Camping

The group stood up in the morning to get their breakfast making Celine who was a bit spoilt by her parents not want to eat it. Bran was the same as Nora they didn't like it but still gulped it down while Nesiara and John ate without trouble when John says, "Let me see if we can find something to eat for our princess here."

He takes her plate and goes towards the innkeeper while using some illusion on the plate as he feigned a conversation with the owner before returning to the table putting the food in front of Celine.

"Thank you, dad," says Celine as she began to eat her food when suddenly four small men entered the room with Aragorn.

"You are already awake," says Aragorn as he sees the family sitting around the table eating breakfast.

"And they are?" asks John looking at the small men.

"They are the people you want to escort," says Aragorn as John looked at them.

"They are walking around without a weapon. You should at least have a short sword to protect themselves," says John as he stood up scaring the four when Nesiara smiled at them.

"Don't worry he won't bite your head off. He might look like a bear but he is quite tame," says Nesiara as she looked at the four.

"I'm Nesiara and the big guy is my husband John. Then there are our children Nora, Celine, and Bran. And you are?" asks Nesiara the four small men.

"I'm Frodo a Hobbit and those here are Sam, Pippin, and Merry for short. Aragorn here told us that you will be joining us but we are still suspicious about your reasons," says Frodo as he was quite suspicious about it.

"We were given a mission to escort the bearer of the one ring until he fulfilled his destiny. We won't say more until we are in Rivendell," says Nesiara as she looked at them.

"You should join them until Rivendell as well Strider. There will be a mission that will decide the future of this world," says John as he looked at Aragorn before sitting back down.

"I will go but we have to pass Weathertop to get there. It was our original goal anyway," says Aragorn as he sat down with them on the table.

"Good to know. It's always good to have an experienced fighter in the group," says Nesiara as the hobbits joined them.

"Is John a giant?" asks Pippen as the family began to laugh.

"No, if he was then his whole family would be made out of giants. John is just big like everyone else in his family. But he seems to be the biggest out of all of them," says Nesiara as John looked at Aragorn.

"Is it normal for Elf to show their ears?" asks John as Aragorn nods.

"Yes, why do you ask?" asks Aragorn when Nesiara, as well as the others, released their illusion making their ears public.

"Wait you are all elves?" asks Merry seeing the pointy ears.

"No, John is a human while I'm an elf," says Nesiara as Aragorn looked conflicted seeing that.

"Aren't you afraid that John will die before you?" asks Aragorn knowing that Elves could live longer than any other race.

"No, it would be quite normal since males die earlier than females but we both are immortal as well as our children. We stopped aging at the age of thirty years. We won't separate except a blade does so," says Nesiara as she looked at John.

"That's impossible humans can't become immortals," says Aragorn not wanting to believe it when John smiled at him.

"That would be true but I made a wish to make my line immortal and stop aging at the age of thirty. If you really have such a wish you only need to find the right person as I did," says John as he explained how he wished it from a Dragon.

"You meet a Dragon and you are still alive. That's a wonder," says Frodo as he couldn't believe what he heard.

"Dragons aren't all bad some are kinder than a Saint while others are just rotten to their bones," says John as he lived from small on with two dragons living in the Parker Compound.

"My husband had luck in finding that Dragon. But maybe we should go while the sun is still out," says Nesiara as Aragorn nods.

"She is right we need to move. We already prepared horses for the hobbits but not for you," says Aragorn as he agreed with Nesiara.

"But we didn't even eat breakfast!" says Pippin when John takes out dried meat that he stores for emergencies.

"Here eat this," says John giving it to the hobbit when he looked at Aragorn and says, "We have our own ride."

"Can we bring them out?" asks Celine excited when Nesiara smiles at Celine making her go stiff.

"What did I teach you about etiquette," says Nesiara making sure it didn't sound like a question for her daughter.

"I'm sorry," says Celine as she was scared of her mother the most.

They leave the inn as they walked to the stables and two horses were awaiting them with another person holding the reigns.

"I have the horses. Will you need support?" asks the man as Aragorn shakes his head.

