Hayley's P.O.V
"Shit! Jenni's got my purse" I snap and spin on my heels
Becky and Lavender turn with me "Why has she got your purse?" Becky asks confused
"She put it in her bag after lunch. I paid, she went for it." I reply, Jen and I have a system. Each day we swap who buys lunch. Whoever buys it doesn't have to go get it. I don't know what Becky and Lavender do, they work in the kitchen.
As we reach the doors of Finlay manor, an explosion sounds from behind the door. The three of us jump in fright before busting in. We get in just in time to see Jenni disappear in a cloud of smoke and when the smoke dissipates she is still nowhere to be seen.
"Where did she go!" I exclaim, worried about my best friend.
"Hayley, Becky, Lavender!" Elaine exclaims "where did you three come from?"
"Why would you ask such a silly question Mrs Finlay" Lavender asks tilting her head to the side receiving another smack in the back of the head by Becky.
"Jenni has gone on a trip." Louis tells us then turns around and walks away.
I turn back to Elaine and ask "what kind of trip?"
"A mission, a quest you might say" Elaine says timidly not making eye contact, which is not like her at all.
"What kind of quest?" I ask suspiciously.
She turns and looks me in the eye and says with a sigh "Go sit on the couch and I will tell you"
Jenni's P.O.V
I open my eyes and sit up. I take in my surroundings with confusion, where the hell am I? A sharp pain erupts in the back of my head and I hiss in pain. I run the back of my head gently, i fucking hate those potions! I stand up and observe my surroundings. I see nothing but trees, grass and plants. Odd. I live near trees, yes, but these look like the have never been damaged or affected by pollution or anything like that. Plus they are huge. I look at my feet and notice the bag my mum had in her hand before I blacked out. Did they plan this?I contain a growl. They once again came up with some plan and once again I get told nothing about it, how typical! I hate it when they do that! I pick up the bag to have a look to see what my mum had put in it. It has extra clothes, shampoo and conditioner, a Hairbrush, hair scrunches, my toothbrush and toothpaste, the type of food you would take travelling, breakfast bars and crap like that, and a bottle of water. Dear God, how long was she planning for me to stay here!
"There must be a town or something around here somewhere" I mutter to myself as I start walking toward the forest.
It takes a very, very, long time but I finally exit the forest "Oh, thank Christ! A town!"
I run towards the town and the closer I get, the stranger it seems. This place is like nothing I have ever seen before, the houses are built into the hills like I just walked into the Shire or something. As I enter it I get strange looks from the odd people living here barely reached past my waist and I'm pretty short. They reminded me of Hobbits but that is impossible there are no Hobbits around my area, my world. Mind you I don't know whether I'm still in my world! I jump as I hear bangs like… fireworks? Then the sound of screaming children. I run over to where I heard the sound coming from to see the children jumping with joy…whoa déjà vu. I look ahead and see a cart turn the corner, a very familiar looking one too. Mind you this whole place looks familiar! I'm wrong right? I run after it to see if I'm right. I see a boy jump of the cart and run off but I continue to follow the cart, my gut is telling me to do it. The cart stops in front of one of the biggest hill houses I have seen so far.
"Excuse me! Excuse me! Sir" I yell to the man getting out of the cart. The man turns round to face me I gasp. I know who this is and if it's not the person in question as one HELL of a look-a-like!
Hayley's P.O.V
"So you're telling me you sent my best friend on this quest" I say.
"Where there is a chance of her getting seriously hurt" Lavender continues.
"And you're okay with it!" Finishes Becky.
"Well, yes" Elaine says nonchalantly.
"OH MY GOD!" Becky, Lavender and I scream at the same time.
"Calm down girls" Elaine snaps "There is no need to scream, Jenni will be fine she is very capable with her powers, she can look after herself"
"Well then we will go too" I jump up saying.
Elaine stand up to and says "you will do no such thing. You may call her if you wish she still has her phone"
"Her phone won't work there would it" Becky asks confused.
"Her sisters have charmed it so it will work in any time and any place" Elaine says matter-of-factly.
"This is wrong on so many levels!" I mutter and pull out my phone.
Jenni's P.O.V
"G-Gandalf!" I stutter staring with awe at the wizard standing in front of me.
The wizard gives me a confused look, then stares down at my clothing and says "Oh yes, Lady Finlay"
"Lady?"
"Yes, I have been expecting you"
"Alrighty then, why is that?" I ask.
"Your family did not inform you of why you are here?" Gandalf asks surprised
"No not really…Actually not at all, they never tell me anything" I tell him trying not to sound bitter but it slips out.
"I wasn't expecting you for a little while. Well if you would like to look around town while I talk to an old friend that would be lovely and I shall come and find you before the party" He says smiling politely at me.
I nod slowly "I suppose I could do that" I turn and walk away from him and decide to just go find somewhere to sit which I did next to a little river.
