Her Beginning
OCSluvr: Hiya! I've been creating this OC for a few years now, since 2012 for no reason. Then in 2013, the next school year, I made a story of her, which this has been based off of and improved on.
BTW, this is starting off… oh… around 60 years before the Hobbit(when Smaug attacked Erebor), just saying! X3. So, there have been around 300 years of the Third Age of Middle Earth (if you base your fandom on the movies - if not, then you would be confused in this as I am a lazy fan and do not want to do research... And if this - Hobbit/Lord of the Rings - isn't your fandom, then what are you doing here?)!
So, yah... Also, the second part may not be up till tomorrow at least - I'll try, I have to finish it first.
In the large area of Isengard, where Saruman's tall tower loomed threateningly over the land, two small figures could be seen walking towards the large double doors. The two figures – one being an Elven sentry in the garb of Lothlorien, and the other being a small girl who seemed to be 9 years old, wearing clothes much too big for her – walked up the large flight of stairs to the even larger and intimidating double doors. The sentry knocked on the heavy door, the loud knocks resounding across the area. The young girl shivered as the deep and menacing sound resonated in her chest.
A deeper and louder voice rang out from the other side of the door, "One moment!"
After an awkward while of waiting outside, one of the large doors opened. An elderly man who had an aged face, a long white beard with a black stripe down the middle and smooth white hair, wearing white robes and carried a black staff, the top not unlike to the top of the tower, with a white, translucent orb in the center, appeared. His ice blue eyes had a sparkle in them of a childish heart, though a slight darkness hid behind his eyes, had opened the door, looking down at the two Elves with his height.
"Yes?" The man's deep voice resonated in the young elleth's chest, scaring her to the bone. The sentry gathered his courage and spoke. "Saruman the White, Lord Celeborn and Lady Galadriel, Lady of Light, of Lothlorien are handing over to you their young charge, Terra, to be your apprentice, as of her abilities, until she is ready to be passed on to another wizard." Saruman nodded, humming while the sentry spoke, "Do you understand?" Saruman smiled, which sent a shiver down the young elleth's – Terra's – back.
"Yes, I do," he bent down to meet Terra's vibrant green eyes and her slit irises, "Hello. You're going to be staying with me for a while, Terra. I'm Saruman." Terra smiled a toothy smile at him, showing perfectly white and straight teeth, and nodded.
Saruman straightened and looked at the sentry. "You may go now; I will take her to where she may stay." The sentry nodded, turned to Terra, ruffling her hair, and then walked away. She gazed after him remorsefully, he was her last living line to the place she had called her home since she can remember.
Terra looked up at Saruman and smiled, her yellow-blonde-and-green-tipped (naturally) bangs hanging in her eyes. Saruman gestured for her to follow as he walked inside, which she did.
The interior was more intimidating than the exterior of the tall tower. The entirety was a dark onyx blue, seeming to be of jewels. Terra shivered in fright as Saruman started to ascend a very high flight of stairs – stairs that had no railing.
Taking a deep breath, Terra headed up the stairs, her large Lothlorien cloak swishing around her legs.
She was wearing a yellow-brown peasant top, which was laced with mithril, as were her medium brown leggings that were bagging around the top of her brown-grey boots. She had a mahogany colored, woven belt around her waist, which was fastened by a golden buckle. Her build wasn't too skinny, but she wasn't exactly plump, either. All of her clothes were a little bit baggy on her frame, meant for her to grow into. Her pale skin seemed a beautiful translucent and her almond-shaped eyes were framed by long, thick, medium blonde lashes. Her eyes were a green, similar to a healthy tree's leaves, and her irises were slit, similar to a cat's. Her hair was a yellow-blonde, with her roots and tips naturally green. If her hair is cut above the line of green, then new hairs would become green again. Most of her hair that was near her face (by her ears and forward to her face) was put back in a smaller ponytail.
After a while of climbing the stairs, the White Wizard and his new apprentice reached the top. They walked down a hallway for a while, which normally would have had Terra looking around, however it was all just the same onyx hallways, so she was easily bored.
After more walking, the twosome reached a door of oak, which once Saruman had opened; Terra realized needed some personal touches.
The room was nice enough, in her opinion; it had a picture window on the wall directly in front of the door, which supplied lots of natural sunlight, a built-in bookcase on the left and a desk on the right, which were all great to Terra.
However, it was the bed that disturbed her – the bed frame was a black onyx kind, similar in material to Saruman's staff and the tower exterior in general. Also, the mattress – once she sat on it – was hard as a rock. She made a mental note to build a frame herself and make a new mattress also - after dinner, of course. 'After all, Saruman has got to have some kind of agriculture and means of food,' Terra thought to herself when Saruman had left. Also, the room itself was black. From being raised in an open forest, she wasn't too used to being locked in.
Terra thought back to what Saruman had said to her before he left. "You can stay up here, get used to the room. When you're ready, come on down, and we can eat dinner."
"What would be for dinner, I wonder," she mumbled to herself, looking at the titles on the different books.
After a few minutes of looking at the different books she can read, Terra's stomach was loud enough that she headed downstairs immediately.
*after dinner*
Terra exited the room, deciding to read in her room, for lack of any other plan.
"Terra! Where are you going?" Terra turned around to face Saruman, who stood in the door frame, the front door open, lighting up the dark room. The girl tilted her head in confusion. "We are heading out to train you immediately." Terra nodded eagerly, not speaking much aloud, until she can trust her mentor.
