Sightseeing on Earth
By: Writes with Block
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Disclaimer: Not mine! Not mine! (think of the sea gulls from finding nemo ^_^)
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Chapter Five: Moving In
"Are you certain it won't eat us?" Merry asked, glancing around the confines of the car fearfully. Both hobbits had to thrown into the car, one by Jo and the other by Aragorn, and now refused to sit still. "It sounds hungry."
"It keeps rumbling," Pippin added.
"It won't eat you," Jo said once again, rolling her eyes.
"Do you do this often?" Legolas asked, pushing Haldir's elbow from his face so he could speak.
Legolas, Aragorn, Gandalf, Jo, and the two hobbits had been forced to sit in the back seat after Holly called shot gun. Shawn had volunteered her lap for Haldir to sit on but Holly and Jo figured they'd live longer if he didn't and so he was shoved in the back seat with everyone else. The hobbits were sitting on the floor of the car next to Jo and everyone else had squeezed themselves on to the seat. The only one who looked comfortable Jo. She had her legs pulled up against her chest, her school bag in her lap and her chin resting on her knees.
"None of this bothers you?" Aragorn asked incrediously, shoving Legolas back against the door in an attempt to pull his leg out from under Haldir.
"I've been in band for four years and I'm one of seven kids. If this bothered me I would have snapped a long time ago," Jo answered smugly. It was quite fun having all these honor bound men around. Out of respect for the fact that she was a girl they gave her as much seating room as possible.
"Uh....Jo," Holly mumbled.
"Yeah?"
"Its time."
"Oh right. Haldir! Evasive maneuvers!"
Haldir sprang forward, which didn't matter much because he was all ready shoved up against the driver's seat, and hugged Shawn. Holly grabbed the wheel and jerked it to the left, making the car swerve dangerously. Everyone in the car swung to the left, grabbing onto whatever was close in fear. The car straightened out, Haldir sat back, Holly let go of the wheel and things went back to normal.
"I can't believe that worked," Holly whispered, turning around to talk to Jo.
"All of my ideas work. I don't know why. But they do."
"Even that time we scraped all the heads off the matches and lit them in that tin cup?"
"It lit up the way I said it would."
"But the cup got so hot we couldn't take it somewhere to douse it."
"Never said all of my ideas were good one and wasn't that partly your idea anyway?"
"Probably."
The rest of the way to Holly's was uneventful. They go out of the car, which consisted of Holly opening on of the passenger doors and watching as everyone fell out. She chuckled as everyone fell into her dirt driveway and turned to go into the garage.
Jo, who was sitting against the unopened door, jumped out of the car cheerfully and headed for the house too. She was stopped by Shawn who grabbed her arm and whirled her around.
"I know what you did," she hissed. "If you get between me and Haldir I swear I'm going to take you out. And not on a date."
Jo watched her friend walk to Holly's house and sighed. "I think I was in less danger in Middle Earth," she said to herself and walked to the house, grabbing the hobbits as she did so. "You want something to drink?" she asked Holly, walking over to the fridge.
"Juice," Holly answered, going into the house to see if anyone was there.
Jo gathered some sodas and shut the door. Haldir, Legolas, and Gandalf were staring at the fridge avidly. Aragorn was off poking at the motorcycle. The hobbits had all ready run into the house.
"Uh, you guys want a drink?" Jo asked, offering them a soda.
"What is this box that keeps these containers cold?" Haldir asked, taking a Pepsi bottle from her.
"Its called a fridge. Its supposed to keep stuff cold. And that's called a coke. Its supposed to be kept cold."
"How does it work?" Gandalf asked, touching the fridge lightly. "I see no source of magic."
"Its not magic. You plug that cord into the wall socket and it starts working."
"Then the magic is in that box?" Legolas asked, sounding proud of his logic.
"No. That's where the electricity comes from?"
"Lec-city?" Haldir asked, his eyebrows drawn together.
"Yeah. Its currents and stuff like that."
"Like ocean currents?" Gandalf asked, obviously confused.
"No," Jo mumbled. "The wall socket is connected to a power plant." She paused, looking at everyone's confused faces. "And that's where the magic comes from."
They all nodded sagely, satisfied with her explanation.
"A very organized way of using magic," Gandalf praised.
