Middle-Earth: Unleashed

Hey. I'm Shadow Evenstar and Middle-Earth: Unleashed is my first fanfiction. It's a Teen Titans fic, but it has quite a bit of Lord of the Rings in it too. Please review, even if your comments are not positive so I know how I can improve. Just don't make them too harsh…I'm new at this.

Disclaimer: I think I'll have one of my favourite Teen Titan characters do my disclaimer. Oh Beastboy….

B.B: What?

Shadow Evenstar: Get over here and do the disclaimer.

B.B: Go away. I'm trying to sleep.

Shadow Evenstar: Would you like me to send my evil, eye-gouging llama army on you?

B.B: You don't have an army of llamas.

Shadow Evenstar: Famous last words.

B.B: Fine. Shadow Evenstar doesn't own Teen Titans or the Lord of the Rings books or movies. She also doesn't own Star Wars, where they opening line of this chapter is derived from. So don't sue her. And, no matter what she says, she does not have a llama army. Okay enjoy chapter one.

Shadow Evenstar: Thanks B.B. On with the story.

Chapter 1: Prologue

A long, long, long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far, far, far away there lived a hobbit. In a hole. In the ground. Actually, there were a few hobbits. And a wizard. And other people. But we'll get to that later.

It was a normal day in Titan's Tower. Outside, the sun was shining and the blue waves lapped against the shore, as gulls dived down from the azure sky. Inside, a certain five teens were clambering out of their beds and heading down to breakfast. Yup, it was a great, normal day. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a normal day in Titan's Tower. Every day, these five teens we all know and love run around the neighbourhood fighting crime and saving lives. But so far, this day was uneventful. Then again, the day had just begun.

"I wish you a most wonderful morning, friends!", sang Starfire, as she was making a second serving of her mucky, wormy, alien pudding for everyone. Delicious, huh?

Starfire is a beautiful alien princess from the planet Tamaran. She tries hard to fit in on Earth, but is often confused about the languages and cultures around her. She is very innocent and often naïve, but she is so kind-hearted that nobody really cares.

The other sleep-deprived Titans moaned in greeting as they sat down at the table, annoyed at how cheerful Starfire is in the morning. Beast Boy, the pint sized changeling, sat down drunkenly, and immediately fell asleep again, his head falling into his bowl of Tamaranian pudding.

Last night, some guy decided to try and rob the bank at two in the morning. Though the Titans caught him quickly, they all had to get out of their beds to throw the dude in jail, and poor Beastboy was exhausted.

Beastboy had the ability to morph into any animal making him incredibly useful to the team. He's a self-proclaimed comedian, and a Raven-proclaimed immature idiot.

Raven was the only titan besides Starfire that was not showing signs of weariness. But she really never showed emotion at all. Her cool telekinetic powers had the villains running. She has to always have control of her emotions, or else crazy things might happen, like lights bursting. She absentmindedly dragged Beastboys' head out of the pudding and admired the worm-things that had gotten stuck in his hair.

Cyborg mashed his pudding around in his plate. "Great…it's Thursday. Star's day to cook." he thought to himself. He was half-man, half-robot, and the cool, high tech equipment that was built into him was really helpful in battle. He can kick some butt! But right now, even Beastboy's tofu centered breakfast yesterday was looking better than this alien mush.

Robin, leader of the Titans, tried to figure out how to chuck the pudding out the window when Star wasn't looking. He's kind of on the short-side, but was powerful and talented beyond his years. He's kung-fu trained and has a ton of gadgets like his retractable bo-staff and his birdarang. He never takes off his mask, and is rarely seen without his annoyingly yellow cape. Though he is a bit bossy, he makes a great leader.

Starfire sat down while placing the second helping of that pudding stuff on the table. "I ask you, friends, may we do the "hanging-out" today?"

"Sure, Star" Robin responded, watching her face light up. "What do you want to do?"

Beastboy had woken up, and was now busy picking the worms from the pudding off him and dropping them into the hood of Raven's cloak, without her noticing.

"I suggest that we enjoy the joyfulness of a movie on the DV of D playing contraption!" Starfire yelled.

This was not Raven's idea of an exciting morning. "I'll be in my room," she said in her usual flat voice.

"Uh-uh….no you don't!" exclaimed Cyborg. "You are gonna spend some time with us today. Enough with the meditation and billion year old books! Come on…we'll let you pick the movie!"

"How can I resist the temptation?" Raven said, sarcastically. But she went into the common room ( not sure what the room that they play video games and watch T.V is called…but I think I'll call it the common room ok?) and examined the shelf that held all of their movies.

"Star Wars…no….Peter Pan…heck no….Charlie and the Chocolate Factory….stupid freakish oompa loompa things freak me out….Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring…"

Raven considered this last choice for a moment. It wasn't a horror movie, the genre she preferred, but the last time the Titans watched a horror flick Starfire ran all over the tower screaming like a nut for a full hour. And it didn't have too much romance garbage in it. She took the movie off the shelf.

"Did you pick a movie yet?" the Titans had come into the common room with various snacks and took their places on the couch. Robin was beside Starfire on one end, worried that Raven had picked a horror movie as she was prone to do, and that Star would get scared. Beastboy was in the form of a dog and was sitting near Cyborg, near the other end, leaving a space for Raven in the middle of the couch. Raven popped the DVD in the player, pressed play and sat down.

"Joyous! The feature involving vertically-challenged persons and a golden piece of jewelry!" shouted Starfire, as the Fellowship opening theme began.

A couple of hours later, the movie was drawing to a close. It was at the part right before Boromir gets shot with a couple of arrows. Frodo is about to ditch everybody, and Merry and Pippin are almost going to get captured by the Uruk-kai. The Titans were warming themselves up for Boromir's death (poor guy…though I am personally not a big fan of his). Suddenly the screen froze.

"Dude!" yelled Beastboy, transforming back into a human. "What happened to the movie?" All of a sudden, a silver spiral formed in the screen, sort of looking like a tornado. "Since when are we watching The Wizard of Oz?" Beastboy exclaimed. The spiral-thing turned blue and then a brilliant gold. Suddenly, ten figures tumbled out of the screen and landed onto the floor of the common room. They all stared at the five kids on the couch.

" Mr. Frodo, sir? Where are we and… who are they?"

And that's chapter one. It hasn't really started to get exciting yet, as this is just the prologue, but next chapter will be more interesting. Please review!