Sands of Time

By Lily Martin

Rated R

Category: Romance/Adventure/Supernatural/and a bunch of other things…oh music too

Spoilers: Buffy--the episode before the last one; 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 Lord of the Rings, I'm working solely off the movie now, the book has lost my interest, I've moved on.

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: When suddenly someone pulled me into a darkened alley and held a knife to my throat. TBC…

Pairings: Arwen/Aragorn in the beginning, Buffy/Aragorn later on, Faith/Boromir while he's alive, Dawn/Frodo very subtle more of a friendship than a pairing, it's definitely going to be Legolas/Mady (my character) that's the only way the future I have for this story will work out,

A/N: hello, I'm back, I need more reviews. For the time being, I'm not even gonna bother replying to your reviews, only leave a big thanks, I don't have time to go over anymore reviews, or I'll just stop and think about how big my ego is rather than writing. Just so you know, this is a nice long chapter, that's usually what happens when I use the stuff I already had written down on paper.

ONE LAST THING: Okay, I know this is more than slightly Mary-Sue on my part, but you know what…who gives a frick, if you have a problem with me writing a bit of Mary-Sue evil prophecy fun, oh well!!!! Sorry 'bout that, that's the remnant of seeing someone complain about my Mary-Sue character at some forum, makes me feel really bad to see that.

Chapter 12: The Council of Elrond (a.k.a. according to the movie, this is how the wheel goes 'round)

"Morning, guys," Dawn yawned, as she sat down between Buffy and Willow at breakfast the next day.

"Morning, Dawnie," they answered between their own yawns.

"This is way too early to be getting up," Buffy complained.

"It's only eight, you get up earlier for work," Dawn told her. "You know, I'm starting to miss Pop Tarts and cereal for breakfast."

"Why? This is so much better," Willow said between bites.

""I know, but I want something normal," Dawn answered. "So when's that thing this morning, no one actually told me what time."

"Nine," Buffy replied simply.

"Ok. Hey, Strider's actually a king in disguise."

"No, he isn't."

"I bet you fifty dollars he is."

"Your money," Buffy agreed, having no idea that Aragorn was a king.

They shook on it, then starting talking about something that had been on TV before they got there.

At one table, the dwarfs were talking amongst themselves in low tones. At another, Strider and the Elves from Rivendell and Mirkwood were talking together in the Elvish tongue, every now and then a laugh would go up, but it would be short lived.

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A/N: ok, now, I know this is mostly taken from the movie with Buffy and the gang and my parts added into it, but just go along with me here, and I'll try not to do it again.

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"Strangers from distant lands, friends of old, you've been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle Earth stands upon the brink of destruction. None can escape it. You will unite, or you will fall. Each race is bound to this fate, this one doom," Elrond started the council. "Bring forth the Ring, Frodo."

Buffy stared at the Ring, as Frodo set it on the pedestal; it still seemed strange to her that all this was about a ring. She'd get it, if it were something like the Key or the blood of the Slayer, or even a ring with some kind of jewel, anything weird like that, but that looked like an ordinary wedding ring.

"So it is true," Boromir said rubbing his chin. He stood up, and walking in the direction of the ring, he continued, "In a dream…I saw the eastern sky grow dark…but in the West a pale light lingered. A voice was crying, 'Your doom is near at hand. Isildur's Bane is found.'" He reached out towards the ring, "Isildur's Bane."

"Don't," Buffy yelled.

"Ash nazg durbatulûk, as nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul," Gandalf yelled, the area around him grew dark and stormy for a moment.

The darkness seemed to send Buffy's warning signals on high and from the looks of it everyone else was getting the same feeling. But once he'd sat down again, it was all gone.

"Never before has any voice uttered the words of that tongue here in Imladris," Elrond said to him, obviously angry that Gandalf had uttered the Black Speech.

"I do not ask your pardon, Master Elrond, for the Black Speech of Mordor may yet be heard in every corner of the West!" he said, bowing his head slightly in respect. "The Ring is altogether evil."

Boromir looked as though he were about to say something, but was cut off.

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"Sanlye a' Imladris," Tári (as she will be known from now on) repeated over and over into the large bluish fire.

A portal opened, creating an ever growing red portal, which Tári approached carefully, keeping her crossbow in front of her protectively.

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Right next to the pedestal with the Ring on it, a large red portal opened. Every jumped up, weapons aimed at it, Buffy moved forwards, making sure she was blocking Dawn.

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"Come on, Giles, it seems we're just in time," Tári nodded, before stepping through crossbow readied, the hint of a smile crossing her face as her silvery blond hair flew out behind her.

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"Okay, just 'cause I expected this, doesn't mean I wanted it," a tall pale-blond haired elf said, stepping out of the portal, glancing around at all the people aiming weapons at her, as Giles stepped out behind her.

"Oh my," he said, non too thrilled at being at the end of so many weapons.

"Giles!" and a "G-man!" was all that any one heard as the Scoobies rushed him, except for Spike, for obvious reasons.

After giving Giles a hug and a "I missed you," Dawn took a step back to look at the new elf, but she and Glorfindel (the Elf Dawn had come to think of as way too serious) had their arms wrapped each other smiling and talking, from the looks of it the she-elf was teasing him.

"Hello, Lord Elrond," she said a minute later, after relinquishing her hold on Glorfindel.

"Good afternoon, Lady Tári," he greeted, as they exchanged a clasp of the hands, a plutonic greeting between acquaintances, as Dawn remembered from having seen a lot of the other Elves do the same thing.

"We have been trying to reach you for quite some time," Glorfindel told her.

"Oh yeah, I've been in another world for the last couple years, found out there is a lot better music out there, mainly rock, I like rock music," she explained. "Also, there's the internet, the internet's cool, you can find anything on the internet, even Elvish, almost all of it perfectly correct."

"Ah, Lady Buffy and Lady Dawn, and their companions, they talk of such things quite often," Elrond said.

TBC….

Translations:

"One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." –Gandalf (translated from Black Speech)

"Take us to Imladris." –Tári and her chanting.

I'm too unhappy about that person saying mean Mary-Sue things about my character to continue for now. Lots of nice reviews will help me get over this, a nice pile of them would do me very good.

Sad Lily M.