A/N: I'm really sorry my dears, on how I kept you. But reality called (more like dragged me away kicking and screaming) and I followed like a good obedient puppy. I will try to update in shorter intervals, I promise! I also am going to be working on re-doing the first few chapters because some errors were pointed out to me and I'd really like to fix them. Any ways, I got some good advice from Libby telling me to not judge my writing on how many people review but to judge it on how they review. I think that that's really wise and I would like to thank her for giving it to me. Even though it is nice to get reviews from you guys telling me that you love my story. I'm definitely excited when I get one of those. But ones with constructive criticism help me more. Right. After that babbleation I'm sure that you want the story. Remember ****************** is change of setting or time and *-*-*-*-*-*-* is memory sequence that isn't a big long flashback. And here it is!  Voila!

Disclaimer: *sigh* Do we have to go through this again? I don't own it. I don't own any of it. So there.

The Prophecy of Eight

            The five girls entered the room and sat in the chairs before Dumbledore's desk as if they were sitting in an electric chair. Dumbledore smiled at them and they all felt that some of the tension that they were feeling was lifted from their shoulders albeit, only a little.

"Now, why are you ladies here instead of enjoying your Saturday night with your friends in your common room?" Kai answered him in a somewhat shaky but still strong voice.

"Well, you see sir, we were in the common room but…something happened and now we're here." Dumbledore raised an eyebrow, knowing that there was more to it than that.

"Is that so?" The girls nodded hesitantly. "Well, what was this something?" This time, Lizi nervously spoke out, taking a deep breath before she began.

"First, my brother James came in and he and Lily started fighting, as they usually are. No one noticed, but the fire was rising higher, almost like it wanted to reach the open sky up the chimney. Suddenly, the fire came exploding out of the fireplace. In quick succession, there was an earthquake that made most of the people running for the portrait hole stumble and vines came bursting out of the ground, growing at a highly accelerated rate. They quickly were pulled into the fire, which, amazingly, wasn't destroying anything. Although it did seem to want to move towards where James was standing…Then, as Kai fell to the floor clutching her head for an unknown reason, a huge gale of wind came from no where turning the fire that was spreading everywhere, into," here, Lizi took a huge breath of air and then continued. "I guess you could call it a fire whirlwind. Then, Toni, who couldn't see what was happening and didn't guess why everyone was panicking, irately yelled for people to be quiet and as she did, the fire whirlwind turned to ice. It just froze in place with a layer of ice over it. Sometime during all this, Hayley must've gone to get Professor McGonagal because she came in a few minutes after that. She banished the ice… thing and then she took us all up here." As Lizi finished, she took another huge breath of air and tried to get her breathing to regulate. Dumbledore sank into though for a bit and then sat up straight, looking shocked. He turned to Hayley and asked the girl a question that confused them all.

"Hallagurthiel, do you think that they are the ones?" The on thought that was flashing through their minds on a marquee was,

'Hallagurthiel?'

Toni was the most outspoken one and she was also curious enough to voice this question.

            "Hallagurthiel? Um, Professor? I think that you have her mixed up with someone else. This," she said, pointing to Hayley, "is Hayley Liu, right next to me is Lily Evans, over there by the fire is Kai Sidhe, sitting in the chair is Elizabeth Potter, and I am Antoinette Shippeling. There is no Heliger-whatever here at this moment…I don't think." Dumbledore chuckled.

            "Ah, my dear. I'm afraid that you are mistaken." He smiled warmly at all of them. "This young lady… actually, my dear, do you think you could tell them yourself? I'm afraid that I'm still a bit in the dark and I wouldn't want to say something wrong." The doubly named girl nodded and looked at the four girls. She smirked, taking them by surprise.

            "You really fell for it? Oh, you're going to be pissed off in a second my dears." With that she asked Professor Dumbledore to take the glamour off of her and as he raised his wand you could hear Lily muttering to herself about things like,

            "Hallagurthiel… Elvish… Glamour… Links together somehow…" Kai just sat back and raised an eyebrow, one mountain in the flatlands, waiting to see what happened and Lizi glanced around her with a puzzled look in her eyes that seemed to question,

            "Do you have any idea what the hell is going on?" Their musings were cut short as the Head Professor said a few words in a completely unknown language and a shot of light blue gel jetted out of the tip of his wand and moved swiftly to cover Hayley in a translucent blue film. In contrast to the way it sprang out of the tip of Dumbledore's wand, the film slowly melted to a puddle on the floor where it was seeped up by the plush dark blue carpet underneath their feet. As it slipped away, it left behind a girl who looked slightly similar to Hayley but she had a few differences to her. For instance, instead of being her 152-centimeter height, she was now taller, around 167 centimeters. She seemed even taller because her presence made you feel humble and meek, like you were in the presence of a queen. But one of the most noticeable changes that had happened to her was the fact that her ears were no longer smooth like a worn pebble and round. Her ears looked normal until almost the very top but at that point, they didn't round out but, instead, they came together into a point.

