A/N: This is my first story I've tried to write, so I'd appreciate it if you will review. If I have missspelled a word somewhere please tell me and I shll try to fix it right away.
Thx, L-H-S
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from the Lord of the Rings. Those characters and places belong to the author J.R.R. Tolkien. I also do not own the songs Superman by Five for Fighting or The Drinking Song sung by Dom and Billy.
Chapter 2
Fun and Meetings
When we entered the main treehouse we saw Crystal and Kelly dancing in a circle with their arms locked together and singing. Everyone was laughing, joking, and having fun. Even Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli were amused with the dancing and singing of my two sisters. This is what they were singing:
"Hey! Ho! To the bottle I go.
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
Rain may fall and wind may blow,
But there still be…many miles to go.
Sweet is the sound of the pouring rain,
And the stream that falls from hill to plain.
Better than rain or rippling brook;
Is a mug of beer inside this Took."
When Crystal and Kelly got to the end of the song, Crystal stopped where she was and with her arms spread out she sang the last line of the song. Everyone laughed; even me. It was kind-of funny watching them sing and dance as they do. When they dance, its looks like their just skipping around, but they also jump, and do some gymnastics while they are dancing. So that's what makes them kind-of funny.
"Here are the sleeping bags guys," I said.
"Great. I call the red one," Wanda called.
"And I call the blue one," said Mr. Math.
"Send the white and yellow ones over here for me and Mr. Brain, Mario," called Alexa.
"Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, here your sleeping bags if you want to use them," said Mario. "Lily and I will come back with pillows in a moment, ok."
Mario and I passed out the last of the sleeping bags we had in our hands, and the note Mario held was passed on to Kelly and Crystal who read it over quickly and then passed it on to the others. After that, he and I went back to get the pillows.
As we headed for another closet in the third hallway, Mario asked me, "So what's with the meeting Lily? You wrote in your note not to pass it to Aragorn, Gimli, or Legolas, and not to let them see it; why?"
"The meeting is about them Mario. The reason I didn't want them to see the note was because I didn't want them to feel like they were being judged. The meeting is going to determine if we should tell them that some of us know who they are, and if we should go with them to Middle-Earth and help them destroy the Ring of Power," I said.
"Oh, I see now. Ok," Mario responded. So there wasn't anymore talk about it, and we went on gathering pillows. So began us singing Superman:
"I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me
I'm more than a bird…I'm more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It's not easy to be me
Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I'll never see
It may sound absurd…but don't be naive
Even Heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed…but won't you concede
Even Heroes have the right to dream
It's not easy to be me
Up, up and away…away from me
It's all right…You can all sleep sound tonight
I'm not crazy…or anything…
I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
Men weren't meant to ride
With clouds between their knees
I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
It's not easy to be me."
"Pillows anyone?" I asked as we entered the main treehouse again with arms full of pillows.
"Pillow fight!" cried Crystal, as she ran over, grabbed one of the pillows, and whacked Kelly up-side the head with it.
"Uh, oh…here we go again; brace yourself Mario," I said when everyone rushed over, grabbed a pillow, and began hitting each other with them.
"What a crowd. " said Mario, after a minute of silence. "At least that wasn't as bad as when they actually jumped on us, last time."
"Yeah; that's good. Wasn't a real joy falling over with everyone on top of us last time," I said. Looking over at Aragorn and his friends, I saw the confused look they had on their faces.
"Don't worry about them guys," I said walking over to them, "It's called a pillow fight. Can't really get hurt in that game." Saying this, I gave out the remanding pillows I had in my hands to Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli. "A pillow fight is it," said Aragorn with a big grin on his face.
"Uh, oh, not good," I said. At that moment he hit me with the pillow.
"Ha, ha, " he snickered.
"Hey Mario, throw that other pillow you have over here," I called. "Ok, Aragorn. If you want to play, then here you go." So I hit back with my pillow. Now everyone was whacking each other with pillows, and even Legolas and Gimli had joined in.
