AU: Okay so this is my first Lord of the Rings fanfiction that I've posted here. I hope you enjoy it. Hopefully it wont turn out like every other one if you get my meaning. To those who are reading my Phantom of the Opera phic titled 'Shakespeare Phantom' it is kind of on hold at the moment. If I read or say one more thing in Shakespearian English I'm gonna explode. So enjoy this first chapter and tell me what you think. :)

Improbability

Chapter one

Chemistry Class

Adrian Bethesda's emerald green eyes danced across the hallway looking for a way out. She regretfully sighed when she knew there was none. Her stomach began to lurch and her legs seemed to get heavier with each step. She let out a tiny groan when she saw the glaring number 263 staring at her from the doorway.

"Hey Adri!" A pleasant voice exclaimed.

Adrian's present predicament seemed to disappear for a moment when she heard her friend's voice emitting from the Chemistry classroom. Her friend poked her head around the classroom door. Her opaque grey eyes seemed to glisten under her red hair. Adrian gave out a weak smile.

"Hello Rose."

Rose's face produced a frown.

"What's bugging my friend this morning?" She asked as she stepped fully from the doorway and put her hands on her hips.

"What bugs me every day at this time?" Adrian counter-asked.

Rose thought for a moment. Her eyes looked up to the ceiling of the hallway in thought. She then rested her pointer finger on her chin in recognition.

"Chemistry!"

Adrian nodded.

"You actually used your brain for once," Adrian said with a smile.

Rose rolled her eyes and shook her head. She grabbed Adrian by the arm and pulled her into the classroom.

"Come on Adri! It's the last day before spring break!"

The two made their way to their desk space in the back of the room. Adrian lugged her backpack onto the table with a huff.

"I can't believe Mr. Kazinski is giving us a test today," Adrian sulked as she sat down on the dark blue stools in front of the desks. Rose gave a tiny shrug and sat down as well.

"But just think: only eighty more minuets and then we'll be free for a week!" Rose exclaimed. She smiled as she brushed a stray hair away from her face.

Adrian rolled her eyes.

"What's wrong with you? Aren't you going to Aruba with your parents again this week?" Rose asked.

Adrian shook her head and sighed. "No. I can't go because I'm," she contorted her face by bulging her eyes and sticking her lip up to her nose. She slanted her head and put made quote marks with her hands. "Failing Chemistry."

"Ohhh…"

"I can't believe they're making me stay home," Adrian sulked.

Rose placed a hand on her friend's back and smiled.

"You can stay over at my place if you want. My parents left to go to Bermuda this morning on business. I have the house to myself."

Adrian looked at her friend.

"Why did you decide not to go with them?" Adrian asked.

Rose shrugged as she pulled out a soda can and popped it open. It made the standard fizzing sound and she took a gulp.

"Bermuda's too hot for me," she took another gulp and set the can down. "Besides, Bermuda doesn't have Adrian Bethesda."

Adrian smiled.

"Thanks buddy."

Rose took another long gulp and belched.

"Not a problem."

At the same moment Rose belched Calla, their sworn arch enemy through the caste system at the school, walked in. She immediately made a sound between an 'ick' and an 'ew'. She walked to her desk at the front of the class and set her purse down. She walked to the back where Rose and Adrian were sitting.

"You are so disgusting," said Calla in abhorrence.

Rose smirked, picked the can up again and took another swing. This time the belch filled up the class room. Calla was appalled and covered her nose.

"That was the most repulsive thing I have heard," she said.

Rose laughed and stuck the can down.

"Well I'm sorry Calla," she put emphasis on her name. "I didn't mean to offend you."

"I prefer Cali if you don't mind," Calla replied.

"Why? Do you not like being called 'beautiful one' all the time?" Adrian mocked.

Calla stuck her hand up with her palm facing Adrian.

"Don't get me started with you, you Middle-Earth freak," she said in anger.

Adrian pulled her arms close and waved her hands frantically. She shook her head at the same time.

"Oh no I offended the great beautiful one. All hope is lost," she mocked in horror.

Calla shook her head and sighed. She turned around and ignored the two girls and walked back up to her desk.

"You know I feel really bad about what I said," Rose said to Adrian loud enough so Calla could hear her.

"Yeah so do I," Adrian agreed.

"We should buy her a present," Rose concluded.

