Title: The Unicorn Prophecy

Chapter: One – Falling into middle earth

Rating: PG

Summary: Lyssa always thought she was a perfectly ordinary girl, but then she suddenly falls into middle earth, and discovers maybe she wasn't so normal after all. LegolasOC.First fic,please R&R! No flames!

Disclaimer: Not mine, it all belongs to Peter Jackson and Tolkein. DON'T SUE!

Elysabeth Mason (or Lyssa, as she liked to be called) thought she was perfectly normal. She was 5'7" and 100 pounds. Her long, golden hair shone in the light. Her eyes looked blue in some light, and green in others. She looked nothing like the rest of her family, but that might be because they weren't her real family. You see, Lyssa had been found on a doorstep when she was only a baby, and the Masons had adopted her. Nobody knew who her real family was, and Lyssa really wanted to find out.

Rachel Mason, her adopted mother was nice, but Christopher Mason and Michelle Mason, her adopted father and sister were really horrible to her. Michelle would steal her things, and pull her hair, and Christopher didn't care at all. He always favoured Michelle over Lyssa, and he was only nice to her when Rachel was there.

Lyssa dreamed of finding her real family, about as much as she dreamed about Lord of the Rings. Those movies were the best ones she'd ever seen, she and her friend Mandy talked about them all the time. They had watched them about a hundred times each. Mandy thought Frodo was really cute, but Lyssa thought she was crazy: hobbits were far too short and they had furry feet (which was really ew). She preferred Legolas, who wouldn't? He was an elf, after all, and Orlando Bloom was really fit.

Lyssa was daydreaming in her bedroom when Mandy called.

'Lyssa! Phone call!' yelled Rachel from downstairs. Lyssa jumped up and ran out of her room. Mandy had been on holiday for a week and had promised to call when she got back.

Because Lyssa was so intent on getting to the phone, she didn't see Michelle lurking behind the corner.

'Ah!' she yelled. Michelle had tripped her up! But she'd been going to fast and she fell too far. CRASH! She whacked right into the wall, Her vision started to go all blurry and there was a splitting pain in her head. Then everything went black…

When Lyssa woke up her first thought was that she was going to kill Michelle! What on earth was she on? Lyssa's head was aching and she felt really weird. She could have died! She hoped Rachel would have a go at Michelle. Of course, Christopher probably wouldn't care.

She creaked open her eyes and looked around. She did a double take. Where was she?!

It was some sort of forest place. The trees were high , so high they obscured the sun, there was little wind due to the shelter. The leaves fell golden to the floor. She felt her head for a bump, but there didn't seem to be anything, apart from a bit of a head-ache. Maybe she was hallucinating, surely if she'd hurt herself too badly she'd be in hospital, or at least in her bed. But she was in this… forest.

And the weirdest thing was, she couldn't help feel that she'd been there before.

She got to her feet slowly, but found she didn't feel too dizzy. Suddenly, she froze, she could hear something to her left! She turned and looked, but the densely packed trees meant she could see nothing. She began to creep towards the noise, surprising even herself with how quiet she managed to be.

Suddenly from around a huge bush burst… Lyssa stared. He was tall and white and graceful. He looked just like Shadowfax except… it was a unicorn! No way! She felt her head again.

The unicorn saw her and ran up to her. He bent his head and nuzzled her. She stroked his gleaming white face, wondering what he was running from, feeling worried that she would not be able to outrun it.

Still, if this was just a dream…

But since when did she dream about this sort of thing? Maybe it was really real! Even if it was a unicorn.

A horse burst around the bush, its rider had its bow strung. The unicorn was worried, she could tell, but she could do nothing but stare. It was Legolas! It couldn't be anyone else! But why did he have his bow drawn?

'Move, my lady!' he called at her, trying to aim at the skittish unicorn.

'You're not going to kill it?!' she yelled. 'You can't!'

'Of course I can!' he replied. How could Legolas be so cruel? 'Unicorns are dangerous too all. They-'

'This one has done nothing to me but try to make friends!' she told him, irritably. Just because he was really really fit, it didn't mean he could boss her around like anyone.

Legolas looked down at the girl. He was not used to being argued to like that, it was annoying. But she was right, the unicorn hadn't done anything to her. It was really weird. They usually attacked anyone they could with their horns. In fact, he had never known one not to. He remembered being told something, years ago, about a girl who could tame unicorns, but he couldn't remember what it was. Maybe Elrond would know…

'Elrond's called a meeting to discuss something very important,' he said. 'Although I don't know what it's about. Will you come with me to the Palace of Rivendell? He'd want to talk to you.'

The girl shrugged non-commitedly and Legolas gritted his teeth. He was a prince, she had seemed to in awe of him a minute ago and now she just didn't seem to care.

'I 'spose I could,' she replied. He watched at she got up on to the unicorn, who seemed perfectly happy to let her ride. It was galling. One thing was clear though, she wasn't sure how to ride, even if the unicorn wouldn't let her fall.

'What's your name?' he asked her, realising he didn't even know.

'Lyssa,' she replied, patting the unicorn. 'And you're Legolas Greenleaf, I know that.' With that, she set off in the right direction, leaving Legolas staring after her, wondering how she knew his name.

It gets better! Please R&R! But don't flame!