This isn't going to be as good as the first chapter, but it will get better next time... hopefully!

I own neither the LOTR characters, nor the Yu-Gi-Oh characters.

Except for Kaiba.

'Thoughts'

"Spoken words"



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Gandalf sat in dust and ashes, nursing a bruised head and drawing figures in said powdery

substance with the end of his staff. We will now examine the cause of his injury:

Having made his way into the clearing, the first sight which met Gandalf's eyes was that

of Bilbo telling a fairy-tale: "And then," Bilbo was saying "the big bad wolf made his

way through the thorny buttercup fields and into the castle, where the hallucinatory little

match girl had slept for one hundred years."

"...dduurrll..."

Came the reply from his avid listener.

One could almost believe that Bakura, at whom the story was directed (if it was directed

at anyone at all) was currently inhabiting the fairy land in which these events were taking

place.

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Throughout the rest of the story, the big bad wolf awakened the little match-girl by

devouring her, at which the little match girl sat moping in his digestive system, amusing

herself with hallucinations brought on by lighting one handful of matches after another.

Frodo listened to the remainder of the story enchantedly, while Yugi walked halfway

through the clearing and collapsed, in, as has been said before, a stupor, and without

drawing the attention of either hobbit.

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Galadriel and Celeborn's argument on the civilization of elvin society was becoming

more and more heated, and they were attempting to draw Tristan and Te'a into their

debate, which, because neither Tristan nor Te'a were in any position to possess much if

any knowledge on even the basics of elven civilization, did not serve in any way but to

confuse both parties and cause them to view each-other with steadily increasing

cautiousness.

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But to return to Gandalf:

On seeing the hobbits, one thought and one thought only made its way through Gandalf's

mind, and this thought was to escape from the clearing as quickly as possible, without

letting anything stand in his way. This thought was not a bad one, and there were many

courses of action in which he could have less peacefully rid himself of the hobbits, but

the fact that both Yugi and Joey were currently inhabiting the space through which

Gandalf would have to run should have been taken more into consideration. As it was, the

result of Gandalf's course of action was that Yugi and Joey awakened with

extraordinarily bad bruises for several months after their encounter.

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Galadriel and Celeborn only stood majestically and watched as Gandalf escaped, each

trying to impress themselves on the minds of Tristan and Tea as being more regal and

worthy of the superior civilization than the other. They succeeded only in impressing on

the minds of Tristan and Te'a a memory of two absurdly tall humans wearing mindlessly

elaborate nightgowns.

Tristan and Te'a on the other hand, ever devout friends, rushed to the aid of their

companions and helped them back to camp. Bilbo and Frodo meandered along behind,

talking to themselves and each other alternately, and leaving Galadriel and Celeborn to

stand the night out.

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The next morning, Gandalf had still not returned, and the hobbits were growing worried

for their friend:

"Why Frodo, what if he never comes back?"

"I don't know Bilbo do you suppose he'll never come back?"

"Why if he never comes back I can't imagine how we'll take it!"

"Bilbo, what if he never comes back?"

The hobbits amused themselves with this conversational loop throughout breakfast, to the

ever increasing displeasure of their new 'friends'.

Finally, though, they wandered off in search of more food.

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After breakfast had been eaten, Yugi, Bakura, Tristan, and Te'a had gathered in order to

determine the best course of action:

"Ya'know we can't take them, they're... uhh.." Joey then made an elaborate gesture that

presumably conveyed an impression of dementia.

"Yes, we all know that they're zany, but it's because of that that we can't leave them

behind."

"Tristan," said Bakura "you were not cursed with their conversational idiocy, and if you

had been, you would want to leave them also."

Te'a, who had been musing throughout breakfast, looked up and exclaimed something,

which, on further persuasion, she would not repeat. "I'm not sure," she said, "and before I

explain I have to be perfectly sure."

Yugi then looked around, and, to the great relief of Bakura and himself, noticed that the

hobbits had made their way elsewhere, and were no longer to be found.

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After the group had gathered their items, they made their way partially through the forest.

Finding themselves in the clearing which they had occupied the previous evening, they

managed to persuade Galadriel and Celeborn to join them, and finally went on their way.

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Returning to Gandalf:

Having made his escape from the clearing, Gandalf ran until he could no

longer hear the steady drone of Bilbo's voice. Having finally escaped the range of

hearing, Gandalf found himself standing in front of a large stone fortress. Gandalf stood

and eyed the fortress, then sat down cross-legged and slept for the night.

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On awakening the next morning, Gandalf stood and eyed the castle once more.

He then walked up the numerous steps, and placed a hand on the large, forbidding door of

said castle. Pulling his hand away quickly, he grimaced and said: "...I feel

darkness...darkness..." He slowly shook his head, raised his stave and yelled something

not unlike gibberish. From the top of his staff grew a blue and white ball. Gandalf then

slammed the end of his stave into the ground, freeing the ever growing blue and white

ball from its gnarled top. He dropped into a fetal position under the ball, and using his

staff, pushed the large sphere toward the even larger door. As soon as the door was

touched, a resounding bang was heard, and the ground shuddered.

Gandalf had destroyed the door. Gandalf then stood and made his way into the castle.

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Seto Kaiba was jolted awake by a large bang. Looking into the sky, he saw a cloud of

smoke.

He looked at his watch and frowned. He had slept longer than he had wanted. His ears

pricked and he heard something which caused him to freeze. There was something getting

into his bag.

'Damn,' he thought 'they're coming for me.'

He slowly stood, and almost soundlessly made his way toward the figures that were

huddled next to his bag of equipment. One of them was waving his head from side to

side, and humming in a way that gave you the impression, whatever tune he was

humming, that he was humming out of tune. The other pulled a laptop out of the bag.

"Bilbo," he said "do you think that this might be food?"

"I don't know, Frodo," replied Bilbo (for Bilbo it was) "you'll never know until you

try."

It was tried, and it wasn't food. At this discovery, Frodo tossed the laptop over his

shoulder, into a steadily growing pile of mutilated software.

Kaiba grimaced. Frodo looked up at him and smiled inanely (A/N: Inanely, not insanely).

"Hullo!" said Frodo, "do you have something to eat?" Bilbo turned around, frothing at the

mouth from his happiness: "You look lonely, I think it would be best if we joined you!"

He looked up and smiled in a way that made one wonder if he had any brain. (A/N: His

soul was being eaten by the ring, why not his brain? heheheh...) Kaiba muttered

something, looked at his watch, and started stuffing the maimed software back into his

bag.

"Oh," whispered Bilbo to Frodo, "he looks unhappy. maybe we should try and cheer him

up."

"Ahh yes," was Frodo's reply.

"So," Bilbo sauntered over the short distance between himself and Kaiba, "what's your

name? I'm Bilbo, and this is my nephew, Frodo."

Kaibas fists clenched at his side. 'You're dead...' was the only thought that made its way

through his mind. But a glint of light from the castle struck his eye, reminding him that he

had more important matters to pursue, so he slung his bag over his shoulder and made his

way through the forest, leaving the hobbits trotting along behind.

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Okay, how was it? it isn't as good or as long as the first chapter, but would you be able to write well if your brother was running through the house hyper and singing: "Spiderman, I'm spiderman, see my chest is all covered in hair? Spiderman, I'm spiderman...."

Now what shall I do with Bilbo and Frodo? Should they befriend Seto? or Pegasus?...

Oh, and please, if you have any ideas for a plot twist, please please offer them. So far only one person *I love you!* has reviewed. (sniff sniff) I'm thinking about dropping the 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' group into this somewhere with the infinite improbability drive...

Please review.