"Maybe that book 'Wolves of the Calla' by Stephen King," Adrian suggested.

Rose smiled, "You know I really like that idea."

"Would you two shut up?" Calla shrieked. She hated it when the two of them would talk about 'Wolves of the Calla'. They had a field day when it first came out. The two, besides being Ringers, were also Tower Junkies and every day for a week the two would walk into Chemistry carrying a copy of 'Wolves of the Calla' just to annoy Calla. They had actually finished the book over the weekend and they had no reason to carry the book with them to Chemistry for that entire week but the two girls loved to tick Calla off.

Just then Mr. Kazinski walked into the classroom carrying his brief case and his papers. He set them down on his desk. His eyes peered into Rose through his thick rimmed black glasses.

"Miss. La Vinia please get rid of that soda can. You know the rule. If I catch you with one more can of soda in my class room…" he trailed off and Rose picked it up with a sigh.

"Yeah, yeah I know, I know. You'll send me to detention for the remainder of my Senior year."

Mr. Kazinski nodded his head, "and remember that is a promise not a threat."

"Yes Mr. Kazinski."

Rose stood up and walked to the recycling bin in the classroom. She tossed the can in and retreated back to her desk. When she was seated Mr. Kazinski began talking.

"Okay so as you all know today is a test day," This was followed by a lot of groans and only one 'yes!' by a very intelligent girl sitting in the back adjacent to Rose and Adrian. "Moving on…now I know I could be mean and make you do a written work test by yourselves but I have some place to go this Spring Break and I do not want to be grading papers all week so what we're going to do is I would like you all to get into groups of two or three and I will give you a piece of paper. On it will be directions of something I want you to make or test. I will be walking around and grading you as you progress in your experiment. Now please find your lab partners and get in your designated spots."

Rose and Adrian stood up and walked to the fume hood at the back wall nearest to the windows that overlooked the sunny country mid-western Canadian country side. The intelligent girl who had said 'yes' earlier at the mention of a test finished up the page in her book, Le Deux Tours, and joined her fellow lab partners. Her black hair was held loosely in a poorly constructed bun and her glasses made her mauve eyes bigger then her face.

"Hey girls," she said to Rose and Adrian.

"Hello Arda how are you this afternoon?" Adrian asked.

She smiled and shrugged, "I'm pretty good. I'm almost done Le Deux Tours for the second time. I look forward to starting Le Retour de la Roi though. That one is my favourite," Arda replied.

"Awesome. Did you still want to come over to my house this weekend? Adrian will hopefully be coming over as well. We can watch the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in French and in English," Rose offered.

Arda smiled, "I'd love to."

"Cool."

"I haven't seen The Return of the King in French yet. It is any good?" Adrian asked.

Rose and Arda shrugged.

"I don't know I haven't seen it yet," replied Rose.

"Me either."

Mr. Kazinski handed them their piece of paper and the three girls began to study it.

"Let's see here…" Rose rambled. "We're making…candy canes."

Arda rolled her eyes and raised her voice so Mr. Kazinski could hear her.

"Don't you think this is a little out of season?" Arda complained.

The teacher smiled, "I thought it would be fun if a group made candy canes."

"Great," Adrian sighed.

"I'll get the beaker," Arda said walking to the cupboards.

"I'll get the Bunsen burner," Rose said going in the opposite direction.

"Great so you leave me with the ingredients," Adrian said with a sigh as she walked to the front of the class to grab the chemicals.

Approximately fifteen minutes later the girls had mixed their chemicals in the beakers. Arda began rolling the candy into sheets and Rose continued to add more chemicals to the mix above the flame of the burner. Adrian continued to read the directions to the girls. At the other end of the class room Calla and her two lab partners, Cort and Hugh, continued to work through their test. They had to perform an experiment to show an endothermic reaction and an exothermic reaction. Calla added in her next chemical and it began to fizz.

"Okay I think that about does it," Arda announced when she curved the last piece of candy and stuck it on the tray.

"Well that was fun," Rose commended. "Let's make some more!"

"Let's ask Mr. Kazinski if we can," Arda replied.

"I'll go ask," Adrian said.

