The Will of the Ring

Chapter Fifteen

by Makura Koneko

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The end is near… On with the Legend!

For once, Serena was surprised to find herself pleased with the results of something she was really working on. The sketches on her writing table were flawless; the manga classes she had always wanted to take, and had finally been able to take in High School had paid off. The drawings of the gowns were complete, five of them, one for each of her Senshi. And just in time, too; chatter that was audible outside her room preceded a knock on her door. She jumped to her feet, screeching as she almost overturned her inkwell. She caught it before it spilled any, rightened it, shoved in her chair so as not to trip over it later, she dashed to the door and yanked it open.

"Hey, koneko," Haruka stood there, sweat glistening on her skin and in her hair. She waved to someone down the hall.

"Tomorrow, same time, same place?" She asked.

"We will be there, lady," a voice answered. Serena peeked out the door and looked down the hall to see a reeeeeeeeally tall elf, one with bright blue-green eyes, another with lush lips, and another one with long, long hair bow to Haruka in a teasingly friendly way, then turn and leave.

"Who are they?" Serena asked as Haruka entered and closed the door behind her.

"Sparring partners," she said with a grin. "Let's just say we taught each other some things." Serena raised an eyebrow.

"I'm not gonna ask," she said. And even if she had wanted to, she wouldn't have gotten the chance; another knock on the door, and when it opened, Hotaru and Ami stood there, Hotaru looking as if she had just gotten over a fit of giggles and Ami blushing furiously. Ami pushed inside as politely as she could, Hotaru behind her. She winked at Serena. Serena, baffled and curious, opened her mouth to ask-

"You...you....ugh!" A voice screeched.

"I'll take that as a yes," Boromir's voice, tinted with a lilt of mischief that made the Senshi hide grins, followed Raye's indignant yowl as the raven haired girl shoved past Serena into the room and slammed the door.

"That...that...that..."

"Handsome, brave, devilishly charming man whom, I'm guessing, kissed you and asked you to go riding again tomorrow?" Serena filled in. She had made up that little scenario just to annoy her friend, but when Raye whirled on her, eyes wide, Serena gaped. "You...you mean..." Serena stuttered. "You mean he really did? He really did kiss you and ask you to riding tomorrow? He kissed you???"

Raye growled and plopped down onto the bed.

"I don't want to talk about it," she snapped, tossing her hair over her shoulder as she turned her face upwards in an attempt to be haughty. All she did with that act, though, was prominently display her bruised lips... Realizing this fact when more giggles erupted, she flushed, scowled, and rounded on Serena.

"What did you call us here for, anyway, meatball brains?" She snapped. "We have less half an hour to get ready for that ball, and goodness knows we're gonna need every second." She glared down at the dress that fit horribly.

Grinning, taking no offense from her friend's hissy fit, Serena turned to her desk and handed each girl a piece of parchment with a drawing on it.

"If you don't like 'em, I can change them." The Princess said. "They're our gowns for the honor ball feast thingy tonight."

"They're lovely, Serena," Ami said after a moment of looking at hers with delight. "But...we don't have the time to make these or have them made."

Serena waved her hand dismissively. "Let me handle that," she said. "Now, do you like them or not?"

"Neckline on mine is too low," Raye sniffed, shoving the paper back into Serena's hand. Without blinking, Serena turned, sat at her desk, and with a few deftly place pen strokes, she fixed the source of Raye's annoyance with the drawing and handed it back.

"Fine," The Martian warrior said grudgingly. Truth was she'd never seen such a beautiful gown...

"Do I have to wear a dress?" Haruka came precariously close to whining. Serena smirked.

"Yes," she said. "Think of it this way. With that skirt, you can hide your sword and a dagger or two under it. If you wore pants and a blouse, you wouldn't be able be armed."

"And why not?" Haruka demanded with a frown.

"We're guests of peace, 'Ruka-chan," Serena said, a bit of her mother's voice slipping into her tone. "No weapons." Her eyes twinkled. "Least not any obvious ones." Haruka grumbled, then deemed the dress fine, then tried to hand the paper back.

"Keep it for now," she said. "Study it. You too, Raye, memorize yours." Serena looked to Hotaru and Ami. "You guys are okay with them?" They nodded. "Okay, then, study yours, too."

