Chapter 4: As if
A/N: Firstly, I would like to make it clear to everyone that this occurred about a century after the Last Alliance. So, it is NOT a dark time. Much much longer chapter so I expect more reviews ok? Good. :)
Sarcastic Sadistic Sadie: Thanks for the review, I can see you live up to your name. The elleths were holding a bucket of cold water. So the water was cold. I am sorry if I made you think otherwise. And I will change the first chapter as soon as I can.. and continue flaming! (Ps. You totally sound like simon cowell in your bio esp.. Good job!) :)
Breck: Hey thanks for the vote of confidence.. haha at least I know that someone appreciates me.. hope you like this chap too..
Naomi Maxwell: er.. Gandalf IS a maia after all, but will explain more in this chappy.
The first part of this chapter will be from Laurelin's point of view:
As Laurelin walked away from Lord Elrond's room and began to make her way through Rivendell, she wondered about the four guests that had apparently mysteriously arrived in Rivendell. She had always been the thoughtful one amongst her friends, being quiet sensitive and always loved to fade into the shadows. However, she was not always like this. Her parents were originally from Lothlorien, who had longed for the peaceful excitement of Rivendell. Sure, life in Rivendell was exciting, with creatures of almost every species visiting from time to time, but after most of her friends and family left for the Havens, she felt alone.
Yet she was still thankful. She had two marvelous best friends, Anarrima and Serinde. Anarrima was stubborn and headstrong, having kept most of her feelings under a tight mask that no one other than her good friends were allowed to see after her parents had fallen in the Last Alliance. They were exceptional warriors, and Laurelin couldn't help but smile as she remembered the skill with which Anarrima wielded her weapons. She could use both swords and bows perfectly and there were few who could beat her in combat. Anarrima was a fearless beauty, and when she passed most elves would have a big problem deciding whether to cower at her presence or faint at her beauty.
Her other good friend Serinde, was also a wonder in her own right. She was extremely loyal to her friends, and Laurelin was sure that if there ever came a time where a new dark lord rose again, Serinde together with Anarrima would be one of the first on the battlefields; ready to protect their friends and family. Serinde, although not as good as Anarrima when it came to fighting, made up for that weakness with her wit and craftiness. When the two were faced with each other, it was definitely a draw. Other than being good at fighting, she was great at weaving. She could weave all the stories of the elves into fabrics with the ease of a professional, even though she was a mere thousand years old, a child in the eyes of the elves. She was obviously not from Rivendell, with her bright red hair and green eyes. Her parents were unknown but she often joked that she possibly was a child of the Valar, of maybe Elbereth herself. Laurelin grinned at the thought. That would not have been a surprise, for Serinde had the skills and brains to be one of the Valar themselves.
Laurelin was not as skilled in fighting as her two friends, and she tried hard to change that, training hard and long daily. Today was her only day off in weeks, and those irritating boys had to go and spoil it. She sighed heavily, thinking "Not like the training has changed anything though, don't know why I am even bothering about it." She shook her head, clearing her mind of those unpleasant thoughts as she turned the corner and neared Elladan and Elrohir's rooms. She heard loud strange noises coming from their rooms and sighed. This was going to be a really long day.
(A/N: I'm sorry that part was a bit boring, but it had to be done so that you guys would understand more about the girls. Ok, enough of the boring stuff, its back to the guys!)
The four marauders had finally reached their rooms and being tired and weary from their "long journey", they decided that it was safe to leave Sirius alone by himself in his room as the high sugar level in his blood had probably already went down. They then said their goodbyes and went off to have a nice long soak in the bath.
And guess what? They were wrong. As usual.
10 minutes later, they heard loud maniacal laughter and shouts coming from Sirius's room. Being the nosey, curious bunch that they were, they decided to go and investigate. The scene that met their eyes was definitely worthy of entering the America's Home Videos- if they could just find a video camera somewhere. Anyway, when they went in, Sirius was bouncing on top of a mattress, which was in a bath tub, which was overflowing with what seemed to be a mixture of large gigantic air bubbles and water. As the Marauders gaped open-mouthed at the sight before them, Sirius noticed their arrival and started talking.
