Disclaimer: I do not own Lord of the Rings or Hobbit
A/N: The title is inspired by a Pippin quote from the movie of Fellowship of the Ring
A Different Sort of Mission... Quest... Thing
Chapter 1. Sent Back In Time
There is no better group of friends than the Four Hobbits: Frodo Baggins, Pippin Took, Sam Gamgee and Merry Brandybuck.
It was during the 17 years after Bilbo left the Shire for good and before Frodo sells Bag End to the Sackville-Bagginses (but after Gandalf has told him the truth about the Ring) where the story begins.
Pippin, Sam and Merry were visiting Frodo at Bag End and Pippin had brought something with him. Frodo greeted his friends at the door. He had insisted to Sam to take a break from gardening. The Four Hobbits had gone into the drawing-room.
"What's that you've got there, Mr Pippin?" Sam asked, suddenly.
"Do you really want to know?" asked a voice.
"Does the Took even know?" added another.
"It's possible" put in a third. The Four Hobbits looked behind them to see three more Hobbits in the room.
"You know what Pippin's got?" asked Frodo, incredulously.
"We also know what it can do if activated." one of the Hobbits answered.
"How rude we have been so far, cousin!" exclaimed the third Hobbit in mock only-just-realization.
"How can we explain things if they don't know who we are?" added the second, pretending that they didn't know.
"Who are ye then?" asked Sam, gruffly, not admitting that he (like his masters, was curious) but, at the same time, still slightly wary of the newcomers.
"I am Rumür Farfield." answered the first Hobbit.
"I'm Estar Holhock" replied the second Hobbit; as an afterthought, Estar added "I'm what may or may not be known as a 'transgender Hobbit'. It's not very common; in fact there is one other whom has the condition and she is not here. In other words: I'm actually a lass even though I look like a lad." she explained.
"They know me as Bagöl Farfield." introduced the third.
"I haven't seen any of you around the Shire." commented Frodo.
"I've been around," admitted Bagöl "even though us Hobbryds aren't exactly allowed to."
"Hobbryds?" asked Merry.
"What's that?" added Pippin.
"Hobbyrds - as the name suggests - is a 'Hobbit Hybrid Branch'. It means we have all three Hobbit blood types in our DNA." Estar added, seeing the confused expressions on the faces of the Four.
"We're getting of topic here." Rumür scolded his two cousins (for he, Bagöl and Estar were all first cousins through their parents (his and Bagöl's fathers and Estar's mother all being children of Wiran Farfield (who will not come into this story))) "You want to know what that thing does, right?" four curly heads nod "Then why don't we all find out."
"Beggin' your pardon Mr Rumür, I thought you an' yer cousins knew." Sam pointed out.
"It's a Farfield thing." said Bagöl.
"This is going to sound creepy," put in Estar, changing the topic "you four could introduce yourselves even though we know who you are."
Frodo, Pippin, Merry and Sam went through their names one by one.
"The heartstring is still intact." muttered Bagöl.
"What heartstring?" asked the ever curious Pippin.
"On the day Frodo was born, I chose to share a heartstring with him; even though, we were the same age (in years; I'm slightly older in days)." Bagöl answered.
"You never told me about that, Frodo." Merry reprimanded his older cousin.
The object Pippin still had - and of which they had all forgotten - suddenly opened itself. Inside was a small square based pyramid; on which was a slightly large orb. Without warning, the orb exploded and the room seemed to have gone brighter. Then, everything went black.
A/N: Heh heh, couldn't help adding OCs there. Please R & R.