This is only a reposting. Um…and I also did try to fix a few things that wouldn't make sense to people not from my school. So…yeah…enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own LotR or any characters, phrases, countries, or what ever else from it!!! I also don't own any of the people mentioned in this story, except Eva and Christel...hehehe... Um...don't kill me!!!
The Fellowship of the German Students
By Kari "Celina"
On a cold, dark day in second trimester, our story starts at the West Valley Junior High, in the room of an unsuspecting German teacher…
"Why did they only give me one room?" he asked as he sorted through boxes of stuff that used to be in his second room. "And why haven't I cleared up all this junk yet?"
He went on for a while, throwing random things in random places for his TA to sort out.
And then he saw it. The German Textbook of EVIL!!! It even said it on the cover…except in German. He just set it aside for his first period to deal with.
And they came.
"I have found the German Textbook of EVIL once more. This time it must be disposed of, permanently," he told his first period class.
A hand shot into the air.
"Yes, Celina?" asked Herr Beck.
"If it's so evil, why don't we just burn it?" she asked.
Herr Beck picked up a pen and chucked it at Celina's head. "Because we don't burn books!"
"But what about seven years ago when we got the new German textbooks?" asked again Celina.
::flashback to seven years ago::
A group of students were dancing ceremoniously around a pile of burning German textbooks…in the classroom.
::end flashback::
"Those were dark times, dark times indeed," said Herr Beck remembering the past, and scaring the students.
"Why don't you just make Claudia (TA) get rid of it?" asked Alex.
Claudia suddenly walked through the door. "Sorry I'm late, Herr Beck," she said.
"Take this to the library," commanded Herr Beck, handing the German Textbook of EVIL to Claudia.
Upon touching the German Textbook of EVIL Claudia fell to the ground and started twitching. Everyone just stared.
"I'm sorry about your sister, Rosewitta," apologized Herr Beck. "Okay, some of you will have to take it to the library."
Eva raised her hand. "You mean like some sort of 'Fellowship'?"
"Sure, whatever."
Eva quickly jumped to the front to the room. "I shall take the book! But I do not know the way." She glared at Celina, Christel, Adrianna, and Evi until they volunteered to come along.
"You seriously don't know the way to the library?" asked Celina, who got another death glare.
"Hello people, we only have five here," complained Eva.
Sonja, Volker, and Christoph stepped up to the rest of the 'fellowship', giving a grand total of eight. Bodo and Günther approached at the same time.
Eva pulled Bodo into the group. "Sorry, Günther , but we only need nine."
"But why does Bodo get to go?" asked Günther .
"Because his name sounds the most like 'Frodo'," explained Eva.
"Dang it! I wanted to skip class!" complained Günther .
"We are the Fellowship of the German Students!" exclaimed Eva.
"Wouldn't we be the Fellowship of the Book?" asked Celina.
"German Students sounds better," explained the rest of the Fellowship.
"Oh. Okay then."
"Just take the book to the library," Herr Beck told them and handed the German Textbook of EVIL to Bodo.
Bodo's eyes grew wide. "They're here, they've come."
"Sure, whatever, just take it to the library," Herr Beck said as he shoved the Fellowship out the door, which actually got clogged from the action of trying to shove nine people out of it at once.
After everyone had managed to get unstuck Celina started heading for the main building.
"Okay, guys. Just a quick trip to the library and we'll be back in class," she said. Then she noticed that no one was following her. "Hey, were are you going?" She saw the rest of the Fellowship heading towards the Middle School.
The Fellowship ignored her and continued walking towards the Middle School. Celina finally ran to catch up with them.
And they walked, and walked, and walked. Finally, Adrianna asked why they were going to the Middle School.
"We're going to the park," replied Eva.
"But why are we going to the park?" asked Christel.
"Because we must make this dramatic!" yelled Eva in frustration.
The Fellowship continued to walk to Widehollow Creek. Seeing as how they couldn't raft down it, they eventually decided to follow the conveniently paved walkway.
"I think that book has changed Bodo," Celina whispered to Adrianna and Christel, noticing how nothing stupid had come from Bodo, and his eyes were freakishly huge.
"For the better," they both agreed.
Almost on cue, Bodo spoke in a creepy voice. "They're here, they've come…"
The Fellowship turned to look at what Bodo saw. They heard it long before they saw it. The thunderous footsteps of many Middle School students.
