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"Wow. I wish I had your mom. She's so nice." Abby said as she grabbed a few paper towels and a sponge. Laura smiled.
"Yeah, for the most part. You don't want to see her on her other days." Laura said as she began to mop up most of the water. After a few moments she remembered her precious cardboard Legolas. To her dismay it was soaking wet as well and the ink was running down it. Her Legolas was no more. She cried out and fell to the floor dramatically.
Chapter: Stuffed Animals and Caterpillar Eyebrows
Inside the portal everything was dark and cold. The void could have very well rivaled the darkest of nights, if it weren't for the smallest flecks of sparkling light which slowly danced about Elrond and the Fellowship like very fragile snowflakes. Suddenly, a blinding white light errupted from Gandalf's staff, causing everyone momentary blindness. Once their eyes had cleared they noticed that there wasn't anything in the portal at all and they were all just floating there and slowly traveling downwards. Pippin and Merry were below the rest of the Fellowship and Elrond, due to the fact that they had been sucked into the portal first.
"Master Elrond, is this the portal?" Gandalf questioned.
Elrond looked about nervously. This had only been his second time in the portal and he was unsure of himself for a minute or two. 'I can't remember if this is what it was like before!,' he thought to himself. 'If they find out that I don't know what I'm doing, they'll laugh at me and Gandalf will look at me down his big, stupid, fat nose!'
Elrond lifted his freakish caterpillar eyebrow at big nosed Gandalf.
"Are you inquiring that I don't know if this is the portal, Gandalf?" Elrond asked fiercely. Gandalf stared at the elf for a moment before replying.
"Yes."
At Gandalf's reply, Elrond's caterpillar eyebrows looked like they were going to fly off his forehead and do the Macarena. Chaos broke out. Elrond and Gandalf began to bicker, Aragorn and Boromir, the two strong men, began to whimper uncharacteristically like little girls, and Legolas and Gimli flailed their arms about distressfully, all while screaming bloody murder. The hobbits however, weren't fazed by this at all. In fact, they watched the scene before them with much amusement. While the havoc continued, everyone failed to notice that they began traveling downwards faster and faster. Pippin and Merry, unfortunately, were the first to realize this. Their small bodies made contact with something solid, knocking the wind out of them. After regaining regular breathing they rolled onto their backs and screamed. Their other eight companions plumented towards them and landed on them, forcing all of their new found air out of their lungs yet again.
(A/N: climbs tree to escape enraged Pippin fangirls {E.P.F.} I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I don't hate Pippin or Merry or anything, it's just...I don't have a good excuse, but wait...what are you doing?! Ahhh! E.P.F. chop down tree with chainsaws Eeep!)
After reviving Merry and Pippin, the gang stood up and looked around. They were now in a big hallway of some sort. Giant pillars stood in rows on either side of them and at the end of each row was a giant pot. Fire suddenly jumped up from the pots, illuminating the hallway. Further down the hall there was a desk with a giant swivel chair turned away from them. And then a deep voice boomed from the chair, causing the Middle Earth gang to jump right out of their skins.
"Proceed to the DESK!" the voice roared.
The Fellowship just stood there dumbly, until the voice sighed angirly.
"I HERE!!!" the voice said again, causing the fellowship to yelp and push Elrond forward.
Elrond fidgeted and gulped. 'Please don't let it be who I think it is. Not him again...please not him again! This must be the gates to hell or something!' Gandalf smirked at Elrond's nervous actions.
"What's the matter Master Elrond?" Gandalf snidely probed.
Elrond didn't get the chance to snap back at Gandalf because they had finally reached the desk. The desk was so large that the hobbits could barely see over it. Elrond shook in his new hippie attire, along with everyone on else. They stared at the desk and shivered slightly, despite that the flames from the pots were practically licking their backs. The chair rocked back and forth slowly before the voice calmly continued.
"Well, well. How have you been Elrond? I've been expecting you." The voice chuckled deeply in a sinister manner. Then the chair slowly spun around to reveal a tiny stuffed bunny with a blue bow tie. Elrond screamed in terror, along with Aragorn, Boromir, Legolas, Gimli, and fat nosed Gandalf. The hobbits stared between their friends and the stuffed bunny in confusion. Why were they screaming? It was a bunny. A stuffed bunny with a blue bow tie. Elrond recovered quickly and glared at the bunny.
"Nibbles!" Elrond growled
"Elrond?" Mr. Nibbles growled back. Elf and bunny continued to glare at each other before Nibbles smirked and pressed a button under his desk. Suddenly a giant door that had 'THE SIXTIES' printed on its frame, popped up behind Elrond. Elrond jumped away from the door.
"Mr. Spitzy, please escort Mr. Elrond to his resort. He is going to be spending some vacation time in the sixties." Nibbles said as a small stuffed duck flew out from further down the hallway. The duck, aka Mr. Spitzy, grabbed Elrond with such unexpected force and dragged the protesting elf into the portal. "Nooo!" was the last thing the Fellowship heard from the elf. Nibbles smiled smugly to himself and turned to the Fellowship. The bunny hopped up onto the desk and stood before the baffled group before explaining.
