sad," the young hobbit murmured as Fili held her in his arms.

"It's life," he responded.

They then headed for the place called Eryn Vorn after seeking their hearts for council, and they all had been through the wear and tare of the weather during their journey. Fili was comforting Belle who was doing the worst out of the four of them, and over time she got used to the cold treatments of Aragorn and the rations they were forced to. Legolas often let the hobbit atop his shoulder when she could take no more and by the time they had reached Eryn Vorn Belle had turned twelve, Fili was fifty-one, Legolas refused to give his age but gave them a hint as to the centuries he lived. Aragorn was now nineteen and despite him not feeling emotions he was closest to Belle.

In the woods that lie in the region of Eryn Vorn they found sanctuary, and began to drift apart towards towards their elements.

~.~.~.

Belle was thirteen when she mastered the basics of water and among the elves and humans that shared her affinity she blossomed. Even though she was the only Little Folk who was Called to the Water she began to get good at her element. Her apprenticing under a human woman named Hildigard she mastered Water using her patience and did it faster than the others who were Apprenticing.

Her Mastery lead her to be the youngest Master to Mentor a group of three elves, one dwarf, and five humans and due to their slow learning she spent three years teaching them.

"Master Belle! Let me out!" a young she-elf cried out from her icy cage. It was all for naught when she saw that Belle's back was turned on her and she sat in a huff as Belle kept her attention elsewhere for hours. While the hobbit was sorry for the elf who lost her fertility she was not sorry for putting her in her place, and she was rightly so. The blonde elf was seen trying to encase her fellow 'benders', as the Masters called them, in ice during the dead of night so she could get one-on-one teaching from Belle.

A smile crossed Belle's face as she watched Fili surf into her little lake area on a wave of earth, and in his hands was her lunch. He stopped short of the lake Belle was waist deep in and tossed her a water-skin filled with milk and three apples. Other Earth-Benders came to her students rescue with food of them, each getting a water-skin with refreshments of their choice and three apples.

Fili was a rather fast-learner and became a Master at the age of fifty-three; he was the proud Mentor of ten dwarves, two hobbits, and one human. His approach to teaching them was similar's to Belle's while his punishments were reminiscent to that of Aragorn's. The human made his student run the perimeter of Eryn Vorn with nothing but their clothes and a water-skin of stagnant water, courtesy of Belle. He was the proud Master of Fire and had finished mentoring his group of students before taking on more.

When he was twenty-three he gained back his emotions after his fifth group of students, and while he Mastered Fire with ease Legolas was the last to Master.

The elf was the only student to two Mentors and he spent four years learning the basics of air and four months to Master. Just when he finished his Apprenticing he had one student come in and smiled at the little dwarf. He was shocked to see her Master in six months and even more to gain three more students after the little dwarf.

While he, Belle, and Fili never gained their senses back they were more than happy for Aragorn. It was when Aragorn took on a sixth class they heard news of unrest from the people of Arda. People of all races were alarmed as children and adults left their towns and cities only to never be seen again. When Legolas and Belle took on a third class and Fili his second there were no others who the Call took.

For a year after the last Mastery, there was no students to come to Eryn Vorn and the town of dozens were now kept to themselves. It wasn't all that bad, since the town was composed of people of all four races who could live in harmony. Though the races tended to live in their own sections, and while the hobbits made the smallest group of ten the dwarves rounded out to twenty-five. Humans singled out to a good nineteen, while elves lived happily in a group of thirty. After many couples got together the numbers started to grow.

Fili was sixty when he and the three he came with had left Eryn Vorn on a whim; a whim that they felt since the Call receded. The dwarf could feel an unrest in the Earth and Belle tasted bitter evil in the Water. A dry dead Wind disturbed Legolas while Aragorn was frightened to feel that the Fires began to grow cold.

It was with heavy heart that they left their town that rested in the large canopy of Eryn Vorn, and they all turned to wave goodbye to the hanging village before heading out. Legolas went north and followed to dead wind with three others at his back, one whom was not yet twenty!

When they finally saw civilization in Michel Delwing, Belle couldn't look at the other hobbits whom gave them a wide berth as they walked down windy roads. Her hands at the ready for any sign of trouble and Aragorn calmed her from lashing out. Though when they arrived in Hobbiton, Fili heard news of the Mad Belladonna who up and left her grand smial with a group of fourteen dwarves. Many calling for the deed of the home seeing as her spouse Bungo was killed in the Fell Winter and there was none who lived in the hobbit-hole.

