Chapter 5: The Mall... Part One

A/N: Hey everybody! Sorry for the wait on the chapter, I'll do my very best to update regularly :) A very big hug to those who review, it's very much appreciated and is very encouraging :) I'm sorry for all of the spelling errors and various other mistakes, I didn't have time to look it over so I'm sorry about that. Anyways this chapter will be done in Sam's P.O.V., I've been wanting to do it for a while plus I got a request and I think it will be fun to see what Sam is thinking about the mall, and in general as I haven't written much about him, so anyways here's the chapter, enjoy!

I looked at it again. "Miss Diana, how does this work? How will it get us to the mall you've been speaking about? And what is it called?"

"It's called a car Sam, it's kind of like a horseless carriage, it runs on something called gasoline," Miss Diana replied.

"But how does it work?"

She smiled and laughed a little. "You'll see."

Yesterday Miss Diana told us she was going to take us to the mall, now as far as I can tell, it is lots of merchants all in one place, mostly selling clothing, but there were other things there too, like merchants that sell food, Miss Diana calls it fast food.

Her mother came outside and said, "Are you all ready for your first ride in the car?"

Merry and Pippin were really excited about it and called going first, only three or four of us could go at once. Pippin yelled as loud as he possibly could, "OH YEAH!"

"Pip, don't you think that was a little loud?" Merry reprimanded though he was laughing the entire time.

I grinned while thinking about those two, they were so much fun to be around, they made everything happier and more exciting, and while I can't believe I'm saying this, "I call going first too!" Although I felt a little bad about leaving Mr. Frodo behind, I knew that I would see him soon, and he would be perfectly safe with the others so it would be okay.

Diana said, "Okay then, we have our first group, we'll go to the mall, I'll stay with Merry, Pippin and Sam in front of the mall while my mom goes to get the rest of you. And also we're gonna have to go over some rules. One, absolutely, under no circumstance will there be any weapons, is that understood?"

Everybody nodded and one by one we all put our swords and various weapons inside, though it felt weird and a little scary to go anywhere without my sword, Miss Diana assured us that there was no need for them so that made me feel a little better.

"Secondly we all have to stick together, it can be very easy to get lost in there so stick with me, got it?"

Everybody agreed and then she said, "Okay everybody in!" She opened what looked like doors, small doors, and inside there were seats. We climbed into them and Miss Diana tied us in with seat belts she called them. When I asked her what they were for she said, "Safety" and then closed the door. She got into a seat ahead of us and then her mother came in too. Miss Diana started talking, too fast for any of us to understand but they didn't talk long.

Suddenly there was a sound, that sounded almost like some kind of beast growling and it was frightening. Merry asked, "Lady Diana (no matter how many times she told him not to Merry still called Miss Diana, 'Lady Diana') what is that noise? It sounds like some kind of animal."

Miss Diana laughed as hard as I had seen her laugh today (because she laughed a lot, she was similar to Merry and Pippin in that way) and Merry blushed before she said, "No no Merry, that's just the sound of the car, it's perfectly fine, you'll get used to it." She smiled and at least I felt reassured.

The car started moving backwards slowly and I was amazed, until now I hadn't really believed that it could move without horses and all on its own. It turned onto the road and it went forward, and faster. It was absolutely incredible. The car had windows so Merry and I looked out them and at the landscape passing by while Pippin complained that he couldn't see out the window. Miss Diana hit a what she said was called a button and music started playing. The music of this world was so much different from the music at home, and some kind of magic (though Diana insisted that it was 'technology', which I think is just a fancy word for magic) allows it to be played from certain devices, which was incredible but strange. The music was so different that it was indescribable, it wasn't all to bad though, it was something you got used to over time.

Miss Diana loved to sing and dance so whenever music came on she would, and that made Merry really happy to see her dancin' and singin'. We all knew (us hobbits anyways) that Merry had a thing for Miss Diana, he didn't say anything, but we had all known him long enough to know that look on his face, it was like a mask, didn't take a genius to see it, the others probably knew too, a couple of us were placing bets on when he'd make a move, it was fun to watch.

The music was loud and distracting, but the song that was playing right now was actually really good. "What is the name of this song?"

"It's called On the Floor Sam, you like it? Miss Diana replied.

"I do Miss Diana," I said. She smiled and turned up the volume...

...If you go hard you gotta get on the floor
If you're a party freak then step on the floor
If you're an animal then tear up the floor
Break a sweat on the floor
Yeah we work on the floor
Don't stop keep it moving
Put your drinks up
Pick your body up and drop it on the floor
Let the rhythm change your world on the floor
You know we're running shit tonight on the floor
Brazil, Morocco
London to Ibiza
Straight to L.A. New York
Vegas to Africa (Dale!)...

The song was one that repeated itself, so it got into your head, the words were easy to remember so I sang along with Miss Diana, and eventually Merry and Pippin sang along with us, even Miss Diana's mother sang with us. It was the most fun thing ever, I was almost sad when Miss Diana said that we had arrived at the mall. It was amazing, a huge building made of who knows what, with thousands of cars around it, lots of people were walking around outside, humans of course, Miss Diana said that only humans lived here. But anyways we got out and Miss Diana's mother said that she would be back with the rest of the Fellowship as soon as she could. We stepped out of the car and waited outside the door of the mall, many people walked in and out, and most people stared at us, it was uncomfortable. But the rest of the Fellowship arrived, bit by bit and when Mr Frodo got here we all talked about the car, it was all so interesting.

When everybody got there, Miss Diana said, "Are you guys ready?" Most of us answered with a nod, or a "As ready as I'll ever be," statement (Aragorn). We stepped through the door and my eyes widened at what I saw.

A/N: End! Not really, half way through writing this I decided to make it a part one/part two thing, so tomorrow you'll find out what happens... Exciting I know :) I've decided that I'm going to post one chapter a day, I promise.

Matthew: You just get tired of typing don't you?

Me: Of course not, well a little, eventually my hands get numb but that's not the issue! One chapter a day and that's final.

Matthew: Pfff, sure...

Me: What did you say?

Matthew: Nothing nothing...

Right. Anyways I'm gonna do my best to get a little more sleep, I'm getting a little lazy with these chapters (or at least in my opinion), they will be better :) As always, I would love reviews, praise, constructive criticism, especially that, I'd love to know what I can do to make this story better :)