"The smaller the group the better. We are already ten people and will take much attention because of the four hobbits and the giant beside me," says Aragorn as the man nods and leave the scene handing over the reigns to Aragorn.

"Where are your mounts?" asks Aragorn as he didn't see them take them out of the stable.

"Once outside we will show them," says Nesiara signaling that their mounts shouldn't be seen by the town people.

Aragorn put with John help the Hobbits on the horses when the arrived at the gate they leave a bit further away from Bree before John opened a portal surprising the group.

"You are a mage?" asks Aragorn surprised by what he was seeing as well as the Hobbits when suddenly a White Tiger came out of it accompanied by a Chocobo, a Griffon, and a Black Drake.

The Griffon seemed to not be fully grown while the Black Drake was having two bulges on its back showing that it could evolve into a Dragon with a bit of luck.

Celine jumped onto her Griffon while Bran sat onto the Black Drake of his. Nora sat on her Chocobo since she couldn't use Kate while John sat onto Fang with Nesiara.

They were all surprised to see their mounts when Merry asks, "You don't have one Nesiara?"

"I have one but it would take too much attention since it feels at home in the sky and not on land," says Nesiara as Jinx came flying out in her fluffy form sitting on Fang's head.

"You really have strange animals by your side but we should move while the sun is out," says Aragorn as he mounted one of the horses and led the other one while guiding the others.

They continued on the road for a while until it turned dark and they arrived at a place that seemed safe enough to camp in.

"We should rest here and hunt something for tonight's dinner," says Aragorn as he dismounts the horse and ties them against a tree.

The family dismounted as well but they didn't tie their mounts to a tree but let them room around them. Jinx and Fang went hunting while Celine's Griffon Nyx and Bran's Black Drake Koltox seemed exhausted from the march. The Chocobo that Nora was riding in was accustomed to it as it just laid down to rest while it could knowing that trouble could strike any moment.

John placed 5 tents while Nesiara made a campfire. Aragorn was helping the Hobbits down from the horses as they were feeling some pain from riding the whole day and they weren't the only ones.

Celine and Bran were the same it was their first time riding this long making their rear feel pain as Nora took a salve out of nowhere while saying, "Come over here you two."

They went towards Nora as she rubbed the salve onto their rears making them feel cool when Nora asks, "Do you want some of it too?"

"What is that?" asks Frodo seeing the tube Nora was holding.

"It's a salve to help against pain. It works fast after putting it on the area of the pain. Just press a bit on the end of this here and the salve comes out on the other end," says Nora as she demonstrated it.

The Hobbit then used the salve and their pain was still there but not as painful as before. They could sit down beside the campfire when John says, "The tents can hold two people inside. I recommend that the Hobbits sleep together while I sleep with Aragorn and my family sleeps in the remaining two tents."

"What are the tents made of?" asks Aragorn as he touched them.

"Of a special material you won't find on Middle Earth. It's light and can blend in with the environment. It is also easy to assemble and disassemble making it the best tent to use," says John as he sat down beside the fire.

He takes dried meat out and bites into it when Fang returns with a deer in his mouth while Jinx had two rabbits in her claws. John took a knife out and began to skin the deer while Nesiara skinned the rabbits cleanly before beginning to cook it as Aragorn saw what Nesiara was doing.

"Why are you cleaning the rabbits that intensive?" asks Aragorn as Nesiara giggled.

"Because of an incident that my great-grandfather passed through when he caught two hares before for dinner," says Nesiara not wanting to say more since Logan was most likely watching.

"What happened?" asks Aragorn as John was laughing while skinning the dear remembering the story that Abigail told them about Logan's dark past.

"You shouldn't know it or you might never wake up tomorrow because you laughed. We are protected after all," says Nesiara as John finished the skinning when he began to clean the deer and Aragorn see what John was cleaning and white liquid came out of it.

"I never asked," says Aragorn as he made himself a picture of what happened.

He now remembered that he mostly ate wild when outside and he never cleaned that area intensely. That made him from now on clean his prey intensely.