One Hell of a Birthday
by SplendiferGoddess
Next chap. Much fun. And stuff. I'm tired. My moms waking me up early tomorrow. I should probably be sleeping, eh? yeah... thats what I thought...
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Chapter Six: A Whole Pile Of Decades Is A Lot!
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So Diane and Ayla had taken Katie and Milan to see King Thranduil. Milan was touching everything that people didn't tell him not to, and Katie was sending flirtatious looks in the general direction of Legolas, who happened to be in the room when Diane and Ayla brought their siblings in.
After thoroughly scaring the royalty, Katie and Milan were given rooms and shown the way to them. Diane and Ayla went off by themselves to discuss this new phenomenon of siblings falling from above.
They found a nice tree and scrambled up it until coming to a large, thick branch that could support the weight of both of them.
"I like trees," Ayla said. Diane scowled.
"I think they hate me. I kept hitting my head against one while I was on my picnic with Haldir."
Ayla snorted. "Should I ask what you were doing with Haldir that would cause head-tree connectage?" She giggled.
"No," Diane said. "Weren't we gonna talk about the invasion of the family members?" Ayla coughed.
"Oh, right," she said. "Well, I don't think that the same thing that brought us here brought them here. They're still in Earth-type clothes." Diane nodded.
"And they fell from above, instead of just, apearing here," she pointed out.
"But what if we fell from the sky?" Ayla asked.
"I think I would have woken up in a lot more pain and a lot quicker if I had fallen out of the sky, Ayla," Diane said.
"Point," Ayla said, nodding. "This will take lengthy pondering, indeed." Ayla rubbed her chin thoughtfully, squinting one eye and cocking her head to the side, so she looked like a rather creepy marionette from a Goosebumps book or something.
"Kook," Diane said.
They didn't talk for much longer. They were just about to leave the tree when they heard sounds below them. They looked down to see Katie dragging Legolas behind her.
"Come on," she was saying. "There's a clearing somewhere around here where we won't be interupted."
"I think I know of where you are talking about," Legolas said, suddenly taking the lead and flashing Katie a suggestive grin.
Diane and Ayla looked at each other, a tad surprised.
"That was creepy," Ayla said.
"Yes," Diane agreed. "Very."
---
The rest of the day passed without incident, although both Legolas and Katie had rather interesting expressions on their faces any time somebody saw them.
Katie's was that of conquest. Lagolas' was that of discovery, awe, and utter admiration.
That night, Ayla was getting ready for bed when their was a knock on the bedroom door. She buttoned up the top button of her nightdress and went to answer the door, being careful not to wake Diane, who was already asleep, hidden under the covers on her bed.
Gandalf was at the door.
"Gandalf!" Ayla said in a surprised whisper. She stepped out of the room and closed the door behind her. "What are you doing here?"
"You were about to give me your answer, when we were interupted," he said, looking imploringly at her.
"Uh..." Ayla trailed off. She hated being put on the spot. Usually, she could bluff her way out of this kind of situation, but for some reason, she couldn't think of some sort of bullshit response or excuse.
'Damn this fresh outdoor air!' she thought. 'It's making me feel very honest.'
"Well," she fumbled, playing with the hem of her nightdress, suddenly realising why people didn't wear nightdresses around in public - this one, at least, was incredibly short and flimsy. She felt very exposed, all of a sudden. "My answer - was - uh -"
Suddenly, she stopped, pulled Gandalf towards her, kissed him quickly, and then took off down the hallway, in the general direction of the stairs.
Gandalf was left behind with a rather surprised expression.
---
Ayla flew through the halls until she was finally out of the palace and on the front steps. She stopped and leaned against the wall, panting slightly.
'I need to get back into shape,' she thought. She heard a noise and looked up. She stepped off the steps and walked foreward a few paces, and came face to face with Diane and Haldir.
"Diane! Haldir! What are you doing out here?" Ayla asked, surprised. Diane shrugged.
