Disclaimer

I do not own any of the elves, or their land, or anything from LOTR. They were created by a most brilliant JRR Tolkien. Nimloth…I kind of own her. I found her name when I was scanning through an appendix in the back of the LOTR book. The students were loosely based off a couple of friends of mine but I have cut some of them out in this edited version.

Chapter 1 (dramatic music)

Just another boring school excursion. An end of year trip thing. The only good thing about it was that there was hardly anyone going so Sarah and her friends got the whole second story of the bus to themselves. Taylor took out his discman and started to listen to one of his cds. Ms. Black came up the stairs to the group of friends.

"Sarah! Get your feet of the chair! Jeff I hope that isn't what I think it is. Isabella Lee. Are you chewing gum!"

"No miss, I'm just chewing my lip in hesitation for our big day today" Izzy replied.

"Report to me when this day is over Miss Lee. I will have none of that cheek now! I think scab duty will help you realize where to show respect!"

"K miss" Izzy replied yet again, making a face to her friends.

"Oh and Sarah, if I see that phone of yours again, I'll confiscate it and you'll collect it on the last day!" Ms. Black said as she started to walk back down the stairs.

"It's not a phone miss, it's actually a lolly holder!" Sarah grinned and held it out.

"Well I'll confiscate it anyway!" cried Ms. Black and snatched it out from Sarah's hands and walked briskly down the stairs.

Sarah rolled her eyes and shook her head.

"She probably wanted them for herself anyway, the old cow! Ahahaha, that's makes me glad that I did what I did!" laughed Izzy.

"Which was……?" asked Sarah.

"I got rid of my gum. I threw it under the teachers shoe as she turned back. It started to make a squelching sound when she walked down the stairs." Laughed Izzy uncontrollably.

"I'll go see if the teacher is trying to get to your lollies," Jeff said to Sarah.

"Trust your stomach to think instead of your brain!" laughed Sarah. "Well, she'll get a nasty shock if she does manage to open it! It's got the remains of the alfalfa bag in there!"

Kyo went into a fit of hysterics as did Leah.

"Not the alfalfa bag!" Kyo managed to say at last before dissolving into laughter once more.

"Errr…guys, would you mind letting me in on the joke?" Izzy asked.

It took some time before the five had calmed down enough to talk.

"The alfalfa bag is this bag of alfalfa, deodorant, water and goodness know what else. I left it in our tag room cupboard. No one every goes in there….and it's been there for about 2 terms. We gave up opening the cupboard cos it smelt putrid, but obviously Sarah has done so." Gushed Leah.

"Yeah, I remembered it yesterday in Japanese, so I took it out and made a hole in the bag, and poured it into the case. I almost fainted from the smell, but...it was worth it, we were sent out of the classroom and now the teacher has it!" laughed Sarah.

"Ey, ey guys, teachers almost got it open!" Jeff half shouted. There was a mad scramble to get to the top of the staircase. You could see Ms. Black sitting behind the stairs through a small crack. The teacher finally found the small words engraved on the plastic 'PUSH' and did so. She screamed as foul smelling liquid wet all down her blouse and neck and face. Everyone rushed back to their seats but the driver had been half dozing and startled by the shriek of the horrified teacher, hit the accelerate pedal just as they were rounding a sharp corner. Luck was with them (I was being sarcastic, but then again, ending up in ME is extremely lucky in my opinion!) and they plunged off the cliff top.

To Sarah it seemed as though she had resurfaced from a deep dive when suddenly…

"Aaye!"