Disclaimer-Once again, I don't own Lord of the Rings.

CHAPTER 3

Mary Sue found herself by a swift, flowing river. She blinked her wide, perfect eyes and looked around. Was she really in Middle Earth? Or was her fairy godmother too drunk to know what she was talking about?

She heard hoof beats. Mary Sue ran into the middle of the river, for she was deathly afraid of being trampled. A rider on a large white horse broke through the trees. Mary Sue stared, then whimpered slightly as the horse charged to the other side of the river. The rider didn't seem to notice Mary Sue. Mary Sue pouted. She wasn't used to being ignored. Everybody loved her. She didn't understand what was going on.

As she thought these things, five more horses burst through the trees and chased the white rider. Mary Sue screamed and fell over backwards into the water, scared half to death. The rider on the white horse glanced in her direction, but still didn't see her. Mary Sue curled up into a little ball and cried because her dress was wet and she was cold and now these ugly black horses were going to trample her and she'd look ugly at her funeral. The rider on the white horse started to say something. Mary Sue tried in vain to grab something, anything to keep her from going downstream. The water was rising and the current was growing strong. "Oh my," said Mary Sue to herself, "I can't swim!" This thought made her cry harder because if she was carried down the river, no one would find her body and then she wouldn't even have the opportunity to look pretty at her funeral! Talk about unfair!

And still the water continued to rise. Mary Sue was tossed around in a most unladylike fashion. She couldn't breathe. She kept getting sucked under the rushing waters. "So this is the end," she cried. But at that exact moment, someone grabbed her and dragged her to shore. Mary Sue fainted dead away as soon as she reached land.

The white rider stared at her and shook her head. "I should have just let her drown," she said. "I can't believe I just saved a Mary Sue." But, being way too nice to just throw Mary Sue back in the river, Arwen daughter of Elrond carried her to the healers and hoped she wouldn't have to put up with her again.