"What are *you* doing out here?" she asked in reply. "You aren't exactly dressed for a hike." Diane smirked. Ayla narrowed ehr eyes at her, and then smiled. She actually didn't care that she was wearing a nightdress that barely reached her mid-thighs. She didn't know why she had felt so embarrassed back up by her room.
"Ayla?" Diane noticed the small frown that had set on Ayla's face. "What's wrong?"
"Indeed, Ayla, you seem troubled," Haldir said. Ayla sighed.
"I kissed Gandalf," Ayla said simply. Diane's eyes widened, but Haldir did not look surprised.
"Do you wish that you had not?" he asked. Ayla blinked.
"Well, no..." she said slowly.
"Then what is the problem?"
Ayla looked at Diane for help. Diane just shrugged and smothered a giggle.
"Well - He - I - Er..." Ayla fumbled her words. "I'm fifteen!" she finally said. "Gandalf's like..." Ayla stopped and turned to Haldir. "How old is Gandalf?" she asked.
"I, myself, am not quite certain," he answered.
"Is he older than fifty?"
"Well, of course," Haldir replied. Ayla turned back to Diane.
"He's a whole pile of decades older than me!" she cried.
Diane looked at Ayla. "Ayla," she said, "was it a horrible kiss?"
"Well, no..." Ayla said slowly. "It was a good kiss actually..."
"Then what's the problem?"
Ayla opened her mouth, and then closed it again. She put her hands on her hips, and squinted one eye. "Good point," she said finally. She was about to head back up to her room and then stopped and turned back to Diane. "I thought you were asleep in bed," she said. Diane grinned.
"Think Prancing Pony scene," Diane replied. Ayla rolled her eyes, said goodbye, and took off again, this time heading towards her room.
When she got there, Gandalf was no longer there. Well, no duh, she thought. She headed towards his room. When she got there, he was sitting on his balcony - everyone seems to have bolcony having rooms, Ayla thought - staring at the sky.
"Gandalf?" Ayla said hesitantly. Gandalf looked up at her. Ayla smiled. Gandalf smiled. She walked up to him and gave him a hug, which he returned.
Ayla sighed softly, smiling. This was right.
Suddenly, the floor opened up and they fell through. Ayla shrieked. Gandalf yelled in surprise. They fell into a black abyss.
---
Diane and Haldir were sitting on a bench by the entrance of the castle, talking.
"That was actually rather amusing," Haldir said.
"You just like to see Ayla upset," Diane said, rolling her eyes. "I don't know what it is about you two - you're always bickering, subtley or not." Haldir shrugged.
"We are very different, that is all," he explained. Diane snorted.
"Oh, as *if*," she laughed. "You two are so alike it's scary sometimes!"
Haldir scowled and looked away. Diane poked his shoulder. He looked back at her.
"Get over it," she said quietly, grinning at him. He fought a smile, but it ended up winning, and the corner of his lip twitched up.
The the bench seemd to open up and swallow them whole, pulling them into some sort of black abyss.
"Ack!" Diane cried.
"Eep!" Haldir shouted. Eep? Diane thought momentarily. This is my elf? He says *eep*?
She was quickly yanked from her thoughts as she found herself floating in blackness, alone. "Haldir?" she called. "Where did you go?" There was no answer. She frowned, and started to doggy paddle, and as far as she knew, she was moving, although she had no way to make sure - it wasn't like there was any scenery or floating objects aound that she could gauge her position on.
After about ten minutes, she bumped into something. There was a scream, and then Diane shouted in shock. She reached out, and poked something squishy.
"Hey! That's my eye!"
"Ayla?"
"Diane?"
"Yes! It's you! What happened? One minuteGandalf and I were standing in his room, and then, ploob, I'm floating around in some sort of spacial anomily."
"Ayla, you need to stop watching Star Trek," Diane said. "But seriously, me and Haldir were just sitting on a bench, and then it opened up and I ended up here."
"Diane," Ayla said slowly. "You don't think we're going back home, do you? To regular Earth?"
Diane didn't say anything for a moment. Suddenly a hand whacked her in the head. "Ow," she groaned.
