A/N: First of all I'd like to thank my reviewers:

Eruantane: Wonderfully attempted British accent!

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chuckleseviltroll312: They are in Middle Earth and you shall have to wait and see! :D

A/N2: Well, here it is you guys. (Finally!!!!) The Marauders and Ally are still in Middle Earth and in a lot of trouble by the sounds of things. Who is the old man? (Like you all don't know!) And what will he do with them? Find out! Lolz. I'm really sorry this took so long to get up!!!! I've been working on my novel that I'm writing and it's been taking up a lot of my time along with school cuz we're winding down to the Christmas Holidays (Yay!). So, sorry again and I really hope you guys like this one.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO REVIEW!!!!!!!! THANX!!!!

~FallenAngelOfInnocence

Where are we now?

            The group finally stopped moving when the wind had died down to what would be considered a normally windy day. The sun was high in the sky, but it did nothing for the bone-chilling cold that surrounded them. They had made it to the bottom of the mountain, but some snow was still piled in large areas around them.

            They were all seated in what could have been a circle, with the old man sitting on a mound of snow with Aragorn standing on his left, sword drawn, and another younger man who had shocked the four teenagers to no avail when he and four others had finally been pulled out of the snow and reached only Aragorn's waist in height.

            It had taken quite a few elbow jabs by Remus and James and finally another snowball to the face from Ally to get Sirius to stop staring at the big, thickly covered, hairy feet of three of them. The fourth, they had learned, was a dwarf named Gimli. The other three were off to Aragorn's left, standing with the pony, although two of them seemed to be creeping slowly closer, excited and interested by the strange newcomers that had landed on them. They had broken into a quiet giggle fit after hearing Ally's remark about their black cloaks. All Ally had received was another bump from Sirius, who had once again been cuffed by Boromir, and she had hit Remus, who had hit James, who had once again saved himself from collision with the old man.

            When Ally had turned around to make another smart remark, Remus and Sirius had caught James' pleading look, and Sirius had promptly clamped an ice-cold hand over her mouth and slowly shook his head. Ally had simply rolled her pale blue eyes and they had continued on their way, right after she had stared murder at Boromir.

            But now they sat on their own snow mound with Boromir and Legolas standing behind them, sword and bow at the ready.

            The old man was sitting across from them, and was eyeing them suspiciously from under the brim of his tall pointed hat and bushy grey eyebrows. He had been doing so for the past ten minutes, in which time he had taken out and lit his pipe, and the Marauders' and Ally's bottoms had frozen themselves into total numbness.

            Finally, he spoke.

            " I am Gandalf the Grey, a powerful wizard."

            " Hey cool! Us t-" Remus elbowed Sirius, hard.

            Gandalf eyed them strangely, as if he were reading their minds. " What were you doing atop the Mountain?" He asked suddenly.

            " Long story," mumbled James.

            " You do not look as any humans I have ever seen in all my long years."

            " They are evil!" Said Legolas angrily and they all stiffened at the sound of his bowstring being stretched, ready to fire. " They come from Mordor!"

            " Mordor?" Asked Ally, confused, all sense of fear gone as she looked all around her in every direction. " So this isn't Canada, then?"

            " Where is this place, Canada?" Asked Boromir, suspiciously.

            " Never mind," said Ally quietly, trying not to smile.  

            Gandalf narrowed his gaze at them, studying each of them one a time as he had done so many times before. " You say your story is a long one," he said. " We have little time, but enough. Tell it."

            James sighed and their tale unraveled. He explained as briefly but thoroughly as he could about the wizarding world, about the N.E.W.T.s, about the Time-Turner, about hiding in the closet- which Ally wasn't too pleased about (" You WHAT?!"). He explained about being discovered, about Ally going with them, about the band of orcs, and about the mountaintop. " I assume you know the rest?" asked James in a tired voice.

            " Indeed, I do," answered Gandalf. He stared at the ground for a few moments, puffing his pipe and the four teens sighed as they knew they were simply going to get wetter as the old wizard thought.

            They looked around them to pass the time and Sirius and James amused themselves by seeing what sort of shapes they could make with their breath on the cold air. Remus seemed interested, but Ally was slightly preoccupied with the feeling in her poor, cold ass. Or lack of.

            " Where are you off to again?"

            Gandalf's sudden question caused them to jump.

            " We're trying to get back to our own time," answered James.

            " And our own world," added Sirius.

            " I'm not sure what good may come of it," said Gandalf, staring at them with a stern glare, " but I suggest that you four travelers come with us, if only for a ways. You know not of this land, and we are traveling to many a place across it. Travel with us until you know of what you must do."

            " Thank you," said James, relieved and happy to have a guide in such a strange world.

            " Yes, thank you very much," added Remus, smiling along with the other three.

            Gandalf smiled for the first time since they'd met him and rose to his feet. " Come now, we must be off."

            Everyone rose to their feet (Sirius taking a few more tries than the others) and shook the feeling back into their legs. James noticed that Legolas was reluctant with his bow and was the last to put away his weapon.

            They started off down the mountain and James fell into step beside Remus. " Keep an eye on Blondie, there's something about him I don't quite trust."

            Remus nodded and the group moved on, Sirius and Ally taking up the rear. Sirius started to quicken his pace so as they could catch up with James and Remus, but Ally caught his arm. He stopped and looked over his shoulder at her, confused. She wore a mischievous smile that Sirius had seen many times on the faces of his best friends and also on his own. He looked at her curiously. She slowly started to pull him in the opposite direction, back up the mountain.

            " Follow me."

*          *            *

            The group had been walking for a good fifteen minutes. Gandalf was deep in conversation with Aragorn, the four small people that were still unknown were talking excitedly as the larger of them lead a small pony, Boromir and Legolas were talking and Gimli was throwing in his own opinion every now and then, and Remus and James were talking about their situation.

            " I honestly don't have a bloody clue how it happened," Remus was saying.

            " I had no idea that Time-Turners could not only switch times, but worlds as well," said James.

            " I don't think they can," said Remus and he gave James a nervous look.

            " What do you mean?" Asked James.

            " Well, everyone knows that Time-Turners can take you to different periods of time," Remus explained, " but no one has ever spoken of it taking people to different worlds. To be honest Prongs, I think our Time-Turner – of all the bloody ones out there- our Time-Turner has been tampered with."

            " You may be right, Moony," said James, " but how is it possible? If someone had the power to change worlds, don't you think they would have said something?"

            " Would you have?" Asked Remus seriously.

            James looked ahead of them. He suddenly felt sick. What if they could never get back?

            He suddenly noticed that Remus had stopped walking a moment ago. He turned around and walked to stand beside him. " What is it, Moony?" He asked curiously.

            Remus looked around. " Where are Padfoot and Ally?"

            James realized then that they were, in fact, nowhere to be seen. " Where'd they go?" He wondered aloud. Boromir's voice caught his attention.

            " Has anyone seen my shield?"

            " WOO-HOO-HOO!"