The second part of The Fellowship. This really has nothing to do with LotR, but whatever. Yeah, I had fun being an idiot.

Disclaimer: Don't own LotR and blah blah blah as normal. Oh…and this time I own Matthias…hehehe… (notices him standing behind me) EEP!!!!!

The Return of the Book

by Kari "Celina"

Kris needed a book. He needed a book right now. Which was why he was going to the library. Nothing could distract him from his mission, not even the odd sight of several of his friends staring at a dead body in the hallway. So he continued past them and into his domain, the library.

Outside the library…

Günter was still crying over his lost friend. Petra, Celina, Eva and Elisabeth were starting to think about leaving when it happened. Bodo woke up.

"Hey wait, Günter said he was dead," Petra pointed out.

"Did you check for vital signs?" asked Eva.

Günter shook his head.

"I was wondering why his chest was moving…" Celina mentioned.

Elisabeth turned on her. "You knew he wasn't dead? And you didn't tell us!"

"Oh, I thought he was dead, too. I just knew he was breathing," Celina said happily.

"Um, Celina, corpses don't breathe," Petra told her.

"Really?"

Everyone nodded.

"The things I learn," Celina mused.

Seeing as how no one died, everyone returned to their normal fourth period classes.

In the library…

Kris could not find a book.

Gah! Nothing good here. I've already read everything worth reading. But what's this?

He picked up the book 'Eva.' He was just about to get it when he remembered what happened to Celina.

She had read it, and had nightmares about it for weeks after. She would never be able to look at a monkey again.

He set 'Eva' down and was just about to leave when he spotted a book he had never seen before. It was a large, thick, hardbound book that had just recently been dropped in the book return.

Hmmm… There's nothing else here to read. Maybe I'll just take a look at it…

"Hey, can you hand me that book over there?" Kris asked, pointing at the return cart.

Mrs. Staley brought it to him.

He held it in his hands, feeling it, staring at it. It was obviously not new, the cover showed signs of damage. But it was the gold lettering that caught his eye, and wouldn't let go. So bright, and shiny, and entrancing… It read "Das deutsche Lehrbuch des Übels!" He had no clue what it meant, but the gold was so shiny!

Without realizing it, he was out the library and heading back to class, book under arm.

The next day…

Volker had returned to class and Rosewitta said Claudia would be fine in a few weeks, but she would have to miss first period often. But now it was time for lunch.

Celina was walking the halls mindlessly with her friends Adrianna, Christel, and Elisabeth. The chatter between the three friends was beginning to drive Celina over the edge, again. But then she saw hope within sight.

Matthias of the Second Year, Petra of the Riders of Fourth Period, and Kris were also walking around the halls mindlessly. Kris was still clutching the book under his arm.

Celina said goodbye to her friends and practically ran into the group. "Hiya!" she greeted them.

Celina noticed the book Kris was holding. "Oh! Can see that, please?"

Kris clutched the book tighter. "No."

Celina was practically in his face. "Oh, come on. Please? I promise I won't run over it with a semi truck this time!"

Kris took several steps back and clutched the book tighter than ever.

"Wait, you mean you've done that before?" asked Petra, mildly scared.

"There are some things this world is not meant to know," she replied suspiciously. She then glanced around the hall nervously, until her eyes fell upon the book 'Eva,' which she glared at for an uncomfortably long time.

"So, can I see it now?" Celina asked again.

"No!"

"Why not?" Petra asked.

"What do you know, saved by the bell," Kris tried to escape.

"What? The bell hasn't rung yet!" Matthias exclaimed.

As if on cue, the bell rang at that exact moment and the four of them headed off to their next class.

Celina walked quietly behind Kris, glaring a hole into the back of his neck the whole time until they got to the JROTC room. Kris noticed just in time to turn and be rammed head on by Celina. While Kris lost his balance Celina stole the book from his hands and ran off with it.

"Hey! Give me the book!" Kris yelled at the fleeing Celina.

"No!"

Kris's eyes turned completely purple. Matthias and Petra took a few steps back.

"I said, 'GIVE ME THE BOOK!'" Kris shouted in a creepily deep voice.

Suddenly a purple bolt of light came from the air surrounding Kris and struck Celina. She fell to the ground twitching. The book flew back to Kris's hand.

It was then that Matthias got a good look at the cover. "The German Textbook of Evil!"

"Maybe you should just give us the book…" Matthias suggested.

