A/N: Hello, my lovely readers! :) Just wanted to let you know that I'm leaving to spend 4 days at Creation Festival on June 26th, so this is the last update you'll get until I'm back home on the 30th. And even then, I might not update right away. Also, I just wanted to say thank you to you guys really quick. I've gotten a lot of reviews where people have said the nicest things about me or to me, so...thank you! ^^ You're all awesome. I couldn't ask for a better audience to share my stories with. :)

And with that in mind, I hope you enjoy this next chapter. On with the fic!

Chaos Unleashed: Chapter Ten

Kaia's POV

I walked back to the large picnic table our group was seated at, juggling four ice cream cones in my hand. "Okay, who got what?"

Pippin's hand immediately shot up. "I had chocolate!"

"Same for me!" Sam said.

"Two chocolates..." I repeated, handing them out. "And who had the strawberry vanilla swirl?"

"That would be mine," Frodo answered.

I handed the hobbit his cone and then plopped down next to Aragorn, starting to lick my own black cherry one. I looked over at Erin then. "Are you gonna make the next ice cream run?"

She nodded, wiping a bit of ketchup from her mouth. "Sure. Hey, anyone else want ice cream now?"

"I'll have a vanilla chocolate swirl," Boromir said.

"And a regular vanilla for me, if you don't mind," Legolas also spoke up.

"Got it," my best friend nodded. She stood up and gathered up her trash before heading back over to the little roadside shop we'd stopped at for lunch. It was a cool place. Family-run, with homemade food that made you want to jump up and praise the Lord once you tasted it. Everyone had gotten either cheeseburgers, hamburgers, subs, or chicken fingers, and we'd all split a couple orders of fries to go along with it. We'd also introduced them to different types of soda besides root beer that we'd had in the fridge a couple nights ago.

I looked up at the man sitting next to me. "You're not getting anything?"

He shook his head. "The chicken was more than enough to fill me."

"Was it good?"

Aragorn smiled. "It was. Not as good as the other place we went to last week, though."

"Chick-Fil-A? Yeah, I guess so. They're pretty good."

Gimli caught my attention from across the table. "So what else is in store for us today, lass?"

"Oh, just you wait," I said with a grin. "We've got a couple more activities planned. Actually..." I reached into my pocket and checked my phone for the time. "...we should probably get going soon. I've gotta drop you guys off at home so I can get to work on time."

"When do you work today?" Sam asked.

"From one to six," I replied. "Nothing crazy. And it's Sunday, too, so we probably won't be too busy in the store."

"So we will be with Erin and Kathryn, then?" Aragorn asked.

I nodded. "Yep. Both of them take Sundays off."

At that moment, Erin returned with more ice cream and sat down next to Sam as she passed everything out. "I heard my name?"

"We were talking about how you and Kathryn are in charge for the rest of the afternoon," I said.

She smiled. "Oh, yeah! Today's gonna be fun."

"Why do I feel like that should worry us?" Frodo asked, smiling.

Erin shot him a look. "Oh, shut up." The hobbit just laughed.

Boromir pointed at the cone in Erin's hand, frowning. "What kind of ice cream is that?"

"Orange pineapple," she said as she took a huge lick of it to catch the melting parts.

He wrinkled his nose in disgust. "That sounds terrible."

"Well it's better than yours, I can bet you that," she said, sticking out her tongue at him.

"Hey, hurry up and finish that, okay?" I said. "We've gotta get going so I'm not late for work. My shift starts in half an hour."

"'Kay."

Suddenly, we heard a shout from the other end of the table, and I looked over to see Merry jump up from his seat, his green shirt covered in ice cream. Legolas was laughing hysterically, and Pippin and Kathryn looked horrified. "What the hell happened?" I asked.

Legolas glanced over at me. "Pippin wasn't paying attention to how he was holding his ice cream."

"I'm sorry, Merry!" Pippin cried. "I...I'll get you a new shirt!"

"We can wash it, Pip, don't worry," Kathryn said.