"Look guys, see what I've found. Guess, guess, guess!!! Come on, don't tell me that you don't have one too? It can't be, they are so fun, to not have one is definitely insane!!!" Remus put his head in his hands and groaned loudly. Taking their silence as consent, he got even more excited, jumping harder up and down on the mattress. He must have put a spell on the mattress so that it didn't break 'cos at the rate he was jumping, the mattress should have been unfit for sleeping 9 minutes ago. "Look, look, look!!! Seeeeee..." He then pushed an elf who was probably in his teens in front of them. "I've got a personal servant!!! I can get him to do anything, you see, I can ask him to go get marshmallows and dump them into the bath and he can do it in 5 seconds. Elves can totally run fast, Hehehehehehe! You know, they might even be better than my house elves!"
Just as Sirius said this, a magical swirl of what seemed to be stars appeared in front of him and Minnie the house elf appeared right in front of the Marauders! "NO SIR!!! You cannot get rid of Minnie, Minnie will be good from now on, Minnie will stop stealing your food, Minnie will give you everything you want from the house, Minnie will do anything you want, Minnie will-"She was cut off as Sirius suddenly stopped jumping.
The room was silent for a moment and then a wicked smile spread over Sirius's face. "You'll give me everything I want from Hogwarts?" "Yes of course, sir!!!" Minnie screamed enthusiastically. James rolled his eyes. House elves.
"Ok then you must come every time I call your name ok?" "Of course!" Minnie smiled happily to herself and then disappeared in yet another swirl of stars.
"Huh???? What on earth had just happened???" that was definitely what everyone was thinking.
However, as usual, the silence was short-lived.
"Wahooo!" Sirius gave out a victory cheer and jumped even harder on the mattress, pulling all the guys along with him and failing drastically thus resulting in half of their bodies on the mattress going up and down, making a really funny sight.
The elf servant had originally been speechless after seeing the house elf but looking at the scenario in front of him, couldn't help but started to laugh.
"Now looking what you've done, Sirius! You've made the poor elf go insane!" James, Remus and Peter chorused together. Sirius just gave them a sweet, contented smile.
Hours later, and after a good rest, an elf knocked on all four of their doors. Or actually just three of their doors. Sirius's door had fallen off after he accidentally used himself as a human bowling ball and aimed in the wrong direction. That guy was definitely mental.
"The Lord Elrond requests your presence at the dining hall for dinner my lords. Please follow me." The marauders didn't really get a chance to refuse, not that they wanted to of course, they were starving but hellooo? They were guests not prisoners, or at least only Peter thought so. The rest of them were too busy making fun of how the picture of Isildur cutting off the ring looked like a game with model soldiers and this big ugly thingy that was attacking them. Soon, they reached the dining hall.
Upon reaching the dining hall, they were shown to a really long table with lots and lots of people sitting on it. They were shown to seats near the head of the table and James couldn't help but smirked, saying to Sirius: "Look at those little people near the bottom of the table there, isn't it so sad?" Sirius snorted loudly and couldn't help but agree, attracting attention from the other elves on the table. They were sitting opposite an old man with a big grey beard, grey hair, grey clothes, grey eyes and practically grey everything! "Man, his life must be boring!" Sirius thought to himself. Near them, the three girls that they had met earlier on in the day were also seated near them. "I was correct!" Remus smiled gleefully to himself, "They were somebody special, although I can't see why two of them are, they are as unreasonable as Death Eaters! The other one is ok though," he thought as he remembered Laurelin. "She was very kind to us even though we had never met before or were elves. She must definitely be a great friend."
