DISCLAIMER: I don't own LotR, thank you very much. But I do own all nine of the kids, and the idea for my second generation. So there. :P
Chapter Four: Where Elves Yet Dwell"Bloody hell! Where are we?"
"That's a good question." Fred said thoughtfully, looking around at his surroundings. "This place does look awfully familiar."
"Yeah, it does." Sam grumbled. Something didn't feel quite right to her, and her friend had a strange look on his face as his hand once again went inside his jeans' pocket.
"Hey, wait a moment!" Beau said, frowning. "…Elrond…" he muttered.
"It's Rivendell!" Hailey squealed softly, feeling as though the silence of the valley should not be disturbed.
"Don't be silly." Merry argued, rolling his eyes. "Rivendell isn't real."
"Then what's it doing down there?" the Scottish girl asked, gesturing wildly at it.
"I don't know!" he said angrily. "I just know that it's not real!"
"Well, it looks pretty real to me." Hailey said, crossing her arms. "And if everyone else can see it, then it must be so."
"Don't be such a blighter." Merry griped. "Rivendell is a made-up place in a made-up world, filled with made-up people, made-up but some English professor long dead."
"Hmph!" Hailey snorted, giving her cousin the cold shoulder, and he sighed in annoyance.
"Hailey, stop it now." he said. "You're not being sensible."
"Your cousin's got a point there." Leo agreed. "How can this be Rivendell if we were just in the theater in Wellington?"
"Magic." A voice said, and the group turned around to see Ginny standing tall above them, looking around. "I can taste it in the air. It's everywhere."
"What are you on about?" Strider asked, frowning. "How can you taste magic."
Beau and John laughed. "Er," Beau said. "She's a witch, that's how."
"A witch?" Sam repeated. "That's a bit…"
"Odd." Fred finished, looking at Ginny.
"She's like a Harry Potter witch, though." John said quickly as he watched Ginny lick her lips. "She's not bad."
"I never said she was." Fred admitted. "It's just…well…odd."
"I apologize for not telling you before." Ginny said, finally turning to look at the rest of them. "But it wasn't important at the time."
"Yeah." Strider agreed. "At the time, we weren't going to be transported into the movie."
"In to Middle Earth, actually." Ginny said, crossing her arms in front of her.
"How in the wide world of sports are we in Middle Earth?" Sam coughed in surprise.
"We got transported here." The witch said simply.
"And how did we get transported here?" Leo asked, looking at the city in the valley.
Ginny rolled her eyes. "By magic. Didn't I say that?"
"I hate to ask this," Merry said suddenly. "But how do you know that we were brought here by magic, exactly?"
Ginny sighed, but didn't let her annoyance get in the way. "I can do magic, so I can tell when other people have done magic as well. They leave a mark. Depending on the strength of the witch, magician, whoever, the mark is more or less complex."
"And how is this mark?" Hailey asked, staring avidly at the witch.
"It is so extremely complicated." The blonde-haired witch said with an aggravated sigh. "I've never seen such a mark. I can't even place it."
"That can't be good." John said softly, worry creasing his brow.
"Why not?" Strider asked, frowning.
"Ginny's never not been able to recognize someone else's magic." Beau said thoughtfully. "No matter who it was, she could tell you. And now…"
"I can't understand it!" Ginny cried out, annoyed. "There are a few bits and pieces that I recognize, but they are magics so powerful that not even I have used them."
"That would be because they were cast by Elves." A light voice said from behind the group. Or, at least they thought it was a single voice.
The nine of them turned around to see two identical people standing there, cloaks on their shoulders and swords at their hips.
"Who are you?" Hailey asked without a moment's hesitation.
"I am Elladan." One of the dark-haired people said.
"And I am Elrohir." The other answered.
"We are the sons of Lord Elrond." Elladan said with a grin.
"Who is the Lord of Imladris, or Rivendell in your tongue." Elrohir finished.
"Wow." Hailey breathed. "That was weird."
"A bit." Sam agreed. "But," she whispered in the girl's ear. "They are pretty hot."
"Yeah, they are." Hailey giggled.
The men arched an eyebrow in unison, but said nothing about the comment.
"So…" Beau said suddenly. "If you're the sons of Lord Elrond, then that must make you-"
"Elves!" John cried out suddenly. "Real live Elves!"
"Indeed we are." Elladan said. Or was it Elrohir? The twins so were so identical that they were having difficulty remembering which was which. "In fact, it was our father who had summoned you here."
"Summoned us?" Leo repeated. "What do you mean, summoned us?"
"Of course!" Ginny said, slapping her forehead. "That would explain the complexity of the marks!"
The twins nodded. "You must be the wizard."
"Uh, Wicca, witch, whatever." Ginny said with a shrug. "But yes, I am."
"That is good." The Elves said. "Then you and your friends are to follow us."
"Follow you?" Sam cried. "Follow you? You think you can just come over here and expect us to follow you? What if you're some dangerous psychopathic killers who want to take us away and murder us one by one?"
"Sam…" Fred warned. "You're being crazy."
"No, actually," Strider said thoughtfully. "She does have a point. We've never met these people before, and suddenly, they appear here, and expect us to follow them wherever they want us to?"
"Now you're being paranoid." Leo said with a roll of his eyes. "If these are truly Elves, then we couldn't be with anyone safer."
"That is true." One of the twins said with a small smile. "We won't kill anyone, unless you are our Enemy, or you give us reason to."
"Although there is others who would warn you otherwise." The other said as an after thought.
"But please," the first one said. "Come with us. Our father is waiting in the Imladris for you. He had sent us to come and get you, since he didn't think that you would know your way into the city."
"And we shall meet Lord Glorfindel on the way." The other added.
"So, come, let us go and meet our father." The first said, and in one fluid movement, the two Elves spun around and led the way down the cliff and towards the city.
Ginny was the only one who followed without hesitation. The others lingered behind, watching the Elves and the witch as they walked off.
"Okay, if Ginny's going, it must be safe." Beau said slowly. "Come on John." And with that, the two guys hurried after their friend.
"What do you think, Leo?" Strider said, watching the Elves.
"I think it's safe." The blonde said. "I don't see any harm in following them, at any rate."
"Then let's go!" the dark haired boy said quickly. "I'm cold and hungry, and we're bound to find food there."
Hailey didn't even wait for her cousin to ask her what she thought. She simply skipped off after them, singing about food and mushrooms. Merry couldn't do anything else but to follow her.
"Ready?" Fred asked Sam. "Seeing as we are the last ones up here, and food does sound pretty good right now."
"I'm not so sure." Sam admitted. "I've always wanted to meet Elves, don't get me wrong, but they don't exist!"
"Well, they don't exist in our world." Fred pointed out. "But they obviously exist here."
"So?" Sam asked. "I still don't think it's safe."
"If they exist, Sam." He said slowly. "Then Orcs must exist. And if they exist, then we are liable to be attacked if we stay up here by ourselves."
"Alright, let's go!" Sam said quickly. "What are we waiting for?"
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