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Post by True Love's Kiss on Sept 30, 2014 0:54:58 GMT -5
Grace opened up the locket to find inside of it was a picture of her parents. An image of Frodo on the left side with an image of Angel on the right side. Now with those pictures of her parents in it, Grace will always had a reminder of her good old home and her folks. She closed the locket shut and put it on around her neck where she would always wear it. Her smile was gone when Gandalf had addressed to her about leaving the name Gracious Baggins behind for a newer name.
"How about Prim?" Grace asks them. "Prim?" Sam didn't quite caught it til he figure out what the new name the princess picked out was short for. "Ah, I got it! Like Primula! The middle name your dad gave you after your late grandma."
"Mmm-hmm, that's right Uncle Sam. But Prim will be shorter and easier to go by." Grace said. Most of them had been always going by nicknames, so what better way to keep her new name under wraps by a nickname of her own too? "My new name is going to be Prim! Prim...uhh....Underhill. Yep, that's it. Prim Underhill!" It was the perfect fake name to go by, hopefully maybe it won't drawn out too much attention for any new faces they may yet come to find.
"Underhill? Ohh boy!" Sam chuckled shaking his head. "What? What's wrong with Underhill?" Grace asks when she saw the smirk on the hobbit's face, not getting what it was that Samwise Gamgee found silly of. "Nothing." Sam lied, but gave her the truth anyway. "Just a bit of reminder, your dad gone through the same last name too when we had gone traveling, so was not to be identified. Isn't that right Mister Gandalf?"
"So what? It's all I got!" Grace remarked. "And there is nothing wrong with it!" Goldie say to her friend's full support of the name choosing. Grace nodded at her friend, thanking quite quietly for her positive thoughts on it. The wizard/hobbit princess rode up alongside next to Gandalf to ask him a question about the name of Bilbo that has been bugging her mind since yesterday last night. "Gandalf, do you know someone by the name of Bilbo Baggins?" She asks the wizard. "I found his name in a book from our royal library yesterday."
"You mean the old red book your dad wrote his tale in?" Sam asks. He was very quite familiar with the old book Grace was talking about. The same old book Frodo helped finished after his uncle's tale was over. "He never told you about him?" He asks by surprised. "Should I know about Bilbo?" Grace asks when Sam was overhearing her question she waited for Gandalf to answer to.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Oct 6, 2014 20:55:45 GMT -5
"Prim Underhill? Not a bad name and should work well enough." Amir told his cousin when she announced the new name she was going to go by to the group.
"Bilbo? Yes I know Bilbo. He was your great uncle from your father's side though I must say I'm surprised he never mentioned him to you before given how close the two of them were. He raised your father from a child you know and I knew him from a child as well before taking him on his very first adventure which was written all about it in that book I believe." Gandalf spoke casually keeping it brief for now as it was really Frodo's place to talk to her about Bilbo rather than his own and like all other wizards he much rather keep information to himself only sparing information which he believed to be important and when the time called for it.
"Yes I remember hearing about that tale. He went to the Misty Mountains with a band of dwarves to take back the mountains from the dragon Smaug." Arowen spoke up.
"That's right." Gandalf replied with a nod of the head.
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Oct 6, 2014 21:34:10 GMT -5
"How come your dad never talk to you about Bilbo before Grace?" Samwise, the father of the two Gamgee siblings asks the wizard/hobbit princess.
But all Grace did was just shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know." She reply, a little bit unfairly how she, most of them all, wasn't told much about her late great-uncle, but given what had been share to her, he did sounded very special.
"Papa, was Bilbo the nice old hobbit who told us the tales we're talking about? When we used to live in The Shire?" Goldie asks, trying to recall of the time she used to see Bilbo around when they used to spend their little small lives at the time from The Shire, but those memories were a bit of the very little faintly side.
"You remember Goldilocks?" Sam asks his daughter. Goldie nodded her head. "Very small bit of it!" She told him.
"Then how come I never met him?" Grace asked. It had seem only her best friend Goldie and Tom were the only two they ever saw got to see old Bilbo Baggins, given that they were the oldest outta all of them. But given how they were very little, Tom and Goldie could not remember whatever did happened to the elderly old hobbit.
Grace notice the sheer disappointed look in Sam's face as she saw him hunging his head down sadly. Maybe if Frodo was there, he would tell her the truth about Bilbo's death, but since the king wasn't with them, somebody had to tell the princess. "Bilbo is....well he's ummm....uhhh..." Sam try to responded, but what was there for him to tell her? "Let's just say he's no longer with us."
