Elemental Good and Elemental Evil.

Nicole's PoV

Authors Note: This is a joint LoTR story by me (Nicat) and my friend Claire (Clara-Lou) It is my first LoTR story so don't flame us. The main characters are basically Claire and me (Nicole being my real name) We should be alternating our POV's with the chapters. It is set during the Lord of the rings trilogy but begins in the normal world. Claire is known as Lou cos her middle name is Louise and we couldn't think of anything short for Claire.

Chapter 1

"Nic, Hey Nicole wait up." I turned around and saw my friend Claire running after me.

"What is it Lou?" I asked. 'I did it again." She exclaimed "you know, the thing with the water!" I wasn't really in the mood to hear about it but she continued anyway. " I was in Japanese and Tina was pissing me off. I was getting really annoyed and suddenly a rush of water came out of no where and soaked her. I couldn't help laughing Nic" I looked at her. So the class jerk had got a little wet. That was no big deal and I told Lou so. "Oh yea. Well want to know what happened to ME? I summoned a tornado in Gym class, Now lets go! I'm starving." My stomach started to grumble. Damn Mrs Pokin and her lunch time detentions. Its not my fault I accidently flicked my wrist and let a huge gust of wind hit the 100 meter track so we didn't have to run......honest. (of course Pokin doesnt actually know what happened, she just knows I had SOMETHING to do with it)

Lou looked at me and sighed. "Poor thing What am I going to do with you?" I looked at her and grinned."buy me some lunch?" I suggested hopefully. Lou sighed again. "No I'm not going to do that, but I will race you to that tree over there" My eyes followed her finger to an old knarled tree. "Fine" I said with a groan (Lou knows I hate running). "Loser buys lunch for both of us. You got money?" Lou looked at me and grinned. "Fine, prepare to pay up!" I stuck my tongue out at her. "One , two, three GO!" we yelled in unison. We both ran towards the tree. I was in the lead (for once) until Lou pushed forward and gained ground. 'How does she do that?' I wondered. If its water power surely I should have wind power?'. We finally drew even and at the same moment both our hands hit the tree.

I leaned forward panting. Then I looked up. Lou's face was ashen, with what looked a lot to me like pure terror painted on her face. I turned and looked at the tree. Writing. Weird writing like the elvish from Tolkien's books. I shuddered. It had started to glow. It was so creepy.

Two glowing figures appeared before us. One looked like he was made from swirling wind, the others form, female looked as if it was glistening water droplets. They looked straight at us "THEY HAVE COME" The male said in booming tones. The two turned towards us and intoned a strange rhyme, alternating lines, beginning with wind man

I am the Lock, she is the key

We are the elvin powers that watch over thee

You have powers over wind and the rain

From here you must travel to save the slain

In Middle Earth your destiny awaits

Now it is time for you to meet your fates

In front of us a swirling blue mist appeared. I felt as if strong hands were guiding me into it. Lou was beside me. Walking forward as if in a daze. We fell into the mist. I looked around me, then wished I hadn't. What had looked like it was gently swirling was now moving furiously. It was nauseating. I was suddenly glad I HADNT had lunch. I was so dizzy. I was falling, falling. I wondered if this was how characters in stories felt, when travelling through time. I saw a bright light. That was what we were falling towards. We reached the light and it engulfed it. I hit something hard and everything went black