A/N If this chapter makes no since, don't worry, it's because I'm eating
spoonfuls of brown sugar. If anyone calls me tomorrow, I might not be in a
good mood and I might have a really bad head-ache. Anyway! But, right now
I'm writing a new chapter. Just so you know, the next story with me friends
in it is in the process of being written, called 'Plot-holes, Cannon, and
Middle-Earth.' It's already really long, for me anyway. It's an anti-Mary-
Sue, so for those of you who hate those perfect little bi- Keladry:
Chelsea! Me: Whatever! You'll like it. I tried to stay as close to cannon
as possible, but I might have wavered a little. Example: We get there and
do not automatically speak Elvish, Westron, or and other language of Middle-
Earth, and we do not join the Fellowship. Anyway! I hope it's good, my
cousin thought so. Enjoy this chapter of Journey to the Two Towers though;
it's one of the last.
Chapter 11: The Pre-Order of the Book
Everyone was exceptionally happy they were finally at the Movie Theater after much searching and journey. . .um. . .ing. Many onlookers stared at the group as if they were completely insane (which most, if not all, of them were) as they danced and sang because they had finally found the Movie Theater.
"What now?" asked Merry. "We have about forty-five minutes left, what do we do?"
"Pre-Order!" yelled Pippin as she pointed across to where Barnes & Nobles was. Of course, she wanted to Pre-Order Order of the Phoenix.
"Pippin, shouldn't we do this when we are not going to see a Lord of the Rings movie and have been traveling with Lord of the Rings names and playing our whole day out as the Fellowship?" suggested Strider.
". . .but its right there," Pippin pointed across from where they were standing.
Everyone sighed. "Fine!" They all said, and they started walking over to the bookstore.
It wasn't as done up as it would be June 20th for the mid-night party; it only had one small poster in the back that said 'Pre-Order your copy of book 5 today!' and that was it.
Little did they know that when June did roll around, the place was going to try its best to look like Hogwarts, Common Rooms and all. Of course, at the moment, they didn't even know what the first line of the book was because it was December (didn't I change the date to November for my own purposes though? Oh well, I'm not even quite sure they were taking pre-orders in December). Pippin wasn't even aware that she'd be crying on June 23 because J.K. Rowling had to go and kill off her favorite character.
But getting off that subject at the moment! The girls still loved going into Barnes & Nobles.
And they all especially loved the table they had set up with most of J.R.R. Tolkien's works and picture books for the movie. It was a rather large table that also needed a shelf that hung off one of the bookshelves.
"Ohhh!" the girls said.
"I'm going to use the power of pre-order!" said Pippin as she ran over to the main desk. The poor people at Barnes & Nobles never saw the girls coming.
But they had been expecting their arrival.
"Hello!" said Pippin to the lady at the front desk.
"Hello," said the woman, whose name tag stated her name was Diane. Pippin was happy to note that she wasn't like the overly cheerful people at Chilies. "What can I do for you today?"
"I'd like to pre-order a copy of Order of the Phoenix, please?"
"Okay, I can do that." She typed randomly at the keyboard. "Name please?"
"Well, my real name is Chelsea, but I'm known as Pippin."
That's where Diane stopped, and slowly turned her head towards Pippin. She had gotten a fax earlier that day from those people at 7-Eleven saying that 11 girls were heading for the Movie Theater and that they were crazy and had started a riot in their store. She had also gotten a similar message from Circuit City not to long ago saying the same thing, only apparently there had been another girl added to the group.
This girl was definitely one of the girls in those pictures.
"Um," Diane started out, "you wouldn't mind if I asked if you were at 7- Eleven earlier, would you?"
"Nope, I was there!" said Pippin, smiling. "Why? Did the Orcs down there get a hold of you?"
Oh dear.
"Well. . .in fact, they did."
"Really? Interesting, I didn't think they had the brain power to use a phone."
"It was a fax machine actually."
"Really? Even more complicated. Hey guys! Come here!"
All of the other 11 girls came over to Pippin, some of them holding copies of Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion, others holding photo books from the movie.
"Get this guys," said Pippin, "the Orcs got hold of the people here with a fax machine."