Grace look at the hobbit with a frown on her face. "Oh..." She said, hinting some sad disappointment in her tone. "What happened to him?" She asks, awaiting to hear what was the cause of it.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Oct 6, 2014 21:40:40 GMT -5
"He passed years ago of a heart attack before you were born Gracious though he did live to be older than most hobbits ever had." Gandalf told Grace matter of factly.
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Oct 6, 2014 22:11:58 GMT -5
Soon afterword, the group stop for their rest break to give the horses a rest. Sam started getting to work cooking up a hearty meal of full meat sausages and a pot of boiling hot stew. While the kids were keeping busy chit chatting mostly to each other or with the other adults, Grace sat alone staring at the lovely view to watch.
It made her felt a bit envy on the jealously side that Kassie and Amir were able to have their dads with them on their journey, including for Tom and Goldie to have their father Sam with them along too. She felt homesick, but most of all she missed her parents. But then, Kassie stop on by to join her by giving her big cousin some company. "Why the long face?" The she-hobbit asks.
"There's no long face. This is my face!" Grace says, sticking her head up highly to show no signs of being a pout, but Kassie can tell that she was lying. She missed her family, and for that, it was understandable. "I know what to do to cheer you up!" Kassie remarked brightly. "See Tom over there? Taking a nap?" She pointed over to where Tom was snoozing at.
"Yeah?" Says Grace, already telling some inner prank was going to come. "Well..." Kassie gestured her head, implying for Grace to lean down to tell her of an idea she wanted to share. Leaning down to her level, Kassie whispered in Grace's ear of a well thought out joke that was sure to be a howling good time.
"Oh that's perfect!!" Grace grins excitedly. "Shhh!!" Kassie shushed her quietly to keep a straight face so the others wouldn't have to hear. "This way!" Grace followed right behind Kassie and being the sneaks they were, they tip toe away not very far from the group and get two bags and headed down over to where the horses were to scoop out a little bit of a smelly surprise for Tom he would never forget.
When they came back, Grace gave Tom a bit of a poke to nudge him awake. "Tom?" A shorten snort escaped from the sleepy boy hobbit, but he stirred awake. "Yeah?" However, he got what he deserved when Grace and Kassie dump a whole load of horse poop all over on the poor defenseless hobbit and burst into laughter.
"AAAHH!!!" The sounds of Tom's muffed was heard being cover in the whole pounds of caca. He pop his head out at last to gasp for air. The foul Oder of the smell was awful. "Is this...DOODY!?!!?" He screamed.
"Tom, what are you--" Goldie said when she came into the scene about the poor misfortune joke that happened to her brother. "OHH!! AAH!!" She gagged, holding her nose. "Oooh that smells! You stink like a pig!"
"Cause he is a pig! Now he can rolled onto one!!" Kassie laughed. "Grr! When I get my hands on you, I'm gonna--" Tom growls, trying to get out of the huge pile of crap, but it was was so heavy, it kept his weight in stuck. "Quick! Run!" Kassie says to Grace, and the two girls made a run for it with Kassie running to one side where she took cover by climbing up into a tree to safety. But because Grace was no longer the same size as her hobbit friends were, she had to take cover hiding into some bushes where she was sure she would never get found by Tom.
"Goldie, help me out! I'm trapped!!" Tom grunted, trying to escaped, but cannot. "Unstuck yourself!" Goldie told him and ditched him purposely to let him handle his own problem.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Oct 6, 2014 22:25:15 GMT -5
Tom hadn't been the only one sleeping, Eldarion had been too. He hadn't gotten any sleep the night before and as he took a little nap he tossed and turned obviously suffering from nightmares while Arowen, also feeling homesick, tried to help Sam cook their dinner offering the hobbit some edible plants to go alongside the food considering the fact that she and her brother were half elves and that meant that though they could eat meat they did not like it as well as everyone else did.
She had just started going to wake her brother when she witnessed Kassie and Grace pulling a horrible prank on Tom. "Ewww! Gross!" She couldn't help but comment making a gag face and waking her brother as she yelled "Tom! You stink! Go take a dip in the lake!"
"Huh? Wha?" Eldarion spoke sleepily as he woke and witnessed Tom, covered in horse scat, chasing after Grace and Kassie who had obviously pulled some kind of prank on him, only to get himself stuck in a bush.
Gandalf groaned obviously not amused by the whole endeavor, got up yanking Tom out of the bush and told him to go clean himself up while making Grace and Kassie clean up the mess.
