A/N: Thank you for all the reviews! I hope you like this upcoming chapter. I should have some short bios pasted for the girls on my page/bio by Friday, but who knows when I'll get that done.
Disclaimer: I do not own The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, or The Silmarillion. I wish I did, but they all belong to Tolkien Estate, and I do not want to enter into a lawsuit with them. They have good lawyers.
Meet the Militia of Canon Security
Chapter 2: Of Math Projects, Roast Beef Sandwiches, and Introductions
"Elbereth damn it all!" Sophia shouted and slammed her head into the keyboard for the third time in five minutes.
Aubrey turned to her friend and shook her head. This stupid math project was getting into Sophia's head. She patted her friend's long black hair and said, "It could be worse."
Sophia turned and retorted, "No, it couldn't get worse than this. We have been stuck in Vanna's room since before dawn! Literally, FREAKING 4:00 in the morning!" Vanna was the third member of their trio, and currently fixing lunch downstairs.
Aubrey dryly replied, "It was YOUR suggestion that we would sleep over last night and work on the project in the morning," and she shook her strawberry-blonde hair out of its ponytail, "Well, it actually could be worse, we could be ambushed by Orcs...or Wargs...or,"
Sophia cut her off, "Mary-Sues?" The two grimaced and shook their heads. Sophia said, "I guess you do have a point, it really could be worse."
Aubrey smiled to herself. She was usually right in matters such as this.
Vanna popped her ginger head in the room and grinned, "Hello my hard-working companions, and lo and behold my culinary creations!" She showed off her very artfully created roast beef sandwiches. She knew their weakness for her roast beef sandwiches.
People had often mistaken the three of them for sisters; they had been inseperable since kindergarten, and they had the same passion, Middle-earth. When they discovered The Hobbit in second grade, it only went uphill from there. The Hobbit became The Lord of the Rings, and eventually led to the Silmarillion, but they still loved the book that brought them to Middle-earth. Over the years, they did become sisters, in all but name.
Each of them loved every character in the books, but they did have their favorites. Energetic Sophia was a hobbit-lover, but held a special adoration for Bilbo Baggins. He was, after all the very first character created by Tolkien for The Hobbit. The ever-responsible Aubrey saw elves as kindred spirits, and practically worshipped Galadriel. The replica of Galadriel's coronet she wore often was the sign of this praise. And Vanna, the compassionate one of the lot, had a deep respect for Wizards, Gandalf in particular. She looked up to him, and you would even hear her say, when confronted with a problem, "What would Gandalf do?"
When they registered Vanna's presence, they turned to the door, and "FOOD!" they shouted simultaneously as they ambushed Vanna in her own room.
"Easy there, calm down, eat slowly or you'll get sick," Vanna said, not fazed by her friends' ravenous hunger. The three of them combined had been known to eat as much in one meal as a hobbit did in six. "Now tell me how the project is coming."
Sophia groaned loudly, "Slowly, but we should have it done soon." Aubrey scoffed, "We have been working for the past 8 hours on this project. We need a break."
All three of them sighed wistfully as they thought about where they would rather be: the movie theater. The Hobbit had finally come out after a very, very long wait, and now this damned project kept them from seeing it. Ever since Peter Jackson announced his intentions to produce, the girls had checked the Internet every day for upcoming production news. The wait had been torturous, and now this damned math project stopped them from seeing this movie.
Vanna grinned mischeviously. She had worked just as hard as her friends had on this project, and knew the right stress reliever.
"I know what you guys are thinking, so look what I've got!" She drew out three movie tickets from the back pocket of her jeans. Sophia's bright blue eyes grew as large as dinner plates and Aubrey fell back off her chair.
"Yes, yes, YES! A million times yes!" Sophia shouted, her shrill voice ricocheting of the walls of the small bedroom. Then, seeing Aubrey frozen in shock on the floor, she bent down to help her up.
Vanna smiled. She had correctly guessed her friends' reactions, again. "Well, what are we waiting for?" She said, opening the door.
The three of them threw themselves out the door and raced to the train station. After waiting 20 minutes on the train, they walked to the movie theater, barely containing their excitement. They entered the theater, showed their tickets, and entirely skipped the concessions stand. None of them wanted to leave the theater due to annoying bladder problems.
And then, they settled into their seats, checked the places of their 3D glasses and sat back.
Little did they know, a short woman with a scarred face sat in the row behind them, flanked by two tall, burly young men. The woman lowered her glasses and whispered into her wrist-microphone, "I take it these are the girls?"
The reedy voice of an older man answered back, "Yes ma'am, these are the ones." The guard on her right leaned down asked, "Do we get them now?"
The woman stared at the girls. She almost feel the excitement radiating off them. They had obviously waited long for this. She turned to her guard, "No, we'll wait till afterwards. Besides, I still haven't seen thismovie yet."
The guard nodded and replied curtly, "Of course, Supreme General, of course."
And the lights darkened, and the movie began. Little did the trio know that the world they saw on the screen and they loved with all their hearts, was about to become real, and more alive than anything they ever imagined.
