So here's Chapter 2! I wasn't planning on updating so soon but I really wanted to edit my first chapter so I thought I'll just add chapter 2 while I'm at it. Thank you so much for the reviews, I've edited my first chapter and all the other chapters will have paragraphs.
Disclaimer: Anything that is from Middle Earth is J.R.R Tolkien's. I only own Eliza, Leia, and Lexi.
Eliza had no idea where she was. After she found out that the darkness was because her eyes were closed, she realised she was no longer in Leia's apartment but someplace outdoors.
To her right was what seemed to be the start of a forest, while to her left were little rolling hills with perfectly round doors attached. At the front of each door were beautiful gardens with blooming flowers. Some little people were seen working in them. All of this appeared strangely familiar to Eliza. Though she couldn't recall where.
Thinking that she better find out where she was. She started to walk towards an old man wearing long grey robes. She noticed that her once tight fitting green singlet top and dark-wash shorts were now to long for her. With her shorts stopping before her knees. That's Weird.
The man looked up at her as she approached. "And what can I do for a Lady Dwarf such as yourself?" He asked.
Startled because he called her a dwarf she halted mid step before continuing on. "I was just wondering if you could tell me where I was," replied Eliza stopping before the man. She ignored the fact that he called her a dwarf since the man was quite tall. She only came up to eyelevel with him, and he was sitting on a rock. He probably called everyone a dwarf.
"Your in The Shire, my dear, but surely you already know that?" he asked.
Obviously if she knew then she wouldn't have asked. "No I didn't" Eliza said, "I'm lost. Do you happen to know the way to Robina?" Eliza had never heard of The Shire before. She was pretty sure it wasn't in Queensland.
The man just looked at her confused. "In all my years I've never heard of a place called Robina before," he said, "How did you come to be here?"
"Well, I was at my friend's apartment for the night, watching a new movie that had just been released. Then as we were chatting, there was like this voice, and then all of a sudden there was this flash of light. And well, that's how I came to be here." She said knowing how silly all of it sounded. Eliza was not one to simply believe a light could bring her to a place she had never been before.
The man was looking at her curiously. "And what did that voice say?" he asked.
"Um," She said trying her best to remember, "Something about a Valar and help."
Something seemed to have clicked in the old man's mind, for he looked at Eliza shocked. "I believe that the Valar has sent you here from the other world." Then noticing Eliza's confused face he continued, "It's happened before, but not since the First Age."
Eliza didn't know what to say. She just stared at the man; she didn't even know what to think. "And what is this world called?" she asked slowly.
"Middle Earth" He answered.
"And who are you?" Eliza asked not able to get her head around the fact that she was in Middle Earth.
"Why how rude of me," Exclaimed the man, "I'm Gandalf the Grey."
"Gandalf," she murmured, trying to think of someone from 'The Hobbit' called Gandalf. "Oh! Gandalf! The wizard! I'm Elizabeth Collins by the way " She said.
"You know of me? Asked Gandalf.
Eliza mentally smacked herself for getting carried away. "Yeah, you see, they're these movies back from where I come from. That tells of a wizard, thirteen dwarves, and a hobbit that go on a quest to slay a dragon." She said wondering if Gandalf would understand.
"I see," Said Gandalf, "I think the Valar has sent you here for you to be part of the quest."
"What! No, I can't go Gandalf! I barely even know what's going to happen," Said Eliza.
"Tell me, if you could change anything about the story, what would it be?" Gandalf asked.
Eliza tried to think of something Leia or Lexi didn't like. I don't think the Durins should have died though. "The three Durins die, Gandalf, I think Azog kills them," Said Eliza.
Gandalf looked shocked for a moment before pulling out his smoking pipe and started to blow impressive smoke rings. After a few moments he said, "Well that's settled then; you will accompany us on this quest. It appears that the Valar wants you to save Durin's line."
Eliza on the other hand was starting to panic. She didn't want to be in this world, and she definitely didn't want to go on a quest to a mountain where a dragon was. "But why me, Gandalf!" Eliza said becoming hysterical, "Why could the Valar not have chosen someone else?"
Gandalf looked thoughtful for a moment as he watched his rings of smoke float away. "I believe, Miss Collins, that the Valar believed that it was not just the Durins' fate that could be changed," he said.
"And what do you mean by that?" She asked folding her arms over her chest, while trying to control her temper.
Glancing away from his smoke rings to look at her. Gandalf replied vaguely, "When the time is right, my dear, you will understand."
I've decided to end the chapter here, I felt that Eliza's and Gandalf's conversation needed a chapter of it's own. I'm thinking of making this an eventual Thorin/OC story. Though eventual, because realistically it wouldn't happen straight away anyway. Please review!