Synopsis: A university student in her final year of school is ready to sit down and have a pleasant day like any other. Though once she awakens, she ends up stumbling into a world not her own. However, it is one that is readily familiar to her in the form of her favorite book.

CHAPTER 1

I sighed as my back slid down the ridged edges of the tree I leaned upon. Scratching me only superficially through my tank top until I rested near it's roots near the muddy earth. The moss near the base was comfortable enough, I suppose.

It had been such a beautiful spring afternoon, and I was more than willing to enjoy the nice weather as winter had finally gone to rest. The morning started quite drab and dreary. Dark and sprinkling with freshly collected rain. However, as time progressed, the day brightened up ever so slightly, and the rain ceased. All I wanted to do on this last remaining day of spring break was to relax outside and read one of my favorites. The Hobbit.

Soon enough I would be back in class. Forced to read whatever books and biographies the professors forced upon us as students. It was rare that I could even get a moment's notice to myself to enjoy one of the many books I had read within my personal collection growing up. A break from the 'real world' was much needed. Especially since the majority of this spring time off was spent getting drunk and making appearances at parties. Not of my own choice, but the choices of my friends. University was a time to experience everything life had to offer. Bad or good, depending on your opinion of either. Though I somewhat regretted the several days of my life I would never get back spent at Frat Houses. Ugh...

I hadn't read this book in quite some time. Though with the soaring popularity of the movies, which of course I had went to see with my peers, had me desiring to read the books again. For, as anyone with even half a mind would tell you, books are far more interesting (if not more detailed and inquisitive) than the films themselves.

I began to read from the rightly thick book within my hands, leaning backwards against the slightly damp bark of the oak wood. A light breeze blew across me, cooling my warming face. Easing me even more into a relaxed state. Eyes darting across the lines of dialogue and ornate imagery of Middle-Earth. I couldn't help but start to relax to a state of dozing.

"Only for a minute." I mumbled aloud, my eyelids starting to flutter from tiredness. Too much partying would most indefinitely catch up to you, after all. I allowed them to fall close with a sigh. The book still within my grasp gently lowering until it rested upon my lap. The bare flesh of my thighs 'neath my shorts cradling the spine of the literature.

After some time, I had re-awoken. The lights from the sky darkening somewhat into a brilliant golden hue of lowering sunshine. "Damn, I need to get back," I muttered to no one in particular. Rising from my seat with a much needed stretch and yawn, I started to pace my way back to my dorm. It wasn't much more than a 10 minute walk on average. Concrete slabs leading the way back home. Though, after 7 or 8 minutes, the stones seemed to cease. Rather, they started to disappear in the earth itself.

"Now that's weird." I don't remember any dirt being placed over the cement, as was common with soon-to-be made bike trails, but perhaps construction was finally getting to it as I had slept. Or so I had liked to believe. The further I kept walking, the more wild the area around me became. True, I was no longer walking the well-trimmed bushes and tulip-lined path, but it became more of a wild brush. I ducked beneath arms of trees and tall unruly hedges. My sneakers slightly sinking into the softened ground as I proceeded. Twigs and hardened leaves scratching at my bare arms, causing my to grumble in irritation.

"What the fuck am I even... where am I going?!" I growled, this surely wasn't the way home as I had recalled. The hedges had let up unto what seemed to be a giant forest. Though there was a woods not too far from campus, it wasn't something you'd wander into without knowing. It would be more than obvious that you were heading into it, and yet here I had. done it on my own. Perhaps my faux-bleached hair did make me as stupid as your stereotypical blonde, eh? "Owch!" Damn trees.

There was a bit of vocal noise going on some yards behind me. Causing me to stop and turn. Maybe my dorm-mates were coming to look for me. And rescue me like the obviously fair damsel I must have been portrayed. "Hey! Guys!" I shouted, making my way back towards the noises. "Guys I can't find my way out of this shit!"

The reply to my shouting was... guttural. Making my heart start to beat rapidly within my chest. It was the same sound as in the movie that the... no. No. No. I'm just lost, scared, and being idiotic. I cooled myself and kept walking towards the voices. Pushing branches out of my way as I continued on. "Guys! I'm so lost right now. Can you hear me?"

I saw other branches and leaves shaking a distance away as my friends had made their ways towards me. My mouth widened in joy from its previous scowl as I approached ever closer. "I swear I stepped in dog shit or something out here. I need a shower asap," I spoke casually. I love nature and all, but I'd like to keep my *shoes* and flawless skin intact, thank you very much.

The guttural noise only continued, though louder this time around. "Guys...?" I mumbled. Leaning down as the three humanoids approached from the surrounding leaves and sticks.

I gasped.

