By Lily Martin
Rated R
Category: Romance/Adventure/Supernatural/lets wait and see what else
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 almost through the Council of Elrond in the book).
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. Throw in a prophecy and a really messed up plot...
Disclaimer: hey, I'm tired and I have a report due tomorrow on Sigmund Freud, so lets just pretend I own Buffy and Lord of the Rings. I don't own whatever song I end up using in this chapter, it belongs to someone else.
A/N: Like I said I'm tired so I really don't have much to say. Oh, you still want me to say something? How 'bout this? Voodoo moomoo. (don't ask!)^_-
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 got to be done to start off...though, on my OC's pairing, just after my last post, I moved into a strange Glorfindel induced obsession, so you'll kinda have to wait and see on that, I'm not sure, what's gonna happen at this momen, sry...^_-
Feedback: while I'm writing this chapter there isn't anything ::cries whole heartedly:: you don't love me anymore...oh wait, here's one, I feel remotely better...
Gregdoreze: thanks for your reviews, it makes me feel better someone's still reading.
Chapter 5
~Sunnydale~ Later that evening (around 9)~
"Have I told you how much I hate this world?" Mady suddenly asked Giles.
"No," he said; looking at her almost shocked, key word being almost.
"Oh, right, that was some guy in fourteenth century France, sorry," she said, laughing off her mistake, before turning her attention to the car window. "I can feel my Carad'loki Ondo."
"Is that what the crystal is called?" he asked, trying to remember what little of the Sindarin language she'd been able to teach him over the last thirty-six hours.
"Yup, it means 'Dragon Stone,' presented to each Carad'loki Vakha, Dragon Guardian, on her two-hundredth birthday," she told him. "That is the day we are to take our place in the line of Dragon Guardians."
He listened carefully, as this was the first time she'd stopped to explain what she was back in Middle-earth.
"So a Dragon Guardian is like a slayer?" he inquired. "Do you have the same strengths? It seems like you do, when you got here, you went right into being a slayer as though you'd been doing it all your life."
"Not really, we don't have vampires in Middle-earth, we have dragons, they can be a big problem, but they're truly wonderful creatures. We have to stop them from doing any damage, but then we also have to protect them from people trying to kill them, as a way of stopping their rampages. It's really quite annoying; too many people think violence is the only way. Instead of using violence to control them, we charm them with music, song," she explained. "Dragon Guardians are all Elves, we're all from the same bloodline, before me, it was my mother, and her mother before that. It's always the first girl in each generation, and because we're all elves, we have that whole immortality thing going for us; we usually live till at least four thousand. We have the strength of your slayers when we're born, during the two hundred years before we take our place among the guardians; we build up our strength, learn weaponry, and perfect our magics."
"So what kind of magics do you use?" he asked.
"Personally, I use fire based magic, my mother's powers were water based, my grandmother's earth, and my great-grandmother's was air; our powers go with the elements we're most like. Our line, we've always had blond hair, almost white at times, but when we're around a high concentration of magic, our element shows on our hair, it's hard to explain, but, um-"
"Earlier, I saw your hair; it looked like it was eternally burning or something like that."
"Exactly, except air is expressed differently, like I said, it's hard to explain. Ok, anyways, when we're around outside magics, we begin to absorb them. The reason my hair is red now is because this world is pretty much solid magic; it was quite difficult keeping my glimmer up. There were so many times I just submitted to the power, it was hard not doing it around everyone, hiding the power I was drawing in. It's almost like what Willow went through, the need to use the power; I sort of understand what she's going through, except for the addiction part, since my magic's always been a piece of me and without it I'd pass on."
"It is quite a difficult circumstance."
"Mm-hm, so tell me about this Jasper guy? His name what is it one of those don't ask, don't tell, things?"
"Yes, exactly, anyways, he's new, about ten, attempted to kill the slayer before Buffy, but was beat to it by another vampire. He claims to have found your crystal in London, right around the same time you arrived."
"Now, that's a lie, it was right with me when the vortex opened, oh, wait, right after that I was attacked by a group of vampires, one of them got away, and it was gone afterwards. I hate vampires."
"I believe we all do," he answered with a laugh as he came to a stop outside the Bronze.
"Ok, I'll be out in a minute," she said, climbing out of the car, making sure she had several stakes in her purse, and one in her boot.
She quickly walked into the Bronze, glancing around, trying to see if she could sense the vampire she was supposed to meet. He'd said he'd meet her on the dance floor when Rob Zombie started playing, didn't matter what song. Ok, a vampire with weird music tastes, whatever, as long as it was quick. She was wearing all white, just like she said she would.
"Dead I am the one, Exterminating son
Slipping through the trees, strangling the breeze
Dead I am the sky, watching angels cry
As they slowly turn, conquering the worm," started blaring from the speakers,
it was DJ night, no live music, so people could request any song, and it had to
be this song, what…did the guy have a problem with witches or something?
She moved out on the dance floor, her senses on high for the vampire. Her ears tuned out the music and focused in on everything else, every footstep near her sounded like someone was stomping around, so much louder with the help of her elven hearing, her pointed ears hidden beneath her hair. Soon she could feel the familiar undead feeling of a vampire coming from right behind her.
"Jasper?" she asked cautiously.
"No, he wants to speak with you outside," a deep voice answered softly.
She turned, nodded, and followed him out through the back door, ignoring all the warning signs, already knowing it was a trap. Buffy'd been right was right, the extra training had come in handy once again, there were about four more vampires outside, and one of them had a crystal with red sand swirling around inside.
"I thought we agreed to meet alone," she said coldly.
"We did, but then again, I'm a vampire, since when do you trust a vampire?" he asked rhetorically with a laugh.
"Since never," she smiled, pulling a stake out of her purse. "Then again, I kill vampires, so pretty much planning on double crossing you, too."
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A/N: no translations as they were all included in the story. Um, there was only one review as of 4/14 when I'm most likely going to post this, dang, I feel sad. I think I'm gonna wait a while before posting again; give my self a chance to get this other story I'm writing under way. Hope you read it, ~~rest omitted, never did get a full chapter of that fic written, though I do have a ton of other ones under way, one of them including a Buffy/Xmen fic that's posted, it's got one more part to go up then it's finished.