"Yup. Lets go inside." She herded them in and turned to look at Aragorn. He was staring at the motorcycle with a stony expression on his face. "Aragorn?"
"I want my juice."
"Here," Jo said, handing the juice to Holly. "Aragorn?"
"Will it eat me?"
"The motorcycle?" Holly asked, sipping her juice.
"Is that what this beast is called?"
"Yeah. And it might eat you," Jo answered.
"It is the devil."
"A devil?" Aragorn asked, reaching for where his sword normally would have been.
"Yeah. When you turn it on it says 'I am the devil'."
"She's not lying. I heard it once."
"And you allow devils to live in your home?" Aragorn asked, backing away from the motorcycle carefully.
"Wait until you meet the cat," Jo chuckled and Holly shook her head.
Inside the house Shawn had shown the elves the television, Gandalf had his head in the freezer, Pip was playing with the flush toilet, and Merry had found the cat. He had it by the tail and was spinning it in circles on the kitchen floor.
"That's what we do with her," Holly said.
"Watch out cause she'll try to eat your face," Jo warned.
Merry squeaked and ran away, taking refuge on the stairs.
"We do that too," Jo chuckled and went to rescue Pippin from the toilet.
"You want something to eat?" Holly asked Gandalf as he wandered around the kitchen.
"You have many of those wall sockets as Jo called them. You can use as much magic as you want?"
"Whatever works best," Holly answered, steering Gandalf into the living room.
"Do those people stay in this box all the time?" Haldir asked, tapping the TV screen.
"That's so cute," Shawn squealed, glomping him.
"How do they get out?" Legolas asked, trying to open the top of the TV.
"Its magic," Jo said, dragging Pippin out of the bathroom and throwing him on the couch. "You plug it into the wall and the magic projects images of people on to the screen. They're not actually in there or anything."
"I have never heard of magic like this," Gandalf said, sitting down in a nearby chair.
"We're advanced," Shawn answered happily.
"Wow!" Pippin shouted as the channel on the TV changed. He was holding the remote, staring at it with wide eyes. He pushed the button again, laughing as the images on the screen changed.
"Stop watching that," Jo said, turning off the TV. "You'll rot your brain. Time for all of you to go outside where you belong. Its almost time for Holly's mom to get home."
"Let's go," Holly said, herding everyone outside.
"Anyone seen Aragorn or Merry?" Jo asked and something crashed to the floor upstairs. "I got it," Jo said and hurried up the stairs.
Aragorn and Merry were in Holly's mom's room, staring at the computer. The keyboard was lying on the floor.
"What is this?" Aragorn asked, touching the screen lightly.
"A devil." The ranger and the hobbit jumped away from the computer. "Time for you guys to go outside."
********
"I do not think there are any devils here," Aragorn said and sat down.
"Not a single one," Jo said.
"She's here," Shawn called from the house.
"You guys stay here and don't go to the house unless one of comes and gets you. Okay?"
"Anything you say my lady," Aragorn replied.
Jo jogged back to the garage where Shawn and Holly were waiting. "I told them to hide out."
"I really hope this works," Holly replied as they went into the house. "Cause if it doesn't I'm taking you to Mexico and selling you on the black market."
"Don't mind as long as you get a good price."
*******
Today was my very first day of real work. I was on the register all day today. Well, most of the day. The register broke down after near the end of my shift but it wasn't my fault. I was only $2.44 short when I counted out. I think that's pretty good considering today was the first time I've ever worked a register in my entire live. Yea me! *throws a small party*
I don't like this chapter very much. Its freakishly long, three pages on the word processor, but I still don't like it. Not really sure what I don't like. Maybe it moves from one thing to another too quickly. I think that's what it is. Oh well. I needed a chapter and here it is. I'll have more fun with modern appliances later. So I hope you like it. Please read and review! Thanks!
And here's the thank you list. A big thank you to:
Sorceress-of-Sangolia
Priestess of Anubis
rlenavamprye14
giveGodtheglory (i'm not sure if we would have died but we could have been seriously injured. when i'm thirty i'm going to look back on my life and wondered how i'd survived)
Coolio02
PrincessEvenstar
aquitaineq (sorry i misspelled yer name. There's a little line that runs threw it and i couldn't tell if it were a 'q' or a 'g')
AND
crecy (i love the soundtracks too ^___^)
By: Writes with Block
*****
Disclaimer: Not mine! Not mine! (think of the sea gulls from finding nemo ^_^)
*****
Chapter Five: Moving In
"Are you certain it won't eat us?" Merry asked, glancing around the confines of the car fearfully. Both hobbits had to thrown into the car, one by Jo and the other by Aragorn, and now refused to sit still. "It sounds hungry."
