Ale: It's Addicting
Chapter 4 - Guy's Night Out
A/N: Yes, it does start out slow, but get past the beginning and....
About a week after the hobbits and Aragorn were released, Aragorn came to speak with Celeborn. He came up the long, winding steps to the entrance of Celeborn's den. Celeborn is standing by a small mantle upon which sat an old book that he is glaring down at it, and holding a glass of red wine in his hand. His bright white robe gleaming in the dim light of the evening. "May I come in?" Aragorn asks.
"Of course Elessar, please take a seat." he tells him and so Aragorn walks in and sits in a small, comfortable chair. Celeborn sits across from him, and sets his glass of red wine upon a small table by his side. "So what would you like this evening?"
"Celeborn, are you still angry about the hobbits giving Galadriel ale?" Aragorn asks.
"Yes, and I am disappointed in you for bringing it here."
"But if you had some I think you would understand why we like it so much."
"Yet our wine isn't good enough for you?" he says and holds up his glass of wine and takes a drink.
"Ale is very different from wine," Aragorn tells him. Celeborn sits there thinking for a few moments.
"Very well, I shall take your advise and try some of this, ale. Then I may or may not forgive you all for this." Aragorn is stunded that Celeborn actually agreed to try some ale. After what happened with Galadriel, he thought that Celeborn would never want ale brought anywhere near Lorien ever again. Guess he was wrong.
They went down to the same clearing where Galadriel had gotten drunk with the hobbits. Gimli and Legolas are sitting there talking with one another. Boromir is assisting the elven guards at the borders of Lorien. "Good evening," Legolas says as Celeborn and Aragorn walk up. "Good evening to you as well. At least I hope it will be," Celeborn says to them.
"So, what are you two doing here?" Gimli asks Aragorn.
"Celeborn would like to try some ale."
"Really?" Legolas says and stands before Celeborn "I shall try some with you, Lord, if you would allow." Legolas says.
"Of course you may. I don't want to be the only elf to try this tonight."
Aragorn runs off to get the ale, and comes back with a keg of it, he also has four mugs. He fills each wooden mug with ale and gives one to each of them. Celeborn looks at it for a moment and takes a drink. "Not bad," he says, and so another strange night within Lorien has begun. What will happen this time?
"Finally! A night out, just us guys!" Aragorn says.
After a few hours of drinking and just being guys, Legolas spots a box sitting on the edge of the fountain. "What be that?" he asks Celeborn as he points to it.
"That? It be box'o'soap." he tells Legolas. As the other three laugh and talk and drink, Legolas sits staring at that box, and drinking of course. He seems to be overly fascinated by it. Finally, after minutes of it taunting him, he can't stand it anymore, he gets up and begins to walk toward it.
"Where you be going?" Gimli asks.
"To see the box'o'soap closer!" he says looking back at Gimli, not realizing that there's a root in front of him and tripping over it. He fell on the box and knocked it into the water of the fountain.
"Oops, did I do that?" he says as he gets back up. He looks into the fountain to see if he can get the box, but something strange is happening. Little clearish round things are forming in the rushing water of the fountain around the box. The other three see it come over to look closer. The four look down at this in wonder.
"Touch it Legolas, see what happens," Aragorn tells him.
"What if it wants to kill me?"
"You're expendable," Aragorn tells him.
"Yeah, guess you're right," Legolas says and begins to reach toward it.
"If it moves, tell us so we can run away!" Gimli tells him. Legolas shakes his head okay and touches one of the new found things, it disappears and they all jump back in horror. "Ouch!" Legolas yells.
"Did it hurt?" Celeborn asks him as he looks at Legolas' finger.
"No, just a reflex."
"What happened to it?" Aragorn asks.
"It went umm..umm..pop!" Gimli says.
"It's growing!" Celeborn says as he steps away from it. And he is right, the things are multiplying at a great rate. "What do we do? What do we do?" Celeborn yells, running around in circles.
"Let's make them all go pop!" Legolas suggests.
"OK!" the others agree. So they begin to try to pop them. "What are these things?" Gimli asks.
"Let's call them umm...bubbles!" Celeborn tells them. So they have named these new things in Middle-Earth.
