Lord of the Comrades

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The next morning the cast was once again situated in their usual spots in the canteen.

Legolas walked in looking every bit as grumpy as he felt.

"Hey, Legolas, I heard Robin came and saved you last night is that true?" Arwen walked beside Legolas with her arm looped through his. He knew that she liked him and though he wouldn't admit it was glad that she was paying attention to him.wait a minute why is she asking about Robin?!

"Huh?" Legolas couldn't believe people already knew about that!

"He came and untied you didn't he?" Arwen stopped walking and withdrew her arm from it's position on his.

"How'd you know about that?" Legolas asked in disbelief.

"Hello, everyone knows. Don't think that that kind of stuff doesn't get around here fast!" Arwen had her hands on her hips.

"Yea, yea, he untied me. Not like he saved me from something horrible." Legolas frowned, his mood worsening. And to add salt to Legolas's wounded pride Robin walked in and Arwen, Eowyn, and Galadriel all ran over to him calling him "Robby". How dare they!

"Robby!" Galadriel stopped in front of Robin and gave her best smile.

"Good morning ladies!" Robin said with his usual friendly smile and followed the girls over to a table where Aragorn, Faramir, Boromir, and Eomer were all sitting.

"Hey Rob!" Aragorn greeted him as he sat down.

Rob!? Robby!? What is this!? Legolas grumbled to himself and made his way to where some of the other elves were sitting.

"Hey Legolas." Elladan greeted as he sat down. "So, is it true?"

"Is what true?" Legolas knew what Elladan wanted to know. If he was going to have to put up with this all day he'd just go back to bed.

"Oh, come on, did Robin untie you last night?" Elrohir hit him in the head with a soggy piece of bread.

"Yea." Legolas muttered quietly and ate his breakfast wishing he could shove a spoon down Robin's throat, along with other not so nice or friendly things.

"Hey Legolas, are you ready for the archery contest this afternoon?" Elrond asked as he was getting ready to leave the table.

"Of course I am. And I'm going to win. Robin hasn't got a thing on me." Legolas said feeling not as confident as he usually would when it came to archery. Legolas was hoping to sneak out to the archery fields and practice before the competition, you know, just because he wanted to.

Legolas snuck out the back door with out anyone noticing to go down to the practice fields.

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Whoa and behold, Robin and his "groupies"- as Legolas now referred to them- were already there!

"Good shot Robby!" Eowyn called from her seat on the fences.

Legolas shook his head and headed into the woods, he would just practice out here.

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The hobbits were all sitting in the canteen, eating their second breakfast and generally having a good time. When Pippin got a sudden idea.

"Hey Merry," Pippin whispered to his friend, "I bet you can't ran and touch all the tables as fast as I can." Pippin said with a little grin.

"Oh, I bet I can!" Merry stood up.

"Well, then let's just see!" Pippin rivaled back.

"Frodo, get your watch out!" Merry demanded.

"Got it." Frodo said as he fished his watch out of his pocket.

"Ready, set.GO!" Rosie called and Merry and Pippin were off.

The started at opposite sides of the canteen and ran up and down the long rows of tables touching each and every one twice as they passed. Of course you have probably guessed by now, both were cheating.

They ran and sometimes touched twice, sometimes once, and sometimes not at all.

They meet in the middle row and started pushing and shoving to get by.

"NO!" Pippin struggled as Merry tired to push his way by.

"Get off me!" Merry let out and somehow managed to flip Pippin over a table, to bad for Merry it was the way Pippin was trying to go.

The kept running and a few seconds later Pippin called out "DONE!" he was out of breath and was panting as he made his way back towards where Frodo, Sam, and Rosie were sitting.

"You cheated!" Merry accused Pippin.

"Oh, shove it, so did you." Pippin replied and Merry flopped onto the floor trying to regain his normal breathing.

"I have one thing to say to you!" Pippin stood up proudly.

"Stick it in your pipe and smoke it! Stick it in your pipe and smoke it! Stick it on your pipe and smoke it!" Pippin sang this as he did his 'victory dance' which mainly consisted off moving his hands up and down and moving his butt in sync.

"You guys are pretty good it only took 1 and 32 seconds to touch all the tables, of course you guys did cheat but it still sounds good." Frodo showed them his watch.

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