Chapter 1: How They Got There

Author Notes: Hi! My brother and I are co-writing this story, we wanted to see a different type of modern world/Middle Earth dealio :) Usually these types of stories consist of a teenage girl mysteriously appearing in Middle Earth, usually with one of the fellowship close by. In our story the fellowship come to our world.

Matthew: And then they kill each other.

Me: (shakes head) I'm sorry about him.

And by the way, this chapter is mostly a prologue or an intro, the good stuff will start next chapter I promise, but this chapter is still important!

In any case enjoy the story and please review, it's much appreciated :)

The ride to Isengard was long and hard. The Fellowship was exhausted but they couldn't rest. With his elf eyes, Legolas saw at least a dozen orcs stalking them from the north two days past. For three long days they had been travelling non-stop, and it was driving them all insane. Finally Aragorn stopped everybody and announced:

"This is madness. We cannot go for much longer without food or rest."

"But do you forget? The orcs gain speed every day," said Gimli tiredly.

"It is not possible to continue on. I propose we sleep during the day," Legolas suggested, "hidden away from the orcs' eyes, and in the morning we challenge them."

"Agreed," said the rest of the Fellowship.

So according to Legolas' plan they found a small, secluded cave off of the path they were travelling on. For the first time in days they ate a hot meal and fell asleep with full bellies and on blankets instead of horses. Boromir volunteered for the first watch and fell into deep thought about the reason for the rapid journey to Isengard.

Gandalf. During the quest to destroy the ring, they had been ambushed by fifty or so orcs from Isengard, for the sole purpose of capturing one grey wizard, Gandalf of course. They fought valiantly but it was all in vain. They were immensely outnumbered. The orcs took Gandalf and the Fellowship talked amongst themselves deciding whether it was more important to take the ring to Mordor or rescue Gandalf.

Obviously they decided to find Gandalf. Boromir was worried for Gandalf, Saruman could be forcing Gandalf into the service of Sauron at this very moment, but no, Gandalf would never accept, he would die first which still wasn't appealing. He uneasily settled in for a ling night.

The next day they quickly packed up and sneaked out of the cave looking for the orcs. Said beasts suddenly appeared from behind trees and bushes. Fortunately Legolas had his bow strung and he saved Merry from an early death by shooting the orc quickly approaching the hobbit from behind, Merry nodded his thanks and drew his sword. It was an awesome battle, the hobbits with their short swords diving around creating havoc for the orcs, Gimli slicing heads, Aragorn and Boromir swinging their swords and of course Legolas shooting orcs with each arrow bringing death when it struck.

It was not long before the Fellowship found themselves riding towards Isengard leaving the bloody bodies of the orcs behind them.

Within the course of a day they finally reached Isengard. They hid outside trying to come up with some kind of plan. Gimli was all for charging in and hoping for the best but Legolas shot down that idea immediately (pun intended). There really was no great scheme, the plan was to walk into the tower and demand to speak to Saruman and threaten him horribly (possibly torture) and maybe get some information about Sauron out of him at the same time. It wasn't the best plan but they didn't really time, who knows what was happening to Gandalf?

Each of them marched in bravely, one by one, weapons raised and ready and each one of them trembled when they found Saruman standing in the front room, waiting for them, but thankfully not somewhere else doing something horrible to Gandalf.

"Release Gandalf right now!" Frodo bravely demanded though his voice was shaky.

"And why my dear hobbit, would I ever do that?" Sarumon replied in a rather arrogant tone.

Nobody answered.

"Especially when I am about to be rid of you all for good? No, that doesn't make sense at all. You won't need him where you'll be going."

Sarumon snapped his fingers and what seemed like, but couldn't be, thousands of Uruk-hai stepped into the room, completely surrounding the Fellowship. There was no way out, no hope.

The white wizard stepped forward and with his staff to Frodo's chest, he demanded the ring. Frodo looked to his friends, frightened and unsure of what to do. But there was nothing he could do.

"Give it to me now you insolent little hobbit or I will rip it from your cold, dead carcass."

Reluctantly Frodo pulled the ring out from his shirt, and ripped the chain from his neck, and slowly handed it to Saruman who snatched it from the hobbits' shaking hands.

"And now I will finally be rid of you once and for all, and the dark lord can rise and claim his land in peace."

Saruman began to grin and then he started to chant:

"Atque hos latrones ad locum quem devoret confundant. Paveant... "

He chanted this over and over and the Fellowship was helpless against it. They didn't know what the spell would do, but they were sure that it involved painful death. Just as they accepted their fates, Saruman stopped chanting. A flash of light appeared so fast that only Legolas truly saw it.

When the flash ended they found themselves in a very different place to the one that they were just in.

A few of them thought they were dead, and that this was the afterlife, but it didn't look like any kind of heaven (or hell) that they had ever heard of. The floors looked as though they were carved from a reddish coloured tree. Thick green coverings made of an unknown material covered what was assumed to be windows. Chairs that were made of some sort of animal skin, a very soft animal skin. The room was very well decorated, beautiful in fact. They assumed that they were in some sort of dwelling, not elven, Legolas was sure of that, and as it wasn't underground or in a cave it wasn't dwarvish, and the ceilings were way too tall to be a hobbit hole so it must be a building of man.

Nobody said anything, they just stared. Then a girl, a human girl came walking down the stairs and froze immediately when she saw the Fellowship standing there, her eyes widened and the Fellowship raised their weapons.

Oooh cliffhanger! What's gonna happen? I don't know, well I do, but you don't, you'll just have to wait for the next chapter :)

Special thanks to my brother who helped with a lot of great ideas and suggestions, couldn't have done it without you!

Matthew: Oh thank you (blushes) Please you're too kind

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