A.N./ If you have been reading our other fic I'm very sorry but that's going to have to go on haitus for now because of my very crazy life. I am going to try and post a new chapter soon but please, bear with me! This story is the brainchild of my friend Maddie and her, along with another friend Uma are writing this fic. I am just beta-ing and being a general helper. I'm also posting the story as neither of my friends have a fanfiction account, so they all share mine!:)
Disclaimer: We own nothing in this story... Everything belongs to the amazing Tolkien, we are just borrowing. Maddie and Uma own the OC's and I own all the grammar and spelling mistakes!;)
Oh and last thing, the plot of this story takes place several years before FoTR and is a weird mishmash of movie-verse and book-verse. We felt that several *cough GlorfindelElladanElrohir cough*characters weren't given enough, if any credit in the films so they will appear in this story. We promise! But only if you REVIEW! Please! No flames please but constructive criticism is welcome.
Chapter One – Birthday Wish
Seph's POV
"Give it to me!" I yelled, throwing myself at my best friend Finna who had just succeeded in taking the TV remote off me. This meant war. Launching myself at her I grabbed a bunch of her silvery blond hair and yanked the remote out of her hands.
"MY PRECIOUS!" She shouted while laughing so hard she almost fell over and chasing me around the coffee table. After a full ten minutes we finally flopped down on my worn out old sofa and continued to watch the film. We had actually been watching the fellowship of the rings before Arwen had appeared on screen and Fin had decided to send out a string of curses. Fin hated Arwen for a list of ten reasons:
1. She is ugly (apparently)
2. She steals Glorfindel's role (big deal)
3. She steals Gorfindel's horse (seriously?)
4. She is dumb (I agree)
5. She kisses Aragorn (Fin's favourite film character)
6. She marries Aragorn (big mistake)
7. She has (as quoted from Harry Potter) the emotional range of a teaspoon
8. She takes up way more of the film then she is supposed to
9. She becomes queen of Gondor!
10. She glows (that's really annoying not to mention distracting)
So if Fin ever meets Arwen… Arwen is totally screwed! I looked down at the bag at my side longingly. I took it everywhere I went. It was my 'in case we ever get teleported to Middle Earth bag'. It contained a compass, a map of middle earth, beef jerky, dried fruit, dry shampoo and some other bits and bobs.
"It is a gift." Fin said, simultaneously quoting her second favourite character.
"He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn…" I quoted Legolas, grinning at Fin who stuffed popcorn into my mouth to stop me talking. Swallowing popcorn I quickly rushed into the back room, grabbed a bag of tennis balls that our friend Kelly had left. Kelly was supposed to arrive ten minutes ago for my unofficial 14th birthday party. I plonked back down onto the sofa and amused myself by throwing tennis balls at the head of a rather annoyed blond girl, accidentally knocking her glasses off in the process. Before Fin had time to blast me into oblivion the doorbell rang and I rushed to answer it. Kelly stood there with her chocolate hair plaited, as usual, down her back, behind her stood Diana, a good friend and a child prodigy.
Kelly burst in and immediately dropped onto the sofa and began to argue with Fin over who liked Aragorn more. Laughing I sat with Diana who, as she had no knowledge of Lord of the Rings whatsoever, had no idea what we were talking about. Di began to tell me about the theory of relativity while we waited for the two crazy thirteen year olds to calm down. Di is the oldest, fourteen and two months older than me. Fin is 3 months younger than me and Kels is a month after Fin. After Kels finally got Fin to shut up by mentioning Glorfindel we were finally able to watch the movie. I pulled out my fully drawn out and coloured map of middle earth. We all (except Di) stared at it longingly and I gently ran my fingers over the woods around Rivendell before putting it back in my bag for safekeeping.
"Oh Eru I almost forgot!" Fin jumped up and ran from the room while Kels and I silently chuckled at her use of the word Eru. Di knew about Eru. I had taken it upon myself to explain what "Oh Eru" and "Oh Valar" meant so she began to use the terms as well, much to my satisfaction.
Fin finally got back and she was carrying a small chocolate cupcake with a candle sticking out of the top.
"The cake is the Sainsbury's simple range…" began Diana the prodigy who could tell you anything about everything.
"Don't worry Sherlock I don't need to know where the candle came from" I chuckled and punched her in the arm. "But how did you know about the cake?"
"Elementary my dear Watson!" She said giving me a rare smile and a wink, pushing some ebony hair out of her eyes. I knew she must have been having a good time since she didn't point out that that quote was never actually in Sherlock Holmes, something she had done many times before.
"Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
You look like an orc,
And you smell like one to!"
Sang Fin, rather out of tune might I add, before passing me the small cupcake.
"Make a wish!" shouted Kels who, as always, was buzzing with excitement. I leant forward and blew a small puff of wind onto the flame which flickered out. I looked at my friends and smiled…
"I wish we could go to middle Earth!" I proclaimed with a smile and we all crossed our fingers, even Diana who desperately wanted to go to another world where there were new things to learn.
I began to sigh, another birthday wish gone, when suddenly the wind began to pick up. Wind! Inside! I turned to the TV which was showing a picture of Rivendell and stared open mouthed as the screen seemed to twist in on itself creating a tunnel, pulling us all toward it. I screamed and grabbed feverishly onto Fin who in turn grabbed a whooping Kels who had grabbed onto a stony faced, as always, Diana.
"YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST FRIENDS EVER! YOU KNOW THAT RIGHT!" I yelled over the wind. I shared one last smile with Fin before my body was lifted from the ground and dragged into the endless funnel that was once the TV screen. I seemed to be travelling through a twisting colourful rainbow roller coaster. It looked like that entrance scene from Doctor Who. My friends floated around me as we continued to fly towards some unknown destination. Suddenly, the tunnel dropped and I felt myself falling. I could almost feel my body changing as we fell and I watched my friends wide eyed before I made impact and everything went black.
A.N/ Review please! :) Make our days! :) Oh and if you haven't noticed yet Uma is a little bit of a Holmes geek so we have a few random quotes from those books...