Within moments, the four girls had fixed the images of their gowns in their mind, and Serena took the papers back, and put them on her desk. She closed her eyes, and called up to her own mind an image of her own gown... She turned back to her friends, and ushered them into a circle.

"Hold hands," she commanded. Curious about what their Princess was planning on doing, they did so. Serena raised her hand, whispered something, and the moon sigil, ever present on her forehead nowadays, glowed briefly. All at once the girls understood when they saw the Luna Disguise pen materialize in Serena's grip.

"Put your hands on my shoulders," she instructed to Haruka, on her left, and Ami, on her right. They did so, and Serena held out the Disguise Pen out before her. "Close your eyes and picture your gowns," she said. Nodding, they did so.

Slowly, they all began to glow...

Then, abruptly, the faint silver glow brightened, flashed, then dimmed in a swirl of golden stars. When it faded away, the girls laughed and squealed in delight. Clad in silks, satins, chiffon, frothy gauzes and glittering embroidery, all in their respective colors, they truly looked their birthrights for the first time in ages; Princesses of the Silver Planetary Alliance Imperial Kingdoms, White Moon, Mercury, Mars, Uranus, and Saturn.

"Shall we?" Serena said, grinning, eyes shining as a knock on the door interrupted their laughter and comparing of gowns.

"We shall!" Ami grinned; she couldn't wait for Frodo to see her... She blushed at the thought as Serena opened the door, only to engulf the person standing outside it in a bear-crushing hug.

Good thing Legolas was no bear... Eyes dancing, he returned the embrace.

"Come," he said. "The festivities have begun and everyone is waiting for you." He and Serena unconsciously slid into place together; her at his side, arm loosely around his torso, his arm around her shoulders. The girls exchanged amused grins, then followed the couple out of Serena's room and down towards the ballroom.

No one noticed a small shadow in the window hiss, and slip away...

The ballroom, it turned out, was actually more of an outdoor arena. Balls of silver and gold light hovered high above, giving light, though somehow not obscuring the light of the stars at the same time. With the moon, stars, glow-balls, and hundreds of candles lighting the bordering-on-massive ball-arena, everyone there practically glowed.

Five women in particular, though, stood out far beyond anyone else when they entered the arena, descending down a set of grand steps. The one who drew the most attention of all five, though, was, befittingly, on the arm of the Prince himself.

She was clad in a gown that seemed to be made of airy moonlight itself, flowing as if made of a glowing creamy, smoky mist. The silver pearls, silver and gold embroidery along the hem, neckline, empire waist, and the edges of the flowing angel sleeves seeming to be the only thing keeping the gown, and the woman herself, from floating up to the stars.

"What are they staring at?" Serena whispered, swallowing thickly, self consciously reaching up to feel for an odd-looking wisp of escaped hair. Legolas, beside her, grinned slightly.

"You," he answered her question, amusement in his voice. He looked at her, and suddenly Serena knew that it wasn't a bad type of staring. She blushed.

"Oh," she said softly, ducking her head slightly and sidling closer to her companion as her Senshi behind her laughed along with Legolas.

Somehow, Boromir had managed to convince Raye to at least let him be her escort into the ballroom. The fact that all the other girls had an escort, and she would have had to go alone if she hadn't accepted was part of the reason she had reluctantly agreed.

Suddenly Thranduil was before them, greeting them all warmly. He looked at Serena a moment, clad in all her magical splendidry, her golden moon sigil brightly prominent on her forehead, the pearls intertwined with her hair bringing one's attention to her inhuman, even un-Elvin, silver-gold locks. His lips quirked discreetly, and then he bowed slightly, more of an incline of the head than anything else. Haruka smirked, and Raye nodded in approval when he stood straight again. It had been a small something, but as much as an apology for his rude behavior towards Serena that morning as they were going to get. It was also the only acknowledgment they would probably ever get from any elf that Serena was indeed practically a elf.

Attention slipped away from the new arrivals as even newer arrivals arrived. Turning to look, the Senshi and their companions –Legolas, Boromir, Frodo, and two of the elves Haruka had sparred with, long-hair and blue-green eyes- grinned.

