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A/N: The first song that's sung in this chapter is 'I Wonder as I Wander'. I don't know who wrote it, but I did get it from a Jewel CD. The second one is part of Pink's 'Misery'.
Ella sat on her bed looking at the others. "Guys…we're leaving tomorrow…what are we going to do? How are we going to get past Moria? How-"
Lysa looked over at her "Ella, finish your reading…I'm trying to find something in this book that might help us!" Ella had been reading The Two Towers at the quickest speed she could so she would have as much knowledge she could get. Or was. Ella had started the Return of the King a little while before. Mickey had also just begun The Two Towers.
Suddenly the door opened and a tall and beautiful woman walked into the room. Ella looked up and smiled "Hi. How can we help you?"
The woman smiled "Yes, I am looking for an Ella. Gandalf said she was here." Ella nodded "That's me."
The woman's eyes widened "E-Elanor? Is that you?"
"Yeah, my name IS Elanor but mostly people call me Ella."
"By the name of Galadriel (*1)…you ARE Lila's child, like Gandalf said. You have her face…her eyes."
"How do you know who my mother is? It's not possible. You CAN NOT know her. She's from Earth, not Middle-Earth."
The woman smiled "How can I not know her? She was my sister."
There was a stunning silence in the room. Everyone stared at the woman and she stared back at him or her. Then Lysa said what was on all their minds "How can you be Ella's aunt?"
The woman sighed, "Year ago, my dear sister disappeared. My only sister. She and another man (who, she confessed to me, she wanted to marry)" Then suddenly 4 year ago we came over her body and the body of her husband. We found a letter. She passed Ella the letter she had founded in Lila's letter she had found. Ella read the letter with great interest and sadness. She puts the letter down and sighed, "You're right. This- this is my mom's handwriting…I know it like I know my own…" She looked down so no one could see her face.
She was split between happiness and her suspicion. How could this lady be her aunt? How did her parents get to Earth? 'Well', she thought to herself, 'maybe the same way we did…which for now to us is unknown'.
"My name is Laura," the lady said as she lifted Ella's head upward.
Lysa sighed "Impossible", she muttered under her breath.
Laura smiled "Ella, there is a certain someone who would like to meet you" She turns to the others "And all of you also. He very interested in everything." She walked to the door "Will you please follow me?" They all stand slowly and exchange glances.
As they follow Laura out Mickey mutters to Sean, "I think its Gandalf…we haven't met him yet…"
As they enter a large room there is a suddenly silence of the music. Mickey covers her mouth with her hand "Oh my God! It's Bilbo!" And there he is…the old hobbit writing in an old looking book. Ella looked over and smiled. She had seen him at the Council and was simply amazed. She had stood there staring at him, hold up everybody behind her.
And there was Blibo, just as described in the books. Laura, with a loud clear call yelled "Bilbo! Here are the guests!"
He looked up, "What? Dear Laura, I have told you not to yell. You may have an elf's voice, as clear and sweet as anything. What is it you said anyway?"
Laura smiled "Bilbo. It is Ella and her friends. Remember Ella? My niece?"
Bilbo looked up and smiled also "Lila's daughter? Elanor? What about the other one? Lucinda, was her name? What a strange name, too." Mickey stood spell bound, watching Bilbo with the utmost curiosity. She had always liked The Hobbit best, even if she hadn't finished the Lord of the Rings yet. Sean was smiling slightly at the hobbit. If it had been anyone but Sean, it grin would have been seen as mocking. But that was his grin and his friends had gotten used to it. Lysa, of coarse, wasn't afraid to walk up to Bilbo and say just what she wanted to. She usually would have been kind of scared to do it. But she felt comfortable in Middle-Earth, such as she had never felt before. She felt she could do just about anything. So she stepped up to Bilbo and slowly looked up at her, since she had gotten much taller. She smiled down at him "Hello Bilbo Baggins. How has it been since you disappeared from the Party?"
