*After seeing the new Lord of the Rings movie I decided to try my
hand at writing a crossover, there aren't any spoilers for the second movie
or book*
*By the way I don't own any of these characters, no infringement intended*
"Dawnie, honey, you've got to wake up." Buffy said soothingly before beginning to shake her unresponsive sister.
"What is it?" The girl opened her eyes wearily her brunette hair was tangled. "What's wrong?"
"You're late for school, and I'm late for work." Buffy grabbed her sister by her shoulders and picked her up, placing her on the floor by her bed.
Dawn was still wiping sleep out of her eyes when she found herself suddenly standing. "But. my alarm. why didn't it."
"I don't know, get dressed, now!" With that Buffy ran out of the room. "Willow!" She ran down the stairs taking them two at a time.
"Yeah?" Willow was sitting at the table, eating a bowl of cereal.
"Why didn't you wake us?"
"I didn't know I was supposed to." Buffy glared at the redhead, "Alright, I'm sorry, I just woke up myself. Why didn't your alarm clock go off?" She asked, earning another glare from the slayer.
"Dawn!" Buffy called up the stairs checking her watch anxiously. "Are you dressed?"
Dawn ran down to her sister, brushing her hair and putting on her shoes at the same time. "Just about."
"Good." Buffy grabbed the car keys off the counter and ushered Dawn out the door, "Bye Wills." The door slammed.
"Bye," muttered Willow, never looking up from her breakfast.
~~~ ".So, like I couldn't even like believe it. are you even listening? Hello? Ms. Summers?"
At the sound of her name Buffy jerked out of her reverie. "Yes, Brittany, what happened then?"
"Then he like totally dumped me in front on everyone! Can you like believe that?"
"Um no lik- no I can't believe it. Brittany why are you really here?"
The student blew a huge pink bubble with her gum before speaking. "Well, I have this like chemistry test next period so I was like thinking that you could like-"
"Go back to class Brittany."
"Like okay."
Buffy watched the airhead blonde walk out of the office and sighed before taking a huge gulp of coffee. Checking her watch the slayer couldn't believe that it was only ten o'clock. She picked up her phone and hit the one on her speed dial.
"Hello?"
"Hi Willow, I was just calling to check in, how are you?"
"I'm fine,"
Buffy heard a loud crash in the background, "What was that?"
"Oh, Anya came over to keep me company, since I don't have any classes today."
"Okay, well, as long as you're okay, I'll see you when I get home."
"Bye." Willow hung up the phone before turning to Anya, "What was that?"
"Oh Willow good news, I found the secret chocolate supply that Xander keeps here!"
"Oohh Goodie,"
Over many candy bars the women lamented about their respective men and women problems. "I just don't know what Xander even wants from me you know? I don't think I'm ready to get back into a relationship with him again."
"At least you have a Xander, I don't even know what I want anymore. After Tara. well, I didn't think I'd ever want someone new, but now, I don't know."
"You should try to meet someone, I could set you up! It could be so much fun! Just like in a movie!"
"I'll think on that."
"Why don't you just do a spell?"
"Anya, love spells are morally wrong, and they never turn out well. Just ask Xander."
"I don't mean a love spell, just a spell to set you on your path, you know, find out where you should go from here. I could help you with it" At Willow's thoughtful look Anya began to plead, "Please, now that I'm human I have nothing to do, I'm bored."
"Well actually, I have been working on something." Willow lowered her voice. "It's a spell to summon help."
"Help, what do you mean help? A nasty, dirty sort of help?"
Willow smacked Anya lightly on the arm, "No! The spell would create a being that could help us fight this new big bad, the 'from beneath you it devours' thing. Hypothetically, I've never done anything like this before. But I've got a lot of power now, so it should work."
"Yes, totally, I love this idea, go now, and get the ingredients!" Anya watched eagerly as Willow gathered candles and other magikal tools.
"Okay, this is relatively simple, we simply need to state for what purpose we require assistance and the spell should create the perfect fighter for us, and then once the task is done, it will disappear."
"Let's do it."
Willow formed a circle with the candles and scattered an assortment of bones, rune stones and chicken feet inside it. Then she removed a large jar of sand. "Now all we have to do is pour this sand into this bowl, while stating our purpose."