"Ari!" Serena called up to Aragorn, waving. "Gimli, Gandalf! Merry, Pip, Sam!" The hobbits, with absolutely no regard for decorum, raced down the stairs to hug the golden haired woman, and she, with only slightly more restraint, returned their affectionate embraces.

"Golly, lookit!" Pippin exclaimed with wide eyes and a gaping mouth. Merry followed his gaze, then grinned wickedly when he spotted what Pippin was staring at; the buffet table. They were gone before anyone could tell them to contain themselves.

"I'm surprised Serena didn't spot it before them…" Haruka murmured under her breath. Her companion beside her, Long-Hair, laughed. Turned out he actually had a name; Elothien. Haruka looked to where green-blue eyes –Tihethil- was whispering something to Hotaru that was making the poor girl have quite a bit of trouble containing her giggles. Haruka grinned. The Firefly had come a long, long way from the shy, trembling, physically-weak, abused child she had been a long time ago.

"You all seem quite close, you and the Senshi and your princess," Elothien commented as he accepted to flute glasses of a beverage that resembled champagne and handing one to Haruka. The blonde woman's lips quirked.

"Closer in some ways, distant in others," she said after a moment. "As you know, the Senshi are separated into two halves; the inners and the outers. Hotaru and I are of the outers. All the other girls present are of the Inners. We…don't always get along."

"Yet you agree on things that matter," Elothien pointed out, sipping his drink. Haruka grinned as she watched Serenity, surrounded by elven ladies and lords alike, glowing with youth and happiness, a watchful, smiling Legolas beside her. A plate piled high with sweets in her hand, she managed to keep up a cheerful, lively conversation with everyone around her and continue to eat at the same time. How she managed this all, and still looked every bit a pixie of a princess, Haruka didn't know.

"Yeah," Haruka said, watching her princess laugh. She glanced to where Raye, Ami, and Hotaru all continued to throw glances to their princess, like parents would to their child at the playground. Ever watchful, ever protective. "Yeah, I guess we do," she smiled.

"When are the games gonna start?" Serena asked Legolas once the party-goers curiosity of her had been sated, and nearly everyone in the room had talked to her for at least five minutes, including Legolas's father. So startled by her question was Legolas, he forgot to correct her 'gonna' with 'going to.'

"Pardon?" He asked. Serena grinned.

"The games," she said. "Y'know, twister, spin the bottle, the hokey-pokey-"

"The what?" Legolas asked incredulously. Serena's eyes widened with innocent horror.

"You don't know the hokey-pokey?" She gasped. Legolas blinked.

"Should I?" He asked.

"Everyone knows the hokey-pokey!" Serena said with grand conviction. She grabbed his hand and pulled him to where the Elvin equivalent of an orchestra was up on a dais on one end of the ballroom. She reached up and tapped the 'conductor' on the shoulder. The man looked down at her with surprise. The music players knew the song well enough that they continued to play even when the conductor abandoned his guidance to bend over, from the dais, to listen to the girl whisper in his ear.

"I beg your pardon, lady?" The elf said with surprise. Serena pouted, her lips pursed.

"Is our entertainment not suitable for you?" Thranduil made his presence known, coming up behind Serena and Legolas. Serena turned.

"It's fine," she said innocently. "But I was just wondering when we were going to play the games." She ignored Legolas's attempts to silence her. Thranduil's eyes widened, then he laughed.

"And what games might the little faerie wish to play?"

"I'd say lets start with the hokey-pokey, since no one here knows it, and everyone should know the hokey-pokey!" Serena said with complete self conviction. "It's an essential to the game world!"

"You've got to be kidding me…" Raye said, passing them and overhearing. She pulled Boromir over to them.

"Raye!" Serena grinned. "Wanna help me? Here, get the band to stop playing, will you? And get everyone's attention? I know I'm louder than you, barely, but you're better at getting someone to actually pay attention to you. Then I'll get on the stage and show everyone how to do the hokey-pokey!" Raye stared at her princess with wide eyes.

"You're joking," she said, her voice full of hope. Serena blinked. "Why would I be joking? It's a fun game, and these people look like they could use some fun!" She waved her hand to where a hundred or so elves were laughing and talking in low voices –at least, low compared to the loud, open conversation Serena was used to at large parties- and the dancing, while different and exotic and fun looking, was currently rather calm to match the lovely melody being played.

