(A/N: oakily dokily folks! This is chapter 5 and I would like to give a
standing ovation to Miss Tabitha, who wrote the training Legolas section of
this chapter! If you want to comment on her work then send it in a review
and I will endeavour to get it to her!)
Meanwhile
While Sarah was introducing everybody inside, outside the hall, Tabitha was more concerned with other things, like how to not get into hyper mode while around a certain gorgeous Elven prince. Legolas on the other hand, was now a mix between nervous and impatient.
"um, excuse me, but where are we going?
She paused at the sound of his voice just long enough to reply.
"We are going to where we can not be disturbed by, certain distractions."
"And once we are there, what are we going to do?" He questioned cautiously.
She stopped and turned around and with a particular maniac glint in her eyes that would remind some of a certain Gryffindor keeper/captain.
"We I mean I...will make you a Slytherin Prince, Prince Legolas."
With that said, Tabitha once again became quiet and Legolas was filled with many more questions like: "What is the Slytherin Prince?" and "I hope nothing bad happens" and even questions like "Why did that weird girl kidnap me earlier?" To Legolas, these were all thought provoking questions.
After a few minutes, Tabitha suddenly stopped outside of a rather plain and ordinary looking door.
"This she said with a flourish, is where I will make you and mold you until you become the embodiment of Slytherin on stage. This is where the real work begins."
Legolas noticed that the entire time she was speaking; she still had the maniac look in her dark brown eyes.
With that being said, she opened the door and went inside.
Although still quite cautious about strange girls, Legolas followed her inside just to end up being shocked at the amount and variety of items in the medium sized room. Inside lay trunks upon trunks, (I dont mean trunks on top of each other) many of which the contents were spilling out of their containers. There were bookshelves that covered an entire wall. Bookshelves that were filled with some of the most terrifying and most wonderful books known and not even known to man. On one side of the wall, there were even different kinds of racing brooms that looked as though they were just begging to be ridden.
While her student was looking around at the room Tabitha made a small table and two chairs appear in the centre. After getting her student's attention, she motioned for him to sit at the table while she went over to a nearby bookshelf and pulled off a medium sized green and silver book and returned to the table.
"Legolas, welcome to Slytherin 101. I am your acting coach/teacher in all ways of Slytherin, Miss. Tabitha McKinley. Since saying Miss. McKinley makes me sound old when in reality I am only 18, please call me Tabitha."
And once again, with that being said, she walked over to one of the trunks and pulled out a beautiful emerald green robe with delicate silver embroidery of snakes and vines on it.
"Incase you are wondering what I just did, I am getting in the mood are you are welcome to do the same. No? Ok then, suit yourself. Now, onto the lesson. To start off, incase you didn't already know, you, Prince Legolas were selected to play the Draco Malfoy, the self proclaimed Slytherin Prince. To get you ready for this production, I, as your acting coach, have been selected to help you prepare for this most wonderful role. Now the question is, are you ready?"
He gulps and replies with a nod.
"Great, then let's get started. Now to begin with, your character is a true Slytherin. He hates all muggle-borns and Gryffindors alike. Do you understand what I am saying? Yes?"
He nods his head.
"Good, then that means that you must have seen the movies which makes it easier for me. Now in this movie, you are slightly more vicious towards your classmates and you even threaten one teacher's job which makes you very happy. Now, in the book, there are a couple points where you are injured such as a point where you are injured during a class where you threaten said teacher's job. Towards the middle, you are also hit in the face by one of your enemies Hermione Granger. Now I repeat, you are not supposed to hit her back. In fact you are supposed to run off with your friends to who knows where. When you get your script, you will read it and bring it to me incase there is something you do not understand. Understand?"
"Yes Ma'am, I understand"
"Good Legolas and remember, I said you could call me by my first name. After all since you are playing one of my favourite characters in the Harry Potter series, you are allowed to."
"I'm playing your favorite character Miss.?"
"oh yes of course you are. See, I'm one of those people who believe that there is good inside everyone but sometimes you just can't see it. See in my eyes, Draco Malfoy may be an obnoxious, stuck-up, annoying, self- centered monster, but I also believe that there is good inside him and that there are some parts about him that are just misunderstood. And besides that, he is a Mega Hottie! Now, I want you to take this book and study it for the next hour and when the hour is up, I will quiz you on what you have learned."
She hands him the book and he takes it while looking at the title.
