Frodo woke up with a pounding in his head.

Ow... he thought, What happened?

Then he remembered the leprechauns, and bolted straight up. What he saw scarred him for the rest of his life.

They were still in the Old Forest, apparently, but they were surrounded by hundreds of leprechauns... wearing hawiian leis and skirts!!!!!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! SAM WAKE ME UP!!!!!! SAM!!!!!!!!!"

Frodo shook Sam awake and when Sam groaned and turned around he yelled, "PLEASE WAKE ME UP!!!"

"Mr. Frodo..." said Sam groggily, "You are aw - awa -" but he saw the leprechauns and, after a second of staring at one of the women eagerly, he turned to Frodo and said, "Mr. Frodo... um... what is going on!?!?!"

Pippin suddenly jumped on Sam and began biting his neck.

"PEREGRIN TOOK WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?"

Pippin looked up and said, "Oh... uh... well, I really don't know actually... when's breakfast? Come to think of it Sam, it's already time for second breakfast, so I suppose we'll just have to - Merry what are you staring at?"

For Merry had awoken and was now staring at the fire where the leprechauns were dancing around.

"That's normal for leprechauns, you asshole," said Pippin, shaking his head.

Sam glared at him threateningly.

"Normal?" asked Merry, watching as one of the particularly big leprechauns began doing the Egyptian Boogey Dance.

"Haven't you ever met a leprechaun before?"

"No, but -"

"AAAAAHHHH!!!!" suddenly Pippin began running around like a complete idiot, throwing his shirt off in the process, and ran up to a tree and climbed up it.

Sam, baffled, looked at Frodo, whose head was in his hands.

"Er - Mr. Frodo... what... ?"

"Come with me to find the big pile of cheese!!!" yelled Pippin from in the tree. "Dwar, dwar, dwar!!! Come here, little squirrel, dwar, DWAR!!!!!"

Merry pinched himself.

"Nope," he said, scratching his head, "not having hallucinations."

"Ah," said Seamus Longbeard, who looked really really freaky in his hawiian getup. He was standing there, hairy chest and beard and all, no shoes on, with just that hawaiin skirt on. Frodo was quite terrified. "Here ye be, all woken up but not fed," said Seamus. "Would you like something to eat?"

"BREAKFAST!!!" shouted Pippin from up in the tree, forgetting, seemingly, about his... er... pile of cheese. "I want nuts in my breakfast!"

"Nuts?" said Seamus, "Er... alright... nuts, nuts... ah, here we are..."

He pulled out peanuts from thin air.

"Mr. Frodo what is going on??"

"Sam, I haven't the faintest idea."

After they had all eaten breakfast - everyone being careful not to sit near Pippin, whose hormones seemed to have gotten worse - Seamus made an announcement.

"All right, everyone," he said, standing on a log, "Gather round, gather round. Now, these halflings here want to take our Toilet of Youth from us!"

There were angry mutterings at this. Sam cast Merry a worried glance.

"Now, the only way these lads can do that, is by beatin' the toughest leprechaun there is -"

"Hah, that should be easy," muttered Merry.

"- at a game of hide-and-go-seek."

"What???"

"That's right, you'll have to beat me," came a voice from nearby.

"Who said that?" asked Merry, looking around.

"Me!" squeaked the voice. Merry looked down. There was a small leprechaun standing right in front of him.

"How did I not see you?" asked Merry, fascinated.

"I have a ... gift," said the leprechaun, smiling maliciously. "No one can find me if I don't want to be found."

"Believe me, we've tried," muttered Seamus.

"Oh, great..." said Frodo and Sam at the same time. Then... "DWAH!"