Okay enjoy the next chapter. This will be the last one until Monday so...
Eagle's daughter: Well, you'll just have to stick around and find out ;)
Stefan: hehe that's the fun of it. Something ALWAYS seems to go wrong ;)
Chapter fourteen
Last Exit to Eden
The power returned to the school through the master generator and everyone was happy. This meant that the Red Cross service station set up in the gymnasium could do other things besides set broken bones and give cold compresses. In the teachers lounge Mr. Kazinski, Rose, Calla, Cuthbert, Ford, and Rubi sat in front of the television and watched the weather channel. Top weather girl Susan Eldabreth was in the middle of her broadcasts on the tornado. She stood in front of a map of Saskatchewan and pointed to different cities.
"As you can see the cities most affected by the storms were Deneaka, Matromina, Peru, and Ortega. These four cities are still without power and Peru has been completely wiped off the map. Though the running joke in Peru has always been 'we've never been on a map to begin with'. Now it lay's in complete ruin. The small town of forty-two people was in the direct path of a F5 tornado," she tapped on her head piece connected to her ear. "This just in, another set oftornados has been spotted near the city of Edgware. At the momentthey appears to be F3's buta few aregrowing, ifthey stay onthis same pathone of them might collide with Edgware High School before nightfall…" Susan continued to ramble on but none of them listened to her.
"We have the worst luck," concluded Ford.
"Come on we need to tell everyone, we need to get down into the cellar before it hits," Rubi said getting off the couch.
"We have to get out of this school," Mr. Kazinski suddenly said.
Rose shook her head.
"That's impossible," she said.
Everyone turned to look at her.
"How come? Cuthbert asked.
"The portal has been opened in this room. We have to stay here until they get back," she explained.
"What if we close the portal and reopen it in the basement?" Ford suggested.
Rose nodded.
"That could work," she said. "But we have to be quick about it. Mr. Kazinski should go down into the basement and open the portal and then we can close the one up here."
Mr. Kazinski nodded and gathered together the chemicals for the portal. He, Ford, and Cuthbert went down into the basement to open the portal again.
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The group of elves led the three deeper into the city. They then began travelling up a mountain.
"I wonder where they're taking us," whispered Cort to Arda.
"Maybe to the Mahanaxar," concluded Arda.
"What's that?" Hugh asked.
"The ring of Doom," Arda explained.
"And that is?"
Arda sighed.
"It was where Morgoth got sentenced and judged. The Valar converse there and make judgements there. Thanks guys, we're pretty fucked," Arda said.
They reached the top of the mountain and the elves led them to a room. They waited in the room for about five minutes when the elves returned and roughly brought them into the Mahanaxar. Arda gulped.
So this is serious…she thought.
In front of them sat Manwe, Varda, Namo, Vairë, Aulë, Yavanna, Lorien, Tulkas, and Nienna.
We're defiantly fucked, thought Arda.
Ënowë stepped forward and announced them to the Valar.
"Three humans, names unknown, have entered into the blessed realm uninvited," he said then taking a step backwards.
The three gulped as the Valar watched them. Finally after what seemed an eternity Manwe spoke.
"How did three humans manage to get into Valinor?" he asked.
The three became mute at the power of his voice. Nienna had tears running down her face. Though that was a given, she always had tears running down her face. Aulë spoke up.
"Maybe they escaped from your damned halls Namo."
Namo shook his head but didn't speak.
"I recognise every face in his halls," Nienna said weeping. "I do not recognise these three."
Her voice echoed of sadness but there was beauty there too. The three were stricken dumb at the sight and sound of these powerful Valar.
"Why don't you answer?" demanded Manwe.
Arda tried to look for the right words to say to the powerful Valar. She finally gulped and began speaking.
"My Lords and Lady's, this is really hard to explain…" she began.
"How would it be hard to explain? What did you do? Stow away on one of the ships that lead to Valinor? Even then you would have been caught," Yavanna asked.
"Well you see," Cort began. "We're from another planet…" he inwardly laughed at how stupid that sounded. "And during one of our school lessons this portal opened up in a desk and our friend fell through."
Varda interrupted him.
"Is this friend in our Valinor too?" she asked.
Hugh shook his head.
"No my Lady, we believe she is in Gondor around the year 3019. We have opened and closed this portal a couple of times and the first time we landed in Angband," Hugh stopped when the Valar winced at the name of Melkor's stronghold.