"How to be a Slytherin? (believe it or not, but there is actually a place online called this. If you want is, ask the author and she will ask me where it is so just to let you know, I don't own the book, other people came up with it. And now, onto the chapter.) This isn't one of those How to books for dummies is it?"
"No of course it's not Legolas. It's a how to book for Slytherins. Now be quiet and start reading."
One Hour Later
"Ok then Legolas, Time to test you on what you know. This is a practical quiz so I want you to act it out for me. Now first question, what is the correct way to do a Slytherin laugh?"
This went on for a while till she was sure that he knew exactly what to do. By the end, she was sure that he was Draco's twin separated at birth because of how amazing he was at being Pureblood.
"Well Legolas, I am pleased t say that you are now ready to go back to the rest of the cast and rejoin them but I must warn you, do not let your new acting personality become your permanent one because if you do, you will anger many of your friends especially your friend's Gimli, Aragorn and Arwen."
"uh? Why would it anger them?"
"Well it would anger them because they are playing Ron Weasly, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, so remember to keep the acting onstage. Ok? So let get going."
"Um, Miss. Tabitha, aren't you forgetting something?" He said pointing to her cloak.
"What about it? I like it and I'm gonna keep it, so lets go already." With that, she opened the door and after Legolas left the room, she closed the door behind her and walked down the hall back towards the others.
"Wow, you lot are really evil aren't you?!" Sara said after having listened to all the evil characters tell their stories.
"Now we are going to play a game, that we always used to play in Drama, it helps practise your dying techniques, its called Wink Murder, what you have to do is, one person is sent out of the room to be the detective, the rest of you sit in a circle, close your eyes, and I will come round and tap one person on the shoulder, whoever I tap is the murderer, and when I tell you to open your eyes the murderer has to start winking at people once the detective has come back in, once you have been winked at you have to die, not literally, of course, but dramatically, like this," Sara demonstrated a gruesome choking death before falling to the floor as if unconscious.
"Is she dead?" Pippin asked
"No, she's just pretended to die, pip." Merry answered.
Sara got up off the floor, and saw Legolas and Tabitha arriving, "Ah good how did the training go?" she eyed Legolas hungrily, with an all too familiar maniac glint in her eye.
"Good, Legolas is pretty much a fully fledged Slitherin now." Tabitha answered.
"Excellent, could you explain to Legolas how to play wink murder while I finish telling these guys."
Tabitha took Legolas off to a corner to explain, whilst Sara continued.
"The detective stands in the middle of the circle and has three chances to guess who the murderer is, may I remind people that there is to be no actual murdering unless carried out by myself or Tabitha, okay?"
"Yeeees." They groaned.
"Excuse me?"
"Yes miss Powell."
"That's better, now who shall I pick to be the detective hmm...I choose Sauron."
"Why me, I want to be the murderer!"
"I guessed that and I don't want fireballs being hurled around Aragorn's palace if you don't mind, now go!"
"Fine fine I'm going, but I warn you, one day I will rule all of middle earth and my name will be feared by everyone! I will cover Middle Earth in a-"Sauron started vibrating as anti-evil chip kicks in.
"God, he's such a Drama queen, I think someone's been watching way too much Harry Potter. Now Legolas and Tabitha, are you ready to join the circle?"
"Yep" Said Tabitha, smiling brightly.
"Good now, close your eyes, everyone."
Everyone closed their eyes and Sara walked around, considering her options...she tapped Pippin on the shoulder.
"What do you want?" Pippin asked.
"Pippin!!! You are not supposed to say anything! Okay close your eyes again I will have to pick someone else."
She tapped Lord Elrond on the shoulder.
"Okay now open your eyes, SAURON!! You can come back in now."
Sauron went to stand in the centre of the circle.
"Ahhhh!!!!!" Merry screamed, falling to the floor in a heap.
"I am the King of Mirkwood, you cannot kill me!" King Thranduil said, as Elrond winked at him.
"Thranduil just die, will you." Sara said
The king gave her a murderous stare before lying down in silent protest.
"Is it Merry?" Sauron asked.
"No, Merry is dead."
"Legolas?"
Legolas collapsed in a pile on the floor.
"No. one guess left."
"is it..." he looked around suspiciously, there was only, Tabitha, Elrond and Some Uruk-hai and Nazgul left. "Is it the Witch king?"
"Nope, you lost it was Elrond!"
Elrond gave a victorious smile, "Had you fooled didn't I Sauron, you know you cannot defeat an Elf Lord."
