Welcome to My World

Kayo

Chapter V: Breaking and Entering

"You've got to be kidding me," said Shawn blatantly at Chloe. "You're not actually going to let him go outside like that."

"Of course I am! He looks adorable!" She squealed, almost making Shawn's ears bleed.

"Shawn," said Megan, pulling on Shawn's leg. "What did they do to Le-go-lass?" She said, sounding out all the syllables.

Legolas was sitting in a chair in the bathroom. All three of them were crowded around the now transformed elf. A pink winter hat was sitting on his head, having all his hair stuffed up inside it. It took Chloe many bobby-pins to get it to stay. Not only did the hat hide his long hair (Shawn had offered to cut it all off so Legolas wouldn't look like a pansy, Chloe almost cut Shawn's head off), but it also hid the tips of his ears. Chloe stared at her masterpiece.

"Chloe, he looks like a recovering leukemia patient." She smacked him upside the head.

"No he doesn't! He looks like any normal guy…"

Does it have to be pink?asked Legolas in Sindarin to Chloe. He made a puppy dog face. He noticed that whenever he made a sad or confused face, Chloe would do whatever he wanted. Shawn had called this the "power of the elves."

Overcoming the ever so cute big blue eyes of her esteemed elfling, she answered back, Yes. It MUST be pink. That way we match! Legolas became agitated and ripped the hat off.

This is ridiculous! I do not even know where I am, or why you want to hide me. You said that there are no elves in this world. But somehow everyone knows of me! What is going on?!

Chloe took a step back. She hadn't imagined her second love acting so angry. It was scary! Shawn asked what Legolas had just yelled, and she told him he asked why everyone knew about him. Shawn glanced at Legolas. How am I supposed to tell him this? Ya, you're a fictional character in the real world. Everyone knows you because you were seen by the world-played by Orlando Bloom. You're desired by women everywhere, and no matter where you go in our world, people will be after you. I don't think he'd be able to cope with that. How to simplify…

"Tell him that everyone knows him because everyone knows of his saga. Everyone knows about the Ring and Sauron and Frodo. Just tell him that he's widely, *WIDELY*, known in our world."

Legolas stared at them after hearing their explanation. He couldn't believe it. How did they know? They didn't even have elves in this world…how was it that everyone could know of him and the whole Fellowship? It didn't make any sense.

It's all written in a book. You're whole adventure, it's just a fictional story, Chloe told him. Legolas sat back down in the chair. His hair was still pinned up with bobby-pins. The shock was unsettling for the young elf. He wasn't real? That wasn't possible. He was real in Middle-earth. Maybe this "fictional story" was just forgotten. Maybe he was in the future. He thought of all the possible ways that could explain it. Nothing seemed logical enough. Shawn put a hand on his shoulder.

"Look, even if you're fictional here, you're still a person—well an elf—but we're going to get you back to Middle-earth. From what I hear, you need to rescue Merry and Pippin!" Legolas smiled. Shawn was right. No matter what world he was in, he still had other problems to deal with. And he intended to save the hobbits, no matter how long it would take to return.

~*~

The school wasn't that far away. It took all but ten minutes to get there from Shawn's house. After an hour of arguing and running around the house, they had figured out a way to make Legolas look a wee bit more…not an elf. The first idea of a pink hat had been discarded; due to the fact Legolas was not too fond of the color pink. The second idea of a Scream mask had also been put aside; they had chased the elf around the house trying to make him put it on. Finally, they agreed on putting a black hoodie sweater, with the hood up, on him, along with some khaki pants Shawn found in his room.

Legolas had muttered something about looking like a Nazgul, but Chloe wouldn't tell Shawn the remark. Before they left, Chloe had taken off a couple of her bracelets (she had over twenty on) and gave them to Legolas to wear. He was incognito as a punk. Since they couldn't exactly walk up to the school with knives or bows and arrows, Legolas put his knives in the pocket in the sweater and left his bow at Shawn's house. He was reluctant to leave it, but after some explaining how his weapons were medieval and people would become curious, he left them behind.

His bow wasn't the only thing left behind; Chloe refused to go! She had told them that if they were going to break into the school, she wasn't going to be the one arrested. Stupid instigator, thought Shawn. She was the one who persuaded me into doing this! Since Shawn and Legolas clearly could not communicate, lack of Sindarin on Shawn's part, lack of English on Legolas', Chloe agreed to use walkie talkies. Once again, Legolas was amazed by the little voice that came out of the box. Chloe would translate anything that Shawn and Legolas had to tell each other.

The school was coming into view as they walked up the hill. Shawn's heart began to beat faster and faster. What if they were caught? What if they took Legolas away? What if he were arrested?! Calm down! We just have to get in, get the tape, and get out! After coming to the top of the hill, it was clear to both of them that it wasn't going to be easy.

