Chapter 3: Where "not" on earth am I?

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The last thing the marauders, or what was left conscious of them anyway, knew, they were surrounded by a bright light which enveloped them, due to a spell gone wrong all thanks to Snivellus.

However, they were about to have a rude awakening as they suddenly felt suffocated and struggled to er.. I don't think they even knew what they were trying to do at that point of time. Anyway, when they finally got rid of that irritating feeling that occurs everytime you hold on to your breath for too long a time underwater, which is also known as drowning, they or at least Sirius, James and Remus, opened their eyes and found that they were in the middle of a hot spring in what was obviously not Hogwarts or Earth as there were many trees surrounding them, large and tall trees that probably had disappeared off the face of the earth millions of years ago.

Peter on the other hand, was still struggling at the bottom of the spring, and probably had not realized that he was under water and was probably going to die from lack of oxygen.

The three boys sighed and yanked Peter up to the surface of the spring. Sometimes they wondered why on earth Peter was with them in the first place. He wasn't exactly wonderful at quidditch like James, or the worlds biggest playboy like Sirius or even a werewolf like Remus...oops.. as smart as Remus. In fact, he wasn't even special at all. While they were pondering this matter over quietly, for once, they didn't notice the girls sneaking up behind them with a huge pail of icy cold water. Man, were they going to get a rude awakening.

"Splash!" Suddenly, the Marauders had found themselves even wetter than they already were and freezing cold courtesy of the girls/elleths. They had wanted to use the hot springs for a nice bath and seeing that the occupants weren't even elves, they didn't see why they had to be deprived of the privilege.

The boys looked up and glared at the girls, different emotions running through their heads all at once. Anger, Fury, Vengeful and then for Sirius at least; Interest. For all of the elleths there were definitely much prettier than the human girls back home at Hogwarts and Sirius perked up. Turning on all his charm at what he supposed was the leader and the prettiest of the group, he flashed them a mega-watt smile that had probably used up all if not most of the batteries needed to keep the entire world alight at night.

However, the current object of his affection was not as pleased as him. Or as dazzled. Her hair was dark brown with a little lighter brown here and there, depending on the way light reflected off her hair, as was most of her kin from rivendell. Her fair skin contrasted with her hair perfectly, making her look perfect, like a china doll almost. She pursed her lips and narrowed her smoky gray eyes, saying in an icy cold voice: "I don't know how you guys ever got past the border guards and I don't care. Just get out of the hot spring and out of my sight. At once."

All the marauders winced. Sirius looked dismayed, his charm had never failed before and he wasn't prepared for it to fail now, in front of so lovely a lady. He had a reputation to uphold you know. He tried again, this time REALLY putting in a lot of effort in trying to please the lady. "But milady, we have no idea where we are and how we got here. I am terribly sorry we disrupted your outing. Has anyone ever told you that you are the most beautiful maiden I have ever seen?" Now he was really turning on the charm. He was really sure of himself this time but the next words the maidens spoke totally wiped that impression out of his mind.

"You are nothing but a mere human, and an ignorant one. Of course you have never encountered anyone fairer than milady here, she is one of the fairest elleths in rivendell, other than the Evenstar of course." The elleth next to the leader said proudly, her green eyes shining brightly. She had bright red hair and was almost as pretty as her good friend. In fact, James almost fainted at the sight of her. She was a dead ringer for Lily and James couldn't help but be shocked. After all, she was an elf and he was sure that Lily did not have an elvish sister. He should know, he had stalked lily since first year.

The rest of the marauders could hardly contain their amusement. The Great Sirius Black had finally met his match and James who had always been the strong one, was about to faint because of some girl! Remus, ever the peacemaker, decided it was time to intervene before they had to physically tie Sirius to a tree to ensure that he didn't do something stupid or drag James to the hospital, if there even was one here. He respectfully said to the elleths, as they were obviously not very happy with them: "I apologise for my friends' behaviour my ladies, they are obviously not in their right mind." Sirius and James at this glared furiously at Remus, who just continued talking. "Would you ladies please be kind enough to lead us to someone who might know how we arrived here?"