"Really?" said Legolas, looking surprised, "That must be a huge achievement for them."
Diane had to hold in her laughter. Granted, these girls kind of scared her, but she really didn't like the people at 7-Eleven either.
"Oh yes," said Galadriel, "they must have hired someone to do it for them."
"Anyway!" said Sam. "We'd very much all like to pre-order our books please, except for poor Frodo here," she said, pointing at Frodo, "she doesn't read Harry Potter."
Diane nodded and took all their orders by their last names (which took a lot of coaxing because they insisted on using their nicknames). It was then, as the last person, Boromir, was pre-ordering, that it happened.
The two people from 7-Eleven and Chilies walked in though the door.
You'd think that they wouldn't walk into a bookstore, being who they were, but here they were, right next to where the girls were standing.
"Hide!" Gimli whispered. And all the girls, except Arwen, ran behind one of the many bookshelves.
"They don't know who I am," Arwen whispered to Diane, smiling. Diane nodded, obviously this was the 12th girl who had been absent at 7-Eleven but there at Circuit City.
"Hello," said one of the Orcs who we will conveniently call Orc #1. "We have a book on hold here."
"Oh! Yes!" said Diane, and she rummaged through the all the books that had been put on hold. 'Smoothie Machines for Dummies,' of course. She couldn't help but like the girls much more then the 7-Eleven 'Orcs', at least the girls seemed nice.
"Here it is!" said Diane, slowly passing it to Orc #2 so that Arwen could get a good look at the title. Arwen snorted to hold back her laughter.
"What are you laughing at?" said Orc #2.
"I can't help but notice that you have ketchup on your shirt," she replied. As they checked to see if she was right, Arwen ran over to where the other 11 girls were.
"No there's-Hey! Where'd she go?" asked Orc #1.
"Where'd who go?" asked Diane. She had a feeling she was going to enjoy this.
"That girl," said Orc #2. "Where'd she go?"
"You mean me?" Boromir stood behind the two. Both Orcs spun around.
Orc #2 shook his head. "No not-Hey! Aren't you that girl from earlier?"
"How much earlier?" asked Boromir.
"Yes," said Diane. "'Earlier' is much too vague. It could mean earlier in the hour, the day, the year, your life time, her life time, the history of mankind, the-"
"Okay! We get it!" both Orcs said at the same time. While Diane had been talking, the girls had made another switch, and now Eowyn stood in front of them.
"Well," said Eowyn, "you need to learn to be more specific!"
"You're not the same girl!" said Orc #2.
"What are you talking about!" said Diane. "It's the same girl you've been talking to this whole time! I think you might need help."
"Oh yes," said Pippin, who approached as Eowyn walked away. "You two definitely need help."
"You switched again!" said Orc #1.
Pippin looked at them oddly. "Diane and I have been the only ones talking to you for the passed few minutes."
Both Orcs turned to Diane, "What is going on?"
"What do you mean what is going on?" Diane asked in mock surprise and concern as Pippin went to hide with the other girls and Merry came out to take her place.
"Nothing seems wrong to me," said Merry.
The two men looked at Merry, shocked, and didn't notice Galadriel sneak up behind them.
"Although you two seem to think there are more then two girls in this store, me and Diane," Galadriel said. Both Orcs spun around, looking scared.
"You-you're the girls from a couple hours ago," said Orc #2.
"See?" said Gandalf from behind and the Orcs spun around to look at her again. "Now I know what you're talking about. It's much easier to answer your question when you're specific and we can answer your question for sure."
"Oh yes," said Gimli, and the Orcs spun around once more. "Now I can most definitely answer you're question with a 'yes', I was at your store earlier. And I do remember you taking a picture of my friends and me ands and plastering them on the window."
"Although I'm sorry to say," said Frodo, and they spun around once more, "my friends are not here right now because I'm sure they would like to talk to you again."
Both Orcs looked at Diane, "Is this a joke?"
"Oh no joke," said Strider, who had taken Frodo's place. "I'm quite sure they have a few things they'd like to say to you, like why you're so pushy all the time. Immediately you start forcing us out of the store, I believe we could sue you for that you know."
