Chapter 2: The First Encounter

A/N: Hey guys! If you're reading this chapter it means I miraculously hooked you to my story. Yay! Hugs to all those reading! This chapter will be in Legolas' point of view by the way. This chapter is getting to the good stuff! And also, I'm sure you all noticed that one of the genres is Romance. This means a possibility of one of the Fellowship with my OC Diana (or other OC's, haven't thought that far). Anyways if you have suggestions or requests for who gets together with who, please leave it in a review or message me. So on to the story...

My bow is pointed at the girl though I don't know why. She doesn't seem to be dangerous, and she couldn't harm us if she tried. I put my bow down and I motion for the others to do the same.

She looks at all of us with what I can only describe as amazement. She looks at all of us individually, Aragorn, Gimli, Boromir, me, Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin and then she looks at all of us again.

The girl says something, obviously not to us, but something. I can't understand it, it is not the common tongue nor my own tongue, nor any language I have ever heard, which almost amazes me, in all of my long years I thought I had heard all until proven wrong at this very moment.

She says the word again, more excitedly this time and louder. More words come and I listen hard in an attempt to understand with no luck.

A human boy comes running from a small staircase to the left. He is younger than the girl and by the way they act and look at each other I just know they are siblings. She has a slight defensive position around the boy.

They start talking to each other, and he looks just as amazed as her. Finally they turn to us and the girl steps forward. I am surprised yet impressed by her boldness, she must only have been 14 or 15 years.

The girl says something to us in her tongue, then puts a hand to her chest, and says "Diana," and I assume that this is the girls' name. Diana then points to the boy and says "Andrew."

What she does next shocks me and I'm sure each one of us beyond belief. Diana steps closer and points at each one of us and says,

"Aragorn. Gimli. Boromir. (unknown word) Legolas. (she curtsied like the elven maids when she said my name which caused more shock and... pride? I don't know, a feeling but I'm not sure what, I am also assuming that the word she said before my name was prince, what else would it be?) Frodo, Samwise, Merry and Pippin."

The fact that she knew all of our names was... beyond words. I have so many questions for her, but I had already figured out that we do not speak the same tongue. She spoke again, to me this time.

"Prince Legolas. What elven language do you speak? Quenyan, or Sindarin?"

All I understood of what she said was my name, and 'Quenyan' and 'Sindarin'. I shook my head indicated that I did not understand, she turned to Aragorn and at that moment I understood. She was obviously asking a question, as was the tone of her voice. The girl asked me, and was about to ask Aragorn, something only the two of us would have the answer to, what language we spoke, Quenyan, language of the high elves, or Sindarin, the more common tongue. I spoke her name and she looked at me and smiled when I said "Sindarin."

At that point Aragorn understood and said to us all,

"She must know of the elven languages, I don't know how but she does. If so we can communicate with her and find out where we are."

"Well I think we can safely say we're not dead. Why would the lass and lad be here?" Gimli said while Pippin rolled his eyes, I smiled, Gimli finally caught up to the rest of us. The lad in question, Andrew his name was, was standing there just watching us, it was a little unnerving but thank goodness Diana returned.

Diana came back holding some object of which I have never seen the likes of before. It was shaped like a book, only it was turned the wrong way. I peeked over and saw small squares with what looked like symbols, probably letters of some kind. I had no idea what it was but the boy ran over and looked at the glowing part of it, the part that was opposite to the symbols. She raised her hand and the boy hit it with his hand. I was concerned at first but she smiled so I assumed it was some childish thing. But mostly I was wondering what she was doing.

"We can't just stand here like statues. We're wasting time, we have to find out where we are and how to get back to Isengard," Boromir complained. The girl looked up when he said Isengard, how does she know of Isengard?

"Patience friend, there is no need to worry, I think the girl may be of help to us," I said to him.

Finally the girl looked at us again and said "Aragorn, Legolas" and waved her hand in a 'come here' motion. Aragorn and I looked at each other and did as she said. Diana pointed at the glowing part and in amazement I saw elven letters, so neatly made, I did not bother with petty details, obviously she went to some trouble attempting to communicate with us so I read.

