AN: smiles How are you today? I'm a happy person! Yeah, I love all my readers, though none seem to come back and read more... OH WELL! That's about it.
Disclaimer: The Red Sox won the World Series! Ha on you Babe Ruth! Well, that isn't exactly the disclaimer, but this is I don't own any characters except Aster. Cheesy and Emily own themselves. I also don't own my sister's cello, which isn't mentioned, but still!
Chapter 6
"Miss?"
Someone nudged Aster, she groaned and rolled over.
"Please Miss, you must get up."
"Just five more minutes, mom," Aster said groggily.
Whoever it was laughed softly, and shook Aster. "Get up."
"Alright, alright. Can't anyone get a decent amount of sleep around here?" Aster asked as she sat up. She looked around blurrily for a few moments then rubbed her eyes. A female elf, obviously a maid, stood in front of her. There was a dress laid on a bench at the end of the bed. The maid went over and opened the curtains, allowing the sun to light up the room. Aster closed her eyes because of the sudden bright light.
"Lady Galadriel instructed me to tell you to hurry," the maid said as she picked up Aster's clothes from yesterday.
Aster swung her legs of her bed, and slowly got up, stretching and yawning. The maid quickly scurried from the room to give aster some privacy. Aster dressed went out to the hall. Emily came out a couple minutes later.
Emily yawned widely, "I'm so ti-ti-ti-ti-tired."
"Ditto." Still yawning they headed to where they had met Galadriel the night before. When they got there, Galadriel wasn't there, but someone else was.
It was a female elf with dark brown hair with unnatural looking red streaks and brown eyes. When she noticed them she said, "Hey! I'm Rachel, but call me THE Cheese Turkey or Cheesy. Galadriel says my name is Nienna, though."
"That is your name," Galadriel said emerging from the shadows. Cheesy, Emily and Aster jumped.
"When did you get here?" Cheesy asked, confused.
"I have been here since you got here."
"Well you almost gave me a heart-attack. You can't just do that to people."
"Wait a minute, are you THE Cheese Turkey from ?" Aster asked.
"Yup! That's me."
"That's so cool! I love your fan fictions! They're so funny and random."
"Thanks. By the way, what are your names?" Cheesy asked.
"Can we please begin the lessons?" Galadriel asked.
Aster ignored her and said, "I'm Aster and this is Emily. Our Elvish names are Laiorë and Aerel, though."
"Cool!" Cheesy said.
"SIT DOWN NOW SO WE CAN BEGIN!!!!!" Galadriel had freaked, she obviously didn't like being ignored.
"EEP!" Cheesy, Aster and Emily said in unison, sitting down.
"Thank you," Galadriel said, suddenly back to being completely calm and composed. "We shall begin with a short summary explaining your classes. The desks you are sitting at will be yours until you are ready to leave. In the drawer you will find papers, quills, ink and charcoal sticks. You will need to copy down every thing I write on the chalkboard."
"Holey Cheese! You have chalkboards here?" Cheesy interrupted.
"Yes, we do. In each class you will take you will be required to complete what I believe you call 'homework.' In your sewing and weaving classes you will obviously be sewing and weaving. In elvish you will learn Sindarin, we do not speak Quenya. In dancing, you will be learning to dance. Sword-fighting, how to fight well with swords and other bladed weapons, and archery, well, archery. Is that understood?"
"When you say dancing, do you mean, like, ballroom dancing?" Aster asked.
"I believe so."
Aster groaned and muttered, "I hate dancing..."
Galadriel ignored this comment and said, "Well, we shall begin with sewing." She handed out fabric, needles and thread.
Emily groaned, remembering that they would have to be doing it all by hand, with no sewing machines.
They spent an hour and a half hour, then went onto weaving.
"Now, we shall begin Elvish. We shall begin with comparing Quenya and Sindarin. Then at the end of the lesson I will teach you some key Elvish phrases."
It was amazing to the three girls how boring Galadriel could make Elvish. They took notes dully, wondering when it would end. Eventually Galadriel finished explaining why they were learning Sindarin and the difference between it and Quenya.
"Now, we shall move on to phrases. Please copy this down."
