Amethyst: Chapter two
Okay, chapter two. It's a little pointless, but a nice lead up to chapter three. Trust me, I've got much planned for Amethyst and Frodo later. It will become clearer chapter by chapter.
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So, time pasted, but that wasn't particularly unusual. Time also caught up with Frodo, so now he did finally look his age. Sort of. He was lucky enough to look a little younger than he really was, so he looked about sixty, instead of sixty-five.
However, Amethyst never did grow out of her queerness. Her hair was still red, but had gone much darker, now looking like mahogany. Her eyes had remained purple, and if anything had become more bright and sparkling than ever. She had filled out a bit, though. No one could live in a hobbit household and not fill out a bit. She still looked quiet thin when compared to the other hobbit child though, like a willow tree next to a forest of sturdy oaks. But she still was a little too tall for her age.
She had though adopted many things off Frodo, even though he was not her really parent. She had inherited his adventurous nature, his love of stories, and for sure, his love of reading, writing and his imagination.
The money Bilbo (okay, he gave Sam that bag. I image if that was a whole bag of money and the stuff Bilbo's dad had left him…. just use your imaginations people!) had left him was enough to last the whole family of them for a long time, if they were careful, with of course Frodo and Sam's jobs as Mayor and Deputy Mayor. Frodo had to admit that he spoilt all the children when he could, especially Amethyst. After all, she was his special girl, as he occasionally called her.
Right now she and the eldest two of Sam's children had gone out to play, and were in one of the many forests outside the shire. Amethyst ran ahead and swung around a tree.
'What shall we play?' asked Frodo, staring at her.
'I know!' she said,' We'll play The adventurers! I'll be Amethyst the Red, Elle can be Queen Elanor of the elves and you can be Saruman the grey!'
'Saruman?' said Frodo angrily, 'Why do I always have to be Saruman the Grey? I hate being Saruman the grey!'
' You know we aren't allowed to play that Amy!' said Elanor as she caught up with them (Amy is her nickname, or at least a shortening), 'Mum, Dad an' Mr Frodo say that!'
'I know what they say, but we aren't hurting people, and it was playing stories from the red book were aren't allowed to do.' Said Amethyst rolling her eyes.
'Yeah, but I'm not playing Saruman!' said Frodo.
'Okay then,' said Amethyst, 'who'll you be? If you're not Saruman, we've got no one to beat.'
'Why can't are enemies be invisible?' asked Frodo, 'That would have everything better.'
'No it wouldn't,' said Amethyst,' 'cause if we can't see them, we wouldn't know if they were enemies or not. '
'Can't we pretend?' pleaded Frodo, 'All this I pretend anyway.'
'Okay,' said Amethyst. She started to look for some sticks that she wanted. Then she picked up a sturdy stick and a thinner one. She put the thinner one in the string of her apron and picked up her sturdy staff. Elanor picked up a long this stick and put that into her belt. They both waited for Frodo to come back.
When they did they were in for a surprise. He wore some pieces of bark on the chest, a long swordstick in his hand and another piece of bark as a shield.
'I'm Frodo, knight of the shire!' he said.
'Right, so what will we be doing?' asked Elanor after a few seconds.
'Err…' started Amethyst. Then an idea came into her head. ' I know! The brave three were walking through the forests when…. They came across a village! The village had a dragon in the nearby caves and the townspeople want us all kill the dragon!'
'Dragon? How big is it?' asked Elanor.
'Huge!' exclaimed Amethyst, 'So big that it could eat the whole village!'
'So why didn't it?' asked Frodo.
'Because it wouldn't be fun if it did.' Said Amethyst, 'So, its stolen all the villagers jewels and money, so we have to fight it to get it all back. Its also been eating people!'
They all though about this. Then Elanor asked, 'So, where's the cave?'
'In a mountain nearby.' Then she pointed to a hill they were next to, 'I know where it is! It's up there. ' She pointed at the tree's,' follow me valiant knight and elf! '
She ran forward, pointing her staff at the trees. Frodo followed her at close quarters, while Elanor ran next to her, with her "sword" out. Frodo ran the other side of the older girl, and brought his sword out.
Then they saw a tree root, perfect for quiet a few hobbit children to hide in. Amethyst smiled at them and she brought out her own sword and ran in. Elanor ran in afterwards and Amethyst shouted, 'finally Dragon! We have you!' As Frodo ran in, he saw his sister fighting an invisible dragon, while Amethyst performed a spell on it to weaken it.