"Oh yes!" said Sam, once more they spun around. "I'm sure that a few innocent and sweet girls like us would seem helpless and confused and would love to win a case worth a bunch of mall money."
"Yes," said Orc #1, "but we have witnesses."
"Oh right," said Legolas, standing right next to Sam this time, who looked down at her feet as if lifeless and walked away as if she was a robot on auto-pilot, "but they can also be used to our advantage, see? With the right questions, we could get just how you forcibly shoved us out of a store when we were just having a bit of fun and not harming anyone."
"You hit us with candy bars," said Orc #2.
"Oh please!" said Legolas. "Suck it up!"
The Orcs turned to Diane. "What do you think?"
"I don't know what you're talking about," said Diane.
"Well these girls-" but he was cut off as he pointed to the now empty spot where Legolas had been standing a few seconds ago.
"What girls? You two men need to lie down or something, you've been talking to an invisible person for the past few minutes, it's not healthy."
The two men looked at each other, and walked out of the store, leaving their book behind. As soon as the door closed, they ran away very fast, and Diane and the girls started laughing.
"That was brilliant!" said Diane.
"Thanks," said Gandalf.
"We are geniuses, aren't we?" said Sam, completely ignoring Gandalf.
"Well," said Legolas, "we must be off, the movie is starting any minute now!"
"Oh no!" said Boromir. "Would you like to come with us? We're seeing The Two Towers." She told Diane.
"As much as I so want to see The Two Towers, I can't," Diane hung her head. "My shift won't end for another two hours, and I already took my break."
"Understandable," said Gimli.
"We already bought the tickets anyway guys," said Frodo.
The girls started walking out of the store, when Strider stopped and turned to Diane.
"Diane," said Strider, "you will now be known as Gollum, 13th member of The Fellowship of the Movies." The 12 girls bowed. "Nämarie?!" And they were off.
Diane still wasn't quite sure what exactly had just happened, but she really hoped she'd meet up with those girls again.
A/N Another chapter done. The next chapter is the last chapter of the story, but don't worry! They still must Journey to Return of the King. And Diane, now Gollum, will be in the next fic, there just wasn't that much left to put her in here, and I wanted the girls to meet someone in this chapter. Whew! I think this is my longest chapter yet! Not really that good, but starting to draw everything to a close. Anyway! Still wondering who your favorite characters are! And I also want to know your favorite parts and quotes from the story, now that there's only one chapter left. Well, got to go! My head is starting to hurt now, ick!
~Fawkes
Chapter 11: The Pre-Order of the Book
Everyone was exceptionally happy they were finally at the Movie Theater after much searching and journey. . .um. . .ing. Many onlookers stared at the group as if they were completely insane (which most, if not all, of them were) as they danced and sang because they had finally found the Movie Theater.
"What now?" asked Merry. "We have about forty-five minutes left, what do we do?"
"Pre-Order!" yelled Pippin as she pointed across to where Barnes & Nobles was. Of course, she wanted to Pre-Order Order of the Phoenix.
"Pippin, shouldn't we do this when we are not going to see a Lord of the Rings movie and have been traveling with Lord of the Rings names and playing our whole day out as the Fellowship?" suggested Strider.
". . .but its right there," Pippin pointed across from where they were standing.
Everyone sighed. "Fine!" They all said, and they started walking over to the bookstore.
It wasn't as done up as it would be June 20th for the mid-night party; it only had one small poster in the back that said 'Pre-Order your copy of book 5 today!' and that was it.
Little did they know that when June did roll around, the place was going to try its best to look like Hogwarts, Common Rooms and all. Of course, at the moment, they didn't even know what the first line of the book was because it was December (didn't I change the date to November for my own purposes though? Oh well, I'm not even quite sure they were taking pre-orders in December). Pippin wasn't even aware that she'd be crying on June 23 because J.K. Rowling had to go and kill off her favorite character.
But getting off that subject at the moment! The girls still loved going into Barnes & Nobles.
And they all especially loved the table they had set up with most of J.R.R. Tolkien's works and picture books for the movie. It was a rather large table that also needed a shelf that hung off one of the bookshelves.
