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 started out as a mix of movie and book, but from now on it's solely book. (I'm almost through The Ring Goes South in the book, so this may take a while.)
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.
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 moment, sorry...^_-
A/N: hey, sorry it's been so long since my last update, I think I needed that short sabbatical, my inspirations' dying and without any reviews it's getting worst, the more reviews I get, the more inspiration I tend to have. So, I think I'm gonna wait for at least five reviews before I post again (I hate setting a number, but I have an ego to keep up, and if that goes down, my want to make you guys happy goes down also). Also, I want to thank my one reviewer for the last chapter, for telling me that Aragorn is at least a hundred at this time, actually, I checked the timeline in appendix B in the back of ROTK, and did the math, he's actually only 87, so he is technically still under a hundred. You know, the movie just doesn't tell you this, and the book hasn't told me that yet. Oh, and I finally finished the Council of Elrond that was a really, really, really long chapter. Thanks for listening to my ramblings people. One more thing (everyone groans in the background and someone screams "can we just get this started already?"), sorry once again if the characters are a little out of character, it has been two years since they defeated the First, so they have had time to loosen up and become the closest they can to 'normal' people; in simpler terms, they've grown and changed some. ^_^
Feedback: still only one review for the last chapter, what don't you guys love me any more?
Howlong: hey thanks, I'm still at "The Ring Goes South" in the book, and they haven't told me his age yet, and the movie didn't mention anything about his age, but, yeah, read my author's note if you haven't already and I mention something about that there. So, not to be annoying or anything, but you didn't say what you thought about my story? I'd love to know, so please, leave another review.
Chapter 6
"When I asked you why you fought with a stake, you wouldn't answer," Strider said to Buffy as they walked through the woods.
"I fell asleep," she answered, knowing he wanted to know, maybe he'd get sidetracked.
"That's not what I-" he started to say, but was cut off.
"She knows that, she ain't stupid," Spike interrupted. "Are you, luv?"
Buffy only glared at him, and he put his hands up in a mocking way of showing that he was backing off.
"You might as well tell him Buff, I mean, who's he gonna tell, he is the guy everybody trusts," Dawn told her. "Anyways, the hobbits keep asking who Mady is, and we can't really explain her without them knowing who you are or what you are, it doesn't really matter which."
"Yeah, and they wanted to hear some of our stories, I tried to tell them one of mine, but Xander and Willow wouldn't let me," Anya added, glaring at the two.
"Good, you'll scare the poor things," Buffy answered.
"Come on, Buff, if we tell them, maybe they can help figure out why we're here," Dawn tried again. Then, quickly, she added, "Plus, if you tell, we'll keep Anya from telling her stories, otherwise, I'll just start her on some of the better ones. I think the Spanish Inquisition was one of her more gruesome stories."
"Yay, that's one of my favorites," Anya smiled.
"You know guys; it's called a secret identity for a reason," Buffy told them, before raising her hands in the same fashion as Spike, and saying, "But if you really want them to know..."
They only looked at her expectantly.
"Sheesh, sorry, if I don't know who to trust, I didn't get a chance to watch the movie or read the book," she said rolling her eyes. Then, to Strider and the hobbits, she started, "I'm the vampire slayer. There's one girl chosen in every generation, yadda, yadda, yadda, this part always really bored me so I tuned out. Anyways, I protect the innocent from vampires and other demons. No one's supposed to know who I am, except for my watcher who guides and trains me. It goes on, but it kind of just repeats what I just said."
They were quiet for a minute, and Pippin broke the silence with the question that the hobbits and Strider were all thinking.
"What are vampires, Miss?"
"You don't know what vampires are?" she asked somewhat surprised.
"We don't have vampire, as you called them, in Middle-earth," Strider told her.
"Oh, well, a vampire is a demon that lives off of blood, they prefer human blood, but they can live off of animal blood, when they can't get human, and they can make new vampires by-by—Spike, you explain, you can do it better than I can, I've never had to explain what a vampire was, usually they've already met the vampire, when they meet me," she attempted to explain.
"Oh, no, I couldn't steal your glory, I'd love to hear you tell it," he laughed, as they walked into a clearing.