Frodo ran in, and as the elven queen stabbed through the scales, she could not defeat the dragon herself. Frodo felt the sword in his hand. Then he ran in, and his sister screamed, 'Sir Frodo! '
'Queen Elanor!' he shouted back, 'You must stab the demon dragon in the head! '
'I'll climb him then. ' Said Elanor. She pretended to be climbing up the neck of the dragon.' I'm about to stab him!' she plunged her sword into his neck. 'Finally! He is dead!'
'Not quiet!' shouted Frodo, 'I must stab him in the heart!'
Frodo pretended to dodge the claws of the ferocious dragon as he went to put his sword in the beast heart.
'I must cast a scale weakening spell!' said Amethyst. She made up a rhyme, and then she said, 'Kill him now!'
Frodo put his sword into the invisible dragon. It fell to the ground with a thump, screaming as the life flapped away from it. They were about to walk away when Amethyst shouted, 'Look! The beast still stirs! I will finish it off with a fireball! ' Then she pointed her staff at the invisible dragon, and an equally invisible fireball destroyed the dragon, as it disappeared into the dust.
'Did you see how I stabbed that dragon!' shouted Frodo as Elanor and Amethyst crawled out of the hide hole.
'Yeah, an' did you see how I was holdin' onto the dragons head an' I didn't let go, an' how I was nearly thrown off and how….'
'Did anyone see my fireball!' said Amethyst. There was no answer. They both were talking about what they were doing when Amethyst heard a rustle in the forest.
'Sh….' she said, 'I think I heard something.'
'What was it?' asked Frodo, thinking that it was another game, 'Another Dragon? If it's another dragon I'll slice it's….'
Elanor had gone quiet too, first of all out of the fun of the game, then in absolute seriousness.
'Shut up Frodo, I think it's something real.'
Frodo still didn't get it. 'And after that I'll….'
Amethyst pulled him down to the ground as they listened. 'Big folk!' she whispered, 'I can here footsteps. We must hide!'
Elanor could tell that she wasn't joking. Frodo and Elanor crawled back into the tree root, after Amethyst. They all lay still as they heard the footsteps walk past. Frodo held onto Elanor as they waited for the big person to leave. They saw a white robe flash past them, as well as white shoed feet and a staff. AS the feet got further away, Frodo sneezed. Elanor and Amethyst both felt shocked as Frodo grinned apologetically.
The feet stopped. There was a swish of cloak, then a staff reached into the hole. Amethyst and Elanor scream and Frodo tried to grab onto Elanor. Amethyst was caught on the end of the staff. She was rushed out and she heard, 'WHAT ARE YOU, WHAT ARE YOU DOING…Oh, a hobbit.' The huge man took her off the end and held her up by her collar.
Amethyst looked at the man and grinned at him. He was old, she could tell that much, and had a long beard. His eyes sparkled at her, but he looked a little annoyed.
'What are you doing so far from the shire, child?' he asked.
' Sir, sir, sir….' She said, unable to say anything intelligible.
'Who are you? What are you doing?'
He tensed his arm as if to shake her when she said, 'I'm Amethyst Baggins sir, I was jus' playing, I didn't mean to cause offence sir, please let me go sir!'
The man lost his anger. He still held her, but said, 'Amethyst Baggins? What would you be playing so far away from the shire, especially near teatime?'
'That I was a wizard an'…. you aren't going to hurt me sir?'
'Not unless provoked.' He said, 'Do you know Mr Frodo Baggins child?'
'I do sir. He's my father.' She said. The man dropped her. It hurt. A lot.
'Frodo Baggins!' he said looking into the sky, 'I would never have thought it…. '
'Sir?' said Amethyst from a place around ground level. The man looked down.
'Oh, sorry.' He said, ' I am Gandalf the White. I am sure you have heard of me.'
'I have sir! She said, 'Gandalf the White. My father talks fondly of you. I always wanted to meet you, but I heard that you would never be coming back to the shire….' The pain of falling she was quickly recovering from.
'Never come back? Not even to see my favourite hobbits? ' He asked, laughing, 'I think maybe we should give your father a little surprise Amethyst.'
Amethyst got up. She didn't know better than to talk to strangers, but she decided to trust that this man was in fact Gandalf the white. She got up and called into the hole, 'It's all right. He's a friend.'
Frodo and Elanor crawled back out of the hole. They blinked at the man. They recognised him faster than Amethyst did.
'Gandalf!' shouted Elanor. She ran up to him and hugged him.
'Elanor, how nice to see you!' he said, 'And Frodo too!'
'You've met them?' asked Amethyst.
'Of course. Whenever I came up, I was always told that Frodo Baggins was visiting the Smials.'
