Spirit of Elfwing
By chibimagic
Disclaimer: I don't own BtVS or LOTR, but hell I wish I did. I mean, who wouldn't? Ok… that has been said like, a million times already. Gee, how original chibimagic, bleh. *smacks herself* ^_^;; Oh yeah, if Tolkien was still alive, I'd love to meet him and ask to own Legolas all to myself!! =D
Okay, this story is a crossover of the tv show Buffy the Vampire Slayer and LOTR. The character I made is a made up character from a different fic I'm writing based on BtVS. There isn't too much of BtVS in this fic, so if you aren't familiar with it, don't be frightened off! ^^;; I've worked pretty hard so far on this fic and I've tried to stay away from mary-sueness. Not that I have anything against them, I just know that some of you don't like them. ^_^
This here is some info that might be necessary to know if you don't watch Buffy:
In every generation, there is a chosen one: one girl in the world chosen to fight the vampires, the demons, forces of darkness in general. =) If one Slayer dies, another girl is chosen to take her place. The latest slayer was Buffy Summers. In one of the recent seasons of the tv show, there was this thing called the Key. It was an epically powerful force that a Hellgod named Glory wanted to exploit to open up a portal that will release hell on earth (unleashing all sorts of demonic creatures, etc). Fortunately, a group of monks transformed The Key to the flesh and then added her to Sunnydale's memories and past, as in, she appeared out of nowhere as Buffy's little sister, Dawn, with fake memories put in her and everyone's minds to make them believe she had always been with them. (They made her human out of Buffy's essence, so she really is her sister, in a way) The monks' plan was to have the Slayer protect The Key from evil. Stuff happens, Buffy and her friends find out who Dawn really is. Glory manages to capture her and does the ritual to open the big portal thingy. Glory is killed, but now hell is being unleashed on earth… etc… and the only thing that will close the portal is the life of the Key. Buffy doesn't want Dawn to die, and she realizes that because Dawn was made from her, she can close the portal instead. Buffy therefore sacrifices her life and the portal closes, saving the world. *sigh, I cried on that episode, lol* Almost a year later Buffy's friends resurrect her using a dangerous spell thingy back to life.
I'll stop going on and on right there… I'm taking up space. ^_^;; But that up there is for your convenience if you are not a BtVS watcher. Alright, on to my version of events! I mean, my fanfic. =)
Chapter One: An Unexpected Appearance
Sunnydale, California
If you first saw Nell Summers, you would think she was a perfectly normal girl. Well, of course. She's seventeen, and is quite pretty, with her shoulder length, smooth straight black hair falling down in slight layers by her face like a waterfall, and her bright blue eyes that seemed to capture you in a trance when you looked into them. She had a very slender and healthy body that made her look very fragile. But, as you may know, appearances can be quite deceiving.
Nell isn't exactly normal like every other teenage girl. For one thing, she was incredibly strong. Why? She's the Slayer, or in a more formal way, the Vampire Slayer. The girl chosen in every generation to be blessed with superhuman skills and abilities enabling her to fight the never ending war against vampires and all the other evil, demonic creatures in the world. She could kick basically any other human's butt without breaking a sweat, just like all slayers can. The other thing about her was the odd fact that she was born with natural dark red glimmering highlights in her black hair, and they weren't always there. On some days she had completely natural dark red highlights, but on other days they were just not there, and her hair was only black. No matter how many times she was told she looked absolutely fine, she still thought it was incredibly weird.
Nell is girl of mysteries. She is the middle sister in the Summers family, Buffy's younger sister, or so everyone believed. Everyone remembered Nell always being in Buffy's family, and so did she, but it was only sometime after Buffy was resurrected that they discovered she wasn't really real, like Dawn. Their memories of her and her memories of them were fake, and she had basically appeared out of nowhere. She handled the truth a little more maturely than Dawn, well, she was older than Dawn when she found out, but she kept her true feelings over it a secret from everyone else. Buffy and crew found out that she had come much like Dawn had, except they did not know exactly who she was. They had known Dawn was the Key, but they had no idea who Nell really was. They have yet to figure it out.
