Hello everyone. Im trying this slight AU Angband fanfiction with 2 modern girls. I know they may seem like Mary Sue's and if you think they are then feel free to give constructive criticism on how to fix it or just don't read it. I know initially they will definitely seem it at first because of how I made them look and that the costumes became permanent on them, but I think realistically, if they looked normal, then they would've been killed pretty fast appearing in Angband.
"I thought you said you knew where we are going?!" Leila sighed in agitation and sucked in a breath so she wasn't tempted to laugh at the all too typical situation.
"Worry not, that's what we have a GPS for" Chloe pointed at the GPS defensively and grinned at Leila's rolling eyes.
Snatching the GPS up, Leila began to input the coordinates and with a "CHLOE!" grabbed her car seat as the vehicle accelerated. Laughing hysterically Chloe rolled down the windows and turned up the music really loud ignoring Leila's frustration at trying to put in the coordinates. With a resigned smiled she set it down and let the wind run over her face and flipped through her iPod to find a new song.
"how far are we?" Leila asked still flipping through her iPod.
"Perhaps 3ish hours, are you going to fix the GPS? I know we need to stay on this highway for at least another 2 hours, but then we need to exit off somewhere. Its far, but the Renaissance festival is totally worth it" Chloe responded. Leila nodded in agreement, and decided to check google maps instead.
"WAKE UP!" Chloe laughed pushing Leila's shoulder after parking. It had been a boring 3 more hours of driving, especially with Leila falling asleep after finding the route on google maps.
"Oh wow, you got us here without getting us lost again" Leila stretched out and slipped out the car smoothing out her outfit.
With lots and lots of convincing Chloe had succeeded to make Leila go with her as matching fairies. Both put lots of effort into their renaissance costumes and made sure to be as realistic as they could be. Leila had gone as a blue fairy and wore a more simplistic dress with sparkles that Chloe has sewn in over that weekend. She had also tied a golden sash like a belt around her waist. Chloe had chosen a more complex dress but it barely went to her knees whereas Leila's was barely hemmed up enough to avoid stepping on it. Chloe's dress was brown and gold and didn't entirely match the theme she had intended with her makeup and hair.
However, it was their faces and hair that had hours of effort and work put into them the days before to match the costumes. Leila's hair had been reverse ombre dyed in a shade of blue starting with the darkest blue at the roots and changing into nearly white at the ends, which stopped a bit above her shoulders. Chloe's hair was similarly dyed in a reverse style to continue with the matching effort and was a darker orange red color that slowly shifted to her natural golden blonde at the ends.
The makeup Chloe had drawn on Leila was golden and blue. It started with white eye shadow on her eyelid and went to dark blue above the eyelid to light blue until the eyebrow. She had black eyeliner on, but with gold eyeliner more thinly done over it and light patterns of curling black were drawn close to the eye and bolder patterns of sparkling gold highlighted with varying shades of blue curved around the sides of her face. Chloe's makeup was mostly black and red. She had done thick eyeliner around both eyes and had it end it a cat tail and the eyeshadow was a red to orange on eyelid. She had put a bit of sparkles over It so it would match the short brown dress a bit more without being too intense. Leila had down a really interesting makeup thing on Chloe that involved red on the sides of her cheeks fading to her natural tone the close it got to her eyes.
"I still think if we were going to go as fairies, then we needed wings" Leila voiced her displeasure with the lack of wings.
"Who is gonna mistake us as anything, but fairies?" Chloe asked shaking her head as they both headed towards the gate.
The crowd began to thicken nearer the gate as many people approached. The costumes at the festival could be extremely complicated, but it was so amazing. Chloe had always thought the mermaid costumes were exceptionally well done. They had done things like put forks and pearls and random stuff you would see from a ship or the ocean in their hair. It probably hurt like crazy to take it down because of how much effort was put into making a beautiful mess. Then there were people who would wear the complicated suits of armor and ladies gowns and suffer corsets from that time. Fairies could be as simple or as complicated as one wished and didn't need to restrict breathing. It gave lots of freedom to experiment with designs and more mobility.
"Let's go this way" Leila said motioning to the right of the gate once they were past. Chloe followed and they both took a moderate pace so they could absorb all the sights. After walking for about half an hour and taking in all they could, they sat where a poetry show was usually run.
"What's that?" Chloe nudged Leila pointing a glittering thing showing sunlight into their eyes after taking a seat.
"Chloe, why would I know?" Shading her eyes Leila got up moved towards the object. Chloe instantly jumped up and followed curiously. Chloe's hand shot out towards the object and was caught by Leila's.
"what are you doing? You don't just pick up strange things!" Leila admonished.
"Of course I do. How long have we known each other" Chloe said shaking her grip and after Leila's "Not what I meant and you know it" picked it up.
"It just looks like a piece of jewelry or something. A really sparkly…." Chloe was cut off as a great light flashed in her vision and flung her hand out trying to find Leila. They managed to catch to each other hands as more lights began to flash in Chloe's vision. Vaguely Chloe heard Leila shouting something and could feel her hand trying to pull at her. Chloe let out a gasp stumbling and fell into something while managing to maintain a hold on Leila and drag her with her.