Lily couldn't believe what she had just heard Mithrandir has returned to Middle Earth. She rushed forward to speak with him. When he saw Lily he smiled to her.
"My dear child you have grown in these months. Your time here has been helpful but now you must leave the comfort of these woods. I know you can feel this in your heart." Gandalf said to her.
"I know, but as to where and what I am supposed to do, I pray you have that guidance for me." Lily said. Gandalf nodded to her.
"I know much of what is going to come to pass. Aragorn is going to need your help and soon. But before you are to go to his aid you must ride north and seek out the last Dunedain rangers they will be needed later. Gather them together and tell them to look to my coming when they are to ride to the shores to aid their fellow ranger. You must do this." Gandalf concluded.
Lily quickly changed out of her elegant dress into the clothes she had first been given after her arrival in Middle Earth. She was dressed as a ranger she then gathered a pack and mounted her horse Nerwen and took off north to find the last of the dunedain rangers who would need to come to their aid.
Buffy opened her eyes and sat straight up in the bed she was in. She had no idea where she was she was about to freak out and jump out of bed when she heard someone.
"You are awake." the female voice said. Buffy looked to her. "My name is Eowyn, my brother Eomer found you near the gap of Rohan and brought you here. Your dress was very strange also. Buffy looked around the room.
"My sister Dawn where is she?" Buffy asked frantically looking around the room.
"Calm yourself she is fine, she awoke hours before you. She just left to get something to eat. I'll leave you now to get dressed and when I return I will take you to your sister." Eowyn said and then left Buffy. Buffy stood up and picked up the dress that was laid across the bed for her to wear.
"Great I'm in some strange place and I have to wear a dress. Buffy you aren't in Kansas anymore." Buffy said to herself before getting dressed.
Eowyn returned as she said she would and led Buffy to the dining hall. Buffy was amazed at the beauty of this place. Everything was so intricate like nothing she had ever seen before. She walked into the dining hall and saw Dawn eating and ran over to her sister giving her a hug.
"Buffy you're awake finally. Isn't this place cool?" Dawn asked. Buffy smiled and sat next to her sister Eowyn taking her seat across from the Summer's sisters.
"So Eowyn where are we exactly?" Buffy asked.
"You are in the house of Theoden King in Edoras the capital city of Rohan. The horse lords of Middle Earth." Eowyn answered.
"Middle Earth?" Buffy asked in shock. Willow's spell had gone wrong really wrong. She and Dawn had ended up in Middle Earth where Lily lived.
"Yes. You look confused where is it you are from?" Eowyn asked.
Buffy didn't get to speak for a servant ran in to inform Eowyn that four travelers have arrived and one was the wizard Gandalf.
"My apologies but I must tend to the king I much desire to hear of your tales but now is not the time. I shall speak with you later." Eowyn said before dashing to the main hall. Buffy and Dawn looked to one another worriedly.
Buffy and Dawn had been sitting in the room that Buffy had been given while they stayed at Edoras talking with one another when there was a knock on the door and then Eowyn entered.
"Gandalf wishes to speak with you two."
"Who is Gandalf?" Dawn asked.
"You two must be from a far distance to not know of the great wizard Gandalf. Come with me." Eowyn said. Buffy shrugged and they followed the lady to the main hall. When they entered all conversation stopped. Buffy looked around at the five men in the hall. An old man with a long white beard approached them first.
"Well two distant travelers in Edoras. I am Gandalf the white and your names?" He asked. Buffy smiled, he was a kind old man, like a grandfather.
"I'm Buffy and this is my sister Dawn." She answered looking around.
"You do not come from here I am told you were found near the Gap of Rohan, now tell us where it is you are from and how you have come to be here." He asked.
"Well I'm from Earth, Sunnydale, California to be exact, and we were sent here by our friend Willow who is a witch." Buffy said looking around at the curious looks. She looked down at her hands playing with her fingers very aware of all the eyes on her. When she looked back up she noticed the man with long blond hair's eyes were fixed on her looking at her curiously it was then he spoke.
"Why would your friend send you here seemingly against your will for you are distraught for being here my lady?" Legolas asked her. Buffy looked to him curiously she did not care to reveal too much of herself to these people yet.
"Her spell went wrong." was all that Buffy said. Gandalf noticed her change in tone as did Legolas.
"Thank you my dear you two may go now, I will come speak with you again." Gandalf said and Buffy and Dawn left the room.
"That was weird." Dawn said.
"Yeah it was. They know something about us I think." Buffy answered.
"Yeah that yummy looking guy with the blond hair was looking at you really weird."
"He wasn't human Dawnie." Buffy said. At her curious glance she went on. "I can usually tell when someone is human and he gave off a weird vibe nothing evil just different." They then went into Buffy's room.
Back in the main hall there was much discussion of the two travelers. Not one person had known of where it was they spoke of their coming from.
"She was lying to us." Legolas said once the two girls were out of earshot.
"She does not trust us or know who we are that is why she did not tell us the complete truth." Aragorn answered to his friend.
"In time the manner of their travels will be revealed until then we must decide what we are to do." Gandalf said turning to Theoden.
A few hours had gone by when once again Eowyn came to Buffy's room. Buffy and Dawn looked up as she came in the room quickly.
"Gather only what you need, we are leaving the city to take refuge in Helm's Deep. The western men are coming and war is coming upon us." Eowyn said.
"So we mean to hide? Why aren't we standing up and fighting them?" Buffy asked the slayer in her taking over.
"King Theoden says we are to take refuge despite what Lord Aragorn has said. We leave in one hour." Eowyn said. She then left Buffy and Dawn alone.
"War?" Dawn asked worry prevalent in her eyes.
"Everything will be fine Dawn. I won't let anything happen to you." Buffy said.
"Why is Lily in this world if there is a war here? How do we know she is still alive?" Dawn asked tears coming to her eyes.
"She is. I can feel it in my heart. Willow's spell meant for us to contact her and find her and we were sent here. That means our contact is real she is alive we just need to find her." Buffy said hugging her sister. They then made their way outside and started the journey to Helm's Deep.