Disclaimer: I don't own a CD player because it's broken saving Legolas the effort of having to destroy it. (I have to use my ps2 or x box for music). Anyone who claims that I don't own Lord of the Rings, can have my CD player….. thrown at there heads! I OWN LORD OF THE RINGS!!!!!!! Mwahahahahahahaha
Chapter 3: General weirdness!
When Merry returned with Gandalf he found everyone waiting for them. "Sorry I took so long, Gandalf was hiding" he said to his hungry friends.
Gandalf off course looked incredibly annoyed. "I was not hiding!" he began but was interrupted.
"Can we eat now?" asked Merry ignoring Gandalf completely. Aragorn nodded and started to serve out the food. They were soon eating. All that is but Legolas. He never touched his food, just sat there singing quietly too himself. Pippin too was acting weird. Though he was eating his food he wasn't making his usual jokes and asking questions.
"What's he singing?" Sam asked Aragorn who was the closest person too him who could speak elvish.
"It sounds like an elvish lullaby" Aragorn explained "though not one that I have heard before."
The meal continued quietly, everyone was worried about Legolas's strange behaviour and wondering what caused it. (Except Pippin who knows why). Also Pippin was being incredibly quiet, which wasn't like him at all. This caused Merry to be quiet in turn. Boromir had attempted conversation, but no one seemed interested in talking so he soon gave up, and the only sounds were that of eating and Legolas singing.
When the meal was over, Gimli still hadn't returned, so as promised the hobbits shared his portion of the food. Then because Legolas still hadn't started his own portion, the hobbits ate that as well! The surprising thing was Legolas didn't seem to notice!
"I think we should go searching for Gimli" said Aragorn who had become worried about his friend. This instantly made Legolas stop singing and stand up.
"Sorry, Pippin and I have something to do" he said and Pippin nodded in agreement. Merry couldn't hide the hurt this caused him. Since when had Pippin gone around with Legolas and not him? Pippin recognised this instantly, and though he was not always described as "smart" when in came to Merry he was a genius.
"And Mery can help, can't he Legolas?" Legolas nodded.
"But no one else" he added. And the three off them went back into the house. Aragorn looked at them in surprise, what were they up too? But he trusted Legolas and decided to leave them too there secrets.
"Fine then, the rest off us will find Gimli." Said Aragorn.
"But what about the breakfast things?" asked Sam, always the practical one. "I think it's best Frodo and stayed and cleaned up, we won't be much help anyway, we'll slow you down."
Aragorn sighed but didn't argue. What was the point.
"Boromir, Gandalf. Please tell me one off you will help me" Boromir looked sheepishly at the ground.
"Well actually I was planning on mending the chicken run, it's a bit broken along one side, and if a fox comes…" he didn't need to finish the sentence.
"Gandalf?" asked Aragorn, before looking around and seeing Gandalf had gone. "Fine I'll go myself" said Aragorn walking off in the direction Gimli had been seen last.
"Let's throw it out a window!" said Merry once he had learned about the CD player/ torture device.
"Good plan!" said Pippin happily.
"Anything to destroy it!" said Legolas picking up the CD and walking over to the window, looking out at the metre drop. "It may work better from upstairs." Merry and Pippin agreed. They would never have thought of that!
Gandalf was sitting back on the front doorstep smoking his pipe, glad that he had managed to escape the hunt for Gimli. He just wasn't in the mood for helping dwarfs. 'Trouble develops character' he thought to himself as a puff of smoke left his lips and disappeared into the sky. It was at that moment, that Legolas and the two youngest hobbits throw the CD played out of the window above where Gandalf was sitting. Gandalf looked at the CD player then looked up to see the hobbits and Legolas looking out off the window at the CD player.
"Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took!" he said extremely annoyed, and then he noticed the elf. "Legolas?"
"We can explain!" said Legolas quickly; annoying a wizard was never a good thing….
Author's note: Sorry about the short chapter, I was going to write more but the keyboard I'm using is broken and is getting incredibly annoying! I promise to write a nice long chapter next time to make up for it!
In the next chapter, you get to meet the girl who wished them here! And another visit from the goddess Mercury. (Along as why I made her a goddess, and not a god like her namesake). Will Aragorn find Gimli? Why is Gandalf refusing to do anything. And what will happen to the poor CD player? (Throwing it out of a window is just the beginning!) Find out in the next chapter!