A reprieve
I do not own Lord of the Rings! Only Alyssa and Ryan, I don't even own the songs. Honest!
"I'm hungry. Merry, I'm hungry." Pippin says to his cousin merry that is walking next to him.
"We all are Pip." Merry replies.
"I'm tired Merry." Pippin continues.
"I know Pippin." Merry says trudging along after Frodo and Sam who are behind Gandalf who is behind Legolas.
"I wish we were back in the Shire. At the Green Dragon smoking our pipes and drinking ale. Eating big meals till we were stuffed then eating more…" Pippin starts.
"Shut it Pippin. We're all tired and hungry and well all wish we were back at home. Now be quiet!" Merry snaps. Everyone is in a bad mood from trudging across Middle Earth just to destroy a stupid ring.
"I'm bored." Pippin says.
"Quiet you fool. We will be stopping shortly now stop complaining. You're the ones who wanted to come." Gandalf snaps at him.
"Do you hear that?" Legolas asks stopping in the front. "It is singing."
"Legolas go up ahead and look. We will stop here for now." Gandalf commands.
Legolas goes up ahead and searches for the source of the singing. The voice is coming from… nowhere. Legolas stands in a clearing that looks like it would be a good camp. After not finding the voice after it stops, Legolas goes back to the Fellowship.
"I could not find it but I have found the perfect campsite." He tells Gandalf and Aragorn.
"Very well, we shall go to this campsite and rest for the night." Gandalf says following Legolas to the clearing to find a girl of about 16 sitting in front of a fire… singing.
"Lay down your sweet and weary head
Night is falling. You have come to journey's end.
Sleep now, dream of the ones who came before.
They are calling from across a distant shore.
Why do you weep? What are these tears upon your face?
Soon you will see all of your fears will pass away.
Safe in my arms, you're only sleeping." The girl sings.
"Who are you?" Frodo asks stepping forward.
"A girl from a distant land, I'd ask who you are but I already know." She replies cooking bacon and sausages. "Tell me, how fairs thy company?" She asks.
"How do you know who I am?" Frodo asks suspiciously.
"I know for I am a seer, Frodo Baggins of the Shire, the one who has seen the eye!" She says pulling off the cooked food and putting more on.
"You are a seer? She works for Sauron Gandalf! We should kill her." Boromir exclaims.
"Tell me Boromir son of Denethor, heir to the steward of Gondor, if I was working for Sauron do you really think I would be here? I confess that yes, Sauron is looking for me for if he gets me he would surely win this war." She says to Boromir without looking behind at them. She then adds when Sam starts silently shaking, "Fret not Samwise Gamgee, He cannot find me. Only those I wish to may see me."
"I have heard of you, child. I was wondering whose side you chose." Gandalf says as he walks up and sits on the other side of the fire.
"Come eat and rest for your hearts are weary." She says and after everyone is sitting around the fire. "Mithrandir, some might argue that they know not what is good and what is evil. The bad guys say that they are good and we are evil. We say they are bad and we are good. How do you truly know what is good and what is not? It is all in the actions of each side. It was only logical to choose this side. I will aid this Fellowship as best I can."
"Is that why you allowed us to see you Milady?" Sam asks as he eats his food.
"I am no lady, I am but a child. To answer your question yes, right now no one can neither see us nor hear us." She replies.
"But Legolas was able to hear you singing." Pippin says with his mouth full. Merry hits and scolds him.
"That is because I let him. No matter what you think, Legolas is not able to hear through my barriers." She says smirking at Pippin.
"Tell us, what do you know of the One Ring?" Boromir asks. Aragorn looks at him and says 'Boromir'.
"I know that it is evil, I know what it is capable of for I have seen it. That ring is nothing but evil. No matter what man may think." The girl says stroking the fire.
"Pray tell us what the ring has done." Boromir asks.
"The only way I know how is to tell you through a song. Is that alright or would you highness like me to act it out?" She asks sarcastically cause most of the fellowship to snicker.
"Sing it!" Pippin and Merry yell cause the other hobbits and Aragorn, Legolas, Gandalf, and reluctantly Gimli.
"Where once was light
Now darkness falls
Where once was love
Love is no more
Don't say goodbye
Don't say I didn't try
These tears we cry
Are falling rain
For all the lies you told us
The hurt, the blame...
And we will weep to be so alone
We are lost
We can never go home
So in the end
I'll be what I will be
No loyal friend
Was ever there for me
Now we say goodbye
We say you didn't try
These tears you cry
Have come too late
Take back the lies
The hurt, the blame...
And you will weep
When you face the end alone
You are lost
You can never go home
You are lost
You can never go home."
She ends the song and say's, "That is what the ring has done. Not to mention the taking of many lives and cultures, it is deceiving, catching all peoples in its lies. Some can resist it better than most. Some are too weak in heart and soul to resist." She says looking at Boromir then, "And some are strong enough to resist. And that is all it takes to win." She says looking at Aragorn and Frodo.
"What was that song about?" Sam asks shyly.
"That song was about the creature Gollum. I presume you all have heard of him?" She asks.
"I sort of feel sorry for him." Pippin says. "It's sad is it not, to be alone like that?"
"Yes well, get some sleep, all of you." She says looking determinedly at Legolas, Boromir, Gimli, and Aragorn. "You are safe tonight. All is well.
"Will you sing to us?" The hobbits ask.
"Lay down your sweet and weary head
Night is falling. You have come to journey's end.
Sleep now, Dream of the ones who came before.
They are calling from across a distant shore.
Why do you weep? What are these tears upon your face?
Soon you will see all of your fears will pass away.
Safe in my arms, you're only sleeping.
What can you see on the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea, a pale moon rises.
The ships have come to carry you home.
And all will turn to silver glass.
A light on the water, all souls pass.
Hope fades into the world of night
through shadows falling out of memory and time.
Don't say we have come now to the end.
White shores are calling. You and I will meet again.
And you'll be here in my arms, just sleeping.
What can you see on the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea, a pale moon rises.
The ships have come to carry you home.
And all will turn to silver glass
a light on the water, grey ships pass."
The next morning when the fellowship awakens, the girl is nowhere to be seen. Their packs are replenished with food and new heavy cloaks while their flasks are filled with fresh water. The camp is cleaned up except for nine plates with eggs, bacon and sausage. And a note:
~ Na lû e-govaned vîn. (Until next we meet.) ~
"Come we must not tarry." Gandalf says after they eat. The fellowship moves on with the girl from a distant land on all of their minds and a new spark of hope in their hearts.
From the shadows a girl watch as the fellowship leaves. "So…?"She asks.
A cloaked figure comes out from behind a tree. "See, it is not hard to talk as one of us." The figure says removing his cloak to reveal golden yellow hair with and a face with flawless features and pointed ears.
"Of course only when she wants too." A second figure says as it comes out from hiding, "Way to go on stealing Lady Galadriel's lines." He says telepathically to her.
"Of course, want to hit my brother for me Gorfindel?" She asks the elf.
"Nay, we mustn't tarry. You put hope back in their hearts for now. They will need it again but for now we must get back to Imladris, come." Gorfindel says turning away.
"He just wants to get back so he can fix his luscious hair." Ryan says sarcastically to his sister.
"Shut up." Alyssa says snickering.
Tell me what ya'll think please! But no flames. Not yet seeing as how this is my first story.
This is most likely going to be a oneshot. Unless someone wants me to continue that is.