Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Rings - KoF-Style
Disclamer: I don't own Lord of the Rings, it belongs to New Line Cinema and J.R.R. Tolkien. I also don't own King of Fighters - that belongs to SNK. This is a crossover fanfiction between the Lord of the Rings story and the King of Fighters game. That being said, the fanfic might not stay true to both the LOTR and KoF storylines - just an early warning, especially since it takes place in the old times or Middle-Earth, not the modern. (^_^) Please do not copy my work without my permission. Feedback isgreat stuff in my eyes, so if you need to get hold of me, my e-mail address is kyona_kusanagi@yahoo.co.uk and my website is http://groups.msn.com/TheQueenOfFighters. Arigatou!
Chapter Eight
In the early hours of the next morning, as the sun began to rise, Kula Diamond and Strider stood on one of the bridges sharing the spectacular view.
"Do you remember when we first met?" Kula asked, breaking the silence, her voice soft.
The Ranger smiled as he recalled those memories. "I thought I had strayed into a dream."
She gazed at him as he brushed a hand through her long ice-blue hair. "Long years have passed. You did not have the cares that you carry with you now," she paused and then asked "Do you remember what I said to you?"
Strider looked at her and as his gaze fell to the beautiful pendant that she was always wearing as he replied "You said you'd bind yourself to me," he looked back at her. "Forsaking the immortal life of your people."
Kula smiled at him, one hand on his shoulder. "And to that I hold. I would rather share one lifetime with you, than face all Ages of this world alone."
The Ranger looked down as he felt something being pressed into his palm. He looked down at his hand to see Kula's pendant in his hand, her own hand holding the sparkling jewel there.
"I choose a mortal life." she whispered to him.
"You cannot give this to me." Strider looked at the young She-Elf, offering her the pendant back, but she pushed it back towards his chest.
"It is mine to give to whom I will," her face drew nearer to his. "Like my heart."
The Ranger didn't have to reply.
"Strangers from distant lands. Friends of old," Lady Candy addressed everyone at the meeting later that day as they sat in a circular shape around a small stone table in the middle of the outdoor council area. "You have all been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle-Earth stands upon the brink of destruction. None can escape it," she glanced around at everyone, making sure they got the message. "You will unite, or you will fall. Each race is bound to this fate, this one doom," she then looked at Shingo who was sat next to Chizuru. "Bring forth the ring, Shingo."
At his cue, Shingo Yabuki stepped nervously forwards, taking the gold ring out of his pocket. Looking around at everyone, he placed the ring upon the stone table and then, without further looks in any particular direction, he sat back at his seat, letting out a sigh of relief. The Orochi Ring of Power was out of his hands. He had fulfilled his task and was now a step closer to getting back to his home in the Kusanagi household.
There was silence from all as everybody stared at the ring on the table.
"So it is true." Andy Bogard was the first to break the uncomfortable silence in the area as he stared at the gold ring with a thoughtful expression before rising from his seat and announcing "It is a gift. A gift to the foes of Mordor. Why not use this Ring?" he looked at everybody for a moment before continuing. "Long has my father, the Steward of Gondor kept the forces or Mordor at bay. By the blood of our people are your lands kept safe. Give Gondor the weapon of the enemy and let us use it against the Orochi and N.E.S.T.S."
"You cannot weild it," Strider cut in, stopping Andy from continuing. "None of us can. The Ring answers to Orochi alone. It has no other master."
Andy turned to him and scorned "And what would a Ranger know of this matter?"
"That is no mere Ranger whom you speak to!" Kyo was suddenly out of his chair and looking directly at Andy. "His name is K' and he is of Nûmenorian blood. You owe him your allegiance."
Andy was momentarily stunned by the Elf Prince's words and he looked from Kyo to Strider - or K' as he was actually called.
"K'.?" Andy's voice as soft albeit slightly incredulous. "This is a Nûmenorian heir??"
From where he sat, Shingo was staggered by this sudden revelation. The man whom he had though of just as a Ranger and a friend of Chizuru Kagura's had now turned out to be some kind of royalty.
"An heir to the throne of Gondor." Kyo said as he and Andy locked gazes.
From where he had been sitting quietly, K'sighed deeply, rubbing his temples before putting a placating hand up and saying "Sit down, Kyo" in Quenyan.
"Gondor has no king." Andy sneered as he held Kyo's heated gaze evenly before returning to his own seat and glaring at K'. "Gondor needs no king."
"But K' is right nonetheless," Chizuru continued after both Kyo and Andy had sat down again. "We cannot use the Ring."
"You have only one choice," Lady Candy rose from her seat, addressing everyone. "The Ring must be destroyed."
