Chapter 5: The Council of Chili's

"I'm hungry."

"Me too!"

"Will you two shut up!" Merry and Pippin had been complaining since they got out of the mall about how hungry they were, and Strider finally got sick of it.

"If we don't find a place to eat soon I think they may explode," Gandalf muttered.

"Let's go to Chili's," suggested Eowyn.

"How far away from 7-Eleven is that?" asked Legolas.

"Far enough," said Frodo. They then started riding in Chili's general direction.

"Yay! Food!" said Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin. Everyone locked up their bikes and went inside. It, fortunately, wasn't crowded, so they didn't have to wait and they didn't have any kind of chance to be kicked out of the store.

"How many in your party?" asked the overly-cheerful-register-person Shelly.

"3 men, 4 hobbits, 2 elves, 1 wizard, and 1 dwarf," said Strider.

Overly-cheerful-register-person Shelly looked at them strangely, "Excuse me?"

"3 men, 4 hobbits, 2 elves, 1 wizard, and 1 dwarf," she said again, sounding like she was stating the obvious.

"...Okay then, please follow me to your table." Still (obnoxiously) smiling, Shelly led them to a very large table.

"I'm bored," said Pippin, as she balanced a spoon on her nose.

"I thought you were hungry!" Gandalf muttered angrily ("Who said that?").

"Hungry and bored," said Merry.

"We only have two and a half hours till the movie starts, so don't order the whole menu," said Galadriel, while looking at Sam, Merry, Pippin, and Frodo.

"Wait!" said Sam. "I just realized something!"

Strider sighed. "The fact that Gandalf is actually here?"

"Of course she isn't Strider, what are you talking about?" Gandalf groaned.

"Well," said Frodo, "what did you just realize?"

"That the only people here are you, me, Merry, Pippin and Strider because we haven't arrived at the Council of Elrond yet."

Silence. Then..."It's the Council of Chili's, we are all here, now shut up!" said Gandalf.

Sam jumped. "Frodo, when did everyone else get here?"

Gandalf had that look in her eye again, the one that clearly stated that is Sam made one more breath, she'd kill her.

"Please don't start another fight!" pleaded Eowyn. "I don't want to get kicked out of two places in one hour."

"Has it only been an hour?" asked Boromir.

"Actually, less then an hour," said Legolas. "But still!"

"Well," started Gandalf, "if Sam would stop referring to me as being invisible!"

"I was not!" Sam yelled back. "You weren't here!"

"I was here the entire time!"

"This is ridiculous!" said Arwen, exasperated.

Then...all hell broke lose.

If anyone in the building knew who they were and knew what they're mission was, they probably would have told you it really did look like the Council of Elrond, with everyone arguing and Frodo looking at everyone. Only thing is, she didn't say anything about taking the Ring (she already had if of course!), no, but she did break up the fight by saying something important. . .

"7-Eleven!" she screamed. "7-Eleven!"

Everyone stopped, trying to figure out what she was talking about, then, they saw them. The two people they had seen but less then an hour ago, the 7-Eleven people, or Orcs, as they liked to call them.

"Hide!" said Merry. They all hid under the table.

"I don't understand," said Arwen, "what's so bad about 7-Eleven?" The each told the story about what had happened at the store. When they were finished, she looked at them with shock.

"They almost kidnapped Merry and Pippin...again!?" They all nodded.

They looked out at the Orcs as they sat down and started laughing at 'those stupid kids from earlier'.

"See how they laugh at us?" said Gimli. Arwen nodded.

"Okay," said Gandalf, "we need to get out of here as quickly as possible."

"But we're still hungry!" said Sam, Merry, Pippin, and Frodo.

"We can get stuff at the theater! Until then, deal," Legolas said.

"Okay," said Gandalf, "on the count of 3. 1...2..." "3!" they all screamed as they ran out and started heading in the opposite direction.

"That was close," said Gimli.

"Yep," said everyone else.

"We better keep a close eye out for them from now on," said Frodo.

"Yeah," said Boromir, "they're following us."

"Come on," said Galadriel, "off to find out where Mt. Movie Theater is."

And so, they were off to cause destruction at some other place until they finally found Mt. Movie Theater.