The Girl with Fire

by angelamber77

After getting dropped into Middle-Earth, eighteen year old Astrid needs help finding her young half-sister. But after joining the fellowship, she takes on secrets that are revealed about who she is, what she is, and her purpose in Middle-Earth. But can she trust the fellowship with her life, including Legolas who says that he'll always protect her no matter what happens?

1. Only Escape is to Middle-Earth

My eyes are stinging with heat as I try to open them, but it seems impossible. I'm so exhausted that fluttering my eye lids open was the last thing on my mind. I flip my body on the bed I share with and my arms search for Bella's little thin body. I successfully find her, the sound of her soft breathing indicates that she's still asleep, and use my arm to pull her body closer to my chest. I feel her move a little and she starts to nuzzle her face into my neck for more heat. I only snicker quietly and feel a small smile come over my face. Our bed could fit us both, but we were only given one thin sheet for warmth. I never needed it because I could create my own heat with my bare hands, so I always gave it to Bella. But it never kept her that warm so she would cuddle with me every night and I share my heat.

I begin to open my eyes after ten minutes but was tempted to close them again. Our small room was lighted with sunlight that came from our window with metal bars over the glass to keep us in. I slowly start to get up, trying hard not to wake Bella, and turn my body to sit on the edge. The sunlight glares into my eyes once again to signal me that it was noon already. Bella and I must've slept for ten hours after what happened last night. Testing Day as the people who worked here liked to call it. Every child with a special ability here (there must be like one hundred and fifty of us), goes through this every month. They test our powers to see if we improve and find out if we gained new ones. Knowing from yesterday, about fifty children have gained new abilities which is complete bad luck. New abilities meant more experiments that are ten times more painful than how any other laboratory in the United States uses them. This place is known as 'The Special Children Care Institute', for mutant children just like us. The prisoners here call it 'Hell for Misunderstood Children'.

I stand up and make my way to the dresser Bella and I share to grab my uniform, the only clothes we have to wear in daylight. I see two granola bars on top, breakfast. Slipping out of my pajamas, I put on my tight black shirt with my number, 19874, on the left sleeve, and cargo pants with a brown belt around the thighs. All the kids here are supposed to wear this uniform and the numbers give away who we are. Bella's was 67392 when she came here, but Maia and I gave her the full name Arabella (Bella was her nickname). When kids are born with mutated abilities, they are sent here straight away and are taken from their parents without giving them a name. That's how bad we got it here.

I put my dark brown hair into a simple braid and take a small bite of the granola bar. I wasn't that hungry but it gave me energy. "Good morning…" I hear a soft yawn and turn to smile at the six year old girl with messy platinum blonde hair and exhausted crystal blue eyes. She starts to sit up and stretch her arms up to the high ceiling with another yawn escaping her mouth.

"Good morning Bella," I say to her warmly and begin to grab her uniform from the draws and her granola bar. I walk back to the bed and lay out the uniform as Bella sits on the mattress Indian style nibbling at her food. She lifts up her arms to show that she's ready to be stripped from her pajamas. I gently slip the white shirt over her head and let her put the black one on by herself. "Did you have any good dreams?" I ask her as she starts to put on her cargo pants.

She nods and tells me, "Yeah, the same one you had. You know, about us running through the woods and escaping this place. And we sang to the birds we love so much. It felt so real."

At first, I'm confused. Confused about how we could've had the same exact dream. Then I remember about her ability, she has the ability to read minds and she must've read mine when I was sleeping. I just grin at her and press my lips against her forehead. "That dream's going to come true today. So we better get ready." It's true, todays the day we finally leave this place. After living here for eighteen years with torture and experiments that could almost kill me, I finally made a perfect plan to get me and three other kids to escape here. And it's happening tonight.

"I also had another dream before." She explains to me. "About little people with hairy feet, I think they said they were called Hobbits."

"Hobbits…?"

"Yeah, and dwarves, little fat hairy men with accents I believe Scottish maybe." She continues.

"Are they related to the Hobbits being short and hairy?" I joke and she shakes her head.

"No. And there were elves too."

"Like Santa's elves?"

"No, they were really tall and beautiful. They would've been mistaken for a human, except they have pointy ears."

"That must be interesting. What happened?" I was curious about her dream, the one with short and hairy people and elves really tall.

"Nothing, they were just there." She paused to think of something, and then it hit her. "And there were also two wizards. One was wearing a grey dress while the other was wearing white."