Amethyst suddenly realised something, but didn't voice it. Gandalf took Amethyst's small hand and placed it in his. She smiled, and realised that she would show him to the village from where she was.
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Sam was in his garden when he saw Gandalf coming down to the village. He also saw three children with them. He recognised them instantly. He only knew of one child with reddish hair in the shire, and he knew his two eldest were mostly in her company.
He dropped his trowel on his foot. He cursed inwardly, and then hopped into the house.
'Rose?' he shouted, 'Rose, are you their?'
'Yes Sam! I'm here. Now what alises you?' She came rushing out to him.
'We've got another one for dinner. Can you tell the girl that tonight?' Sam had always been uncomfortable with the idea of servants, as he still though of himself as one, but since Rose had given birth to Elanor he had decided it was too much strain on her to be continually cooking and cleaning. It was even harder when Mr Frodo was "ill".
It would be hard to tell little Amy that her father was ill again, especially with Mr Gandalf coming round. He decided to walk up the path and greet him. It had been a while since he had seen him, and he would, once again, have to make an excuse for his master's illness.
'Ah, Mr Gamgee! It is nice to see you again!' shouted Gandalf when he saw him.
'Mr Gandalf!' shouted Sam, 'It is nice to see you to!'
'I found some little one's on the path to your home. Is Mr Baggins at home?'
'Yes, but he is ill, and does not wish to see visitors.' Said Sam, as he walked closer up to him. Gandalf looked a little out out. Then he said, 'How is your lovely wife?'
'Rose is fine.' He said conversationally.
'And I'm sure your children would like to hear another story of mine.' Said Gandalf with a smile.
'Yes Mr Gandalf.' Said Sam in a voice devoid of emotion, 'I'm sure they would.'
'Yeah!' shouted Elanor, jumping, 'I wanna hear another story! Like the one when the elf goes into that cave, an' he cuts off that troll's….'
'Yes, one a bit like that.' Said Gandalf a bit too quickly, 'But first I must see Frodo.'
'I'm here!' piped up Frodo.
'No, not you, although you are a lovely hobbit. I must see master Frodo.'
'I'm afraid he is ill….' Started Sam.
'I will see him, even if he puts a dragon outside his door! ' Said Gandalf, 'it is urgent that I see him.'
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Oh, cliff-hanger. I might have just finished it, but as I said, It does have a point. It's just very clear yet.
Okay, chapter two. It's a little pointless, but a nice lead up to chapter three. Trust me, I've got much planned for Amethyst and Frodo later. It will become clearer chapter by chapter.
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So, time pasted, but that wasn't particularly unusual. Time also caught up with Frodo, so now he did finally look his age. Sort of. He was lucky enough to look a little younger than he really was, so he looked about sixty, instead of sixty-five.
However, Amethyst never did grow out of her queerness. Her hair was still red, but had gone much darker, now looking like mahogany. Her eyes had remained purple, and if anything had become more bright and sparkling than ever. She had filled out a bit, though. No one could live in a hobbit household and not fill out a bit. She still looked quiet thin when compared to the other hobbit child though, like a willow tree next to a forest of sturdy oaks. But she still was a little too tall for her age.
She had though adopted many things off Frodo, even though he was not her really parent. She had inherited his adventurous nature, his love of stories, and for sure, his love of reading, writing and his imagination.
The money Bilbo (okay, he gave Sam that bag. I image if that was a whole bag of money and the stuff Bilbo's dad had left him…. just use your imaginations people!) had left him was enough to last the whole family of them for a long time, if they were careful, with of course Frodo and Sam's jobs as Mayor and Deputy Mayor. Frodo had to admit that he spoilt all the children when he could, especially Amethyst. After all, she was his special girl, as he occasionally called her.
Right now she and the eldest two of Sam's children had gone out to play, and were in one of the many forests outside the shire. Amethyst ran ahead and swung around a tree.
'What shall we play?' asked Frodo, staring at her.
'I know!' she said,' We'll play The adventurers! I'll be Amethyst the Red, Elle can be Queen Elanor of the elves and you can be Saruman the grey!'
'Saruman?' said Frodo angrily, 'Why do I always have to be Saruman the Grey? I hate being Saruman the grey!'
' You know we aren't allowed to play that Amy!' said Elanor as she caught up with them (Amy is her nickname, or at least a shortening), 'Mum, Dad an' Mr Frodo say that!'
'I know what they say, but we aren't hurting people, and it was playing stories from the red book were aren't allowed to do.' Said Amethyst rolling her eyes.
'Yeah, but I'm not playing Saruman!' said Frodo.
'Okay then,' said Amethyst, 'who'll you be? If you're not Saruman, we've got no one to beat.'