"ORCS!!!" cried Eva as she and the others of the Fellowship jumped out of the way.
But Volker didn't make it and was trampled by the mass of students.
Eva was a little shocked by what happened. 'We'll just call him Gandalf…"
The Fellowship looked around nervously at the remaining members. "Who's Boromir?"
The Fellowship continued to walk along the campus lap, seeing as how the threat of 'orcs' had passed.
Meanwhile…
It was already fourth period and Herr Beck's class came in.
Elisabeth hadn't seen Kari or Kelly (or Krystal) at lunch that day. It wasn't like them to miss a school day, especially not like Kari. It was particularly coincidental, them all being gone on the same day. Unless perhaps they skipped school together. But neither Kari nor Kelly were likely to do that. So Elisabeth decided to ask Herr Beck.
"Herr Beck, were Kari or Kelly (or Krystal) here today?" she asked.
He looked up from his papers. "Celina and Adrianna (and Christel)? Yes, they were. I sent them to return a book to the library."
"And they still aren't back?" asked Elisabeth. Herr Beck nodded. "Then we must rescue them!"
"CLASS! FALL IN!" yelled Petra as she jumped to the front of the class. Sadly, only two others knew what to do.
Elsewhere…
The Fellowship was still on the campus lap. Bodo was struggling up the snowy hill when he lost his footing and dropped the book.
"If you're just going to drop it, I'll take it," Celina told Bodo as she took the German Textbook of EVIL.
"Give Frodo -I mean Bodo- the book," Eva told Celina and held her textbook menacingly like a sword.
"Why do you have your textbook with you?" asked Celina.
Eva glanced around nervously. "No reason…"
Bodo began to wake up from the book's trance. "Hey, what…?"
Eva stole the German Textbook of EVIL from Celina and threw it at Bodo. He immediately went quiet again and the Fellowship continued on over the hill.
The Fellowship sprinted down the hill and Eva lead the way…back to the side doors of the school.
It was then that Celina had a mental breakdown. "WHAT!?! We went all around the campus and even lost someone, and we could have just walked twenty yards! Why I should…!" Then she finally snapped. "OoOoOo…shiny…"
The Fellowship continued on through the halls past the buzzing of classrooms and past the band room, which was not so pleasantly filled with noise, but they continued on towards the library.
"If orcs are middle-schoolers, then what are Uruk-hai?" Adrianna asked.
"Uruk-hai is Japanese for 'demon,'" Christel randomly commented.
"SHUT UP!" yelled everyone, including the mentally unstable Celina.
Then it was quiet, too quiet. The band had stopped playing, the classes had fallen silent, but one voice could still be heard.
"There's a foul voice on the air," Eva said in a Legolas-sounding voice.
"Who's part are you playing?" asked Adrianna.
"Well, our Legolas is sorta brain-dead, so I'm covering," Eva explained and pointed at Celina.
"Wow! These lockers open if you slam them hard enough!" Celina said in an uncharacteristically high voice.
The foul voice continued on. But it was not the voice that was foul, so much as the language it spoke.
"Spanish students…" Eva said quietly and fearfully.
And with a mighty war cry the Spanish student charged the helpless Fellowship.
Petra only now began to realize what she was dealing with. Only two people were in -reasonable- places and the others were just…there… "Uh, fall out and fall in outside…" They just stared at her. "It means go outside."
The class stumble outside and just milled around.
Petra walked out of the German room shaking her head. She walked to the small lot behind the gym. "CLASS, FALL IN!"
Again, the two darted into place while the rest stood around staring at each other.
"Come here."
They came, but they still just stood around staring at each other.
Petra quickly set to the task of placing her German class into four so called 'squads.'
"Blah blah blablah, blah blah blah."
"You are at attention, you shouldn't be talking," Petra told them. "Okay then, right face!"
One fell over, and it was actually a very amusing domino effect. Petra quickly picked up and repositioned everybody, including the students that were remarkably stiff like boards, and just about as intelligent.
"For the time being just turn ninety degrees to the right." She let them try for a little while. "I said right!"
After everyone was finally facing the right way, Petra decided to try marching. "Forward march!"