Remus was awakened from his "La-la land" or dream-world as the rest of the marauders called it, when the Lord Elrond and who they assumed was his wife entered the dining hall. All the people immediately shushed as he and his wife sat down and gestured for them to sit too. Peter rolled his eyes: "This is sooo stupid. I thought when we left Hogwarts we would never have to do this anymore but I was so wrong."
The dinner began and both Sirius and James began wolfing down their food as if there was no tomorrow. Food went into their mouths quicker than you can say speedy Gonzales and by the time they were finished with their meals, the elves had only finished the first course. Lord Elrond arched an eyebrow at them and the old man smirked and laughed out loud.
The marauders stopped whatever they were doing and stared at the old man. "Yo Sirius, I think you have competition for the most insane guy here, 'cos that guy" James pointed to the old man, "Is plain insane: I mean, who on earth just laughs out loud for no good reason at all?" Sirius just grinned and sighed at the same time, saying "I know everyone loves insane people." With that, he got up and bowed, making everyone stare even harder at them.
Just then, a clear voice sounded and Sirius turned and saw the object of his erm.. should I say previous affection talking. "Who do you think you are?" and then stood up turning to James said: "Do you know who you are comparing this HUMAN too?" Seeing James bewildered expression, she sighed and explained, her eyes getting colder every minute. "The person whom you affectionately called "that guy" is not some plain old guy. He is Gandalf the grey, or Mithrandir, as called by the elves. He is a maia sent by the Valar themselves to help middle earth. You just insulted him more than you can imagine."
At this James just continued staring at the elleth, as though not understanding what she had just said and the elleth then got even more frustrated at James and was about to criticize him once more until Gandalf intervened. "Now, now, Anarrima, I know that you care for me and want to protect me, but this is not the way." Anarrima grudgingly sat down; and continued to glare at the boys.
Happy that this issue was settled, Gandalf then looked at the boys and said to them "Ah, you must be the four boys that I had noticed enter Rivendell. You must be confused are you not? Well, when you had entered Middle Earth, I had felt a disturbance as all of the wizards in this world are connected by one way or the other and upon the entry of another four wizards, all of us were definitely affected. The fact that the Lady Galadriel also saw you in her mirror also helped me confirm my suspicions." Serinde, finding something in Gandalf's speech a bit weird, decided to ask him, "Why do you call these boys' wizards my lord? Are they not just nothing but a human?"
Gandalf sighed, saying "Yes, they are wizards, and if they brought their wands I am sure that they can perform some magic for you to see, as can I."
Anarrima snorted loudly and definitely not appropriately questioning: "These boys can perform magic? Is this a joke Gandalf? This cannot be, they are just kids and are so young."
James stood up indignantly, saying "Excuse me, we are not young at all. In fact, we are already almost 17 if you must know, and nearing adulthood! However, I am very sure that we still can do things that you can't do."
Serinde then chuckled loudly: "I am sure you can" and smiled patronizingly at the boys.
Remus then, getting angry too at the various attacks on his and his friends characters said to Serinde: "Yes we are! Is that really so hard to believe?"
The three girls looked at each other and simultaneously, they chorused together: "Yes!" Even Laurelin who had been quiet all along agreed with the three and that made Remus extra angry- and sad although he did not know why. He couldn't believe that Laurelin too did not believe in them- ok, he was thinking more along the lines of him. He was about to begin to convince them otherwise but Lord Elrond stopped him.
"ENOUGH! The boys are wizards and whether you accept it or not, can be great helps to us and any other kingdom. If they can find their wands of course." Lord Elrond winked at the boys and continued "And I expect you to respect it" There was murmurs of yes all around the table and the Lord Elrond dismissed them.
As the four marauders walked back to their rooms, only one thought was in their heads: "They were sooo going to get their revenge".
