Lou opened the door to her room and walked in slowly. She was very weary from all that had happened that day. She and Amber had sat and watched the elf for what seemed hours but she knew it was less. Normally if she was up at this time she would have been hungry but the food here was so filling she felt fine.

Pulling off her clothes and changing into the nightclothes she had been provided with, she jumped into bed. She breathed in the cool clean air and smiled. Then she pulled the soft covers up close under her chin and closed her eyes. The last thing she saw were the lights of Rivendell, shining in the darkness and then slipped off into sleep.

Outside birds sung in sweet melodies. Lou closed her eyes tightly and rolled up in the sheets. In her mind she could see them flying through the branches of the trees that grew everywhere. She closed her eyes tighter but it didn't help. Yawning she opened her eyes, blinking back the light. Sleepily she looked about the room. The sun shone through the arches and lit everything making it look cheerful. Lou grinned and then frowned as her stomach told her it was time to eat. Jumping out of bed, resisting the urge to just lie back down and let herself be hungry, she dressed quickly.

As she made her way through the corridors Lou was surprised she saw no elves or even hobbits walking about. Shrugging, she continued on her way.

After a few minutes Lou stopped abruptly and looked about her. She must have taken a wrong turn as she never been in this part of Rivendell before. Even after being here for several days and taking walks by herself and the rest of the hobbits, she was sure she still hadn't found all the places of Rivendell. It seemed just as you thought you found it all there was a little bit more to find.

She turned back the way she came and continued down the corridor hoping to find her way back to where she had begun. After five minutes of wandering she stopped again. Looking at the corridor it seemed suspiciously, to Lou, like the corridor she had realised she was lost in at first. Surely she couldn't have gone in a circle?

At the end of the corridor Lou saw a movement. She smiled as she saw her friend step into the corridor.

"Merry!" She cried and ran towards him.

He looked up and waved. Lou gave him a hug as she reached him. Stepping back she looked at her friend.

"Merry." She said again. "I got up to find some breakfast but I got lost and it's all so quiet! Where is everyone?" Asked Lou in one big long breath.

"Carrot?" Enquired Merry, holding up a shallow wicker basket filled with carrots, which Lou did not remember seeing before.

"Errr.thank you." She said taking a carrot gingerly and looking at it for a second. "But where are the.Merry?" She stopped short as she looked up and saw he had gone. "Merry?"

To her right she saw a door ajar. This, she assumed, was the same door she had seen Merry walk through a minute earlier. Seeing as she could not see any other living being about her she decided she would go through. She couldn't get more lost than she already was and assumed Merry had gone through too.

It led her to a long corridor without any doors. Way along on the left she could see what she guessed was an archway. A shaft of light shone through and bathed the opposite wall in light. Apart from that, no other light entered the corridor. It was all unaccustomly gloomy for a part of Rivendell and did not seem wholly right. Peering through the dull light that reached the end, she saw the outline of a large arched door.

Lou made her way towards it, her footsteps against the stone floor resounding off the walls. When she reached the archway, for she had been correct, she stopped and looked out. Shielding her eyes against the glare of the golden light after the dimness, all she could make out was trees. From the direction of the door Lou though she heard music.

When she reached the door she found it was made out of a solid, dark wood. Turning the handle, she pushed against it and called,

"Merry? Merry are you here?"

There was no reply but she had stepped into what seemed to be a large courtyard garden. There were trees surrounding it and about she could see elves and hobbits. Lou, smiled as she had finally found her friends and walked forward leaving the door open. She felt a tap on he shoulder and turned round. Amber stood there.

"Amber!" Cried Lou. "God where have you been? Have you seen Merry? He came through here. Have you eaten yet?"

Amber nodded slowly and then turned and pointed.

"Look Rose!" She shouted. "The squirrel's going upstairs!"

