Hello, how are you all today, here is the next chappie for you, it's a bit
long winded and probably horribly flawed. as usual lol. Anyway this chapter
is when it really starts to meander away from Tolkein's original plot, but
Usagi being dumped in the world has to change the course of its future
right? Well in this fic it does. I like to have freedom and not just stick
to the exact plot.
Okay, I'm done ranting. :D
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Aragorn smiled at the insane girl running before him; thankfully the insane part of her description not being literally, this time. He smiled ruefully at the thought. He had never met anyone who could change so quickly from the quivering mess that he had comforted last night to the energetic and laughing girl leaping and bounding before him now. Perhaps that was the nature of the isil hina, to be unpredictable, and she had certainly given them a shock this morning.
Usagi had emerged from her allocated bedchambers seemingly a new person. The elegant gowns the elves had given her had been torn at the knee leaving Usagi's bare legs exposed. This had of course produced frowns and embarrassment all around. When they had found her wearing next to nothing it had been different but now, a lady bearing a great proportion of her legs was most strange. The state of Usagi's garments had caused much embarrassed giggling from the young hobbit Pippin. What a sorry state it would have been for the young hobbit to have been carried away with the uruk-hai. In explanation Usagi had given a cheeky grin and explained that where she came from she usually bared a lot more skin than what she was doing now, and besides, she had said. 'If I'm gonna be fighting I can't be expected to move about in a dress like this, I guess this is why Luna tells me to always wear my transformation broach.' At that particular statement Legolas had uttered a shocked protest about a moon lady being in battle, but Gimli telling Usagi it was good idea had silenced him most comically.
The other unusual thing about Usagi that morning had been her hair. Aragorn eyed her suspiciously even now as she ran joyously ahead with the hobbits. Who would have thought they would be going to battle the way they were behaving now. It was hard to describe the style, it was most unusual, perhaps more intricate than the elaborate plaits the elves used to pull their hair from their faces, she had done her pale golden hair up in round balls on either side of her hair, the rest of her immense amounts of hair were wove out of these balls of hair and hung down to her knees in streamers, it was unusual, but charming and Aragorn had the distinct impression he had seen that particular style before, but where exactly he could not place. It seemed that this drastic change in hair style to the elegance of the night before had brought Usagi out of her self, she seemed more at peace with her surroundings and had announced as they had left Lorien for the second time, 'I'm back'. As she had calmed down somewhat the moon sigil that had adorned her forehead was now gone, she looked no different to any human now, apart from her strange attire.
And so it was the young girl, seeming as innocent as a child at the present time was leaping ahead barefoot and adding an air of merriment to the otherwise down cast party of friends. When suddenly;
"OW, ooh."
Usagi tried stopping in her headlong chase across the open valley racing like the wind with Pippin and Merry, the others lagging behind. She tried to grab her foot whilst still in motion and after a couple of hops had ungracefully fallen down. Still clutching her pained foot and fighting back tears she sat on the floor with an angry look on her face. Pippin and Merry were instantly at her side with expressions of concern. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli raced to her side as fast as they could.
"Oh, Usagi, what is the matter, is a magical beast caught hold of you, I'll have it Usagi you just tell me what's up." Merry was ready to face whatever foe had struck their companion.
The others had now reached her side and seeing no immediate danger cast about them for the unseen foe. Legolas crouched down by Usagi concerned for her well being.
"What ails you lady?" He asked her. Choking back a sob Usagi responded. "It's. my foot, I think I trod on a stone or something."
Upon hearing this chaos erupted, Gimli scoffed and called her a weak human, Aragorn had been fighting back a smile but had to defend her, and his species of course. He did this by explaining that Usagi wasn't human, which upset Usagi and caused Pippin and Merry to attack both Aragorn and Gimli at once, knocking the dignified dwarf to the ground. Legolas blocked all sounds of the mock battle out and focused on Usagi. He reached for the injured foot, producing a shriek from Usagi and causing her to hastily withdraw her foot wincing in pain.
"Don't touch it!"
she yelled in a panic. Pain, not being Usagi's strong point. Legolas looked deep into her eyes and reached for the foot once more. Carefully lowering his eyes from Usagi's, as one would do to a flighty wild animal, he examined her foot while she flinched in the appropriate places and whimpered when he pressed too hard. At last he seemed to have made a diagnostic he stood up and cleared his throat to calm his traveling companions.
