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Stalking the Fellowship
Chapter one: Welcome to Middle Earth
By Frufru the PiXiE and candyfloss
"Look there's Mordor! See, I told you it was to the southeast of Gondor!" Said Madeleine pointing at a map using a tone that clearly said that she was right.
"What's that?" asked Francesca pointing at an area of land between Rivendell and the misty mountains.
"That would be Hollin. The fellowship travel through it after they leave Rivendell. Elves used to live there, they've all gone to the havens now." Answered Madeleine eyes still trained on the map, her eyes following an invisible path across the map.
"You know to much." Said Fran rolling her eyes at her friend's ridiculous amount of knowledge.
Madeleine traced the journey with her finger. "See, they stopped there, and then there. You know they left of the 25th December?"
"Yes miss-know-it-all." Came the somewhat bored reply.
"I thought she was a pixie." Said Mo
"I'd prefer to be an elf. Then I could have Legolas." Explained Madeleine eagerly quickly distracted from the map.
"He's mine!" said Francesca fiercely.
"No, you can have Orlando Bloom. I'm having the Prince of Mirkwood," Madeleine replied possessively.
"So you said they stopped there?" asked Mo trying to shut them up.
Suddenly her finger went through the map. The world started spinning around and the three found themselves on the ground, map in front of them.
They stood up groaning, rubbing their hurt muscles, Francesca swearing under her breath. They looked around silently. Eventually Mo asked the question that had been on all of their minds.
"Where are we?"
"I dunno. Somewhere?"
"That helps." Answered Madeleine sarcastically.
"Well…it's quite dreary. There's a lot of grass and some old decrepit buildings." Mo said aloud looking at the unfamiliar surroundings.
"We're in Hollin." Said Madeleine matter of factly in a tone that left no room for argument.
Francesca ignored that "and how exactly would you know that?"
"The map. Look it has a little sign 'you are here'. See it's in red. We're ages, no leagues away from civilisation. 135 miles away from Rivendell to be precise." Maddy's eyes then narrowed as she peered more closely "No actually the nearest people are the fellowship."
"The fellowship?" asked Fran rolling her eyes at Maddy's sheer insanity "But that's a book."
"Yeah and Middle Earth is a book and we're there apparently." Answered Mo
"Any ideas, miss I know all?"
"I can have my Legolas." Madeleine squealed clearly not listening.
"He's mine." Fran retorted
"You can have Lupin. The elf is mine, nin mellon."
"Mellon?"
"Friend. Anyway, that means that there are two men, four hobbits, a wizard, an elf and a dwarf about a mile away." Maddy wondered her eyes glazed a look of pure joy spread across it.
"We should hide." Murmured Mo
"Why?" Fran asked yawning.
Madeleine caught on "Legolas!"
"What about him?" asked Fran impatiently.
"He can see things three leagues away! That's about 9 miles or something! We have to hide." Madeleine ran over to the map and started to fold it up making sure that Hollin was on the top so they could see how the fellowship were progressing.
"So what're we gonna do?" asked Fran
"Well we have to hide," said Mo "but where?" she frowned her eyes scanning for something.
"We can hide in that village over there" said Fran slowly, mentally assessing with this option was viable.
"That's the smartest thing you've said all day," Mo decided already starting to walk in that direction
All three of them ran as fast as they could to the deserted village all to aware of the danger that followed the group behind them
"Where is every body? I'm hungry"
"Francesca!" screamed Mo "We're in middle earth and all you can think about is food!" she cast her eyes heavenward, wondering what she had done to deserve such an incompetent friend.
" I don't care where I am, I'm starving" Fran reasoned
"Fran...Inside the hut...NOW" ordered Maddy already slightly worried about this odd turn of events.
Mo, Maddy, and Fran all sat in the cramped stuffy room which seemed full of cobwebs, insects and dust rather then the food Francesca yearned for.
"Can you see them yet?" asked Mo
"There he is" said Maddy
"Who?"
"Legolas son of Thranduil, prince of Mirkwood!" Maddy had a scarily large grin plastered across her face, eyes alight.
"Oh God here we go...."said Mo pulling a face in discontent
"Are they really there? .... Cool let me see," said an excited Fran. She ran over to the nearby window, but in her excitement she knocked over a nearby pot sending it crashing towards the ground.
"Did you hear that?" asked Legolas
" We're not all elves you know," replied Gimli grouchily.
"What did you hear Legolas?" asked Aragorn looking at his friend concerned
"Something is moving in that village"
"You mean ghost town" corrected Gimli "The villagers have gone, they left to go to a safer place" he reasoned absentmindedly stroking his beard.
"Or they could have been attacked, and there are some survivors" said Legolas
"We're wasting our time...tell him Aragorn" argued Gimli
"Are you sure you heard something?" said Aragorn
"Yes I am sure " Legolas replied evenly ignoring the boisterous dwarf
"We'll go and see, but quickly" decided Aragorn attempting to ease the tension between the two quarrelling parties.
" What are they doing? ... SHIT!'' screamed Fran
"what are you talking about" asked Mo attempting to see over her shoulder
"They're coming this way"
"Really!" said Maddy "wait a sec they aren't supposed to come here!"
"Duh! Fran made so much noise that they've come to see what happening. Fran's not in the book is she!"
"Legolas is so caring to go out of his way to help," said a mesmerised Madeleine
" I wonder if he'll look like Orlando Bloom?" wondered Fran aloud
"For Gods sake, stay down, we're going to hide alright. Maddy, don't you dare go and speak to Legolas, and Fran don't even move!"
"Okay mummy" said Fran very sarcastically, Maddy, meanwhile, ran to the window "I can almost smell him" she decided eyes fixed upon the blonde.
"Now that's what you call obsessed" Mo said to Fran
"Oh my God, Legolas watch out!" Madeleine shouted
"Who said that?" commanded leggy
"This time I heard something," said Gimli
Just then out of seemingly nowhere three large wargs appeared steadily making their way towards the fellowship.
A/n Okay…well this story is actually completely finished at a total of 138 chapters or something like that, though we've put various chapters together for ease of reading and to make sure this story finishes earlier.
This story will be updated every day so that the sequel we have in the works can go up as soon as possible.
To all readers who read this story up to chapter 108, we're very sorry that it was taken down, but there's nothing we could do about it, Fanfiction decided that our spelling, grammar and erm…general English was poor and therefore not good enough to be on the site, so we've had to go through it with a fine tooth comb in an attempt to beta it correctly- even though it does make us wince when we read it…
Frufru, the PiXiE and Candyfloss