Chapter 3: I'm New
"So, now you must come with me." Gandalf ordered. He took my arm, dragged me outside, and led me to the backyard. He guided me through a garden and then some kind of farm land. It seemed like forever.
"We're almost to the point." Gandalf explained.
"What point?" I asked. He wasn't holding on to me anymore. I ran after him.
"I must leave you to follow Frodo." Gandalf replied. He started to speed ahead of me. Wait, I was behind an OLD MAN! I to sped up and caught up with him, but once I did, I slammed into his back; he had stopped.
"Ow!" I cried.
"Sorry! You should have been warned." Gandalf retorted.
"Ya think?" I asked eyes wide. He ignored that comment.
"You must head down that road, but stay off of it." Gandalf heeded.
"Follow the road? Like The Wizard of Oz?" I asked, my blonde moment appeared.
"Uh, I don't know of what you speak. But you must go, now! Please hurry!" Gandalf pushed me onto the road. And with that, he disappeared into a cloud of smoke. His voice flew with the wind.
"You must stay off the road!" And the voice was gone. I jumped off the road and stared at the place the old man once stood.
"What a weird man." I said to myself. I looked ahead. "Well, I must do what I said." I then started to walk on. After what seemed like an hour, a strange gust of wind blew past me and a chill went up my spine. I heard some voices ahead. I ran once I heard even the faintest whisper.
Finally! People!, I thought. I ran ahead to find four short men, and when I mean short, I MEAN SHORT! One was looking to the other direction as the other three scavenged at a tree.
"What an odd thing to do." I said out loud, not meaning for it to be heard. All of the short men, from what I remembered Gandalf called them hobbits, shot there attention at my direction.
"Who are you?" One of the one's at the tree stood. He had blonde hair and I noticed, another one, that was still sitting, looked similar to him.
"Um…I'm…" But I was cut off by the hobbit that seemed to be like the leader, who shouted,
"Get off the road! GET OFF THE ROAD!" And the hobbits grabbed my arms and pulled me off the road and under a tree. A second later, there was a shrill cry from the distance. This cry made me shake, but not in fear, but in anger. Another minute past and all the hobbits slowly looked up, so I followed their motions. Up above us was a dark and evil figure that wore black, what seemed like rags. He, if it was a he, had no face, but a black hole where his hood fell over what was supposed to be his face. I almost screamed, but both blonde hobbits held my mouth. I peered over to the leader hobbit, who slowly took a ring on a chain, out from under his shirt. The dark figure jumped off of its horse, which the horse seemed to be dead, and yet it was alive. The leader hobbit was about to put on the ring, as the dark rider, I'll call him, kneeled down, and was about a foot above me! Talk about scary, and this guy was WAY beyond the scary point. You know when someone jumps out at you and how your heart stops for a second, well; my heart stayed like that the whole time the dark rider was in my presence. The other hobbit, the one I haven't described, grabbed the leading hobbits hand to stop him from putting on that ring. Once the ring was away from the hobbit's finger, the dark rider got back on its horse and rode away. A minute later, the hobbits got up and pulled me from under the very tight tree.
The leading hobbit, with the ring that seemed to draw me to it, concealed the ring. All the hobbits faced me, and they were so cute! They were half my size.
"Who are you?" The one who asked me earlier asked again.
"Aye!" The other blonde one spoke.
"Um…I'm Shadow. I was sent here…" But the leading it turned to look the other direction into the woods.
"You are so bothered? Why so? Oh, you must be Frodo!" I rhymed and didn't mean to! The hobbit turned my way with a questionable face.
"How do you know my name?" He asked, he had a darkness upon him, and it was a powerful darkness.
"Well, Gandalf sent me." I explained.
"Gandalf? Why did he send you?" The other hobbit, the one who stopped the other lead hobbit from the ring asked. I will call that hobbit the fat one.
"I have no on earthly idea. But I do know I'm here to help guard a guy named Frodo and some sort of magical ring." I answered, in a unknowing kind of tone.
"You? Why you?" The blonde hobbit asked, not the twin one, and the twin one seemed to be the goofy one.
"Hey! I don't know! Why not me?" I asked in offense.
"You're a girl!" He replied.
"So?" I said, I glowered over him.
"I am Frodo. Gandalf must have a reason for this. We must not linger." Frodo ordered. He started to walk off.
"Wait!" I called after him.
"What?" He asked.
"What are their names?" I asked as if they weren't there.
"Hey! We can tell you!" The other blonde one shouted, the funny one.
"Okay then. What are your names?" I asked.
"I'm Pippin." The funny one responded.
"I am Merry." The other blonde announced.
"And I am Sam, Samwise Gamgee." The fat hobbit said, and he offered me his hand. I shook it.
"Nice to meet you all. You may call me Shadow or Shade." I offered.
"You are most beautiful." Sam said to me, he stared at me like I was the sky.
"Thank you!" I smiled to that. Frodo just walked on. I ran up, or may I say, down to him. Hehehehe!
"Where are we going? I need to be informed. I am new here and all." I told him. The other hobbits followed.
"What do you mean by new?" Frodo paused.
"Gandalf pulled me through a portal. I'm from some different time." I explained.
"You're what!" Frodo asked in surprise.
"Yup! Now, where are we going?" I demanded.
"We are going to the Prancing Pony." Frodo finally gave in. He wasn't the easiest guy to have a conversation with, or was it me?
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