~Chapter One (Holly)~
'Jess, you idiot!' I exclaimed, 'How the hell am I supposed to explain this to my parents?'
'I'm sorry, I should have known that you couldn't just take me in. I just didn't know where else to go'
Calming a little, I replied, 'I don't mean to sound harsh Hun. But I think that you should go home before your parents get back.'
'Maybe you're right, but I just-' she stopped quickly and gaped at something behind me.
So I turned to look at what had caught her attention. Jess wasn't one to stop talking once she got started.
What I saw made my mouth open just as wide as Jess's. It also made me wonder about my sanity. A short man - very short - was standing in my driveway, looking at my car as if he'd never seen one before. He had curly, black, somewhat long hair, and eyes blue as the sky at noon on a clear day. And I knew that his name was Frodo Baggins. Nephew of the well-known Bilbo Baggins.
This was impossible, I'd simply read enough fanfics to start hallucinating. That was it. That had to be it. It was the only thing that made any sense.
'Excuse me, but just where am I? I've been traveling with my friends, and I seem to have lost them.' Asked Frodo.
'FRODO! FRODO! WHERE ARE YOU?' asked a voice that I could readily identify as belonging to one Sam Gamgee.
'Sam? I'm over here,' replied Frodo.
'Oh, Mr. Frodo, sire. I thought I'd gone and lost you. And I couldn't do that sir, not after what Gandolf said to me. "Don't you lose him, Samwize Gamgee." And I don't intend to. Why do I feel like I've said that before?' He paused long enough to realize that he was standing in my driveway and was surrounded by houses and cars and trailers. 'Oh my goodness, where are we?'
Jess and I simply stared, slack mouthed for the moment.
'Can you two talk?' asked Frodo.
'Oh my God,' was the best that Jess could manage at the moment.
'Nanaimo,' I said.
'Pardon me?' asked Sam.
'You're in Nanaimo, B.C., Canada. You guys certainly are a long ways form home, considering that it's 2003.' I said to Frodo. I was still dealing with the fact that he was in my driveway, let alone Sam Gamgee.
'Are you saying that we're not in Middle Earth anymore?' he asked.
'We most certainly are not,' said Aragorn. (Now where had he come from!?)
'Wow! You're here too? Heather's just gonna love this!' said Jess, who seemed to have regained the ability to talk.
'And who, may I ask, is Heather?' asked Aragorn.
'She's a friend of ours who is completely in love with you,' said Jess who couldn't shut up now that she had her voice back.
'Shut it Jess, he doesn't need to know that,' I turned to Sam, Frodo, and Aragorn. 'My name is Holly, and this is one of my best friends, Jessica.'
'Man you guys have some weird names over here. Holly, Jess, Heather. What will they come up with next?' asked Sam.
'Sam, don't be rude. Aragorn, where are Gimli, Pippin, Merry, Boromir, and Gandalf?' said the elf that had just appeared out of nowhere. (If they kept showing up like this, my head would surely explode, I was sure of it.)
It seemed that Jess had lost the ability to speak again, which suited me just fine for the moment.
'Um, I have no clue where everyone else is Legolas, but it's cold out, so let's go inside,' I said to the elf.
'You know my name?' he asked.
It had never occurred to me that they wouldn't know that they were famous.
'Well, you see, I know all your names, and I know what your mission is. And by judging your attendance, I'd say that you're not very far into it.' I replied. (When had Boromir showed up? I was really lacking with my observations today.) 'How could you know that? And what do you mean "Judging by your attendance?"' asked Frodo.
'You couldn't know how much it hurts to have to tell you this, but Boromir is going to die when a group of Orcs attack you guys. All because of what you have in your pocket, Frodo.' I added as sweetly as possible. I couldn't be too sure of what they're reactions were going to be.
They all burst out laughing at this. And Legolas grinned at me and said, ' Well, I still don't know how you know our names, or what our mission is, but you sure have a good sense of humor. Let's go inside as you suggested earlier.'
'Now that's the best idea I've heard in a while. Do you have anything to eat?' asked Sam.