Shortly after discovering the truth, sort of, Nell was informed by the Watcher's Council (A Slayer's watcher is someone who trains and guides her,) that because Buffy had died before, a new Slayer had to come along, and that Slayer was her, strangely enough.
Life went on, and since Nell seemed to be in no apparent danger from anything like Glory had been, they did not think too much on the fact that she wasn't exactly real. They had accepted and treated Dawn the same as they always had, so they did treated Nell the same way. Except now they have two Slayers fighting evil.
Middle Earth, Rivendell
The nine members of the Fellowship stood at the gates of Rivendell, preparing their bags, making sure everything was set for the great journey they were about to begin. No one spoke, but they all stood with firm expressions on their faces, looking ready to face anything.
Everyone was lost in their own thoughts as the Company set out. Legolas took a deep breath, with many things running through his mind. Of course, he was afraid, just like everyone else had to be. He was afraid of what terrible perils they would definitely face, afraid that their quest should fail, and afraid what the outcome of this quest would be for him, whether they were successful or not. A distant feeling kept telling him that by committing himself to the Fellowship, his life would be forever changed. How or why, he did not know, and it bugged him. He wasn't comfortable with how unsure he was feeling. He tried to erase those thoughts by concentrating on their task. He surely did not wish to be caught off guard by any foe because he was off far away in some dream land.
Sunnydale
It was late, probably around midnight at Sunnydale park, Nell didn't know, she was just guessing. She was currently out on patrol, and the park tended to be some vampires' favorite hang-outs. So far, none had shown up at all, and everything had been quiet that evening so far. As Nell strolled restlessly through the park, she gave a discontent sigh. Quiet patrols always gave her plenty of free time to think, and thinking, led her to think of things she rather NOT be thinking about.
It may have appeared to her 'sisters' and friends that Nell was perfectly fine, but that was not necessarily the case. Nell was always thinking about the fact that she was so strange and didn't even know who she was, really. She wanted so much to know but no one could tell her anything. She longed to escape the craziness of it all, but she couldn't. In her head she had thoughts like, Who am I?? Why was I born, or created, or what the hell is the reason I've come into being?? To be the slayer? No, that's supposed to go to some other girl who actually has a REAL life! What is my purpose?? Why am I a slayer in the first place? WHY?!!?
Nell shook her head and blinked. She had been walking for quite some time, and while lost in her head, she had walked all the way over to the area of Sunnydale where Buffy had first died. It was the desolate, empty part of town with abandoned warehouses. It was right in this area that a terrible portal was opened that nearly caused the whole universe to fall apart. Nell had never actually seen the portal, but Buffy was forced to jump into it in order to close it, costing her life. Nell hadn't even been to this place before at all, but she had seen it in her head. For the past few days she'd been having strange dreams, and for brief seconds she had seen this place during the time the portal was opened. Somehow, she had unknowingly brought herself to this place.
For a long moment, she stood, her eyes roaming the area with an odd queasy feeling inside. Then, she decided she had come here by coincidence.
"Ah, jeez. Now I'm probably lost! I am such an idiot sometimes! What AM I doing here?" she wondered out loud. She laughed to herself, and had just barely turned around when they was a suddenly blinding flash of golden-white light behind. Immediately there was a powerful gust of wind that caused her to cry out and be knocked off her feet.
She managed to sit up against the wind, and shielded her eyes from the brightness.
"What the hell is that!?" she cried, seeing a giant, very bright oval shaped globe that floated in the air flashing, and sizzling like lightning. She could hear high pitched screeching sounds coming from it, and lightning-like bolts shot out of it, striking the ground causing cracks in the concrete.
Nell stood and struggled to keep her balance against the ferocious winds while staring at the unbelievable sight before her.
