|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | | My side of the Story |

|By | |Carrie|

|  Did you ever feel like you'll never have fun or ever get the chance of | |a lifetime to do something? Well that's just the way a 12 year old girl in| |The United States, named Carrie felt life was so boring and stupid that | |she felt like she would never get to have a good adventure. Well, what a | |lot of people don't know is that they're here for a reason, no matter what| |it is. But, our story doesn't have much to do with that, it's more like, | |be careful for what you wish for. But forget that, now lets start our | |story now, shall we? | |                                     | |               *************************** | | On a cold day in the beginning of March, Carrie and her two younger | |sisters, Casey and Kelly where outside running around like a bunch of | |maniacs like usual. Carrie hadn't run around in a while since she was | |always locked up in her tiny room playing around on her computer working | |on her web site, since she had nothing else to do in this boring little | |world of hers, as she would say. | |   Carrie was sitting at the top of her clubhouse that had been falling | |apart from how old it was. She looked over the yard; from up there you | |could see just about everything any way, and watched down at the quiet | |ground that looked almost like a ghost town because of the quietness. She | |turned and looked down at the top of the clubhouse roof were big chunks of| |the roof were still missing. She grinned as she fell back to the moment | |when her old friend Thomas and Casey had beaten it up with a broom. She | |remember she was screaming her head off telling them to stop beating up | |her club house, but of course she was only about 6 then and loved her | |giant club house since she didn't have AOL or loved to draw yet, so the | |club house was about the only thing she had to play on. | |   She turned and walked to the later to the next floor. She jumped over| |the last step and took one step to the slide, when she was younger and | |smaller she had to take at least 4 or 3 steps to do so. She jumped onto | |the white dirty slide and slid down to about the middle where at that | |point she had to skip down the rest of it, because of all the dirt and | |mold. | |   She jumped to the ground and turned to the right walked past the rest| |of the clubhouse and toward the giant melt bars that reached about 15 feet| |high. Carrie remembered the first time she climb them, she was the only | |one who could make it all the way to the other side, even backwards! But | |of course, then again, she wasn't suppose to do that because of how | |dangerous it was, but still that didn't stop her, as long as it was fun, | |she would do it. | |   She was only a few more feet away from the bars when a voice called | |out behind her. | |   "CARRIE! Don't even think about it!" | |   Carrie turned to look into the face of the person who yelled to her, | |and of course it was little miss perfect, Casey. | |   "Figures." said Carrie as she turned away when Casey ran up to her. | |   Carrie started to walk again, but Casey of course didn't like the | |idea of Carrie trying to get into trouble with their dad, since he would | |yell at them all as well. Casey jumped in front of Carrie stopping her | |from going anywhere. | |   "Oh, come on Casey! Can't I just climb half way?!" Carrie asked | |looking at Casey with an annoyed face. | |   "No! You know daddy said we can't! It's too dangerous!" Casey | |answered with a "and that's final!" face. | |   But Carrie didn't really care what Casey said, her dad wasn't here so| |what was he going to care? Unless Casey told on her. But Carrie knew she | |wouldn't do something like that, Casey's not one of those tattle-tell | |people. Or was she? | |   Carrie put her right hand on the first bar and swung around it so she| |was facing Casey, who didn't look too happy about this. Carrie gave her a | |dirty look and stuck her tongue out at her. Casey didn't care, she was too| |mad at her. Carrie started to lift herself up on the height of the bar and| |grab it when Casey screamed out. | |   "Carrie! If you climb that, I'm gonna.......I'm gonna tell!" | |   Carrie didn't even listen; she just looked back at Casey. She knew | |she was lying. She wasn't gonna tell. Carrie Put her foot on one of the | |bars and wrapped her both her arms around the next bar up, her back | |against the bar and her arms holding on tight. | |   Casey could tell Carrie wasn't buying it. So she tried to think of | |something else, but would it work? She might as well try. | |   "Oh, look! Daddy's home!" Casey screamed and ran off toward where | |their dad would park. | |   Carrie could tell she was still lying, because from her point of view| |she could see all the way over to where the cars were and her dad's truck | |was no where to be found. Plus, even from how far away she was, she could | |see Casey's stupid little smile that meant she was lying. | |   "Nice try Casey! But I can see you smiling from here!" Carrie yelled | |out across the yard. | |   After Casey found out her plan had faild she came walking over to | |Carrie, who still hadn't moved off the bars. | |   "You still can't climb those bars." Was of course the first thing she| |said to her. | |   "I know." Carrie said laying her head on the bars. "It's not fair, we| |never get to have any fun any more." | |   "What are you talking about!? Of course we do!" Casey said giving | |Carrie a weird look. | |   "Ok, so maybe we do, but not as much