"Gandalf, put a shirt on!" said Sam, shielding his eyes. "It's not like we want to see some old geezer in boxers!"

Gandalf scratched his chin. "Well, all right. But then I won't help you find the leprechaun."

"Hold on," said Frodo, "You know where Giggletoes is?"

Gandalf looked thoughtful.

"He's right over there," he said, pointing.

Frodo ran over and saw nothing.

"He's not there," he said, sighing.

"He moved," said Gandalf defensively. "You need to be quick to catch that one."

Sam growled.

"You want to go at it with a wizard?" asked Frodo, walking back up to Sam. "Be my guest. Just remember, he's got fireworks."

Sam gulped and took a few steps back.

"AAAAAAAAAA!"

"What was that?" asked Frodo.

"Pippin," said Gandalf.

"Oh," said Frodo, shaking his head. "He's emotionally unstable at the moment."

"I noticed," said Gandalf.

"THIS ISN'T FUNNY, PIPPIN!"

"Uh-oh," said Sam.

The two hobbits ran towards where Merry had shouted, Gandalf, walking along behind.

"Bloody hell, Pippin, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

Frodo's eyes widened as he saw what was going on, then he began to giggle uncontrollably.

Sam, confused, walked up to where Frodo was and gasped.

Pippin was mooning Merry, who was tied to a tree.

"PIPPIN! Frodo, this ... isn't ... that funny..." said Sam, trying very hard not to laugh himself silly. Gandalf, on the other hand, had already gotten past that point.

Sam shook his head, trying to clear his head of... giggly... thoughts. He untied Merry and then turned around to face Pippin, who had pulled up his pants and was staring at the ground, blushing.

Merry, scowling, backed away from Pippin.

"Now, Pippin," said Sam, "What do we say to Merry?"

Pippin slowly looked up at Merry, who had his arms crossed.

"Found him."

Sam blinked. "What?"

"Found him."

"What dyou mean, 'found him'?" asked Frodo, who had stopped laughing.

"You see," said Pippin, "I'm not hormonally imbalanced anymore. I could easily notice Giggletoes when I was hormonally challenged, but I could not react because of my... hormones. When Merry and I came to this spot, I saw Giggletoes tie him to a tree, and suddenly my hormones started... er... flashing on and off, I guess you could call it. Because all of a sudden he began to blink in and out of my vision, and sometime in between there, I grabbed out... and I caught him!"

"So wait," said Frodo, "You've got Giggletoes in your hand right now?"

Pippin grinned, and held up a fist with nothing in it. Or at least, that's what it looked like at first. Then the hobbits saw Giggletoes, and jumped around for joy, hugging Pippin.

"Wait," said Merry, "if your hormones were balanced when Frodo and Sam got here, why were you mooning me?"

Pippin laughed. "I finally caught Giggletoes, so I had to celebrate somehow."

Merry scowled and slapped Pippin across the top of his head.

"Ow!"

"Ch."

"Bless me."

"What?"

"Don't ask."

Frodo raised one eyebrow, then sighed, shaking his head.

Gandalf continued to laugh hysterically.

"What's so funny?" asked Pippin.

Gandalf immediately stopped laughing. "What are you talking about, you fool of a Took?" And he shook his head, muttering about hobbits.

"NOOOOOOO!" came a wild shout. Then hundred of leprechauns appeared all around them.

"AAAA! Attack!" yelled Gandalf, whipping out his staff and pointing it at the leprechauns.

"No, wait, Gandalf," said Merry, "It's Seamus."

"We have found your... er... Giggletoes," said Frodo, indicating Pippin, who held up Giggletoes.

"I thought you would never fail us!" said Seamus theatrically.

Giggletoes sniffed. "He was hormonally imbalanced."

Seamus, growling, took Giggletoes from Pippin. "Take the Toilet," he said, "And get out of my forest!"

The hobbits and Gandalf, not wanting to cause further trouble, ran to the Toilet.

"Now," said Pippin, "How are we going to carry this?"

Gandalf yawned, pointed his finger at the Toilet, and muttered a few words. It bumped into him.

"Ouch!" he exclaimed. "This will follow me wherever I go," he said, running around in circles, trying to avoid the flying Toilet. "Farewell, back to the Shire for you, halflings!"

He and the Toilet of Youth disappeared.

"WOOHOO!" said Sam, dancing. "We're done!"

Merry, backing away from Sam, said, "Let's go home."

"I'm ready to go home," said Frodo.

"Where's my second breakfast?"

Well... this is the end of What Merry and Pippin Do All Day. But don't worry! There'll be a sequel! We've got to get Legolas, Elrond, and Gandalf to the Shire, haven't we?

Lindz