"I am a Mia, of course I could defeat you, you weasley little..."
"Come on then, I would like to see you try!"
Elrond and Sauron were face to face giving each other evil looks.
"I say we settle this tonight, underneath the tree of Gondor." Elrond challenged.
"Midnight?"
"yep."
"Fine, wear something black."
"Fine."
The two lords sat down containing their anger until later.
"Right first you are going to learn some basic tasks, that are required to be a member of Hogworts, the first is riding a broom." Claire said to the large crowd of good characters.
They looked nervous about this having seen what riding a broomstick was like in the film, and it didn't look easy.
"If you would all like to collect you Nimbus 2000s from over there, I thought we ought to start you off with basic brooms." She said, retrieving her own Firebolt from its special podium. "Now I want you all to place your brooms on your left and then stand straight."
A loud bell could be heard from the palace.
"Ahh that is the dinner bell, if you would all like to make your way to the hall." Claire Said.
They arrived at the hall to find that a few modifications had been made, mutterings could be heard from the humans on how much like the great hall of Hogwarts it was, with long tables covered in gold utensils, candles floating around the room, the sunshine could be clearly seen from the ceiling and the house crests were draped from the walls on large tapestrys.
"What have you done to my hall?" Aragorn demanded.
"We've modified it a bit is all, don't worry we will return it to its normal state, but we thought it would help you get the feel for you parts." Sara said, entering the hall followed but her crew.
Sara, Claire, Tabitha and Sarah went to the front to sit at the raised platform with it's huge throne-like chairs.
"Now if you would all take a seat, it does not matter where then I would just like to say a few words
Everyone found somewhere to sit, many trying to nab the best spots next to the lust objects.
"Well, we hope you have enjoyed your first day in training, we will be training for two weeks before rehearsals, so you had better be prepared to work hard. Now dinner is served." She took out her wand, gave it a wave and in front of everyone appeared the most magnificent feast they had ever seen, trays of meat and vegetables covered every inch.
"Enjoy." Sara said, before piling her plate with food.
(a/n okay hope you like, I'm not so sure about this chapter but oh well, any way I need I deas of ways that I can train them to be proper actors, so if you have any ideas. Also I still need people to play parts in the play or become members of staff, so if you fill out the form from the previouis chapter and email it to: SuperstarpowellHOTMAIL.com. Thanks, and love ya!)
Meanwhile
While Sarah was introducing everybody inside, outside the hall, Tabitha was more concerned with other things, like how to not get into hyper mode while around a certain gorgeous Elven prince. Legolas on the other hand, was now a mix between nervous and impatient.
"um, excuse me, but where are we going?
She paused at the sound of his voice just long enough to reply.
"We are going to where we can not be disturbed by, certain distractions."
"And once we are there, what are we going to do?" He questioned cautiously.
She stopped and turned around and with a particular maniac glint in her eyes that would remind some of a certain Gryffindor keeper/captain.
"We I mean I...will make you a Slytherin Prince, Prince Legolas."
With that said, Tabitha once again became quiet and Legolas was filled with many more questions like: "What is the Slytherin Prince?" and "I hope nothing bad happens" and even questions like "Why did that weird girl kidnap me earlier?" To Legolas, these were all thought provoking questions.
After a few minutes, Tabitha suddenly stopped outside of a rather plain and ordinary looking door.
"This she said with a flourish, is where I will make you and mold you until you become the embodiment of Slytherin on stage. This is where the real work begins."
Legolas noticed that the entire time she was speaking; she still had the maniac look in her dark brown eyes.
With that being said, she opened the door and went inside.
Although still quite cautious about strange girls, Legolas followed her inside just to end up being shocked at the amount and variety of items in the medium sized room. Inside lay trunks upon trunks, (I dont mean trunks on top of each other) many of which the contents were spilling out of their containers. There were bookshelves that covered an entire wall. Bookshelves that were filled with some of the most terrifying and most wonderful books known and not even known to man. On one side of the wall, there were even different kinds of racing brooms that looked as though they were just begging to be ridden.
While her student was looking around at the room Tabitha made a small table and two chairs appear in the centre. After getting her student's attention, she motioned for him to sit at the table while she went over to a nearby bookshelf and pulled off a medium sized green and silver book and returned to the table.
"Legolas, welcome to Slytherin 101. I am your acting coach/teacher in all ways of Slytherin, Miss. Tabitha McKinley. Since saying Miss. McKinley makes me sound old when in reality I am only 18, please call me Tabitha."