"The what are we waiting for?" Iori Yagami stood up from where he had been sitting and grabbed his axe as he approached the Ring on the stone table and brought his weapon down forcefully.
There was a loud noise and a bright flash as the thick and sharp blade of the axe shattered, the resulting force throwing Iori to the ground whilst the gold ring remined intact on the table.
"The Ring cannot be destroyed, Iori Yagami, by any craft that we here posess," announced Lady Candy. "The Ring was created in the fires of Mount Doom. Only there can it be destroyed," she looked around. "It must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the firey chasm from whence it came," she paused for a moment. "One of you must do this."
There came a sudden silence in the area as everyobody cast glances at each other.
"One does not simply walk into Mordor," Andy spoke as if somebody had just told a sick joke. "Ita black gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep and the Eye of Orochi is ever-watchful," his voice became increasingly dramatic as he continued. "It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten thousand men could you do this. It's crazy!"
"Have you heard nothing of what Lady Candy has just said?" Kyo was getting clearly frustrated with Andy as he rose from his chair again. "The Ring must be destroyed!"
"Oh, and I suppose you think you're the one to do it!" Iori scoffed at from the other side of the circle of people.
"And if we fail, what then?" questioned Andy as he also stood from his seat again, taking a step towards Kyo. "What happened when the Orochi takes back what is his?
Iori was also out of his seat and glaring with hatrid at Kyo. "I will be dead before I see the Ring in the hands of an Elf! Or a Kusanagi. Or both!"
Of course, there were other Elves present at the meeting too. And for such insulting words to come from someone who was associated to the Dwarves - whom the Elves were already on disagreeing terms with - most of the other Elves sitting at the meeting began to retaliate.
One thing began to lead onto another and soon, practically everybody was out of their seats and arguing with somebody else.
"Do you not understand?!" Chizuru tried to break up the arguments. "Whilst you bicker amongst yourselves, the Orochi's power grows! None can escape it. You'll all be destroyed!"
Whilst this was happening, Shingo sat at his seat.. He seemed almost oblivious to the shouting and quarreling taking place around him as he continued to stare at the gold ring. The voice was back again, blocking out all other sounds as it whispered continuously in some languge he couldn't understand. The voice was growing louder by the second and soon Shingo couldn't take it anymore.
"I will take it!" he screamed as he jumped from his seat. "I will take the Ring!!"
Upon hearing this, everybody else stopped arguing and turned to look at the young Hobbit standing there in front of the table on which the ring was placed upon, and Chizuru closed her eyes in sympathy for Shingo.
"I will take the Ring to Mordor." Shingo said more quietly, his voice still serious. Then, his face turned to one of slight awkwardness and confusion as he added "Though I do not know the way there."
Chizuru walkied up to him, her face compassionate as she stood behind him, placing her hands on his shoulders. "I will help you bear this burden, Shingo Yabuki, as long as it is yours to bear."
Next to approach the Hobbit was K', who chrouched in front of Shingo so that he was at eye-level with the small Hobbit. "If by my life or death I can protect you," the Ranger told Shingo. "I will. You have my sword."
"And you have my bow." Kyo added, joining the group, much to Shingo's delight.
Iori glanced at the group, then at everyone else, before sighing heavily and stepping towards the small party and standing on the other side of Chizuru, the furthest away from Kyo as he said "And I guess you have my Axe." He saw the look of unhappiness cross the young Elf Prince's face and inwardly smiled to himself. The journey could prove interesting.
"You carry the fates of us all, little one," Andy approached Shingo, who looked warily back at the tall man. "If this is indeed the will of the Council, then Gondor will see it done."
"Hey!" a new voice suddenly pipped up and Sie Kensou ran to join the group from where he had been listening in behind the bushes neaby. "Shingo's not giong anywhere without me."
"No, it seems it's hardly possible to separate the two of you," Lady Candy had a slight look of amusement on her face. "Especially when he is called to a secret Council and you are not."
Kensou looked at the ground with an embarrassed look.
"Wait! We're coming too!" shouted Chris as he and Bao ran to join the group from where they too had been hiding. "You'll have to send us home tied up in a sack to stop us!"
"Besides," added Bao. "You need people of intelligence on this sort of mission.Quest. er. Thingy."
"Well, that rules you out, Bao." Chris whispered and elbowed his friend sharply in the ribs to silence him before he made an even greater fool of himself.
"Nine companions," Lady Candy looked at what had initially started as such a small group. "So be it. You shall be the Fellowship of the Ring."
"Great stuff," Bao looked proud before he frowned. "Where are we going again?"
Just want to say thanks to DliaZirk for encouragement to go on. I'd love to have more feedback and reviews tho.