"A grey and white wizard?" I question and she nods. "Did they have wands?"

"No, they were different wizards." She tells me. What does she mean different wizards? Wasn't a wizard just a wizard? What an unusual dream she had.

A loud bang was brought from our door to make a dressed Bella jump with shock. I glare at the door with anger, knowing who would cause it. It opens to reveal a tanned skinned, large buff man, two times my size with muscles as hard as stone, wearing green uniform that almost read 'do-as-I-say-or-get-whipped'. He was huge like an ox and deadly like a hunger tiger. He was one of the guards here at this institute that everyone fears, except for me. His name was Iven.

"Muds, time to get up now!" he yelled at both of us. That's what they call us here, Muds. We never understood why, we weren't dirty. "19874, you're ordered to go to the arena. 67392, you're coming with me."

Bella gives me a nervous glance and I give her a soothing grin. We both will be separated to go with our age group. My age group will be in the arena were we must do our work outs while Bella's group goes outside for a half an hour of free time. Free time is everyone's favorite activity. You are free to walk around the courtyard, but please don't kill one another please. I turn my head to Iven and give him a glare. "Be patient with us."

He glares back at what I said, almost tempted to beat me right there. He hates me after I burnt his tanned skin one time when he had me pinned down four years ago. My punishment was getting whipped five times, but I left a hand print scar on Iven's right wrist and he still gets enraged when he gives a small glance at it.

As I started to leave the room, Iven gives me two rubber gloves the color of green I must wear. No one here trust me with my ability after the Iven's incident, so I must hide my hands in these stupid pieces of plastic at all time. If I take them off, people will think I'm doing something dangerous and I will get punished. Before I leave, Iven gives me a rough nudge on my shoulder that trips me, but I keep my balance. I see an amused smirk form on his face and I wanted to burn it right there. Clench his head and burn of his whole skin until I could feel his skull. But I know I'm not allowed to do that unless I want to get more scars on my back.

The arena was two floors down where my room was and outside the building. I see other guards watching my every move as I walk, but I ignore them when I get to the Main Floor. As I make my way outside I already see teens, eighteen to twenty, running around the worn out track, lifting up weights two times heavier than what a normal man can carry, shooting arrows and bullets at targets shaped as human dummies, or wrestling one another to the ground like wild animals. Around the arena was a metal fence twenty feet high that would make a million volts of electricity go inside your body with one touch. We also have guards, less intimidating then Iven, at each edge of the arena watching us carefully. I ignore their gaze and make my way over to the three people I can trust here. Their names are Maia, Ben, and Channing.

"Good afternoon Ash," Ben says to me with a welcoming grin. Ash was my nickname for Astrid. Maia came up with it after the day I met her, telling me that it meant little star. "We were just finishing our five miles on the track," Ben continues. "Took us thirty minutes to do so." I laugh at their time mockingly. I can run five miles in twenty-nine minutes. They weren't even sweating, but we never sweat that much. We mutants are supposed to be stronger and better than men anyway. We are also told by the scientist that we are more beautiful than a regular human. I always thought my friends were beautiful. Maia with her long curly dirty blonde hair and eyes like the sea, while Ben and Channing both had dark hair and misty grey eyes. The two boys would've been mistaken for brothers, but they're not related. I always told them it was God's joke to confuse people and both of them agreed.

"Did Iven come for Bella today?" Channing asked me and I nod. We never trusted Iven when he took Bella to where she needed to be. He picks on other children when he gets bored of us, but Bella and I are always his main prey. Soon, we won't have to worry about him anymore.

"She's really excited about tonight though." I tell them in a whisper so no one heard me. Maia nods at what I said and my attention is turned to her.

"Tonight is perfect, but we have to be careful and fast." She tells me in a worried tone. I ask her why and she answers, "Because I heard that there was supposed to be a huge storm nightfall, that's why the whole institute is going to be in lock down and also the reason all the powers going to be turned off. It's the perfect plan but also a very risky one."

I look up at the sky to see that the color blue wasn't showing. The dark grey clouds were covering it with fierce. Just one glance got me very nervous about tonight. "Then maybe we shouldn't do this." I only say that because Bella was going with Maia, Ben, and I on this escape. If there was going to be a storm, I wouldn't want her to get hurt or even killed. I've known her the day those cruel people assigned her as my roommate. It used to be just me living alone in that tiny room, but after her sweet soul came into my life I immediately accepted her as if she was my little sister. She was beautiful like a lily, and fresh like a rain drop. I was never going to let anyone crush my lily.

