How cliché can you get?
Erin woke, not staring up at a clear blue sky, but face down in mud. She immediately sat up and groaned, wiping mud off her face. She couldn't see, but she knew she must look terrible, not to mention she had a splitting head ache. She looked around, and found she was sitting in the middle of a forest. It was quiet except for the rustling of the leaves and the occasional bird. Now she was very confused. And alone. And that caused her to panic.
Where are Leila and Bec? What am I doing out here alone? What happened?
Then the memories started to flood back. The book...something about the book….She tried to remember what the book was. It was thick, had a dark brown cover and gold writing on the front with a symbol.
Tolkien's symbol, she thought wildly, standing up. But that might mean…No, no don't even think it.
She had read many 'girl falls into middle earth fan fiction' and she refused to believe that it was happening to her.
I'm in a coma, some weird coma. That's all, she thought to herself as she got up and walked around. There was nothing else to do. If she was in a coma, nothing would hurt her here. She hadn't been walking very long when she came across a small clearing in the forest. A ray of sun fell straight through the gap in the trees and alighted upon two figures sitting in the exact middle of the clearing.
One figure and long black hair that fell down her back like, well, a black waterfall. She had green eyes like emeralds and her skin was as pale as moonlight. She wore a long gown that seemed to shimmer and change colour, from blue to black to gold. It hurt to look at it. Erin was staring at with her eyes watering when the figure stood and Erin recognized it was her own twin sister Leila.
"What the hell are you doing in my coma?!"
Leila seemed just as shocked to see Erin as Erin was to see her. Erin noticed that the other girl had golden hair like the sun, crystal blue eyes and a long, white gown that would have camouflaged perfectly with an ice berg in Antarctica. It had to be Bec.
Leila seemed to have found her voice.
"What do you mean your coma? Don't you get it? We're in Middle Earth, idiot!"
"Don't say that?" Erin screamed. "We can't be in Middle Earth, it's not possible! I'm in a coma, and you're just messing with my head!"
"Erin don't you see, it's the only explanation," said Bec, as if she were talking to a five year old. "Lady Leilana and I have been transported here by some unknown power to fulfill a great task and to meet our one true loves."
"Yes, I will be meeting with my love Legolas and Beauwen will be destined to meet and fall in love with Haldir"
Erin found this situation so absurd she actually laughed. Hysterically. For a long time she couldn't stop. Leila and Bec were using the names they had made up for a story they had written a few months ago. In it, the two characters Lady Leilana and Beauwen saved Middle Earth almost single handedly. Erin had found it so awful she had thrown it in the shredder. Leila hadn't spoken to her for weeks.
When she stopped laughing she said, "You realise how crazy this is? Neither of are as, well, beautiful as this in real life." They were beautiful, but it was a weird kind of beautiful. Continuing on, she said "And there is no way Legolas or Haldir would fall in love with you, even if this was Middle Earth."
Leila and Bec glared at her. "Well, no one asked you along Erin," Leila said snootily. "I see you're not unbelievably gorgeous. Guess the unknown powers thought you were a lost cause." Bec laughed a high pitch screeching sound. This taunt was lost on Erin however. It was true that she was same old Erin, wearing a pair of now dirty jeans, runners and a Snoopy dog t-shirt, but she didn't care. She didn't understand why, but she didn't care. Maybe it was because she respected canon, whereas Leila and Bec didn't.
If this is Middle Earth, which it isn't. I'm still in a coma, she thought. She didn't say anything in retaliation though. She was never good with comebacks, which made Leila think she'd won. Smiling triumphantly she turned and arm in arm with Bec started to walk off. Erin watched them go with satisfaction. Her head ache was now far worse. As she sat down however she heard something that made her wish she was still unconscious.
"Daro!"
Erin groaned to herself. She turned and saw Leila and Bec standing stock still. In front of them were three tall, handsome men…who were not men. Two had dark brown hair that was neatly braided. The third and easily most regal one had golden hair. All three had pointed ears and arrows pointed straight at the girls hearts.
Erin groaned again. "Holy crap…."
A/N: Well, the second chapters up in a day. I'm hoping people are enjoying it. Suggestions and reviews always welcome. Bit of a cliff hanger ending there but I'll have the next chapter up soon, don't worry!