            In lieu of these changes, the four girls who were already confused became utterly bewildered and didn't, in a ginger term, take it very well.

            "She has bloody pointed ears. She has bloody pointed ears. She has bloody pointed ears. Oh God, I can't take this." This came from Lizi who was now furiously rubber the bridge of her nose and closing her eyes so that she wouldn't have to concentrate on the confusion around her. Lily was in slightly worse shape and had slipped off her chair to sit on the floor and rock back and forth. Her eyes were open so wide that the majority of her eyes looked white and her mouth was moving up and down rapidly but no sound came out. Kai took it the best they had all agreed later on. She had managed to stay in her seat but at the moment her eyes were bulging out like they belonged to a frog and if this was an animated feature, her jaw would be scraping the ground. Toni fainted.

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            As Toni slowly came back into consciousness she heard…quiet. Everything around her was quiet, deathly so. She warily opened her eyes and found herself to be in a room with many beds in it. If she hadn't known better, she would have said that it was the hospital wing at Hogwarts but there were subtle differences that at the same time seemed so great. There were architectural differences and there was also the fact that there was a tree growing in the middle of the room. It was obviously shorter than it would be in the wild but the branches still scraped the ceiling. She heard a movement to the right and she jerked her head over to look that way. Entering through a door was a tall man with blond hair that went down to about his shoulder blades. He was dressed in clothes that made him look like he belonged at a Renaissance Fair, brown breeches, a loose white shirt that had a forest green tunic over it, and black boots. She stared at him and for a moment, he stared back through his crystalline blue eyes. Then he smiled widely and said,

            "How are you feeling Maeg? It's wonderful to see you again my sister." Toni felt her eyes bugging out of her head and she drew back as much as she could without falling off of the bed that she was on. Why in the world did he think that she was his sister? As far as she knew, she didn't come from a family that looked like it was stuck in the Renaissance.

            "Um, sir, just why do you think I'm your sister? I think that you might be mistaken there. Unfortunately, I don't look very much like you and my name isn't Meg. It's Antoinette Shipelling. I'm also called Toni by my friends." The man smiled and drew a little nearer to her.

            "Don't worry. I've been tested many times and all the psychologists say that I'm fine. As for the explanation…do you mind if I sit down?" He gestured toward the straight-backed wooden chair that sat next to her bed. "I've just come from fencing and my legs are very tired." Usually, Toni would protest and tell him no, but right now, if she moved her head even a little bit, a pain would shoot through it and it would break all of her concentration. So protesting was out of the picture. Besides, he was already starting to sit down so it wouldn't do much good anyways. The blue eyes bored into hers once again and this time, she felt something inside of her that had been pushed down multiple times tentatively answer in recognition. But she couldn't comprehend how one part of her recognized someone when the other didn't. It didn't make any sense. But at the moment, everything was as far from making sense as it ever could.

            "Let me see if this works," the man said to Toni. "Do you mind if I get someone to cast a spell on you? Although I do have a power, I can't use it for casting common spells. But it is useful for doing something like this." With these words, he pulled something out of the bag attached to his belt and spoke into it a few words. Then, just as rapidly, he replaced it in the leather bag and smiled at Toni once again. "We'll just have to wait a few minutes. Is there anything that you'd like to question me on other than the questions that you already asked?" Toni groaned. She had been hoping to get those answers out of him but she would probably have to ask some more. Then she made a halfway decent attempt at a smirk. He had forgotten to do something.

            "What's your name?" He had forgotten to introduce himself. The man turned a little pink and smiled bashfully.

            "I'm sorry. I can't believe I forgot to introduce myself! My name is Legolas. And you are Toni, or Antoinette, correct?" Toni weakly nodded. This man was named Legolas. And he looked like he was stuck in the Renaissance. And he had a similar physical description of a character one of the books that she loved. And…suddenly a thought occurred to her. Reaching out, she brushed the hair that was covering his ears out of the way and stopped abruptly. His ears really were pointed.

            "You helped destroy the Ring! I mean, anyone could be named Legolas but not everyone looks similar to the description and looks like they're stuck in the Renaissance! There are just too many coincidences! You are Legolas the fucking Prince of Mirkwood. Oh my god!" Toni clapped a hand up to her forehead and immediately regretted it. Her head was still sore. Anything that Legolas was going to say in return was cut short with the entrance of another man. No, not man. Elf. This elf's ears were completely visible because his hair was tucked behind them.

            "You called for me milord?" Legolas sighed and Toni guessed that he didn't enjoy being addressed so formally.