"No, we're going to do this." Ben snaps me from my thoughts and I look at him to see that his face serious and determined. Knowing Ben for practically all my life, I've never seen him this serious before. I remember the first time I met him, how he would always put a smile on people's faces even though his ability was far more dangerous than mine. Everyone loved him even some girls had a crush on him. I would always get jealous when he talked to them instead of me. Almost like, give me back my best friend. Ben continues, "It's time Astrid, time for us to leave this place. Start a new life away from this hell and live like normal people. Live like how people live in the movies they let us watch."

"But that's the thing Ben," Channing puts out his negative. Something very common for him to do, "We're not normal people. Even we tried to act like a regular human people will find out that we're different. They always do." He never liked the escape idea and tried to talk us out of it. We promised him that if we do escape and hide our identities, then we would find a way to break him and all the other children out of this prison. He never believed us though. The reason is because all of us, except him, have stronger mutant abilities. I can control fire and create my own heat, Maia is superfast and super strong (like the perfect Wonder Woman), and Ben will be skilled with any weapon or object he touches. Give him a sword, spear, knife, or even a pencil he'll kill you with it. I call it the Murder Ability. Channing's ability is having super strong eye sight in the dark, also known as night vision, a very common ability that doesn't make him special like the rest of us, but a very useful one.

"Channing, give us a little faith ok!" Maia snapped at him. I always looked up to Maia when we had plans like these. I would look at her as the determined older sister that wants to reach her goals. "We're doing this. We had four months to rethink the idea. The deadline was yesterday at eleven fifty-nine and we're living this place-"

Ben puts his palm over her mouth to cuts her off from her sentence. I look around the area to see that one guard has his attention of the four of us with suspicion written all over both his dark eyes. For a nineteen year old, Maia still forgets that we're being watch. When Ben brings his hand down from her lips, I grab my friends arm and tug her over to the shooting area. I wanted the guards to think that we were really going to do some archery, one of my favorite things to do here.

"Let's talk about it later," I whisper to her and she nods in agreement.

~0~0~0~

I was back in my room with Bella at seven thirty, also known as the end of the day. Looking through our window, I could see the clouds starting to get darker every minute with a small rumble of threatening thunder. I distracted Bella by telling her about my day.

In the morning, I skipped my run and went straight to archery with Maia. The trainer there wanted to give us a challenge but throwing soda cans in the air. Maia wasn't a very good archer and missed five cans when the trainer threw them to the sky. When I was up, the trainer threw a Cola can in the air and I sent the arrow straight at the 'o' pretending it was a mini bulls-eye. Of course, it hit as the empty can made its way to the ground with an arrow sticking out of it. I was the only one out of nine other people to hit all the cans. People said I had a gift, the scientist thought it was a new ability, I just say it's skill, something I enjoy doing.

Our group was then escorted by a worker to the cafeteria for our dinner. It was the same thing Bella and her age group had, dried up steak as hard as ice and two tablespoons of unappetizing mash potatoes. These people must really be giving us a treat tonight.

As my friends and I ate in silences, the brown-headed twins came to give us a little visit. We just call them Brown 1 and Brown 2 and they were identical twins. It was almost scary, like one of them was the real Brown and he was just carrying a man sized mirror to fool people. Their abilities were also the same. They both could vanish into midair and camouflage with any background. They were the ones Iven and the other guards had to keep an eye on.

Brown 1 starts, "So, you three are still…"

"Going to leave this place?" Brown 2 finishes.

They both were referring to me, Ben, and Maia. The twins knew about the escape plan and wanted to help us with it. Using their ability, they are able to go everywhere around the institute. Search for any secret passage ways, listen to any private conversations the director and the scientists would be talking about, even sneak into the kitchen to get the children here some real food. We couldn't deny their offer.

"Nice to know some people here have guts." Brown 1 smiles while his brother digs under his black shirt to grab something. He pulls out something bright and shiny that makes me have the first thought of gold. When we get a clear view of what it is, I see four golden keys chained together with the numbers, 1, 2, 3, and 4, tapped on each.

"Keys…?" Ben questions. When I look at his face I can see the amazement dancing over his grey eyes. Keys were only held by the guards and seeing Brown 2 holding them in his hands must've meant that these two were really smart to find these.