"Uh, Willow, does this spell remind you of anything in particular. Like maybe the spell that we did to find my necklace? Senior year, is this ringing any bells with you?"
Willow thought for a moment, "It does, but when you think about it the spells are very similar. They're almost identical, but for the fact the this one will create a being rather than just transport one here."
"Here goes nothing."
Willow lit the candles and began the chant "We require aide in the destruction of an ancient evil, send us a warrior who will slay our foe." With that Willow and Anya poured the sand into he bowl and a flash of white light blinded them temporarily, when the witch and former demon opened their eyes they were amazed by what they saw.
~~~
The Fellowship had not even fully departed from Lothlorien when the white light arrived; they were just pushing their canoes off shore when Legolas looked up at the sky. "Aragorn, do you feel that."
"Feel what?" The ranger asked following the elf's line of sight but not seeing anything out of he ordinary.
"It's like a humming." Frodo answered for him. The hobbit reached into his shirt and held the ring of power in his hand. "It's not coming from the ring."
"It's nothin but yer imaginations." Gimli scoffed.
Then the sky opened, white light poured out, and the world was torn apart.
~~~~
When Willow opened her eyes the first thing that she saw was a heap of brown. Blinking she realized that what she was looking at was a heap of people, all wearing earth tones, all speaking quite loudly. "Buffy's going to kill me," The witch whispered.
Anya jumped up and down with glee, "Look Willow the spell worked, and instead of one warrior we got." She paused and counted the people who were beginning to stand and take in their surroundings. "Eight!"
"What treachery is this?" Gimli roared holding his ax aloft.
Boromir and Aragorn had their swords out in an instant, Legolas' bow was drawn even quicker, and the hobbits formed a small circle around Frodo, drawing their daggers. And eight intense sets of eyes all fell on the frantic Willow and the overjoyed Anya.
"Ooo, they've got tons of sharp, pointy weapons, those will come in handy when they kill our big bad, right Willow?"
"By what magik did you transport us to this place?" queried Legolas, his bow not wavering.
"Umm. okay, listen, why don't you all just put down the weapons and then we can all talk like reasonable people." Willow said calmly, but she received only confused looks.
"I think that you should explain yourself before we agree to such a truce." Aragorn replied, eyeing the women carefully.
"Hey scruffy," Anya said rudely "You supposed to be out killing our demon, so get to it!"
"This must be some sort of trick Sarumon is playing, trying to fool us into giving him the ring. They must be his spies, made to look like women in order to appear innocent." Said Boromir looking between Anya and Willow with mistrust.
"No we're not spies, Willow here is witch, but I have never met anyone named Sour-man." She turned to Willow and said quietly, "I think that something just might have gone wrong."
Willow wasn't paying attention to what Anya was whispering to her, she was too busy trying to determine where the odd buzzing sound was coming from. The sound got louder and louder until Willow realized that it wasn't a sound at all, but a feeling, it was dark magik. She searched the room for the source of the disturbance, and her eyes landed on Frodo.
Frodo felt the intensity of the redhead's gaze before he saw how intently she was staring at him; he felt the ring begin to call out to her. He tried to get Aragorn's attention but he was conversing quietly with Legolas in Elfish.
The ring's call hit Willow like a ton of bricks. She couldn't breath, she felt boxed in on all sides. She felt her eyes blacken and the dark magik flowed through her. "You." She said shakily, pointing at Frodo. "What are you doing to me?" Then her voice lowered, "It will consume you." Then the redhead fainted.
After Willow's warning the living room erupted into chaos, Legolas was now shouting at Aragorn, Boromir was shouting at Anya, Gimli was just shouting. The hobbits were questioning Frodo who was simply staring at the fainted girl.
"SHUT UP!" Anya screamed, pleasantly surprised when the men all obeyed. The former demon looked down at her fallen friend, then back at the group of men. "Do you guys want to come into the kitchen? I can explain everything over some hot chocolate while we wait for Willow to wake up."
~~~
An hour later Willow woke, only to find the living room empty. She had an awful headache, but was comforted by the fact that her eyes were back to normal. She walked into the kitchen, wondering if the entire afternoon had not been in fact just one long dream. The sight that greeted her there proved otherwise.