"Ohhh!" the girls said.
"I'm going to use the power of pre-order!" said Pippin as she ran over to the main desk. The poor people at Barnes & Nobles never saw the girls coming.
But they had been expecting their arrival.
"Hello!" said Pippin to the lady at the front desk.
"Hello," said the woman, whose name tag stated her name was Diane. Pippin was happy to note that she wasn't like the overly cheerful people at Chilies. "What can I do for you today?"
"I'd like to pre-order a copy of Order of the Phoenix, please?"
"Okay, I can do that." She typed randomly at the keyboard. "Name please?"
"Well, my real name is Chelsea, but I'm known as Pippin."
That's where Diane stopped, and slowly turned her head towards Pippin. She had gotten a fax earlier that day from those people at 7-Eleven saying that 11 girls were heading for the Movie Theater and that they were crazy and had started a riot in their store. She had also gotten a similar message from Circuit City not to long ago saying the same thing, only apparently there had been another girl added to the group.
This girl was definitely one of the girls in those pictures.
"Um," Diane started out, "you wouldn't mind if I asked if you were at 7- Eleven earlier, would you?"
"Nope, I was there!" said Pippin, smiling. "Why? Did the Orcs down there get a hold of you?"
Oh dear.
"Well. . .in fact, they did."
"Really? Interesting, I didn't think they had the brain power to use a phone."
"It was a fax machine actually."
"Really? Even more complicated. Hey guys! Come here!"
All of the other 11 girls came over to Pippin, some of them holding copies of Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion, others holding photo books from the movie.
"Get this guys," said Pippin, "the Orcs got hold of the people here with a fax machine."
"Really?" said Legolas, looking surprised, "That must be a huge achievement for them."
Diane had to hold in her laughter. Granted, these girls kind of scared her, but she really didn't like the people at 7-Eleven either.
"Oh yes," said Galadriel, "they must have hired someone to do it for them."
"Anyway!" said Sam. "We'd very much all like to pre-order our books please, except for poor Frodo here," she said, pointing at Frodo, "she doesn't read Harry Potter."
Diane nodded and took all their orders by their last names (which took a lot of coaxing because they insisted on using their nicknames). It was then, as the last person, Boromir, was pre-ordering, that it happened.
The two people from 7-Eleven and Chilies walked in though the door.
You'd think that they wouldn't walk into a bookstore, being who they were, but here they were, right next to where the girls were standing.
"Hide!" Gimli whispered. And all the girls, except Arwen, ran behind one of the many bookshelves.
"They don't know who I am," Arwen whispered to Diane, smiling. Diane nodded, obviously this was the 12th girl who had been absent at 7-Eleven but there at Circuit City.
"Hello," said one of the Orcs who we will conveniently call Orc #1. "We have a book on hold here."
"Oh! Yes!" said Diane, and she rummaged through the all the books that had been put on hold. 'Smoothie Machines for Dummies,' of course. She couldn't help but like the girls much more then the 7-Eleven 'Orcs', at least the girls seemed nice.
"Here it is!" said Diane, slowly passing it to Orc #2 so that Arwen could get a good look at the title. Arwen snorted to hold back her laughter.
"What are you laughing at?" said Orc #2.
"I can't help but notice that you have ketchup on your shirt," she replied. As they checked to see if she was right, Arwen ran over to where the other 11 girls were.
"No there's-Hey! Where'd she go?" asked Orc #1.
"Where'd who go?" asked Diane. She had a feeling she was going to enjoy this.
"That girl," said Orc #2. "Where'd she go?"
"You mean me?" Boromir stood behind the two. Both Orcs spun around.
Orc #2 shook his head. "No not-Hey! Aren't you that girl from earlier?"
"How much earlier?" asked Boromir.
"Yes," said Diane. "'Earlier' is much too vague. It could mean earlier in the hour, the day, the year, your life time, her life time, the history of mankind, the-"
"Okay! We get it!" both Orcs said at the same time. While Diane had been talking, the girls had made another switch, and now Eowyn stood in front of them.
"Well," said Eowyn, "you need to learn to be more specific!"
"You're not the same girl!" said Orc #2.
