A/N: Hmm... no one reviewed my first chapter, but maybe they'll review this one. Anyway, Merry and Pippin's girlfriends used to be named after my two friends, as part of the joke...
Chapter #2- Sam to the Rescue
Sam sighed as he walked into his hobbit-hole and hung up his jacket. He had just finished tending his garden. Suddenly, he heard a loud knock on the door. As he opened it, he saw Diamond and Estella, Pippin's and Merry's girlfriends, standing there. They looked rather distraught, and they both began talking. "We had a double-date with Merry and Pippin," Estella began.
Diamond interrupted. "And they didn't show up."
"And do you know where they are, because we're getting worried," Estella finished.
Sam thought for a moment. "They must have been chased into the Old Forest by Farmer Maggot's dogs... again!" he told them as he pulled his coat back on and lit the lantern. "Don't worry!" Sam stepped outside. "I'll find them... again."
Sam rode his pony to the edge of the Old Forest. When he reached the woods, not knowing when he would be back out, he sent his pony back home and went into the forest with his lantern in one hand and his walking stick in the other. Although Sam periodically went into the Old Forest to rescue Merry and Pippin, he had never gone there after dark, and he did not like it one bit. The trees seemed to be alive and whispering to each other. He felt as if they were closing in around him. Sam shuddered.
He looked about carefully for any sign of his two friends. On the edge of an old path nearly overgrown with weeds, Sam saw a pipe. He went over and picked it up. It was Merry's. Sam shrugged, put the pipe in his mouth and lit it before heading down the trail. As he walked, he got the strange feeling that the trees were dictating where the path led, but what could he do about it? All of a sudden, he stepped in something wet. He peered down to see a pool of stagnant water around his feet, but his path led through it, so he continued. Suddenly a smooth wall of rock came into view. In the middle of the wall there was a huge stone door and on either side of the door there was a stone gargoyle with water pouring from its mouth. Sam remembered back to all the hobbit-lore he had learned, and realized he was at the door of the Mewlips.
END OF CHAPTER TWO
A/N: Mewlips are some creatures in a fairly obscure poem written by Tolkien. This chapter really isn't that funny. It's strange, isn't it, that in a story mocking Merry and Pippin, they become the only source of entertainment...