Amber ran off in the direction she had pointed. Lou stared after her. She looked about her and saw Clara sitting at a table. Hoping she would not run away like Amber had done, Lou made her way over. It was not until she was halfway there that she saw Clara was talking to someone. Sat on the table was a ring-tailed lemur. It appeared that this was whom she was talking to.

"No you silly asparagus. The chickens dance the fandango and one day they'll be the high over lords with the pigeons."

Clara looked up and saw Lou watching her. Grinning, she side waved and went back to talking to the lemur. Lou looked about her in shock. What was going on? Was this some kind of strange magic?

At that moment she saw Elrond walking towards her. He looked very upset.

"My tiara!" He said, his voice quavering. " Have you sen my tiara?" Lou shook her head. "It's gone! And someone took my purple dress!"

With that Elrond wandered off, presumably to look for his tiara.

"I know what you're thinking." Came a voice from behind her and he spun around.

There she saw a stocky built man with shoulder length golden blond hair sitting at a table. He sat opposite the exact same elf that Amber and she had been watching the night before.

"You're thinking," Continued the man. "That I don't understand. But I do. I really do."

Legolas sighed.

"Do you really?" He asked, his face downcast.

"Yes I do." Replied the man.

Legolas let out another sigh. "I just feel as if." The man looked at him expectantly. "I just fee that nobody appreciates a good old fashioned nance anymore." The man nodded sympathetically in agreement.

"Strawberry?" He asked, pushing a bowl of strawberries towards Legolas.

Legolas accepted some gratefully and shaking a can he had picked up from beside the bowl, he covered them in whipped cream. At the sight of this Lou felt the urge to laugh uncontrollably.

Suddenly, something whizzed past her eyes. She looked wide eyed as she saw Frodo standing before her wearing what looked like boots with wheels on the bottom and attached around his waist and mass of lace that stuck out all the way round.

"Frodo." She began in amazement but Frodo interrupted.

"It's a tutu!" He said brightly. "Like it?"

Lou didn't know what to say.

"And what makes it better are these." Said Frodo, lifting up a layer of lace and showing what looked like swords protruding from the waistband.

"You see what I do is run at an enemy and spin. Bang goes their kneecaps and you can't get very far without them!"

Lou nodded open mouthed in shock

"Come on Sam." Shouted Frodo. "Let's hunt some orc! TALLY HO!" And he skated off, spinning every now and then. Lou watched as Sam flew past her wearing his tutu and followed after Frodo.

There came a loud blast of mixed notes to her right. These carried on until single notes could be made out, which then formed into a tune with one droning note behind them. Lou slowly looked in that direction, fearing what she would see next. Her eyes widened.

Pippin was standing close by. He held in his hand a bag of tartan material with pipes protruding from it. The end of one was in his mouth. He blew into this and held the bag, filled with air, under his arm while in his hands he held another pipe. It seemed that covering the small holes in the pipe produced notes and moving his fingers produced different ones.

"Pip." She said as she reached him.

He grinned at her and carried on playing.

"What in," She began and then stopped as she realised he couldn't hear her. "What in middle earth are you doing?" She shouted.

"Bagpipes!" He shouted back, and then continued to play.

"I don't know what to say." Lou said more to herself than Pippin. "Pip?" She yelled. "Why are you wearing a skirt?"

"It's a kilt!" Shouted Pippin and now feeling confident, he started to do a little jig.

"Lou?" Came a cry through the noise.

Turning, she saw a taller than average hobbit with blonde hair, waving at her. Next to her sat two more hobbits. They seemed strangely familiar though she was sure they did not come from Hobbiton or any other part of the Shire. Amber and Rose also were sat there. She walked over in a state of utter bewilderment.

"Hiya Skip, Kym, Dezzy." She said as she reached them and slowly sat on a bench preparing herself for a new shock. She wondered briefly how it didn't feel strange she knew these new hobbits' names.

"Where've you been?" Asked Skip, the hobbit who had called her.

"Yeah. The party is about to start." Said Rose, who was sat on the end of a low wooden bed opposite her.

