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"WTF? you stole that name from shindo, didn't you? cheap bastard."  ????????????????????????????????????????????????? Chapter IX: Mirror "Did I turn off the light, or on the darkness?"

"So Gustav is in jail" Alfred muttered and started to pace in the small basement. Ed, Ned and Fred nodded slowly and Noritz just stared at the box they called a computer wondering how he was going to get the hafling out of it.

Alfred opened his mouth to say something, when the computer suddenly made a small sound causing everybody to jump out of the chairs. Ned grabbed the keyboard and started rapidly to type something, while the others stared over his shoulders.

"Great Gimli, they have captured Legolas and the others as well," Noritz said when a couple of pictures flickered across the screen. "Yeah…what in the world is going on?" Alfred asked not knowing how to handle the situation.

"As I said, the president…the dark Lord has many friends" Fred said slowly and sat down in a chair. "This is the Dark Lords work?" Noritz asked and grabbed his axe again and Alfred calmed him down, fearing heads would roll. "That is impossible, how can he know that they are here already?" he asked, wondering when he began to think of this situation as real.

"If he sent us here…. he should be waiting!" Noritz said slowly relaxing a little when he realized that Naur Hen was nowhere in the room. "Sent you here?" Fred asked and Noritz nodded and told them about the mirror.

"But how do we know…you guys are not one of his friends?" Alfred suddenly asked. Ed, Ned and Fred looked at each other and then at Alfred, shocked. "We could never betray Tolkien" they said seriously and then turned to another poster that had gotten the place of honor on the wall.

Alfred stared at the several Lord of The Rings posters that lined the wall; he also spotted several books and maps in a shelf, and even some action figures. He grabbed Noritz and held him back, as he saw that the dwarf was ready to walk over to the pictures.

"Okay…but that still doesn't explain what is going on?" Alfred said slowly. Fred sighed and turned to Ned. "You want to tell him?" Ned nodded and rose from his chair and started to pace.

"Imagine what would happen if the P…the Dark Lord managed to get the technology here…to Middle-earth!" he said slowly and every body was quiet for along time.  "The nature resources would be destroyed, the people and animals captured and put in zoo's" Ned said, just to mention some of the things.

Alfred saw the machines making their way trough Rivendell killing everything in their way, he saw people enter the Mines of Moria, he saw hobbits being brought to laboratories he saw the most and total chaos.  "He would be the riches man on the world! And money makes power" Ned said and Alfred nodded, that was motive enough to explain what the president was doing in Middle-earth.

"But…how…is it possible?" Alfred asked slowly. "The mirror" Ned explained and typed on his computer again. This time a picture of the White House appeared. Ned continued to type and they took the tour around, until they ended up in the president's room, where a large mirror was placed on the wall facing the bed.

"This mirror allows The Dark Lord to travel between the worlds," Ned explained and Noritz studied the mirror closely and confirmed that that was the mirror they had traveled trough.

"But how…can Middle-earth be real?" Alfred asked, wondering how he was going to get out this mess now.

"To make light…. you need darkness" Fred suddenly said. Everybody turned to him and he rose, walked over to the light switch and flicked the light on and off. "Did I turn off the light, or on the darkness" he said philosophical and the other groaned.

"Fred, we don`t have time for this now!" Ned growled, but Fred ignored. "To created pure evil, you need the opposite, the pure good. To create darkness…. you need the opposite…. light…to create a perfect world…. you need the opposite…. you get the idea?" he asked and Alfred nodded.

"But there is nothing that is absolute perfect!" Fred said and twirled around on the floor.  "So naturally there is chaos between the lines that separate Earth…. from Middle-earth" he said and Alfred nodded, he could understand this.

"Then in the midst of this chaos, someone discovered a way to travel to Middle-earth…who knows how long that road has been open, but Tolkien is the proof that Middle-earth exists. You see the Lord of the Rings is not a book with a fictional place…it is a book based on real events, real story…are you hanging with me?" Alfred nodded again and Fred continued to pace.

"When you divide the speed of the light, with the speed of the sound, then add it with the age of the earth and then again divided with the holy numbers, three, seven and twelve you get the number of the absolute silence, the place were the lines, border if you want between the two worlds are open and…"

Everybody stared at him and Alfred gaped. " I lost you after the speed of light thing" he said and Ed and Ned chuckled. "The point is" Fred said and filled his lunges. "We need to stop the P…the Dark Lord from entering Middle-earth and finish his plan!"

