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Author's Notes:

1. I do NOT own LOTR

2. I do NOT own anything else

3. To the dearly beloved flamers (not) out there, to you this may be a Mary-Sue, but this is a huge step in my writing. Also this is a plot all too commonly used on , so I will try hard to make it unique. I think it is a great plot, that's why so many people use it.

4. When I put a name in stars above a section, that means the stories being told from their point of view.

5.This is SO dedicated to Crystal and Legolas. Crys is my best bud, and she is the one who got me SO into LOTR. Legolas is my huge obsession, and he also got me into LOTR.

6. This is actually me and my friend, not made up characters.

California Dreaming,

Danielle (a.k.a. Avalon)

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Danielle

"Danielle! Phone for you!" screamed Sierra, her little sister up the stairs. "Who is it?" I said back down the stairs. "It's Crystal, for only the millionth time today!" Sierra said, getting mad. She didn't have many friends, and was jealous Crystal and I chatted on the phone for about 4 hours everyday. I picked up the extension upstairs. "Now get off, Sierra." I growled. "Fine, Jeez." Sierra said huffingly. "Sorry 'bout that." I told Crys. "Whatever it's cool." replied Crystal. We giggled together. "Jeez, how old is Sierra again?" Crystal asked. "She just turned 14 yesterday." I said. I myself was turning 16 soon enough, but Crystal was already 16. Curses her. "I'm so dang bored! What do you wanna do today?" I whined. "I know meet me at the park. I'll bring my laptop and wireless internet connecter. " Crystal said, knowing how much we enjoyed the internet. "Deal. See you in a few!" I said, and I plopped the phone back on its charger. Two years ago I moved to with my mom and little sister to Pine Hills, Ca. There I met Crystal . We immeaditly became best buds. When we were 13, our favorite thing ever was Lord of The Rings. She was obsessed with Frodo Baggins, and I was With Legolas Greenleaf. Sadly, we lost interest in that and now, we talk about.....

FAME! FORTUNE! UNFAIR SCHOOL SYSTEMS! POLITICS!(A/n Danielle does support Bush, well Crystal supports Kerry.) GIRL JUNK!

I hurried to my room to change my clothes. It was a nice day, but the same old boring California weather. Sunny. Maybe a few clouds, Temp. in the mid-70s. Jeez, in Cali, it only rains maybe three days a year. You have to really like the sun to live here. I dug through my endless shorts drawer, and found a pair of my favorite dark blue jeans, and a white tank top. I stuck a pair of sunglasses on my head, and then looked in the mirror. I applied my lip gloss, and put in my contacts. (A/n I don't own any yet but....someday I will get them!.... You all will see!) Then I stood back to see how I looked overall. Fine enough. My hair is blonde, not curly, but just straight, boring hair that reached mid-back. Yawn Also my blue eyes were WAY too common for a Cali girl. Jeez, I swear someday I will get my hair dyed blue and wear green contacts. Heh-Heh, that'll be the day. I jumped down the stairs expertly, and shouted to my mom "I'm going out to meet Crystal at the park!" I said. She was on the computer, typing a letter to our Great-Aunt in Nebraska. "Danielle, Did you take out the trash? You have to do that first, And take your homework with you!" My mom shouted back. "Alright, Alright, I'm on it." I ran into the kitchen, grabbed the trash bag, Threw my pack onto my back, and lunged out the door. I threw the trash bag into a can, about 10 feet away, and it landed cleanly in there. "YES!" I said happily, and then I put on my helmet and jumped onto my bike, peddling for all I was worth.