"The second time we landed in Numenor before it sank," Arda continued. "And now when we went through we landed here."
The Valar were silent. Nothing in the Mahanaxar made any sounds or movements. Namo stared intently into the three humans but then the oddest thing began to happen. It started out slowly coming from Tulkas and spread to Lorien, Yavanna, and Aulë. The other Valar wondered why in the world they would start this but then it spread from Aulë to Varda, Vairë, and then to Manwe. Finally Namo and Nienna started it as well. The three stood flabbergasted at the sight. Every Valar in the room was laughing. Nienna had tears of laughter running down her face. Even Namo who had never spoken through the whole ordeal was doubled over in fits of laughter. Yavanna had her head on Aulë in her fits and Manwe was so caught up in laughter that his chair shook. Tulkas was out of his chair and holding his stomach. It hurt so much from his laughing. The laughter billowed out of the Mahanaxar and floated down the mountain side where confused elves stopped to listen to the sound of laughter emitting from their Gods.
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A single tear drop fell down Adrian's face as she watched the armies prepare for war. The orcs were ready to begin the invasion and the Gondorian army was still lining up against the walls. Adrian could see the lone horse carrying Faramir into the city and she gasped. It would be only minutes and the battle would begin.
Damn that Arda. She thought. When I get back to Edgware I'm going to kick her buttox from here to Mt. Doom.
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The portal opened in the basement and the girls closed the one in the teachers lounge. They got their stuff together and ran down to the basement and set everything else up. By now the rest of the school knew that a tornado was coming and mostly everyone was in the basement as well. Mr. Kazinski picked the janitor's closet to open the portal up. He didn't want the whole town knowing that there were students lost and dead in Middle-Earth. The wind had begun to pick up outside and the sky turned a pendulous grey. The storm was beginning again and there was nothing they could do to stop it.
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The laughter finally subsided five minutes later. The Valar fixed themselves back into their chairs. Nienna's tears ran down her cheek and the three didn't know if they were the tears of sadness or laughter anymore. Tulkas still chuckled in his seat and Yavanna fixed her hair. After the Valar had finished Manwe spoke up.
"I'm sorry but that is the worst excuse I have ever heard," he said.
Arda felt as if her cheeks were burning.
"But it's the truth!" she exclaimed a little too loudly then she thought she would.
"How in the world could you humans create a portal type object?" asked Nienna.
Arda shrugged.
"It was an accident," she admitted.
"But you came here on purpose?" Manwe asked.
Arda nodded. "In a way yes; we had hoped that the portal would have lead us to Gondor and to our friend but it did not."
Cort spoke up.
"If you don't believe us then let us show you the portal," he suggested.
Manwe thought for a moment.
"Agreed, but if there is no portal then you will spend the rest of your days in the halls of Mandos and you will never leave them under any condition," he finally said.
The three sighed.
Oh man I hope that portal is still there, Arda thought.
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The rumbling of the tornado crashed through the school cutting off the power and sending bodies flying. Mr. Kazinski, Calla, Ford, Rose, Rubi and Cuthbert sat huddled together in the janitor's closet waiting for the three to return from Middle-Earth. Hopefully this time they would come back with Adrian. The floors above them shook and turned with the winds of the tornado. From in the basement Ford sighed.
"It appears that Edgware high school will exist no more in this form," he said.
The floor shook and the portal vanished.
"Merde! Reopen it quick!" shouted Mr. Kazinski through the rising storm.
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The three, followed by Manwe, Varda, Aulë, Yavanna, Vairë, Nienna, Namo, Lorien and Tulkas, searched the plains near the city in hopes that the portal would still be there. Their fears were confirmed when the portal was no where to be found. Arda's eyes seemed to grow behind her glasses and Cort felt faint.
"Well? Where is this portal?" Manwe asked. He found this whole situation rather enjoyable seeing as there had been nothing to do around his home and in the whole of Valinor for about half and age.
"It was here! I swear on Eru almighty it was right here!" Arda shouted.
"I don't see anything," Lorien said yawning.
"Maybe if we wait a few minutes the portal will reopen?" Cort suggested.
Namo had gotten tired of the whole affair and grabbed the three by the scruff of their shirts.
"Come on, off we go. I'm sick of liars," he said.
Cort gave protest.
"But there really was a portal!" he shouted.
Namo shrugged.
"Now I really have heard every excuse," he said.