Wow, I was doing pretty good for talking to hallucinations that Jess could apparently see and hear as well. So I led the group of them into the house, only to be surprised again. Sitting on my two sofa's were two hobbits, a dwarf, and a wizard.
'Well, we found the rest of the fellowship,' said Jess half to herself.
'Frodo, Sam, Legolas, Aragorn, Boromir! I thought we'd lost you for good,' was Merry's first comment.
'No you're stuck with us,' said Sam with a huge grin on his face.
So far I had been content to observe all of this, but now I had a logical question for the fellowship.
'Um, guys? I don't mean to interrupt, but how did you all get here?' I asked.
'Well, you see, I was kind of looking at all of Gandalf's spells and stuff-' said Pippin before he was cut off.
'And he poked this really slimy stuff and POOF, we're here!' said an overenthusiastic Merry.
'So this is all your blooming' fault Pippin?' asked Gimli, whom I was surprised had taken so long to speak. Gimli was typically one to speak his mind instead of biting his tongue.
'Somewhat.'
'Well I'm just surprised it's not the fault of that elf. Didn't you have anything to do with this, Legolas?' asked the dwarf.
'No, I'm afraid not,' said an oh-so-calm Legolas.
We all turned when we heard a loud thump, only to see that Jess had feinted.
Legolas picked her up and asked, 'where can we lay her down? The floor is hardly a good place to wake up after feinting.'
'Here, we can put her in my room,' I said while I lead the way to the room in question.
The rest of the fellowship peered in the door, curious, as he laid her gently on my bed. I quickly got a cool cloth for her forehead.
While we waited for her to wake up, the rest of the fellowship talked among themselves. I was too busy thinking about how they got here to notice what they were so avidly discussing. It certainly sounded like how one would say that they got here if one were writing a fanfic.
But this was real. I could see them, and I could hear them. They were most definitely real, especially since I had just watched one of them carry Jess into my room. I had given up the notion that this was all in my head. I didn't have a good enough imagination to come up with something like this.
My thoughts were interrupted by the sound of Jess waking up.
'Jess, you idiot!' I exclaimed, 'How the hell am I supposed to explain this to my parents?'
'I'm sorry, I should have known that you couldn't just take me in. I just didn't know where else to go'
Calming a little, I replied, 'I don't mean to sound harsh Hun. But I think that you should go home before your parents get back.'
'Maybe you're right, but I just-' she stopped quickly and gaped at something behind me.
So I turned to look at what had caught her attention. Jess wasn't one to stop talking once she got started.
What I saw made my mouth open just as wide as Jess's. It also made me wonder about my sanity. A short man - very short - was standing in my driveway, looking at my car as if he'd never seen one before. He had curly, black, somewhat long hair, and eyes blue as the sky at noon on a clear day. And I knew that his name was Frodo Baggins. Nephew of the well-known Bilbo Baggins.
This was impossible, I'd simply read enough fanfics to start hallucinating. That was it. That had to be it. It was the only thing that made any sense.
'Excuse me, but just where am I? I've been traveling with my friends, and I seem to have lost them.' Asked Frodo.
'FRODO! FRODO! WHERE ARE YOU?' asked a voice that I could readily identify as belonging to one Sam Gamgee.
'Sam? I'm over here,' replied Frodo.
'Oh, Mr. Frodo, sire. I thought I'd gone and lost you. And I couldn't do that sir, not after what Gandolf said to me. "Don't you lose him, Samwize Gamgee." And I don't intend to. Why do I feel like I've said that before?' He paused long enough to realize that he was standing in my driveway and was surrounded by houses and cars and trailers. 'Oh my goodness, where are we?'
Jess and I simply stared, slack mouthed for the moment.
'Can you two talk?' asked Frodo.
'Oh my God,' was the best that Jess could manage at the moment.
'Nanaimo,' I said.
'Pardon me?' asked Sam.
'You're in Nanaimo, B.C., Canada. You guys certainly are a long ways form home, considering that it's 2003.' I said to Frodo. I was still dealing with the fact that he was in my driveway, let alone Sam Gamgee.