There is no benches so I sit on the ground and start thinking about my situation. Alright then so I'm here in what is obviously The Shire. Which logic says is impossible considering it doesn't, scratch that, shouldn't exist. And it is before the ring is destroyed because it's Bilbo's party. And I just saw Gandalf and he goes to the Gray Heavens in the end, of the film anyway. So what on earth am I doing here? There was no female Witch helping them out or was even mentioned in either the book OR the movie... this is so fucked up!
"Excuse me miss are you alright?" I hear someone ask. I jump at the sound of the voice and turn to look at the young Hobbit.
"Hey, sorry I did not mean to scare you miss…"
"Finlay, Jenni Finlay" I say still a bit stunned from the surprise. I look up to see bright blue eyes looking at me under curly black hair and I jump a little again seeing as it was Frodo Baggins!
"I am Frodo Baggins, Miss Finlay why, may I ask, are you sitting out here by yourself?" he asks looking at me as I stand up dusting off my trousers.
"I'm waiting for Gandalf. Hopefully he can explain to both of us why I'm here." I say with a grin
Just as I say that, the voice of Gandalf says "It will all be explained in due time just know that your service is gravely needed in the times to come." I turn at see the Wizard walking towards me.
Alright, so it's not much but it's better than what I got before I got here. Of course something had to go spoil the mood and it was a ringing. It's coming from my bag. I drop to my knees and I rummage through it and find my mobile phone at the bottom. Hayley calling. For Christ sake! Even in a different world she still manages to call me! Frodo stares at my phone in awe and Gandalf watches me curiously. I smile apologetically.
"Hello" I answer my call
"Oh my Goodness, Jenni! Are you alright? Your mum told us where you are. Is it true?" She starts babbling down the phone
"Hayley, Hayley, Hayley!" I repeat, trying to shut her up. "Aye, it's true but I'll explain in more detail through text later this call must be costing you a bomb!"
"Oh crap, yeah well keep me updated text me everyday to tell me your okay!"
"Okay"
"You Promise?" she pleads
"Yes, I promise Haylz, Oh and by the way tell Louis I'm gonna kill him next time I see him!"
She laughs "Will do. Bye Jenni"
I put my phone back in my bag and look up at a bewildered Gandalf and Frodo
"What is that strange thing" Frodo asks
"It's a phone… a communication device... it's hard to explain" How do you explain a mobile to someone who hasn't even heard of the telegraph?
"Let us go, we do not want to be late for Bilbo's party" says Gandalf looking between me and Frodo.
"Party!" my eyes light up as fast as I jump up "I do enjoy a party!"
The party is actually pretty ace! The Hobbits are funny and they have strange dances. They accepted my presence very quickly and actually enjoy talking to me.
Gandalf introduces me to Bilbo "Bilbo Baggins, this is Jenni Finlay"
Bilbo turns sharply and looks up at me excitedly "Jenni!" He exclaims and takes my hand and shakes in enthusiastically "Wow, you are so young"
I laugh "Compared to who?"
Bilbo look like a deer in headlights and laughs nervously "To me of course, child!"
He stares at me like he is looking at a long lost friend "How are you enjoying the party?" He asks
I smile and nod "It's great, you really know how to throw a party!"
Bilbo grins "thank you"
The night goes on and Gandalf's fireworks were amazing and I meet Frodo's friend Sam.
"Would you like to dance Miss Finlay?" asks Frodo.
"Call me Jenni, Frodo, and I would love to if I knew how" I tell him.
"I'll teach you, come" Frodo persist.
"Okay then" I say and jump up.
After I try a couple of dances, I give up and sit back down, laughing all the same. Then the big dragon of a firework was lit and people start to panic. I just duck. That's when Bilbo starts his speech
"My dear Bagginses and Boffins, Tooks and Brandybucks" At each name call people clapped and cheered (not much is different from my world then) "Grubbs, Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles, and Proudfoots!"
"Proudfeet" Someone from the crowd yells.
Bilbo waves him off and continues "Today is my 111th birthday! But alas, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable Hobbits. I don't know half of you as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
Wow…talk about mood killing. Well, this is it, when Bilbo 'disappears', this should be fun. I watch the crowd carefully, waiting for their reactions.
Bilbo continues "I…uh… I have things to do. I regret to announce this is the end! I'm going now. I bid you all a fond farewell. Good-bye." With that Bilbo 'disappears' and everyone gasps, worried about what happened to Bilbo.
I see Frodo get up and run towards his house and I follow catching him up easy. When we get to the house Frodo bursts in yelling Bilbo's name but gets no answer and turns around to Gandalf who is muttering to himself in a chair next to the fire. How the hell did he beat us here? I look at my feet and notice the ring. Doesn't seem very scary to me. I get woken from my thoughts by Frodo talking to Gandalf about Bilbo leaving and how Frodo gets everything that belonged to him. Including the ring. With that Gandalf gets up and grabs his thing ready to leave as well.