Only disaster can occur when attempting to march a group with no experience, and this was no exception. Some people didn't move, tripping those behind them that did. For the ones that did move, they all stepped off at different times and with different feet.
Petra sat down on the ground, curled into a fetal position, and started shrieking like a ring wraith. Everyone just stared.
"You step off on your left foot right after I say 'march,'" Petra explained, after the shrieking had subsided. "So we'll try again. Forward march!"
This time they did better, they all stepped off…eventually.
"We'll keep practicing this until we get it right," Petra warned.
The Fellowship was surrounded. There was no escape and the Spanish students were closing in. Both sides pulled out textbooks and dictionaries of their language and prepared for the fight.
The Spanish students started with a volley of dictionaries. Sonja took a hard hit to the head and fell to the ground unconscious. Christoph and Evi fell in a similar manner.
The Spanish students closed in on Adrianna.
"Shhh! I'm trying to watch the paint dry!" she yelled at them. But they paid her no attention and continued to knock her unconscious with their foul books of Spanish.
They backed Christel into a corner, and with a swift blow to the head, she was out like a light.
Eva was a bit harder to defeat. She clashed textbook with textbook, until a sneaky student snuck up behind her and knocked her out.
Celina was by far the hardest, for insanity can be a great weapon. You see, no one wants to hit a crazy. And with Celina jumping around yelling random things, it was clear she was a crazy. Someone finally got over their hang-ups and gave a strong blow to Celina's head.
Bodo was the last of the Fellowship. Sadly, he fainted even before the Spanish students had laid a hand on him.
And so the Fellowship of the German Students was defeated.
"Wow, that wasn't even worth it," commented the apparent leader of the Spanish students.
"Yeah, pity," agreed another.
"Want to go get tacos?" the leader asked.
"Sure."
The Spanish students left to get tacos, and were never seen again.
After the Spanish students had left Bodo woke up, his sense to complete his quest was strong.
With his last ounce of strength he crawled to the library and dropped the German Textbook of EVIL into the book return. He laid down, and life left him.
Ten minuets later…
The 'cavalry' had arrived.
"It's so much better that we took all that time to learn to march than if we didn't," Petra said, proud of herself for teaching her class how to march. Then she saw the hallway. "Or not."
What she saw was the seven of the Fellowship sprawled unconscious, presumably dead, in the hallway.
"Company halt. Fall out, and… just fall out."
Petra herself went to examine the bodies. Elisabeth joined her. The first body they came to was Celina's.
Petra took Celina's wrist to feel for a pulse. "At least she's alive."
Celina jerked awake, scaring Petra back a couple feet. "I's gots a lovely bunch of coconuts…" As suddenly as she had awaken, Celina was unconscious again.
"Yep, she's fine," Elisabeth confirmed.
"You mean she's normally like this?" asked Petra.
Elisabeth just nodded.
Petra and Elisabeth continued to check the others of the Fellowship. They were all alive, if a little scrambled.
At the same time…
Günther walked out of the restroom.
"Heh heh heh, spending fifteen minuets in the bathroom was a great way to get out of class!" Günther said happily. But then he saw him. Bodo, laying in a heap in front of the library. Günther ran to his fallen friend. "Bodo? Bodo? NO!!!"
Remarkably, neither the broken Fellowship nor the 'cavalry' heard him.
Eva was waking up. Elisabeth held her lightly by the shoulders.
"The Fellowship… broken… Nine…but now… but now…broken…" Eva mumbled quietly.
Celina approached from behind. "There were nine of us, when we started. But we lost Volker, he was trampled by-"
"ORCS!" Eva interjected.
Celina glared, but continued on. "Volker was trampled by 'orcs', but Bodo…?"
A soft whimpering could be heard. Elisabeth dropped Eva and her head hit with a soft thump. Elisabeth, Petra, and Celina followed the sound to it's source.
What they found was Günther hunched over the lifeless body of Bodo.
"Why? Why did you have to go?" sobbed Günther .
Eva walked up behind the small group. "Wow, all we did was walk the campus lap."
"How could he die from that?" asked Celina.
"Maybe he was in really bad physical condition?" Petra suggested.
"But that is like…" Elisabeth started counting on her fingers. "About one and a third miles..?"
"But why did you have to stay up three nights in a row?!" Günther cried to his dead friend.
The gathering just stared.
And so ends the Fellowship of the German Students.