Anya was seated at the kitchen table, engaged in a heated discussion with a short bearded man, a disturbingly beautiful blonde man with pointy ears was sitting cross-legged on he counter turning on and off the sink faucet. Four midgets, or little people or what the correct term for them these days were also seated at the table, they were devouring a bag of Doritos in record time. Two men who would have been the most normal of the group had they not been wearing clothing that looking right out of a King Arthur legend were standing in the corner conversing quietly.
"Could somebody please tell me what the hell is going on here?" At Willow's words the group quieted.
"Oh Willow, you're awake, and hey, you don't look quite as homicidal as you did when I saw you last." Anya stood, "Willow, May I introduce to the fellowship of the Ring, this-" She gestured to the man that she had been conversing with, "is Gimli, he's a dwarf" She pointed to the group of midgets, "They are Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin, they're hobbits. Those scruffy ones over there are Aragorn and Boromir. And Blondie's name is. Legos"
"Legolas" he corrected.
"Damn, don't worry I'll get it eventually. Legolas, he's an elf. Guys this is Willow."
"Can you send us home?" Questioned Aragorn as soon as Anya had stopped speaking.
"I don't know, I'm not even sure how I brought you here."
"Anya has told us that you made a grievous error in a spell, thus accidentally bringing us forth from Middle-Earth. Now that you are awake you must simply undo the spell." Countered the ranger.
"I'm not so sure that I even made a mistake, you see my spell was supposed to bring me a warrior that could help defeat a particularly evil demon that we are facing. The warrior was supposed to disappear once its task was fulfilled."
"We don't have time to help you slay a demon, we are on an important quest, and we must return to it at once." Boromir advanced closer to the witch.
"I can't." She said softly. "The spell cannot just be undone, its goal must first be reached."
"It's goal being the killing of this demon that you speak of?" Aragorn asked.
Willow nodded. "Hypothetically, yes."
"Why should we trust you, witch?" Gimli demanded standing so forcefully that he knocked over his chair. "After all, you just threatened little Frodo, and your eyes turned black, and-"
"Gimli!" Aragorn raised a hand to silence the bellowing dwarf. "I apologize for my companion's behavior, but he raises a good point, why should we trust you, we don't know you. Your land is strange, and your lack of magikal control hardly exudes trustworthiness.
"That's all very true, but it goes for you too. How do we know that you all aren't evil? No offence or anything but he reeks of black magik." Willow said quietly pointing at Frodo.
"As we have already explained to Anya here, we are transporting an evil ring of power to Mount Doom where it may be destroyed. Frodo is the ring bearer." Boromir said.
"Oh"
A tense silence fell over the house, only to be broken by the phone, at the ring all of the men immediately returned to fighting stance. At the second ring Legolas shot it, sparks flew out of the hole that the arrow had punctured in the receiver. "Buffy is so going to kill me." Willow whispered again.
~~~
Buffy was due home in an hour and Willow was still trying to explain the concept of a phone to the Fellowship. Merry and Pippin had been the first to understand. They had then proceeded to call random numbers, and introduce themselves to the people at the other end.
"So you mean that there's no one inside of it?" Gimli had asked the same question at least as dozen times before.
"No, you daft dwarf, there was no little person inside of it ten minutes ago, there still isn't. You are just talking to someone far away, like a magikal speaking mirror, only you can't see them." Legolas finally yelled at the Dwarf.
"That's it I don't care if you do look like a girl I'm fightin ya!" Gimli threw down his ax and held his fists up.
"In no way do I resemble a girl!" Legolas shouted back. "And I'm not going to fight you like some kind of barbarian!"
"Oh yeah, well why don't you just go and brush yer hair instead."
Legolas was just about to lunge at Gimli when Aragorn intercepted him. "What are you two doing? This is no time to be fighting with each other. We have to stay together, now more that ever."
"He started it!" Gimli protested loudly.
"Liar!"
Willow sighed helplessly, watching as Aragorn tried to separate the two. Then the worst thing possible occurred, Buffy came walking in the door.
