Return of the Ring: From Five

by Phoenix and Moon

Moon: Five completely normal XX Phoenix: define normal... XX girls go back in time to find themselves playing a big part in a war. Promise to torture all OC's. Set as sequal to Lord of the Rings. Chapters get longer as they progress. Long story I promise

4. Happy negative 987th Bday

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Noeli was getting pretty good with her dagger, but hadn't been offensive with it yet. Raul also noticed that rock bending took a lot of stamina, so Noeli couldn't do it non-stop. The eldest of the group had predicted this, that's why she had gone off the day of training. She had also gone off for the past week and 6 days as well, telling no one where or what she was doing. Nelena and Ria wouldn't have liked it, and it was a surprise for Noeli, the leader of their group.

On the first day, she had gone far into the forest so that no one could hear her. She then started to chop down a strong tree. It wasn't easy, so she stopped at lunchtime to walk back to the camp, where she had a sandwich and watched Noeli and Nelena train. Noeli's rock bending skills surprised her, and then she remembered that Noeli was the dwarf child. Dwarves were miners. So she shrugged it off as one of the other peculiar things that had occurred. She went back and picked up the hatchet again, then restarted hacking at the tree.

She had felled the tree by the time it was dark, and found rest in sleep.

The next day, she had gone off to carve the tree. She was intending to make a 5 ft bow staff out of it. She had carved the tree into a 5 ft piece by nighttime, but it was still a few feet across. She was going for a 2-½ inch diameter, which she had just gotten it to yesterday.

Raul ate her sandwich, and then waited for the others to finish. She then got up and walked over to where she had slept. The others cocked their heads. Raul picked up the wooden weapon and hid it behind her 5'1" frame. It was barely hidden, but the others still couldn't see it. She walked over to Noeli and pulled the present out from behind her back.

"Happy, uhh… negative 987th birthday, Noeli!" Raul smiled. Noeli smiled too when she saw the gift.

"Wow Raul! So that's what you were doing all this time." Noeli gratefully took it. "Thanks! I can't believe I have my own staff after all this time using your spares when we sparred." Noeli got up and twirled it around nearly expertly.

"-987th birthday. Never dreamed of having one of these!"