I have forgotten the Disclaimer: So here it is: I do not own any characters or Places and I make this only for your entertainment.

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So, now on with the Story:

~CHAPTER 3~

~TO BE OR NOT TO BE~

Mary-Sue was especially fascinated of Legolas when he fought against Orcs, Cavetrolls, Uruk-Hais and didn't get a tiny scrach. Thus she decited to join the Fellowship of the Ring. With her charme and her newfound strength she would have nothing would stand in her way.

"I want to join the fellowship of the Ring, I want to join the fellowship of the Ring." she repeated several times. Then she took a deep breath and.

It was the strangest thing Mary-Sue had ever witnessed, and she had already witnessed very much. She had thought she perhaps would be found by Aragorn nad the Hobbits and taken to Rivendell. And apart from that.she felt very, very strange, as if she would carry a heavy burden.

But she found herself standing outside the house of Elrond, and it was dark, so dark in fact, that the only thing that lightened the scene were the lights inside the house wich didn't help here very much. Mary-Sue saw Sam, who stood next to Bill the Pony and was talking to said animal. There were Frodo and Bilbo standing in the doorway and there was sitting Aragorn. He had is head bowed to his knees. She wondered what he was doing. Perhaps the old Ranger was tensed. In fact, one could lay the blame of this Ring- destroying-tour in his forefather Isildur who had not been smart enough to throw the doomed ring into the Orodruin. And it was said somewhere that he had the gift of foresight. Then - what did he see? But was she wasting her thoughts on him if only a few meters away was standing the Prince of her dreams? And there indeed was standing Legolas, tall and handsome, taller and more handsome than Mary-Sue could ever have imagined. All this was bigger and more beautiful. Gimli, Gandalf and the other two Hobbits were nowhere to be seen (the fact that the scene was barely could be the reason). All seemed to be quite tensed - except Bill perhaps who was ginving Sam a shove.

There fom the house were coming Elrond and Gandalf. Elrond was looking every inch the Lord he was. He laid a hand on Aragorn's back and said something in elvish to him to gain is attention, for he seemed to have something to say. The ranger's head shot up immediately and he was ready to listen.

So he started with his speech: "This is my last word," he said in a low voice. "The ring-dearer is setting out on the Quest of Mount Doom. On him alone is any charge laid: neither to cast away the Ring, nor to deliver it to any servant of the Enemy nor indeed to let any handle it, save members of the Company and the Council, and only then in the gravest need. The others go with him as free companions, to help him on his way. You may tarry, or come back, or turn aside into other paths, as chance allows. The further you go, the less easy will it be to withdraw; yet no oath is laid on you to go further than you will. For you do not yet know the strength of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet upon the road."

Stille, now Gimli shoul comment the speech, but Gimli was not there! Moment, Gimli was not there? How can it be possible that nobody of the others had realized it?

Slowly, very slowly Mary-Sue lowered her head. The only thing that came from her throught, was a loud

"NEIN!"

Before the lights in the house went out and the world was covered by darkness.

Ten surprised sets of eyes looked at the unconscious dwarf.

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The story was not that easy for me to write, for it is not really logical that Mary-Sue does not realize at first that she is stuck in Gimli's body. And normally I`'m someone who likes the logical things.

The scene is taken from The Lord Of The Rings - The Ring Goes South