Bilbo laughed and closed his book "Well, a story…"
Sean, who had followed Lysa, now laughed "No…I think WE should be the ones telling a story."
Mickey and Ella had followed them up and Ella smiled "Yeah…and you seem to know my family better then I know about it myself. Can you explain that?"
Bilbo looked surprised "Oh dear. I thought this might have been Elanor." He looks at Lysa and Lysa laughs. Bilbo frowns "Oh, since your great, grand mother WAS an elf…" Ella gasps and they all say, besides Bilbo, "She was WHAT?"
"An elf, of coarse. How else could she have been as beautiful as she was? It was no wonder that Luren fell in love with her. Half of Rivendell was after her. Yet it was young Luren who caught her heart and kept it. It was he who she decided to share her life with." Mickey grinned and exchanged a look with Sean, who grinned back. At that time no one suspected anything about that.
Ella collapsed in a nearby chair in surprise "You mean…I'm…part elf?" she said weakly.
Bilbo nodded "But you look more like a hobbit than a elf, you don't mind me saying."
Mickey laughed and took Ella's bag from her and took out a picture of them all when they had been on earth. She showed it Bilbo and pointed to the Ella "This is her, regularly," she would have said more but Bilbo interrupted her.
"Yet, in this picture you look like someone familiar…but I can't quite remember. Call Frodo, please. Maybe he can help me remember." Mickey frowned slightly in confusion.
Lysa laughed and sang quietly this song:
1 I wonder as I wander
Out under the sky
How Jesus the savior did come forth to die
For two lonely people
Like you and like I
I wonder as I wander
Out under the sky
I wonder as I wander
Out under the sky
How Jesus the savior did come forth to die
For two lonely people
Like you and like I…
Sean laughed too "What was that for? This ain't church, Lys."
Lysa shrugged "It just popped out, remember when I asked if I could sing it in the talent show a few years ago?"
Ella spoke after being silent for a while "How could I not, Lysa? The school told you no as many times as you asked…you sang it anyway…" she grinned, "That's my Lysa right there."
Mickey had just called Frodo and he walked in, fearing trouble "What happened?"
Bilbo just smiled "Nothing, dear boy. I just have a question." Bilbo waved him over. Frodo looked over at the picture in Bilbo's hand. "Who down that remind you of, besides Mickey?" Bilbo asked him.
Frodo looked at the picture closely "It down look like old aunt Mina. She's a Took and is said to have disappeared into the Old Forest with her children after her husband's death. She lost her youngest daughter, many years before that. Many thought she finally went mad. They always said evil things would come out of marrying a Man."
Sean rolled his eyes "Are you saying Mickey resembles some hobbit who happens to be your aunt and who lost her daughter and her husband? What are the chances of that happening?"
Mickey ignored him "What was her daughter's name?"
Frodo thought a moment "Mich…Michella…" he sighed "She just brought even more questions upon herself by naming her children such strange names…Lila, the oldest child…Evan, the middle child and Michella the youngest. I would say Lila is or, if she is dead, would be 19. Evan, about 16 and Michella 14."
Mickey's three friends all stared at her. She meanwhile was staring at a wall, her eyes wide but her gaze not concentrated on anything. Ella turns to Frodo, her eyes glinting curiously. "Frodo," she said in a soft but firm voice "Let me tell you something, Frodo. Mickey has been an orphan for as long as she can remember. She lives with another family and doesn't know who her real family is. And plus her real name is Michella. We suspect Mickey might be your Mina's long lost daughter. But right now, we don't want to hear anymore. I just found out I'm part elf and Mickey just found out she's part hobbit! That enough to make my day complete."
Frodo looks surprised at Ella's outburst but is comforted by Lysa. "Look, Frodo, right now is not the best time to talk to Ella or Mickey. Well, leave now so there would be any more outburst on you." She said quietly enough for him but no body else to hear.
Frodo shakes his head "No, we'll leave…it won't be a happy scene when you tell them to leave here." He turns to Bilbo "Bilbo, I just remembered. Sam wanted to ask you something. How about we go and see what's his question." Bilbo stood up shakily "Yes…that I shall do." They both walk out.
