By Lily Martin
Rated R
Category: Romance/Adventure/Supernatural/
Spoilers: Buffy--everything's cannon Angel--Faith going to Sunnydale (it's not out yet in the Buffy verse when I'm writing this) Lord of the Rings--everything's cannon, but it starts in the Fellowship of the Ring when they're on the watch tower and the Ringwraiths come. For LOTR it's a mix of movie and book (I'm in the middle of reading the first book right now and the movie is extended version).
Summary: Buffy is summoned to Middle-Earth by Gandalf, by some fluke the rest of the Scooby Gang transported also. Then the third slayer Madeline Naur comes after them with Giles, now all we're missing is Faith…wait…nope…she'll be there too…all there just in time to join the Fellowship.
Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Lord of the Rings and all of their respective characters belong to Whedon and Tolkien (in that order), that includes Faith belonging to Whedon. Anyone else belongs to me, even the random orc that isn't in the book or movie (j/k). Plot's mine; please don't steal it.
A/N: hey this takes place after that episode this season where Buffy was sucked into that portal and met with those guys who were going to give her more power, but she didn't take it cause it meant becoming more demon than she already was, and then she learned about the armies that The First has. They beat The First with the help of Madeline Bradshaw, who came to the door saying that she was a slayer (lucky for them she wasn't lying) and that she was there to help, and Faith came to help (this goes after that episode of Angel where Willow came to restore his soul. All the potentials that'd been in the show either died or went home, the principal was killed; that geek, who killed Jonathan, died. Just thought you'd like to know. Also, I almost forgot, this is two years after the first, so Dawn and Madeline (who's the same age) are both eighteen, and the rest of the Scooby gang is like twenty-four, excluding Spike and Anya. And Faith is officially part of their group (she's the same age as them, right? If not, lets pretend).
Feedback: none yet obviously…though I am waiting for some…^_-
Prologue"Mady, you got the remote?" Dawn asked looking over at the other girl sprawled out on the pile of pillows they'd laid on the living room floor.
"Yup," the blond haired teen nodded, keeping her eyes on the TV.
"Could you pause the movie for a minute, I'm gonna go make more popcorn," Dawn said.
"Cool, could you make me some, I finished mine a while back," Mady asked handing Dawn her bowl, which had a few kernels left in it.
"No prob," Dawn answered, on her way into the kitchen, where Buffy, Willow, and Xander were talking. "Hey guys, what's up?"
"Nothing," Buffy replied a little too quickly.
"Yeah, right," she said sarcastically, as she put a package of microwave-able popcorn into the microwave. "That's why you have the hammer out."
"I was cleaning it," Buffy told her as though confessing a big secret. At the look Dawn gave her, she added, "It was covered in goopy stuff…and I've been getting restless lately, so to help that as much as possible I've been cleaning everything…just in case."
"Incase of what?"
"Giles called, he said something about a Second evil. We've got some time, but I'd like to be prepared anyways."
"Right," Dawn nodded, not really wanting to hear about it.
"Hey, you guys got any blood?" Spike asked walking into the kitchen from the living room.
"In the fridge," Willow answered.
"What about more M&Ms?" Anya asked coming in right behind Spike.
"You ate them all," Xander told her.
"That's too bad, those are good," Anya replied a little crestfallen.
"Why are you guys in here?" Buffy asked, getting annoyed with the over filling of the kitchen every hour or so.
"Food," Dawn, Spike, and Anya answered simultaneously, just before the timer on the microwave went off and Dawn popped the door open.
Instead of her bag of popcorn, a blue, swirling, vortex opened and sucked them into it. Buffy, being the last to be pulled in, had just enough time to grab the troll hammer, before she was sucked into the unknown.
"Hey, guys, you know what happened to the-" Madeline started to say as she walked in, just in time to see the last bit of the vortex be replaced by the finished bag of popcorn. "Guys?"
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Gandalf looked down the side of the tower, looking to see how far up he was, much too high to jump. The feeling that this was only the beginning of the great dangers ahead swept over him.
He slid his hand on the edge of the tower, a line of blood appeared on his palm holding his hand over the edge, a single drop of blood was carried off into the wind.