~~~
*Yes I realize that this concept has kind off been done to death but if you review I will throw in more humor in the next chapter.*
*By the way I don't own any of these characters, no infringement intended*
"Dawnie, honey, you've got to wake up." Buffy said soothingly before beginning to shake her unresponsive sister.
"What is it?" The girl opened her eyes wearily her brunette hair was tangled. "What's wrong?"
"You're late for school, and I'm late for work." Buffy grabbed her sister by her shoulders and picked her up, placing her on the floor by her bed.
Dawn was still wiping sleep out of her eyes when she found herself suddenly standing. "But. my alarm. why didn't it."
"I don't know, get dressed, now!" With that Buffy ran out of the room. "Willow!" She ran down the stairs taking them two at a time.
"Yeah?" Willow was sitting at the table, eating a bowl of cereal.
"Why didn't you wake us?"
"I didn't know I was supposed to." Buffy glared at the redhead, "Alright, I'm sorry, I just woke up myself. Why didn't your alarm clock go off?" She asked, earning another glare from the slayer.
"Dawn!" Buffy called up the stairs checking her watch anxiously. "Are you dressed?"
Dawn ran down to her sister, brushing her hair and putting on her shoes at the same time. "Just about."
"Good." Buffy grabbed the car keys off the counter and ushered Dawn out the door, "Bye Wills." The door slammed.
"Bye," muttered Willow, never looking up from her breakfast.
~~~ ".So, like I couldn't even like believe it. are you even listening? Hello? Ms. Summers?"
At the sound of her name Buffy jerked out of her reverie. "Yes, Brittany, what happened then?"
"Then he like totally dumped me in front on everyone! Can you like believe that?"
"Um no lik- no I can't believe it. Brittany why are you really here?"
The student blew a huge pink bubble with her gum before speaking. "Well, I have this like chemistry test next period so I was like thinking that you could like-"
"Go back to class Brittany."
"Like okay."
Buffy watched the airhead blonde walk out of the office and sighed before taking a huge gulp of coffee. Checking her watch the slayer couldn't believe that it was only ten o'clock. She picked up her phone and hit the one on her speed dial.
"Hello?"
"Hi Willow, I was just calling to check in, how are you?"
"I'm fine,"
Buffy heard a loud crash in the background, "What was that?"
"Oh, Anya came over to keep me company, since I don't have any classes today."
"Okay, well, as long as you're okay, I'll see you when I get home."
"Bye." Willow hung up the phone before turning to Anya, "What was that?"
"Oh Willow good news, I found the secret chocolate supply that Xander keeps here!"
"Oohh Goodie,"
Over many candy bars the women lamented about their respective men and women problems. "I just don't know what Xander even wants from me you know? I don't think I'm ready to get back into a relationship with him again."
"At least you have a Xander, I don't even know what I want anymore. After Tara. well, I didn't think I'd ever want someone new, but now, I don't know."
"You should try to meet someone, I could set you up! It could be so much fun! Just like in a movie!"
"I'll think on that."
"Why don't you just do a spell?"
"Anya, love spells are morally wrong, and they never turn out well. Just ask Xander."
"I don't mean a love spell, just a spell to set you on your path, you know, find out where you should go from here. I could help you with it" At Willow's thoughtful look Anya began to plead, "Please, now that I'm human I have nothing to do, I'm bored."
"Well actually, I have been working on something." Willow lowered her voice. "It's a spell to summon help."
"Help, what do you mean help? A nasty, dirty sort of help?"
Willow smacked Anya lightly on the arm, "No! The spell would create a being that could help us fight this new big bad, the 'from beneath you it devours' thing. Hypothetically, I've never done anything like this before. But I've got a lot of power now, so it should work."
"Yes, totally, I love this idea, go now, and get the ingredients!" Anya watched eagerly as Willow gathered candles and other magikal tools.
"Okay, this is relatively simple, we simply need to state for what purpose we require assistance and the spell should create the perfect fighter for us, and then once the task is done, it will disappear."
"Let's do it."
Willow formed a circle with the candles and scattered an assortment of bones, rune stones and chicken feet inside it. Then she removed a large jar of sand. "Now all we have to do is pour this sand into this bowl, while stating our purpose."