"They keep growing!" Aragorn yells, before long the entire clearing is filled with bubbles 3 feet high.
"We're surrounded!" Celeborn says. They are trying to make the bubbles go pop as fast as they can, but for every one they pop, 10 more are formed in it's place.
After about 15 minutes of trying to pop the bubbles, they have grown to over 7 feet high. The four can no longer find each other, so in a desperate search Legolas yells out "Marco!"
"Polo," the others say. Legolas wonders around in the bubbles for a while. He has his arms stretched out trying to find somebody, anybody. The others are doing the same, only Aragorn is crawling on the ground.
They can't even find each other this way. Apparently they aren't very good at games like that. So Legolas stands on the fountain to try to see them. At first he slips and falls into the bubbly water, then he gets his balance.
He spots the top of Aragorn's head in the bubbles. "I'm a little butterfly!" he says as he flaps his arms and jumps off the fountain toward Aragorn. He lands on Aragorn and they both fall to the ground, popping about 300 bubbles in the process. "I'm a hurt little butterfly!"
"I hear boom!" Celeborn says when they fall to the ground. He runs toward the noise but trips over Gimli. "Sorry, didn't see you down there!"
"Damn elf!" Gimli murmurs under his breath. They all meet where the two fell. "Legolas," Aragorn says as he sits up "RUN!" he warns and Legolas jumps up and Aragorn chases him threw the field of bubbles.
"You can't catch me!"
"I can, and I will!" Aragorn yells right before he runs into a tree that was hidden by the bubbles and falls backward. "Ouch!" he yells and looks up at Legolas who is now standing over him. "Told you so," he says to Aragorn and runs off. Aragorn gets back up and runs after him
Meanwhile, Celeborn and Gimli are just trying to kill the bubbles. "Get down here!" Celeborn tells Gimli to get into a ditch in the ground.
"Why?"
"So we can make a surprise attach on the bubbles!" he tells Gimli, the strange part is the ditch was filled with bubbles as well.
So Gimli gets into the ditch, which goes over his head. "You could have picked a better spot!" he tells Celeborn.
"Shh, the bubbles can be hearing us!" Celeborn says "On the count of three attach the bubbles!" A few moments later, "One, two, three!" and they jump out of the ditch and attach the bubbles.
Aragorn continues to chase Legolas until after running into about five trees and giving up, or so Legolas thought.
"Ha ha told you, you couldn't catch me!" Legolas says standing beside, and looking over Aragorn who has fallen to the ground after running into yet another tree. Aragorn reaches over and pulls Legolas' leg tripping him and Legolas lets out a high pitched scream. "You were saying?" Aragorn says.
"That isn't fair!"
"Who said to play by any rules?"
"Well, uh!" Legolas says and sticks out his tongue at Aragorn. Aragorn grabs his tongue and says "Nobody sticks their tongue out at me!" Legolas is trying to say something but it comes out "Ehel umen!" Translated out of tongue hold language he said "Evil Human!" Aragorn squeazes his tongue and Legolas tries to say "Let go of my tongue" but it comes out "eh oh oo i ungue." Aragorn finally decides to let go, after trying to make out several things that Legolas was trying say.
As Aragorn gets up he tells Legolas "By the way, you scream like a girl!" So Legolas trips Aragorn and he lets out the same scream. "So do you!" Legolas tells him laughing.
While all of this was happening the hobbits spot the field of bubbles and come to investigate. "What is it?" Merry asks.
"Simple, it's something very tall," Pippin says.
"No duh, Pip."
"Frodo you touch it!" Sam tells him as they stand a few feet from it.
"Why? So I can die first!?" he protests.
"Obviously!"
"Thanks a lot Sam!"
"You're welcome Mr. Frodo."
"I was being sarcastic."
"I know."
So Frodo shakes his head and touches one of the bubbles and it pops. As is does Legolas' scream comes from inside the bubbles.
"What was that?" Merry asks.
"I think it ate Legolas!" Pippin says "Let's go rescue him!"
"Ok!" and they all dive into the bubbles, as they do Aragorn's scream comes out.
"It ate Aragorn too!" Pippin yells "And now it ate us!"