"Not just keys," Brown 2 smiles and points to number 1. "This key can unlock any door on Floor 3, 4, and 5." Perfect, all our rooms were on Floor 3. Brown 1 points to key 2 and 3.

"Two can unlock the weapon equipment's, so you'll be able to get your hands on a bow Astrid." he winks at me. "And three can open the janitor closet on the Main Floor. That's were your stuff will be."

"Lastly," Brown 2 finishes by lifting up the fourth key. "Four can unlock the front door and the gates that surround this whole building." I eye that key with desperation, the ticket to freedom. "The main key to exit Hell for Misunderstood Children."

The twins hand us the keys without getting any of the guard's attention. Maia takes 1 and 2 while Ben grabs 3 and 4. We thank them quietly and promise them that we'll be coming for those two next when we run this place down. They only chuckle with disbelief and say at the same time, "Don't get your hopes up. You'll probably get caught after you make three miles."

"What do they mean by that?" Bella asks shaking with fear, almost looking like she has a picture of the scene.

"Nothing," I tell her. "They're just trying to scare us, make us cancel this journey."

"Are you scared?" she asks me. How am I supposed to answer that question? "By saying yes or no." she tells me straight and I give her a confused look. Then it hits me. She read my mind again.

"No, I'm not scared and you shouldn't read my mind so much." I tell her firmly and she only bows her head in shame.

"I'm sorry, I'm just really nervous." See her scared made my heart drop to my stomach. I hate it when she's sad, and it's worse when I'm the one who caused it. I sit next to her on the bed and wrap both my arms around her thin body. I pull her close into my chest and whisper in her ear. "Do you still want to some with us?"

I feel her little head shake up and down. "Yes, I really do. I want to leave this place."

"It's going to be really risky, you know that."

"I do, I do." She then starts to lift her head up so our eyes meet. "I just don't want anything bad to happen to us." Even though it already has. If we weren't so different from the rest of the world, then…

I press my lips against her head like what I did this morning and whisper a soft lullaby. A lullaby that came to my head the day Bella first cried from a nightmare. I never heard it before, it just came to my head and I started to sing. She's quiet and listens to the sound of my voice. She thought my singing was beautiful and if everyone here listened, they too would freeze and fall silent. I always laugh at what she says, knowing that it was unbelievable.

When I'm done, I whisper to here. "I promise you, nothing bad is going to happen to us…especially you."

~0~0~0~

Our room is now pity dark. We have no light so my eyes adjust to the blackness. When I feel that Bella and I have been sitting on the bed for almost an hour, I hear the door creak open. My head perks up with alarm as I see a dark figure at the door way. I pull Bella closer for protection as the figure comes closer. But I relax my arms when I hear Maia's voice. "It's just me guys." We both stand up from the bed and walk over to the figure. I hold Bella's hand and reach my other one to feel my friends arm. As I do, she grabs my hand and leads us both out of the room, down the hall, and to the stairs.

My chest tightens with fear and I look around for any guards that may stalk us. It feels so quiet, as the electricity is turned off in the whole building. I hear nothing but the sound of our feet and our low breathing. What if people died here and their ghost haunt these halls? What if they're seeking revenge and we're their targets?

I feel Bella squeeze my hand softly. I look at her and search her face, wondering if she's scared. "Don't worry," she tells me. "I know you're scared, but no one is here. I don't sense anybody." I feel almost pathetic that I'm frightened and she's not. Isn't she scared at all? "I'm nervous Astrid, but I try to hide my fear with bravery. Like you."

I give her a small smile as we make our way to the main hall and walk over to the arena. "Again, stop sneaking into my mind." I only hear her chuckle which calms my nerves.

The weapon equipment is in the arena where most of the weapons the guards use on us are held. Looking up at the sky, it's now night time and the clouds are so black, they could be mistaken for a starless night sky. Maia opens the door after she uses the key to unlock it. It's also pitch dark inside and I volunteer to get what I need. After I let go of their hands, I move inside and reach my hands out. Moving to the left I feel a shelf, my hands search for weapons. My fingers feel a sharp blade, a knife. I grab it by the handle and bite the blade with my mouth to hold it. I use my hands again to search for my bow and quiver of arrows. I soon find one bow made of metal and grip the handle in my palms. It's cool as it touches my warmth. I grab the nearby quiver and feel for arrows. Twenty of them I counted with my fingers as I feel their feathers. Perfect!

