A/N: I don't own Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings . Please review my stories, it makes me happy .
Previously: They would see their mortal loved ones die off long before them, and would not join them until long after.
There was a somewhat comfortable silence as everyone in the counsel processed the four's answer.
After a minute or so of silence, Elrond called the counsel to order, and the meeting finally began.
Chapter 8: The counsel
"Middle Earth is in a time of trouble. Even the Valar have deemed us in enough trouble to send help from other worlds." Elrond started to restate, figuring most of the counsel would have forgotten about the beginning of the meeting due to the wizards being unveiled. "We are gathered here today, with beings from every race, to figure out a way to save our world. Sauroman the white, who has apparently changed sides, had imprisoned Gandalf the grey, who was luckily able to escape. The one ring has been found after millennia of shrouding itself in the shadows. Frodo, bring the ring forth."
Frodo Baggins, one of the hobbits, slowly stood up at Elrond's command. Frodo approached the podium in the center of the circle and took a long chain around his neck off. Ron barely caught the gleam off of the gold ring hanging off of the silver chain. Frodo reluctantly placed the ring on the podium and quickly backed away before he grabbed it back again.
"That is the one ring, created by Sauron, two millennia ago. We must destroy it." Elrond said solemnly. "The question is," he continued, "is how we shall accomplish such a feat." At this, there was immediate uproar. The dwarves were screaming at the elves, declaring that they will never trust the ring with them. The elves were screaming back at the dwarves while the humans were arguing amongst themselves. It was complete chaos. Finally, after two minutes of pandemonium, Harry stood up.
"SILENCE!" he yelled, getting everyone's attention. "Thank you. Now, you are all acting like children! We must see this ring destroyed, or it will destroy us. It is corrupting everyone in this room as we speak. I can feel it try to get me to cause chaos, to postpone this journey. We must not fall into Sauron's trap! We are all adults, we will sit like civilized beings and figure out a practical solution which does not include taking the ring for his race's own gain!" After Harry finished his tirade he sat back down quietly, looking at the counsel's indignant faces.
It did not take long for the counsel to regain their footing. It seemed like they were getting used to the hogwartians random outbursts. It was one of the humans who was the next one to talk though. The four of them thought his name was something with a B, Boring or Boomerang or something like that.
"You speak folly" Boring said, yelling at Harry. "We must use the ring in order to win this war! Why shouldn't we use its power for ourselves?"
"Oh, I see how it going to go." Harry replied before any of the others could speak. "Look, I get that you fear for your people, and want to do what is best for them. But you must understand that that ring contains part of Sauron's soul in it. It will not bend to mere humans, or dwarves, or elves will. It will respond to, and only to Sauron himself. It must be destroyed."
"Oh-ho, and you think that we are going to let some elf-wizards take the ring? In your dreams, sonny-boy!" one of the dwarves yelled.
"Listen dwarf," Ron started, standing to defend Harry, "we will be going on this journey, as that is why we have been sent here. So, if you all will get it into your thick skulls that the four of us will be going with the rest of the volunteers, we can actually get along with the meeting and figure out who else will be going with us!"
After Ron's sudden exclamation, the counsel managed to calm down a bit and get some things done. There was organized chaos, as each faction of Middle Earth neither wanted to take the ring, or let a different faction to take it. This resulted in more screaming and yelling and pandemonium. Amongst this chaos, Frodo stood up.
"I will take the ring!" He shouted, getting the counsel's attention. "I will take the ring to Mordor!" At this, the whole counsel fell silent, starring at the brave yet small hobbit. "Though," he continued, starring right back at them, "I do not know the way."