Just as the lead elleth looked as if she was about to retort angrily, another elleth stepped forward. She softly told her friend to relax, in a voice so low, that only elvish hearing would be able to hear. Then, she said: "Sure my lord, I shall lead you to Lord Elrond. He is master of Rivendell and one of the wisest still left on this middle earth. I am sure he would be able to find out how you arrived here. Please follow me." Her striking bright blue eyes met Remus's warm hazel ones and for a moment, neither moved, bewitched by the other.

After a few moments, the other Marauders got impatient and roughly jabbed Remus in the stomach. Both of them jumped, Remus more than the elleth of course, as the elleth was well- an elf, and blushed. The elleth then proceeded to guide them through the forest of Rivendell and finally to Lord Elrond's office. However, their strange behavior did not go unnoticed by their friends and soon, Sirius whispered to James- "Moony likes the girl.. Moony likes the girl!" James grinned widely and then replied proudly: "Of course! He's a marauder! Nice to know not all of us have not lost our touch"

Upon hearing that, Sirius could not take it anymore and shouted loudly for anyone within hearing distance to hear, which meant almost all of rivendell, "For the last time, I haven't lost my touch! I am just warming up.. You wait and see! Hmmph!" With that, he pouted, making all the elves around them laugh at his childish acts.

After what the Marauders thought took forever, they finally stopped outside Lord Elrond's office and the elleth right in front knocked. They heard someone say "Come in" and they did.

Once in the room, the Marauders marveled at how beautifully the room was decorated, in fact, it overlooked probably every single species of plant life. In fact, all of them all had the same thoughts when they saw the room: "Man, this guy is rich!"

A guy, no elf, who the marauders presumed was Lord Elrond stood up and greeted the elleth. "Laurelin! What brings you to see me this beautiful morning? Your parents are fine I suppose?"

Laurelin blushed and replied respectfully: "Of course my lord, my friends and I had found these men in one of our hot springs. They claimed to not know where they were or how they got here. And you know how Anarrima, Serinde and the rest are like, they absolutely detest humans and it was up to me to bring them to you."

"Then I must thank you, Laurelin, for you have done me a great favor. I was about to go look for them personally myself. Mithrandir felt their presence and bid me to find them lest they got hurt, or did something irrevocable if you get what I mean." Lord Elrond smiled kindly at her and smirked at the guys who just smiled innocently back.

"You are welcome my lord. Is Mithrandir here already? I thought he was due to arrive in 2 days."

"Well, he has some important things to do here that required him to rush here at once. Now go find Elladan, Elrohir and Arwen and bring them to see him, I am sure that they have not yet heard the news"

"As you wish. Namaarie heruamin. Goodbye my lord" With that, Laurelin curtseyed and walked out of the room.

Then, Elrond turned and looked at the Marauders. "I have heard of your story from Mithrandir. Do you know how foolish it was of you to attempt to send someone through universes? You may never be able to find a way back to your world."

The marauders were silent for a while, and although Sirius had a great urge to retort back to Lord Elrond that that was precisely why they had decided to do it, James stopped him and explained: "I am sorry my lord, but a certain guy had angered us greatly and we could not resist ridding him from our lives forever." Wow, thought James, I didn't know I could speak so well.

Elrond sighed, and said "Well, I guess what is done is done. Now we must see if we can send you home again. Until we can find a way, you may stay in rivendell and try and make yourself useful." He then paused, as if remembering something. "Oh and did you bring your wands over?"

Peter started talking first: "Well my lord, actually we –" and got cut off by Sirius. "We did not manage to bring them over." Sirius then shot Peter a look which obviously meant "Shut-the-crap-up".

Lord Elrond arched an eyebrow, but said nothing. He knew from experience that they obviously had brought their wands, but didn't want to tell him. After so many years with the horrible twins, he had learnt how to be wary about others around him and was not so easily fooled. He would have to keep an eye out for those four. "Very well then, a maid shall show you gentlemen to your rooms. I hope you enjoy your stay in Rivendell." As an afterthought, he also added: "and stay out of trouble."

They gave him the most angelic and innocent looks they could muster and after a very feeble- and clumsy- attempt to bow, followed the maid to their rooms.

As the marauders walked along the elvish corridors to their rooms, they couldn't help but grin and gave each other high-fives. This was sooo going to be an interesting place.

Elleth: Female Elf

Laurelin: Elvish for Song of Gold

Mithrandir: Elvish name for Gandalf the Grey

Next Chapter: Meeting Gandalf, explanations and pranks!!!!

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