"You realize you had that coming." Eldarion told the girls as he and Arowen watched them clean up the mess he didn't sound too amused by the prank while Amir glared at his cousins obviously offended that he hadn't been included to take part in the prank even if it saved him a punishment from Gandalf.
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Post by Renton on Oct 6, 2014 22:49:17 GMT -5
While the adults were getting settled and preparing the meal, Merry and Pippin suddenly heard noises coming from the area where the children were at. Growing concerned as to what the commotion was about, they left the campfire to investigate. It wasn't until they spotted Tom's face covered in horse droppings and both Kassie and Grace laughing together that they figured out what was going on.
At first, they didn't know what to make of the prank the two young girls had just pulled. They could see the potential of it being funny and each stifled a laugh of their own, yet the fact that Tom was covered in animal droppings didn't seem too much of a laughing matter, since animal droppings could carry a number of diseases within them. Merry stepped forth with a bit of a stern look on his face and called for Kassie's name to get her attention. "Kassie, what is this?" While waiting for the laughter from Kassie to stop so she could listen to him, he continued. "That wasn't a very nice thing to do to Tom there. Now, go help him clean up at the lake. I'll get something to help dry himself off."
After Merry left to grab whatever towels were available, Pippin went up to the two girls and whispered with a wink, "I thought it quite amusing. Good job."
Merry soon returned with the towels and handed them to Kassie. "Here you are. I think that's enough prank-pulling for one evening."
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Oct 6, 2014 23:12:15 GMT -5
"It was Kassie's idea!" Grace told Eldarion as she and her cousin were forced to clean up the mess they had just started. The princess was not one to start up those kinds of jokes, but how could she tell her cousin no? She had fun giving what Tom had rightfully deserved.
Kassie had spotted the glared look on Amir's face and for that she apologized to the hobbit for that. She had always spend years teaming up with Amir when it came to silly pranks, so without him it would be the first one to not have him included in. "Sorry!" She whispers to him. "There's always next time!" She giggled til she was called by from her father to straighten things out with Tom by helping him getting finished to clean up.
"Aww, but do I gotta?" Kassie whined, but put up with a grinning smiled when Pippin complimented her and Grace for the joke. "Thank you Pippin!" She says til Merry return back with the towels she needed to used for Tom. "Yes sir!" She spoken mumbled in defeated.
She headed down by the lake where Tom was still trying to wash himself off. Thankfully for the she-hobbit, Tom was cleaning himself up with his clothes on. Still soaking wet, but the smell was a tough job to get rid of. "Here you go stinky!" She laughed, throwing the towel at Tom in which he try to catch, but it only landed right on his face.
"That joke you did? It wasn't funny!" Tom glared after taking off the towel from his face to try to dry himself off with. "I know it wasn't Grace's idea, but why you do it? I'd never done nothing wrong to you!"
"Nope! But she still had fun! Haha!!" Kassie joked with a laugh and turn away so she could leave Tom alone to finish up. "Oh yah? Well take this!!" Tom whipped the towel right at Kassie when her back was turned, only did the towel got caught up around her ankle wrapped up and with a tugging yank, Tom pulled Kassie down where she fell into the same water he still stood, causing a bit of a loud hearing splash. "AHHH!!" Kassie screamed now all soaked up. "YOU!!!" She dug her hands down onto the water and grabbed a couple of mud and playfully got onto a mud fight with Tom.
"Eat dirt Brandybuck!!!" Tom laughs, doing the same thing that Kassie was doing right at him getting onto the fun.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Oct 6, 2014 23:21:15 GMT -5
"Maybe but you know you enjoyed it just the same." Eldarion told Grace before rolling his eyes to seeing Kassie and Tom now having a mud fight as another yawn escaped him.
"Not sleeping well?" Arowen asked her brother sitting down beside him. Normally with something as innocent as this, she would be more than happy to join in but the feeling of loneliness and worry for her brother kept her from diving into mischief and trouble like the other kids.
"It's fine. I'll sleep better when we get to Hobbitton." Eldarion told her shaking his head as a wide grin appeared on Amir's face and he eagerly rushed over grabbing two handfuls of mud with both hands and throwing one each in both Tom and Kassie's face with a hearty laugh.
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Post by Renton on Oct 6, 2014 23:33:01 GMT -5
Merry and Pippin turned away to return to the campfire when they soon heard noises yet again from Kassie, Tom and Amir. With an exasperated sigh, Merry asked, "What now?" They both turned back to head toward the lake to see what was going on at the moment. When they got there, they knew that this mud fight had to stop. "Kassie, what are you doing?!" Merry asked as he and Pippin went in to separate the three children by standing between them all.