"But what am I supposed to do about this?" Merry exclaimed, waving a hand towards the big brown blob on his chest.

Kathryn was smiling, too. "Come on. Let's go get some napkins." She stood up and dragged him along with her to go ask an employee for some help.

Legolas was still laughing, and I looked over at him again. "You found that pretty funny, huh?" I saw Erin get up from the table, and assumed she was done eating.

The elf nodded. "You had to have seen Merry's face," he said. "It was hilarious."

Erin stopped walking once she was behind him and smirked. "You think it's that funny, huh?" In the blink of an eye, she'd taken the remainder of her melted cone and plopped it on the top of Legolas' head.

The elf immediately jumped up with a shout, grabbing the cone stub off of his head and staring at Erin in shock. "Erin! What did you do?"

Now Erin was the one laughing as Legolas stood there with melted ice cream in his hair and hand. "What does it look like, genius? I put ice cream on your head." Legolas was looked kinda mad, but you could tell he was trying to hold back a smile. He took a step closer to Erin, holding up his sticky hand threateningly. "Woah, woah, woah," she said, backing up a bit. "No need to get violent!" She screamed a tiny bit as Legolas reached out and grabbed her with his messy hand, getting it on her arm. "Way to go!" she said. "Look what you did!"

He was laughing now. We all were. "Look what I did? I believe you were the one who started it." He tried to smear it on her some more, but Erin ducked behind a tree.

"Are we starting a food fight?" I asked. "I'm game!"

"No, we're not!" Erin called out from behind her tree. "Legolas is being a bully, that's all!"

He laughed again as he tried to fake her out, but it didn't work. The elf finally stepped back and raised his hands in surrender. "All right, I give up. But you are going to go get napkins to clean this up."

Erin scoffed. "Screw you! You can shower once we get home."

"Yeah, that's probably not gonna come out with just napkins," I laughed. Legolas sighed and shot Erin a friendly glare.

At that moment, Kathryn and Merry came back. The former stopped when she saw Legolas and Erin with ice cream all over them and made a confused face. "...Well! I guess I walked out at the wrong time!"

oOo

Erin's POV

I finished scrubbing the last of the sticky orange ice cream off of my arm and threw the dishcloth in the sink before walking back out into the game room. Legolas had already gone upstairs to take a shower, Merry was changing, and Kaia was gone to work. The rest of us were gathered in the game room once again.

"So now what?" Pippin asked.

Kathryn looked at me. "What do you think, Erin? Should we start the dancing lessons?"

I grinned. "Oh, of course! These guys need to learn how to dance like Earthlings!"

She laughed, but the others looked totally lost. "Dance lessons?" Boromir asked. "That's your big surprise?"

"But they're not just any dance lessons," I said, wiggling my finger at him. I jumped over the couch and turned on the TV, then pressed the power button on the Nintendo Wii to start it up. "This is gonna be a hardcore competition!"

"Again?" Merry said as he walked into the room, now wearing a fresh shirt. "Well, hopefully it can't be any crazier than Mario Kart."

Kathryn and I looked at each other and immediately burst out laughing. "Oh no..."Aragorn muttered. That just made us laugh even harder. Kathryn inserted the disc into the Wii's slot, and a second later the Just Dance title theme came floating out of the speakers.

I grabbed four remotes and connected them with the Wii, then turned to Kathryn. "You wanna explain how this works?"

"You know I do," she said with a grin. "Okay. So we have everyone's name written on a slip of paper and inside this glass jar." I held up the jar that was set next to the TV to show them. "Between the three of us girls, we've picked what we think are the most...ahh, interesting songs for you all to dance to, and for each song we're gonna randomly draw names out of the jar to decide who's gonna be dancing. No one's allowed to sit out. Be good sports, okay?" They all looked really on edge about it, but nodded nonetheless. "Now how the game works is simple. Once the song we select for you starts, there will be a person that shows up on the screen. All you have to do is hold the Wii remote in your hand and copy their moves like you're looking in a mirror. Got it?" More nods. "Then let's get started! Erin, what is our first song going to be?"

