A/N: Okay I know this plot line has been done one too many times but there actually really fun to write! Anyway we have tried not to make Nicole and Serena Mary-sue's let us know if we get to that point so we can stop it! Anyways enjoy the story!
WARNING: Lots of language (now) and violence (later) so beware!
DISCLAIMER: We do not in anyway shape or form own LOTR (unfortunately), Lauren (me!) owns Nicole and Marieke owns Serena.
My alarm clock's hysterics woke me up in the morning. I groaned and rolled out of my bed. I had to hurry if I was going to make it to my morning classes. I hit my alarm clock and rolled out of bed and climbed into the shower. The cold water woke me up from my trance. I gasped and turned on the warm water. I groaned when I realized my roommate and best friend beat me to the hot water.
We lived in a ghetto apartment in New York City. We were both in acting school here, and both concentrated on Broadway. I shivered when I climbed out of the shower and grabbed my towel. I dried my hair with my blow drier and threw on a pair of skinny jeans, my ugs, and a light pink tank-top with a white long-sleeved shirt. I grabbed my backpack and met Serena in the kitchen. She had made some french-toast. I inhaled the cinnamon aroma and sighed contently. "Good morning." She greeted pouring syrup on her breakfast. I smiled and grabbed a plate.
"Morning. You need to leave some hot water for me in the morning; I had to take a cold shower. In the middle of a New York winter, please spare me that misery." I said.
She chuckled. "You need to get up earlier. I'm surprised you didn't hear the car accident outside our apartment this morning. Taxi drivers are crazy."
"Did anyone die?"
"No, it was more of a fender bender but what woke me up was the drivers cussing each other out."
I smiled. "Did you yell at them?"
"Hell yes I did! I told them to shut there fucking mouths or I would shove my foot so far down their throat they would be shitting purple for a week."
I cocked my head.
"I am wearing purple nail polish."
I laughed. "You are not a force to be reckoned with in the morning."
"Not until I have had my coffee." I smiled. "We need to get going or Ms. Crowley is going to kill us."
"We cannot be late for that class again can we?" I said smiling. The last time we were late for that class we had clean up duty for the last play we put on. Pure torture.
We ran down the street rushing to get to our acting school. Because we were in the extremely ghetto part in New York we had to avoid very scary looking people and certain streets. That's when I heard a gun shot. Serena and I both skidded to a stop. "Nicole, did you just hear that?" Serena said frozen solid.
"Unfortunately, yes, I did." I replied fear was audible in my voice. We heard a car fly around the corner and more gun fire. We sprinted down the street. We jumped over a wooden fence and hid.
As soon as we heard the gun fire cease we peeked over the fence. I sighed in relief and we jumped back over the fence. "Well…we have an excuse for being late." I said.
"Like she'll believe us. Let's go." Serena said and began running down the street. I followed quickly when I suddenly tripped and fell into a manhole. I grabbed Serena's outstretched hand. Unfortunately, I weigh more than her due to a four inch height difference. She fell in right after me. We both screamed as we fell down the hole. We didn't land as quickly as we though we would though, or on concrete. Suddenly the darkness turned blue and we were falling from the sky. We were both screaming at the top of our lungs and I heard Serena swearing. Not the best thing to be doing when we were getting ready to die. I would be begging for forgiveness. In fact, I was.
As soon as we entered the tree tops of the forest my backpack got caught on a branch. I hear my arm snap, but I ignored the searing pain to grab onto Serena with my good arm. Her swearing ceased and she grabbed a tree branch near her. Her layered hair was tangled and I couldn't say I looked any better. I pulled myself up onto the tree branch with my good arm and looked around. We were not in New York anymore.
I stood in an immense forest with enormous trees and little animals were scurrying everywhere. I gasped. "Serena, where are we?" I asked.
"I was about to ask the same question." She replied totally shocked. "Well, first step in figuring out is to get the hell off of this big ass tree."
My arm was protesting any movement and I hissed in pain. When my backpack got caught on the tree branch and I stopped abruptly my arm snapped into pieces. "I don't know if I can."
Her bright blue eyes looked at me questioningly. "Why not?"
"I think I broke my arm."
She nodded her head. "Hand me your backpack."