"I have kept a close watch on that creature and from what Mr. Spitzy has told me, Elrond had in mind to bring you to me and leave you for dead in the sixties." Nibbles said and recieved shocked looks from the Fellowship. Sam spoke up.
"I knew he was a trator! Just by the way his eyebrows wiggeled when Gandalf fought with him." Sam spat out and shuddered at the thought of the eyebrows. "The eyebrows!" Frodo laid a comforting hand on his gardener's shoulder.
"I know Sam, I know. They scared us all," Frodo said. "those hideous brows of doom and terror. The one and only thing that could strike terror into the bravest heart, besides the Dark Lord, are those...things Elrond dares to call eye brows." Everyone shuddered, including Nibbles and Spitzy. A moment of silence passed over the Fellowship as they digested everything up from jumping into the portal, to Mr. Nibbles, and what Frodo had just said. Aragorn spoke up after more silence had passed.
"You know, Arwen use to have those same eye brows," Aragorn's statement made everyone's face twist into an expression of disgust. That such a beautful face had been marred by such hideous brows.
"What happened to them then?" Boromir asked.
"Elvish medicine?" Legolas suggested.
"Kinda," Aragorn replied. "She had them removed and had some new ones implanted."
"Oh" said everyone.
"You can do that?" Merry asked.
"Apparantly."
Another wave of silence washed over the hallway. (A/N: They seem to get off the topic very easily, don't they? )
"Okay! We're getting off topic!" Nibbles stamped a foot paw on the desk. "Now that you're here, you can't go back to your world--" Nibbles delayed saying the last part of his sentence to build suspense, but was oh so kindly interrupted.
The Fellowship shouted together in such a load outburst that dust fell from the unseen ceiling.
"WHAT?!!!!"
"--yet." Nibbles finished. A wave a relief breifly washed over the Fellowship but was quickly replaced with confusion.
"What do you mean 'yet'?" Boromir asked heatedly. Nibbles glared at Boromir and told him to shut up and let him finish. Boromir quietly created a colorful rainbow of curses, then shut up. Nibbles sucked in air and exhaled slowly. Oh, how easily he lost his patience with this group.
"The only way you can go back to your world is if you spend at least three days in a different world," Nibbles explained to a shell shocked Fellowship. "After you spend three days there you can come back here and enter the portal to your world."
"B-but we're setting out to destroy the Ring in not but two days!" Frodo exclaimed. "How on Middle Earth can we get back in time?"
Before Nibbles could answer Frodo, Legolas spoke up.
"Wait. If Elrond has used the portal before now, how come we have never noticed his absence?"
"Aha, that's one of the good things about using the portals. You are never gone more than a day. A few hours at the most, but never a day. No one will really notice that you are missing." Nibbles replied. The Fellowship nodded in understanding. At least no one would worry about their absence or think that they had been kidnapped or something.
"But that brings up another question, Master Nibbles," Gandalf announced. Everyone turned to him. "How do we get back to this place? Where do we find the portal?" Nibbles nodded.
"My assistant Spitzy will come and locate you when your time is up. From there he will lead you back to this place, then you may return to your world." Nibbles sat back down in his chair and motioned something to Spitzy. The duck zoomed off to complete his master's errand. He then pushed another button and a big bowl appeared before the Fellowship. Millions of folded pieces of paper were inside the bowl.
"Those scraps of paper will tell you which world you're going to and whose residence you will end up at," Nibbles explained once again. "If you're lucky, they'll host you for three days. If not, you're stuck on your own in an alien world. You only get one choice. Choose wisely."
As the Fellowship fished around in the bowl Spitzy returned with a large carrot and a glass of carrot juice for his master. Nibbles rewarded his assistant with a bag of bread crumbs, sending Spitzy into giddy hysterics. When Nibbles turned his attention back to the Fellowship, he found Frodo readomg a scrap of paper. Frodo then walked to Nibbles and handed him the paper.
"Mr. Nibbles, this is our choice. What do we do now?" Frodo asked.
Nibbles read over the paper and handed it to Spitzy. Nibbles pressed another button under his desk and a door with the letters "2004" written on it. Spitzy tucked the paper under his wing and flew over to the door. Nibbles motioned for the Fellowship to follow Spitzy into the door. Cautiously, the Fellowship filed in. After they had departed, Nibbles sat back in his chair and chuckled darkly to himself.
"Those poor, poor people. They're completely oblivious of their fate," Nibbles shook his head seriously and suddenly perked up. "Oh well. I've got me some carrot juice!" And he began to gulp down his beloved carrot juice.
A/N: Whoo! I've got reviews and I'm HAPPY! I've gotta cut this short because I've got to hurry up and jet over to my friend's house for a sleepover. To those of you who are wondering about the girls, yes they are based on real people. Laura is based on my personality, and Abby is based on my best friend. You know the scary thing? My friend actually does try to steal my poster! But I dance with it in my room, so...ya. I bet you guys weren't expecting Nibbles and Spitzy, were ya? Ya, they're my stuffed animals. I made Spitzy in my Home. Ec. class. I feel so special. I'm going to be making a web page so you can see what they look like. I want to thank my lovely, lovely reviewers:
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