Forests of Fantasy
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters in this chapter.
New chapter up! more characters yay!!! Please forgive any spelling mistakes I have no spellcheck on my puter but I try to edit as much as I can.
Chapter 2
The party of three had been walking through the strangely perfect trees for some time when they came to a wide road, worn in by many feet. The hard dusty road was in stark contrast to the mossy grass. There was no need to converse at all, the three simply turned and started walking up the wide dirt track. It was as if they all knew the way, allthough they could not remember being told. Afte a while they heard another pair of voices coming toward the track. "...if we just keep walking in the same direction then we're bound to come to the edge of the forest eventually." the voice was heavily accented, scottish or something similar. The next moment the owner of the voice stepped out onto the track. "See I told you!" he said, he was followed by another, their age was difficult to guess as though they did not appear particularly young, they were both very, very short. All the sudden they noticed Neo, Harry and Lara, "hullo, don't suppose you could tell us the name of this forest?"
"Not a clue." said Harry desolatly "somewhat strange folk arn't they" said one of the newcomers in an undertone to the other, who didn't really reply just kind of nodded. "Listen," said Lara taking charge as she could see that this conversation was going nowhere fast "I think we're in a similar situation here, do you want to travel with us?" her voice was kindly and she seemed to have decided that the two strangers were children "well if were in a similar situation then were probably going in a similar direction, therefore it's only logical that we travel together, I'm Merry and this is Pippin."
As they walked they dicovered more about each other and were they came from. Well, Merry, Pippin, Harry and Lara all talked about were they came from. Neo walked silently at the head of the group, only speaking when someone asked him a direct question and even then he often didn't answer fully. Merry and Pippin seemed to be having trouble understand were it was that Harry and Lara came from (They had discovered tha they came from the same part of England.) "But you don't have a particularly foriegn accent, at first I took you to be british." Lara was saying "British?" Pippin had a blank expression and Merry looked terribly confused "Where in middle earth is that?" It seemed as if Lara had realised something "Middle earth, are you buddhist?" Merry and Pippin stared at her as if she had just landed from another planet, which thay probably though she had. "Isn't it buddhism that believes in earth as being the 'middle realm'?" Merry and Pippin were beginning to look very, very confused untill Merry suddenly looked to Pippin with a light in his eyes "Pippin! these people must come from the undying lands!"
"Of course! But, surely they would know of middle earth by now, I mean what reason would the elves have for keeping were they came from a secret?"
"Well maybe they live very far inland and havn't met the elves yet,"
"Wait a minute," broke in Lara "elves? You're not talking about little fairy creatures are you? Are they a religious group were you come from?" Merry spoke as if explaining to someone who was very, very dim "The race of elves, they've got pointy ears, quite tall even for big people"
"Wise folk they are, know lots even if they don't let on much." Pippin added. Harry and Lara exchanged a look. At this point even Neo had become interested in the converstion and turned to face them, as he did Lara reacted noticeably she stood up more and seemed to be trying to make her whole demeanour more sophisticated. Elves, to Harry they sounded a bit like centaurs, but probably without hooves, he briefly wondered why he hadn't heard of them before, surely Hermione would have come across them in a book somewhere. Then again he didn't often ask Hermione what she was reading, in fact, he never did. Then it suddenly occurred to him that if Merry and Pippin were familier with elves they must both be wizards. But what about Neo and Lara? They both seemed to think Merry and Pippin were having hallucinations about people with pointy ears. He needed a chance to talk to Merry and Pippin away from any muggle ears.
Just then twilight came upon them as quickly as the flicking of a lightswitch. Neo took charge immediately "Merry, Pippin and Harry stay here while Lara and I try to get some firewood out of this tree." Usually Harry would have rebelled strongly at being treated as a child but he had to withstand from complaining as this gave him the perfect opportunity to speak to Merry and Pippin. He turned to them "Are you two wizards?"
"Us? I don't think so! One of our good friends is though, but I can't see why you'd think we were."
"So you so Know wizards then."
"Well of course, but I still can't see why you'd think we were though, I mean we don't look much like wizards do we? The only wizards we've met were elderly chaps, long beards and magical staffs, then again I suppose we've only met two." Pippin informed Harry as Merry nodded his agreement at Pippins side. They were very relieved to find something that these strangers knew about. Harry saw it was obvious that they didn't know much about the wizarding world and he also thought that there was probably a very good reason why they didn't, to do withthe statute of secrecy and decided not to enlighten them, and anyway, Neo and Lara had just arrived back, deep in conversation. Even though they had no matches they did eventually get a fire lit (thanks to some surreptitious help from Harry) and as they were speaking of plans for the next day, to keep following the track for there was nothing else they could do, a figure stepped into the firelight. Neo looked up and he felt like he had been badly winded, It wasn't possible! A ghost had walked into their midst. "Mouse?"
Authors note:
Wooohooooo cliffhanger! please review, critics are good, flaming doesn't count as a good critical review, its just being mean. you flame me I will email you a well thought out reply contridicting your every statement (unless of course you're right, in which case I'll be more carefull next chapter!)
also I'd just like to make the point that crossovers are hardly supposed to be realistic!