I did as she said. "Do you think you can climb down with one arm and two legs? It's not too far off the ground."
I nodded my head. "If I fall, it won't kill me I can do it."
She smiled. "Okay." She began to climb down with ease. She stepped onto the forest floor and beckoned me to come. I climbed down a couple of meters and decided to jump. It was extremely difficult to climb down with only one arm. I landed on my feet and Serena smiled at me. "Gymnastics came in use didn't it?"
I smiled back. "Yep, told you it would."
"Okay, now that we have gotten to the bottom of the tree. Let's find some locals." She grabbed her shoulder bag and my backpack and headed straight ahead. I followed quickly.
You need to know something about Serena right now. She isn't very patient. She hates doing anything that requires waiting, such as finding her way out of a forest. So, it was only natural for her to want to get out of the forest as soon as possible. I wanted to too though, my arm was searing with pain.
After about two hours Serena had been hit with five tree branches and we were both tripping over tree roots every five seconds. Not helping my arm. After another hour she stopped and growled in frustration. "What the hell?!" She finally broke our three hour silence. "No forest is THIS big!" She yelled.
The sun began to set and it made her red and blue highlights glow on her raven black hair, her blue eyes flashed with rage. "Who goes there?" We heard a voice call. Who goes there? Really? Who talks like that anymore?
Serena didn't seem to take any notice though. She dropped our bags and sprinted full speed towards the voice. "Stay there! I'll get help!" She called.
I sighed and sat down.
Serena's Point of View
I sprinted off towards the voice and told Nicole to stay there and that I would be back. "Help!" I called. I heard men talking in low voices and called for help again.
Then three men walked into the clearing. One was totally gorgeous, he had long blond hair with beautiful sapphire blue eyes and pale skin. The one to the right of him was hot too. He had brown wavy hair that fell just past his face and blue-grey eyes. The one on the right end had blond wavy hair that fell just past his face and was totally gorgeous too. "Who are you fair maiden?" I ignored their strange clothing and speech.
"My friend broke her arm. Can you help her?" I asked putting on my sweet-angel face.
"How do we know you are not in league with Sauroman?" The super hottie asked.
"Um, I don't know who that is, but, do I really look that threatening?" Yeah I did, but seriously? Lord of the Rings? And I wasn't that scary looking either (the scariest thing is my scene haircut. But it wasn't very hard core). Seriously, I was a slender five foot one girl. "We will assist you. Where is your friend?" Said tall, dark and handsome (hottie number two).
"She's over here." I said beckoning them back to the direction Nicole was.
"It's a trap Aragorn, do not listen to her!" The hot blond with shorter hair than the other blond said.
They needed to cut out their little cos-play, poor Nicole was alone in the woods and if we were some how in Lord of the Rings that would be even worse. "I don't even have a knife!" There was one in my bag, but I didn't have a knife on me at the time. "My friend is alone in the middle of the woods and her arm is broken! Can you please help her?" I pleaded.
"Aragorn" had a staring contest with who I guess was dressed as "Boromir" and "Aragorn" won because they walked towards me. I started to walk back towards where I left Nicole. "Hey!" I called.
"Hey!" She called back. "Where are you?!"
"Hold on! I found these guys they're going to help you!"
When we found Nicole "Aragorn" rushed up to her and looked at her arm. Her blond hair was kept out of her face from a braid that ran across the top of her head as a headband. Her blond ringlets fell just past her chest and her hazel eyes looked a little frightened. Her cheeks were pink from the sun we got today (we might have been in a forest but the sun was really strong). We were both fair skinned considering we lived up north our entire lives. I was surprised I wasn't sun burnt; I was more prone to that sort of thing than her. "Girl," I whirled around to face supper hottie. "what is your name?" He asked.
"Um, Serena. What's your name?" I asked.
"Legolas son of Thranduil." He replied. "Serena is a strange name.."
Oh. My. God. Either these were super geeks or we were in Middle-earth. Considering we fell from the sky, I wanted to say the latter. Of course that could have been some sick prank and we were being fooled by super geeks on the way to a convention. "Really? You're Legolas?" I choked out.
"Yes. I do not jest." He said.