"What are you talking about!" said Diane. "It's the same girl you've been talking to this whole time! I think you might need help."
"Oh yes," said Pippin, who approached as Eowyn walked away. "You two definitely need help."
"You switched again!" said Orc #1.
Pippin looked at them oddly. "Diane and I have been the only ones talking to you for the passed few minutes."
Both Orcs turned to Diane, "What is going on?"
"What do you mean what is going on?" Diane asked in mock surprise and concern as Pippin went to hide with the other girls and Merry came out to take her place.
"Nothing seems wrong to me," said Merry.
The two men looked at Merry, shocked, and didn't notice Galadriel sneak up behind them.
"Although you two seem to think there are more then two girls in this store, me and Diane," Galadriel said. Both Orcs spun around, looking scared.
"You-you're the girls from a couple hours ago," said Orc #2.
"See?" said Gandalf from behind and the Orcs spun around to look at her again. "Now I know what you're talking about. It's much easier to answer your question when you're specific and we can answer your question for sure."
"Oh yes," said Gimli, and the Orcs spun around once more. "Now I can most definitely answer you're question with a 'yes', I was at your store earlier. And I do remember you taking a picture of my friends and me ands and plastering them on the window."
"Although I'm sorry to say," said Frodo, and they spun around once more, "my friends are not here right now because I'm sure they would like to talk to you again."
Both Orcs looked at Diane, "Is this a joke?"
"Oh no joke," said Strider, who had taken Frodo's place. "I'm quite sure they have a few things they'd like to say to you, like why you're so pushy all the time. Immediately you start forcing us out of the store, I believe we could sue you for that you know."
"Oh yes!" said Sam, once more they spun around. "I'm sure that a few innocent and sweet girls like us would seem helpless and confused and would love to win a case worth a bunch of mall money."
"Yes," said Orc #1, "but we have witnesses."
"Oh right," said Legolas, standing right next to Sam this time, who looked down at her feet as if lifeless and walked away as if she was a robot on auto-pilot, "but they can also be used to our advantage, see? With the right questions, we could get just how you forcibly shoved us out of a store when we were just having a bit of fun and not harming anyone."
"You hit us with candy bars," said Orc #2.
"Oh please!" said Legolas. "Suck it up!"
The Orcs turned to Diane. "What do you think?"
"I don't know what you're talking about," said Diane.
"Well these girls-" but he was cut off as he pointed to the now empty spot where Legolas had been standing a few seconds ago.
"What girls? You two men need to lie down or something, you've been talking to an invisible person for the past few minutes, it's not healthy."
The two men looked at each other, and walked out of the store, leaving their book behind. As soon as the door closed, they ran away very fast, and Diane and the girls started laughing.
"That was brilliant!" said Diane.
"Thanks," said Gandalf.
"We are geniuses, aren't we?" said Sam, completely ignoring Gandalf.
"Well," said Legolas, "we must be off, the movie is starting any minute now!"
"Oh no!" said Boromir. "Would you like to come with us? We're seeing The Two Towers." She told Diane.
"As much as I so want to see The Two Towers, I can't," Diane hung her head. "My shift won't end for another two hours, and I already took my break."
"Understandable," said Gimli.
"We already bought the tickets anyway guys," said Frodo.
The girls started walking out of the store, when Strider stopped and turned to Diane.
"Diane," said Strider, "you will now be known as Gollum, 13th member of The Fellowship of the Movies." The 12 girls bowed. "Nämarie?!" And they were off.
Diane still wasn't quite sure what exactly had just happened, but she really hoped she'd meet up with those girls again.
A/N Another chapter done. The next chapter is the last chapter of the story, but don't worry! They still must Journey to Return of the King. And Diane, now Gollum, will be in the next fic, there just wasn't that much left to put her in here, and I wanted the girls to meet someone in this chapter. Whew! I think this is my longest chapter yet! Not really that good, but starting to draw everything to a close. Anyway! Still wondering who your favorite characters are! And I also want to know your favorite parts and quotes from the story, now that there's only one chapter left. Well, got to go! My head is starting to hurt now, ick!
~Fawkes