There stood what I could only recognize to be as... orcs... legitimate orcs. Their dark skin highlighted from the waning sunlight as they stalked towards me. I froze in fear, not sure what I should do. The one in the center paused, staring me down as he sniffed at me. Taking a long, slow, snort of air before speaking to the others once more.

The one on his right slowly withdrew what seemed to be a crooked sword. And before I gave them any other chance - Despite my feet wanting to stay cemented, despite wanting to explain the situation at hand logically - my feet ran. They took off in a direction all their own. I felt foolish as I sped by long hanging plants, whipping vines from my face. There is no way they were even actual orcs after all, they must have been students from the school rehearsal. They had to have been. Even so, I kept going. Not sure I wanted to risk the chance.

Unfortunately for me, as I sought my escape, I clumsily slipped and fell.

My head crashing down onto a small stone. Just my luck. I would have cackled at how clumsy I was, had it not been for the rather dire situation at hand, and the fact I was now starting to see the world around me move in slow-motion. Three figures approaching me blurred, becoming darker and darker as my world faded. I was helpless.

I came to, though not gently as one would out of a dream. I was being shaken, and quite hard. Causing my head to jerk roughly, the left sleeve my top starting to slowly creep down my arm. My teeth grit as I tried to gain a baring of my surroundings. "You trade. You trade now!" One of the orcs demanded in common. Though to who, I knew not. I blinked hard, trying to focus my vision to focus on the forms of those in front of us. "We will do no such thing!" A cool, feminine voice announced. "She elf. You take elf. Give us weapon. Take, now!" The creature growled with a disgusting gurgle in the back of its throat.

The feminine voice ceased to speak. What the fuck was even going on.

All of a sudden, there was a heavy thwack next to me. The orc-man squealing much like a sow before crumbling to the ground. The grip of his hand around my bicep releasing as he tumbled. Though it also threw myself off balance as well, causing me to crash with him. Several more sounds of arrow falling and roars of several orc-kin as they yelled in anguish, some attempting to run away before toppling over easily like a stack of dominoes.

I heard a crunching of leaves in the dark. The sun had all but completely set for the eve, and it was difficult for me to discern what exactly was going on around me in the dark. All I could even fucking remember was reading my book, trying to get home, and now here I was! It was all overwhelming.. Too overwhelming. Without even realizing it I had began to scream loudly.

"Take me home! I want to go home! I need to head back to campus NOW!" I demanded in brief sobs. Thrashing about as my hands were tied behind my backs, and my ankles to one another. The crunching towards me stopped, and a woman kneeled before me. Tilting her head slightly as she gave me a once over. I furrowed my brows at her as I panted to catch my breath. She looked over her shoulder, yelling something in some rather familiar sounding language, though I couldn't put out what it was exactly on my own.

"What do you mean she's not an elf?" A strong voice sounded as he paced towards the other woman. Damn did she look familiar as well. "Of course I'm not, idiots, I'm a human! Just like y-..." My eyes widened as I saw the male leaning over me in curiosity. "She did look elven from her hair and features. But her ears are rounded... She is not. What should we do with her?" The female continued in her language.

The male opened his mouth to speak, and just as he did, our eyes connected to one another. Mine widened as his peered into mine curiously. "...L-L-Legolas?" I barely managed to get out, only slightly above a whisper. His eyebrows raised, "How do you know me?" He spoke in common, clear as day.

It.. it really was him. No. I fell and cracked my skull in that forest running from students and blacked out. Yep. I'm going crazy. Or I'm dreaming still. Or I died and this is my Hell. I knew I shouldn't have gone to those parties..

It was all too much to get into my brain at this moment. And accepting the lightheaded-ness overcoming me was much easier. So, I fainted. I mean, this would be more than enough to cause anyone to black out. A fictional character alive before my very eyes. Hell no.

The elven man glanced at the other woman. Speaking once more in Elvish, "Tauriel, perchance we took her to my father. He would know what to do with her." The woman nodded, standing and bringing the shapely form of the human with her. "How did she know you? She does not seem like the men that's come across our realm before. Just look at her garb." Legolas shrugged in response, rallying up his men as they made their way back to the elven kingdom of Mirkwood.

Perhaps his father could shed some light on the situation.

A/N: Hey guys! I'm finally back writing something a bit more appealing to me. I got Thrandy fever and I'm sure many of you do as well. I know this chapter (and those following) may move a bit quick but I'm trying to get it along quickly as to start the good bits as fast as possible, and without making it take too long. I know nobody wants to wait 500000000000 scenes of dialogue before we reach the main plot. So let's dive on in. Voosh!

Also I'm quite intoxicated upon the writing of this story. Twut twut!