Kris turned around to glare at them. His eyes still glowed purple and the dark aura was returning as he floated several inches off the ground. Matthias and Petra stepped back.

"I'm okay!" shouted Celina as she slowly got to her feet.

Kris whirled around, shooting another blast of dark energy at her.

"I'm still okay!"

Another blast.

"I feel great! I'm on top of the world!"

Yet another searing discharge of dark power.

"A bit dizzy, but I'm still fine!"

"Why won't you just lay down and shut up?!?" Kris turned his attention back to Matthias and Petra. "Now that you have witnessed my powers, I cannot let you leave."

Celina was beginning to get annoyed at the fact that no one was paying attention to her again. She ran around to where Matthias and Petra were standing.

And they stood there. And stood there. And stood there some more.

"You're supposed to leave so I have an excuse to hurt you," Kris told them.

"We can't," Matthias told him.

"Why not?" Kris was getting impatient.

"Because it's our third period class," Petra explained.

Kris hit himself in the head. "Fine, then I'll have to get rid of you."

"Get rid of us as in kill us or get rid of us as in make us go somewhere else?" Celina asked.

"I just said you couldn't leave," Kris reminded her.

"Oh, oh, right… Now I remember."

Kris shook his head in frustration. "Can we just get on with this?"

Celina stepped back. "Yes, please do."

"WHY DID YOU SAY YES?!?" Petra and Matthias screamed at her.

Celina did not get a chance to answer, for Matthias and Petra were flung into the wall by Kris's dark powers. They hit the bricks with a sickening crack and fell to the ground.

"You are going to get SO many pushups for that…" Celina warned. But she too was thrown against the wall with a much softer thud. She was quickly back on her feet.

"Hey, wait. How come you can still move?" Kris asked incredulously.

"Because I hit the wall with much less force. Sorta odd really. Dark stuff doesn't affect me. In fact, the only way to get rid of me would to do so physically, like strangling or something. Oops, I probably shouldn't have said that, should I?"

Foolish little Celina could see a spark in Kris's eyes.

"Ha ha ha ha, funny joke, huh? Yeah, I was just kidding about all that. Keep using the dark stuff, really effective you know. Ha ha ha."

Petra and Matthias had regained consciousness by this time.

"How much do you want to bet she'll say something stupid to get herself in even more trouble?" Matthias asked quietly.

"I'll go with a buck," Petra whispered back.

Kris was at the moment trying to strangle Celina with a wave of dark energy. And Celina was laughing at him.

"Ha ha ha! You can't strangle me with darkness! All you're really doing is holding me up by my throat, not that that isn't uncomfortable. But to really strangle me you'd have to use your hands! DANG IT!!!"

Kris proceeded to do so. Now using both of his hands, he let the book float innocently by his side.

"Pay up," Matthias urged.

"Shouldn't we be helping her?" Petra asked worriedly.

Luckily for Celina, Chelsea just happened to be walking by. She had been burning stray threads off her new uniform.

"Heh heh heh… Now my uniform will be the most stray-thread-free uniform in the WORLD!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Chelsea cleared her throat. "Anyway, I better return this lighter to SgM. Byers. But just one more flame…" She clicked the lighter, but no flame would come. "Gah! It's busted! Perhaps if I just slightly readjust this…"

This time it resulted in giant ten foot flames shooting strait out of the lighter. And directly at the book. Which caught on fire.

"MUWAHAHAHAHA!!!" Chelsea laughed manically for some time. Finally she just shrugged her shoulders and went back inside.

As the book burned, Kris fell to the ground shrieking, also dropping Celina.

"Ow…my head…" Celina moaned.

Petra and Matthias ran over to Kris. "Kris, are you alright?"

Celina recovered soon enough, no thanks to Petra or Matthias. "I told you! I told you we should burn it! But did you listen!?! NO!!! Nobody listens to Celina!!!" She looked up to see that no one was listening to her. "GAH!!! No one EVER listens to Celina!!!" She ran off into a corner and started crying. Though after a while, "OoOoOo…shiny…"

The bell rang and Kris woke up.

"Wow, that was an entire period?" Petra couldn't believe it.

Kris got up and walked toward Celina. "Time to go to class," he informed her.

"My only… My precious…" Celina was stroking a small gold object in her hands.

Kris only recognized it to be a ring moments before Celina slipped it on her finger and disappeared. The only thing to be seen were the numerous people flying out of the way of an invisible Celina.