'Are you saying that we're not in Middle Earth anymore?' he asked.
'We most certainly are not,' said Aragorn. (Now where had he come from!?)
'Wow! You're here too? Heather's just gonna love this!' said Jess, who seemed to have regained the ability to talk.
'And who, may I ask, is Heather?' asked Aragorn.
'She's a friend of ours who is completely in love with you,' said Jess who couldn't shut up now that she had her voice back.
'Shut it Jess, he doesn't need to know that,' I turned to Sam, Frodo, and Aragorn. 'My name is Holly, and this is one of my best friends, Jessica.'
'Man you guys have some weird names over here. Holly, Jess, Heather. What will they come up with next?' asked Sam.
'Sam, don't be rude. Aragorn, where are Gimli, Pippin, Merry, Boromir, and Gandalf?' said the elf that had just appeared out of nowhere. (If they kept showing up like this, my head would surely explode, I was sure of it.)
It seemed that Jess had lost the ability to speak again, which suited me just fine for the moment.
'Um, I have no clue where everyone else is Legolas, but it's cold out, so let's go inside,' I said to the elf.
'You know my name?' he asked.
It had never occurred to me that they wouldn't know that they were famous.
'Well, you see, I know all your names, and I know what your mission is. And by judging your attendance, I'd say that you're not very far into it.' I replied. (When had Boromir showed up? I was really lacking with my observations today.) 'How could you know that? And what do you mean "Judging by your attendance?"' asked Frodo.
'You couldn't know how much it hurts to have to tell you this, but Boromir is going to die when a group of Orcs attack you guys. All because of what you have in your pocket, Frodo.' I added as sweetly as possible. I couldn't be too sure of what they're reactions were going to be.
They all burst out laughing at this. And Legolas grinned at me and said, ' Well, I still don't know how you know our names, or what our mission is, but you sure have a good sense of humor. Let's go inside as you suggested earlier.'
'Now that's the best idea I've heard in a while. Do you have anything to eat?' asked Sam.
Wow, I was doing pretty good for talking to hallucinations that Jess could apparently see and hear as well. So I led the group of them into the house, only to be surprised again. Sitting on my two sofa's were two hobbits, a dwarf, and a wizard.
'Well, we found the rest of the fellowship,' said Jess half to herself.
'Frodo, Sam, Legolas, Aragorn, Boromir! I thought we'd lost you for good,' was Merry's first comment.
'No you're stuck with us,' said Sam with a huge grin on his face.
So far I had been content to observe all of this, but now I had a logical question for the fellowship.
'Um, guys? I don't mean to interrupt, but how did you all get here?' I asked.
'Well, you see, I was kind of looking at all of Gandalf's spells and stuff-' said Pippin before he was cut off.
'And he poked this really slimy stuff and POOF, we're here!' said an overenthusiastic Merry.
'So this is all your blooming' fault Pippin?' asked Gimli, whom I was surprised had taken so long to speak. Gimli was typically one to speak his mind instead of biting his tongue.
'Somewhat.'
'Well I'm just surprised it's not the fault of that elf. Didn't you have anything to do with this, Legolas?' asked the dwarf.
'No, I'm afraid not,' said an oh-so-calm Legolas.
We all turned when we heard a loud thump, only to see that Jess had feinted.
Legolas picked her up and asked, 'where can we lay her down? The floor is hardly a good place to wake up after feinting.'
'Here, we can put her in my room,' I said while I lead the way to the room in question.
The rest of the fellowship peered in the door, curious, as he laid her gently on my bed. I quickly got a cool cloth for her forehead.
While we waited for her to wake up, the rest of the fellowship talked among themselves. I was too busy thinking about how they got here to notice what they were so avidly discussing. It certainly sounded like how one would say that they got here if one were writing a fanfic.
But this was real. I could see them, and I could hear them. They were most definitely real, especially since I had just watched one of them carry Jess into my room. I had given up the notion that this was all in my head. I didn't have a good enough imagination to come up with something like this.
My thoughts were interrupted by the sound of Jess waking up.