I reached the park out of breath. I looked down all of the paths and saw Crystal sitting on the bench, concentrating hard on whatever was on her computer. Her brown hair (which reached to her shoulders when it was down) was hanging around her face as her head was bent down. Today her outfit was jeans as well, and a shirt that said "Work it baby, Work it". I laughed, and then snuck up behind her slowly. "Oh, shit!" she said as she saw me coming up behind her. "You scared me, Danielle" She yelled. at me. "Sorry, sorry, just trying to see what you are so busy doing." I said (Que evil laughter.) "I'm just cleaning out my favorites list, I haven't done this for years!" she said. I laughed, knowing that this was SO true. Hm... I thought as she scrolled down the list. There was some avatar sites, a link to neopets, "Delete!" We both said at the same time. Laughing, she clicked the button. This was going to take awhile, so I sat down and pulled a book out of my backpack. Crystal always called my backpack "the endless backpack" because I always seemed to have stuff in it. The book was about a girl in a surfing competition, and I immeaditly immersed myself in it. "Hey look, I found an old elvish dictionary site. Wow, I had even saved a special page. It's the elvish for saying "To find out what you are to become, First you must find out who you are." Said Crystal. "Huh. Interesting." I said offhandedly. "Come on Danielle. Check it out!" Crystal said, getting that If-you-don't-do-it-ill-make-you look on her face. "Fine, Fine. How do you say it in elvish?" I replied. Crystal said something really fast. "What? Say that again." I asked, and Crys opened her mouth to speak. But she never got the chance. Suddenly everyone and everything around them paused, frozen in time. "What in the name of Blueberry Muffins is going on here?" Crystal yelled. "Wait, Look." I said. There was a door that stood about 15 feet from the ground. It was stone, and it looked ancient. On it words were etched in what I recognized as elvish glowed a deep blue. "I wonder where it leads..." Crys said. "Uh.... Crys...I don't think that's a smart thing to do..." I said slowly. "Of course it's not." she said reasonably. "It doesn't have to be. Anyways, we'll just have to sit here for a very long time if we don't.." She got up from the bench, and walked up to the door. I sighed and followed her. I didn't want to know what was going to happen next, and I probably didn't want to. "Alright, Crys, but if we never come back, you are SO going to pay. I don't know how, but someway I'll get you back." I said menacingly. Crystal ignored me, an grabbed one of the handles to the door. It was a silverish one, and it glinted in the light. "One, Two, Three!" Crystal said, and she yanked the door open. Then everything blacked out.

Crystal

I slowly opened my eyes, and my head ached suddenly at the bright light shining through the trees.

Where the hell am I? I thought. It sure wasn't Fallbrook Park. Then I remembered opening the door with Danielle. I quickly got up and looked around. I was in some kind of forest, with big mossy trees and a brook close by. Wait a sec, where's my hair??!! I thought. I reached all around my shoulders but it wasn't there. Then I felt my head. My hair had turned into a mass of curly brown locks. I just stood there, shocked. Then I realized I was shorter, but not just a few inches. A few feet! I stood about 3'6" tall now. I wish I had a mirror to look at.... I thought, not knowing what else to think of. I'm sure Danielle would have one.... Oh My God!! Danielle? Had she come in with me?? Where was she? I ran through the forest, then tripped over something. I landed with a plonk on the ground, and then realized I had tripped over a blonde-haired girl. "Danielle!!" I shouted. She looked up wearily, obviously she had just woke up too. "Eh, what's going on?" she asked sleepily. "Oh my Holy Croutons! Danielle, You have pointy ears!"

I said, shocked. Danielle reached slowly up to her ears, her eyes as extremely wide. She stood up, and then said "uh..Crys..no offense and all, but you are short. REALLY short. " "I know....but you are taller then you were before....wait a sec....your an elf! And I'm a hobbit!" I said excited. Danielle began "Hee hee...I've always wanted to be an elf. It didnt change my personality, but I feel diffrent. I can feel the age of the forest and the wind blowing in Rohan. It's like I'm apart of the earth. But my visions all blurry...." . She then realized what had happned, and removed her contacts. "Jeez, Crys, I can see so well!" WEll.... isn't that just wonderful for you Danielle. Did I get anything special from this? Gardning skills?? I sighed. "What is it?" Danielle asked. "Oh, just that you've got all of these elvish power sorta things and hobbits don't have anyting like that." I said. "Oh, please Crystal. YOU'RE A HOBBIT! You can marry Frodo without any racial seperations now...DUH! Anyways, Hobbits are cool. Don't you have any,like,sudden urge to go find a tavren or something?" Danielle said. We bothed laughed uncontrollably. "Um..Danielle..I'd love to marry Frodo and all, and obviously this IS Middle-Earth, but at what point in time are we in? " I asked. "I bet you $20.00 that where're outside of Rivendale, just before the Council of Elrond." Danielle said. "If it's like any fanfic I've read, that's where we'll be." she continued. "There is just a tiny problem..I've forgotten half the story!" I said. Oh, shit. What if some creepy ringwraith comes up and slices our heads off or sumthin? We both began to wander around, looking for any sign of elves. "Eep!" Danielle said from about 17 feet away. I ran over there. Standing in front of Danielle was and old man clad all in gray. "Gandalf?" I said in alarm. Not what I had expected.