My eyes widened. "No. No, no, no, no!" I stomped my foot.
Everyone was staring at me now. "Is something the matter milady?" Legolas asked.
"Yes there is! We were on our merry way to acting class when we fell down a freaking hole and now we are being harassed by some super geek squad!" I yelled in his face.
Nicole's Point of View
I was only paying attention to the man setting my arm in place. I didn't notice the conversation that was going on between Serena and pretty boy next to another tree. I hissed in pain as he set my arm. "I am sorry milady. How did you break your arm?" He asked.
"I fell a long way." I replied.
"From this tree?"
"Uh, well….if I told you; you wouldn't believe me."
He frowned. "Why wouldn't I believe you?" He asked.
I opened my mouth to answer when we heard Serena go off on a rant. "No. No, no, no, no!" She stomped her foot.
"Is something the matter milady?" Pretty boy asked her.
"Yes there is! We were on our merry way to acting class when we fell down a freaking hole and now we are being harassed by some super geek squad!" She screamed into the poor guys face.
"Uh, what's going on?" I asked.
The really hot guy who was fixing my arm began wrapping it. I didn't expect him to set it, I expected someone to get us out of this forest and take us to a hospital. Not a doctor to come to my rescue. "He claims he's Legolas!" She shrieked.
I gave pretty boy a strange look. "He is though." said the man next to pretty-boy-who-thinks-he's-a-fictional-character.
I cocked an eyebrow. "Yeah, well, I am a furry gerbil." I said sarcastically.
"What is a 'gerbil'?" "Legolas" asked.
"Oh my God. Do you people live under a rock?!" Serena yelled. She was not happy. I found it funny that the man fixing my arm was totally ignoring this. Serena went on ranting to pretty boy and his accomplice.
"Are you guys going to a convention or something? Your getup is kind of weird." I asked him.
"No, we are travelers. There are six more in our company. May I ask what two you ladies are doing alone in the woods?"
"We don't know." I said honestly.
"How do you not know?"
"Silence wench!" Hottie and I turned towards "Legolas", Serena, and "Legolas's" accomplice. Pretty boy's friend had a sword at Serena's throat.
"What are you doing?!" I exclaimed.
"You need to learn to hold your tongue, girl." the blond man said to Serena.
"Boromir, calm down." hottie said.
"Aragorn! Did you not hear her language and see what she has done to me?!" he said. Wait, Boromir, Aragorn and Legolas? Really dorky convention. They were all hard core geeks as far as I was concerned. Why were they playing this skit? They weren't even at the stupid convention yet.
"No, I did not. I do not care what she said either, just put the sword down she has not harmed you." "Aragorn" said in a calmly manner.
"Boromir" opened his mouth to say something but Serena cut him off.
"Seriously dude, take a chill pill." Serena said backing up.
"What?" "Boromir" said.
She rolled her eyes. "Calm down. I have been walking for three hours straight with about twenty pounds on my back. I am not in a pleasant mood."
"Where are you from?" "Legolas" asked me. He figured out I was more cooperative than Serena.
"New York City." I replied. Serena gave me a menacing look for saying that.
"I have never heard of such a place." "Aragorn" said.
"It's one of the most famous cities in the world! How do you not know where it is?!?!" Serena yelled.
"Serena calm down." I said. She looked like she was going to rip my head off. "Well since you don't know where it is," Which is weird, I added in my head. "Where are we?"
"You are in Middle-earth, the closest city is Rivendell."
"Okay now I am starting to get mad. Seriously people, drop the act or I will be ten times worse than Serena over there."
"Aragorn" frowned. "We are not acting. We are who we say we are."
I gave him my best mean glare. "Dude, stop it." I snapped.
"Why do you not believe us?"
"Because if you are who you say you are then you don't exist! How dumb do you think we are?!" I finally lost my patience.
"We should take them to Gandalf." "Legolas" said.
"DUDE! CUT IT OUT!" Serena yelled.
"Boromir" sighed and hit the back of her head the flat of his sword. Serena fell over unconscious. "What did you do that for?! She wouldn't have hurt you!" I exclaimed. "Boromir" opened his mouth to say something but "Aragorn" cut him off.