"Wha… what's going on!?" she asked, as if expecting some unknown person to answer even if he/she managed to hear her over the shrieking noises.
Suddenly, the brightness began to dim, and the terrible sounds were fading, but the glowing globe still remained. Then, Nell thought she could see faint images appearing in the center of the globe. The images then grew quite clear, and she saw sky-view images of a great and beautiful land with forests, mountains, fields, many, many animals, AND many, many different peoples. Everything she saw appeared in split seconds but she was somehow able to see what they were. Then, the images turned completely black, and everything was silent except for the winds still blowing at her face. Slowly, the blackness was filled with flame, and she all she could see was fire roaring about. Something small that was rapidly getting larger and easier to see was in the center of the flames. It came into focus, and she saw that it was a plain, gold ring, except for the odd glowing words written in it, words she could not read. The ring was suddenly covered by a shadow a large, armored hand. The hand was about to grasp the ring, when suddenly the fingers of the hand turned to dust. The rest of the hand disapeared. There was another few seconds of more images flashing in seconds, and they appeared to show the weird ring passing from owner to owner, they were a man, a small, horribly ugly freakish creature, and then a very short, old looking man… she didn't quite know what he was. The images didn't show another owner, but instead a different hand, with the ring sitting on the palm. The hand closed into a fist, and the images were gone in a loud snapping sound.
Nell, in her bewilderment, was caught by surprise when the winds began to pick up speed, and she discovered too late that she was being pulled towards the blinding oval globe, which was back to white-gold in color, except in the center there was a swirling chasm.
She cried out and fell to the ground trying to grab something to prevent herself from being sucked in, but there was nothing. She let out a terrified scream before the winds picked her up and flung her straight into the globe where she disapeared into the chasm. The globe cracked and sizzled for a few seconds, and then POOF, it disapeared too.
Middle Earth
(Company is resting on top of mountain in Hollin before going over snowy mountain pass)
Legolas was grateful to stop and rest as the Company came to a small mountain pass covered with small bushes and large slabs of rock. They had been traveling for about two and a half weeks, and that day had been spent walking up miles of rugged mountain.
Gandalf, Aragorn, and Frodo were watching Boromir teach Pippin and Merry a little sword fighting while Gimli was standing around and every so often glancing at the others.
Legolas took this quiet time to just relax a little and also be on the lookout for any danger that might come.
For a few minutes, everything was calm and quiet as the Company talked and ate, but the peace was abruptly ended. There was a very sudden flash of bright white-gold light that came along with a very loud bang noise. Everyone instantly jumped to their feet dropping whatever they were holding. Legolas, Aragorn, Gimli, Boromir and Gandalf were the first to immediately prepare their weapons, the hobbits gaped at the flashing, giant orb for a few seconds before they got out theirs.
The orb sizzled, cracked, and snapped, and then the dark swirling chasm appeared. The Company was in awe of what they were seeing and no one said anything at all for a while as they stared at the swirling orb.
"W-what… what IS that!?" cried Boromir. Not even Gandalf had an answer to that one.
"I see a dark shape in its midst!" called Legolas from the other side of the orb.
Indeed, a darkened form was faintly appearing in the center of the swirling orb. There was another flash from within the chasm, and then what looked like a brightly glowing star appeared and shone over the form. The form began to get clearer, and Legolas was able to see that it was a person. Everyone's eyes widened even more as they saw the figure clear out and start floating slowly towards the ground. But, the orb was growing weaker and dimmer by the seconds, and suddenly, it flashed and disapeared. Legolas' keen eye-sight quickly saw with the brightness gone that the person was in fact a young, slender girl. With nothing supporting her, she began to drop…
He reacted instantly, leaping forward just in time to catch the girl, saving her from breaking her neck on the hard rocks below. For a few seconds, everyone was silent staring at the unconscious girl Legolas held, (Legolas staring as well). They were snapped back into reality when the awkward silence was ended by the sounds of the girl moaning and waking into consciousness. Legolas quickly placed her on the ground and stepped away from her.