And once again, with that being said, she walked over to one of the trunks and pulled out a beautiful emerald green robe with delicate silver embroidery of snakes and vines on it.
"Incase you are wondering what I just did, I am getting in the mood are you are welcome to do the same. No? Ok then, suit yourself. Now, onto the lesson. To start off, incase you didn't already know, you, Prince Legolas were selected to play the Draco Malfoy, the self proclaimed Slytherin Prince. To get you ready for this production, I, as your acting coach, have been selected to help you prepare for this most wonderful role. Now the question is, are you ready?"
He gulps and replies with a nod.
"Great, then let's get started. Now to begin with, your character is a true Slytherin. He hates all muggle-borns and Gryffindors alike. Do you understand what I am saying? Yes?"
He nods his head.
"Good, then that means that you must have seen the movies which makes it easier for me. Now in this movie, you are slightly more vicious towards your classmates and you even threaten one teacher's job which makes you very happy. Now, in the book, there are a couple points where you are injured such as a point where you are injured during a class where you threaten said teacher's job. Towards the middle, you are also hit in the face by one of your enemies Hermione Granger. Now I repeat, you are not supposed to hit her back. In fact you are supposed to run off with your friends to who knows where. When you get your script, you will read it and bring it to me incase there is something you do not understand. Understand?"
"Yes Ma'am, I understand"
"Good Legolas and remember, I said you could call me by my first name. After all since you are playing one of my favourite characters in the Harry Potter series, you are allowed to."
"I'm playing your favorite character Miss.?"
"oh yes of course you are. See, I'm one of those people who believe that there is good inside everyone but sometimes you just can't see it. See in my eyes, Draco Malfoy may be an obnoxious, stuck-up, annoying, self- centered monster, but I also believe that there is good inside him and that there are some parts about him that are just misunderstood. And besides that, he is a Mega Hottie! Now, I want you to take this book and study it for the next hour and when the hour is up, I will quiz you on what you have learned."
She hands him the book and he takes it while looking at the title.
"How to be a Slytherin? (believe it or not, but there is actually a place online called this. If you want is, ask the author and she will ask me where it is so just to let you know, I don't own the book, other people came up with it. And now, onto the chapter.) This isn't one of those How to books for dummies is it?"
"No of course it's not Legolas. It's a how to book for Slytherins. Now be quiet and start reading."
One Hour Later
"Ok then Legolas, Time to test you on what you know. This is a practical quiz so I want you to act it out for me. Now first question, what is the correct way to do a Slytherin laugh?"
This went on for a while till she was sure that he knew exactly what to do. By the end, she was sure that he was Draco's twin separated at birth because of how amazing he was at being Pureblood.
"Well Legolas, I am pleased t say that you are now ready to go back to the rest of the cast and rejoin them but I must warn you, do not let your new acting personality become your permanent one because if you do, you will anger many of your friends especially your friend's Gimli, Aragorn and Arwen."
"uh? Why would it anger them?"
"Well it would anger them because they are playing Ron Weasly, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, so remember to keep the acting onstage. Ok? So let get going."
"Um, Miss. Tabitha, aren't you forgetting something?" He said pointing to her cloak.
"What about it? I like it and I'm gonna keep it, so lets go already." With that, she opened the door and after Legolas left the room, she closed the door behind her and walked down the hall back towards the others.
"Wow, you lot are really evil aren't you?!" Sara said after having listened to all the evil characters tell their stories.
"Now we are going to play a game, that we always used to play in Drama, it helps practise your dying techniques, its called Wink Murder, what you have to do is, one person is sent out of the room to be the detective, the rest of you sit in a circle, close your eyes, and I will come round and tap one person on the shoulder, whoever I tap is the murderer, and when I tell you to open your eyes the murderer has to start winking at people once the detective has come back in, once you have been winked at you have to die, not literally, of course, but dramatically, like this," Sara demonstrated a gruesome choking death before falling to the floor as if unconscious.
"Is she dead?" Pippin asked
"No, she's just pretended to die, pip." Merry answered.
Sara got up off the floor, and saw Legolas and Tabitha arriving, "Ah good how did the training go?" she eyed Legolas hungrily, with an all too familiar maniac glint in her eye.
"Good, Legolas is pretty much a fully fledged Slitherin now." Tabitha answered.
"Excellent, could you explain to Legolas how to play wink murder while I finish telling these guys."