Thranduil looked mildly amused rather than offended.

"By all means, if her highness believes her own honor ball to be in need of 'fun' then let the teaching of this game of 'hokey-pokey' commence." He handed his flute glass to a passing server, and waved down the conductor. The conductor nodded, ended the song, then directed a trumpeter to play a short piece to get everyone's attention. Thranduil stepped up.

"Guests of my friends, friends of my guests, guests of honor, and honored guests," he said, smiling. "Her ladyship, the Princess Serenity, wishes to allow me to teach you all a 'game.'"

Murmurs rose up, most of the genre of curiosity. Thranduil held down his hand to assist Serena up onto the stage. Rather than be embarrassed every other time she'd had this many eyes on her, the squeeze Legolas gave her hand and the smile of encouragement that shone out of his eyes gave her strength, and she stood up in front of over a hundred elves, all clad in their finest.

"Um, ok, I've never had so many people do this before, let alone showed this many people how to do it, so we'll all give a whirl and see how it goes, k?" Her excitement was contagious, and no one watching her could resist at least a small grin.

"Ok, the game is called 'the hokey-pokey.' I dun- er, I don't know why, but I suppose it's just some funny name someone gave it cuz it, well, sounded funny and amusing." Realizing she was rambling when Raye gave her a look, Serena flushed and turned to the conductor. She waved him up, and hummed a tune into his ear, and asked him to have the 'band' play it. He nodded, grinning slightly.

Within a few moments, the tune, unfamiliar to the players, shakily made its way upon the airwaves to the ears of the elves. Upbeat and very different from anything they'd ever heard, amusing in its simplicity, it made several faces grin wider.

"Okay, now, everyone needs to get in a biiiiig circle around the room, c'mon, you too, Mr. Thranduil, Legolas, c'mon!" Suddenly unsure of the sense behind this, Serena's audience slowly moved to comply. When at last everyone was in an uneven circle of sorts, Serena grinned and nodded with satisfaction.

"Great! Okay, now it goes like this," Serena said, smiling from ear to ear as she waited for the right beat –the band was quite good at the song, now- then…

"'You put your right foot in,

you put your right foot out,

you put your right foot in,

and y'shake it all about.

Y'do the hokey-pokey and y'turn yourself about,

that's what it's all about!"

She demonstrated the motions she sang, hiking up her skirts high enough so that you could see her ankles, and then planting her right foot firmly in front of her, quite far out, then pulling it back, then sticking it out again and shaking it. Only a few elves and the Senshi were even attempting to do it along with her, and most were simply staring, agape, shock on their faces.

Hotaru, seeing this, dissolved into giggles and rushed up onto the stage with her friend. She linked arms with Serena, and sang and acted out the next bit along with her.

"'You put your left foot in,

you put your left foot out,

you put your left foot in,

and y'shake it all about.

Y'do the hokey-pokey and y'turn yourself about,

that's what it's all about!"

Only a few more, embolded by the young girl's open declaration of her support for the princess, tried it this time.

Raye frowned. She looked to Haruka and Ami, who returned her looks, and they made a decision. When they had promised to stick with their princess through thick and thin, they hadn't just meant bloody battles! Depositing their drinks in the hands of their dates, they climbed up on the stage to stand with Hotaru and Serena, whom had unlinked their arms for the next bit, and they, too, sang along and danced out the following verse.

"'You put your left hand in,

you put your left hand out,

you put your left hand in,

and y'shake it all about.

Y'do the hokey-pokey and y'turn yourself about,

that's what it's all about!"

About half the elves now were doing it, but the other half were looking extremely dubious, and even those that were doing it looked extremely uncomfortable. Some looked ready to leave.

Legolas, seeing this, sighed, handed his drink to his father, turned, and climbed up onto the stage. Standing with Serena, he joined in. The smile she gave him made it more than worth it as he stuck his right arm out, then out behind him, then out in front of him again only to wiggle it about in a most silly fashion.

Laughter erupted this time at the sight of their prince wiggling his limbs and grinning and laughing and singing the silliest of songs.