"We walked right into this trap!" Merry exclaims.
"Actually we dived!" Pippin tells him and Merry just shakes his head. They look for Legolas and Aragorn but first run into Gimli and Celeborn, who are still attaching the bubbles. "No! It ate you too!" Pippin says to them.
"Yep!" Celeborn says "Bubbles go pop!"
"Celeborn, are you drunk?" Sam asks him.
"No I be not!" he says and falls to the ground laughing.
"I need a drink!" Frodo says.
"It's over there," Gimli says and points to the keg. The hobbits go over and drink enough ale to get them drunk as well. So what happens when four hobbits, a man, a dwarf, and two elves get drunk in a pool of 7 foot tall bubbles? That's a riddle that will last a few ages in Middle-Earth.
The hobbits stumble back over to Celeborn and Gimli. "Where be Aragorn and Legolas?" Merry asks.
"Trying to kill each other," Gimli tells them.
Actually Legolas and Aragorn have gone a little well...crazy. They have covered themselves, head to toe, in bubbles so they can blend in. "Bubbly Giant to Soapy One, over," Aragorn says, pretending to talk into a walkie talky that is actually a stick.
"Soapy One here, come in, over." Legolas says, also pretending to talk into a stick walkie talky, to Aragorn who is actually kneeling right beside him.
"I see the others, over."
"Are they near us Bubbly Giant?, over."
"Yes, in quadrant 4, sector 8, over"
"I see them now, over."
"Let's get them, over and out." Aragorn says and they jump out in front of the others and scream, waving their arms in the air for extra effect. The six are extremely surprised and just begin to run away. However, they fall into the ditch that Gimli and Celeborn hid in, and are all knocked unconscious. Legolas and Aragorn laugh histaricaly at them.
"Did you see that, Bubbly Giant?" Legolas says.
"We got them good!" Aragorn tells him and they try a high five but miss, and miss, and miss, and guess what, they miss again and again. They try again, and again but can't seem to get their hands to meet for a high five. They try again, but slap each other. They end up knocking each other out after a ten minute slapping fight.
The next morning hey awake to Galadriel standing over them.
Chapter 4 - Guy's Night Out
A/N: Yes, it does start out slow, but get past the beginning and....
About a week after the hobbits and Aragorn were released, Aragorn came to speak with Celeborn. He came up the long, winding steps to the entrance of Celeborn's den. Celeborn is standing by a small mantle upon which sat an old book that he is glaring down at it, and holding a glass of red wine in his hand. His bright white robe gleaming in the dim light of the evening. "May I come in?" Aragorn asks.
"Of course Elessar, please take a seat." he tells him and so Aragorn walks in and sits in a small, comfortable chair. Celeborn sits across from him, and sets his glass of red wine upon a small table by his side. "So what would you like this evening?"
"Celeborn, are you still angry about the hobbits giving Galadriel ale?" Aragorn asks.
"Yes, and I am disappointed in you for bringing it here."
"But if you had some I think you would understand why we like it so much."
"Yet our wine isn't good enough for you?" he says and holds up his glass of wine and takes a drink.
"Ale is very different from wine," Aragorn tells him. Celeborn sits there thinking for a few moments.
"Very well, I shall take your advise and try some of this, ale. Then I may or may not forgive you all for this." Aragorn is stunded that Celeborn actually agreed to try some ale. After what happened with Galadriel, he thought that Celeborn would never want ale brought anywhere near Lorien ever again. Guess he was wrong.
They went down to the same clearing where Galadriel had gotten drunk with the hobbits. Gimli and Legolas are sitting there talking with one another. Boromir is assisting the elven guards at the borders of Lorien. "Good evening," Legolas says as Celeborn and Aragorn walk up. "Good evening to you as well. At least I hope it will be," Celeborn says to them.
"So, what are you two doing here?" Gimli asks Aragorn.
"Celeborn would like to try some ale."
"Really?" Legolas says and stands before Celeborn "I shall try some with you, Lord, if you would allow." Legolas says.
"Of course you may. I don't want to be the only elf to try this tonight."
