Title: Your Not Done Yet.
Author: LegolasBuffy, a.k.a Mel
Genre: Fantasy/Action/Adventure/Romance.
Pairings: Buffy/Legolas
Summary: Buffy is sent to Middle-Earth Post The Gift to help a ring-bearer with his burden and
maybe find some happiness in the end.
Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon. The 'Lord of the Rings' book series
belongs to J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson. The plot is my own.
Timeline: Set before the Fellowship by about 23 years, and is set in the movie verse.
Feedback: Yes! Please!
Prologue: Your Not Done Yet.
Lórien, Caras Galadhon, 2995
The Lady Galadriel felt the stirrings of the vision and let it come over her. It was rare that a vision would come to her outside of the mirror, but when they did it meant that they were too important to wait till the next time she went to it. As the trees slowly faded out they were replaced by a two young woman standing on a tower of metal. The older of the two frowned and turned around slowly to face the sky with holes opening in the sky and a red sunrise in the distance. Galadriel could tell there was a sense of peacefulness around the older woman and watched as she turned back to the younger one who was staring wide-eyed out the sky. She could hear the two of them talking and she continued to watch as the older woman stroked the side of the younger woman's face and kiss her on the cheek. And she watched in a mesmerized fashion as the older woman ran down the platform and dived off the end into a portal of some kind that torn through her mortal body and left it lifeless on the ground. Galadriel then heard a woman's voice in her head.
"She comes to help the ring-bearer of the one."
Galadriel come out of the vision with a sharp intake of breath and looked at her husband.
"She's coming, send for Gandalf."
Meanwhile….
Forest of Mirkwood:
It was rare that Legolas could go out into the forest without three bodyguards hovering around him like he could protect himself. Even rarer still that he found himself wondering into the dream realms, but here he was in the middle of the day. He felt a tug at his sense and tried to figure out was it was when the whole word started to spin and be replaced by something that he couldn't begin to understand. He looked around himself and saw that he was standing on a tower of metal with two woman at the very end of a platform. One had golden blonde hair and was dressed in clothes that he had never seen before and was shorter then the other of dark hair in the flowing gown. The blonde was helping the darker haired girl to step over a hole in the floor of the platform. He could see blood dripping down her feet and he followed it on it course down to the ground but was surprised when it stopped in mid-air and a small circle of light appeared. Legolas brought his eyes back to the two woman as they reached the same area that he was standing at. He walked over to them and listened to what they were saying.
"Go"
"Buffy, it's started."
He watched at the one called Buffy turned toward the light and watched as it grew bigger and huge bolts of lightning shot out of it and hit the strange buildings and streets as people on the ground ran and screamed and creatures of some kind come out of the gapping hole in the building screaming.
"I'm sorry"
"It doesn't matter." said Buffy.
Then the young girl tried to run past Buffy and she grabbed her.
"What are you doing?" asked Buffy.
"I have to jump. The energy"
"It'll kill you"
"I know. Buffy, I know about the ritual. I have to stop it"
"No"
Legolas felt the tower shake underneath him and watched as the women stumbled.
"I have to. Look at what's happening." she said as more lightning crackled out and a huge dragon flew out of the portal.
"Buffy, you have to let me go. Blood starts it, and until the blood stops flowing, it'll never stop. You know you have to let me. It has to have the blood."
Legolas watched as a look of realization come over the older girls face to be replaced by a frown as she turned away from the younger one. He could see holes opening in the sky as the sun was rising. A sun rise that told him that blood had been spilled that night, for it was red. As the older one turned back, he could see that see looked so peaceful next to the other one.
"Buffy ... No"
"Dawnie, I have to"
" No"
" Listen to me. Please, there's not a lot of time,
listen. I love you. I will always love you. But this is the work that I have to do.
Tell Giles ... tell Giles I figured it out. And, and I'm okay. And give my love to my friends.
You have to take care of them now. You have to take care of each other. You have to be strong.
Dawn, the hardest thing in this world ... is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me."
Legolas watched as the younger one started to cry and the one called Buffy stroked her face and kissed her on the cheek. He could feel the pain rolling off the younger one in waves, yet all he could feel off Buffy was a sense of peace. She not only felt what she was going to do was right, but knew it was. Legolas could only watch on helplessly as the older woman turned around ran down the platform diving into the portal at the end. He watched as she hung there motionless, in pain then fall to the earth below.
