Kayla
If this were written for the author's benefit I would have mailed it to her, any flamers are acting entirely on their own initiative.
Notes: Mary Sue and her friends take Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas clubbing. I made the mistake of clicking on the reviews and saw enough netspeak to fill my quota for the next two years.
Title: Through A Nightingale's Eyes
Author: Jack-Sparrow-Lover
Summary: "Ch. 12 UP! Kayla Sparrow is an 18 year old girl who lives by herself in the year 2004. When she makes a wish and three individuals come to her world, what will happen when their fate as well as her own, rely on love?" In other words, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli come to Kayla's house to do her bidding and help her sort out her issues. Poor guys.
Name: Kayla Sparrow, aka Kay
Species: 1/2 Elf, 1/2 human
Age: 18
Hair: "Her hair was cut just above her shoulders and was dark brown with gold and red highlights covering it." Am I the only person in the world who thinks highlights are ugly? I see people who have them, and they look like they painted stripes in their hair.
Eyes: Dark brown, though her eyes are only brown to mask her Elvish heritage.
Appearance: Her mother is the most beautiful person her father has ever seen, and she looks just like her mother.
Special Possessions:
-"Her fingers fiddled with a silver charm of a pentacle and a moon that hung on a chain that reached between her breasts. She never took the necklace off." The necklace is inscribed with the words: "I am the beauty of the green earth and you are the white moon among the stars." She got it from her mother.
-A bootleg copy of Jackson's 'The Return of the King' that also acts as a vortex between worlds.
-She built secret passages into her house. ¬_¬
-black Sebring Convertible
Clothing: We get introduced to her entire closet through this fic.
-"She wore a tight black tank top that laced up the front with silver string and a plaid mini skirt and knee-high black boots."
-"Kayla walked out of her room in a pair of tight black pants that bunched up around the waist and a halter top, red Harley Davidson shirt."
-"She now wore a tan peasant shirt with dark blue capri pants."
-"she stood up and slipped on her red slippers. She pulled up her black satin nightgown and then threw her robe on over it."
-"Kayla wore a long flare sleeved, black shirt that revealed practically her entire stomach with a short red skirt."
-"She was wearing a thin red nightgown that only reached the tops of her knees, leaving much of her skin exposed."
Backstory: She's a descendant of Captain Jack Sparrow! Her mother died when she was a child, her father left her, her boyfriend beat her, everyone in her family hates her, she was kicked out of the house when she was sixteen, etc. Despite all this, she seems to have an endless supply of money, probably because she sold her soul to gain the evil power of Sue. Her only good friends are the five good friends that show up in the story. Don't you just feel for her? Also, her mother was princess of Rivendell and a daughter of Elrond.
Special Abilities:
-She can act like a self-centered little tyrant and still keep all of her friends.
-She can get away with calling Legolas "Leggy."
-She can write so soulfully about her depression and anger in her journal that it makes Legolas cry the single tear and think about how he's never read anything so sad. Clearly this Legolas has never read the history of his people, because that would make Sue's journal look like a day on Sesame Street.
-Her singing voice is Elvish.
-She's very athletic.
Connections to Canon: Legolas falls in love with her.
The Plot: Kayla starts out the fic by cursing at her friends and watching bootleg tapes. Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas get sucked from Pelennor Fields to Kayla's living room. There are all sorts of whacky hijinks and Kayla angst, and then Aragorn convinces Kayla to go visit her father. She and Aragorn find an important-looking chest, but her father chases them out of the house. Meanwhile, Legolas reads Kayla's journal and falls in love with her melodramatic teenage qualities (and her wardrobe). After some clumsy romance, Kayla and friends decide to take Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas clubbing, causing the readers considerable pain. The girls give the boys make-overs and drag them off. At the club, the girls get smashing drunk and dance like morons. That night, Kayla gets a visit from a mystery person, and then goes to her father's house with Legolas. While there, her father attacks her, and Legolas kills said father. Her father regrets all his actions as he dies. Kayla dramatically wakes up in the hospital, and later goes to her father's funeral and cries. She has a dream about the same mystery person (probably Elrond), who tells her to go to a fortune teller with the cheesy fortune-teller name Selena. Selena tells Kayla that Aragorn and Gimli and Legolas must go back or else they will die. Kayla sends them back, and she angsts. And no, that isn't the end, but the author hasn't written more yet.
Sample: All shall worship Captain Jack Sparrow! Yarr!
Kayla got out of her black Sebring Convertible and walked up the steps to her father's house. She knocked on the door and stood out outside with her arms crossed. There was no answer. "Looks like no one's home, Aragorn. Maybe we should go."
"No, you HAVE to talk to him. Try again." Kayla complied and knocked again, still receiving no reply. She looked up at the ranger and frowned. He urged her to continue knocking. "That's it, I've bloody fucking had it!" she yelled as she started down the steps.
