Ferri and Luin chased him and finally got him in a double-sided ambush. When they finished, Mandos' hair looked even worse - or better, depending on your point of view - than Legolas'.

Out came the cameras again.

"Nooo!" Mandos whimpered, covering his eyes.

Snap! Snap! Snap!

"Oh dude! These pictures are going in every newspaper everywhere!" Ferri said.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Mandos and Legolas yelled, fiddling with their hair, trying to get all the braids and ponytails out of their hair.

"OK, we'll keep them then!" Luin said around a mouthful of chocolate.

Mandos and Legolas screamed "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" again, but they were too late. Luin and Ferri had already put their cameras away.

Then Luin got out the scissors.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"My hair, my beautiful shiny hair!"

"Abuse! I'm telling the authorities!" Mandos yelped.

"Relax," Ferri said. "We're just gonna cut it."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"Fine, then, we get to show people these pictures," Luin said.

"Where?" Legolas groaned.

Both ferrets smiled wickedly. "On the Internet."

"Wait a second," Ferri said. "Does Middle-Earth even HAVE Internet?"

"Now it does," Luin snickered.

Ferri pulled out her ferret-sized laptop, and tested the Internet connection. "Works good!" she said as she plugged in the scanner. "Cut your hair or we're gonna put the pictures on the Net."

Mandos let Luin cut his hair, but Legolas was reluctant.

"But my hair, that's part of the reason everyone likes me. Waaaah!" Legolas lay on the floor, throwing a temper tantrum like a five year old.

While Legolas was bawling, Luin cut his hair. When he saw all his prettiful hair landing on the floor, he started sobbing and whimpering.

"You big sissy," Luin said, cutting a little more hair off. :Trust me, it looks - uh - REALLY good now."

When Luin was finally done, both Mandos and Legolas were given mirrors. They took one look and started screaming.

Ferri and Luin ran off to go find hair dye (or more serum, if they lied - Legolas and Mandos never found out).

After 15 minutes of Mandos and Legolas screaming their heads off, they fell asleep.

Ferri and Luin soon came back with the hair dye. "Oh, look, Luin! They've stopped screaming and fell asleep! Now they can't complain about the hair dye!" Ferri said.

Luin and Ferri snickered evilly as they started to dye Legolas' and Mandos' hair. Luckily for the two ferrety-elf people, the two stayed asleep until the next day.

But, on the bad side, the ferrets had dyed each other in the efforts to dye Legolas' and Mandos' hair.

"Ooo, looky, you're pretty rainbow colours!" Luin laughed. "You're all blue!" Ferri giggled.

"Yay! Now we're ALL decorated." Luin was happy. Mandos' hair was a brilliant shade of green with glow-in-the-dark purple tips. Legolas' hair was really really really pink, with glittery silver ends. Both of their parts in their hair were red.

Ferri spun around in circles, looking at her rainbow-coloured self. Luin was covered in a shiny light blue hair due, which made her look funny (in a cool shiny blue way).

Then Legolas and Mandos started to wake up.

"Oh, no," Luin said.

Ferri the rainbow-coloured ferret gave them mirrors. There was a lot of swearing coming from the god of baking and the cute elf.

"Hey! Wasn't us! We're dyed too!" Ferri and Luin said.

"Yeah, some idiots came in while we were sleeping and dyed us all funky colours!"

Mandos gave them a Look. "I don't believe you."

"See, little ferrety dye footprints all across the floor!" Legolas pointed accusingly.

"It wasn't us!"

"It was some other ferrets, honest!"

"Yeah, right," Mandos said sarcastically.

"Yeah! Look! I set up a serveillance camera!" Ferri said. She walked over to the TV and VCR (cool huh?) and put in the (doctored) serveillance tape. It showed Ferri and Luin walking into the house, then two other ferrets walking in (Hey, that one looks like Ferri! Legolas thought) with hair dye in their claws, and dyeing Legolas, Mandos, Ferri and Luin's hair or fur. Ferri stopped the tape.

"See, I TOLD you so!" Ferri said.

"That one looked like Ferrienna," Legolas pointed out.

"I, uh, have a twin brother."

"But I thought you were and el-" Luin began. Ferri stepped on her hind paw.

"Ow!"

"That wasn't nice!" Mandos scolded.

"Does the dye ever come out?" Legolas wanted to know.

"Nope. The bottle said it was permanent - OW! Ferri, stop that!" Luin complained.

"What bottle?" Mandos asked suspiciously.

"Ummm...The one in the garbage?" Ferri said.

"Right..." Mandos and Legolas said in unison.

"Yeah...err...FERRET TALK!!" Ferri yelled, and Ferri and Luin ran over to a corner, out of sight so maybe the elf couldn't hear the whispering ferrets. They chatted in Ferret for awhile, then went back to the god and the elf to try to 'weasel' out of trouble.

"We saw the bottle in the garbage, 'cause we woke up before you guys."

"And the footprints were from us walking through those puddle of dye on the floor that haven't dried yet. And from the other ferrets who were here dyeing you gu- I mean, us," the two ferrets finished explaining.

"Uh-huh. Sure."

"As if," Legolas snorted.

"No more sugar for you two until you tell the truth!" Mandos threatened.

"But we are telling the truth! We're serious!" Ferri said matter-of-factly.

"Right. We're not lying Ferrets never lie!" Luin said, standing up and crossing her arms (paws?).

Ferri walked over to Luin and whispered to her, "Luin, I know you've only been a ferret for about eight hours now, but ferrets DO lie, and they know it. Sorry!"

"But they don't know that we know they don't know ferrets can lie, do they?" Luin asked.

"I don't know. I'm all confused now," Ferri said, holding her head in her hands (Paws?).

"What was that you said?" Legolas asked.

"Nothingnothingnothing!" they squeaked.

"Uh-huh. Mandos, take all the baking and throw it in the garbage."

"Nooooooooooooooooooo!" the two ferrets yelled.

"We were talking about how we don't lie!" Ferri said, and winked at Luin. Luin got the idea right away (for once).

She ran over to Mandos. "Please don't throw out the baking Mr. Mandos, please?"

Mandos couldn't resist the cute, adorable look on Luin's face. He sighed. "Fine, I won't chuck out the goodies."

"YAY! Yay for Luin, the ferret who saved all the goodies!" Ferri yelled.

"Thank you, kind Mandosy person and prettiful Legolas for not throwing out the goodies!"

"Uh, you're welcome," they replied, a little surprised at the ferrets' joy at the saved sugar.

"Come on, now," Legolas said. "Let's go try to get the dye off."

"But what'll we use?"

"Turpentine and hydrogen peroxide," the ferrets said matter-of-factly.

"What?!"

"Turpentine and hydrogen peroxide," the ferrets repeated. "It works. It really does."

"Are you two going to get the dye off of you?" Legolas said.

"Nah, we like being different colours," Ferri said. Ferri winked at Luin again, and Luin snickered. "We'll go get the turpentine for you guys!"

Luin and Ferri ran for the door. Before Legolas could tell them HE had the turpentine, the ferrets were already on the hunt for it.