Tabitha took Legolas off to a corner to explain, whilst Sara continued.
"The detective stands in the middle of the circle and has three chances to guess who the murderer is, may I remind people that there is to be no actual murdering unless carried out by myself or Tabitha, okay?"
"Yeeees." They groaned.
"Excuse me?"
"Yes miss Powell."
"That's better, now who shall I pick to be the detective hmm...I choose Sauron."
"Why me, I want to be the murderer!"
"I guessed that and I don't want fireballs being hurled around Aragorn's palace if you don't mind, now go!"
"Fine fine I'm going, but I warn you, one day I will rule all of middle earth and my name will be feared by everyone! I will cover Middle Earth in a-"Sauron started vibrating as anti-evil chip kicks in.
"God, he's such a Drama queen, I think someone's been watching way too much Harry Potter. Now Legolas and Tabitha, are you ready to join the circle?"
"Yep" Said Tabitha, smiling brightly.
"Good now, close your eyes, everyone."
Everyone closed their eyes and Sara walked around, considering her options...she tapped Pippin on the shoulder.
"What do you want?" Pippin asked.
"Pippin!!! You are not supposed to say anything! Okay close your eyes again I will have to pick someone else."
She tapped Lord Elrond on the shoulder.
"Okay now open your eyes, SAURON!! You can come back in now."
Sauron went to stand in the centre of the circle.
"Ahhhh!!!!!" Merry screamed, falling to the floor in a heap.
"I am the King of Mirkwood, you cannot kill me!" King Thranduil said, as Elrond winked at him.
"Thranduil just die, will you." Sara said
The king gave her a murderous stare before lying down in silent protest.
"Is it Merry?" Sauron asked.
"No, Merry is dead."
"Legolas?"
Legolas collapsed in a pile on the floor.
"No. one guess left."
"is it..." he looked around suspiciously, there was only, Tabitha, Elrond and Some Uruk-hai and Nazgul left. "Is it the Witch king?"
"Nope, you lost it was Elrond!"
Elrond gave a victorious smile, "Had you fooled didn't I Sauron, you know you cannot defeat an Elf Lord."
"I am a Mia, of course I could defeat you, you weasley little..."
"Come on then, I would like to see you try!"
Elrond and Sauron were face to face giving each other evil looks.
"I say we settle this tonight, underneath the tree of Gondor." Elrond challenged.
"Midnight?"
"yep."
"Fine, wear something black."
"Fine."
The two lords sat down containing their anger until later.
"Right first you are going to learn some basic tasks, that are required to be a member of Hogworts, the first is riding a broom." Claire said to the large crowd of good characters.
They looked nervous about this having seen what riding a broomstick was like in the film, and it didn't look easy.
"If you would all like to collect you Nimbus 2000s from over there, I thought we ought to start you off with basic brooms." She said, retrieving her own Firebolt from its special podium. "Now I want you all to place your brooms on your left and then stand straight."
A loud bell could be heard from the palace.
"Ahh that is the dinner bell, if you would all like to make your way to the hall." Claire Said.
They arrived at the hall to find that a few modifications had been made, mutterings could be heard from the humans on how much like the great hall of Hogwarts it was, with long tables covered in gold utensils, candles floating around the room, the sunshine could be clearly seen from the ceiling and the house crests were draped from the walls on large tapestrys.
"What have you done to my hall?" Aragorn demanded.
"We've modified it a bit is all, don't worry we will return it to its normal state, but we thought it would help you get the feel for you parts." Sara said, entering the hall followed but her crew.
Sara, Claire, Tabitha and Sarah went to the front to sit at the raised platform with it's huge throne-like chairs.
"Now if you would all take a seat, it does not matter where then I would just like to say a few words
Everyone found somewhere to sit, many trying to nab the best spots next to the lust objects.
"Well, we hope you have enjoyed your first day in training, we will be training for two weeks before rehearsals, so you had better be prepared to work hard. Now dinner is served." She took out her wand, gave it a wave and in front of everyone appeared the most magnificent feast they had ever seen, trays of meat and vegetables covered every inch.
"Enjoy." Sara said, before piling her plate with food.
(a/n okay hope you like, I'm not so sure about this chapter but oh well, any way I need I deas of ways that I can train them to be proper actors, so if you have any ideas. Also I still need people to play parts in the play or become members of staff, so if you fill out the form from the previouis chapter and email it to: SuperstarpowellHOTMAIL.com. Thanks, and love ya!)