Since the report of the dead orc bodies, over a hundred government agents, media news crews, and onlookers had come to see. The football field was littered with men in white suits, protected from what were potentially diseased aliens. The onlookers talked wildly about the scene. They knew they were orcs. It was blatantly obvious that they were orcs. And since they were DEAD orcs, the spectators assumed that they must have been killed by someone, presumably someone of the orc-world, aka Middle-earth. And so a Fellowship was started, the ones who believed that it was Aragorn that killed the orcs, because of the gashes that were clearly visible through the orc throats; the ones who believed that it was Boromir, also for the sword gashes; others believed it was Legolas with his knives—only to be countered by the Boromir and Aragorn Fellowships because Legolas would have used his arrows—and the Legolas Fellowship compensated saying that Legolas DID use his knives to kill orcs when in close combat. There was no Gimli Fellowship. Gimli used an ax to kill things…and no one thought that a dwarf could kill so many orcs so cleanly.

The rest of the figures on the scene seemed to be working like crazy to figure out what had transpired only a couple hours before. Certain questions had been answered, such as some news teams had reported that yes, indeed, the dead bodies were orcs. Other news teams said that there were suspicions that there was a Tolkien fanatic in the area, and that the dead bodies were actually costumes. Peter Jackson had already been contacted, being questioned if he had allowed any kind of recoding being done in the area, something of that sort. That was a dead end. So many rumors were being spread around; no one heard the government's take on what had occurred.

Shawn began to have second thoughts. There were way too many people around. It would be too obvious to break into the school from the back. The plan had been to sneak into the back of the school through the doors on the first floor, then head to the front of the school via the first floor hallway, up the stairs, stop at second floor, head to main office, possible breakage of a window, get the tape, and exit through second floor window (the school was on a hill. The first floor was sort of underground at some points. The front entrance to Edison High was actually the second floor.) Now that there were so many people around, Shawn doubted if they would even be able to get close to the school. Hopefully none of these fangirls will try to look underneath Legolas' hoodie! Just Shawn's luck that most of the girls in his town were punk.

"Chloe. We've got a problem. Fangirls. News crews. Big security guys in black—WITH guns. What do we do?!"

"I take it there's no way into the building?"

"Not really, no."

"Duh, there's always a way in! Art room! The windows are always open from the painting and pottery. First floor in the back! Happy hunting! And Legolas, look out for the girls, they may try to grope you…" She said the word "grope" in English.

"Grope?" Legolas asked Shawn, not quite understanding what she meant by that. Shawn held the Morse code button for a couple seconds, hoping that Chloe's ear might possibly bleed from the annoying buzz. Shawn motioned for Legolas to follow him.

As if fate had dealt them a deadly hand, Legolas felt eyes watching him. He saw the dead orcs on the ground where he had slain them earlier. No. There was something much worse than a bunch of orcs around. Legolas stopped in his tracks, receiving attention from Shawn. As Shawn opened his mouth to undoubtedly ask why Legolas had stopped, he remarked, "Dartha…Gwaith antha lye." (Wait…Someone watches us.)

"Huh?" Shawn looked around and couldn't believe his eyes when they came to rest upon the one person he dreaded. Jared. He was on the field, with his video camera, no less. Of all the times to be here, why now?!? Shawn mentally cursed himself. The only thing that could make it worse would be if Nina showed up. Quickly taking in the scene, he made sure he hadn't just jinxed himself, and gave a deep sigh. Things were about to become very complicated.

"Legolas, at all costs, avoid that guy," Shawn said and pointed toward the red clad teen as Chloe translated. Legolas stared at him for a few seconds before Shawn made a motion to leave again. Somehow, he didn't think that this teenager was the one who was watching them.

Making their way behind a giant white van (and out of Jared's sight), Shawn waited for the people on the other side to leave and take a look at the orc bodies. Big white van, how I love you so, Shawn thought as they hid inconspicuously behind the massive car. The Fellowships, along with everyone else, were on the other side. The only coverage that Shawn and Legolas had were the big vans and bushes that lined up beside the brick building. The parking lot next to the football field was literally filled. Even a helicopter had flown by, most likely for the news or for the government.

Shawn looked around the corner of the van; not too many people present. Walk casually. Must walk casually. No deadly weapons on me…no elves…no feebly attempts at stealing! Someone grabbed Shawn's shoulder. He tensed; Legolas was in front of him. He slowly turned around to see an older man looking down at him. He tried not to freak out, he really did. But where you're housing a Middle-earth escapee, it's hard not to be apprehensive!

