Power to Rule-Part 2
Howdy and Hello! Um...remember what I said at the end of the last chapter? If you don't know about something, calm down and relax, though it is better if you know a bit of both. This chapter is how that human trader that Beka got the supplies from in the last chapter, got the palantir. He-He!
One of the lost seeing stones, a palantir, found itself in the hands of a lowly farmer. A man of Rohan, with a horse of his own.
He lived in a small, little village, far away from the Golden Hall, and the heart of Rohan. He lived deep in the Ered Nimrais (A large Mountain Range), far west from Dunharrow, and all larger places that would be on maps. But not as west as to run into the River Lefnui. The village had a very small stream, one that wasn't big enough to be on a map. Nothing in, around, or about the town would have them be placed on any map of Middle Earth.
The people there were very simple, and had small minds. They couldn't picture creations past a shovel. So, when the farmer found a black sphere among his rows of crops, he had no idea what it was. He dared not touch it, for fear of black magic.
Orcs started burning the edges of the small village. The farmer had been among his crops, when he heard the screams of his fellow people. In the panic, of trying to get back to save his family, he did not see the spaceship come down from the sky.
No one did, though, because it had a cloaking device. The man ran through his tall corn crops, and was utterly surprised and frightened when he saw blue men with the kind of beards early Egyptians had.
The 'blue alien men' talked in common tongue. "Where are we?" One asked, looking around at the tall green stalks. "Did you go through a rift or timeline!" Another asked angrily.
The farmer cried, "Please, my family is under attack." The Perseids, looking around and seeing large ugly creatures advancing on their position, got out a small mechanical device, and tapped it.
Immediately, a large blue field surrounded them, and the farmer's house on the horizon. He could see the orcs screeching in shock at the new defense.
"Thank you!" He breathed. "Not at all." The leader of the Perseids said, slapping the farmer on the back. He was so thankful, that he wanted to give something to the strange blue men.
"No, really. We have to be going!" The leader said to the farmer, as the farmer tried to bring them to his house to give him his most beloved objects. "Fine. Let me repay you somehow." The farmer said, then looking down, saw the mysterious black orb.
"Please. I don't know what it is, but it's pretty. Please take it as my offering. Thank you for saving me and my family!" Finally, the Perseids accepted the strange ball.
The leader picked it up with a scarf. Being advanced engineers from the future, they could tell it had strong vibes, and electricity energies.
Thanking them, the farmer went back to his house, to make sure his family was okay. The Perseids went back on their ship, and keyed in their own time, and went back, with the strange object.
When the farmer got back, he found that his wife and children had been killed by the orcs. He told his fellow town members about the blue people. They said he was in denial, and he was grieving. After a while, he convinced himself that it had been a dream in panic. So, the story was lost forever.
The Perseids got back to their own time, just to be ambushed by life forms unknown. It must have been something about how annoying and talkative that Perseids were, because they were always getting picked on.
In the end, a human saved them. Thankful, they passed the strange scientific orb along to the human, who took it for a pretty decoration, and stuffed it in a pice of clothing, while never touching it.
The Perseids, always up for something new, really wanted to study the orb further, but didn't have the time. The orb was the only thing they had, so they had to give it up. The human was demanding a price for saving their asses.
With the opportunity gone, the Perseids forgot about the accident. The human shoved the palantir in a box and forgot about it, and it was eventually sold to Beka, who lost it to the Magog. But, while the orb stayed in the future, a time warp stayed with it, linking it into the past it had left behind.
Sorry, back story! Next chapter has the Abyss, and his accidental meeting with Sauron! I hope you like it. If you've noticed, no one has directly touched the palantir. If I get some of the 'dynamics' wrong, like in the next chapter, about the palantir, I'm sorry! Gulp! Every new story, I always feel scared no one likes it. So...gulp!