"Sorry, I thought you had dispaeared," Ayla apologised. "But, maybe that's why Gandalf and Haldir aren't here. Maybe we're going home, and they aren't coming with us?"
"That's not fair," Diane grumbled. Suddenly there was a shout. And then another one. And two more.
"Hello?" Diane and Ayla called, nearly at the same time.
"Hey-ho!"
There was much paddling and awkward swinging of limbs, and then everybody bumped into everybody else.
"What in God's name is going on?" Katie asked.
"I dunno," Ayla replied. There was a swinging of a limb.
"Ow!"
"Sorry, Haldir, I was aiming for Ayla."
"Heeee! Missed me! Ow!"
"Hah, that time I didn't!"
A raspberry was blown, and another one sent back.
Suddenly, a bright light, like a spotlight appeared. Everybody blinked and peered around. Then, suddenly, everything went kind of swishy and swirly, and the next thing everyone knew, they were no longer in the abyss.
Ayla, Diane, Haldir, and Gandalf blinked and looked around. They were in what looked like an apartment, and Katie and Milan were nowhere to be seen.
"Eh?" said Ayla. "What is going on?!"
"Uh, Diane? Ayla?" said Haldir. "You may want to examine a mirror."
Diane and Ayla raised eyebrows, and then found the bathroom of the apartment. They peered into the mirror, and their jaws dropped in shock. They were... older. By a few years, not a lot, but you could still tell that they were older.
They walked back into the living room and Diane walked over to the television and turned it on. The weather station was on. They peered at the bottom of the screen, where the date was. It said: January 7th, 2006.
Diane and Ayla stared in surprise. Haldir and Gandalf were staring in the television in surprise, too, but that was probably because they had never in their life seen a television before.
Diane and Ayla groaned. This was gonna take a lot of figuring out.
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Yeah, so it was a weird chapter, and I'm not really sure what's happening anymore, lol. Stuff is just kind of happening on its own - i just write it, man! lol.
yeah, sorry for the taking so long of posting. Stuff's been going on, enjoy the chapperty!
-SplendiferGoddess
by SplendiferGoddess
Next chap. Much fun. And stuff. I'm tired. My moms waking me up early tomorrow. I should probably be sleeping, eh? yeah... thats what I thought...
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Chapter Six: A Whole Pile Of Decades Is A Lot!
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So Diane and Ayla had taken Katie and Milan to see King Thranduil. Milan was touching everything that people didn't tell him not to, and Katie was sending flirtatious looks in the general direction of Legolas, who happened to be in the room when Diane and Ayla brought their siblings in.
After thoroughly scaring the royalty, Katie and Milan were given rooms and shown the way to them. Diane and Ayla went off by themselves to discuss this new phenomenon of siblings falling from above.
They found a nice tree and scrambled up it until coming to a large, thick branch that could support the weight of both of them.
"I like trees," Ayla said. Diane scowled.
"I think they hate me. I kept hitting my head against one while I was on my picnic with Haldir."
Ayla snorted. "Should I ask what you were doing with Haldir that would cause head-tree connectage?" She giggled.
"No," Diane said. "Weren't we gonna talk about the invasion of the family members?" Ayla coughed.
"Oh, right," she said. "Well, I don't think that the same thing that brought us here brought them here. They're still in Earth-type clothes." Diane nodded.
"And they fell from above, instead of just, apearing here," she pointed out.
"But what if we fell from the sky?" Ayla asked.
"I think I would have woken up in a lot more pain and a lot quicker if I had fallen out of the sky, Ayla," Diane said.
"Point," Ayla said, nodding. "This will take lengthy pondering, indeed." Ayla rubbed her chin thoughtfully, squinting one eye and cocking her head to the side, so she looked like a rather creepy marionette from a Goosebumps book or something.
"Kook," Diane said.
They didn't talk for much longer. They were just about to leave the tree when they heard sounds below them. They looked down to see Katie dragging Legolas behind her.
"Come on," she was saying. "There's a clearing somewhere around here where we won't be interupted."
"I think I know of where you are talking about," Legolas said, suddenly taking the lead and flashing Katie a suggestive grin.