'Why can't are enemies be invisible?' asked Frodo, 'That would have everything better.'
'No it wouldn't,' said Amethyst,' 'cause if we can't see them, we wouldn't know if they were enemies or not. '
'Can't we pretend?' pleaded Frodo, 'All this I pretend anyway.'
'Okay,' said Amethyst. She started to look for some sticks that she wanted. Then she picked up a sturdy stick and a thinner one. She put the thinner one in the string of her apron and picked up her sturdy staff. Elanor picked up a long this stick and put that into her belt. They both waited for Frodo to come back.
When they did they were in for a surprise. He wore some pieces of bark on the chest, a long swordstick in his hand and another piece of bark as a shield.
'I'm Frodo, knight of the shire!' he said.
'Right, so what will we be doing?' asked Elanor after a few seconds.
'Err…' started Amethyst. Then an idea came into her head. ' I know! The brave three were walking through the forests when…. They came across a village! The village had a dragon in the nearby caves and the townspeople want us all kill the dragon!'
'Dragon? How big is it?' asked Elanor.
'Huge!' exclaimed Amethyst, 'So big that it could eat the whole village!'
'So why didn't it?' asked Frodo.
'Because it wouldn't be fun if it did.' Said Amethyst, 'So, its stolen all the villagers jewels and money, so we have to fight it to get it all back. Its also been eating people!'
They all though about this. Then Elanor asked, 'So, where's the cave?'
'In a mountain nearby.' Then she pointed to a hill they were next to, 'I know where it is! It's up there. ' She pointed at the tree's,' follow me valiant knight and elf! '
She ran forward, pointing her staff at the trees. Frodo followed her at close quarters, while Elanor ran next to her, with her "sword" out. Frodo ran the other side of the older girl, and brought his sword out.
Then they saw a tree root, perfect for quiet a few hobbit children to hide in. Amethyst smiled at them and she brought out her own sword and ran in. Elanor ran in afterwards and Amethyst shouted, 'finally Dragon! We have you!' As Frodo ran in, he saw his sister fighting an invisible dragon, while Amethyst performed a spell on it to weaken it.
Frodo ran in, and as the elven queen stabbed through the scales, she could not defeat the dragon herself. Frodo felt the sword in his hand. Then he ran in, and his sister screamed, 'Sir Frodo! '
'Queen Elanor!' he shouted back, 'You must stab the demon dragon in the head! '
'I'll climb him then. ' Said Elanor. She pretended to be climbing up the neck of the dragon.' I'm about to stab him!' she plunged her sword into his neck. 'Finally! He is dead!'
'Not quiet!' shouted Frodo, 'I must stab him in the heart!'
Frodo pretended to dodge the claws of the ferocious dragon as he went to put his sword in the beast heart.
'I must cast a scale weakening spell!' said Amethyst. She made up a rhyme, and then she said, 'Kill him now!'
Frodo put his sword into the invisible dragon. It fell to the ground with a thump, screaming as the life flapped away from it. They were about to walk away when Amethyst shouted, 'Look! The beast still stirs! I will finish it off with a fireball! ' Then she pointed her staff at the invisible dragon, and an equally invisible fireball destroyed the dragon, as it disappeared into the dust.
'Did you see how I stabbed that dragon!' shouted Frodo as Elanor and Amethyst crawled out of the hide hole.
'Yeah, an' did you see how I was holdin' onto the dragons head an' I didn't let go, an' how I was nearly thrown off and how….'
'Did anyone see my fireball!' said Amethyst. There was no answer. They both were talking about what they were doing when Amethyst heard a rustle in the forest.
'Sh….' she said, 'I think I heard something.'
'What was it?' asked Frodo, thinking that it was another game, 'Another Dragon? If it's another dragon I'll slice it's….'
Elanor had gone quiet too, first of all out of the fun of the game, then in absolute seriousness.
'Shut up Frodo, I think it's something real.'
Frodo still didn't get it. 'And after that I'll….'
Amethyst pulled him down to the ground as they listened. 'Big folk!' she whispered, 'I can here footsteps. We must hide!'
Elanor could tell that she wasn't joking. Frodo and Elanor crawled back into the tree root, after Amethyst. They all lay still as they heard the footsteps walk past. Frodo held onto Elanor as they waited for the big person to leave. They saw a white robe flash past them, as well as white shoed feet and a staff. AS the feet got further away, Frodo sneezed. Elanor and Amethyst both felt shocked as Frodo grinned apologetically.
