They reached the river in the middle of the night and they bought some boats form a hobbit (Ari has all the money and stuff ^_^). They bought two that could fit three each, as the others rested, Will and Ari rowed the boats swiftly down the calm river.
After hours of rowing down the Lhun River the sun was beginning to rise. Ari and Will woke everyone up so they can walk to the Lake Evendim, which was only a couple miles away from the river. They had to take the boats with them so it took them longer then in would have.
When they finally crossed the lake and were in the forest between the Shire and Bree it was around noon. They weren't as tired since they were able to rest in the boats as they crossed the lake.
They took a small break to eat there lunch and had a little fight there.
"This is ridiculous, why in the world are we chasing these "elf" creatures that man was talking about? It's just preposterous!" Liz said.
"Mrs. Elizabeth, are you telling me that it is preposterous to be looking for the only people that we know that can help us, no matter what they are, but it is not preposterous to have a bunch of skeletons chasing after you?" Ari said, questioning Liz.
"Oh come on, you have three of us here who have witnessed that event and for these 'elves' you have a crazy old man!" Liz replied.
"So you're saying that just because you are not the witness and haven't seen it yourself it can't possibly be true? You would just think that person was insane or trying to trick you? What if the whole curse never came upon you, you would have never believed it actually happened and call everyone crazy??" Liz had no reply to that, but Ari kept going, "and what if I could get you more witnesses! It can be easily done or will you believe that we are all insane too!" she was getting really pissed at Liz now,
Everyone was listening to this conversation, but didn't dare to interrupt them when they were mad. But before they could keep going on with this argument a very stern voice interrupted them, "elvish Stop! That's enough!"
Ari stopped her ranting and looked very guilty when she did. The others looked at Will who had a very serious expression on his face, "still in elvish you have said enough, now let us continue on. We will have to discuss when and how we shall tell them later, but not now" he wasn't angry… just not in the best mood. He knew that Ari was getting kind of fed up with all the annoying questions and doubts they had about elves. "I'm sorry" was all she could say and she walked off in the direction they were heading.
While that whole conversation was happening, the others looked in awe as Will and Ari carried on a conversation in such a beautiful language. They saw Will point forwards, guessing that he was indicating to move on, and they heard Ari say 'I'm sorry' in English and she walked away and Will followed.
"This is gettin' way to confusin'" Jack said, as everyone followed.
As Will and Ari were ahead of everyone, whispering, the rest of them were whispering in the back, trying to get everything straight.
"What language was that? I never even knew Father knew another language!" Faye said.
"Yea, but it sounded beautiful," Demitri added.
"This is so weird, what was she talking about? Does she actually believe that elves exist?" Liz said.
"Well, she does have a point, the whole skeleton thing happened, why not elves!" Jack said.
"Jack, don't start, you know that the curse made them like that" Liz said, not wanting Jack to believe in those preposterous (he he, I love that word :-D) things too.
"And what made that curse, Liz? Magic! Oh, come on, why not believe in weird lil mythical creatures, it makes life funner!" with that he ran up to join Ari.
"This is getting way to confusing," Demitri said, and they were pretty much silent after that.
After another day of walking they finally reached Bree. This town actually had normal sized people and some of the small people too, but as long as there are people there they didn't care.
"We are going to stay at the Prancing Pony, it's right around the corner, we'll eat there and rest. Then tomorrow morning we'll continue." Will said as they headed toward the inn.
When they got in the Prancing Pony, there were people there, laughing and drinking, and Jack felt right at home… or at least his second home, the bar.
Before he ran off to get a drink Will stopped him and whispered so only he can hear, "Don't get too drunk, we don't need you drawing attention to yourself, or we might not make it out of here alive"
This confused Jack but he heard Will say for Ari to go with him, so he didn't care anymore, he got his girl and rum, what more could he want.
As Jack and Ari wandered off into the bar, the rest of them went to the inn keeper, who was also the bar keeper, but whatever, and got rooms.
"How many rooms would you like?" he asked, the keeper looked like a jolly fellow, he laughed a lot at everything really, he was a kind man, kinda like his great great great grandfather Butterbur.
Will choose three rooms and paid him for the night.
"Oh, I forgot to ask, we just got these new rooms, they're gorgeous, but not many people take them. We made these rooms out back for the elves, we don't get many here but a lot of people like the views of them. They're the same price if you'd like one." He said,
"Sure, we'll take them." Will answered quickly.
"Great, there out back, just through the back door," he pointed to the other side of the bar.
Will told Ari and Jack where there rooms were and went out back to find there rooms.
When they went outside all they could see were trees, there were no buildings anywhere.
"Uh… where are the rooms?" Faye asked.
Will just laughed as he started climbing a tree, and they all looked up to the treetop to see a large platform built there. There mouths dropped.
"Are rooms are up there??" Demitri said.
"Oh just get up here" Will called back down, "We'll put our stuff away and get some food"
Faye was the first one to start climbing, she loved to climb trees, she climbed them all the time back home with Demitri, he climbed after her. There were three rooms that looked almost exactly the same. They had large platforms built of wood and they had soft beds in each of them. It had drawers and tables carved with weird designs that were made by the elves themselves. Everyone was gawking at it except Liz who was too scared to climb up the tree. She had never climbed a tree before, it was 'unladylike'. Will just had to go back down and get her stuff and bring them back up. The trees had no doors on them, but they believe the people of the town were trustworthy enough. They went back to the bar and sat down at the table and got some food to eat.
Ya... sorry bout not posting in a really really long time… o well, ya'll can forgive me… right?? He he he…
Ok, well, there's another chapter and I will not give up on this fic! I will continue!! :-D