"Around." Said Lou. "Have any of you.noticed.well everyone acting strange?"

"What do you mean?" Asked Kym.

"It's mine!" Came a shout.

"It's mine! Purple suits my complexion!"

"Complexion my arse!" Came the second voice. "It looks better on me!"

The hobbits turned to look in the direction of the shouting. Standing opposite each other, playing tug of war with a long velvet purple dress were Elrond and his daughter Arwen. Clara walked past them and continued to watch their fight as she reached the small group.

"Looks like Elrond's stopped moping over his tiara." She said, sitting down next to Rose.

Suddenly there was a loud crack and the bed tilted to one side, the leg of it breaking away from the frame. Rose jumped up quickly but Clara wasn't as quick as Rose and she rolled off onto the floor. She sat up giggling madly. One by one each of the hobbits started to laugh. They laughed till there were tears in their eyes. The was a high pitched whistling and a loud bang as a large firework burst overheard, flaring out into millions of shooting stars. The sky had gotten dark without Lou even noticing it and the stars twinkled.

"The party!" Cried Amber and stood up excitedly.

"Party?" Asked Lou, standing up with the others.

"Yeah." Said Dezzy, "Come on it's starting!"

"But." She started, and then saw they had all changed.

Now they wore brightly coloured can can skirts with sparkling tiaras and in their hands they held wands with stars on the end. On their backs were glittery faerie wings. Looking down at herself she saw she wore the same. She shrugged and ran after the hobbits.

Above them sparkled a huge mirror ball. She smiled as more fireworks went off overhead. Their colours mixed and bounced about the sky lighting up the faces of the hobbits and elves watching. It was the signal for the party to begin. And voice from nowhere sounded over trees through a microphone.

"And now." Came a rather cheesy American presenter type voice. "We would like to present to you. The Wizard that's you've all been waiting for, He's a hit all through Middle Earth. Yes you know who I'm talking about folks. Give it up for.DJ GANDALF THE GREEEEEEEY!"

There was a manic round of applause and wild cheering. Party poppers went of and one elf maiden fainted. From above a platform slowly lowered. Attached to the bottom were lights that flashed about lighting up the mirror ball and nearly blinding those looking directly at it. Lou could see a set of DJ decks and behind that a large screen showing what looked like a rune twisting about like it was being seen through kaleidoscope. A loud bang and flash of spark and smoke and behind the decks stood a tall grey figure with a long beard. The screams got louder as he raised his arms.

"YO, YO, YO!!!" DJ Gandalf called. "'Sup ma possee!" More cheers and catcalls followed. "This one goes out to ma bred win. Booyakasha!"

The stereo speaker either side of the stage pumped out a loud beat. The hobbits and elves started to dance madly.

"Give it up for my Nancing Crew!" Yelled Gandalf and the entire crowd cheered as a smaller stage next to Gandalf lowered. On it stood a tall dark rugged looking man with hair to his shoulders, next to him the gentleman Lou had seen talking to Legolas earlier, Legolas himself and a small dwarf. All were kitted out in cowboy outfits, right from the hats to the boots.

"5,6,7,8, Ma boot scooting baby is drivin' me crazy." Began the song. In unison the Nancing Crew did their thing.

The crowd went wild. Everyone seemed to know the routine and joined in. Lou who didn't actually know it jumped about and waved her wand. Noticing a drinks stand she made her way over. She took a cup and looked about her to view what was happening. She noticed Elrond to her left wearing a pair of bunny ears on his head looking rather moody and Arwen not so far away dancing wearing the purple dress she and her father had been fighting over. She could see Gandalf with one of the huge earphones to his head bent over the decks and nodding his head, feeling every beat. When the track finished the stage with the Nancing Crew rose back up. Lou couldn't see where it stopped going on up but she hoped they would be okay.

"And now, this tune goes out to my hobbits down there. Yeah I can see you! Bo!" Said Gandalf, indicating Lou and the other hobbits. "Shake dat booty. Booyaka!"