"Kayla?" a voice asked. She turned around and saw an old man with short gray hair standing there in an old red shirt and jeans. "Hello, Father," she replied as she glanced at Aragorn, who still stood on the steps.
"Would you care to come in?" he asked.
"That's what I came here for," she said as she shrugged her shoulders and entered her father's house, dragging Aragorn with her. As her father locked the door, Kayla took a look around the foyer. It was her original home. The place she had grown up. Her father still kept the photos of her and her mother on a small table and his softball equipment hung on the wall. "Who are you?" she heard her father ask the ranger.
"Dad, this is my friend Aragorn. Aragorn, this is my father, David Sparrow," she said, standing next to Aragorn and smiling.
"Are you dating my daughter?"
"DAD! He's a friend. Calm the fuck down." Aragorn eyed her and frowned. Kayla seemed unaffected and walked into the living room. It was just as she had remembered it. There were models of ships on shelves and paintings of important family members, mostly pirates. Kayla sat down on the couch with Aragorn, but her father crossed his arms. "What?" she asked.
"Aren't you going to bid a greeting to him?" he asked, pointing to the painting that hung above the fireplace. It was of a pirate with a red bandana and dreadlocks in his dark hair. He was quite charming as well. "No, I will not say hello to a painting!"
"Kayla, you say hello to him now, or get your bitchy ass outta my house!"
"Fine!" Kayla shouted as she stood up and walked over to the fireplace. She bowed her head and said a quick poem that no one could make out. Aragorn quirked an eyebrow as Kayla walked back and sat down. Her father smiled as sat in his armchair. /That was the armchair I used to sit in with you/ Kayla thought to herself. "What do you want this time, Kay? Is it money or what?"
"No.not money, Father. I need to know about Mother." The room suddenly went deathly quiet. Aragorn felt very uncomfortable and saw David's eyes widen. "Why do you want to know about her?"
"We need to see her things," Aragorn interrupted, "There is something I must clarify."
"Are you a bloody thief?" Mr. Sparrow asked.
"Father, he's a friend.not a robber. We just need to see her things. Now where are they?"
"In your old bedroom. I used that place for storage after you left."
"Don't you mean after you kicked me out?" Kayla asked, her temper beginning to rise. Aragorn placed a hand on her shoulder and whispered something Elvish in her ear. "What did you say?" she asked him.
"Let's not start anything. Let's just get to your room and get out." Kayla nodded and bowed to the painting of Jack Sparrow before going upstairs with her friend.
When they finally found the door, Kayla opened it slowly and looked around. It was her room, but there were boxes and boxes of things covering it. "Better get started," Kayla said as she glanced at Aragorn, who was already going through the boxes.
Hours later, Kayla came across a box of photographs. She picked one of the frames up and realized that it was a picture from her parents' wedding. She dusted it off and took a good look at it. "Kayla, what was her name?" Aragorn asked as he crawled over to his friend and looked over her shoulder at the photo.
"Her name was Amelia Carey.Amelia Sparrow after her marriage."
"Lúthien Aldarion," Aragorn whispered.
"What?" Kayla asked.
"Never mind, my lady." Kayla placed the photo on the ground and began to look through another box. It was her mother's clothing. She found old shirts, jeans, dress pants, and blouses. She soon came across her mother's blue robe that she used to wear around the house. Kayla ran her fingers over the silk fabric and smiled. She may not have remembered much about the woman, but she could see her mom walking down the stairs on early mornings. The memories of that touched her heart dearly.
Aragorn was still sorting through boxes when he came across a wooden chest. It was in the corner of the room, covered with a white sheet. "Kayla, you should come here." She complied and knelt down next to Aragorn, who ran his fingers over the gold lock. There was a strange language inscribed on it, but he couldn't read it, for it was worn out. "What do you think is in there?" Kayla asked.
"Something I think that I think will-"
"GET OUT!" a voice shouted from the hallway. Kayla and Aragorn turned their heads to see Mr. Sparrow standing in the doorway with a sword in his hand. "Dad, what are you-?"
"No time for questions.GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!"
"What the fuck is your damn problem?" Kayla asked calmly.
"JUST GET OUT NOW!"
"As you wish," Kayla replied as she went to grab the chest.
"NO! You are not to touch that! Get your ass outta here before I stab you!" Sparrow yelled as he entered the room.
"What's so special about this chest?" Aragorn asked.
"None of your damn fucking business, you asshole!"
"How dare you talk to a king in such ways?"
"I know who you are, Aragorn! You're Isildur's heir!"
"What's going on?" Kayla asked curiously.
"That's not important.NOW GET OUT!" her father shouted. Aragorn placed a hand on Kayla's shoulder and walked her out of the room and down the stairs, glaring at David Sparrow on the way out.
