"Kris!" A 19 year old, brunette female calls, chasing after her brunette friend.
"Wait up for us!" Calls one of two girls, who both look strikingly like the reddish brown haired female.
"We can't keep up with you!" The other yells, keeping pace with the first female
"KRIS! GIVE ME MY DAMN LAPTOP!" The girl calls, her reddish brown ponytail shining like copper in the sun as she chases her childhood friend around the hillside.
"Why'd she take your laptop?" A light redhead asks as she joins the chase.
"She took my precious, Alicia!" The copper-haired (more accurately in the sunlight) female wails. "She took away my Legolas!"
"You were watching that AGAIN?! How many times have you watched it, Misty?" The female known as Alicia asks.
"Over 200." The copper-haired female, known better as Misty, deadpans.
"Toss the thing over the cliff." Alicia calls to her friend, watching in amusement as Misty dashes over to the edge of the cliff, screaming at the top of her lungs 'MY PRECIOUS!' and weeping.
"Serves her right for being obssessed with Lord of the Rings..." Two girls chorus.
"LILY! SARAH!" Misty screeches as she starts chasing the two girls around angrily.
"KRIS!" Said female yells out, joining the chase. Alicia sighs and watches in amusement as her friends chase each other. It came as a shock, she remembers clearly, to learn two of her closest friends were her best friend's younger sister and cousin. Becoming lost in her memories, Alicia fails to notice her friends charging at her, until it was far too late, sending the group hurtling off the cliff's edge and into the waters below.
Misty's POV
"Ouch!" I grunt as I land on a stone slab, gasping as my two friends, my little sister, and my younger cousin land on top of me.
"Dog pile!" Lily cheers, smiling unashamed at me on the bottom.
"How is it that Misty always ends up on the bottom?" Alicia asks curiously.
"Because her boobs are comfortable." Kris pipes up, lifting her head off my large chest.
"GET OFF ME!" I scream, jumping everyone around us, not that we noticed.
"Jeez. Always so grumpy." Sarah snaps back.
"Well that's what happens when...someone...lands...on...hide me!" I squeak as I dives behind my two best friends as I notice the stares aimed at our group.
"Hi!" Lily cheers, waving her hands excitedly.
"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." Kris mutters.
"Where are we?" Sarah asks as Alicia cowers slightly behind her.
"It can't be..." I say, taking a long look around the room, my eyes widening as I lets out a very girlish squeal, something the rest only hears when I'm watching Lord of the Rings. "We're in Elrond's Secret Council!" I jump up and down, digging my nails into Kris's arm.
"Let go, Mist." Kris chides as she tries tugging her arm free.
"Where are we?" Lily echos Sarah, looking around curiously.
"We're in Middle Earth! I'm telling you!" I insist.
"Then who is everyone, 'Oh-all-knowledgable-cousin-of-mine.' Please enlighten us." Lily says sarcastically.
"Okay." I shrug, before turning to the group of 9 that stood together in a line in front of us. "That's Legolas Greenleaf, Prince of Mirkwood. That's Gimli, son of Gloin. That's Boromir, son of Lord Denethor, the Steward of Gondor. That's Aragorn. He also goes by Strider, but he's the son of Arathorn and the heir to throne of Gondor. That's Lord Elrond, he's Arwen's father. That's Gandalf. A wizard who likes smoking and setting off fireworks. Next to him is Frodo. He's Bilbo's nephew. Bilbo took him in when he was younger after his parents died. And there is Sam, he's Frodo's gardener. And there's Frodo's cousins, Merry and Pippin." I smile before noticing all the wide-eyed stares aimed at me directly. "Eep." I let out a small shriek before I tug Kris in front of me.
"How do you know all of this?" Elrond asks, turning to me.
"Welll..." I draw out the word, cringing as I notice more stares. "Kris." I squeak out, hiding.
"She's shy at first." Lily says.