"It will heal in a day or two. It is just sprained."
Usagi and the hobbits looked relieved Gimli had to cut in with a comment of his own "Of course now our progress will be slowed and this wouldn't have happened if you hadn't gone running off like some wild rabbit in spring time." Usagi sniggered at his analogy though she being the only one in on the inside joke received a stern look from Gimli so she had the grace to look sheepish as Aragorn pulled her to her feet, or rather foot.
So they set off again in mixed moods, Gimli in truth enjoyed teasing the young girl, she reminded him of himself as an adventurous lad, though he'd never admit it. The progress was slow and irritating as with every step Usagi took she muttered "ow" under her breath.
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He was a patient man it was true, but there comes a point when each and every man has had enough and can be patient no more. Looking down at the slip of a girl limping along beside him he frowned in frustration, holding back a long-suffering sigh. He had not thought it possible for anything she could do to get on his nerves but the girl had uttered a gasp of pain or a wince or an "ouch" with every single step she took. They had been traveling for over an hour. Making a decision and preferring not to think about what his fellow companions would say he abruptly stopped. After a few paces the rest of his companions realized he was not keeping pace (how ever slow that pace happened to be). They too stopped and turned to question him. The person in question walked to the group and to answer their queries he moved to the only female in the group and abruptly picked her up, nestling her in his arms and with out a backward glance he set forth again.
"Legolas!" Usagi shrieked as she was lifted off of her feet. "Put me down, I'm fine." She was met with silence. Ducking her head in shame she muttered under her breath
"Oh my God this is so embarrassing." Legolas smiled at her, his enhanced hearing picking up her comments.
"No it isn't."
"Next you'll be telling me you don't get embarrassed" She joked with him
"Not easily, no"
Usagi paused for a while collecting her thoughts. After a while with genuine curiosity in her voice she asked another question.
"Legolas, Can you do this."
She held up her loose hand grouping her four fingers together in to two pairs with her thumb out spread. Unknown to the people of this world Usagi had just demonstrated a perfect 'peace and long life' Vulcan custom. Complying Legolas imitated her, using the hand supporting Usagi's back so she had to crane her neck to see properly.
"Hmm, I wonder if Gene Roddenbery ever came here." She mused, Legolas started to form a question in return but stopped, this was another one of those things he just didn't understand about Usagi.
***
In the deep, dark and dank underground chasm where the forces of evil had been working diligently for many a night a great chaos seemed to prevail. The smell of blood and sweat and toil made the musty air rank. The screams of some poor creature filled the air and a skirmish broke out between the demented and tormented creatures that were the fearsome orcs. They littered the floor and worked till they fell bleeding to the ground. Amongst the chaos and panic stood a man, a wizard of the highest rank and the darkest of intentions, he gazed at the scene before him impassive, smoldering with an unhidden power and an immense scorn for the simpering creatures presenting their measly lives to him, to do with as he will.
"You have failed miserably and allowed a weak" He spat out the word at them "human girl."
His voice held nothing but contempt yet Saruman was frustrated. His minions had not succeeded in their set task, to retrieve the one ring from the halflings who held it and to destroy the ones who protected them. It seemed all they had accomplished was to uncover a person from a race he knew to be long dead. In his immense life he had come across one or two of the children of the moon as they were known and had found them to have a power and light that radiated more clearly than his own, of course that had been a long time ago and his powers had grown since the last time he met one. The only ones to ever visit this world were women, all who met them were enchanted by their beauty and drawn in by the magnificence and the pure energy they commanded, but this world had a strange influence on them, perhaps the darkness of it corrupting them. This strange girl who had dropped in the midst of the 9 men his master sought to destroy had demonstrated the most power he had seen in a lunarian (as they called themselves). She had upset the balance and things were not going as planned. The Dark Lord had seen the girls power and hungered after it, just as the one ring could tempt and consume so could the light of the moon people, usually only someone of royal descendant, but that was impossible, the last princess of the moon kingdom had killed herself when she was not allowed to marry her Earth Prince love from another land. Besides this girl did not act like royalty.