"Uh, Willow, does this spell remind you of anything in particular. Like maybe the spell that we did to find my necklace? Senior year, is this ringing any bells with you?"
Willow thought for a moment, "It does, but when you think about it the spells are very similar. They're almost identical, but for the fact the this one will create a being rather than just transport one here."
"Here goes nothing."
Willow lit the candles and began the chant "We require aide in the destruction of an ancient evil, send us a warrior who will slay our foe." With that Willow and Anya poured the sand into he bowl and a flash of white light blinded them temporarily, when the witch and former demon opened their eyes they were amazed by what they saw.
~~~
The Fellowship had not even fully departed from Lothlorien when the white light arrived; they were just pushing their canoes off shore when Legolas looked up at the sky. "Aragorn, do you feel that."
"Feel what?" The ranger asked following the elf's line of sight but not seeing anything out of he ordinary.
"It's like a humming." Frodo answered for him. The hobbit reached into his shirt and held the ring of power in his hand. "It's not coming from the ring."
"It's nothin but yer imaginations." Gimli scoffed.
Then the sky opened, white light poured out, and the world was torn apart.
~~~~
When Willow opened her eyes the first thing that she saw was a heap of brown. Blinking she realized that what she was looking at was a heap of people, all wearing earth tones, all speaking quite loudly. "Buffy's going to kill me," The witch whispered.
Anya jumped up and down with glee, "Look Willow the spell worked, and instead of one warrior we got." She paused and counted the people who were beginning to stand and take in their surroundings. "Eight!"
"What treachery is this?" Gimli roared holding his ax aloft.
Boromir and Aragorn had their swords out in an instant, Legolas' bow was drawn even quicker, and the hobbits formed a small circle around Frodo, drawing their daggers. And eight intense sets of eyes all fell on the frantic Willow and the overjoyed Anya.
"Ooo, they've got tons of sharp, pointy weapons, those will come in handy when they kill our big bad, right Willow?"
"By what magik did you transport us to this place?" queried Legolas, his bow not wavering.
"Umm. okay, listen, why don't you all just put down the weapons and then we can all talk like reasonable people." Willow said calmly, but she received only confused looks.
"I think that you should explain yourself before we agree to such a truce." Aragorn replied, eyeing the women carefully.
"Hey scruffy," Anya said rudely "You supposed to be out killing our demon, so get to it!"
"This must be some sort of trick Sarumon is playing, trying to fool us into giving him the ring. They must be his spies, made to look like women in order to appear innocent." Said Boromir looking between Anya and Willow with mistrust.
"No we're not spies, Willow here is witch, but I have never met anyone named Sour-man." She turned to Willow and said quietly, "I think that something just might have gone wrong."
Willow wasn't paying attention to what Anya was whispering to her, she was too busy trying to determine where the odd buzzing sound was coming from. The sound got louder and louder until Willow realized that it wasn't a sound at all, but a feeling, it was dark magik. She searched the room for the source of the disturbance, and her eyes landed on Frodo.
Frodo felt the intensity of the redhead's gaze before he saw how intently she was staring at him; he felt the ring begin to call out to her. He tried to get Aragorn's attention but he was conversing quietly with Legolas in Elfish.
The ring's call hit Willow like a ton of bricks. She couldn't breath, she felt boxed in on all sides. She felt her eyes blacken and the dark magik flowed through her. "You." She said shakily, pointing at Frodo. "What are you doing to me?" Then her voice lowered, "It will consume you." Then the redhead fainted.
After Willow's warning the living room erupted into chaos, Legolas was now shouting at Aragorn, Boromir was shouting at Anya, Gimli was just shouting. The hobbits were questioning Frodo who was simply staring at the fainted girl.
"SHUT UP!" Anya screamed, pleasantly surprised when the men all obeyed. The former demon looked down at her fallen friend, then back at the group of men. "Do you guys want to come into the kitchen? I can explain everything over some hot chocolate while we wait for Willow to wake up."
~~~
An hour later Willow woke, only to find the living room empty. She had an awful headache, but was comforted by the fact that her eyes were back to normal. She walked into the kitchen, wondering if the entire afternoon had not been in fact just one long dream. The sight that greeted her there proved otherwise.