Disclamer: I don't own Lord of the Rings, it belongs to New Line Cinema and J.R.R. Tolkien. I also don't own King of Fighters - that belongs to SNK. This is a crossover fanfiction between the Lord of the Rings story and the King of Fighters game. That being said, the fanfic might not stay true to both the LOTR and KoF storylines - just an early warning, especially since it takes place in the old times or Middle-Earth, not the modern. (^_^) Please do not copy my work without my permission. Feedback isgreat stuff in my eyes, so if you need to get hold of me, my e-mail address is kyona_kusanagi@yahoo.co.uk and my website is http://groups.msn.com/TheQueenOfFighters. Arigatou!
Chapter Eight
In the early hours of the next morning, as the sun began to rise, Kula Diamond and Strider stood on one of the bridges sharing the spectacular view.
"Do you remember when we first met?" Kula asked, breaking the silence, her voice soft.
The Ranger smiled as he recalled those memories. "I thought I had strayed into a dream."
She gazed at him as he brushed a hand through her long ice-blue hair. "Long years have passed. You did not have the cares that you carry with you now," she paused and then asked "Do you remember what I said to you?"
Strider looked at her and as his gaze fell to the beautiful pendant that she was always wearing as he replied "You said you'd bind yourself to me," he looked back at her. "Forsaking the immortal life of your people."
Kula smiled at him, one hand on his shoulder. "And to that I hold. I would rather share one lifetime with you, than face all Ages of this world alone."
The Ranger looked down as he felt something being pressed into his palm. He looked down at his hand to see Kula's pendant in his hand, her own hand holding the sparkling jewel there.
"I choose a mortal life." she whispered to him.
"You cannot give this to me." Strider looked at the young She-Elf, offering her the pendant back, but she pushed it back towards his chest.
"It is mine to give to whom I will," her face drew nearer to his. "Like my heart."
The Ranger didn't have to reply.
"Strangers from distant lands. Friends of old," Lady Candy addressed everyone at the meeting later that day as they sat in a circular shape around a small stone table in the middle of the outdoor council area. "You have all been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle-Earth stands upon the brink of destruction. None can escape it," she glanced around at everyone, making sure they got the message. "You will unite, or you will fall. Each race is bound to this fate, this one doom," she then looked at Shingo who was sat next to Chizuru. "Bring forth the ring, Shingo."
At his cue, Shingo Yabuki stepped nervously forwards, taking the gold ring out of his pocket. Looking around at everyone, he placed the ring upon the stone table and then, without further looks in any particular direction, he sat back at his seat, letting out a sigh of relief. The Orochi Ring of Power was out of his hands. He had fulfilled his task and was now a step closer to getting back to his home in the Kusanagi household.
There was silence from all as everybody stared at the ring on the table.
"So it is true." Andy Bogard was the first to break the uncomfortable silence in the area as he stared at the gold ring with a thoughtful expression before rising from his seat and announcing "It is a gift. A gift to the foes of Mordor. Why not use this Ring?" he looked at everybody for a moment before continuing. "Long has my father, the Steward of Gondor kept the forces or Mordor at bay. By the blood of our people are your lands kept safe. Give Gondor the weapon of the enemy and let us use it against the Orochi and N.E.S.T.S."
"You cannot weild it," Strider cut in, stopping Andy from continuing. "None of us can. The Ring answers to Orochi alone. It has no other master."
Andy turned to him and scorned "And what would a Ranger know of this matter?"
"That is no mere Ranger whom you speak to!" Kyo was suddenly out of his chair and looking directly at Andy. "His name is K' and he is of Nûmenorian blood. You owe him your allegiance."
Andy was momentarily stunned by the Elf Prince's words and he looked from Kyo to Strider - or K' as he was actually called.
"K'.?" Andy's voice as soft albeit slightly incredulous. "This is a Nûmenorian heir??"
From where he sat, Shingo was staggered by this sudden revelation. The man whom he had though of just as a Ranger and a friend of Chizuru Kagura's had now turned out to be some kind of royalty.
"An heir to the throne of Gondor." Kyo said as he and Andy locked gazes.
From where he had been sitting quietly, K'sighed deeply, rubbing his temples before putting a placating hand up and saying "Sit down, Kyo" in Quenyan.
"Gondor has no king." Andy sneered as he held Kyo's heated gaze evenly before returning to his own seat and glaring at K'. "Gondor needs no king."
"But K' is right nonetheless," Chizuru continued after both Kyo and Andy had sat down again. "We cannot use the Ring."
"You have only one choice," Lady Candy rose from her seat, addressing everyone. "The Ring must be destroyed."