"Agar en' amin agar, tula manke lle nauva ante," he chanted into the wind.
Translation:
The Grey Company: The Elven Language
"Blood of my blood, come where you are needed," –Gandalf
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Hey, how'd you like that, I can't wait to hear your thoughts…it might be a while between updates, I'm getting a laptop and I have to transfer files from my PC to my laptop…but since I'm in such a good mood from the fact that I'M GETTING A LAPTOP!!!!!!!! I'll write another chapter up here for you…^_-
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Chapter 1: Nazgul
The vortex opened again; Buffy and Dawn stepped out to find themselves standing on a high stone platform.
"Dawn, get behind me," Buffy ordered, seeing the Nazgul surrounding something, though not knowing that they were Nazguls, only sensing the evil radiating from them. "Hey, uglies, over here."
One came over to get rid of her, lest she be a problem later. Before it had a chance, she swung the troll hammer, making contact with the Nazgul, sending it flying off the edge of the watchtower. Another one came over and she repeated the process. Soon a man came running up with a torch, setting a couple on fire as they ran. Right then the wounded Frodo appeared.
The hobbits gathered around Frodo. Dawn tried to take a step forwards, but Buffy put out a hand to stop her.
"Strider!" Sam called, just as he was about to ask Buffy and Dawn who they were. "Help him, Strider."
"He's been stabbed by a Morgul Blade," Strider said, picking up the sword that had been used to stab Frodo, watching as it turned to dust in his hand.
"So that's what those things were," Buffy said, more to herself.
"No, those were Nazgul, Ringwraiths if you want," Dawn said pushing past Buffy. "Thy used to be men, great kings, then Sauron gave them nine rings of power, stupidly they took them without question, the darkness over powered them-"
"Slaves of this Sauron guy," Buffy finished, picking up on what Dawn was saying.
"Exactly, they're like vampires, except instead of going after blood they go after that guy's ring," Dawn said pointing to Frodo.
"You know much, child," Strider commented.
"I watched the movie," Dawn smiled; he was even cuter in person.
Just as he was going to ask of movies, a scream filled the air.
"That sounds like Willow," Buffy said as she and Dawn, followed by Strider ran to the edge of the tower.
There hanging from the side was Spike; hanging from him was Willow, then Xander, and finally Anya.
"Buffy," Xander yelled, seeing her and Dawn.
"Oh, that's right, Xander, call for your Buffy, whenever something's wrong, call for Buffy-" Anya started complaining.
"Anya," Buffy interrupted.
"Oh! Hi, Buffy," Anya greeted, way too sweetly.
"Could you give us a hand?" Spike asked. "They're getting a bit heavy."
With that Buffy-and Strider-pulled them up one by one. Finally, after they were all up, Strider was once again about to ask who they were, when Sam decided to remind him about Frodo.
"This is beyond my skill to heal. He needs Elvish medicine," Strider said looking at Frodo's wound.
Willow stepped towards Frodo, saying, "I could heal him, a healing spell or something."
"You'd need to big a healing spell to help him, Willow, too much magic," Buffy said sternly. "We can't risk it."
"We're six days from Rivendell! He'll never make it," Sam told Buffy, pleading with her to let Willow do the spell.
"We have to try," Strider said, seeing in Buffy's expression that she wasn't about to change her mind.
Picking up Frodo, he started walking at a fast pace. They all followed, nowhere else to go for the Scooby Gang. After a few moments, Strider asked who they were and Buffy introduced them all.
"You are a women, yet you fight skillfully with a stone hammer," he said glancing at the hammer sitting next to Buffy by the fire; it seemed to fit in with the stone trolls looming above them.
"Not usually, usually I use a stake," Buffy said, then catching herself, she added, "At least I used to; there hasn't been much of anything left to fight for the last couple years."
On the other side of the fire, Dawn, with input from the others, was once again attempting to explain movie to the three hobbits.
Arwen had come only and hour or so before, and they-not counting Dawn, Spike, and Anya, who'd already seen the movie-were left to trust that he'd make it to Rivendell.
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Hope you liked that…I'll add more as soon as possible…
Lily