Galadriel wrote:
'Hellos:
Suilad- Greetings
Mae Govannen- Well met
Gîl sîla erin lû e-govaded vín- A star shines upon the hour of our meeting
Baren bar lin. Le hannon a tholel- My home is your home. Thank you for coming
Good-byes:
Navaer- Farewell
Na-den pedim ad- Until we speak again
Le cenithon ned lû thent- I will see you in a short time
Nîr tôl erin baded lîn- A tear comes on your going
Cuio mae- Live well
Garo arad vaer- Have a good day
No i Melain na le- May the Valar be with you
Sílo Anor bo men lín- May the sun shine on your road'
"I will expect you to have these memorized by tomorrow, and you must also have a five page paper written on the difference between Quenya and Sindarin and why we are studying Sindarin. Now, if you will please go to the training field were Rumil, Orophin and Haldir will start your sword-fighting and archery lessons. Garo arad vaer," Galadriel said.
Aster, Emily and Cheesy looked at her confused for a minute, then glanced at the board.
"Oh...Navaer," Emily said uncertainly.
The three girls left. As soon as they were out Cheesy said, "Can you believe her?! Five pages and memorizing all that stuff! That evil turkey!"
"Agree with ya Cheesy," Aster agreed. "We can't do much about it, though."
Cheesy sighed and asked, "So...do you know where the training field is?"
"Um...no?" Emily said, looking around, as though for a sign leading the way.
They wandered around for a little while before they asked an elf for directions.
"Excuse me. Could you tell us how to get to the training fields?"
The elf stared at them blankly. "Man?"
"Let me try," Cheesy said, stepping forward. "Where training field?" she said caveman style, miming shooting an arrow.
A look of comprehension dawned on the elves face, and he pointed a ways to the right, "Ennas.(there)"
"Thank you," Aster smiled.
The elf gave them a weird look than walked off.
Emily snickered. "You now, I bet he's never seen an elf have to use caveman talk before."
"Yeah, very funny. Let's just get there. We're already late," Aster said, atemptingto break the fight up.
"Alright."
They reached the training fields to find Rumil, Orophin, and Haldir waiting for them. When Haldir spotted them, he came over. "What took you so long?"
"We got lost," Aster responded. She looked at Emily and Cheesy for support, and found them both staring at Haldir.
"Yeah...that's right..." Emily said distractedly.
"Alright. Let's get started. Aerel you'll be working with Orophin, Laiorë you will be with Rumil, and Nienna you will be with me," Haldir said.
Emily walked over to Orophin. "What are we doing first?" she asked.
"We will start with elven swords," he showed her one. He offered it to her, and she cringed slightly, "It won't hurt you." She took it slowly and held it, still eyeing it warily.
"Let's start."
After a long and tiring practice, the girls nearly crawled off the field, they were so sore. Only Cheesy seemed to be feeling fine.
"That was easy! I love the sword!" she said, happily.
"Easy for you to say," Aster groaned. Her arms were tired from lifting the sword over and over again.
"Nienna! Wait!" The girls turned to see who was shouting after them. It was Haldir. "I forgot to tell you, you have dancing right now, in Galadriel's house."
His words were met by a loud groan from Aster and Emily. Aster had taken ballet for several years in her old life, and hated all forms of dancing because of it. Emily didn't mind most kinds of dancing, but she had taken ballroom for several years, and hated that. They made there way to the house, and spent another two hours learning "the lively art of dancing" as Galadriel called it. Finally they were allowed to return to their rooms.
Aster and Emily stumbled into the house, and, after a weary good-night, fell into bed without bothering to take their clothes off.
Yeah...that is my next chapter
I've been overly excited lately (almost three weeks) because the Red Sox won the World Series! I'm a HUGE Red Sox fan. I would be happier, but Bush won the election, so I'm kinda sad. I wanted Kerry to win...
My Halloween was so awesome! I went as Arwen, and I made the dress. I felt special! It actually turned out really great, which is really amazing cause that is the first time I've sewed anything more that a button.
I based Galadriel on my English teacher. She freaks out sometimes at us, and is very female. She is pure evil, and forces us to write a three page paper almost every night. Thankfully it is finals right now, so she can't assign homework. YES!
I'm afraid that after this I won't be able to update for a while, because I'm leaving for Super Grands, which is a week long. I leave on this Sunday, and get back on the next Sunday. It's the World Championships of the Karate world, so wish me luck!
Anyway, here are the notes to my reviewers:
Piratica- You pronounce it lie-or-a, or at least that is how I pronounce it. Thanx for all the reviews!
Ningwen- High school is really hard at my school. All my teachers are evil. Anyway, thanx a bunch for reviewing!
Elladans-elleth- You're from Canada? That is so awesome! I was once told by a teacher that I looked French-Canadian. It was weird. Actually, I am part French-Canadian... Thanx for reviewing. Sure I'll check out your story! goes off to read story
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