~What now?~

***Disclaimer: I don't own Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, or some of the other characters that you might reconize. (But I am going to kidnap Legolas so he will be MINE!)

Chapter 3: More caves

"A veela" replied Stepanie after some thought. The 'Hogwarts' group (including Dumbledore) gave her an interesting look. Minda shrugged and shape-shifted into a veela.

"So you can change into different creatures at will." said Aragorn with an amused tone and look.

"We also can use thier ablities." said Stephanie witha slight nod of her head toward Minda, the only males in any of the group where the 'fellowship' ones that didn't cover thier ears. The 'fellowship' just looked except for Gandolf who followed the others lead as soon as he could. It was too late for the others because Minda-vella started to sing.

The hobbits where tring to dance, Gimli was tring to chop down a stilagemite with his ax. Aragorn and Boromir started to swordfight, while Legolas decided that he would climb one of the walls toward a ledge.

With a few choice signals, Stephanie told the females to make sure the rest of the 'fellowship' didn't hurt themselves while she would go and do the same with Legolas. She flew up to meet him a the ledge as Minda stopped singing. With the massivness of the cavern it was several minutes before the echos would stop and it would be safe.

By this time Legolas was at the ridge and was about to try to jump the distance between the walls. Stephanie grabbed the back of his tunic and kept him from being able to do that. Then he snapped out of his trance and they both fell backwards into a small opening that was behind them.

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Once Legolas had gotten over the sudden urge to jump from one wall to another, he found himself being pulled from behind, tripped and fell into an opening in the wall.

When he landed he looked back at the opening that he had just fallen from, it didn't look more then a dot in the distance. He wondered why he didn't feel any pain from the fall, then again the ground was soft, unusually soft.

"Are you going to get off of me any time soon?" asked a voice near the ground. He quickly got up and saw Stephanie on the ground lightly drumming her fingers on the ground, so lightly that he couldn't hear it. She had a slightly amused look on her face, so he asumed that she wasn't mad at him.

He offered her a hand up and she accepted, he noticed that she might not have been able to do so with out it. 'Perhaps that fall had more of an affect on her then myself' She didn't show of a sign of injury as she looked around the caveren that they where in. It was so vast that he couldn't see any of the walls in any direction except for behind him.

"Well, I don't think we are about to go back the way we came, and I really don't fell like following a marble, so..." Legoals felt a tap on his head and was about to turn around when everything lit up, like he was outside.

"What did you do?" He asked when he faced her.

"I just gave you the ablity to see in the dark, with or without light present." she explained, "I figure things will go alot smother and faster this way. Just don't tell anyone that I did that, one reason I made it temperary."

"How long will it last?"

"For as long as I want it to." she said as she walked toward a tunnel on the opposite side of the cavern. Legolas became curious about this, he wanted to know about these people and thire world. He followed her know ing this was probally the safest way to get back to the others. Besides he could ask could ask more questions this way then he could with everyone around.

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Once they recovered from the Veela the 'fellowship' blasted everyone with questions.

"WHAT HAPPENED?"

"Why didn't you warn us?"

"Can you do that again?"

"NO!" "Please, no!"

"Where's Legolas?" asked Merry as he looked around the cavern for his elvish friend. Everyone looked up at the ledge that he had last been seen, Eleanor flew up to the ledge. She looked through the opening just in time to see Legolas disappear into the tunnel, she knew that he was following Stephanie so she wasn't worried.

"Thier fine! They are just going to have to take the long way to get back to us!" she yelled down to the group below.

"Shouldn't we go after them?" asked Aragorn when she came back down to ground level.

"We could do one of a few things, and none of them have anything to do wtih going after them." Victor had started to say something else when Boromir interupted.

"Why aren't we going after them, aren't you worried that something could happen to them?" the 'snowboarders' and 'skiers' either gave him an amused look a knowing look or or a slight smirk, while the 'sleders' just fell over with laughter.

"What do you find so amusing?" asked Gandalf calmly before anyone else would beable to say anything rash. Tracey looked at them with an understanding look, but her eyes laughed at them.

"Don't worry about your elvish friend, he will be fine as long as Stephanie makes sure he stays out of trouble." she said calmly, then she layed back down and looked at the celing, "So what where the choices, Victor?"

"We could stay here until they get back, or just go to the castle and wait for them here. Either way we shouldn't go too much farther into the caves."

"Let us stay here for a little while and wait. We can find out more about this world, including the dangers, as we wait. Fair enough?" said Dumbledore, and everyone nodded in agreement.

(A/N: I don't feel like putting a whole bunch of questions and answers, so I will just put a few things about this world and if you want to more about it just ask an I will add it later in the story.)

The world that they are in doesn't have a name, if it does none of them know of it. Time is different here, for every year here, around 1000 years passes on Earth. They tend to go by Earth years in a sense, but at first they use thier own years til they turn a certain age. The 'sleders, skiers and snowboarders' are not humans, but what they are I may not say til a few chapters away. There are two differnt kinds of shape-shifting, one is just shape-shifting able to turn in to anything and anyone, the other is form-shifting this is when you take the form of something and you would look like what you would have if you where born (I know this one is confusing at times, I am not that good at explaining things). They also can give abilities to others, they can do the same thing as the 'Hogwarts' group but they don't need to say anything they just have to think it. They also can use telepathy, read-minds, and controle people. They are not sure why the 'Hogwarts' and 'fellowship' came but it happens all the time, sometimes for a reason, sometimes it just happens. When ever it happens the 'guests' tend to go back to thier time and world at the moment that they left, it either happens randomly or they get help getting back. Most of the time they don't remember what happened, or the memory is altered, or they remember all of it, but that happens rarly. (A/N: I think that is enough for now)

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Well that's good enough for now, I should have some up as soon as I can, it took so long because I have had alot of things going on, but I will type up the next chappie as soon as I can.

Elven ice angel: Well I hope that explained what is going on, I know I took a while with the 'snowboarder and friends' but they needed to be explained, besides it will come in handy to beable to say who is saying something when one of them talks and not just say "a 'skier' said this". Well they are not in thier own worlds I said in the frist one that they where no longer on the mountains near Moria, and they did appear intensionally but it doesn't always happen like that. You will see what I mean within the next few chapters.