A/N: Wow, long time no update, huh? Any who, I have a reason for that, because... because I temporarily lost my Internet readers gasp But it works now so I'm happy. Thanks to all of you wonderful people who have given me positive reviews (note that flamers will be ignored. Constructive critism is accepted) Write now I'm being amused by a psychotic paper clip in the write hand corner of this computer. Okay I'm going to write this fan fiction now.
Disclaimer: Jail fine for kidnapping actors who played in LOTR: $200
Buying special hacking equipment to alter J.R.R. Tolkien's will: $3,000
Realizing that you will not now nor ever own LOTR: Priceless.
I do however own the song One of a million. It's mine I wrote it. Use it ifyou want but ask me and give proper regognition to me saying I wrote it. Thanks
"Owe!" Sapphire hissed as the strap of her backpack landed on her shoulder, she quickly switched it to the other shoulder.
"Your hurt." Legolas said from behind, spooking her. Yeah no dip, Sherlock.
"It's just a little bruise, I'll live. And give a girl some warning before you sneak up on her like that." Legolas pulled back the jacket just enough to see her bruise, which was now a dark blue and purple.
"Hey! Anyone tell you it's rude to look down a woman's top?!" She screeched. Legolas rolled his eyes.
"I was not looking down your top, I was checking your shoulder. And that is no little bruise. It was be painful."
"Yeah, it is, so hands off alright!" She snapped.
"It matters not to me I was just trying to be kind." He said angrily. She is the most infuriatingly annoying woman... Sapphire sighed.
"Yeah I know I'm sorry." She said running her fingers through her hair. "I'm just... stressed." She walked up with Gandalf and Aragorn, not wanting to say anything else that she would later regret.
"I have no memory of this place." Gandalf muttered looking around. "We will rest here." Sapphire sat up against a wall, humming a song, when Aragorn approached her.
"Legolas says your shoulder needs to be tended to"
"Legolas needs to mind his own business. He seems to have a problem with that." She said through gritted teeth. She was angry, yet strangely flattered that he had mentioned it to Aragon.
"He is trying to make peace with you. I would expect you to do the same, now let me see your shoulder." Sapphire grudgingly shrugged of her jacket and went back to humming.
"What is that you're humming?" Pippin asked after her shoulder had been "tended" to.
"Huh? Oh it's called One of a Million."
"Would you sing it?"
"What?!" She asked, Pippin's question surprising her beyond words.
"Would you sing it?"
"Um I'm really not all that good." She protested.
"A song would lift our spirits." Boromir put in. Sapphire sighed.
"Oh all right." A/N: Time to play pretty music!
What happens now?
It should have been so easy
But it isn't what you thought it was.
So now your sitting here
Whatching the rain fall
And you can't help but wish that you weren't just
A raindrop in the storm
One of a million A girl lost in a fairy tale world
Filled with dreams she'll never tell.
But for now your dreams will have to stay hidden away Locked up inside you Because your just that invisible girl That one in a million girl
So just go on your way
Live your life
And if no one notices you
Surprise, surprise
But it dosen't matter anymore
Because they won't let you forget
Your just that invisible girl
That one in a million girl.
It shouldn't have been so hard to stand out
To reach out of your comfort zone.
But it's so hard to reach out
When no one hears you try to speak out.
And no one knows the dreams that you bury deep inside The treasure you could share.
No one seems to know
That you could hold the key to the world.
But for now your dreams will have to stay hidden away Locked up inside you
Because your just that invisible girl
That one in a million girl
So just go on your way
Live your life
And if no one notices you
Surprise, surprise
Butit dosen't matter anymore
Because they won't let you forget
Your just that invisible girl
That one in a million girl.
So just go on your way
Live your life
And if no one notices you
Surprise, surprise
And it dosen't matter anymore
Because they won't let you forget
Your just that invisible girl
That one in a million girl.
Would they see you
If you tried to step out of your comfort zone?
Would they listen,
If you tried to show them that you could be one in a million.
That one in a million girl
The song ended and the fellowship stared.
"I wasn't that bad was I?"
"No, no It's just that we haven't ever heard a song like that before." Said Sam. Sapphire nodded.
"Yeah it's a different type of music from what you're used to." Sapphire said as she tried to explain the concept of rock music, A/N: This isn't a rock song
"Oh, it's that way." Gandalf said.
