Authors's Note

Um, I've been busy lately with life and school and family and stuff. What can I say? I'm having Writer's Block and it's killing me from my brain to my toes. Ugh :(

Amrita

Sorry about the gay thing but coming from the co-author (who does not want to be mentioned) thought it was funny. Like I said I'm having a hard time writing and I think I'll change it later. Eh, I'll get it done... eventually

Chapter 9. Mega Magic Marble

*Sophie's POV*

My mom works at an old retail store as her part-time job and it's pretty creepy. There are hundreds of knickknacks everywhere; once I found a jar of eyeballs labeled goat. The lady who owns the store, Mrs. Ferrel, says goat eyeballs are for good luck.

Creepy, right?

Mom hasn't figured out that I hate that store and dragged me in there because she forgot her jacket or something. I tried to stay in the car but she said that there were the beasts (cough, orcs, cough) running around. So I ended up in the store.

"Hello, deary," Mrs. Ferrel greeted me. "I haven't seen you in months." This creepy gleam got in her eyes. "I've been hearing that you had been causing trouble, yes?"

"No," I lied. "I'm just gonna…"

I turned around and headed towards the back of the store. It was dim back here because only candles lit the place up. There were bottles that smelled funny, dusty books, cobwebs, and stuff covered with rags back here. It's not very inviting. I was going to turn back when something heavy and hard hit my foot.

"Ow!" I hissed.

I kneeled down and took the rag off the thing I stubbed my toe on. Dust went everywhere and I coughed. Once the dust cleared I grabbed it and brought it by a table. It was a giant, weird, and mysterious-looking marble-looking thing.

Mysterious happens to be my middle name. Not really. I wish it was though…

"Sophie!" Mom called.

I shoved the giant ball in my giant purse and headed back to the front. "What?" I asked.

"Time to go," she said.

We walked back to the car and got in it. Mom turned up the radio and it started to play a Beethoven song. Let's just say my mother was born in the wrong era

"Can we stop by Kitty's?" I asked.

"You're grounded, remember?" Mom reminded me.

"I have her necklace in my bag." I lied.

Mom sighed. "Fine, but be quick and that doesn't mean a ten minute conversation."

"Fine," I muttered.

It took about fifteen minutes before we pulled up to the Walter house. I got out of the car and slid the special key into the gate security thing. It opened and I walked to the house. I knocked on the door and it cracked open.

"Hullo, Sophie," Sam greeted.

"Hi, I have to talk to Gandalf and Kitty." I replied.

He opened the door and I ran upstairs into the hang-out room. I walked in and saw Moon talking to Boromir, the hobbits eating popcorn, Aragorn and Legolas reading and Kitty and Gandalf talking.

"I thought you were grounded." I said to Moon.

"I'm ungrounded." She replied. "What are you doing here?"

"I found something," I answered.

"What is it?" Kitty asked.

I went over to them when I saw the cover of what Legolas and Aragorn were reading. Only three words could explain what I thought.

"What the heck?" I cried. "Why are Legolas and Aragorn reading the Twilights?"

Moon chuckled. "Kitty said that men couldn't comprehend the weirdness of the Twihards so Legolas and Aragorn are trying to prove her wrong."

"Don't ask," Kitty added.

"How come she would go and be courted by this boy, Jacob, when she says her 'true love', Edward, is gone?" Aragorn asked. "Does Bella have no loyalty to her beloved?"

Legolas shook his head furiously, turning a page. "No, my friend. I am one book ahead of you and Edward does come back. That Jacob is just a nuisance to them. They have a pure love for each other, even if Edward is a vampire."

Aragorn's eyes widened and he looked at Legolas. "Do you think that Edward will turn her into one? If he does not then when she passes they will no longer be together."

Um, does anyone else get reminded of him and Arwen? Except she can't turn him into an elf but she can turn into a mortal… And if she doesn't Aragorn will die and she'll die too…

It's creepy how Twilight can relate to Lord of the Rings.

"Oh no," Kitty sighed. Then she looked back at me. "What did you find?"

I kneeled on the ground and took out the marble-thing. Gandalf and Kitty instantly recognized it and freaked out.

"That's a Planítar!" Kitty yelped, jumping up.

"What's that mean?" I asked.

"That's the evil marble that Saruman uses to talk to Sauron." Kitty explained. "Where'd you find it?"

"That creepy retail store Mom works at." I replied.

"Give me that!" Gandalf snapped. He snatched it from in front of me and put his cloak over it. "Do not touch this!" He swept his eyes around the room and landed on Mr. Peregrin Took. "Any of you!"

