"Well, how was I supposed to know that Mary was going to get captured by orcs?" asked Amber.
"Well you're the one who's the wizardress here... aren't you supposed to be the one who can see the future?" countered Emerson.
"I've only been a wizardress for a day!" Amber wailed, and turned to see Mercedes come running in.
"Amber I need a love potion for Legolas... .NOW!" she said.
Amber rolled her eyes at her. "Oh so you're finally admitting that you are not good enough for him?" asked Amber. Mercedes glared at her and started to speak, but Amber silenced her. "How can you think of love potions at a time like this?"
"Why what happened-" she started to say when Emerson interupted her.
"Don't you remember? You were right there, Mary got kidnapped by orcs!" he yelled.
Mercedes looked blank. "Oh......... I didn't notice, I was to busy paying attention to Legolas." she replied.
Amber rolled her eyes again. Emerson turned around to see Katie running all over the library, looking at books.
"Has NO ONE noticed that she got kidnapped by orcs?!" he yelled, exasperated.
Amber then noticed Katie as well. "What are you doing Katie?" she asked.
"I'm looking for a nice thick book to whack Jesse over the head with when we find him." she replied.
Mercedes looked at her in confusion. "WHY?" she asked.
"HE LEFT ME!" Katie exclaimed. "I wanted to go with him and Mary, but NO, he just had to dematerialize on me! He WILL pay!!"
"Oookay then." said Mercedes, looking back to Amber "Now about that love potion-"
She was cut off by Emerson crying out in exasperation. He walked towards the door and said, "Well, I'll just go by myself then, if no one cares!"
"Oh, you can't do that, you'll get lost!" said Amber. Emerson looked like he was about to burst. "Don't worry, we'll go in a few minutes. Legolas is just getting provisions and we can go!"
Within a few minutes Legolas and his elves appeared and everyone set off into the woods in the direction the orcs had left in.
On their way Mercedes had remarked to everyone, "You know, I can't help but wonder why they would want to kidnapp her anyways. She'll probably annoy them to death before they go a mile!"
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"Are we there yet?" Mary sighed, intolerably bored.
"No." The one orc who appeared to be the leader was the only one who had bothered to answer her.
They rode for another minute, then Mary said again, "Are we there YET?"
"No."
Another pause. "Are we THERE YET?"
"No!"
"ARE WE THERE YET?!"
"NO!!"
The leader turned angrily to her and Mary grinned evilly at the fact that she had been able to get under his skin.
"If you do not stop asking that question we will FORCE you to be permanently silent!" the leader yelled.
"Oh, FINE." Mary sighed and was quiet. For a moment at least. She started singing silently,
"Oh, my name is John Wellington Wells,
I'm a dealer in magic and spells,
In blessings and curses and ever-filled purses,
In prophesies, witches and knells.
If you want a proud foe to "make tracks"-
If you'd melt a rich uncle in wax-
You've but to look in on the resident djinn,
Number seventy, Simmery Axe!
We've a first-class assortment of magic;
And for raising a posthumous shade
With effects that are comic or tragic,
There's no cheaper house in the trade.
Love-philtre - we've quantities of it;
And for knowledge if anyone burns,
We keep an extremely small prophet, a prophet
Who brings us unbounded returns:
For he can prophesy
With a wink of his eye,
Peep with security
Into futurity,
Sum up your history,
Clear up a mystery,
Humour proclivity
For a nativity - for a nativity;
With mirrors so magical,
Tetrapods tragical,
Bogies spectacular,
Answers oracular,
Facts astronomical,
Solemn or comical,
And, if you want it, he
Makes a reduction on taking a quantity!
Oh! If anyone-" (whew! long song! and its only the first verse!!)
One of the orcs yelled in exasperation and grabbed her shoulder.
Mary stopped abruptly and said, "Excuse me! I was serenading you! You needen't have been so rash! Violence is NOT the answer!"
The orc let go and said to the leader, "Can we PLEASE put a gag over her mouth?!"
The leader sighed and said, "We cannot go against Sarumans orders. Though... if he didn't know..."
Mary backed away and put her arms out protectively. "Oh no you don't!" she said. "He is all seeing, remember? And besides, even if he didn't know, I would tell him. I now have a personal grudge against you, after interrupting my song. I still had another verse to go! Ah, well, no matter. I shall merely start over again!"
All the orcs yelled out in protest, and before Mary could resume singing, Jesse materialised right in front of her!
"Ah, Jesse!" she said excitedly. "I'm glad you're here. They're taking me to Mordor so Saruman can either kill me or take my powers. Tell the others, would you?" Jesse nodded and the orcs just looked at Mary like she was crazy, which in some cases she was.
"The wizardress is talking to herself!" said one of the orcs, slowly backing away.
"No, she is speaking with her familiars!" exclaimed another, and they all gasped.
Mary grinned at this newfound power, and said, "Yes, my familiars are angry with you!" she saised her arms. "I command them to retrieve my staff!" she exclaimed, winking at Jesse.
Jesse ran over and grabbed the staff from the lead orc, who was holding it protectively. He gasped and fell to the ground as Jesse whacked him over the head with it.
