I do not own any of the LOTR characters, though I do wish that I own the Elf! Don't we all? I want to warn you that this is my first fic. My friends seemed to enjoy it and I hope that you will too!

Memories Forgotten

Ch. 1

Friends

            'Mom I'm going to Spencer's,' Mialyn Thrasher told her Mom as they walked into the mall.

'Okay. Please be careful while you are in "that" store. I'll be in JC Penny's; when you are finished meet me in there. I found some cute outfits that I want you to try on.'

'Oh really? Well thanks, see Ya!' Mialyn said as she spun around to go in the opposite direction.

            'Hey!' her mother stopped her, 'I have my cell phone; I hope you have yours. If you "encounter" any problems call me.'

            'Gosh Mom! It's not like some freak is lurking in the corner waiting for some girl like me to come along; I'll be fine. Besides, what are you going to do when I go on that hiking trip?'

            'I'll worry and worry and worry. You think that you can look after your self but I don't. You just be careful, okay?' her mother pleaded.

            Mialyn had thought that she had been given the privilege to wonder off by herself when she was sixteen but now she was almost nineteen and her Mom still freaked out.  

            As she walked into Spencer's she had to squint to see in the dim light. She headed to the back of the store where all of the lamps and lights were. She loved them and collected them.

            She was looking at one that displayed stars and moons around the room when a man's voice spoke behind her. 'Well look who it is!'

            'You're back!' she turned around to face the voice's owner 'I called and I called and I called but I never got an answer. I'm so glad your back B.W.!' she said as she hugged his neck.

            Benjamin Willam was his name and he was Mialyn's best friend. They had met about three years ago at a club that he was the DJ at. Benny (one of his nick names) was not your typical rich kid, at least not one that Mialyn's mother would have approved of at any rate, especially not with the tung-ring and the many ear piercing. Besides that he was a little on the wild side and the DJ down at the local club.

            'Don't call me B.W.! You know that I don't like it!' Benji protested.

            'So did you have fun? Did you enjoy the beach?' Mialyn questioned.

            'Yeah!' he answered her with a dreamy look on his face.

            'Are you ready for next Sunday?'

            'Yes and no. I don't get into all that bonding with nature crap!'

            Benjamin and Mialyn were going on a 28-day camp/hike with a group in the mountains. Benny wanted nothing to do with it but his dad was making him go. Mialyn was going to give Benny some company and to get away from her mother.

            'Well,' said Mialyn,' I have to go. Mom wants me to meet her in Penny's.'

            'Cool! Call me tonight. Kay?'

            'Yeah, sure. Bye!'

            'See Ya Sunday!' Benny said as they walked away from the store.

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Sunday

            'Hunny, what time did you say that this Benny character would be here?' Mialyn's mother said in disgust.

            'He will be here any minute Mom.'

            'I just don't know if you should go. I don't trust this boy. I have never had a decent conversation with him after all.'

            'Mom he is very nice and would not harm a fly. You will like him once you get to know him.' Mialyn tried to persuade her mother.

~HONK! HONK!~

            'That's him!' Mialyn said as she jumped to her feet.

            'Be careful!'

            'I will, Mom'

            'Wear lot's of sunscreen, keep with the group, stay away from snakes a bears, and watch out for poison ivy.'

            'Okay Mom! I have to go now.' Mialyn said as she rushed out the door with her luggage.

            She threw it into the trunk of the car, hopped in the front, and Benny floored it.

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Six Days into the Trip

~BRING! BRING!~

            Everyone turned to look at Benny with surprise and disgust.

            'Sorry!' he said apologetically as he dug his cell phone out of his pack.

            'You all go on with out us. We'll catch up!' Mialyn said.

            'Yeah!' Benny encouraged them as they walked off.

~BRING! BRING!~

            'Hello?' Ben answered.

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An Hour Later

            'I really have to go now. Okay? Bye,' Benny ended the conversation as he closed up his phone.

            'We need to find the rest of the group,' Mialyn said getting up off the log that had been her seat for the past hour. 'Who was that any way?'

            'My Dad. He could go on forever and ever about his job. Like I care about it. Man I do hope that we can find them.'

            'Yeah me too.'

            Benny and Mialyn search for what seemed like two hours. They yelled and they shouted. They tried to follow the path that they were supposed to take. They did everything in their power but still they neither found nor heard any sign of the others.

            'Are you positive that we don't have any flares?' Mialyn questioned Benny for the fifth time.

            'Yes. Johnson had all of them,' he said referring to the leader of the hike group they were in.

            'Well try you cell phone again.'

            'No signal,' he answered looking down at the small phone.

            'What are we going to do?'

            'We need to find some shelter. It is supposed to rain tonight.'

            'How did you know that?' Mialyn questioned curiously.

            'My laptop, I brought it.'

            'So that is what you have been doing off by your self. Hey, that's the one that has the Enter-net on it, maybe we could e-mail some one!'

            'Nope.'

            'Why not?' Mialyn's hopes were beginning to shatter.

            ' 'Cause Dad fixed this one where no one could put e-mail on it but him.'

            'I hate your dad!'

            'Yeah me too,' Benny smarted off under his breath. 'Look!' he said pointing up towards a hill. 'Do you see that?'