Lou looked around, wondering what she was actually expecting to do. But Skip grabbed her arm and pulled her over to one side. She saw that opposite stood a line of elf maidens in brightly coloured can, can skirts much like the ones she and her friends were wearing. There was a silence over the crowd. The over the hush was heard the whispered voice of Gandalf.

"The Can, Can."

Suddenly there was a rush of music and Lou instantly knew what she needed to do. She ran forward along with the other hobbits and the elves did the same. There was a mass of waving lace skirts and whoops of delight from the dancers as they twirled to the music. Lou sang along to the song cheerfully. She remembered this. She knew there was no way she could have known the words before that moment but somehow she did. Letting the music take over she danced until the final bars and ran to the hobbits as they all sat down, exhausted.

"That was fun! What are we going to do now?" She asked brightly.

"Let's find some flamigeons!" Said Skip brightly.

"Don't forget the damigeons!" Replied Amber.

The group of hobbits ran about the crowd joyfully as everyone about them danced. Gandalf strutted his stuff around the platform. The same elf that had fainted at the start regained conciseness only to see Gandalf in front of her and collapse again. Lou grabbed another drink from the table and looked up to see a large bouncy castle before her. Shaped like a mighty castle, streamers fluttered from the turrets.

"Come on!" She yelled and ran towards the castle.

The hobbits followed bundling onto it in a huge tangle of legs and arms. They began to bounce madly. 'I'm So Excited' blasted out the speakers and they sang along at the top of their voices.

"A Boom boom!" They cried with glee and waved their wands vigorously. "CHA CHING!"

"And now my bred win!" Said Gandalf, the crowd going silent once more apart from a few random whoops and cheers. "You is all very special to my heart. You is knowing that ai?" The crowd cheered in agreement. "Well to show how special you is to me, I is going to give you a treat. You is going to be the first to hear my brand new song." There were screams of delight and Gandalf nodded, grinning with approval. "It is called," He waited for the quiet anticipation. "Just a Little, The Fool of a Took Remix." The noise was deafening.

"Hey!" Cried Kym, who found her leg was slowly disappearing amongst the material of the castle. "What's happening?!"

"We're going down!" Cried Amber.

"Jump!" Cried Dezzy launching herself off the castle and running to the crowd as the first few notes started.

The rest of the hobbits followed but Lou stood for a moment on the castle. She knew this. She knew that there was something she should know. The music. There was just something about it that was so familiar. Rose turned and beckoned her to follow. She shook he head and ran forward. She reached the edge of the castle but as it had started to deflate she was caught off balance and fell forward.

Images flashed before her eyes. She saw a world that wasn't one that she knew. She saw her and her friends, all the hobbits, running about a large city. They held wands and laughed and skipped. They sat and watched TV. They we're sat at a table eating dinner. They ran about a market place. She saw big screens showing images of her own friends Merry, Pippin, Sam and Frodo. She sat before a box of moving pictures and yelled at it. She kicked a ball abut a garden while hobbits jumped about the place trying to stop her. She danced about a house that was hers and at the same time wasn't. As these scenes flashed past her eyes she remembered. She remembered the world that she came from. The world she came from! The world that she wasn't it now. With a cry she landed heavily.

Lou sat up with a jolt in her bed. Her forehead felt damp and her heart raced. The sun shone through the arches of her room. Bird's song floated through the air. She breathed in deeply and lay back down on the pillows. There was a knock at the door and it opened. She looked up and saw Pippin's head peer around the door.

"Morning sleepy." He said with a smile. "You better get up or you'll miss breakfast."

"Breakfast?" She said sleepily.

"Are you alight? You look a little flustered." Asked Pippin with concern.

"Oh it's nothing." Replied Lou sitting up. "I just had the strangest dream."

"Really? What was it about?" Pippin asked, interested.

"You know," Said Lou thinking hard. "I really can't remember."