I put the quiver around my body to carry and walk back outside. I see Maia's back to me as she searches around to see if anyone is near. Pulling the blade out of my mouth, I give her a signal that I'm ready and hand her that knife. "I think Ben's going to like this weapon of choice." I tell her and hear her chuckle.

"Well, he's already at the front door with our stuff. We don't want to keep him bored." I see a smile crept upon her face as she grabs my hand again. I grab Bella's and we make our way to the front. The ticket to freedom a waits.

We find Ben at the front door, just like Maia told us. I also see two bags contain food, water, and survival supplies, and four jackets surrounding him as he waits. I saw his head turn to us when he hears our feet walking over to him. I feel warm inside when he smiles and says, "Finally, thought you guys were the guards."

"That's an insult." I hear Maia tell him. Getting closer, she reaches for a jacket and slips it on. "The twins said told me that these jackets will even keep us warm in Alaska." I've never been to Alaska so I wouldn't know how cold it is up there. I also slip one on; it fits perfectly, and help Bella with hers. It was just a black jacket that could help us blend in the night with a hood. The jacket was big on her, like an oversize coat that reaches down to her ankles and with sleeves that hide her hands.

"It's too big," she complains and I ruffle her hair.

"At least it'll keep you warm."

Maia and Ben both slip the backpacks over their shoulders and Ben thanks me when Maia told him about the knife. Soon, Ben unlocks the glass door and pushes it opened to let the cool air hit our faces. Freedom is just a breath away and I grip Ben's hand to show how ready I was for this.

"Nervous?" he whispers to me and I shake my head. I've known Ben my whole and he knew how desperate I was to leave. I slide the bow over my right shoulder, grabbed Bella's other hand while she grabs Maia's and we take our first step outside. I feel a tingle of excitement run through my body as we walk hand in hand to the front gate. Ben grips my hand harder and looks back to see if anyone see's us.

"Don't worry," I tell him softly. "You have a knife. I think they should be more afraid of YOU instead of vice versa." He chuckles at my comment about him.

"Astrid, we're almost there!" Bella cries as we're one yard away from the gate. I feel her excitement and smirk with happiness to see this way. We get to the gate and Ben walks up to unlock it. I hold my breath and hope that no one in the world will ruin this moment. But after Ben pushes the gate to give us an opening, my first thought is run. Run now and never look back.

"We've waited for this moment our whole lives." Maia tells us and our attention is to her. "I hope I'm not dreaming."

"You're not," I explain to her. "But it's time we go." she looks at me with tears in her eyes. She nods and takes Bella's hand to guide her outside. As she walks out, I see her pause. Then she lets go of Bella's hand and runs to do a cart-wheel of joy. She's mentally screaming in her head right now as she picks up Bella and spins her around. I finally laugh out loud, something I haven't done in many years, as I watch the two, looking so glad and excited, like Christmas just came. I walk behind, but soon stopped when I feel Ben pull me back by my shoulder. I turned and look at him with confusion. I can't read his face because it looks emotionless. What's wrong with him? Is he having second thoughts already? What is he feeling right now? Then he speaks.

"Sorry, I just have to do this." he comes closer and cups my cheeks with his strong hands. I'm frozen and don't know what to do, but then my mind goes blank when his lips touches mine. They're warm and soft, I didn't know how to react. He's kissing me. Ben is kissing me! Why? Why is he doing this now? Does he have feelings for me? Did he have feelings for me before or is he starting today? Was there something romantic between us that I didn't know about? When he pulls away, he tries to say something. But he was cut off when we hear the hollering of a siren go off and lights blasting in my faces to blind my sight. I felt the rain start to fall lightly, until a second later it started to pour. I knew what my reaction was now, run.

After seeing one glance of Iven's face with bitter and enjoyment as he carried our favorite whip with other guards behind him, I sprint with Ben behind me. Bella and Maia were in front of us as they also ran away. I swooped up Bella's body in my arms and ran towards the forest that neighbored next to the institute. I've been in the woods before with my age group to learn about survival. After leaving the building and entering the forest, it was like love at first sight. I immediately wanted to live somewhere in a forest when I left this place. But right now, it may be my only chance to live. Bella's body was light but I still felt like I was carrying a lot as I kept running. My legs felt tight as I kept sprinting and my ankles felt weird. I never ran in the woods before and it was much different from a track. I didn't even know if Maia and Ben were still with us and I was tempted to stop, but I kept going. I was breathing very heavily now with the rain still blinding my sight as I tripped over roots and watched out for trees.