Legolas snapped back to the world with a grunt of pain. He looked around him to make sure that he was still in his world and scrubbed his face with his hands as he rushed back into the palace. He had to go see The Lady of the Wood, only she could make sense of what he had just seen.
Buffy felt herself being pulled back to together, it felt like she was spread it in a million pieces and would never be put back right. She could feel solid ground under her feet and vaguely thought that it was weird to be standing on her feet when she just jump through a portal. As her body started to come back together she could sense other presence in the area. It felt familiar somehow, like she knew who it was. There was a flash and Buffy felt herself come back together only to be blinded by the bright white light around her. As she opened her eyes again she looked ahead of her in awe. She was in the most beautiful place she had ever seen. There were waterfalls cascading down the mountains and a lush green forest surrounding it. She could see buildings placed around the area that were of a design that she had never seen in Sunnydale. She turned to look around and saw a tall blonde haired woman looking out over the waterfalls. She knew who it was without her even turning around. It was her mother.
"Mom, mommy?"
Joyce turned around and looked at her oldest daughter with sadness in her eyes.
"Oh, Buffy. I'm so glad to see you. I'm so sorry about everything honey."
As soon as those words were out of Joyce's mouth Buffy launched herself into her mothers arms.
"Is this heaven," she asked with tears streaming down her face.
Joyce lifted her daughters face and looked into her eyes. "No sweetie, it's not. I've been sent to tell you something, and your not going to want to hear it. But for just a moment longer I want to hold you, okay?"
Buffy nodded her head and laid it back down on her mom's shoulder not caring what she had to tell her, everything was going to be alright now that she had her mother back. But as the minutes ware on she could sense something dreadful on the air and couldn't for the life of her put it out of her mind.
"Mom, what's going on? If this isn't heaven where are we?"
Joyce pulled back from her and looked down at her with tears of her on streaming down her face. She grabbed Buffy's hand and pulled her down to sit on the grass of the cliff they were standing on.
"Buffy, I know what you did for your sister. I know you thought that it was the end of your life. And in a way it is. You died back in Sunnydale."
"But…"
"Shush, let me finish. Your still needed. Just not in Sunnydale. The Powers sent me to tell you this. They need you to help someone who is very special on his world. They want you to help him because his burden is so big. He has the weight of the world on his shoulders and you can help him with that burden."
"What do you mean his world. I don't understand. I did my part, I saved the world again. Why can't they just let me rest." Buffy choked out as she throat tightened.
"Because your works not done yet. And you have yet to see true happiness. The Powers told me that if you go you will find the happiness that you never got to have back in Sunnydale. You will get everything you ever deserved but were denied. Now I know this is hard to understand and our time here is short. You must find the Lady Galadriel, Gandalf and then you must make your way to the shire. Do you understand?" Joyce said as she grabbed Buffy's face and forced her to look into her eyes.
"The Lady Galadriel, Gandalf and the shire, yep it's all up here," she said tapping her head.
"There is more, Buffy. Your body is still in Sunnydale. Their giving you a new one along with something else, a new gift they called it. And if you fail in this task, your new world will be lost. Never leave him, and follow him to the gates of hell if you must. It's time for you to go now. I have these gifts for you to help you on your way and remember that I love you and we'll see each other again some day. Goodbye Buffy."
"I don't want you to go, please just let me stay here with you."
"Buffy, you know you can't stay, you have work to do still. Your time is not over yet, your not done yet." Joyce whispered.
Buffy looked at the spot that her mother was in only to find a back pack of some kind and weapons. She picked up the two mean looking daggers and pulled them out of their scarab. They were the most beautiful weapons she had ever seen. They were light weight but still deadly, they were highly polished with some kind of writing running down both blades. She strapped the blades to her waist and picked up the bad all set to look through it but she felt a sudden gush of wind and tried to look around but the wind only grow in force. She stood up and turned herself away from the wind to block her face when her eyes caught sight of the portal behind her and she barley had time to register it but she felt herself thrown into it and the blinding white light wash over her.
TBC……