"Excuse me, what are you doing back here?" asked the man in black. Apparently, Shawn had forgotten to read to big CIA letters on the white van. The first thing that popped into Shawn's mind was a rather disturbing thought, but one that could work. He grabbed Legolas around the waist and said as confidently as he could,

"I'm seeing what all the commotion is about with my boyfriend!" WHAT THE HELL AM I THINKING?!?!?!? His brain screamed at him. The action however, took the guard by surprise.

"Ohh…uhh…I'm sorry, sirs, but…uh…you may want to do that somewhere else…" he stammered. Shawn nodded and led Legolas closer to the school, with the full authorization of going where he pleased. When they reached the back of the school, Legolas gave Shawn the weirdest look that he had ever seen. He clicked on the walkie talkie, dreading what he had to tell Chloe.

"Chloe…"

"Ya, what's up?" she asked casually. A loud chewing sound was heard…popcorn at a time like this? thought Shawn.

"Can you tell Legolas that I had to do that to make the guard let us through?"

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM?!?!"

"NOTHING! (of importance)" Shawn screamed back. After the message relay, Legolas still was a little displeased, to say the least. They reached the art room window and, thankfully, it was open. The bushes hid them from sight, and most people were paying attention in front of them, not behind.

They entered the dark room. The smell of paint tainted the air. Legolas unconsciously shivered. The dark was no place for an elf. Shawn led them through the tables of drying paintings and clay moldings. It was sort of creepy. A huge dragon sculpture was staring coldly at them. If there was more light, both would have been fascinated by the magnificent piece of art. In the dark, it was as if the creature would come alive and attack them.

Shaking the thought off, Shawn went to the door. He twisted the knob, only to see that it didn't budge. "It's locked." He turned back to Legolas with a look of defeat. "We can't get out of here…" Legolas noticed the predicament without the helpful translation of Chloe. Some things were understood without words.

"Al loomin," (No problem.) he said with the hint of a smile. With a swift twist of the wrist, a blade appeared and in a swift motion, the doorknob was gone.

"Wish I had a set of those!" Shawn said as he held the fallen end of the doorknob in his hand. Legolas noted the appreciation in Shawn's voice and smiled. Shawn pulled the door towards them and stuck his head out into the hallway. No one. They crept out of the room and headed for the stairwell. There was no sign of life in the empty hall. This was a good thing! No one to see the act of vandalism!

They reached the main office in a minute, and with the nifty knob-be-gone technique of Legolas' blades, they entered the office. The control center of where the students were spied on was just ahead. They were almost done! Access was gained by the blades of doom, and Shawn searched the room. It was very simple, not at all what Shawn had thought. He was picturing a room with a bunch of tvs and a tables. The real room was more like a closet with a small desk and chair, a tv on the wall, and a computer. He looked around the room for a moment, and then found what he was looking for—the current recordings.

They happened to be on the computer. The school's cameras were all linked to this one computer. Good thing I happen to be an expert at hacking! With the latest recording deleted, and the cameras all turned off, he got out of the chair and went toward the door. Legolas looked back at the computer and at Shawn. Where was the tape, like the one Chloe had shown them? Shawn remembered that, and told Chloe to tell him that the information was deleted, that there wasn't a tape. With that taken care of, they exited the office and headed for the stairwell. A feeling of total success enveloped Shawn. Legolas was eyeing the halls as if something was watching them. Shawn brushed it off. Almost home free! He thought as they walked down the stairs. Shawn really had to stop jinxing himself though.

"Hiya Shawn!" Shawn stopped dead in his tracks. He slowly turned around, as did Legolas. Please don't be Jared and/or government agent. To Shawn's surprise, it was neither. It was the loser guy Ron Dorslau. What the hell is he doing here? He and Jared used to beat him up in Middle school, and then he disappeared for a while. Why would he turn up now?

"Ron? What are you doing here?" Shawn asked agitated. He didn't have time for him. As long as he hadn't seen them breaking into the office or Legolas, he couldn't care less.

"Oh, just waiting…" That's a little vague.

"Waiting for what?"

"Certain people to arrive…and I guess they have." Shawn's heart stopped. Waiting for certain people to arrive…does he mean Legolas?

tbc…

Responses to Reviews

Josh: Alrighty, found out I don't need to change that much for this. Only to when Elidh-Feredir shows up. Then I need to change the almighty villain. ::wonders if anyone will figure out who it is:: ^_^ ttyl, I wanna get this posted and good luck reading HP!

Erikalya Arvanesse: damn straight it's a great story, lol, just kidding! I SWEAR!

Dreamstrifer: Only you and Josh are true fans! Stayed with it even though it was kicked off. How sad. Ya, maybe I should've changed how Nina reacted to Legolas on the phone. Oh well, I wanted to get the chapter up. But anyway, several things are starting to change! Woo hoo! And I've almost figured out how I can make everything work in the end and still end up with the way the sequel begins. ::tears of joy:: I got 20 reviews!!! lol