Strider stopped in the clearing and looked around. Above them the sun was setting, and among them, all of the Scoobies, except for Buffy and Spike, were tired.
"We will rest here," Strider said simply. "Please, continue, while we set up camp."
"Spike's a vampire, why don't you just use him to show them?" Anya pointed out.
"Oh, now that's real bright, first tell them all vampires are bad, then point out I'm one. Now, aren't we a smart one," Spike quipped angrily.
"Xander, are you just gonna let him insult me like that?" Anya asked, just as angrily, looking over at Xander, who was helping set up camp.
"Well, that was kind of stupid Anya, I mean really, Buffy just got through explaining how she kills vampires, and here she is traveling with one, that does seem kind of strange," Xander said, not noticing as Dawn mouth to the hobbits that the two had almost gotten married as some sort of explanation for the way they were acting towards each other.
"That does sound quite strange, I must say, Lady Buffy," Strider told her.
"I know, but as I've told everyone else before you, he's okay, he has a soul. Vampires can make other vampires by drinking their blood until their just about to die. Then the vampire has the person drink their blood, the person dies and becomes a vampire, losing their soul and having their bodies taken over by demons in the process. Now, Spike, he's safe, like I said he has his soul," Buffy assured the frightened looking hobbits.
"Anyways, Anya's the demon of the group," Spike pointed out, deciding it was her turn to be picked on.
"Oh, don't worry, I'm not any more. I quit, I'm human again," she attempted to assure the hobbits, failing miserably.
"She's safe, too," Buffy said rolling her eyes, praying that they wouldn't freak out when they found out Willow was a former Wicca and Dawn was the key, it was starting to get on her nerves. "She was a vengeance demon, now she's not. End of story, just don't ask her to tell any of her stories, 'cause they're all really gross."
They looked slightly confused, and she pretty much caught on within the second. They had no idea what a vengeance demon was, meaning they were probably still a little freaked out.
"A vengeance demon is a demon you can make a wish to and they'll grant it," Dawn stepped in. "It's a girl thing, like when a girl's feeling really bad, say some guy just dumped her, and she's really hurt, she might call on a vengeance demon to get revenge for her."
If she hadn't already explained dating, and what it meant to be dumped was, she knew the hobbits, and Strider for that matter would have been giving her strange looks.
"I started quite a few wars in my time," Anya stated proudly. "Massacres were one of my specialties."
"And you're proud of this, Miss?" Sam asked timidly.
"Yes, of course I am, or was, I'm human now, so I feel slightly sorry," she answered.
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Inspiration zapped, sorry if it's too short, but I have to say, it is four pages long, so I feel I did good. More out soon, next chapter I hope to be able to recount how they met Mady, and something else from her past that she's remembering to herself, plus her fight with the vampire that has her crystal. So if you have a problem with me doing a slightly Mady focused chapter, tell me, I might listen before turning away and pretending I didn't hear a thing. No offence or anything, I just think you should all know how they met her, and I can't leave her standing in that alley for too long now can I? Okay, I haven't posted my fic where me and my friends get sucked into Middle-earth fic yet, but I think by Tuesday I should have that one and this other story idea I've been working on up (both of them are purely LOTR fics), so if you could, please read them, it would make me feel really good. (oh, and if you wanted to know, my other story's about the Firsts, my theory is that if there's a First Evil there's gotta be a First goodness, the idea of the First Evil was inspired by the Btvs First, except, my first is his own dude, he doesn't have to appear as someone who's already dead, actually he just doesn't, cause he's got his own face. Anyways, with the fellowship taking the ring to Mordor, he decides that he wants his ring back; the one Sauron had created for him, but deceived him about, even though he technically knew all along. So, he makes a bet with his sister in hopes of getting it back, even though she already knows the out come of the war of the rings. But she wants a ring she'd lost in a bet with him a long time ago back, so she agrees. Anyways, he cheats a little and interferes, so she has to interfere too, and follow the prophecy that the fates had come up for her future a long time ago. Little weird, hope you read it when I get it up, thanks for dealing with more of my ramblings).
--Lily
P.S. I want to wish everyone a safe and happy Easter and Passover, and with my nice long Spring Break ahead I hope to get another chapter out within a couple days.