Through the Seeing Stone
Ruby Pool, Jessie Brown, and May Waters
Prologue
First of All
May Waters
"So, I was thinking we could put this bit on the Lit Mag blog," Samantha was saying as she worked on her mini iPad. She was about five foot nine inches, and the tallest of her two best friends, except for the girl she was talking to now, the fashionista of the human world: Kyra. Samantha swept her brown bob out of her face, attempting to not mess up her carefully laid bangs. Her light, hazel eyes examined the screen before her with diligence- this was her high school duty, and she was determined to make the most of it. Her grade depended on this year-long project.
"What are you girls up to?" Samantha looked up to see Mr. Kochevar leaning over them with a much too curious expression on his face.
"We're working on the class blog." Samantha told him, turning back to her typing.
"Ah, keep up the good work." The principal walked away, Kyra's and Samantha's eyes following him until he stopped at another table to talk to some of the other teenagers.
"What do you think?" Samantha turned back to her original conversation.
"Yeah, it'll work." Kyra replied, running her fingers through her long, blonde hair. Their friends, Tammy and Morgan sat down at the lunch table. Tammy set her lunchbox down, making a clanking noise a little louder than she intended with the metal box.
"Hey," Tammy greeted with a wide grin, as though the noise didn't bother her.
"Hi guys!" Samantha returned, using her Bluetooth keyboard to change applications.
"What are you working on today?" Morgan asked, digging through her backpack for the celery sticks she had packed in the morning.
"I just finished planning out a page for the blog, now I'm working on my latest novel." Samantha explained, beginning her typing, only breaking to take a bite of her sandwich or enjoy one of the chips. Sharing her four cookies between those sitting at the table. "Hey, do you want to come over after school today? We could watch Pirates of the Caribbean and do something."
"I have to study for Physics, sorry." Morgan declined.
"Work." Kyra stated, though Samantha already knew she'd want to watch something more like Mean Girls over Pirates.
"I have a rehearsal." Tammy explained further. Samantha deflated only a bit.
"I need a job…"
"Would you like to donate a dollar to the Breast Cancer Society and get some coupons for Jamba Juice?" Kyra held up some pink papers with the store's logo on them.
"I would, but I don't have a dollar." Samantha replied.
"You guys?"
"Nope, sorry Kyra." Morgan piped up while Tammy shook her head.
"Oh well," Kyra shrugged.
~jb~
"It seems I have one more adventure for the four of you." Gandalf announced, while he sat enjoying the weed from the South Farthing with Frodo, Samwise, Meriadoc, and Peregrin.
"Have you not asked enough of us yet Gandalf? We went to Mordor and back for you," Frodo teased blowing out a slow smoke ring.
"Traveling to Mordor was of your own volition, may I remind you Frodo Baggins." Gandalf chuckled. "I asked you only to bring the ring to Rivendell,"
"Yes, but it was on your account I stopped all the fighting during the council."
"Frodo Baggins, it seems you have surprised me yet again. That's twice within the years I've known you."
"What is it you want us to do Gandalf?" Pippin asked excitedly, nearly bouncing out of his chair.
"Well, here's the story." Gandalf replied, slightly adjusting in his seat. "When you were all very small, there were three hobbit infants with different abilities. One who could heal, one who could see beyond, and one with high intelligence. I could sense the evil starting to come towards this land and I managed to send them away before Sauron could take interest. To another world."
"You sent three of our own kind to another world?" Merry looked confused, which was quite understandable in a situation like this.
"I did, in order to protect them, but it seems I was mistaken." Gandalf looked down, smoke billowing out from his mouth with no particular shape in mind.
"You were mistaken, how?" Pippin asked in shock.
"It seems Sauron was destroyed in this world, but his spirit managed to escape to the world where our lost hobbits are. It is indeed quite troubling." Gandalf explained.
"Sauron is still alive?" Frodo looked scared, just as he should with this news bringing back old pains and struggles.
"Yes, but this time it should be far easier to kill him. His soul is no longer connected to the ring, so it is a matter of finding him and destroying his soul altogether."
"How did you get them to this other world?" Sam questioned leaning back in the chair.
"There is a stone set just outside Rivendell known as the Seeing Stone. You can use it to see other worlds besides our own and on occasions, send other's through it."
"On occasion?" Frodo repeated.
"Every blue moon,"
"Then how are we to get to this world to try and stop Sauron from destroying it?"
"There is a blue moon in a few weeks, just enough time for one to travel to Rivendell and prepare for a new world."
"Well then, I'm going. Besides you need hero's like us for this sort of mission, quest…thing." Pippin nodded at his genius, Merry raised an eyebrow before shaking his head.
"If Pippin is going, then so am I." Merry smiled putting his own pipe back between his teeth. "To keep an eye on Pip, of course."
"I want to go to, I stopped Sauron once, and I want to finish the job." Frodo said seriously, eyes filling with determination.
"If Frodo's going then I'd better go to keep him out of trouble," Sam grinned and shoved Frodo playfully who returned the gesture.
"Then you four shall go, the Stone Travelers you'll be known as." Gandalf stood and made his way towards the door. "I suggest you all get ready; we leave tomorrow at dawn."
"Great, where are we going?" Pippin jumped up as well, a biscuit in hand.
"Earth," Gandalf replied before disappearing into the night.
Author's Note: Hey guys! I want to apologize for the confusion that is this story. Me and my friends have been working on this story for like...7 years?! And it's been out of the frying pan and into the fire, there and back again, took the Ring to Mordor, fell into lava before crawling back out, and brushing itself off.
My friend and I are finally finishing it. Credit will go to all three authors because all three of us have contributed to this story.
To all the faithful fans of this story, I hope you come across this again and enjoy it as you have done in the past!
Lots of love from the writers!