as we normally do!" Carrie said,| |knowing she had lost the fight. | |   "So what! Maybe we're not having fun today, but we'll have fun some | |other time!" Casey said. | |   "I know, but I need an adventure! A need action! I need excitement! I| |need battles! I need, I need.....any thing better than this!" Carrie | |yelled out so the world could hear. She took a long deep sigh and spoke | |again. "I need to go to some place like...........like that place in The | |Lord of the Rings, ya know what I mean?" | |   "Carrie, remember all those times I called you ugly?" Casey asked. | |   "Um, yeah, I think so." Carrie said looking at Casey. | |   "I take it back....." | |   "Gee, thanks!" | |   "...cause now I think you're a freak, and if I could I'd send ya to a| |nuts house right now." | |   "WHAT!?" Carrie said, her eyes opening with surprise. "Oh, gee, I'm | |sure glad to have YOU as my sister!" | |   "Of course you are, every one loves me.." Casey said trying to annoy | |Carrie. | |   Casey left and walked back to the clubhouse where Kelly was on the | |ground holding a stick and trying to put it in the dirt, or at least it | |looked like she was. Carrie watched Casey until she had gotten to the | |first latter of the clubhouse. | |   Carrie took another deep sigh and put her head back down on the bar. | |Maybe Casey was right. Maybe she was just another freak. These words sang | |over and over in her head, when something caught her eye. | |   "Huh?" she said as she looked up. | |   Something that looked like it was a tiny person jumped around in the | |bushes ahead of her. She let go of the bars and slowly walked toward the | |bushes. What in the world was that thing? It jumped around, side to side, | |to fast to see. She got a little closer and took a deep breath. She closed| |her eyes and jumped into the bushes with a loud yell. She looked around, | |but nothing was there. She turned and looked behind her, thinking she had | |heard something behind her. Still there was nothing. She thought for a | |moment and then thought maybe she was only seeing things. She started for | |the left getting ready to jump out of the bushes, when something jumped in| |front of her. It looked human but not that much like a human. She screamed| |and fell back, think as soon as she hits the ground she would jump back up| |and run. But the only thing was she didn't hit the ground. It felt like | |she was falling and falling and wouldn't stop. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Screaming at the top of her lungs she thought about every thing that had | |just happen. Was this it? Was this the end? When she finally hit | |something, and whatever it was it was hard. | |   "Ow." She said closing her eyes for one second as she sat in pain. | |She opened her eyes back up and pulled herself up. She looked around; this| |didn't look like her dad's backyard, but it some how looked familiar. | |   She looked around as she pulled herself to her feet. Then she heard a| |strange noise, like a voice of some sort. | |   "What the?" she said looking around for some one. But there was no | |one there. She looked up in front of her and thought she had seen | |something, like the tip of a head. It looked like white/blonde hair, long | |from what she could guess. She was going to walk up to whoever it was, but| |thought, what if he or she wasn't good, or maybe not the best person to | |talk to. She looked around for something helpful, and she saw it, a tree. | |She ran over to the tree as quiet as possible. She tried to climb the tree| |as high as possible, or at least a high enough point to see from.. | |   She looked down at the head and her eyes opened with shock. This | |couldn't be happening! She looked down at what seemed to look like a bunch| |of men, different sizes and different looks. Some had pointy ears, some | |had big and hairy feet, and then some looked like normal men. She had seen| |these people, or whatever they were, before. She knew them, but they | |didn't know her. | |   "This can't be happening." she said aloud to herself. She looked down| |at the men, and saw one of them, with hairy feet, get up form his seat. | |She knew right away who this was, Frodo. He got up from his seat and | |walked up to a small, round table and put down on it, a small, golden | |ring. A tall man with long dark hair spoke, she couldn't really make out | |what he was saying, but she knew he was saying something about destroying | |the ring. A short man with a long red/brown bread said something and got | |up from his seat holding his axe and he swung down on the small ring, his | |axe broke to pieces and everyone looked at the ring that was still | |together. The tall man spoke again and said something about that the ring | |must be taken somewhere to be destroyed. Before she knew it the men where | |in a fight, she got bored of this and looked to the right. Over to the | |right she saw a guy like Frodo hiding and listening to what was happening.