By Merewen of Lorien
It was a cool Autumn afternoon leaves fell from the trees like yellow, red, and orange shower in the woods behind Granite street. Two young girls raced through the woods with smiles on thier faces.
Both had fairly long hair, the girl who was ahead in the race was the shorter of the two with shoulder blade length dark brown hair. She wore flared long demin jeans that covered most of her black vans shoes and a orange red and brown turtle-neck sweater. The other girl had elbow length chocolate brown hair and she wore a short sleeved shirt with the symbol for Khoonj on it a light jacket and denim jeans and a pair of black and white Vans.
They leaped over logs and carfully crossed over the Sapphire creek on the small wooden "bridge" they had made a week ago with spare wood they found lying in the leaves. Sunlight pierced through the gaps in the canopy of the forest. "Hurry! We're almost there!" Yelled the first girl who was called Maria. "Alright!" The second girl said heaving a sigh, she was called Jezabell. Maria and Jezabell pushed past the foliage revealing a clearing, with giant oaks surrounding it.
Maria looked pleased as she turned around to face Jezabell. "Welcome to the secret clearing of Stonewood Forest. I found this clearing yesterday after you were called home for supper." A smile spread across Jezabell's face she spoke in an excited manner "This is wonderful! Headquarters could be right here, there are no signs of the S.A.H anywhere either!".
"That's exactly what I thought when I came upon this place. I searched the trees for the S.A.H and found nothing. Oh, which reminds me the trees are great for climbing." Maria told Jezabell as she started to climb one of the giant Oaks.
"You know building here will take a lot of work and we don't have much time. Winter is coming..." Jezabell frowned as she spoke. "Yeah, but we have the time and my birthday was just a week ago! I have lots of money for the wood and stuff." Maria pointed out her temporary wealthyness. "Well, yes but we also have schoolwork an-" Maria sat down on a sturdy branch as she interupted Jezabell,
"Don't worry about it. Let's get the wood tomorrow before I waste all of my money. Oh, let's keep this place a secret, kay"
"I would have anyway." Jezabell nodded and smiled.
The next day both of the girls went to a local wardware store and bought wood, and nails. They grabbed two hammers, a saw two pairs of safety goggles, one of their favorite books and set off into Stonewood Forest to build in the clearing a proper hangout.
Jezabell carried all of the wood and any of the spare pieces they found along the way. Maria carried all the other supplies. As the reached the clearing they dumped all of the items in the corner and began building. They cleared leaves off the forest floor until they reached the soil in a spot 10x20ft. They began building and by dusk when the forest light was fading they had almost finished the wooden one room structure.
On their way out of the woods they carried everything back home except the wood. They read from the book The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. The girls got so caught up in reading aloud from the book they forgot they were going home and turned away from Sapphire creek instead of crossing it. They wandered farther and farther away from the trail that lead home.
As they finished reading one of the chapters Jezabell realized how dark it had gotten and spoken up. "Maria, it's gotten dark... We should have been out of the woods by now." Maria nodded "Oh no. Um, Jezabell... I think we're lost." Both girls looked around for something familiar, a tree, a sign, anything.
"No worries, we'll just keep going in one direction until we get out..." Maria said with worry clearly ringing in her voice. They agreed and started walking again. The woods grew darker and the girls felt as if they were growing menacing. "If only we were in Lorien, then we'd be found by the gaurds and we wouldn't be lost." Maria said longingly, "Yeah but then we'd have to put up with-" "BLEGH! Haldir!" They said in unison.
Behind then they heard a oh so cliche twig snap under someones foot. The girls spun around to find arrows pointed at thier necks. Dozens of elven gaurds had their bows ready to shoot at the girls. "What bussiness do you young elflings have here?" Said a familiar drawling voice. Every muscule in the girls bodies became tense. "HALDIR?!?!" Both exclaimed in a annoyed and surprised tone.
"What do you think he's doing in New Jersey?" Jezabell whispered to Maria. "We're supposed to be keeping him out of Jersey..." Maria whispered back. "Then we gotta get him out of here, so we can make the Founders proud!" Both nodded "Right!"
"In the name of the organization of Khoonj members 003 and 004 hereby order you to leave the state of New Jersey!" They said in unison holding out little Id cards. All the elves including Haldir were throughly confused. They whispered thing such as "What's New Jersey?" and "Khoonj? What on Middle Earth is that?" and of course the ever so popular " Hey Bobina, what's with those kids?".
Haldir shook his head and yelled to all the gaurds, "Let Lady Galadriel deal with them! They are clearly foriegners..." Four elves put away their bows and arrows and seized the girls carrying them off further into the woods. "Stop! Put us down! HELP!" They cried as the guards carried them into Lorien.
They climbed up endless stairs and finally at the top of an enormous tree on a moonlight lit floor the gaurds threw the girls the the ground. They stood up, and looked upon two elven beings. "Lady Galadriel and Lord Celeborn..." The two sputtered in utter amazment.
"Haldir," Galdriel said looking down on the girls "Did you not check that these young girls were not lost elves? These are not just commoners..." Haldir raised an eyebrow at the two, Maria and Jezabell glared at him. "What are your names?" She asked them.
Maria and Jezabell glanced at each other nervously, making up a name was going to be hard. "We are the daughters of Merewen of Lorien and Avardolwen of Rivendell!" Jezabell said quickly remembering the Founders of Khoonj's fanfictions. It had been at least 20 years since their time though.
All of the elves looked surprised and everyone but Galadriel and Celeborn bowed to them. Celeborn stepped forward, "It has been quite a while since we heard those names." He said recalling the events of the two adventurous elves.
"Please tell us your names..." Galadriel said once more, "I'm Mari...Mariel! I'm Mariel daughter of Merewen." Maria said quickly. "And I am Bellien daughter of Avardolwen." Jezabell said the most elven sounding name she could come up with.
"Mariel and Bellien, we welcome you as our guests to Lorien." Galadriel said most respectfully. The two girls smiled, their hoax had worked. But they had other worries on thier minds like getting back home without getting in trouble for accidently crossing over deminsicions...
Author's Note: Thanks for reading this if you did! It took me about 2 or3 hours to write so enjoy! Chapter two will be coming soon! Also, so you don't get confusedYou pronounce Mariel: Ma-ree-ell. Bellien is pronounced: Bell-e-en. Thanks for readin now please reveiw! -