The feet stopped. There was a swish of cloak, then a staff reached into the hole. Amethyst and Elanor scream and Frodo tried to grab onto Elanor. Amethyst was caught on the end of the staff. She was rushed out and she heard, 'WHAT ARE YOU, WHAT ARE YOU DOING…Oh, a hobbit.' The huge man took her off the end and held her up by her collar.
Amethyst looked at the man and grinned at him. He was old, she could tell that much, and had a long beard. His eyes sparkled at her, but he looked a little annoyed.
'What are you doing so far from the shire, child?' he asked.
' Sir, sir, sir….' She said, unable to say anything intelligible.
'Who are you? What are you doing?'
He tensed his arm as if to shake her when she said, 'I'm Amethyst Baggins sir, I was jus' playing, I didn't mean to cause offence sir, please let me go sir!'
The man lost his anger. He still held her, but said, 'Amethyst Baggins? What would you be playing so far away from the shire, especially near teatime?'
'That I was a wizard an'…. you aren't going to hurt me sir?'
'Not unless provoked.' He said, 'Do you know Mr Frodo Baggins child?'
'I do sir. He's my father.' She said. The man dropped her. It hurt. A lot.
'Frodo Baggins!' he said looking into the sky, 'I would never have thought it…. '
'Sir?' said Amethyst from a place around ground level. The man looked down.
'Oh, sorry.' He said, ' I am Gandalf the White. I am sure you have heard of me.'
'I have sir! She said, 'Gandalf the White. My father talks fondly of you. I always wanted to meet you, but I heard that you would never be coming back to the shire….' The pain of falling she was quickly recovering from.
'Never come back? Not even to see my favourite hobbits? ' He asked, laughing, 'I think maybe we should give your father a little surprise Amethyst.'
Amethyst got up. She didn't know better than to talk to strangers, but she decided to trust that this man was in fact Gandalf the white. She got up and called into the hole, 'It's all right. He's a friend.'
Frodo and Elanor crawled back out of the hole. They blinked at the man. They recognised him faster than Amethyst did.
'Gandalf!' shouted Elanor. She ran up to him and hugged him.
'Elanor, how nice to see you!' he said, 'And Frodo too!'
'You've met them?' asked Amethyst.
'Of course. Whenever I came up, I was always told that Frodo Baggins was visiting the Smials.'
Amethyst suddenly realised something, but didn't voice it. Gandalf took Amethyst's small hand and placed it in his. She smiled, and realised that she would show him to the village from where she was.
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Sam was in his garden when he saw Gandalf coming down to the village. He also saw three children with them. He recognised them instantly. He only knew of one child with reddish hair in the shire, and he knew his two eldest were mostly in her company.
He dropped his trowel on his foot. He cursed inwardly, and then hopped into the house.
'Rose?' he shouted, 'Rose, are you their?'
'Yes Sam! I'm here. Now what alises you?' She came rushing out to him.
'We've got another one for dinner. Can you tell the girl that tonight?' Sam had always been uncomfortable with the idea of servants, as he still though of himself as one, but since Rose had given birth to Elanor he had decided it was too much strain on her to be continually cooking and cleaning. It was even harder when Mr Frodo was "ill".
It would be hard to tell little Amy that her father was ill again, especially with Mr Gandalf coming round. He decided to walk up the path and greet him. It had been a while since he had seen him, and he would, once again, have to make an excuse for his master's illness.
'Ah, Mr Gamgee! It is nice to see you again!' shouted Gandalf when he saw him.
'Mr Gandalf!' shouted Sam, 'It is nice to see you to!'
'I found some little one's on the path to your home. Is Mr Baggins at home?'
'Yes, but he is ill, and does not wish to see visitors.' Said Sam, as he walked closer up to him. Gandalf looked a little out out. Then he said, 'How is your lovely wife?'
'Rose is fine.' He said conversationally.
'And I'm sure your children would like to hear another story of mine.' Said Gandalf with a smile.
'Yes Mr Gandalf.' Said Sam in a voice devoid of emotion, 'I'm sure they would.'
'Yeah!' shouted Elanor, jumping, 'I wanna hear another story! Like the one when the elf goes into that cave, an' he cuts off that troll's….'
'Yes, one a bit like that.' Said Gandalf a bit too quickly, 'But first I must see Frodo.'
'I'm here!' piped up Frodo.
'No, not you, although you are a lovely hobbit. I must see master Frodo.'
'I'm afraid he is ill….' Started Sam.
'I will see him, even if he puts a dragon outside his door! ' Said Gandalf, 'it is urgent that I see him.'
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Oh, cliff-hanger. I might have just finished it, but as I said, It does have a point. It's just very clear yet.