Author's Note: The Clow Hatter commented that there's an anime called "Those Who Hunt Elves". I wanted to let you know that yes I know this is an anime and I have seen it. Everyone else should too. The point of this fiction was I thought it would be amusing to have a LOTR fiction titled 'Those Who Hunt Elves'. Again I have to apologize for the amount of time it's taking me to make these chapters, but between work and school I've been extremely busy. Again I'm sorry. I'll try to free up some time. ^^;
Chapter eight:
Jessica led Legolas, Liz, Glorfindel, Suradulinion, and Dunathion down the halls of Rivendell to Arwen's room. The group stopped a few feet from her room and hid. This was gong to be tricky. They had to set up the equipment, but without Arwen knowing. Liz decided it would be a good idea to instruct their Elvin friends to properly set up the camera outside her door. Elves can move much quieter than humans can, so it was decided that Legolas, with the help of Dunathion, would set up the camera. The girls looked at the two elves and nodded. Slowly and quietly, Legolas led Dunation to a spot just in front of Arwen's door. The two carefully and quietly got the camera set up, and returned to the group.
"I hope this works." Jessica whispered to everyone. They nodded, and the group retreated to the grounds outside of Rivendell.
"So where do we go first?" Liz asked Legolas.
"There are some flowers in one of the west gardens that we'll need, and since that's the closest garden we'll start there." Legolas answered as he led the assembly to the west gardens. "Okay, first we need a little red flower that blossoms on a small thorny bush."
Everyone began searching for the plant and soon Liz found it. "I found it!" She happily shouted and pointed at the little bush.
"Good. Make sure you don't get pricked by the thorns." Legolas said as he came over to see the bush.
"What's the name of the plant?" Jessica asked.
"Uh…you wouldn't be able to pronounce it." Legolas answered and began to carefully pick the delicate flowers.
"In other words he doesn't know. Legolas never was very good at botany. Give him a weapon and he'll kick anyone's butt, but give him a test on plant names and he'll fail." Glorfindel whispered to Jessica.
Meanwhile, Arwen was sitting in her room and looking out the window at the lovely weather. Why did the weather have to be so nice today? I don't want to be in my room with the sky so blue outside. I bet I could leave my room, and if no one saw me no one would know. I'm sure I could avoid those humans and their magic. They are only human. Arwen thought to herself as she got off her bed and found a nice gown to wear. She put it on, and humming a tune to herself, opened her door.
CLICK!
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!" She screamed as the camera outside her door went off. "Noooooo! How could they!" Arwen wailed and sat on her floor cowering. Why? Why? She began to moan and rock back and forth in a fetal position.
"Muffin doodle. I knew I should have brought my laptop. I could just copy and past this stupid sentence." Adam complained as he was sitting on the flour writing his three hundred sentences. "I wonder what the girls are doing. Wait, I know. They're probably having fun and swooning over Legolas. I hope they don't do anything cruel to poor Arwen." He thought as he finished his hundred and second sentence.
Back at the gardens, the group of Arewn tormentors had collected all of the necessary plants on the grounds. "Alright, next we need to boil some water and get these plants crushed." Legolas instructed. Suradulion went to the kitchens to get a pot of boiling water, and everyone else divided up the plants and began to crush them.
"How fine do you want the plants to be crushed?" Jessica asked.
"As fine as you can. We don't want the 'shampoo' to be too gritty." Legolas said with a wink as Suradulinion returned.
"Here's the water, Legolas." Suradulinion said as he handed the pot to Legolas.
"Okay, we put the crushed plants in here." Legolas instructed while everyone continued crushing their plants.
After about an hour, the company had all of the plants crushed and boiled. "Next, there are some saps and some special water we'll need to add to the mix." For these we'll need to go off of the grounds of Rivendell." Legolas said to everyone as he carried the pot and headed to the gates of Rivendell.
Back in her room, Arwen had recovered from the effects of the camera and was trying to figure out a way to get past it. Those humans had to have help. There's no way a human could have set up that magic of camera outside my door without my knowledge. There's got to be a way around it. She sat on her floor and though for awhile. She was getting hungry and really wanted out of her room so that she could get some food. The problem was that the camera was so close to her door that she couldn't get around it without getting a picture taken.
As Arwen was in her room thinking, the group of elves and humans had left the grounds of Rivendell and were extracting the sap out of various plants. They had to be careful because the sap in many of the plants they were gathering would dye your hands if you got it on them. The group was doing pretty well and was actually making the dye faster than Legolas had predicted.
"Well now all we have to do is stir it well and put it in Arwen's shampoo bottle." Legolas said as they were adding the last ingredient of some kind of special water. "We even did this faster than I thought we would."
"That's a good thing. When we get back, Jessica and Liz should bring some food to Arwen. That way they can build up some trust. While the girls serve food to the elf maid, Legoalas can put the dye in the shampoo bottle. None of the female elves who use the baths will think of asking him what he's doing." Glorfindel planed out for the others.
"Sounds like a good plan." Jessica agreed while the others nodded.
They all trouped back to Rivendell and prepared some food for Arwen. Suradulinion and Dunathion went to her room and removed the camera and motion sensors. The girls arrived at Arwen's door a few minutes after the camera had been removed and knocked on her door.
"Go away!" Arwen shouted.
"Take it easy. Liz and I are just bringing some food to you." Jessica soothed.
"Just bringing some food huh? What about the camera outside my door?" Arwen haughtily inquired.
"Camera?" Liz innocently asked. "I don't see a camera."
"Haha. Very funny." Arwen sarcastically replied.
"No, really there isn't a camera out here." Jessica tried to assure the doubtful Arwen.
"Come on and open up already. We were nice enough to bring you a decent meal. The least you could do is except it." Liz impatiently announced.
Arwen thought about this for a moment, and decided that Liz was right. The two girls would be blocking the camera and surely their presence would have already set it off. So, Arwen decided that she might as well take a chance and open the door. When she did she was surprised to see that there was no camera and that the two girls were carrying plates of delicious looking food.
"See we told you. No camera and here is some food for you." Jessica said with a pleasant smile.
"Thanks. I guess I misjudged you two." Arwen said as she ushered them into her room.
While the girls were bringing Arwen her food, Legolas and Glorfindel were working out how to get the dye into Arwen's shampoo. Getting into the bath was easy. No one would question why Legolas was in the bathhouse. The problem was how were they going to get rid of the shampoo and replace it with the dye. They couldn't just pour it out on the floor and then put the dye into it. That would be a bit suspicious. They decided that the best course of action was to both go into the bath and while Legolas had everyone distracted, Glorfindel would go into Arwen's part of the bath and replace her shampoo.