A/N: Alright, this is going to be my first Lord of the Rings story, so go easy. It may be slight Mary Sue, but I promise I will try to deviate from that path as much as I can. I'll explain some stuff as I go along, and throw in some plot twists here and there. So, without further ado, The Story!
Eve let the door close heavily behind her as she walked into her house. It had been a long, long, day, filled with all of the usual drama that one would find in a teenagers life. Her best friend had finally found a great guy, and had just found out that he had been cheating on her since day one. This left Eve to pick up the pieces of her friend broken heart.
Of course, it was the boyfriend that had come off worse. Neither girl had known about one another, so they were both very angry about it. Plus all of their friends. Safe to say, that boy wouldn't be coming to school for a while.
"Hey hun, how was school today?" Eve smiled. Her mom never failed to give both of her kids a warm welcome, and on most occasions, freshly baked cookies.
"It was okay. Maddie's still really upset. It's gonna take a while for things to go back to normal." Her mom nodded sympathetically.
"Well, she's always welcome back here, if she just needs a place to come." Eve smiled. Her mom had to be one of the nicest people on the planet.
Just then her older brother, Damian, walked through the door. He threw his back pack to the other side of the room. His mom gave him a stern look, and he picked it up again, and set it at the top of the stairs, to grab on his way to his room. He then came back down into the kitchen.
" Hey Mum, Evie." Evie was Damian's pet name for Evangeline, which was Eve's full name. Their mother had a fondness for sophisticated sounding names, hence the slightly renaissance touch.
" How was your day?" Eve asked, slightly amused, as Damian sat down at the bar and set his head down in a tired manner. Eve sat next to him, sipping out of the glass of iced tea that her mother had handed her.
"Very, very long. I swear, if a my History Professor was any more of an idiot, he would be dead." Eve chuckled as her mother bit back a laugh, scolding Damian.
Their father had left them when Eve was only three. It hadn't made that much of a difference, as he was never around anyways. Ever since Eve could remember it had only been the three of them, and that was fine by them.
Eve became vaguely aware of her mother berating Damian, and grinned again. Her brother was in his first year of college. He was twenty, and Eve was seventeen, two months from being eighteen. They had always been best friends, always there for each other no matter what. Even though they were almost three years apart, they could always be counted on to say hi to each other in the school halls.
"-ust went through a break up. Which reminds me, Eve, how is Maddie doing?" Since Maddie came over to Eve's house pretty often, she and Damian were fairly good friends themselves. Damian had been one of the many people to take revenge against the cheating boyfriend, along with Maddie's brother, and a few other friends.
Damian was your quintessential popular guy. He had a whole group of friends, had girls fawning all over him, and had most of the jocks for friends. However, he was different from the common stereotype in many ways as well. Instead of being completely stupid, he generally got straight A's. Instead of being a jerk to everyone with less social status than him, he was friends with everyone. He was pretty awesome.
"She's doing a bit better, but not by much." Eve herself was not quite as popular as Damian, if only because she didn't do sports. She had a small circle of friends, Maddie included, all of which were quirky in one way or another. They were all fairly smart, and had a lot of fun with each other. During lunch they would crack jokes, help each other with homework, and stuff like that, brightening the mood.
The college and the High school were very close to each other. After school Damian would drive down the street from the college to the High school, pick Eve up, and drive them both home. Sometimes they gave one of their friends a ride, and it would take longer to get home. On others, Eve just walked the few miles home, if Damian had a study group.
" I'm glad to hear it. That no good, rotten guy who cheated on her shouldn't be allowed to exist." Eve grinned at Damian's over-protective nature.
" Now, now, calm down. I'm sure you already knocked enough sense into him already." Damian grinned sheepishly at his mother, who wasn't supposed to know about that particular escapade.
"Maybe. Probably not enough though," Eve said, taking a cookie from the tray.
"Enough about this. Evie, how was your day other than that?" Damian changed the subject, sensing a dangerous area. Eve shrugged.
"It was okay. Got an A on my Math assignment. Remind me to thank Delilah for that later," she stated, as an afterthought. Math had never been her thing. She preferred English and Science.
"That's great Hun!" Her mom enveloped her in a hug, knowing how much trouble her daughter had with Math. Damian grinned at her, and gave her a one armed hug.
"I'm gonna go outside for a bit, alright?" Her mom nodded, and Damian offered to come with her. She accepted, and they walked out into the vast grounds. Her mother had come from a wealthy family, so they had a good twenty acre property border. They never advertised that they were well off, and no one would guess otherwise.
All of the sudden Eve felt a shove on her shoulder.
"TAG, YOU'RE IT!" Damian took off with a yell, and Eve ran after him, laughing as she went. The ran into the woods, yelling at each other, and switching off who was "It".
After about an hour, Damian was It. He was searching for Eve, who was a sneaky little devil when it came to this kind of stuff. She could hide for hours, and when you finally gave up, she would jump out of a place you had checked five different times.
"Evie? Come out, come out wherever you are!" He walked into a clearing that he didn't even know existed, and saw Eve standing there, staring at the single tree in the very middle.
It was covered with all sorts of strange runes, not in any intelligible language. The game was forgotten instantly.
" What do you think it is?" Eve asked, without turning around. Damian never knew how she could do that, just know that someone was coming up behind her without even looking. Supposedly all women could do it, with "eye's in the back of their heads", but Eve was scary good at it.
" I don't know. I've never seen this language before." They continued to stare at it, wondering just what it was.
"Is it just me, or are the runes moving?" Eve asked. Damian looked closely and saw that they were indeed moving.
"Maybe we should get away from-" Damian's words were cut off as all of the breath was knocked out of him. The both felt a strong jerk, and then all was black.
A/N: Sooooo, what do you think? To Mary Sue? Click that wonderful little review button down there, and give me your thoughts! I promise to update as soon as I can.