The girl moaned again and slowly sat up, rubbing her forehead as if she had a head ache. Legolas, recovering from his bewilderment of what had just happened, noticed the strangeness of the girl. For one thing, she was wearing the oddest clothing he had ever seen. She wore shiny, smooth looking black trousers that were quite tight on her. Her boots were also black, and looked good enough for traveling in. She also wore a very strange cloak, if that's what it was, that looked to be the same shiny smooth material as her trousers and was quite similar to a shirt. The Company still did not speak as they looked at her with surprised expressions.
When the girl suddenly opened her eyes, Legolas nearly gasped. She had a face of breath-taking beauty that could probably challenge the most fairest of elves. It was almost impossible to describe. Her eyes were a brilliant sapphire blue, and her skin was smooth and tanned just enough. Her glossy, smooth black hair shimmered in the sunlight, and he noticed that parts of her hair were dark red in color. Everything feature of her face seemed just perfect, it was like seeing an angel that had come from the heavens (literally). He could tell that the rest of the Fellowship had seen her loveliness as well. What surprised Legolas was that she was human, for he had never seen anyone, not even an elf maiden, as fair as she.
The girl suddenly gave out a cry of shock and in a split second, jumped to her feet staring wildly at them. Her wide eyes were full of fear, surprise, and confusion as her gaze quickly ran over each of them. She stood stiffly, obviously not knowing quite what to say.
"Oh… my god…" she finally stated slowly. Then, still surprising him, she got into a position as if she was about to fight them.
"O… okay now… umm… I don't know who you are but… I demand to know for what reason I was brought here!" she cried, trying not to stammer and sound afraid.
The Company exchanged puzzled glances. Gandalf was the first to speak.
"My dear child, we…" he began.
"Child? I'm not a child!" she cut in. "Who ARE you people?! Where am I!?"
Again, silence.
"You know, when someone asks a question, an ANSWER is expected!!" she cried, now appearing a little angry.
"There's no need to shout, dear… er, lady, but you must know that we are as baffled as you are," said Gandalf. "But… I can tell you that you are in at the edge of the mountains of Caradhras."
"Excuse me, the mountains of what??" she asked.
She saw them look blank as they exchanged glances again. Then her face paled, and she looked as if she had realized something extremely important that none of them knew of.
"Where am I? As in… what is the name of this, whole place? This land?" she asked more calmly this time.
"Well, you are in Middle Earth, if that is what you wish to know," said Gandalf, looking a little uncomfortable.
The girl looked very troubled. "Umm, okay… I think I'm a little… lost."
"You're not familiar with Middle Earth?" asked Aragorn.
The girl gave him this look that clearly said, "What do you think!?"
"Can you first begin with telling us who you are?" suggested Gandalf.
The girl looked at them suspiciously, and then said in a low voice, "I'm Nell, Nell Summers."
"How did you appear out of the sky in that big bright thing!?" cried Pippin, who looked like he had been desperate to ask that for a while. Nell gave him an incredulous look.
"How should I know?? It's not like I WANTED to be sucked into that… that thing!!" she replied.
"…Nell, are you saying that you… weren't planning to appear out a glowing portal today or… anytime soon?" asked Gandalf.
"Look, I was just on my way home when that portal, or whatever it was appeared, sucked me into it, and suddenly I'm here! I have NO idea what's going on and where I am! This is basically a completely different WORLD it seems! It's like I've been thrown into some… fantasy land!" she said in a hurried voice.
Gandalf suddenly looked as if he had just understood something, but not too clearly, whatever it was.
"Well, I must say that 'our' world is no fantasy world," he began. The Company looked at him, wondering what he meant by " 'our' world".
Gandalf continued, "We are just as troubled as you are, for we of course, do not usually see girls appearing out of large mystic portals.
