Rivendell was peaceful, quiet, and downright boring- at least to the girls. They had had to wait until the next day to depart, but they had only fallen asleep and woken up before it was time to leave. This was fortunate, because Rivendell did not have to experience the randomness they do when bored. As the others in the fellowship said good-byes and re-checked provisions (packed so they wouldn't rely on the girls constantly) the girls sat around bored and completely ready. Most of them were playing on their newly acquired IPods, while Amanda and Alyssa were playing on laptops they had got and Abbi was vaguely listening in to what the others were saying.

"I still think they shouldn't come." Boromir said with a glance at the girls. Aragorn, Elrond and Gandalf were next to him.

"I would agree with you were the circumstances not what they are." Elrond stated. "The valar only intervenes when absolutely necessary. They would not have been sent at that moment if they were not destined to join you." Gandalf nodded in agreement.

At this Abbi zoned out. They had to be right- they must have appeared at that moment to come on the quest. But Abbi started to wonder: why were they here?

As Abbi pondered her pondering question, the fellowship finished their final preparations. The girls put away their gadgets and stood up, ready to go. They started their journey fairly like the plot should go (except that the six girls were there) until they were a little bit out of Rivendell.

"I'm BORED!" shealyn said with a groan, breaking the strange silence (it was a miracle the girls hadn't broken it yet). Amanda rolled her eyes at her.

"Why don't you take out your Ipod?" Abbi suggested.

"Oh yeah!" shealyn exclaimed. With this, she whipped out her pink covered Ipod. "I'm going to read fanfiction."

"Don't you need internet for that?" Rachael asked.

"Yeah, but Wifi here is amazing!" Shealyn answered.

"It's like super-ultra fast." Amanda agreed.

"Oh, I hadn't noticed." Rachael said with a shrug. "I've just been playing on my downloaded apps." At this point, most of the fellowship was so confused that they had silently decided to ignore this conversation. Pippin, however, did not get the silent memo.

"What's an app?" Pippin asked. Abbi shot him a friendly smile.

"An app is either a game or a device to help you with something." She attempted to explain. Pippin nodded, but he still looked confused.

"So I'm bored." Amanda stated. She couldn't exactly play on her laptop and walk, and she hated the small screen on IPods. "Emma!" she said, turning to her friend. She held out her hands for the starting positions of 'say-say-oh-playmate'. Emma shook her head no. "pleeeease?"

"Amanda, it's too hard to do it walking." Emma replied. Amanda groaned in response.

"Fine." Amanda glared at her and stuck out her tongue.

"Amanda, you are like such a little child!" Emma laughed. "You are this little ball of energy that could just go forever playing 'say-say-oh-playmate'."

"I'm not a child on the outside." Amanda joked. "I'm already 17." Boromir turned back towards them, eyebrows raised.

"Milady," he said, addressing Amanda (who giggled at the fact that she was nothing like a lady), "what did you say you're age was?" Amanda looked at him.

"17." She repeated. His eyebrows went up even further.

"And I'm 18." Emma stated from next to her.

"17." Rachael called from her place next to shealyn but every so often drifting closer to legolas (as was shealyn).

"I'M 17!" shealyn hollered as well.

"I'm 17." Alyssa called up from her place near the back next to Frodo. Frodo glanced towards her as she spoke.

"And I'm only 16." Abbi finished up as she stood next to Amanda. Boromir looked shocked at how young they all were (well, young to him). Amanda was just grateful that they couldn't send them back to Rivendell. Having nothing else to do, all six girls whipped out IPods (to the relief of the very confused fellowship) and spent the rest of the day playing on IPods.

- A while later Shealyn decided to take the opportunity to blare Taylor Swift songs loudly from Emma's MP3 player, which she may or may not have rightfully stolen. As 'love story' came on, Shealyn got bored and (finally) turned it off. Everyone was extremely grateful.

