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Chapter 24 Jack Misses His Rum And His Hat

All of the alien captives were bored. They had painted their required amount of paintings today and were lying around. Well, except the UPS guy. He was still painting since he liked to. Glorfy and Celebrían were discussing something in the corner, Elizabeth was lying on her back singing the pirate song. Firthuliel and Nilturiel were rolling the orange highliter back and forth and singing some sort of song in rounds. Geoffrey Rush was asleep. And Jack was pacing. He was getting fed up with both of the songs. If he heard one of the girls singing "Hey ho to the bottle I go" one more time, he thought he might go crazy. It just reminded him that the aliens did not supply them with any rum.

There they go again with that song. "Would you stop singing that please?" Jack moaned. "It reminds me I don't have any rum."

Elizabeth stopped singing. "It's your own fault for getting us abducted. Do you think I like being away from Will?"

"How is it my fault?"

"You got us lost!" she shrieked.

Geoffrey Rush woke up. "Could you be a little quiter please? Some of us are trying to sleep." He rolled back over and started snoring again.

The UPS guy cut in, "At least we have some food to eat now. I'm glad someone sent us lembas."

Everyone went back to his normal activities. Only Firthuliel and Nilturiel started singing with Elizabeth. She was surprised they knew the whole song. Jack shook his head. At least he still had his hat. He reached up to take it off.

"WHERE DID MY HAT GO?" he shouted. Everyone froze and watched him run around the room looking for his hat. "I know one of you took it. Who was it? Speak up!" No one said anything which made him even more frantic. He started running around the perimeter of the room saying, "I have to find me hat!" over and over. He didn't notice the three new people in the room.

"Where are we?" Orlando asked.

"I don't know…" Will said and started to survey the room.

"WILL!" someone screached. He turned around to see Elizabeth running to him. He caught her in a running embrace.

"Dude, get a room." Orlando said and averted his eyes. In his eye aversion, he saw Firthuliel and Nilturiel passing the highliter back and forth. He nudged Legolas to come with him, and they sat down next to the two girls. They soon were playing the game.

Geoffrey Rush had gone back to sleep. Glorfy and Celebrían had not seen anything since they were still in the far corner, plotting. Jack had spotted Will who had sat down with Elizabeth. "Will, good to see you mate! Have you seen me hat? Do you have any rum?"

"Sorry Jack." He replied.

"I have to have me hat, savvy?" he said and returned to running around the room. 15 minutes later an alien walks in the room.

"Time for dinner." The alien says. He pulls out the box Orlando had left for his mysterious customer.

"Hey!" he exclaimed. "I made those!"

The alien gave him a strange look. "I see we have new captives. You will draw pictures of fish and dog butts. Your friends will explain. Except you lembas maker. You will come with me."
He left with the alien. The captives all ate some lembas then went back to being bored. Orlando came back 15 minutes later and sat down next to Legolas and the girls. "I don't have to draw pictures. I am now the cook."

"At least we won't have to pay Vebrion now."