Ella gets up and sighs "Uh, guys. I think I'll take a walk." They all nod and she walks out. As she walks outside, taking in the beautiful smell of Rivendell, she sings.
2 Shadows are falling all over town
Another night the blues got me down
Oh misery…I sure could use some company
She sighs and continues walking
~~Up above~~
Luci screeches with anger. Her sister had gone to Rivendell; that she knew. But how to get at her? Maybe it would be better to get Lysa. Lysa could-
No. She had promised to get Ella. Only Ella. Maybe the other later. But for the moment Ella was the prize. Luci floated upwards with the animal carrying her high. She had always been afraid of heights. Now she felt unafraid of anything.
"Nothing in this world would dare harm me!" she called out to no one. When she was close to Rivendell she screeched evilly and cried into the wind that would make the words travel to the people below.
"I am here! Do not fear me, dearest sister, for I was sent to bring you power. Strength!" She laughed a high and evil laugh, quite unlike her usually low, mocking laugh she used daily until now. "Sauron will get to you anyway, sooner or later. So why not make it sooner? Don't you think that in the meantime, while your playing 'Hide the Ring', that one of you companions might die? Most likely, if you ask me. What are the chances of you guys coming out alive? Any of you?" She flew off, leaving the thought in her sister's head, which she was listening, down below.
~~Down below~~
Ella was looking up at the creature flying above her. A Nazgul. A female on too. That was strange. She never remembered reading about female Nazguls. But maybe there were anyway. At least that's what she thought until Luci came to the part where she said "Dearest sister". That meant- a chill ran down her spine. Could it possibly be Luci? How? She would find out. And she would get her sister back, no matter how horrible she might be. She would find her and save her. Or die trying.
(*1) 'In the name of Galadriel' is kind of a Middle-Earth version of 'In the name of God'. I didn't think they'd use God, so I used Galadriel.
A/N: The first song that's sung in this chapter is 'I Wonder as I Wander'. I don't know who wrote it, but I did get it from a Jewel CD. The second one is part of Pink's 'Misery'.
Ella sat on her bed looking at the others. "Guys…we're leaving tomorrow…what are we going to do? How are we going to get past Moria? How-"
Lysa looked over at her "Ella, finish your reading…I'm trying to find something in this book that might help us!" Ella had been reading The Two Towers at the quickest speed she could so she would have as much knowledge she could get. Or was. Ella had started the Return of the King a little while before. Mickey had also just begun The Two Towers.
Suddenly the door opened and a tall and beautiful woman walked into the room. Ella looked up and smiled "Hi. How can we help you?"
The woman smiled "Yes, I am looking for an Ella. Gandalf said she was here." Ella nodded "That's me."
The woman's eyes widened "E-Elanor? Is that you?"
"Yeah, my name IS Elanor but mostly people call me Ella."
"By the name of Galadriel (*1)…you ARE Lila's child, like Gandalf said. You have her face…her eyes."
"How do you know who my mother is? It's not possible. You CAN NOT know her. She's from Earth, not Middle-Earth."
The woman smiled "How can I not know her? She was my sister."
There was a stunning silence in the room. Everyone stared at the woman and she stared back at him or her. Then Lysa said what was on all their minds "How can you be Ella's aunt?"
The woman sighed, "Year ago, my dear sister disappeared. My only sister. She and another man (who, she confessed to me, she wanted to marry)" Then suddenly 4 year ago we came over her body and the body of her husband. We found a letter. She passed Ella the letter she had founded in Lila's letter she had found. Ella read the letter with great interest and sadness. She puts the letter down and sighed, "You're right. This- this is my mom's handwriting…I know it like I know my own…" She looked down so no one could see her face.
She was split between happiness and her suspicion. How could this lady be her aunt? How did her parents get to Earth? 'Well', she thought to herself, 'maybe the same way we did…which for now to us is unknown'.