Still, a few looked hesitant.

Throwing his resolve to the wind, Thranduil climbed up onto the stage. This seemed to break the ice, and all at once, every elf in the stadium/ball room broke out into laughing song, feet and hands wiggling and shaking 'all about.'

In the middle of the second singing of the third verse, Raye looked to Serena, on the other side of Hotaru, whom was on Raye's left.

"How does she do it?" Raye thought. "How does a sixteen year old human girl with the soul and memories of a thirty thousand year old alien princess with the personality of five year old manage to get over a hundred proud elves to sing and dance to a child's song and game? How?"

Raye couldn't even begin to contemplate. She could only appreciate, and for once, that was good enough for her.

The Hokey-Pokey kept a'hokey a' poky'in for several hours, after which Serena introduced to this elegant race the game of 'Simon Says.' The first winner, a young –by elven standards- woman seemed to get a grand sort of glee out of getting to order not only her husband around, but Thranduil as well.

Then had come the game Haruka had feared most; the Telephone game, which they called Gossip since the elves obviously wouldn't know what a telephone was. The results were absolutely hilarious, since short phrases such as sections of tongue twisters (Rubber baby buggy bumpers) and simply silly statements (I like crocodiles best with pink polka dots!) ended up being so hilariously scandalous it took a good half hour for everyone to recover from the laughter sufficiently in order to start all over again.

It was during what would probably be one of the last round of Gossip that Serena, while waiting for the phrase to come around so she could repeat what it had become aloud, that she felt it.

The same sensation of being…observed that had plagued her when the Companionship had been crossing the Fields to get to Mirkwood.

The sections of the 'stadium' walls were spaced out by open sections that revealed the forest that surrounded them. Serena had her back to one of these sections, now, and a shiver ran up and down her spine.

"Nothing there, Tsukino…just your imagination…just your overly childish imagination…"

But when was the last time she had imagined something and it hadn't been true…? Not since coming to Middle Earth, not since Legolas had been determined to help her bring out and cultivate her true princess self…

Serena glanced over her shoulder…

She didn't even have time to regret it before her eyes met those of the most terror-inspiring red, and her mind was as if it were stuck in the grip of a vice. Tickling tendrils of darkness wiggled themselves into her brain, and she, her mind completely paralyzed, could do nothing as those tendrils of darkness tapped into the motor part of her brain, and her feet began walking towards those red eyes of their own accord.

She couldn't even demand her own legs to stop, she couldn't think…it was as though her mind was dying…

Serena fought with all her mind, heart, and soul, but the grip on her brain this creature had on her would not be dissuaded by her stubbornness alone…she needed help… Yet there was no way for her to call for it…

On Serena fought…if she could regain enough control of her own mind to summon her Crystal…

If Serena had been able, she would have blinked in surprise. She couldn't use her brain…yet she was still thinking…how?

"My soul…" Serena realized with surprise. She relaxed, felt around her, and realized that indeed Serena had receded from her own mind, and was now purely just a soul…yet she had form….

The Crystal! Yes, it was true, Serena was buried inside the Silver Crystal, and thus safe from the reaches of evil, so long as she didn't try to reinstall herself into her physical body…she could feel the evil that was saturating her physical form, and she shuddered mentally.

Horror filled her being, then, when she saw through her mind's eye what was happening; the body of Serena walked into the dark woods, where a creature crystal-Serena instantly recognized as an Uruk-hai sweep the princess up and over his shoulder, and disappeared into the woods.

Serena retracted herself from her body completely. She knew where she was being taken. She knew how long it would take. She knew what would happen once she got there. Somehow, she was completely calm…

Knowing there was nothing she could do until her physical body arrived at Barad-dur, Serena's mind gave the sensation of settling in for a good long wait, until she got to where her kidnapper was taking her…

Ever so slightly, Serena's mind smiled. It was not a kind smile.

"Eager for death, aren't you, Sauron? I promised I would come for you. Yet now you practically beg me to kill you. I made a promise, father, and I will keep it. Don't think that because I come to your place on your terms I will fail..."

"We will see about that, daughter." The voice was as dark as ever, but the foreboding presence was greatly muffled through the shielding of the Crystal. Serena smiled again.

