Title: There Was Hope – Oh, look, a triple meaning! Isn't that fun?
Author: Sythrona (S.L.S. Rathford), just incase you were wondering.
Summary: As death approaches Caliasar and eternal darkness evermore threatens her world, she wakes to find herself in another time of another land where one small group of people must try to save their world in a quest parallel to her own. As fear swiftly unfolds upon this strange realm she must fight her own emotions and doubts to decide what path her feet must walk, for to help those called the Fellowship of The Ring may decide the future of more than one world, and the destiny of time itself. (Spiffy, I know.)
Disclaimer: Obviously I own no characters derived from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien under any of their titles. However, all characters, places, and most events associated with Destrahstia (The Destrahtus) are belonging to me. I'll not be bothering with the names of characters from Middle-earth that I've made up to fill space, but all such spoken about by Cali are mine.
Okay, now the rest of this chapter is a little extra information for the picky and the paranoid. All others may (hopefully) continue on the read the fic (don't make me beg). Leave me pretty reviews and the great Spirits of Fanfiction will bless you forever!
Author's Note: Well, I'm certain you've all seen quite a few 'girl goes to Middle-earth' fanfics, but I'm also very certain that you haven't read one like this. You've probably all heard that about a million times too, but this time I'm being serious. About eight years ago I began experimenting with character development. Over those years I have created a very colorful spectrum of characters and even extended my imagination to develop a world in which they could live and give life to one another. But one of my most favorite ways in which I develop already well-developed characters even further is by imagining their reactions to characters in other works of literature and film, and of course, the reactions of those characters to my own. Sometimes I find such interesting ways for this to take place that I can make a full story out of it that seems hardly the little game of mine that it is. Seeing how largely extensive The Lord of The Rings already is, and seeing all of the blank space that Tolkien skims over between events, in which almost anything could have happened, it's no surprise that I managed to come up with something that's a bit more than a few hellos in my experimentation. So just incase a few other people might like what I'm beginning to write, I decided to post my fused story. Where it goes in the end is largely up to any reviews that I might (please!) receive, including whether any romance is involved or not. Hopefully the means for my chosen character's appearance in Middle-earth is explained enough by her. This could end up being a very long fanfic, I dare say.
Reader Warning: I am starting my tale with the book, mostly because I'm still angry with Arwen, but I do plan to mesh in the movies where I can and especially where Tolkien leaves me hanging. But I do warn you, the sudden appearance of one of my characters, especially Cali, would most likely change quite a lot about the story. Even so, I am taking a little liberty of my own with the plot. Forgive me, but if you can't handle it then please don't read it. I didn't change anything that much.
Cali does mention, quite faintly and several times, the occurrence of reincarnation. If you don't like it, tough monkeys.
I do portray elves as being more surprised about Cali than other characters, and it might make them seem rather un-elf-like at times. But remember, most of the elves that she comes in contact with are older than dirt itself, and something like her suddenly appearing out of the blue would shake anyone's ideas about their world. And I do believe that elves think they have it all figured out. What a shock when they're wrong! -snarf- I also portray them as being somewhat child-like. As I read the books, I gather a somewhat juvenile sense about elves. Kill me if you didn't, but I did. A person couldn't really grow up the whole way and be immortal, or all of the elves would be like whacked-out Greek gods. It's the truth. Also a good thing to note: elves do not know everything, and they do not have all the answers. They have to make guesses sometimes too.
Cali may seem to shift her behavior a lot, but she does have a spilt personality, ya know, so get over it. I am trying to develop her better with this, thus the point of writing it.
This story also goes along with the idea that at all times there are millions of separate times, separate 'heres' and 'theres' and 'todays' and 'yesterdays' and 'what-could-have-beens' going on at the same time in different 'dimensions' or between different 'lines of truth/time'. Like the folds of a cloak, these separate planes of existence overlap each other in some places. It also goes along with the idea that a very perceptive person can step into them when their consciousness leaves their assigned world (the 'here' that they are supposed to live in), including when in deep dreams or actually unconscious. The theory is that a person who does this will appear in another plane of existence as they think themselves to look, not as they truly look, and not as they wish or hope that they look. This may mean that a person who has not yet seen or otherwise acknowledged new injuries will not have them in this other world. As well, if they die in this other place, they will die in their own world, and vise-versa. But they may be trapped in this other world until they accomplish some destined feat. It doesn't matter how long they are gone from their world, as all events that take place in this other world, sometimes spanning over years, can be crammed into the time of a second in their own world. It is often said that when the person who had breached the gap returns to where they should be, the time in which they were in this other plane will be rewound and relived without them, as the patterns of time cannot let them interfere. Another theory states that time will simply try to tie up the loose ends, even if it has to try to kill the intruder while he or she is still there. But all theories seem to say that the intruder will not remember what happened, though a faint glimmer may be left in their mind and the minds of those that they became close to. It is a little freaky, and if I just lost you, don't worry. Cali will do a better job of filling you in.
And remember, there is more than one kind of sight, and more than one kind of vision, and more than one kind of eyes, and more than one kind of light, and more than one kind of darkness… Nothing is as it seems, or is it? Nothing happens without a reason, or does it? -shivers-
Okay, now that I've thoroughly bored you, you may choose whether or not to read on. Have fun!