            'What?' Mialyn questioned looking in the direction that Benji's finger was pointing in.

            'That cave, up there on the side of that hill! It should give us shelter and a good view if any one comes by.'

            'Ok! Lets go!'

            'Why did you bring that laptop anyway? This is supposed to be a nature hike. And since you did bring it, why the one with out e-mail?' Mialyn questioned as they began their walk up the hill.

            'I am just not one of those bonding with nature type guys. I don't get into all of that crap. I did not stop and think which laptop I was getting either.' he laughed.

            'Yeah if I know you, you probably pack everything the minute you were walking out the door,' she joined his laugh. 'Why did you come on this trip if you don't like it?'

            'My dad wanted me out of the house. He is throwing this big party and does not want me there. It is like he is embraced of me.' He answered seriously.

            'Now you know why I don't want my mom meeting you. No I am just joking!'

            'I am serious! And when he is around me he tries to act like he is Mr. Perfect! He thinks that I should do this and go here and be like this. He hates who I am and he tries to mold me into someone else!' Benjamin was now getting mad at his dad.

            'Yeah I know sorta how you fill. Mom thinks that I should be one of those stupid cheerleader girls that act like a hoe and primp around all of the time. You no I am defiantly not like that!'

            'No that is for sure, but at least your mom loves you. My dad despises me!'

            'Yeah I guess so.'

            They were now at the mouth of the cave.

            'Do you have the flashlights?' Benny demanded as he held out his hand.

            'Yep, right here,' Mialyn answered as she dug the flashlights out of her backpack.

            'I'm going to explore the cave, see how deep it goes into the hill, see if it is any ones home if you know what I mean.' Do you want to come?'

            'Yeah sure,' Mialyn said slinging her backpack back onto her back. 'I would take my stuff if I were you.'

            'Yeah I guess that we should,' he said picking his pack up off of its seat on the ground and started off towards the back of the cave.

            'I wonder what did live hear?' Mialyn questioned as she stepped over a small animal scull. 'I hope they found another home.'

            'I don't think that they will be back,' Benny said as he pointed out the skeleton of what was once a bear.

            'Ewww! I wonder what happened to it?' Mialyn said in disgust.

            'It is untelling,'

            'Do you think that we should be going back to the entrance? I don't like the looks of that ceiling,' Mialyn said looking up.

            'Hey what is to worry about?' Benny questioned unaffected by Mialyn's worried look.

~CRASH! BANG! BOOM!~

            Cough! Cough! 'What was that!' Mialyn choked up as dust filled her lungs.

            'I don't know. Let's go look,' he said as he ran towards the mouth of the cave, where the sound came from. 'Sounded like a………………………..'

'Cave in?' Mialyn guessed the rest of his sentence as they ran up to the tumbled rocks.

'They are too heavy to lift,' Benny said as he tried to move one of the huge boulders. 'GREAT!' Benny shouted, 'What are we supposed to do now?'

'For one speak quieter incase there are still some loose rocks up there. Lets go one through the cave and see if there is, by chance, another way out.'

'Did you hear that?' Benny spun around to shine his flashlight towards the back of the cave.

'Yeah it sounded like foot steps.'

'Oh this is good! Hello is any one there?' No answer.  'Lets go, just keep your eyes and ears open for any sign of movement.

'Kay!'

Mialyn and Benny walked through out the cave without any sign life or an exit. It had begun to get moist and damp when…………….

'Look!' Mialyn shouted 'Light! I see light!'

Yeah I see it too!' Ben said as he ran towards the light.

It was an opening! The walked out through the exit of the cave into a forest. Through the treetops they could tell that the sky was getting dim and night would soon come.

'I am going to get some fire wood,' Benny said walking off into the woods. I'll be back.'

'Okay' Mialyn responded. 'I'm gonna get out the beans and cooking pot, do you have the clementines in your bag?'

'Yeah,' he said in disgust at the small fruit that Mialyn was referring to.

After about ten minutes Benny had found all of the wood that he need and headed back towards the place that Mialyn had set up camp.

'Did you get the wood?' Mialyn questioned as she heard footsteps behind her.

'Yeah,' the person that she figured was Benjamin answered.

'Your voice sounds funny. What's wron…….' she did not finish her last sentence as she turned around. 'Your not Benny!!' she was surprised to see a blonde haired man standing in front of her.

'What?! Of course it is me!' he said.

'No! I don't know who you "think" you are but you defiantly aint Benny!'

'Yes I am! I don't know what you are doing but this is one sucky joke.'

'No your not! Benny does not have long blonde hair, he does not sound like you, and I know for a fact that he would not wear tights!' she said referring to his garb.

'Wha!' he questioned looking down at his clothes then back up a Mialyn, 'I know that I do not look like Ben but I swear that I am him! I'll do any thing to prove it! Just name it!'

'Okay! What is the nick name that I call Benny?'

'B.W.! And Man do I hate it!' he said in disgust remembering the name.

'Okay! No one but Benji and I know that!'

'See I told…… Oh Man!' he said grabbing his head 'What a headache!' he fell to his knees then the world around him went black as he passed out.

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