"My name is Laura," the lady said as she lifted Ella's head upward.
Lysa sighed "Impossible", she muttered under her breath.
Laura smiled "Ella, there is a certain someone who would like to meet you" She turns to the others "And all of you also. He very interested in everything." She walked to the door "Will you please follow me?" They all stand slowly and exchange glances.
As they follow Laura out Mickey mutters to Sean, "I think its Gandalf…we haven't met him yet…"
As they enter a large room there is a suddenly silence of the music. Mickey covers her mouth with her hand "Oh my God! It's Bilbo!" And there he is…the old hobbit writing in an old looking book. Ella looked over and smiled. She had seen him at the Council and was simply amazed. She had stood there staring at him, hold up everybody behind her.
And there was Blibo, just as described in the books. Laura, with a loud clear call yelled "Bilbo! Here are the guests!"
He looked up, "What? Dear Laura, I have told you not to yell. You may have an elf's voice, as clear and sweet as anything. What is it you said anyway?"
Laura smiled "Bilbo. It is Ella and her friends. Remember Ella? My niece?"
Bilbo looked up and smiled also "Lila's daughter? Elanor? What about the other one? Lucinda, was her name? What a strange name, too." Mickey stood spell bound, watching Bilbo with the utmost curiosity. She had always liked The Hobbit best, even if she hadn't finished the Lord of the Rings yet. Sean was smiling slightly at the hobbit. If it had been anyone but Sean, it grin would have been seen as mocking. But that was his grin and his friends had gotten used to it. Lysa, of coarse, wasn't afraid to walk up to Bilbo and say just what she wanted to. She usually would have been kind of scared to do it. But she felt comfortable in Middle-Earth, such as she had never felt before. She felt she could do just about anything. So she stepped up to Bilbo and slowly looked up at her, since she had gotten much taller. She smiled down at him "Hello Bilbo Baggins. How has it been since you disappeared from the Party?"
Bilbo laughed and closed his book "Well, a story…"
Sean, who had followed Lysa, now laughed "No…I think WE should be the ones telling a story."
Mickey and Ella had followed them up and Ella smiled "Yeah…and you seem to know my family better then I know about it myself. Can you explain that?"
Bilbo looked surprised "Oh dear. I thought this might have been Elanor." He looks at Lysa and Lysa laughs. Bilbo frowns "Oh, since your great, grand mother WAS an elf…" Ella gasps and they all say, besides Bilbo, "She was WHAT?"
"An elf, of coarse. How else could she have been as beautiful as she was? It was no wonder that Luren fell in love with her. Half of Rivendell was after her. Yet it was young Luren who caught her heart and kept it. It was he who she decided to share her life with." Mickey grinned and exchanged a look with Sean, who grinned back. At that time no one suspected anything about that.
Ella collapsed in a nearby chair in surprise "You mean…I'm…part elf?" she said weakly.
Bilbo nodded "But you look more like a hobbit than a elf, you don't mind me saying."
Mickey laughed and took Ella's bag from her and took out a picture of them all when they had been on earth. She showed it Bilbo and pointed to the Ella "This is her, regularly," she would have said more but Bilbo interrupted her.
"Yet, in this picture you look like someone familiar…but I can't quite remember. Call Frodo, please. Maybe he can help me remember." Mickey frowned slightly in confusion.
Lysa laughed and sang quietly this song:
1 I wonder as I wander
Out under the sky
How Jesus the savior did come forth to die
For two lonely people
Like you and like I
I wonder as I wander
Out under the sky
I wonder as I wander
Out under the sky
How Jesus the savior did come forth to die
For two lonely people
Like you and like I…
Sean laughed too "What was that for? This ain't church, Lys."
Lysa shrugged "It just popped out, remember when I asked if I could sing it in the talent show a few years ago?"
Ella spoke after being silent for a while "How could I not, Lysa? The school told you no as many times as you asked…you sang it anyway…" she grinned, "That's my Lysa right there."