'My name is Diana. This is my brother Andrew. We know who you are, and everything about you, don't ask how, but we do not know how you got here. I heard Boromir say Isengard so I assume that's where you were headed. We will not hurt you, we are friends. You must stay with us until we can find out what happened, and how we can help you get back home. Obviously you have noticed the language barrier. I will use my computer (the last word was a word of her language and I do not know what it means) to write you messages until I can teach you English which is my language. I will give you a list of English words, and help you all learn as well as you can so we may speak easier. Come into the kitchen, I'm sure you're all hungry, and would like food.'

Aragorn and I read the message and relayed what it said to the others. We talked amongst ourselves, to decide if we should trust her. She spoke like an adult, it was surprising.

"I think we can trust her, she offered us food so I like her already," Pippin said rather quickly, of course the hobbits were happy, they were hungry and Diana offered us food, they may not trust her but they at least respect her and appreciate her kindness.

"She has given us food, shelter, and a promise of help, what more can we ask for?" said Gimli.

I offered my own input, "Let us at least stay the night, and if she does not do anything treacherous than we can decide from there."

"She knows the elven tongue and will teach us her own, I find that very interesting," added Aragorn.

Boromir said nothing against the girl nor nothing in her favour, so he must be confused which I understand. I, for one decided to trust her and I followed her into her kitchen. She smiled when she saw that I came. I don't see her as a threat, and I finally started to relax. The others followed me in one by one, like always. She opened a white thing, some sort of food storage I suppose, and then she turned and gestured for us to sit down. We sat on the wooden chairs and I looked around at everything. It was all incredible, this dwelling, while it was clearly not of elvish make, it matched the elves work and even surpassing it to some degree. She hands us all a big plate of fruit, most of which I have never seen, she gestured to it, and we ate the plate clean in nearly seconds. It was all delicious, the most wonderful fruits I had ever seen, but I hoped that wasn't what passed for a meal this place, apparently not because she smiled and held up a finger.

While she prepared more food I actually looked at Diana. She wasn't wearing a dress, she was wearing some kind of short pants, ending just below her knees, made of a blue material of which the likes I had never seen before. And what was even more odd, she wore a darker blue sleeveless tunic. Was this how the women dressed in this area? If so it was certainly much different from the dresses that the women wore at home.

In a few minutes more she turned around and handed all but me a plate with a light coloured meat on it. At first I was confused but once again she held a finger up at me and handed me a plate filled with lettuce and other assorted vegetables. I smiled, she said she knew us, but I did not know that she would have known that I do not eat meat. She smiled back and then called for her brother, and handed him a plate with a sausage wrapped in bread and he seemed happy then sat at the table with us. The boy seemed like a genuinely happy child, although the staring earlier was odd I can understand.

We all sat around the table, talking and eating, the Fellowship amongst ourselves and the human siblings. There was joking and laughter from all and I felt that we were in a good and safe place, although I do not know where that is.

After dinner, it started to get dark, so she led us all down the staircase that her brother had come up earlier, she led us to another indescribable room, with coloured fabric floors and some sort of black rectangle though I do not know its purpose. Diana laid out blankets and pillows all over the floor and I assumed that these were to be our sleeping arrangements.

As I laid down I noticed the pillow was of the softest material that had ever touched my skin, and the blanket was brightly coloured, this must be a house of some kind of royalty. It did not take long for me to fall asleep though I heard someone snoring, the hobbits most likely, and even so, it was the best sleep I had in days.

A/N: So excited, we're really starting to get somewhere, and at this moment I'm planning some shenanigans for a few certain hobbits next chapter ;) I loved writing Legolas' first look at a laptop, I mean they've never seen any kind of technology so it was interesting. Again thank you so much for reading, and please review, the good, the bad, what you thought, anything, even to just tell me about your day :) The next chapter will be up ASAP and most likely in Pippin's P.O.V.