The third part and the end of this year of the fellowship. But who knows about second year…? Anyway, a Steno assignment is a short writing assignment with certain guidelines. Perfectionists (such as Petra) often have Herr Beck check for mistakes before the due date. Yeah...felt I should explain that…

Disclaimer: I don't own anything!!! When will you people learn?!?! (goes off to cry in a corner)

The Two Books

By Kari "Celina"

It was another gloomy Thursday morning. But unlike past gloomy Thursday mornings, the German Textbook of EVIL had been destroyed, not that anyone cared.

Petra needed some help with her steno, and unfortunately for her, Matthias couldn't remember enough to help. So into the German room they went, followed by Kris because, well, he had nothing better to do.

Kris was quite startled to find Celina, face down on her desk, in the German room. "Wow! You're back!"

Celina jerked awake and looked at her hands in disbelief. "Why so I am!"

"She was gone?" questioned Petra and Matthias.

"Yes! She found a ring and disappeared right after the book was destroyed!" Kris insisted.

"Sure she did…"

Celina sat quietly in her desk, stroking the small gold ring. "My precious…my only…"

"See? There's the ring right now!" Kris pointed at Celina.

"Sure…"

"Dammit check!" Matthias punched Kris hard in the chest.

"What?!? I don't even have my uniform!" Kris complained.

"Sooo…?" Matthias inquired. He had only punched him for the fun of it.

Kris didn't have an answer. So they all just stood around waiting for Herr Beck to return, except for Celina, who continued to pet her ring and talk to it quietly.

Herr Beck soon returned. Petra was just about to ask him about her steno, when an evil Spanish student, Celina identified as Hugo, entered the room.

Celina was glaring daggers at him. He glared daggers back.

As Hugo approached Herr Beck, Celina was past glaring daggers and was now glaring swords into the back of his skull. Hugo ignored her and handed Herr Beck a note.

Hugo turned his back and started to leave.

Celina stopped glaring and slipped the ring she had been talking to onto her finger. She disappeared instantly with a slight whooshing sound.

Kris whispered to Matthias and Petra, "I told you so."

The invisible Celina grabbed Hugo by the back of his shirt and dragged him outside. Many loud, girlish screams could be heard from inside the classroom. Of course, none were Celina's.

The door opened and closed as if on its own, and Celina appeared back in her desk. The three stared and Celina fell back asleep on her desk.

Celina did not sleep long, fore she was awoken by Herr Beck reading the note. "Herr Beck,

I heard that your book also got destroyed. Who's laughing now?!?! I am!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA ::cough::choke:: Man, I've really got to stop doing that.. Anyway, haha, your book is gone!

- Senior Oman"

"'Also?' There was another book?" asked Celina.

"Yes…there was…" Herr Beck answered in that way of his that suggests he's hiding a lot of the picture.

"Wait, if there was another book, was there also another Fellowship? Another Celina?" asked Kris, somewhat fearfully.

"Another Celina, eh? Two of them, that could work out well…heh heh heh…" Matthias thought he thought. But everyone was staring at him.

"Um, Matthias? You said that out loud…" Petra told him, curious, but somewhat frightened by what he was thinking two Celina's would be good for.

"What?!? No, they must never know my thoughts! But come on, two Celinas…"

"You're still speaking."

Matthias squeaked and stayed quiet, for a little while.

Then it suddenly hit Petra. "Two Celinas…"

Everyone stared at her in horror, especially Celina and Matthias (he knew what HE was thinking of).

"What? Kristin sold her to me. She's my slave for half the week!" Petra tried to defend herself.

"But what does your slave do…?" Matthias inquired. He was quickly slapped by Petra and Celina. "Fine…pick on the Second Year…"

"Maybe I should tell you how the Books were formed," started Herr Beck. "It all started when-"

But he was cut off as Christel entered the room. "Sorry I'm late everyone, but my brother was being slow. What's going on?"

"Herr Beck was going to tell us about the two books," Petra replied politely.

"Two books? Were there two Fellowships and gasp two Celinas?" Celina glared, Matthias grinned, and Christel just stood there in terror. "Two Celinas…"

Celina glared, Matthias grinned, and Christel just stood there in terror.

"Yes, we've already gone through this, now get on with the story!" Petra commanded. Everyone just stared.

Finally Herr Beck continued, or rather started, the story of the Two Books. "Many years ago there was a publishing company that-"

"How many years ago?" asked Christel.

"Seven."

"That's not that many."

"A few years ago there was a publishing company that-"

"Seven really isn't that few either," Celina mentioned, "more than half of my life really."

Kris clamped his hand over Celina's mouth before she could say anymore. He wanted to hear the story, with as few interruptions as possible.

Celina bit his hand and again told him more than she should have. "If you really want to shut me up, you'll have to bind my hands and feet, gag me, and throw me in a corner! Oops…"

Though Kris was no longer possessed by the German Textbook of EVIL, he did as she said, and that is where Celina remained…for a while…

"If I may continue…" Herr Beck tried. Seeing as how he wasn't interrupted in four words, he continued his story. "There was a publishing company that made ten textbooks for what they thought was the betterment of education. Seven were for the English classes, fore they were the most plentiful. Two were of Spanish, for at least there were more than one class. And one, only one, was in the marvelous language of German."

Adrianna took this precise moment to burst through the door. She looked around the room, at the odd people gathered around Herr Beck, and at Celina, tied and gagged in a corner. "A perfect opportunity…for a makeover…" She reached into her backpack and pulled out GASP! mascara and eyeliner!