"Give her some time and she'll be back to her old self again." Sarah finishes, a smirk on her face.
"I'm not saving you this time." Kris says as she moves to stand next to Alicia.
Letting out another shriek, I take the satchal on my side and cover my face with it. "If I can't see you, you can't see me!" I shout.
"We can still see you, Mist." The four girls beside me say.
"Eep!" I shriek before I run off and dive head first into a bush, refusing to come out.
"As I was saying. You will be the Fellowship..." Elrond begins again as I jump out.
"I want to go with them!" I shout.
"That took less time than we thought." Lily whispers to her cousin.
"That's my sister for you." Sarah whispers back.
"You cannot." Boromir replies. Without thinking, I reach into my satchel and pull out a bow and an arrow.
"Oh shit." Alicia mutters. "She has a bow and arrow now."
"What is a fair maiden going to do? I bet you all that she doesn't know how to hold it right." Boromir scoffs, causing my family and friends to snicker.
"Stand against that tree." I snap, drawing the arrow and standing in the stance my teacher taught me.
"I better get ready to patch some wounds." Kris sighs, reaching into her satchel absentmindedly, before pulling out a first aid kit.
Boromir stands in front of the tree, making Lily and Sarah burst out laghing as I draw the string back, holding onto the bow and aligning it to my target, until my hand is right by my cheek before I let the arrow go, making it fly straight and snagging the loose fabric right underneath Boromir's crotch.
"How's that?" I ask, caressing the wood of my bow.
"You missed." Boromir scoffs.
"That served as my initial target." I smirk as I pull out another arrow, lining it up yet again, letting it fly to split the first arrow in half. "You were saying?"
"They may do us some good after all." Gandalf concedes. "If nothing more than to keep the men in line."
"Yay." I sing as I bound up to Gandalf, throwing my arms around him, hugging him tightly.
"Misty!" Alicia snaps. "Let the poor wizard go."
"Poor unfortunate soul." Sarah sings as she and I burst out into giggles.
"14 compainions. Very well. You shall be the Fellowship of the Ring." Elrond says.
"Yay!" I giggle. "We're going on an adventure!"
"Misty, where's your laptop?" Sarah asks.
"Right...here...Where's my precious!?" I cry out, startling the group once more, causing my friends to face palm, before I run out of the room crying.
"I'm so sorry for her." Alicia bows to the startled council. Maybe I should take a second to explain? Nah, that'll come later.
Normal POV
"Mist, wait up!" Kris calls, running after her childhood friend. "What's gotten into you?!"
"I don't know." Misty mumbles. "Wait here. I'll be right back. If my gut feeling is right, we'll have someone to heal." Without another word from the brunette, she runs off into the wild, ignoring the guards calls to halt, the pleas of her friend falling on absent ears. A warg's howl pierces through the air, sending the guards of Rivendell into a frenzy, evenmore so when they realize that's where this mysterious female is headed. Kris runs back to the Fellowship, telling them what was going on, causing them to run after the female, worried looks on all of their faces.
"Misty!" Alicia yells as she bursts through the gate, her eyes searching for her best friend.
"Sis!" Sara screeches, tears gathering in her eyes. "Where are you?!"
"This isn't funny, Misty!" Kris calls out.
"Guys, it wasn't a warg pack." Misty says as she comes in view, cradling a bundle to her chest, causing Kris and Alicia to facepalm.
"You didn't..." Kris says.
"I couldn't leave her out there all alone!" Misty defends, clutching the bundle closer to her.
"She did." Sarah and Lily chorus.
"Only you would take in a vicious animal." Alicia sighs.
"She's only a pup. I can train her." Misty insists, growling at any guard who attempted to take her precious bundle. "I'm keeping her."
"Misty, we're about to go off on a dangerous quest, and you want to take a baby warg with you?!" Kris says.
"Yes!" Misty says, cooing to the bundle, bouncing it up and down, earning a happy bark from the warg.
