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Disclaimer: Lawyer 1: Why do we have to check all these silly disclaimers? It's a waste of time.

Lawyer 2: You dolt! We have to make sure there are no copyright infringements (continues on with a whole bunch of long winded legal terms).

Lawyer 1: Oh . . .

Nickel: And that is why we do disclaimers which, by the way . . . I do not own The Lord of the Rings. Nor do I claim to. Nor do I want to. Poor Lawyers.

Stupid Weather

Nickel's Pov

I was actually pleased when Gandalf told us that we weren't to bring horses. The beasts of burden were freaky anyway.

Elrond was forced to take the horses as we certainly weren't going to put them up. While he was gone, Aragorn looked at us oddly. "I thought you weren't part of the Fellowship . . ."

"We aren't," I replied, elbowing Kelsey and Mandy to keep them from falling asleep in the slight chill, grinning evilly.

A few moments later, Allie arrived, dragging Scott behind her to keep him from dropping the gazillions of bags she had evidently forced upon his person. He was dropping some anyway, though.

"Ready?" I asked, snapping into a ballet fifth position, arms and all.

"Ready!" Allie affirmed with echoes of "ready" coming from a cold but chipper Mandy, a freezing Kelsey and a sulky Scott.

"March!" I cried in a loud high voice that had earned me the permission of thousands of people to kill something or take over the world, so long as I was quiet. To say the least, the Fellowship cowered.

We walked, marched or ran (each one according to his/her nature. I, for one, did a ballet run) past the Fellowship, out of the valley of Imladris and south, past the road to what lay beyond.

Kelsey's PoV

After we had walked a good 90 miles over 10 days, I had more than a stitch in my side, and Mandy was breathing hard. Not to mention that we were freezing. What was Nicole doing?

Anyway, after about an hour of sneaking hiking, Nicole called a break for the rest of the day and the next. Three fifths of us (Mandy, Scott and me) collapsed in agony, trying to heave breath in and out. Ouch. Then I realized that we were in Eregion, aka Hollin.

"Now we will wait," Nicole announced to our winded cheers. "The Fellowship should show up soon. They started after us by only a slight margin."

I nodded and collapsed atop Mandy, who had fallen asleep. "How are you so hyper?" I groaned.

"I found where Elrond kept the sugar!"

"Eru help us . . ." I began to pray as Scott cursed in the background.

Allie's PoV

I left the others as soon as we'd stopped to wander and thing about everything, especially what Nicole had told me about what to say when the Fellowship showed up. Man, they were in for a surprise . . .

Nicole's PoV

Three days later . . .

Kelsey and Mandy are insane. I certainly wasn't cold, sure it was a tad bit chilly, but I didn't even have socks on, let alone a cloak. But, the two of them had six sweaters apiece, three cloaks, every blanket ever created, seven pairs of socks, thick sweatpants, ski outfits and a battery operated hairdryer, set on "hot," blowing in their faces. And Kelsey was reaching into her bag. Again.

"You . . . You're . . . W . . . Weird . . . Ni . . . Nickel . . ." Mandy chattered.

"Soup anyone?" Scott asked from his place across the camp fire. He didn't have a cloak on either.

"See, he's not wearing a cloak."

"That's just 'cause we stole them all," Kelsey replied, handing Mandy an afghan and the hot chocolate I'd made a few minutes ago.

"Soup?"

"No!" I yelled back, then muttered, "knowing him, it's probably poison."

"Do . . . Don't . . . B . . . Be . . . Mean . . . Ni . . . Nickel." Kelsey pulled out a furry looking brown shiny coat. I recognized it and dived at her.

"Mink coat! I'll kill that bag. Poor fluffy mink . . ." My hand touched it, and I snatched the coataway. "Ooh . . . Soft."

"Some tree hugger," Mandy muttered. I looked up.

"Lowell says I'm a tree huggin' hippie!" 'I shrieked.

"Hippies?" Kelsey dove under a rock in fear, which was a mistake as I took the opportunity to poke her.

"Stop! Stop!"

"They're here!" Allie yelled, sprinting toward us, "and they're stopping with us. Aragorn said so." Kelsey and Amanda perked up.

"Yippee," Scott moaned, draining the last of the soup as Allie went to console him. "Company."


R&R pretty please with sugar on top!

So, our first day out of Rivendell and my first chapie! Yeah! Go, Nickel, who has just recently started the second chapter of our version of TTT. Mandy said she'd put a sneak peek at the end of this of a certain part we've had planned for months. But you'll all just have to wait, won't you? Mandy is finishing up Amon Hen as I type (hopefully, 'cause we don't have any homework). Bye! -Nickel