"We will be honored to help you on your journey, Frodo Baggins." Luna declared immediately, stating her group's loyalty to Frodo. No one dared contest her declaration. Instead Strider, who turned out to be named Aragorn and the heir to the throne of Gondor joined the company. Shortly after, Blondie, Boring and Dwarf joined along with Gandalf. The group learned that Boring and Dwarf's real names were actually Boromir and Gimli. Elrond was about to close the meeting when three hobbits ran out to join their friend. Sam, Merry and Pippin had been eavesdropping on the counsel, and refused to leave their cousin/friend to a fate unknown. The thirteen of them were declared "The Fellowship of the Ring."
A/N: underline means English! Also, don't kill me for the following convo…
"Wow, could you get any more corny? What kind of name is "The Fellowship of the Ring?" Ron asked, scoffing at the title bestowed upon their group.
"I know, really. It sounds like the title of a book"
"You would know, wouldn't you Hermione?" Harry jested, poking fun at his wife. "But Stripes and Sly are right, we have to rename our group, maybe we should marauderfy it."
"Oh I know!" Luna exclaimed gleefully, practically jumping. "We should call ourselves The Adrenaline Junkies! Wouldn't that be fun?" Luna said in a rush, to excited to speak slowly. The group chuckled at her enthusiasm.
"Maybe we can call each other that, Luna, but I don't think the hobbits are adrenaline junkies. We need something that can apply to all of us." Harry said, truly disappointed. He quite enjoyed the title 'Adrenaline Junkies', and considering everything the four had done, they could truly call themselves that.
"How about 'The Anti-Sauron Society', or A.S.S.?" Hermione said, being completely serious. The group burst out laughing, catching the rest of the Anti-Sauron Society's attention.
"What causes you to laugh in the face of such a daunting challenge?" Blondie (Legolas) asked, sounding slightly annoyed at the laughter.
"Oh, nothing, we just thought that the 'Fellowship of the Ring' sounded so formal and decided to change the name." Luna stated, matter-of-factly. "The nargles have declared that we shall be known as A.S.S., or the Anti-Sauron Society." The fellowship remained silent for roughly 3 seconds before bursting out into laughter. Luna seemed oblivious to this fact.
"Oh, I like you, you're funny." Pippin stated, poking Luna in her side, causing her to giggle. Pippin shared an unreadable glance with Merry before both young men pounced on Luna and began tickling her. Luna quickly fell to the floor in laughter, quickly surrendering. After the two heard Luna's surrender, they climbed off of her, and helped her off of the floor. As soon as Luna was standing again, she lightly slapped both boys.
"I could've killed you both!" She said, completely serious. "And what exactly, was that attack for?" The other three Adrenaline Junkies nodded to this question. They were still standing tensely behind Luna, ready to defend her if needed. Ron looked especially murderous.
"S-s-sorry" Merry stuttered, quivering under the combined glares of the AJs. "We just thought it would break the tension, provide a couple laughs."
"You might want to know," Hermione said, "that if you prank us again, it will be met with severe retaliation." Hermione glared at Merry and Pippin, causing them to shift around guiltily. Barely thirty seconds into Hermione's glare, Luna burst out laughing once again, causing Merry and Pippin to look at her in confusion.
"You guys should see your faces!" Luna screamed, pointing at the duo. "I knew what you were planning since you poked me, we all did."
"H-how?" Pippin managed to stutter, shocked and confused, not understanding the drastic change in attitudes.
"Please," Hermione started, "Ron's older brothers were twin pranksters, you had to be quick in order to escape them, and you two have nothing on what the Weasley Twins were, they were practically trademarked, the two of them were." Hermione said nostalgically.
"Right then," Merry said, "we'll just have to plan better than, for we will be getting you."
Everyone burst out laughing, and the 13 members of A.S.S. walked throughout Rivendell together to get to know each other better, and started to get ready for their journey.
A/N: REVIEW! I appreciate the commentary, the next couple of chapters will be coming along…might take longer than usual though, cause the real journey begins! Merry and Pippin are not going to be Fred and George re-incarnated (unless I get many reviews telling me to do so), but they will be the pranksters of the group…all the hobbits will be.