Diane and Ayla looked at each other, a tad surprised.
"That was creepy," Ayla said.
"Yes," Diane agreed. "Very."
---
The rest of the day passed without incident, although both Legolas and Katie had rather interesting expressions on their faces any time somebody saw them.
Katie's was that of conquest. Lagolas' was that of discovery, awe, and utter admiration.
That night, Ayla was getting ready for bed when their was a knock on the bedroom door. She buttoned up the top button of her nightdress and went to answer the door, being careful not to wake Diane, who was already asleep, hidden under the covers on her bed.
Gandalf was at the door.
"Gandalf!" Ayla said in a surprised whisper. She stepped out of the room and closed the door behind her. "What are you doing here?"
"You were about to give me your answer, when we were interupted," he said, looking imploringly at her.
"Uh..." Ayla trailed off. She hated being put on the spot. Usually, she could bluff her way out of this kind of situation, but for some reason, she couldn't think of some sort of bullshit response or excuse.
'Damn this fresh outdoor air!' she thought. 'It's making me feel very honest.'
"Well," she fumbled, playing with the hem of her nightdress, suddenly realising why people didn't wear nightdresses around in public - this one, at least, was incredibly short and flimsy. She felt very exposed, all of a sudden. "My answer - was - uh -"
Suddenly, she stopped, pulled Gandalf towards her, kissed him quickly, and then took off down the hallway, in the general direction of the stairs.
Gandalf was left behind with a rather surprised expression.
---
Ayla flew through the halls until she was finally out of the palace and on the front steps. She stopped and leaned against the wall, panting slightly.
'I need to get back into shape,' she thought. She heard a noise and looked up. She stepped off the steps and walked foreward a few paces, and came face to face with Diane and Haldir.
"Diane! Haldir! What are you doing out here?" Ayla asked, surprised. Diane shrugged.
"What are *you* doing out here?" she asked in reply. "You aren't exactly dressed for a hike." Diane smirked. Ayla narrowed ehr eyes at her, and then smiled. She actually didn't care that she was wearing a nightdress that barely reached her mid-thighs. She didn't know why she had felt so embarrassed back up by her room.
"Ayla?" Diane noticed the small frown that had set on Ayla's face. "What's wrong?"
"Indeed, Ayla, you seem troubled," Haldir said. Ayla sighed.
"I kissed Gandalf," Ayla said simply. Diane's eyes widened, but Haldir did not look surprised.
"Do you wish that you had not?" he asked. Ayla blinked.
"Well, no..." she said slowly.
"Then what is the problem?"
Ayla looked at Diane for help. Diane just shrugged and smothered a giggle.
"Well - He - I - Er..." Ayla fumbled her words. "I'm fifteen!" she finally said. "Gandalf's like..." Ayla stopped and turned to Haldir. "How old is Gandalf?" she asked.
"I, myself, am not quite certain," he answered.
"Is he older than fifty?"
"Well, of course," Haldir replied. Ayla turned back to Diane.
"He's a whole pile of decades older than me!" she cried.
Diane looked at Ayla. "Ayla," she said, "was it a horrible kiss?"
"Well, no..." Ayla said slowly. "It was a good kiss actually..."
"Then what's the problem?"
Ayla opened her mouth, and then closed it again. She put her hands on her hips, and squinted one eye. "Good point," she said finally. She was about to head back up to her room and then stopped and turned back to Diane. "I thought you were asleep in bed," she said. Diane grinned.
"Think Prancing Pony scene," Diane replied. Ayla rolled her eyes, said goodbye, and took off again, this time heading towards her room.
When she got there, Gandalf was no longer there. Well, no duh, she thought. She headed towards his room. When she got there, he was sitting on his balcony - everyone seems to have bolcony having rooms, Ayla thought - staring at the sky.
"Gandalf?" Ayla said hesitantly. Gandalf looked up at her. Ayla smiled. Gandalf smiled. She walked up to him and gave him a hug, which he returned.
Ayla sighed softly, smiling. This was right.