            "Aratníl, please. We're friends. And she's a friend too. If you'll just take off the glamour on her, you'd see." The black haired elf sighed. He rubbed his pale skinned hands together and spoke a few words under his breath. Toni didn't realize that they were the same words that Dumbledore had spoken until the jet of translucent blue gel was creeping up her feet. She tried moving away, but the gel just swallowed her up faster. Just as soon as it happened, she felt the liquid sliding away and she felt slightly chilly without it's warmth. Toni looked over at Legolas with an accusing glare.

            "What did you do to me? I would have known if there was a glamour, right?" Legolas shook his head and handed her a mirror. Toni's eyes widened as she gaped at the staring back at her. The hair framing it that had once been as black as the elf Aratníl's, was now a fawn brown color. She still had brown eyes but they had lightened a shade and any traces that she may have had of acne were gone. She also seemed to have shot throught puberty as she was at least seven centimeters taller and she was more developed than she had been a few seconds ago. And the other most noticeable change that shocked her most was the fact that her ears were now just as pointed as Legolas's and Hayley's. Looking at Legolas, memories began flooding her mind. Memories that she wasn't sure were hers.

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A young elf with light brown hair was running away from another blond elf girl.

            "You can't get me Kewin! You can't get me!" The other elfling giggled and ran a little faster.

            "Oh yes I can Maeg! Look out! Careg! Leggy! Hurry up!" Two other elf children came running out into the clearing. One was male and the other female and both had blond hair although the female's was a sandier blond.

            "Kerin! Slow down. I can't keep up with you!" The elf child Kerin turned and stuck her tongue out as the scene faded from view.

            A new scene came up, this one inside a stone room. There were the same four children but this time, they looked about nine in human standards. They were kneeling before a double throne on which an elf lord and lady sat, the woman looking like she was holding in laughter and the man obviously trying to look stern but failing. Looking on at them was a pleased looking couple and a young elf that looked so much like them that he could only be their son.

            "Careg, Maeg, Kerin, and Legolas. I'm highly disappointed in you all. How could you do something like that to young Elandel? I expect you all to apologize. You are dismissed." Toni found herself mentally laughing as she saw the outraged expressions on the couple's faces through the mist that she new was signaling a new scene.

This time, the same room popped up but the four children weren't really children anymore. If they were mortals, they probably would have been fourteen and their bodies showed it. Now, they were all taller and the girls had started developing curves. Toni felt a surge of envy as she realized that none of them had any acne, something that had plagued her when she was younger and had only gotten better recently. In this scene, the lord and lady were there again but there were also long tables erected in a horseshoe shape. At these tables sat multiple elves, dressed in all types of finery that some people would kill to get their hands on. Toni had to laugh as she saw the looks on the four elves faces that were her main concern. They were utterly and completely bored. Again, the mist started creeping into the sides of her vision, but before it took over completely, she saw the girls roll their eyes at one another and glare at their parents.

The next scene was what she hoped would be the last. After this journey throughout these scenes, she was slightly worn out. Toni didn't know why, but she hoped that she would be able to figure it out later. In this scene, the four elves were in their twenties on a mortal scale. The three girls seemed very sad about something and they were clutching their brother in a death hug. Then, they moved back. Another elf entered the room now. Her hair was auburn and her blue eyes also shone with tears. Legolas's eyes widened and he opened his arms as the woman ran towards him with a cry.

"Sh, Alwen, don't cry Melamin. Hush now. We will see each other again, I promise it. Amin mela lle." The woman looked into his eyes and tearfully nodded. Then she squared off her shoulders and stepped to stand with the other three girls. The lord that she had seen the last two times entered with a sad look on his face. He embraced each of the girls and then he motioned towards a door.

"You know how to get through the Barrier I trust. We will miss you all, but this is for the best. In time, we will send Aratnil, Menetarmion, and Culmorgion when we need you back. They will not know you and you will not know them for who you really are but there will be a connection between you all. Don't worry. Be safe. Be strong." And with that, the four girls left, heads bowed, through the door. Mist clouded Toni's vision once more and she relaxed back into it.

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As Toni's eyes refocused she realized something. Legolas had called her Maeg. Maeg in the visions that she had just seen looked exactly like her. Maeg in the visions was also Legolas's sister and Legolas had called her sister. She couldn't believe that she had only noticed it now but she remembered being able to feel what Maeg felt in each of the scenes. Suddenly, a surge washed over her head. It was not something physical that was happening to her, the surge was purely mental. She remembered thinking one thing before she passed out.

'Not again.'

AN: So, here's my chapter for you all. I know that it probably doesn't make up for everything but I actually got somewhere with the plot! Yay! They're in Middle Earth! Yay! This is a big accomplishment for me. You should be proud. So… I have to go now. Tomorrow I'm going to be going to California Adventure to sing and we get to spend all day at the theme park for free! Another yay!

Much love,

Stubborn Mule