So Saruman had a task to do, he would send some of his army out to capture this girl from there he would find some way to gain her power, with it they could not be stopped, and the one ring would be with its masters again. This girl who was upsetting the balance of things would tip the scales to the side of dark, the side of power. He watched with a fierce gaze as the creatures at his disposal streamed out past him, just as they had done a few days before.
Aragorn smiled at the insane girl running before him; thankfully the insane part of her description not being literally, this time. He smiled ruefully at the thought. He had never met anyone who could change so quickly from the quivering mess that he had comforted last night to the energetic and laughing girl leaping and bounding before him now. Perhaps that was the nature of the isil hina, to be unpredictable, and she had certainly given them a shock this morning.
Usagi had emerged from her allocated bedchambers seemingly a new person. The elegant gowns the elves had given her had been torn at the knee leaving Usagi's bare legs exposed. This had of course produced frowns and embarrassment all around. When they had found her wearing next to nothing it had been different but now, a lady bearing a great proportion of her legs was most strange. The state of Usagi's garments had caused much embarrassed giggling from the young hobbit Pippin. What a sorry state it would have been for the young hobbit to have been carried away with the uruk-hai. In explanation Usagi had given a cheeky grin and explained that where she came from she usually bared a lot more skin than what she was doing now, and besides, she had said. 'If I'm gonna be fighting I can't be expected to move about in a dress like this, I guess this is why Luna tells me to always wear my transformation broach.' At that particular statement Legolas had uttered a shocked protest about a moon lady being in battle, but Gimli telling Usagi it was good idea had silenced him most comically.
The other unusual thing about Usagi that morning had been her hair. Aragorn eyed her suspiciously even now as she ran joyously ahead with the hobbits. Who would have thought they would be going to battle the way they were behaving now. It was hard to describe the style, it was most unusual, perhaps more intricate than the elaborate plaits the elves used to pull their hair from their faces, she had done her pale golden hair up in round balls on either side of her hair, the rest of her immense amounts of hair were wove out of these balls of hair and hung down to her knees in streamers, it was unusual, but charming and Aragorn had the distinct impression he had seen that particular style before, but where exactly he could not place. It seemed that this drastic change in hair style to the elegance of the night before had brought Usagi out of her self, she seemed more at peace with her surroundings and had announced as they had left Lorien for the second time, 'I'm back'. As she had calmed down somewhat the moon sigil that had adorned her forehead was now gone, she looked no different to any human now, apart from her strange attire.
And so it was the young girl, seeming as innocent as a child at the present time was leaping ahead barefoot and adding an air of merriment to the otherwise down cast party of friends. When suddenly;
"OW, ooh."
Usagi tried stopping in her headlong chase across the open valley racing like the wind with Pippin and Merry, the others lagging behind. She tried to grab her foot whilst still in motion and after a couple of hops had ungracefully fallen down. Still clutching her pained foot and fighting back tears she sat on the floor with an angry look on her face. Pippin and Merry were instantly at her side with expressions of concern. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli raced to her side as fast as they could.
"Oh, Usagi, what is the matter, is a magical beast caught hold of you, I'll have it Usagi you just tell me what's up." Merry was ready to face whatever foe had struck their companion.
The others had now reached her side and seeing no immediate danger cast about them for the unseen foe. Legolas crouched down by Usagi concerned for her well being.
"What ails you lady?" He asked her. Choking back a sob Usagi responded. "It's. my foot, I think I trod on a stone or something."
Upon hearing this chaos erupted, Gimli scoffed and called her a weak human, Aragorn had been fighting back a smile but had to defend her, and his species of course. He did this by explaining that Usagi wasn't human, which upset Usagi and caused Pippin and Merry to attack both Aragorn and Gimli at once, knocking the dignified dwarf to the ground. Legolas blocked all sounds of the mock battle out and focused on Usagi. He reached for the injured foot, producing a shriek from Usagi and causing her to hastily withdraw her foot wincing in pain.
"Don't touch it!"
she yelled in a panic. Pain, not being Usagi's strong point. Legolas looked deep into her eyes and reached for the foot once more. Carefully lowering his eyes from Usagi's, as one would do to a flighty wild animal, he examined her foot while she flinched in the appropriate places and whimpered when he pressed too hard. At last he seemed to have made a diagnostic he stood up and cleared his throat to calm his traveling companions.
"It will heal in a day or two. It is just sprained."
