Heaven's Gift
Summary: Willow's spell has unexpected results as it sends her to Middle Earth
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, I am just borrowing them for a bit of fun. Joss owns everything in the Buffyverse. The brilliant JRR Tolkien owns all things Middle Earth.
Spoilers: Spoilers for Buffy – none really, AU. Spoilers for LOTR – Based on the Two Towers Movie
Feedback: Always welcome
A/N: Willow is a powerful witch but there was no rampage and she and Tara were friends. Answer to Malana's challenge to pair Willow and Aragorn
Part 1
For the past few days Willow was spending her afternoons in the Magic Box helping Giles and Anya with inventory. As she looked around the back stockroom, she wondered for the hundredth time how she got volunteered for this duty. With a sigh of resignation Willow cataloged the few remaining items.
As she turned to leave she noticed a box behind the crate she had been standing on. Taking it with her out front she quietly closed the door to the back.
"Finished?"
Willow smiled at Giles, "Yep all except this box that I just found." She gave it to Giles and made her way to Anya to give her the inventory list.
"Thanks, Willow you helped a lot." With a glare aimed at Xander she continued, "more than some people."
"Now, Anya that was an accident."
"What happened?"
"Xander decided to 'help' and grabbed a nearby broom to help clean but unfortunately it wasn't a normal broom."
Willow winced, "Xander please tell me you didn't grab the Broom of Illusions."
"Heh, funny you should say that Wills. I swept and all of a sudden there were little gnomes all over the place. And can I just say that they are not the cute garden statues that you see everywhere. These were evil!"
Anya rolled her eyes. "He thinks they were evil 'cause they attacked him. He stood over them and taunted them about their size and then he's all surprised when they attack."
"Hey they were supposed to be illusions which means they aren't really there. Whoever heard of illusions hurting?"
"How'd you get rid of them?" Willow looked around nervously, "You did get rid of them right?"
"Yeah, Giles did some mojo and poof they were gone."
Giles returned to the front carrying a book with gold script on the cover.
"Willow, where did you say you found this?"
"I found the box next to the last shelf by the back door. It was behind a crate I was standing on."
"I don't remember ordering this book, Anya do you recognize this?"
Anya took the book from Giles, "I didn't order any books but we did get a box of stuff from that Estate sale last month. Maybe it was from there."
Anya looked at the front of the book and carefully traced the lettering on the front, "Well, this is Elvish."
"Elvish? You mean like Santa's elves?" Xander asked.
"Hmm, probably cousins to them. I think this might be Quenya. A high Elvish language. It's been a long time since I've seen anything like this though so I could be wrong."
Giles took the book back and mumbled, "I think I have a book in the back that translates Elvish."
When Giles returned with the translation book Willow sat next to him.
"Will you be able to translate this?"
"I think so. See this line here? It looks like this one, which means Fire."
Willow left him to his translations. She wouldn't be any help anyway.
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After a few hours had passed Willow asked, "Any luck with the translation?"
Giles looked up distractedly. "I'm not sure if I have it correctly. I think it says Mileneeme ned menel naar, which roughly translates to Opened door of Heaven's Fire."
Willow wrinkled her forehead. "There's something familiar about that but I can't quite put my finger on it."
"I felt the same way but I can't recall where I might have come across it."
"Maybe if you walk away from it for a while you'll have a fresh approach."
"When did you get so smart, Xander?"
Xander nudged Willow with his elbow, "Must have been all those years hanging out with the resident genius."
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That night Willow couldn't get the translation out of her mind. It was bugging her that she couldn't remember where she may have seen it before. Giving up all pretense of trying to sleep she quietly slipped out of bed and went to her desk.
Powering up the laptop she went to her favorite Search Engine and typed "Heaven's Fire"
Oh crap, 300 hits. This is going to take forever, she thought. Willow decided to check the Wiccan sites next. Maybe it was a spell or something magickal that she remembered.
After nine sites and no luck Willow was about to give up when she decided to try one more site. Scrolling down the index of magickal items that she found, Willow's eyes widened when she caught the words Celestial Fire.
That was it. Finally the light bulb went off over Willow's head. Now she remembered why the phrase sounded so familiar. It was the Portal of Celestial Fire.
It was supposedly a Portal that allowed you to travel between myth and reality. The rumors were that it was made of Fairie Magick. Willow guessed that Elves were close to Fairies. She would ask Giles in the morning if he thought this might be related.
Clicking on the link, Willow quickly scanned the information. She noticed that there was even a spell that you could do that opened the Portal. Willow decided to download as much of the information that she could for easier access for Giles. He still wasn't all that computer literate and it was easier for him to read a Word doc than to go on-line and find what he was looking for.
Happy that she finally solved that puzzle, Willow powered down the computer and returned to bed. She hated not being able to figure something out. She knew that she wouldn't have gotten any sleep worrying about that book.
Just as she was drifting off to sleep she thought she heard a whispered voice say, "I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, han mathon ne chae a han noston ned 'wilith."
'The world is changed; I can feel it in the water, I can feel it in the earth, I can smell it in the air.'