Mickey had just called Frodo and he walked in, fearing trouble "What happened?"
Bilbo just smiled "Nothing, dear boy. I just have a question." Bilbo waved him over. Frodo looked over at the picture in Bilbo's hand. "Who down that remind you of, besides Mickey?" Bilbo asked him.
Frodo looked at the picture closely "It down look like old aunt Mina. She's a Took and is said to have disappeared into the Old Forest with her children after her husband's death. She lost her youngest daughter, many years before that. Many thought she finally went mad. They always said evil things would come out of marrying a Man."
Sean rolled his eyes "Are you saying Mickey resembles some hobbit who happens to be your aunt and who lost her daughter and her husband? What are the chances of that happening?"
Mickey ignored him "What was her daughter's name?"
Frodo thought a moment "Mich…Michella…" he sighed "She just brought even more questions upon herself by naming her children such strange names…Lila, the oldest child…Evan, the middle child and Michella the youngest. I would say Lila is or, if she is dead, would be 19. Evan, about 16 and Michella 14."
Mickey's three friends all stared at her. She meanwhile was staring at a wall, her eyes wide but her gaze not concentrated on anything. Ella turns to Frodo, her eyes glinting curiously. "Frodo," she said in a soft but firm voice "Let me tell you something, Frodo. Mickey has been an orphan for as long as she can remember. She lives with another family and doesn't know who her real family is. And plus her real name is Michella. We suspect Mickey might be your Mina's long lost daughter. But right now, we don't want to hear anymore. I just found out I'm part elf and Mickey just found out she's part hobbit! That enough to make my day complete."
Frodo looks surprised at Ella's outburst but is comforted by Lysa. "Look, Frodo, right now is not the best time to talk to Ella or Mickey. Well, leave now so there would be any more outburst on you." She said quietly enough for him but no body else to hear.
Frodo shakes his head "No, we'll leave…it won't be a happy scene when you tell them to leave here." He turns to Bilbo "Bilbo, I just remembered. Sam wanted to ask you something. How about we go and see what's his question." Bilbo stood up shakily "Yes…that I shall do." They both walk out.
Ella gets up and sighs "Uh, guys. I think I'll take a walk." They all nod and she walks out. As she walks outside, taking in the beautiful smell of Rivendell, she sings.
2 Shadows are falling all over town
Another night the blues got me down
Oh misery…I sure could use some company
She sighs and continues walking
~~Up above~~
Luci screeches with anger. Her sister had gone to Rivendell; that she knew. But how to get at her? Maybe it would be better to get Lysa. Lysa could-
No. She had promised to get Ella. Only Ella. Maybe the other later. But for the moment Ella was the prize. Luci floated upwards with the animal carrying her high. She had always been afraid of heights. Now she felt unafraid of anything.
"Nothing in this world would dare harm me!" she called out to no one. When she was close to Rivendell she screeched evilly and cried into the wind that would make the words travel to the people below.
"I am here! Do not fear me, dearest sister, for I was sent to bring you power. Strength!" She laughed a high and evil laugh, quite unlike her usually low, mocking laugh she used daily until now. "Sauron will get to you anyway, sooner or later. So why not make it sooner? Don't you think that in the meantime, while your playing 'Hide the Ring', that one of you companions might die? Most likely, if you ask me. What are the chances of you guys coming out alive? Any of you?" She flew off, leaving the thought in her sister's head, which she was listening, down below.
~~Down below~~
Ella was looking up at the creature flying above her. A Nazgul. A female on too. That was strange. She never remembered reading about female Nazguls. But maybe there were anyway. At least that's what she thought until Luci came to the part where she said "Dearest sister". That meant- a chill ran down her spine. Could it possibly be Luci? How? She would find out. And she would get her sister back, no matter how horrible she might be. She would find her and save her. Or die trying.
(*1) 'In the name of Galadriel' is kind of a Middle-Earth version of 'In the name of God'. I didn't think they'd use God, so I used Galadriel.