Anya was seated at the kitchen table, engaged in a heated discussion with a short bearded man, a disturbingly beautiful blonde man with pointy ears was sitting cross-legged on he counter turning on and off the sink faucet. Four midgets, or little people or what the correct term for them these days were also seated at the table, they were devouring a bag of Doritos in record time. Two men who would have been the most normal of the group had they not been wearing clothing that looking right out of a King Arthur legend were standing in the corner conversing quietly.
"Could somebody please tell me what the hell is going on here?" At Willow's words the group quieted.
"Oh Willow, you're awake, and hey, you don't look quite as homicidal as you did when I saw you last." Anya stood, "Willow, May I introduce to the fellowship of the Ring, this-" She gestured to the man that she had been conversing with, "is Gimli, he's a dwarf" She pointed to the group of midgets, "They are Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin, they're hobbits. Those scruffy ones over there are Aragorn and Boromir. And Blondie's name is. Legos"
"Legolas" he corrected.
"Damn, don't worry I'll get it eventually. Legolas, he's an elf. Guys this is Willow."
"Can you send us home?" Questioned Aragorn as soon as Anya had stopped speaking.
"I don't know, I'm not even sure how I brought you here."
"Anya has told us that you made a grievous error in a spell, thus accidentally bringing us forth from Middle-Earth. Now that you are awake you must simply undo the spell." Countered the ranger.
"I'm not so sure that I even made a mistake, you see my spell was supposed to bring me a warrior that could help defeat a particularly evil demon that we are facing. The warrior was supposed to disappear once its task was fulfilled."
"We don't have time to help you slay a demon, we are on an important quest, and we must return to it at once." Boromir advanced closer to the witch.
"I can't." She said softly. "The spell cannot just be undone, its goal must first be reached."
"It's goal being the killing of this demon that you speak of?" Aragorn asked.
Willow nodded. "Hypothetically, yes."
"Why should we trust you, witch?" Gimli demanded standing so forcefully that he knocked over his chair. "After all, you just threatened little Frodo, and your eyes turned black, and-"
"Gimli!" Aragorn raised a hand to silence the bellowing dwarf. "I apologize for my companion's behavior, but he raises a good point, why should we trust you, we don't know you. Your land is strange, and your lack of magikal control hardly exudes trustworthiness.
"That's all very true, but it goes for you too. How do we know that you all aren't evil? No offence or anything but he reeks of black magik." Willow said quietly pointing at Frodo.
"As we have already explained to Anya here, we are transporting an evil ring of power to Mount Doom where it may be destroyed. Frodo is the ring bearer." Boromir said.
"Oh"
A tense silence fell over the house, only to be broken by the phone, at the ring all of the men immediately returned to fighting stance. At the second ring Legolas shot it, sparks flew out of the hole that the arrow had punctured in the receiver. "Buffy is so going to kill me." Willow whispered again.
~~~
Buffy was due home in an hour and Willow was still trying to explain the concept of a phone to the Fellowship. Merry and Pippin had been the first to understand. They had then proceeded to call random numbers, and introduce themselves to the people at the other end.
"So you mean that there's no one inside of it?" Gimli had asked the same question at least as dozen times before.
"No, you daft dwarf, there was no little person inside of it ten minutes ago, there still isn't. You are just talking to someone far away, like a magikal speaking mirror, only you can't see them." Legolas finally yelled at the Dwarf.
"That's it I don't care if you do look like a girl I'm fightin ya!" Gimli threw down his ax and held his fists up.
"In no way do I resemble a girl!" Legolas shouted back. "And I'm not going to fight you like some kind of barbarian!"
"Oh yeah, well why don't you just go and brush yer hair instead."
Legolas was just about to lunge at Gimli when Aragorn intercepted him. "What are you two doing? This is no time to be fighting with each other. We have to stay together, now more that ever."
"He started it!" Gimli protested loudly.
"Liar!"
Willow sighed helplessly, watching as Aragorn tried to separate the two. Then the worst thing possible occurred, Buffy came walking in the door.
~~~
*Yes I realize that this concept has kind off been done to death but if you review I will throw in more humor in the next chapter.*