Rating: all ages Genre: Humour Book: Lord of the Rings
Disclaimer: The characters and settings in this fan fiction are all J.R.R. Tolkien's and I am simply writing for fun because I love writing and I am not writing this for a profit. I bow down to Tolkien for creating such a work of art.
Summary: This just proves that hobbits can't be trusted. Want to know what really happened throughout the travels of the fellowship? Merry and Pippin are always doing something wrong, read to find out what!
Important Rambling: These are written as pranks Merry and Pippin do throughout their travels in the fellowship through the three books as well as a few in-between. I'll try to keep the timeline as accurate as possible but I don't know how well I'll do. I will also be taking lines from the movie to make sure everyone recognizes it. When I have .:. and then a location, that is where the particular prank takes place. I'm planning on making a chapter for each major stopping point in the stories.
For best results, try to read it in accents of the actors.
Bilbo's Birthday .:.The Shire.:.
"Pippin, would you hurry up?" Merry ran between trees to stay hidden while Pippin tripped and lagged behind.
"Merry! Wait for me!" Pippin picked himself up clumsily and raced after his best friend. Tonight was Bilbo's 111th birthday and the two mischievous hobbits had made plans on what to do to celebrate.
"If you don't hurry up, Gandalf will set off the fireworks before we get to them!" Merry looked past the large width of the tree to see Gandalf walking away from the pile of fireworks he had just unpacked.
"Ok, now what do we do?" Pippin asked excitedly as he ran into Merry, letting out a girlish scream.
"Would you shush?" Merry shoved him back into the tree and looked back to Gandalf as he disappeared behind a party tent. "Pippin!" he pulled him up hurriedly from the ground and then began sprinting off to the vulnerable magical fireworks…of doom.
Moments later they were looking at the pile of fireworks. So much of a choice! Merry boosted Pippin into the cart of fireworks and looked around for anyone who might see their wrongdoings. He began to munch on an apple as Pippin held up a firework. "No no no! The big one!" Merry pointed behind the young hobbit and continued to look around.
Pippin dropped the first firework at the look of the one stuck at the back for an obvious finale. It was as long as he was tall and it had the shape of a large dragonhead on one end and a dragon tail on the end.
Merry's face lit up as Pippin reappeared, dragging the firework behind him, throwing the apple away as he was used as a cushion for Pippin as he fell off the large, human-sized cart. (remember that hobbits are on average around 3foot 6inches)
"Pippin…get off!" the hobbit shoved his best friend off of him and then they ran off together towards a deserted tent. Pippin held the firework upwards as Merry ran off to get something to light the fuse.
Minutes later, Merry returned with a tiny fire-lit branch and quickly lit the fuse, "done!" they said in unison but looked down as the fire quickly ate the burnable fuse.
"You were supposed to stick it in the ground!" Merry yelled, shoving the firework towards his friend.
"It is in the ground!" Pippin shoved it back into Merry, the fuse getting smaller by the second.
"It was your idea!" they both yelled as the firework exploded with a loud BANG and sparks flew everywhere. Both hobbits fell to the ground, Pippin letting off yet another girlish scream.
The firework set off into the star-filled night sky, taking the tent with it and leaving the two soot-covered hobbits lying on the ground, watching their plan take effect. The tent-covered firework flew at least 100 feet in the air before exploding into a thousand tiny pinpricks of light and the two hobbits heard everyone 'ooo' and 'ahhh' at the spectacular show.
The lights began to condense into the shape of a dragon that began swooping down towards the hobbit party below. Many of the elderly hobbits, stuck in their ways yelled out that there hadn't been a dragon in these parts for over a thousand years while the younger hobbits screamed and tried to run for cover.
The two young hobbits stood up and watched as the firework dragon's fiery wings beat the magical body closer to the ground where many hobbits had taken refuge under picnic benches. Merry and Pippin saw Frodo leading Bilbo away and duck to the ground just as the magical firework opened its fiery jaws to snap them up.
Many hobbits gasped, assuming this would be the end of Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins but the firework had other plans and quickly changed direction, heading instead into the sky over the lake and burst into tiny sparks of light that filled the sky as far as everyone could see.
There was a silence for a few moments and then people began reappearing from under their hiding places, laughing nervously. Soon the music was up again and pints of ale were being passed around before Bilbo's speech.
Merry and Pippin began congratulating each other on a job well done when all of a sudden there was a pain on their ears. They looked up nervously and were met with Gandalf's upset face. "Meriadoc Brandybuck, and Peregrin Took…I might have known…"
A/N: So what did you think? This is my first LOTR one EVER and my first full on humour so go easy on me but let me know what you thought. :-)