Belle cried into Fili's arms when he relayed the news to her and they began to track the Company of Dwarves and the Grey Wizard. She was desperate to see her mother after nine nearly ten years of separation, and he sad puppy eyes had Legolas succumbing to her will. He would mumble under his breath about how unfair it was that she had him twisted around his finger if he could, but settled on kicking stones down the path to Bree.

It was on the East Road that Fili saw the vibrations in the Earth that lead him to a giant boulder, behind he could feel the vibrations of three trolls and fifteen of the Little Folk. While he couldn't tell the time of night it was he knew it was late since Belle and Aragorn were sleeping as Legolas took third watch. Pushing his legs and feet into a horse stance (See notes at bottom), his bare feet surged forward while his fists were raised upwards. Bending the stone to his will he then used the boulder to crush one troll.

The sudden appearance of young Fili, who didn't even had a grown beard while he braided his mustache, had started the hobbit and dwarrow that were in the camp. A wicked smile was on his face as he thrust a palm up towards the boulder and kicked his left foot out and the boulder rolled over the next troll. A whip of water had stopped him from doing the same to the last troll and he tilted his head as the troll turned to stone before him.

The little hobbit had extinguished the fire that seven dwarves were roasted on before tugging on Fili's tunic harshly.

"We gotta go Fili! Legolas is ready to push on!"

He nodded and began to turn with her when a deep baritone voice stopped him, "Fili? Is that you?"

"Belle? BELLE!" the hobbit woman screamed as she fought her way out of the bag keeping her hostage and ran towards her lost child.

"What in Arda is going on?!"

Belle cringed as her mother slammed into her and Aragorn and Legolas jumped into the clearing.

She and Fili were screwed.

~.~.~.

A ball of fire lit the twenty-eight year old's hand up as he took in the situation, and behind him Legolas pulled his bow and arrow of his back. The dwarves had begun to climb out of their sacks with help from the others and redressed themselves. He groaned, why did Belle and Fili always have to find trouble? Sensing no danger from the group in front of him he let the fire die out and nodded to Legolas who then put his weapons away.

"My baby! I've missed you so much!" he turned to the woman who he assumed was Mad Belladonna, and saw that she was hugging Belle to her chest.

The leader of the Company had raven hair that was tinged with silver strands pushed Belladonna away from the small tween and the Company took up arms around the woman. He sighed, this was gonna be a pain in the ass.

"Dammit, I knew we should never had left the Cape," behind him Legolas nodded in agreement.

"Who are you?" the dwarf growled at Aragorn as he stood in front of Fili who looked straight ahead.

"I am the Master of Fire. You are?"

"Thorin, son of Thrain, son of Thror; now tell me why my sister-son is with you."

Fili snapped his head to Thorin and stared with his milk white eyes, "Uncle Thorin?"

The dwarf grabbed Fili by the arm and dragged him to the Company where he was received with arms wide open at the mention of the Lost Prince. "Fili!" Belle wailed as she used her water to form a whip and grabbed his other arm. Aragorn burned an arrow that came their way and glared at the small dwarf who shot it, and was surprised to see a dwarfling hold his own against him.

"Don't touch him!" he cried out as a... female? dwarf smacked him in the head.

"Kili!" she yelled as she pulled the young dwarf back into the protection of the Company.

Belle's water whip pulled both Fili and Thorin towards her and the two, her desperation to keep the blonde dwarf near her was noticeable. In order to get the dwarves to let go of their weapons Aragorn shook his head at Belle and extinguished his flames. "We mean you all no harm, all we want is our companion back," he said with his hands pointed skyward. "Please release him and we'll be on our way," but as he said this he knew the chances of that happening were slim as the dwarrowdam also started to pull on Fili's arm.

"Fili, listen to your Amad and come with us," she whispered with tears streaming down her face as she tried to hug the dwarf to her body.

The little tween was not about to let the blonde dwarf go that easily and used her water to drag all three of them to ear before separating them with a water wall. She latched onto his arm and refused to let him go, and all the while Legolas just sat down and watched with mirth on his face. He was taking great enjoyment in this but was ready for the moment he would intervene.

"What is going on here?!" a deep gravely voice thundered and everyone except for Belle turned to the newcomer.

