Author's Note: Thank you so much for the feedback! Now another question, when should it all end for them?? Because I could keep writing, or it could end next chapter! You never know...
Judgement Chapter Twelve (A/N:Have I really made it this far??)
Well of course they open it! Virginia borrowed a rag from inside the hole and returned to help wrench the door open. It was stuck tight, but Gabby and Virginia could change into something stronger if they wished. They didn't need to. The door screeeched in protest as they pried it open by force. They took the small hurricane lantern from Pipppin and looked inside. A small necklace lay clutched in a girls hand inside the safe, the remains of the girl all but gone. Her skeletal features crumbling before their very eyes. The only way they knew it was even a girl was the half charred long black hair hanging from her half decayed head.

The smell was unbearable but Gabby still took the necklace from the little girls clenched fist. An enormous pendent was swinging from the chain. She flipped it over to find the girl had been carving her last moments of life on the heart shaped keepsake. She reak through it before reading it aloud.

"No air, curse you father. The heat, OH THE HEAT! Fire, there is a fire."The writing was frenzied here."May the hounds of hell drag me away now lest I die in this inferno." Gabby looked up from the swinging pendent. She wasn't swinging it, the girl was. Her long-dead body was in the safe, laughing.
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In her crib Maureen shook violently, the girl was going to get her. "I'm going to kill them, Maureen. Then, when I'm strong enough, I'll get you!" the charred little girl shrieked into the babe's ear. "I'm free now! Let the hobbits imprison a wraith's daughter if they wish. But they won't lock me in the dark depths of this iron box again." the child laughed evilly and moved on to Legolas's thoughts.

"You think you have her, well she's mine now." the voice whispered in his ear. Legolas head whipped around to see the speaker. A little girl, wearing a plain cotton dress. She was tall for a hobbit, but short for a man's form. She smiled at him as she walked around the small table. Legolas instictively jumped in front of the crib to keep the demonic child away from Gabby's niece. Her eyes flashed dangerously as he lifted the half-asleep girl into his arms.

"You know I'm not talking about her." the girl tried to explain. "She opened the box, I'm free." she cackled and walked to the window. "Three hours before the wraiths find her. The one who freed the wraith's daughter." the little girl said then; "Three hours to save her, Legolas. What will you do?" he began to panic, the Shire was days away from here even on the swiftest horse. The demon-child disappeared, revealing no more.
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"You have no idea what you've just done." the thing in the safe cackled. It raised it charred arms out of the safe and pulled it's head out, the sharp teeth gleaming in the moonlight. Gabby, Virginia, and all the others took a step back. As they watched, pieces of her decaying body fell off and hit the ground, killing the grass it touched. "Would you like to hear my sad story?" the thing crowed. Gabby felt her reasonable mind give her head a nod. She did, and so be it, she'd find out.

"We'll see how you feel after you hear it." the girl smiled. "I am a child of great misfortune. My father is now a wraith. An affair with his mistress led to me. But the reason I never die, never sleep, is the wraith inside me. He was half wraith when he met my mother. By the time I was born, in the Shire, he was a servant of the Dark Lord. My mother died in child-birth, so my mother's good friends took me in as their own. Oh how I longed to be with my real father! But ho, my 'father' of the Shire knew of my dark instincts. Wishing to be rid of his wife's pride and joy, me, he locked me in a safe and set fire to the house. Fool, you cannot kill a wraith, or his daughter. I lived on, imprisoned in my iron cell, peeking into minds of others, trying to get out. Now, it appears, my searching is over, for I have met you, Gabriel. You shall be my servant until all is right in this world." the thing grinned at Gabby, revealing her fangs. The claw marks on the inside of the safe were terrifying, she must have been trying to get out. Limited oxygen inside the cell made her weak. Her body expired, needing the essentials that the safe could not provide.

"Okay, I guess that you are vengeful and rueful and crap like that then, huh?" Virginia asked, her voice shaking.

"In a way." the child agreed. "We have not been properly introduced, I am Lindsey. Princess of the Wraiths."

"Yeah, I guessed that." Gabby intervened. "Not interested, you can just leave us the hell alone, right now." she looked at the amused kid before her.

"Don't be so sure. I can be in your mind, in the ones you love, need I continue?" she asked. In her head, Gabby saw Legolas's face being scarred from the child's mind games. Him dying in so many ways, she cringed.

"And what would make this world right again?" inquired Gabby, her voice maintaining it's stable hold on a monotonous pitch.

"Lord Sauron, alive and ruling all the creatures of Middle-Earth, with his Queen at his side." she replied, as if it were obvious. Gabby gawked at this half-pint Hitler. She looked no more than nine years of age, yet she fantasized of things that could and would never come to be.

"You be dreaming, Squirt." she said hotly. It was preposterous, Lord Sauron alive.

"It could be done, with a sacrifice, now who?" she asked peering around the group.

A blonde elf with a quiver of arrows on his back stepped out of a blue mist near the group of terrified hobbits and elves. He walked over to the young girl and talked soothingly to her, troubled by her hatred of all that was alive.

"Lindsey, you are welcomed to the land of lost souls, why not leave, and conquer them instead?" he asked. He knew it couldn't be done, the leader of the underworld, Sedah, would throw her into the depths of Heaven first. Tears of blood spilled from Lindsey's eyes.

"I want my father!" she cried. Legolas ushered her to the mist of blue. As soon as she was inside, the mist became dense and clung to Lindsey's body, trapping her in a wall of magic. The mist fell beneath the surface of the earth, holding her in yet another trap, a cage per se.

"Legolas! Oh thank God!" Gabby cried, actually grateful for the rescue. She wrapped her arms around his neck and sobbed onto his shoulder for what seemed like hours. He held her, glad she was his again, not held by that demon-child. She was free to continue on her search for her cousin Ryann in peace. Legolas's body faded into ash and blew away. Then Gabby understood, he was a vision, a double sent to capture the girl, Lindsey and put her in her rightful place. How easy it had been, Gabby couldn't help but feel like they forgot something. The pendant swung lazily from her hand. Gabby hurled it into the safe and closed the door. For the first time in days, she realized she was not meant to be there, where she was, what she was doing.

Gabby wasn't dumb, she had read the books. Legolas was supposed to follow Gimli to the Grey Havens. A sign of everlasting friendship, but now she was standing in his way. Diamond/Lisa was in her rightful place. Virginia was soon to find her own, so what was Gabby supposed to do. Then it hit her, she had to recite the spell and get home once and for all. She set her jaw, she was taking Ryann with her before she screwed up the way Frodo felt about hobbit lasses. She didn't need anymore trouble from changing things. One slip up and she awoke a Wraith Princess. She was afraid of this land now, so unforgiving, she wanted to see the movie stars again, live in good old Kansas, and forget all about this three month expedition. But Gabby didn't know how, so she resolved to find out, and leave before she hurt anyone worse.
Author's Note: AAAH! Now if I end it, I'LL want a sequel, does anyone else want a sequel? HUH?!