Notes: Mary Sue and her friends take Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas clubbing. I made the mistake of clicking on the reviews and saw enough netspeak to fill my quota for the next two years.
Title: Through A Nightingale's Eyes
Author: Jack-Sparrow-Lover
Summary: "Ch. 12 UP! Kayla Sparrow is an 18 year old girl who lives by herself in the year 2004. When she makes a wish and three individuals come to her world, what will happen when their fate as well as her own, rely on love?" In other words, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli come to Kayla's house to do her bidding and help her sort out her issues. Poor guys.
Name: Kayla Sparrow, aka Kay
Species: 1/2 Elf, 1/2 human
Age: 18
Hair: "Her hair was cut just above her shoulders and was dark brown with gold and red highlights covering it." Am I the only person in the world who thinks highlights are ugly? I see people who have them, and they look like they painted stripes in their hair.
Eyes: Dark brown, though her eyes are only brown to mask her Elvish heritage.
Appearance: Her mother is the most beautiful person her father has ever seen, and she looks just like her mother.
Special Possessions:
-"Her fingers fiddled with a silver charm of a pentacle and a moon that hung on a chain that reached between her breasts. She never took the necklace off." The necklace is inscribed with the words: "I am the beauty of the green earth and you are the white moon among the stars." She got it from her mother.
-A bootleg copy of Jackson's 'The Return of the King' that also acts as a vortex between worlds.
-She built secret passages into her house. ¬_¬
-black Sebring Convertible
Clothing: We get introduced to her entire closet through this fic.
-"She wore a tight black tank top that laced up the front with silver string and a plaid mini skirt and knee-high black boots."
-"Kayla walked out of her room in a pair of tight black pants that bunched up around the waist and a halter top, red Harley Davidson shirt."
-"She now wore a tan peasant shirt with dark blue capri pants."
-"she stood up and slipped on her red slippers. She pulled up her black satin nightgown and then threw her robe on over it."
-"Kayla wore a long flare sleeved, black shirt that revealed practically her entire stomach with a short red skirt."
-"She was wearing a thin red nightgown that only reached the tops of her knees, leaving much of her skin exposed."
Backstory: She's a descendant of Captain Jack Sparrow! Her mother died when she was a child, her father left her, her boyfriend beat her, everyone in her family hates her, she was kicked out of the house when she was sixteen, etc. Despite all this, she seems to have an endless supply of money, probably because she sold her soul to gain the evil power of Sue. Her only good friends are the five good friends that show up in the story. Don't you just feel for her? Also, her mother was princess of Rivendell and a daughter of Elrond.
Special Abilities:
-She can act like a self-centered little tyrant and still keep all of her friends.
-She can get away with calling Legolas "Leggy."
-She can write so soulfully about her depression and anger in her journal that it makes Legolas cry the single tear and think about how he's never read anything so sad. Clearly this Legolas has never read the history of his people, because that would make Sue's journal look like a day on Sesame Street.
-Her singing voice is Elvish.
-She's very athletic.
Connections to Canon: Legolas falls in love with her.
The Plot: Kayla starts out the fic by cursing at her friends and watching bootleg tapes. Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas get sucked from Pelennor Fields to Kayla's living room. There are all sorts of whacky hijinks and Kayla angst, and then Aragorn convinces Kayla to go visit her father. She and Aragorn find an important-looking chest, but her father chases them out of the house. Meanwhile, Legolas reads Kayla's journal and falls in love with her melodramatic teenage qualities (and her wardrobe). After some clumsy romance, Kayla and friends decide to take Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas clubbing, causing the readers considerable pain. The girls give the boys make-overs and drag them off. At the club, the girls get smashing drunk and dance like morons. That night, Kayla gets a visit from a mystery person, and then goes to her father's house with Legolas. While there, her father attacks her, and Legolas kills said father. Her father regrets all his actions as he dies. Kayla dramatically wakes up in the hospital, and later goes to her father's funeral and cries. She has a dream about the same mystery person (probably Elrond), who tells her to go to a fortune teller with the cheesy fortune-teller name Selena. Selena tells Kayla that Aragorn and Gimli and Legolas must go back or else they will die. Kayla sends them back, and she angsts. And no, that isn't the end, but the author hasn't written more yet.
Sample: All shall worship Captain Jack Sparrow! Yarr!
Kayla got out of her black Sebring Convertible and walked up the steps to her father's house. She knocked on the door and stood out outside with her arms crossed. There was no answer. "Looks like no one's home, Aragorn. Maybe we should go."
"No, you HAVE to talk to him. Try again." Kayla complied and knocked again, still receiving no reply. She looked up at the ranger and frowned. He urged her to continue knocking. "That's it, I've bloody fucking had it!" she yelled as she started down the steps.
