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DEDICATED TO: Michi2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^-~

Thor: read her stories they're good! *nods*
Vale: Yep! I agree with Thor (even though she didn't bother to get her lazy self upstairs and wake me up to read one of Michi2's stories!!! *glares at Thor*)
Thor: .... *shrugs*
Tomoe: ^_^ they're good you should read them!
Fantasy Girl: Yeah!! READ EM! *giggles* you'll like em!
Vince: ..-.-; a week with Vale and you've already started to act like her *shudders*
Thor: Anyways read her poetry and stories, they're very good.
Vince: ^.^ yea you should read her stories! I think we've said it enough...for now!
Fantasy Girl: *drools* Legolas.....is hottest....guy.....AISHITERU LEGOLAS!!!!!!!!
Vince: ...Legolas is an elf...a CHARACTER IN A BOOK
Vale: and movie...in the movie he's pretty hott actually...
Fantasy Girl: ...Orlando Bloom.....*dreamy sigh*
Vince: ...you just said you loved Legolas....
Fantasy Girl: ... *takes offense* ORLANDO BLOOM PLAYS HIM IN THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!
Vince: ...oh
Fantasy Girl: *runs off to find pictures of him on the internet*
Thor: So...go on and read ..er...Vale's and My fic, k? Ja ne!


WALKING IN FLAMES
CHAPTER ONE
BY:
Thor (Saturn Angels)
Vale (Saturn Angels)


"It's my 111 birthday today...people have been coming all day it gets bothersome.." Bilbo said as he sat at the table with Hotaru.

Hotaru nodded uninterested, "Really?" she sat at the small table, when was that Gandalf person coming anyway? She had already had three cups of tea, and still he hadn't come yet, finally there was a knock at the door, which sounded as if the person was using a stick. Hotaru looked up suddenly, 'Finally,' she thought to herself smiling a bit.

"WE DON'T WANT ANY GOOD WISHES OR DISTANT RELATIONS!" Shouted Bilbo, making Hotaru sweatdrop.

"How about old friends?" Gandalf asked from outside.

Bilbo immediately smiled and ran (hobbled quickly) to the round green door, "Gandalf!" He cried as he ran out to greet (hug) the old wizard.

"Oh, hello Bilbo. 111...." he pulled away and looked at Bilbo's face, "...You haven't aged a day..."

Bilbo smiled, "Come inside. Come inside," he said as he led the way into the house.

Gandalf followed and Bilbo took his wizard hat and long rod, "Would you like some tea? Breakfast maybe?"

"No, thank you. Just tea," Gandalf said as Bilbo went to go get some tea ready. He headed into the dining room to find a girl sitting at the table, and the part that surprised Gandalf was that she wasn't a hobbit.

Hotaru stood up, "You must be Gandalf...Why exactly did you summon me here?"

Gandalf looked at her strangely, "I did summon someone from another world...though I do not believe it was you..."

"...Tell me why you summoned someone, and I'll tell you if it was me you wanted or not," Hotaru replied dryly.

"...All I needed was someone to help me with the fireworks, and keep the other children in control while Bilbo's party was going on. Keep them safe," he said as he continued to look at Hotaru strangely, "As I said, I do not believe you are the one I meant to get..."

Hotaru raised an eyebrow, "You needed someone from another world...to entertain little children!?" she yelled angrily, "Get me back home!!"

Gandalf thought for a moment, "Well I can't put you back until the job is done. Even if you aren't the one I meant to bring, you're going to have to do the job," Gandalf explained simply.

"Oh...So I just have to take care of kids for a couple of hours, then go back home?" Hotaru thought for a moment, "Sounds simple enough...alright I'll do it..."

"Good. Good, Ah here Bilbo comes with my tea..." After Bilbo poured the tea, etc. Gandalf and Bilbo went outside (Hotaru following them) to blow smoke-rings. Hotaru watched them from behind amused.

"Gandalf old friend....this will be a night to remember..." Bilbo said. A few minutes later they were at Bilbo's party watching fireworks.

Hotaru sighed and told the children stories, "And then there was a princess...who was all alone with no one to love her. She ruled an empty planet, it was so quiet you could hear someone breathing even if they were a zillion feet away!"

The children gasped and scooted closer to her.

"This princess...was a soldier of destruction so nobody liked her, she had one friend in the whole wide universe...but that friend went away and left her alone...in anger the princess traveled to the dark side of the moon with no control of her powers...she made lots of people suffer, she had gone absolutely crazy! And suddenly...her friend came back...once the princess had calmed down no one liked her at all... Her friend was sent to kill the princess...but she could not, because she remembered how much fun the two had...so...the friend killed herself, because she was in sooo much pain..."

The children all had tears in their eyes, "What happened next?" a small one asked curiously.

"...The princess was so sad at watching her friend die...that she got a knife...and drove it through her own heart...she died but the queen, of a happy place saw what had happened and asked the gods that the two be reborn...and they were...They lived a thousand years later happily. But the princess, who was now normal...was hated by everyone around her. So she became distraught and began to hate the world and all its evil. So, she banished the foolish people who had mocked her and who were cruel and turned them...into stars. Forever in the heavens...and forever watching the happier people here...in... .... ...Middle-Earth..."