A/N: I know, I know. I promised you guys pranks but the chapter was beginning to get too long so it'll be in the next chapter, I promise you it'll be good. So pls pls pls review kz.. flame me I don't care but please review ok? SMiLEZ:) Amirel
A/N: Firstly, I would like to make it clear to everyone that this occurred about a century after the Last Alliance. So, it is NOT a dark time. Much much longer chapter so I expect more reviews ok? Good. :)
Sarcastic Sadistic Sadie: Thanks for the review, I can see you live up to your name. The elleths were holding a bucket of cold water. So the water was cold. I am sorry if I made you think otherwise. And I will change the first chapter as soon as I can.. and continue flaming! (Ps. You totally sound like simon cowell in your bio esp.. Good job!) :)
Breck: Hey thanks for the vote of confidence.. haha at least I know that someone appreciates me.. hope you like this chap too..
Naomi Maxwell: er.. Gandalf IS a maia after all, but will explain more in this chappy.
The first part of this chapter will be from Laurelin's point of view:
As Laurelin walked away from Lord Elrond's room and began to make her way through Rivendell, she wondered about the four guests that had apparently mysteriously arrived in Rivendell. She had always been the thoughtful one amongst her friends, being quiet sensitive and always loved to fade into the shadows. However, she was not always like this. Her parents were originally from Lothlorien, who had longed for the peaceful excitement of Rivendell. Sure, life in Rivendell was exciting, with creatures of almost every species visiting from time to time, but after most of her friends and family left for the Havens, she felt alone.
Yet she was still thankful. She had two marvelous best friends, Anarrima and Serinde. Anarrima was stubborn and headstrong, having kept most of her feelings under a tight mask that no one other than her good friends were allowed to see after her parents had fallen in the Last Alliance. They were exceptional warriors, and Laurelin couldn't help but smile as she remembered the skill with which Anarrima wielded her weapons. She could use both swords and bows perfectly and there were few who could beat her in combat. Anarrima was a fearless beauty, and when she passed most elves would have a big problem deciding whether to cower at her presence or faint at her beauty.
Her other good friend Serinde, was also a wonder in her own right. She was extremely loyal to her friends, and Laurelin was sure that if there ever came a time where a new dark lord rose again, Serinde together with Anarrima would be one of the first on the battlefields; ready to protect their friends and family. Serinde, although not as good as Anarrima when it came to fighting, made up for that weakness with her wit and craftiness. When the two were faced with each other, it was definitely a draw. Other than being good at fighting, she was great at weaving. She could weave all the stories of the elves into fabrics with the ease of a professional, even though she was a mere thousand years old, a child in the eyes of the elves. She was obviously not from Rivendell, with her bright red hair and green eyes. Her parents were unknown but she often joked that she possibly was a child of the Valar, of maybe Elbereth herself. Laurelin grinned at the thought. That would not have been a surprise, for Serinde had the skills and brains to be one of the Valar themselves.
Laurelin was not as skilled in fighting as her two friends, and she tried hard to change that, training hard and long daily. Today was her only day off in weeks, and those irritating boys had to go and spoil it. She sighed heavily, thinking "Not like the training has changed anything though, don't know why I am even bothering about it." She shook her head, clearing her mind of those unpleasant thoughts as she turned the corner and neared Elladan and Elrohir's rooms. She heard loud strange noises coming from their rooms and sighed. This was going to be a really long day.
(A/N: I'm sorry that part was a bit boring, but it had to be done so that you guys would understand more about the girls. Ok, enough of the boring stuff, its back to the guys!)
The four marauders had finally reached their rooms and being tired and weary from their "long journey", they decided that it was safe to leave Sirius alone by himself in his room as the high sugar level in his blood had probably already went down. They then said their goodbyes and went off to have a nice long soak in the bath.
And guess what? They were wrong. As usual.
10 minutes later, they heard loud maniacal laughter and shouts coming from Sirius's room. Being the nosey, curious bunch that they were, they decided to go and investigate. The scene that met their eyes was definitely worthy of entering the America's Home Videos- if they could just find a video camera somewhere. Anyway, when they went in, Sirius was bouncing on top of a mattress, which was in a bath tub, which was overflowing with what seemed to be a mixture of large gigantic air bubbles and water. As the Marauders gaped open-mouthed at the sight before them, Sirius noticed their arrival and started talking.