The two walked outside, into a courtyard, and Saruman and she looked through many different types of swords. Different styles and sizes, many of which Terra fancied. However, after a while, Terra found one she really liked, one made by the High Elves of Gondolin, Saruman's old sword. However, Saruman had settled down and thus had no need for a sword except for decoration.
The sword was sort of plain, no special design, unlike most created by the Elves of Gondolin in the First Age. The handle was intricate, seeming to be carved from bone, the white handle was smooth, and the hilt was a white gold. The blade itself had Elvish inscription on it, however the blade was never named; the shape of the blade was simply straight, no curves whatsoever. (AN: Similar in shape to Glamdring! X3)
Terra lifted the blade out of the stack, inspecting it carefully. After a few moments of looking at the blade, she reached for a sheath, which it had in the same color and material as her belt, so with Saruman's help she fastened the sword on her belt.
Then, Saruman grabbed a more intricate sword, and started to spar with her, teaching her how to parry and block, sparring until it was dark.
And that was how their days went on for a long while. For the first few months, Saruman taught her the basics of swordplay and archery, however she skilled mostly at the sword, even though she was poor in both, as she lacked much physical strength.
Once the first few months had passed, Saruman found her physique satisfying, and moved on to the more complex study of magic. In this area, she excelled in, as her intelligence seemed to match and even surpass her mentor's. She studied tactical magic, nature, healing, and even defensive magic, though she chose to study more on tactical and defensive magic than the other two.
To help enforce her magic, Saruman gave her three things – three rings to be exact. No, not the three Elven rings; these rings hadn't any gems in them for one thing. One ring was solid, completely white gold; it had some inscriptions on it, but nothing else. The second ring was of silver and was in small strings, woven together, similar to all of those Elven headdress thingies and, well, that one did have a gem, a light green gem (Arwen's dress at the end of RotK). Her third ring was a thing black band with a medium, round pearl in the center. She wore ring 1 (the first ring) on her right index finger, ring 2 on her right ring finger, and ring 3 on her right middle finger.
After a few years, she also received a staff that was curved at the top (not unlike Gandalf's, except instead of it going straight up, the top was curved downward more, to hold something; but she didn't know who he was) and had a small mithril chain dangling from the curved over tip and on the end of that chain was a small yellow-green emerald.
She also was given a swatch of green cloth, as she was Terra the Green, an apprentice who earned the title. Since she had learned that the five wizards had clothes in their colors, and wishing to keep her clothes from Lothlorien, she decided to attach the cloth on her left shoulder, so it would drape across her left hand and across her back to her right arm. It was a forest green and seemed to shimmer in the sunlight.
Over time, she and Saruman became close, not unlike father and daughter. However, when Terra turned 25, she still looked 15, as if she were Elven, even though Elven children didn't show their physique change so drastically so early. That was when she told Saruman her roots; her mother was half Elven and half Man, whilst her father was half Dwarven and half Hobbit (not a very honorable mix, but her Dwarven grandfather loved her Took Hobbit grandmother).
Because of that, and combined with a shadow being noticed in the East, did Saruman become the agitated, even dark, Wizard that you readers know in the Hobbit (movies) and the Lord of the Rings. The stress of the business in other places and the curiosity of Terra's lineage caused his sanity to grow dark.
Terra never noticed, as she was always caught up in her studies. She hardly came down to eat, and when she did, she would be reading then too.
Whenever she wasn't studying and Saruman was busy (the latter being very often), she would socialize with the Elves who would pay her a visit every now and then, who visited from Lothlorien, or walk through Fangorn forest and talk with the Ents. Of the few Ents she would see, her best friend was Treebeard.
A few more years after Saruman discovered Terra's lineage – 5 years later , to be exact – Terra found out. She couldn't sleep one night, after staying up studying the history of the Shire - a book she had requested be sent to her from Lady Galadriel's library -, and had come down for a snack before she went to try and sleep again.
When she walked back to her room, past Saruman's study door, the door was cracked open. She wouldn't normally pay any attention, however she heard muttering and felt a dark aura emanating from the room. Since she was young (for an Elleth) and curious, she looked inside. She saw Saruman had a (*& $ on a (*# & (! 8# * in his study, which sent a wave of dark power down her spine, almost freezing her in her place. However, her rings prevented her to be paralyzed, and so, in her fear, she ran. She ran out the door in fear of her mentor.
Once she had opened the door and closed it, running towards Fangorn, Saruman knew she had left, as the doors closed loudly. Terra kept running, never looking back. Soon, her exercised legs brought her to the safety of Fangorn. She kept running at an angle, till she saw the light that signified she was near the river that was in between Fangorn and Lothlorien. She managed to stumble to the river, before she fell into unconsciousness.
OCSluvr: So, that's it then! Part 1 of Terra the Green's prologue to her life-long journey! Just so y'all know, she will participate in the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and maybe something afterwards... Each(Hobbit - this one -, Lord of the Rings, and maybe some future stories if I have inspiration for it) will be separate stories, but I have yet to decide whether they will be posted separately or together, as different chronicles or whatever...
BTW, the keyboard characters in the last paragraph are just some spoilers for the future events. Those of y'all out there who know or can guess what it was Saruman had, REVIEW WHAT YOU THINK IT IS! MWAHAHAH! I am evil. ;3
To mah first reviewer, Soldier2000, I fixed it. Please forgive me for that mistake. I originally wrote this three years ago, so I didn't care if there were mistakes (she was originally just a Lord of the Rings OC) but thank you for pointing that out now.
Well, I'll be happy to hear y'all's input on this! X3 I hope everyone had a good day!
Bye bye!