A/N- sorry, The last version of this chap had some minor errors, thats all fixed now.
The Darkness faded quickly into light as the two girls fell. Where they fell to, or what they were falling through, they did not know. After what seemed like eternity, but was in fact almost immediate, the two girls stumbled in fright onto green grass.
There were mountains in the distance and a path leading on the other sides of the bushes they had stumbled into. Behind them there were many trees of types the girls weren't familiar with. Just in front of them there was a strange, large, inscribed stone. The path on its other side was roughly in the same position as the creek by the willow tree had been. The girls couldn't see any towns or cities, even on the horizon. This place must have been thousands of miles away from any large urbanized areas.
Carey realized they weren't in Canada anymore. She looked around to see if her friend, Alexandra, was there too. "Alexandra? Hey Alexandra...are you ok!"
Alexandra glanced around to see if anybody had noticed them appearing out of thin air. " Shhh! Get down!" Alexandra hissed in a sharp intake of breath as she pulled Carey to her knees with a lot of force. Why was Carey so loud? She MUST have noticed they weren't home any more after their fall!
"Ouch! What's going on, were are we?" Carey asked in a low and confused voice
" We seem to have stumbled into some type of parallel world or something..." Alexandra replied.
"Parallel watsamijig?"
"Never you mind, now be quite!"
The discussion ended as Carey obeyed. She knew you really shouldn't argue with Alexandra, after all, Alexandra did know a lot more about strange happenings than herself. She stared around them in amazement... Where was this place? It all seemed
too familiar...
"Hey, hey...Carey! That's the third time I've called you, pay attention!"
As Alexandra was gazed down the path as she had noticed some very short, broadly built men laughing and signing as they walked. If Carey and herself weren't quite, they would be spotted.
Carey looked at Alexandra. She was listening attentively to something Carey couldn't hear...her long brown hair falling in front of her face as she gazed forward, muttering to herself under her breath.
"Do you hear that?" Alexandra whispered urgently.
"Obviously not.." Carey started to reply, but she didn't continue... she did hear it. In fact, she was surprised she hadn't heard anything before. Two deep voices could be heard nearby, signing loudly and deeply to a very catchy tune.
Carey gasped in surprise as Alexandra elbowed her sharply.
Dwarves.
"But, D-Dwarves, Alexandra! Look around! The forest! See those mountains?
Dwarves? Alexandra! Haven't we…we've read about this before!" Carey stammered in absolute shocked.
"Yes, yes we have...but it was just a book...wasn't it?" Alexandra replied. She was very surprised, and, from the look on her face, so was Carey. They had somehow found a link into Tolkien's world through the willow tree.
They stared in utter amazement as the Dwarves passed, too noticeably and loudly Carey thought, ... If they were where they thought they were, Alexandra and Carey were definitely going to be late for Supper..."