Hey! If u guys havent noticed, I recently changed the summary.. haha.. thought this new one would be more suitable.. anyway.. heres the new chap! Read and enjoy!

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Last seen about Laurelin from the previous chapter:

Her thoughts were suddenly disrupted as she heard someone approach behind her. She turned around, ready to give the person who had disturbed her a huge scolding. Well, that was before she got the shock of her life.

Laurelin's POV:

I gasped as I saw that person.. thing move closer to me. I didn't know what it was and I'm pretty sure I really didn't want to know. Maybe it was a new type of orc. Just mixed with dwarves this time instead of goblins if you know what I mean. Then, the mental picture of an orc with Gimli's head that popped up in my head was just so funny that I just had to laugh. So, that's exactly what I did. I was laughing my head off and that creature just looked at me amused, raising one eyebrow. I guess it must see stupid people like me just crack up at nothing pretty often. That's nice.

So anyway, the thing started talking to me and strangely enough, it could speak! Not that I was THAT surprised- I knew it could speak all along (Yeah, right). Then, it told me that its name was Minnie (It was a girl!) and it had come to help me. Of course, then I could not help but snort loudly. Yeah, I believe it, that small puny thing can help me when I'm sure that I can squash that thing easily.

Then, seeing my obviously sarcastic expression, it, I mean she, said: "I know that you do not believe me (that's the understatement of the century!), but I am a house elf from Earth. My-" I cut her off then, exclaiming "House Elf?!? What on earth do you mean? No wonder you are so short, you live in a short house that's why you call yourself an elf, or maybe in your world elves mean red rubber duckys or-" I went babbling and babbling on, making absolutely no sense at all and finally, she cut me off. Which when you come to think of it, is pretty unfair-I mean, after all I am the superior elf here. Anyway she then smiled at me patronizingly. Oh, I hate that type of smile, its all nice and good to do it to other people but to me? Nope, that is sooo wrong.

"If you would just stop talking for a few moments, I will tell you!" Oooh, someone's got a bad temper. But, as I didn't know her and what she could do, it was best to not make her angry. I mean, you can never know whether anyone has a black belt in karate. Its better to be safe. So, I kept quiet. "Good, you know, now I really don't wanna do this but a good friend of mine asked me of this favour and I am an elf of my word. Now, keep still, I am going to put you back together right." Then she enthusiastically waved her hands and before I had any chance to react, I felt myself, or should I say parts of myself, being moved. Then, after what was less than a blink of an eye, as I looked down on myself, I gave an uncharacteristic whoop and characteristically bounced up and down excitedly. I was normal again!!!

Then, I happily looked back at the house elf and I saw her slowly disappearing into thin air. Then, knowing I had not much time to ask her, I begged Minnie to tell me who had asked her to help me. Then, the word that she said slowly as she faded away shocked me even more than her appearance before. "Remus."

I was shocked, stunned and in a word, flabbergasted. Remus? As in the guy from Earth, part of the irritating group of boys that left me alone in the room not able to move? Elbereth, why would he do this for me? I mean, we hardly knew each other, and they always seem to dislike me, but that again, is the understatement of the age. Then, despite myself, I smiled. It was, after all, a very sweet and nice thing to do for a friend. Maybe even more. Then, I silently trudged back to my talen, thinking about today. Man was it confusing! When I got back to my talen, I quickly fell into a deep sleep, and all that haunted my dreams were a pair or warm brown eyes.

Unbeknownst to Laurelin, Remus had been watching the whole spectacle behind the trees in the dense forest. He was happy that Laurelin finally was happy and silently swore to himself that he would do all he could to protect Laurelin from the evil pranks of Sirius. What a joke. He knew he could not stop them without giving himself away and there was no way he would let the Marauders know about the fact that he really really liked Laurelin. They would only go and tell every single soul that cared to listen. Then, he suddenly heard a noise behind him and turned around, opening his mouth to chide Minnie.

The person behind him was not who he expected to see. Instead of just Minnie alone, he saw Gandalf, Mithrandir, whatever, clutching Minnie with one hand and had his staff in the other pointing it at Minnie.

Then, he said to Remus: "I belive this belongs to you."

Remus of course, didn't know what was going on at that time and so followed the first Marauder rule when being questioned. Lie. "What do you mean my lord? I have never seen that thing before in my entire life."