"He's remembered!" Merry exclaimed and jumped up, happy not to have to sit any longer.
"No, but the air does not seem so foul down this way. When in doubt always trust your nose, Merriodoc Brandybuck."
"Let me risk a little more light." Gandalf said as he lightened his staff. "Behold the dwarf city of Dwwarodelf." Sapphire gasped in surprise as she gaped at the city. Not noticing that everyone had stopped, Sapphire ran into Legolas, who turned around with an amused expression.
"Sorry." She mumbled, slightly embarrassed. "Wow! Gimli this is amazing I never would have expected something like this down here." Gimli beamed with pride while Legolas rolled his eyes.
"Yes it is amazing that while so short, dwarves have a love of things so tall."
"That wasn't necessary!" Sapphire said while trying to suppress a laugh.
"Gimli!" Gandalf called as the dwarf took of through a door on the other side of the city. They followed after to find a very distressed Gimli mumbling in grief.
"Here lies Balin, son of Fundin, Lord of Moria. He is dead then, it is as I feared."
"We must move quickly, we can not linger here." Legolas said to Aragorn as he watched Sapphire jump at every sound. Something isn't right. She thought. We have to move quickly but why? Why can't I remember?!
"... They are coming. We cannot get out." Gandalf read. Suddenly a loud thud echoed through the halls and everyone turned around and glared at Pippin. After a minute everyone relaxed, except Sapphire who had a feeling something big was going to happen. Something bad.
Gandalf slammed the book shut and yanked back his hat and staff from Pippin.
"Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your stupidity!" Pippin looked down feeling rejected and embarrassed as Sapphire put a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry, Pip, we might need some of that hobbit intelligence of yours." Boom! The sound of drums stopped everyone's heart. Boom, boom, boom! Everyone took a step back all thinking the same thing: We cannot get out. They are coming.
"Frodo!" Sam yelled as Frodo's sword, Sting grew a cold blue.
"Ors!" Boromir ran to the door and jumped back as two arrows embedded themselves in the door, just missing his head.
"They have a cave troll." He said wryly. We cannot get out, we cannot get out, we cannot get out! Those words formed a mantra in Sapphire's head, repeating themselves over and over, driving her crazy
"Find a weapon and stay close to Gandalf!" Aragorn yelled, he picked up a crude sword and handed it to Sapphire.
"N... no." She stuttered staring intensely at the metal blade.
"Take it!"
"No! No! I... I can't!" She yelled on the verge of hysteria her fear reaching new heights.
"Sapphire take it or you will surely die!" Aragorn yelled and Sapphire timidly took the hilt of the sword. I can't do this; I'm going to die. I'm nineteen and I'm going to die! The orcs broke through the door and she froze as everyone began to fight. Pull yourself together! She thought. You have to fight, you have to forget! At that moment an orc had spotted her and charged, sword held high, She wanted to block it. She wanted to stab it, protect her self. She wanted to do something, but she couldn't. Fear paralyzed her as she stared again at the cold metal of its sword, and she couldn't help thinking.... Two arrows pierced the orc as it fell dead. She groaned, knowing who had done it. Stupid Sapphire, stupid, stupid stupid! She thought mentally slapping herself. Sapphire heard Aragorn call Frodo and she turned around just in time to see the troll through him into a nearby wall. She ran to the ranger, only to find his eyes shut. Oh no she thought frantically is he the one that's going to die?
"Aragorn? Aragorn, please wake up!" He stirred and opened his eyes looking past her.
"Oh no." He said. Sapphire turned around to see Frodo lying in a heap on the floor. She followed Aragorn, running over to Frodo.
"I'm alright. I'm not hurt."
"You should be dead!" Aragorn said in disbelief. "That spear would have screwed a wild boar!" Gandalf grinned.
"I think there is more to this hobbit than meets the eye." Frodo unfastened his shirt to reveal a silver like mail shirt underneath. Gimli raised his eyebrows.
"Mithril! You are full of surprises Master Baggins." The screeches of more orcs could be heard and Sapphire looked up.
"I don't mean to ruin the moment or anything but can we please get out of here?" She asked. Gandalf nodded.