"Let us make camp here," Gandalf stated, for it was now dusk and quickly turning to night. Aragorn and Boromir began to collect firewood as the others unloaded packs and set up sleeping areas. Pretty soon, a fire was started and they were all sitting around it eating dinner. While the fellowship stuck to their previously packed dried fruits and meats, the girls mainly munched on McDonalds and Wendy's Frostys. Pippin (always the curious one) inched closer to Amanda, the girl closest to him.

"What is that?" Pippin pointed to the frosty. She smiled before pulling out a second large chocolate frosty.

"Try it." she commanded as she handed him his frosty. Pippin gave her a look of surprise before taking a hesitant sip. His entire face lit up with joy. All the girls laughed at his expression.

"It's soo good!" he said once he finally stopped drinking it because he had finished it. "It's sweet and cold and wakes you up yet calms you down and wow!" he tried to describe it but couldn't find the right words. Amanda laughed, remembering how she had reacted the same way for her first frosty. The others in the fellowship seemed interested in their drinks now.

As Amanda offered Pippin a second one (which he accepted immediately) the other hobbits got a little closer to the girls as well. The other members were intrigued, but didn't want to seem greedy. Frodo and Merry cautiously scooted towards Shealyn, Emma and Alyssa. They knew how random they could be, and Frodo was still a little freaked out about them from their first impression. Still, they both kind of liked the randomness (it was rather silly) and they REALLY wanted to try those strange treats.

Alyssa noticed them at the same moment Emma and Shealyn did. Emma was tempted to hold one above their heads and tell them to reach for it, but that seemed too cruel and she wanted them to like her. To prevent herself from this, she pretended not to see them. Alyssa and Shealyn, however, both turned towards them.

"Hi there!" Shealyn said, scooting close to Frodo. Frodo looked a little uncomfortable at this (especially because she was intently staring at his gorgeous eyes) "you're legs must be tired, because you've been running through my mind all day." She flirted with him before handing him a chocolate Frosty as well. The other girls rolled their eyes at her cheesy pick-up line (though the author personally thinks it's cute). Frodo didn't get it however, so he sat trying to figure it out whilst he sipped the drink that was exactly as pippin described and shealyn let out happy sighs next to him.

As shealyn was flirting, Alyssa inched near Merry because Shealyn would have hit her if she went anywhere near her Frodo. Not knowing the story, she had no idea what his name was.

"Hi." She started off a little shyly. "I'm Alyssa." She did a small smile, hoping he would get the hint and say his name. Merry shot her one back.

"I'm Merry." He said. Alyssa's eyebrows went up a tiny bit, believing this to be a girls' name. Still, her smile widened when he got the hint. Instead of holding out her hand, she held out a Vanilla frosty.

"Want one?" she asked. Merry nodded and took the Frosty. The two happily stopped talking and just sipped their drinks.

Sam sat a little bit away from Abbi, who was sipping on hers. When she saw his interested look, she gave him a small smile as he blushed a little. She pulled out a second chocolate and vanilla swirl frosty (her favorite) and offered it to him. He glanced at her for a moment, before taking his sip. He managed to take a sip of both flavors and tasted an amazing combination of refreshing (vanilla) and calming (chocolate) cool goodness. He was about a quarter of the way done before he remembered his manners (though Abbi didn't mind.)

"This is amazing!" he said in his adorable accent. "Thank you, Lady Abbi." At this, Abbi looked shocked. "Is something wrong?" he asked, frowning.

"Not at all!" Abbi exclaimed, smiling at him. "I just didn't think you knew my name. And you're very welcome." Sam smiled back at her before they both focused on sipping their treats.

Legolas wasn't personally interested in the drinks (much). He was enjoying watching the reactions occur. He was used to being the one on the outside watching. Naturally, he was surprised when Rachael shyly approached him and kneeled down across from him.

"Hi there." She stammered. "Um, so… I was wondering if you might want to try one. Not that you have to, I just didn't want to leave you out." Legolas saw that she was blushing. He found it cute. He smiled at her.

"I would try one if it were so graciously offered to me." He stated. Rachael gave a sigh of relief. Legolas hadn't really done much yet, and she had hoped that he wouldn't reject her or be super mean or something. She gave him a large, relieved smile before pulling out a Vanilla Frosty. Legolas enjoyed it- he found it refreshing and calming. "Thank you, fair maiden." She smiled again.