He was a tall man who were nothing but grey and held a staff that shined light into the shady clearing, when Belle turned to look at the man her jaw dropped. A smile broke out on her face before she ran to hug the Tall Man, "Gandalf! You're here!" As she clung to his robes the other dwarves had calmed considerably but they had not yet released their weapons.

"Let's calm down and shine some light on these happenings," he advised before gently pushing Belle away. "It has been a long time since I last seen you Little One," he said, "But where in all of Middle Earth did you go?"

"I can't tell you Gandy," she said brightly before racing off to be near Fili and Aragorn.

One of the dwarves who crept away from the Company after being released yelled to gather everyone's attention, "Oi! I found the Troll's Horde!"

Fili stared in the direction of his mother and uncle before using the earth to propel himself atop the boulder he used to kill the trolls, and Belle could only laugh in delight as she went along for the ride. The dwarves dispersed into groups and while many went into the Horde, like Gandalf, many also stayed. Belladonna was being held back by the dwarrowdam and the youngest dwarf while the little family looked in longing at Fili's direction.

The elf played with the direction of the wind as he waited for the inevitable to begin, and frowned at the dead wind that blew East and caused his long blonde hair to flutter in the wind. Aragorn sighed as he watched the family of dwarrows hold back the crying hobbit and deep in his heart he felt sorrow.

It was in this moment that he wished he didn't get his emotions back, for he longed for a family again.

He didn't want the shame that he felt when he remembered the elves of Rivendell that he burned.

He didn't want the envy that he knew when Belle had gravitated to Fili.

He didn't want the hatred that he aimed towards the dwarves that dare try to hurt Belle.

Aragorn didn't want it.

~.~.~.

"So where to start?" Fili asked as the convoy of dwarves, hobbits, humans, and the sole elf continued East. All using different methods of transportation, some of which made even the most stubborn dwarf awestruck.

Fili used his bare feet to surge a small wave of Earth to keep him at a pace that the other elements benders were happy with. Belle gracefully swung her arms to slide down ice she formed and melted to ice to reuse the Water to make more slides that she used to zigzag through the Company. Next to her was Legolas who silently used his Air to make a ball of wind and controlled it to move in whatever direction with the tilt in his body and a foot to stabilize the Air. Flying in the air was Aragorn who was positioned between Belle and Fili and used his Fires in every extremity he had to keep his body in the air.

All the while the dwarves rode ponies, and looked at the group in envy.

"The beginning would be nice son," Dis had said.

To Belle, Legolas, and Aragorn all the names of the Company of Thorin Oakenshield had confused them greatly; especially Belle whom had a hard time reading their lips. Though Fili had no problem since he had grew up near many of these people in his childhood.

"Well," he started, licking his suddenly dry lips, "I can't tell you everything for the sake of my fellow people, but I'll tell you the basics. After I started moving the Earth to my beck and call with Kee watching, I got sick. It was my punishment and soon I lost my sight. The Masters said that if you Master and Mentor then your punishment may be lifted.

"So I became the best of the best, and though I never got my sight back I am content. I wasn't the only to be punished for ignoring the Call; Legolas, Belle, and Aragorn were also punished. Legolas lost his voice after centuries of ignoring, and for Belle it was her hearing. Though Aragorn had the worst of all of us for he lost his emotions but was one of the few to have the Punishment rescinded.

"While I feel bad for leaving you all behind I am confident to say that I would have gotten worse if I stayed," he let the information sink in as he rode the Earth next to the convoy of ponies.

Belladonna Baggins looked at the young dwarf and asked, "So those who followed the Call as you say, they didn't get punished?"

"Exactly," he grinned as he jumped off the wave and ran next to Kili's pony. "Come on Kee!" he said as he reached for his brother's hands and smiled brightly when Kili jumped into his arms. He lagged behind the Company as he settled Kili on his back before surging back onto another wave, Dis and Thorin grateful for the happy screams of the fifty-five year old brunette. Their family had been too quiet for too long; the first time being after Vili's death and Fili's disappearance.

"I'm just happy my little Belle is alive," she said and Aragorn agreed.

"So am I!"

This caused many to frown.

Just what had gone on during the nine, almost ten years, they had been gone?

I hope that you guys like the start to this!

The horse stance is the stance in Avatar: The Last Airbender that Uncle Iroh taught the man who tried to rob him in Ba Sing See, during the time Appa was kidnapped. Many of the attacks and moves that I used were inspired by different modes of transportation that people in Avatar used.

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