A/N The 8th chapter…finally. Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 8: The Land of Shadow
"Finally! Action!" Saphira said excitedly as she looked out the window to see the Fellowship attacking with water balloons and what looked to be a tall, red-headed girl.
A couple of Best Buy workers then pressed their faces to the window and started pointing and laughing at Rick.
Through the window, the co-workers could just barely hear Rick as he started yelling and cussing. They did eventually open the door and free Rick and Saphira.
"What the hell is going on?" Rick asked as he watched Sam run around the parking lot and knocking everything and everyone over while Pippin and Merry struggled with full water balloons.
"We're attacking the fangirls, what does it look like?"
The Fellowship was shouting commands to each other as they maneuvered through the parking lot, getting all the fangirls with water balloons and stealing junk.
"It looks like you've all gone crazy."
"Can I join in?" Saphira asked.
"If you wait a moment; we're almost out of water balloons and we'll be going back to Headquarters soon," Eowyn said as Sam noticeably started winding down. Half the group then started heading back as the other half helped Merry and Pippin get rid of the remaining water balloons and try to catch Sam. Five minutes later, everyone was back at Headquarters celebrating victory.
"We won! We won!" Faramir chanted as she punched the air.
"We haven't won yet," said Frodo. "There's still a couple of things that we have to do."
"And one of them involves leaving temporally," Galadriel said as she started heading out with the rest of the Original Fellowship.
"Don't worry!" Gandalf called. "We'll be back!"
"Faramir's in charge while we're gone," Pippin said, "see ya!" And with that, all eleven of them were gone.
Neo grinned. "Finally! Now, I have some ideas, see-"
"Neo, shut up," Faramir interrupted.
"What are we going to do?" asked Amy from Zainy Brainy.
"We can't do anything until they get back," said Cho. "We have no idea what they're planning."
Rick only half listened as everyone kept arguing. He was looking around to see where Saphira had gotten to. "Saphira?" he half whispered.
"What?"
Rick turned around and saw a girl who sort of looked like Saphira, only there were slight differences like the height and the hair.
"No, no. I said Saphira. Do you know where she is?"
The girl was steadily getting frustrated. "Yes! Right here!"
"Then who's the other girl?"
"What other girl? I'm the only Saphira here!"
It was then that it finally hit him. "Have you seen your sister lately?"
Saphira, the real (okay, not the real, real one, but you know what I mean) Saphira, looked at Rick rather oddly. "Not since I joined with Neo. She said she wanted to join the fangirls, but I doubt she ever did. How did you know I had a sister?"
Rick looked around again. This wasn't good…
"Who the hell are you and what do you think you're doing?" came Wormtail's voice from behind. Everyone turned around to see a girl standing there, obviously trying to sneak out with the wagon that had all the stuff in it.
"I am Marcella Angalene Xaviar!" she declared proudly. Saphira groaned.
"Stupid fangirls," muttered Glorfindel. Wormtail took the wagon from Marcella and rolled her eyes.
Marcella stood there for a second, looking as if she was about to run, but before she did, Marcella turned around and called, "Don't worry Rick! I'll be back for you!" And then she left.
Rick looked horrified while everyone else burst out laughing thinking it was the most hilarious thing they'd ever heard.
"Rick has a fangirl!" all the Best Buy workers chanted in between laughter.
After the first shock, and then the uncontrollably laughter, Rick was officially humiliated. "That's it!" he said, "I'm going back to work!" And with that, he started to walk away (the other way this time).
"Aw!" said David from Best Buy. "but your fangirl must return for you!" Rick made some very rude gestures behind his back as he walked away while the rest of Headquarters started laughing uncontrollably again.
"Alright, alright," Faramir finally said, wiping tears of laughter from her eyes. "Come on everyone, let's get back to work."
"And try and think of what this crazy plan of the Fellowships' is," muttered Neo.
And so, Headquarters set to work. On what, they weren't quite sure, but at least it was something.