The Lord of the Apples

(A High-School Setting)

FELLOWSHIP OF THE APPLES PART 1

CHAPTER 8
THE BARROW-DOWNS

A/N: The Barrow-Downs is cut from the movie. Lets see what the high school setting
makes of it…

Pippin, after being dragged from the cafeteria, was following Merry and Frodo, who kept glancing nervously around to see if there were any Naz-gurls around, down a deserted hallway. Sam was slowly following them, nose buried in his Nancy Drew book. "Hey Frodo, Merry, dudes, where're we goin'?"

"Spot to eat, man," muttered Frodo as he led them through the maze of hallways.

Merry shuddered, "After that incident at the caf with the naz-mabobs, dude! I want nothing to do with that place again!"

"B-But I never got to ask Gwendil for a date!" whined Pippin.

Merry raised an eyebrow, "A female elf and you? Man... It never would have worked out."

"What about here?" asked Frodo as the came to a large, dusty and damp hallway that looked as if no one had set foot in it for years. There were large stones fallen from the wall scattered everywhere and a bit of a mist floating close to the ground. Pippin sat down and leant his back against a large, vandalized stone. The other three hobbits sat down on the floor too, cross-legged.

"Ain't it a bit creepy havin' fog in the school?" asked Frodo as he looked around. Merry shrugged.

"Maybe the Elves burnt something in the Home Ec class," he said as he took a bite of his sandwich. The other three hobbits burst out laughing.

"Come to me..."

Frodo bolted upright, his face white from shock. "D-Did you guh-guys just h-hear tha-at?" he asked nervously. All the hobbits had stopped laughing.

Merry looked up from his sandwich, "A creepy voice that said 'come to me'?"

"Ye-yeah!"

"Nope, didn't hear one."

Sam looked apprehensively around the hallway, his book forgotten, as a choir of voices began to sing softly. "I really don't like it here Mr. Frodo," he whispered, grabbing onto Frodo's sleeve in panic.

"Ahh, crap!" spat Frodo, shaking Sam from his arm, as a group of pale-skinned people dressed all in black, their pale faces heavy with dark makeup, approached. The four hobbits started screaming and scrambled to get away, Frodo tripped over Pippin's lunch and went flying as his friends deserted him. Rolling over into a sitting position he noticed that the girls had circled around him and were smiling evilly. "I-ah, I reh-really did-dn-n't mean t-to come he-here, I'm soh-soh-sorry."

Still smiling the girl closest to him said in a low voice, "Prepare to feel our wrath." and started to chant with her three companions,

"Cold be hand and heart and bone,

and cold be sleep under stone

Frodo, being the brave young hobbit he is, stared to scramble away from the advancing girls, "Yea kn-know… that's a-a lo-lovely song buh-buh-ut I s-sort of ha-ha-ave to…"

"And in the black wind the stars shall die,
and still on gold here let them lie.

"I'm n-not lying down," Frodo heard his big mouth say before four hands force him to lay back and held him there.

"Until the Dark Lord lifts his hand
over dead sea and withered land

Screams echoed in the hallway as Frodo tried to fight against the hands holding him to the ground. The girl who had spoken to him earlier slowly knelt down besides him and Frodo saw she was holding black mascara and eyeliner in her hand; he really started to freak out then.

Custodian Tom chose this point to come dancing into the hall. "Did someone need help?"

" I do!" screamed Frodo wide-eyed. The four girls looked up to see Tom glare at them,

"Axel; Larxene; Vexen; Marluxia! What are you doing?!"

Axel, who was leaning over Frodo with an eyelash curler, mascara and other various devices that he was sure were for torture, hissed at the custodian. "Nothing, Tom. Let us be with our prey," she said in a quiet, deep voice that echoed in the hall.

Tom Bombadil was not to be beaten that easily. "Have you looked outside? The sun isn't gone and the moon isn't dead!" he almost sang to the gothic girls.

Larxene, who had moved to stand behind Tom without anyone noticing, leaned close to his ear. A sneer played across her black covered lips as she whispered, "One day it will."

"Lets go." Vexen motioned back to the way she and her group had come from in fury.

"Halfling," Marluxia said in a clear, steady voice, her green eyes locking with those of Frodo "we'll get you for this."

The hobbit gulped and quaked visibly.

"If you touch him, I'll sing loudly whenever I walk down these hallways, you Wight!" threatened Tom.

"Ah, Marluxia, come on," Larxene implored as she started to gather the various makeup from the floor, "We have other people to creep out." The four girls stalked away.

Tom laughed cheerfully, "Okay you three, come out from behind that trash can!"

Frodo watched in disbelief as Sam, Merry and Pippin proceeded to emerge form behind a trashcan nearby. "You mean you three would have watched them give me a make-over and then kill me and not do anything!"

Pippin and Merry smiled happily, whereas Sam hung his head and muttered, "No Mist- I mean- Frodo. I would have done something... sometime."

Pippin gave Sam a look of disgust before grabbing his belongings and starting off towards a more populated part of the high school. "Lets go."

"Hey," Frodo said turning towards the smiling custodian, "Thanks,"

"No problem, but I think you hobbits should avoid this hallway in the future. Marluxia has many friends." Tom nodded in the direction of the four friends, smiled, and walked off with his broom in tow singing.

Hey!, Derry Dol, Merry Dol!

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A/N: This was written after large douses of playing Kingdom Hearts and then
listening to The Beatles. Yup. I'm insane. Please read and review. I like
reviews. (Axel and Vexen sneak up behind me as I talk about reviews and
knock me out with a board)

Axel: Mwahahaha. The Author is out so now you must read what we want to say!
Vexen: Hey guys come over here.
Larxene: Well the authors out. so.
Marluxia: Yes, we are from Kingdom Hearts Get that Kingdom Hearts. We plan
to take over this fanfic!!
Axel: And then B.: Hey! Didn't I tell you to leave!?!?!?!?
Larxene: (Smiles evily) Only Tom stands in our way.
Tom: I'll get you four! I'd better start a' runn'in
Axel: (speaking fastly) So we will steal this Author's computer and write a
fanfic in the Kingdom Hearts section how we will torture Tom B. and take
over Middle Earth!!!
All four: Mwhahahahahahah!!!!
Tom B.: (sneaks up behind them) Now I've got you!!
All four: Ahhhhh!! (they run away)
Tom B. (Goes up to the Author who is awakening)
Me: What happened?
Tom B.: They got to your computer.
Me: Lets see what they did. (Starts to read) They wrote this!
Tom B.: They plan to write a fanfic about torturing me.
Me: Don't worry Tom; I'll make sure they leave you alone.
Tom B.: Okay. Quelebnen?
Me: What?
Tom B. I think you just put your audience to sleep.
Me: Sorry everyone!!!!
Bye!!!!!!