"The what are we waiting for?" Iori Yagami stood up from where he had been sitting and grabbed his axe as he approached the Ring on the stone table and brought his weapon down forcefully.
There was a loud noise and a bright flash as the thick and sharp blade of the axe shattered, the resulting force throwing Iori to the ground whilst the gold ring remined intact on the table.
"The Ring cannot be destroyed, Iori Yagami, by any craft that we here posess," announced Lady Candy. "The Ring was created in the fires of Mount Doom. Only there can it be destroyed," she looked around. "It must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the firey chasm from whence it came," she paused for a moment. "One of you must do this."
There came a sudden silence in the area as everyobody cast glances at each other.
"One does not simply walk into Mordor," Andy spoke as if somebody had just told a sick joke. "Ita black gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep and the Eye of Orochi is ever-watchful," his voice became increasingly dramatic as he continued. "It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten thousand men could you do this. It's crazy!"
"Have you heard nothing of what Lady Candy has just said?" Kyo was getting clearly frustrated with Andy as he rose from his chair again. "The Ring must be destroyed!"
"Oh, and I suppose you think you're the one to do it!" Iori scoffed at from the other side of the circle of people.
"And if we fail, what then?" questioned Andy as he also stood from his seat again, taking a step towards Kyo. "What happened when the Orochi takes back what is his?
Iori was also out of his seat and glaring with hatrid at Kyo. "I will be dead before I see the Ring in the hands of an Elf! Or a Kusanagi. Or both!"
Of course, there were other Elves present at the meeting too. And for such insulting words to come from someone who was associated to the Dwarves - whom the Elves were already on disagreeing terms with - most of the other Elves sitting at the meeting began to retaliate.
One thing began to lead onto another and soon, practically everybody was out of their seats and arguing with somebody else.
"Do you not understand?!" Chizuru tried to break up the arguments. "Whilst you bicker amongst yourselves, the Orochi's power grows! None can escape it. You'll all be destroyed!"
Whilst this was happening, Shingo sat at his seat.. He seemed almost oblivious to the shouting and quarreling taking place around him as he continued to stare at the gold ring. The voice was back again, blocking out all other sounds as it whispered continuously in some languge he couldn't understand. The voice was growing louder by the second and soon Shingo couldn't take it anymore.
"I will take it!" he screamed as he jumped from his seat. "I will take the Ring!!"
Upon hearing this, everybody else stopped arguing and turned to look at the young Hobbit standing there in front of the table on which the ring was placed upon, and Chizuru closed her eyes in sympathy for Shingo.
"I will take the Ring to Mordor." Shingo said more quietly, his voice still serious. Then, his face turned to one of slight awkwardness and confusion as he added "Though I do not know the way there."
Chizuru walkied up to him, her face compassionate as she stood behind him, placing her hands on his shoulders. "I will help you bear this burden, Shingo Yabuki, as long as it is yours to bear."
Next to approach the Hobbit was K', who chrouched in front of Shingo so that he was at eye-level with the small Hobbit. "If by my life or death I can protect you," the Ranger told Shingo. "I will. You have my sword."
"And you have my bow." Kyo added, joining the group, much to Shingo's delight.
Iori glanced at the group, then at everyone else, before sighing heavily and stepping towards the small party and standing on the other side of Chizuru, the furthest away from Kyo as he said "And I guess you have my Axe." He saw the look of unhappiness cross the young Elf Prince's face and inwardly smiled to himself. The journey could prove interesting.
"You carry the fates of us all, little one," Andy approached Shingo, who looked warily back at the tall man. "If this is indeed the will of the Council, then Gondor will see it done."
"Hey!" a new voice suddenly pipped up and Sie Kensou ran to join the group from where he had been listening in behind the bushes neaby. "Shingo's not giong anywhere without me."
"No, it seems it's hardly possible to separate the two of you," Lady Candy had a slight look of amusement on her face. "Especially when he is called to a secret Council and you are not."
Kensou looked at the ground with an embarrassed look.
"Wait! We're coming too!" shouted Chris as he and Bao ran to join the group from where they too had been hiding. "You'll have to send us home tied up in a sack to stop us!"
"Besides," added Bao. "You need people of intelligence on this sort of mission.Quest. er. Thingy."
"Well, that rules you out, Bao." Chris whispered and elbowed his friend sharply in the ribs to silence him before he made an even greater fool of himself.
"Nine companions," Lady Candy looked at what had initially started as such a small group. "So be it. You shall be the Fellowship of the Ring."
"Great stuff," Bao looked proud before he frowned. "Where are we going again?"
Just want to say thanks to DliaZirk for encouragement to go on. I'd love to have more feedback and reviews tho.