Hey all, Adryl here – I probably won't be writing a bunch in the next few
weeks, as I have a research paper to do, but hopefully I'll get the
incentive to write something – anything – afterwards.
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It was mid-morning at the Fellowship and Others Household, and several stragglers were just stumbling in for breakfast.
"I made apricot pancakes!" Drew squealed, loudly enough that no one had any doubts as to what they were eating.
"Shut that noisy thing up already!" Legolas muttered, still half asleep, as he sat down.
"Don't anger her – she has a big pan in her hand," Merry warned. "And Gandalf likes apricot pancakes."
As the Fellowship ate their pancakes (with the exception of Pippin, who had Lucky Charms), Drew serenely sat down and watched them all, a big smile on her face.
Legolas noticed it first as he glanced up, finding her awfully quiet. "Oh no! Spit it out, spit it out, lookit her face, she had to have poisoned them!"
Drew frowned. "Why are you so paranoid?"
Legolas scowled at her suspiciously. "As if you have no idea."
Drew rolled her eyes and sighed, then smiled again just as brightly when they all started to eat again – cautiously, of course.
"I have come to a decision," she announced.
"Is she moving out?" Aragorn whispered. Sam snickered.
"When I die, I'm going to donate my body to the University of Tennessee's Body Farm!"
Legolas spit out his food again. "That's disgusting! And you wonder why we don't eat in this house – are you *trying* to starve us??"
Drew scowled at him. "I think that the study of human bodily decay is beneficial to society – "
Legolas ran for the bathroom, looking positively green. Aragorn and the hobbits were right behind him.
"I don't see what their problem is," Drew muttered.
"I know – after the War of the Ring, you'd think they'd be used to seeing dozens of bodies in the space of several acres," Gandalf replied – Drew wasn't sure if it was sarcasm or not.
All of a sudden, there was a loud "Poof!" and a magical pink dust clouded the air for a moment. When it cleared, Haldir stood in the middle of the kitchen, coughing and tearing at the eyes.
"Still getting used to that effect," he said hoarsely. Then he straightened and said, "As newly appointed 'Magical Elf of Messengers', I bring you the news of a visitor. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go buy some zero calorie seltzer." Just as suddenly as he'd appeared, Haldir was gone again.
"That was strange," Drew commented.
"Very," Gandalf agreed. "Can I have some more apricot pancakes?"
"Sure!"
The hobbits, Aragorn, and Legolas all returned to the kitchen, lacking an appetite, but smelling minty fresh.
"How many times did you brush your teeth, boy?" Gandalf asked.
"Three," said Aragorn and the hobbits.
Legolas paused and actually thought about it. "Five," he answered finally, "and I used that Listerine mouthwash for the recommended thirty seconds."
"Really?" Gandalf asked.
"Yeah. And then I did it again and again for a total of two minutes."
"Hey! Does anybody want to hear a cool scientific factoid about toothbrushes?" Drew asked excitedly.
"No!" cried everyone else.
All of a sudden, quite spontaneously, there was another loud, dusty "Poof!", except this one was blue.
"Wow," said a girl coming out of the shadow. It was DixieDiva13. "Where am I?" Looking around her for anything familiar, her eye caught Legolas in its gleam of doom.
"LIKE, OH-MY-GAWSH, IT'S *LEGOLAS*!!!" she cried. Running over to him, she firmly attached herself to his person and told her brain that the making out was mutual; Legolas stood there, partly paralyzed, partly dumbfounded.
"Wow! That was *totally* great – I've *always* wanted to do that!" she exclaimed breathlessly later. From invisible pockets, she produced a pen and a pad of paper, and checked something off of her "To Do" list.
"This scavenger hunt thing sure is fun!" was the last thing she said before disappearing in another cloud of blue pixie dust.
Everyone was quiet for a moment. Then, with an evil twinkle in his eye, Gandalf asked, "So, what were you saying about mouthwash?"
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Okay, that's the last chapter for a while.
Thanks so much to DixieDiva13 for volunteering herself in her review – I was actually out of ideas for the story, so I typed this up right after I got the email.
