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, ok, this is my tenth attempt at typing this up…unfortunately it's short cause just this morning I realized I have to rewrite everything, so here's what I can do during my twenty minute lunch break and the eighty minute chorus class I don't have to attend today, oh, and the hour bus ride home, so you've got a good two hours and forty minutes of work here (I might post separately though, we'll see).
Feedback: I want to thank every one for reviewing, sorry if my answers are short and to the point, but I had all these great replies written out for you last night at 11:45 and I opened a file ten minutes later so that I could translate something into elven and lost everything. I have yet to learn the art of saving ahead of time. ^_-
Scarlett: sorry to say, but I am so tired of seeing Buffy with people (or demons) more than a hundred years older than her, that's kinda wrong to me, but then again, I wasn't a fan of Riley either, so you know there's no pleasing me. Actually I was thinking Buffy/Aragorn. ^_-
Basketball-slayer: thanks, I hope I don't lose this either, that happens way too often when it comes to me and my writing habits. ^_-
Gregdoreza: if you read the part just after Dawn explains the Nazgul, it says how she knows there.
Andrea: thanks, it's nice to know somepeople think some of my stories are promising, if you've seen the other stories under this account, they've all gone unreviewed (well one of them's crap, so I don't mind on that one lol) Dawn, Spike, Anya, and my character have all seen the movie, I think I'm going to explain in this chapter that that was the movie they were watching (but it wasn't the first time, just in case I don't say that), Willow and my character have both read the book and Dawn's going to read it later on, not this one, probably part three (once I've finished off FOTR and TTT, but I haven't even finished reading FOTR yet, I'm still at the Council of Elrond right now, but then again, I'm mostly doing this after watching the Extended edition over and over for many many days ::smiles proudly:: I'm obsessed) please don't think I'm like favoring my character, but as will be revealed soon, she's had plenty of time to read the LOTR books. Um, pairings are now posted below. Also, Willow and her magic are going to be down played as little as possible till maybe the very end, I have yet to figure out that part. Spike and his sunlight will be faced in chapter two, plus, he and Anya were a mistake on my part, I hadn't fully thought out the story when I wrote them in, so they'll stay until the fellowship leaves Rivendell, then they'll find their way home with Giles.
Pairings: Buffy/Aragorn, Faith/Boromir (while he's alive, if you think about it, they do kinda fit together), Dawn/Frodo (very subtle in this part, little things mostly, not even kissing...I don't think, I have yet to figure it out yet), and Legolas/OC, in the beginning it will be Aragorn/Arwen, only cause that's gotta be done to start it...^_-
Chapter 2
~*~Sunnydale~*~
"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?"
No answer, not that she'd expected one. Right about that moment, she began to change. No longer was she the 5'4 teen, but was instead a 6'2 woman. Her hair had grown out from shoulder length to falling in waves past her waist, changing to a fiery red, her eyes changed from crystal blue to the same emerald green as the evergreen trees outside, and her ears took on the pointiness of an elf. As though walking on air, she walked back into the living room and stopped in front of the TV.
"Show me what has happened here!" she said, her voice now light, airy, and melodic, the underlying command grave.
The TV left the image of Boromir getting killed by the Uruk-hai from the Lord of the Rings DVD they'd been watching to Dawn walking into the kitchen. The entire scene was replayed before her, when it ended, she played it again, freezing it when the vortex opened.
Her elven ears picked up the sound of a car pulling up the driveway, then someone getting out. She could hear Giles ask the price, getting answered by a ridiculously overpricing man, whom she could only assume was a taxi driver. She shrunk back down into the blond eighteen-year-old she'd been only moments before and waited for him. Looking over to the door, she watched him come in carrying an old, heavy looking book.
"I'm too late aren't I?" he asked looking at her expectantly.
"Just," she nodded, her voice surprised him as it hadn't gone back to that of the teen he'd met on a handful of occasions.
"If I'm not mistaken, blue vortex, like water, right?" he questioned, setting his surprise aside.
"Gandalf!" she cried suddenly. "That's whose vortex that was, so obviously they must be in back in Middle-earth."
Giles looked like someone had thrown a brick, (or book, book works good there) at him, for a moment.
"You're her, aren't you, tári et urulókë?" he asked, walking farther into the living room.
"Queen of Dragons, or Carad'loki Vakha," she said. "Yes, I am she."
To emphasize the statement, she changed once again into the elven woman.
"I found this prophecy and that one phrase, they keep mentioning it, but it wasn't in any language I could find," he told her, flipping through the book, looking for it.
"It's Quenya, one of the Elvish languages," she said, as he handed her the open book.
"Why do you think they were taken to this Middle-earth?" he asked.
"They were summoned."
"So that book from Tolkien?"
"Based on Elven prophecy. I remember hearing about him, he'd accidentally gotten pulled through one of my vortexes. Big accident, I had a bunch of people angry with me over that."
"Can you translate this then?" he asked. "It starts out in English, then reverts to Quenya, as you called it."
She looked at it for a moment, then, suddenly dropped it. He gave her a questioning look, wondering what would make her do that.
"It goes from the Common tongue to Black Speech," she told him, picking up the book, and going back to the page he'd shown her. "I was just startled. It's the language of Mordor. I won't speak it aloud, as it's the language of only the darkest of evils, but I'll do my best to translate it for you. Roughly translated, it says:
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark thrown
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all. One Ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
To the mouth of hell in eternal doom
Where the shadows flock and great evils loom
Fifteen shall begin; one man of greed shall die
Five from another world, one immortal by their side
To the land of Mordor, to the mouth of hell they fly.
Three slayers, a witch, and a key among them
Till death they vow to protect the Ring-bearer one prophecy to guide them
All to the land of Mordor, to the mouth of hell they fly.
One among them may freely move through the land where shadows lie
To she alone the gates doth open.
The Queen of Dragons to Mordor will fly
Evil shall weaken beneath her touch
In the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie
One Ring to rule them all. One Ring to find her.
One Ring to take her away and in the darkness change her.
To the land of Mordor, where the One great evil lies.
"You must remember though, that noting in the Black Speech should be taken at face value."
"Yes, of course," he agreed. Then pointing to the part above what she'd translated, he read, "Heir to the line of queens, tári et urulókë, protector of the innocent, keeper of peace, and carrier of the sands of time. Four friends, from a world of men, to aid the Elven lady. Sought by Shadow and Darkness for her gift of magic, she must guide the one carrying the One Ring into the heart of the Land of Mordor."
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Translation:
Carad'loki Vakha ~~ Dragon Guardian
Ok, please nobody hate me for that, I know I'm getting near a touchy spot, but I think that thing with about the rings Tolkien wrote (for non-obsessers and lawyers, the first verse did belong to Tolkien and not me, but the rest is mine, so back off) that could definitely have a bigger impact on the story. I hope this comes out nice and long fo you guys, it's four pages on my word program, and I hope it will due till I can figure out how to rewrite everything else (oh, did I mention, I got my band new Dell Inspiron 1100 five days early—yesterday. ^_-). PLEASE DON'T FORGET...I like to hear from my readers so please review...