The pillow fight went on for quite a while, and around five o'clock everyone started to get tired of the game; so we stopped. The rain stopped and the sun was out again.
"Hey ya'll, the sun's out!" Crystal said. "We can play outside now!"
"And get all muddy. I think I'll pass on the play part," said Wonder Woman.
"I'll go and watch Crystal while she plays outside," said Kelly.
"Ok, thank-you Kelly," I responded. So both Kelly and Crystal went outside and played for a while.
"I have to say, Erin, your sisters are funny. You know with their dancing and all that," commented Gimli with a little chuckle.
"Thank-you, Gimli, they find it kind-of fun to show off like that," I responded.
"That's a fact," said Alexa, "They do that every time we come over here, and it never gets old." In saying that, everyone laughed. Mainly because it was true.
"Yea, my favorite was when they got the idea of trying to get onto American Idiot," said Mr. Math.
"Yea," the rest of us said. What Kelly and Crystal did was: Crystal hit Kelly with a basketball, Kelly would pour water on Crystal, Crystal would step on Kelly's foot, and while Kelly was hopping on one foot, she would fall on Crystal. Neither of them got hurt, but it was funny to watch. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli all chuckled some from the thought that.
We continued talking about random stuff, and continually confusing the three travelers. We'd be on one subject and then someone would come in and start talking about something else. Very common, may I add, when we get together like this. For about an hour we talked, and in that hour we found out that Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli were last at Rivendell, four days before the Council of Elrond. "We ended up here yesterday," said Aragorn. "A few yards away from this area. It was late evening, so it was getting dark. We walked to this clearing but saw no treehouse when we came. Then we camped out, here." He continued on, telling us what went on up until I met them at the tree near the edge of the bank.
Around seven o' clock Kelly and Crystal came in, a little scared. They said that they heard and saw something move in the trees. It spooked them enough to go inside. This also scared the rest of us. We did not know who might have been in the woods, but it gave us an idea of who it might be.
"What's the matter?" asked Gimli adjusting himself.
"Yes…you look worried," said Aragorn now very curious.
I looked over at my friends for a response. They nodded in agreement of what I was going to say.
"There have been these people, 'agents' as they are called, who have been following us ever since we found this mysterious, uncharted island far off the coast of the Barrier Islands. Soon after we came back and built this treehouse we found a gate connecting to some mysterious lands. So ever since they found out what we found, they've been on our tails trying to figure out the secrets that we keep of them," I responded still worried.
"Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, be very careful when you travel this part of our world. As there are dangers in the lands that you come from, there are dangers here. The weapons here are more dangerous and destructive then there," Alexa warned.
"If we are ever together and we meet these agents, you must listen to us. Standing up to them may get you seriously hurt or even killed. If they find out that you are here then they will be closer to knowing what is going on in our lives and our secrets," added Wanda.
A few minutes passed with silence, but it was broken with the footsteps of someone outside. Very soft they were but could be heard when stepped in a puddle.
"Turn of the lights and get down!" whispered Mr. Brain frantically, "Stay still and don't make a noise."
The lights were immediately turned off and everyone sat still, listening intently. None of us knew who it was that was walking outside.
"Those are the footsteps of a wizard," whispered Legolas, "He is coming from the setting sun."
"Erin, where's that?" asked Crystal quietly.
"The setting sun is the direction where the cave is," I said.
"That means someone else has come through," finished Mario.
"Cave, what cave?" Gimli returned, "We saw no cave when we came here."
As I looked over at my friends for an answer, they all nodded in response. Alexa of whom mouthed 'Tell them'. So I did.
"There's a cave that allows a person to travel to different worlds. Ones that are from movies, books, or TV shows. Though the person who wants to go through must say the password before they can enter. Though, once you go through the entrance disappears. It is possible that when y'all were in Rivendell someone said it; now it seems that someone else has found it out as well."
I poured out the things we were probably going to eventually tell them. I even told them how we knew them and where we knew them from. A few minutes passed and a sudden call from below came. He had heard us talking inside.
Legolas was right. The man outside was a wizard, but not one we expected to meet.