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A Cruel Fascination

Chapter 2

Ouch!

Elrond raised his eyebrows at Sean. Although there was a lot going through Sean's mind at the time the only thing he could think of was how he couldn't feel his legs and how Elrond needed his eyebrows waxed. "Speak, creature of the sky," said Elrond standing up proudly and dignified.

Sean sat up rubbing his head and after a few moments of looking around then said, "Uh, hello." At this moment Zoe had rolled over then sat up too. Julia still lay there without knowing what was going on.

Coughing a little Zoe stood up. She wobbled around a bit, but after a moment stood still. Her eyes traveled along the people who were sitting there watching them.

Aragorn spoke in his gruff voice again pointing to Julia, "She looks dead." Zoe looked at Julia then walked over to her and kicked her in the back a few times.

Julia mumbled something about her head then her eyes fluttered open. "Ouch!" she yelled. She too sat up and looked around her eyes wandering along the people.

Boromir stood up pointing at them accusingly, "They are enemies!" he bellowed out insanely. "Enemies I tell you! Kill them all!"

Sean stood up putting his hands up defensively towards them all saying, "No, please. I- or we're no harm."

Boromir watched them suspiciously. Gandalf stood up supporting himself on his staff then walked over to them inhaling the air deeply. "They look like humans. They smell like humans," he said.

"That's because we're are humans oh holy smart one," responded Zoe slyly.

"This one has a mocking tone to her," said Gandalf as if he was alerting the group about something they did not already know. "It is a her?"

Zoe shook her fist at him saying, "Yes it's a her!"

Sean walked a few paces over to Julia pulling her up from the ground because she had seemed to have a problem recovering from the fall. She stood there still staring at everyone in disbelief. She finally spoke, "This is a really fucked up dream."

"Fucked up?" asked Elrond curiously. "What words do you speak?"

She pinched Sean who said, "OW."

"Oh no," said Julia, "This isn't a dream."

"Hey, why did you pinch me?" he asked rubbing his arm.

"Because if it was you I pinched it wouldn't hurt me," she responded shrugging.

"Enough!" said Elrond fed up with their childish behavior. "Who are you and where do you come from? Tell me if you are enemies!"

"Quite frankly," Zoe said, "If we were enemies, why would we tell you?" Julia shushed Zoe. She didn't want her egging them all on.

"We're distant travelers from a distant land. But alas, something went wrong and we wound up here," said Julia massaging her own head.

"Maybe it was like a certain alignment of the planets that happens every hundred years that gives a bookstore employee a free wish," said Sean grinning. He seemed to be enjoying the fact that his little silly wish had come true. Julia shrugged.

Elrond stared at them with a confused face. His glaring eyes would twinkle ever so often during his thoughts. A small voice spoke up finally; "Maybe they have come to help us with the quest." The voice belonged to Frodo.

"Yes!" said Zoe enthusiastically, "The quest! The journey! The destroying of the ring!"

"How do you know of the ring?" asked Aragorn with widened eyes.

"We've read the book and seen the movie," said Sean still with a large grin upon his face. Oh how he was enjoying this.

Everyone began to talk in hushed voices. Elrond raised his hand to silence them then spoke; "This is obviously is true magic. It was fate. It was meant to be. That is why they know of the ring. The one ring. They can help. They said so themselves."

"We did?" asked Julia raising her eyebrow.

"Yes we did," replied Zoe elbowing Julia.

"Ah, yes, we did!" said Julia looking down at the ground. What a lovely ground it was. Everything was beautiful there.

Frodo first volunteered then everyone came forth volunteering like Gandalf, Aragorn, Boromir, Legolas, and Gimli.

"Well now that we have established all this, I will call you all the Bearers of the Ring!" announced Elrond in a large booming voice that rung over everyone like cold water.

"What the fuck?" asked Sean. "I thought we were the Fellowship!"

"Fellowship?" asked Elrond rubbing his chin. "I like that better! The Fellowship of the Ring!" he continued dramatically.

"Sweet mother of rock in roll," said Julia. "Never saw myself doing this!"

Suddenly Sam ran tripping over Zoe and flying across the floor hitting Gimli and knocking him over. "Wait," he said I he stood up leaving Gimli on the floor with the wind knocked out of him, "Mr. Frodo isn't going without me!"

"We're coming too!" said Pippin and Merry running in too.

Elrond buried his head in his hands mumbling, "We're all going to die."

"There, there," said Zoe in a comforting voice. "It could all be worse."

"How?" asked Elrond practically about to burst into tears.

"No idea."

"Well let's go!" announced Gandalf.

"We're leaving already?" asked Sean.

"Sure are, now get your bottoms moving!" said the wizard happily.

Legolas stared at them still without any words. He looked as though he disapproved but Sean just nodded grinning and waving. Zoe and Julia stuck close to the boy. This adventure would indeed want to kill them all.

The end of chapter 2!

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