The little children all sniffled then all cried out for another story. So she had to make up another one, she was having a little fun.

~*~*~After Bilbo leaves and Frodo is about to go inside Bilbo's house*~*~*~

Frodo opened the door to Bilbo's house, "Bilbo? Bilbo?" He looked down at the floor where the ring was, he picked it up and walked to where Gandalf was, "He's gone isn't he? He's been talking about leaving for so long..."

Gandalf stared at the fire then turned to Frodo, "Yes gone. He left you with all his possessions..." He got an envelope and put the ring inside then sealed it with a wax seal.

~*~*~When Gandalf comes back and is asking if the ring is safe*~*~*
(Sorry I'm skipping around so much! ^^;.)

"Do you see anything?" Gandalf said looking out the window

"No.." Frodo said while examining the ring.

Gandalf let out a sigh of relief.

"Wait...There are markings...it's some form of elvish I can't read it..."

"There are few who can..." Gandalf continued to tell Frodo about the ring, and Frodo being scared wanted to give it to Gandalf but Gandalf refused. Frodo began to pack for his journey. There were rustlings in the bushes outside. "Get down!" He ordered, Frodo did as he was told. Gandalf crept closer to the bushes and hit whoever it was over the head and brought the person in. "Confound it! Samwise Gamgee, have you been eavesdropping!?"

"I wasn't dropping no eave sir! I was trimming the ledge!"

Gandalf looked at him, "It's a little late to be tending to the gardens...what did you hear?!"

"N-Nothing really, I heard a great deal about a ring, and something about the end of the world, aw please don't turn me into a toad or something undistinguishable..." (forgot what he said there...oops)

~*~*~Gandalf is beat up by his former master; Frodo and Sam are almost to that farmer's property*~*~*

Sam stopped suddenly, and Frodo turned back, "What's wrong?"

"If I take one more step...it'll be the farthest I've ever been from home in my life..."

"Sam...Remember what Bilbo used to say..." They continued walking as Frodo recalled what he said (I forgot and I saw the movie twice...I haven't read the Lord of the Rings books yet...just the Hobbit since Barnes and Noble didn't have 'em *growls*)

As they were walking Merry, Pippin, and Hotaru ran into them, except Hotaru stopped before she ran into Frodo.

They heard the farmer coming and they made a break for it.

"I don't know why he's so mad! We hardly took anything!" Pippin yelled as they continued running.

Merry went on to say exactly what they had stolen excitedly. Hotaru, Sam, and Frodo stopped suddenly since there was a large fall. Merry and Pippin tried to slow down but were too slow and ended up making them all fall over.

Hotaru grumbled some as Merry and Pippin spotted mushrooms.

Frodo heard strange voices and he noticed they were on the road, "I think we should get off the road..."

Hotaru and Sam looked at him.

A wind blew past Frodo and he shouted, "Get off the road!!"

They all did as they were told and hid under a tree stump, which made part of the road. Soon horse's footsteps could be heard, they slowed down and stopped right above where they were. They were breathing as quietly as possible but soon they heard footsteps dismounting the horse. Hotaru gulped and tried to make herself small enough so they wouldn't see her.

Frodo looked up between a crack so he could see the person, or creature. It was a strange figure, tall, clothed in a black long cloak so you couldn't see its face. He seemed to go under a trance like state as he heard more voices; he moved the ring closer to his finger about to put it on.

Hotaru looked over to him and noticed his expression, and that he was sweating. She furrowed her eyebrows, "Hey" she whispered while hitting him lightly to snap out of it. The thing quickly looked around as if it's hold on the Ring Bearer was temporarily broken wherever he was, he was close...it knew. Bugs began to come out of a hole, which they were leaning on, Hotaru wrinkled her nose in disgust and almost threw up.

Thinking quickly Merry threw a rock that was lying next to him and they all made a run for it.

While they were running, a creature on a horse jumped inbetween two trees the creature the whole while screaming unbearably loud. They ran faster, the thing was on horse back and soon another joined it. In front of them there was a lake and a small raft Sam, Merry, Pippin, and Hotaru ran onto it. Sam untied it quickly (Hotaru's legs were dangling off the side to help paddle) and the raft started floating off without Frodo.

"FRODO! JUMP!! FRODO!" They cried in unison. Frodo with the creature right behind him ran quicker and jumped onto the raft, the four brought him still as the looked back at the creature who apparently wasn't going to go into the water. It made another loud scream as if it was in pain and they went another direction.

~*~*~End Chapter One*~*~*
Thor: ...see? not so bad...I try to remember as much as possible while still being able to put Hotaru in.
Vale: If you're wondering why Hotaru didn't transform: One = takes too long, and it'd be noticeable, Two = would you remember in a situation like that?, Three = er...Death and Destruction noticeable to evil...draws them near, you know?
Tomoe: ...uh...yeah...
Vince: ...COOL!
Fantasy Girl: *prints 21 pictures of Orlando Bloom* uh huh...
Thor: ...review...
Vale: YEAH! REVIEW!