Merry's Birthday (or Lord of the Keys)

by Mako-Shadows

AN- We know that Hobbits give others presents on their birthdays but we decided to ignore that little fact. Thanks to the reviewer who pointed that out.

Chapter Two: The Light of Herbal Essence.

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Pippin had been wandering for about fifteen minutes when he heard. 'Ai, Ai, Pippin wait up!'. Pippin stopped and waited for Legolas to catch up which didn't take long. When Leoglas got there he was really excited and wasn't speaking very coherently. After a while though Pippin was able to determine that Lego wanted to join him on his epic quest.

"Well alright I guess you can come. I might need that elvish wisdom of yours before this is over." Pippin said and the two set off. Little did they know that a certain ranger had started to follow along behind them. He didn't want to help or anything but he wasn't sure that he could make it to Merry's birthday without throwing at least one apple at Pippin. Now that he was following them all he had to do was wait for the right moment.

Pippin and Legolas walked away from the Shire and were on their way to somewhere. Legolas was of course hugging his bow as they walked. He didn't want it to get lonely. Soon they came to a cave, seeing as how there was no way around the cliff except through the cave they decided to go in. It was very dark in the cave and that was of course when they realised they had no lantern or torch or Gandalf's staff or the Light of Eärendil. They were in quite a bind and were of course beginning to panic until Legolas remembered something.

"Don't worry Pip. I have something that will light the way." Lego said and as Pippin looked at him he realised that Legolas' hair was glowing slightly.

"What is it?" Pippin asked thinking that if Legolas didn't really have anything to light the way they could just use his head as a flashlight.

"Aha! Here it is!" Lego exclaimed pulling something out of his small travelling pack. He only used it to keep the essentials in when travelling you know shampoo, conditioner, gel, hair spray, a brush, a comb, and of course we cannot forget a mirror. He wasn't conceited or obsessed with his hair he just knew that being a pretty boy took work and a few choice accessories. Pippin watched very closely as he pulled out ... a bottle of shampoo which was glowing brightly.

"What's that?"

"It is herbal essence shampoo. I use it all the time to make my hair have a healthy shine." Legolas said.

"I knew you would be useful to have along. But let's call it the Light of Herbal Essence instead of shampoo because it makes it sound more important and we are on an epic quest so we have to have important sounding things. Right?" Pippin said.

"Of course and besides if we said we used shampoo to light the way through some caves everyone would laugh at us." Lego said tearing up at the mere thought of being laughed at.

So on went the two of them through the caves by Light of Herbal Essence. Pippin was of course holding the shampoo bottle while Legolas followed along behind hugging his bow to ward off the bogie monster. Lego was just a bit afraid of the dark. Aragorn swift and silent as a shadow was following them and had overheard their conversation and made a mental note to tell everybody about it so they could laugh at Lego and Pip. He knew everyone would have a great time seeing Legolas cry.

Aragorn was following along behind them in the caves and was about to throw an apple when they were attacked by 'orcs'. Well Lego and Pip though they were orcs but in fact they were just some few cockroaches. And soon they had been vanquished.

"Well those orcs sure were tough to beat eh?" Lego said.

"Yeah. I thought we weren't going to make it for a moment there." Pippin said and the two walked on guided by the shampoo bottle talking about their first epic battle. In the darkness a voice could be heard to mutter 'idiots'.

After what seemed like ages they finally left the caves and found that they were near Rivendell. So after a few minutes debate Lego and Pippin decided to go and ask Elrond, Arwen and Bilbo what they got Merry for his birthday. While they were walking through the forest they came across Arwen and stopped to talk to her. They told her of their epic quest so far and all about the journey through the caves.

"Oh and what is this Light of Herbal Essence? I have never heard of that star before." Arwen said.

"Oh well Herbal Essence is that star." Pippin said pointing up at a random star. Arwen nodded very impressed and said "I always told everyone that you two were the wisest of the Fellowship."

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AN- We don't own Herbal Essence