I looked back at Kathryn. "Actually, why don't you and I do our song first? That way we can show them how it's done."

She raised an eyebrow. "You're challenging me early, huh? Have you forgotten that I've beaten you the last two times we did this?"

I stuck my tongue out at her. "Don't get cocky. I'll beat you so hard you won't even be able to see straight." A chorus of "oooohs" was heard from the others.

She gave a curt nod. "You're on. Hand me that remote."

I did so, never once breaking eye contact with her until I had to turn and select the song "Rock n' Roll" by Skrillex. We quickly took our positions, and the others shifted so that they could see both us and the screen above. A second later, the music was up, and my full attention was on the robotic guy in the center of the screen, making sharp movements with my hands to match his as the song began.

The Fellowship seemed pretty amused as they watched. "What is he wearing?" Merry asked, pointing to our onscreen guide.

"You know, just your normal dancing clothes," Kathryn answered sarcastically. Some of the guys laughed.

I scoffed as I started jumping to the side and pulling my hands behind my head, just as I should've. "I don't know about you, but that's what I wear all the time when I dance."

Within a minute or so, the dance had quickly gotten way more intense, though Kathryn and I were still neck and neck at about two and half stars. She was a step or two ahead of me, so I focused on nailing the air guitar move as best as I could. It was funny, actually...the room was almost dead silent except for the sounds coming from the TV. Kathryn and I always faced off against each other with this song, so we knew how serious this was, but I was surprised that the guys weren't asking a butt ton of questions.

Once the song ended, the others began to applaud us, but Kathryn jumped up and down laughing. "HA! I did it! I beat you again!"

I waved her off. "Oh, shut it."

"That's three in a row, Erin? Where you at? Where's your dancing skills?"

I just flopped back down on the couch. "I'll get you next time. You'll see."

"Yeah, that's what you said three challenges ago."

"Oh, shut up! We were only like...five hundred points apart!"

"Who's next?" Aragorn asked.

Kathryn walked over to the jar and pulled out two more names. "This one's a duet," she said, wiggling her eyebrows suggestively. "We've got Erin again...and Gimli!" I looked over at the dwarf, who looked a bit surprised to hear his name.

I sighed and rose from my seat again. "Well, c'mon! You and me, let's go!"

Interestingly enough, the short little man just laughed and strode up to the TV with me. "Ahh, this'll be a piece of cake. It looked easy enough to me!"

Keep in mind that you just watched two experts do it, I thought, but said nothing. I just smiled knowingly at him and looked to Kathryn. "And the song is?..."

"Run the Show," she said, then immediately started laughing.

"Oh, balls!" I cried. "This one? Really?"

"What?" Gimli asked. "What's so bad about this one?"

I shot the dwarf a look. "...You'll see." It wasn't the fact that the song was hard for me to do. I'd done all these songs at least ten times over. The issue with this one was that it feature two girl characters who liked to do a lot of...shaking. Shaking their womanly assets like their lives depended on it. I knew it would be hilarious to watch Gimli do it, I just...I really didn't want the rest of the Fellowship to see me doing it. I exhaled and selected my character as the screen came up, choosing to be on the left. Whatever. Just go for it. Hopefully Gimli will provide enough of a distraction and they won't look at you.

Kathryn could sense my nervousness as Gimli chose the other girl, and the song began. "What's wrong, Erin? Don't you love this song?"

I glared at her. "Shut your mouth hole!" My head snapped back towards the TV to focus as Kathryn walked away.

oOo

Kathryn's POV

I swear, I've never laughed so much in my entire life. Watching Erin and Gimli have to dance to one of the worst songs in the game, and then to see the Fellowship reacting to it...God, it was priceless. I was trying to keep track of how many times Gimli hit Erin, but I lost count after about thirty seconds into it. As soon as the first move came up that involved him popping his hips out, everyone lost it. Gimli looked like he wanted to punch us all in the face, and I'm pretty sure Frodo was tearing up. "Dude...this is perfect," I gasped between laughter.

