Holy crap I can't believe I'm updating this. The only reason I'm doing this is because when I was checking my old e-mail I saw that someone put this story on their alert list, so I felt as if I had to.

BUT I WANT SOME REVIEWS!!! They make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. Enjoy the story.

Disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING!!!!!!! I HAVE PROOF: Holds out empty hands: see?

What our adventurers stepped out into was not the sunny land of Gondor, but a murky, dark, foreign world. Gandalf looked up to the grey sky, he squinted and his old eyes crinkled, giving him a look of wisdom.

"Hmmm," he mumbled, running his hand down his long, white beard.

"Gandalf?" said Legolas, snapping Gandalf out of his trance-like state. "What has happened?" He hitched Pippin up as he started sliding down. Pippin and Merry both pointed drunkenly to the ground beneath them.

"Lookit! A black river! We're walking hiccup on water!" they said in unison. Gimli stomped on the hard ground then leaned down, wiped a short, dirty finger against the blackness and put it in his mouth.

"This is no river!" he grunted and spitted. "It tastes like stone, but this is no stone I have ever seen." (Our wayward adventurers would soon find out that this unknown, black, river-like stone is what we know as asphalt).

"Look, Daddy, look! Clowns!" Gandalf, Legolas, and Gimli looked to the right at a small little girl in a pink dress. Pippin and Merry tore away from them and started spinning around in circles. "Look at their funny clothes!" Gimli grunted.

"Funny clothes?! I'd like to see her fight off a band of Orcs in those garments!" Gandalf chuckled and waved to the child, who waved back just before her father pulled her along, whispering something to her that sounded like 'Don't make fun of them, Natalie, they're poor and homeless.'

They wandered on, everyone they passed stared at them, whispering and giggling after they were gone. The two hobbits had stopped numerous times to make funny faces in the tinted windows of the stores and tall buildings (most of which Gimli pointed at and criticized for 'being too 'damn fancy for their own good'). Gandalf's eyes were scanning over this new-found land. Sometimes he would mumble something or go 'hmm' but nothing more. Finally they stopped when they reached a wooded area: Central Park.

"Finally!" Gimli exclaimed. Legolas let go of Pippin and Merry so they could roam and he ran off into the trees. Gimli looked over at Gandalf, who was examining a sign on the gate. "What're you doing, old man?" Gandalf made no response, instead he waved his hand over the sign, it glistened and the letters bended and twisted to form new symbols.

"Central park." He muttered. At that moment Legolas came back.

"The only things here are humans and dogs, no other animals." He reported

"What a pretty doggie," said Merry hugging a German Shepherd, who looked utterly annoyed. Legolas pulled at Merry's waist, but he held fast the dog's neck.

"Nothing is worse than two drunken Hobbits." Sighed Legolas, Pippin perked up his head.

"What about my uncle Bobbit?!" he had an uncle Bobbit?

"Nothing, go back to sleep P―" Thud went the little Hobbit's head as it hit the grass.

Our adventurers sat down upon a bench, Gandalf continued to scan the park, Gimli was cursing under his breath, and Legolas was looking to make sure the two little Hobbits didn't hurt themselves.

"This place seems so familiar to me." Legolas said quietly.

"Stupid good-for-nothing Elf; was this your 'vision'?" Gimli asked sarcastically, he jumped when Legolas answered.

"Yes! This is it! Gandalf! This is what I saw!" Gandalf nodded slowly.

"Good, good, very good." He grasped Legolas's shoulder a shook it slightly. "Now, if we could only see the trouble and doom that you saw." Legolas nodded once in agreement.

"The Hobbits have passed out, should we leave them?" Gimli asked.

"We must find a place to put them." Gandalf replied.

"Where? From the reactions that we have been getting I doubt that anyone in this―place―would take us in." Legolas stood and picked up both Hobbits and threw them over his shoulders, they didn't stir.

"You freaks need a place to stay?" the threesome looked up to see a girl with dark brown hair streaked with blue standing in front of them, hands on her hips, smirking.

"Freaks?" Legolas asked in confusion, the girl laughed.

"Yeah, freaks. How could you be anything else in those getups?" she motioned up and down to indicate their clothes.

"Why must they all criticize our clothes?" whispered Gimli to Gandalf, who laughed silently.

"Yes, we do need a place to rest, do you know of any inns close by?" the girl laughed.

"I'm guessing by inn you mean motel, and yeah, there's tons, but they cost money, got any?" Gimli untied a small brown bag from his belt and emptied it into his brown palm. The girl looked and them with a confused expression.

"That's not money, it just silver coins with weird symbols on it." Gimli grunted.

"This is money! And quite a lot." The girl shook her head.

"That's not money, dude." She reached into a large black bag covered with chains and pulled out a purple square; she opened it and took out sheets of green paper and coins covered in faces of odd looking men. "This is money." Legolas took it from her and scrutinized it.

"This is but green paper and coins. Who are these men? And these symbols?"

"Those men are old presidents, I'm not going to explain them, and those 'symbols' are numbers and words."

Gimli scratched his nose. "Stupid humans." The girl took the money back from the elf and put it back in her bag.

"You guys can stay with me, but in my basement, my mom would freak if she saw you." Gandalf smiled.

"Thank you, young lady, you kindness if greatly appreciated."

"No problem. Oh, by the way, I'm Samantha, Sam for short. What about you?" she asked.

"Gandalf."

"Gimli."

"Legolas."

"And those two," Gimli gestured to the sleeping hobbits, "Are Pippin and Merry." Merry hiccupped.

"Holy crap! They're wasted?" Sam laughed. Gimli cocked his brow. "Uh…drunk?"

"Quite." Said Gandalf.

"Nice." She started walking towards the gate and waved them to her. "Come on, my house is this way." And with that, the Elf, wizard, Dwarf and two drunken hobbits made their way to their temporary home.

A/N: YAY! A chapter! Please excuse any OOCness, I haven't read the books or seen the movies in a year. Maybe I should watch the movies…. Maybe this weekend. So, please enjoy and review so I can feel happy and loved.