Before she could turn around to ask Mr. Kazinski a large explosion followed by a blinding white light filled the room. Adrian involuntary raised her hands to her eyes to block the light. She took a staggering step backwards in an attempt to protect herself. The heat of the explosion intensified beyond Adrian's comprehension. She felt as if her skin had ignited in the blaze. She let out a tiny shriek but she wasn't the only one.

As suddenly as the light and explosion occurred it disappeared leaving a glossy substance on Calla's, Cort's and Hugh's table. The entire class remained silent for a good thirty seconds before anyone spoke. Mr. Kazinski took a fleeting glance at the class to make sure everyone was okay before he exploded.

"What in the name of God did you three do!" he demanded.

The three shrugged. They still looked completely stunned about what happened.

Mr. Kazinski walked up to their desk and looked at their sheet. He read through the directions and noticed a typo. His face went a deathly pale.

"Oops…" he said.

"What?" Calla asked.

"When I typed this up it was at around midnight on Saturday. I must have been tired and I backwards a chemical formula. I'm surprised you three didn't blow up this entire classroom," Mr. Kazinski explained.

Arda stared at the glossy substance on the desk. She began to wonder what it was.

"Mr. Kazinski…" she began.

He turned his attention to her.

"Yes Ciarda?" he asked.

She pointed to the glossy stuff on the desk, "What is that?"

He looked at it and shrugged.

"I haven't the slightest idea."

The class gathered around the desk to get a closer look.

This doesn't make sense, Rose thought. If that explosion was as loud and powerful as it was why did it leave some stupid glossy stuff on the desk? And furthermore why hasn't another teacher or somebody come running up here to investigate what happened?

She turned towards the door half expecting a teacher to burst through the room to demand what had happened. But no one came. She began walking to the door and left the classroom. Nobody had noticed that she had left. Everybody's attention was on the glossy stuff on the desk. Rose walked down the hall and looked into the different classrooms. Every teacher was continuing as if they heard nothing.

Talk about your sound proof classrooms…Rose thought.

She eventually turned around and walked back into the classroom. When she re-entered all she could hear or see was mass confusion.

"What's going on?" Rose asked.

Adrian turned to her friend.

"Mr. Kazinski put on a glove and began to wipe up the substance but when he stuck the paper towel on it his hand went through the desk. He quickly pulled it out but we don't know how that happened,"

Rose's eyebrows narrowed.

"What do you mean, 'went through the desk'?"

"Watch," Mr. Kazinski said as he stuck his gloved hand through the desk. He pulled it out again to the amazement of Rose.

"How is this possible?" Rose asked.

The class, including Mr. Kazinski, shrugged.

"I'm guessing that the explosion was so large that the earth itself could not hold it so it created a rip in our world," Cort explained.

"I don't see how that's possible," Arda said shaking her head.

Another student by the name of Brad spoke up.

"Hey didn't something like that happen in Red vs. Blue?" he asked.

"What in the name of God is that?" Arda asked.

"It's a parody of Halo," Hugh explained. "In one episode there was a very big explosion that sent them all into the future."

"Well that's just a cartoon," Arda said.

"Well then you try and explain what this thing is!" Brad exclaimed.

"Someone should stick their face in and find out what's on the other side," Calla suggested.

"Maybe you should do that," Rose said.

"Whatever."

"Girls knock it off," Mr. Kazinski said with a sigh.

Adrian walked up to the desk and looked at the substance on the table. Without thinking she stuck her hand in it. It felt oddly cool but not cold. On the other side her hand felt a warm breeze.

"Adrian! What are you doing!" Mr. Kazinski shouted.

"What's it feel like?" Cort asked.

"Cool…"

Adrian took a deep breath and pushed her head through to the other side. She could hear her teacher and classmates shouting things like, 'what the hell are you doing?' and 'what's on the other side?' As she looked around all she could see were trees and more trees. The grass was a brilliant shade of green and the trees were taller then the sky. She looked up at the sky and gasped. It was bluer then anything she had ever seen before. The air on this side was pleasant. It did not have the odour of fossil fuels or nasty chemicals. The silence was unnerving though. Adrian lived in a world of constant sound. Be it the music that she listened to or the hum from the freezer sound was every where and yet here she could hear nothing expect the faint calling from the birds. She pulled her head back out and stood up.

"What did you see?" Rose asked.

Adrian shrugged.

"I saw trees and grass," she replied absent-mindedly.