Celina squeaked and struggled, but Kris had tied her bonds too tight, and she could not escape.

Matthias, being oddly kind to Celina, freed her before Adrianna could do anything.

"Ruin all my fun…" Adrianna muttered. She sat down at her desk disheartened by her failure to apply makeup to Celina.

"One night-" Herr Beck started.

But he was interrupted by Eva, just arriving. She saw the gold ring that Celina was stroking, she looked down at her own. "PRECIOUS!!!!" she shouted, and with a flying leap, she landed on Celina, and attempted to pry the ring from her hands. "Give…me…my PRECIOUS!!!!!"

"NO!!!!" Celina slipped the ring on and disappeared again, not that it did much good considering Eva was already latched to her.

Eva continued to wrestle with the Celina, but was getting no where. She decided to take a trick from Gullom and bit Celina.

"OW!!!! That was my finger!!!" Celina removed the ring to nurse her barely-bleeding finger. "Herr Beck, can I have a Band-Aid?"

"Auf deutsch."

Celina took out her dictionary with her uninjured hand and started flipping through the pages to find the word for bandage. Eva stared at her ring the whole time. "Heftpflaster?" Matthias nodded, Celina continued. "Kann ich ein Heftpflaster haben?"

"Kannst du?"

Celina hit her head on her desk. She knew what was wrong. "Darf (may) ich ein Heftpflaster haben?"

"Ja." Herr Beck grumbled as he stood up, went to his desk and got Celina a bandage.

After applying the bandage, Celina found that the ring would no longer fit. Eva hovered over Celina like a vulture, thinking she could now get it. But Celina pulled out a thick silver chain and placed the ring on it. Eva had no form of luck.

"So, one night the publishers caught on fire. All the English books were set ablaze, as should have been the Spanish books. But one escaped." Herr Beck tried to continue the story.

But again he was interrupted, this time by Elisabeth. She saw the ring on Celina's necklace. She looked down at her own, then at Eva's. She pounced on Celina. Eva joined in, desperate to get the true Ring. Christel and Adrianna joined the fray, as they had missed the first War of the Ring, in January, at three o'clock in the morning…

Herr Beck tried to continue his story, but no one was listening. They were all too busy taking bets on the fight.

"Come on Celina!" Matthias shouted.

The door opened, and in came Chelsea. She saw the fight. "Oh, can I join?"

Everything just stopped. Celina stopped in mid-scratch, Matthias stopped in mid-shout, and Herr Beck stopped in mid-going-through-junk-on-his-stand. Everyone just returned to sitting in a half circle around Herr Beck's stool. Chelsea stood in the doorway puzzled, until she finally joined the semi-circle and Herr Beck continued the story of the Two Books.

"So, one night all the English books were set on fire, as were the Spanish books supposed to be, but one Spanish book escaped-"

"What about the German book?" Celina asked.

"Yes, the German book mysteriously vanished…and mysteriously appeared in my closet…" Herr Beck looked around with shifty-eyes. "The point is the Spanish book appeared in Herr Oman's-"

"Don't you mean 'Senior'?" asked Chelsea.

"Herr Oman's room, on his desk none the less. At least I had the decency to hide it in my closet! But no, he has to leave it out for all the world to see! Ahem, anyway, many -bribed- Spanish students tried to -bring it to me-, but, alas, all became curious, and attempted to read it. There was much maniacal laughter, coughing, choking, and dieing."

"If you bribed them, why didn't you just go destroy it yourself?" asked Christel.

"Hah. Because he didn't know that I knew that he had taken it before the fire. I couldn't let him know I was interested in it, he would have found out that I knew that he didn't know that I knew he had taken it before the fire!"

Everyone just sat in silence to try to figure out what he had just said. No one could.

When it was clear that no one would ever figure out what had just been said, Chelsea asked a new question. "How could anyone die from laughing evilly?"

"Much like this," Celina volunteered. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ::cough::choke::not die::" In her state of half-death, only one thing could awaken the sleeping Celina; true love's first kiss, or Matthias' CPR.

Evi came into the room just in time to see Matthias giving Celina the kiss of life. Not knowing it was just CPR, Evi believed that she had to protect her friend. She had to resort to the flying karate-kick-dancing that she had hated so much, and landed three feet from her target. "Ow…"

Everyone gathered around Herr Beck's stool. And sat there. And waited. And waited.

"That was the end," he told them, and continued on going through random piles of papers on his stand.

Everyone continued to sit, and wait.

"That was the end?" asked Adrianna.

"Ja."

"Oh."

"So there wasn't a second Fellowship?" asked Kris.

"Nein."

"Or two Celinas?" asked Petra hopefully.

"Nope."

Everyone just sat and digested this information for a little bit.

Then it suddenly occurred to Matthias. "What happened to the Spanish book?"

"It got run over multiple times by a semi-truck," Herr Beck answered nonchalantly.

Everyone turned to stare at Celina. She just grinned, and waved.

"If this were truly like Lord of the Rings, then wouldn't we have had to unbind the books where they came from?" Eva pointed out.

"Silly, books are so easy to unbind!" Celina laughed. She pulled a copy of the book 'Eva' from her backpack and sliced off the spine with a sharp knife. She then put it back in her backpack and left it open. Out fell many copies of 'Eva.' Some had many nails driven through them, others were reduced to small bags of ashes, and yet others were completely water damaged.

The bell rang and everyone headed off to their first period classes, except those who had German first.

Just as she was walking out the door Petra remembered. "My steno!"