"Of course you have not," Gandalf answered quickly, his eyes bright and alert, "For apparently Minnie has been out doing your bidding has she not? Do not lie to me mortal, I can see things beyond your imagination"

Although Remus's first response to that in his mind was Pervert, he didn't think it would do him any good saying that out loud. Then, he sighed and resigned to fate said "Yes, of course I've seen Minnie before, although I have a good mind to throttle her alive for telling Laure-" he stopped halfway, blushing, did he really say that aloud? Oh no, that cant be good, gandalf's gonna kill me.

However, to his surprise, Gandalf burst out laughing. So, all Remus could do was just stare blankly at him, wondering what on earth was it that he said that was so funny. "Well, well, well, looks like someone's interested in my dear Laurelin. Although I have to commend you for making a good choice, she is by far one of the sweetest girls in this middle earth." It was then that Remus decided that the prints on the mud on the ground were very interesting. Which he was right, they were interesting! (although he had to admit that his previous motive was to hide from the embarrassment) The ground was full of tracks that were slightly larger than elves or humans (he used gandalf's and his feet to check) - which led to only one conclusion- something else was there.

Then, suddenly as the first orc arrow was released, Gandalf raised his staff and a umbrella like thing covered them and for some reason the arrows nor orcs who were starting to jump down from the trees and attack them could not penetrate. Gandalf chuckled "You are lucky that I just mastered this spell a few days ago, it would had been a lot useful if I had mastered it earlier in the war of the ring, but my stupid brain just refused to function and I cant argue with nature, can I?"

Remus couldn't help but give a nervous laugh, hoping that the spell would last until they got help or at least until they were safe. Then, as they were running to where the guards were stationed, Remus couldn't help but remark: "Hmm... You know, I never really believed the story about staffs, thought they never worked and weren't real, looks like I was wrong." To that Gandalf gave an amused reply: "Well, then its lucky that you were wrong, for or not we would already become sitting ducks!" Then he laughed and continued "Let me show you something when we get back, bring your friends, I'm sure that they will find this interesting too." It was then that they finally reached the guards and after a few minutes, every single orc following them was dead. Remus stopped to take a breath, breathing deeply, exhausted from the run. Gandalf smirked at him "You mortals should really run more often." Then, he walked in the direction of his talen and called out to Remus, "Meet me at my talen in 10 minutes and I will show you it as I have promised." Then, he walked away, leaving Remus alone with Minnie.

Remus grinned evily, snickered and before Minnie could react, teleported her back to earth and face first into a barrel of chocolate fudge. Minnie hated chocolate fudge. As she quickly got herself out of the barrel, she muttered irritatedly: "The thanks I get..."
In 10 minutes, all four of the Marauders were right outside Gandalf's door, all eager to see what Gandalf had in store for them. Okay, maybe all except Peter.

"Why on earth did you have to drag me out of bed just to look at something?!? I need my beauty sleep you know!" Peter whined, unhappy about being there.

"Yeah right, which idiot sleeps at 8pm and wakes up at 11am everyday and still needs extra sleep? I swear Peter, you would have made a better pig than a human!" James said jokingly.

Then, Gandalf opened the door and ushered them into the house. "Remember how you were asking me about my staff Remus?" Remus nodded, remembering all too well the things that happened just 10 minutes ago. He wasn't an idiot suffering from short term memory loss you know. "Actually, you were right!" All four of them especially Remus now gaped open mouthed at him, not understanding what he just said. "You see," Gandalf then clicked open a latch at the side of his staff that Remus had never seen before and opened the two sides to reveal a- "A WAND?!?!?" All four of them exclaimed loudly in unison. Sirius was the first person to get a word out "Why on earth do you have a wand inside a staff which I am sure is really really really heavy when you can just have a wand by itself???? I mean- "

Gandalf then cut him off. "What is it with you teenagers and babbling? Don't you know that it really is redundant? Anyway, I ask you, who will be scared of somebody who just waves a stick at them when they can be utterly terrified of someone with this huge scary thing that looks like it can knock you unconscious for days?"

Together, all of them simultaneously said: "Oh..." Pretty much like robots actually.

"That's true, we should recommend our Aurors to do that, I'm sure Dumbledore will laugh his head off." James grinned.

To that however, Gandalf was speechless. "What are aurors?" Sirius, then all to happy to talk about their dream job, started talking. Which wasn't really a good thing but once Sirius started talking, you cant stop him. He is like... ... unstoppable. Haha. So, Gandalf spent the whole night learning from the Marauders about their world, although it was a pretty biased and warped viewpoint but still, Gandalf didn't mind and who were they to care?

It was only nearing daylight when suddenly all the Marauders realized that they had forgotten something very important- Serinde!
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