Aragorn runs off to get the ale, and comes back with a keg of it, he also has four mugs. He fills each wooden mug with ale and gives one to each of them. Celeborn looks at it for a moment and takes a drink. "Not bad," he says, and so another strange night within Lorien has begun. What will happen this time?
"Finally! A night out, just us guys!" Aragorn says.
After a few hours of drinking and just being guys, Legolas spots a box sitting on the edge of the fountain. "What be that?" he asks Celeborn as he points to it.
"That? It be box'o'soap." he tells Legolas. As the other three laugh and talk and drink, Legolas sits staring at that box, and drinking of course. He seems to be overly fascinated by it. Finally, after minutes of it taunting him, he can't stand it anymore, he gets up and begins to walk toward it.
"Where you be going?" Gimli asks.
"To see the box'o'soap closer!" he says looking back at Gimli, not realizing that there's a root in front of him and tripping over it. He fell on the box and knocked it into the water of the fountain.
"Oops, did I do that?" he says as he gets back up. He looks into the fountain to see if he can get the box, but something strange is happening. Little clearish round things are forming in the rushing water of the fountain around the box. The other three see it come over to look closer. The four look down at this in wonder.
"Touch it Legolas, see what happens," Aragorn tells him.
"What if it wants to kill me?"
"You're expendable," Aragorn tells him.
"Yeah, guess you're right," Legolas says and begins to reach toward it.
"If it moves, tell us so we can run away!" Gimli tells him. Legolas shakes his head okay and touches one of the new found things, it disappears and they all jump back in horror. "Ouch!" Legolas yells.
"Did it hurt?" Celeborn asks him as he looks at Legolas' finger.
"No, just a reflex."
"What happened to it?" Aragorn asks.
"It went umm..umm..pop!" Gimli says.
"It's growing!" Celeborn says as he steps away from it. And he is right, the things are multiplying at a great rate. "What do we do? What do we do?" Celeborn yells, running around in circles.
"Let's make them all go pop!" Legolas suggests.
"OK!" the others agree. So they begin to try to pop them. "What are these things?" Gimli asks.
"Let's call them umm...bubbles!" Celeborn tells them. So they have named these new things in Middle-Earth.
"They keep growing!" Aragorn yells, before long the entire clearing is filled with bubbles 3 feet high.
"We're surrounded!" Celeborn says. They are trying to make the bubbles go pop as fast as they can, but for every one they pop, 10 more are formed in it's place.
After about 15 minutes of trying to pop the bubbles, they have grown to over 7 feet high. The four can no longer find each other, so in a desperate search Legolas yells out "Marco!"
"Polo," the others say. Legolas wonders around in the bubbles for a while. He has his arms stretched out trying to find somebody, anybody. The others are doing the same, only Aragorn is crawling on the ground.
They can't even find each other this way. Apparently they aren't very good at games like that. So Legolas stands on the fountain to try to see them. At first he slips and falls into the bubbly water, then he gets his balance.
He spots the top of Aragorn's head in the bubbles. "I'm a little butterfly!" he says as he flaps his arms and jumps off the fountain toward Aragorn. He lands on Aragorn and they both fall to the ground, popping about 300 bubbles in the process. "I'm a hurt little butterfly!"
"I hear boom!" Celeborn says when they fall to the ground. He runs toward the noise but trips over Gimli. "Sorry, didn't see you down there!"
"Damn elf!" Gimli murmurs under his breath. They all meet where the two fell. "Legolas," Aragorn says as he sits up "RUN!" he warns and Legolas jumps up and Aragorn chases him threw the field of bubbles.
"You can't catch me!"
"I can, and I will!" Aragorn yells right before he runs into a tree that was hidden by the bubbles and falls backward. "Ouch!" he yells and looks up at Legolas who is now standing over him. "Told you so," he says to Aragorn and runs off. Aragorn gets back up and runs after him
Meanwhile, Celeborn and Gimli are just trying to kill the bubbles. "Get down here!" Celeborn tells Gimli to get into a ditch in the ground.
"Why?"
"So we can make a surprise attach on the bubbles!" he tells Gimli, the strange part is the ditch was filled with bubbles as well.
So Gimli gets into the ditch, which goes over his head. "You could have picked a better spot!" he tells Celeborn.