Pippin, too, had had enough in seeing the three horsing around. With a strict tone of voice, he said, "Alright, you three, that's enough fighting out of you all. I am surprised that you would all be doing something like this, especially you, Amir. Now, we've got a long trip ahead of us, and we don't want any more of this. Is that clear?"
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Oct 6, 2014 23:52:33 GMT -5
"Yes!" Tom and Kassie said all at once in defeated. It was delightfully fun while it lasted, especially for Tom's part. He had been stuck spending lots and lots of time with his sister Goldie and their friend Grace over the years, but who ever knew that hanging out with Grace's cousins with Amir and Kassie would be way more fun than ever?
Tom never would of really think that Kassie would get onto the fun of playing a mud fight with him, as did with Amir. When it was time to eat, the three hobbits left the lake where Tom was walking right next to Kassie and being the playful little teasing guy he was, he gave Kassie a little playful small lighted kick behind her leg with his foot to get her attention. "Stop!" Kassie laughed, shoving him back. "Psst! Hey Amir, I think Kassie likes me!" He whispers to the hobbit. "I think I still have a chance with her. Just watch!!"
"Ready to eat?" Sam asks everyone once they were all together. He started serving everyone their meals, til Tom snatch one up away from his dad. "Allow me pop!" His son insisted and bow politely to Kassie, handing out her food over to her. Kassie snatch it off from his hands, only to be grabbing a piece of meat and slapped Tom across the face with it and left taking a spot of her own to sit down and eat her food. "Ugh! So much for that!!" Tom grumbled, rubbing his poor sore cheek from where he got hit at.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Oct 7, 2014 0:00:57 GMT -5
"We were just having a bit of fun..." Amir mumbled hanging his head and lightly kicking the dirt with his his feet, after he and the others were being scolded by his father, Pippin.
Amir laughed. "I don't know Tom looks like another failed attempt but don't give up there's bound to be some girls in Hobbitton who haven't yet met you.' He laughed at Tom's yet another failed attempt to get one of their female companions to show some romantic interest in him.
"I suggest you all stop with the monkeying around and eat. You will want to get plenty of rest because we are leaving bright and early tomorrow." Gandalf sternly told the young teenagers.
"No worries about that Gandalf! I am so hungry I could eat a whole horse!" Amir exclaimed before eagerly digging into the food on his plate earning a disgusted face from Eldarion and Arowen, who like their elven kin, were eating much more slowly and far more manners and dignity then their hobbit companion.
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Post by Renton on Oct 8, 2014 21:35:20 GMT -5
"No worries about that Gandalf! I am so hungry I could eat a whole horse!" Amir exclaimed. Hearing his own son say that out loud made Pippin feel just a tad queasy and not feel too hungry about chowing down on his own meal just yet. Leaning over to whisper to Merry, he asked, "Say, do you think we ought to keep a close eye on our children a little more often than usual?" Merry whispered back, "What do you mean?" "Well, you saw what happened back there with Amir, Tom and Kassie. What if they do it again really soon?" Merry thought that over briefly and then whispered back, "Well...maybe, although I wouldn't want to be too overprotective of my child like Frodo does to Grace." Pippin agreed with a nod. "You're right. We shouldn't be around them 24 hours a day, though then again, there's no telling what they'll do next at their age." "They're still kids; we should let them have their own fun while they're still young, just like you and I did long ago back at the Shire. But on the other hand, it wouldn't hurt to monitor them once in a while, just to make sure they don't repeat the same mistake again." "Definitely. Let's just watch them only once in a while so they don't suspect what we're doing." And with that settled, they both proceeded to enjoy their meal before they prepared their rest for the next day's journey.
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Oct 9, 2014 21:53:14 GMT -5
On their first night out sleeping at the great outdoors, sleep did not much came around for poor Grace. Around at this late of time, the princess felt nothing but pure guilt about the way she reacted around her father the last time she saw him back at home when Grace had knew for the better that things were never her fault. She had not asked to be born to a couple whose love had been so strong, that she had been brought into the world too fast just like that, and she had certainly did not asked to be born without magical powers, so why didn't she feel at all anything special? She didn't.
Grace did wanted to believe Gandalf's word when he had said that the new upcoming war will be no more different from the other battles their parents had fought before in the past. But the only difference that made of was that Merry, Pippin, Gandalf and Aragorn were one of the fews who had gone onto war and survive, leaving only Sam and Frodo out of it since the two hobbits were the only ones who had broken up the fellowship, only to be crossing paths with the creature Gollum who was their only guide to leading them to Mordor.
