The Safeworld Network
Morgan gets acquainted with the results of her experiment…
Chapter 10: Gates and Galaxies
After about five minutes of running it occurred to Morgan that she didn't actually know where Dumbledore's office was. While she was pondering this, she spotted Professor McGonagall coming down the hall towards her. 'Great, go and get yourself caught,' she thought, and then realized that if anybody knew where to find the headmaster's office, it was the deputy headmistress. McGonagall was just about to reprimand her for breaking curfew, but Morgan cut her off by begging to see Professor Dumbledore.
She was brought to his office and greeted with a cheerful but serious "what seems to be the matter?" Morgan told him everything and, after considering her for a minute, he stood.
"Well, Miss Ylime," he said, "we mustn't keep our guests waiting. Come, lead the way."
Morgan led him back to the classroom. She could hear banging on the door and a strong, elderly voice saying, "Come now, Perigrin! I'm sure she locked the door with good reason."
Dumbledore gave her a strange look, opened the door, and was almost knocked over by Perigrin, who ran into him due to the removal of afore mentioned door. Dumbledore barely seemed to notice, as he was staring at the gray-haired gentleman seated at the end of the table.
"Gandalf?!"
"Dumbledore!?"
It turned out that Gandalf was a wizard from Middle Earth, and one of Dumbledore's oldest friends. Many years ago our Earth (the Wizarding part, anyways) and Middle Earth were closely connected by a series of gateways and portals, until about 14 years ago. Because Voldemort was growing more powerful by the day and Sauron (evil super-being in M.E.) was gathering forces for an attempt at world domination, The Ministry and the Wizard's Council of Middle Earth decided it wouldn't be pleasant if the two were to join forces, so they closed down the all of the gates except for the one between the Ministry and the House of Elrond, half-elfin.
After explaining this Gandalf introduced all his companions, then he and Dumbledore went into the supply room at the front of the class room to brood over how Morgan had done what she'd done, leaving her alone with the rest of the group who, for the second time that night, were all staring at her.
There were four hobbits, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin, one dwarf, Gimli, and one man, Aragorn, who was apparently the King of Gondor. There were also two elves, siblings apparently, a male, Legolas, and his younger sister, Emma. Morgan looked at them all and opened her mouth to break the awkward silence.
"Um, hi," she said, "um, my name is Morgan and I'm…"
"You're the one who did the freaky magic spell and landed us all here?" supplied Emma.
"Um, yeah…" answered Morgan. What else could she say?
A grin spread across Emma's face.
"Fantastic!"
From that moment, Morgan knew that they were going to be brilliant friends.
After talking to the group for awhile Morgan suddenly remembered about the second pencil. She turned to mention this to Dumbledore when, with another hiss and POP! two more figures appeared in the already crowded classroom. These men were dressed in flowing brown robes and each had a leather belt at their waist. Attached to these belts were a strange assortment of objects, and each was holding what appeared to be a sort of laser sword. They were standing back-to-back brandishing these weapons in what appeared to be full defensive-mode. They both looked around, confused, and then, sensing there was no imminent threat, deactivated their swords and (sigh What else?) stared at Morgan.
This time at least she was somewhat prepared, and with Dumbledore and Gandalf's help managed to explain to them what had happened and why they were here. They introduce themselves as Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Qui-Gon explained that they were Jedi from Coruscant, that he was a Jedi Knight and that Obi-Wan was his Padawan, or apprentice. Then Dumbledore remarked that all the guests must be tired, and told Morgan to go back to her dorm while he found lodgings for them all.
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Watch out for Ch 12, coming up soon!