Ta da! The second chapter! Hope you enjoy it. And why won't any one review! Sniff… sniff…


2. Concerning Hobbits

There I stood… gawping at the four Hobbits in front of me, I mean kittens are adorable but nowhere near as adorable as Hobbits! I was dumbfounded and the Hobbits just looked at me with the expression of 'does it do anything or just stand there and stare?' so I thought it would be best if I introduced myself… properly.

I noticed something tied to the tree opposite the camp, but couldn't quite see what it was. I tilted forward a bit to see a pony. 'OH! MY! GOD! It's Bill! Bill the pony' 'Awww he is so cute. No wonder Sam picked him.' This was so exciting!

"Hi… umm… as I said before my name is Rissa, well actually its Marissa but… well Rissa for short I guess" I started as I fidgeted with my pockets. "By the looks of ya's, you must be Hobbits" they all sheepishly grinned and nodded, then Merry came up to me.

"It's a pleasure to meet you… err… Rissa. My name is Merry," he said as he held out his hand to me. He only just reached half way up my stomach and I was about 5'6 so he must have been just under 4 foot.

I took his hand and he led me over to where the rest of his companions were now standing. "And this here is my cousin Pippin" he nodded at Pippin.

"Hello Pippin" I said cheerfully, while restraining myself from laughing. It was so funny hearing myself say 'Hello Pippin' like I have known him half my life… which I sorta have, its just he didn't know me.

"Would you like to join us for supper" Pippin said eagerly as he walked back over to the fire. "We're only just starting" he said over his shoulder as he sat down. He motioned for Merry to sit next to him. Next Frodo came up to me with an awkward smile across his face.

"You must be Frodo Baggins" I rolled the r in Frodo just like the way Pippin says it. Just then I had realized my mistake and shut my mouth hurriedly and glanced over at Aragorn who was now seated opposite Merry and Pippin. He looked over at me with an alarmed face.

"Yes… I am… how did-" Frodo was saying when Aragorn cut him off.

"I told her," he walked over and put a hand on Frodo's shoulder and gave him a reassuring smile, as I mouthed the words 'thank-you' to him. He just looked at me slightly irritated and motioned me to sit down.

I did as I was told and sat near Merry and watched Sam cook. Then I had realized I hadn't introduced myself to Sam. He handed me a plate with some bacon and sausages on it. I just smiled and said thank-you, he then did the same with the others. The Hobbits were telling me about the Shire and where to go to get the best ales which Merry and Pippin both agreed was the Green Dragon.

Then came the question of 'From where do you hail miss Rissa'. I cringed at being called 'miss' but hey its better then 'lady'. Any way Aragorn gave me the go-ahead to tell them that I was not from Middle Earth. They sat there for a good hour and a half listening to me telling them about my world. I don't really like being the center of attention but I was enjoying this. Their eyes were almost bulging from their sockets and if it weren't for their jawbone, their mouths would have been on the ground.I couldn't help but snigger at this site or when I told them about cars and electricity.

"This… el-ec-tric-ity sounds very useful" Pippin said pronouncing it sl-ow-ly.

"If you like I can show you it" remembering my Discman in my bag. I got up walked over to where my bag was, picked it up and bought it over. I unzipped the front pocket and there it was. Everyone just stared at me while I untangled the earphones.

"Ok… now you put this in your ear-" I said to Merry, he was reluctant to but I reassured him it wouldn't hurt him and did the same with Frodo. I pressed play and watched their eyes as they went even bigger. By the sounds of it, the song must have been 'Holiday' by 'Greenday.'

"Its like… voices… in your head" that was all I got from Merry.

"Is this some kind of uh… music?" Frodo asked, obviously stunned.

"Yup! Sure is. I think its Greenday your listing to. That's one of my favourite songs" I started to hum the tune and sort of mouth the words to it… but ended up singing them out loud.

Hear the dogs /humming/ key

To a hymn /humming/ Misery

And bleed /humming/ war today

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

Everyone just looked at me complete silence, except for the faint 'deer neer' of an electric guitar and the 'du duh du duh' of the drums from the earphones. "What? My singing isn't that bad is it?" I asked.

"n- no … its just that is… well… very odd music" Frodo thought about what he was going to say carefully beforepronouncing each word.

"How does it do that!" Merry exclaimed. Even I don't know the answer to that.

"I want to listen to it." Pippin looked at me with those puppy-dog eyes. 'Awww how could I say no to that face.'

"Yeh sure" I handed him one of the earphones and offered the other to Sam but he refused. So I ended up giving both of them to Pippin, as he went through all the songs on the CD.

While I had all the attention, Aragorn just sat there smoking is pipe. I cringed at the thought of what smoking does to you and decided not to lecture him on how smoking is a bad habit.

"What else do you have in your… backpack" Merry asked while practically leaning over me to look in it.

"Ummm… lets see here… I have my wallet-" I started to name some of things I could see in the front pocket but was cut off straight away.

"What's that?" one of them asked.

"Its something that holds your money. You do know what money is don't you?" I inquired doubtfully.

"Yes I know what money is, but how can that hold all your coins. Its flat"

"I don't need coins. See! We use paper notes instead of coins" I held up a couple of 5-dollar notes. They shook their heads in disbelief, then pointed to the next item. This went on until we had gone through my bag and I had explained to them what each thing was.

I had a great idea of burning my math's textbook to use as a fire fuel! 'Sweet, sweet revenge... I want to see it burn. SEE! IT! BURN!' I couldn't help but snicker at this thought.

It was now 10:23pm and I was tired. Aragorn suggested that we go to sleep because we would be having an early start tomorrow.


It was getting a little cold so I rolled over to pull up my blanket, only to have my knuckles hit solid earth.

"What the?" I said in a drearily. "where am I?" I sat up in a rush to have all the memory of yesterday flood back along with a headache. I rubbed my forehead and stood up into the chilly air of the morning.

No one was awake except for Frodo and Sam. Frodo was sitting next to the fire, he seemed to be deep in thought so I didn't say anything to him. Sam on the other hand was cooking breakfast.

"Good morning Sam" I did my best to put on a cheerful smile even though I was still half asleep.

"Good morning to you as well miss Rissa," he said a he handed me a plate with what looked to be pancake type things. Even thoughI didn't know what it was, it tasted good.

"Where is Aragorn?"

"He's out scouting. Said he'd be back before the others woke."

"Oh… ok then" I shoved the last of my pancake thingy in my mouth just as Aragorn walked into the camp.

"Hungry?" I offered him a plate of pancakes but he refused.

"Wake the others… we better get moving before the day turns late." Frodo got up and gave Merry and Pippin a little kick. They reluctantly got up and glared at Frodo. But when they saw food all was forgiven.

After breakfast we packed up our little camp and got a move on through the early morning mist. The forest was so serene and peaceful it felt like I was in a dream.

The path we followed was barely a path at all, there were tree roots protruding from the ground, which made me trip if I wasn't careful. Sometimes there was a tree right in the middle of the so called path and the rest of the time you couldn't even see a path.

Aragorn knew where he was going, like he had been on this path times before on missions of his own. No one spoke through the whole morning except for an 'I'm hungry' or 'my feet are sore. Can we have a rest?'. The most we saw, was a fox and the occasional squirrel darting back up to its hiding spot.

We had walked for a good 6 hours before the forest started to thin out and become grassy plains with small hills with trees dotted along their ridges. We decided to camp here for the night, before entering the lowlands of Midgewater where it became unprotected from the elements and visible to spying eyes.


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