"I know!" he said, clapping like a retarded seal as he laughed silently.

I nodded and continued to watch the dancers ahead of us. Erin really did know what she was doing, but you could tell she was really uncomfortable doing a dance like this in front of a bunch of dudes. I doubted that they noticed, though. They were laughing at Gimli too much.

"Come on, Gimli!" Boromir laughed. "You're not getting the hips right! It's all in the hips!"

"I'd like to see you move your hips like that!" the dwarf shot back. Boromir answered by suddenly jumping out and doing a couple hip thrusts towards Gimli before he got hit in the stomach with a Wii remote. He went back to his spot after that. "That doesn't count!" Gimli snapped, but then tried to rush back into position as another chest-popping move came up.

Legolas was standing next to me, looking really weirded out. "This song makes absolutely so sense."

"Not many of these songs do," I said. "It's the sad thing about most music these days."

"And the dancing is...definitely not what we would do in Middle-Earth, either," he muttered.

I cracked a smile again as Erin jokingly yelled at Gimli for knocking her in the ribs with his flailing. "What did you expect? Ballroom dancing?"

He laughed and shook his head. "Of course not. I just did not expect it to be so...provocative."

I shrugged. "Welcome to the twenty-first century."

"OW! For the love of all that is holy, Gimli! Stop hitting me!" Erin was laughing as she glanced over at the dwarf.

"Sorry lass, sorry!" Gimli sputtered, trying desperately to keep up. It wasn't working. He was about two and a half moves behind. Then came Gimli's solo sequence, which was pretty much just Erin pointing towards him as he stared at the screen blankly, trying to figure out what the hell was going on. More laughter floated about the room.

I looked over at Erin again and suddenly saw a worried expression come over her face. Oh shit...it's the part she hates, isn't it? Yeah, it is! The move called for the two partners to face each other and shake like there was no tomorrow, and the room instantly erupted with laughter as we watched Gimli trying to shake his ass along with Erin, then completely miss the moment where they had to flip around and do it back to back.

I looked over at Erin, too, and certainly didn't miss her bright red face as we all laughed at the ridiculous move. I let out a catcall, much to her annoyance, and then glanced over to see Legolas looking really uncomfortable, which made me laugh even more. The best part was that the ass-and-boob-shaking lasted a good twenty seconds, and I'm pretty sure everybody was in tears by the time they finished the song. We applauded them as Gimli huffed and threw his remote into the couch. "I am not doing that again!"

Erin just plopped right down on the floor and looked like she wanted to kill herself. I crawled over to her and laughed. "Hey, what's wrong? Your twerking got you a new high score!"

She smacked me. "Oh, shut up! That was horrible! Of all songs, I had to dance to that one? I felt like a hooker."

That just made me laugh even more. "Oh, lighten up. He didn't even look at you, he was watching Gimli." That was an outright lie, but whatever. Erin didn't respond. I got up and went back to the front of the room, pulling out the names of Aragorn, Merry, Gimli again, and Legolas to dance to "Oops! I Did It Again" by Britney Spears. Erin'll get a kick out of this.

oOo

I gotta say, this was definitely the highlight of my night. There were so many times when I was convinced that I was gonna die from choking on air, I was laughing so hard. After watching Aragorn attempt to channel his inner Britney Spears and getting some scarily accurate hip thrusts, we had Frodo and Sam dance to a romantic duet of "I've Had The Time Of My Life." I'm pretty sure Erin got a video on her phone of them trying to salsa and then go for a dip with each other. Boromir did what I'm pretty sure was the best rendition of "Maneater" that could ever exist after that (with several hip thrusts, most of which were either pointed at Aragorn or Gimli), and when his final pose ended, we all cheered.

I laughed as he walked over to me and handed the remote back. "I'm pretty sure you just lost all your man points from that dance."