"Look guys, see what I've found. Guess, guess, guess!!! Come on, don't tell me that you don't have one too? It can't be, they are so fun, to not have one is definitely insane!!!" Remus put his head in his hands and groaned loudly. Taking their silence as consent, he got even more excited, jumping harder up and down on the mattress. He must have put a spell on the mattress so that it didn't break 'cos at the rate he was jumping, the mattress should have been unfit for sleeping 9 minutes ago. "Look, look, look!!! Seeeeee..." He then pushed an elf who was probably in his teens in front of them. "I've got a personal servant!!! I can get him to do anything, you see, I can ask him to go get marshmallows and dump them into the bath and he can do it in 5 seconds. Elves can totally run fast, Hehehehehehe! You know, they might even be better than my house elves!"
Just as Sirius said this, a magical swirl of what seemed to be stars appeared in front of him and Minnie the house elf appeared right in front of the Marauders! "NO SIR!!! You cannot get rid of Minnie, Minnie will be good from now on, Minnie will stop stealing your food, Minnie will give you everything you want from the house, Minnie will do anything you want, Minnie will-"She was cut off as Sirius suddenly stopped jumping.
The room was silent for a moment and then a wicked smile spread over Sirius's face. "You'll give me everything I want from Hogwarts?" "Yes of course, sir!!!" Minnie screamed enthusiastically. James rolled his eyes. House elves.
"Ok then you must come every time I call your name ok?" "Of course!" Minnie smiled happily to herself and then disappeared in yet another swirl of stars.
"Huh???? What on earth had just happened???" that was definitely what everyone was thinking.
However, as usual, the silence was short-lived.
"Wahooo!" Sirius gave out a victory cheer and jumped even harder on the mattress, pulling all the guys along with him and failing drastically thus resulting in half of their bodies on the mattress going up and down, making a really funny sight.
The elf servant had originally been speechless after seeing the house elf but looking at the scenario in front of him, couldn't help but started to laugh.
"Now looking what you've done, Sirius! You've made the poor elf go insane!" James, Remus and Peter chorused together. Sirius just gave them a sweet, contented smile.
Hours later, and after a good rest, an elf knocked on all four of their doors. Or actually just three of their doors. Sirius's door had fallen off after he accidentally used himself as a human bowling ball and aimed in the wrong direction. That guy was definitely mental.
"The Lord Elrond requests your presence at the dining hall for dinner my lords. Please follow me." The marauders didn't really get a chance to refuse, not that they wanted to of course, they were starving but hellooo? They were guests not prisoners, or at least only Peter thought so. The rest of them were too busy making fun of how the picture of Isildur cutting off the ring looked like a game with model soldiers and this big ugly thingy that was attacking them. Soon, they reached the dining hall.
Upon reaching the dining hall, they were shown to a really long table with lots and lots of people sitting on it. They were shown to seats near the head of the table and James couldn't help but smirked, saying to Sirius: "Look at those little people near the bottom of the table there, isn't it so sad?" Sirius snorted loudly and couldn't help but agree, attracting attention from the other elves on the table. They were sitting opposite an old man with a big grey beard, grey hair, grey clothes, grey eyes and practically grey everything! "Man, his life must be boring!" Sirius thought to himself. Near them, the three girls that they had met earlier on in the day were also seated near them. "I was correct!" Remus smiled gleefully to himself, "They were somebody special, although I can't see why two of them are, they are as unreasonable as Death Eaters! The other one is ok though," he thought as he remembered Laurelin. "She was very kind to us even though we had never met before or were elves. She must definitely be a great friend."
