Mayhem
By: Athena Diagon Cat
Disclaimer: I do not own any Lord of the Rings characters, except for Fëawen, who actually owns me.
This is a response to Erestor's challenge:
Glorfindel, Elladan and Elrohir are now on the main character list! So here's a writing challenge for you to celebrate. Write a humorous little story (without slash) in which Glorfindel and the twins are the main characters. Include a tree house, a reference to a drunk dwarf, and Erestor saying, "This is not funny" in your story. No other rules. This is a random challenge.
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Unfortunately for Glorfindel, he couldn't think of a prank suitable to pay back the twins. He knew of pranks he could play, but they seemed highly unoriginal.
He considered dying the twins' clothes pink, or their hair purple, but everyone pulled those. He could let one of Lady Culcairiel's cats into the twins' room (the twins detested cats), but Culcairiel would be bound to kill him if her cats were harmed.
Eventually Glorfindel decided he'd paint the twins room bright pink with purple cats while Elladan and Elrohir were on a patrol. After all, he had used up all his creativity writing reports for Lord Erestor.
There was one minor problem: he didn't know how to draw cats. Horses, yes, but not cats. He needed help.
The only Elf willing to help him was Péniel, Fëawen's sister. The cats she drew were not very realistic, but she enjoyed drawing them in dresses and robes, which was sure to send the twins screaming. Ah, yes. This was going to work.
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It was not even an hour after the twins left, and Glorfindel had started painting the room pink. When he had finished that, he called in Péniel, who found the whole thing very amusing.
"It's fun to torment other elves with my pictures," she informed Glorfindel. "You should have seen Fëa when I drew on one of her books. She was having nightmares about dancing dogs for months!"
Glorfindel resisted the urge to cackle with some difficulty.
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When Elladan and Elrohir returned, they were so exhausted that they went straight to bed, not noticing the new paint job. Glorfindel was worried for a moment that his prank had backfired, but he decided to wait and see.
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Elladan woke up the next morning in high spirits. It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, there was cats painted on the wall- cats on the wall?!
"Ahhhhhhh!" he yelled, falling out of bed. Elrohir woke suddenly from his side of the room and gazed around blearily.
"What's the matter?"
"Cats! Purple cats on pink walls!" Elladan wailed, hiding his eyes. Elrohir squeaked and hid under his blankets.
"I hate cats!" he cried. "That was cruel of Glorfindel!"
Fëawen, Culcairiel, and Péniel were walking past the twins' room when he said this, and became very cross, as all of them were cat lovers. So when the twins came down for breakfast, the three elleths dumped several buckets of blue dye on them.
"Why me?" Elrohir wailed.
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Thank you Catmint! What would I do without reviewers?
-ADC