He laughed, too. "It was strangely fun, though."

"Oh?" I asked. "You got something to tell us, Boromir?"

He frowned, totally confused. "I...I'm sorry? I don't understand?"

"Gaaaaaaaay," Erin whispered as she walked past him. I burst out laughing, knowing that she was only joking around. We did that to each other all the time.

Boromir's eye flew wide open, however. "What? I am most certainly not-"

"Oh my word, calm down! It's okay that you're a flaming homosexual. It's okay," Erin continued.

He narrowed his eyes at her. "I am not!"

"Oh, please. With all those hip thrusts you did to Aragorn? It's no wonder you're sharing the same room. Just remember man...he has a girlfriend."

I was gasping for air. "E...Erin!" She burst out laughing as well, and only then did Boromir seem to understand the joke.

"You two are ridiculous!" he said, but I saw him fighting a smile as he walked away.

"Okay, okay." I took a couple calming breaths and then looked at my brunette friend. "Every time you walk past him now, can you please just whisper 'gay' in his ear?"

She laughed. "Dude, yes! It's official, this is a thing. We're doing this." We laughed. "Who's next?"

"Pippin is!" Sam cried out from where he'd just drawn a name. "And he's got a solo!"

The hobbit in question actually seemed excited to dance as he sauntered up and took a remote. "What song is it?"

Sam squinted at my scribbled handwriting. "'Umbrella' by...Rihanna."

"Oh my God!" Erin yelled, then started laughing all over again. I smothered her face with a pillow to get her to shut up as we all watched Pip intently while he danced. He took up the starting pose and we all waited with bated breath, excited to see the failure.

...But out of nowhere, he hit the first move spot on, with more pop in his hips and shoulder shakes than anyone else. Laughter and cries of shock were heard as Pippin continued to extremely over-exaggerate almost every single move, to the point where if it asked him to casually stick his right hand out, he acted like he was trying to punch someone in the face. It was hilarious, but he was somehow really good at the dance.

Then came the move that had everybody on the floor. The move was easy enough; just drag your left hand down and wiggle your hips around a little. But Pippin decided it would be cooler to mover his hips around a LOT more than what was necessary, then flash us a quick wink and suggestive eyebrow wiggle before moving on. We all laughed so hard, I had to grab onto Merry's shoulders from where I sat behind him on the top of the couch for support. Pippin was literally doing every single move like he was trying to seduce us. It was the best thing ever.

"The hip wiggles!" Merry laughed from beneath me. "I can't handle the hip wiggles!" Someone snorted from laughing so hard (it might've been me...hell if I know), which sent everyone into another fit. By the time Pippin was finished, we were all dying of laughter and he'd scored four stars.

"All hail Peregrin Took, master of Just Dance!" Erin called out. We all burst into applause once again, and he took a bow before sitting back in his seat.

I got my breath back. "Okay...I don't think I can handle any more of this for today. I'm gonna end up passing out from laughing so much."

Aragorn nodded. "Kaia will definitely regret missing this for work."

"Sucks to suck," Erin replied. He laughed. "So...what do we do now?"

I shrugged as I glanced outside. "Well, it's not even dinnertime yet, and it has to be dark out for the last activity we have planned for today. So...I guess you're free to do whatever until dinner's ready. I'm making tacos tonight."

"Yes!" Merry and Pippin high-fived.

"Mind if I help you?" Sam asked.

"Of course not! You've been my assistant chef for awhile now, you know I don't care," I smiled. I waved my hands at everybody else to break them up as Erin went to shut off the Wii. "Now go! Go do stuff!" I looked back at Sam. "Come on. We've got a lot of taco meat to make in the next hour."

A/N: ...I really hope I did the Just Dance scenes justice. I'm worried that I totally failed at describing what was happening during the dances. :/ Hopefully you guys like it anyway. :) Don't forget to read and review, and have a lovely end of June! I'll see you all sometime in July, I guess!

~Erin