"Only her." Lily sighs, shaking her head.
"What are we going to do, Lord Elrond?" Gandalf asks, turning to the said elf.
"I do not know." Elrond says.
"I'm keeping her. If you don't like it, you can kiss my ass." Misty snaps before nuzzling the bundle, cooing happily. "Who's my pretty baby?"
"Where was the pack?" Elrond asks.
"Slaughtered. Every single one of them. This one appears to be the youngest, since all the others hid her in a ditch. The mother, I assumed, was the one who howled, and when I got there, she pushed me to the hole and whined before she died." Misty sniffs.
"Only you would feel compassion for a vicious killer animal." Alicia sighs.
"Was she hurt?" Kris asks.
"I think so." Misty says. "We should look, huh?"
"I won't hurt her. You will be the one holding her for me." Kris smiles as she walks up to her friend. "I promise I won't hurt her."
"Thanks, Kris." Misty smiles back before removiing most of the bundle so Kris could check her out.
"She looks like she hasn't had enough to eat." Kris mumbles. "And it looks like someone broke her paw..."
Misty frowns, tears gathering in her eyes. "I'm taking care of her."
"I'll have to rebreak her paw so I can set it right. Is that okay?" Kris looks up at Misty with pleading eyes. "Otherwise it'll never heal properly and you can't always carry her."
"Alright." Misty winces.
"Would you like me to do that?" Aragorn asks, stepping up to the trembling female.
"I'll reset it after its been rebroken." Kris nods, turning away. Hearing the bones break, and the whining of the pup was enough to send the female into tears as she nuzzles the pups head comfortingly as Kris sets the bones and puts a splint on it, to keep it in place.
"My poor baby." Misty holds the pup close as it whimpers in pain before rocking it gently, putting it to sleep.
"Only she would treat it like a baby." Kris sighs, shaking her head with a small smile. "But it's good that she has something to help keep her mind off things."
"We set out in the morning." Gandalf announces.
"Alright!" Misty smiles as she looks at the sleeping warg with a tender smile.
"Shall I show you to your room?" Legolas asks.
"Sure." Misty smiles as she follows the elf, paying more attention to the sleeping warg than the elf she has had a crush on ever since she started watching the Lord of the Rings.
"Only her." The four girls sigh before bursting out into giggles and following their friend and family member, staying behind to hear the interesting conversation happening between the elf and their friend.
"What are you going to name her?" Legolas wonders.
"Hmmmm. Bubbles!" Misty chirps, a bright smile on her face as the warg pup's front paws twitch in her sleep.
"What is Bubbles?" Legolas asks.
"This is Bubbles." Misty smiles, holding her pup up.
"Where does Bubbles come from?" Legolas wonders, causing the four girls follwing them to facepalm.
"Well, she comes from her mommy's belly after the mommy and daddy..." Misty begins.
"That's enough, Misty!" Kris announces as she walks ahead of the group, causing them to sigh in relief. "We need to go to bed so we can rest."
"Alright." Misty sighs, a pout on her lips. "But I didn't get to finish explaining things to him."
"He was asking about Bubble's namesake." Kris explains with a sigh.
"Oh." Misty says before rummaging through her satchel, pulling out a container of bubbles, and showing him proudly. "These are bubbles!" She smiles proudly, causing her friends to facepalm and look at her. "What?"
"You are unreal." Lily and Sarah chorus as the girls step into the room, bidding goodnight to Legolas before gathering on the bed, watching Misty coo to the pup, here eyes sparkling happily.
"It's been years since she's been this happy." Kris whispers to the rest of the group, a smile on her lips as Bubbles wakes up, demanding to be fed. Thrusting her hand into her satchel, the female pulls out a large steak, feeding it to the happy pup.
"Yes, it has been." Alicia agrees, smiling as her friend giggles and cuddles her pup before falling asleep asleep, curling around the pup's warmth contently.