Usagi and the hobbits looked relieved Gimli had to cut in with a comment of his own "Of course now our progress will be slowed and this wouldn't have happened if you hadn't gone running off like some wild rabbit in spring time." Usagi sniggered at his analogy though she being the only one in on the inside joke received a stern look from Gimli so she had the grace to look sheepish as Aragorn pulled her to her feet, or rather foot.
So they set off again in mixed moods, Gimli in truth enjoyed teasing the young girl, she reminded him of himself as an adventurous lad, though he'd never admit it. The progress was slow and irritating as with every step Usagi took she muttered "ow" under her breath.
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He was a patient man it was true, but there comes a point when each and every man has had enough and can be patient no more. Looking down at the slip of a girl limping along beside him he frowned in frustration, holding back a long-suffering sigh. He had not thought it possible for anything she could do to get on his nerves but the girl had uttered a gasp of pain or a wince or an "ouch" with every single step she took. They had been traveling for over an hour. Making a decision and preferring not to think about what his fellow companions would say he abruptly stopped. After a few paces the rest of his companions realized he was not keeping pace (how ever slow that pace happened to be). They too stopped and turned to question him. The person in question walked to the group and to answer their queries he moved to the only female in the group and abruptly picked her up, nestling her in his arms and with out a backward glance he set forth again.
"Legolas!" Usagi shrieked as she was lifted off of her feet. "Put me down, I'm fine." She was met with silence. Ducking her head in shame she muttered under her breath
"Oh my God this is so embarrassing." Legolas smiled at her, his enhanced hearing picking up her comments.
"No it isn't."
"Next you'll be telling me you don't get embarrassed" She joked with him
"Not easily, no"
Usagi paused for a while collecting her thoughts. After a while with genuine curiosity in her voice she asked another question.
"Legolas, Can you do this."
She held up her loose hand grouping her four fingers together in to two pairs with her thumb out spread. Unknown to the people of this world Usagi had just demonstrated a perfect 'peace and long life' Vulcan custom. Complying Legolas imitated her, using the hand supporting Usagi's back so she had to crane her neck to see properly.
"Hmm, I wonder if Gene Roddenbery ever came here." She mused, Legolas started to form a question in return but stopped, this was another one of those things he just didn't understand about Usagi.
***
In the deep, dark and dank underground chasm where the forces of evil had been working diligently for many a night a great chaos seemed to prevail. The smell of blood and sweat and toil made the musty air rank. The screams of some poor creature filled the air and a skirmish broke out between the demented and tormented creatures that were the fearsome orcs. They littered the floor and worked till they fell bleeding to the ground. Amongst the chaos and panic stood a man, a wizard of the highest rank and the darkest of intentions, he gazed at the scene before him impassive, smoldering with an unhidden power and an immense scorn for the simpering creatures presenting their measly lives to him, to do with as he will.
"You have failed miserably and allowed a weak" He spat out the word at them "human girl."
His voice held nothing but contempt yet Saruman was frustrated. His minions had not succeeded in their set task, to retrieve the one ring from the halflings who held it and to destroy the ones who protected them. It seemed all they had accomplished was to uncover a person from a race he knew to be long dead. In his immense life he had come across one or two of the children of the moon as they were known and had found them to have a power and light that radiated more clearly than his own, of course that had been a long time ago and his powers had grown since the last time he met one. The only ones to ever visit this world were women, all who met them were enchanted by their beauty and drawn in by the magnificence and the pure energy they commanded, but this world had a strange influence on them, perhaps the darkness of it corrupting them. This strange girl who had dropped in the midst of the 9 men his master sought to destroy had demonstrated the most power he had seen in a lunarian (as they called themselves). She had upset the balance and things were not going as planned. The Dark Lord had seen the girls power and hungered after it, just as the one ring could tempt and consume so could the light of the moon people, usually only someone of royal descendant, but that was impossible, the last princess of the moon kingdom had killed herself when she was not allowed to marry her Earth Prince love from another land. Besides this girl did not act like royalty.
So Saruman had a task to do, he would send some of his army out to capture this girl from there he would find some way to gain her power, with it they could not be stopped, and the one ring would be with its masters again. This girl who was upsetting the balance of things would tip the scales to the side of dark, the side of power. He watched with a fierce gaze as the creatures at his disposal streamed out past him, just as they had done a few days before.
