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Chapter 2

After walking some more we came across the aircraft that the Al Bhed had made for us. So we boarded it. We flew across the sea in it. But as soon as we were in eyesight of Middle Earth a great and vast cloud city sucked us into it. We got out of the aircraft and looked around. The city was vast and beautiful. At one point we reached the main palace and took a tour. When we were in the center room, we noticed that the stairs leading to the next floor were wet. And then, all of a sudden, we heard a great booming voice. It said, "Welcome to my palace". We all looked up to see someone we didn't know. He had blue hair that stuck out at odd angles. The clothes that he wore were hard to describe. He continued to speak, "You are my guests, please make yourselves at home." So we continued to look around and Balin (Brenna) found a room and started to search it. She found a diary saying that who ever it belonged to was searching for the Ringplant, and was going to use it to take over all of the worlds.

When Balin told us what she had found, Earendil (Alicia) said, " a shadow threat has been growing in my mind". We all looked at her and she said, "What? I was quoting a movie!". Then Elbereth (Elizabeth) said, "A shadow of threat has really been growing in my mind." We all looked at her, but she didn't seem to mind. I said that we have to get out of here. Everyone agreed, but no one knew how to get out, since we had gotten turned around while exploring the palace. "I have a plan", said Elbereth but as soon as she said that, the odd looking man returned. He said, "No one is leaving my palace!", then the man laughed and evil laugh, "I am Lord Maester Seymour and I've come for my Ringplant!" He then locked all the doors with a wave of his hand. Then Balin tried to wave her hand to open all the doors, but since she was only in wizard training school, it didn't work. Then Elbereth told Earendil her plan. But while they were speaking, Seymour put a spell on the room, and it started to fill up with water, which was pouring out of a huge glass stairway/spout thing.

Everyone started to panic, and head for the spout/stairway, but Elbereth and Earendil remained calm. Then Elbereth told us that we shouldn't climb up the spout/stairway because we would drown. Then Earendil and Elbereth led us to a secret passage way they had noticed in a corner. Then, mysteriously, as we began to run, #13 on the soundtrack to LOTR began to play. After going up a winding two-story stair case we reached the safe house room, which Elbereth had mysteriously known about. Apparently the "shadow" that had been growing in her mind had told her about it.

This room seemed like it would not be reached by the water, so we were safe there. The floor was covered by a brownish-gold carpeting, and the walls were covered with gold paint. There was one bed, a lamp on a night stand, and on the bed there lay a quilt checkered with gold and brown. And was embroyded with gold moons and stars, and yellow hearts. Because the stairs were flooded, we had to stay the night. I slept in the bed, while everyone else slept on the floor, and took turns keeping a watch. At around 2 in the morning, Earendil started randomly singing the Hobbit song. We all told her to stop, not only because we needed to restore our energy, but also because that is one of the most annoying songs ever written. But she wouldn't stop. As she continued to sing, she searched through the night stand until she found a pad of paper and a pen and quickly wrote something down. She handed the pad of paper to me and I read "I can't stop, Seymour must have put a spell on me". No sooner had I finished reading it, did I start randomly singing Brittany Spears's "I'm a slave for you". And then Elbereth started to sing "Mary had a little lamb",  Balin began to sing " 99 bottles of root beer on the wall" and Rose (Alex) and Primrose (Kathryn) began sing "no matter what I do" by Nelly and Kelly from Destiny's Child. Luckily, Balin, for once in her life, knew a counter curse. She quickly cast the spell "Lament for Gandalf". It worked and we all stopped singing. "I finally did something right! Now I am an official wizard!"

Then I noticed that after she had cast the spell a closet had appeared. It was locked, but I had seen Harry Potter, so I tried the spell "Alohamora". It worked and we entered. Once we had made our way through the jungle of coats, dresses, and pants, and we reached the other side, we saw a door. We went through and found ourselves not only outside of the palace, but standing shores of Middle Earth. Luckily, at one point in time, Elbereth, Earendil, and myself had put on Earmuffs and Sunglasses, so we did not see the ocean, or hear the seagulls, and weren't drawn to it.