As he was sipping, she seemed to completely get over her shyness and began to pet his head. He gave her a questioning look.

"Why are you petting me?" He asked, very confused. She smiled at him.

"I do it with my friends to show we think they are good in general." She stated. "Do you want me to stop?"

"You may continue if you wish." Legolas said, enjoying her childish ways. So Rachael continued to pet his ultra-soft hair.

"Oy!" Emma called to Aragorn, Gimli, Boromir and Gandalf. They turned towards her. "Any of you want a Frosty?" Gandalf, Boromir and Aragorn shook their heads (them being all noble and stuff) but Gimli nodded. Emma tossed him one before proceeding to chuck one towards Boromir. Only his fast reflexes kept him from getting a Frosty to the face. Gimli enjoyed his while Boromir turned towards Emma.

"Fair Maiden," Boromir called to her, irritation plain in his voice, "I did not ask for this." Emma just shrugged.

"Too bad!" she stated. "You aren't as noble as Aragorn or Gandalf, so you don't get out of it." Boromir looked very annoyed at this. However, when no one was looking he did take a taste, and found that he liked it enough to polish it off.

Soon after, all of them had finished off their Frostys and Pippin had recovered from a massive brain freeze he gained halfway through his second. They were all hyper from their sugar, and knew they couldn't fall asleep yet.

"So let's hear a song!" Amanda stated, and a few nodded their heads in agreement. Normally Amanda would have suggested 'Lord of the Rings in 99 seconds', but they hadn't explained the whole 'your entire world is a book' thing, and it seemed like too loud a song for the quiet night moment. "Any volunteers?" Legolas, in answer, softly began some sweet song in elvish that the girls didn't understand, but had a feeling of love and sadness to it.

When he finished, everything was silent. Amanda had loved the song. It made her think of loved ones long gone. It reminded her of her little sister Annie, who was 5 years old. She wondered how Annie was taking the loss. She imagined her parents answering her little questions of "when's Amanda getting home?" or "Where's Abbi?" Amanda's heart nearly broke at the thought.

"Alrighty then." Emma said, breaking the silence. "Let's all go to bed now." They all slowly went to their sleeping areas, the sad song strangely calming them to sleep. Amanda focused her thoughts on believing that this must be some sort of dream. She didn't believe herself, but she somehow felt that Annie would be alright… somehow…

Readers: THANK YOU ALL FOR REVIEWING! If you don't know the song, I suggest you listen to it on you tube because it is a good song. So now messages to reviewers: first, MyPatronusIsAPikachu9 thank you for urging me on with your caps-locky-ness. Second, daddys number 1 girl thank you for saying it's amazing! (I agree ) AaylaKitofNiflheim (not sure if spelled right) thank you for your long review! I welcome criticism to make it better. I hope I explained most of those answers in this chapter, and I really enjoyed Frodo's reaction as well. It was one of the most fun parts to write. Nyla Evergale I'm so glad you found a part in my story where it always makes you laugh! I love those parts in stories and am so happy for you! And lastly but certainly not least, my quickly-becoming favorite reviewer leafblossom! (thought I forgot about you, didn't you?) first, I'm glad to know people like the shout-outs. Second, I'm glad that you like that I keep the language appropriate. I've read many a fanfic where it was perfect until the author ruined it with pointless swearing. Yes, I know the plot is a little slow, but that's because I want to fit a lot in and there are points ahead that I still need to decide what to do then before I get to that part of the plot. Fourth, I don't mind long reviews at all! They give a lot of input and are usually helpful. I will be keeping an eye out for your account in a little bit and I am so glad I inspired you to do so! Also, I love how you were so desperate for more that you did another review. I haven't had much time the last couple days due to busy scheduling and my friend Rachael (like in the story, yes) was threatening to kill me if I didn't update. She wouldn't really, but she was furious with me and that's why I'm making sure to at least work on the chapters every day (even if I don't update them). So that's the end of the shout-outs, and the rest of you remember to PLEASE REVIEW!