"Kayla?" a voice asked. She turned around and saw an old man with short gray hair standing there in an old red shirt and jeans. "Hello, Father," she replied as she glanced at Aragorn, who still stood on the steps.
"Would you care to come in?" he asked.
"That's what I came here for," she said as she shrugged her shoulders and entered her father's house, dragging Aragorn with her. As her father locked the door, Kayla took a look around the foyer. It was her original home. The place she had grown up. Her father still kept the photos of her and her mother on a small table and his softball equipment hung on the wall. "Who are you?" she heard her father ask the ranger.
"Dad, this is my friend Aragorn. Aragorn, this is my father, David Sparrow," she said, standing next to Aragorn and smiling.
"Are you dating my daughter?"
"DAD! He's a friend. Calm the fuck down." Aragorn eyed her and frowned. Kayla seemed unaffected and walked into the living room. It was just as she had remembered it. There were models of ships on shelves and paintings of important family members, mostly pirates. Kayla sat down on the couch with Aragorn, but her father crossed his arms. "What?" she asked.
"Aren't you going to bid a greeting to him?" he asked, pointing to the painting that hung above the fireplace. It was of a pirate with a red bandana and dreadlocks in his dark hair. He was quite charming as well. "No, I will not say hello to a painting!"
"Kayla, you say hello to him now, or get your bitchy ass outta my house!"
"Fine!" Kayla shouted as she stood up and walked over to the fireplace. She bowed her head and said a quick poem that no one could make out. Aragorn quirked an eyebrow as Kayla walked back and sat down. Her father smiled as sat in his armchair. /That was the armchair I used to sit in with you/ Kayla thought to herself. "What do you want this time, Kay? Is it money or what?"
"No.not money, Father. I need to know about Mother." The room suddenly went deathly quiet. Aragorn felt very uncomfortable and saw David's eyes widen. "Why do you want to know about her?"
"We need to see her things," Aragorn interrupted, "There is something I must clarify."
"Are you a bloody thief?" Mr. Sparrow asked.
"Father, he's a friend.not a robber. We just need to see her things. Now where are they?"
"In your old bedroom. I used that place for storage after you left."
"Don't you mean after you kicked me out?" Kayla asked, her temper beginning to rise. Aragorn placed a hand on her shoulder and whispered something Elvish in her ear. "What did you say?" she asked him.
"Let's not start anything. Let's just get to your room and get out." Kayla nodded and bowed to the painting of Jack Sparrow before going upstairs with her friend.
When they finally found the door, Kayla opened it slowly and looked around. It was her room, but there were boxes and boxes of things covering it. "Better get started," Kayla said as she glanced at Aragorn, who was already going through the boxes.
Hours later, Kayla came across a box of photographs. She picked one of the frames up and realized that it was a picture from her parents' wedding. She dusted it off and took a good look at it. "Kayla, what was her name?" Aragorn asked as he crawled over to his friend and looked over her shoulder at the photo.
"Her name was Amelia Carey.Amelia Sparrow after her marriage."
"Lúthien Aldarion," Aragorn whispered.
"What?" Kayla asked.
"Never mind, my lady." Kayla placed the photo on the ground and began to look through another box. It was her mother's clothing. She found old shirts, jeans, dress pants, and blouses. She soon came across her mother's blue robe that she used to wear around the house. Kayla ran her fingers over the silk fabric and smiled. She may not have remembered much about the woman, but she could see her mom walking down the stairs on early mornings. The memories of that touched her heart dearly.
Aragorn was still sorting through boxes when he came across a wooden chest. It was in the corner of the room, covered with a white sheet. "Kayla, you should come here." She complied and knelt down next to Aragorn, who ran his fingers over the gold lock. There was a strange language inscribed on it, but he couldn't read it, for it was worn out. "What do you think is in there?" Kayla asked.
"Something I think that I think will-"
"GET OUT!" a voice shouted from the hallway. Kayla and Aragorn turned their heads to see Mr. Sparrow standing in the doorway with a sword in his hand. "Dad, what are you-?"
"No time for questions.GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!"
"What the fuck is your damn problem?" Kayla asked calmly.
"JUST GET OUT NOW!"
"As you wish," Kayla replied as she went to grab the chest.
"NO! You are not to touch that! Get your ass outta here before I stab you!" Sparrow yelled as he entered the room.
"What's so special about this chest?" Aragorn asked.
"None of your damn fucking business, you asshole!"
"How dare you talk to a king in such ways?"
"I know who you are, Aragorn! You're Isildur's heir!"
"What's going on?" Kayla asked curiously.
"That's not important.NOW GET OUT!" her father shouted. Aragorn placed a hand on Kayla's shoulder and walked her out of the room and down the stairs, glaring at David Sparrow on the way out.