Frodo follows after him asking why he is leaving and Gandalf just answers with "Question's, Questions that need answered" Gandalf tells Frodo to keep the ring secret and safe. "Lady Finlay you just stay here with Frodo until I return" Gandalf says turning to me.
"Will do Gandalf" with that he turns and leaves.
Okay the movie doesn't seem to take this long but in real life it takes forever! I've already been here three months. I just stay at Frodo's getting to know him better before Gandalf comes back. I talk to Sam a lot, he's very sweet and Merry and Pippin are two of my most favourite people in the world! After a night at the pub Frodo and I head back to his. His place feels darker than usual. Then Frodo gasps as something grabs his shoulder. It's Gandalf. Gandalf asks Frodo about the ring. Frodo looks confused and gets it out of a chest, still in it's envelope. Gandalf takes and throws in the fire.
"What are you doing?" Frodo exclaims
Gandalf ignores him and uses the pincers to take the ring out of the fire and hands it to Frodo. Once the ring is back in Frodo's possession and Gandalf has explained to him about the meaning of the letters around the ring and explains about Sauron, about its origin, how it got into Frodo's possession and how Sauron is looking for the ring to cover the whole world in darkness and evil. Frodo suggest hiding it but Gandalf steps on that plan quickly by telling us that the creature Gollum has told evil where the ring is. So Frodo asks what he has to do. Gandalf tells us to head to the prancing pony in Bree where he will wait for us. Then Gandalf hears a noise from outside and tells Frodo to duck just to find out its Sam who he bullies into coming with Frodo and I.
When Gandalf leaves Sam, Frodo and I at the woods we start on our very long walk to Bree. When we get to a Farm, Sam stops and says "This is it if I take one more step I'll be the furthest away from home I have ever been"
I turn to him and say "It's alright Sam, just think I'm not even in my world let alone a distance from it. It's hard but you do get over it, at least for a little while"
He smiles at me and Frodo walks up to him and consoles him while getting him to walk on. Frodo and I walk a little further ahead than Sam then we hear him start shouting our names.
"What!" says Frodo running up to him.
Sam looks relived and says "I thought I lost you"
Frodo looks confused and asks "What are you talking about?"
"It's just something Gandalf said" Sam confesses.
"What did he say?" I ask him.
"Don't you lose him, Samwise Gamgee. And I don't mean to."
"Sam we're still in the shire. What could possibly happen?" Frodo asks amused.
But of course when you say that something always happens. And I know what is going to happen so I subtly take a few steps back and with that, in charge Merry and Pippin to knock Frodo and Sam over. The duo gets scolded for stealing from the farmer. Then along comes the farmer and we run.
While running Merry tries to cover for himself and Pippin "I don't know why he's so upset. It's only a couple of carrots"
Then Pippin comes in with "And some cabbages, And those three bags of potatoes that we lifted last week. And then the mushroom the week before"
"Yes, Pippin. My point is he's clearly over reacting."
I was to busy laughing that I forget about the hill coming up and by the time I remember it's too late.
"Whoa! Stop!" I yell but It's to late.
I stop at the edge but Pippin runs into me, Merry into him, Frodo into him and to top it off Sam. I scream as we all go tumbling off the edge. The wind is knocked out of me as I hit solid ground and I can already feel my ribs bruising.
"That was close" Pippin his face very close to horse droppings.
"I think I've broken something" Complains Merry as he pulls out a broken carrot from underneath him.
I can't help but laugh at that.
"Trust a Brandybuck and a Took" Says Sam disgruntled.
"What? That was a detour. A shortcut" Merry reasons.
"A shortcut to what?" Sam asks.
"Mushrooms!" exclaims Pippin. I takes three attempts for him to get to his feet.
I shake my head with a grin and watch Frodo walk into the middle of the road and suddenly looks scared and tells us to get off the road. We run under a log and I know what's coming, my heart beats faster and my palms get sweaty. I hear the horse and the boys go deathly silent. I hear heavy footfalls on the road and I feel the evil radiating from the figure above me. I hear the sniffing and I hold my breath. I could try blowing him up but I don't know what will happen to it if I do! I look at the bag of mushrooms in Merry's hand and use my powers to throw away so it will make a noise away from us. When the rider's distracted we run for it. Frodo explains how we must get to Bree to Merry. So Merry shows us the way to Buckleberry ferry that is literally wooden raft. The black riders come from everywhere while we are running and fear rushes through me. We make it to the ferry but with no Frodo! I turn around and see Frodo running towards the ferry and jumps across. he lands in my arms and knocks me on my ass.
"How far is the nearest crossing?" Frodo asks out of breath.
"Brandywine bridge, Twenty miles"
"Oh my goodness Frodo are you okay" I start fussing over him, I see him blush in the dark and he mutters that he is fine.