"Gotta blast!"
~Adryl
"It's so hard to work in a group when you're omnipotent."
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It was mid-morning at the Fellowship and Others Household, and several stragglers were just stumbling in for breakfast.
"I made apricot pancakes!" Drew squealed, loudly enough that no one had any doubts as to what they were eating.
"Shut that noisy thing up already!" Legolas muttered, still half asleep, as he sat down.
"Don't anger her – she has a big pan in her hand," Merry warned. "And Gandalf likes apricot pancakes."
As the Fellowship ate their pancakes (with the exception of Pippin, who had Lucky Charms), Drew serenely sat down and watched them all, a big smile on her face.
Legolas noticed it first as he glanced up, finding her awfully quiet. "Oh no! Spit it out, spit it out, lookit her face, she had to have poisoned them!"
Drew frowned. "Why are you so paranoid?"
Legolas scowled at her suspiciously. "As if you have no idea."
Drew rolled her eyes and sighed, then smiled again just as brightly when they all started to eat again – cautiously, of course.
"I have come to a decision," she announced.
"Is she moving out?" Aragorn whispered. Sam snickered.
"When I die, I'm going to donate my body to the University of Tennessee's Body Farm!"
Legolas spit out his food again. "That's disgusting! And you wonder why we don't eat in this house – are you *trying* to starve us??"
Drew scowled at him. "I think that the study of human bodily decay is beneficial to society – "
Legolas ran for the bathroom, looking positively green. Aragorn and the hobbits were right behind him.
"I don't see what their problem is," Drew muttered.
"I know – after the War of the Ring, you'd think they'd be used to seeing dozens of bodies in the space of several acres," Gandalf replied – Drew wasn't sure if it was sarcasm or not.
All of a sudden, there was a loud "Poof!" and a magical pink dust clouded the air for a moment. When it cleared, Haldir stood in the middle of the kitchen, coughing and tearing at the eyes.
"Still getting used to that effect," he said hoarsely. Then he straightened and said, "As newly appointed 'Magical Elf of Messengers', I bring you the news of a visitor. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go buy some zero calorie seltzer." Just as suddenly as he'd appeared, Haldir was gone again.
"That was strange," Drew commented.
"Very," Gandalf agreed. "Can I have some more apricot pancakes?"
"Sure!"
The hobbits, Aragorn, and Legolas all returned to the kitchen, lacking an appetite, but smelling minty fresh.
"How many times did you brush your teeth, boy?" Gandalf asked.
"Three," said Aragorn and the hobbits.
Legolas paused and actually thought about it. "Five," he answered finally, "and I used that Listerine mouthwash for the recommended thirty seconds."
"Really?" Gandalf asked.
"Yeah. And then I did it again and again for a total of two minutes."
"Hey! Does anybody want to hear a cool scientific factoid about toothbrushes?" Drew asked excitedly.
"No!" cried everyone else.
All of a sudden, quite spontaneously, there was another loud, dusty "Poof!", except this one was blue.
"Wow," said a girl coming out of the shadow. It was DixieDiva13. "Where am I?" Looking around her for anything familiar, her eye caught Legolas in its gleam of doom.
"LIKE, OH-MY-GAWSH, IT'S *LEGOLAS*!!!" she cried. Running over to him, she firmly attached herself to his person and told her brain that the making out was mutual; Legolas stood there, partly paralyzed, partly dumbfounded.
"Wow! That was *totally* great – I've *always* wanted to do that!" she exclaimed breathlessly later. From invisible pockets, she produced a pen and a pad of paper, and checked something off of her "To Do" list.
"This scavenger hunt thing sure is fun!" was the last thing she said before disappearing in another cloud of blue pixie dust.
Everyone was quiet for a moment. Then, with an evil twinkle in his eye, Gandalf asked, "So, what were you saying about mouthwash?"
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Okay, that's the last chapter for a while.
Thanks so much to DixieDiva13 for volunteering herself in her review – I was actually out of ideas for the story, so I typed this up right after I got the email.
"Gotta blast!"
~Adryl
"It's so hard to work in a group when you're omnipotent."