"Right!" Noritz cried, the dwarf had been silence for a long time and now he suddenly jumped up and walked towards the door.

"Wait!" Alfred shouted and Noritz sighed.

"How…. do you know this?" Alfred said and stared at Fred. "Mathematics and documents…. do you think the humans built the pyramids alone?" Alfred didn`t answer and Ed and Ned feared another lecture.

"A long time ago, the two worlds were united, but when they were separated bits of each world scattered around this planet. For example the pyramid, the Maya and Inkas…the most famous is of course Stonehenge!"

"You don`t seriously want me to believe this!" Alfred said, suddenly realizing how ridicules this sounded. Fred sighed again. "You have the living proof in front of you, ready to chop of our presidents head with his axe" he said and pointed to Noritz.

"I…. I need to speak with the others," Alfred said, knowing he couldn't handle this without Rory. Ned and Fred nodded and Ed said. "Then we need to get them out of jail…."

"What is the bail set to?" Alfred asked and walked over to the computer again.

"A couple of thousands" Ned said and Alfred sighed. "A couple of thousands we don`t have!"

            "You are free to go miss," The officer said, and before anybody could say anything after Legolas` exclaim, Steve dragged her out. "Hey!" Horizt cried and ran to the bars. "What about us?" Steve snorted and dusted some dirt of Rory. "I will send you something in the mail, so just forget you ever saw this woman" he said calmly and turned to the others and nodded his head, showing them that they would receive a check as well.

Then Steve led her down the corridor pas the screaming prisoners. They all stared at her for a long time, none longer then Legolas.

"She left us…that daft elf woman left us to rot!" Horizt cried and David grabbed his collar and pushed him into a corner. "Relax…Rory will be back…she just needs to get money to bail us out?"

"Bail?" Gustav asked and David nodded. "Yes money to pay us out of jail!"

"You can pay money to get out of prison!" the hafling asked shocked and David just rolled his eyes again, then he walked over to the hard wood bench and sat down and stared at Legolas who still stared down the corridor.

He couldn't help but feel something twig in the bottom of his mind, maybe it was jealousy, but whatever it was, it would bring them trouble.

            "Rory…now you need to calm down!" Steve said as Rory looked nervously around in the back of the car. "We can't leave the others in jail" she muttered and felt that the walls were starting to close inn on her. "Rory…think about your image" Steve sighed again.

Rory knew that Steve had helped her a great deal, she would be flipping hamburgers if he hadn't helped her on her way to success…to were she wanted to be on the stage, doing what she desired, sing. And if it wasn`t for the fact that she owned him a whole lot of money, she would tell him to jump out the window.

"But…David he is my friend and the others…." She trailed off realizing she had somehow made a mistake.  "The people who escaped from the Tolkien convention…you should know better!" Steve chided and opened the mini fridge in the back of the limo and handed her a cold drink.

"Rory…. relax…and let me handle everything" Rory was about to protest, she couldn't leave them, she couldn't leave the situation, she somehow felt that she belonged…someplace else, and that she had finally started on her journey home.

"No. You have to let me off…. I need to go back!" she said suddenly. Steve looked at her for a long time and then he laughed. "Rory, you are not going anywhere…remember the contract! We need to meet in NY in two days" he warned dangerously. "To hell with it!" she said and leaned forward ready to tell the driver to let her off.

"Rory, you realize that if you walk back, the press will hear about this…your career will be ruined…you will be ruined!" Steve warned again and Rory sighed and closed her eyes. How did she choose between follow her dream and follow…. was it her heart that ached to back?

"Give…. me one day, I need to clear things up!" she said, Steve was about to protest when Rory quickly explained that she would simply return home and drop Dante off with her parents and stuff. Steve hesitated and then he sighed.

"Don`t run off on me again!" he threatened, thinking about the time Rory had disappeared just before they were leaving to LA, to open a concert with BSB "No, I promise" Rory said between gritted teeth, she hated boy bands more then anything and had taken shelter in her parents basement.

Then hesitating Steve snapped his fingers, and the car stopped.  Rory climbed out and watched the limo drive down the rode. She felt the wind wash trough her hair and she lifted her hands and let them touch her ears.

"The ear of an elf!"

She bit her lower lip and started to run down the street, towards the police station, not knowing she was followed.