The horror sinking feeling of guilt made things even more worst for poor Grace by affecting her dream into a horrible nightmare; in her dream, she found herself running in a deep forest all alone with nobody else with her, trying desperately to get back home to her parents during an early sunrise. The sunrise was beautiful! An instant sight to see, but that was not for Princess Grace's main focus.
She would not stop running until she would be able to reach her destination. The sooner she got closer, the more of the smell of fire and smoke came. Grace stop when she finally came to the battlefield. The castle was set to burning flames, it's smoke mostly covering all of the skies that it was difficult to even spot a single cloud around. And the fire felt so hot, even from a yard away could a single person be able to feel the heat on their skin. Grace call out desperately for her mother and father, but they were nowhere to been seen.
All she saw was their knights fighting her aunt's enemies to a battle of a death. Many have been slayed to the ground. So much dead bodies lying around, how could the princess be able to possibly ever to find the missing king or queen? Grace search everywhere while avoiding the fighters, so she was not to get involved. She stop in the middle of the field, staring down at the body of the kingdom's fallen king; her own father. Dead!
Grace's heart sank in grief struck by the loss of her dad, beloved by all, now had passed. That's when she felt a chilling breeze of cold wind behind her. A sinking feeling was convincing her on the inside the war was not yet finished. Slowly Grace turned around, and there she was; her Aunt Scarla. It was very easy to see that the ghost was behind all of this of killing the poor defenseless hobbit. A cunning evil grin came to her face, and the next thing Grace knew she suddenly felt herself being under attack by her.
Goldie woken up in a snap, nearly alerted by the sounds of Grace's frighten fearing cries. "Grace? Gracie!!" The female hobbit called out to her friend, but it didn't seem to work. There was no chance anyone would be able to get any sleep around unless somewhere were to wake Grace up from her nightmare, so Goldie hurry on up over to the princess' side and shook her awake. "GRACIE WAKE UP!!" She cried out loud. Her voice was loud enough to finally awaken up her best friend. "AAAAAAH!!!" The wizard/hobbit screamed as she quickly got up.
"Gracie, are you okay?" Goldie asks, worried for her friend's sake. Grace panted heavily, but slowly was able to breathe okay. "I'm fine...it was just a bad dream....I think." Grace replied, a little bit shaken up. The nightmare had felt so real, could it be that it was a sign that Frodo would be killed off by his own evil sister-in-law? She hoped that would never be true. Dreams were just dreams, even the same goes for the nightmares.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Oct 9, 2014 22:12:34 GMT -5
Eldarion hadn't eaten that night, not feeling very hungry and he too like Grace was suffering from nightmares.
Eldarion walked through a dark forest. He could see nothing around him but the shadows of trees in the pitch black darkness and the dense grey fog that seemed to coat the entire forest like a blanket.
"Eldarion! Eldarion!" He could hear his name echoing eeringly around the forest sending a cold shiver down his spine. He drew out his sword that remained in a sheath hanging from his belt holding it out and ready as he looked around for the source of the voices.
"Hello?! Who are you?! What do you want?!" He called out hoping for an answer but did not recieve one instead he began to feel the earth shake violently beneath his feet and the trees all around him began to fall and crash to the ground barely missing him as he ran to avoid them.
"Follow me! Hurry!" He heard a female voice speak up above all the noise and turned to see a white figure which quickly vanished.
"No! Wait!" He called out the figure trying to reach where she last was. "Where are you?" He called when he reached the spot finding her no longer there. "Hurry!" He could hear her voice again further away but could not see her. Desperate to keep up, he rushed to where he heard her voice stopping only when he could not hear her finding that she was leading him out of the forest towards his home in Gondor.
He breathed a sigh of relief. Happy to be away from the cold darkness and destruction but that relief soon turned to complete horror as he saw his home began to shake and fall dissolving into nothing but complete rumble with no trace of his former home left to be saved.
"Noooooooo!" He shouted.
"It is time for your destiny." The figure spoke this time appearing in front of him.
"What destiny? Why is this happening? Who are you?" He demanded.
"It's time to begin your destiny." She repeated before vanishing into the wind.
"Nooo! Come back! Tell me how I can stop this?!" He yelled before waking up to the sound of Grace screaming along with everyone else.
"Blast it! Can't an old man get some sleep around here?!" Gandalf spoke crankingly as he woke up to along with the others.
"Are you sure cuz? You look really shaken up." Amir spoke to Grace concerned for her while Eldarion kept himself in far more control than Grace did though on the inside he was shaking and trying to convince himself that it had only been a dream.
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