"Yes, we will see about that, father, yes we will."

To Be Continued…

Heh heh… I had too much fun writing this chapter… ^^ hee hee…

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For other news…my wrist is better, obviously! Vitimin C does help. ^__^ Thank you all so much for your sweet get well wishes! I'm so glad flues don't prevent one from sitting down and typing –so long as it's not a headcold, of course. ^^

Note 1: I am currently on a quest for artists to do sketches of Celenithil, the Senshi in their new outfits, or a scene from the story –of their choice- for you guys. If you would like to draw an image of Celenithil, Serenity, or Serena in Middle-Earth garb, I will love you forever. Just e-mail me at: Makura_Koneko@hotmail.com

Thnx!

Note 2:  Only two more chapters to go till the end, peoples! *tears*

Note 3: I wrote the below A/N before I even wrote the above chapter! ^^ I'm blonde. Just thought I'd warn you that it's a little outdated.

Old A/N that I can't bring myself to delete for some odd reason:

WEEEE!!!!! I'm soooo jazzed, I just gotta tell you all about this… Every year at my Church we have a Christmas party, the main event of which is the Masters of the Table contest. The name speaks for itself; each group (the entire youthgroup is divided into groups of about eight boys or girls) is assigned a section of our HUGE auditorium, and they get to decorate that area with any theme they want (they don't have to use a table; you an just claim a section of the floor, but most use a table).

Well, this year, my group did Candyland. It was so cute! We used a beanbag and put brown and black cloth over it to make Gloppy, and we took another two beanbags and put blue cloth over them and then pinned and taped a bunch of big pink balloons to the cloth to make the Sea of IceCream, and we had thick white glossed cardboard for the gingerbread house, a picket fence we glued lollypops to (we made the lollypops out of round stierfome thingies stuck on sticks with suranwrap around them), and then two lampposts we taped big plastic candycanes to, to make the entrance to the Peppermint Forest.

We got to dress up, too! One girl was Lord Licorice, another girl was King Kandy, my friend Steph was Mr. Mint, and I *strikes pose* was Queen Frostine! I had this BEAUTIFUL opalescent wig I made by gluing about an inch think layer of tinsel (the kind that you buy that is attached at the top) to the inside of this blue and silver tiara. Then I made my staff by hotgluing a silver snowflake star tree-topper to the top of a white wooden curtain rod, and gluing more blue tinsel to hang down. ^^ I'm so proud of myself. And I made the dress. From scratch. *beams* It looked sooooo cool!!!

It was all so much fun, but the crowning event was, of course, that WE WON!!!!! This whole thing happened last night – as I write this- so I'm still pretty jazzed. ^^

Okay, now, if you read all that, I thank you, since I know it has absolutely nothing to do with FF.net or my story. ^^

On a story-related note, I would like people to start voting on whether or not they want some/all of the Senshi to stay/go home. If you think some should stay and some should go home, please specify who goes and who stays. I will tally the votes in Chapter Sixteen, which should –if I stick to my plans- be the second-to-last chapter, which means vote now!!!

Thank you all for your support! I can't believe this story is finally reaching its end… Yes, you heard my right folks, probably only a few more chapters to go. Maybe an extra one if I do an epilogue (which I almost always do… -.-').

But then I'll probably work on 'Dream of Reality,' so I won't totally disappear from the world of LotR/SM crossovers.

OMG another thing, my best friend got us tickets to the opening night premier to the Two Towers on the 18th!!!! (I know, by the time I post this it will probably be almost the year 2003, but I'm still excited!) I'm sooooo excited –didn't I just say that? -.-' It's a privet screening (no, it's not that big fancy one that all the celebrities go to in New York, THAT one would take a miracle for a hometown girl like me to get into. *tears*) at the biggest theater in our town (me being a typical blonde, I forget the name. .) and there's a dinnerparty afterwards, and I get to dress up and everything! My friend and I are going shopping for our outfits tomorrow. ^^

Anyhoo, I should probably stop yapping now and start on chapter sixteen, ne? ^^ Yeesh, I think I just broke my own record for the longest A/N…heh heh…. ^^;;; Oh well.

Ja ne, all and until next time!

Hope Makes the Universe Shine,

Makura Koneko

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