"It keeps rumbling," Pippin added.
"It won't eat you," Jo said once again, rolling her eyes.
"Do you do this often?" Legolas asked, pushing Haldir's elbow from his face so he could speak.
Legolas, Aragorn, Gandalf, Jo, and the two hobbits had been forced to sit in the back seat after Holly called shot gun. Shawn had volunteered her lap for Haldir to sit on but Holly and Jo figured they'd live longer if he didn't and so he was shoved in the back seat with everyone else. The hobbits were sitting on the floor of the car next to Jo and everyone else had squeezed themselves on to the seat. The only one who looked comfortable Jo. She had her legs pulled up against her chest, her school bag in her lap and her chin resting on her knees.
"None of this bothers you?" Aragorn asked incrediously, shoving Legolas back against the door in an attempt to pull his leg out from under Haldir.
"I've been in band for four years and I'm one of seven kids. If this bothered me I would have snapped a long time ago," Jo answered smugly. It was quite fun having all these honor bound men around. Out of respect for the fact that she was a girl they gave her as much seating room as possible.
"Uh....Jo," Holly mumbled.
"Yeah?"
"Its time."
"Oh right. Haldir! Evasive maneuvers!"
Haldir sprang forward, which didn't matter much because he was all ready shoved up against the driver's seat, and hugged Shawn. Holly grabbed the wheel and jerked it to the left, making the car swerve dangerously. Everyone in the car swung to the left, grabbing onto whatever was close in fear. The car straightened out, Haldir sat back, Holly let go of the wheel and things went back to normal.
"I can't believe that worked," Holly whispered, turning around to talk to Jo.
"All of my ideas work. I don't know why. But they do."
"Even that time we scraped all the heads off the matches and lit them in that tin cup?"
"It lit up the way I said it would."
"But the cup got so hot we couldn't take it somewhere to douse it."
"Never said all of my ideas were good one and wasn't that partly your idea anyway?"
"Probably."
The rest of the way to Holly's was uneventful. They go out of the car, which consisted of Holly opening on of the passenger doors and watching as everyone fell out. She chuckled as everyone fell into her dirt driveway and turned to go into the garage.
Jo, who was sitting against the unopened door, jumped out of the car cheerfully and headed for the house too. She was stopped by Shawn who grabbed her arm and whirled her around.
"I know what you did," she hissed. "If you get between me and Haldir I swear I'm going to take you out. And not on a date."
Jo watched her friend walk to Holly's house and sighed. "I think I was in less danger in Middle Earth," she said to herself and walked to the house, grabbing the hobbits as she did so. "You want something to drink?" she asked Holly, walking over to the fridge.
"Juice," Holly answered, going into the house to see if anyone was there.
Jo gathered some sodas and shut the door. Haldir, Legolas, and Gandalf were staring at the fridge avidly. Aragorn was off poking at the motorcycle. The hobbits had all ready run into the house.
"Uh, you guys want a drink?" Jo asked, offering them a soda.
"What is this box that keeps these containers cold?" Haldir asked, taking a Pepsi bottle from her.
"Its called a fridge. Its supposed to keep stuff cold. And that's called a coke. Its supposed to be kept cold."
"How does it work?" Gandalf asked, touching the fridge lightly. "I see no source of magic."
"Its not magic. You plug that cord into the wall socket and it starts working."
"Then the magic is in that box?" Legolas asked, sounding proud of his logic.
"No. That's where the electricity comes from?"
"Lec-city?" Haldir asked, his eyebrows drawn together.
"Yeah. Its currents and stuff like that."
"Like ocean currents?" Gandalf asked, obviously confused.
"No," Jo mumbled. "The wall socket is connected to a power plant." She paused, looking at everyone's confused faces. "And that's where the magic comes from."
They all nodded sagely, satisfied with her explanation.
"A very organized way of using magic," Gandalf praised.