Suddenly, the floor opened up and they fell through. Ayla shrieked. Gandalf yelled in surprise. They fell into a black abyss.
---
Diane and Haldir were sitting on a bench by the entrance of the castle, talking.
"That was actually rather amusing," Haldir said.
"You just like to see Ayla upset," Diane said, rolling her eyes. "I don't know what it is about you two - you're always bickering, subtley or not." Haldir shrugged.
"We are very different, that is all," he explained. Diane snorted.
"Oh, as *if*," she laughed. "You two are so alike it's scary sometimes!"
Haldir scowled and looked away. Diane poked his shoulder. He looked back at her.
"Get over it," she said quietly, grinning at him. He fought a smile, but it ended up winning, and the corner of his lip twitched up.
The the bench seemd to open up and swallow them whole, pulling them into some sort of black abyss.
"Ack!" Diane cried.
"Eep!" Haldir shouted. Eep? Diane thought momentarily. This is my elf? He says *eep*?
She was quickly yanked from her thoughts as she found herself floating in blackness, alone. "Haldir?" she called. "Where did you go?" There was no answer. She frowned, and started to doggy paddle, and as far as she knew, she was moving, although she had no way to make sure - it wasn't like there was any scenery or floating objects aound that she could gauge her position on.
After about ten minutes, she bumped into something. There was a scream, and then Diane shouted in shock. She reached out, and poked something squishy.
"Hey! That's my eye!"
"Ayla?"
"Diane?"
"Yes! It's you! What happened? One minuteGandalf and I were standing in his room, and then, ploob, I'm floating around in some sort of spacial anomily."
"Ayla, you need to stop watching Star Trek," Diane said. "But seriously, me and Haldir were just sitting on a bench, and then it opened up and I ended up here."
"Diane," Ayla said slowly. "You don't think we're going back home, do you? To regular Earth?"
Diane didn't say anything for a moment. Suddenly a hand whacked her in the head. "Ow," she groaned.
"Sorry, I thought you had dispaeared," Ayla apologised. "But, maybe that's why Gandalf and Haldir aren't here. Maybe we're going home, and they aren't coming with us?"
"That's not fair," Diane grumbled. Suddenly there was a shout. And then another one. And two more.
"Hello?" Diane and Ayla called, nearly at the same time.
"Hey-ho!"
There was much paddling and awkward swinging of limbs, and then everybody bumped into everybody else.
"What in God's name is going on?" Katie asked.
"I dunno," Ayla replied. There was a swinging of a limb.
"Ow!"
"Sorry, Haldir, I was aiming for Ayla."
"Heeee! Missed me! Ow!"
"Hah, that time I didn't!"
A raspberry was blown, and another one sent back.
Suddenly, a bright light, like a spotlight appeared. Everybody blinked and peered around. Then, suddenly, everything went kind of swishy and swirly, and the next thing everyone knew, they were no longer in the abyss.
Ayla, Diane, Haldir, and Gandalf blinked and looked around. They were in what looked like an apartment, and Katie and Milan were nowhere to be seen.
"Eh?" said Ayla. "What is going on?!"
"Uh, Diane? Ayla?" said Haldir. "You may want to examine a mirror."
Diane and Ayla raised eyebrows, and then found the bathroom of the apartment. They peered into the mirror, and their jaws dropped in shock. They were... older. By a few years, not a lot, but you could still tell that they were older.
They walked back into the living room and Diane walked over to the television and turned it on. The weather station was on. They peered at the bottom of the screen, where the date was. It said: January 7th, 2006.
Diane and Ayla stared in surprise. Haldir and Gandalf were staring in the television in surprise, too, but that was probably because they had never in their life seen a television before.
Diane and Ayla groaned. This was gonna take a lot of figuring out.
-----
Yeah, so it was a weird chapter, and I'm not really sure what's happening anymore, lol. Stuff is just kind of happening on its own - i just write it, man! lol.
yeah, sorry for the taking so long of posting. Stuff's been going on, enjoy the chapperty!
-SplendiferGoddess