"To the Bridge of Khazad-Dum!" They ran through the city, but halfway there they were surrounded by more orcs (or goblins) who crawled out of the walls and ceiling like spiders. Sapphire hid behind Aragorn, Legolas and Boromir, because she had accidently-purpousley left her sword back there. Suddenly a low growl vibrated through the city and an orange glow appeared. The orcs screamed and shook in fear ad ran at the next growl.
"What is this new devilry?" Boromir asked.
"A Balrog." Gandalf answered. "A demon of the ancient world. This foe is beyond any of you. Run!" Not having to be told twice, they took of running. Sapphire laughed in spite of herself at the thought of what her friends would say: "Run for your ever-loved life!"
The stairs took a sharp turn and Boromir would have fallen if Legolas hadn't have grabbed him.
"What now?!" Sapphire asked frantically as she stared at the space where the stairs should have been. In answer Legolas jumped nimble across and called for Gandalf to jump. After Gandalf was safely across he motioned for Sapphire to jump.
"You have got to be kidding me. There is no way on Earth, or in this case Middle Earth, that I'm jumping that!"
"Does it look like I'm kidding?" Legolas yelled back. "Now jump, we don't have time to wait for you." Silently cursing elves persuasive skills, she took a deep breath and jumped. He caught her.
"I made it! THANK YOU DEAR SWEET GOD ALMIGHTY!!" She yelled happily, tempted to kiss the ground. Which of course she didn't because, believe it or not, she was aware of the arrows bouncing of the ground.
"Over the bridge fly!" Gandalf yelled, running behind them. Once across the bridge Sapphire turned to see the Balrog.
"Oh. MY. Lanta." Gandalf stepped and faced the demon.
"You cannot pass! I am a servant of the sacred fire, wielder of the Flame of Andor. You cannot pass! The dark fire will not avail you flame of Undun. Go back to the shadow. You cannot pass!"
The Balrog made no answer. The fire in it seemed to die, but the darkness grew. It stepped forward slowly onto the bridge and suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and it's wings were spread from wall to wall; but still Gandalf could be seen, glimmering in the gloom, he seemed small and altogether alone: gray and bent like a wizened tree before the onset of a storm. (Quoted from LOTR: FOTR pg.371)
"You cannot pass!" Suddenly the bridge collapsed, taking the Balrog with it. Gandalf turned around and Sapphire breathed a sigh of relief. Maybe nobody's going to die, and then it happened. The Balrog's whip wrapped itself around the wizard's ankle, pulling him of the bridge, but he grabbed on.
"Gandalf!" Sapphire cried and tried to run out and help him but Legolas held her back. "Let me go, we have to help him! He'll die! Let me go!"
"Fly you fools." Gandalf said, his eyes resting on each member for a moment, like a final "good luck", and then he was gone.
"NO!" Frodo yelled.
Once out side the hobbits collapsed from grief while Boromir struggled to keep Gimli from going back inside the mine,
"I could have helped him." Sapphire sobbed looking up at the elf. "I could have helped him but I couldn't remember. I couldn't remember. I'm so stupid." Without thinking Legolas reached out and hugged her.
"You are not stupid, mellonamin. It was not your fault." She sobbed harder when he called her his friend.
"Legolas, get them up." Aragorn said as he finished cleaning his sword. Legolas looked slightly torn for a moment but then moved to one of the hobbits. Boromir looked at him with disbelief.
"Give them a moment for pity's sake!" he yelled. Aragorn sheathed his sword.
"By nightfall these hills will be swarming with orcs. We must reach the borders of Lothlorien. Come Boromir, Legolas get them up." Sapphire went to help Pippin.
"Come on, Pippin. Aragorn's right."
"If it means anything." The hobbit said timidly "I don't think it was your fault."
"Thanks Pip, that means a lot." Sapphire followed the company with a heavy heart. No matter what Legolas or Pippin said, it was her fault. She could have stopped it, but her memory failed her, and now, because of it, Gandalf was gone.
Sometimes you think you know where you're headed.
You think you know what each day will bring.
You think there will be a breath to follow this breath, It has always been that way before.
You think that lunch will follow breakfast And later lunch will follow breakfast nd dinner will naturally appear.
You think you know that the sky is blue And that the trees are green, That cats are furry And that life will go on quite smoothly for ever;
But sometimes, your wrong.
Guitar highway rose.