"Yup. Lets go inside." She herded them in and turned to look at Aragorn. He was staring at the motorcycle with a stony expression on his face. "Aragorn?"
"I want my juice."
"Here," Jo said, handing the juice to Holly. "Aragorn?"
"Will it eat me?"
"The motorcycle?" Holly asked, sipping her juice.
"Is that what this beast is called?"
"Yeah. And it might eat you," Jo answered.
"It is the devil."
"A devil?" Aragorn asked, reaching for where his sword normally would have been.
"Yeah. When you turn it on it says 'I am the devil'."
"She's not lying. I heard it once."
"And you allow devils to live in your home?" Aragorn asked, backing away from the motorcycle carefully.
"Wait until you meet the cat," Jo chuckled and Holly shook her head.
Inside the house Shawn had shown the elves the television, Gandalf had his head in the freezer, Pip was playing with the flush toilet, and Merry had found the cat. He had it by the tail and was spinning it in circles on the kitchen floor.
"That's what we do with her," Holly said.
"Watch out cause she'll try to eat your face," Jo warned.
Merry squeaked and ran away, taking refuge on the stairs.
"We do that too," Jo chuckled and went to rescue Pippin from the toilet.
"You want something to eat?" Holly asked Gandalf as he wandered around the kitchen.
"You have many of those wall sockets as Jo called them. You can use as much magic as you want?"
"Whatever works best," Holly answered, steering Gandalf into the living room.
"Do those people stay in this box all the time?" Haldir asked, tapping the TV screen.
"That's so cute," Shawn squealed, glomping him.
"How do they get out?" Legolas asked, trying to open the top of the TV.
"Its magic," Jo said, dragging Pippin out of the bathroom and throwing him on the couch. "You plug it into the wall and the magic projects images of people on to the screen. They're not actually in there or anything."
"I have never heard of magic like this," Gandalf said, sitting down in a nearby chair.
"We're advanced," Shawn answered happily.
"Wow!" Pippin shouted as the channel on the TV changed. He was holding the remote, staring at it with wide eyes. He pushed the button again, laughing as the images on the screen changed.
"Stop watching that," Jo said, turning off the TV. "You'll rot your brain. Time for all of you to go outside where you belong. Its almost time for Holly's mom to get home."
"Let's go," Holly said, herding everyone outside.
"Anyone seen Aragorn or Merry?" Jo asked and something crashed to the floor upstairs. "I got it," Jo said and hurried up the stairs.
Aragorn and Merry were in Holly's mom's room, staring at the computer. The keyboard was lying on the floor.
"What is this?" Aragorn asked, touching the screen lightly.
"A devil." The ranger and the hobbit jumped away from the computer. "Time for you guys to go outside."
********
"I do not think there are any devils here," Aragorn said and sat down.
"Not a single one," Jo said.
"She's here," Shawn called from the house.
"You guys stay here and don't go to the house unless one of comes and gets you. Okay?"
"Anything you say my lady," Aragorn replied.
Jo jogged back to the garage where Shawn and Holly were waiting. "I told them to hide out."
"I really hope this works," Holly replied as they went into the house. "Cause if it doesn't I'm taking you to Mexico and selling you on the black market."
"Don't mind as long as you get a good price."
*******
Today was my very first day of real work. I was on the register all day today. Well, most of the day. The register broke down after near the end of my shift but it wasn't my fault. I was only $2.44 short when I counted out. I think that's pretty good considering today was the first time I've ever worked a register in my entire live. Yea me! *throws a small party*
I don't like this chapter very much. Its freakishly long, three pages on the word processor, but I still don't like it. Not really sure what I don't like. Maybe it moves from one thing to another too quickly. I think that's what it is. Oh well. I needed a chapter and here it is. I'll have more fun with modern appliances later. So I hope you like it. Please read and review! Thanks!
And here's the thank you list. A big thank you to:
Sorceress-of-Sangolia
Priestess of Anubis
rlenavamprye14
giveGodtheglory (i'm not sure if we would have died but we could have been seriously injured. when i'm thirty i'm going to look back on my life and wondered how i'd survived)
Coolio02
PrincessEvenstar
aquitaineq (sorry i misspelled yer name. There's a little line that runs threw it and i couldn't tell if it were a 'q' or a 'g')
AND
crecy (i love the soundtracks too ^___^)