A Tamora Pierce and Lord of the Rings Crossover -Dancing With Lightning

A/N: Hey look! Chapter 6!! I actually planned to make this story a lot longer, but I just ran out of ideas, so I decided to cut this story short and perhaps make a sequel. I really don't know. So after this chapter, it's the Epilogue, and that's it. I'm so sorry! I really got stuck for a few months, and just couldn't think of anything!!! I hope you're okay with the ending though. Apology: This chapter is so short! Sorry! --Dancing With Lightning

Chapter 6 The next morning the whole of Corus had gathered in the palace grounds. Alanna, Kel, Daine, Jonathan, George, Numair, Rikash... all the important people stood in the meadow, with the rest of the Middle Earth population that was staying the Corus. Kel had her arms around Merry's waist, crying; Daine and Legolas were hugging tightly, Daine crying; Alanna and Aragorn had their arms over each other's shoulders, both trying not to burst into tears; Jonathan sat with Galadriel, talking to her quietly; George walked over to Aragorn and shook his hand politely; Daine broke away from Legolas, sobbing, as Numair shook his hand firmly; Rikash rubbed Daine's back, trying to calm her down. Kel looked up at Merry as the ground started to rumble. "Merry, know that I love you," she murmured, tears streaming down her face. "The hardest thing in the world is to live in it." Merry nodded.

Mithros and the Goddess appeared. "Are you ready?" she asked Aragorn. He nodded at the Goddess. "Merry!" she called after him as he turned towards the Goddess. "I'm pregnant." He stared at her. "Kel!" They all slowly faded, leaving an empty space where it had once been full.

EIGHT YEARS LATER... "MAAAAA!!!! He's pulling my hair!!" Kel sighed. "Mary, stop it. You brother is not pulling your hair." The two twins looked up at her. "What day is today?" Peregrin asked her. "Thursday," Kel said. "Every Thursday... well not every Thursday," he corrected himself quickly, aware that his older twin was giggling. "Every year, on this Thursday, you're always really... what's the word? Sad." "Depressed?" Daine piped up from the table. Kel hit her over the head with a book. "It's okay, Per, we all notice it too." "I have a reason," Kel said snootily.

"You were always depressed," someone said from the door. "I really don't see a change, except you hair has grown longer again." Daine started giggling, and Kel stared as Merry pulled the hood from his face, striding over to Kel and hugging her tightly. "Pregnant, huh? You lied." "I did have children, Merry." "When?" "Eight and a bit years ago." "WHAT???"

The twins stopped playing and stared up at him. "What is it, Merry?" "I didn't do anything!!" the little girl said. Kel ignored her and stared up at Merry. "I've only been in Middle Earth for four months!" "Hm!" Kel fiddled with a loose thread on her shirt. "They have a different time-span to us." "Really?" Daine asked sarcastically. She ducked as Kel tried to throw her book at her. "Jeez, your physic-ness is really working." "Physic?" Merry asked. "I don't know what happened," Kel told him. "But I've been kind of physic ever since the people from Middle Earth came."

"Mama, who is this man?" Peregrin asked. Kel laughed and kissed Merry. Then she proceeded to tell her children the long, complicated story.