| |She knew who this was too, Sam. And then she remembered about Pippin and | |Merry, and to her surprise when she looked to the left, the two boys where| |they're doing the same thing as Sam. The fight was broken when Frodo | |spoke. He had said he would take the ring to wherever it needed to be | |taken. More men joined in on this quest, and pretty soon Sam, Pippin, and | |Merry had come out for their spots and joined in too. The tall guy started| |to talk again but Carrie couldn't hear what he was saying. She wanted to | |get closer; she looked up ahead of her and saw a longer branch. Not | |thinking about her weight, she climbed out to the branch and listened on | |what they where saying. | |   "Oh, I wish I could go." she said to herself. And at that moment the | |branch started to brake. One..two..three...and then boom! it broke in half| |and Carrie was sailing down to the ground. | |   Carrie screamed, as she got closer to the ground, the next thing she | |knew she hit the ground on her back. "I'm dead." she thought to herself. | |what would they do with her now? She opened her eyes and found all of the | |men looking at her with surprised faces. She didn't know what to say, so | |she said the first thing that came to her mind. | |   "Mushy." she said, her face turning as red as a rose. | |   "Who are you?" asked Pippin. She didn't think he would be the first | |to say that. | |   "Ah, my name's Carrie." Carrie said giving out her hand to shake. | |   Gandalf grabbed her hand and pulled her up to her feet. | |   "Carrie? What kind of name is that?" asked Merry. | |   "Well, I'm not sure ta tell ya the truth." Carrie answered. | |   Boromir walked up to Carrie holding his knife close by in case. | |"Where do you come from?" he asked holding his knife closer. | |   "Um, the U.S." she said looking down at the knife in his hand. She | |looked back up at the men; they looked at her as if they had no idea what | |she was talking about, which was true. | |   "The United States of America?" she said, knowing they didn't know | |that one either. "Ok, so it's some place you guys have no idea about." | |   "What are you doing here child?" Gandalf spoke. | |   "That's what I'm askin' myself! I have no idea how I got here! I was | |in my backyard one moment, the next thing I know, I'm in some fairy tale | |world!" Carrie said turning to them all. | |   "How do we know she speaks the truth?" asked Gimli. | |   "Well, gee, what else could I be?" Carrie said looking at him. | |   "A spy form the Orcs." said Boromir holding up his knife to Carrie's | |neck. | |    "First of all," she said pushing the knife away, "I hate those ORC!| |guys! They're ugly and really creepy lookin'! And besides why would they | |send me! I'm only 12!" | |   "She could speak the truth." Legolas spoke. | |   "Thank you." Carrie said looking up at Legolas, happy to see some one| |believed her. | |   "Well, where ever it is you have come from child, we shall send you | |back to, but for now, you shall stay her for safe keeping." said Gandalf | |looking down at the small girl before him. | |   Carrie looked up at Gandalf and then down at her feet, with a sigh. | |She looked back up with shock when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She | |looked at the hand and then at its owner. And out of the blue, it was | |Legolas. He looked down at her. | |   "We are only trying to keep you safe." he said. | |   Carrie, not listening to well, made a weak smile, gave out a sigh, | |and fainted to the ground. The last thing she seen were nine faces looking| |down at her, but of course she ignored all those faces and looked at the | |one above her, which of course was Legolas. | |                              | |***************************************************** | |What had felt like 5 seconds, had been about five minutes or so. She had | |woken in a small room that reminded her of a hospital. She pulled her head| |from her pillow and looked around for the men, but none where seen at her | |side. She at this moment felt lonely and tired, but, believe it or not, | |wanted to see them at least one more time, before she some how found her | |way back home. She thought for a moment or so and then got up form her bed| |and walked over a giant window at the right. She looked out across the | |land, searching for the fellowship, when at last, she spotted them by the | |gates. She gave out a small yell, knowing they were going to leave. She | |for some strange reason was wanting to follow along with them on their | |quest. | |   With out thinking, she ran to the door grabbing her shoes and | |slipping them on as fast as possible. She grabbed the handle on the door | |and turned it, opening the door and remembering, finally, that she must be| |quiet if she was to follow them out. She slowly opened the door and peeked| |out to see if any one was there. Not a single person was to be found, so | |she went on with her plan. She walked out and closed the door. She snuck | |out trying to be quiet, but her sneakers seemed to be making a high | |squeak, as she walked, hopefully not loud enough for any one to hear her. | |   She had come to the end of the hall, where she now found different | |ways to go, but which was the right one? She thought, and finally made a | |choice, and hopefully it was right. She turned to the left and slowly jump| |stepping, she went down the hall. She finally came to a stop at what | |seemed to be a dead end. | |   "Oh, great!" she said in a whisper. She leaned against a wall and | |dropped her head into her small hands. She then took her head out from her| |hands and banged them against the wall, and when she did, she fell back | |with a flip. She got up and looked around. Once more her eyes opened with | |shock when she seen the grass, flowers, and trees around her. She had | |finally made out! She looked up at the wall she had leaning on, to her | |surprise it wasn't a wall, it was a door. Well that explained it! She made| |a small smile and got up form the ground. | |   She looked around for the men, but didn't need to do so when she | |heard one of their voices. She at this point ran to the sound of a voice | |near by. |