Sachiko: Well, here I am again… this time I got inspired to write a LOTR fic… by a dream I had recently; this prologue shows exactly what my dream was like at the beginning (I even wrote it down so I wouldn't forget anything), just making some changes with the points of view… Enjoy!! n.n

Disclaimer: I own anything but my OCs!!

On with the dream… story… whatever…

Prologue

Tanya's POV:

It was a freezing winter afternoon, a pretty normal day… the cold wind was rushing between the trees and grey thick clouds moved fast in the sky… The weather looked threatening… stormy… it was going to rain, and hard…

But that wasn't enough to scare us off, we were way too excited with the costume party the three of us were heading to; it was my boyfriend's cousin birthday party, and the best part was… it was a LOTR themed one! Yay! I love these parties!

Well, so Daniel (my boyfriend) and I were in my friend Chri- eh, I mean, Kyra's car, heading to the party, already dressed up for the occasion (which made a quite strange picture, by the way… after all, who's ever seen an elf woman driving a car:P)

Actually, Kyra really looked like an elf; she was wearing a long light blue dress with white and silver details, had her long dark hair all loose and she was wearing the most realistic false elven ears I'd ever seen, and her usual serious and cold appearance helped too so, basically, she looked like a real elf.

Daniel was dressed up as a warrior, almost looking like a ranger; he was wearing a greenish brown suit which looked a bit worn out, a pair of boots and a dark green cloak. Of course, the costume included the typical "toys"; sword, daggers, etc., needless to say, all of them were fakes.

As for me, I was wearing a dark brown leather armour-dress with golden adornments, knee-high boots and gauntlets to match it. In fact, I looked a lot like some version of Xena the warrior princess, despite the fact my hair was blond and gathered into a long braid. Obviously I also had my fake swords and stuff. I think I would even look scary, if it wasn't for my childlike smile.

A few hours later we arrived at the party, and spent the rest of the afternoon there, 'till past 1 in the morning more less. The party was just awesome, we met loads of people with our same interests and obsessions. I really enjoyed the acts part, in which Daniel and I "fought" with our "swords", and he won of course, he knew more about these things than me… But I think the funniest part of the party was the incredible amount of people that asked Kyra if they could touch her fake ears, just because "they seemed amazingly real", and after a few of those, she started glaring at whomever asked her to do that, and trust me when I say she's REALLY scary when she does that…

At about 2 in the morning we decided it was time to go back home, so we said goodbye to everyone and went outside, just to find out an incredible thunderstorm had started…

Kyra's POV:

- Just great… - I muttered with annoyance; damned weather… first all those morons at the party, now this… this day hadn't exactly turned out to be as good as I expected… I looked at my car, not too far from where we were standing, then I looked at Dan and Tanya - Let's get going…

- Shouldn't we wait for the storm to stop? - asked Dan looking a bit worried - it could be dangerous to drive in this weather…

- Yeah, like it's going to stop - Tanya said, shivering - besides I'm freezing, so let's go into the car and go home… - she looked at Dan, who didn't seem too convinced - please?? - oh dear, the "puppy eyes" trick… again

Dan sighed - ok, ok, let's go, but please stop that! - Tanya just smiled happily and kissed him on the cheek

- So - I said, clicking the car's control to open it - on three, we run and get into the car; one… two… THREE!

We ran as fast as we could (fucking dress ¬¬) and we got into the car, though we ended up all wet, but still, at least we were in. I started driving, oh shit… I could barely see anything through the torrential rain… It was almost like driving underwater… Every now and then flashes of lightning crossed the sky, followed by loud thunderclaps…

We were half-way, I could see the figures of the trees at both sides of the road, but suddenly, a vast flash of light blinded me for a second, then I saw an enormous tree falling across the road a few meters forward… I swore and swerved to the right while trying desperately to brake, but I had been going too fast for the car to stop that easily, I heard Tanya scream behind me while another flash of lightning seemed to strike right upon us, and then darkness…