Remus was awakened from his "La-la land" or dream-world as the rest of the marauders called it, when the Lord Elrond and who they assumed was his wife entered the dining hall. All the people immediately shushed as he and his wife sat down and gestured for them to sit too. Peter rolled his eyes: "This is sooo stupid. I thought when we left Hogwarts we would never have to do this anymore but I was so wrong."
The dinner began and both Sirius and James began wolfing down their food as if there was no tomorrow. Food went into their mouths quicker than you can say speedy Gonzales and by the time they were finished with their meals, the elves had only finished the first course. Lord Elrond arched an eyebrow at them and the old man smirked and laughed out loud.
The marauders stopped whatever they were doing and stared at the old man. "Yo Sirius, I think you have competition for the most insane guy here, 'cos that guy" James pointed to the old man, "Is plain insane: I mean, who on earth just laughs out loud for no good reason at all?" Sirius just grinned and sighed at the same time, saying "I know everyone loves insane people." With that, he got up and bowed, making everyone stare even harder at them.
Just then, a clear voice sounded and Sirius turned and saw the object of his erm.. should I say previous affection talking. "Who do you think you are?" and then stood up turning to James said: "Do you know who you are comparing this HUMAN too?" Seeing James bewildered expression, she sighed and explained, her eyes getting colder every minute. "The person whom you affectionately called "that guy" is not some plain old guy. He is Gandalf the grey, or Mithrandir, as called by the elves. He is a maia sent by the Valar themselves to help middle earth. You just insulted him more than you can imagine."
At this James just continued staring at the elleth, as though not understanding what she had just said and the elleth then got even more frustrated at James and was about to criticize him once more until Gandalf intervened. "Now, now, Anarrima, I know that you care for me and want to protect me, but this is not the way." Anarrima grudgingly sat down; and continued to glare at the boys.
Happy that this issue was settled, Gandalf then looked at the boys and said to them "Ah, you must be the four boys that I had noticed enter Rivendell. You must be confused are you not? Well, when you had entered Middle Earth, I had felt a disturbance as all of the wizards in this world are connected by one way or the other and upon the entry of another four wizards, all of us were definitely affected. The fact that the Lady Galadriel also saw you in her mirror also helped me confirm my suspicions." Serinde, finding something in Gandalf's speech a bit weird, decided to ask him, "Why do you call these boys' wizards my lord? Are they not just nothing but a human?"
Gandalf sighed, saying "Yes, they are wizards, and if they brought their wands I am sure that they can perform some magic for you to see, as can I."
Anarrima snorted loudly and definitely not appropriately questioning: "These boys can perform magic? Is this a joke Gandalf? This cannot be, they are just kids and are so young."
James stood up indignantly, saying "Excuse me, we are not young at all. In fact, we are already almost 17 if you must know, and nearing adulthood! However, I am very sure that we still can do things that you can't do."
Serinde then chuckled loudly: "I am sure you can" and smiled patronizingly at the boys.
Remus then, getting angry too at the various attacks on his and his friends characters said to Serinde: "Yes we are! Is that really so hard to believe?"
The three girls looked at each other and simultaneously, they chorused together: "Yes!" Even Laurelin who had been quiet all along agreed with the three and that made Remus extra angry- and sad although he did not know why. He couldn't believe that Laurelin too did not believe in them- ok, he was thinking more along the lines of him. He was about to begin to convince them otherwise but Lord Elrond stopped him.
"ENOUGH! The boys are wizards and whether you accept it or not, can be great helps to us and any other kingdom. If they can find their wands of course." Lord Elrond winked at the boys and continued "And I expect you to respect it" There was murmurs of yes all around the table and the Lord Elrond dismissed them.
As the four marauders walked back to their rooms, only one thought was in their heads: "They were sooo going to get their revenge".
A/N: I know, I know. I promised you guys pranks but the chapter was beginning to get too long so it'll be in the next chapter, I promise you it'll be good. So pls pls pls review kz.. flame me I don't care but please review ok? SMiLEZ:) Amirel