The orcs looked at the seemingly floating staff in awe, then ran towards it. Jesse ran out of the way as Mary tried to distract them (by annoying them, naturally).
"Hey, but do you know what is the coolest word that ever has been said on the face of this planet?! CORROBORATIVE!!" started Mary when someone inturupted her.
"STOP! Do not say those words." said none other than Saruman himself who rode up on something that resembeled a horse. "And you," he said pointing to Jesse, "Put down the staff now!"
Jesse gave her an appologetic look and said, "Sorry. I'll get the others." and then quickly dematerialized, leaving the staff behind him.
"Hey! It's you!" said Mary pointing at him. Saruman looked confused. "Never mind, so what do you want me here for?"
"I want you to join me and Saron. Your gift of magic is quite extraordinary." said Saruman.
Mary shook her head no. "Nope sorry, only a black with out of wack powers. You see you need both me and the elf Amber to get a powerful magical thingy... didn't you know that?" asked Mary.
Saruman looked at her with fierce eyes. "No elf can posses a power of magic like I. Especially a she-elf." said Saruman imperiously.
Mary looked insulted. "Well, who's the sexist wizard here? And for your information Amber is a very powerful black for only having her powers for a day... and, so, yeah." said Mary.
Saruman ignored her. "We shall wait here for now. Until the young wizard tells me everything that I need to here." said Saruman to the group of orcs.
"Fine, I guess I'll just have to start singing again..." started Mary taking a deep breath.
The closest orc quickly put his hand over her mouth to prevent her from singing. The others cheered loudly.
MEANWHILE...
"ARE WE THERE YET!?!?!" asked Mercedes who was once again getting a piggy-back ride from the blond elf whom she was obsessed about.
Amber turned around and glared at her. "NO! And if you ask again I will turn elf-boy here into a frog!" yelled Amber holding her staff out threateningly.
Legolas' eyes got very big at those words. Mercedes let out a little scream and put her arms around him even more so, almost strangling Legolas.
Amber rolled her eyes and started to run ahead.
"Where are you going?" asked Ramses as Amber ran by him.
"Scouting ahead since elf-boy is a bit tied up with (nic 4 marce goes here) at the moment, want to come?" repiled Amber, Ramses nodded. "Can I turn you into a horse so we can go farther ahead?"
"No, don't you come near me with that stick!" said Ramses backing away. But as usual Amber turned him into one anyways.
'And I like this girl why...?' thought Ramses as Amber got into his back.
"Go or next time I will turn you into a frog!" said Amber holding up her staff up.
Ramses took one look at it and quickly started to gallop ahead.
Amber made him stop when they passed Katie... who was carrying the large print edition of all Charles Dicken's works and that was very thick and big.
"Uh.... why did you bring that with you Katie?" asked Amber pulling up beside her.
Katie looked up. "Jesse is going to have one big head ache after I hit him with this thing... it was the thickest thing I could find." replied Katie trying to hold it up but almost falling over.
"Okay then... Byebye." said Amber holding up her staff for Ramses to see... who then went as fast as he could through the forest who was then stopped by Emerson causing Ramses to stop suddenly and Amber to fly over his head, narrowly missing a tree.
"Okay... ow.. Thats the second time in less than a week that I have done that. What do you want?" asked Amber getting up and turning Ramses back into himself.
"I was just wondering if you could maybe turn everyone here into something faster so we can go save Mary." said Emerson.
Amber looked at him. "Ah... so then you are admitting that you like her... a lot." said Amber smiling.
Emerson flushed and started stuttering. Amber cut him off saying, "Nevermind. we can't turn them into anything yet, we need to wait for Jesse to find us first. But for now Ramses and I are scouting ahead." Ramses started to walk away but not before Amber turned him into a horse once more.
"I guess I shall accompany you as I have nothing to do here." replied Emerson walking over to Amber who had just gotten onto Ramses' back.
"Uh... sure..." said Amber slowly, actually she didn't want him to come with her and Ramses as Amber wanted to talk to him... alone. Emerson didn't pay any attention to Amber's hesitance and also got onto Ramses.
They were about to start off, when Jesse appeared beside them. "I found Mary!" he exclaimed.
Emerson jumped off. "Where is she?!" he asked.
Jesse was about to answer when Katie came running through the trees.
"I thought I heard Jesse." she said, then caught sight of him. "There you are!" she exclaimed and whacked him over the head as hard as she could with the book she was carrying.
"What did you do that for?!" Jesse exclaimed indignantly.
"YOU LEFT ME!!" Katie exclaimed, moving to hit him once more.
Amber stopped her and asked, "Where are they?"
Jesse pointed through the woods, and Amber and Jesse rode off.
"Hey, wait for me!" Emerson exclaimed and tried to run after them, somewhat hearing Katie shouting, "HOW DARE YOU LEAVE ME YOU EVIL GHOSTY PERSON!!!" and the sound of the thud of book on skull as Jesse tried to defend himself.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I swear I won't do it again- aahh! NOT THE BOOK!!"
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TBC......... MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
The song Mary was singing is an actual song by Gilbert and Sullivan. It's called my name is John Wellington Wells from the Sorcerer.