I heard them, they were right behind me and they were blood thirty. They acted like this was a game they haven't played in a long time. Iven was the worst of them all, he was faster than the rest of the guards and I can't out run him. I feel his eyes glaring into my back which makes me run faster. The arrows in my quiver jump with every step I take. I wish I could just put Bella down and shoot them until they all die. But they got the first move when I feel a sharp sting at the back of my neck. I use my free hand to pull out what looks like a dart filled with a drug that will make me hallucinate. My next thought is I know I'm not going to make it.

I keep running faster and stop when I lose the pack of blood thirsty human wolves. I hide Bella and myself behind and large tree and put her down to see that her hair is all drenched. The lily that was fresh from the rain is now screaming and pulls my hand forward. But I can't hear her, very thing is fuzzy and blur when I look at her face. The rain looks like slugs falling from the sky and I trip on the ground when I take one step. I think I banged my head on a root or something because it begins to throb with pain. I groan, well I think I groaned, and heat up. My body is sweating as I turn it to see Bella looking down at me with tears in her eyes. She screams at me again but I still can't hear her. It looks like she's mouthing 'Astrid come on' and 'Get up, get up'. My blood feels like it's boiling right now, I never had so much heat before. When my hands touch the root, I feel it sizzle by my touch and I see the smoke escaping the top of the plant. I let go and only touch the wet dirt on the ground. I was afraid I was going to cause a wild fire with all this heat.

I then see a figure, a white figure walking towards us. I still can't move so well to get a closer view of the person's face. All I saw was white hair that looked untouched by the rain and the figure was glowing. It looks like a man when I see his body in my view. Is it God? Has God come to help us? He pushes Bella to the ground to walk towards me. He knees down to examine me. Well, I think he is, his face is still a blur. The slugs are covering my eye sight and I can't wipe them away. The man reaches his hand out to touch my body, and I feel his touch on my arm. His hands are icy cold and I feel is bones, but takes it away when it looks like I just stung him with heat. Am I really that hot right now? Is this a sign saying that I'm going to explode with all this energy? I feel light-headed now and don't know what I should be feeling. Then it hits me in the chest like a brick. Fear.

I can move when I start to see the figure lift up Bella by the arm and pull her away from me. I see her screaming, crying, doing anything to get my attention. She does but I feel so heated up and paralyzed right now. I call her name, but I can't even hear my voice. The slugs falling like rain starts to cover up my body, then my face, then my whole eyes, and I black out.

~0~0~0~

-Third Person P.O.V.-

Her body laid there on the grassy floor, drenched with her braid messy and the face that looked in pain and weak. A large swollen mark was behind her neck looking like a bee sting. She laid there until company noticed her. Two men, four hobbits, one elf, and one dwarf stopped in their tracks as they noticed the young woman. They all looked at one another and back at the woman. Did they know her, and what kingdom was she from. Her clothes, which were torn and also drenched, didn't seem familiar, especially how she wear pants. They never seen women were men's clothing before. Confused, the man with dark hair walked up to the body and kneed down to feel her pulse. She was still alive. He also saw her bow and the quiver of arrows around her body. An archer?

"Aragorn is the woman alive?" the one they call Boromir ask and Aragorn nodded. He then started to shake the girl gently to wake her up.

"My Lady," he said quietly. "My Lady," The girl opened her eyes at his voice. Aragorn noticed that they were the color amber with small specks of gold neck to the pupils. They also looked glassy and bloodshot, like she lied on the grass drunk. She turned her head at him to see who woke her. At first, everything was silent. She was confused about this man and so was he about her. Then, something hit her and she stood up which surprised the group that she could move.

Breathing heavily, she looked frantically around for something. This confused Aragorn at her action. But before he could speak, the woman screamed to give the four hobbits and the dwarf a startle of shock. "BELLA!"

Welcome to Lord of the Rings: The Girl with Fire (Duh, duh, duuuum!). This chapter was a test. A test to see if anyone will like it and want me to continue it. I know Lord of the Rings was like eight years ago, but I wanted to write this down and see if anyone will enjoy it. So anyway, now that you read the first chapter. Review and give me some feedback, I would really like that. Thank you again for your time.