Then it dawned on me. "That's the thingy that glows up!" I exclaimed.

"Wow, you're slow," Moon muttered.

*Moon's POV*

"What do you want to do?" Kitty asked.

"I have to go," Sophie said glumly.

"No you don't," Kitty replied. She grabbed a clicker from her belt and clicked the big red button. "Now the gate's locked and nobody can get in or out. Not even if you have the key."

"You're going to get in so much trouble." I snickered.

"Mom's going to kill me tomorrow." Sophie groaned, collapsing into a beanbag chair. "I'm going to sleep." Then she snuggled into the soft material and started to snore softly.

"This makes no sense." Legolas mumbled.

"Stop torturing the guys and make 'em stop reading those books." Sophie said annoyed, opening one eyelid. "I can't believe you two liked those books and movies."

"I was only obsessed with it a few years ago." Kitty snapped.

"That's why you have your Team Jacob t-shirt." I chuckled.

Kitty threw a pillow at me. "Stop it! I got rid of that shirt a long time ago." she shouted.

"Yeah, yesterday." Sophie giggled.

Kitty threw The Power of Three- Warriors: Eclipse at Sophie. "You shut up too!" she shouted.

"Can I spend the night?" Sophie asked.

"Me too!" I added.

"Fine," Kitty agreed. Then she glanced at her computer desk next to her. "It's already five."

"Oh," Sophie yawned. She put threw the pillow at Merry and Pippin and continued her catnap.

"Where'd this come from, Merry?" Pippin asked.

"I dunno, Pip," Merry replied.

Adorable morons.

"Dinner should be served then," I said. "Anyone up for pizza?"

The vote was anonymous and I grabbed my phone and ordered pizzas: three large pepperoni and mushrooms, one small extra cheese, one large meat lover's, and a whole bunch of breadsticks. Large order, right?

"How long's the pizza gonna take?" Sophie asked.

"A while," I replied.

"What now?" Boromir asked.

I smiled and threw a Wii remote at Boromir, Legolas, Frodo, and Pippin. They all looked at me confuzzled.

"You guys are going to dance together." I chirped.

"No," Legolas said, putting the remote down.

"No, you're going to do it or you'll be kicked out." Kitty snapped.

Legolas sighed and I turned the Wii on. I used Pip's controller to put Just Dance 3 on and select Teenage Dream. This was going to be interesting.

"Not this song!" Pippin whined.

Kitty started to giggle. "That song's so not for dudes."

"So?" Sophie said through giggles. "We do guy songs all the time."

"You're absolutely right." Kitty agreed.

*One minute later*

The score was Legolas third, Boromir second, Frodo fourth, and Pippin first.

"It wants us to do that?" Legolas asked in shock.

"Of course it does!" Sophie chirped. She was obviously enjoying this too much.

"It's easy," Kitty added.

"Watch us," I said.

We took the controllers away from the hobbits and started to mimic that girl on the screen. It was too easy. When we were done I had won with overflowing points and Boromir and Legolas barely got one star.

*Kitty's POV*

Everyone was downstairs watching a Pokémon movie from my childhood collection in the living room. They were eating their pizza and drinking soda; except Gandalf and Legolas, they always drink water.

"I don't get it." Moon would say.

Then I would give her a snappy explanation such as, "Pay attention then! Ash, Misty, and Brock went with Team Rocket to get to the castle-thing to battle the ultimate trainer!"

Then that would lead to Sophie saying proudly, "I knew it!" But she never knew.

I was upstairs heading for my secret stash of chocolate when I felt a strange type of pull to the Fellowship's room. I went in there and grabbed the Planítar from under the bed. Without thinking I took it downstairs into the living room. No one noticed and when I dropped it, it landed on the solid stone floor and cracked open.

"Crap!" I hissed.

"Katherine!" Gandalf snapped.

"What's happening?" Sophie cried in horror.

Some type of smoke began to leak out of the Planítar and surround the room. I started to cough and I ended up falling somehow.

The strange thing is that when I landed I was sprawled out on grass.

"What the?" I asked.

"We're back at camp!" Pippin cried.

Oh no.

Another Author's Note Thingy!

Yay! The group's in Middle Earth. FINALLY! And about the romance thing I pondered about it for a while. Then I JUST NOW realized that Pippin (who's the youngest, I think) is a couple years younger than Frodo who was like fifty-six or so when the journey followed. So that makes little ol' Pip like fifty-four or fifty-two or something! So that would be EXTREMELY awkward if a fourty year-old man like Boromir fell in love with the sixteen year-old Moon. But then again I can probably slide in a plot twister to make it work... Hmm

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