"Who are you people?" she said tiredly a few moments later.
Again, they all looked to Gandalf, who was the only one who seemed to know at least a little of what was going on.
"You most likely wouldn't understand if I told you, therefore we can leave that to later. For now, could you tell us if there is any reason this might have happened to you?" he asked slowly.
"I…" her voice trailed off and she was quiet for a while. "…well… I guess, maybe because… I'm…"
She didn't look as if she wanted to fully state her answer, but she finally did.
"I'm the umm, the Slayer," she said nervously.
"The, what?" asked Gimli suddenly and loudly, who was obviously not too sure if Nell could be trusted at all.
Before she had a chance to answer, Legolas cried out in a whisper.
"We must speak later! Crebain, from Dunland!"
Everyone except the hobbits and the girl stiffened and their gazes shot to the direction that Legolas was looking. At first it appeared to be a moving black cloud, but looking a little more carefully revealed it to be a flock of great black birds flying very fast in their direction.
"Get under cover! Quickly!" ordered Aragorn. He and Boromir grabbed the hobbits and pulled them underneath some bushes and rocks, Gandalf and Gimli did the same. Legolas was about to duck underneath a large bush when he saw Nell still standing where she had been before, looking more puzzled than before.
"What's going- aaahh!!" she cried as Legolas swiftly grabbed her arm and pulled her beneath the bushes.
"What was that about mmmph!" her words were muffled out as he covered her mouth with his hand.
"Keep quiet and still!" he whispered as he scanned the skies. She looked quite upset but kept her mouth shut.
After a brief moment of silence, they suddenly heard the squawking sounds of the flock of birds as they flew like mad creatures over the area the Company hid. Their terrible cries were enough to give you an aching headache., and the sky seemed full of black flapping wings.
Only after several minutes did the entire flock pass over them and disappear into the distance, and the Company came back into the open.
"Spies. Spies of Saruman!" stated Gandalf.
"Then our way through Hollin is being watched," said Aragorn.
"We have no choice but to go over Caradhras," sighed Gandalf. His gaze flickered over to Nell, who stood wiping some dust off her jacket and looking upset.
"The case we have with the 'Slayer' maiden, although very strange indeed, must wait till later. We have a mountain pass to cross, and not long to do it," he spoke in an ordering voice.
"B-but…" Nell began.
"I think the best option we have, Miss Nell, is for you to come along with us," he said.
Everyone looked surprised. Legolas thought Gandalf couldn't be serious. They were on an extremely important and difficult quest. A defenseless young girl journeying with them wouldn't be wise at all. Then it hit him. A 'defenseless' young girl, couldn't be left all by herself in the middle of the wilderness completely lost in such grave times. She would most likely be safest coming with them, even if they were to face great perils along the way. Perhaps they might find a town or somewhere she could be dropped off as they continued on. No, that wouldn't work either. This girl was more than lost. She spoke as if she had lost all her memory and was in a completely unfamiliar world. She had, after all, appeared out of a glowing portal, which is what Gandalf had called it. She could have come from anywhere, and it just wouldn't be good to leave her in some unknown town. Gandalf seemed to know something about her, so all the more reason for her to accompany them.
He sighed and went to help the other prepare to set off for the snowy Caradhras. Nell stood looking at each of them and folding her arms, looking very uncomfortable and a little afraid. In the back of his mind he thought of how strange everything seemed now. A lovely girl had just popped out of a giant glowing thing and now she was to come with them as if nothing really had happened.
There ya have it! First chapter! Yes, I know… kinda dumb… but not everyone is the best writer in the world! And I had to come up with SOME reason for my funky little made up girl to pop into LOTR! =) There is a more detailed reason why that portal actually did appear, you'll just have to keep reading and wait for the next chapters to come along to know what it is! Lol.
Please Review! =) (oh, btw, there is also a reason that will be revealed later on as to why Nell has those real highlights. Teehee…)