"Shh, the bubbles can be hearing us!" Celeborn says "On the count of three attach the bubbles!" A few moments later, "One, two, three!" and they jump out of the ditch and attach the bubbles.
Aragorn continues to chase Legolas until after running into about five trees and giving up, or so Legolas thought.
"Ha ha told you, you couldn't catch me!" Legolas says standing beside, and looking over Aragorn who has fallen to the ground after running into yet another tree. Aragorn reaches over and pulls Legolas' leg tripping him and Legolas lets out a high pitched scream. "You were saying?" Aragorn says.
"That isn't fair!"
"Who said to play by any rules?"
"Well, uh!" Legolas says and sticks out his tongue at Aragorn. Aragorn grabs his tongue and says "Nobody sticks their tongue out at me!" Legolas is trying to say something but it comes out "Ehel umen!" Translated out of tongue hold language he said "Evil Human!" Aragorn squeazes his tongue and Legolas tries to say "Let go of my tongue" but it comes out "eh oh oo i ungue." Aragorn finally decides to let go, after trying to make out several things that Legolas was trying say.
As Aragorn gets up he tells Legolas "By the way, you scream like a girl!" So Legolas trips Aragorn and he lets out the same scream. "So do you!" Legolas tells him laughing.
While all of this was happening the hobbits spot the field of bubbles and come to investigate. "What is it?" Merry asks.
"Simple, it's something very tall," Pippin says.
"No duh, Pip."
"Frodo you touch it!" Sam tells him as they stand a few feet from it.
"Why? So I can die first!?" he protests.
"Obviously!"
"Thanks a lot Sam!"
"You're welcome Mr. Frodo."
"I was being sarcastic."
"I know."
So Frodo shakes his head and touches one of the bubbles and it pops. As is does Legolas' scream comes from inside the bubbles.
"What was that?" Merry asks.
"I think it ate Legolas!" Pippin says "Let's go rescue him!"
"Ok!" and they all dive into the bubbles, as they do Aragorn's scream comes out.
"It ate Aragorn too!" Pippin yells "And now it ate us!"
"We walked right into this trap!" Merry exclaims.
"Actually we dived!" Pippin tells him and Merry just shakes his head. They look for Legolas and Aragorn but first run into Gimli and Celeborn, who are still attaching the bubbles. "No! It ate you too!" Pippin says to them.
"Yep!" Celeborn says "Bubbles go pop!"
"Celeborn, are you drunk?" Sam asks him.
"No I be not!" he says and falls to the ground laughing.
"I need a drink!" Frodo says.
"It's over there," Gimli says and points to the keg. The hobbits go over and drink enough ale to get them drunk as well. So what happens when four hobbits, a man, a dwarf, and two elves get drunk in a pool of 7 foot tall bubbles? That's a riddle that will last a few ages in Middle-Earth.
The hobbits stumble back over to Celeborn and Gimli. "Where be Aragorn and Legolas?" Merry asks.
"Trying to kill each other," Gimli tells them.
Actually Legolas and Aragorn have gone a little well...crazy. They have covered themselves, head to toe, in bubbles so they can blend in. "Bubbly Giant to Soapy One, over," Aragorn says, pretending to talk into a walkie talky that is actually a stick.
"Soapy One here, come in, over." Legolas says, also pretending to talk into a stick walkie talky, to Aragorn who is actually kneeling right beside him.
"I see the others, over."
"Are they near us Bubbly Giant?, over."
"Yes, in quadrant 4, sector 8, over"
"I see them now, over."
"Let's get them, over and out." Aragorn says and they jump out in front of the others and scream, waving their arms in the air for extra effect. The six are extremely surprised and just begin to run away. However, they fall into the ditch that Gimli and Celeborn hid in, and are all knocked unconscious. Legolas and Aragorn laugh histaricaly at them.
"Did you see that, Bubbly Giant?" Legolas says.
"We got them good!" Aragorn tells him and they try a high five but miss, and miss, and miss, and guess what, they miss again and again. They try again, and again but can't seem to get their hands to meet for a high five. They try again, but slap each other. They end up knocking each other out after a ten minute slapping fight.
The next morning hey awake to Galadriel standing over them.