"She was too loud, we would have attracted orcs." "Aragorn" said.
I just rolled my eyes and kept my mouth shut to avoid being hit. "Aragorn" helped me up and picked up Serena. I followed them into a small clearing. There was a fire and six people sitting around it. Four of them were extremely short and another man was a little taller than the other four but was still short, the other was an elderly man. "Gandalf, we found these two wandering in the forest alone." "Boromir" said.
"Gandalf" frowned and said "Bind them, they cannot be trusted."
Serena was still unconscious but I am sure if she heard that "Gandalf" would be dead. "I have a broken arm, I can't do much to harm you." I spoke up.
"Very well, bind her then." He motioned to Serena.
"She won't hurt you!" I protested.
"Silence girl, she did earlier." I whirled around to face Boromir. He had a black eye forming. I snickered.
"Look, maybe you shouldn't have freaked her out then. She's very defensive okay?" I snapped.
"You speak in a strange dialect." "Gandalf" stated. "Why were you two wandering in the forest alone?"
"Uh, I don't know…. We didn't mean to come here. We were on our way to class and we fell, and now we are here."
"Gandalf" looked at me like I was crazy. They all did. I probably sounded crazy though, so I didn't blame them (then again they were in medieval costumes claiming they were Lord of the Rings characters. I will admit they had good costumes. Especially the "hobbits".). "Tell me child, how many winters have you seen?"
"I am twenty-six. I am going to be twenty-seven soon though."
"Can you handle a weapon?"
"No, but Serena can."
"Bind her feet too." "Gandalf" said to "Boromir". He seemed more than happy to oblige.
"You know when she wakes up she's going to kill you all. Not literally, but I guarantee you will have a killer headache. She is not quiet when she's unhappy."
"Well then I will personally silence her again." "Boromir" snapped.
"Yeesh, retract the claws there buddy. She won't hurt you if you don't hurt her. Or tie her up."
"I have no claws. And I did not hurt her when we first met."
"It's a figure of speech and you were being a total jerk when you first met. Can't say I blame her for punching you." He snarled and bound her legs. "You are going to be begging for an aspirin when she wakes up."
"What is an 'aspirin'?" "Aragorn" asked.
"It's a pain killer. You seriously need to drop the act. How do you not know what aspirin is?"
"Aragorn" frowned. "We will bind you too if you do not learn to hold your tongue girl." "Gandalf" said.
I glared at him. "How do you plan on doing that when my arm is broken?" I snapped.
He just frowned. "Maybe a little pain will do you good." "Boromir" said.
"Excuse me? I'm not the one with a stick up his ass who happens to be harassing two girls!"
He snarled. I heard a couple of people snicker. "Silence." "Gandalf" commanded. "We need to search your bags to be sure you are not orc spies. Your friend will remain bound until we have learned to trust you two."
I frowned. Serena would not like that, but I would have to deal with it.
Instead of worrying about Serena's reaction when she woke up, I decided to figure out where I was. Okay, we fell out of the freaking sky into the woods. That was not a good sign. I was begging to wonder if this really was Middle-earth or just some very well thought out prank. Hopefully the latter so I could murder whose idea it was and let it be over with. I sighed. "Legolas" came back into the clearing with my backpack and Serena's shoulder bag.
"If you find a pocket knife in there it is purely for stabbing creepy people who try and hurt us. We don't live in the nicest place." I said worried that they would find a weapon in Serena's bag. She was very, very, paranoid about being attacked by a creeper.
All nine of them gave me a weird look. "Aragorn" began pulling things out of my backpack. He pulled out our play script, some books, my drama textbook, my binder, my iPod, and my cell phone. "What are these?" "Aragorn" asked holding up my iPod and cell phone.
"Really? C'mon, it's an iPod and my cell phone." I said. They really needed to stop because I was beginning to consider that I was actually in Middle-earth. Get it together Nicole; there is no way in hell you are in a book I thought quietly to myself. But I knew in my heart I was.
A/N: Hey!! We had to write one of these things, they are really funny. Me (amberhathaway) and my bestest buddy Marieke (rikoxriko) worked hard on this! So reviews are greatly appreciated! No flames though.
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Lauren and Marieke